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FC.31.20150919.17 - Final Blood Moon Changes

ladygadflyladygadfly Posts: 279 Cryptic Developer
edited October 2015 in PTS - The Archive
Release Notes for FC.31.20150919.17
This build is available on PTS as of 10/21/2015

Blood Moon Event Changes
- Extended perception/aggro range of ghost ship.
- Added control immunity to ghost ship.
- Fixed Blood Moon Action figures to unlock correctly.
- Updated end date of event to November 11th.
- Spectral Aura no longer stacks with itself.
- Reduced cooldown on Ghost Ship to 1 hour.
- Added chance of Turakian Coins to drop from Treat Bags (and update info on Dweomer).
- Fixed text on Ghost Pirate Action Figure.
- Added new icons for the new Blood Moon rewards.

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  • roughbearmattachroughbearmattach Posts: 4,785 Arc User
    Welp, guess I will just do the ship once or so to see how it goes. My guess is that it will be farmed by DPS champs and exclude others from coins.

    Hope I'm wrong.
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  • pantagruel01pantagruel01 Posts: 7,091 Arc User
    roughbearmattach said:

    Welp, guess I will just do the ship once or so to see how it goes. My guess is that it will be farmed by DPS champs and exclude others from coins.

    Unless they boost the overall rewards, the ship isn't worth the trouble of farming.
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  • kyastralkyastral Posts: 342 Arc User
    roughbearmattach said:

    Welp, guess I will just do the ship once or so to see how it goes. My guess is that it will be farmed by DPS champs and exclude others from coins.

    Hope I'm wrong.

    There is a good chance you are right... there is little chance of my melee toons getting even close enough to have their weapons taste it before an OP DPS takes it out.

    Hmm.. 1 hour reset time for the Ghost Ship? Vibora Bay may become lag city with players trying to spawn camp it. However, it may deter just enough players for other character classes to get a shot at it. Zone chat is going to be SPAMMED with people shouting Ghost Ship AND Takofanes spawn times.

    Here we go again...

  • championshewolfchampionshewolf Posts: 4,376 Arc User
    kyastral wrote: »
    Welp, guess I will just do the ship once or so to see how it goes. My guess is that it will be farmed by DPS champs and exclude others from coins.

    Hope I'm wrong.

    There is a good chance you are right... there is little chance of my melee toons getting even close enough to have their weapons taste it before an OP DPS takes it out.

    This logic of this point is baffling.
    Hmm.. 1 hour reset time for the Ghost Ship? Vibora Bay may become lag city with players trying to spawn camp it. However, it may deter just enough players for other character classes to get a shot at it. Zone chat is going to be SPAMMED with people shouting Ghost Ship AND Takofanes spawn times.

    Here we go again...
    Oh well. I don't see how that is a negative thing.​​
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  • riveroceanriverocean Posts: 1,690 Arc User
    kyastral wrote: »
    Hmm.. 1 hour reset time for the Ghost Ship? Vibora Bay may become lag city with players trying to spawn camp it. However, it may deter just enough players for other character classes to get a shot at it. Zone chat is going to be SPAMMED with people shouting Ghost Ship AND Takofanes spawn times.

    Here we go again...
    This is what's called a live and active game with stuff going on in it. I know we've all gotten used to CO being relatively dead, but complaining about the game potentially having activity (and new stuff to do) is mind boggling. I much prefer Zone chat to be filled with useful and interesting announcements as opposed to fighting and bickering.

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  • stellariodragonstellariodragon Posts: 588 Arc User
    Everything looks good. Can't wait for Bloodmoon~!​​
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  • championshewolfchampionshewolf Posts: 4,376 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    gradii wrote: »
    It's not the respawns which is the bad part its the lack of rewards for anyone not placing first. this is a huge step backwards.

    Uhhh you get a reward for not placing first, and I hardly think an only useless piece of junk gear from pre On Alert counts as a world shattering reward since it does nothing. The difference between first and not first is 5 Turakian tokens. Wooo.​​
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  • pantagruel01pantagruel01 Posts: 7,091 Arc User
    championshewolf said:


    Uhhh you get a reward for not placing first, and I hardly think an only useless piece of junk gear from pre On Alert counts as a world shattering reward since it does nothing. The difference between first and not first is 5 Turakian tokens. Wooo.​​

    At last notice 3rd place got zero tokens.
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  • championshewolfchampionshewolf Posts: 4,376 Arc User
    pantagruel01 wrote: »
    At last notice 3rd place got zero tokens.

    Be news to me since last time we did it first got 10 and everyone else that did it got 5 if they qualified.​​
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  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    I haven't tested since this last patch, but 3rd place didn't get any tokens before the patch and there is nothing about that in the patch notes.
  • roughbearmattachroughbearmattach Posts: 4,785 Arc User
    Since you can get a coin from trick or treaters, it will just be easier to farm the heck out of them to get coins.
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  • frankendreadzfrankendreadz Posts: 75 Arc User
    hi
    just pointing out an issue with the cursed set.

    If you have already unlocked some of the pieces from before, then the rest will not unlock
    I also noticed that cursed costumes are not listed when you try to search for them
    i wonder if anyone else have had this problem
    Plus any idea when you are gonna re-enable the pts store, as the costumes I have bought on live cannot be used or tested against these new one.
    It's been this way since alert was released, when before it was active and useful
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  • xrazamaxxrazamax Posts: 982 Arc User
    frankendreadz said:


    I also noticed that cursed costumes are not listed when you try to search for them
    i wonder if anyone else have had this problem

    They are are listed for me. I remember initially I could not find them, but I was using the wrong names for them in search. Maybe something similar is happening for you?

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  • soulforgersoulforger Posts: 1,654 Arc User
    xrazamax said:

    frankendreadz said:


    I also noticed that cursed costumes are not listed when you try to search for them
    i wonder if anyone else have had this problem

    They are are listed for me. I remember initially I could not find them, but I was using the wrong names for them in search. Maybe something similar is happening for you?

    The names are "Cursed" and "Scourge". The set also unlocks the trenchcoat with chains.
  • soulforgersoulforger Posts: 1,654 Arc User
    frankendreadz said:

    hi
    just pointing out an issue with the cursed set.

    If you have already unlocked some of the pieces from before, then the rest will not unlock
    I also noticed that cursed costumes are not listed when you try to search for them
    i wonder if anyone else have had this problem
    Plus any idea when you are gonna re-enable the pts store, as the costumes I have bought on live cannot be used or tested against these new one.
    It's been this way since alert was released, when before it was active and useful

    Well, I did not have that problem, still sucks for you though. I wonder what went wrong.
  • xrazamaxxrazamax Posts: 982 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Dearest @Ladygadfly ,

    Due to the reward structure of the Ghost Ship Open Mission, the event is little more than a race to use Backup Champions Devices in order to earn first place. The Open mission is over in less than 10 seconds (that is unfortunately not a hyperbole).

    It would make more sense to make the ghost ship more along the lines of the "Clarence" Open Mission that is available during the winter event. 10 Million health or so would absorb those Backup devices and still leave players with a fight. After all, Vibora is a level 34 gated zone, so players will be more powerful than your average line up in an open mission.

    Also, if the rewards could be evened out so that support characters and tanks could have an equal chance at earning tokens, that would also be great. 10 tokens all around for a challenging open mission would be nice and make the even more memorable.

    Sincerely,
    Mira Kimbal - Space Pirate Merchant.
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  • xrazamaxxrazamax Posts: 982 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Double postin
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  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    xrazamax said:

    -

    Yes I completely agree, it's just a little silly how fast it's over now. The pirates don't even have a chance to spawn and attack.
  • zamuelpwezamuelpwe Posts: 668 Arc User
    Is it possible to make enemies resistant to certain things (like the Backup! devices)? It might be better to give it some resistances/immunities than outright raise its health. That said, the rewards do need better distribution since not everyone is in damage role.
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  • pantagruel01pantagruel01 Posts: 7,091 Arc User
    An interesting feature of Scary Monster mobs is that they take less damage from backups, because they take reduced damage from foes that are higher level than they are.
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  • avianosavianos Posts: 6,200 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Oh, I actually have a character full of Treat Bags, this will be easier

    EDIT: out of 50 treat bags.... i got only 1 token
    xrazamax wrote: »
    Due to the reward structure of the Ghost Ship Open Mission, the event is little more than a race to use Backup Champions Devices in order to earn first place. The Open mission is over in less than 10 seconds (that is unfortunately not a hyperbole).

    She is right, not even a hyperbole, the Ghost ship melted withing 15 Seconds, and I got 0 Tokens out of it

    Another failure, not even gonna bother with this open mission event, its DPS-reward only​​
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  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    pantagruel01 said:

    An interesting feature of Scary Monster mobs is that they take less damage from backups, because they take reduced damage from foes that are higher level than they are.

    Backups have been lowered to level 40 a long time ago.
  • xrazamaxxrazamax Posts: 982 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Bug(ish): The text for incendiary round 3 only says "Incendiary round" instead of "incendiary round mark 3" as is the conventional naming for most vehicle weapons.
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  • stellariodragonstellariodragon Posts: 588 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Bug(ish): Going through the crypts with a team only grants one player Turakian Coins from the final boss.​​
  • xrazamaxxrazamax Posts: 982 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    stellariodragon said:

    Bug(ish): Going through the crypts with a team only grants one player Turakian Coins from the final boss.​​

    I have also found this to be the case. This appears more like a bug than intended design since it actively discourages players from teaming up.

    To fix this, the tokens should only be rewarded upon completion of the mission you receive when entering the crypt. This would solve two problems: First, everyone would get turakian coins when they complete the mission. Second, it removes the exploitation of being able to run into the crypt, kill the boss for 5 turakian coins, then use Socrates to exit map without completing the mission, then re-enter the crypt to repeat. You can farm tokens incredibly fast this way. Fast enough to acquire almost 50 tokens in 10 minutes if you are good enough.

    A moderator may need to remove the above if it is found too exploit-y

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  • stellariodragonstellariodragon Posts: 588 Arc User
    Bug: Tooltip for the Turkian Coins is untranslated/empty.​​
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  • xrazamaxxrazamax Posts: 982 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    gradii said:

    Not very exploity razama, when you can simply find another crypt within a minute or 2.

    I didn't think it was very exploit-y, but probably not intended.

    If you do add that 2 minutes between each crypt run however, it adds up fast. Say you can just use teleport or skip right through the crypt fighting as little as possible. It would take you about 2 mins to clear the crypt. You go back in, that is another two minutes. So you're roughly taking <5 minutes per 10 tokens. Add in the time it would take to find another crypt (we'll use your 2 minutes) and you've increased the amount of time needed for 2 tokens by 40% - that is assuming the crypt you get to is open. Over time, that adds up to a sizable, but not unfair amount.

    Ultimately not a huge deal, but still seems unintended.
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  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    Well the way the tokens are set up this bloodmoon I think is a pretty big deal. Like Mira said it actively discourages teaming up for any of the pve content.
  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Bug:
    The Incendiary Rounds mk3 on the Crimson Demonwing is the pre-nerf version. It has lower energy cost, huge threat bonus, 120 feet range and no target limit. Without a target limit it kills everything in a huge area in a few seconds, that was changed for a reason.
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  • chaelkchaelk Posts: 7,746 Arc User
    xrazamax said:

    stellariodragon said:

    Bug(ish): Going through the crypts with a team only grants one player Turakian Coins from the final boss.​​

    I have also found this to be the case. This appears more like a bug than intended design since it actively discourages players from teaming up.

    To fix this, the tokens should only be rewarded upon completion of the mission you receive when entering the crypt. This would solve two problems: First, everyone would get turakian coins when they complete the mission. Second, it removes the exploitation of being able to run into the crypt, kill the boss for 5 turakian coins, then use Socrates to exit map without completing the mission, then re-enter the crypt to repeat. You can farm tokens incredibly fast this way. Fast enough to acquire almost 50 tokens in 10 minutes if you are good enough.

    A moderator may need to remove the above if it is found too exploit-y

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    actually it's exactly the same as Kevin poe farming.
    Go in, kill Boss, get reward, leave without finishing mission(by turning off bomb/checking sarcophagus),leave, repeat.
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  • stellariodragonstellariodragon Posts: 588 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Typo: The Bite Contact on Canada's background text is formatted improperly: Aric Roston Rhodes: Come join the hunt!|I need hunters with a sharp eye and a fast sword!
     I'm guessing it needs a space before/after the | to fuction properly. Not technically to do with the update, but still Bloodmoon related.​​
  • roughbearmattachroughbearmattach Posts: 4,785 Arc User
    I could not "exploit" the crypts as described. When I entered and killed the boss, the crypt ceased to be open to me.
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  • aiqaaiqa Posts: 2,620 Arc User
    You just need to skip the other mini boss.
  • roughbearmattachroughbearmattach Posts: 4,785 Arc User
    Ah, right
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  • jaazaniah1jaazaniah1 Posts: 5,557 Arc User
    I think you can kill one mini boss and still run through again. Doesn't take long and they do drop Q boxes.​​
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  • wingedkagoutiwingedkagouti Posts: 566 Arc User
    jaazaniah1 said:

    I think you can kill one mini boss and still run through again. Doesn't take long and they do drop Q boxes.​​

    The one you can't kill is Strength.

    One of the crypt layouts has only that mini boss.
  • roughbearmattachroughbearmattach Posts: 4,785 Arc User
    Well I did do the Pirate Ship event once on Live.

    It took around 10 minutes or so with five or six level 40 heroes. My toon actually got damage significantly a few times by the hordes of pirates. It was a pretty boring, stand and spam fight.

    I got 5 Turakian coins.

    Seems as though the luster of DPS-leaderboards is pretty dull when there is no big reward.
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  • sammiefightersammiefighter Posts: 92 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    stellariodragon said:

    Bug(ish): Going through the crypts with a team only grants one player Turakian Coins from the final boss.​​

    Add to this:

    Bug Bug Bug (PTS and Live) The Coin chest has an item level, so changing the sharing scheme can reward you with an unopenable chest. In addition, this item level is "viral" and "infects" all chest drops (they all round up and can't be opened)

    PS: If you happen to get a bugged chest, hide it in your bank to avoid infestation.
  • ladygadflyladygadfly Posts: 279 Cryptic Developer
    New build is available: http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/championsonline/#/discussion/1203463/fc-31-20150919-20-live-fixes
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