Release Notes 3/30/2017

kaiserin

Foxbatcon
Foxbatcon is in town! All mobs can drop Foxbat Swag bags and Mayor Biselle has a daily mission for finding Foxbat!
We've added some new rewards this week and new rewards will also be introduced next week! Also check back next week for the real Foxbat Hunt mission!

• Added Cartoon Hands and Massive Rocket costumes to the vendor.
• Added Permanent Throwing Pins device to the vendor.
• Added Fisticuffs aura to the vendor.
• Added Inventor Archetype to the vendor.
• Added Mime emote to the vendor.
• Added a green quality Rock as a potential drop to the Foxbatcon Swag Bag.
• Added Practical Joke Defense mod to the vendor and as a potential drop from the Swag Bag. This mod increases health and knock resistance.
• Added One Use Throwing Pins as a potential drop to the Foxbatcon Swag Bag.
• Added all Foxbatcon action figures are potential drops from the Foxbatcon Swag Bag.
• While running the Foxbat hunt mission the chance for them to drop tokens and Cheaply Made Ping Pong Guns has been greatly increased.
• Added preview images and updated tooltips for all Foxbatcon items.
• Removed the old T-Shirt costumes as they were granting the incorrect items. Created new ones that properly give out the tshirts to both genders. Players who've gotten these items prior won't be affected. Old versions of this costume have been renamed to include the word Vintage to differentiate them.
• Removed the old Foam Finger Aura. Created two versions of the aura. One for the left? hand and one for the right.
• Foam Finger auras can no longer be stacked. This was done as stacking them caused them to rapidly flicker. The old version is now named Vintage Foam Finger Aura.
• Old Foxbatcon tokens will no longer be used as we are updating all of the tokens used in game to use the currency bag. These tokens have been renamed to Vintage Foxbat Cred.
• Added a exchange store that will trade old tokens for Swag Bags or Stars. This vendor is located just next to the main vendor.
• Added a Currency and Title exchange store to the same vendor that allows players to exchange spare foxbatcon action figures for titles or extra currency. This store will also see new features next week!

Available Titles from the Exchange Vendor:

• Fanboy/Fangirl: Trade in 10 Foxbat Tshirt 1 costumes
• Fanatic: Trade in 10 Foxbat Tshirt 2 costumes
• Them's Fightin' Words: Trade in 10 Foxbat Pingpong Gun costumes
• Something's Fishy: Trade in 10 Foxbat Trout costumes
• We Are Number One: Trade in 5 Foam Finger Aura (Left?) and (Right) auras
• All Others Are Number Two, Or Worse: Trade in 10 Foam Finger Aura (Right) auras
• Lefty: Trade in 10 Foam Finger Aura (Left?) auras
• Sly as a Fox: Trade in a Foxbat Fenny action figure
• Classic Cartoon: Trade in a Cartoon Fenny action figure
• Fooled You!: Trade in a April Foxbat action figure
• Old School: Trade in a Classic Foxbat action figure
• High Budget: Trade in a Movie Foxbat action figure
• I'm a Squirrel: Trade in a Squirrel Boy action figure
• This is my Disguise: Trade in the 2 Disguised Foxbat action figures
• Backup: Trade in the 3 robot foxbat action figures
• Stunt Double: Trade in the 2 Stunt Double Foxbat action figures
• Cosplayer: Trade in the 7 Foxbat cosplayer action figures
• Rabid Fanboy/Fangirl: Trade in the 6 Foxbat Fanboy action figures

Added new perks for using the temporary devices found during the event:
Cheaply Made Ping Pong Gun

• 10: Ping Pong
• 50: Ball Pit
• 250: Rapid Fire
• 1000: Deadly Contraption
• 5000: Wall of Fire

Cheaply Made Bubblegum Gun

• 10: Chew On This
• 50: Gum Chewer
• 250: Gumdrop
• 1000: Gooey
• 5000: Kick Butt and Chew Gum

Cheaply Made Seismic Ping Pong Ball

• 10: Seismic
• 50: Seismic Disaster
• 250: Ten Ton Weight
• 1000: Anvil
• 5000: Look Out!

Foam Finger Slap

• 10: Slap Fest
• 50: Slappy
• 250: Slapster
• 1000: Slapstick
• 5000: Smacked Down

One-Use Throwing Pins

• 10: Tacked On
• 50: Pin Up
• 250: Pin Collector
• 1000: Fan Fair
• 5000: Pincushion

Trout Slap

• 10: Stinky
• 50: Smelly
• 250: Slimy
• 1000: Gross
• 5000: Eww

Subscriber Reward

• Added Exploding and Joke Cigar costume as the April Gold Subscriber costume.
• The Tinfoil Hat Ray will return in the Gold Sub reward store this April alongside the Exploding Cigar costume.

Cosmic

• Eidolon will now summon his orbs and guardians in fixed random locations instead of using players for targeting. What this means is there are specific points on the map that he can use for placement of these attacks, instead of just going off of player locations.
• A ground splat will indicate where the orbs will be summoned and will give players a couple seconds to position themselves before the orb is actually summoned.
• Eidolon will now emit a wide range damage field based on the number of Shadow Crystals (healing orbs) that are under the effects of stun, paralyze, incapacitate or sleep. This damage deals partially flat damage and partially damage based on %hp. It cannot be mitigated by resistance or dodge, but can be partially shielded.
• Healing and DPS orbs now use different ground splat fx to help differentiate them beyond just color.
• Enervating Crystal (damage orb) damage now has a much greater area effect.
• Eidolon's healing orbs will now play a bright fx on them when healing Eidolon. When they are under the effects of control this fx will not be present.
• Eidolon will now get a green healing aura when being healed.
• Added voiceover for some of Eidolon's timed attacks.
• When defeated Eidolon will now have an outro sequence instead of just falling over.
• When defeated Eidolon will no longer immediately appear sitting on his throne.
• Eidolon now has a more sinister sitting pose.
• Increased Eidolon's success cooldown to 1 hour.
• Increased Eidolon's failure cooldown to 30 minutes.
• Players can now get back into Eidolon's open mission while it's on a successful cooldown.
• Added a ground tell in addition to the portal fx to Eidolon's portal guardian summon. Changed color to yellow to make it stand out.
• Increased Eidolon's token reward to 11 SCR and GCR.
• Decreased the Portal Breaker, Worm Wrecker and Assault the Battery open missions success cooldown to 5 minutes. Failure cooldown remains at 10 minutes.
• Increased the base health of the open mission bosses and eased up on their scaling with lower amounts of players (10 and under). High count player scaling remains roughly the same.
• Added Bleak Soul aura as a potential drop from Oubliette and in the GCR store.
• Added Destroyer Collar to the GCR store and as a potential drop from Eidolon.
• Added Life Essence's hitfx on the list of restricted FX for cosmic costumes.

Powers/Devices
Aura of Ebon Destruction

• Changed the way this power picks the owner of the trigger damage. Damage players deal with the trigger effect will count as theirs, not the player who is using Aura of Ebon Destruction. Example: If player A is using AoED, and player B triggers the damage effect, the damage will count as player B's where previously it counted as player A's.

Terak Generator

• Increased the damage.
• Increased the maintain duration.
• Made the device colorable.
• Updated the FX to be less resource intensive and to fit player scaling better.

Void Possession

• Added small healing effect while maintaining this device.
• Updated tooltip so it's clear what the device actually does.
• Added preview image.
• Gave this device a new FX.

Cloak of Infinite Planes

• Added preview image and better tooltip for the Cloak of Infinite Planes device.
• Reduced the energy cost for this device as you progress through the combo.

Seismic Ping Pong Ball

• Fixed a bug where its effects were stuck at level 1.
• Increased damage.
• Lowered charge time to 1 second (from 2).
• Added Disorient effect.

Bubblegum Gun

• Fixed a bug where its effects were stuck at level 1.

Vanity Devices

• Added a mandatory half second cooldown to most vanity devices to address some undesirable effects.
• Fixed a bug where some Vanity Devices were not blocked by the Fun nullifier device.

Misc

• Added Exploding and Joke Cigar costume as the April Gold Subscriber costume.
• The Tinfoil Hat Ray will return in the Gold Sub reward store this April alongside the Exploding Cigar costume.
• Made the detail map on the Dinosaur gloves optional.
• Grond in Teleios Ascendant should no longer react to hit animations.
• On April 1st the Therakiel Blade? device (not to be confused with the regular version) will drop from Therakiel in the Therakiel's Temple lair for players who missed out on it last year. This is a guaranteed drop from the Therakiel Reward Box, which drops for all players when Therakiel is defeated.
• A mysterious vendor has appeared somewhere in the game who will take certain seemingly useless items and exchange them for something neat.

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avianos

Added a green quality Rock as a potential drop to the Foxbatcon Swag Bag.

Again, Why are you adding TRASH in reward boxes? Reward Boxes you NEED to farm to get tokens from a VERY limited time event

This is not funny neither charming!
the rock being part of Halloween bags made sense because IT WAS A REFERENCE to Charlie Brown's Halloween Special
https://youtu.be/5tIhwITwhSg
adding it to ANY reward bag is just a way to frustate and dissapoint your players

We Are Number One: Trade in 5 Foam Finger Aura (Left?) and (Right) auras

This is charming

Aura of Ebon Destruction
Changed the way this power picks the owner of the trigger damage. Damage players deal with the trigger effect will count as theirs, not the player who is using Aura of Ebon Destruction. Example: If player A is using AoED, and player B triggers the damage effect, the damage will count as player B's where previously it counted as player A's.

Nice, this will prevent AFK Leeching in cosmics with AoED leechers

A mysterious vendor has appeared somewhere in the game who will take certain seemingly useless items and exchange them for something neat.

Is he drifting by any chance?​​

duskenradholm

avianos said:

Added a green quality Rock as a potential drop to the Foxbatcon Swag Bag.

Again, Why are you adding TRASH in reward boxes? Reward Boxes you NEED to farm to get tokens from a VERY limited time event



This is not funny neither charming!

the rock being part of Halloween bags made sense because IT WAS A REFERENCE to Charlie Brown's Halloween Special



adding it to ANY reward bag is just a way to frustate and dissapoint your players

kaizerin said:

A mysterious vendor has appeared somewhere in the game who will take certain seemingly useless items and exchange them for something neat.

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I think this is why. Green is the only value of rock we didn't have, and the rocks are "seemingly useless". Too bad no one probably held on to every rarity of Rock! GG.

qawsada

kaizerin said:

A mysterious vendor has appeared somewhere in the game who will take certain seemingly useless items and exchange them for something neat.

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They're rocks, isn't it?

t3l3manc3r

I hope the fake cigar doesn't look butchered for beast heads.

kgor

\o/

avianos

Oh, Cartoon Fenny is basically Felix the Cat

Added Mime emote to the vendor.

Wait? Only Mime emote? No Juggler?

Added Destroyer Collar to the GCR store and as a potential drop from Eidolon.

Wow thats an actually pretty good costume piece​​

guyhumual

Any clues on where to find this vendor that presumably will take our rocks and coal.

waybig

The defense moods sounds nice for knock resistance, and also the health

baelogventure

So how about that Juggle emote?

doktormarengo

Fisticuffs aura

This is a really nice aura for "stretchy" type heroes. Thank you!

Aura of Ebon Destruction
Changed the way this power picks the owner of the trigger damage. Damage players deal with the trigger effect will count as theirs, not the player who is using Aura of Ebon Destruction. Example: If player A is using AoED, and player B triggers the damage effect, the damage will count as player B's where previously it counted as player A's.

Does this include pets, because that would suck. OTOH.. .that means less aggro for pet masters in pve..so maybe it doesn't suck.

knightironstar

Ever since the new patch today for Foxbat Con, CO has been rubber banding alot & I don't know about everyone else, but it's making me very angry.

Please fix it before I end up breaking my Laptop or something. -_-;

atlasthesahuagin

kaizerin said:

Fixed a bug where some Vanity Devices were not blocked by the Fun nullifier device.

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Thank you!

avianos

knightironstar wrote: »

Ever since the new patch today for Foxbat Con, CO has been rubber banding alot & I don't know about everyone else, but it's making me very angry.

Please fix it before I end up breaking my Laptop or something. -_-;

I bet its the amount of NPCs in rencen, I always get more game crush and memory leaks with those stupid fanboys around​​

sekhmet46

Yeah, if you notice, "useless"is colored correspondingly to the rarity colors in CO.

jaazaniah1

The News blurb for the event mentions a vehicle, but I did not see one listed among the things one can buy from the event vendor. Did I miss it? Is it somewhere else? Or was it left out?

n8mcd

The Ping-Pong Gun perks are not proc'ing.

guyhumual

jaazaniah1 said:

The News blurb for the event mentions a vehicle, but I did not see one listed among the things one can buy from the event vendor. Did I miss it? Is it somewhere else? Or was it left out?

The only vehicle I see is the one that was here last year.

avianos

as for the mysterious vendor, someone shared a screenshot ingame with spoiler tag, but never said where is he

I'm a Squirrel: Trade in a Squirrel Boy action figure

Ah... I wish i had my Squirrel character ingame so I can get this title...

sekhmet46 wrote: »

Yeah, if you notice, "useless"is colored correspondingly to the rarity colors in CO.

Sneaky, really sneaky​​

riverocean

Suggestion: Arcane Assault Archetype Pack
This is not a bad idea, but I think if you offer such packs in the future you should try something like this instead:

- 2 Themed Archetypes
- 1 Themed Loyal Sidekick
- A full set of Daring gear
- 4x XP boosters.

So for the 3k in Zen the buyer gets two premium AT's. A pet to help out, Gear to level up, and some XP boosts. Sure you'd get one less AT in this case. But you'd get other stuff to help out with leveling that AT in return. Which seems like a more attractive deal for Silvers.

aesica

darkfenrir113 wrote: »

Too bad no one probably held on to every rarity of Rock! GG.

Actually...

kaizerin wrote: »

• Eidolon now has a more sinister sitting pose.

Bummer. I'm going to miss his "I'm on the can, leave me alone!" pose.



*Cosmic grunting noises*​​

canadascott

Clearly a hundred rocks should give you a "Cleveland" perk.

kallethen

Changed the way this power picks the owner of the trigger damage. Damage players deal with the trigger effect will count as theirs, not the player who is using Aura of Ebon Destruction. Example: If player A is using AoED, and player B triggers the damage effect, the damage will count as player B's where previously it counted as player A's.

Holy $#%&!!!!!!! That means AoED doesn't make you a threat magnet anymore?!? I just might switch my petmaster back to AoED!​​

xacchaeus

canadascott said:

Clearly a hundred rocks should give you a "Cleveland" perk.

"Detroit Rock City"

guyhumual

More screenshots

avianos

NINJA'ED I was about to post the same screenshot ^
perhaps the best device EARTH powerframe ever got

kallethen wrote: »

Holy $#%&!!!!!!! That means AoED doesn't make you a threat magnet anymore?!? I just might switch my petmaster back to AoED!

Oh my god, you are right!
Now my Pet master and Necromancer wont be as agro magnet as they used to be!
This is great news​​

guyhumual

If this is an elaborate joke I hope they say April 2nd

kyastral

guyhumual said:

More screenshots

Is that from the test or live server?

chaelk

i always kept my rocks. i was waiting for plants to make a rock garden
now i can get a pet rock too
problem is- thw 'white' rocks now have a yellow band but still have the white text.​​

opalflame

Q Zone OM scaling is broken. The bosses are scaling with adds and nearby mobs as if they are extra players, making their damage and hp so high that Eidolon is impossible to unlock.

omnilord

So where is this rock vendor at? I'm getting tired of people being coy with these edited screenshots. And equally tired of trolls in chat saying they found him, when they're just freaking lying.

And the whole 'useless' thing and hint about it blending in with it's surroundings isn't helpful either.

omnilord

Oh yeah, still pissed about the character bound emote. Scrape the idiot out of your ears devs. Nobody likes it. Stop it. Stop it now.

avianos

Also, if anyone needs help with the Foxbat hunting
I suggest bookmarking the Wiki article

http://www.championswiki.com/index.php?title=Find_All_Foxbats

Provides map and information about specific locations (my tip is to start from 1 and going up to 100 so you wont lose track)​​

jasinblaze

bug - cartoon hands only unlocks on female if bought on a female, no idea if the male version exists

flyingfinn

flyingfinn

Same thing happened with the Foxbat t-shirt.
So we get Vintage Cartoon Hands next year. ​​

nepht

omnilord#8416 said:

So where is this rock vendor at? I'm getting tired of people being coy with these edited screenshots. And equally tired of trolls in chat saying they found him, when they're just freaking lying.

And the whole 'useless' thing and hint about it blending in with it's surroundings isn't helpful either.

Finding the vendor is part of the fun

reaperwithnoname

Is the vendor event-only?

chaosdrgnz43

Couldn't find the vendor. Guess I'll be keeping my rocks then.

avianos

Reminder that today its 1st April and today Therakiel will drop his Plastic Sword Toy device

Enjoy specific day exlusive stuff​​

avianos

There is a FREE device in the foxbatcon vendor called [Backup! - Foxbat] (tagged as Summon Device?) obviously a joke summon

You summon Foxbat and he runs aways

everyone who wants to get it better log in today or they will miss it for the rest of the year​​

guyhumual

So all my foxbat credit that I'd collected and thought I was banking last year got turned into "vintage Foxbat" credit this year, I lost 903 credit on my main character alone, which I'm not pleased about, but that's not the biggest problem: those last 3 points of "vintage foxbat" credit I can't get rid of. The exchange only lets you sell 15 or 25 and I can't seem to sell it at vendors. I hate losing all that time I put into the event last year but losing a inventory slot is by far the more painful blow.

nbkxs

You can throw them away, that's what I did.

draogn

The Foxbatgrindathon is still just as boring and lame as ever.

nbkxs

I have still been unable to locate the rock guy. I've looked everywhere that I can think of where there might be a pile of rubble/some place a rock dood would hang out, but so far; nothing.​​

roughbearmattach

The rock vendor is a prank.


. . . or is it?

chaelk

aww but I want a pet rock.
or at least some plants to go with my rock collection. so I can make a rock garden.
can we have some plants for spring?​​

nbkxs

It's been found, it does exist.

omnilord

nbkxs said:

It's been found, it does exist.

THEN WHERE IS IT?!

chaelk

monster island.
Loc: -18 1147 2355
vendor is called normal rock,
Note: to purchase you also need crafting skill level.
100- pet rock
200 soft rock
300 thrown rock
400 attack rock​​

roughbearmattach

The costs are x amount of each type of rock, by the way.

Good luck!