Release Notes 8/31/2017

kaiserin · August 2017

Happy Anniversary!

Champions Online is 8 years old! Through out September we will be celebrating!
Witchcraft will be around all month handing out double XP buffs!
Sapphire has a remix of her song! This new version will play randomly during her concerts.
We have a new Anniversary themed loading screen!

Weekly Freebies!

Check in every week for freebies!
This week we will be giving out the Special Edition Millennium Spirit vehicle and the Sci-Fi Emblem costume pack!

Anniversary Store!

Every week we will be adding new items to the store!
Added a Weekly Special store to the Anniversary vendor. This store will contain goodies normally only found in the ZEN store for that week only.
This week all ZEN store Become devices can be bought with Anniversary currency. The Anniversary Store bought versions will bind to that character, so be sure to buy them on the characters you want them on!
New costumes added to the Anniversary Vendor: Headphones, Party Headband, Half Feather Mask, Party Hair.
New action figures added to the ZEN store: Defender, Witchcraft, Kinetic, Sapphire, Ironclad.

Anniversary Gifts

All enemies in game now have a chance to drop Anniversary Gifts.
Added the following items as a chance to drop from the Anniversary Gift: Glitter Belt, Party Horn costumes.
Lowered the cooldown on Anniversary Gifts to 0.5 seconds (from 3).
Updated the tooltips on many of the devices found in the Anniversary Gift.

ZEN Store

Added the Party Key Pack.
This pack contains 20 keys, 5 Anniversary Gifts, 1 Permanent Party Bomb device and 1 Voltanic Potential device.
Voltanic Potential is a passive device that gives you a small amount of Energy resistance and has a chance to deal damage to nearby foes. This chance increases as your health goes down.

Rave Lockbox
Our new lockbox is out! Talk with The Amp in the Renaissance center to see the items available in the Lockbox!
The following items can be found in this lockbox:

The Amp Loyal Sidekick - an Electrical ally that specializes in many area effect attacks.
Lightning Speed Travel Power
Electric Speed Travel Power (alternate animation)
Lightning Speed Travel Device
Electric Speed Travel Device
Storm Strike Ultimate Power Unlock
Finger Snap Emote
Ta Dah! Emote
Rave Costume Box
Box of Questionite
Rare Dual Mod Case
Rare Single Mod Case
Crate of Drifter Salvage
Dual Mod Case
Single Mod Case

New Lockbox Additions

Added Single and Dual mod cases to the Rave Lockbox. This only affects the mod cases in this lockbox, not any previous ones.
Single Mod cases have a chance to drop single stat Enhancement, Core or Armoring mods. Vehicle mods are no longer present in this new case.
Dual Mod cases can drop any of the new dual stat Armoring or Enhancement mods.
Known issue: The Rave Costume Box currently does not display that it can drop the Rave Belts (it is displayed in the preview store). This is just a tooltip error and the belts are dropping from the Rave Costume Box. The tooltip will be corrected next week.

Monthly Sub Reward

Added Chef Hat as the September reward item.
The Fun Cannon will return in September as well.

Drifter Store

Added Casual Shorts costume.

Questionite Store

Added Casual Hoodie costume
Removed Rank 3, 5 and 6 modification packs from the Questionite store.
Added a Rank 4 vehicle modification pack to the Questionite store, this provides 1 random vehicle mod.
Changed the price of the modification packs in the Questionite store to 1,000 (from 35,000).

Misc

Added a rank 3 vehicle mod pack to the UNTIL token store.
Dual Armoring and Enhancement modifications have been added to most drop tables that contain regular mod drops (like regular mobs).
Dual modifications split two different stats into one mod. Example: Constitution + Endurance.
Cosmics, Qzone open missions and Teleios Tower mod drops still only drop single stat versions.
Increased the droprate of Rank 4 modifications for Burst alerts at higher levels.

kaiserin · August 2017

Power Changes
Misc

Updated tooltips on many block powers stating that the energy gained from blocking scales with Recovery. This is just a tooltip update.
Frag Grenade's damage now scales with your critical strike chance and severity.
Fixed a bug where Hex of Suffering's damage did not rank up properly.
All players who owned any Electricity power will receive a free respec.
The Outburst spec in Endurance now increases base damage. Previously it was a generic damage bonus.

Electricity

Cleaned up many tooltips.
All instances of Negative Ions interactions have been changed to require the user to have applied Negative Ions. This is being done to prevent players from consuming other players Negative Ions.
Increased the Arc range on powers from 15 to 25ft.
Arc effects will not break free foes affected by Sleep or Paralyze.

Sparkstorm

This power now knocks down targets affected by Negative Ions instead of back.
Doubled the chance for this power to arc if the target is affected by Negative Ions.
Adjusted the cost of this power as it was using an outdated formula. Cost has slightly gone up.
Fixed a bug where the random arcs this power could apply was not gonig up with ranks.
Increased the cost of the Electric Personality advantage to 3 (from 2) as it was a bit too cheap for being able to toggle the power alongside others.
New Advantage: Knocks back targets that are affected by Negative Ions.

Thunderstrike

Added a 1-2 second delay to the Negative Ions application if your target is already affected by Negative Ions. This power has always had a small delay on the application so that it applies after consuming it, however in practice the power rarely ever applied again after consuming. This time delay will now allow the power to reliably re-apply Negative Ions after consuming it.
New Advantage: Knocks down your primary target. Refreshes the Superconductor debuff.

Lightning Storm

Lowered the damage on this power as its base damage was more in line with a hard hitting single target attack than a area attack.
New Advantage: Chance to apply Stagger to targets.

Chain Lightning

Increased range of chain effects to 50 ft (from 30).
Corrected tooltip for chance to apply Negative Ions as it was displaying an incorrect value.
If you are above 90% energy, this power guarantees the application of Negative ions on tap or charge.
Changed the damage formula on this power from a click to damage scaling based on charge time. Previously it wasn't supposed to scale with charge time, but was doing so anyways. Damage on full charge has gone up.
Energy will now also increased based on charge time.
New Advantage: Applies Superconductor, an electric resistance debuff, to a target affected by Negative Ions.

Lightning Arc

Moved to tier 3.
Damage formula changed from escalating damage to maintained damage. Damage will no longer go up the longer you maintain it.
Cost has gone up.
Removed the Never Strikes Twice Advantage.
New Advantage: Snares targets for the duration of the maintain.

Ball Lightning

Moved to Tier 2.
Reduced the damage on the explosion portion of this power.
Fixed a bug with how the power's cost was being calculated. Cost is now slightly lower.
Increased chance to apply Negative Ions to 25% (from 10).
Damage now scales with your critical strike chance and severity.
New Advantage: partially refreshes the superconductor debuff on the initial and last hit of this power.

Storm Summoner

Minor fx improvements.
If fully maintained, and if the target is affected by Negative Ions, applies the Superconductor debuff.
Reduced maximum maintain time to 3 seconds. Cost and damage adjusted for this change.
Distributed the cost a bit more evenly across the initial cost and periodic cost.
Renamed Strong Winds advantage to Magnetic. Now draws targets inwards and increases chance to apply Negative Ions if targets are close to you.
New Advantage: Snares targets caught in the storm and when fully maintained, consumes Negative Ions on targets and causes a knock up.
New Advantage: Chance to apply Plasma Burn to targets.

Electric Form

When striking a target affected by Negative Ions now grants you a small heal.

Electric Sheath

Now has a chance to apply Negative Ions to targets that damage you.
Now removes the Electrical Surge debuff from you (from charging Gigabolt) and prevents it from being applied while this buff is active.

Electrocute

Changed this power into an area effect.
Cost has been raised for the new target cap.
Has a 100% chance to apply negative ions to the main target, and 25% chance to secondary targets.
Increased maximum charge time on this power to 2.33 (from 1.83).
Updated the Superconductor advantage with the new debuff.

Electric Shield

Resistance bonus changed to match other blocks.

New Power: Electrical Current

Maintained damage in a wide cone in front of you.
Chance to apply Negative Ions every hit, as well as Arcing to other targets.
Advantage: Chance to stun targets.
Advantage: Applies and immediately consumes negative ions on the target. This counts as completing a circuit.

New Power: Lightning Strike

Lunge.
Snares targets, stuns if lunging from more than 20ft away.
Advantage: Consumes Negative Ions and applies Charged up, a buff that increases your travel speeds briefly.

New Power: Electrical Siphon

Consumes nearby Negative Ions and heals you and nearby allies.
Advantage: If at least one Negative Ions is consumed, applies the Charged Up buff to you and nearby allies.

New Power: Thundering Return

Self Rez
While active you apply Negative Ions to targets you damage, your energy is restored when taking damage and your health is restored for targets defeated.

New Power: Power Source

Toggle form that increases ranged damage by an amount and melee slightly less.
Scales with your Endurance.
Stacks by proccing Arc effects, applying Negative Ions and completing a Circuit (consuming Negative Ions).

New Power: Blinding Light

Threat wipe power.

New Power: Storm Strike

Ultimate. This power can be obtained in the Rave Lockbox.
Knocks down all targets.
Deals damage in a area effect around you.
Deals bonus damage on targets affected by negative ions.
Consumes Negative Ions.
After a couple seconds, reapplies Negative Ions.

Archetypes
The Tempest

The diminishing returns on this archetype's damage have been corrected.
- 1: Electric Bolt
- 1: Chain Lightning
- 6: Electrical Current
- 8: Electric Form
- 11: Thunderstrike OR Ball Lightning
- 14: Power Source
- 17: Lightning Arc
- 21: Electric Shield
- 25: Ionic Reverberation
- 30: Lightning Storm OR Giga Bolt
- 35: Electric Sheath
- 40: Electrocute OR Blinding Light

avianos · August 2017

Really wasted potential to introduce a New AT with the Electric Revamp, because an Electric TANK AT would be more than interesting

heck im going to make an electric tank now

Dissapointed that not many things were done for Gigabolt

Questionite Store
Added Casual Hoodie costume

OH MY~! A new costume in Q store!? its been a while

Drifter Store
Added Casual Shorts costume.

Even better, I thought those were going to be Lockbox HAHA~!

Sapphire has a remix of her song! This new version will play randomly during her concerts.

Increased the volume of Sapphire's voice in her remix song.

Rave Lockbox
Our new lockbox is out! Talk with The Amp in the Renaissance center to see the items available in the Lockbox!
The following items can be found in this lockbox:

Casual clothes are more than Welcome, the technology-alien themed lockbox sets overstayed their welcome
this feels really refreshing

not a fan of the sidekick... Amp looks like a Goth Hippy, IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM!

zamuelpwe · August 2017

kaizerin said:
Arc effects will not break free foes affected by Sleep or Paralyze.

Oh wow. All I can say is, thank you. My support character is going to love this.

thistleswift1 · August 2017

Why only 18 keys in the Party Key Pack instead of 20? Is the zen price still 2x the 10 pack of keys? The extras involved do not seem to rate the loss of 2 keys from the pack. Just wondering.

kaiserin · August 2017

thistleswift1 wrote: »

Why only 18 keys in the Party Key Pack instead of 20? Is the zen price still 2x the 10 pack of keys? The extras involved do not seem to rate the loss of 2 keys from the pack. Just wondering.

Nah, just a typo on my end. It's 20.

thistleswift1 · August 2017

>^____^< ... all happy now.

avianos · August 2017

1.5 GB Patch!
JESUS!

Not gonna play any time soon

notyuu · August 2017

another 1GB+ patch.... I hope this doesn't become a habit..sure more new content is awesome..and for that I'm glad, but in the future mishaps you could avoid making the pathces so bloomin big by breaking them up/spreading em out so it isn't lockbox, even and power remap all in one?

servantrules · August 2017

kaizerin said:

Dual Armoring and Enhancement modifications have been added to most drop tables that contain regular mod drops (like regular mobs).
Dual modifications split two different stats into one mod. Example: Constitution + Endurance.

Well, hey! I posted this in the suggestions thread a while ago! https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/championsonline/#/discussion/comment/12767355

Glad it's now in the game! Thanks, Kaizerin and the rest of the CO crew. Cheers to the next 8 years and more ahead!

legendarylycan · August 2017

kaizerin wrote: »

Lowered the cooldown on Anniversary Gifts to 0.5 seconds (from 3).

please tell me this is also going to be done with winter gifts when the winter event comes around this year? it was really irritating spending close to half an hour opening the hundreds of gifts i accumulated last year

another annoyance of equal annoyingness was having to drag a fresh stack into a device slot after one stack of 25 was eaten through...so can we please have the stack limit for gifts of ANY kind increased to something a little more reasonable? like...as high as the engine will allow

also, i'm not getting any perk for blowing out the candles on the cake this year, unlike previous years

ealford1985 · August 2017

Gawd...you guys haven't been doing anything!

jaazaniah1 · August 2017

On https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/10629094 it lists these discounts for zen purchases

Item Price Discount Discounted Price
1000 Zen $9.99 10% $8.99
2000 Zen $19.99 15% $16.99
5300 Zen $49.99 20% $39.99
11,000 Zen $99.99 25% $74.99
23,000 Zen $199.99 33% $133.99

But, when I go to https://billing.arcgames.com/en/ I don't see any options like this. Not sure what to make of this. Is there another Arc store I should be looking at?

atlassarnosian · August 2017

Mysterious Renaissance Center concept art? Found this on the 'Rave Lockbox, and Anniversary Key Pack!' news page.

zamuelpwe · August 2017

*looks at Anniversary Store*

Um...any particular reason why Kinetik doesn't have a themed vehicle? I mean, he can't fly so despite the super speed, you'd think it would make sense.

omnilord · August 2017

Giving him a glider could be cool too. I see him rocking one of those, or a narrow sort of grav bike, like the Fire Ant.

markhawkman · August 2017

zamuelpwe said:
*looks at Anniversary Store*

Um...any particular reason why Kinetik doesn't have a themed vehicle? I mean, he can't fly so despite the super speed, you'd think it would make sense.

Maybe this reason?:

kaizerin said:
Every week we will be adding new items to the store!

hugoguerrero · August 2017

BUG: Ball Lightning's advantage
When using Supercharged and Triplicty advatanges, the initial hit DOES NOT refresh Superconductor debuff when lightning ball is used at more than 50 ft.

jaazaniah1 · August 2017

Interesting. They changed that page to just mention bonuses up to 25%. I wonder where the original price structure I cited below came from?

jaazaniah1 said:
On https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/10629094 it lists these discounts for zen purchases

Item Price Discount Discounted Price
1000 Zen $9.99 10% $8.99
2000 Zen $19.99 15% $16.99
5300 Zen $49.99 20% $39.99
11,000 Zen $99.99 25% $74.99
23,000 Zen $199.99 33% $133.99

But, when I go to https://billing.arcgames.com/en/ I don't see any options like this. Not sure what to make of this. Is there another Arc store I should be looking at?

avianos · August 2017

BUG: Empty Gifts
While opening multiply Anniversary Gifts, some of those didn't contain anything,
the You used Anniversary Gifts message was followed by nothing

Digging the new loading screen artwork
Also GROND LOOKS LIKE ZUUL

As for the Electricity revamp... im sure it's all fine and dandy and all, but im NOT feeling like spending 6+ hours inside Power House revamping 3 characters, 2 of which are Elementalists

So really not in the mood to test it myself right now

markhawkman · August 2017

avianos said:
BUG: Empty Gifts
While opening multiply Anniversary Gifts, some of those didn't contain anything,
the You used Anniversary Gifts message was followed by nothing

Did you try timing it? I wonder if the reward follows the old cooldown?

qawsada · September 2017

avianos said:
BUG: Empty Gifts

While opening multiply Anniversary Gifts, some of those didn't contain anything,

the You used Anniversary Gifts message was followed by nothing

Last year, it gave out tokens. Those nothings are meant for tokens.

pantagruel01 · September 2017

avianos said:
BUG: Empty Gifts

While opening multiply Anniversary Gifts, some of those didn't contain anything,

the You used Anniversary Gifts message was followed by nothing

Usually that's a bug in the drop table for the item. It's probably best to avoid opening gifts until it gets fixed.

kamokami · September 2017

lol well....guess I know what my ranged dps is going to be

pwestolemyname · September 2017

All these things sounds great, except you guys know that Rave culture died like 20 years ago with the RAVE Act? I mean, how old ARE your developers???

qawsada · September 2017

Naw, Rave just change form, but Rave has a better ring to it than WUBWUBWUBWUBWUB. Oh and I'm amazed you guys went all out with that free vehicle. I assume the Wasp SE will be discontinue this year?

kallethen · September 2017

@kaizerin
Question: Are the freebies meant to be only for level 10 or higher? The NPC doesn't give me the "missions" that grant the freebies to one of my toons who is still only level 6 since I mostly use it for costuming or NPC roleplaying with others.

aesica · September 2017

Oh crap, the electric changes are live now? So much for my free time tomorrow.

avianos · September 2017

Ahem... there are Qullars dancing next to the cake

and the Plot Thickens

qawsada wrote: »

Last year, it gave out tokens. Those nothings are meant for tokens.

pantagruel01 wrote: »

BUG: Empty Gifts

Usually that's a bug in the drop table for the item. It's probably best to avoid opening gifts until it gets fixed.

I already have opened more than 1000 Gifts (hooray for Altitist for Daily gifts and last years gifts)

Fun fact: I got everything BUT the Party Horn, im afraid that this may be the bugged loot...
I got Glitter belt 3 times

roughbearmattach · September 2017

kallethen said:
@kaizerin

Question: Are the freebies meant to be only for level 10 or higher? The NPC doesn't give me the "missions" that grant the freebies to one of my toons who is still only level 6 since I mostly use it for costuming or NPC roleplaying with others.

Often, event stuff is level 11+.

kallethen · September 2017

roughbearmattach wrote: »

Often, event stuff is level 11+.

But usually when it is, they explicitly state so in the news for the events.

themightyzenith · September 2017

kallethen said:
But usually when it is, they explicitly state so in the news for the events.

They get things wrong occassionally. Maybe they forgot?

kallethen · September 2017

That's why I'm pointing it out. Either, it wasn't meant to be 11+ only, or they forgot to mention it. *shrugs*

ealford1985 · September 2017

I was lvl 9 and nothing, leveled up and it was available.

Might forgot to mention it

jaazaniah1 · September 2017

Probably to late to do anything about it now, but Defender on the new loading screen should have a black/dark blue armored cowl protecting his neck. At least that's what the one in RenCen has. If I were Shadow Destoryer I'd aim for that way too obvious chink in his armor.

omnilord · September 2017

Has anyone had trouble gathering the Anniversary Gifts? I went farming for 30-60 minutes and only got 19, which in turn gave me 24 tokens. I know I made a profit, but looking at prices in the event vendor, it just seems like it's going to be difficult to buy even one item.

Note: I was using a toon with Plasma Beam, and going to locations that had large, tight groups of mobs. So I was dropping them by the dozens through the course of that farming time.

legendarylycan · September 2017

try higher level mobs? i think the spawn rate drops off sharply the greater the difference between your level and the enemy

revanantmorituri · September 2017

Also there will be quests in later weeks with token rewards... er, rewards of event tokens.

kallethen · September 2017

Yeah, there'll be daily missions when Destroids start invading.

guyhumual · September 2017

So there are two types of gold rocks now. There's a whole new bunch of mods now. Still the same number of bank slots. Maybe fix something there?

ealford1985 · September 2017

Unlimited acct bank slots...maybe you need to buy some.

qawsada · September 2017

kaizerin said:
Happy Anniversary!
Witchcraft will be around all month handing out double XP buffs!

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/10629094
https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/championsonline#/discussion/1209327/champions-online-double-xp-bonus-zen-and-freeform-sale
Both states one week instead of one month. Which one is the correct double exp duration?

chimerafreek · September 2017

BUG?: So I can't seem to put Dual Enhancements into my secondary gear?

jaazaniah1 · September 2017

Has it ever been more than 1 week?

qawsada said:

kaizerin said:
Happy Anniversary!
Witchcraft will be around all month handing out double XP buffs!

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/10629094
https://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/championsonline#/discussion/1209327/champions-online-double-xp-bonus-zen-and-freeform-sale
Both states one week instead of one month. Which one is the correct double exp duration?

guyhumual · September 2017

ealford1985 said:
Unlimited acct bank slots...maybe you need to buy some.

That was filled years ago with purple secondaries, teleports, rare drops, vehicles, and now rocks. Buying 20 shared hideout bank slots isn't going to fix the problem if they've added 28 new armoring mods and 28 new enhancement mods plus a new kind of rock.

ealford1985 · September 2017

Not if you keep buying shared slots.

There is a solution to your problem.

qawsada · September 2017

jaazaniah1 said:
Has it ever been more than 1 week?

Last year was one month for sure.

guyhumual · September 2017

ealford1985 said:
Not if you keep buying shared slots.

There is a solution to your problem.

Right, so if I have money to burn that solves my problems. Solves most of life's problems really. However not much of a solution for everyone else now is it?

ealford1985 · September 2017

guyhumual said:

ealford1985 said:
Not if you keep buying shared slots.

There is a solution to your problem.
Right, so if I have money to burn that solves my problems. Solves most of life's problems really. However not much of a solution for everyone else now is it?

You are the one who needed a fix.

You could farm Q and then burn that to burn on acct slots.

Either way...you need slots, they have slots. No money...and need slots? Sell that junk and free up slots. It's no ones problem but yours that you don't have enough bank slots to hold rocks.

Do what I do at time, make a toon responsible for holding certain items or make a personal SG just for rocks.

guyhumual · September 2017

ealford1985 said:

guyhumual said:

ealford1985 said:
Not if you keep buying shared slots.

There is a solution to your problem.
Right, so if I have money to burn that solves my problems. Solves most of life's problems really. However not much of a solution for everyone else now is it?
You are the one who needed a fix.

You could farm Q and then burn that to burn on acct slots.

Either way...you need slots, they have slots. No money...and need slots? Sell that junk and free up slots. It's no ones problem but yours that you don't have enough bank slots to hold rocks.

Do what I do at time, make a toon responsible for holding certain items or make a personal SG just for rocks.

I have a personal SG, I have a hideout with 145 slots, my main toon has a bank account with all the slots you can buy completely filled with mods, and this toon is also rocking four unique bags. All this before these new mods were added to the game. I'm probably in a far better situation then most of the players in the game but I'm still rapidly running out of room. I suppose this situation doesn't affect you so you couldn't give a damn but it's affecting me and I suspect that I'm not alone. If you don't actually have anything useful to add maybe take your helpful advice back to 4chan where I'm sure you're a god.

ealford1985 · September 2017

4chan?

I'm assuming that meant to be insulting, showing your true nature there.

But everything I said was helpful. I'm sorry for you, but we will get through this and maybe one day we can find a home for your rocks.

Release Notes 8/31/2017

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