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TRIBBLE Maintenance and Release Notes - March 11, 2014
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We will be bringing down the Tribble server for maintenance to apply a new update: ST.40.20140223a.12
Character Transfer Instructions:
New Features:
Undine Assault Queued Event:
Kit Revamp:
General:
Systems:
UI:
Known Issues:
Character Transfer Instructions:
- Character transfers for Holodeck to Tribble may be accessed at the following link: Character Transfer
- Sign in with your PWE account and the transfer options will be located at the bottom of the web page.
New Features:
Undine Assault Queued Event:
- Mixed faction queued mission for level 50 Captains.
- This queue takes 15-20 minutes and comes in both Normal and Elite Versions.
- The Undine are attacking!
- Planets from the Alpha, Beta and Gamma quadrants are under attack and youve been called on to defend them.
- Queuing up for this mission will send the player to one of four locations: Gornar, Andor, Cardassia or Ferenginar. There you will face the Undine. They have implanted a fully grown planet killer in extreme orbit.
- The player with the aid of local forces will need to push through waves of Undine ships in order to close the fluidic rifts that are reinforcing the Planet Killers defenses. Once the defenses have been weakened, players can either take on the Planet Killer by themselves or defeat the rest of the defenses to gain the aid of the local forces in confronting the Planet Killer.
- Tips:
- Keep an eye on the command vessel as you will need this ship to expose the rift for you.
- Communicate! There will be times when you will want one team member or multiple team members to change position.
- The special UI element on your screen will tell you where your friendly forces are located and which locations your team has cleared.
- Notes:
- Currently, the boss fight of the mission is not implemented but what is there should still be challenging.
- The rewards are also a placeholder.
Kit Revamp:
- The Kit system has been overhauled!
- New Kits now allow you to add Modules to them.
- Kits and Modules exist from Mark I to Mark XII and in Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Very Rare qualities.
- Kits can provide skill bonuses to either general Ground skills or career-specific Ground skills:
- Higher rarity kits provide a larger number of discrete bonuses
- Higher Mark kits provide a larger magnitude of skill with each bonus
- Higher Mark kits contain more slots for Kit Modules
- Kit Modules are a new type of item, consisting of a single power.
- Each module belongs to a Career (Science, Engineering, or Tactical) and a Specialization.
- Each Career is made up of two Specializations:
- Science
- Research Modules emphasize experimental new science-based control and damage effects
- Medic Modules focus on healing wounds and supporting teammates
- Engineering
- Fabrications Modules allow Engineers to create temporary constructions
- Mechanic Modules focus on using devices to enhance allies or impair foes
- Tactical
- Assault Modules focus on direct damage and explosive effects
- Strategic Modules emphasize the battlefield planning and control abilities of the user
- Science
- Modules of a given Specialization can only slot into Kits with an open slot of that Specialization type.
- For example, Turret Fabrication is a Fabrication-type Module.
- It can be slotted into Fabrication slots in any Engineering Kit, but cannot be slotted into Mechanic slots in any Engineering Kit.
- Each Career is made up of two Specializations:
- Each module belongs to a Career (Science, Engineering, or Tactical) and a Specialization.
- Basic Common-quality Kits and Modules are available from Ground vendors for Energy Credits
- All qualities of Kits and Modules drop from ground enemies as reward possibilities.
- Fleet Holding Kits have been updated to provide a purple-quality Kit with a pre-slotted purple-quality Module of the power that was previously a Mark IV power.
- These are equivalent in power to their previous versions.
- For testing purposes, the test console on Drozana Station will provide anyone with random assortments of level-appropriate kits and modules as many times as the tester desires.
- New Kits now allow you to add Modules to them.
General:
- Resolved an issue which would occasionally warp players into completed maps for:
- Deep space encounters, Borg red alerts, and the Tholian red alert in Tau Dewa.
- The "Kill 1000 Voth on Ground" accolade now rewards the correct Title of "Iconoclast"
Systems:
- Powers:
- Equipping an item with a rechargeable power will now trigger a thirty second cooldown on that power.
- This lockout period prevents unfair advantages gained by cycling multiple copies of a given item.
- Nanoprobe Infestation:
- Resolved an issue that was allowing Nanoprobe Infestation to sometimes re-spread back to targets that had already been affected by it.
- Resolved an issue in Nanoprobe Infestation 3 that was making applications after the first weaker than intended.
- Relativity Self-Targeting Rifle Secondary Firing Mode
- Damage inflicted has been increased by 60% per pulse.
- Reduced frequency of pulses from every 0.5 seconds to every 1 second.
- Reduced total number of pulses from 7 to 5.
- Reduced cooldown of from 14 seconds to 8 seconds.
- Resolved an FX issue that was causing extra beams to appear to fire with each pulse.
- Resolved an issue where Synchronic Proton Distortion Rifles secondary fire would occasionally be unavailable.
- Sensor Analysis: This power has been redesigned to be more effective and useful!
- Sensor Analysis is now a Toggle power.
- Select any Friendly or Hostile target within 10k and activate the toggle to analyze that target.
- While the power is on and the target is in range, it gains 1 stack every 3 seconds, up to a maximum of 6 stacks.
- When used on enemies, Sensor Analysis increases the user's damage against the targeted foe by 5% for each stack.
- When used on friends, Sensor Analysis increases the user's healing and shield healing on the target by 5% for each stack.
- "Go Down Fighting" is no longer removed by debuff cleansing abilities, and will no longer persist through death.
- Resolved an issue where a combat pet would not be able to find a target and despawn.
- Equipping an item with a rechargeable power will now trigger a thirty second cooldown on that power.
- Klingon Raiders have received a good amount of tuning and improvements across the board.
- All Tier 2 and above Klingon Raiders will receive a 10% boost to their base hull hit points.
- This should help off-set the risk of using cloak to ambush your enemies.
- Raider Flanking: Attacking enemies from their rear arc will grant the attacker a 25% bonus damage boost.
- This bonus is significantly reduced (+25% down to +8.3%) when attacking a player's rear arc.)
- Affects all Klingon Raiders, with the exception of the Tier 1 BRel Bird-of-Prey.
- Improved Ambush Damage: The bonus damage awarded from existing cloak has been increased on any Klingon Raider that also has Raider Flanking.
- Raiders receive an additional +10% bonus damage while flanking.
- All Tier 2 and above Klingon Raiders will receive a 10% boost to their base hull hit points.
- The tooltip for Plasma Lotus no longer indicates it uses disruptors.
- It deals Plasma damage.
- All Plasma Grenade ranks now use the metric system to describe their area of effect.
UI:
- Video settings have been streamlined and broken into three sections Display, Graphics, and Advanced.
- All three tabs are in the Options settings.
- Removed all item overlay visual toggle options in the tailor, context menu, and status window.
- Resolved an issue where occasionally the Mk label on items was incorrectly capitalized to MK.
- Resolved an issue where many Mk XII Quantum Torpedoes were incorrectly labeled as Mk XI.
Known Issues:
- The Reputations tab cannot be accessed.
- The Borg and Undine episodes cannot be accessed.
- The new queued event Undine Assault is still a work in progress.
- This includes a placeholder boss fight and placeholder rewards.
- The new Kit Revamp is still a work in progress.
- There is no error explaining that loadouts and quick equip will not work if the captains inventory is full.
- Powers granted by a space set are not remembered in the power tray when using the loadouts feature.
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I was NOT expecting that kit revamp so soon, I hope the server's up so I can go to town with kit modules!
AND YOU FIXED THE RED ALERT BUG? Cryptic you need extra kudos.
Well, they finally squashed one old annoying bug. How about fixing the Omega Leonis sector defense accolade or the stuck STF accolades?
How about... No?
Everything else looks interesting and the new mission sounds fun!
Kudos to the team!!
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Does that mean we cannot turn off visuals of kits, armors, etc. anymore??
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Your Arc account is your PWE account, you're already logged into it.
Probably a case of switching to 4/3/3 instead of 3/4/3...the 4th Eng has always kind of been odd.
Cearly I didn't think that one through.
But if not... I'd love to have new stf like missions^^
The ground revamp sounds pretty horrible IMO...
Nobody (as far as I read) said anything about Borg (I thing we have enough of them already), the conflict that was build up in the last fe was pretty much undine only.
And why the hell would they destroy the esd?
*checks hull and shield stats on fleet KDF BoP's and adds 10% to hull*
I see.
Ah well. Good update nonetheless, and curious to see them in action.
Also, don't get me wrong, I'm happy the KDF BoP's get some love, they need it, but I'd be even happier if the fleet versions of the K-BoP's would come close to the non-fleet versions of the Warbirds. The Singularity Core balances out with the lower power levels, which leaves the Romulan Warbirds with the DEF/cloak (quality and duration of decloak buff) boosts from Captain and 5xBoff traits, better shields, better hull and an extra weapon slot.
The K-BoPs get uni seating, which isn't as big a bonus as it seems at first sight (considering the number of truly viable builds and the fact that it compensates for the lack of tac ship options, like MVAE/HEC or Dhelan/Mogai boff layouts in the Raptor line-up), 4 Nausicaan boffs (not 5), flanking and higher turn rate (which, granted, are useful).
I don't know, either also add 10% to shields or make the hull bonus 15%? Or, alternatively, give the K-BoPs either the extra ensign or the 3rd aft weapon? Unless, that is, you're planning to release this concurrently with a C-store Hegh'ta Refit that has these features, in which I'll just shut up and throw money at the screen
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I never thought I'd see the day...
Thanks for fine-tuning our BoPs to be competitive in their own special and rather fun way once again!
Kudos for the decision to give the +10% hull and +10% decloak damage bonus! I love improvement decisions that are not conventional and yet follow the specific trademark of the ship class being improved. This will be a much wellcomed adition for me!
Qapla'!
So what does that mean? Universal consoles? but only 30 seconds?
But still, nice to see the BoP updates (I frankly wasn't expecting anything else than Flanking, despite hopes and rumours from others), I'm definitely curious about what the Kit revamp shapes up to be. I'm looking forward to Sensor Analysis changes, need to find out what happens when target gets out of 10 km radius etc.
And speaking of this: I presume it has something to do with the announced changes to costumes by Borticus here. It sounds like we might unlock (even ship, possibly) costumes and then set them in the tailor no matter the equipment we currently use.
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!
You won't actually be helping to defend anything in the Gamma quadrant, we just figured you would like to know it was under attack.
If possible there should be a option to disable your team's effects so in pvp beams and grav wells won't cause lag.
Out of curiousity, will old kits be upgraded to be on par with the new ones, or are they just going to stay as they currently are? I might hold off on buying the fleet kit I was considering if they're not going to update.