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Release Notes 12/15/2015
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Release Notes for 12/15/2015
Winter Event
- Changed daily mission to be cooldown on success.
- Added Toy Drive Pack to daily mission reward.
- Added a 25 pack of winter currency to the daily mission.
- Made Winter Holiday Present BoE and tradeable.
- Made it so none of the winter currency can be converted into crafting materials.
- Slightly adjusted currency requirements on a couple items so the different currencies are more evenly distributed.
- Fixed a bug where the silver rank Clarence rewards were incorrect.
- Made a new free once/account Zen Store item that grants Winter Currency and the Patches action figure (look for it in the Bonus tab).
- Adjusted winter presents to favor dropping winter currency. Winter currency from presents now drop in stacks of 5.
- Added cloth, leather and metal materials to the Snowman Head, Glowing Nose and Reindeer Hat.
- Added cloth and leather materials to all Steampunk items.
- Added Beartrap Jaw as a costume drop from Clarence.
- Adjusted target cap and range on Clarence. Slightly increased his damage output. His repel attacks now apply repel resistance.
- Changed Clarence's Mecha Blast attack damage to be % of health based. If you don't block the attack, you will take 35% of your health in damage. If you block the attack, the damage is reduced to 10% of your health.
- Toy Soldier grenades now apply knockback resistance.
- Updated commands on Winter Event location chooser to help prevent timing and randomization errors.
Additional Updates
- Removed veteran reward costumes from Nephilim drop table.
- Adjusted Nephilim costume drop rates to be on par with other Vibora Bay drop rates.
- Fixed issue with infinitely spawning critters dropping rewards in Vibora Bay instance.
- Fixed issue with infinitely spawning critters dropping rewards in Southwest Desert.
Winter Event
- Changed daily mission to be cooldown on success.
- Added Toy Drive Pack to daily mission reward.
- Added a 25 pack of winter currency to the daily mission.
- Made Winter Holiday Present BoE and tradeable.
- Made it so none of the winter currency can be converted into crafting materials.
- Slightly adjusted currency requirements on a couple items so the different currencies are more evenly distributed.
- Fixed a bug where the silver rank Clarence rewards were incorrect.
- Made a new free once/account Zen Store item that grants Winter Currency and the Patches action figure (look for it in the Bonus tab).
- Adjusted winter presents to favor dropping winter currency. Winter currency from presents now drop in stacks of 5.
- Added cloth, leather and metal materials to the Snowman Head, Glowing Nose and Reindeer Hat.
- Added cloth and leather materials to all Steampunk items.
- Added Beartrap Jaw as a costume drop from Clarence.
- Adjusted target cap and range on Clarence. Slightly increased his damage output. His repel attacks now apply repel resistance.
- Changed Clarence's Mecha Blast attack damage to be % of health based. If you don't block the attack, you will take 35% of your health in damage. If you block the attack, the damage is reduced to 10% of your health.
- Toy Soldier grenades now apply knockback resistance.
- Updated commands on Winter Event location chooser to help prevent timing and randomization errors.
Additional Updates
- Removed veteran reward costumes from Nephilim drop table.
- Adjusted Nephilim costume drop rates to be on par with other Vibora Bay drop rates.
- Fixed issue with infinitely spawning critters dropping rewards in Vibora Bay instance.
- Fixed issue with infinitely spawning critters dropping rewards in Southwest Desert.
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Are these the vampires in the cemetery? Not sure what else it could be or what the fix entails. I had no idea that there were such things in the desert though.
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Infinitely spawning creatures could be anything in VB, to be honest. A bit cryptic, Cryptic.
There's an open mission in the desert that spawns a ton of dudes and if it's not completed, they'll just keep coming, amassing by the dozens.
It's still a problem with a tiny fraction of the player base, but short of a ban they are unlikely to stop until the game prevents them from engaging in this sort of behaviour.
Otherwise the patch is great, Clarence spawns predictably, the gift box with the lovely little giraffe was a very nice gesture and the increased rates of winter toys are a godsend.
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I farmed a massive amount of purple secondaries and R5 mods while doing the 5K Nephilim perk with infinitely spawning weak Nephilim mobs at the end of VB Crisis. It felt kinda unfair.
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