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Install Arc
Release notes 3/25/2021
kaiserin
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Midnight Depths
Game Optimization
ZEN Store
From now until Monday, 10am the Phoenix Key Pack will be available.
Cost: 3000 ZEN
- Fixed an issue with the Air Waves mission where Ladyhawke was not triggering her dialogue.
- Fixed an issue where some players could not reacquire the Air Waves mission if they left the map before completion.
Game Optimization
- Changes have been made to how costume unlock items show you have unlocked an item or not.
- This will have no front facing effects on the actual costume unlock items, but will help with game stability.
- All travel powers have also been given an optimization pass. This has no front facing effects to players.
ZEN Store
From now until Monday, 10am the Phoenix Key Pack will be available.
Cost: 3000 ZEN
- 35x Keys
- 1x Phoenix Flight Pack
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C'mon
Bad devs. Don't make me get a rolled up newspaper.
This is my cry for help
They are doing a wonderful job! ❤️
This raise the discussion that the other, VERY FEW, 100 feet range healing powers need a buff
*Cries with TRIBAL LOINCLOTH WITH MEDICINE BAG MISSING FROM FEMALE TAILOR WITH A PRE UPDATE UNLOCK*
What a weird specific bug I had to come across, It's not like i'm dying to use it, its just so weird
Also weird that Bone Plate Long costume unlocks shows as non unlocked despite the fact I already unlocked it and it's available for both male and female characters with no issue
[*] This will have no front facing effects on the actual costume unlock items, but will help with game stability.
All travel powers have also been given an optimization pass. This has no front facing effects to players.
So apparently Flight powers are now FASTER! Excellent! AWESOME! VALID! GOOD CHANGE!
Rejoice me who have been avoiding Flight as main TP for the majority of all my new characters
Now I can be more confident with my favourite characters who need to fly constantly
Eh, not a fan of Phoenix Flight in the first place, it use too many resources, drops my Frame rates to 23-18 and fills my screen with too many particles for my eyes to handle
Big Eye sore
The change made was to address various issues we were seeing with game stability with players viewing costume unlock items in stores/inventory/etc.
Odd, on my power it looks rather normal, could be Rank 3 broken? I Have the AoE advantage.
I captured this screenshot on max stacks of Compassion
Ah ok, that clarifies it, so odd scaling issue.
Still...at least it's easy enough to work around for the time being when you have other healers around/don't spam it exclusively without self-healing. Still a rough and a relatively unneeded change but still bearable, not exactly seeing healers drop dead at cosmics because of it at the very least.
This is valid, though. Iniquity is a lame power (instant, spammable, no real cost, powerful, 100 foot range, etc) that's reigned with no viable competition for awhile now. Other single target heals should probably be given a second look so that not every healer feels obligated to take Iniquity.
Epic Stronghold
Block timing explained
Are you kidding me? This is the BEST Thing that even happened to flight! This is how rank 3 flight SHOULD be! This SHOULD BE permanent!
AND NO I'm NOT wasting my time and Utility slots farming the Swift Wings mod from Destroyer's Factory which was Revamped to be made more difficult and nobody cares to do it (why even bother?)
And please FIX Gravity causing Flight use to take 95% of their HP as falling damage, even when you are flying only 5 feet above the ground you break your legs! I see the Worms still doing this
One update ages ago, Gravity stopped doing falling damage and now it's doing it again!
It's definitely a bug, because it only happens when you charge up your Flight. If you tap it and let it build passively, it goes at the normal speed. Plus, flight powers that can ONLY be tapped, like rocket boots and jet pack, aren't going faster at all (making them objectively worse.) That, and the fact that R3 Flight actually goes around as fast as R3 Wildspeed, beating out Super/Mach Speed, seems pretty... unusual.
This is my cry for help
I have no idea why it wasn't this fast in the first place.
Doesn't have to be faster than super speed but before the bug flight speed is laughable, even with the mods which are annoying anyway since they force you to farm mods that drop rarely on a mission that is fun but no one really does anymore, and the mods force you to get seperate gear.
I vote they leave flight as it is now, with the "bug"
Swinging could be fixed though.
Jet boots/Jet pack were already fast as it is, doesn't make sense for them to be faster than regular flight though, this is meant to be a superhero game.
Why's the tech stuff better than the meta-humans/aliens/whatever your oc is.
Side note: I have no clue how the iniquity change was unintentional as it feels rather specific buut crazier bugs have happened so I believe you xD
But I vote we leave that bugged too, it'll make people actually put effort into healing rather than spam one button all day.
I think people will be fine with it if it's official, think they were only upset cuz they thought it was a sneak change.
All endgame bosses apply Nailed to the Ground anyway, Flight can't cheese those fights If only you knew how bad things really are
But that's the whole point, to get people to stop being an iniquity one trick, I am not a fan of nerfs, but this iniquity "bug" doesn't feel like a nerf, feels like proper balancing. What I've always wanted in the game, not for things to be nerfed everytime they do good.
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What we get
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- The Overlord
The main thing about iniquity is that there only three 100' spammable heals in the game (iniquity, psionic healing, rebuke) and two of them are bad.
Epic Stronghold
Block timing explained
in fact most of the time I'm using one of the 3 Lifedrain powers, Vala's Light, Arcane Vitality and Absorb Heat
and the other 2 100 feet healing powers are horrible, your main target can die before they reach them!
In fact I even forgot about Rebuke (which is horrible while playing with a gamepad i may add since its a Dual-power), I was only thinking about Psionic Healing and Bionic Shielding
Maybe instead of asking for NERFs, ask for BUFFS to give players more options! Even if this was intentional it wouldn't stop people from using Iniquity
Especially after 1 years of no revamps and Gadgeteer failing to have support powers for Gadget healing
You Don't want to piss off players with more NERFs after the pathetic Vehicle nerf and the RUMOURS followed after it about another potential NERF with an established system
Rank 3 Phoenix Flight and Shadow Phoenix Flight are actually abyssmal! Dropping my framerates down to 18-24 FPS on 2021
However to my surprise, Radiant Phoenix Flight has the BEST performance out of 3, it keeps a stable 30-34 FPS and doesn't overdo it with the particles effects
You know, those Flight powers would be benefit from a Performance revamp, not to mention the obnoxious Aura that hugs the entire character's body! Is that forced edgy aura really necessary?
The Radiant Phoenix Flight is the closest to the Angel Wings travel power suggestion from years ago, but the ugly White Substance Aura which covers every inch of the character's body... why would you do that?