Disclaimer: Some information may be wrong, incomplete or inaccurate. They will be updated as soon as we learn more about the patch, once the patch hits.
1. Introduction
With the arrival of the Two Factions patch, there will be new features added and existing features will be changed. This article aims to provide a list as complete as possible, so that people can feel prepared for the next patch. The article won't go in-depth for certain major changes. Those changes will have their own articles.
2. New features
Tianlun Temple is added, along with everything related to it (inner, skillset, % on weapon, treasures, reworks ...).
Tsing Yi Pavilion is added, along with everything related to it, EXCEPT for the skillset reworks.
New storyline quest at Jinling 1214, 1704.
New treasure instance: Yin & Yang Palace.
New game mode: Starfall City. You can join through "My Battle - Rushing to the Stars". Might write news or guides about this once I learn more about it.
We might or might not get a "Hengge Prancing Horse" game mode.
New game mode: "Guild showdown", allowing guilds to fight each other competitively.
New "Trick the Enemy" rework which drops from Starfall City.
Peacock Villa, Yanmen Pass (Defender) and Hidden Valley can now drop rework books for Crazed Demon Stick set.
New "Jianghu Assistance" system in the N window. Unknown what this does.
New life skill recipes have been added to specifically finish the daily quests of the crafting NPCs.
New "trading office" in Suzhou, where you can view any stall of any map.
When setting a stall, you see the lowest 5 prices for the item you're attempting to stall.
You can now force-delete items that can not be deleted, in Chengdu at 914, 557. For items that still can't be deleted, contact SnailGames support.
There will be new items on Ghost City Auction.
The firewash platform skill reroll mechanism has been reworked, allowing the player to select a skill after a certain amount of rerolls.
New 20D mansion: Island. This mansion also has fishing spots. The fish can be used to craft aquarium furniture.
New Qimen fan set at Suzhou Jianghu skillsets NPC exchange at 397, 740.
Add weekly task "Entering the World Cultivation: Self-Cultivation" for all subsects and factions.
3. Misc. Changes
Adjust food buffs, pill buffs, array buffs and music buffs. There will be a news article for this later detailing the changes.
Various skills and skillsets have been adjusted. See the news article for the changes.
Team buying now has a gift package for Martial Merit points; the points used to rework 6th inner.
The strength requirements for becoming a junior has been adjusted. Not sure what kind of adjustment this is.
Slow perma deer mount can be exchanged for a fast (10.5 speed) one at Suzhou 389, 768.
In guild war, healing nearby now restores you to full HP/MP. You get an invincibility shield for 30 secs, unless you make a move.
Cash shop item bags can be repaired using unbound silver. VIPs get a discount. Young Xia VIPs get an even greater discount.
Sect Reward Packs from Sect Trial get a time limit of 1 day.
Changfeng Friday event removes ancient & jianghu fragment drops. Worktables there become bound.
World bosses have adjusted damage output when they enter the "Return the Light" shield state.
World bosses are now immune to certain poison effects.
World stall bidding starts at Monday 00:11 instead of 00:01 server time.
Instances Twilight Village, Green Cloud Castle, Peacock Villa, Dragon's Gate Inn adds changes to the bosses:
"Poison" buff, which randomly removes buffs from nearby players (this may not appear in our version),
"Secret poison" buff, which keeps count of the deaths inside the instance, up to 10 for 6-man instances, and 20 for 12-man instances
"Secret medicine" buff, which fully heals the boss whenever a player dies anywhere inside the instance, once the "Secret poison" stack cap is reached. Assassin fights are an exception.
Various shields that can only be broken by players from specific sects.
"Rage" skill which oneshots everyone around the boss within 10 meters, and randomly add "Rage" debuff to 1 target: Oneshot teammates within a certain radius around you, and if you end up killing your teammate, you get oneshotted in 2 seconds.
Weapons can now be previewed, just like outfits.
Sect Trial now drops both 5th and both 6th inner items.
Crafting and gathering materials from inaccessible maps (like Sixteen Prefectures) are removed. This means that recipes are adjusted as well.
Musicians and Chess Players have stricter level requirements to activate certain music or tactics.
Speedrun instance NPC has increased options to exchange the deer and wheelchair mounts.
Existing storyline quest rewards have been adjusted. Rewards shown in red can only be claimed once across all storyline quests, or something.
Special hidden weapon skills do not drop anymore.
Panic buy does not drop Special hidden weapon skills anymore.
Night City skillset novice chapter costs have been adjusted.
Jianghu skillset chapter costs, at the Suzhou Arena NPC, have been adjusted.
Once you leave Tianya/Seaside Pavilion, you can immediately rejoin through Suzhou 289, 448.
Script Stealing now drops Trick the Enemy pages 3 and 4.
Spirit Snake Stick's "Snake Gliding and Rat Scurrying" will not appear on annotation and blacksmith weapons as 10% damage bonuses anymore.
NPCs will now leave battle if they cannot attack their target for a long time, rather than being stuck in combat mode.
The 25-round TP allows two misses without any penalty to the fatigue earned.
When using "Trick the Enemy (Event)", your maximum parry endurance increases by 50%. Not sure where this event version is.
Market search is optimized, removing useless items.
Your party raid window's second tab changes into a "Team Bulletin Board" with new functionality.
A player's betrayal info is now a short summary. Click the icon to get the full summary.
Adjust home construction requirements.
Disguise materials have been adjusted. Evil Men's Valley 242, 791 has the required materials.
Disassembling gear lower quality than gold will have their disassembly materials drop bound rather than unbound, and the amount dropped is reduced.
Disassembly materials can drop during Mind Demon when flipping cards.
World stalls cannot have custom stall names anymore.
Beast Villa animals cannot be renamed anymore.
Mt. Hua sword pedestals placed on the ground cannot have custom text anymore.
The game now notifies you better when your 20D mansion is about to get destroyed due to negligence.
Chat messages can now be reported through priority channels, costing 100L unbound each report.
Suzhou's Shady Trader NPC is now moved to 453, 658.
The flying skills "Light Body Skill", "Gecko on the Wall", "Dragon Wheel" can now be unlearned. The only way to re-learn these is by reading their books again.
Optimize the "Item will be bound when looting" confirmation window.
Various outfits and Chinese text descriptions have been adjusted to comply with the "Online Game Industry Anti-Addiction Self-Discipline Convention [网络游戏行业防沉迷自律公约 ]" issued by the "Game Publishing Working Committee of the China Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association [中国音像与数字出版协会游戏出版工作委员会]". This includes certain female outfits and lores becoming less revealing, and all references to gore/death in skillnames being more mild in nature (e.g. "Evil Spirit Breaks Brain" is now named "Blood Madness"). The text changes might not be visible in our English version.
Honor certificates, faction tokens and subsect tokens have reworked icons.
Critical damage mechanics adjusted. Critical damage now cannot be less than the base damage, especially noticeable when having the Wild Shot Fist internal critical damage debuff.
Delightful Island treasure chests now respawn in 24 hours.
Tornado is nerfed even further. Jianghu fragments and ancient fragments do not drop anymore. Yue Mingke can still exchange the fragments temporarily.
Wooden Hut and Stone House falcons will have their interior revamped. This will cause all furniture to be sent back to you by mail. In order to prevent this, move all your furniture to your furniture warehouse before the patch.
Something about optimizing network delay for skill lock mechanisms.
Falcon NPC has jade powder exchange removed.
New house furniture have been added.
Suzhou Guild base area has been optimized.
Jade Doll boxes can now stack up to 100.
Excessive Jade Dolls can be sold back to the Jade Doll NPC.
Fix issues of disassembling relatively new gear types (battlefield weapons like fans, bow) as well as new sect gear
Fix rejoining Tianya/Seaside Pavilion while still having a betrayal cooldown.
Fix lag when switching equipment.
It is harder for hacks to force your knocked-down character back on its feet again.
Fix Cao Zhengqing's carriage sometimes getting stuck during the Sunday eclipse event.
Divine Water Palace's "Water Tactics" skillset AoE buffs and debuffs cannot be stacked by multiple players anymore.
Chasing token hero announcement is fixed.
4. Engine changes
The amount of players rendered at the same time is increased. This can be adjusted in the video settings window.
A new option to hide friendly players by pressing F10. Existing characters need to bind this key manually. The characters will be hidden, but their names will still be shown.
F8 button ("Show hostile players") adjusted. When activated, it will show teammates and hostile players, filtering out bystanders and NPCs. This behavior can be customized in the "Overhead Information" settings window.
New option to select players by clicking their names above their character. This is in the mouse settings window.
NPCs can also be selected by clicking their names. If their character model render in late, you can still talk to them this way.
The game now supports FPS up to 300. This can be adjusted in the video settings. My personal advice is to not set it higher than your monitor's refresh rate, otherwise it'll unnecessarily burden your graphics card.
The game has a new "over-the-horizon" video setting, which should only be enabled if your hardware can handle it. It reportedly increases the render distance of the landscape.