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Eternal Return 9.2 Patch Notes Review: A 5-Year Player's Perspective
A 5-year Eternal Return player analyzes the 9.2 patch notes. It covers in detail the specs of the new character Blair, changes to wildlife, experiment balance adjustments, and item changes, and offers opinions on the impact of each change on the game.
1. 🎮 Initial Analysis of New Character Blair: Specs and Design Evaluation
- ✅ Blair's base health is low at 940, and the health increase per level is also low at 83.
- ✅ Base defense is considered decent.
- ✅ Movement speed is not bad at 3.5.
- ⚠️ Overall base stats seem low.
- ✅ Character design and emoticons are positively evaluated.
00:00 - 00:40
1. 🎮 Initial Analysis of New Character Blair: Specs and Design Evaluation
- ✅ Blair's base health is low at 940, and the health increase per level is also low at 83.
- ✅ Base defense is considered decent.
- ✅ Movement speed is not bad at 3.5.
- ⚠️ Overall base stats seem low.
- ✅ Character design and emoticons are positively evaluated.
00:52 - 01:21
2. 🐻 Wildlife and System Changes: Escape Time, Bear Respawn, Healing Drone
- ✅ Improved Rift Wipe Judgment: Instant death processing when the entire team is incapacitated.
- ✅ Reduced escape time for wildlife (Bori).
- ⚠️ Increased bear respawn time.
- ✅ Doble cooldown reduction (continuous buff).
| Element | Changes |
|---|---|
| Healing Drone Recovery | 1% increase, cooldown reduction |
| Damage Taken from Protocol | Increased from 12% to 15% |
01:38 - 05:05
3. ⚖️ Experiment Balance Adjustment Analysis: Natpon, Nicky, Leon, Rosie, Luke, etc.
- ✅ Natpon: Damage buff (weapon mastery, instant photo).
- ✅ Nicky: Damage increase, movement speed reduction duration increase.
- ✅ Marlene: Movement speed increase 5%, ultimate additional attack power 10% → 15%.
- ⚠️ Leon: Passive damage nerf (glove Leon check).
- ✅ Rosie: Air Shot 0.3 seconds → 0.5 seconds increase (CC 강화).
- ✅ Luke: Attack power skill buff.
- ⚠️ Lidairelin: Attack power per level 5 → 4.8 nerf.
- ✅ Celine: Base movement speed 3.5 → 3.5 (movement speed related patch is positive).
- ✅ Shoichi: Health per level 90 → 92, Suhwa passive full reduction 1 second → 1.2 seconds.
- ⚠️ Sissela: Nerf.
- ✅ Adina: Doble buff.
- ✅ Paul Dignity: Utility enhancement.
- ⚠️ Abigail: Nerf (0.1%).
- ✅ Alex: Skill weapons do not appear in weapon supply boxes.
- ✅ Alonso: Continuous buff.
- ⚠️ Aktion: Attack power 3 nerf.
- ✅ Johann: Defense increase.
- ✅ Yumi: Buff (0.1%, 1%).
- ⚠️ Justina: Astra energy recharge time increased by 1 second, Boost Dash 2.7 seconds → 3 seconds.
- ⚠️ Ishtvan: Ultimate nerf.
05:06 - 06:19
4. ⚔️ Experiment Balance Adjustment (2): Jackie, Iso, Katya, Kenneth, Priya, etc.
- ⚠️ Jackie: Base defense reduction, dagger check.
- ✅ Chainsaw Murderer: Movement speed increase.
- ⚠️ Iso: Life and Death Imprint damage nerf.
- ✅ Katya: Weapon mastery effect enhancement (mitigating the gap between top and bottom tiers).
- ✅ Kenneth: Attack power 2% increase.
- ✅ Priya: I-skill damage buff.
- ✅ Fiolo: Slam damage increase.
- ✅ Hayes: Passive damage increase, I-skill cooldown buff.
- ✅ Henry: Q skill damage increase.
- ⚠️ Hyunwoo: Nerf (statistics were good).
- ⚠️ Haejin: Nerf (statistics were good).
06:20 - 07:30
5. 🛡️ Item Changes: Black Death, Mithril Helmet, Paladin's Helmet, etc.
- ✅ Tick: Black Veil mitigation.
- ⚠️ Black Death: Nerf (poking Mag hit).
- ✅ Mithril Helmet: Health increase.
- ✅ Paladin's Helmet: Health increase (400).
- ✅ Dalpen: Attack power increase.
- ✅ Charlemagne's Shield: Health 200 → 230.
- ✅ Yoslramp: Buff.
- ✅ Pushke: (Still good).
- ✅ Helix: (Still good).
- ✅ Prometheus: Health increase.