KURO BETA UPDATE - MARCH 2026

KURO BETA UPDATE - MARCH 2026 THE ABYSSAL GAUNTLET Kuro's first solo roguelike dungeon has opened beneath the Free Market. When you step through the gate, your gear, skills, and class are stripped away. You start with a basic sword and fight through increasingly dangerous floors. Your weapon is your class — every weapon you pick up grants a full skill kit: a core attack, a utility ability, and a passive. Swap weapons, swap playstyle. Push deeper or extract early. Die and you lose everything. How to Enter Talk to The Gatekeeper in Free Market Level 30+, solo only 3 runs per day Difficulty Tiers 1 Star — The Shallows (5 floors, 15 min) 2 Star — The Depths (7 floors, 20 min) 3 Star — The Abyss (10 floors, 30 min) 4 Star — The Void (12 floors, 40 min) 5 Star — Oblivion (15 floors, 45 min) Full-clear a tier to unlock the next. Risk vs. Reward At certain floors, an Extraction Portal appears. Cash out and your weapons convert into real items — scrolls, ores, chaos scrolls, even Golden Maple Leaves at the highest rarities. Or push deeper for better loot. Full-clearing Oblivion awards the Abyssal Victor medal. Corruption Linger too long and Corruption sets in — draining your HP and empowering monsters. When time runs out, you die. No loot. Permanent Upgrades Every run earns Abyssal Marks, even failed ones. Spend them at The Gatekeeper's shop on permanent upgrades — more starting power, better drop rates, a second chance on death, or the ability to choose your weapon drops. Disconnect Protection Disconnect mid-run? You have 60 seconds to reconnect and resume where you left off. Commands @gauntlet extract — Extract at a portal @gauntlet swap 1/2 — Swap weapon @gauntlet hp / elixir — Use potions @gauntlet status — View run stats IRONMAN REWORK Ironman mode is now completely 100% self-sufficient. No partying with anyone Can now do PQs solo — KPQ, LPQ, and OPQ reworked with adjusted pass counts, mob spawns, and stage logic LPQ Boss stage has an NPC fallback if you can't reach Black Ratz Cannot trade with anyone Can still withdraw within level Quests and medals are character bound Full updated rules: https://playkuro.com/forum TRANSMOG SYSTEM Convert any equip into a cosmetic overlay at KIN's Cosmetics menu for 2,000 Maple Points Wear your favorite gear looks over your real equipment Cosmetic items must match your job's equippable types (e.g. a wand can't overlay a polearm) ECONOMY Meso Cap Increase Meso cap raised from 2.14B → 4.2B You can now hold, trade, store, and send up to 4,200,000,000 mesos Duey Security Overhaul Fixed a duplication exploit in Duey DAILY & WEEKLY QUEST OVERHAUL Quests lock to the character that starts them. Progress only counts after starting at Kin. Rewards lock to your level band at start, not at claim. Claim All only claims quests you own. Level Bands B1: 1-19 | B2: 20-39 | B3: 40-59 | B4: 60-79 | B5: 80-99 B6: 100-119 | B7: 120-139 | B8: 140-159 | B9: 160-179 | B10: 180+ Dailies PQ Runner (2 runs) — 1-3 Perfect Pitch Boss Hunter (3 runs) — 2-10 Cloth Fragments Monster Slayer I (500 kills) — Leather/Scales, 10-100 Monster Slayer II (1k kills) — Silver Gacha, 1-5 Monster Slayer III (2k kills) — Silver Gacha 2-10, B10 = 1 Gold Gacha Flappy Stirge Master (50 pts) — NX, 100-500 Weeklies (cumulative kills) Tier 1 (1k) — Perfect Pitch, 4-15 Tier 2 (2k) — Silver→Gold Gacha, up to 10 Gold at B10 Tier 3 (3k) — Cloth Fragments, 6-30 Tier 4 (4k) — CSS 20%, 1-3 Tier 5 (5k) — Maple Points, 300-3000 Tier 6 (10k) — CSS 20% at low bands, Chaos Scrolls mid, Chaos + Gold Gacha higher, Chaos + White Scroll at B9-B10 PARTY QUESTS — ALL 7 REBALANCED HPQ rice cakes now save on clear and exit — Tory accepts saved cakes for hat exchange KPQ and LPQ block reward claims if ETC is full instead of eating the reward LPQ Broken Glasses can be retried on a later clear if EQUIP was full LPQ passes now clear on stage transition LMPQ level cap removed — 70+ can now enter OPQ stage 2 reactors no longer pay out after stage is cleared OPQ wristband reclaim checks for full EQUIP before consuming materials Pirate PQ gives completion credit to all members, not just leader Pirate PQ 10 and 20 clear hats added with a new upgrade line Ellin PQ fountain grants once per clear All 7 PQs rebalanced to match grinding for players who prefer that route NEW CONTENT Temple of Time Temple Keeper NPC now warps to Memory Lane, Road of Regrets, and Road to Oblivion — 500k mesos each Unlocks with quest progress New Free Market Map The Free Market has a new map design Miki NPC is now clickable Jade Crafting KIN now offers jade crafting services Arans at level 70+ ready for 2nd job advancement can now craft Red Jade through the Maker skill Updated Maker item recipes to include full jade crafting data Color Names Player names now support color customization Pet Auto Cure Pouch New Cash Shop item — 12,000 NX for 30 days QUALITY OF LIFE Mounts Mounts are no longer class-restricted — Explorers and Cygnus Knights can now equip any mount freely Saddles auto-equip when you put on a mount Note: Custom NX mounts are not useable at the moment — still in progress Equip Tooltips Equipment tooltips now show the base stat range for each stat (e.g. STR: +15 (13~17)) Weapon tooltips now show attack speed value (e.g. Fast (4)) Number Formatting Large numbers throughout the client now display with commas — mesos, EXP, HP/MP, stat ranges, attack range @mobhp command now shows mob HP with commas Maker Skill Equipment crafting moved from Agent E to the Maker skill Maker recipe costs reduced by 10% to account for the crafting tax More Maker recipes are now craftable — previously broken or missing recipes now work Fixed missing item icons for Chaos Scroll 60% and Cloth Fragment in the Maker UI Level 77 Maple weapons added to Maker crafting — 11mil cost Cygnus skillbooks now go to Ore Storage Union Belt crafting now goes through the Agent E planner Early accessories and Union Belt added to Maker Fixed Gold Anvil crafting Guild Storage Redesigned Guild Storage UI/UX for clearer, faster item handling Added partial-withdraw support for stackable items Fixed rechargeable item duplication issue Accessible from level 10+ Perfect Pitch stacks no longer blocked from guild storage Gachapon Ticket exchange now supports a text field for quantity input Convert tickets both ways between tiers: 10 Regular (Blue) ↔ 1 Silver, 10 Silver ↔ 1 Gold Added clearer validation and confirmation prompts before exchanges Fixed Gold Gachapon Lidium reward item ID and preserved proper reward quantities Fixed premium Gold Gachapon bronze plate reward giving wrong item and stack amount CWKPQ Now 4 times a day All sigils can be activated with auto attack Reconnect no longer eats an extra entry Empty expeditions clean up properly Stage 4 layout survives reconnects Stage 5 fall resets send you back to room start Stage 5 relic recovery works on reconnect Perfect Pitch Rebalance Zakum: 3-7 (was 2-8) Horntail: 5-12 (was 2-8) Von Leon / Castellan Toad: 7-15 (was 6-16) Pink Bean: 8-16 (was 6-16) Papulatus (2-6) and Scarlion/Targa (4-10) unchanged Other QoL Pet transparency — adjust your pet's visibility in the widget Ore Storage now opens directly from the @storage command @dailies is now easier to read and shows clearer progress states — also shows in chat Added a Start All Available button to Kin for both Daily and Weekly quest tabs Added Maple Tip message suppression Added a loading banner when changing characters Added a PIC input tip overlay with a Ctrl+V paste hint Removed annoying messages in chat Removed ping counter — replaced with FPS counter Teleport-back portals in Orbis Tower now function correctly Agent E overall layout updated — easier to use now (by @Pyna) Von Leon Coin is now account tradeable White scrolls now correctly go into Ore storage LAUNCHER Added Daily Login and Weekly Login reward claim status Added Daily Quest and Weekly Quest progress tracking Added voting progress to the Vote button Added announcements to the launcher You can now change character order from the launcher Added an option to resize the launcher Download the new launcher: https://playkuro.com/download WEBSITE & FORUM New forum is now live: https://playkuro.com/forum — The old forum will be retired soon Updated dashboard layout with a cleaner design and easier readability Skill changes and Cygnus Knight 4th job skills posted to the forum Ironman rules now available as part of the forum migration SKILL BALANCE Aran Combo Tempest — mob count 10 → 15 Combo Fenrir — mob count 7 → 9 Final Blow — damage restored to 450% Wind Archer Monsoon — damage 1000% → 1200% (was 2680% before initial patch) Bowmaster Dragon's Breath — damage 220% → 240%, knockback fixed so it no longer rubberbands Night Lord Ninja Ambush — damage 100% → 120% Night Walker Shadow Partner now works with all skills Shadow Kunai — Fixed duration on levels 1-29, still 300 sec at max Night Walkers can now acquire the Taunt skill using the standard book as intended Fixed Showdown and Dark Omen hitting enemies with unintended vertical range Warriors Warriors can now use 4th job skills without completing advancement quests — existing characters fixed on relog Dragon Roar HP cost now correctly scales off Hyper Body's boosted max HP pool Enrage now lasts 300 seconds with no cooldown Mages Ice Demon/Fire Demon now correctly hit a single target across all levels Fixed Magic Attack buff stacking so MATK no longer glitches when buffs expire Fire Arrow no longer crashes nearby players Cygnus Knights Cygnus 4th job master levels fixed — skills no longer incorrectly start at master level 20 without mastery books Cygnus 4th job skill mapping fixed — Wind Archer skills load correctly, SP reset guarded Fixed Cygnus 2nd job quest persisting after completion Refined elemental charge damage handling for Thunder Breaker Lightning Charge and Dawn Warrior Soul Charge General Skills Nimble Feet now correctly gives +30 speed Haste for all thieves standardized at +50 speed at max level Haste now correctly gives +45 speed Bless no longer overwrites Iron Body — both stack normally Buff stacking now works correctly with all items EXP coupon buffs now persist through death Fixed Battleship mount buff causing visual glitches Fixed dispel hitting multi-stat buffs multiple times — Combo Ability remains immune Fixed attack buffs not replacing weaker versions correctly Fixed Corsair Battleship durability not persisting through channel changes and Cash Shop visits Fixed Marksman damage showing a very high damage number visually Skill Tooltip Sync Updated skill descriptions to match current live skill data across all jobs Corrected buff and summon durations across many skills — now lasting 300 seconds Fixed incorrect per-level tooltip lines where durations were outdated Updated Cygnus skill tooltips to reflect current values Corrected Infinite Blaze tooltip to show 300 sec duration and 10 min cooldown This is a tooltip/description accuracy update only — no balance changes MOB SPAWN BUFFS (by @Cadaver) Skyscraper 1-6 Dead Mine I-IV Mutant Tino Forest Mutant Tiru Forest Mutant Tiguru Forest Henesys Ruins Market Henesys Ruins Park Hill North of Henesys Ruins Suspicious Hill Dreamy Forest Trail Dark Spore Hill Creepy Humming Forest Trail Knight District 1-4 Armory 1-2 Knights' Chamber 1-5 Hall of Honor BUG FIXES Crashes Fixed a crash that could occur after entering PIC Fixed Thunder Spear causing nearby players to crash Fixed Fire Arrow crashing nearby players Fixed ETC/USE Cash Shop inventory expansion causing crashes Fixed Agent E ore crafting crashes Fixed boss HP bar crashes when entering boss maps and transitioning between fields Daily Resets Daily resets now work more reliably at server midnight including Krexel entries, daily PQ limits, and daily quests Papulatus daily quest now correctly resets at midnight server time instead of 24 hours after last completion All daily repeatable quests with 24-hour or longer intervals now reset at midnight Daily login claims now persist through relogs, channel changes, and restarts Fixed Daily/Weekly claim tracking Fixed stale daily repeatable quests not resetting at server midnight Party Party online status now syncs correctly on login Party EXP and kill credit now follow consistent eligibility rules Kill credit is now tied to EXP recipients Recruitment member visibility now works correctly for non-leaders Party HP bars now scale correctly for characters with very high HP Party invites sent from the widget now work correctly Fixed party member status sometimes showing offline after logging in or switching characters Damage Skins Fixed damage skin not syncing on login and map changes Fixed damage skin showing the wrong skin when other players are nearby Fixed damage skin unexpectedly resetting to number style during combat or map changes Fixed showing damage skins for players that do not own a damage skin Maps & Visibility Fixed phantom mobs lingering after being killed — dead mobs now properly removed for all nearby players Fixed two players entering a portal at the same time becoming invisible to each other Fixed World Map hover tooltip causing lag Fixed players getting stuck at the top of Deep Sea Gorge I in Aqua Road Fixed players falling out of bounds in Orbis Tower maps — now teleported back to top portal Fixed Aqua Road top bounds softlock — now teleports to start of map Mounts Fixed dismounting not displaying correctly for other players Fixed mount state not cleaning up when entering Cash Shop or changing channels Fixed cash mount riding skill not being preserved correctly Corsair Battleship durability now persists through channel changes and Cash Shop visits Quests Fixed quest helper tracker resetting during progress updates Fixed repeatable quest handling for legacy quests Fixed weekly kill quest progress not saving properly Fixed "Judging the Axe" (Quest 3637) not being repeatable as intended Fixed Cygnus Bow Expert 3rd job advancement quest rewards being incorrectly blocked Fixed Cygnus WA/NW quest skill rewards — now correctly give skills at master level 10 Fixed quest turn-ins not properly consuming required items Fixed quest medal sync — completing quests that update your medal no longer causes equipped items to disappear if equip inventory was full Fixed Shovel not being craftable for Keol quest Retired the Maid next to Moren — questline is now smooth and working Equipment & Items Fixed set effect tooltip incorrectly showing on random items Set bonus stats now display correctly when stacked with item buffs like Cider Bless and Iron Will recasts no longer suppress set bonus WDEF/MDEF projection ACC and AVOID from set bonuses now merge properly with other sources Timeless set effect now correctly applies on login Revolution equips updated to 7 slots from 8 to match other sets Tempest Mage Shoes are now tradeable Fixed stat ranges sometimes not displaying on items Safety Charm 3.2k NX bundle now correctly gives 5 instead of 1 Cash Shop Cash item drop confirmation added — prompt before dropping cash items Pet locker transfers fixed — moving pets to/from Cash Shop locker now works correctly Fixed bundled Cash Shop items not granting correct number of uses Fixed items with duplicate serial numbers (like Seal Pillow) being lost during locker transfers Weapon transmog and NX weapon covers re-enabled behind a config toggle CS mounts work again UI & Widget Fixed Set Effect tooltip not displaying Restored tooltip overlay for Set Effects Fixed Widget lock tooltip not showing the toggle key Fixed World Map not displaying correctly Fixed group chat tab routing in ImGui (Buddy/Party/Guild/Alliance) Fixed widget position not saving Fixed Flappy pipe-gap boundary behavior Improved lunch widget countdown stability Added more themes to the widget under the CFG button Added EPM kill metrics Lunch box now accurately displays remaining time Cygnus jobs now correctly show in the launcher Fixed change character screen showing blank channel list Escape now properly closes widget windows without opening Maple's menu Updated Storage UI to display correctly DPS and EPM tracking now continue updating correctly after leveling up Horntail now correctly shows 1-attempt daily limit in the widget @storage now opens ore storage widget directly Bosses Changed Toad summoning from Pirates to little toads Changed Krex summoning to Wyverns Moved a portal in Castilion Toad expedition that was blocking drops CWKPQ stage 4 crashing on enter fixed Fixed event startup failures for Balrog, Cygnus, and CWKPQ Temple of Time Fixed progression gates so Cygnus characters with Road to Oblivion completion can pass through correctly Beyond the Ruins door now properly recognizes both Adventurer and Cygnus quest completion Players without required progress are sent back to the safe lane instead of being softlocked Pets Fixed Pet auto-pot still triggering when threshold was set to 0 Auto-loot now picks the closer looter between your character and pet Auto Pot fixed to use current HP/MP pools — reducing incorrect triggers Systems Fixed meso amounts above 2.1bil preventing purchases Fixed auto pick-up setting not persisting on channel change when set to off Optimized auto pick-up with event-driven queue — smoother while moving, idle, and on map entry Fixed a race condition where relogging quickly could show stale storage data from previous session Improved relog and change-character transitions — stale UI and cursor clear properly before auto-login Fixed PIC tip freezing in viewport mode Players can no longer join the same PQ or expedition on multiple accounts from the same connection — one account per IP per instance Fixed players getting hit with miss/1 from certain mobs Fixed wrong monster names in Monster Waves event Events Hot Potato — fixed holder selection and round timing Hot Potato — fixed only tossing between two players Cake Event — fixed return portal to send back to saved location Monster Waves — improved wave scaling and disconnect/reconnect handling PERFORMANCE & STABILITY Improved damage number rendering — reduced lag when many damage numbers on screen Expired item drops on the map now cleaned up in a single batch instead of one-by-one Stabilized the server to reduce lag when there are a lot of drops on the ground Improved overall crash diagnostics and stability Stabilized the launcher ANTI-CHEAT & SECURITY One account per IP per PQ/expedition instance — ask for whitelist for multiple accounts per household Improved bot detection with better accuracy and fewer false positives Tightened anti-cheat measures Banned Account Name Cleanup Characters on permanently banned accounts older than 30 days are now automatically renamed to Banned#### This frees up their original names so active players can claim them WHAT'S NEXT We're closer to launch than we've ever been. Before we get there, I want to run a Beta Phase 2 focused on server stability and catching anything I might have missed. You've all been incredible testers — I need you a little longer. More details soon. DOWNLOAD Launcher: https://playkuro.com/download Mirror: Google Drive Please patch using the launcher before logging in. Shoutout to @Raboniel, @Cadaver, @Pyna, and @Senzu for their contributions this patch. ~ Kuro