Reverse: 1999 4.0.0 Snapshot: Box Tour and Gatekeeper
This is the 2026 Box Tour celebration patch, with a main story set between Arthurian Camelot and 1930s England .
Version number and update date
The official site lists the current version as 4.0.0 with an update date of 2026-09-24 . The Gatekeeper storyline travels to the Camelot castle ruins.
What the celebration hands out
Logging in grants 40 pulls in total, made up of 1 Tenfold Tuning, 20 Unilog and 10 Solo Tuning, plus a free guaranteed-new 6-star, a freely chosen Insight 6-star, a Sting-themed outfit called Loudest Note and the parade train rewards . Tier list order shifts whenever a new archetype lands, but the order in which you claim rewards does not.
Reverse: 1999 Dongzhi Archetype: What Makes It Come Together
The defining trait of Dongzhi is that it does not demand specific last-generation supports or sustain units.
What the two Dongzhi characters do
Two new Dongzhi characters form the double core, with Huntmarked Witch Crossbow carrying the damage . The bar for a functioning team drops from collecting named partners to simply owning two Dongzhi characters plus any generalist slots.
Why generalist slots are enough
A generalist support such as Little Rhiannon supplies amplification and tempo, while generalist sustain such as Marcia, Riddle or J keeps the team alive. The upside is low investment cost; the downside is that the ceiling tracks the investment in your two Dongzhi characters. In practice that means the two cores deserve the awakened Psychube and the best insight materials, while supports can stay on generic gear for a long time.
Reverse: 1999 Huntmarked Witch Crossbow: Rotation After the Awakening
Crossbow is a launch character, and the awakening raises his output substantially while shifting him from pure damage into a leader-style core .
What changed with the awakening
As the Dongzhi core damage dealer, Huntmarked Witch Crossbow gains noticeably stronger multipliers and self-buffing . His arc mirrors the Insight treatment given to 37 in the same patch.
How to run the rotation
For reverse 1999 team comps built on Dongzhi, the standard loop buffs and shreds first, then sends Huntmarked Witch Crossbow in to stack his own empowerment, and finally dumps the high-multiplier skills inside the empowerment window. Card movement and play order matter more than speed, and lining the empowerment window up with the ultimate is the whole game, because a misaligned window is the single biggest damage loss in the kit.
Reverse: 1999 Dongzhi Team Templates
| Team | Lineup | Gear / Psychubes | Rotation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Dongzhi | Two Dongzhi characters + Little Rhiannon + Marcia | Damage dealer on the awakened Psychube | Support buffs, core stacks empowerment, dump inside the ultimate window |
| Transition Dongzhi | Two Dongzhi characters + generalist support + Riddle | Sustain on survivability stats | Shorten the empowerment window and prioritise survival |
| Converted legacy team | Huntmarked Witch Crossbow + legacy support + J | Keep old Psychubes as a bridge | Swap the Dongzhi core into the old damage slot and leave the rest alone |
Fit with Mane Bulletin
Dongzhi is considered one of the best fits for Mane Bulletin this patch. The mode demands sustained damage and survivability at the same time, and Dongzhi packages both. Because the archetype leans on generic partners, a half-built roster can still bring a functional version of it rather than waiting for a specific support to rerun.
How Spotlight Flashback differs
Spotlight Flashback has a choppier rhythm with frequent transitions and interrupts, so the generalist sustain slot needs more investment . If your roster is thin, spend the free Insight 6-star pick on sustain first.
Reverse: 1999 Friend Support and Client Size Changes
For team-building context, the GameHub guides hub keeps prior Reverse: 1999 write-ups archived. Version 4.0.0 ships several quality-of-life changes, and the two that matter most are friend support and a smaller client .
How friend support works
Several modes now allow borrowing a friend unit, which lowers the difficulty of early progression . For a new account, borrowing one built damage dealer skips the early investment wall. Anyone starting now should read this alongside a broader reverse 1999 beginner guide 2026 and treat friend support as the bridge between the tutorial and the first real clear, because borrowing also lets you test a partner before committing pulls to them.
What the smaller client means
The patch trims the installed size of the game . For devices short on storage, that is the most practical change in the update, and it matters because a slimmer client also updates faster on patch days.
Reverse: 1999 Reward Claim Order
The opportunity cost of free picks
The guaranteed-new 6-star and the freely chosen Insight 6-star are different opportunities: the first fills collection gaps, the second patches a key archetype. Decide which gap matters more before spending either.
Outfit coupons
The outfit coupon takes 390 Clear Drop off the Nocturne Utopia outfit purchase . It is cosmetic only, so treat it as a taste decision rather than a resource question, and remember it expires with the celebration window.
Reverse: 1999 FAQ
Q: What is the version number and update date for this patch?
A: The official site lists 4.0.0 as the current version with a 2026-09-24 update.
Q: Which teammates does the Dongzhi archetype need?
A: Two Dongzhi characters plus a generalist support such as Little Rhiannon and generalist sustain such as Marcia, Riddle or J .
Q: How many pulls does the login campaign give?
A: 40 pulls in total, made up of 1 Tenfold Tuning, 20 Unilog and 10 Solo Tuning .
Q: Is Huntmarked Witch Crossbow a new character?
A: No. He is the awakened form of the launch character Crossbow, installed as the Dongzhi core damage dealer .
Action Checklist
- Secure the two Dongzhi characters before deciding on generalist slots.
- Invest in the generalist sustain slot first, because Spotlight Flashback is harsher on survival.
- Use the guaranteed-new pick for collection gaps and the free Insight pick for archetypes, never interchangeably.
- Borrow a friend unit to skip the early investment wall.
- Treat the outfit coupon as a cosmetic-only decision.
Game Guides
- Palworld v1.0.5 Tower Boss Order Guide: Elements, Counters and Squad Choices
Palworld's v1.0.5 patch (2026-09-15) only fixed texture loading, so what actually shapes tower runs is the 1.0 release itself: the boss count expanded from 7 towers in early access to 9, the level curve runs from 10 all the way to 80, and the new Sunreach sky islands and World Tree finale sit at the end of it . Clearing towers is less about raw investment than about picking Pals that exploit each boss's element.
- Reverse: 1999 Version 4.0.0 Second Half Guide: Drake, the October 15 Banner Swap and Free Rewards
Reverse: 1999 has moved into the second half of version 4.0.0, and the banners swap on October 15: Drake arrives as a new standard six-star Beast character, while a pick-your-own rate-up runs with Quniang, Liangyue, Nana, Lucy and Nodica selectable . The first half's limited SP Crossbow banner closes at the same point, so October 15 is a clean dividing line.
- Love and Deepspace Xavier Birthday Guide: Wish Upon This Moment Banner Window
Love and Deepspace's Xavier birthday event is live, and the birthday five-star Memory is obtainable from 2026-10-11 at 05:00 to 2026-10-18 at 04:59 (source: official birthday calendar and birthday Memory announcement, 2026-10-08). The window is only seven days and it is a single-character banner rather than a pooled one, so the budget is easier to plan, provided you count your tickets and diamonds before you start pulling. The single target is the main advantage: there is no risk of boosting the wrong Memory and no need to compare three candidates.
- Honkai: Star Rail 4.6 Planar Fissure Guide: Double Relic Drops and Immersifier Spending
Honkai: Star Rail's 4.6 Planar Fissure event is live, and Planar Ornaments drop double rewards for the duration . The doubled runs are limited and do not reset during the event, so the goal is not farming more but spending the limited runs on the two worlds your roster actually needs.
- Genshin Impact 7.1 Imaginarium Theater Guide: Ice, Hydro and Anemo Stacking
The October 2026 Imaginarium Theater rotation locks the playable elements to Ice, Hydro and Anemo, and its core mechanic grants one stack of Frost Benediction whenever your party triggers Swirl, with each stack adding 80% Swirl damage and 12% crit damage up to 3 stacks . So the rotation is not about raw damage but about Swirl frequency, getting the blessing to full stacks as fast as possible.
- Wuthering Waves 3.7 Tower of Adversity Lineup Guide: Mid Tower Splits and Side Tower Stamina
The Wuthering Waves 3.7 Tower of Adversity refreshed on October 13, and this rotation cuts Havoc resistance on the left tower's fourth floor, which clears the way for Havoc teams. The mid tower remains the hardest part of the cycle, with Sunmoon, Cartethyia and Phrolova squads still carrying it, Zhanfei usable, and Galbrena needing Qiuyuan to reach full shape. If you only need the rewards, the side towers auto-clear and your stamina belongs to the mid tower.
- Zenless Zone Zero 3.2 Shiyu Defense Guide: Three Teams and the October 2 Rotation
Zenless Zone Zero's October 2 Shiyu Defense rotation runs through October 16 and ends in a three-room score check where each room caps at 25,000 points for an S rank and the total reaches 100,000 (source: in-game Shiyu Defense interface plus creator testing, 2026-10-02). If you only want the Polychrome, getting all three rooms to S is enough, because the reward gate is the S rank and not the total.
- Arknights October 9 Update Guide: New Modules, Paradox Simulations and Voucher Timing
Arknights ran a forced maintenance on 2026-10-09 that shipped four free progression tracks at once: 4 operator records, 4 Paradox Simulations, 4 exclusive modules including the second modules for Shou and Ulpianus, plus 5 Originite Prime in compensation . The dates worth writing into a calendar are 10-15 04:00 for the mid-tier headhunting refresh and voucher store update, and 10-16 04:00 for the Security Service reward refresh .