With the Melodia Festival halfway done already, it’s time to introduce our first big batch of updates to the event, as well as our usual monthly updates. We hope you enjoy!

Monthly Updates

• Our new TamTam’s Odyssey region is: Rachel and Ice Dungeon.
• GMC Box Rotation:
  • Sakura Rod Pink Costume [33195]
  • Pink Alice Wig Costume [20992]
• Wave Challenge Box Rotation:
  • Fluffy Vermillion Ears Costume [33212]
  • Vermillion Tail Costume [33204]
• The November Monthly Box has arrived and is full of brand new goodies as well as some classics. The contents are as follows:
  • Divine Amulet Costume [Lower][33099]
  • Black Whisper Tall Hat Costume [Upper][33470]
  • Nox Gratia Costume [Garment][33590]
  • Pitaya Ramen Stall Costume [Lower][33341]
  • Moonbow Long Hair Costume [Lower][33314]
  • RSX-0806 Mechanical Arm Costume [Garment][33541]
  • Violet Starlight Costume [Lower][33032]
  • Red Starlight Costume [Lower][33542]
  • Orange Starlight Costume [Lower][33543]
  • Yellow Starlight Costume [Lower][33544]
  • Green Starlight Costume [Lower][33545]
  • Cyan Starlight Costume [Lower][33546]
  • Blue Starlight Costume [Lower][33547]
  • Pink Starlight Costume [Lower][33548]
  • White Starlight Costume [Lower][33549]
  • Flying Katashiro Costume [Lower][21588]
  • Wild Rose Wig Costume [Lower][33562]
  • Plain Wild Rose Wig Costume [Lower][33563]
  • Ghost Sheet Costume [Upper/Middle/Lower][33584]
  • Power Cable Costume [Garment][30487]
  • Blinking Freyja Eyes Costume [Middle][30534]
  • Divine Blinking Eyes Costume [Middle][33100]
  • Little Deviling Backpack Costume [Garment][33593]
  • Gerero Hairpin Costume [Middle][33360]
  • Sake Bottle Costume [Lower][30420]
  • Gamer Headset Costume [Upper][21274]
  • White Grape Dress Hat Costume [Upper][33340]
  • Smart Under Rim Glasses Costume [Middle][20884]
  • Half Rim Glasses Costume [Middle][33479]
  • Blue Under Rim Glasses Costume [Middle][33480]
  • Romantic Blue Flower Costume [Lower][33589]
  • Frontier Rune Crown Costume [Upper][33588]
  • Clover Ace in Mouth Costume [Lower][33587]
  • Feather Fedora Costume [Upper][20984]

Limited Edition Costume

For a duration of one week, you can now purchase the [Visual] Meow Burst Costume (Shadow Accessory) at the Talon Shop for 5500 Talon Cash!

Disclaimer: To give players in every timezone a fair chance, a second batch will be released if the first one sells out within 12 hours. And even though it’s sold for a limited time, it may or may not return in the future.

Patch Notes

🧟 Zombie Run

• Every player now starts with 50 ZR Revolver rounds.
• You now earn Halloween Tickets when you die: +1 for surviving 5 minutes, +2 for 10 minutes, +3 for 15 minutes.
• You get +1 Halloween Ticket for every 10 zombies you kill, up to 40 tickets per run.
• Killing a Fallen Player now gives a reward if that player had killed at least 20 zombies: 1 ticket per 20 of their kills (max 15) and 1 House Point per 5 (max 50).
• Surviving the full 20 minutes now gives twice as many Halloween Tickets as before.
• All monsters move 25% slower, including Nightriff and Fallen Players.
• Zambi: ATK 500 → 300, HP 5 → 4, and it casts Increase Agility half as often.
• Chomp A’Lotta ATK 150 → 50.
• Fallen Players now have 300 HP, so they can be killed with the Destroyer or plenty of shots from weaker guns. They no longer cast Hell’s Judgement or Evil Land.
• Nightriff’s Vampire’s Gift cast time is now 6.6s (was 5s), and his Hell’s Inferno is now level 3 (was 5).
• Coffins spawn twice as often.
• Supply Crates:
  • Every player past 4 makes crates respawn 0.375s faster and adds 2% to the respawn chance.
  • Revolver rounds drop more often (65% → 75%).
  • Adrenaline Pill and Endurance Pill drop more often (20% → 25%).
• ZR Stun Grenade is now level 3 Wide Stun, so its area grows from 11×11 to 17×17.
• Divine Protection no longer reduces zombie ATK.
• Dead players now have a 3-second grace period before they turn into zombies.
• The per-minute announcement now shows the total House Points earned from zombie kills.
• Nightriff can give you a temporary set of ZR items so you can set up your hotkeys before the game starts.
• Gear is now taken off before you enter the arena, so items like the Dracula Card no longer drain HP after the full heal.
• ZR items are now removed when you leave Lord Royston’s Manor.
• Ankle Snares no longer drop traps when they expire. Pets no longer run their scripts during the game.
• Costumes are now allowed inside the game.
• Kill-steal protection is now disabled in Zombie Run.
• Fix: equipment-breaking effects no longer break weapons that are meant to be unbreakable.

⚔️ Melodia Tournament / Gauntlet

• Past Instances can now be played by anyone, regardless if you defeated Zarevok or not.
• Champions use their special skills less often across the board. Most proc chances dropped by about 25%.
• Nightriff:
  • Underworld Slasher and Death Blow now share a 10-second cooldown, so they can’t be chained back to back.
  • Hell’s Dignity cast time is now 3s (was 1.5s) and only triggers below 20% HP (was 50%).
• Skelion’s hard resistances are now 80% (were 90%).
• Zarevok:
  • A title above his name now shows his current element and what it’s weak to, e.g. “[Fire] Weak to Water”.
  • His elemental weakness now also takes +25% damage.
  • Esma on attack 35% → 15%. Elemental AoEs on attack 10% → 4%.
  • Odin’s Spears can only heal him once per player per cast, and the Hell Power debuff they apply now lasts 20s (was 3 minutes).
  • The Chain Reaction heal is halved: 10% of his MaxHP per living player (was 20%).
  • His Energy Coat (−30% damage taken) now only turns on below 50% HP (was 75%).
  • His Mirror Image is now level 8 (was 10), so it blocks 4 weapon hits instead of 5.
  • Boosted Zarevok’s treasure chest droprates slightly.
• Emure Doom Troop:
  • Acid Terror on attack 66.66% → 55%. Its script-triggered Acid Terror procs less often.
  • Extreme Pot Pitch heals half as much and triggers less often.
• Fix: using the supply chest refund no longer turns Ranked potions into unranked ones. The refund now returns each potion under the name of the player who brewed it.

🎃 Other Halloween Activities

• Slot Machine
  • Payouts are doubled, and winning combinations are 25% more common.
  • New players are told to click the Slot Machine in front of their seat, not the picture on their screen.
  • Stopping a reel now resets the 20-second idle timer, and time spent in the menu no longer counts against it.
  • If you’re removed for being idle, you now get a message explaining why.
• Walk of Life
  • Every time you’re caught walking on Red Light counts as a strike, and two strikes kill you (was three, with an early grace period that never really worked properly).
  • Champion handicap: whoever finishes 1st becomes Ganbu’s champion. If they play the next round:
    • They start alone in the back row.
    • They can’t Board Walk for the first 2 seconds after the barricades drop. For every consecutive win, another second gets added to that, up to 5 seconds maximum.
    • Ganbu announces them at the start.
• Simon:
  • No more new rounds or “next emoticon in 30 seconds” promises in the last 20 seconds of a game.
  • Fix: a stale Sequence winner was being announced after a Simon Says game.
• Halloween Labyrinth: whispering runes can now be heard anywhere you can see them. They used to be silent beyond 9 cells.
• Lord Royston: the “1 on 1 fight” option is hidden once you’ve already claimed it.
• Pitch Dark Evil Druid Hat and Black Witch Hat are no longer trade-restricted.

🔧 General

• Comodo Carnival Chess now supports en passant.
• Hundreds of typo fixes across town NPCs, quests, headgear quests and past event scripts.

🖥️ Client

• dgVoodoo2 2.87.5 now works with Gepard. Players using dgVoodoo for full screen or high resolutions (2K/4K) can update from 2.55.3 to 2.87.5.
  • Download dgVoodoo2_87_5.zip from here. Use exactly 2.87.5; other versions, apart from our older ones will not work.
  • Copy the new DDraw.dll and D3DImm.dll (and D3D8.dll / D3D9.dll if you use them) plus dgVoodooCpl.exe into your Talon Tales folder, replacing the old files.
  • Your existing dgVoodoo settings carry over. Open dgVoodooCpl.exe afterwards to check them.
• Baby characters should now correctly display a variety of visual costumes.