Release Notes 5/11/2017

kaiserin · May 2017

Nightmare Event

Added Horse and Tiger skull costumes to the vendor.
Added Skeleton Monster hands costume to the vendor.
These costumes can also drop from the Nightmare Colossus.
Lowered the sky bloom and light diffuse slightly to help with glare on certain video settings.
Fixed a bug where the nightmare Demolishers for the portal daily mission were using a scaling passive intended for the open mission versions.
Replaced the knock on the Demolisher's Backhand power with a repel.
Added a slightly longer delay with the Demolisher's attack chain's third attack in its melee combo so players have a better window to block the knock on it.
Slightly increased the charge time on the Acolyte's Amulet attack.
Slightly increased the charge time on the Demolisher's hurl power.
Removed the hold on the Grasping Shadows power the Acolytes use as other enemies already had single target holds.
Shields cast by the Acolytes can no longer stack.
Level gated some abilities the enemies use to gradually ramp up their difficulty as you level up.
Fixed a bug where the Elysium Guard title wasn't granting. Players with the perk can obtain it at the Fixer vendor.
Updated the FX canceling on the Nightmare Colossus.
Fixed a bug with the Light Streaks aura coloring.
*Note: While this change was on pts, due to another bug the Acolyte's shields are still affecting portals.

Misc

Fixed a bug where the names for the R2 and R3 Shadow pets were blank on the dropdown menu.
Added Brushed Metal, Ghost and Shadow materials to the Skeleton costume set.
The sun is no longer dangerously close to the earth. Currently this only affects the Nightmare Invasion sky.

Powers

Addressed an issue with Targeting Computer that, under some situations, caused buffs to fall off of the player.

New Power: Shade Storm

Unlockable via the GCR store
Similar to powers like Conflagration.
Chance to fear targets.
Advantage: Chance to knock down targets. Knocks into the air if targets are feared.
Advantage: Consumes your fear stacks and heals you.
Advantage: When fully maintained stuns targets.

notthisguy · May 2017

Aww man...I was hoping for that bow emote that the Golden Seraph uses in the Arcane Council cutscene to be added to the nightmare store.

areee · May 2017

I was hoping they would make summoned pets not count towards aura limit.

avianos · May 2017

Lowered the sky bloom and light diffuse slightly to help with glare on certain video settings.

Thank you very much

It honestly feels better for the event theme

New Power: Shade Storm
Unlockable via the GCR store
Similar to powers like Conflagration.
Chance to fear targets.
Advantage: Chance to knock down targets. Knocks into the air if targets are feared.
Advantage: Consumes your fear stacks and heals you.
Advantage: When fully maintained stuns targets.

Only for 350 SCR and 175 GCR? that's a really good price

kaiserin · May 2017

That isn't a quick fix, sadly. There are plans to look into splitting off various team based auras to have a target cap for players only and one for personal pets, but we have no eta on when that will be done.

chimerafreek · May 2017

Could I also suggest in the future that the Zombie No Head Costume also receive the same textures as the skeleton set?

jer · May 2017

When were the hud overlay auras gonna come, the Qliphotic and retro ones? I was hoping they would've showed up in the vendor, they look pretty cool.

dillonman202 · May 2017

Could we possibly see the iteration of a Roin'esh powerset?

ls975 · May 2017

"The sun is no longer dangerously close to the earth."

Oh...good. I was wondering who turned the heat down!

rtma · May 2017

If you're looking into Aura colouring, check the time warp one from Drifter, it's out of alignment like Sorcery power tinting.

marioze87 · May 2017

Hurricane changed again, now it's back to being a higher damage per pulse power but the numbers are still far lower than two weeks ago. Last week it was changed to a static damage power. I am honestly fine with it being weaker than before but is it supposed to be or is it a bug? Neither this or last week's patch notes mentioned the change

omnilord · May 2017

Seriously though. Stop it with the bind-to-character things. This game's supposed to be about making different characters. It's not fair when events come around and I have to use a low level toon to get items that fit their theme, but the event mobs are super-high level and utterly annihilate my toon with 0 chance.

I should be able to use a toon that can do the events and give the items to my lowbie.

decorumfriends · May 2017

Get used to it, it's here to stay.

jaazaniah1 · May 2017

Agree completely, but the devs don't agree, so we suffer along. If I have a toon that can use a BoP aura that can actually survive an event then I'll go for the aura. If I don't have a character that can survive, I just don't do the event.

omnilord#8416 said:
Seriously though. Stop it with the bind-to-character things. This game's supposed to be about making different characters. It's not fair when events come around and I have to use a low level toon to get items that fit their theme, but the event mobs are super-high level and utterly annihilate my toon with 0 chance.

I should be able to use a toon that can do the events and give the items to my lowbie.

avianos · May 2017

Or just use a really good geared Vehicle to do the dailies with, and be careful to not fight a group of mobs that had been tagged by someone who is lvl 40 (the scaling hasnt been fixed)

guyhumual · May 2017

The event was barely playable last year, this year it's worse, I've given up on playing it and will be happy when it's over. I don't know why you insist on making these events so hard to do on your own but until you can make a pain free way to group for the non cosmic event dailies and/or give greater rewards for teamwork you should probably leave the non cosmic monster team ups optional. The cosmic fight is fine though. It's the rest of the event that you screwed up no.

avianos · May 2017

guyhumual wrote: »

The event was barely playable last year, this year it's worse, I've given up on playing it and will be happy when it's over. I don't know why you insist on making these events so hard to do on your own but until you can make a pain free way to group for the non cosmic event dailies and/or give greater rewards for teamwork you should probably leave the non cosmic monster team ups optional. The cosmic fight is fine though. It's the rest of the event that you screwed up no.

Oh I dont disagree at all
The difficulty of Horrors for the dailies are still a HUGE BS and they can one shot you

markhawkman · May 2017

One-shot? Or do you mean the thing where you get yanked into the middle and pummeled by a dozen enemies at once?

avianos · May 2017

markhawkman wrote: »

One-shot? Or do you mean the thing where you get yanked into the middle and pummeled by a dozen enemies at once?

Yes, the Portal's Brute knock to center
When this happen I'm always like: I ACCEPT MY DEATH

guyhumual · May 2017

I think the missions are still possible to solo, you just can't do the direct attack route anymore, and I don't have the time or energy to be bothered with cat and mouse stuff.

pantagruel01 · May 2017

avianos said:

When this happen I'm always like: I ACCEPT MY DEATH

Why? It's generally possible to escape if you immediately attempt it.

aesica · May 2017

jaazaniah1 wrote: »

Agree completely, but the devs don't agree, so we suffer along. If I have a toon that can use a BoP aura that can actually survive an event then I'll go for the aura. If I don't have a character that can survive, I just don't do the event.

That's my approach in most cases, however thankfully, if you have 2 accounts, you can multiclient. I have one tankishly-built character on an alternate account group with the weakling on my main that I want stuff on. The weakling follows along on a vehicle or with flight and hides out of attack range/LoS while the tough character cleans house.

roughbearmattach · May 2017

avianos said:
Or just use a really good geared Vehicle to do the dailies with, and be careful to not fight a group of mobs that had been tagged by someone who is lvl 40 (the scaling hasnt been fixed)

I could solo this way, with an upgraded vehicle using rank 2-3 weapons and all R6-7 vehicle mods. Even then, lots of cat-and-mouse play is required.

With a group of 2 other level 30+ toons, the daily missions are easy enough. I don't usually form a team through zone chat, just find other folks attempting to fight mobs near a portal or siphon, and just work together. Don't even usually join a team formally.

avianos · May 2017

pantagruel01 wrote: »

Why? It's generally possible to escape if you immediately attempt it.

Because when the Knock Into along with the mobs gang attacks reach my HP at 10%, there is no escape

roughbearmattach wrote: »

I could solo this way, with an upgraded vehicle using rank 2-3 weapons and all R6-7 vehicle mods. Even then, lots of cat-and-mouse play is required.
y.

and boy, there is a LOT of Cat and Mouse games here

sterga · May 2017

What I normally do is select the portal itself from afar then run up into the center and block. Keep blocking for a bit until all the enemies dump all of their initial attacks, which can take a min. Then pop Masterful dodge and go to town on the portal. Hermes heally patches are pretty good. If my HP gets too low, I hold block and duck around a corner. After the portal goes down, I take out the shield spewing Cultist, dragging the Demolisher with me.

My character is... well, certainly OP, so I don't know if this will help anyone.

roughbearmattach · May 2017

NOTE:
The updated drop from Hi-Pan seems especially stingy. After fifty runs, no costume drops, no special mod. Only gotten a Q box 10 times. The rest is either the limited use Dragon Staff or a Second Wind.

I am guessing the reward table was adjusted to fit the short time needed for a Hi-Pan run.

opalflame · May 2017

Yeah the Hi-Pan alert has a really sucky drop rate now. I've done it hundreds of times and haven't got anything of value from it. That MA mod is really starting to seem like it's just not worth the effort. If it's gonna be like this, can we at least get some mods in the gcr store for MA and electricity like the other power sets have? I'd rather grind out the gcr to rank a mod up to r9 than keep doing the same thing over and over for an almost non existent chance of a drop.

violetnychus · May 2017

kaizerin said:
That isn't a quick fix, sadly. There are plans to look into splitting off various team based auras to have a target cap for players only and one for personal pets, but we have no eta on when that will be done.

When you do that can they receive resistance or immunity to cosmic aoe so summoning is not negative in endgame, or, incredibly, even a positive?

It is telling Ebon Ruin had to lose a quirk just over the fact summon capability is that bad.

jaazaniah1 · May 2017

The solution is obvious, and simple, so we know it won't be done. Every successful Hi Pan run should drop at least a R3 version of the MA Dragon's eye mod. It will also, more rarely, drop a higher value mod. See, problem fixed.

opalflame said:
Yeah the Hi-Pan alert has a really sucky drop rate now. I've done it hundreds of times and haven't got anything of value from it. That MA mod is really starting to seem like it's just not worth the effort. If it's gonna be like this, can we at least get some mods in the gcr store for MA and electricity like the other power sets have? I'd rather grind out the gcr to rank a mod up to r9 than keep doing the same thing over and over for an almost non existent chance of a drop.

avianos · May 2017

I got 1 Hi Pan Aura, a few Dragon Costumes and 1 limited usage device

GEE The new lootable is sure stingy now

I understand that Boxes of Q are not 100% drop like FM and Cybermind due to how short the alert can be

also Second Wind everywhere is starting to get annoying

roughbearmattach · May 2017

avianos said:
I got 1 Hi Pan Aura, a few Dragon Costumes and 1 limited usage device

GEE The new lootable is sure stingy now

RNG plays a role, of course. Curious, though--can you estimate how many runs you did?

I commented on the new loot for Hi-Pan simply because I run each special Alert about 50-75 times when it comes around , and I'm just very surprised to get no Hi-Pan costume drops, auras, empowered staffs, or special mods. The last time the alert ran, I sold about 3-4 costume parts, plus an aura and one empowered staff.

avianos · May 2017

roughbearmattach wrote: »

RNG plays a role, of course. Curious, though--can you estimate how many runs you did?

61+

roughbearmattach · May 2017

Ah, that makes sense. I completed another 9 runs last night (about 60 total now), but still no luck.

omnilord · May 2017

Is it true that when you make an account or character that it get's an RNG value that goes into calculating loot drops? So if that value somehow came out very low, then your toon's basically screwed for life when it comes to getting loot, right?

roughbearmattach · May 2017

omnilord#8416 said:
Is it true that when you make an account or character that it get's an RNG value that goes into calculating loot drops? So if that value somehow came out very low, then your toon's basically screwed for life when it comes to getting loot, right?

I have never heard anything like that. I don't think that's a thing in Champs.

avianos · May 2017

omnilord#8416 wrote: »

Is it true that when you make an account or character that it get's an RNG value that goes into calculating loot drops? So if that value somehow came out very low, then your toon's basically screwed for life when it comes to getting loot, right?

Who told you this Tin Foil theory?

gogoginga1 · May 2017

not heard that one before ,but a lot of things in Co are a complete mystery how they work , who can say

omnilord · May 2017

It was chatter I picked up in Zone chat one day. So I won't endorse that as anything resembling a fact. It's why I decided to pose the question here.

roughbearmattach · May 2017

I think the new drop did not include the dragon eye mods. Yes, people in chat said, "I know someone that said they got one this time around."

Makes me skeptical, especially compared to previous weeks of this Alert. Oh well, being replaced with new mods, anyway.

markhawkman · May 2017

Given that I never saw one drop before the change...

jaazaniah1 · May 2017

In 6 years of playing I have earned exactly 1 DUC (bought another) and 1 of each Dragon Eye.

avianos · May 2017

From my personal experience with those alerts,

I have got the past 5 years
around 8+ Ruby Dragon Eyes and Depleted Uranium Cores
and only 1 Sapphire Dragon Eye core

omnilord · May 2017

3 years of playing, no special drops in the various alerts beyond costume unlocks and the Justice Gear tokens. Considers it silly if any of the rates are less than 1%.

It would be like if there was a coin you needed 100 of to make a penny.

flyingfinn · May 2017

Well, you need like $1.50 to make a penny...

decorumfriends · May 2017

Sidebar: It costs 1.5 CENTS to make a penny, not dollars.

Release Notes 5/11/2017

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