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FC.31.20170913.4 - Bloodmoon Changes
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- Lowered all of the bite mission requirements down to 50 (from 100).
- Added Turakian Coin rewards to the Bite missions.
- Both Bite contacts are now present in Millennium City and offer transportation to all of the Bite Battlegrounds located in Canada, Desert and Monster Island.
- Updated tooltips for the Bite powers to better explain what they do.
- Updated costumes on the Bite contacts.
- Werewolf Pounce activation time reduced to 0.5 seconds (from 1).
- Werewolf Rage now grants a small movement speed buff for each stack.
- Werewolf Pounce now expires any stacks of Snare on you.
- Increased range on all Bite melee attacks to 10ft (from 7ft).
- Increased the cooldown on Hunter Net to 8 seconds (from 1).
- Increased the cooldown on Hunter Faith Shield to 10 seconds (from 1).
- Increased the cooldown on Hunter Holy Water to 8 seconds (from 1).
- Reduced the duration of the transform item to 24 hours (from 72). This item now binds on pickup.
- The Hunter and Lycan transformation duration has been reduced to 30 minutes (from no expiration).
- The transformation device now expires all buffs, pets, circles and travel powers.
Devices
- Nimbus of Force's shield effect can no longer be stacked. If multiple players try to use it the best shield effect will be kept.
- Radions Revenge can now be colored.
- Increased the target cap of Hacked Orbital Cannon to 5 (from 3).
- Reduced the target cap of Nimbus of Force, Radions Revenge, Center of Gravity to 5 (from 10).
- Reduced the target cap of Archers Memory to 5 (from 7).
- Center of Gravity now has a 100% chance to knock targets towards you (previously scaled with charge).
- Center of Gravity cooldown reduced to 30 seconds (from 60).
- Fixed a bug where the activation time of Crippling Coils and Supernatural Possession was lower than intended. Increased activation time to 1 second (from 0.67).
- Fixed a bug where Supernatural Possession was using the wrong hold FX on the target and where the fx stopped playing halfway through the maintain.
- Increased the cooldown on Firefight to 5 minutes (from 3).
- Firefight's default colors have been corrected (no more pink).
- Firefight, Skull of the Necromancer and Bone Whistle are now a toggle pet devices to match up with recent pet devices introduced.
- Pestilent Cloud is now a toggle device instead of a click. It can be used alongside other powers.
- Pestilent Cloud now snares targets affected and if toggled for full durations stuns targets for a short duration.
- Reduced the duration of Pestilent Cloud down to 10 seconds (from 30).
- Fixed a bug where the default color for Firefight was pink.
- Increased Zombie Bone cooldown to 45 seconds (from 5).
- Zombie Bone now has a chance to apply Jinxed to targets. Increased damage.
- Added permanent Zombie Bone device to the Bloodmoon vendor, but it will likely become tied to a new perk as a reward.
- Added permanent versions of Pestilent Cloud to the Bloodmoon store.
- Updated tooltips on many of the temp Halloween devices.
Bloodmoon Misc
- Updated the Wolf Ferocious head to use regular eyes and to have colorable teeth.
- Added a perk store to the Bloodmoon contact. This store shows items you can get from completing certain Bloodmoon perks and is for display purposes only.
- Added leather and metal materials to the Zombie Half Skull costume.
- Many Bloodmoon perks automatically display in your perk window now.
- Added Moonstruck power to the GCR store for 350 SCR. This also requires completion of the Moonstruck perk to purchase.
- Added Neck Bolts costume to the bloodmoon store.
- Added Ghostly Faces aura to the bloodmoon store.
- Trick or Treaters have a slightly higher chance to drop gifts.
Misc
- Mutagenic Infection is now a toggle device instead of a click. It can be used alongside other powers.
Powers
- New Power: Moonstruck
- Drops a healing rune at your feet and knocks down all nearby targets.
- No advantages have been added to this power at this time.
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You gotta be joking, not only its a purchasable power but requires a Event Perk which requires 5 event perks, 2 of which are Psedo PVP
I mean, i understand you guys are trying to make Bite missions popular but come on now, Forced PVP? So... thats how we gonna get more melee healing runes...
I doubt turning it into an instanced queued PvP map is on the cards, but perhaps a 'reverse ninja' aura? (i.e. each hunter/werewolf debuffs all other nearby critters in the same faction). Actually, reverse ninja would be an improvement for most PvP maps as well.
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I don't remember wolves being that bad actually...oh well...I could be wrong.
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The goal of this was to make it more accessible to players, and to bridge the gap between lycans and hunters a bit as hunters were designed to take on multiple lycans at once.
A damage aura could be considered, a queuable map is not in the cards.
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As I remember it, the hunters usually had a big advantage unless there were a good number of wolves. I'm not sure if I ever completed the wolves side of Bite...
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Summoners are already locked out of endgame, but this is disastrous for them even on non-endgame team content.
It was probably set to 10 originally specifically because a summoner could then buff the team with it.
Please reconsider.
but what the hell is this... Serious guys? No. HELL no.
I can understand the stopping of stacking of Nimbus from a gameplay balance standpoint but 100% against reducing target caps on AoE powers. In fact, please do the opposite. Many AoE powers need a target cap increase, not a decrease.
The netcode can handle it, even parsing and modding, and we already have proven though Onslaught and the new Cosmic battles that unlimited target caps work too. So 10 targets at a time for AoE powers isn't unreasonable. Plus remember, when that stuff was input, internet speeds were much lower than they are today. Technology has improved considerably, by a factor of 10 for many cities. And if that doesn't move you, then one work: fun. Superpowers need to be super, not feel mediocre & weakened.
In short, please reconsider. Leave the caps alone, if you don't want to increase. At least don't decrease them. Kaiserin please persuade your team away from this. It's like the electricity changes, good good good and a WTF (in that case that y'all didn't improve or fix gigabolt).
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I hope you don't delete this
it is a bit of info to help with some existing problems on test server
As you have closed feedback link I have no choice but to post it here
I noticed that the status of accounts on the test server is different from those on live (mine is not LTS as on live)
I think is is why there is an issue with posting over characters, as LTS and sub accounts will auto generate new character slots once they hit level 40
I hope this is useful and help resolve some of those issues
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The recent Ultimates seem to be properly "ultimate". However, plenty of old Ultimates that aren't even Tier0 in strength/utility/etc.
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Let's say we're at Kigatilik on the podium with 40 players. If 4 people pop their Nimbus during one of the snow storms, a total of 20 players should get bubbled, no overlap.
As it reads above, the potential exists that 4 people can pop their Nimbus and only 5 players get bubbled.
Also "the best shield effect will be kept". I was unaware that Nimbus' bubbles could be altered from the 3661 value. Unless you are talking about a level 20 player popping their Nimbus and a level 40 popping theirs.
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"The best shield" means that if you have a Nimbus shield that has taken 1000 damage, and someone pops a new one, it goes back up to 3661, and hopefully renews the duration, too.
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Sounds reasonable. However, I would prefer it to find others who aren't bubbled yet and apply it. But, however/whichever way it works, we'll deal with it, as it will still be minorly useful in Cosmics. Other content finds it more useful.
Side question: what is the effective "range" to find targets for Nimbus of Force?
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That said, I'm not really thrilled about having to do pvp (something I don't care for in unbalanced games like this one) for something like that. I suspect most people aren't, and I'm not really sure that this is the best way to get people "back into pvp."
so start farming it ahead of time; you have about 2 weeks, give or take, before bloodmoon starts
Still, it will be weird to have an SCR item that you can only purchase via an event perk. That will be new and different . . . and maybe confusing.
Meh. I never liked BITE anyway--I dislike not being able to use my own toon in a game with customized characters.
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Haven't tried it or seen description yet.
Maybe it will have cool/unique advantages.
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It's also worth noting that it has a slightly higher activation time (1s vs 0.83 for PoP) which is...undesirable.
NVM: found the post about having more than 8 chars on PTS. Deleted and can copy now.
Though certainly the other limits are incredibly restrictive and should be raised but nimbus especially needs it.
The device essentially is currently countering the problems this game has in deficient support in general. Targeting teammates is a bit of a mess in comparison to other mmos especially if summons are involved or in cosmic 40 player scenarios. There are essentially no other untargeted panic buff abilities.
I have never bought a become device, and have sold pretty much every one of them that I have obtained.
I have spent a lot of time working on my characters; Their look, their powers, their advantages, their stats, their gear, and everything else.
Just throwing all of that out to play as some predesigned thing for a period of time holds very little appeal. I don't even like vehicles. They take the game away from being the hero that you designed and towards being something else.
That's why I have never really pursued these achievements. I gave it a look way back when, decided that I did not care for it, and that was that.
I suppose that is why they have made these decisions, though; To push people towards playing more parts of the event.
I think that it will work to some extent. People will have at least one character fulfill the requirement in order to purchase the power.
If the power then unlocks for the account then they will go back to doing what they have done before. If that means "ignore that part of the event" then this is going to be a short-lived spike in the popularity of that aspect of the event.
Maybe they think that the "balance changes" will make all the difference and people will love it now.
Time will tell, but I'm putting my money on "no".
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