FC.31.20170531.15 - Power Changes/Lockbox

kaiserin · June 2017

Please post all Telekinesis feedback here: https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/championsonline#/discussion/1208644/telekinesis-changes-discussion-thread

Please use this thread for any of the other changes.
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Lockbox

Added preview images for many items.
Added female versions of the Alien Armor costume.
Added Futuristic Tights, Transmitters and Feet costumes.
Added Cultros loyal sidekick.

Misc

Added Supersensory gear to the debugger.
The Patriot store should actually be visible now. Liberty Guard is located at the typical event contact area.

Power Changes

Fixed a bug where some instances of Ego Leech in tooltip text was replaced with Mental State.
Removed the Egomaniacal advantages from Ego Blade Annihilation, Telekinetic Lance and Telekinetic Assault as they were having trouble triggering properly and didn't add much to the powers.

Telekinetic Strike

Fixed a bug where its Siphoning Strikes advantage only worked up to 25ft.

Telekinetic Assault

Removed self root.
Lowered damage slightly to account for free movement.

Mental Discipline

Updated charge animations for both versions.
Fixed a bug where the Id blade version always kept its weapons out.

Form of the Tempest

Updated the charge animation for this to be a dual blades version instead of unarmed.

Telekinetic Maelstrom

Corrected max charge for this power from 2 seconds to 1.83.
Slightly lowered damage to bring down the cost of this power.

New Power: Ego Blade Pandemonium

Ultimate
Toggle
Deals damage in a small area around you.
Can be used alongside other attacks.
Critical Strike chance increases for every stack of Ego Leech.
Ranking up this power causes the blades to deal less damage individually, but causes the power to hit more frequently.
Advantage: Snares targets.
Advantage: Additional threat.

notyuu · June 2017

No legion gear in the latest lockbox?

you got some agenda about removing legion gear to try and make people grind out GCR more?

jaazaniah1 · June 2017

Please revert FotT animation back to unarmed. Many people take it who don't use dual blades. Don't ruin the look.

warcanch · June 2017

jaazaniah1 wrote: »

Please revert FotT animation back to unarmed. Many people take it who don't use dual blades. Don't ruin the look.

To be fair, though, it IS from the Dual Blades set. But, I understand the concern.

avianos · June 2017

Form of the Tempest
Updated the charge animation for this to be a dual blades version instead of unarmed.

I dislike this for the reasons stated, too many builds use FotT

Now you will force us to use imaginary weapons to hide the weapon visuals like Form of the Tiger

lunnylunny · June 2017

I don't see the issue when it's on a toggle form. It could, however, just be a 0 point advantage if it's such a big deal.

avianos · June 2017

lunnylunny wrote: »

I don't see the issue when it's on a toggle form. It could, however, just be a 0 point advantage if it's such a big deal.

0 points adv are the spawn of devil and DEVs hate them because they break the code
we will never see new 0 points advs

sterga · June 2017

I toggle my form on once every never. Does anyone really pay that much attention or even need to turn their form on often?

saburfang · June 2017

sterga said:
I toggle my form on once every never. Does anyone really pay that much attention or even need to turn their form on often?

Well if people are bringing this issue up then apparently so..

sterga · June 2017

What people say and what people do isn't the same thing.

jaazaniah1 · June 2017

Well, whenever I die at a cosmic it happens. That is absolutely not an uncommon occurrence for me and others.

pantagruel01 · June 2017

Yes, you generally activate forms every time you respawn, and also every time you exit a vehicle, if you use one.

championshewolf · June 2017

Simple solution; get invisible weapons. What I do with form of the tiger. It's really a non-issue.

saburfang · June 2017

> @championshewolf said:
> Simple solution; get invisible weapons. What I do with form of the tiger. It's really a non-issue.

Kinda sucks for the people who don't have the invisible weapon skin yet. They gotta wait til next foxbatcon.

layene · June 2017

championshewolf said:
Simple solution; get invisible weapons. What I do with form of the tiger. It's really a non-issue.

Very simple, just wait until next Foxbatcon, unlock the invisible weapon skin, change every costume slot on every character than uses FotT. Gee thanks. ^.^

/sarcasm

morigosa · June 2017

And, of course, this is completely disregarding that Form of the Tempest is the proper Form power for unarmed martial arts as well. Oh, sure, unarmed has Form of the Master, but, well, that power only works if you're running around with LR -and- you're either solo or have enough threat generation to be the center of attention. My LR tank discarded FotM a long time ago and never looked back; FotT is vastly more reliable.

andondarkmore · June 2017

Power Changes

Fixed a bug where some instances of Ego Leech in tooltip text was replaced with Mental State.
Removed the Egomaniacal advantages from Ego Blade Annihilation, Telekinetic Lance and Telekinetic Assault as they were having trouble triggering properly and didn't add much to the powers.

Will Egomaniacal be fixed in future or is it gone for good?

championshewolf · June 2017

layene said:

championshewolf said:
Simple solution; get invisible weapons. What I do with form of the tiger. It's really a non-issue.
Very simple, just wait until next Foxbatcon, unlock the invisible weapon skin, change every costume slot on every character than uses FotT. Gee thanks. ^.^

/sarcasm

It's a costume unlock which means it's account wide. And honestly, what excuse do you have for missing it? It's been there at least 3 years in a row.

layene · June 2017

championshewolf said:

layene said:

championshewolf said:
Simple solution; get invisible weapons. What I do with form of the tiger. It's really a non-issue.
Very simple, just wait until next Foxbatcon, unlock the invisible weapon skin, change every costume slot on every character than uses FotT. Gee thanks. ^.^

/sarcasm
It's a costume unlock which means it's account wide. And honestly, what excuse do you have for missing it? It's been there at least 3 years in a row.

I just never imagined an absurd event costume unlock would become so essential. I guess that's what I get for thinking.

pantagruel01 · June 2017

layene said:

I just never imagined an absurd event costume unlock would become so essential. I guess that's what I get for thinking.

No, thinking would have made it pretty obvious that imaginary weapons had a lot of potential.

layene · June 2017

pantagruel01 said:

layene said:

I just never imagined an absurd event costume unlock would become so essential. I guess that's what I get for thinking.
No, thinking would have made it pretty obvious that imaginary weapons had a lot of potential.

I saw their potential, just didn't think it would become essential. So, I figured I'd wait to get them when I had a use for them as there are so many other things to acquire in this game. Thanks for the friendly advice though ^.^

morigosa · June 2017

On a slightly different topic: I ran some scaling tests with the alien armor pieces on a female character, and am happy to report I didn't find any distortion or clipping issues.

sterga · June 2017

Despite having played this game for too many hours and having used almost all the forms at some point, I couldn't tell you what most of the animations look like. I kind of doubt most people pay much attention when toggling forms back on especially in the middle of a Cosmic fight when the focus would be on hurry up to get back.

kallethen · June 2017

@kaizerin Currently on live, if you have ONLY the Form of the Tempest power and no other Dual Blade powers, you are unable to change weapon skins (which makes sense since the power currently doesn't show weapons). Please let us do so, as I would like to switch my weapon skin to the invisible weapon.

I would test this on the PTS, but as of the moment I'm posting this, I cannot log into the PTS.

aesica · June 2017

championshewolf wrote: »

It's a costume unlock which means it's account wide. And honestly, what excuse do you have for missing it? It's been there at least 3 years in a row.

What about people who...

...Started after the last Foxbatcon?

...Didn't get it because, at the time, they didn't know they'd need it to make their form suit their character theme several months later.

criswolf09 · June 2017

@kaizerin I have a question, will you add a new Telekinesis ranged archetype to the Zen Store when the powerset review goes live?

jonesing4 · June 2017

championshewolf said:
It's a costume unlock which means it's account wide. And honestly, what excuse do you have for missing it? It's been there at least 3 years in a row.

They didn't say anything about it not unlocking account wide. They mentioned having to change every costume slot on every character who uses the power. Which would be quite annoying for people who are worried about this, probably, and could potentially be expensive (I guess it would end up being about 1G per 2 costumes fixed).

Personally, I really don't care about this. I think the Form animation as-is with the lettering graphic, etc., is pretty goofy, but I'm with sterga--who cares, it's a form. They could change it to literally any animation they wanted and I would still take it for characters who need that mechanic in their builds.

BUT, for people who do care about such things, "change all your costumes" is a pretty crap workaround.

avianos · June 2017

what don't you guys get? its about theme and aesthetics
suddenly having your character poping two swords out of nowhere breaks the immersion

I cannot speak for myself since I own all imaginary weapons years now (obviously this is not a problem to anyone in the thread who owns them, am I right!?) but this will be just cruel to new members and people who missed Foxbatcon... you know once per year event

my only suggestion for this, try to use daggers or really small MA blade weapons until the next Foxbatcon

kallethen wrote: »

@kaizerin Currently on live, if you have ONLY the Form of the Tempest power and no other Dual Blade powers, you are unable to change weapon skins (which makes sense since the power currently doesn't show weapons). Please let us do so, as I would like to switch my weapon skin to the invisible weapon.

I would test this on the PTS, but as of the moment I'm posting this, I cannot log into the PTS.

This will be extremely inconvenient
this will force me to retcon one single power to single/dual blade, change the weapon skin into imaginary and then get the last power back

On lvl 40 characters this will be price, at elast 13 G (if the last power is rank 3)

avianos · June 2017

I just remembered, The FIST AT is using Form of the Tempest but is 100% pure unarmed AT and has no access to single/dual blades

You see the problem here?

xcelsior41 · June 2017

championshewolf said:

layene said:

championshewolf said:
Simple solution; get invisible weapons. What I do with form of the tiger. It's really a non-issue.
Very simple, just wait until next Foxbatcon, unlock the invisible weapon skin, change every costume slot on every character than uses FotT. Gee thanks. ^.^

/sarcasm
It's a costume unlock which means it's account wide. And honestly, what excuse do you have for missing it? It's been there at least 3 years in a row.

Having a RL

roughbearmattach · June 2017

avianos said:
I just remembered, The FIST AT is using Form of the Tempest but is 100% pure unarmed AT and has no access to single/dual blades

You see the problem here?

I must admit, this is pretty terrible. Someone gets an unarmed AT, and then busts out two swords when activating the form . . . wonders, "Which power gives me sword attacks?"

revanantmorituri · June 2017

sterga said:
I toggle my form on once every never. Does anyone really pay that much attention or even need to turn their form on often?

Every time you use a vehicle, so yes.

jaazaniah1 · June 2017

The nice thing is that they fix to the FotT animation issue is not to get invisible weapons in 10 months, it's to leave it as is atm. If anything, just get rid of the Chineses(?)/Japanese(?) characters.

aesica · June 2017

kallethen wrote: »

@kaizerin Currently on live, if you have ONLY the Form of the Tempest power and no other Dual Blade powers, you are unable to change weapon skins (which makes sense since the power currently doesn't show weapons). Please let us do so, as I would like to switch my weapon skin to the invisible weapon.

Just to clear some stuff up, on PTS, you can edit your MA weapon even if FotT is your only MA power.

Edit:

Is it possible to detect if the player has other Dual Blade powers and only show the swords if they do?

magpieuk2014 · June 2017

BUG: Sonic Device is no longer working properly - it's not triggering with any of my ranged gadgeteering powers (EB, ESB, Pulse Beam Rifle, or anything else...)

kaiserin · June 2017

Weapons show up in the tailor if a power calls a customizable version of the weapon.

I am not able to repro Sonic device not working. Any specific steps?

magpieuk2014 · June 2017

Difficult to say - it's a fairly straight Gadgeteer pistols build with Quantum Stabiliser passive. Looking at the Combat log it is doing damage but those numbers aren't being shown on screen, it's not playing the on-hit animation and the stun effect is not being applied. Only quirk is this build has the Death Ray advantage on Experimental blaster, otherwise should be straightforward...

lunnylunny · June 2017

Live Lance Rain isn't rupturing Ego Leech stacks. I imagined it was the change planned, but the power has a huge wall of text mentioning how it does rupture ego leech stacks.

championshewolf · June 2017

xcelsior41 said:

Having a RL

Ah yes, the fallback excuse for something that doesn't take long to get with only mediocre investment each time the event comes around.

criswolf09 · June 2017

I found a bug with Master of the Mind. Sometimes it failes to activate and enters a cooldown of 30 seconds after attempting to use it again after it has finished recharging.

pantagruel01 · June 2017

I'm told that lance rain is intended to be updated but the updates weren't ready in time for the patch.

lunnylunny · June 2017

criswolf09 said:
I found a bug with Master of the Mind. Sometimes it failes to activate and enters a cooldown of 30 seconds after attempting to use it again after it has finished recharging.

I believe that's the same thing you see with Ice barrier, where the power shows you a different cooldown than the actual one, so when you see it "ready", it's actually still on cooldown, so it goes to it's proper cooldown if you try to use it.

criswolf09 · June 2017

lunnylunny wrote: »

I found a bug with Master of the Mind. Sometimes it failes to activate and enters a cooldown of 30 seconds after attempting to use it again after it has finished recharging.

I believe that's the same thing you see with Ice barrier, where the power shows you a different cooldown than the actual one, so when you see it "ready", it's actually still on cooldown, so it goes to it's proper cooldown if you try to use it.

Correct, the same bug happens with the revised version of the Bloodmoon devices like Hacked Orbital Cannon Codes or Coward's Lament, etc.

andondarkmore · June 2017

What is used for a Ranged/Melee combo character if the Forms are either melee focused or ranged focused?

chaelk · June 2017

layene said:

I just never imagined an absurd event costume unlock would become so essential. I guess that's what I get for thinking.

I got it to use with claws so I can punch people

FC.31.20170531.15 - Power Changes/Lockbox

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