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Maze Engine Preview Patch Notes NW.60.20160307a.14

terramakterramak Member, Cryptic Developer Posts: 995 Cryptic Developer
Highlights

The Day of the Dungeon Master has returned!
Respen Durothil has returned, and this year he has brought with him his esteemed colleague Portobello DaVinci! Respen's Game has been expanded into a four week campaign, with a new social area available only during the event. Check it out in-game from March 31 to April 28, and if you're hungry for more info, check out the following articles: Doubles and Sales
A 2x Enchants and Runes event kicks off this action-packed weekend. Any time you would get an Enchantment or Runestone up through Rank 9, you'll get two instead! This includes enemy drops in-game, lockboxes, or skill nodes.

We've got a 15% Key sale over the weekend for those who want Enchanted Keys, Strongbox Keys, or Legendary Dragon Keys.

While the Wondrous Blueprint from Wonders of Gond is going away at maintenance time, a new Augment Companion will be newly available for purchase: Watler the gargoyle! Watler will be available for the foreseeable future, but the Key sale only lasts until Monday at 10 AM PDT (UTC-7), so pick them up while they're discounted!


Release Notes

Content and Environment
Castle Never
  • The "Dancing on the Ceiling" achievement can now properly be attained.
Dungeons
  • Caverns of Karrundax: A few kobolds had taken an order to "hide in the rocks" a little too literally. These kobolds are no longer actually inside the rocks.
  • Mini-bosses in Cragmire Crypts (Master), Gray Wolf Den (Master), and Temple of the Spider (Master) once again drop the proper Seals.
Events
  • The community has voted, and the first and second place events are in!
    • 2x Experience is now scheduled to run over the weekend starting April 7, 2016.
    • 2x Seals is now scheduled to run over the weekend starting April 21, 2016.
    • Various other events are now updated to show on the schedule. Please note that the schedule for May is likely to change.
The Maze Engine Campaign
  • In Defense of Gauntlgrym: Cultists no longer occasionally get stuck in collision during this quest.
  • Several adjustments and improvements have been made to voice-over timing and accuracy throughout the campaign. And Boo's squeaks, too.
  • The Depths of Madness: Linu is now more patient with players who wish to pick up loot. She now gives players 10 seconds before moving forward again.
  • The Horned King: Duplicate objectives no longer appear in the quest journal.
  • The Sword of Fiery Justice: Players may now travel to this quest's instance from the Overworld Map in addition to the Underdark Map.
  • The Will of the Gauntlet: The Balor no longer deals PBAoE damage before they spawn.
General
  • Icewind Dale: The quests, Safe Keeping and Needless Distraction, no longer have a chance to show a blank objective list.
  • Protector's Enclave: The displays outside the Grand Emporium are once again populated with adorable baby companions.
  • Stronghold PvP: This queue no longer shows up regardless of whether the player can join.
  • Temple Tier 4 Upgrade: This quest now only requires players to recover one tome of Mielikki instead of three.

Combat and Powers
Monsters and NPCs
  • Cult of the Eternal Flame: Razerblasts now properly explode on death.

Items and Economy
Mounts
  • The Demon Sled icon now properly shows the correct quality border color.
  • The Demon Sled and Frozen Demon Sled now show the correct flame effects when in use.
Shaundakul Lockbox
  • Shaundakul's Artifact Pack now properly displays reward quality appropriate to its reward contents, rather than displaying that it gave Epic quality rewards every time.
  • The Burning Artifact Weapon Set from the Elemental Artifact Weapon Choice Pack now properly gives Hunter Rangers the Burning Longbow and Axes.
General
  • Cache of the Fallen: This cache now properly awards an Epic Influence Voucher as well as a Greater Resonance Stone.
  • Trickster Rogue Booster Pack: The Trickster's Shadow Cloak and Trickster's Deceptive Guise transmutation items no longer have a class restriction.

User Interface
Character Sheet
  • Certain class power tooltips no longer include their keybinds in the description.
Inspect
  • Inspecting other players no longer displays your guild name in their Inspect window.
Mounts
  • Small improvements have been made to the Mount tooltip layout.
  • Tooltips no longer appear when choosing Mount powers, as all of the relevant info is already on the screen.
  • When slotting a Universal Insignia, slots are now sorted by which bonus they can provide.
Party
  • The Party UI no longer draws horizontally on some screens, now properly pays attention to UI scaling, and can once again properly be adjusted using the HUD layout editor.
Queues
  • Players are now immediately transferred to an instance upon everyone's acceptance of the prompt, rather than being prompted again for the actual transfer.
  • Players are now properly transferred to Demogorgon or Tiamat instances when a minimum number of players have accepted the queue.
    • This change allows players to transfer to the instance early and let Reinforcement fill the queue, rather than requiring everyone to accept again.
  • Reopening to the Home Page after selecting, but not joining, queues, then closing the queue window, no longer asks the player if they really want to close the window.
  • There once again an indicator for the number of players who have accepted the queue prompt, as well as how much time remains before the prompt times out.
    • Known issue: The text in this indicator displays in English, regardless of the player's language.
General
  • When clicking on several dropdown menus in a single window, the menus now properly function.

Stability and Performance
  • More improvements have been made to the stability of queues and maps. This will result in fewer map-wide disconnects during queued and normal content.
  • The number of shaders loaded per frame has been lowered.
    • As a result, some players who have been crashing to a "Device Removed" error will now have less trouble getting into the game.
    • This will help narrow down further causes of these graphics-related crashes.

Comments

  • mamalion1234mamalion1234 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,415 Arc User
    edited March 2016
    shadowclad perma stealth week 3. dread doesnt apply the 40% defence debuff week 3. yea.
    and if i search deeper i will find bugs from previous modules ( see forghammer of gond cooldown is 45 sec but the recharge speed lower further the cooldown)>
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  • bawkrubawkru Member Posts: 60 Arc User
    What about mounts like moonbear and panther not giving any insignia buffs or profficy of doom still not working as intended or hasting light or many other class problems and shadow clad or anything that's retentive to player balance or what we paid for ? come on devs fix whats been broken for years now plz atlest say u care about them.
  • meiramimeirami Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 423 Arc User
    @terramak

    Hi, why is the Hunter Ranger Booster Pack gone from the Zen Store? I didn't see any announcement it would be removed.
  • hustin1hustin1 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,467 Arc User
    Mini-bosses in Cragmire Crypts (Master), Gray Wolf Den (Master), and Temple of the Spider (Master) once again drop the proper Seals.

    Has the spider actually been added back into the game?
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  • beckylunaticbeckylunatic Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 14,231 Arc User
    meirami said:

    @terramak

    Hi, why is the Hunter Ranger Booster Pack gone from the Zen Store? I didn't see any announcement it would be removed.

    Do you own the pack already? All packs are no longer in the store after you buy them, and are obtained from the claim vendor.

    The only kinda-sorta exception is the inscribed garments, which you can grab from the store any time.
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  • rondy44rondy44 Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    edited March 2016
    Ty.

    Another thing @terramak

    Have you ever reached Gold on phase one of Prophecy of Madness? In my opionion this phase it is bugged. Check this please. thanx.
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  • torontodavetorontodave Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 992 Arc User
    rondy44 said:


    Have you ever reached Gold on phase one of Prophecy of Madness? In my opionion this phase it is bugged. Check this please. thanx.

    +1 .. we killed everything the second they come out of the spawns, but even with everything dying instantly its only enough to get silver.

    also Icewind Dale's Open PvP "Black Ice Domination" is still bugged. Rarely works. I hope this is on the radar? Or are there plans to revive it in some other way?

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  • kalina311kalina311 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,082 Arc User
    edited March 2016
    +1

    shadowclad perma stealth week 3. dread doesnt apply the 40% defence debuff week 3. yea.
    and if i search deeper i will find bugs from previous modules ( see forghammer of gond cooldown is 45 sec but the recharge speed lower further the cooldown)>

    @terramak

    Come On Guys Please These were the Feature highlight Enchants of this Mod That people were looking forward to
    I know you guys are working on class balance but ignoring these will make it harder to make informed decisions when it comes to balance and leads to further frustrations..

    Remember several mods ago you guys had to decide "what is class balance" and investigated it.. here is a prime example that should have been identified and corrected asap according to this philosophy that you guys outlined

    Please Fix These Expensive ShadowClad And dread Enchants.. Its like Getting Coal In your Lockbox Stocking
    people traded Zen for these and the longer there is a delay people that already bought them will get more frustrated when they are corrected/altered/nerfed even tho the tool tip description says otherwise


    ShadowClad And Dread Enchantments are NOT working as intended!
    The Tool Tip Description Is not correct in any language the game is played in : D
    It also Helps Fuel The school of thought that enchantments are deliberately released
    bugged to promote inequality and lack of balance to artificially drive player competition and grieving
    also has a secondary effect of subverting your "balancing" efforts

    P.S a Vote To Kick in Dom PVP Should be a yes by all 4 party members NOT a majority rules vote
    this is also a serious cause of grieving and frustration.

    P.S.S What about the bug where auctions are stuck in an expired state and people cant get their stuff back ?
    my valuable stuff is trapped in there now as are many others

    P.S.S.S What about double guild tags bug (your guild name + theirs ) appearing on everyone you inspect

    P.S.S.S.S There are veteran members of this community that are willing to assist in "balance and testing" on owlbear
    for free.... terramak use your most valuable assets wisely !! and dont let your assets slip away like what occurred with foundry creator/ authors due to lack of support what a waste ....


    HELP US HELP YOU !!!!! Please

    Kalina The CW

    Post edited by kalina311 on
  • whitestaruawhitestarua Member Posts: 175 Arc User
    @terramak
    Hello!
    This is ok that The Trickster's Shadow Cloak from Trickster Rogue Booster Pack change idle animation only on preview screen?
  • lazaroth666lazaroth666 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,332 Arc User
    @terramak

    I'm unable to discard the High Forest Bear mount, I can't open the box because I already have one in my stable. I can't do anything to get rid of it.
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  • mamalion1234mamalion1234 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,415 Arc User
    edited March 2016
    zajojajo said:

    Spend 10 mln AD on not working enchant GG,do we really need start pray God for working things or there is no point anymore buy new stuff becouse broken 99%. Guys pls fix Dread chant asap :(

    how comes 10m when maximum 4.5m? i have too that enchant but i didnt pay 10m lol.
  • mamalion1234mamalion1234 Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 3,415 Arc User
    kalina311 said:

    +1

    shadowclad perma stealth week 3. dread doesnt apply the 40% defence debuff week 3. yea.
    and if i search deeper i will find bugs from previous modules ( see forghammer of gond cooldown is 45 sec but the recharge speed lower further the cooldown)>

    @terramak

    Come On Guys Please These were the Feature highlight Enchants of this Mod That people were looking forward to
    I know you guys are working on class balance but ignoring these will make it harder to make informed decisions when it comes to balance and leads to further frustrations..

    Remember several mods ago you guys had to decide "what is class balance" and investigated it.. here is a prime example that should have been identified and corrected asap according to this philosophy that you guys outlined

    Please Fix These Expensive ShadowClad And dread Enchants.. Its like Getting Coal In your Lockbox Stocking
    people traded Zen for these and the longer there is a delay people that already bought them will get more frustrated when they are corrected/altered/nerfed even tho the tool tip description says otherwise


    ShadowClad And Dread Enchantments are NOT working as intended!
    The Tool Tip Description Is not correct in any language the game is played in : D
    It also Helps Fuel The school of thought that enchantments are deliberately released
    bugged to promote inequality and lack of balance to artificially drive player competition and grieving
    also has a secondary effect of subverting your "balancing" efforts

    P.S a Vote To Kick in Dom PVP Should be a yes by all 4 party members NOT a majority rules vote
    this is also a serious cause of grieving and frustration.

    P.S.S What about the bug where auctions are stuck in an expired state and people cant get their stuff back ?
    my valuable stuff is trapped in there now as are many others

    P.S.S.S What about double guild tags bug (your guild name + theirs ) appearing on everyone you inspect

    P.S.S.S.S There are veteran members of this community that are willing to assist in "balance and testing" on owlbear
    for free.... terramak use your most valuable assets wisely !! and dont let your assets slip away like what occurred with foundry creator/ authors due to lack of support what a waste ....


    HELP US HELP YOU !!!!! Please

    Kalina The CW

    i should stop use dread?:P i nerf my self since the 40% debuff doesnt apply.
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  • xgrandz02xgrandz02 Member Posts: 702 Arc User
    @terramak

    They have to fix FIRST "Unstoppable bug" , it's not working sometimes even with full-Bar, press tab and nothing happend.
    Fight vs Orcus without Unstoppable is just pain,

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  • meiramimeirami Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 423 Arc User
    edited March 2016

    meirami said:

    @terramak

    Hi, why is the Hunter Ranger Booster Pack gone from the Zen Store? I didn't see any announcement it would be removed.

    Do you own the pack already? All packs are no longer in the store after you buy them, and are obtained from the claim vendor.

    The only kinda-sorta exception is the inscribed garments, which you can grab from the store any time.
    No, I've never bought one and it isn't in Zen Store under Packs either.
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  • darkstarcrashdarkstarcrash Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,382 Arc User
    That's the way all the pre-patch day tests go: one afternoon/evening to test the fixes.

    Always been that way, except for big tests of new mods.
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