Hope Radio and The Golden Dragon: A LifeAfter Tale

[Golden Dragon Welcoming the Spring]

<Golden Dragon Treasure>
From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, a mysterious radio station that claims it can fulfill everyone's wishes will summon Survivors to the Spring Festival Stronghold in Levin City Outskirts, claiming to "be bringing back the festive atmosphere of the old world and granting Survivors' wishes".
After an explosion, a Dragon Statue, previously assumed lost forever, suddenly reappears, unearthing a story of a father and his two sons, and some long-held grievances.
During the Spring Festival, embark on this new adventure, unravel the long-buried past, and reveal the full truth behind this mystery.
1. Story Quest: Story Quests are refreshed at 3:00 every day. Complete quests to unlock corresponding rewards on the exclusive interface.
2. Furthermore, there will be daily New Year blessings and small gifts from Armstrong, which can also be claimed on the Golden Dragon Treasure page. Please accept them.

<Golden Dragon Party>
Breaking news! A grand party specially prepared for Survivors!
Accept the invitation from Hope Radio, come and join the Golden Dragon Party, and experience the festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year together!
No strings attached, just pure fun! Join the Golden Dragon Party with your friends and complete the mini-games now!
*Gameplay
1. Golden Dragon Party is available daily from 10:00-24:00 from Feb. 2 to Feb. 22 with no participation limit. Survivors can join the party solo or team up. Each party accommodates up to 16 Survivors.
2. Each player's performance will affect the team score. So please remember to work together and achieve a higher team score!
3. Survivors who perform exceptionally well in the mini-games can significantly boost the team's total score. Everyone has the opportunity to become party MVP and lead the entire team to victory!
4. Each Golden Dragon Party is made up of 3 mini-games. Complete 3 mini-games to obtain participation rewards, which can only be claimed once per day. The rewards will be refreshed at 3:00 every day.
5. After accumulating a certain amount of points, you will obtain additional rewards including exclusive Dishes, golden titles and more. The rewards can only be claimed once per day, and will be refreshed at 3:00 every day.
6. During the event, all gear and drones will not consume Durability.
*About Highlights
1. Your outstanding performances at the party will be automatically recorded in the Highlights. Share your highlights with your friends.
2. Sharing highlights grants you additional rewards. These rewards can only be claimed once per day, and will be refreshed at 3:00 every day.

<Dragon Gate Defense>
The mysterious Golden Dragon has attracted lots of Infected, come and defend the Dragon Gate together!
*Gameplay Explanation
1. The Dragon Gate Defense event is available all day from Feb. 2 to Feb. 22 with no participation limit. Survivors can join the party solo or team up. Each party accommodates up to 16 Survivors.
2. 4 Survivors will form a team to fend off the Infected and protect the Golden Dragon. The first team to defeat 12 waves of the Infected will claim victory.
3. Before each wave, Survivors can choose from various Supplies to enhance their weapons and better combat the increasingly powerful Infected.
4. Accumulate a certain number of points each week in Dragon Gate Defense to earn extra rewards such as exclusive Food, Reconstituted Molecules and more. The rewards can only be claimed once per week, and will be refreshed at 3:00 every Sunday.
5. Clearing Dragon Gate Defense also offers a slim chance to obtain Rare rewards. For more details, tap the "Lucky Prize" button on the Dragon Gate Defense main screen.

<Spring Festival Highlight>
In the Spring Festival Highlight event, complete Highlight Quest and gain EXP to upgrade the Highlight Level. Reach certain levels to claim the corresponding rewards.

[Caravan 101]
<Spring Festival>
1. Good Fortune: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, New Outfit - Good Fortune will be available for purchase. Enjoy a limited-time discount during the event. Purchase the outfit and shout "I wish you good fortune" in the World Channel to get a bonus backpack and a Palette for free.

2. Starry Dragon Flame: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, Starry Dragon Flame will be available. Consume different amounts of Spring Festival Supply Boxes and open the boxes for a chance to obtain rare items including new Flying Vehicle - Starry Dragon Flame, Arc Light EM Collector's Edition, Twin Dragons' Flame Backpack Box, New Mutation Core - Eternal Frost Storm and more.
3. Dragon's Roar: From Feb. 9 to Feb. 23, Dragon's Roar will be available. Consume different amounts of Spring Festival Supply Boxes and open the boxes for a chance to obtain rare items including Collector's Outfit: Dragon's Roar, Collector's Backpack: Gold & Jade Dragon, Serpent Shotgun Dragon's Roar Edition and more.

4. Dragon Phoenix Epoch: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, Dragon Phoenix Epoch will be available. Consume different amounts of Spring Festival Supply Boxes and open the boxes for a chance to obtain rare furniture including Dragon Phoenix Epoch Theme Plan Box, Platinum Dragon, Dragon White Jade Stage, Phoenix White Jade Stage and more.

5. Lucky Bag: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, Survivors can select a certain amount of items from Top Rewards, Rare Rewards, Valuable Rewards and Common Rewards to set a Lucky Bag prize pool. Survivors can consume Spring Ingots to draw items from the prize pool. Rewards will be removed from the pool when you draw them, and all of the items in the prize pool are guaranteed to be obtained within 12 draws.
6. Fortune Shop: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, Survivors can obtain Dragon Crystals by participating in Starry Dragon Flame, Dragon Style, Dragon's Roar, Lucky Bag, Consumer Squad and other events. Dragon Crystals can be exchanged for items in the Fortune Shop.
7. Dragon Style: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 13, Dragon Style will be available, Consume different amounts of Spring Festival Supply Boxes and spin the wheel. There will be a chance to obtain Dragon Style series Outfits, Backpack, Pendant and other rare items.

8. Lucky Gift Box: From Feb. 9 to Feb. 22, Lucky Gift Box will be available. Consume Federation Checks to obtain rare items including new Dragon Drone Collector's Edition Skin: Golden Dragon, Collector's Edition Skin: Black & Gold and other rare items.

<Limited-Time Benefits Event>
1. New Year Sign-in: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, you'll get a chance to claim rich rewards every day by logging in. There's also a cumulative reward available including Dragon Year Commemoration Outfit, Spring Festival Backpack Bursting with Gifts and other rewards.
2. Send a Gift Home: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 16, visit your friends' manors and leave them a Chinese New Year gift! You can also obtain gifts including limited-time red packet headwear and Easter egg gun by giving gifts or receiving fortune in other player's manors.
3. Mystery Balloon: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 22, the Mystery Balloon Guardian will head to your manor and wish you a happy Chinese new year, please stay tuned for a special surprise, courtesy of the Guardian!
4. Chinese New Year Fireworks: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, Survivors can consume different amounts of Credits to customize your own Text Fireworks in Hope 101, camp and manor, express your feelings out loud!
5. Auspicious Fortune: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 21, Falling Gift Boxes will be dropped from the sky at 19:00. Survivors who own Starry Dragon Flame or Dragon's Roar can obtain more Good Fortune Boxes!
6. Duo Training: Duo Training will be available from Feb. 2 to Feb. 22. Survivors can invite a friend to train with them. Complete the designated quests to get Mastery and Spring Ingot. Survivors can also get extra rewards from Caravan Support.
7. Caravan Market: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, Dancing Dragon White Jade Screen, Dancing Phoenix White Jade Screen and other furniture will be available for a limited time in the Caravan Market! Participate in the training event and collect Training Tokens to exchange for items including Formula Shards, Enhancement Serums and more! Please stay tuned!

<New Market Recommendations>
1. Consumer Squad: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, team up to form a Consumer Squad, participate in Starry Dragon Flame, Dragon Style, Dragon's Roar, Golden Dragon's Blessing, Dragon Phoenix Epoch and other events, accumulate squad points to unlock rich rewards!
2. Chinese New Year Offer: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, Lucky Star Outfit Pack, Spring Festival Supply Box and Dragon's Roar Super Pack will be available for a limited time. Come and take a look.
3. Top-up x2: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, the extra Credits given for top-ups are increased to 100% for Survivors who have reached Gathering Level 15. Any top-up amount will enjoy one rebate.
4. Dragon Lucky Draw: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, log in every day to claim the Spring Benefits Voucher. Unlock the Fund and log in for 7 days to enjoy an 8x rebate. A large number of Spring Festival Supply Boxes, Energy Cells and Dragon Crystals are waiting for you!
5. Formula Special Research Assist: From Feb. 2 to Feb. 23, obtain Formula: Arc Light Electromagnetic Machine Gun to enjoy double the reward. Reward 1: Electromagnetic Machine Gun Special Research Assist: during this time, the replacement attempts of Advanced Materials has no limit. Reward 2: Special Research Update Rebate. Obtain Formula: Arc Light Electromagnetic Machine Gun and upgrade it to the designated level to claim rich rewards!

[Portable Radio]
The Portable Radio is now available. Now you can listen to the Music Platform and Frontline News any time, anywhere!

[Training Arena]
1. Adjusted the matching parameters. Now, the probability of matching with teammates or opponents with a large tier gap is lower, but the time spent waiting to match may now be slightly increased when there are fewer players online.

[Camera System Optimization]
1. Added a new pro interface to the camera. Players can switch to pro mode for a wider range of adjustment options, including action pause, more lens parameters, filter intensity adjustments, seasonal environments and so on;
2. A portrait mode has been added to the regular camera mode;

[Area Operations]
1. Silent Desert is back. Federation Operation: Silent Desert and Silent Desert - Crusade are open. The Silent Desert has been taken over by virus spores, and the Distorted Infected have appeared. Get ready to face a new desert challenge.
2. Silent Desert and Silent Desert - Crusade will join the Federation Operation rotation.

[Limited-time Gameplay Adjustments]
In order to give Survivors a more relaxed and free experience, the opening hours of the following gameplay will be adjusted after the Feb. 2 update:
1. Bounty Hunt, Caravan Supplies Transport, and Save the Archives are now available from 3:00 to 24:00 of the day. The rewards will remain the same.
2. Players can now participate in the Bounty List solo. After the hunt is complete, all Brigade members will be rewarded.
3.Two new start times, 16:00 and 22:00, have been added to the Armed Assault opening hours.

[Other Improvements]
1. Improved to the Distorted enemies' Distortion Cores;
1. Improved the comment recommendation mechanism of the Lore Archive system in order to encourage Survivors to post higher-quality comments on the story.
3. Optimized the Auxiliary Weapon counterattack mechanism, including: 
I. The Block status of the Auxiliary Weapon counterattack can now be interrupted by Accessory Skills.
II. Added a new Auxiliary Weapon counterattack interrupt settings in System Settings - Combat Settings. After enabling this setting, you can use the jump or the attack buttons to interrupt the block state of the Auxiliary Weapon counterattack. This setting is not enabled by default, please go to the Settings to enable it.
III. Added Distorted Infected and counterattack tutorials in the Survival Manual and the Area Operation Schedule page.
IV. Some counterattack-related achievements have been added to Achievements - Rebuild.
V. Successful counterattacks count towards the support score in the Support Ratio of Area Operations.
4. Flying Vehicle Improvements
I. Thanks to the hard work of Scientia's brightest minds, the performance of Flying Vehicles has also been improved. The Maximum airborne altitude of the Iridian Beidou vehicles is increased to 800m.
II. Flying Vehicles will have a more streamlined interface during auto-advance and navigation.
III. New simple operation mode for Flying Vehicles. Survivors can switch to the corresponding operation mode in Settings - Operation - Flying Vehicles.
5. Because the PC UI Vanguard Test has been so well received, we have decided to extend the test time. Test accounts that have been selected will not be rolled back to the previous version.
6.Fixed an issue where furniture that can be placed at the entrance to the manor, such as the Nutcracker Guard, had its special effects disappear when approached.