Release Notes for October 18, 2012

trailturtle · October 2012

Champions Online release notes for October 18, 2012.

Missions:
-Whiteout: Roi'nesh critters in the Cargo bay should no longer permahold players.
-Bloodmoon: Hacked Orbital Cannon codes now again deal damage.

UI:
-Gem slot window will resize with the number of slots available

Alerts:
-Hi-Pan costume rewards should now properly appear in player inventory, and in the tailor.

tymmister · October 2012

Hmmm, smaller list than I was hoping for.

So, I guess the Nemesis creator issues are not gonna be touched yet, nor the Caskets mission in the Queen City set of missions. Last I checked, I still could not finish the VB Crisis as Valerian Scarlet still kept disappearing...

For me, those three are the 3 bugs I really wanna see fixed.

I just gotta be patient I guess.

jonsills · October 2012

Well, Tym, thanks to my crippling altoholism, I've only gotten one character into the VB Crisis, a couple of weeks ago or so, but Skyfire (a Tempest AT) was able to defeat Valerian Scarlet with the help of his Steelhead Soldier sidekick, so I think the bug's been fixed. And the only issue I've found with Queen City is that the zombies no longer spawn every single time you destroy a Suspicious Crate in the Delivery of the Dead mission (and they don't seem to spawn at all if you have the Night Avenger invisibility power running while you attack the boxes). They do pop up eventually, though.

nextnametaken · October 2012

I just ran Queen City had no trouble with the crates and was done in record time.
Rebuke everything!

hyperstrikecoh · October 2012

So they didn't touch the geometry and clickable bugs in Whiteout yet?

Okay, I'll continue avoiding it...

lordhavelock · October 2012

tymmister wrote: »

...Last I checked, I still could not finish the VB Crisis as Valerian Scarlet still kept disappearing...

I completed the VB Crisis just the other (Sunday or Monday) night. I had no problems with VS disappearing.

mholds1 · October 2012

Suspicious crates do work but for some reason you can't use your energy builder on them, they worked when i use devour essence with a toon and a become ghost item.
Still no mention of whether backup devices are to become account wide instead of character wide- I guess these have been put to bed.
Vibora bay crisis worked fine for me since it was fixed and so does Nemcon and that was during the last week.
Bullet for Biselle again busted.

Awaiting the release fo the the vehicles for a new batch of bugs

gaelyn1 · October 2012

So few bugs corrections in this patch.

Energy builder "toggle never cancels" which doesn't work since months, for exemple.

nepht · October 2012

hyperstrikecoh wrote: »

So they didn't touch the geometry and clickable bugs in Whiteout yet?

Okay, I'll continue avoiding it...

Stuff the maintenance you win 1000 internets for your sig good sir I seen a similar sig in DC as well. Good to see you arent letting NCsad stop you guys and your good work ^__^

bloodx13 · October 2012

and still no PvP fixes!!

vendince · October 2012

Not a lot of fixes, on the other hand, knowing how things tend to break big time when they fix or change a lot of stuff at once, I can live with just a few at a time.

xanna31 · October 2012

Was hoping to see the Nemesis creator as part of this list...oh well.

neuraldamage · October 2012

Ok I see the Drifter store has been updated with the new Halloween goodies so I have 2 questions:

1) Can we get a list of what one might obtain from the different kits since you're basically asking us to buy items at random without any idea what the potential items are?

2) Where is the Drifter daily? There is a plan to make salvage available without buying NON-EXISTENT grab bags from the Z-store, right?

Ok... I lied, I have 3 questions.

cybersoldier1981 · October 2012

Well then. Typical Patch 'update'...

Nothing new in the C-store, except shadow flight. Not bad, but still just a recycled/reskinned TP.

Finally a chance to get the costume pieces that we lost, and they sell us to them as second-place grab bags. Way to go, Cryptic. This is crap and you damned well know it.

What, pray tell, are these Master Keys? If these are what I've heard about in another game elsewhere... you can't be serious. Please tell me you're not that stupid.

This is why I don't believe in the Asian gaming market. No innovation, repetitive crap, scam gaming.

vendince · October 2012

What I'm seeing about those Master Keys is that I've gotten several lockboxes called Takofane's Cache of Treasures. Four of the things, in fact. I'm not buying the keys, though. If that's the only way to get those boxes open, well, time to trash them.

neuraldamage · October 2012

vendince wrote: »

What I'm seeing about those Master Keys is that I've gotten several lockboxes called Takofane's Cache of Treasures. Four of the things, in fact. I'm not buying the keys, though. If that's the only way to get those boxes open, well, time to trash them.

At least in the other game they mention what is in them upfront. This buy stuff blind crap is bull****. :mad:

cybersoldier1981 · October 2012

So basically it works like this:

1- Cryptic gives us content in the form of the Bloodmoon.

2- The Bloodmoon event offers rewards.

3- We won't be able to get the rewards without spending legitimate real money for the keys.

I see a new trend emerging. I can't wait until all of the damned game content drops these lock boxes.

If that's the case, Cryptic- kiss my ****.

mholds1 · October 2012

I want the Portable Robot Factory if anyone selling it

rokurocaris · October 2012

I hope for you that we do not, in addition to the Drifter Salvage that already costs us real life money to get, need one of those 100 Zen keys to open the Legacy Kits.

Let me lay it out for the people who do not understand it:
* Drifter Salvage comes mainly from Grab Bags, which cost real money and are a gamble.
* Legacy Kits are Grab Bags in all but name. And of course, a gamble too.
* If we need to pay a key for them, that means we have to pay again for just a chance to get the item we want.

To sum it up: We gamble, with real life money, for a chance to gamble some more, and, in addition to... well, basically losing the first one, since it's the Drifter Salvage we need for it, possibly need some more real life money to pay for that second gamble.

For short: Grab Bags?

mainscrizz · October 2012

Now I can't log in b/c of this update! :mad:

Unable to authenticate:

what a pile....

cybersoldier1981 · October 2012

I just got the unable to authenticate message too, then tried again. Said server was closed for maintenance.

Oh look. Another patch that broke the game.

lotar295 · October 2012

Yeah,just got the unable to authenticate message on launcher too

EDIT:Tried logging for about the 5th or 6th time,am now able to log in again

EDIT 2:After logging in to the screen,I get The server is closed for maintenance at this time

lordfuzun · October 2012

tymmister wrote: »

Hmmm, smaller list than I was hoping for.

So, I guess the Nemesis creator issues are not gonna be touched yet, nor the Caskets mission in the Queen City set of missions. Last I checked, I still could not finish the VB Crisis as Valerian Scarlet still kept disappearing...

For me, those three are the 3 bugs I really wanna see fixed.

I just gotta be patient I guess.

In regards to VB Crisis, I've finished it recentlly with a new character. Valerian Scarlet didn't vanish on me at all. In fact, I had to switch to a defenive passive in teh better becuase I could not finish her fast enough.

trailturtle · October 2012

rokurocaris wrote: »

I hope for you that we do not, in addition to the Drifter Salvage that already costs us real life money to get, need one of those 100 Zen keys to open the Legacy Kits.

These kits are like gear bags: You don't need anything else to open it, and you get 1-3 items from the category when you open it.

cybersoldier1981 wrote: »

So basically it works like this:

1- Cryptic gives us content in the form of the Bloodmoon.

2- The Bloodmoon event offers rewards.

3- We won't be able to get the rewards without spending legitimate real money for the keys.

Lock boxes are in addition to other rewards. They are not instead of. While I don't know the exact rewards for the Halloween Bloodmoon, if it's changed at all, we're not making the lock box the centerpiece for it.

ghostdogg · October 2012

Any word on when we are gonna be in game Turtle? Just sayin:)

gaelyn1 · October 2012

trailturtle wrote: »

Lock boxes are in addition to other rewards. They are not instead of. While I don't know the exact rewards for the Halloween Bloodmoon, if it's changed at all, we're not making the lock box the centerpiece for it.

Oh, then it's ok. We are happy and proud to see your money is used to do this awesome add (lockboxes) to the rewards, instead working on new content or all the fantastic list of the until field reports cryptic show us since two years. (lair's update seen in march 2010 the first time, new maps, etc...).
Thanks you very much.
(When i say you, i don't say trailturtle, i say cryptic/pwe).

But you must know one thing, for each of the new cryptic games (or pwe games) which be released. I will release a "buy or not grab bag", with 1% chances, i spend money. with 99% chances i will spend my money elsewhere. This will be on top of other options.

Release Notes for October 18, 2012

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