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Release Notes 5/25/2023

kaiserin#0958 kaiserin Posts: 3,229 Cryptic Developer
edited May 2023 in Release Notes
High Noon at Snake Gulch
For the next 2 weeks this event will be running.
  • Added Casual Beard and Cowboy Hat Wide costumes to the event store.
  • Added Frayed weapon auras to the event store.
  • New Mission: Complete the High Noon at Snake Gulch mission 10 times, rewards the Steampunk Robot costume.




Rhinoplasty
  • This lair has been updated to be more challenging.
  • Added Chimeral Potion of the Rhinoceros as a possible drop.
  • Added Chimeral Potion of the Rat as a possible drop if you capture Moreau.
  • Added Rhino Head, Rhino Leg Armor, Chimera's Tail, Chimera's Wings, Chimera's Hair, Chimera's Fur, Chimera's Hand 2 and Chimera's Feet 2 costumes as possible drops.
  • Added Brutal Charge power unlock as a possible drop.
  • Added Tough Skin mod as a drop.
  • The old version of the lair is unchanged and has been renamed to Rhinoplasty (Mission) and can be accessed if you have the Rhinoplasty mission active.
  • All enemies now use level-scaling.
  • Fixed various issues with captive pathing.
  • The lair now has an open mission to guide you through.
  • Updated the lair to require completing tasks before being able to progress.
  • Added cutscene skipping.
  • Updated White Rhino's powers.
  • Chimera has been removed from his usual location and added into the final boss fight when Moreau or White Rhino are at 75% health.
  • Moreau will now gain significant damage resistance if any of his allies are nearby.
  • Fixed an issue where summoned rats could be spawned too frequently.
  • Added Viper X as a sub-boss.
  • Adjusted the enemy behavior in the draysha rooms.
  • Moreau will now attempt to escape when at 40% health, or White Rhino or Chimera are at 40% health.
  • Moreau can now be rooted and held, however, he will shed a number of mezzes or debuffs based on the number of nearby allies every few seconds.
  • Moreau's capture is not required to succeed the lair, but will affect what can drop as rewards.
  • The reward drop location will adjust based on if players are present in certain rooms while attempting to capture Moreau.
  • Added new lair daily to M'Ling.
  • Added new store to M'Ling where you can exchange coins given from the Rhinoplasty daily mission to purchase lair drops.




ZEN Store
The Steampunk keypack will be available for 1 week.
  • Cost: 900 ZEN
  • 10x Cosmic Keys of Power
  • 1x Steampunk Machine Costume



Viper X
  • Updated his attacks.



Sidekicks
  • Increased the heal effect on Agate, OVERRIDE and L1L-D0GG13 sidekicks.



Stores
  • Added display store for Rhinoplasty.



Mods
  • Slightly increased the effectiveness of Rank 9 mods that apply Defense, Cooldown Reduction, Cost Reduction and Offense.
  • Increased the effectiveness of the Vital Spirit mod.



Auction
  • Added Cosmic rarity. This rarity will be used later on.



Costumes
  • Virtual back costume now has a detachable back item.



Powers
New Power: Brutal Charge
  • Obtainable in the Rhinoplasty lair.
  • Tier 3 Supernatural Bestial
  • 15 sec cooldown
  • Charges at foes, deals Slashing damage and causes Knock Up. Knock scales based on distance lunged.
  • Disorients the main target.
  • Adv (2): After use, for a short time and only while moving, you will knock back nearby targets and deal slashing damage. If foes are immune to knock, chance to Disorient instead.
  • Adv (2): Applies Demolish to the main target. Changes power damage to crushing.
  • Adv (2): Chance to apply bleed over time.
  • Adv (2): Applies or refreshes Reckless.


Chimeral Potion of the Rat
  • Device
  • Heals you.
  • Reduces outgoing threat.
  • Places you in stealth. Dealing damage or interacting will remove you from stealth for 8 seconds.


Chimeral Potion of the Rhinoceros
  • Device
  • Heals you.
  • Increases your health and knock resistance.
  • Chance to Knock targets with every attack while active.

Comments

  • avianosavianos Posts: 6,199 Arc User
    Releasing the Rhinoplasty lair revamp on the same time with 2 weeks High Noon, shows me there isn't much confidence for it despite the dev time spent on it! 🤔

    Looking on PTS right now, With Pipe Wrench we basically have covered every possible Melee weapon a FPS protagonist would use!
    If someone wants to make a Half-Life or a Bioshock using Munition + Single blade theme build, you basically have it covered
    Casual Beard
    I would be very nice if Facial Hair could get their OWN Tailor category instead of being on Mouth Accessories
    New Mission: Complete the High Noon at Snake Gulch mission 10 times, rewards the Steampunk Robot costume.

    ZEN Store
    The Steampunk keypack will be available for 1 week.

    Cost: 900 ZEN
    10x Cosmic Keys of Power
    1x Steampunk Machine Costume
    I can always count on High Noon for awesome Steampunk aesthetic costumes
    New Power: Brutal Charge

    Obtainable in the Rhinoplasty lair.
    Tier 3 Supernatural Bestial
    15 sec cooldown
    Charges at foes, deals Slashing damage and causes Knock Up. Knock scales based on distance lunged.
    Disorients the main target.
    Adv (2): After use, for a short time and only while moving, you will knock back nearby targets and deal slashing damage. If foes are immune to knock, chance to Disorient instead.
    Adv (2): Applies Demolish to the main target. Changes power damage to crushing.
    Adv (2): Chance to apply bleed over time.
    Adv (2): Applies or refreshes Reckless.
    Not Even a restoration ADV ! VIDEOGAMES! ✋😩🤚
    Should I expect things to change like Tear Down which got Restoration adv way later after it got released?


    POWERFRAME REVAMPS, NEW POWERS and BUG FIXES > Recycled Content and Events and even costumes at this point Introvert guy who use CO to make his characters playable and get experimental with Viable FF Theme builds! Running out of Unique FF builds due to the lack of updates and synergies! Playing since 1 February 2011 128 + Characters (21 ATs, 107 FFs) ALTitis for Life!
  • shin#8144 shin Posts: 6 Arc User
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    Thank you, very fun!!!!!
  • crypticbuxomcrypticbuxom Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    The Frayed weapon aura is definitely a better lightning aura that came from Hi Pan alert.

    Seeing Chimeral potion of the Rat on PTS it definitely became a device I want on a few characters.

    Brutal Rush's adv of knocking back definitely seems like a fun mechanic, but I think it should be changed to knock down so it doesn't end up as a troll power to use in alerts.
  • h4forumsh4forums Posts: 284 Arc User
    edited May 2023
    I ran into the same bug as shin's screenshot as well, where a prisoner would stay inside the cage even though the door was destroyed and nearby enemies killed. It seems to work better if taking it slow and waiting a bit between each cage to ensure the prisoner leaves. Maybe the mission script gets confused if multiple cages are opened in rapid succession.
  • kaiserin#0958 kaiserin Posts: 3,229 Cryptic Developer
    We'll be having maintenance tomorrow to address the captive issue.​​
  • jaazaniah1jaazaniah1 Posts: 5,563 Arc User
    Maybe also make it so that once you clear the first room, the mobs do not keep respawning there?​​
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    Perseus, Captain Arcane, Tectonic Knight, Pankration, Siberiad, Sekhmet, Black Seraph, Clockwork
    Project Attalus: Saving the world so you don't have to!
  • Sneak isn’t automatically re-applying Stealth since the patch. I think the rat potion messed up the code.
  • avianosavianos Posts: 6,199 Arc User
    either that or it was an intentional "Stealth Update"
    And I can't tell
    Cowboy Hat Wide costumes to the event store.
    Literally this
    https://youtu.be/bkJSq_m2rqc
    POWERFRAME REVAMPS, NEW POWERS and BUG FIXES > Recycled Content and Events and even costumes at this point Introvert guy who use CO to make his characters playable and get experimental with Viable FF Theme builds! Running out of Unique FF builds due to the lack of updates and synergies! Playing since 1 February 2011 128 + Characters (21 ATs, 107 FFs) ALTitis for Life!
  • > @avianos said:
    > either that or it was an intentional "Stealth Update"
    > And I can't tell
    >
    > Literally this
    > https://youtu.be/bkJSq_m2rqc

    There’s nothing in the patch notes, this is not intentional, or okay.
  • ravynfallenstarravynfallenstar Posts: 54 Arc User
    roots are not working on moreau
  • ravynfallenstarravynfallenstar Posts: 54 Arc User
    fix loot table... 31 runs... 0 loot
  • ravynfallenstarravynfallenstar Posts: 54 Arc User
    M'ling coins not showing on character resources list.
  • jaazaniah1jaazaniah1 Posts: 5,563 Arc User
    Seems that the last patch removed Destrium Bearlings as one of the requirements for Justice Gear. Petrified Scales now needed for both offensive and utility pieces. If bearings are not a thing any more, we need a way to convert those we have to scales. Or, more likely, this needs to be fixed.​​
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    Perseus, Captain Arcane, Tectonic Knight, Pankration, Siberiad, Sekhmet, Black Seraph, Clockwork
    Project Attalus: Saving the world so you don't have to!
  • crypticbuxomcrypticbuxom Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    They also added Cosmic color rarity to the AH. With how low legendary things drop, that doesn't sound like good times. Unless they are adjusting already existing items into Cosmic, like mods that are nothing but R9s.

    Also there are certain colors that are hardly used that really should be just used. So many blue items that should just be white and purple items that should be blue.
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