Lots of great stuff.

But no permanent Santy hats? /maximum sadface

Yeah, that's really lame that the hats expire. We have pumpkin and halloween stuff that didn't expire...why can't we have permanent stuff for a bigger holiday?

/maximum sadface as well

Stil, thanks for the update.

Awesome! Thanks for the goodies OOO. I think Euro servers will really help expand the player base. Health trinkets will do a lot to balance out Lockdown. Really curious to see the Scenario rooms and to find out [what-in-the-devil] an Enamorock is?..

Silly question about servers:

Say I join a friend & realize that my latency has dropped (due to joining one of the shiny new euro servers). Then I decide to "Go solo" because the lag is too bad. Will I still be on the Euro server that my friend was on? or will I get shifted back to the closest available server again?

It would be really cool if there was some visual indicator of how far away a friend's server was from you (say a colored icon next to their name in the friends tab). That way you could tell how your latency would be (roughly) before joining a friend. Sorry I know this last comment should be in suggestions, but it felt relevant to my last question (I'll post a thread there as well).

Yeah, that's really lame that the hats expire. We have pumpkin and halloween stuff that didn't expire...why can't we have permanent stuff for a bigger holiday?

*nod* Hope we get a permanent option that was just glossed over... otherwise it'll probably just be in the featured auctions someday.

On the plus side, the tokens you use to buy them don't expire. So no need to rush for them like we had to with the Halloweeny ones trying to complete a collection. Trying to do those on just mist was hard.

On the down side, the tokens are also worth CR (as recipe items) or all kinds of other permanent equipment that doesn't expire, and other cosmetic hats.

Awesome update, and it's nice to know the Dev's have fixed some of the recently spoken issues (The "- Fixed a bug in which a snipe was disappearing into a seat." made me laugh. I know what it's referring to). As for the christmas hats, that's debatable; these are festive hats, after all, are festive for the season, but there were also more permenant halloween versions, so it may be fair to have more permanent ones too. That said, a christmas hat seems really out of place during summer time, unlike the permanent Halloween hats which feel universal whether it's halloween or not. We could create a permanent Christmas hat, but it can only be worn during December and Janurary, much like with certain items in TF2.

Also also, looking REALLY forward to finding those scenario rooms, as I'm a big story affigando in video games. There's always a slim chance they may not be that worth it, but knowing what OOO has already done with the presentation of the Shadow Lairs, there's a good chance they'll be interesting, or at least well executed.

CHRISTMAS THEME ☺☻ FEAR MY DEADLY CHRISTMAS HAS MORTALS! FRABJOUS DAY TO SPAM!

EDIT: I make no sense but w/e I am in a frabjous day to troll on the innocent and spam haven with trade chat. i canooot waittt.

European servers sound interesting, can't wait to see how much my latency will be affected. Hopefully this brings more players to the game and CE prices drop.
Happy to hear about:
- heart pendants, they were extremely rare, at least now I can test them myself
- scene rooms, the game is really lacking these
- new UI piece showing high score... will wait before judging
- heat amplifiers finally being useful, hopefully their prices aren't too high
- new item?
- european servers... will have to wait and test myself before I can judge how it affects my gaming, currently I'm hit through my shield way too often

Big Thank You for making more than a single winter-themed map for lockdown :)

I'm happy with all the updates! Except yes I would like a permanent santy hat :D. Love making snowmen in the new LD map to thanks :).

Nice update!

I think the buy CE/cr UI update will really help new players when they first run out of mist. If there is also a "refill mist energy with your mist tank" option, that would also be a HUGE help for new players.

I was hoping that there was going to be a price drop on the heat amplifiers, but there wasn't. I think that 800CE for even doubling your heat is still a huge waste, it is far better to just run more gates and ask people for their heat at the end of arenas and such.

I'm glad to see the heart pendants made more common. They are nice to have in T1 and the first several levels of T2/T3, but they become pretty much irrelevant after you get a +8 vitapod. Like most armor in this game, they really only save you a hit or two so you really need to concentrate on not getting hit instead. The offensive trinkets (CTR, ASI, DMG) will end up helping you more.

I find Winterfest Haven Theme very enjoyable as well. Good job :-D

Actually I'm looking forward to The Spiral Knights Official Soundtrack volume II (with themes from Gloaming Wildwoods, Ironclaw Munitions Factory, Blast Network, Lockdown, Shadow Lairs, Sanctuary and Winterfest Haven...)

Make Event Hub closed by default when opening game - event hub sucks. Its like this stupid facebook.

XXX did YYY 2 minutes ago
YYY happened to XXX 6 minutes ago
blahblabhabl is now blehblebhlebh 2 hour sago
.....

Make it at least not open every time i open my game please.

About the events tab... I'm not real sure I want others to know just how many crowns I've earned, it seems like a beggar magnet for larger guides and anyone who friends lot of people from PUGs.

WOW!!! 4 (FOUR!!!) connection bars! For the first time ever (and I'm playing since beta)! My brain have exploded!
Until now I got 2 bars if I were lucky.

On the second though European server turns out to be as enjoyable part of this update as seasonal music theme in Haven ;-D

The rankings in the event tab is quite broken. It says 'for the past 7 days', but it seems to update every day or so? I dunno, I don't particularly like this feature, since people would want to keep their crowns and levels to themselves. Like people said above, a privacy feature would be great. European servers are yay, though the whole 'party with other people not in Europe = slow again' thing is unfortunate.

As for the rest, it's rather 'meh' since the hats aren't permanent, and the heart pedants are for people who do PvP, pretty much. A guildie was pretty angry about it, since he spent 50k CE buying some right before the surprise update. Still, at least the PvP imbalance is more or less gone.