So in total, we lost 3 game modes and gained 1

[Anvilus]

Basically the new Shadow Palace and Relics are actually dimension trimming, while old ones were removed and bosses moved to DT. All the 5 SP floors as well as achievements and task force missions for them, all deleted.
Also cutscenes and 4 stages per relic are gone as well.
So if I got it correctly, SP and Relics have gone just as much as Free Contract has, it's now just more bosses for Dimension trimming.
And as others mentioned in some of other topics, it takes way longer to get even 1 blue mold, while before there was a weekly 75% discount on 15 items.

[Brave Sir Robin]

Free Contract is of course 100% gone.

Challenge mode (the ones you used to get the challenge tokens from) is for all intents dead. There's no purpose to them now other than a bit of quartz on first clear. The unit data you could buy from them now costs planet points, the gear costs golden bullets, and the tokens for exclusive equipment now comes from a different stage.

Dives are, at the moment, a waste of time. Might as well just use you tickets on safe mining for and delete any dives that spawn from dispatches, because they're honestly not worth playing through right now.

[Anvilus]

Originally posted by LBG:

Free Contract is of course 100% gone.

Challenge mode (the ones you used to get the challenge tokens from) is for all intents dead. There's no purpose to them now other than a bit of quartz on first clear. The unit data you could buy from them now costs planet points, the gear costs golden bullets, and the tokens for exclusive equipment now comes from a different stage.

Dives are, at the moment, a waste of time. Might as well just use you tickets on safe mining for and delete any dives that spawn from dispatches, because they're honestly not worth playing through right now.

Yeah you're right. They removed the medals, but didn't replace them with anything else, the quartz was there before the update too. And Planet points are very valuable for operators for example, so hard to waste them on stuff like Lincoln tank.
And dives have flat Eternium only, I'm at 6 now and I only get like 200, before it was almost 2k. Looks like the boss clear bonus was removed.

I love the Substream as far as story timeline is concerned and all the new event shops in there. I wish they did more stuff like this and less of removing or making more expensive.

It all looked so exciting when I was watching the livestream, but now reviews are at 50% positive for a good reason. I really hope they fix some of this stuff, so many things are gone and/or made worse. :(

[LookSkyWaka]

Originally posted by Anvilus:

Originally posted by LBG:

reviews are at 50% positive for a good reason.

Those are rookie numbers. Should be lower.

[123 Casual Player]

That, and you get next to nothing for doing the Shadow Palace replacement anyway.

[Shan]

the weird part for me is that its somehow overbuffed? before the update i almost cleared SP4 and now i cant clear DT 1 not to mention it takes a lot time and a lot of Eternium where they made almost everything use Eternium and with higher amount. Not to mention rewards dont give a lot of materials for upgradin t6 counter specific items up to t7 compared to the Eternium cost

[R3al1ty]

Shadow Palace after lvl 41 is bugged? Boss units are insane.

[ph0ne (greatijedi)]

Originally posted by Strateg1x:

Shadow Palace after lvl 41 is bugged? Boss units are insane.

No, it's intended that they one shot you with their ultimate.

[Kiru]

Level 41+ is sp5. Plan accordingly. Also note that they start to hit harder than in sp5. Felt to me like that. 41+ feels very similar to the original stage 1-3. They definitely changed the siege one with Lumi in the first 20 though.

I'm not exactly sure, but it looks like only sp1, 3 and 5 were replicated. I'm thankful though. 60 stages was more than enough.

Relic dungeon is still there, just that you need to do it in one go, and here the CP requirement starts to become a thing. CP is largely gained by upgrading gear (even though it doesn't do much), and higher level. Here's hoping they remove that again. It's silly. You can prevent 4 char cheese by only allowing full comps like they already did in the old shadow palace and challenge mode.

[123 Casual Player]

Right, you will also need to farm "advance gear materials", now that shadow palace no longer give those for free. And a blue Spectral Mold cost 50 of those.

I don't think there's any point to go past 41 since the amount you earn through skip is about the same. Nor do you ever want to pay 640 eternium for 30 frags. They could have at least made it the SR box if they are going to charge 200 frags and 50 materials.