FC.31.20150616.5 - Patriot Celebration & Shaolin Emote

ladygadfly · June 2015

Release Notes for FC.31.20150616.5:

This build is available on PTS now, 6/26/2015.

Adds the Patriot Celebration Event
- The new Flag Flight & Canadian Flag Flight travel powers are available in the test store.
- Indy Kid and Flag Speed are also available.
- A contact named "Liberty Guard" appears next to Defender in Ren Center with the above items for sale for 10 - 25 patriot tokens.
- This contact grants a daily mission to complete Red Winter for 5 patriot tokens.
- The Red Winter alert can be played any number of times a day for 1 patriot token per play (on top of the daily mission).

Adds the July Subscriber Bonus
- The Shaolin Ready emote is available as the July Subscriber bonus in the Gold Subscriber store and the test store.

Live Fixes
- Added materials to the Ravenswood emblem.

Known Issues
- Grab Alerts are not granting XP, only the XP bonus. (We are aware this is live. We are extending the Questionite and XP bonus weekends until we can fix the bug next week).

Please format any bugs you find in the following format:
Bug
Where it happens
What happens

Please stay on topic in this PTS thread. We use bug reports from this thread to decide whether a PTS build is ready to go live, and so we need to make sure we're seeing everything in it. Please do discuss the changes, but if you find yourself writing about something that isn't specific to what's on PTS, then that should probably go elsewhere.

In particular, do not report bugs from the live game in this thread, unless they are impacted by changes in the PTS build.

eiledon · June 2015

Patriot Celebration: The change to collection of tokens to get rewards does make this seem more like an event than previous years, where you got the rewards for completing 2 missions and is then forgotten about. Is there plans to extend this further to the other events on the calendar - for example collect tokens from killing takofanes/mechanon to buy the reward you want rather than hope for the best while suffering through lag. You may already have this on the cards - but a sale on the liberty bike during the event would probably be a good idea. ;D

Gold Bonus: A quick question Gad, just wondering how you are verifying success of having an emote as gold vendor bonus? It's effectively free to subscribes so many/most will grab it wether they have a use for it or not but this doesn't really give an indication that it is 'popular' per se.

Ravenswood Emblem - Yay! Thanks for listening to feedback

XP: I don't think I have been hit by the xp issue on live - as far as I could tell I was getting my xp rewards.

Known Issues: - any further update on not being able to claim the promo character slot on some accounts?

thebuckeye · June 2015

The Grab XP reward doesn't seem to be applying if the Character is above level 30 in my tests, all the characters I have below that level are still getting the XP. Just in case this information is helpful in anyway...

flyingfinn · June 2015

Is this another so called "event" where you do 1 mission over and over and over and over again, to collect Tokens to buy Stuff from the Vendor?
Mechanon "event" called: *I got 6 Tokens from the whole mission "chain", i buy what?*
Foxbat "event" called back and said: *Dude, pls. I has over 600 Tokens, i buy what?*
Find someone who has actual clue how to do "events". Those 2 kind of failed there...
Oh, sorry. I forgot, this is CO were talking about.
/place sarcastic emoji here

crypticbuxom · June 2015

Can we not have another useless currency and instead make it a mission where you do Red Winter multiple times?

Also a bug from the last few years.

Receiving the Flag Travel Power Rewards after already unlocking them from a previous year will forever take up inventory space. The unlock can never be discarded.

Has this been addressed?

Also a reminder from the last PTS, putting any emotes behind a lifetime wall is a bad idea that will only upset newer players. Especially in a game that compared to the other two Cryptic games where many times more emotes is available for free. This can only be considered just fine if Champions gives players a few dozen emotes already in the game and then added even more to the store. A single free one as a temporary Gold reward would be insignificant by comparison, but would be desired by players that want that extra one.

magpieuk2014 · June 2015

The Flag Travel power I picked up last year could be discarded, but it's worth testing on PTS to ensure it hasn't recurred (lots of that about at the moment!).

The event currency thing doesn't seem quite as confusing on Champs as it is on other games (step forward Neverwinter) but it would be nicer if you could use the event to build up one of the existing currencies (Silver Champs, maybe?)

theravenforce · June 2015

Oh by the way, Liberty Guard is also available on LIVE as a contact via SOCRATES, he doesn't yet have a physical location in game so this is just a mention that his store is available via SOCRATES in case that wasn't known. Isnt a bug or anything like that.

circleofpsi · June 2015

theravenforce wrote: »

Oh by the way, Liberty Guard is also available on LIVE as a contact via SOCRATES, he doesn't yet have a physical location in game so this is just a mention that his store is available via SOCRATES in case that wasn't known. Isnt a bug or anything like that.

I noticed that too, on top of that the FETAL ERROR missions are gone!

Do you kown about this ladygadfly?

Edit: Only good thing coming from this update I see is the new Emote, anymore coming out way?, also LadyGadfly? any new on the lockbox?

Edit: Also, can we please start working on the Hideout rooms?, I can't see any reason to delay it now we have new Devs

flyingfinn · June 2015

How much you are willing to bet that the "new emote Shaolin Ready" is the old 'getting my kung fu up' animation of the toggles from the Martial Art set?
I'll put €50 on the table.
Because creating something new, hasn't been on the schedule in a long long time.
Or else we would have c-store full of emotes and stances and everything silly people are ready to pay money for.
And if that is only good thing coming out of this "dlc". Houston, we have a problem...

FETAL ERROR...that made me giggle...so much that it made curl up into the fetal position

thelastsonofzod · June 2015

Bug: When charging up Canadian Flight, your character shows a sparkly red, white, and blue aura. I'm guessing that should be just red and white, unless Canadians just randomly throw blue into their superpowers

Sidebar 1: How do I make my text red now?

Sidebar 2: I I frickin LOVE that you guys are adding more travel powers, and I'm delighted that we're getting more event content. I do wish Red Winter could get an event that actually featured them against a patrioticly themed superhero team...but this is a nice start. Please consider following through and doing similar things for Blood Moon and Misfit Toys. I'd love to see Wolf Speed added for the former, and something steampunk would be greatly appreciated for the latter.

nextnametaken · June 2015

BUG: Gold Player Reward Vendor tells me I'm not a gold member and/or I already bought the item and can only buy it once.
No device in inventory, no Shaolin emote to be found.

BUG: PTS is private instead of public.
I can't test anything that is new on the test server because it requires running the mission
a bunch of times and the mission requires five players, and there's only three players on the server.
Maybe you should organize some testing time and invite participation, like they used to do.
Or have a little cheat guy like The Debugger that provides this event currency.

I honestly don't involve myself with any of the events that have their own currency, I just bypass it completely.

thelastsonofzod · June 2015

The debugger has the token.

guyhumual · June 2015

Yay! Canadian Flag flight!

eiledon · June 2015

Suggestion: Shaolin Ready Emote - please Add Looped Version

Bug: Canada Flag Flight - Hand 'contrail' visible sticking out of palms of hands while not moving
What: With new flight tp active, but not moving the graphical elements which form the 'contrails' from the hands are plainy visible sticking out of middle of palm and once seen are rather distracting

canadacontrail_zps49ngs8zt.jpg~original

Oh and inflight for anyone who cant get on pts atm

constablecold_zpsmf1bhqtn.jpg~original

chaelk · June 2015

thebuckeye wrote: »

The Grab XP reward doesn't seem to be applying if the Character is above level 30 in my tests, all the characters I have below that level are still getting the XP. Just in case this information is helpful in anyway...

25 and below, get the 2 rewards separately and they register. 26 gets them together and they don't. just tried it with one from 24 to 26 after someone said it seemed to be 25..

eiledon · June 2015

I have a character on 25 and he is still getting his xps reward correctly.

Edit: And on hitting 26 he now no longer gets his grab reward - even taking each item individually when provided does not apply xp reward.

chaelk · June 2015

if you see my picture in super news thread, the xp award from over 25 is listed as a simple numeric value.

onlyepicwolf · June 2015

How do you fix some stuff but break others in the process o.o

berkam · June 2015

Bug: Bird people costume parts missing
Where: PTS and Live Tailors
What: Bird people skirt, hip wear and beast leg accessories are nowhere to be found.

ladygadfly · June 2015

"A quick question Gad, just wondering how you are verifying success of having an emote as gold vendor bonus? It's effectively free to subscribes so many/most will grab it wether they have a use for it or not but this doesn't really give an indication that it is 'popular' per se."

- Mostly based talking to players in-game and on the forums. You're right that there's no obvious metric for judging whether this is well-received, so we're keeping our eye on the forums as much as we can spare time to.

"Receiving the Flag Travel Power Rewards after already unlocking them from a previous year will forever take up inventory space. The unlock can never be discarded."
"I noticed that too, on top of that the FETAL ERROR missions are gone! Do you kown about this ladygadfly?"
"Gold Player Reward Vendor tells me I'm not a gold member and/or I already bought the item and can only buy it once. No device in inventory, no Shaolin emote to be found."
"Canada Flag Flight - Hand 'contrail' visible sticking out of palms of hands while not moving."
"Bird people skirt, hip wear and beast leg accessories are nowhere to be found."

- I'll get these looked into.

"Oh by the way, Liberty Guard is also available on LIVE as a contact via SOCRATES, he doesn't yet have a physical location in game so this is just a mention that his store is available via SOCRATES in case that wasn't known. Isnt a bug or anything like that."

- We noticed that too. He'll be gone from SOCRATES after the event ends.

"Or have a little cheat guy like The Debugger that provides this event currency."
"The debugger has the token."

- What he said.

deadman20 · June 2015

ladygadfly wrote: »

Release Notes for FC.31.20150616.5:

This build is available on PTS now, 6/26/2015.

Adds the Patriot Celebration Event
- The new Flag Flight & Canadian Flag Flight travel powers are available in the test store.
- Indy Kid and Flag Speed are also available.
- A contact named "Liberty Guard" appears next to Defender in Ren Center with the above items for sale for 10 - 25 patriot tokens.
- This contact grants a daily mission to complete Red Winter for 5 patriot tokens.
- The Red Winter alert can be played any number of times a day for 1 patriot token per play (on top of the daily mission).

Adds the July Subscriber Bonus
- The Shaolin Ready emote is available as the July Subscriber bonus in the Gold Subscriber store and the test store.

Live Fixes
- Added materials to the Ravenswood emblem.

Known Issues
- Grab Alerts are not granting XP, only the XP bonus. (We are aware this is live. We are extending the Questionite and XP bonus weekends until we can fix the bug next week).

Neat stuff, though I'm a little disappointed that the emote is just something that's been recycled and I personally believe should've been packed in the C-Store along with the other Martial Arts Form Animations.

You know what would have been neat to have for this month's reward though? Fireworks Aura. Shoots little fireworks in the air that explode. Passively every couple of seconds if equipped in "Always On" and anytime the player Crits in the "In Combat" slot. Would probably have to make it claimable per-character and bind-on-pickup though. Too little too late though, perhaps next year?

ladygadfly wrote: »

Please stay on topic in this PTS thread. We use bug reports from this thread to decide whether a PTS build is ready to go live, and so we need to make sure we're seeing everything in it. Please do discuss the changes, but if you find yourself writing about something that isn't specific to what's on PTS, then that should probably go elsewhere.

In particular, do not report bugs from the live game in this thread, unless they are impacted by changes in the PTS build.

I know, I know... totally off-topic here, or not. I dunno. What exactly are you guys doing with that Gravity Driver Ultimate Power that's sitting there on Live unable to be selected? If this is a prelude to something else, would we be getting more than just that one power? If so, how many? Enough to constitute an entire set? A mini-set? Multiple sets?

Medical Gadgeteering maybe?

ladygadfly · June 2015

deadman20 wrote: »

I know, I know... totally off-topic here, or not. I dunno. What exactly are you guys doing with that Gravity Driver Ultimate Power that's sitting there on Live unable to be selected? If this is a prelude to something else, would we be getting more than just that one power? If so, how many? Enough to constitute an entire set? A mini-set? Multiple sets? Medical Gadgeteering maybe?

Full details about the Gravity Driver will be released very soon. Keep an eye on the dev blogs.

themightyzenith · June 2015

ladygadfly wrote: »

- Mostly based talking to players in-game and on the forums. You're right that there's no obvious metric for judging whether this is well-received, so we're keeping our eye on the forums as much as we can spare time to.

From what I see on the forums and talking to players in-game about this decision it seems to me that it is an unpopular one.

notyuu · June 2015

ladygadfly wrote: »

Full details about the Gravity Driver will be released very soon. Keep an eye on the dev blogs.

I hope it's addedthough a new AT or something cool...and not something stupid like it being a lockbox drop...srsly...that would be dumb...and evil.

deadman20 · June 2015

ladygadfly wrote: »

Dev blogs.

You mean UNTIL Field Report, right?

Right?

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

notyuu wrote: »

Not something stupid like it being a lockbox drop...srsly...that would be dumb...and evil.

That's probably EXACTLY what they'll do now. Cryptic, please do NOT put it in a Lockbox. If there's one thing you're listening to at all, please do NOT put any powers in a Lockbox... EVER!

themightyzenith · June 2015

notyuu wrote: »

ladygadfly wrote: »

Full details about the Gravity Driver will be released very soon. Keep an eye on the dev blogs.

I hope it's addedthough a new AT or something cool...and not something stupid like it being a lockbox drop...srsly...that would be dumb...and evil.

I heard a rumour that this power will be put in a lock-box from a normally very reliable source. My god, I hope it is just a rumour.

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deadman20 · June 2015

I request that the Recognition cap should be raised from 1,000 to say... 10,000. I need more UNITY Farm. Don't ask why, just do it... please.

soulforger · June 2015

thebuckeye wrote: »

The Grab XP reward doesn't seem to be applying if the Character is above level 30 in my tests, all the characters I have below that level are still getting the XP. Just in case this information is helpful in anyway...

I to can say this is how it seems to work.
But than again, my toon that was below 30 was getting two rewards at the reward point, the buff, and then the bonus xp. My toon that was over level 30 received only one reward with both the buff and bonus xp in it. The bonus xp was not being rewarded.

Also, I noticed that sometimes the xp you get for completing the alert was sometimes not being rewarded. After doing three alerts, my xp bar barely moved because all I was getting was minion xp.

stellariodragon · June 2015

The Canadian flag flight charge-up still shows the blue sprites from the USA flag charge up. Besides that looks good.

kemmicals · June 2015

stellariodragon wrote: »

The Canadian flag flight charge-up still shows the blue sprites from the USA flag charge up. Besides that looks good.

Maybe the blue sparks mean it's French Canadian Flight?

By the way, the new flight looks super good. Gonna have to find an excuse to make a patriotic toon for once.

voyagersix · June 2015

BUGS: Both Canadian Flag flight and Flag Flight (all ranks) have several elements of Dark Speed leftovers in them:

It has the Dark Speed visual distortion centered on the character momentarily upon charging to full.
It has the Dark Speed "charging up" sound if you charge it to full.
It has the Dark Speed "running music" when you are in motion.
It leaves the Dark Speed black trail behind you when you move.

I haven't seen anyone else report the above, so here are my graphics settings on the PTS:

SUGGESTIONS:

Remove the "running music".
For Canadian Flag, it would look more like the actual Canadian flag if the leaves are much larger, and the leaves appear more in the center, less scattered.

theultimax · June 2015

There's a bug with Flag flight that changes it back to normal flight when you get it to rank 3.

carrionbaggage · June 2015

voyagersix wrote: »

Remove the "running music".

I agree. The stop-and-go music ruins the power for me, and I imagine it would annoy any nearby heroes who have their sound turned on.

theultimax wrote: »

There's a bug with Flag flight that changes it back to normal flight when you get it to rank 3.

^ Just reiterating this because it's an excellent catch.

ealford1985 · July 2015

voyagersix wrote: »

Remove the "running music".

For Canadian Flag, it would look more like the actual Canadian flag if the leaves are much larger, and the leaves appear more in the center, less scattered.

I agree but don't remove the running music but make it a 0 Advantage to turn it on (just like growth on Rage) Some people may like it.

voyagersix · July 2015

ealford1985 wrote: »

voyagersix wrote: »

Remove the "running music".

For Canadian Flag, it would look more like the actual Canadian flag if the leaves are much larger, and the leaves appear more in the center, less scattered.

I agree but don't remove the running music but make it a 0 Advantage to turn it on (just like growth on Rage) Some people may like it.

Right. The same as Heroic Flight's "Fanfare" 0 point advantage.

ealford1985 · July 2015

voyagersix wrote: »

ealford1985 wrote: »

voyagersix wrote: »

Remove the "running music".

For Canadian Flag, it would look more like the actual Canadian flag if the leaves are much larger, and the leaves appear more in the center, less scattered.

I agree but don't remove the running music but make it a 0 Advantage to turn it on (just like growth on Rage) Some people may like it.

Right. The same as Heroic Flight's "Fanfare" 0 point advantage.

But....it's all live now. Did anything actually get fixed or any suggestions used? I don't see any note.

maleb666 · July 2015

ealford1985 wrote: »

But....it's all live now. Did anything actually get fixed or any suggestions used? I don't see any note.

Nope

themightyzenith · July 2015

Great, more problems posted by players, who took the time to test things and post the results, ignored by cryptic. Pretty sure that this is counterproductive in many ways.

riverocean · July 2015

Okay guys.. lets relax a bit. I'm no fan of Cryptic rushing stuff out. But let's face it.. it's a holiday event for Canada Day and July 4th. Delaying the launch would've meant holiday events launching AFTER the holiday had passed (in this case Canada Day).

Plus what was found was minor.. not ideal.. but still minor bugs.

themightyzenith · July 2015

This is the PTS new build thread. They ask players to test things and report problems. The players do that and their observations are ignored and we get a bit worried that this is becoming a habit. They should have put out this build on PTS earlier so that they could have fixed the problems. Lots of minor things over time means one major problem

flyingfinn · July 2015

When does Finland gets its own Flight? With galloping lions and swords and flowers and and stuff?

themightyzenith · July 2015

flyingfinn wrote: »

When does Finland gets its own Flight? With galloping lions and swords and flowers and and stuff?

That'd be cool. British toons could use it too :-)

eiledon · July 2015

A simple red white and blue flag flight would work for so many countries, heck even make it so the power tinting could color one of the channels. ;D

Edit: Apparently hell is a bad word, so we will all be going to heck shortly ;D

splosions · July 2015

themightyzenith wrote: »

Great, more problems posted by players, who took the time to test things and post the results, ignored by cryptic. Pretty sure that this is counterproductive in many ways.

I did actually take a look at this-- can't duplicate any of the results voyagersix reports, is this possibly a video card issue? I'm certainly not seeing any unmodified FX directly out of Dark Speed and its successors?

Did catch an issue where the charge for Canada Flight was Red/White/Blue instead of Red/White in the process. Passed the comments about the sound on to audio, but it's a bit late in the process. It's possible we should have gotten it on test earlier.

We've checked in a fix for the power tree issue, but I don't know when it will make it to live.

Just because we're not commenting doesn't mean we're ignoring things.

itsbrou · July 2015

splosions wrote: »

themightyzenith wrote: »

Great, more problems posted by players, who took the time to test things and post the results, ignored by cryptic. Pretty sure that this is counterproductive in many ways.

I did actually take a look at this-- can't duplicate any of the results voyagersix reports, is this possibly a video card issue? I'm certainly not seeing any unmodified FX directly out of Dark Speed and its successors?

Did catch an issue where the charge for Canada Flight was Red/White/Blue instead of Red/White in the process. Passed the comments about the sound on to audio, but it's a bit late in the process. It's possible we should have gotten it on test earlier.

We've checked in a fix for the power tree issue, but I don't know when it will make it to live.

Just because we're not commenting doesn't mean we're ignoring things.

*gasp* Quick, drop the net!

eiledon · July 2015

splosions wrote: »

themightyzenith wrote: »

Great, more problems posted by players, who took the time to test things and post the results, ignored by cryptic. Pretty sure that this is counterproductive in many ways.

I did actually take a look at this-- can't duplicate any of the results voyagersix reports, is this possibly a video card issue? I'm certainly not seeing any unmodified FX directly out of Dark Speed and its successors?

Did catch an issue where the charge for Canada Flight was Red/White/Blue instead of Red/White in the process. Passed the comments about the sound on to audio, but it's a bit late in the process. It's possible we should have gotten it on test earlier.

We've checked in a fix for the power tree issue, but I don't know when it will make it to live.

Just because we're not commenting doesn't mean we're ignoring things.

Suddenly a wild dev appears! Quick catch it

I certainly had no issues with any of the flag flights - all looked fine in terms of graphics etc - certainly nothing along the lines of what voyagersix has seen.

carrionbaggage · July 2015

splosions wrote: »

(various confirmations)

Thank you for this. We never know what has or hasn't been noticed until a developer confirms it. A quick run-down like this is very helpful for us, and curbs a lot of speculation.

voyagersix · July 2015

splosions wrote: »

I did actually take a look at this-- can't duplicate any of the results voyagersix reports, is this possibly a video card issue?

Possibly, but it did have the Dark Speed sound effects and warping, as well. I don't know. Strange. My laptop has one of those dual/switching deals, where it will use either its Intel video or Nvidia video. The PTS forces my laptop to use Intel, but Live uses the Nvidia bits.

The new travel powers seem fine on Live. Very shiny.

themightyzenith · July 2015

splosions wrote: »

I did actually take a look at this-- can't duplicate any of the results voyagersix reports, is this possibly a video card issue? I'm certainly not seeing any unmodified FX directly out of Dark Speed and its successors?

Did catch an issue where the charge for Canada Flight was Red/White/Blue instead of Red/White in the process. Passed the comments about the sound on to audio, but it's a bit late in the process. It's possible we should have gotten it on test earlier.

We've checked in a fix for the power tree issue, but I don't know when it will make it to live.

Please look into the problem of builds not being on the PTS for long enough before going live. This is becoming more and more of a problem. We have all seen that once a patch is applied to the live server the chances of something being fixed are very, very low.

splosions wrote: »

Just because we're not commenting doesn't mean we're ignoring things.

Recent reports of bugs and problems posted by players in PTS build threads that were not acted upon and the subsequent push of these builds to the live server without appropriate action and a lack of aknowlegment of the problems posted by players does tend to look like some problems were being ignored.

Unless we get comments and/or appropriate fixes how would we know if we are being ignored or not?

talonvor · July 2015

Was testing the new flight powers out.

Canadian Flag Flight

Sometimes when changing the colors all the leaves would be the new color and sometimes they would be a mix of red leaves with the new color.
When changing colors the previous color is retained for the firework effect and the new one applied as well. So for example you may end up with white, orange, green.
There are blue fireworks when the power is initiated.
Please remove the sound or at least go with something a bit more regional and appropriate.

Flag Flight

When choosing a new color there is no effect aside from the fireworks, not sure if this is intended.
When changing colors the previous color is retained for the firework effect and the new one applied as well. So for example you may end up with white, orange, green.
Rank 3 of the power isn't Flag Flight (Rank 3), it's just Flight (Rank 3). When you rank it up it changes the power to normal Flight.
Please remove the sound or at least go with something more appropriate.

Oops typed all that out before realizing this stuff is already on live lol. Guess I missed the boat...

FC.31.20150616.5 - Patriot Celebration &amp; Shaolin Emote

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FC.31.20150616.5 - Patriot Celebration & Shaolin Emote