Server is back, and the patch landed: GunZ Plus, two maps and permanent drops

Update — Aug 25, late afternoon: the server came back, but the patch brought a new problem: players join a room and everyone sits at 0 ping, invisible to each other. We went through the reports here.

GunZ is back. After Sunday night’s “Authentication fail” outage, Monday’s early-morning maintenance restored access and shipped the biggest patch since the relaunch.

At the time of publishing the server is stable: hundreds of players online and no problem reports on our status page.

The maintenance

It ran in the early hours of August 25, from 23:00 PDT (Aug 24) to 01:00 PDT, two hours in total. The stated purpose was server stabilization and a regular update.

One practical detail Masangsoft repeated in the notice and that people routinely skip: close the Steam client and reopen the game after maintenance. Without it, some players stay on the old client.

What the patch brought

Shop and monetization

GunZ Plus has arrived — the monetization model producer PD Max had promised with a guarantee of “absolutely zero Pay-to-Win”. The Optimite Shop opened alongside it.

Also: three new package costumes, new Credit costumes, and three existing package costumes converted to Credit purchases.

Two new maps

Catacomb — available in Duel Mode only.
Classic Town — a classic returns.

New mode: Clan Scrum Match

A mode where designated clans practise clan battles against each other. It is the first concrete step toward the Clan Wars the company has been promising since the relaunch.

PvE: Goblin equipment is now permanent

A quiet but meaningful change for Quest players:

Goblin equipment now drops as permanent gear — previously it only existed as 3-day or 7-day time-limited items;
the level requirement dropped to 10.

In practice, PvE no longer hands out gear with an expiry date.

The 30% XP event ends

It has been replaced by a 30% BT event. Anyone counting on the experience bonus to grind levels missed the window — the bonus is money now.

Fixes

female character animation being interrupted when chaining a jump attack after a charged dagger attack;
package items not being consumed when clicking “use”;
HP values below 1 displaying as 0;
frame drops when completing in-game achievements;
stability improvements to reduce unexpected crashes.

A note about the sources

Worth recording: the list published on the official Discord is more complete than the one on the Steam page. Both new maps (Catacomb and Classic Town) and the entire PvE section on Goblin equipment do not appear in the Steam patch notes — only on Discord.

If you follow only through Steam, you are missing part of the announcements. It is the same pattern we saw during Sunday’s outage, when the information surfaced on Discord first.

And Sunday’s outage?

Still unexplained officially. On the night of August 24, GM Dalmia said the team did not yet know the cause, and to date no written statement has acknowledged the episode or explained what happened. The problem was fixed, but the answer never came.

Meanwhile, the ranking climbs

The level race keeps moving: the top of the ranking has passed level 63, and the number of ranked players is now over 125,000 — it was 113,000 a few days ago.

You can follow it live on our ranking page, and check the server before launching the game on the status page, which now also shows problem reports from the community itself.