Release Notes 7/25/2024

kaiserin · July 25

Defender's National Training Program
This event will be active for 2 weeks.

During this event getting a brand new character to level 40 will give you 3 tokens to use in the event store.
It must be a newly made character. Characters made prior to this update will not count.
It does not matter how you get to 40.
The rewards are given via the Perk system, and may take a few minutes to be rewarded upon hitting level 40.
At level 6 any viable character will receive a popup giving information about the event.
You do not need any missions to participate.

Event currency is now account-wide.
Added Baseball emotes to the event store for 2 tokens.
Added Baseball Bat costume to the event store for 1 token.

Gear Modification Bonus
For the next week, removing modifications from gear is heavily discounted.

Collector's Lockbox

For the next month this lockbox will be dropping.
Added the contents of the Scarlet Scarab lockbox to the store.
Added the Valorous lockbox to the Drifter's Collector's store.

ZEN Store

The Mercenary Keypack will be available for the next 2 weeks.

Cost: 900 ZEN
10x Cosmic Keys of Power
1x Mercenary Armor costume

The Stormsurge Keypack will be available for the next 2 weeks.

Cost: 900 ZEN
10x Cosmic Keys of Power
1x Windswept Hair costume

Character Limits

Increased Character Limit by 5.

Perks

Added perks for leveling the Inventor or Fissile archetype to 40. The Inventor perk can be earned retroactively by logging into an existing level 40 Inventor.

Gear

Fixed an issue where Cosmic Presence could expire other Cosmic effects from other players.
Increased the amount of Offense Justice gear gives as a bonus to 175 (from 148).
Increased the amount of Defense Distinguished gear gives as a bonus to 65 (from 64)
Increased the amount of Healing bonus Virtuous gear gives as a bonus to 40% (from 38).

UI

Added cursor scale options to the basic options menu.

Costumes

Fixed an issue where the Helicopter costume was not displaying the blades properly when using Ranks 2 and 3 of Jetpack.

Archetype Changes

New Archetype: The Fissile
Superstats: Intelligence/Dexterity/Recovery
Specializations: Guardian/Vindicator
This archetype does not need to be unlocked.

Power Progression:

1. Particle Rifle
1. Particle Blaster
6. Plasma Radiation
8. Radiation Suit
11. Electromagnet OR Tractor Beam
14. Technological Prowess
17. Pulse Beam Rifle
21. Radiation Shield
25. Molecular Self-Assembly
30. Plasma Cannon
35. Nanobot Swarm or Cloaking Device
40. Orbital Cannon OR Implosion Engine

Inventor
New Superstats: Intelligence/Presence/Recovery
New Specializations: Overseer/Sentinel
Updated Inventor talent to match new stats.
Added Overseer talent that uses the previous stat spread the Inventor talent had.

Updated Power Progression:

1. Sonic Blaster
1. Experimental Blaster
6. Experimental Burst Ray
11. Support Drones OR Bionic Shielding
14. Technological Advancements
17. Medical Beam
21. Energy Shield
25. Molecular Self-Assembly
30. Resurrection Serum
35. Sonic Device OR Miniaturization Drive
40. Implosion Engine OR Orbital Cannon

kaiserin · July 25

Power Changes
All players have received a free respec. As a note free respecs do not stack with any previous ones.
Some players may also receive a forced respec due to the various power changes in this update. Please visit the powerhouse to reset your powers.

Specializations
Detect Vulnerability

The scaling of this spec now sharply diminishes after 350 Intelligence (30% armor pen).
Adjusted scaling to no longer have a higher scaling at lower levels.

Intelligence Specializations

Swapped Revitalize and Enlightened spec locations.
Preparation: Now provides Defense based on your secondary superstats.
Enlightened: Now provides healing bonus based on how much cooldown reduction you have from gear. This amount scales normally up to 36%, then has diminished scaling.
Revitalize: Increased amount per rank to 3%, reduces total ranks to 2.
Tactician: Increased totals ranks to 3.

Intelligence Mastery

Changed to provide +20 Intelligence and +30 maximum power.

Repurpose

The healing bonus amount given by this spec has been reduced. This spec scales normally up until a 36% bonus, then uses a diminished scaling.

Misc Power Changes

Accelerated Metabolism

Reduced cooldown to 10 seconds (from 15).

Charged Buff

Increased duration to 12 seconds (from 10).
Increased Flight Speed to +3 (from +2).

Disorient

Increased speed reduction to 50% (From 25%).

Plasma Beam

Increased activate period to 0.5 seconds (from 0.25). Damage and cost has been adjusted to accommodate the change so the power still has the same output.

Minigun

Increased activate period to 0.5 seconds (from 0.25). Damage and cost has been adjusted to accommodate the change so the power still has the same output.

Call To Battle

Increased damage reduction per rank.

Particle Smash

Fixed an issue where the damage radius was incorrect. Radius increased to 20ft.

Soul Vortex/Implosion Engine

Increased the effectiveness of the pull.

Flamethrower

Chance to apply Clinging Flames now scales with rank.
Spitfire adv: Now increases Clinging Flames chance by 10%.

Fire Breath

Chance to apply Clinging Flames now scales with rank.
Chemical Burn adv: Now also changes the damage type to particle.
Spitfire adv: Now increases Clinging Flames chance by 10%.

Power Variant Devices

Fixed an issue where Technology based PVDs were not being affected by effects that boost Technology powers.

Telekinetic Assault

Fixed an issue with how the bonus damage was being calculated. Players should notice higher bonus damage now.

Eye Beams

FX adjustments for all ranks.

Luminescent Slash

Adjusted animation sequence to look smoother when chaining.
End of Line adv: Changed energy thresholds to 65% and 90% (from 70 and 95).

New Power: Violent Roar

Tier 1 Supernatural Bestial.
Active Offense.
Increases damage and boosts your Strength and Recovery while active.
Increases the amount of Energy your Recovery gives you.
Adv (2): Chance to apply bleed on all direct damage Supernatural attacks.
Adv (2): Adds a damaging component to the Howl ability. Expires all effects of this power once used.

New Power: Storm Cloud

Tier 2 Electricity.
100ft.
Deals electrical damage to targets.
Attacking a target affected by this Power with direct electrical damage has a chance to Arc to a different target.
Attacking a target affected by this Power with direct electrical damage has a chance to apply Negative Ions.
Adv (2): Stuns targets.

New Power: Eye Lasers

Tier 0 Laser Sword.
Blast.
100ft.
Deals Particle damage and has a chance to apply Plasma Burn.
Damage is considered melee damage within 15ft, and ranged further away.
Refreshes the duration of Plasma Burn depending on the number of stacks on the target.
Adv (2): Applies Disintegrate on full charge.
Adv (2): Spreads your Plasma Burn and Disintegrate effects to nearby targets.
Adv (2): Stuns your target on full charge.
Adv (2): Applies Download to you, reducing the cost of Technology powers and increasing the effectiveness of energy builders.

Gadgeteering

Implosion Engine

Area effect increased to 40ft (from 25). Cost has gone up due to this change.
Changed damage type to Particle.

On-Next-Hit

All On-Next-Hit abilities now share a linked cooldown of 15 seconds.
Fixed an issue where these powers could apply to non-direct damaging abilities.
Fixed an issue where On Next Hit abilities were nag flagged as Gadgeteer powers for mod purposes.

Miniaturization Device

No longer applies a generic damage debuff, instead, now applies Disorient to affected targets. This effect scales with rank.
Reciprocating Gizmo Adv: Removed the generic damage and speed buff. Now applies 3 stacks of Charged Up.

Sonic Device

Now considered ranged damage. Base damage has been reduced to account for the additional bonuses it now receives due to this change.
This power can now critically hit.
New Adv (2): Now applies the stun to multiple targets.

Toxic Nanites

Moved to Tier 1 (from Tier 2).
Now deals an initial amount of Toxic damage up front. This damage is reduced if used against multiple targets.
Applies a stack of Deadly Poison.
New Adv (2): Increases the aoe damage of this ability while lowering the single target.
New Adv (2): Adds an additional stack of Deadly Poison to the effect.

Gauntlet Chainsaw

Moved to Tier 2 (from Tier 1).
Added chance to apply Bleed every hit.
Removed Open Wound advantage.
Increased maintain duration to 5 seconds.
Ripsaw Adv: Damage boost amount now applies as the target's health decreases, up to 35%. (From 30%)

Pulse Beam Rifle

Moved to Tier 3 (from Tier 1).
Removed escalating damage effect. Now deals continuous damage.
Increased base damage and cost.
Increased Critical Rate and Severity, and they now also now adjust based on rank.
Adjusted the Hit FX and Pulse FX to not strobe quite as much.
Finite Improbability Engine Adv: Increases this power's damage by one rank, and makes the crit/severity bonus a flat rate.
New Adv (2): Reduces the cooldown of Technology powers while maintaining.

Experimental Burst Ray

Removed the random effects from this power.
Increased chance to apply Disorient based on charge time.
Increased the damage boost overcharge gives per stack.
Increased Overcharge duration to 10 seconds (from 5).
Increased Overcharge max stack count to 5 (from 3).
Increased cone radius to 45 degrees (from 30).
Increased damage variance to 25% (from 10%).
New Adv (2): Chance to apply Bane to targets.
New Adv (2): Creates a random Healing Rune one your primary target when fully charged.
New Adv (2): Applies Download to you, reducing the cost of Technology powers and increasing the effectiveness of energy builders.
New Adv (2): Applies Download to you, reducing the cost of Technology powers and increasing the effectiveness of energy builders.

Particle Mine

The Particle Mine can now be placed anywhere within range.
Can now stack up to 5 mines at a time.
Now knocks up targets.
Removed Ejector Module advantage as the effect is now built into the power.
Reduced damage due to new effects.
Fixed power coloring issues.
New Adv (2): Chance to apply a stack of Plasma Burn.

Experimental Blaster

Removed Confuse effect.
Added chance to Disorient. Chance is guaranteed when fully charged.
New Adv (2): When fully charged, applies Disintegrate to the target.
New Adv (2): If your are injured, scaling chance based on your current health that the base particle damage of this attack will instead heal you.

Tractor Beam

Increased damage and cost.
New Adv (2): When fully maintained, applies Disintegrate to your primary target.
New Adv (2): Pulls additional targets towards you.
New Adv (2): Applies Download to you, reducing the cost of Technology powers and increasing the effectiveness of energy builders.

Nanobot Swarm

This power is now an Active Offense.
Grants a damage boost and breakout damage.
Cooldown reduced to 90 seconds (from 120) to match other Active powers.
Fixed an issue where the amount of recharge reduced was being reduced by how much recharge reduction you had.
Reduced base recharge reduction to 15 (from 20) to account for new cooldown time.
No longer affects Ultimate or Active power recharges.
Rejuvenating Injectors Adv: While this power is active, now heals whenever a power of yours comes off of cooldown.

Bionic Shielding

The heal effect is now considered a heal over time for interaction purposes.
Reduced the healing effect by 10%.
Added a 3 second cooldown.
Overloaded Circuits Adv: The damage from this advantage is now considered reflect damage, no longer scales off of ranged bonuses and can no longer critically hit.

Resurrection Serum

Reduced cooldown to 3 seconds (from 15).
New Adv (2): Resurrects up to 3 additional players within 25ft.

Attack Toys

Fixed an issue where Replicated Toys were not considered to be the player's pet. This was causing it to have issues with other power interactions.
Updated flight power so they do not toggle it on and off periodically while fighting.

Strafing Run

Changed to use primary target instead of a reticle.
Reduced damage and cost.
Adjusted how the damage is distributed between each hit so that the majority of the damage is on the last hit.
Increased area effect to 15ft (from 10).
New Adv (1): Changes damage type to Particle.

Orbital Cannon

Increased damage and cost by a small amount.
New Adv (2): Refreshes the duration of Plasma Burn and Disintegrate.

New Power: Cloaking Device

Tier 2 Gadgeteering.
Wipes all threat from up to 20 nearby targets.
Adv (2): Reduces the amount of threat your attacks generate by 100% for the next 10 seconds.

New Power: Detonator Switch

Tier 3 Gadgeteering.
45 second recharge.
Detonates any Particle Mines you have out, and increases their damage radius to 25ft.
Explodes all of your Gadget pets within 100ft of you.
Depending on what pet is affected deals damage or heals nearby allies.
Places all Gadget pets on a 5 second cooldown.
Power can only be activated if you have a applicable pet active.

New Power: Particle Blaster

Tier 0 Gadgeteering.
Blast.
100ft.
Deals Particle damage and has a chance to apply Plasma Burn.
Refreshes the duration of Plasma Burn depending on the number of stacks on the target.
Adv (2): Applies Disintegrate on full charge.
Adv (2): Heals you instead of dealing damage if your health is low.
Adv (2): Spreads your Plasma Burn and Disintegrate effects to nearby targets.
Adv (2): Applies Download to you, reducing the cost of Technology powers and increasing the effectiveness of energy builders.

New Power: Medical Beam

Tier 2 Gadgeteering.
100ft Range.
Heals target.
If target is in an offensive or Hybrid Role, boosts their base damage.
If target is in Support or Defensive Role, boosts their resistance.
Adv (2): Increases the heal on this power for a short time whenever a power comes off of cooldown.
Adv (2): Heals allies nearby you for a small amount.

New Power: Radiation Suit

Tier 1 Gadgeteering.
Offensive Passive.
Boosts Energy damage, and other damage to a lesser degree.
Adds a flat amount of damage absorption, and a greater amount against damage over time effects.
Increases resistance to Energy damage.
Has a 10% chance to apply Plasma Burn when attacking with Energy damage.
Chance to apply Plasma Burn to targets you damage.

New Power: Electro Magnet

Tier 2 Gadgeteering.
50ft Range.
Creates a Electro Magnet at your target's location that pulls nearby targets.
Deals a small amount of Particle damage.
Creates a Static Field once the effect expires.
Adv (1): Chance to apply Negative Ions.
Adv (2): Chance to apply Plasma Burn.
Adv (1): The Static Field now applies at your location.

New Power: Radiation Poisoning

Tier 1 Gadgeteering.
On Next Hit.
Cooldown: 30 Seconds.
Deals an initial amount of Particle damage up front. This damage is reduced if used against multiple targets.
Applies a stack of Plasma Burn.
Adv (2): Increases the aoe damage of this ability while lowering the single target.
Adv (2): Roots affected targets.
Adv (2): Adds an additional stack of Plasma Burn to the effect.

New Power: Radiation Shield

Tier 1 Gadgeteering.
Block.
Gives higher energy resistance than most shields.
Adv (2): Reduces the cooldown of your Technology powers by 1 second whenever you take damage. Does not affect Ultimate or Active powers.

New Power: Plasma Cannon

Tier 3 Gadgeteering.
20 second recharge.
50ft.
Deals particle damage to targets in front of you. Deals additional damage for every Radiation effect on the targets.
Stuns affected targets.
Refreshes the duration of your Plasma Burn and Disintegrate.
Adv (2): Applies Restoration.

New Power: Plasma Radiation

Tier 1 Gadgeteering.
50ft Range.
Deals particle damage to targets in front of you.
Chance to apply Plasma Burn.
Adv (2): Increases base damage by 50%, but there is a 5% chance every hit that the power will go on cooldown for 5 seconds.
Adv (2): Increases chance to apply Plasma Burn, and guarantees application when fully maintained.
Adv (2): Chance to Snare targets, Chance to root targets.
Adv (2): Refreshes Plasma Burn.
Adv (2): Refreshes Disintegrate.

New Power: Sonic Amplification

Tier 1 Gadgeteering.
Energy Unlock.
Grants energy whenever you apply Disorient.
Scales off of Recovery and Endurance.

New Power: Technological Prowess

Tier 1 Gadgeteering.
Ranged damage Form.
Scales off of Intelligence.
Triggers whenever one of your technology powers is fully charged, maintained, or comes off of cooldown.

New Power: Technological Advancements

Tier 1 Gadgeteering.
Healing Form.
Scales off of Intelligence.
Triggers whenever one of your technology powers is fully charged, maintained, or comes off of cooldown.

New Power: Energy Blaster

Tier 0 Gadgeteering
Energy Builder
Chance to apply Plasma Burn on the initial hit.
Adv (2): Adds a chance to apply Plasma Burn on every hit.

criswolf09 · July 25

Hello Kaiserin, I wonder if it is a typo but in the Fissile AT power progression you say level 1. Experimental Blaster. Is this intended or will it have the new Particle Blaster power?

kaiserin · July 25

Typo!

jaazaniah1 · July 25

Sure wish we had someone to update the HeroCreator. Maybe someone at CO can reach out to the owner to see if she can be lured back?

mutantmaids · July 25

I see that it says the character limit was raised by 5, but I only received 2 character slots, and cannot buy any more.

rattlerboy · July 25

why not just make another new AT instead of butchering an old one, or are we expected to go FF to keep the builds we liked every time you have the whim to "fix" something.

kaiserin · July 25

mutantmaids wrote: »

I see that it says the character limit was raised by 5, but I only received 2 character slots, and cannot buy any more.

How many characters do you currently have? The limit was raised from 125 to 130.

thisiscraftaaa · July 25

Question: if I retrain an existing level 40 into either of the ATs that now give perks, will that result in me getting the appropriate perk?

Edit: disregard this question. Just retrained my Fissile (the original Fissile, neat) to be, well, The Fissile, and got the perk plus "The Fissile" title, can confirm it works.

jaazaniah1 · July 25

Not sure if this is a bug or not. I could not get Hex of Suffering, Soul Vortex, Strafing Run or Implosion Engine to proc stacks of Concentration, even at max range. Worked fine with Soul Beam and Psionic Acc.

over9000bpm · July 25

Sharpshooter detoggles when I hit something. Two of my characters don’t have a toggle form anymore. Please fix.

thisiscraftaaa · July 25

over9000bpm#5312 wrote: »

Sharpshooter detoggles when I hit something. Two of my characters don’t have a toggle form anymore. Please fix.

JUST came here to report this bug; it appears that Sharpshooter detoggles itself whenever it WOULD normally gain/refresh stacks in combat. (I.E. good old Two-Gun-Mojo spam for example.)

Edit: okay, it's being even weirder, now I'm not sure what's doing it, but it's easy to get it to break using muni maintains at least.

BUG: All instances of Enchanted Fortitude Defense mod and Magical Conditioning Defense mod are Bind On Pickup. This was reported a few weeks back in a thread that for some unknown reason got deleted within an hour or two of reporting. (This same thread reported Coruscating Might and Swift Wings, which WERE successfully fixed before this patch went live, at least going by R3 tooltips.)

If someone could check the R5, R7 and R9 versions to see if they're different, that would be swell. Please and thank you!

kaiserin · July 25

No mods are bind on pickup, you're looking at them through a store that has binding overrides.

thisiscraftaaa · July 25

kaiserin#0958 wrote: »

No mods are bind on pickup, you're looking at them through a store that has binding overrides.

Come on, it takes, like, five seconds to check; I wasted 1.5kQ on this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XmEaAStgtc

kaiserin · July 25

Looks like there's a binding override on the questionite store. If you rank them up they'll unbind.

historiphile · July 26

That detective coat has been in limbo for a while (almost 2 years?). Next time you're doing a keypack, maybe run that again? Or move the coat to the TPB store? I have so many friends who want it and can't get it.

crypticbuxom · July 27

The Gadgeteer Particle Rifles fourth color is adopting the Base Costume Colors fourth color instead. At least on the Plasma Rifle skin.

While using super speed TPs the running animations are broke on all new two handed technology powers. They work with acrobatic, but not athletic too. When are we getting animations fixes?

Are the level 40 archetype titles unlocked account wide?

thisiscraftaaa · July 27

crypticbuxom wrote: »

The Gadgeteer Particle Rifles fourth color is adopting the Base Costume Colors fourth color instead. At least on the Plasma Rifle skin.

While using super speed TPs the running animations are broke on all new two handed technology powers. They work with acrobatic, but not athletic too. When are we getting animations fixes?

Are the level 40 archetype titles unlocked account wide?

I retrained a character into a Fissile day one to check, and Fissile at least is account-wide. I'd assume the same applies for Inventor. (The Fissile's perk and title is an uncolored "The Fissile")

jaazaniah1 · July 27

Anyone know what got fixed on the 7/26 patch? No notes here.

kaiserin · July 31

crypticbuxom wrote: »

While using super speed TPs the running animations are broke on all new two handed technology powers. They work with acrobatic, but not athletic too. When are we getting animations fixes?

I'm not seeing any issues with these animations, can you show an example?

spookyspectre · July 31

A big thank you for this power review! There are a lot more good changes and new powers than I initially thought would be part of this review. I'm still trying out a bunch of the changes but the improvement to the strength of powers that use Pulls is great and Electro Magnet has a really nice animation. Great job overall!

guyhumual · August 2

Incidentally the out call is with the wrong hand, the outs should be made with the right

redcastle56 · August 2

I know its no HeroCreator, but my reference spreadsheet has been updated with the new powers and spec changes.

https://bit.ly/co-reference

jaazaniah1 · August 3

On PTS I am seeing ALL on-next-hit powers going on a 25 second CD, instead of the stated 15 second CD. Fix?

jaazaniah1 · August 4

Using Detonator Switch with Support Drones is not very useful since they tend to die before you need them. E.g. at cosmics where a big wire frame attack will wipe them out before you want to detonate them, which is after the wire frame goes off. Instead of giving them burst healing maybe it would be better to give them a HoT (10-12 seconds) and then the trick is to detonate them before the wire frame.

Release Notes 7/25/2024

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