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Tribble Maintenance and Release Notes - January 16, 2015
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Tribble is being brought down for maintenance to update it to build ST.47.20150112a.3.
General:
Systems:
Content:
UI:
Known Issues:
General:
- Resolved an issue which caused the Breen Sarr Theln carrier to not receive a bonus to draining when using the Breen Energy Siphon.
- Foundry: The Rogue Federation and KDF ground NPC Groups are now eligible components for Kill objectives.
- Added a "Specializations" entry to the Tribble Test Vendor at Drozana station.
- This vendor sells Specialization Qualifications for Intelligence and Command, as well as bundles of 5x Specialization Points.
- Added White Quality Command Bridge Officers to bridge officer requisitions available at all major social hubs.
Systems:
- Bridge Officer Training:
- Resolved an issue where Hazard Emitters 3 was classified as a Lieutenant instead of a Lieutenant Commander.
- Resolved an issue which was causing the Torpedo High Yield 3 Manual from not working.
- Romulan guards now have Romulan weapons instead of Klingon.
- Training Manuals can now be sorted properly in the Exchange.
- Numerous new icons have been hooked up.
- Command Bridge Officer Powers
- Concentrate Firepower:
- High Yield mode can now be triggered by any damage, instead of only torpedoes/mines.
- Reduced chance of High Yield proc, to compensate for increased weapons fire potential.
- Resolved a blinking FX issue.
- Resolved an issue that was preventing the friendly High Yield from being granted.
- Increased % of extra kinetic damage proc.
- Subspace Interception:
- Updated description to match re-designed usage restrictions.
- Call Emergency Artillery:
- Increased damage at all ranks by a small amount per tick.
- Updated costumes of Artillery Vessels for all factions
- Phalanx Formation:
- Rings are now only visible to allies.
- Changed description to match ability functionality.
- Updated timing on AOE damage and Warp-Out.
- Ambush Marker:
- Updated costumes & names of Ambusher ships for all factions.
- Rally Point Marker:
- Now summons at user's location, and no longer requires a Foe be targeted to activate.
- Remaining within the Marker now grants a modest Hull Regen, in addition to the other existing effects.
- Suppression Barrage:
- Removed the "cannot target enemy small targets" effect, as it was not functioning reliably.
- Added Accuracy debuff to suppressed foes.
- Reduced magnitude of Damage debuff at all ranks.
- Concentrate Firepower / Overwhelm Emitters:
- FX now scale with target size.
- Shock and Awe:
- Removed Chance to Disable.
- Replaced with "After X Damage, Disabled" effect.
- Updated descriptions to match current functionality.
- Take Cover:
- Now only makes allies immune to Knock, Repel and Stun/Hold.
- Updated descriptions to match current functionality.
- Resolved an issue that was preventing certain FX from playing.
- No longer affects turrets, drones, etc, only Players and Bridge Crew.
- No longer displays multiple buff icons when used.
- Sanctuary:
- Now affects self only.
- All other effects unchanged.
- Updated visual FX to match self-only functionality.
- Updated descriptions to match current functionality.
- Timely Intervention:
- Added a Heal-Over-Time effect to any ally that is saved by this ability.
- Updated descriptions to match current functionality.
- Concentrate Firepower:
- Command Officer Captain Specialization:
- Forward March:
- Sprinting Run Speed Bonus reduced from 10% to 5%
- Expose Weakness / Violent Detonation:
- Kinetic Damage Resistance reduction changed from 50/100/150 to 50/75/100
- Tachyon Charges:
- Now scales with Weapons Training and Projectile Weapons Training, instead of Aux Power and Flow Capacitors.
- Increased base magnitude of drain
- Superfluous Emitters:
- Now applies for each teammate above 95% Health/Hull, instead of only at 100% Debilitating Weakness.
- Damage Debuff reduced from -30/-60 to -20/-40
- Boost Morale / Revitalize
- Tooltip formatting adjusted to clarify cooldown differences.
- Forward March:
- Resolved an issue where Bridge Officer traits were not functioning.
- Intelligence Team: No longer usable on a target that is Cloaked, or has Cloaking disabled such as from Charged Particle Burst.
- Descriptions updated to clarify that the Stealth applied by this ability affects Targeting only, and not visibility.
- Research and Development:
- The number of Research projects that can be slotted at any given time per R&D school has been increased from 1 to 3.
Content:
- “Empress Sela”
- Resolved an issue with the alarm playing the whole time while on the lower floor.
- There are no longer invisible walls blocking players from leaving the ground map.
- Resolved numerous typos throughout the episode.
- “Desperate Measure”
- Resolved an issue causing a missing head on a viewscreen.
- Assimilated Romulan ships look correct.
UI:
- The following ability icons have been adjusted based on player feedback:
- Medical Tricorder, Auxiliary to Battery, Auxiliary to Dampeners, Auxiliary to Structural, Emergency Power to Auxiliary, Emergency Power to Engines, Emergency Power to Shields, Emergency Power to Weapons, EPS Power Transfer, Extend Shields, Reverse Shield Polarity, Rotate Shield Frequency, Polarize Hull, Tractor Beam and Transfer Shield Strength.
- Resolved an issue where the open mission tracker would cover the personal mission tracker window.
Known Issues:
- New systems are currently a work in progress including:
- Captain Specialization Tree: Command Officer
- Bridge Officer Specialization: Command Officer
- Bridge Officer Training Revamp
- New Research and Development School: Officer Training
- All 3 classes are available to craft.
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...oh snap, heh. Hopefully folks are happy about that and don't begrudge "but we used to be able to fill all slots"...
edit: Will have to check out some of those changes to icons.
Is the underlined part still true since it's now self-only?
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No.
The Dev Blog says "subject to change" because this type of re-design was still possible.
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Increased % of extra kinetic damage proc.
oh boy.
this is one of those skills that combined properly with the neutronic torp and pvp, cant exist at the same time if there is ever to be any meaningful game play again.
without this skill, the mk14 version of the torp can pretty easily 1 shot any player with spread 3. if used with this skill, you probably will have a 100% chance to 1 shot every single target spread 3 goes after, without even a decloak ambush bonus. simply an i win button.
so weigh implementing this skill with the fact that pvp will forever be unsaleable. i suppose you could nerf the neutronic, but the HY bio will probably be just as 1 shotty, just with less overkill.
I've still got some hope that they take a look at the higher buff Neuts get from the HY2/HY3/TS2/TS3 and even the lower buff for HY1/TS1...
...then again, I'm still waiting for them to bring HY/TS up to par for Chrons, Elachi, and Trans. So uh, yeah...hrmm.
I would also like to ask about the R&D change in the schools. Does that really mean now that I can slot f.e. the Ground School 20h project up to 3x at once?
How much were the icons changed? I must admit I loved them the way they were revamped last week. They looked much clearer for me, especially the EPtX and Aux2 ones.
But I wouldnt mind to have the old Directed Energy Modulation icon again, it was kind of... iconic.
- Sanctuary: still says "Sanctuary Bunker" in the kit module. It's no longer a Bunker though. Little concern: this module has no team benefit now, going against the "Command" theme of the set.
- Overwhelm Shields: has this description been reworded? It now says that it deals "20% of damage dealt" (white module) as shield drain, can proc max once per 0.5s. Which seems more reasonable. Purple module is "65% of damage dealt as shield drain". This seems to favor burst weapons now, like pulsewaves. (Does Shield Hardness protect against Shield Drain?)
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Please please PLEASE tell me this is making it to Holodeck. That will be a BOON.
So they made sure you get at least one rare mat from stfs and soon it will be possible to take less time to max out the crafting schools.
Now if they would just give an easier way to acquire the needed doffs for level 15 stuff, let us pick rarity and mods my issues with crafting will be fixed.
That would make the crafting system quite enjoyable, as opposed to aggravating as it is currently. Extending the mod choice to upgrading would be welcome too.
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I have heard they are going to nerf the neutronic torp ... after reading this I am kind of sorta pretty sure
I really doubt that. That would be very a marked changed. I think it refers to being able to slot 3 different projects from the same school.
You can indeed slot 3 XP projects from the same school at once.
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I stand corrected. And overjoyed if it makes it to Holodeck.
And it will. Farktoid tweeted it earlier.
EDIT: Oh, so did Geko, just now.
I certainly hope so...and just for clarity's sake, will the values stand at 6k/7k per project?
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That’s very unfair for torpedo boats. This with the other changes mean energy boats get more torpedoes and more kinetic damage then pure torpedo boats. Which seems very wrong. Far to many of the torpedo powers trigger less with torpedoes then energy weapons.
The crafting bug is back I am unable to craft and upgrade my tactical consoles. Bridge officer traits are fixed again.
EDIT after testing this is a massive nerf which makes the skill useless from the prospective of high yields. I have projectile tactical consoles fitted which means I have a minimum of 2 torpedoes fitted. That gives me a fire rate max of 5 torpdeo hits over 10 seconds. That means my team mate can use Concentrate Firepower power 10 times in a row and we get zero high yield procs. While someone who doesn't use torpdeos gets x10 more procs.
I don't like the idea of a bridge officer power my team mate has to activate 5 to 10 times just to get 1 single proc with my in the team. If the High yield locks out other torpedo skills it can even lower overall damage. So not only will the procs be super rare but they will lockout torpedo spread 3 and high yield 3.
I agree... Change the proc to benefit *pure* torpedo boats. having Torpedoes Proc off energy weapons is just wrong, makes no sense, and goes against every fiber of existance. okay maybe a lill dramatic there...but still, Increase the damage pure torpedo boats can do... Not NERF it. Pure torpedo boats Vs energy boats.... end game, The average geared torpedo boat out there is getting 20k dps. The Average Beam boat is getting 40k, the average cannon boat is getting around 30k. Take these numbers into consideration please.
BTW new record for beams ...whahooo 170k dps... Pure torpedo boats Havn't broken 50k to my knowledge. (if 50%+ of your weapons are energy weapons you arn't a torpedo boat in my book)
(remember we have a 1.5 seconds global CD on our torps, fire far fewer, and experience auto fire lock ups constantly, and have a 90 degree firng arc..... we're already Screwed as far as Proc chances go.)
Last July, they introduced research projects with less points-per-time than non-stop item crafting (and some incentive to buy better duty officers) [1]
Two days later they decided these projects were still rewarding too much [2]
And when players were [possibly] content going through the crafting schools one by one, running up to 5 research projects for one school, they decided it was a bug [3]
In retrospect, I guess I should just be grateful they didn't call it an exploit and remove XP from characters who progressed 'too fast'.
Anyway, three is better than one, so 'good job'.
Lol. They do bounce back and forth at whiplash speeds. Lol.
But it is good to see that they are doing something to relieve the overburden of constant grind, and no fun.
So a BIG thank you to the developers for the help. If there is anything you can do (permanently) about the extreme grind to level 60, that would also be awesome.
Thanks.
1 ... Character copy is working again (altho the dropdown list only displays a part of my 19 toons)
2 ... I was able to slot 3x 20hour research projects in the same school, this is very very usefull for leveling up in that system with the desired schools .
3 ... My character is still stuck at the F2P settings when i first copied to tribble, unable to purchase any chips etc while on tribble.
Please make a sync button for us to sync our account status from holo to tribble as well.
glad to see it happen at last.
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Indeed, why R&D doffs have been treated in a different way as to every other type of DOFF in this game is beyond me.
My hope is that in the near future a full spectrum of R&D DOFFs will become more readily available.
But being able to run three schools at once will definitely improve quality of life on my Alts. Heck it'll help my Main on the climb to level 20.
It does seem like we're getting solid Quality of Life improvements.
Excellent on the Specialization points vendor, thank you kindly.