Uncharted Territory Update

The YouTube trailer thumbnail.

The Uncharted Territory Update is a major update released on the 17th of September 2022.

A trailer was released on YouTube alongside it.

This update focuses on adding a new Sector 5 sector, with additional mechanics that reflect the show's. Additionally, it also introduces a new Waytower model and more actions for waytowers.

Changelog

Gameplay Changes

This update adds major gameplay changes, mostly regarding New Sector 5 and the Tower model.

New Sector 5

Sector 5 is the focus of this update, it has received a major revamp and now offers a fully fledged key system, core mechanics and a functional celestial dome.

The Maze

The maze in Sector 5 will now have multiple exits and keys. Every time you enter Sector 5 while the maze is closed, it will randomly select a key, open the main wall from the arena and start a 10 minute countdown.

During this period of time, you'll have 10 minutes to get the key; when you do, all passages to the celestial dome and tower will open, and the maze will enter a “calm” status. If the timer runs out before you get the key, the maze will enter “grace” status, in which you'll have a limited amount of time to escape to a safe area in Sector 5 (mainly the arena) and getting the key will no longer work.

5 minutes after the key has been pressed, the maze will close again, killing all warriors still lingering inside.

The Celestial Dome

The celestial dome now counts with a revamped interface and new mechanics like Overvehicles around the digital void.

The interface in the celestial dome will no longer TP you to the surface Sector's edge, instead, it will allow you to open tunnels that lead you to the surface sector's Access Waytower. Additionally, it will no longer be able to teleport you to the core, instead, it allows you to retrieve Lyoko Energy in case you don't have enough to summon a vehicle. This vehicle will not have gravity, it will allow you to free fly and reach the core chamber or the open tunnels.

The Core

The core has also received a revamp, it will now also include 2 shield models and will have new gameplay attached to it.

XANA will now attempt to attack the core, this can happen regardless of if there's a tower activated or not. When XANA attacks the core, Monsters will be summoned in the core room and will chip away at it's shields until it's left unprotected and destroy it. Core Attacks have no warning at startup, therefore you'll have to keep an eye on the new core program, which will tell you when the core is under attack and its health status.

If you weren't paying attention to the core and XANA decided to attack it, don't worry, when the first shield layer goes down, it'll be broadcasted to every player in the server, which means you still have time to get down there and save Lyoko.

However, if you fail to defend it, then every player in Lyoko will be doomed to fall to the digital sea, and the rest of players will get a game over.

Additionaly, if a Xanafied player gets to the core, they will be able to start an attack manually. 

Towers and Waytowers

Towers and waytowers have gone through a lot of changes in this update. A new waytower model has been implemented into the server, which replaces the old one entirely.

The new Waytower model

In the new waytower model, there is now 4 waytowers per sector: 1, 4, 8 and 10. All of them can execute Frontier protocols and Code EARTH. Additionally, they all now have a cyan halo when deactivated as opposed to the regular tower's blue one.

Surface sectors now have an order they follow for things like waytowers. The order is Desert > Forest > Mountain > Ice

Tower 1 is the Access Waytower, all other waytowers that lead to another sector end up in this one, including Sector 5's tunnels. Access Waytowers don't lead anywhere. Additionally, they possess a gray S-shaped cable on their side.

Towers 4, 8 and 10 are Road Waytowers, they lead to other sector's Access Waytowers. Additionally, they possess a black flat cable on their side.

• Tower 4 will lead you to the next sector (Example: Desert 4 will lead to Forest 1)
• Tower 10 will lead you to the previous sector (Example: Desert 10 will lead to Ice 1)
• Tower 8 will lead you to the sector that's neither (Example: Desert 8 will lead to Mountain 1)

XANA Redirection

XANA will now be able to redirect waytowers when they're activated. 

• A Road Waytower activated by XANA will not lead anywhere, it will loop back to itself.
• An Access Waytower activated by XANA will redirect all the traffic to the next, non activated Road Waytower in the sector. This means you won't exit an Access Waytower activated in a sector unless all waytowers are activated (In order to prevent a sector from becoming inaccessible)

Protocols and Jeremie Activation

From this update onwards, manual tower activation is possible, you'll need to use Energy for it.

This update introduces 3 new placeholder Codes, HANNIBAL, FRONTIER and FETCH.

• HANNIBAL: This code will activate the tower with the player's own energy, leaving it available for other uses. (Using this code while xanafied will cause the tower to become activated by XANA, therefore it can be used as a decoy tower.)
• FRONTIER: This code will start a frontier rescue of a specific player, but only on Jeremie activated waytowers, attempting to use this code in any other situation will fail.
• FETCH: This code will return the running actions of a tower. For example, if a tower is running a frontier rescue, it will return the warrior it's saving and the percent of completion.

Jeremie and Hopper activated waytowers will now also receive monster ambushes. Megatanks will appear to take down the tower, which means that you'll have to protect them if you want to keep them activated and/or running a process.

Advancement Changes

In this update, 10 new advancements have been added and 2 have been modified, bringing the new total advancements required for Veteran to 94.

New advancements:

• Welcome to Carthage
• Countdown Over
• Shouldn't something happen?
• Warrior Juice
• Crossing the Barrier
• My Memories!
• Uncharted Territory
• Quantum Tunneling
• Straight to Heart
• Final Round

Modified advancements:

• Lyoko, the long way around
• The New Einstein

Miscellaneous Changes

This update also brings some balance and miscellaneous changes.

Power Changes

• WarriorSense will now be able to detect and locate a sector's edge and Sector 5 keys.
• Creativity structures will now disappear when you get more than 30 blocks away from them (Not counting vertical distance.)
• Creativity structures will now allocate a certain amount of AP while they're created. (This means your AP bar will cap at a point, like the structure still depends on your AP bar after being built)
• Creativity structure times have been heavily increased depending on structure type.
  • Walls will now last 1 minute.
  • Coccoons will now last 1 minute.
  • Bridges will now last 4 minutes.
  • Platforms will now last 4 minutes.
  • Air Platforms will now last 5 minutes.
  • Holes will now last 3 minutes.
• Dismissing a structure manually is now possible using the “Shift + F” key combination.

Monster Changes

• Added Creepers.
• Megatank beams will now be able to pierce towers.
• Megatanks will now attack Jeremie and Hopper activated towers.
• Megatank beam damage has been nerfed. (16dpt → 8dpt)
• Blok health has been buffed. (15 → 20)
• Manta health has been nerfed. (15 → 7)
• Mantas and Creepers will now be able to target the Core of Lyoko.
• Mantas will now appear naturally in the Celestial Dome.

Season Changes

• Autumn particles have been tweaked.
• Added Special Day system, during special days, fog color and particles will change on Earth, as well as giving some flavour text when joining the server.

Resource Pack Changes

• Updated incorrect translation of the “Geneva Who?” advancement in Spanish.
• Translated join, leave and frontier messages to all other languages.
• Made Core Model bigger.
• Changed Sector 5's block textures with higher resolution ones.

Miscellaneus changes

• The LostMaze attack has received an increase in difficulty, this is because Sector 5 is no longer as easy or predictable to traverse.
• Terminals will now strip accents off usernames instead of replacing characters with spaces (Example: “Iván" → “Ivan” instead of ”Iván" → "Iv n")
• Ice's edge location has changed to the opposite side of the sector.
• Tower numbers in Desert, Mountain and Ice have been swapped for show consistency reasons and to adapt the new waytower model to the sectors. No tower numbers in Forest have changed.
  • Desert:
    • Previous Desert 1 will now be Desert 4.
    • Previous Desert 2 will now be Desert 5.
    • Previous Desert 5 will now be Desert 1.
    • Previous Desert 4 will now be Desert 2.
  • Mountain:
    • Previous Mountain 3 will now be Mountain 4.
    • Previous Mountain 4 will now be Mountain 3.
    • Previous Mountain 6 will now be Mountain 8.
    • Previous Mountain 7 will now be Mountain 6.
    • Previous Mountain 8 will now be Mountain 7.
  • Ice:
    • Previous Ice 1 will now be Ice 10.
    • Previous Ice 2 will now be Ice 9.
    • Previous Ice 3 will now be Ice 7.
    • Previous Ice 4 will now be Ice 8.
    • Previous Ice 5 will now be Ice 2.
    • Previous Ice 6 will now be Ice 5.
    • Previous Ice 7 will now be Ice 3.
    • Previous Ice 8 will now be Ice 1.
    • Previous Ice 9 will now be Ice 6.
    • Previous Ice 10 will now be Ice 4.

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug that caused Mantas to die when they're too close to a ceiling.
• Fixed bug that caused Kankrelats to detach their models when using Telekinesis or Smoke Grab on them.
• Fixed Core always disappearing.
• Fixed bug that caused “Sea falling” effect near Ice 6 (Ice 9 previous to this update)'s  platform (this caused other bugs like tessens being lost or not being able to properly move, which has also been fixed).

Trivia

• New Sector 5 has been in development for 4 years.