Look, let's be honest, Com2uS dropped a couple of shiny new competitive modes called 'Conquest' and the 'Arcadia Festival' on 30th. In what the publisher calls a major push for guild rivalry, this update introduces both cross-server massive battles and AI-driven skirmishes. Guilds can now pick their poison depending on play conditions, flex their collective growth, and dive straight into cooperation and competition.

Kicking off on October 4, 'Conquest' is a cross-server massive PvP mode where guilds from different servers clash over territory in the Elysium region. You manually control your character here, serving up a proper appetizer for the grand siege warfare and faction struggles ahead. Guild members simply need to hold down the territory to rack up points, and the first guild to hit the target score claims the turf.

Each guild can only hold a single territory in Conquest, and the server belonging to the victorious guild gets a juicy reward buff. Even if the guild bites the dust and fails, participants still walk away with consolation prizes. Conquest demands solid strategic thinking and tight-knit teamwork, promising the sheer adrenaline rush of massive warfare.

Meanwhile, the 'Arcadia Festival', which kicked off its very first season on 30th, is a guild-versus-guild showdown against AI characters dubbed 'Persona' that mirror player appearances and stats. Rival guild members manifest as 'Persona' units fighting on autopilot, while participating players must cooperate in real-time to match forces against a swarm of enemy Personas.

This mode blends manual scrap with AI automation to give group competition a slightly more casual spin. Three guilds are lumped into a single group to scrap for four weeks, with each guild cycling through two growth phases and two challenge phases. By hoarding 'Ether Points' via guild missions, you can snag festival-exclusive buff effects, and rewards are handed out based on final rankings when the season wraps up.

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