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FC.31.20180320.1 - Item Tooltip Changes/Lots of Odds and Ends
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UI
Foxbatcon
Drifter
Questionite
Rewards
Vehicles
Crafting Nodes
UNTIL Recognition Store
Misc
Lockboxes
Collector Store
Collector Lockbox
Powers
Bleed
- Many changes have been made to how items display their tooltips to make it more clear what type of item they are.
- Please check through various items to see if their tooltips are broken or reading out properly.
- This update is a widespread change, and is not focusing on giving all items preview images, etc. We're just trying to fix some core issues with item tooltipping to make updating items easier for us in the future.
- Known issue: Many mods (mostly ranks 1-5 enhancements and multi function mods) don't display their mod type in the tooltips. This is unfortunately a side effect of them be multi functional or able to be slotted into secondary gear. This may be addressed in the future, but isn't likely to be addressed this update.
Foxbatcon
- Added Horse, Fox and Chicken cartoon mask to the store.
- Added Lotus Blossom vehicle.
- New costumes will be introduced in one of the next updates.
Drifter
- The device versions of Scorching Slide and Stoic Flight are now bind on pickup (from bind on equip). Existing versions are unaffected.
- Psionic Accelerator can now be colored.
- Fixed a bug where the charge on Draysha Gas Pistol could not be interrupted.
- Added Heroic Comeback and Team Heroic Comeback to the store.
- Removed the Mk2 vehicle store.
- Added Mk1 versions of those vehicles to the Mk1 Vehicle store.
- Removed action figure store. Action figures have been moved to crafting node rewards.
- Added Legion gear to the store.
Questionite
- Removed the vehicle store. Vehicles have been moved over to Drifter.
- Removed many of the action figures from the store. Those Action figures have been moved to crafting node rewards.
- Added Become Cybernetic Ninja, Black Talon and Resistance Command Leader to the store.
- All Become devices sold in the Questionite store have been changed to bind to account on equip (from not binding). If you already have one equipped, this change will not take effect until you remove and re-equip it.
- Added Fire Dragon action figure to the Questionite store.
Rewards
- Added Shark Submarine and Lyretail action figures as possible drops from Aquatic Lemurians.
- Added Ghost Wolf action figure as a possible drop from Tsiataka Bigfoot.
- Added Jade Dragon and Shisa action figure as a possible drop from Red banners.
- Added Shisa, Paper 1 and Paper 2 Lanterns as a possible drop from Red banners.
- Added Ornamental Lantern as a possible drop from the Hipan alert.
- Added Charm Lantern as a possible drop from the Green Dragon alert.
Vehicles
- Made some backend changes to vehicles to make it easier on our end to create new ones. This shouldn't change anything about vehicles, but please be sure to check to see they're using the correct engine fx and built in basic attacks.
- Fixed a bug where the Nightmare Event and Rocker Glider vehicles were using the rank1 passives for their rank2 versions.
- Updated the Vehicle Upgrade store to display additional categories of vehicles to make finding them easier.
Crafting Nodes
- Added a chance to drop previous Drifter/Questionite store action figures.
UNTIL Recognition Store
- Added a temporary sidekick store to the UNTIL Recognition vendor.
Misc
- Marked many of the common mods as "Basic" for reward purposes.
- Super Magnifier and Shrinker devices are now restricted toggles, preventing more than one from being toggled on at a time.
Lockboxes
Collector Store
- Added Alien Invader lockbox contents to the store.
- Added a new stores:
- Costume Box: Contains costumes that are found in a costume box.
- Purple Special Items Voucher A: Split from Purple Special Items. Contains power unlocks and emote unlocks.
- Purple Special Items Voucher B: Split from Purple Special Items. Contains warp items, action figures and becomes.
Collector Lockbox
- Added a new Vouchers: Purple Costume Box Voucher, Purple Special Items A, Purple Special Items B.
- Purple Special Voucher will no longer drop.
- Added an exchange for the old Purple Special Item voucher by the Collector Store.
- Removed Legion and Mercenary Gear (only) drops from this lockbox.
- Added Mod Pack and Mod Pack + Bold Gear drops to the Lockbox, similar as the recent lockboxes.
- Added Rare Mod Pack and Rare Mod Pack + Mercenary Gear to the lockbox, similar as the recent lockboxes.
Powers
- Updated the tooltips on Single Blade abilities.
- Changed the strafe leg animation for Guard so it doesn't snap your spine.
Bleed
- The Bleed effect has been changed to merge its damage into one hit, as opposed to dealing damage individually.
- This is the same change that Poison went through some time ago and is being done to make the bleed effect less of a strain on the game. While this should have no effect on the overall damage Bleed deals over time, it's a major change under the hood so please be sure to test out powers that apply/refresh bleed and make sure they are working properly.
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Why tho?
> UI
> * Super Magnifier and Shrinker devices are now restricted toggles, preventing more than one from being toggled on at a time.
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Ya why are you changing cosmetic things that aren't a issue?
Magnifiers sell well and make you money. Taking away their effects together is pointless in game and will effect sales.
Please focus on more serious issues with the game rather than things people actually want to keep!
Also, 250 Drifter for secondary Legion gear is steep. That's as much as the primaries.
Super Magnifier and Shrinker devices are now restricted toggles, preventing more than one from being toggled on at a time.
DON'T.
In PTS
Currently you can't upgrade the Lotus Blossom vehicle into Mk2. Also please make it account bound once you r2 it.
Suggestion
Tone down the acid trip FX while riding Lotus Blossom. I get what you were going for but it makes it very hard to see. I would limit the FX just to the edges of the screen for a more acid trippy vibe.
But I'll also be somewhat positive and say that I dragged my heavy-bleed DPS character onto PTS. Bleeds certainly seem to be stacking into one unit as was suggested. Hold up. Why in the world do the Legion Secondaries need to be 250 Drifter as well? That's letting alone the prices of the Primary pieces.
I want it to be yesterday again.
And will anyone miss the Mk2 vehicle store?
Sorry, but this is just wholly weird. Toggling both on gave a little boost to size, which was fun in some cases. Now instead of two good items, I have two useless ones.
So now Silvers can't get a vehicle trough Q...
There is a brief second before the overlay goes into effect where you see the vehicle without it. And it looks so much better.
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Is this the new thing? If so, I guess I can stop buying costumes from the Z store.... that'll save me some money.
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Trash Costumes* fixed that for you, it seems they put the cheapest and least popular as drops
and they already have done that before with Serpent Armour dropping in Green Dragon and Red Snake alert and cardboard armour in Bloodmoon or whatever (also steampunk from Clarence)
I can understand the double growth thing straining stuff, but I don't see how slightly taller does. I like having a toon slightly taller than what the tailor allows because everybody tries to max out the height slider and it's hard to say that your character is taller than humans typically are when human characters can look your's in the eye.
Overall the rest of the update looks interesting. However again: Let the Super-Mag & Super-Shrinker effects still be combined.
Are crafting nodes less pointless crap now? You kind of make it horrific not to use Skill Ups to level mod fusion ability. VB skill nodes gave garbage last I checked. Adding AFs doesn't change that.
"Added Become Cybernetic Ninja, Black Talon and Resistance Command Leader to the store."
Become devices are still over priced junk. Even if they cost Q instead of cash.
[at]riviania Member since Aug 2009
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I think not having Vehicles in the Q-Store at all is a very bad look. You are going to have people telling new players who want a vehicle, "Except the one in the Rec Vendor, you can only get them if you spend cash or grind an event." It doesn't matter if drifter boxes are in the AH. That isn't how people will see it.
Suggestion:Having Vehicles in the Q vendor lets all players have a chance to just do normal content and still unlock a vehicle. There should be at least 1 of each type of vehicle. If they enjoy the one they unlocked, they can be pointed towards ways to unlock the other available vehicles. If new players see vehicles are behind a gate or have to wait a couple of weeks for an event to roll around that MIGHT have the type of vehicle they want then they may just write them off completely as out of reach.
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I think not having Vehicles in the Q-Store at all is a very bad look. You are going to have people telling new players who want a vehicle, "Except the one in the Rec Vendor, you can only get them if you spend cash or grind an event." It doesn't matter if drifter boxes are in the AH. That isn't how people will see it.
Suggestion: Having Vehicles in the Q vendor lets all players have a chance to just do normal content and still unlock a vehicle. There should be at least 1 of each type of vehicle. If they enjoy the one they unlocked, they can be pointed towards ways to unlock the other available vehicles. If new players see vehicles are behind a gate or have to wait a couple of weeks for an event to roll around that MIGHT have the type of vehicle they want then they may just write them off completely as out of reach.
That said, I'm all for QoL improvements. Maybe some improvements to Become devices may make them more coveted?
Maybe now is a perfect time to fix the Crafting Nodes that don't work when trying to activate them they say that you require crafting skill +201, even when you have WAY more than that.
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Becomes used to be far more popular because some were actually competitive with ATs. They were not updated with the rest of characters and are now junk. It's not subjective, they are much worse off than they used to be.
Also: Becomes in the cash shop are the same price as premium ATs yet are far gimpier than the worst of any AT. It's really hard to have "fun" when you are dead weight and useless in content or when you spend 50%+ of your time using your energy builder just so you can do any attack. I have a few become devices. They are awful to play as.
Re-branding Becomes as "disguises" is a sleazy way for Cryptic to keep charging the same price for a product they can't be bother to update. Even free ATs are getting updated.
[at]riviania Member since Aug 2009
Change sfx of Lotus Blossom to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Make flight speed 1/4 of current speed.
I guess I'll have to refrain from buying Zen to get costume sets from the Z Store that others may subjectively call "trash".
I imagine that we may see this for the new Gemstones set somewhere down the line.
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