Release Notes: December 12, 2013

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General:

• Resolved an issue in which NPC and Auction mail was being duplicated.
• Resolved some ship tailor issues with the Voth Frigate and Cruiser.
  • Resolved display name errors.
  • Removed Type 5 material.
  • Added Voth Type 1 material.
• Resolved an issue for Caitian and Ferasan chests not appearing on Miner Vest.
• The Mogh Battle Cruiser is now shown in the Qo'Nos shipyard.

Content:

• Winter Event and Items:
  • Resolved an issue where the present in the Winter Invasion could only be picked up by one team member.
    • All team members can now interact with the present to receive a holiday food recipe.
  • Snowballs obtained from snow piles now properly list their expiration time as 1 hour (instead of 10 minutes). This is a display change only.
  • All Winter Event Duty Officer Assignments now reward 4 random Holiday Commodities on Success and 12 on Critical Success (instead of zero or 8, respectively).
  • Slightly increased the odds of receiving Uncommon Holiday Commodities from various sources.
  • The correct picture now appears when the Snowman Boss in the Winter Wonderland is summoned.
  • Black, White and Brown Winter Jacket costume unlocks now display a correct icon instead of Earmuffs
  • Snowman Overlord and Snowman Baron can no longer be knocked back by Snow Mortars.
  • New wintercoats now have the correct colored belt options.
    • This includes the Red and Green options.
  • Q will no longer be affected by party devices or pets.
  • Completing the Winter Colony Invasion now has a chance of rewarding uncommon Holiday Commodities.
  • Snow Weaponry
    • Snowball Mortars now last 180 seconds instead of 30 seconds.
    • Summoning Snowball Mortars no longer triggers the Explosives Expert Duty Officer to create extra Quantum Mortar turrets.
    • Snowblower, Secondary Attack:
      • Damage increased slightly.
      • Max number of targets reduced from 12 to 6
    • Hail, Both Attacks:
      • Damage slightly decreased.
    • The Big One, Both Attacks:
      • Damage slightly increased
      • Max number of targets reduced from 5 to 3 on Secondary
    • Due the way damage is calculated for Snow Weaponry, we expect that players will not notice a drastic change in damage dealt.
    • These changes will correct a few discrepancies between snow weaponry and increase the quality of combat experiences in Winter Invasion and during the zone-wide snowmen event at Q's Winter Wonderland.
• Resolved an issue which was sometimes blocking progression in "Night of the Comet".
  • The slingshot maneuver around Bepi 113 now works as intended.

Systems:

• Fleet Tactician Trait:
  • Now properly applies to all players on the team.
  • Tooltip no longer lists the Turn Rate bonus twice.
  • Tooltip now lists an actual resistance value to Slow effects.
  • Updated item description - replaced "Immunity to Slow" with "Resistance to Slow".
  • Benefits gained from Driver Coil skill are reduced.
• Dyson Tier 4 Offensive Reputation Passive - Tactical Advantage
  • Fixed a bug that was allowing players that hadn't yet earned "Tactical Advantage" to benefit from the effect when a nearby player was using it.
  • This ability was always intended to benefit only the owner of the ability.
  • This change also prevents the bonus from stacking among multiple players that own the ability.
  • As a side effect of this, it no longer displays a Debuff icon on the target.
• Fire At Will once again benefits from weapon enhancements such as Nausicaan Power Leech, Tetryon Glider, Duty Officer Abilities, and Weapon Procs.
• Breen Plesh Brek Heavy Raider
  • Added a passive power that lets the captain know what Flanking does.
  • This appears in the passive powers list and will appear as a status buff icon while in a space map.

UI:

• The PVE queue now has the ability to search for rewards including:
  • Nukara marks, Dyson marks, Dyson commendations, and Voth cybernetic implants.
• Resolved an issue that would prevent some pointers to mission areas from appearing on the Minimap.
• Resolved an issue where Duty Officer Department Heads wouldn't always correctly remember which bridge officers have been assigned.
• The last time a fleet member logged out of the game has been re-added to the Status display in the Fleet UI.

Known Issues:

• The Crystalline Entity may flicker from far distances in Crystalline Catastrophe.
• Some KDF captains are not able to switch to all costume slots.
• The ramps for Omega Research Molecule spire project produce no sound.