IRL Patch Notes – Week of May 4, 2025

A mythic-tier mobility asset from the Vatican vault has been reclassed for support deployment in Gaza. Now specced as a roaming clinic, the unit provides medkits, status recovery, and off-map sustain to vulnerable player clusters.

Patch 2.0 of the Britannia-Bharat trade build reduces import/export cooldowns and applies a near-global tariff debuff for Indian goods. British autos unlock a new regional access tier, while Indian whisky now stacks more affordably in U.K. inventories.

A Massachusetts squad used real-world body-blocking to prevent a federal deportation action. ICE agents disengaged after sustained community aggro.

A 100% tariff debuff has been applied to all non-U.S. cinematic content, citing “national security” mechanics. The change introduces a targeted gold-sink on foreign media pipelines, with cost DoTs expected to tick downstream to viewers

A 21-year-old player in Japan triggered a hard-instance PvP encounter, severing her partner’s ring finger to halt an imminent bond formation with another NPC. The preserved item was stored in cold stasis to prevent future equip attempts.

U.S. leadership ordered the reactivation of Alcatraz as a federal containment zone, restoring a legacy-tier prison instance for high-threat NPCs. The dungeon features enhanced security mechanics and restricted overworld access.

Connecticut has initiated a legal buff granting school and library staff temporary immunity frames from civil aggro tied to book bans. The patch also adds a formal appeal path for contested lore objects.

Microsoft has deployed a critical hotfix patch resolving 70+ known vulnerabilities, including five active zero-day exploits. The update also closes two additional bugs with live proof-of-concept attack vectors, ending several weeks of wild aggro.

After an extended questline plagued by delay debuffs and bureaucratic aggro, the REAL ID rollout has finally gone live. TSA checkpoints now enforce hard ID gating for all domestic fast travel routes.

After a 20-year run, the original VoIP party finder has despawned. Remaining users have been force-migrated to Microsoft Teams, officially retiring the blue client that once carried half the world’s raid comms.

In a surprise conclave speedrun, Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago has ascended to Pope Leo XIV — marking the first time the NA server has secured top-tier Vatican leadership. The papal slot was filled within 24 hours of the vacancy trigger.

Following a failed leadership roll, Friedrich Merz secured control of Germany’s coalition guild on a second-round vote. With a razor-thin majority, Merz now holds chancellor-level admin rights and access to national resource allocation menus.