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Maintenance Release Notes, 11/14 7am PST
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Maintenance tomorrow (11/14) will begin at 7am PST, the normal time.
Start time: 7am PST
Estimated duration: 1.5 - 2 hours
Below are the release notes for the Patch
Veteran Rewards:
- Veteran Rewards now unlock immediately for Lifetime Subscribers. You can read more about this change here.
Powers
- Dodge and Avoid have changed substantially in this patch. Dodge Rating will now only be found on equipment and in specs, and will provide less dodge than in the past. In addition to this many of the powers that previously granted dodge rating now grant flat Dodge Chance. Additionally, Crit and Offense stats have been changed, reducing the effectiveness of Crit Severity and Crit Chance, and increasing the effectiveness of Offense. You can read more about these changes in this dev blog by Gentleman Crush.
- All characters created before October 24th 2013 have been given a Free Retcon.
-*Returning Power* Earth Form: Earth Form has returned to the Brick tree! It can be found under the Earth tab. Below is a description of this passive:
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Items:
- Recognition tokens that are dropped on the ground now have a unique appearance and will automatically picked when you walk over them.
The Drifter Store:
- The Drifter store now has Armadillo costume pieces for sale.
- The Drifter store has a new vehicle for sale: AV-55C Akema VTOL
- You can now store Drifter Salvage in your Account Bank.
UI:
- Added a Change Character button to the game menu that goes to the Character Select screen.
- Added a Sort button to the inventory and bank windows.
Start time: 7am PST
Estimated duration: 1.5 - 2 hours
Below are the release notes for the Patch
Veteran Rewards:
- Veteran Rewards now unlock immediately for Lifetime Subscribers. You can read more about this change here.
Powers
- Dodge and Avoid have changed substantially in this patch. Dodge Rating will now only be found on equipment and in specs, and will provide less dodge than in the past. In addition to this many of the powers that previously granted dodge rating now grant flat Dodge Chance. Additionally, Crit and Offense stats have been changed, reducing the effectiveness of Crit Severity and Crit Chance, and increasing the effectiveness of Offense. You can read more about these changes in this dev blog by Gentleman Crush.
- All characters created before October 24th 2013 have been given a Free Retcon.
-*Returning Power* Earth Form: Earth Form has returned to the Brick tree! It can be found under the Earth tab. Below is a description of this passive:
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- Slotted Passive
- Can be slotted in an Offensive or Balanced passive power slot.
- Increases all of your Physical (Crushing, Slashing, Piercing) damage. This increase scales with your Super Stats.
- Increases your resistance to all Physical (Crushing, Slashing, Piercing) damage and greatly increases your resistance to Crushing Damage. These resistances scale with your Super Stats.
- Generates a small amount of energy when you are struck with Crushing attacks.
- Reduces the movement speed of nearby foes based on how close to you they are.
- Counts as an Energy Form.
Items:
- Recognition tokens that are dropped on the ground now have a unique appearance and will automatically picked when you walk over them.
The Drifter Store:
- The Drifter store now has Armadillo costume pieces for sale.
- The Drifter store has a new vehicle for sale: AV-55C Akema VTOL
- You can now store Drifter Salvage in your Account Bank.
UI:
- Added a Change Character button to the game menu that goes to the Character Select screen.
- Added a Sort button to the inventory and bank windows.
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Delicious.
Deliciously nutritious!
On the plus side, LTS 1000 day vet rewards, 400 days early.
You win some, you lose some...
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Glory be to melee users! Glory be to the life timers who have payed a lot towards the game! Glory be to the glory be to the free retcon! And most of all... Ohh most of all we have armadillo costume pieces. Oh tis is a wonderful day! Praise destroyer!
Thanks for the hard work cryptic.
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Same here. After what we got and had taken away with On Alert, every time Crush says "I want to change the game"... well I throw up in my mouth a little bit.
Oh well, probably a good time to go play STO for a bit.
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Wait....
Change our characters to what???
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i think i'm gonna cry ohmygod
I've been waiting for this...... only I wonder if my build still good to survive with Quarry.
Never could tell that of kids.
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I see how you took your time to make sure this is implemented right as usual. Good to know that there is no point in gearing for dodge.
This is perfect proof of how the devs listen to us. They only listen when it comes to trivial stuff and people are mislead into believing there is "communication". Not ONCE has the feedback for a game changing patch been taken into consideration since this game went LIVE. You know, if you DEVS listened to our feedback more CO would not be in the state is it now.
Pushing unfinished and unpolished content to LIVE has got to stop. You whether do it right now or don't bother. I'm tired of all this back and forth. Pick something and stick with it and if you need to TWEAK IT then do it in the next weeks and not AFTER A YEAR!!
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Going to have to stop you right there, because it was Cryptic listening to play feedback that brought this game to the state it's in. Not the lack of them listening. But hey, keep trumpeting that tag line if it makes you feel any better.
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Oh like you have any idea of how bad their software development is done? I'm sure you know a lot about proper software development practices as well as requirements elicitation, analysis and design. I'm going to stop you right there since you have no idea what you are talking about.
You might not be able to tell all the mistakes they made due to ignorance but that does not mean I can't.
Some powers that rely on dodge are going to be kinda' dumb come tomorrow (lookin' at you, BCR). Real heavy DPS builds, which are PRESENTLY being run like Supertanks are going to be most hurt by this... which I'm really ok with, even though I have builds like those that absolutely qualify.
You can always count on devs to do things you don't agree with. What makes you good or teh badz is how you deal with it.
Say that to the Radients with dodge gear. They gonna be even more useless in alerts now
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I'll......FOAM FINGER YOUR BACK!
Naw, they'll be fine. My level 10 toons need somebody to dogpile heals on me. :biggrin:
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This. Exactly.
(See what I did there, anti-dodge change people?)
I was wondering about the state of the dodge changes. The devs spent so much time tweaking it and made a preview announcement for it a while back. And now that it'll hit Live, we can finally move on instead of it fueling forum rage and thread derailments. Can we all get back to whining about the lack of Foundry for CO?
On the another note, I am pleasantly surprised with how fast the character change is getting rolled out.
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Alerts, for the most part, will be reasonably fine. Rampages? Less so. Warlord alert et al? Not so hot. I suppose Cosmics are irrelevant, what with someone keeping those on lockdown permanently with sniper rifle and device exploits.
Dodge is still viable, ofcourse it is.
You only have to watch foxi and penny's epic clash to see how amazing this fixes are: http://youtu.be/HQCXG0JdF0I
One, PvE content isn't hard enough to whine about any dodge changes. Two, in PvP this should atleast make melee more viable.
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Clearly you aren't stacking defences enough, also remember than NPC's work in the same way as players. This means that running behind props stops ranged attacks from hitting you, I use to this beat many ranged people in duels and it helps when doing PvE too.
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It's called 'With Skill'.
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How thoughtful of Cryptic.
Well that's the end of my Main. Time to move on.
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....mean either.
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1. Dodge has been needing to be balanced, good or bad, this was needed.
2. From what I can tell, many people piggyback on Dodge. This nerf isn't going to stop dodge from being viable, you all are creative, you'll think of something new to abuse and god mode again, ya always do.
3. Some of this makes me feel you are afraid to adapt and change, maybe even evolve pass what has become the norm.
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4. This just means some of you might ether want to A) Look into some new defensive passives, or
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Now Grace isn't so tough, and this is a small test at best, but I didn't feel gimped or hamstrung at all. I had to keep an eye on her health a little more than usual but that was it.
Perhaps against tougher challenges I'll be crying and face-planting a lot, but from this small sampling, I was contented that this isn't the end of all things.
On a lighter note, I love the character change option, the ability to bank Drifter salvage, The Armadillo pieces and the sort option for our bags.
It's a nice update, and once the furor dies down, I think we'll all be just fine.
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I only have one thing to say to this. And that is OMAGERD HOLY FERKIN' GAWD THANK YOU SWEET LORD N' BABY JESUS PRAISE ALLAH GLORY BE TO VISHNU YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS!!
Seriously, you have NO IDEA how long I've waited for this. To finally be able to log out of a character, and not out of the entire account, having to re-enter my account info... I'm almost in shock. Like, happy-shock, like a shock that gives you life, that makes life feel good!
I shall call this emotion... a Bio-Shock!
Hang on... you know what, on second thought, I'm pretty sure that's trademarked.
But really, you have no idea how happy I am. Hell, it's almost worth the dodge/crit changing.
Really.
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