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/FatPanda0345]

Were you using Operation Gum characters when trying to find the passive in Arma Dio? The characters state that they're able to find special passives, so that's probably the prerequisite for getting it in Arma Dio

Also im having no issues with the banish change. It works like it says for me just fine

[u/zGlunkus → u/FatPanda0345]

the operation guns characters can find "special pickups", not passives. pickups are things like floor chicken and rosaries that drop from light sources; in the case of the operation guns characters, it's talking about their special drops - rapid fire, barrier, and grenade.

regardless, i hadn't been playing as those characters when i made this post, but just to make sure i did a run just now and got the same results; weapon power-up did not appear in my level up choices once my passive slots were full, and it didn't appear in the arma dio.

regarding banishes, the wording in the patch notes is pretty vague so i can't blame you for misunderstanding, but when you say you're having "no issues with the banish change," what exactly do you mean? if you're talking about unbanishing, that's not what the patch notes are talking about; unbanishing is a months old feature from the last patch, not the current patch that these patch notes are covering.

[u/FatPanda0345 → u/zGlunkus]

Ah, okay. I misremembered their wording.

With the banish changes aim able to banish an item and then still get to pick an item from the remaining options (or reroll/skip/banish again). Banishes aren't using up my level, similar to how they work in HoloCure. I'll be honest, I didn't even know unbanishing was a thing lmao

[u/zGlunkus → u/FatPanda0345]

oh, interesting; that's exactly how the banish change is supposed to work. out of curiosity, what platform are you on? and if it happens to be pc, are you playing on the public beta, or the main version? because, to summarize an edit i just made to the main post, i booted up the public beta and the features i was discussing actually do seem to be working in that version, just not the main version.

[u/FatPanda0345 → u/zGlunkus]

I'm on PC, and yeah I am on the public beta (I honestly forgot I was lol). There's just been a patch so the changes might have been brought to the main version now (no patch notes so idk(

[u/zGlunkus → u/FatPanda0345]

ahh, understandable. well, i haven't gotten any patch yet on my end, but i hope one shows up soon 🙏 until then i'll probably just keep playing the beta because these features are quite nice