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| {{Ambox|border=blue|info=Please keep in mind that this is a community-driven article that is based upon publicly available posts and interpretation of said post. Yager is '''not''' involved in the writing of the information contained within, nor does it reflect their internal planning and release-schedule. Anything contained in this article is subject to changes or misinterpretation. We strive to keep it updated with sources that we can verify, but even Discord-posts from CM's may not always turn out as expected. As such, always view any info within as rumors and speculation and then make your own conclusions based on the sources provided.}} | | {{Ambox|border=blue|info=Please keep in mind that this is a community-driven article that is based upon publicly available posts and interpretation of said post. Yager is '''not''' involved in the writing of the information contained within, nor does it reflect their internal planning and release-schedule. Anything contained in this article is subject to changes or misinterpretation. We strive to keep it updated with sources that we can verify, but even Discord-posts from CM's may not always turn out as expected. As such, always view any info within as rumors and speculation and then make your own conclusions based on the sources provided.}} |
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| == Upcoming Patch== | | == Last Patch== |
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| !Version | | !Version |
| |2.8.0 | | |3.5.0 |
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| !Release Date | | !Release Date |
| |Unknown Date | | |June 28th, 2023<ref>Yager, thecycle.com website: [https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-patch-3-5-0]</ref> |
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| ===Changes===
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| *[https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1064685850090274887 Potential changes to the Basilisk.]<ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1064685850090274887 "compared to other guns that clearly had issues in the past there are less issues raised about the Basi and the internal data also does not look too bad.", "Therefore we will take a closer look in 2.8.0"]</ref><ref>Yager, thecycle.game website: [https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-patch-2-7-0 For the upcoming Patch 2.8.0 we are taking another look at the current performance of weapons... looking at you there Basilisk.]</ref><ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1068545582295175188 Brute and Basi will get some changes in 2.8.0]</ref>
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| *[https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1068545582295175188 Potential changes to the brute.]<ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1068545582295175188 Brute and Basi will get some changes in 2.8.0]</ref>
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| *[https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1065307942963912755 Adjustements to perks.]<ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1065307942963912755 "Perks gonna get some adjustments in 2.8.0"]</ref>
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| ===Bug-fixes=== | | ==Game closure== |
| No public information yet.
| | Yager have announced that the game will sadly sunset<ref>Yager, thecycle.game website: [https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/sunset-announcement "The Cycle: Frontier will be sunset on September 27, 2023."]</ref> on September 27'th and as such, there is sadly not going to be any more content released for the game after Patch 3.5.0 goes out. |
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| ===Other===
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| *[https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-patch-2-7-0 Further information and implementation of News System.]<ref>Yager, thecycle.game website: [https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-patch-2-7-0 Additional information will follow in the patch notes for 2.8.0, so stay tuned for more info and screenshots in the next update!]</ref>
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| *[https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-patch-2-7-0 Login reward for Holiday Monster Bash is no longer available.]<ref>Yager, thecycle.game website: [https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-patch-2-7-0 The login reward is available until patch 2.8.0!]</ref>
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| == End of Season 2 ==
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| Before [[Season 3]] begins, there are still some content and changes hinted as coming during end of Season 2.
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| *[https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063100452117434399 More information and teasers weekly]<ref>Feralus, Discord message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063100452117434399 "Yes"] was stated in response to the question [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063100381204324352 "i think in the roadmap the "teasers" will be revealed Each week"]</ref> leading into S3.
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| *Possibility of a short wipe before S3 have been [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063227547627827270 mentioned by Feralus]<ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063227547627827270"We actually check with the team as we got a bunch of requests about that if we can make that an optional possibility."] was stated in response to question [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063227394065960970 "Honeslty just wish they would wipe now so we can enjoy that old content for a bit more"].</ref> in response to request, then [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063228326975651891 reiterated]<ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063228326975651891"...if so, it would be a optional thing and not forced onto everyone."]</ref> and later [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063229381323018280 clarified]<ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063229381323018280 "The thing that we received as a request was - Allow us to wipe our accounts before S3 starts. This is the request that we brought to the team to check if this is possible. We will not do an all out wipe for everyone before Season 3."]</ref> as most likely only being (if possible) an optional wipe for willing participants.
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| *[https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063203527184355328 Possiblity of providing occupation and entertainement during the extension of S2 was mentioned by Justin to be looked into.]<ref>Justin, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063203527184355328"Really sorry for the delay of Season 2, we'll see what we can do to keep you folks occupied and entertained in the meantime."]</ref>
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| *End-season event is coming again for Season 2 wipe, according to the [[Frosty Frontier Fest#livestream|Frosty Frontier Fest Livestream]], with changes in how it works and what it involved. Yager have taken feedback from the previous event in consideration for this.
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| **Re-iterated and confirmed on [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1062655363947700234 discord by Feralus.]<ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1062655363947700234 "Oh we do"] was stated in response to speculations if an end of season event would be held</ref>
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| **''Potential hint'' that there might be a reward for the end-wipe event was also given by Feralus on discord but nothing concrete.
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| **[https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063114074185023612 The Event is still coming but at a later date due to the change in date that S2 ends.]<ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063114074185023612"Of course there will be an event at the end of the Season"]</ref>
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| == [[Season 3]] ==
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| Season 3 is fast approaching and will contain many changes and additions to the game. For more information on those changes, please visit the [[Season 3]] page.
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| == Beyond season 3 ==
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| *[https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1045847869686550579 Account-linking between Steam/EGS]<ref>KevOnTheBus35, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1045847869686550579 "we are working on an account linking feature that would let you transfer any cosmetics/progress from an account on Steam to an Epic account (and vice versa)"]</ref>
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| *[https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond Map 4]<ref>Yager, thecycle.game website: [https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond "Map 4"]</ref>
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| *[https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond Guilds]<ref>Yager, thecycle.game website: [https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond "Guilds"]</ref>
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| *[https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond Crafting 2.0]<ref>Yager, thecycle.game website: [https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond "Crafting 2.0"]</ref>
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| *[https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond Console support]<ref>Yager, thecycle.game website: [https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond "Console support"]</ref> was announced in S2 and beyond roadmap and have later been [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063245919446896721 reiterated on Discord]<ref>Justin, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063245919446896721 "We are still looking at consoles, of course."]</ref>
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| *[https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond Shooting Range]<ref>Yager, thecycle.game website: [https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond "Shooting Range"]</ref>
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| *[https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond More new enemies]<ref>Yager, thecycle.game website: [https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond "More new enemies"]</ref>
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| *[https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond More Anti-Cheat improvements]<ref>Yager, thecycle.game website: [https://thecycle.game/news-and-media/the-cycle-frontier-season-2-and-beyond "More Anti-Cheat improvements"]</ref>
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| ==Content in-work without public timeline ==
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| ===Known content being worked on ===
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| *[https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/893038883451834389/1067441988259041360 Additional item details, such as values on different attachments are in the works]<ref>Teh Peasant, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/893038883451834389/1067441988259041360 "Weapons have an equip and unequip time. Unequip generally stays the same across weapons where we impact the time it takes to grab a weapon with equip speed."] (Image in the post showing values of Targeting and Equip time of Ultralight Stock)</ref>
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| *[https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/893038883451834389/1063422415520157696 Correction to mineral-scanner text, in order to make it clarify that you can outline objects and people in smoke]<ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/893038883451834389/1063422415520157696 "It will be reflected in the text of the scanner soon and the tool will be renamed."]</ref>.
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| *[https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469058539378442240/1060307439704080555 DLSS3 will arive in the "near future"]<ref>Justin, Discord Announcement: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469058539378442240/1060307439704080555 "We are partnering with NVIDIA and upgrading from DLSS2 to DLSS3 in the near future!"]</ref>
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| *[https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/911206242553319494/1045728578714738828 Weapon inspect animation]<ref>Justin, Discord development-insight post: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/911206242553319494/1045728578714738828 "there are lots of things here and there that are in development for future updates later down the line, and one of those things is a weapon inspect feature."]</ref>
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| *[https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1053326789105156096 Trusted/Untrusted status indication]<ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1053326789105156096 "We are however also looking into improvements when it comes to beeing more clear about the trusted / untrusted meaning and status within the game."]</ref>
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| *New Events
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| **Mid-Season Events has previously been hinted at being possible but was recently brought up as hopefully being possible [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1047225995326918827 Mid-season"once things are more... stable" by Toast]<ref>Toast, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1047225995326918827 "We would love more mid-season events yeah, but obviously dev time is always limited."]</ref>
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| **Events are being worked at as stated in the [[Frosty Frontier Fest#livestream|Frosty Frontier Fest Livestream]]
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| **Seasonal Rewards Some form of permanent reward for participating in seasons, such as cosmetics, were [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1046853204664664226 hinted at by Toast on Discord]<ref>Toast, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1046853204664664226 "We do want to add more stuff as permanent rewards for playing in the seasons themselves, but yeah currently most cosmetics come from the store/fortuna pass/in-game events"]</ref>, as a possibility in the future. In the [[Frosty Frontier Fest#livestream|Frosty Frontier Fest Livestream]] it was revealed that this is likely to be seen in the End-season event for season 2.
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| *Public Test Server is being worked on as a feature for players to help test upcoming content and patches. According to the [[Frosty Frontier Fest#livestream|Frosty Frontier Fest Livestream]]<ref>Yager, Livestream VOD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_PiNMUmGC3n8?t=2524 timestamp 42minutes 6seconds</ref> it is actively being worked on and hopefully we can see the first itteration of it soon.
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| *Name change feature has been in the talks for a while and was once said to be available [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/987889384374272052 "hopefully sooner rather than later..." by Justin on Discord.]<ref>Justin, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/987889384374272052 "Hopefully sooner rather than later would be nice, right?"]</ref>
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| ===Hinted content and rumors===
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| *'''Item-bartering''': Potential barter systems to get different items by trading in other items has been hinted at several times as an alternative to player-trading (which is not endorsed by Yager), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_ONlw4PSE?t=23 recently it was hinted at again during G-Star QnA]<ref>Yager, Youtube QnA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_ONlw4PSE?t=23 timestamp 23seconds</ref>
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| *'''Leaderboard/Ranking''': [https://youtube.com/watch?v=yp_ONlw4PSE?t=48 During G-Star QnA it was hinted that]<ref>Yager, Youtube QnA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_ONlw4PSE?t=48 timestamp 48seconds</ref> some form of way to measure which Prospector that is the best is being looked into.
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| *'''New NPC's and NPC-loot''': More enemy types as previously announced will be coming to TCF and during [https://youtube.com/watch?v=yp_ONlw4PSE?t=85 G-Star QnA it was hinted that]<ref>Yager, Youtube QnA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_ONlw4PSE?t=85 timestamp 1minute 25seconds</ref> there will possibly be some form of enemies that might drop Weapons and Gear in the future.
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| *'''Potential Waypoints''' that are shown on compass/map, but not as a ping, has been hinted at [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/893038883451834389/1052161158464946216 being looked into]<ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/893038883451834389/1052161158464946216 "That is actually we look into atm"]</ref> in a response from Feralus on Discord, to a [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/971785533183393924/1052130592889774092 suggestion made by Jaunus.]<ref>Jaunus, Discord Suggestion: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/971785533183393924/1052130592889774092 "Map waypoint that only shows a marker on the compass. You can't ping people or items, just a location on a map."]</ref>
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| *'''Fixes and updates to audio''' has been hinted as [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1049997203344740383 being fixed/looked into by Feralus on Discord.]<ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1049997203344740383 "Yeah, we are fixing some audio stuff, I am not sure if that includes the steps already though..."]</ref>
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| *'''Work-around for bunny-jumping''' has been hinted at as [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1065263584927547493 being looked into by Feralus on Discord.]<ref>Feralus, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1065263584927547493 "We are currently exploring some ideas around that."]</ref>
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| ==Currently known issues==
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| ===[[Patch 2.7.0|Known issues from latest Patch-notes]]===
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| *Hunter Vision will remain disabled for now as we're still trying to figure out issues with it.
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| *Weapons
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| **There are multiple hit registration issues present at the edge of the AOE when shooting with the Komrad.
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| **No-reg hitmarkers and kill markers reports are being investigated by the team.
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| *Fortuna Pass
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| **Claiming an Archetype displays duplicate body parts beside it (Chest, Gloves, Boots).
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| **After completing one level purchase in the 'Fortuna Pass', the next consecutive purchase displays the icons of items from the previous purchase.
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| *Gear visibility
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| **In match, Prospectors doesn't see their Backpack (can be evident when emoting) but can see other Prospector Backpacks.
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| === [[Patch 2.6.0|Known issues from previous Patch-notes]]===
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| *Player Reporting
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| ** It can happen that you get stuck when reporting another player. A restart will fix this and we have it on our "to fix ASAP" list.
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| ===Known issues mentioned outside Patch-notes===
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| *[https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063211451570999337 Further issues with spawn locations]<ref>Justin, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063211451570999337 "We recently found something in our investigation there. Hopefully we can continue to adjust those, as we do have an idea of why that's happening."] was stated in response to [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1063210689881190400 "@Justin is there a reason the spawns haven't been adjusted yet or are we gonna keep getting spawn camped for the rest of S2?"]</ref> are being investigated and possible cause of them have been found.
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| *Some loot-crates are visually shown as closed, but might already be looted/does not transition into opened graphically after looting them.
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| *Insurance not giving any payout is [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1050143418568954006 being looked into according to Justin in a message on Discord.]<ref>Justin, Discord Message: [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1050143418568954006 "I know its being investigated, but I personally am not the one investigating, so - Known issue, being worked on"] was stated in response to [https://discordapp.com/channels/469039260163637249/469039260868149249/1050143259885830300 "like insuring stuff and not getting kmarks or anything back"]</ref>
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