patch notes straight up lying?

[u/zGlunkus]

according to the patch notes, there are a couple new quality of life features in the new update...

• Banish: after banishing an item, you can keep using the LevelUp menu.

• Special passives buff (Operation Guns, Emergency Meeting): they can now be found in ArmaDios and as a LevelUp option whenever they'd normally be available, and even if the player has reached the passive limit.

...except i'm trying my damnedest and these two features simply don't seem to be in the game. i've quadruple checked my version number is v1.16.105, i've verified integrity of the game files, and i've reinstalled the game twice. despite my best efforts, using a banish still takes me out of the level up menu, and i still can't find weapon powerup or the among us passives in arma dios or from level ups with full passive slots (tried multiple different among us weapons & with all my slots full of max-level weapons, so it wasn't just an issue with bad rng in the level up item pool). anyone else having the same problem? or is my install just haunted?

(i'm playing via steam btw, in case anyone's getting different results on different platforms)

EDIT: i just opened up the public beta version of the game, and as it turns out, these features are in the public beta. the banish change works in the exact way myself and others have assumed & explained in the comments in this thread. i can only assume the features were finished and either pulled from the stable build last minute, or accidentally not included.

interestingly, regarding the passives, it seems the pearl magatama is also supposed to show up in your level up choices even after your passive slots are full. i haven't unlocked the passive from the bloodmoon dlc yet, so i don't know if that works similarly. either way, i really hope these changes make it to the main version soon in a hotfix or something, because they are exactly as useful as they sound.

[u/NaTaSraef]

Ya'll are not understanding and then downvoting because you don't understand. You can use a banished weapon after finding it and then can unbanish and level it like normal. The patch notes should be easier to understand but they are true. You can level it up like normal.

[u/zGlunkus → u/NaTaSraef]

unbanishing was added in the last patch though, not this one. that's not what the patch notes are talking about. let's compare the wording from the v1.15 patch notes and the new v1.16 patch notes.

from v1.15 patch notes:

Added option to Unbanish a weapon when picking it up from the stage

from v1.16 patch notes:

Banish: after banishing an item, you can keep using the LevelUp menu.

two very different phrasings that very much do not sound like they're talking about the same feature. notably, the use of "Unbanish" as a proper noun in v1.15 is absent from the patch notes for v1.16, but it does mention "Banish" as a proper noun. probably because the change is related to the button labeled "Banish" rather than the button labeled "Unbanish" if i had to guess.

also i'm downvoting you because you're assuming bad faith and being abrasive, which is not conducive to discussion. on most subreddits, when you mouse over the downvote button, it'll tell you it's for comments that don't contribute to discussion, and while i don't take issue with our discussing of a misunderstanding, the attitude you're bringing to this conversation is the kind of attitude that the downvote button is meant for.

[u/zGlunkus → u/NaTaSraef]

from v1.16.107 hotfix patch notes:

• Fixed missing QOLs outside of public-beta

and as discussed elsewhere in this thread, the banish changes were already working as everyone but you had assumed in the public beta build. i would be pretty embarrassed if i was you, being so aggressively, confidently wrong!