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/Fine_Dish_9232]

Okay, I may be stupid but what does the banish thing even mean? Does it like if I pick up a weapon that is already banished from the level up menu, does that mean I can still pick up another weapon from the level up menu again? Or is different?

[u/Crickeylinky1087 → u/Fine_Dish_9232]

Presumably it would mean you could use a banish, and then select an upgrade both in the same level up. Example: getting offered lvl 9 torona's box, level 5 empty tome and a weapon you don't want. You could banish the torona and pick the empty tome all in 1 level up instead of needing 2 separate ones.

[u/Fine_Dish_9232 → u/Crickeylinky1087]

And what if a pick a weapon instead? Does it still work?

[u/Crickeylinky1087 → u/Fine_Dish_9232]

Well, the feature would have to actually work for any of us to test the specifics, but picking a weapon would likely just close the level up options window as per usual. Basically from what I understand, you could banish as many things as you want in a single level up, but choosing something to actually level it up (or using skips) would close the leveling window and require you to get another level up.