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FC.31.20200923.14 - Misc Fixes
kaiserin
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- Fixed various issues with the Mechanon legs and arms.
Misc
- Added Flaming Pumpkin Power Variant device to the debugger store.
- Change to help with recent lag issues.
- Fixed an issue where players with both male and female costumes would sometimes have invisible vehicles.
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though, i suppose the headless horseman would be a better comparison - green goblin just had pumpkin-shaped bombs, not actual pumpkins
Mission/Mob drop rates are horribad.
And playing by myself since Aug 2009
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They are pretty nice, especially this Pumpkin one, really stands out
If only we had this firing animation as available Emanation point for regular Fireball...
I still would like to see those new Power Variant Devices acting like power replacements visuals for the power they are based on, consider in the past some devices had been changing or screwing up certain powers when equipped
I don't know if I'll have a use for this new one, but I'm still trying to get the one from DRA. I'd like to see more of these in the future, though I do prefer them being linked to permanent content like DRA, rather than seasonal things like the Qularr Invasion (and presumably Bloodmoon). They're just a bit too rare to stick in something that's only around for a little while. Even if you farm them dedicatedly, bad RNG can really screw you over, and having to wait a year for that to come back just sucks.
If you're going to link them to seasonal content, at least put them in the trade paperback vendor too or something.
Well the intent is to act like the ol' Power Replacers from way back, that way you can have interesting builds revolving around that one device. Alike how you wouldn't be able to have a random rifle power in Poison tree, or dual pistols for plasma burn. Pumpkin here gets the spot for the unique fx: it's certainly special and meant to be something unique, rather than 'everyone can do it'.
I absolutely get what you mean though and I do agree in part to it, yes.
However, in my mind, these are different. These are basically duplicate powers with fancy, niche skins that are nice for one or two characters or builds, but it doesn't necessarily make sense to make them separate powers. As Lunny mentioned, they're a callback to ye olde power replacers from back in the day, and as a veteran player, it's really cool to see them come back.
I do wish we could see a way to change a whole powerset to a different effect or damage type like the vintage power replacers did, but having the alpha strike powers and signature moves of each set is an acceptable alternative.
The Pumpkin's expression is random and changes every time you use it
Hmm,
Bug: The Pumpkin device doesn't create a fire patch for me as the description states
100% Full charge every time, only the Fear Effect applies
OMIT, didn't notice the Fireball power requirement for this effect
However testing the device without having access to the actual fireball power gave me this
Bug: The Pumpkin device doesn't have a visible Numberic cooldown timer after use, only the black out rotation
Suggestion: In the future, since those devices are becoming a norm, can we please have the ability to get the Device activation icon show on the powertray like the Flamethrower Device from Whiteout and the Travel power devices
I'm suggesting this as a quality of life for Gamepad users and theme builders, even if its currently possible to use devices on gamepad with the combination of Right-Direction on D-PAD and A, B, X, Y and L1 buttons, since some devices allow movement during use, it's kinda ankward to hold down the D-PAD and the Analog stick
*Edited for Typos*
This just happened out of the blue when fixing the Mechanon arms/legs, I believe.
I feel more and more conflicted the more I'm thinking about those new devices, I don't want to see potential powers being stuck as devices only
OK, This REALLY needs to be addressed for the future
BUG: The Devices' Tooltips are getting cut off on every Resolution
The Items and Devices preview and tooltips do not scale with your current resolution causing a huge amount of the text to get cut off screen
@ 1280 x 720 (both in full and windowed mode which I play) the Devices' description cuts off and
@ 1440 x 900 is almost full but still cuts tooltip Description
@ 1680 x 1050 + the Descriptions are fully visible
Here is a picture to demostrate how wonky the UI is on different resolution, I'm losing a huge amount of information because of this!
Could you please on a future update address this issue? If you are going to add more Power Variant Devices!
Perhaps expand the Tooltip horizontally and adding the Preview Image and Battle tooltip left and right of each other
Using the Pulp Fiction Ray Gun puts the Qularr Toxic Rifle automatically on an incredible long Cooldown!
In fact every time Pulp Fiction Ray Gun is being used it adds 15 seconds CD on Qularr Toxic Rifle
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