FC.31.20121116.9 PTS Update

lordgar · December 2012

This build is scheduled to hit PTS by 6:00pm Pacific on 12/12/12

Greetings!

We're updating PTS with the upcoming update build to test stability, as well as verifying a few bug fixes we addressed following the last live push.

Please format any bugs you find in the following format:
Bug
Where it happens
What happens

Release Notes:

Winter Celebration

- Reward items have been adjusted
- Santa now has his own bio

gamehobo · December 2012

don't mind me..

Wait.. DO "Mind" me.. cause I want them so badly before December 25th

itsbrou · December 2012

The event is not on.

theravenforce · December 2012

Can we please get news on the mental front? I havent heard about telepathy in ages. I'm getting tired of walking around with my telepath under the guise she has no powers because of powerful psychic dampeners...

skcark · December 2012

theravenforce wrote: »

Can we please get news on the mental front? I havent heard about telepathy in ages. I'm getting tired of walking around with my telepath under the guise she has no powers because of powerful psychic dampeners...

So change it up? Pretend she was involved in some situation that's cause her to have a mental break down and can't calmly collect her thoughts

theravenforce · December 2012

skcark wrote: »

So change it up? Pretend she was involved in some situation that's cause her to have a mental break down and can't calmly collect her thoughts

If you knew anything about my character Mentella, you'd know it wasnt possible for her to suffer such a breakdown. :biggrin:

But either way it is not going to help me when I want to play her.

skcark · December 2012

theravenforce wrote: »

If you knew anything about my character Mentella, you'd know it wasnt possible for her to suffer such a breakdown. :biggrin:

But either way it is not going to help me when I want to play her.

I'm sure if she put her mind to, anything is possible, even a mental breakdown... i love making puns based on the issue of being mental/mind framesets

theravenforce · December 2012

skcark wrote: »

I'm sure if she put her mind to, anything is possible, even a mental breakdown... i love making puns based on the issue of being mental/mind framesets

Well causing Mental Breakdowns for other people is usually just a passive effect when she enters a room as her presence is so powerful everyone suffers from severe inferiority complexes and are driven insane >_> <_<.

theravenforce · December 2012

I love how small the update for the PTS is xD

- Santa now has his own bio...

With regards the rewards, I can't wait to test this when I get home.

stoopidme · December 2012

theravenforce wrote: »

I love how small the update for the PTS is xD

- Santa now has his own bio...

With regards the rewards, I can't wait to test this when I get home.

It would have helped if more people had actually reported some bugs in the last patch.

tacofoodsolol · December 2012

lordgar wrote: »

Winter Celebration

- Santa now has his own bio

That's some insane content we're getting there!

bwdares · December 2012

stoopidme wrote: »

It would have helped if more people had actually reported some bugs in the last patch.

I saw several people report Bugs in the last thread.

Though I know lots or several at least quit because they felt bug reports fell on deaf ears in the past so they quit.

but hey! the rewards were updated so woot!

thebrainstem · December 2012

someguywhoplaysgames wrote: »

The event is not on.

But Bloodmoon is - just toss santa hats on the zombies and it'll be alright! ...right?

(When BOTH Winter Event and Bloodmoon were on, by the way, that was the most cheerful zombie apocalypse I have ever seen. Just sayin'.)

bwdares · December 2012

thebrainstem wrote: »

But Bloodmoon is - just toss santa hats on the zombies and it'll be alright! ...right?

(When BOTH Winter Event and Bloodmoon were on, by the way, that was the most cheerful zombie apocalypse I have ever seen. Just sayin'.)

I enjoyed pelting Vigil with Snowballs.

enixonbb · December 2012

thebrainstem wrote: »

But Bloodmoon is - just toss santa hats on the zombies and it'll be alright! ...right?

(When BOTH Winter Event and Bloodmoon were on, by the way, that was the most cheerful zombie apocalypse I have ever seen. Just sayin'.)

Christmas AND Halloween, together? Wow that's gotta be more or less the greatest holiday ever!

Happy Hallomas, or would it be Merry Christoween?

gamehobo · December 2012

I can't tell anymore who's having the mental breakdown.. Kontrol or Jay

kallethen · December 2012

enixonbb wrote: »

Christmas AND Halloween, together? Wow that's gotta be more or less the greatest holiday ever!

Happy Hallomas, or would it be Merry Christoween?

Hee hee... I'd have to SOOOO make a "Nightmare Before Christmas" style character for that.

sparhawk · December 2012

enixonbb wrote: »

Christmas AND Halloween, together? Wow that's gotta be more or less the greatest holiday ever!

Happy Hallomas, or would it be Merry Christoween?

Sounds great!

I think I'd favor Christoween myself.

How about it Cryptic, can we have an new Christoween Holiday event? :biggrin:

skcark · December 2012

i agree with the crowd, a combination event would be the best thing ever.

theravenforce · December 2012

I think our Nemesis should escape but before they do they should all shout MERRY CHRISTMAS/HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Before they exit the instance V_V...just saying..

canadascott · December 2012

Dockside: Nemesis Toy Theft, Alert!
A Christmas version of Dockside nemmy where he drops Christmas presents during the battle and shouts "Merry Christmas" and leaves (in lieu of the usual lose scene) would be fun.

I'm sure other, more elaborate Christmas alerts could be devised, such as:

Orphanage Torment: Nocturne, Alert!
Nocturne, angered that you freed the kids in Demonflame, decides to strike back against one of the orphanages where DEMON took them from. She surrounds an orphanage with hostile demons to buy her time to summoning three spirits of Christmas Gone Wrong, which she uses to strengthen the dreamlocked Luther Black.

Reindeer Games: Josiah Brimstone, Alert!
Working to destroy Christmas at the behest of his demon master, Josiah Brimstone uses dark sorcery to transform Santa's reindeer into Nightmare Deer! Not only are Donner and Blitzer a real pain, wait until you meet Dark Rudolf... what's his nose doing now? Defeat the deer and transform them to normal to save Christmas.

theravenforce · December 2012

canadascott wrote: »

A Christmas version of Dockside nemmy where, instead of losing to the nemesis, he shouts "Merry Christmas" and leaves behind a dozen giftboxes around the map, would be fun.

/signed

Would love this xD

OR

Shadow Destroyer taking you in Nemcon instead of to that Prison to an all night Xmas rave xD

skcark · December 2012

canadascott wrote: »

Dockside: Nemesis Toy Theft, Alert!
A Christmas version of Dockside nemmy where he drops Christmas presents during the battle and shouts "Merry Christmas" and leaves (in lieu of the usual lose scene) would be fun.

I'm sure other, more elaborate Christmas alerts could be devised, such as:

Orphanage Torment: Nocturne, Alert!
Nocturne, angered that you freed the kids in Demonflame, decides to strike back against one of the orphanages where DEMON took them from. She surrounds an orphanage with hostile demons to buy her time to summoning three spirits of Christmas Gone Wrong, which she uses to strengthen the dreamlocked Luther Black.

Reindeer Games: Josiah Brimstone, Alert!
Working to destroy Christmas at the behest of his demon master, Josiah Brimstone uses dark sorcery to transform Santa's reindeer into Nightmare Deer! Not only are Donner and Blitzer a real pain, wait until you meet Dark Rudolf... what's his nose doing now? Defeat the deer and transform them to normal to save Christmas.

Every one of these, do it please Cryptic.

itsbrou · December 2012

Santa Roin`esh.

gamehobo · December 2012

I want to face the evil santa from Futurama and/or American Dad.

Perhaps 2013 we should have to go kill all the false santas around the world!

gaelyn1 · December 2012

Or don't work on any changes for this 10 days event, and works for new playable content we will have for the 355 other next days...

skcark · December 2012

gaelyn1 wrote: »

Or don't work on any changes for this 10 days event, and works for new playable content we will have for the 355 other next days...

Except, even if they do nothing for this event, they won't put that time toward anything else, they'll just spin in their chairs all day

theravenforce · December 2012

skcark wrote: »

Except, even if they do nothing for this event, they won't put that time toward anything else, they'll just spin in their chairs all day

That spinning of chairs can be done AFTER Telepathy and Phase 2 are on LIVE.

somebob · December 2012

BUG: The new costume bits from the new Winter costume drop (Finkle's Foundry) are auto-consumed on pickup and if you get a double, are auto-bound on your player.

Did you learn NOTHING from Hi-Pan? Seriously?

Of course, this IS based on people running the mission on Live as it's more or less available right now. Not like we can even TEST THE THING ON TEST.

*shakes head*

itsbrou · December 2012

Can someone please put the robot parts on the debugger?

theravenforce · December 2012

someguywhoplaysgames wrote: »

Can someone please put the robot parts on the debugger?

AGREED

It's annoying not being able to get enough ppl on to take Clarence down in the time limit... then test this content..

blademaster5121 · December 2012

theravenforce wrote: »

That spinning of chairs can be done AFTER Telepathy and Phase 2 are on LIVE.

Ok, I need clarification, What The **** Is Phase 2?

Besides that, I noticed there was no PTS update of significance this Friday like there should've been, all weekend testing nothing relevant, insulting.

itsbrou · December 2012

Phase 2 is Grav Bikes... and a piece of content.

You'll be positively drowning...

in tears of joy, that is.

meredyredleaf · December 2012

Let's hope it tips the scales in our favor... and that we are flooded with content...

Release it, already...

blumoon8 · December 2012

meredyredleaf wrote: »

Let's hope it tips the scales in our favor... and that we are flooded with content...

Release it, already...

I've been hoping for the same thing. ^^; Not that you know me or anything but I haven't seen you around on the forums lately. Glad to see you back! I'm one of those weirdos that knows everyone else but no one knows me. >.>

c3rvand0 · December 2012

blumoon8 wrote: »

I've been hoping for the same thing. ^^; Not that you know me or anything but I haven't seen you around on the forums lately. Glad to see you back! I'm one of those weirdos that knows everyone else but no one knows me. >.>

Meredy you have a stalker run....

blademaster5121 · December 2012

someguywhoplaysgames wrote: »

Phase 2 is Grav Bikes... and a piece of content.

You'll be positively drowning...

in tears of joy, that is.

So content that was working perfectly fine (Grav Bikes) and was expected to be released with the Tanks, is phase 2?

...This game has no standards.

blumoon8 · December 2012

blademaster5121 wrote: »

So content that was working perfectly fine (Grav Bikes) and was expected to be released with the Tanks, is phase 2?

...This game has no standards.

I think because they were such a huge flop they decided to reorganize and think about things differently. Either that or there was some internal restructuring. No posts from Nisdiddums, or Gentlemancrush lately, and now we see lordgar popping up instead. Something's up >.>

c3rvand0 wrote: »

Meredy you have a stalker run....

xD

itsbrou · December 2012

It's okay if you can't grasp the concept right away.

I'm not exactly trying to drill it into your head. Hopefully you will figure it out before you're knee-deep. I think all of us are thirsty for some new information. I'm sure we'll be showered with information any day now.

meredyredleaf · December 2012

c3rvand0 wrote: »

Meredy you have a stalker run....

Usually, I'm using the Strafing Run, but I guess a stalking one can do... XD
It's ok anyway, I have plenty of squid rings for everyone...

someguywhoplaysgames wrote: »

It's okay if you can't grasp the concept right away.

I'm not exactly trying to drill it into your head. Hopefully you will figure it out before you're knee-deep. I think all of us are thirsty for some new information. I'm sure we'll be showered with information any day now.

And if Harmon-y gets ruin-ed, we can always nuke it from the satelite in orbit...

Btw, dear stalker, I was never really gone, but I just don't like the "new and improved" forums, and usually feels like talking among ourselves with no-one listening...

itsbrou · December 2012

Not just yet, I'd imagine. After all, we're going to be focused on the holidays this coming week. Surely the devs deserve a little break.

So take it easy, let off some steam, and think about how you're going to get stuffed with wholesomeness.

skcark · December 2012

blumoon8 wrote: »

I think because they were such a huge flop they decided to reorganize and think about things differently. Either that or there was some internal restructuring. No posts from Nisdiddums, or Gentlemancrush lately, and now we see lordgar popping up instead. Something's up >.>

xD

Educated guess is that NisDiddums and Crush have been transferred to Neverwinter Project instead. Because it's not the first time they just remove staff and put them elsewhere

gaelyn1 · December 2012

blumoon8 wrote: »

I think because they were such a huge flop they decided to reorganize and think about things differently. Either that or there was some internal restructuring. No posts from Nisdiddums, or Gentlemancrush lately, and now we see lordgar popping up instead. Something's up >.>

xD

Meanwhile .... http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=787991

Dstahl:
The answer is, STO is growing and our schedule for 2013 is the most ambitious schedule we?ve had to date. We have two major Seasons planned for next year (8 and 9) along with more events and promotions. The team size is double what it was a year ago, and since it takes 5-6 months to develop a Season update, we are just now starting to see the benefits from that, and Season 8 will show the effort that our full team can bring to bear on the game.

No comment.

theravenforce · December 2012

skcark wrote: »

Educated guess is that NisDiddums and Crush have been transferred to Neverwinter Project instead. Because it's not the first time they just remove staff and put them elsewhere

It's probably true and I am now crying.

rugrothrumbor · December 2012

Bug
Where it happens
What happens

Fire Demons Ear Horns of Recognition (Unity Token Vendor)
Where: At Recognition Store, Tailor, Character Creation

What: The costume piece on purchase only unlocks on the character that bought it when it's supposed to be account wide like the other costumes.

Retaliation Buff Bug
Where: In fights

What: The Retaliation buff is used up on the Energy Builder. Whereas the Guard power's retaliation buff isn't used up on an Energy Builder making the former Retaliation more tricky to use.

cyrone · December 2012

gaelyn1 wrote: »

Meanwhile .... http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=787991

Dstahl:
The answer is, STO is growing and our schedule for 2013 is the most ambitious schedule we?ve had to date. We have two major Seasons planned for next year (8 and 9) along with more events and promotions. The team size is double what it was a year ago, and since it takes 5-6 months to develop a Season update, we are just now starting to see the benefits from that, and Season 8 will show the effort that our full team can bring to bear on the game.

No comment.

From that same response you display here is that person's definition of maintainence mode...which, in a nutshell, is the current state of Champions.

"When I think of a game on maintenance mode, I think of a game that is not introducing new updates or new zones, but is just focused on maintaining the game servers so players can keep playing."

sparhawk · December 2012

skcark wrote: »

Educated guess is that NisDiddums and Crush have been transferred to Neverwinter Project instead. Because it's not the first time they just remove staff and put them elsewhere

Probably true. I expect the vast majority of Cryptic's resources are allocated to NWO currently.

theravenforce · December 2012

sparhawk wrote: »

Probably true. I expect the vast majority of Cryptic's resources are allocated to NWO currently.

I wonder if they will ever be moved back to CO...we havent even had a patch in a while...

keikomyst · December 2012

someguywhoplaysgames wrote: »

Not just yet, I'd imagine. After all, we're going to be focused on the holidays this coming week. Surely the devs deserve a little break.

So take it easy, let off some steam, and think about how you're going to get stuffed with wholesomeness.

Is there a hidden message here with the italicized words?

Break Steam stuff? I dunno, Valve's decent at not breaking anything. :B

crosschan · December 2012

cyrone wrote: »

From that same response you display here is that person's definition of maintainence mode...which, in a nutshell, is the current state of Champions.

"When I think of a game on maintenance mode, I think of a game that is not introducing new updates or new zones, but is just focused on maintaining the game servers so players can keep playing."

So, according to this information.....We would actually need an upgrade in current practices for us to qualify for Maintenance Mode? <Motions you in closer, whispering> Cause....ya know...the bugs, the bugs are winning. <scurries away> :eek:

sparhawk · December 2012

theravenforce wrote: »

I wonder if they will ever be moved back to CO...we havent even had a patch in a while...

I would guess the answer will be yes eventually.

On the down side NWO's last announced release date was early 2013. I'm guessing there are still at least 3 months to go on this project (probably more). The beta invites for STO lifetime account holders still haven't gone out, so beta testing can't be very far along with NWO.

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