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Release Notes 7/17/2018
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ZEN Store
Freeform Character conversion
After:
Lifetime Store
Questionite
Recognition Stores
Costumes
Misc
Archetypes
New Archetype: The Samurai
Tank
Constitution - Dexterity - Recovery
Protector - Arbiter
Power Progression:
The Blade
Power Progression changes:
Powers
All players with Single Blade abilities have received a free respec. Just a reminder free respecs do not stack.
Sword Cyclone
Catastrophic Pummeling/Fury of the Dragon
Reaper's Caress:
Slash
Dragon's Bite
Swift Strike
Cut Down
Scything Blade
Form of the Swordsman
Reaper's Embrace
New Power: Deflect
New Power: Laughing Zephyr
New Power: Tornado Slash
New Power: Last Stand
New Power: Crimson Bloom
- We will no longer be supporting making new monthly subscriptions.
- Players who are currently subscribed will be able to remain subscribed, but if their sub lapses they will not be able to renew it.
- We have updated our Lifetime Subscription page with more detailed information on what it includes.
ZEN Store
- We have added the Premium Pack to the ZEN store!
- Detailed information on the pack can be found here.
- Added The Samurai Archetype.
- The Heroic Starter Pack has been removed from the store.
- Moved costumes under the Subscription tab into the other costume tabs.
Freeform Character conversion
- Silver players who have a unused Freeform Character Slot from purchasing one in the ZEN store can choose to use up that slot to convert a Standard character into a Freeform character.
- Doing this conversion will cause the unused Freeform Slot to become a Standard Character Slot.
- To clear up any confusion, doing this conversion will not cause you to lose an empty character slot, but will use up the Freeform aspect of the slot.
- The character that is converted will be sent to the powerhouse and have their powers reset.
- This can only be done on Silver accounts, and will not be an option if you are Gold or Lifetime.
- You can access this option via the character select screen, but you must have purchased a Freeform Character Slot prior to using the option.
After:
Lifetime Store
- This store has been renamed to the Exclusive Store.
- Monthly costume items have been retired. Lifetime layers can still claim all previously released monthly rewards.
- A new store with the old costumes has opened up where players can use Exclusive Costume tokens to purchase items. Currently the Premium Pack is the only place to get tokens.
Questionite
- Added Magical Pose, Twirl, Spin, Howl, Finger Snap, Electrical Storm costume transformations to the store.
Recognition Stores
- Added Spellcast, Tech Wrist, and Smoke Bomb costume transformations to the GCR store.
Costumes
- Added an additional color channel to the Samurai shoulders.
- Added cloth material to Samurai Shoulders and Leg Accessories.
- Added in missing special materials on the Blockbuster set.
- Fixed a bug with various face textures where teeth were being improperly colored.
- Added Cloth and Leather materials to the Armor Arc costume for female characters (male characters already had these materials).
Misc
- Addressed an issue where size growth effects from certain abilities could stack up to unintended amounts.
- Costume transformation items can now be searched for under the Emotes section of the auction house. Existing items in the auction house will not show up there, only newly placed ones.
Archetypes
New Archetype: The Samurai
Tank
Constitution - Dexterity - Recovery
Protector - Arbiter
Power Progression:
- 1 Reaper's Touch
- 1 Reaper's Caress
- 6 Cut Down OR Chained Kunai
- 8 Lighting Reflexes
- 11 Crimson Bloom
- 14 Form of the Swordsman
- 17 Dragon's Bite
- 21 Deflect
- 25 Relentless
- 30 Tornado Slash OR Sword Cyclone
- 35 Bountiful Chi Resurgence
- 40 Masterful Dodge OR Last Stand
The Blade
Power Progression changes:
- 21 Deflect
Powers
All players with Single Blade abilities have received a free respec. Just a reminder free respecs do not stack.
Sword Cyclone
- New Advantage (2): Knocks targets towards you within 20ft of you. If a target is more than 10ft away from you, has a reduced chance to knock towards you.
- New Advantage (2): Increases dodge and avoidance while maintained.
Catastrophic Pummeling/Fury of the Dragon
- These powers now gain knock resistance in addition to control immunity.
Reaper's Caress:
- New Advantage (2): Chance to apply Clinging Flames instead of Bleed.
- New Advantage (2): Removes 1 stack of Deadly Poison or Bleeding on you every hit and heals for each one removed.
Slash
- New Advantage (2): Chance to apply Bewildered to the target.
Dragon's Bite
- Moved the Dragon Rush effect to an advantage.
- Cull the Weak advantage: Changed the way this power defeats enemies of Villain or Henchman rank. This is just an under the hood change.
- New advantage (2): Knocks down your target.
- Fixed a bug where this power was not refreshing bleed.
Swift Strike
- New Advantage (2): Applies the Ebb and Flow buff when attacking with melee abilities for a short time.
Cut Down
- New Advantage (2): Applies Jinxed to target.
Scything Blade
- Swallowtail Cut: No longer considered a Bleed, but is still a type of Wound. While this effect applies a regular stack of Bleed against high ranking targets, it is also considered its own Wound effect for power interaction purposes.
- New Advantage (2): Refreshes Bleed for a portion of the duration.
- New Advantage (2): Refreshes Shredded for a portion of the duration.
Form of the Swordsman
- Removed Cut Where it Counts advantage.
Reaper's Embrace
- Added a 1 second cooldown on this ability to address some issues this power had if tap spammed.
- Changed activation time to 0.83 seconds (from 0.67).
- Changed max charge time to 0.67 second (from 0.83).
- Cost and damage has been adjusted for new activation times.
- Changed Rupture damage to Slashing (from Piercing).
- Fully charging this ability against a target affected by Shredded applies Open Wound on a target after a small delay.
- No Mercy Advantage: This advantage no longer has a chance to apply Bleeds. Now causes Reaper's Embrace to rupture all of your Wound effects instead of just Bleed effects. The rupture damage now deals a portion of the damage initially, then hits twice more over the next 4 seconds. The last 2 hits cannot be dodged and cannot be refreshed or reapplied while active.
New Power: Deflect
- Single Blade Block
- When you are struck by an attack, applies bleed to the target if they are already not affected by any of your bleeds.
- Advantage (3): Increases your dodge, avoidance and knock res while attacking in melee range. Scales with Dexterity.
New Power: Laughing Zephyr
- Martial Arts reverse lunge
- Lunges away from your target and applies the Charged Up buff to you for a short time.
- Advantage (2): Turns this power into a threat wipe.
New Power: Tornado Slash
- Deals ranged damage in a cone.
- Has a chance to apply bleed and stun to targets.
- Advantage(2): No longer stuns. Now has a chance to apply Mental Leech.
- Advantage(2): No longer applies bleed. Now has a chance to apply Chi Flame.
New Power: Last Stand
- Supernatural Bestial Framework
- Active Defense/Self Rez
- Can only be used when defeated.
- Fully restores your health, gives you a health boost, damage resistance and a massive amount of regeneration for 15 seconds.
- This regeneration is different from regular healing, and isn't affected by any outside effects.
- After 15 seconds, your health is dramatically reduced. For the next 10 seconds you cannot be healed and cannot use any active defenses.
- Places other Self Rezzes and Active Defenses on cooldown.
- Advantage (2): Grants a large amount of threat generation while active.
- Advantage (2): Reduces the amount of time you are immune to healing.
New Power: Crimson Bloom
- Single Blade Framework
- Pbaoe maintain that applies a brief shield effect to you as you maintain (basically eye of the storm).
- Advantage (2): After maintaining for 1 sec, applies the Aegis buff to you.
- Advantage (2): Chance to apply bleed to targets.
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Premium Pack HERE I COME, i will be busy all week costumizing my powers and testing the single blade revamp
Note the big LTS sale, 60% off! https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/10956943-our-biggest-lifetime-sale-ever!
Probably still sticker shock to some.
How does the subscription change affect PTS?
-Sterga
I'd say that leaves it at a pretty decent price actually, if I'm mathing right.
42 40s, LTSer.
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It certainly does
Click here to check out my costumes/milleniumguardian (MG) in-game/We need more tights, stances and moods
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Check your bonus tab in the Zen store. You might have it free.
-Sterga
Thanks for the info. A friend already noted me on that since I was Gold subbed once. Now I can save my Qs for costume sets (among other things).
Still, bitter about Mini drive tho. Such a disappointing fix. And Eido is still bugged.
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Also, I assume they do not stack. Meaning that if I buy premium first, and then buy lifetime, do I end up with 6 or 12 character slots, 90 or 130 auction slots, etc.
Are the lifetime awards additive to the features, or are they already accounted for. (ie, character slots, costume slots, retcon tokens)
Keep in mind you get the premium pack for free if you are a lifetime subscriber or already a monthly subscriber from the bonus tab in the c-store.
- All slots can hold freeform.
- A stipend.
There are other minor things.Epic Stronghold
Block timing explained
I've never been subscribed so I can't get it as a bonus. So I am wondering if there is a "loophole" if I buy premium and then buy lifetime. Somehow I doubt it, but worth asking.
More likely buying lifetime just gives you the free premium pack, and then a few benefits on top of it. Nice to see exactly what that is though.
ie: it seem like lifetime gives you all the benefits of the premium pack plus (Please correct me if I am wrong)
Did I miss anything?
- 1 Free Character Slot the First Time you Reach Level 40 with a Character
Does this mean we get 1 slot only once on the account when a character reaches level 40? Or is this the older, better, 1 slot EVERY time a character hits 40?
If it is only once on the account, then you didn't address one of the most important things to me (and other lifers) regarding the free character slot for every 40 when you first said it would be removed entirely. This was the biggest benefit to me for and others having a lifetime sub.
Now it seems the same as the "premium" pack:
- You'll receive a free character slot the first time a character on your account hits level 40.
Please tell me I am wrong and that it is still 1 slot every time you hit 40 on a character.
Yknow, I'd like to see it stay at this price to be honest. Great draw in, considering everything else in the LTS is put into the premium pack, it's only worth about this price now.
42 40s, LTSer.
Correct. More specifically, the first time since the change, not including previous level-40 additions. So as of now, if you take a character to level 40, you will receive one more character slot, and from then on you'll have to buy the slots (but hey, they're cheap now!)
With no means to play my 20+ FF characters once a sub lapses this effectively kills the game as far as I'm concerned. This is a garbage move which looks to me like they are betting the farm on selling enough LTS to keep the game afloat for just a little bit longer. Now thei ronly revenue stream will be an LTS or people buying Zen? How much sense does it make to stop taking money?! Even if I had the cash for an LTS I definitely would not feel like it was smart investment.
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It doesn't effect game play or cause problems in ANY WAY. Your "fixing" Things that weren't broken for what?? Even if there was some abusers of size.. why do you have to flip off the rest of us that used it just for the fun of it without intruding in anyone's space?
You guys have other ACTUAL bugs to fix. put that stuff back and fix real problems! common..
No you don't need to be using the ARC launcher to buy an LTS, that's done through the ARC website, not the program I've never used the ARC launcher and l have happily been an LTS for the past 6 years
... that they decided to stop updating.
Sorry, this just struck me as hilarious.
The Forumite formerly known as Galeforce.
If you want my money, there is a fairly simple way to get it since I am fairly free with how I spend it. First, produce something I consider to be worth buying. Second, offer it up for sale. Don't lock it behind a gambling scam. If I want something, I am perfectly happy to pay for it. But I will not purchase a CHANCE to get it, When I pay money, I have a perfectly logical right to expect to get what I want.
Now I have a way to make my clown a Freeform hero. The Gunslinger is an okay archetype but it drastically needed a better heal than Holdout Shot's puny HP regen. Also, now she can use Showdown and quickdraw on enemies like a rodeo clown while riding the inflatable pool toy as her trusty steed.
If only the devs would implement my single pistol AT/Noir Lockbox ideas then i'd be tempted to purchase the lifetime sub.
Holy Molly, I don't have to tell someone to hit themselves in the head when they walk out the door, feels refreshing
I believe(I've got no evidence) that some of the problems related to the growth issues were things such as constant disconnects and horrible lag...I am sure other things contribute to these problems as well but that this was a rather obviously target that was also relatively simple to fix. It was also very clearly exploitable as demonstrated very openly by a small number of individuals which helped make the devs better aware of these problems. so bravo to them.
Re:Tornado Slash. Is that still applying Dependency? Mental Leech is a separate power....
Great. Thanks Cryptic, you really are the experts at disappointing people.
At least we can have more feedback in PTS now more than ever! (Still bitter about the growth nerf)
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That oughta be listed as one of its features.
And the ability to turn silver chars into ffs with freeform slots.
Awesome.
Thx a lot for that. For silvers, it's probably one of the most epic change since Freeform slots have been added.
Thx again.
42 40s, LTSer.
Devs: I think a good move at this point would be to add some sort of monthly freeform "rental" that would allow people to temporarily access freeform on all their character slots, like how Gold subscriptions currently work. It would have to be much cheaper than the current subscription prices, but could be purchased directly from the zen store.
I'll also give that it was smart to keep the line about the size increase changes as vague as you kept it. "Unintended" is certainly true for triple Mini Drive stacking via AoAC and Nanobot Swarm; not so much for Enrage form and Mini Drive, but the vagueness of the statement helped lessen this blow a bit to some.
Mind you at the moment of writing this I haven't logged into the game yet, so I hope you at least handed a free retcon to people possesing Enrage or Mini Drive, cause to them right now the powers will behave in an "unintended" way for the purpose of their themes.
Overall a positive patch for the community, even if it doesn't feel that way to me since one of the aspects does not reach me do to being LTS already, and the other directly affecting my toons.
I mean, I can't even feel happy about the growth thing because everything feels shady at this point.
Edit: And yes I know the FF conversion thing was a solution, but you can't tell me that fixes the part where some people's time playing this game is finite.
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