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Release Notes, August 25

trailturtletrailturtle Posts: 5,496 Perfect World Employee
edited August 2012 in Release Notes
Powers:
-Gadgeteering: Boomerang Powers: These powers were not correctly receiving some of their energy costs. Their costs have been increased significantly.
- Gadgeteering: Gas Pellets: Ranks 2 and 3 should now properly scale

Night Avenger Archetype:
-Night Avenger archetype should no longer expire after log out

Costumes:
-Restored female worm head costume piece
-Restored female floating brain costume piece
-Fixed category problems with Nighthawk chest layer

Critter:
- Psimon is fixed and now properly goes through his phases

Performance/stability:
-Resolved various server crashes
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  • megaskullmonmegaskullmon Posts: 313 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    What about the chat bugs and the chat bubbles?
  • championshewolfchampionshewolf Posts: 4,375 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    What chat bug?
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  • rykonailorykonailo Posts: 35 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    How about the game lock ups and video driver crashes that render this game nigh unplayable now? You know the ones I've reported for 2 months on test that are now live. :frown:
  • jonsillsjonsills Posts: 6,318 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Um, ryko - if your video driver crashes, that's not on Cryptic. They didn't provide you with drivers. Maybe check with the website of your card's manufacturer, see if they have updated drivers for you to download?
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  • frost3511frost3511 Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    ...Eh, thought it would be something else, generally because; I didn't know they worked this late.
  • lezard21lezard21 Posts: 1,510 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    R.I.P nemesis system! You were a cool feature!
  • gravouisgravouis Posts: 25 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    I love the boomrange effect for aoe its better the the stars one or the other aoe blades !
    and the blous thats pretty cool too, it snags the boess for a little while .
    and you can make this toon of night avenger use meele claws or fist or swords type.
    which makes a more personal play style more fun.
    don't change a thing about night hack this archtype is cool specially for freeform.
    I like the type where you can do both range damage and close damage then when the mobs comes close to ya you have a close back up that does better damage.


    p.s.
    only one thing i think should be increased on night avenger types is the defense passives.
    make one specialy for this archtype that can not only sneak and do good crits but also have more defense values to it or at least health regen value to it to regain hp duren battlle as your energy skill builds up mp.
    also I think you should make gear items that can be used for specs of night avenger archtypes that has both ego and strength.
    plus good defense.
  • konamzkikonamzki Posts: 78
    edited August 2012
    i cant login :(
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  • jonsillsjonsills Posts: 6,318 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    konamzki wrote: »
    i cant login :(
    That's because of the previously-announced emergency patch that started about twelve minutes before you posted.
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  • r9xchaosr9xchaos Posts: 533
    edited August 2012
    Hopefully SNEAK peole will get RETCON this time...ive not received anythign right now except removing sneak without resettign al my powers...


    Seriously ... when tehy remove somethign from your powers buid they should reset al teh pwers instead of only this one power...since some peopel use 1 power because they other other powers in combination...

    and if u remove any of those powers the whoel build is not workign as intended anymore..
  • chaelkchaelk Posts: 7,732 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    This is only a few of the long list of new bugs, from the list on the bug report thread.
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  • rokurocarisrokurocaris Posts: 1,074 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Powers:
    -Gadgeteering: Boomerang Powers: These powers were not correctly receiving some of their energy costs. Their costs have been increased significantly.
    - Gadgeteering: Gas Pellets: Ranks 2 and 3 should now properly scale

    Night Avenger Archetype:
    -Night Avenger archetype should no longer expire after log out

    Costumes:
    -Restored female worm head costume piece
    -Restored female floating brain costume piece
    -Fixed category problems with Nighthawk chest layer

    Critter:
    - Psimon is fixed and now properly goes through his phases

    Performance/stability:
    -Resolved various server crashes

    New bugs still left to fix:

    - Ripper and Psimon (and possibly other alert villains) randomly spike-regenerate health! This is definitelly NOT a "feature"! It's not registered by the combat log as a heal!
    - Infernal Nemeses got Darkness powers (like Shadow Bolts) mixed into their build and suffer from the same disappearance glitch as Darkness Nemeses! Don't tell me you did this on purpose, to keep players without a Nemesis from entering the alerts!
    - Speech bubble text, build portraits, items in the pick-up window and other UI elements are dislocated.

    And these are some reports I got in the game itself:

    Panacea@Alchemystic: PSA: MI crisis is bugged too. Go ahead and do it for the lulz if you want to see Qwyjibo send Teleiosaurus flying across the map.

    The Darkest Rock@DeathEgg1366: Shadow destroyer regenerates like hell!
    The Darkest Rock@DeathEgg1366: he regenerates faster than 5 people can damage him! Shadow destroyer that is.

    Blackscale@Capt_E: All your lore entries got wiped

    Bird of Prey@hellzcatzbr: Biotechnical Difficulties missions, also broken.
    Bird of Prey@hellzcatzbr: the mission let you create the antidote earlier, but then you can't help the scientits, You can try to collect the antidote ingredients again, but then you can't createe the antidote

    OOG THE CAVEMAN@Vectrin: Gravitar is too freakin hard now.
    SnowFlake@Scarlett81: It seems she uses her yellow bubble now more than before. This is all second hand account, from what i have read in the forums and in the chats.
    Jedi Night@Visean: she spams moves on ppl she isnt even targeting

    Dr Novocain@gonzolo4584: anyone notice that your money isnt going into your stash for sales on the ah????


    If any of you players noticed another bug left, please tell me, so I can add it.
  • chaelkchaelk Posts: 7,732 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Ok you fixed psimon, now fix ripper, every time he gets to 1/6 health he flicks back to 2/3 health.
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  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    New bugs still left to fix:

    - Ripper and Psimon (and possibly other alert villains) randomly spike-regenerate health! This is definitelly NOT a "feature"! It's not registered by the combat log as a heal!
    - Infernal Nemeses got Darkness powers (like Shadow Bolts) mixed into their build and suffer from the same disappearance glitch as Darkness Nemeses! Don't tell me you did this on purpose, to keep players without a Nemesis from entering the alerts!
    - Speech bubble text, build portraits, items in the pick-up window and other UI elements are dislocated.


    If any of you players noticed another bug left, please tell me, so I can add it.

    Don't worry guys!
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    Forget the old and scruffy Alerts.
    Let it retire with the zombiefied Nemesis System and moldy Comic Series.
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  • wacky99wacky99 Posts: 115 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    More broken stuff to fix, guys. Get to it, and then we can talk about buying some Zens.

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  • rykonailorykonailo Posts: 35 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    jonsills wrote: »
    Um, ryko - if your video driver crashes, that's not on Cryptic. They didn't provide you with drivers. Maybe check with the website of your card's manufacturer, see if they have updated drivers for you to download?

    Pretty sure it is when I could play live fine these past few months, test too was fine until over a month ago when the new powers were first being tested and the lock ups and driver crashes started happening. And now that its Live, bam both those things are happening.
  • serendipitynowserendipitynow Posts: 554 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Gotta add that the auction house bug isnt fixed either, its improved but not fixed.

    After first patch i tried to buy 15 items, only one worked other 14 gave the 'unable to purchase' message.

    4 hours ago i was in the game again and made 12 attempts to buy, only 5 worked, the other 7 still gave the 'unable to purchase' message.

    Its really annoying to search and find something to buy only to be unable to over and over again!
  • chaelkchaelk Posts: 7,732 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    OK, I think IO have the strangest.
    I just bough a T2 armaments pacvk with PRIMUS recog. supposedly a L23 random green primaRY.
    I got a L40 green primary.

    Anyone else want to try it out and see if is just me or the computer is playing silly buggers
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  • rokurocarisrokurocaris Posts: 1,074 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Added some reports from in-game to my list.
  • mattgeomattgeo Posts: 13 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    As far as the display driver problem:

    I was playing just before the Night Avenger patch was released (plus a year and a half before that), everything working fine. Logged in a little later, Night Avenger patch installed, now I get display driver crashes constantly. Seems like a heck of a coincidence to me.

    My video card drivers claim to be the most up to date ones.
  • wacky99wacky99 Posts: 115 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    chaelk wrote: »
    OK, I think IO have the strangest.
    I just bough a T2 armaments pacvk with PRIMUS recog. supposedly a L23 random green primaRY.
    I got a L40 green primary.

    Anyone else want to try it out and see if is just me or the computer is playing silly buggers

    I tried this with both UNTIL and Primus currecies and I also received Level 40 greens. I'm wondering now if I try that on a lower level character will the item be the same level as they are, or level 40 again?

    Well spotted.

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  • sanmercisanmerci Posts: 203 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    New bugs still left to fix:

    - Ripper and Psimon (and possibly other alert villains) randomly spike-regenerate health! This is definitelly NOT a "feature"! It's not registered by the combat log as a heal!
    - Infernal Nemeses got Darkness powers (like Shadow Bolts) mixed into their build and suffer from the same disappearance glitch as Darkness Nemeses! Don't tell me you did this on purpose, to keep players without a Nemesis from entering the alerts!
    - Speech bubble text, build portraits, items in the pick-up window and other UI elements are dislocated.

    And these are some reports I got in the game itself:

    Panacea@Alchemystic: PSA: MI crisis is bugged too. Go ahead and do it for the lulz if you want to see Qwyjibo send Teleiosaurus flying across the map.

    The Darkest Rock@DeathEgg1366: Shadow destroyer regenerates like hell!
    The Darkest Rock@DeathEgg1366: he regenerates faster than 5 people can damage him! Shadow destroyer that is.

    Blackscale@Capt_E: All your lore entries got wiped

    Bird of Prey@hellzcatzbr: Biotechnical Difficulties missions, also broken.
    Bird of Prey@hellzcatzbr: the mission let you create the antidote earlier, but then you can't help the scientits, You can try to collect the antidote ingredients again, but then you can't createe the antidote

    OOG THE CAVEMAN@Vectrin: Gravitar is too freakin hard now.
    SnowFlake@Scarlett81: It seems she uses her yellow bubble now more than before. This is all second hand account, from what i have read in the forums and in the chats.
    Jedi Night@Visean: she spams moves on ppl she isnt even targeting

    Dr Novocain@gonzolo4584: anyone notice that your money isnt going into your stash for sales on the ah????


    If any of you players noticed another bug left, please tell me, so I can add it.

    I would add that Doomsday Device! Nemesis mission is now apparently broken for Darkness, Dual Blades, Archery, Fire, Infernal Supernatural, Gadgeteering... if I had to guess, I would say this goes across ALL powersets, but I've pretty much given up testing it. The nemesis disappears while you're beating on it, no cutscene initiates, and you cannot then move on to jailbreak.
  • jonesing4jonesing4 Posts: 800 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    sanmerci wrote: »
    I would add that Doomsday Device! Nemesis mission is now apparently broken for Darkness, Dual Blades, Archery, Fire, Infernal Supernatural, Gadgeteering... if I had to guess, I would say this goes across ALL powersets, but I've pretty much given up testing it. The nemesis disappears while you're beating on it, no cutscene initiates, and you cannot then move on to jailbreak.

    Yeah, I think it's all nemeses in any mission they show up in (based on what I've heard, and what happened with my Munitions nem in the Draysha mission).
  • r9xchaosr9xchaos Posts: 533
    edited August 2012
    Has CO experienced such a bad patch before?
  • thalast1thalast1 Posts: 78 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    r9xchaos wrote: »
    Has CO experienced such a bad patch before?

    I think this is the 4th or 5th time Cryptic has done this.
  • klittyklitty Posts: 1,545 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    There is another Pulp Piece invisible in the hairs section:

    http://steamcommunity.com/id/kittilipy/screenshot/900972751249416851?tab=public

    :/

    How and where I can report this?


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  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Send it thru window either to Cryptic or PWE building tied to an cinderblock.
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  • xenosinfinityxxenosinfinityx Posts: 42 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Devs... I know you're busy, and you're supposed to be producing new content, but as it stands at the moment I think a lot of us would be happy for you to take a month off making new things to work on bug fixes. Unless you're working on the halloween event as well, which would make it harder.
  • serendipitynowserendipitynow Posts: 554 Arc User
    edited August 2012
    Thing is bug fixes and new content dont get them money, shiny new crap like the constant costumes, travel powers and ATs do...

    Thats why they will push through a patch to add shiny crap that breaks half the things in the game
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