Release Notes: March 15, 2012

System

General:

• Foundry contacts should once again be unkillable.
  • Foundry missions may need to be republished to see this change.
• Foundry Character creation no longer fails if one changes the Species.
• Can now zoom into larger ships as closely as previously able.
• Space pets in should always obey collision with their parent ship.
• Players cannot join queues when they are on maps joined via a queue.

Duty Officers:

• Updated an assignment in "Children's Toys" assignment chain that was not properly dropping the powered up version of the alien artifact.
• Updated some Cardassian civilian duty officers who were missing the Resolve trait.
• Added yellow assignment chain text to Gamma Quadrant species colonial cooperation assignments.
• Resolved slotting issue with "Minor Shortfall of Shapeshifting Lockets for Changeling Research" assignments.
• Resolved slotting issue and adjust trait outcome distribution with "Attend Briefing at Facility 4028" assignment.
• Updated "Marathon" assignment:
  • Resolved text issues and some slotting issues.
  • Made it appear in fewer sectors.
  • Increased the cooldown and increased the rewards.
• Adjusted "Medical Support in Combat Zone" numerical rewards downwards.
• Improved rewards for "Talent Show", "Martial Arts Demonstration" and "Local Festival" assignments.
• Updated "Recover Repressed Memories":
  • Adjusted slotting to make it more logical.
  • Made Telepathic the requirement and moved Resolve to the outcome modifier component of the assignment.
• Resolved some incorrectly low critical Dilithium rewards for a few assignments, including the "Negotiate Rare Commodities" assignment that begins the "Children's Toys" Mk XII console assignment chain.
• Improved numerical rewards for "Wilderness Survival" assignment.
• Added the Shroud trait to all Tosk Duty Officers.
• Added the Honorable and Resolve traits to all Hunter Duty Officers.
• DS9 Conn Duty Officers should now have the proper ranks for their powers.
• Added in some missing Bajoran Duty Officer Conn variants.

Missions:

• Boldly They Rode updates:
  • Adjusted a nav point's placement vis-a-vis the geo.
  • Added some extra nav points for various zero-G points so that players are less likely to become trapped.
  • Moved Ops respawn for Kar'ukan ground battle so team members shouldn't spawn into walls.
  • Made turrets in cutscene less likely to shoot at nav points.
• All warzone missions now have a 30 minute from start time cooldown.
• Added another waypoint for one of the hostages in Hunting the Hunters.
• Updated Join Omega Force: Players are now given a reward pack that they have to manually open to get the requisition.
• If a mission has been completed as a primary it should always be available for replay.
  • This should prevent issues where missions like Cold Call can’t be replayed.

Systems:

• Repaired some High Yield Plasma torpedoes that were not applying DoTs to the target properly.
• Jem'Hadar Space Set will no longer improperly trigger a Brace For Impact power effect.
  • This will disable the unintended synergy with Shield Distribution Duty Officers which was leading to ridiculous amounts of passive Shield Healing.
• Updated the display name of some space plasma weapons that were missing their suffixes.
• Updated debuff science and related powers, like Jam Sensors and Tractor Beam, so they can be used while the B’rel Retrofit is under an Enhanced Cloak.
  • These abilities cannot be used while under a standard or battle cloak.
• Added Teleport Immunity to Reverse Shield Polarity, Scattering Field, Attack Pattern Omega, and Polarize Hull.
• Resolved an issue that was causing players to only get one buff when slotting multiple torpedo console mods of the same type.
• Bridge Officers will only use hyposprays when below 50% health.
• Updated the Ki’tang Refit’s console Subspace Jump:
  • The console Subspace Jumper now has unique icon art.
  • The "Subspace Jump" power now has unique icon art.
  • Reduced the Recharge time of Subspace Jump.
• Removed Auxiliary power drain from the Karfi Phase Shift.
• Bird of Prey Carrier Pet AI improvements:
  • This pet will no longer stay cloaked for too much of any encounter.
  • Limited cloak to only be used during a specific "Retreat" phase of their attack runs, which should only trigger when they get too close to their target.
    • NOTE: They will only use this phase if the player is using the "Attack" Carrier AI command.
  • Reduced innate damage boost slightly.
  • Resolved an issue which caused these pets to sometimes get stuck in an AI loop that was less effective in combat.
• Drastically improved the Control Resistance benefits player get from Willpower, Inertial Dampers, Sensors and Power Insulators.
  • Max resistance is now 75%.
    • This is from skill alone, items can increase this value.
• Updated description for Grant Diplomatic Immunity ability.
  • Also updated Klingon equivalent to be the same as the Fed version.
    • Updated name to Raiding Party.
• Dilithium Store Updates:
  • Added a Rare Mk XI Antiproton Mag Regulator console to both FED and KDF Dilithium vendors
  • Added a Rare Mk XI TCD Subspace Infuser console to both FED and KDF Dilithium vendors
  • Added Antiproton Ship Weapons to both FED and KDF Dilithium vendors
  • Added access to Mk XI equipment to all appropriate Dilithium vendors for the KDF faction
  • Added access to Mk XI Tetryon Pistols and Mk XI Polaron Rifles to FED Dilithium vendors
• Antimatter Spread and Scramble Sensors will now give targets a 30 second immunity to Confuse effects after the debuff expires, or is cleansed.
• Updated the icon for Jem'Hadar Resilient Shields Mk XI so it no longer has the Mk XII icon.
• Distortion Field no longer has a missing icon when activated
• Cover shields and other similar powers will no longer spawn behind the player that lays them.

UI:

• Resolved an issue that would cause the chat input to perform up/down history navigation while numlock is on.
• Made the Duty Officer Assignment no longer show randomized item rewards, since it will always be incorrect.
• Resolved issues with mouse wheel zooming on Qo’noS First City.
• The names of Rare and Very Rare items should always be displayed when they are collected in the rewards window.
• Resolved an issue where it would become impossible to click the buttons in the C-Store if the window was stretched too wide.
• Force back out of the dossier in the active roster/slot roster/requisition list when the window is opened.
  • It should not be possible to have both open at the same time.

Known Issue:

• The set bonus for the Bortasqu' states it requires 4 pieces.
  • This is incorrect; it only requires 3.
  • Equipping all 3 required items correctly applies the set bonus.
  • This is only an issue with the text in the display, not in the actual functionality.

Archived Post

Update to the above Release Notes:

Known Issue:

• The set bonus for the Bortasqu' states it requires 4 pieces.
  • This is incorrect; it only requires 3.
  • Equipping all 3 required items correctly applies the set bonus.
  • This is only an issue with the text in the display, not in the actual functionality.

Archived Post

Update to the above Release Notes (for clarification purposes only):

• Jem'Hadar Space Set will no longer improperly trigger a Brace For Impact power effect.
  • This will disable the unintended synergy with Shield Distribution Duty Officers which was leading to ridiculous amounts of passive Shield Healing.