Survivors, we are less than 24 hours away from Season 5 Launch. Everything is ready on our end, all tests have been conducted, servers are prepped and ready and we cannot wait to go LIVE tomorrow at 5pm BST (London, UK).
I thought I would summarise all Season 5 changes into one post for your ease so you can make sure you're all up to date with the latest changes, as there may of been some stuff which you missed.
We are all about to experience the biggest release in MTS history, the amount of support we have received this week has been breathtaking, and we assure you we will continue to strive for excellence in everything we do to make our servers better.
As with all our launches - There will be a LIVE countdown to Servers opening on our twitch channel @ https://www.twitch.tv/mtsark @ 4pm BST (1 hour before launch) so make sure you join us and the community for a special countdown.
Season 5 in Full
Tribe Size = 6.
Genesis#2 & Extinction#2 removed from main cluster.
Gacha taming disabled.
HG Stacks 1000-50 Mod removed.
MTS Stacking Mod 500-50 added.
Auto Engrams! Mod added.
Maga ORP Mod added.
Grappling Hooks now stack to 20.
Sweet Vegetable Cakes & Ambergris now stack to 20.
Organic Polymer & Corrupted Nodules now stack to 100.
Boss Fight Element reward increased by 100% on The Island, The Center & Scorched Earth.
Boss Fight Element reward increased by 50% on Ragnarok & Valguero.
Moeder and Master Controller trophies are now sellable in /shopsell
S+ Fabricator, S+ Chemistry Bench, S+ Industrial Forge, S+ Industrial Cooker, S+ Industrial Grill, S+ Fridges, S+ Crafting Table will now all be unlocked by default.
S+ Crafting Station slots reduced from 300 to 100.
S+ Feeding Trough permanent visual green circle has been removed.
TEK Dedicated Storages, Double Doors, Double Doorframes, Triangle Foundations, Triangle Ceilings & Roofs, Stairs, Large Walls and Pipes will no longer convert to S+ variants on a server restart.
ORP Placeable zones decreased from 3 to 2.
ORP Placeable zone size slightly increased radius.
ORP is now operated through crafting and placing an "Maga ORP" structure, which serves exactly how it was before. (Crafting cost, 500x Metal Ingots, 200x Cementing Paste, 100x Crystal, 50x Polymer).
Cryofridge is now craftable inside a player inventory alongside cryopods.
Achatina removed from /shop.
Element, Element Shards & Element Dust harvesting rates set to 2x on Genesis & Extinction.
Crafting cost of S+ Animal Tender has been doubled.
Obelisk building is now allowed, however all these areas are 3x damage areas.
Crafting Element dust in a S+ Industrial Grinder will now return 500 dust instead of 200. (consumes 1 Element).
Woolly Rhino & X-Woolly Rhino have had their damage increased at max charge from 8x to 12.5x damage.
Kentros now no longer have a cap on recoil damage applied, and recoil 100% of damage they recieve from melee attacks.
Bloodstalker breeding has been disabled.
TEK Jump Pad removed.
Wooden bench re-added.
Cluster grenades re-added.
PvP Cooldown will no longer be map wide and will be proximity based for those in range of where damage is being applied.
PvP Cooldown no longer activates when structures take damage , only when structures are destroyed.
PvP Respawn interval increased with +1 minute additional respawn that increases each time if you are killed by a team within 5 minutes of your previous death to that team. (eg. 1st Death = 1 minute respawn timer, 2nd Death = 2 minute respawn timer etc..)
Private messages now appear in red text. (Previously green).
Ice & Chalk Golems that spawn on Valguero have been replaced with Scorched Earth/Ragnarok Rock Elementals, which means they will be able to transfer once tamed.
Aberrant Megalosaurus added to Cryopod Debuff (takes 50% more damage, deal 50% less damage and has a 50% movement speed penalty).
Magmasaurs are untameable first week of wipe.
Megachelons are untameable first week of wipe.
Newborn baby dinos will now be default set to "Disable Wandering" and "No-Ally look" when being claimed by players.
New Rule 3.6 - When built inside Artifact Caves (allowing access to Artifacts within), you are forbidden to use Parasaurs on Turret Mode at any point unless facing a Full FOB versus your base within the cave, which must be disabled once the FOB has ended or attackers have left.
Added new perks to Platinum & Gold MTS Memberships (donators).
Improvements to our server hardware.
New Banned & 3x Base Locations
Updated list for Banned Locations → SEASON 5 // 4 new locations added
Updated list for 3x Damage Areas → SEASON 5 // Obelisks & 1 new location added
Updated Mod Pack
Our mod list has been fully updated and all mods are in launch version, feel free to download all our mods to ensure you have no issues joining @ launch. Feel free to load our MTS Community Mod into a world and test out our new features such as Rhinos, Kentros etc.
Massive thanks to metsfan & Hulk our two talented mod developers.
MTSArk.co.uk Preorders
Our store has been updated and stocked with all our items available for purchase. After purchase, please make a note of your order number & follow the instructions included in your email regarding requesting its delivery.
All MTS servers which releases soon are completely free to play on. However, due to popularity our servers are consistently full at launch. Therefore, we offer Memberships & Whitelists for players wishing to support MTS and to skip all queues and wait times allowing you to join even when the server is 70/70 with faster load times alongside some other perks and bonuses. Expect to see long wait times without a server pass!
Any purchases made before release will 100% be delivered if information is correctly provided, expect slow response time on delivery if you order after the servers have launched and are full.
PLEASE UNDERSTAND ANY ORDERS PLACED AFTER 3PM BST ON LAUNCH DAY ARE AT RISK OF NOT BEING COMPLETE BEFORE SERVER LAUNCH.
Any purchases made after server launch can expect delivery times up to 24-48 hours as ticket volume will be extremely high. You have been warned and this why we encourage pre orders always. Our staff are working round the clock to catch up and are working on a priority basis.
Store → https://www.mtsark.co.uk/shop
Staff Changes
orangeskunk has left our admin team, we wish him well for the future and thank him for his efforts.
Happy Fragging and enjoy yourselves!
Hamilton
MTS Board