Release Notes - August 11, 2011

System

General:

• Updated some old descriptions for the procs on certain Tetryon ground weapons.
• Make the shooter reticule turn red if it's over a destructible object.
• Players should no longer hear shield balance, shield redistribute, or photonic medical officer audio from other players.
• Sector Space keybinds have been removed from the options menu since they have been disabled for a long time anyway.
• Fixed Regenerative Spores plant healing value in the Coliseum. They should now be helpful to the player again.
• Fix a bug in the item context menu that would cause it show 'Use' for almost all item types.
• The exploration version of Mk X Polyalloy weave PolAp/PhaDis/PlaTet armor was set to BoE instead of BoP. They have been updated to be BoP.
• Replaced the duplicate deflector dish in the badge store with the correct dish.
• Hooked up new costume to thrown grenades and made their transit power not require line of site. This was to fix as bug when you threw a grenade on a slanted wall the grenade would not explode.
• Updated display text for the Oberth Battery.
• Updated tootlips for Mask Energy Signature.
• Updated Tooltips for Evasive Maneuvers.
• Made Saucer Separated Galaxy pet use player ship name.
• All Borg ships have received a complete graphical overhaul.
• The ten Unique Particle Traces now have their own icons.
• Minor performance improvement when initializing keybinds.
• Updated the login loading screen to remove Atari logo.
• Replacing Atari Token icons with Cryptic C-Points icon (note your Atari Tokens are still valid).
• Fixed several client crashes related to logging into the game.
• Updated the Combat Horta description.
• Fixed an issue where small fighters would not enter combat if they weren’t spawned by an owning carrier.
• Fixed several missions that were calling the wrong mission update text.
• Added descriptions to several powers that did not previously have them.
• Updates in preparation of next week’s QXP weekend.
• Addressed an issue where local and zone chat was crashing or becoming unresponsive in some areas.
• Fixed an issue where some players couldn’t log in if they had exceeded allowed number of Bridge Officers.

Missions:

• Enemy groups will now correctly spawn at level 31 on the Malon ground map.
• Players with the Nerve Pinch trait may now use this in "Everything Old is New" to gain access to Ens. Svoboda's console.
• Added waypoints for the Dera system patrol.
• Added waypoints to beginning space section of mission "Saturday's Child" and clarified explanatory text.
• Fixed some minor gameplay issues with one of the Borg STF bosses.

Animation:

• The following animations have been tweaked further based on player feedback:
  • Minor tweaks to sword and bat'leth movements while in shooter mode.
  • Updated player idle while holding an assault weapon.
  • Sword animations have been tweaked in general.
  • Female walk animations have been adjusted.

Known Issue:

• If you preview a ground map in the foundry and then try to get back to the editor it may crash.