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PTS Update (4/14) - FC.16.20110413.0
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FC.16.20110413.0 Patch Notes
ETA on PTS update: 3:30 PM PST (GMT-8)
Known Issues:
Heavy Weapon
ETA on PTS update: 3:30 PM PST (GMT-8)
Known Issues:
- Known issues will be posted here.
- A number of typos in missions, critter infos, and contact dialogues have been fixed.
- Monster Island: A bug where players were prompted to Read the Sign when not near a sign by the Argent Preserve has been fixed.
- Canada: Undead on Arrival open mission: A reset timer has been added. If a stage of the mission has been in progress for a long time and there are no players in the open mission volume, it will reset itself.
- Canada: Reign of Frogs mission: Technician hostages now despawn if the second phase of the open mission is failed.
- Canada: Perfect Prey mission: An issue where ambushing critters wouldnt respawn if they were defeated recently has been fixed.
- Vibora Bay Crisis: All That is Unholy mission: A bug that could cause a character to remain after a cutscene ended has been fixed.
- Vibora Bay: Apocrypha Abrogation: Players now get mission credit if the Libris del Diablo is destroyed by despawning.
- Critters: Various critters in the game have been switched over to using Heavy Weapon powers. Some of these critters have custom weapon models, which may drop from time to time...
Heavy Weapon
- Heavy Weapon powers now have a new idle stance.
- Brimstone: Description has been fixed to state that it does Crushing AND Fire damage.
- Brimstone: Damage increased ~12%. Cost increased ~3 Energy.
- Cleave: The first two attacks of the combo now have a 25% chance to grant a stack of Enrage.
- Guard: Ranks 2 and 3 properly increase the damage buff.
- Arc of Ruin: Damage and costing have been reworked. Tap damage has been increased by ~30%, though full charge damage has only been increased slightly. Tap cost has been almost doubled, and cost per charge time has been roughly halved. New base tap cost is ~32 Energy, and new base max charge cost is ~57.
- Decimate: Removed the erroneously added placeholder advantage "Rooter" from the power.
- Annihilate: Damage and costing have been reworked. Overall damage increased ~30%. Tap cost roughly doubled, and cost per charge time reduced such that the new full charge cost is ~10 Energy higher than previously.
- Skullcrusher: Damage increased ~10%. Tap cost increased ~2 Energy, max charge cost increased ~9 Energy.
- Earth Splitter: Hitting 3 or more targets will now properly grant a stack of Enrage. Tooltip has been updated as well.
- Earth Splitter: Damage increased ~20%. Knockup at tap decreased by ~50%; Knockup at full charge decreased ~10%. Tap cost reduced ~3 Energy; charge cost per time increased ~35%.
- The 4 newly-shared powers from Might (Defiance, Unstoppable, Enrage, and Aggressor) should now have the proper requirements to unlock the ability to purchase them. (Really this time.)
- Haymaker: This power unintentionally had a 0.5s activation time instead of the intended 0.67s activate time. This has been corrected.
- C-Store UI now lets players know they cannot purchase a microtransaction item when they get it from their gold membership or if they already own it (i.e. full bank slots).
- A message when trying to withdraw more than you are allowed from a super group has been added.
- A new difficulty level (Difficult) has been added. Instance scaling will no longer occur on Normal settings, but on Difficult.
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Hem the same notes as in the patch FC.16.20110408.0 ?
Updated.
let me direct you here... http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?t=128084 Thats really how the new set plays.
Just going to point out that rank2 and 3 of Psychic Vortex is still unusable* and its adv still does nothing but add free hold resistances.
*; it moves around rapidly and randomly quickly getting out of range of your target group and staying out of range of your target group. rank1 luckily doesn't do this.
Just throwing it out there...
Can we get a little more detail on this? Please don't make me roam blindly around the game trying to find them.
Well, we want SOME mystery to exist in the world, at least for a while...
But, if you must know, this pass added HW attacks to the following critters:
The Progenitor, Morbane, and Bokor all have unique weapon models, and have a chance to drop that costume unlock for HW. Therakiel is also able to drop his sword as a custom geo piece.
We have some more coming of a drop off of the large spear handed gladiators in NemCon, a drop off of Manimals, one of the Sasquatch will be getting some HW attacks and likely a geo piece, and we have a few other pieces that we haven't decided on where they're going to go.
Yeah, the new idle is sweet. Sometimes things like this slip through notes on the PTS, especially with notes that won't be something we note when the patch goes live. Thanks for pointing it out, though!
Awww, I was hoping to run around finding them with the help of others. Already farming Progenitors.
We've got a whole bunch of people farming the Bokors and the Progenitors and after a lot of killing no drops. Meanwhile I killed less than 20 Morbanes and got 4 of unlocks. Please check to make sure the drops are there and the drop rate isn't outrageous a la the normal VB Costume unlocks.
"Outrageous" is a relative term, so it's tough to say exactly whether or not it is outrageous. I can say the default drop chance is considerably higher than the VB drops (which we're looking at as well), but we're also trying some new stuff out with these unlocks. Namely, the drop rate for these costume pieces is higher when fighting these critters in higher difficulty instances.
Basically, (making up numbers) say the drop chance for BigHugeAxe was 1% off of Mean Guy when you fight him on normal. On hard, the drop chance would be 2%, on Very Hard the drop chance would be 3%, and on Elite it would be 4%.
Because this is something new, we're still feeling out the numbers, and they may not be final, but we also don't think everyone should just be able to go out and spend 15 minutes getting them. Otherwise, why make them drops at all? We want them to be interesting and somewhat rare, otherwise they would just be unlocked by default.
Also, we have some bugs with them right now - the drop table for the Morbane has a mistake, which makes him drop it at 50% by default, and higher than that in higher difficulty instances! The drop table for the Bokor has stopped working. The one for the Progenitor does seem to be working.
(posted 2 seconds after ame post.. thanks!)
I MUST KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
Edit: I GOT EXCITED. I DID NOT SEE THE ABOVE STATEMENTS.
I really hope Therakiel's drop isn't 1% by default.
Yes, there are quite a few of us who have developed a very robust HATRED of the random number generator.
You're looking at the VB drop rate?
FINALLY.
I could go on a long tirade over how this should've been done when VB first launched (or sometime recently), but I won't, because I'm so glad this is being looked into.
That said - yes, an alternative method to get these items and/or costume parts like the Snakebucks (with a reasonable drop rate, or one that can be modified by items on the C-Store, like you can now) would be a fantastic thing.
On another note, the Haymaker change makes Vixy a sad mudkipz.
Heck, got three regular Sovereign Sons drops looking for it.
The drop rate definitely seems borked
It's been read. Really, the vast majority of threads in the PTS forums are read (and a lot outside of the PTS forums) especially ones that stay on the front page for several days. We just can't reply to them all, or we wouldn't actually DO anything with that feedback. I read the forums every day. Even when I'm supposed to be working on finalizing our wedding plans. ( /me looks over at my fianc
Also, one thing I like about the heavy weapon costume drops is that they are blue which makes it easier to distribute in a group. Can the VB costume drops and the BoE travel power blueprints can the same treatment?
My hatred of the 1% chance drop is due to farming various items, like the Qwyjibo action figure, which took me over 250 tries. Then there is the jailbreak rare drop which I'm at over 500 attempts and still don't have it.
Knowing that drop rates are being looked at, even if fixes are not easy and will take a while, means a lot.
My best guess is that this is because they aren't rates in the sense of a fixed % chance to drop per kill. There might be some logic to doing things that way (maybe it requires "true luck", rather than being able to force-farm these items on command), but I would say most players expect fixed % drop chances.
Yeah, having collected multiple of these items, I have them foremost in mind with "not a fixed % chance to drop per kill." These epic lair rewards are becoming more well known, more players are after them, and I think it's important to keep them rare, but on the other hand there should be fair and fixed % chance per boss kill for the item to drop, even if that chance is extremely low.
This is a good idea. I also have a suggestion in this area, there is a golden pillar of light that surrounds boss drops, please add this special (!) to VB costumes, and future semi-rare drops like these heavy weapon unlocks.
Just to provide a contrast, I don't hate the rare drop system, but I do recognize that it doesn't give a fair and fixed % chance to drop per boss kill. I'm fine with making the drops extremely rare, I just want fair fixed rates, however low, for cosmic's rare drops, rare drops from lair bosses, open mission rares, and VB costumes.
I've been present for 5 or so rare drops from each MI cosmic, with over 600 kills on each, and 250 kills with no drop is definitely a bad streak, though I've seen it happen too. The lair drops and open missions suffer much more from the lack of a fair % chance of the drop per run, because unlike the cosmics these can be reset and replayed all day long, for many days and many 100s of futile runs, all because there is no fair fixed % chance of a drop.
Beautiful and to think the powers were fine and dandy as they were you went and made them better! YUM!
The new idle animation while flying. Specifically the head being so far forward. It might look ok for one of those huge beast guys, there are kind of used to being hunched over that much. But for a hero with a strong (and upright) back, it makes him look like some kind of villainous vulture.
http://champions-online-wiki.com/wiki/Heavy_Weapon_Skins
We should compare notes sometime. I can show you the true face of "bad streak". So much so that I've often thought about asking for kill perks for the cosmics.
Had over 80 kills in first place, doing an average of 8 runs daily. No drops.
Then i had the luck of getting 3 consecutive Mega D. kills in first place. He just popped on Zone chat and i followed. The first kill dropped Spirit of Destruction, second dropped Pulson Power Core, third finally dropped Portable Robotic Factory.
A few days after that, i had a chance to reproduce it. This time, it was 2 consecutive kills. Yes, Mega D. dropped another Robot Factory, but since it's classified as a unique item, i couldn't pick it up.
So, what i really want to know from the devs, was that just sheer blind luck(albeit reproducible luck) or does the game have a boost to drop chance for consecutive kills inadvertently?
SWEET!
Di....did you just say spear? :eek: Finally the closest thing to a staff. Maybe Rush! will finally have her staff soon!
Thank you Lohr for all of your hard work, despite all the internal forum changes and policies and such. We greatly appreciate the time you've put into this Wiki for us all.
Whoever came up with the idea for turning the large spear hand from the gladiators in NemCon into a Heavy Weapon skin must be an incredibly intelligent and handsome man.
Fix plz?
It appears that the heavy weapon drops do in fact have the golden pillar now. Though having it appear for the VB drops as well would make alot of sense.