2025-04-19
With the upcoming release of Reverse:1999 version update patch 2.5 - Showdown in Chinatown, the game will also be celebrating its phenomenal milestone - its 1.5 anniversary celebration with a lot of interesting contents for players to see and enjoy.
Between the content for the 2.5 version update patch itself and the 1.5 anniversary celebration event, Reverse:1999 promises to provide players with a bunch of campaigns and events to experience in order to obtain a large amount of rewards including character upgrading materials, fantastic cosmetics and brand new skins for characters and of course, a large amount of gacha currencies to roll for your favorite characters during the new patch.
Additionally, the Reverse:1999 1.5 anniversary update patch will also introduce 3 brand new characters for players to roll for - The 6* Star Affinity Ling Yue, the 6* Plant affinity Noire and the 5* Plant Affinity Loggerhead.
In this guide, we will go over everything players can expect from Reverse:1999 Version update 2.5 and the game’s 1.5 Anniversary Celebration campaign and show players how they can obtain all of the game’s wonderful rewards during the patch duration.
As mentioned, with the release of Reverse:1999 Version update 2.5 and the 1.5 anniversary cel;ebration campaign for the game at the same time, players will be bombarded with a staggering amount of contents, events and campaigns to participate in and obtain amazing rewards to help boost their accounts’ progression immensely.
To celebrate the 1.5 anniversary and the release of Reverse:1999’s special 2.5 update patch reveal program, special limited time exchange codes have been issued for all players to exchange for special limited time rewards:
- LiangYueOnDuty
- NoireNotSorry
- LoggerheadEmpty
During the 2.5 Update Patch duration, players who log into the game will be rewarded with various items including character upgrading materials and importantly, character pull currencies. The log-in events players can participate in are as followed:
The first log-in event is the Decatone - [Moonbeam Guardian] log-in event, where players can obtain up to 30 FREE PULLS for logging into the game for 14 days in total during the patch duration. Upon logging into the game for 7 days during the first half of the patch, players will be able to obtain 10 limited pulls on the limited banner and 10 permanent pulls. During the 2nd half of the patch, logging into the game for an additional 7 days to receive 10 more permanent pulls.
The second log-in event that players can obtain rewards from is the Decatone - [Ripples on the Water] log-in event, where players will be able to obtain an additional 10 FREE LIMITED PULLS on the 2nd phase limited banner.
The 3rd log-in event is the special Mane’s Dance Log In Event, where players can obtain special items that will reward them with special item discounts for certain items in the game, including garment discount voucher and Scenery Coupon that decrease the price of certain items in the shop by 50%.
The 4th log-in event that players can participate in is the Windsong special Garment giveaway log-in event, where upon logging in, players will be able to obtain the special Windsong Garment [Records from the Jade Hunt] for free.
Finally, the last log in event in the game is a very unique log in event - Riding out the Storm - where the more log in days the players have in the game, the more rewards they will be able to obtain during the event period, including a special FREE 6* Character upon logging into the game for a total of 365 days, counting from 2023 all the way until the event update patch. This special log in event can be accumulated for a long time and will be available permanently after the end of this patch.
The main attraction of version update 2.5 for Reverse: 1999, during the update patch period, players will have the chance to obtain 3 brand new characters on their special rated up banners:
- The first phase banner of the Version 2.5 Update Patch will feature Limited Character banner for Ling Yue - a 6* Star Affinity character. During this banner, Ling Yue will experience a rate up period for a limited time. Once this banner is over, players will not be able to obtain her until her rerun banner in the future.
- The 2nd phase banner of the Version 2.5 Update Patch will feature the Normal Character banner for Noire - a 6 Plant Affinity character. During this banner, Noire will experience a rate up duration. Once this banner is over, Noire will eventually be added to the game’s permanent character pool on version 2,8.
- The 5* Plant Affinity character Bloggerhead will be rated up alongside Ling Yue on her limited banner and will be added to the permanent pool right away once her banner ends.
Additionally, aside from these version exclusive banners, 2 rerun and special banners will also be available for players to roll on:
- During the event period, the Till The Last Drop banner featuring the Limited 6* Mineral Affinity Character Jiu Niangzhi will be available for players to roll. This banner will not share the same pity count as Ling Yue’s limited banner that is available at the same time, so players should consider carefully before rolling on either banner.
- Finally, a special Time-Limited Selector banner will also be held during the 2nd half of the version update patch, where players can choose to guarantee a 6* Character that they will obtain the first time they roll a 6* character on the banner.
In addition to the various log in events, with the release of the brand new version update patch, several brand new story chapters will also be available for players to play and obtain character upgrading materials and premium currencies.
Upon the release of the patch, the main story chapter will be available for all players to play in order to know more about the brand new characters that will be featured in the game’s version 2.5 update patch.
Additionally, special character specific character story will also be available for players to play in order to know more about the different brand new characters - Noire and Ling Yue on their own special character story chapters.
Together with the release of the new characters and their character stories, the main event for Reverse:1999 version update patch 2.5 and its 1.5 anniversary celebration - Showdown in Chinatown will also be available for all players to participate in.
Defeat enemies, accumulate event special currencies and complete challenge stages in order to exchange for event exclusive rewards during the update patch update. This event will feature a special story and challenge stages that favors Star and Plant Affinity Characters, so players should prepare accordingly.
The event will be available right away once the update patch is live, however, challenge stages will not be available until several weeks have passed.
In addition to the main event of the patch, several side events will also be running in order to bridge the content gap in between weeks of main story and main event for the update patch.
These side events mainly serve as minigame type events that will reward players with various character upgrading materials and special limited time rewards.
The side events are:
- The Old Theater: Complete specific story quests in order to obtain large amounts of rewards during the event period.
- Neighborhood Party: Complete challenge stages and obtain special currencies to exchange for limited time rewards, including the special 6* Psychube: “Ready On Call”.
Finally, with the release of Reverse:1999 1.5 Anniversary celebration campaign and the 2.5 version update patch, a brand new system will be added to the game to further enhance the different characters: Euphoria.
Euphoria is a special character specific upgrade system that will grant upgraded stats, brand new combat skills and Incantation Effects adjustment to make the characters stronger and more viable in general game content.
This system will be available for specific characters and will require players to have upgraded the characters to Insight III Level 30 and have finished the main chapter story up to a certain point.
The characters available for this system this update patch are the 6* Plant Affinity An-an Lee and the 6* Mineral Affinity Pickles.
And with that, we have gone over everything you need to know about the upcoming Reverse: 1999 Version 2.5 Update Patch and the 1.5 anniversary celebration campaigns for the game.
We hope that we were able to give you a clear look at the upcoming contents coming to the game and hope that you will have a wonderful time playing Reverse:1999 on PC.
Reverse: 1999