Release Notes - 9/22/2016

kaiserin · September 2016

ZEN Store

Added Reprogrammed Spider Unit permanent sidekick. This comes with the Mechanon Spider back costume.

Misc

Wayland Talos will now use more than one attack. This should make him a little friendlier for melee characters to fight and will now actually put up a fight towards ranged characters.
Questionite Week is active and mobs have a chance of dropping 3, 4 and 5 Questionite Ore on defeat.
Fixed a bug where the Become Black Talon and Become Resistance Leader Limited items weren't actually temporary.

Anniversary Event

Added week 4 freebies to the Anniversary Host contact.
Added a daily mission for the Anniversary Destroid open mission to The Drifter.
Added Ultra Mega Bow Tie, Mechanon and Mechanon Spider Sleek costumes to the vendor.
Added Slime aura to the vendor.
Added Mechanon, Mechanon Spider and Liberated Destroids action figures to the vendor.

Anniversary Destroid Open Mission

Mechanon joins the fight!
Reduced the amount of health the Mega Destroids have to 4 million (from 5).
Increased the time limit to 30 minutes (from 20).
Increased the health, durability and damage output of the Champions to aid players.
Reduced the cap of the Mechanon Upgrade buff that Destroids can get to 25 (from 50)
Reduced the amount of health the Destroids get boosted by if Liberated.

This open mission can drop the following items as rewards:

Default:

10 Anniversary Favor. This diminishes to 1 after 10 runs.
3-5 Anniversary gifts
Experience

Common:

Questionite Box
Backup Defender Limited
Backup Ironclad Limited
Backup Sapphire Limited
Backup Witchcraft Limited
Backup Nighthawk Limited
Backup Kinetik Limited
Temporary Reprogrammed Spider Drone Henchman
Temporary Mechranium Drone Henchman
Become Resistance Leaderbot Limited
Become Black Talon Limited
Mechanon Spider Action Figure
Liberated Mega Destroid Action Figure
Madbot Head costume
Madbot Headphones costume

Rare (all items are Bind on Equip):

Anniversary Fenny Action Figure
Mechanon Action Figure
Ultra Mega Bow Tie costume
Mechanon Head costume
Mechanon Spider Sleek back costume
Slime Aura
Anniversary Sparkle aura
Anniversary Confetti aura
Soaked aura
Permanent Superballoon device
Permanent Waterballoon device
Permanent Taco device
Permanent Waterballoon Crate device
Permanent Self-Only Partybomb device
Backup Defender
Backup Ironclad
Backup Sapphire
Backup Witchcraft
Backup Nighthawk
Backup Kinetik

jer · September 2016

YES THE MOMENT I WAS WAITING FOR, I'm so excited for this week!!!

markhawkman · September 2016

Hmm... I wonder if this will change the way the LibMega blue boom works? that was the attack that was one-shotting through block last year.

kaiserin · September 2016

Their pbaoe is %health based, and is unaffected by damage bonuses.

markhawkman · September 2016

Oh good. That should make this a bit easier than last time.

rerrot · September 2016

Possible error in the vision of the "Mega Energy Wave" of the Mega-D and Mechanon... it's more big the AoE..... i think.

magpieuk2014 · September 2016

Cheers for adjusting Wayland Talos, much kinder on melee toons! Do you think you could also caption the fight, so that the first time WT fires his ranged attack, "Press and Hold to block Talos's attack!" comes up? The number of people who still manage to miss the entire concept of blocking is beyond belief, to this day....

avianos · September 2016

Added Ultra Mega Bow Tie, Mechanon and Mechanon Spider Sleek costumes to the vendor.

NOW THAT'S A GOOD COSTUME WHICH DESERVE TO COST 450 TOKENS

Defender's Junk can go suck it

markhawkman · September 2016

rerrot said:
Possible error in the vision of the "Mega Energy Wave" of the Mega-D and Mechanon... it's more big the AoE..... i think.

The blue boom? Yeah, the fire frame need a bit of adjustment I think.

rerrot · September 2016

markhawkman said:

rerrot said:
Possible error in the vision of the "Mega Energy Wave" of the Mega-D and Mechanon... it's more big the AoE..... i think.
The blue boom? Yeah, the fire frame need a bit of adjustment I think.

Yes. The blue boom.

nextnametaken · September 2016

Friday September 23, 2016

9:12AM

276 players level 1 to 40 online.

44 participating in MegaD zone #2, finished with twelve minutes to spare, could not move the fight to zone #3,
because it was full, while only one guy from zone #3 was apparently showing up at the fight and trying to rally help.

ealford1985 · September 2016

Thank you for the unneeded census.

markhawkman · September 2016

ealford1985 said:
Thank you for the unneeded census.

The other thread he was posting that in got locked.

strongbeau · September 2016

Still no return of the Pulson RF Pistol skins for Gadgeteer weapons.

chaelk · September 2016

Talos usually used the Thunderstrike and then Sparks, trouble is he used spark too much. He should have Lightning arc

crypticbuxom · September 2016

"Fixed a bug where the Become Black Talon and Become Resistance Leader Limited items weren't actually temporary. "

No. The "bug" was that the icon was never supposed to have the clock in the first place. They were supposed to be permanent since the drops were pretty rare when they first came out. If they were meant to be temporary than they always would have stated such. Devs have confirmed this a few years back.

chuckwolf · September 2016

Question: Are the attacks of the Destroids and Mechanon meant to be able to completely ignore Personal Force Fields (or are they ignoring all defensive passives) or is this a bug? My PFF user is basically defenseless against them.

magpieuk2014 · September 2016

You'll need to block, regardless of whatever passive you've got. At least one of the Mega-Destroid attacks is a %HP-if-not-blocked hit (this is to deter people griefing with Onslaught Villains, who can't block), and the damage for the remainder is pretty stiff for anyone. Apart from the "check yo build" brigade, but ignore them...

theravenforce · September 2016

chuckwolf said:
Question: Are the attacks of the Destroids and Mechanon meant to be able to completely ignore Personal Force Fields (or are they ignoring all defensive passives) or is this a bug? My PFF user is basically defenseless against them.

Destroids have been buffed to apply effects which naturally ignore or penetrate shielding, these are usually minor DoTs and debuffs which further increase their own damage.

Add to the fact that PFF has a natural ~5% bleedthrough, and you are going to possibly die before your shields drop (if you have good shield maint, despite PFF's numerous problems).

The Mega Destroid Destroyer Wave attacks are HP based so will completely ignore Personal Force Field by design, so you will need to block this to reduce the amount of HP damage you take. (No passive is safe or protects against this effect.)

So it is technically intended.

markhawkman · September 2016

If you have Regeneration that can prevent the Boom from KOing you if you only take one hit. But this is by healing you faster than the DoT can remove your HP. Any decent heal ability can do the same.

chuckwolf · September 2016

theravenforce said:

chuckwolf said:
Question: Are the attacks of the Destroids and Mechanon meant to be able to completely ignore Personal Force Fields (or are they ignoring all defensive passives) or is this a bug? My PFF user is basically defenseless against them.
Destroids have been buffed to apply effects which naturally ignore or penetrate shielding, these are usually minor DoTs and debuffs which further increase their own damage.

Add to the fact that PFF has a natural ~5% bleedthrough, and you are going to possibly die before your shields drop (if you have good shield maint, despite PFF's numerous problems).

The Mega Destroid Destroyer Wave attacks are HP based so will completely ignore Personal Force Field by design, so you will need to block this to reduce the amount of HP damage you take. (No passive is safe or protects against this effect.)

So it is technically intended.

No I mean PFF at full strength after the attack. health takes all damage. the 5% bleedthrough in negilible, my own natural healing rate + the 250 HP/3sec I get from Aurum set more than recovers that, I'm talking the big aoe.. but that was explained that it ignores all defense and is working as intended.

Someone mentioned it was to prevent people from using Onslaught villians during the event, but those would be counter productive since onslaught villains can't use any attack other than their energy builder unless they take a certain amount damage from players. They'd never hurt the destroids enough.

decorumfriends · September 2016

They go stand in the AoE of the players on the villain. That brings them to the point where they can use stuff (and sometimes grief, which is why the changes).

markhawkman · September 2016

I'm pretty sure that several of Medusa's better attacks can be used anyways.

roughbearmattach · September 2016

Only Grond's attacks are based on damage he has taken.
Medusa and Gravitar have other requirements.

pantagruel01 · September 2016

There are plenty of ways of building up energy with an OV before going and hunting players, but the point of the big boom attacks is generally to have an attack that is threatening but not overwhelming on all characters; if they were just doing 25k booms like previous year megas you wind up with the situation of squishies being annihilated through block while tanks are barely fazed.

markhawkman · September 2016

pantagruel01 said:
There are plenty of ways of building up energy with an OV before going and hunting players, but the point of the big boom attacks is generally to have an attack that is threatening but not overwhelming on all characters; if they were just doing 25k booms like previous year megas you wind up with the situation of squishies being annihilated through block while tanks are barely fazed.

Yeah, the LibMegas were terrible about that. You were best staying at the far limit of attack range and running as soon as you saw the BOOM tell. Blocking didn't help. It was too much damage.

riltmos · September 2016

I like the invasion, but if I had one complaint it is that the destroid's AoE markers are faaaaaaaaaar from what they say they are. I can be in a different zip code out of the bubbles and cones and still get hit.

Release Notes - 9/22/2016

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