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Tribble Maintenance and Release Notes - November 26, 2014
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Tribble is being brought down for maintenance to update it to build ST.46.20141123a.2
General:
Content:
Systems:
Character:
UI:
Known Issues:
General:
- Gamepads and Joysticks now function as they did prior to the release of Season 9: A New Accord.
- Beam animation more accurately fires from the gun barrel on ground weapons.
- Phinneas Mudd, famed trader of Sirius sector space, has had his comm systems tweaked and should no longer spam everyone in range when he is closing up shop and leaving.
- The Fleet logo is no longer upside down on the Pathfinder.
- Resolved an issue where the Pathfinder's rear weapons would occasionally fire from space near the ship instead of the correct point on the ship.
Content:
- Resolved an issue where players could be pushed out of the Voyager Turbolift during Whats Left Behind if teamed with other players.
- If this occurs to a player, the player will be automatically beamed back to the hallway.
- Borg Red Alerts now set captains to level 50 along with enemy spawns
- Injured Gekli in Viscous Cycle Advanced and Elite can now be healed.
- Undine now spawn to attack the Orb in Undine Infiltration Advanced and Elite.
- Dyson Sphere Battle Zone: Re-balanced how player's scores are calculated for open missions.
- Previously, missions were being too generous with points for tasks that were not critical to missions and too penalizing on tasks that were critical for missions.
- Resolved an issue which caused the holographic Voth Battleship in Alliances to return to 100% hull strength if the player is defeating while fighting it.
- Once it has been sabotaged by the Doctor it will not go above 25% hull strength.
- Also, its shields go offline once the player has completed the main mission objective and are simply attempting to defeat it.
- Delta Marks are now offered as a reward choice for Storming the Spire and The Breach.
- Delta Quadrant Patrols:
- Doubled the amount of rewarded Skill Points for all Delta Quadrant patrol missions.
- All Delta Quadrant missions reward 10 Delta Marks instead of 5.
- Updated the Parein Patrol rewards to give out loot since it is a disable all enemies instead of defeat all enemies mission.
- Resolved an issue in All That Glitters which allowed players to take the Turbolift before completing the Speak with the Doctor step which would then block progression.
Systems:
- Gold and Ultrarare Duty Officers now properly improve the Success and Critical Success chances on assignments, relative to their quality level.
- Research and Development:
- Reduced the uncommon material costs of uncommon components slightly.
- Uncommon components that previously required 5 uncommon materials now require 3.
- Uncommon components that previously required 8 uncommon materials now require 7.
- Reduced the rare material costs of rare components moderately.
- Rare components that previously required 5 rare materials now require 3.
- Rare components that previously required 8 rare materials now require 5.
- Reduced the very rare material costs of very rare components significantly.
- Very rare components that previously required 5 rare materials now require 1.
- Very rare components that previously required 8 rare materials now require 2.
- Dilithium costs have been left unchanged.
- Reduced the uncommon material costs of uncommon components slightly.
- Delta Reputation:
- "Enhanced Rending Shots": Behaves more cleanly, and reflects the cooldown period when it has been triggered.
- Tooltips and descriptions updated in an attempt to more accurately explain how this ability functions.
- "Reactive Ship Repairs": No longer grants healing to foes hit with Chain attacks that critically hit secondary targets.
- Lockout period changed from 15 seconds to 20 seconds.
- Amount of healing per second reduced, but frequency of healing ticks increased from 2 seconds to 1 second, to match previous tooltip.
- Tooltips and descriptions updated to match new information.
- "Enhanced Rending Shots": Behaves more cleanly, and reflects the cooldown period when it has been triggered.
- Abilities that are triggered by Weapon Activation will no longer occasionally be triggered by Full Impulse.
- Nadion Saturation Bomb explosions no longer have any collision.
- Reduced the damage delay on the second and third hits of all Bolt Burst firing modes.
- The dance emote triggered by use of a Nerve Tonic will now persist for a full 60 seconds unless manually turned off.
- The dance is no longer cancelled by movement or nearby Subspace Party Amplifiers.
- Combat still cancels the effect.
Character:
- Resolved clipping issues with the following uniform pieces:
- Necks for Female Odyssey Uniforms
- Rank Pips on Odyssey Uniforms
- Shorts on the Explorer Female 01 Uniform
- Klingon aligned Romulan Female Boots
- Female Romulan Republic 1 and 2 Skirts
- Female Dyson Skirt
- Caitian and Ferasan tails are now visible when wearing Club Wear.
- Lt. Vanderveer now has the correct Lieutenant rank pips in Bug Hunt.
- Removed 2 human head options that were available for Alien captains.
- Resolved an issue which was making Talaxian legs disappear when wearing the Risian Beachcomber Pants.
UI:
- Added correct icons for numerous items:
- Vaadwaur Pulsewave Pistol
- Vaadwaur Cluster Torpedo
- Kobali Personal Shield
- Stealth Operational Armor
- The Fleet Corsair [T5-U]
- Hierarchy Officer Rewardpack
- EMH Mk I Rewardpack
- Kobali Warfare Specialist Rewardpack
Known Issues:
- Hyper-Dual Refracting Tetryon Beam Banks do not gain their Epic mod upon reaching Epic quality.
- Undine does not spawn during the Defend the Orb stage in Undine Infiltration.
- The Foundry is not available at this time.
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Personally, this XP boost makes me even more cynical about Delta Rising. If you were truly interested in making it enjoyable, you wouldn't be trying to make the rest of the game unenjoyable to try to force DR onto everyone like this.
Oh cool, glad this has fina...
"Undine does not spawn during the Defend the Orb stage in Undine Infiltration"
oh
see you all at gerran then. can be done fastest if you got good deeps. dont know why cryptic is so keen on bogarting reasonable xp from kills.
I presume the 'doubled' part is just the completion reward for a given patrol. That, while being nice, is nowhere near unmaking the xp nerf from last thursday. Not even for those Delta patrols. Argala should now reward roughly twice the xp as before the nerf (prior: over 4k xp from NPCs, 900 xp for completion; after this patch, supposedly: same over 4k xp from NPCs, 2x2400 xp for completion), while the xp needed for leveling stays at nearly 3 times boosted.
Of course I'll have to see and confirm this.
Nice.
The Kobali rifle doesn't get a unique icon?
Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.
Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
Um...okay, it's only been a couple of days that I've been over doing the Swordsman thing...Epic/Ultra Rare DOFFs?
Nods. I am still not replaying DR episodes and I grown tired of the DQ quadrants anyway.
I am just as confused as you are, and I have been playing for a few hours each day all week.... Can somebody please shed some light on this?
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thats debatable. ive done garren in a minute forty seven, orendal is vs hierarchy, the npcs most skilled at drawing out a fight, plus you have to scan things in orendal, and that runs out the clock. you have a whole army of npcs that help in garren, at least at first. somehow cryptic programs them to dwindle the more you do the mission, down to 2. still real easy to kill the npc groups right as they spawn with the right build.
If this is true, I will forgive much.
Mudd just doesn't know when to give up. :P
And how about the issue of Unimatrix ships not spawning?
The problem isn't the mission rewards.. it's the XP from critter kills not being brought up to an appropriate level. What are you doing about critter kill XP?
Character art team smashing bugs as per usual.
The Kobali crossbow rifle already got a unique icon 1-4 patches ago. The other weapons are finally catching up to it.
Haven't played the DR episodes have we eh? One of them rewards an Epic-quality doff (the only Epic Doff in STO) but up until this patch it was being treated as a Common in terms of calculating assignment rewards. As for Ultra Rare, there are none yet, but Cryptic is future-proofing the system by adding proper reward modifiers to assignments to take UR into account if they add any at a later time.
Joined January 2009
Because the levels past 60 aren't supposed to act a as long term secondary way to advance a character, if every could grind them out in a weekend that would defeat the point.
That is one of the thigns that amuse me so much about the forums. Players asked for alternate progression at level cap, Cryptic provided the upgrade system and the new skills systems, players then complain they can't complete these new alternate upgrade paths quickly and cheaply.
All that said, I will agree that leveling to 60 should have been smoother with less need to grind between story and patrol bits.
Just tested this on tribble and one run in Argala on Advanced rewarded 23718 points.. the critters were double XP aswell... Cruiser gave 679 points, carrier gave 890....... toon was level 60
Stop grouping all players together. Tom asking for something doesn't mean that Jerry asked for it as well...people can have different opinions on things, want different things, etc, etc, etc.
Folks making the comment like you did there...is definitely one of the things that amuse me so much about forums and life in general...
you act like the road to completing the alternate progression is reasonable. the same highest pay out patrols need to be done thousands of times, there's is no real alternative. there is no rewarding experience for dragging that out 1/10 as long, its done more to drive players away then sitting around at end game having unlocked everything. for those smart enough, there's pvp for a good reason to have done all that grinding in the first place.
leveling being a rewarding experience is a farce, and i though cryptic knew that, the way anything before 50 was blown through so easily, and acted more like an extended tutorial, wile the game actually began at level 50. but all the progress that was made moving away from the archaic leveling concept was undone with the expansion, so now it maters more then anything else. and it will kill this game once and for all.
won't run these again till the problem is addressed, don't know how you measure that in your metrics,
but it's the exact reason i don't even bother with them and will level via other means, even if it is slower.
shame you guys put all that hard work into these and some players can't even try to enjoy the story since the FPS on the maps is so awful, making it pretty isn't worth making it unplayable.
Orly?
If I hadn't already spent too many hours on Tribble poking at the R&D system this afternoon I'd hop on and give this a whirl but as it is, I'll have to put this off until later.
Joined January 2009
I am hoping this is a typo and it means "shirts" - because that has been annoying me for months. The best-looking Romulan jackets are basically unusable right now because of the hideous clipping on the neck.
No thank you
Exactly what options were removed? What option left intact? Will my toon switch race, gender, etc. after patch - and how?
There are few unique DOFFs, like the EMH Mk1, that have been classified as "Epic" - but they acted like white common doffs.
There is no new tier of DOFFs regularly available via grind or whatever.
Yeah, I hope so too, although the Republic 2 undershirt has grown on me. Switched over to that because I was so sick of the clipping on 1.
My overall playtime dropped from ~2 hours a day to 1 hour of farming doff missions and a bit of R&D. Maybe I'll have more reason to play again now that we can get a bit more expf or our playtime.
But in all seriousness, why adjust only patrol experience? Why not queued PvE missions? In other threads, other players have quoted past Holodeck patch notes that stated that all queued missions should award 8,000 - 16,000 skill points (this is before Nov. 20).
There are other problems with the queued missions, but even Normal difficulty queued missions may have some relevancy if they awarded skill points and give players noticeable progression.
"Undine now spawn to attack the Orb in “Undine Infiltration” Advanced and Elite."
Known Issues: "Undine does not spawn during the Defend the Orb stage in Undine Infiltration"
Well, now i'm confused. Make up your mind, devs...
I was quite happy with being able to run an Episode, and gain almost a full level, move onto the next episode and gain another full level etc. There's enough grindy MMOs out there, without forcing STO into the same behavior. STO is grindy enough as it is with 5 distinct Reputation tracks to complete, as well as the Ship Specialization grind, and the Player Specialization grind.