With summer's end upon us (or winter, as your case may be!), I felt it was a good time to add some additional content to Kitchen Sync: Aloha! Thank you to the community for your support and suggestions, and I hope you all enjoy this free update! The game's been live for almost six months now and it's been such a joy to see so many people cooking (and matchmaking) on Maikai!

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- Lemonpepper Fine

KS:A! 1.2.1 Patch Notes

• Lono and Ku can now progress their bond up to Level S

  • New support quest at Level A

  • New Sync Style

  • S level support scene

  • New Relationship Achievement

• New map now available (unlocked through Lono/Ku's support mission)

• New end game request type, Challenges. High difficulty end game missions that give bonus coins based on mission score. Unlocked upon completion of Welcome to the Club.

• Sync Style and Ability Balance Updates. With the game out for a little while now, I've got a better idea of what's working for players. Here are some changes to hopefully give a few more options for Styles and Abilities.

  • Sync Styles

    • Pot of Gold, Braise of Glory, Low-and-Slow, Sweet Lightning, and Orchard Overflow duration increased (~30% each). It's hard to focus a strategy around just a station type or two, especially in larger kitchens, so it should be easier to reap the rewards of these styles now.

    • Unbreakable Vow and Sashay charge up quicker. Hopefully should help these Hazard management Styles be available when you need them.

    • Market Fresh quality buffs and duration increased. Should feel a bit more significant and give you a chance to fully utilize the effects, especially in larger kitchens where it was designed to shine.

    • Ohana Forever charges up a bit faster. Given Uncle already increases charge speed, even small changes here are fairly significant. It should let you get the style up a dish or two sooner. Paired with some of the Sync STAT bonuses, should hopefully be more viable as a build around.

  • Abilities

    • Sync STAT book abilities now give +5 instead of +4 to stats. Given the window for these abilities is limited, it should feel more significant when they're active. Go Uncle, go!

    • Flavor trick books are now cheaper in the shop (2 coins each). While they can be useful, these books feel a bit too expensive given how specific they are. Should be a bit more affordable now to play around with them.

    • Share a Bite (Hina) activation chance increased, By The Book (Lono) quality amount increased. Both these abilities have powerful alternative options, so they should feel more impactful more often!

• A couple new letters in Ch5 hinting at the new features

• Some UI/Qol requests from the community (including RC to close some modals and dragging recipes from the twists screen)

• Swap Meet minigame no longer has weird behavior if you add nothing to the trade box. Instead you get a coin!

Beautiful event art drawn by Nagazy!