Release Notes - 3/2/2017

kaiserin

High Noon

• Added a handoff mission to Belle Steele that points you towards Toy Master.
• Added a defeat 50 Upgraded Cowboy Robots Daily mission to Belle Steele.
• Increased the main daily mission Snake Bucks reward to 40 (from 35).
• Renamed the old Snake Gulch Snake Bucks currency to Snake Bits.
• Slightly reduced the token decay for the open mission.
• The sub bosses will now stay much closer to the towers.
• Sub Bosses will now heal up their current bar of health when dropping out of combat (so if they're at 50% they'll heal up to 66%).
• Slightly lowered sub boss single target damage.
• Updated Collection vendor at Snake Gulch to sell healing items, bags, etc.
• Fixed a bug where Fred and Desert Serpent were not level scaling.

Gold Subscriber Vendor

• Added Avian Mask costume.
• Known issue: If the character you're trying to buy this costume with directly bought the hands on hips emote, it will prohibit purchase. This will be fixed next week, but a workaround for now is buy the costume with a character who did not purchase the hands on hips emote.

Queues

• Added Nemesis Confrontation to the queue window.
• Nemesis now drop a Nemesis box. This box auto opens upon picking up and drops the following items: Star Refill, Nemesis Tokens, UNTIL Tokens.
• Has a chance to drop these items: Nemesis Action Figures, 5 or 7% Catalyst, Questionite Bag, Healing Item, R3 or R4 mods.
• Shadow Destroyer now drops his own rewardbox which drops the following items: Star Refill, Healing Device, Nemesis Tokens, SCR.
• Has a chance to drop the following items: (Mythic Rare) Armor Gladiator 2 Bracers, (Mythic Rare) Armor Spiked 2 shoulders, (Mythic Rare) Gladiator belt, Nemesis Gear (similar to Bronze King gear), 7 or 10% Catalyst, Questionite Bag, R4 Mods.
• Added daily Nemcon mission for Nemcon to Lt. Patil. Removed from Mentiac.
• Removed mission requirement for Lemurian/Monster Island Crisis daily missions.

Powers

• Fixed a bug where Svengalis Guile didn't refresh its stated effects.
• Fixed a bug where Smoke Grenade wasn't wiping threat at range.
• Fixed a bug where the Heavy Blade advantage on Scything Blade didn't always knock down.
• Fixed a bug where some pistol powers didn't animate when moving when using the jet boots travel.
• Fixed a bug where the You'll Clean, We'll Sweep advantage on Showdown did not persist.
• Relentless should no longer display that it's enhancing all of your action figures.

Misc

• Added perks for acquiring all pieces of the Gunslinger's Revenge and Sorcerer's Might gear. These perks will grant action figure versions of their pets.
• Fixed a bug where some teleport items were not purchasable in the ZEN store.

Vendors

• Added a exchange vendor in the recognition area that will take various items in exchange for character specific titles. Currently it features lockbox items, but it will branch out over time.
• Added a exchange vendor to the lockbox vendor that will take current lockbox items in exchange for character specific titles.

New titles:

• Cybernetic Cowboy
• Steam Engine
• Analytical Engine
• Showdown
• Plague Doctor
• By Hook or Crook
• Magnetic
• Short Circuit
• Retro
• Experienced
• Crafty
• Resourceful
• Special Butterfly
• Organized Chaos
• Candelight
• Mystic
• Translucent
• Geared Up
• Steampunk
• Steamed
• Will-O'-The-Wisp
• Amped
• Battery

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flyingfinn

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avianos

Congratulations for Bringing back Nemcon Costumes Unlocks
It hurted me seeing removed costumes from a game which is always about costumization
Now more players will have access to them

kaizerin wrote: »

Gold Subscriber Vendor

• Added Avian Mask costume.

How many more Avian-related costumes are you going to Lock behind subscription walls which due to lack of country services I will be unable to acquire myself?
This is not funny to me​​

sterga

I don't understand why it's OK to flood the game with r5 mods via lockboxes, but you can't put them into level 40 content. Lockboxes have long since irreversibly destroyed any ideas that r5 mods are actually rare.​​

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themightyzenith

Widespread reports of not being able to pick up the new Gold Bonus Piece. I can confirm that I can't pick it up either.

Looks great in the image though. I'm sure this problem will be fixed soon and I'm looking forward to using it. Thanks

kaiserin

Hey guys, there's a bug with the gold item. If the character you're trying to buy it on bought the hands on hips emote, it will prohibit purchase.

This will be fixed next week, but a workaround for now is buy the costume with a character who did not directly purchase the hands on hips emote.

Sorry!​​

themightyzenith

Thanks for posting the workaround.

riverocean

Updated Collection vendor at Snake Gulch to sell healing items, bags, etc.

Hooray!!! Any chance we can get a costumer in Snake Gulch? To make it easier on folks who want to put on some fancy Western Duds?

Added Nemesis Confrontation to the queue window.
Nemesis now drop a Nemesis box. This box auto opens upon picking up and drops the following items: Star Refill, Nemesis Tokens, UNTIL Tokens.
Has a chance to drop these items: Nemesis Action Figures, 5 or 7% Catalyst, Questionite Bag, Healing Item, R3 or R4 mods.
Shadow Destroyer now drops his own rewardbox which drops the following items: Star Refill, Healing Device, Nemesis Tokens, SCR.
Has a chance to drop the following items: (Mythic Rare) Armor Gladiator 2 Bracers, (Mythic Rare) Armor Spiked 2 shoulders, (Mythic Rare) Gladiator belt, Nemesis Gear (similar to Bronze King gear), 7 or 10% Catalyst, Questionite Bag, R4 Mods.
Added daily Nemcon mission for Nemcon to Lt. Patil. Removed from Mentiac.
Removed mission requirement for Lemurian/Monster Island Crisis daily missions.

The Nemesis' are getting a little love - I'm down with that!!!! It would also be nice if we could get Nemesis clues from a contact -- rather than having to "defeat" inanimate objects. Which might also fix the bug with people picking up someone's else's Nemi Clues in alerts. There's a police officer in M.C. who just hangs out around the Powerhouse.. that would be a perfect job for him.

avianos

BUG:

The NPC who gives the "Project Frankenstein" daily dissapeared
from the Until Headquarters

The GCR/SCR and Until Vendors also vanished from the Headquarters

When you log in with a character with the mission, the system removes "Project Frankenstein
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guyhumual

sterga said:

I don't understand why it's OK to flood the game with r5 mods via lockboxes, but you can't put them into level 40 content. Lockboxes have long since irreversibly destroyed any ideas that r5 mods are actually rare.​​

R3 and R4 mods are more like punishment then rewards

rtma

guyhumual said:

sterga said:

I don't understand why it's OK to flood the game with r5 mods via lockboxes, but you can't put them into level 40 content. Lockboxes have long since irreversibly destroyed any ideas that r5 mods are actually rare.​​

R3 and R4 mods are more like punishment then rewards

deadman20

kaizerin wrote: »

Hey guys, there's a bug with the gold item. If the character you're trying to buy it on bought the hands on hips emote, it will prohibit purchase.

This will be fixed next week, but a workaround for now is buy the costume with a character who did not directly purchase the hands on hips emote.

Sorry!

I assume the same fix will cover this anyway, but just in case...

BUG: If you purchase the Avian Mask on one character, the Hands on Hips emote cannot be purchased from the Lifetime Store by any character.​​

guyhumual

The Military emote seems to be something else now.

blockwave

Yeah the military pose became a robot kind of emote ><

tonyroachclip2

so uhm yeah the military emote is now "I'm a little teapot"?

lovehammer1

Umm.. R-3 R-4 mods? Why? Did we do something wrong?
Do you hate us...

whatdakrak

"Relentless should no longer display that it's enhancing all of your action figures."

thats nice but it still lists my specializations and non attack powers, like my travel powers, passive, and well....everything. but good work on taking out the action figures, i don't have to scroll down anymore.


side note, anyone that sold anything in the Action exchange over night check your mail and your cash amount, i was missing 250g and put in a ticket but you might be missing some too.

beezeeze

Please let us keep the "I'm a little teapot"/marionette/mime emote thing that has replaced the military pose, I actually like it better than the original!

avianos

"Im a little teapot"

ok now im curious now, can someone please post pictures of the bugged emote?​​

beezeeze

There is a street preformer near the powerhouse in Vibora Bay that does the exact same animation loop.

atlassarnosian

avianos said:

"Im a little teapot"



ok now im curious now, can someone please post pictures of the bugged emote?​​

images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/171539190222784261/2783F3347647BB00C28488FB7ED4B4BE79E1CC16/

avianos

atlassarnosian wrote: »

images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/171539190222784261/2783F3347647BB00C28488FB7ED4B4BE79E1CC16/

Ahahahaha, that's the Mime emote which Tinaman and Mime from Vibora bay uses!​​

blockwave

Just add that emote and give is back the military one

chaosdrgnz43

I was super excited that the costumes came back. Heavily disappointed that most players nowadays don't know about NemCon.

Also, I assumed NemCon was added to the Missions queue for easy PUG. I was saddened that no one was queing.

Could we get access to Nemcon even without the 5-man team like in TA(Epic)? So we can just solo it instead of having to waste time waiting for a group.

blockwave

Yeah please let us enter it whitout a 5 man group, let us have some "challenge" with it.

lunnylunny

Will we have "Emote boxes" alike the Aura Boxes when the event ends? I would love to send the Military pose to other characters of mine.

lezard21

Bug
Nemesis Confrontation
Nemesis sometimes don't drop their Nemesis Box

Bug
Nemesis Confrontation
Nemesis mobs sometimes drop Nemesis Box

Bug
Queue Window
Queueing with a 5 man team for Nemesis Confrontation will sometimes take up more than 5 minutes to pop.

Bug
Nemesis Confrontation
On some rare ocassions you are able to interact with the Treasure Box object that spawns after Nemesis are defeated and get 3 Nemesis Tokens

agentnx5

Bug:
Need to be able to convert Snake Bits (I have 222 of them) to Snake Bucks.
According to description under currencies tab for Snake Bits: "The currency is no longer used and can be converted at the Exchange Vendor in the Millennium City Renaissance Center".
Except that said Vendor NPC has no such exchange option... Can you please fix this devs?
Ticket # 4370419

I think somebody already reported that the military emote was bugged...

blockwave

You can exchange the old Snake currencies for Until Recognition, not the current event recognition, go into the recognition area.

sterga

It's too bad there isn't simply ONE event currency for ALL events. Then we could avoid hot messes like this from ever happening. It's not like it matters what event you farm. People who are sick of the event binge probably don't give a toss either way and the people who come back for the new shiny are going to farm.

It would make those moronic stores with double prices more useful with one currency.

lezard21

sterga said:

It's too bad there isn't simply ONE event currency for ALL events. Then we could avoid hot messes like this from ever happening. It's not like it matters what event you farm. People who are sick of the event binge probably don't give a toss either way and the people who come back for the new shiny are going to farm.

It would make those moronic stores with double prices more useful with one currency.

This would actually be even a bigger mess. People could just farm an easy event like Circus Malvanum and then just sit out all future events.

sterga

Maybe future events should be fun instead of so awful no one wants to participate.​​

heartstringsk3

Dunno if this is an intended change or a glitch, but Karneeki the Great and other Collection Vendors are bugged for, at least, my newly-created level 6s. They work fine on my level 40s, so not sure if the ability to sell loot is now a level-restricted thing, or just something glitchy's going on!

jaazaniah1

Now I'm curious. Were the NemCon costume pieces just lost all these years, and recently rediscovered by the dev team, or have they known where they were all along and just didn't take the time to add them back in?

chaosdrgnz43

jaazaniah1 said:

Now I'm curious. Were the NemCon costume pieces just lost all these years, and recently rediscovered by the dev team, or have they known where they were all along and just didn't take the time to add them back in?

I think the dev team knew about them but didn't bother with it. Thankfully, Kaizerin actually listens so she knew we would want the old costumes back.

chaelk

tonyroachclip2 wrote: »

so uhm yeah the military emote is now "I'm a little teapot"?

it's hilarious. I want to keep the funny emote​​

flyingfinn

We should get to keep it along with the Military Stance. Aaaand get a new Title: TeaTime. Annnnnd#2 AF a lil teapot.
Because it's been a long time since we got anything to show for of these 'UPS'es...
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reaperwithnoname

Return of old costumes so that new players can get them is a good thing.

avianos

kaizerin wrote: »

Gold Subscriber Vendor

• Added Avian Mask costume.
  ]

Ok, why the hell is this called AVIAN MASK?
It's a simply Opera/Carnival mask (which is only related, because Carnival)

There are no Bird motifs around it, hell it's not even a feathered mask, the name of the item is misguided

Obviously a rushed-last minute made costume as well

jaazaniah1 wrote: »

Now I'm curious. Were the NemCon costume pieces just lost all these years, and recently rediscovered by the dev team, or have they known where they were all along and just didn't take the time to add them back in?

Because the previous DEVs (and especially the VERY DEV who BROKE the costume drops) didn't give a damn to fix what they broke

and they brought them back so more players can have access to them, instead of making them lost forever items

after 4 Years they are back, not too shabby​​

themightyzenith

avianos said:

Ok, why the hell is this called AVIAN MASK?
It's a simply Opera/Carnival mask
There are no Bird motifs around it, hell it's not even a feathered mask, the name of the item is misguided

Obviously a rushed-last minute made costume as well

If you can't see any bird theme on that winged mask then you need to hand back your @handle. It quite obviously has a spread wings motif.

I like it, it's simple and well made and a welcome addition to eye-accessory, domino-type-masks.

avianos

themightyzenith wrote: »

If you can't see any bird theme on that winged mask then you need to hand back your @handle. It quite obviously has a spread wings motif.

This is NOT enough to justify the name
Better names would be Winged Mask, Feathered Mask, Carnival Mask

themightyzenith wrote: »

If you can't see any bird theme on that winged mask then you need to hand back your @handle.

Also, how dare you?​​

themightyzenith

avianos said:

This is NOT enough to justify the name.
Better names would be Winged Mask, Feathered Mask, Carnival Mask​​

*shrug* It's just a name and it fits seeing as the adjective 'avian' means "relating to birds".

Spread feathered wings are very avian.

n8mcd

kaizerin said:

High Noon

• Slightly reduced the token decay for the open mission.

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What is this refering to?

blockwave

The diminshing returns when you do it multiples times in a row, you begin to gain 10, then 9, then 8, until you hit 1.

avianos

Poor Kiwi Birds

kaizerin wrote: »

Powers

• Fixed a bug where Svengalis Guile didn't refresh its stated effects.

BUG:
Ego Placate's Svengalis Guile is still not working and fails to refresh Stress, Dependacy and Regret stacks

The ADV is still doing nothing

or related note

BUG:
Mental Leech - Mental Weakness ADV
Shadow of Doubt - Malaise ADV

NONE of those Debuffs appear on the enemies potraits, in matter of fact they may not even working
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legendarylycan

i see the snake gulch AFs were renamed to show their identifier number in the player's AF storage, so thanks for that!

now i can see which ones i still need without having to waste G or snakebits on ones i might already have​​

pantagruel01

sterga said:

It's too bad there isn't simply ONE event currency for ALL events.

The reason event currencies exist is to get people to play that event. While the currency tab is a bit of a mess, rewards that are restricted to specific content are a desirable way to get people to play more than one set of content.

lezard21

Bug
Nemesis Alert
Nemesis and Nemesis mobs drop Nemesis Reward Box in alerts

jaazaniah1

Now I wonder how many other missing weapon skins and so on they actually know about and will be putting back in the game, hopefully in the near future?

chaosdrgnz43 said:

jaazaniah1 said:

Now I'm curious. Were the NemCon costume pieces just lost all these years, and recently rediscovered by the dev team, or have they known where they were all along and just didn't take the time to add them back in?

I think the dev team knew about them but didn't bother with it. Thankfully, Kaizerin actually listens so she knew we would want the old costumes back.

captainhunter1

riverocean said:

The Nemesis' are getting a little love - I'm down with that!!!! It would also be nice if we could get Nemesis clues from a contact -- rather than having to "defeat" inanimate objects. Which might also fix the bug with people picking up someone's else's Nemi Clues in alerts. There's a police officer in M.C. who just hangs out around the Powerhouse.. that would be a perfect job for him.

Oh! I love this idea!

(always thought is was dumb defeating chairs to get your Nemesis clue)