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OpFactions - PikaNetwork 2022
May 27th 2022, 17:00 GMT / 13:00 EST / 12:00 CST / 10:00 PST
As the season has come to an end it is time to continue the cycle with another OpFactions reset. It is time for another season for top factions to compete against each other.
We will be focussing on improving the excitement for PvPing within the OpFaction season.
A lot of players want more reasons and more things to PvP for. This is why we will be introducing more aspects to make the players want.
There are plenty of exciting things waiting for you! So make sure to read the post and see what we have in store for you this upcoming season, because we are very excited to show you!
Are you ready to hop into a new season?! Say no more. The update will be released this Friday, May 27th, 2022.
It will begin with a one-week grace period, after which a map lasting 5 weeks will begin.
May 27th 2022
17:00 GMT / 13:00 EST / 12:00 CST / 10:00 PST
play.pika-network.net
Please note: The release time can be a couple of minutes later, we are trying to reach 7 PM CET.
Grace Period (no explosions): 7 days.
First hour: No flight, No wilderness command, No hunger loss, No ender pearls.
World Corners: 20
Faction size: 20 members
Faction shield: 16 hours
Cannoning speed: 3 seconds
Season length: 5 weeks
It will begin with a one-week grace period, after which a map lasting 5 weeks will begin.
May 27th 2022
17:00 GMT / 13:00 EST / 12:00 CST / 10:00 PST
play.pika-network.net
Please note: The release time can be a couple of minutes later, we are trying to reach 7 PM CET.
Grace Period (no explosions): 7 days.
First hour: No flight, No wilderness command, No hunger loss, No ender pearls.
World Corners: 20
Faction size: 20 members
Faction shield: 16 hours
Cannoning speed: 3 seconds
Season length: 5 weeks
Giveaways
If you would like to start the season on the right track, we've got you covered! We are running a giveaway that includes ranks and store coupons! If you would like to enter the giveaways, go ahead and visit our official post!
End of the world
To celebrate the end of the season, we will be hosting an end-of-season event. At around 3 days before the release, we will be placing reset signs at spawn which you can click and claim a number of rewards; Free items, Free gkits, Millions of in-game money, Tons of free experience to level up your overpowered armor. Everyone will be able to finish their rank-ups because you can get everything for free. You can fight with everyone without the fear of losing your gear you have weeks to gather. So clearly this is the event everyone should participate in! Hop on OpFactions and have fun!
Changelog
The most important features/modifications implemented towards this season's map and functions are the following.
Payouts! Faction Top Rewards
This new season of OpFactions we will have bi-weekly rewards for the top factions! This will go on until the end of the season which will last exactly 5 weeks or 35 days and end with the final payout. View all the dates in the /payouts menu.
End of the season rewards
First place: $350 USD PayPal and €500 worth of Iron currency.
Second place: $150 USD PayPal and €350 worth of Iron currency.
Third place: €250 worth of Iron currency.
Bi-weekly rewards
First place: €75 worth of Iron currency. Second place: €50 worth of Iron currency. Third place: €25 worth of Iron currency.
New! Spawn
It is time for a new season, and what better way to do that than with a brand new spawn. Like every season the spawn will be filled with information & features, here is a list of the things you can find around spawn.
A new spawn with an old-school prehistoric theme.
The spawn contains multiple KOTHs again.
Looking for some help? There are plenty of NPCs explaining all the features. 
Supply drops can be found all around the warzone, this season with more drops at once.
A new seasonal crate has been added again.
Updated! Worlds
As every season needs a spawn we will also need some worlds for you to start your base in. There will be an overworld and an end world like all seasons, and worlds themed to the worlds fitting for this reset.
There will be a total of 20 corners, these being the following
OverWorld (/spawn)The border for the overworld will be 10,000 x 10,000 (-5,000 to 5,000) - The spawn is located in the middle.
KOTHs will be located at each side of /spawn close to it.
The End (/warp end)The border for the end world will be 10,000 x 10,000 (-5,000 to 5,000) - The warp is located in the middle.
Flat sandstone will be placed from Y:1 to Y:30.
This warp counts with 1 KOTH.
Jungle World (/warp jungle)The border for the jungle world will be 7,500 x 7,500 (-3,750 to 3,750) - The warp is located in the middle.
Flat green clay will be placed from Y:1 to Y:30.
An outpost will be located within this world.
Desert World (/warp desert)The border for the desert world will be 7,500 x 7,500 (-3,750 to 3,750) - The warp is located in the middle.
Flat yellow clay will be placed from Y:1 to Y:30.
This warp contains 1 KOTH.
Snow World (/warp Snow)The border for the snow world will be 7,500 x 7,500 (-3,750 to 3,750) The warp is located in the middle.
Flat Snow will be placed from Y:1 to Y:30.
This warp contains 1 KOTH.
New! Season length
After years of having the same season length over and over again, we have heard you. Everyone is in favor of shorter maps. After thoughtful consideration, we have decided it's in our best interest to lower the length of the faction's maps to keep the players interested.
However, due to our resets being filled with great new features and further enhancements on the OpFactions gamemode we also need some time to continue developing and maintaining the network.
With all of this in mind, we came to the conclusion that the best length for new faction maps will be 5 weeks or 35 days in total. This is a full 2-week reduction compared to other seasons. So starting from now we will be hosting maps for a length of 5 weeks.
1 Week Grace Period
4 Weeks of raiding
New! Dark Zone
A brand new big feature as highly requested will make its entrance into our OpFactions server, the Dark Zone.
This Dark Zone is a high-risk, high reward type of zone where you will be able to earn some extra cash and items.
In this zone you are unable to use any command, you can not open your vaults, you can not teleport out, you can not teleport your teammates into it, you are completely isolated, and the only way out is a portal at the backside of this world.
It is up to you, the player, to decide what adventure you are going for in the Dark Zone. Will you fight out beef between your rival faction? Or will you go grind some mobs for valuable drops? Or even better, how about some fighting a boss? The choice is yours!
The following mobs will be spawning within the Dark Zone:
Baby Dragons
Lions
Monkeys
Raccoons
New! Bosses
With the introduction of the Dark Zone, it is the perfect time to find out if bosses can make the player excited to hop into this dangerous area. We will be adding Bosses to OpFactions, and these bosses will spawn all day long within the Dark Zone.
Upon spawning a broadcast will be sent to all players with the exact location of this Boss, so you have to go in well prepared, as a lot of players will be fighting for this insane loot from these bosses. But only the top 5 players will be able to claim their well-deserved Boss Loot Bag. These bags contain crazy loot, from the newly introduced Masks, up to keys and even special sets for PvP.
As a player you will also be able to obtain boss eggs, which will make you spawn a boss for yourself, however, this will still be announced to every online player with the exact location, so you must use these carefully!
A total of 4 different bosses will find their home in the new Dark Zone, and these bosses are:
Ectoplasm - A slime-like boss.
Pyroclast - A blaze-like boss.
Cockatrice - A chicken-like boss.
Golden Knight - A boss that is suited up like a real knight.
New! Masks
Each boss will have their own unique mask. These masks can be put on top of your helmet to give you a crazy boost. These masks are only obtained from the Boss Loot Bags. So you will have to do some grinding to obtain these powerful masks.
As each boss has their own mask we will be adding 4 masks in total for this season. Those masks are:
Cockatrice Mask - The mask of the Cockatrice boss
Immune to fall damage
Take 15% reduced damage from players
A chance to obtain a huge speed boost at low HP.
Ectoplasm Mask - The mask of the Ectoplasm boss
Immune to any enchant giving you poison.
Deal 10% extra damage to all players.
A chance to knock back all nearby players on low HP.
Pyroclast Mask - The mask of the Pyroclast boss
Immune to any fire damage
Deal 15% extra damage to all players.
Golden Knight Mask - The mask of the Golden Knight boss
Deal 10% extra damage to all players.
Take 10% less damage from all players.
New! Balance Logs
You will now be able to view a full log of all of your balance, where it went, who paid you, what you bought, and all that just in a simple GUI filled with those logs.
All of these logs will be saved per user and you can review them for the rest of the season. So now if you were wondering if you actually spend all those millions in the /shop, or if you paid them to a friend, you will be able to view it in the /balancelogs.
In there you will find these logs:
Received /pay money
Paid /pay money
Shop purchases
Received money from other sources
Updated! Infinite ChestThe infinite chest has received a small requested change as well.
We have changed some logic behind the infinite chest and they will now work per chunk, rather than per 16 blocks. This allows the player to take control of a chunk using an infinite chest, and it is limited to 1 infinite chest per chunk.
On top of that, we will be adding TNT as an item to the infinite chest, however, you can not sell this TNT. Upon selling the TNT instead of receiving money the TNT will be sent directly into your Faction TNT bank. This makes the infinite chest a greater use for every type of farm.
Updated! Auction House
It is important to know what happened to your auctions. This is why we added a small change to the auction house. We will be introducing the /ah sold command.
Within this menu, you can view all your sold auctions. This will make things much easier when your auctions got sold while being offline.
All of the sold auctions will be visible within this /ah sold menu.
Updated! CratesCrates have been around for quite some time, so it's time for a well-deserved quality of life update to our crates system.
One Time Reward
The seasonal crate will have a reward that you can unlock once each season. This reward will be a good & special reward that can be unlocked once per player from the crate. After obtaining the reward you will no longer be able to obtain it.
Re-rolling
The suit that allows you to obtain a re-roll has been fixed, and the rates have been increased. On top of that, we will be adding a re-roll token that you can obtain from loot boxes. Voting will now also increase your chance of obtaining a re-roll for every crate!
Full Inventory
Hate it when players will up your inventory with cakes while opening a key? Say no more. As we implemented a delivery system last season we will now be sending the rewards right into your delivery inbox once your inventory was full.
Updated! SkillsWe have heard the feedback, and a lot of people want to go back to McMMO, however, we are not able to do this, so we decided to revamp the swords & axes skills to be a copy of the old McMMO style.
This means the following has changed for the skills:
Swords:
Active Ability - Serrated Strikes turn your next hit into an AOE hit. The AOE damage is single target damage / 4. It also has an added special effect, where it has a chance to apply Rupture, a special effect that's basically bleeding.
Passive Ability - Counter-Attack when blocking your sword, you have a chance to reflect 50% of the damage taken
Passive Ability - Rupture is like a bleeding effect, that increases in duration the higher the level of your sword is.
Axes:
Active Ability - Skull Splitter turns your next hit into an AOE hit. The AOE damage is single target damage /2.
Passive Ability - Critical Strikes allow players to crit damage without having to jump. A crit does twice the amount of damage.
Passive Ability - Axe Mastery adds bonus damage to any axe. Depending on your axes level
Passive Ability - Armor Impact adds a passive increase in damage to other players' armor
Fixed! Bugs
We did our best to polish and fix as many existing bugs inside the OpFactions server. We have looked through all the bug reports and managed to fix them. If you come across any bugs with the new release, make sure to report them at our forums under the bug reports section.
Here are a few of the bugs we squished out:
- Fixed anti-cheat not working as we wanted to
- Fixed the seasonal keys from player levels
- Fixed re-logging removing your enderpearl cooldown
- Fixed /f raid claim 1 not claiming anything
- Fixed issues with raid timers.
- Fixed and re-enabled /roam
- Fixed and re-enabled /itemflip
- and many more.
Misc. Updates and changes.
After receiving some suggestions about modifying a couple of things, we have decided to make the following modifications in order to make everyone's Factions experience much better. We have modified a few features which were present on the previous map, and here is the list including those modifications, along with a justification for the majority:
- Updated all plugins
- Updated /payouts menu
- Added infinite obsidian block to /shop
- Updated seasonal crate rewards
- Added more bracket colors & fixed them
- Added a new GKIT
- Added a new reset lootcrate
- Added koth menu
Please note: Any suggestions for changes feel free to leave them in the comments.
Question and AnswersWhy does OpFactions reset?
OpFactions is already up for some time. A reset has to happen to change and improve with new features, to make the game more exciting for you all! This then allows you players to have a fresh start and new players can begin to play without any significant disadvantage.
This means all items, money, and the map will be reset. Nothing will be kept leftover from the previous map. I know this must be a disappointing revelation for a lot of you, but think about the exciting new changes, the new alliances you can forge, the new map, the new features and updates the different kinds of gameplay, and style is provided with this update will surely make it a worth-while and exciting reset!
Below you can find what you will lose and one for what you will keep
What will I lose?
- Your claims
- Player level & premium reward pass
- All items in your inventory and ender chest
- Any currencies such as money and exp
- Chatcolor permissions.
- Seasonal ranks and perks
What will I keep?
- Purchased Ranks & Rank Upgrades
- Purchased Perks
- Won out of crates commands/ranks
We hope to see you on our new OpFactions server soon!
If you have feedback or any suggestion, let us know we'd love to make this as good as we can.
Thanks
If you have feedback or any suggestion, let us know we'd love to make this as good as we can.
Thanks
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