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Release Notes for 12/10/2015

ladygadflyladygadfly Posts: 279 Cryptic Developer
edited December 2015 in Release Notes
Release Notes for 12/10/2015

New Ice Hair Pack
- Unlocks an ice material for all basic hairs.
- Available in the Zen Store for 750 Zen.

New Icicle Archetype
- Available in both the Zen Store and the Winter Event Store.
- Includes three new powers: Icicle Spear, Chilled Form & Icy Embrace.

Winter Event Is LIVE!
- Added a new Winter Event currency: the Winter Charm.
- Created a new Daily mission that grants 3 Winter Charms.
- Added winter currency pack to Clarence rewards and Black Harlequin in the Finkle Foundry alert.
- Removed costume drops from Black Harlequin alert (they're all in the store now).
- Added new action figures to Clarence rewards: Fenny Plush Toy, Sparkles, Rainbow Sparkle Unicorn Teddy, Impy, Chompners, and Catoastrophe.
- Normalized Clarence's rewards so that each place has the same chance at rewards
- Fixed a bug where Grandfather Winter items did not level with you.
- Presents will no longer remove travel powers.
- Increased stack count for winter currency to 500 to match store price amounts.
- Toy parts can now be sold.
- Added Candy Cane heavy weapon as a costume drop from presents. Changed Candy Cane costume drops to green quality.
- Updated Rainbow Sparkle Unicorn Teddy's costume to glow with the colors of the rainbow.
- Adjusted Action Figure droprate on Clarence.

New Winter Rewards Include:
- New Icicle Archetype
- Steampunk Rocket Boots
- Steampunk Goggles 2
- Steampunk Backpack
- Frozen Winter Sleigh
- Millennium Spirit 903F
- Grandfather Winter Gear
- Duckfoot Shotgun
- Curling Broom Heavy Weapon

Questionite & Drifter Store Changes
- Added Ice Material Costume Unlock options in the Questionite Store.
- Fixed an error where one Cyberpunk costume would allow you to purchase it multiple times.
- Questionite boxes now auto open upon obtaining them.
- Fixed a bug that allowed players to repurchase costumes they already owned in the Winter Store & Questionite Store.
- Added Dragon Bracers to the costume list in the Questionite store.
- Removed the legacy chance costume box from the Drifter Store.
- Added Arms legacy costumes to the Drifter Store.
- Added Mystic and Science legacy costumes to the Questionite Store.
- Added Become Samurai, Gladiator, and Security Process to Questionite Store.
- Added permanent versions of the Winter Transmogrification devices to the Questionite Store.
- Updated Questionite store bind on equip costumes to no longer disable purchase once you have the item unlocked.

Additional Changes
- The Glacier can now choose between Shatter or Icy Embrace at level 25.
- Weapons in the tailor are now in alphabetical order.
- Fixed Voiceover for contact dialogs to end when the dialogs are closed.
- Fixed a bug where Necrullitic Elixir was being affected by heal buffs.
- Removed energy return from Shatter. This was done as Icy Embrace is now intended to fill the energy return role in Ice.
- Ice Barrier is usable while held and its energy cost has been reduced to 0 now that it's an active defense. Corrected Ice Barrier's tooltips.
- Fixed an issue where sometimes costume parts in the Tailor and Character Creator wouldn't properly indicate that they are an unlocked part.
- Added the Gold item quality to the Exchange.
- Fixed a crash in the Tailor.
- Wall of ice is now affected by your damage bonuses.
- Wall of Ice now has a 50% chance to apply chill to targets affected by Ice Cage.
- Ice Barrier now counts as an active defense.
- Ice Barrier now provides a small heal over time to you and nearby teammates.
- Fixed a bug with the Sorcerer Hair unlocks.
- Wide (Arcane Pattern) and Long Skirt Pattern Arcane 3 now properly unlock cloth and leather materials.
- Hard Frost advantage has been changed to apply a 20% cold debuff when the target is chilled. This change is being made to shift Ice Blast from a damage focused power to a utility power.
- Trading is now a two step process.
* There is now an initial acceptance step, during this step both players have accepted the current traded items.
** This acceptance is indicated by yellow borders around the traded items.
** Both players must accept the trade before trading progresses to the second step.
* The second confirmation step begins once both players have accepted the trade.
** The list of traded items items can no longer be modified.
** The confirmation is indicated by green borders around the traded items.
** Once both players have confirmed the trade, items will be transferred.

Important Known Issue:
- The Daily mission for the winter event does not complete correctly if you complete the Black Harlequin objective before the Clarence objective.
- Completing the Clarence objective first does allow the mission to complete successfully, though the Black Harlequin objective will appear to be incomplete even though the mission has been completed.
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  • Nice Stuff!
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  • avianosavianos Posts: 6,022 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    BUG: SNRs, SNRs everywhere

    BUG: The Daily "Making Naughty Nice" doesn't Keep the Black Harlequin Alert completion credit, once you change Instance it resets
    EDIT: The daily resets even if you have the Clarence completition :|

    BUG: The Mecha Soldiers' knock attacks do NOT Grand Knock Resistance Stacks

    and the Box of Questionite change is BS​​
    Post edited by avianos on
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  • jaysankjaysank Posts: 45 Arc User
    avianos said:


    BUG: The Daily "Making Naughty Nice" doesn't Keep the Black Harlequin Alert completion credit, once you change Instance it resets

    I have encountered this bug as well. Also, how do you fight Clarence?
  • avianosavianos Posts: 6,022 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    Update: Apparently the only way to bypass the Bug with the Daily is to
    Defeat Clarence FIRST and get Credit and then Jump straight into the Alert to get the Harlequin Credit

    Also, oh my god, those Ventor Prices are a Grindfest Nightmare​​
    Post edited by avianos on
    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 synergiesPlaying since 1 February 2011 98+ Characters (7 ATs, 91 FFs) ALTitis for Life!
  • riveroceanriverocean Posts: 1,690 Arc User
    Ok Notes regarding the Glacier...

    - The Glacier now has two Active Defenses (Unbreakable and Icy Embrace) - which seems odd.
    - Icy Embrace has the words "Thermal Reverberation" in it's power description.

    Suggestion - Wouldn't it make more sense to have players have to choose between Unbreakable and Icy Embrace instead? That would solve the two AD issue for those that don't want two Active Defenses.​​
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  • ladygadflyladygadfly Posts: 279 Cryptic Developer
    Added the following note to the release notes:

    Important Known Issue:
    - The Daily mission for the winter event does not complete correctly if you complete the Black Harlequin objective before the Clarence objective.
    - Completing the Clarence objective first does allow the mission to complete successfully, though the Black Harlequin objective will appear to be incomplete even though the mission has been completed.
  • captainhunter1captainhunter1 Posts: 409 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    Probably should remove the Black Friday, Zen Bonus, and free Freeform announcements in the Game Launcher 'marquee' as they are no longer valid. :p
  • pantagruel01pantagruel01 Posts: 7,091 Arc User


    - The Glacier now has two Active Defenses (Unbreakable and Icy Embrace) - which seems odd.
    ​​

    Icy embrace is an energy unlock, not an active defense.
  • kallethenkallethen Posts: 1,576 Arc User
    Icy embrace is an energy unlock, not an active defense.

    Right. Ice Barrier, however, is now an AD, so it's still true that the Glacier can have to ADs (I say can because there's a choice for that slot, Barrier or Burst).​​
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  • heroshima1heroshima1 Posts: 107 Arc User
    Can it be clarified where the "Winter Store" is? And is the only way to get the Winter Charms is through the Daily missions?
  • avianosavianos Posts: 6,022 Arc User
    heroshima1 wrote: »
    Can it be clarified where the "Winter Store" is? And is the only way to get the Winter Charms is through the Daily missions?

    Defeating Clarence and Completing the March of the Mecha Soldier ALWAYS Grands you 1 Winter Charm along with 5 of Each Materials​​
    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 synergiesPlaying since 1 February 2011 98+ Characters (7 ATs, 91 FFs) ALTitis for Life!
  • avianosavianos Posts: 6,022 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    Suggestion: Please make the Daily "Make Naughty Nice" also grand 20-30 of each material

    Right now the daily is Worthless! we are more in need of the Material than the Winter Charms

    Seriously, this daily is not really worth the trouble in this Grindfest Hell of event​​
    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 synergiesPlaying since 1 February 2011 98+ Characters (7 ATs, 91 FFs) ALTitis for Life!
  • avianosavianos Posts: 6,022 Arc User
    Oh and the Candy Cane unlock is called [The Gift of Winter Weapons] for everyone who is after it​​
    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 synergiesPlaying since 1 February 2011 98+ Characters (7 ATs, 91 FFs) ALTitis for Life!
  • bazodeebazodee Posts: 151 Arc User

    Added the following note to the release notes:

    Important Known Issue:
    - The Daily mission for the winter event does not complete correctly if you complete the Black Harlequin objective before the Clarence objective.
    - Completing the Clarence objective first does allow the mission to complete successfully, though the Black Harlequin objective will appear to be incomplete even though the mission has been completed.

    This is still not working correctly.

    Mission journal does not indicated that mission is completed even when done in the correct sequence.
    At times the Defeat Clarence mission does not register at all.

    Feels a lot like cybermind, where you hope that "this run" is the one that registers.
    I don't like Sigs, but I'll leave this here anyway. At least I'm not to trying to hypnotise you with moving things!
  • heroshima1heroshima1 Posts: 107 Arc User
    edited December 2015


    And the Winter Store? Is it the Santa's Helpers around the Christmas tree?
  • avianosavianos Posts: 6,022 Arc User
    ladygadfly wrote: »
    - Steampunk Rocket Boots

    Ok now that I got them, i have to say the boots are FABULOUS for Males~
    You can have a male character wearing Heels (since it was Female only exlusive before)

    Please DO NOT make an actual male version, those Boots are too Fabulous to NOT have! onion-40.gif​​
    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 synergiesPlaying since 1 February 2011 98+ Characters (7 ATs, 91 FFs) ALTitis for Life!
  • raighnraighn Posts: 2,339 Arc User
    BUG: Black Harlequin Alert will randomly grant no reward on completion.​​
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