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TRIBBLE MAINTENANCE AND RELEASE NOTES - APRIL 18, 2017
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Tribble has been updated to: ST.75.20170412a.4
General:
Systems:
General:
- New UI has been implemented to the PvE system.
- Player can sort by reward on the left and then click the checkboxes on the right to select queues to join.
- This is still a work in progress.
- New login screen has been added.
- Foundry: New tags for UGC Objects have been created for many TOS objects.
Systems:
- Reputation System:
- All Reputations now sort their projects in the same order.
- Singularity Core Reputation projects are now only available to Romulan Captains.
- Kit Modules Reputation Projects are now only available to captains of the correct profession.
- The Dyson Reputation project "Turn in Commendations" now only appears if the player has commendations to turn in.
- The Nukara Reputation projects to Register or Turn in old equipment now only appear if the player has that equipment.
- All Reputation projects in the Upgrade tab now consistently appear in the following order:
- Claim Tier # Reputation
- Claim Sponsorship
- Mark Turn-in
- Elite Mark Turn-in
- Begin Sponsorship Procedures.
- The "Reward Cooldowns" UI now shows the Bonus Competitive Mark timer.
- Added Consoles and Warp Core from T6 Tal Shiar Adapted ships to Reclaim Store.
- Resolved an issue where the "Well Traveled" Unique Trait was using an incorrect icon.
- The "Omega Weapons Amplifier" proc from the Omega Adapted Borg Technology set now lasts 5 seconds.
- Resolved an issue where the "Continued Competitive Wargames Support (Hourly)" project at Tier V of the Competitive Wargames reputation incorrectly stated it rewarded a Competitive Wargames Requisition (Tier V).
- It now correctly states that it rewards a Competitive Wargames Requisition (Tier IV)
- Resolved an issue with the Competitive Wargames Reputation that would not let you queue a Daily reputation project behind another Daily reputation project.
- Scattering Field:
- Now grants All Damage Resistance Rating (instead of only Energy Damage Resistance Rating)
- Now grants Bonus All Damage to allies in range, in addition to existing functionality.
- Subnucleonic Beam:
- In addition to existing functionality, also decreases the affected target's Outgoing Damage for the debuff's duration.
- Resolved a number of issues related to how the damage of the Plasma Explosion from Embassy consoles increased as they were upgraded
- Their damage now increases at the same rate that other stats on consoles increase
- Their damage at MK XIV Gold is unchanged relative to their previous Tribble state
- Their damage at all other points is increased relative to their previous Tribble state
- This also resolves a bug where upgrading from MK XI UltraRare to MK XII Ultrarare or from MK X Gold to MK XI Gold would erroneously cause a decrease in damage
- Go Down Fighting:
- Go Down Fighting's damage buff now continuously adjusts to your current hitpoints while active
- While active, you will be treated as being at 50% Hull or less at all times, even if your hitpoints rise above this threshold.
- You must still be below 50% Hull capacity to activate this unless the "A Good Day to Die" trait is slotted
- The damage buff amount has been changed:
- Relative to the previous state, it is a higher buff at 50% Hull and a lower buff at 0% Hull
- Relative to the live state, it is a lower buff at all points
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Combined with the other duration changes, this seems to have a reasonable functionality now. I'll be eager to test an opponent using this in this state.
The closer the Tac captain's hull gets to zero, the GDF buff gets progressively weaker than it's highest damage bonus, which is at 50% hull.
That is definitely not an overall buff.
It's actually a fairly significant nerf to GDF. The current optimal strategy on Holodeck is to drop your hull extremely low (as close to 0% as you can manage), activate GDF for the maximum damage bonus, and then heal up and enjoy the full GDF bonus regardless of health.
With this change, you have to remain at low health to keep the maximum damage bonus, which greatly increases the risk of using it.
that's exactly what it needs in the new era of tanks, more buff to gdf to compensate the out of control heals and buff to eng and res
That's not a buff. It's reading that the buff will be higher at your higher hull levels. so it completely flips the ability on its head. If you want the full buff from how that's reading, you'll want to keep your hull around 50% and no lower. So bye bye 0% GDF. As for tanks and tanking, we've always been around, only now with so much of the cheese disappearing there won't be so many fake tanks out there.
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Editing for further clarification:
This note: "Relative to the previous state, it is a higher buff at 50% Hull and a lower buff at 0% Hull"
Should be read as: "Relative to the previous state, it is a higher buff at 50% Hull than it was before this patch, and a lower buff at 0% Hull than it was before this patch."
Not relative to one another, but rather relative to its previous values.
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This is an incorrect understanding of this change.
On the live servers, the damage buff is directly proportional to missing health; Go Down Fighting 3 activated at 50% health gives a buff of 66.4% Bonus All Damage, or 107.9% if activated at 0% health.
Prior to this patch, Go Down Fighting's damage buff was proportional to missing health squared; Go Down Fighting 3 activated at 50% health gave a buff of 37.5% Bonus All Damage, and gave a buff of 150% if activated at 0%.
As of this patch, Go Down Fighting 3's damage buff is once again linear - it gives you 50% Bonus All Damage while it is active and you are at 50% health or higher, and 100% Bonus All Damage if it is active and you are at 0% health. Because 50% is more than 37.5%, it is a higher buff than the previous state at 50% hull, and because 100% is less than 150%, the buff is lower at 0% hull. The live server patchnotes will only be relative to the live state, and will not have this extra state to compare against; 50% is less than 66.4%, and 100% is less than 107.9%; so the patchnotes will not have to do multi-point comparison.
This is an accurate summary of what players will have to do to obtain the maximum damage bonus in the current Tribble state. Lower hull continues to give a larger buff.
But hey its OK give the Tac there Dps back
I am overall pleased particularly with science scattering field which I assume can buff the dps of photonic fleet ships and hangar pets when they're within range? Good bonus to all dmg resistance is nice too.
Subnucleonic beam will be a great skill to use against bosses now that it debuffs outgoing enemy dmg.
Bit confused about Go Down Fighting. Whilst I'm pleased that it finally scales with health whilst the ability is active, does using A Good Day to Die trait mean that all gdf bonuses are halved now so 25% bonus dmg at 100%-50% health scaling upto 50% bonus dmg at 50%-0% health?
The current description on STO wiki says otherwise, such as no more than as much dmg bonus as you would get at 50% health. Will this trait drawback now change?
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
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All that "A Good Day To Die" does now is allow the ability to be activated while >50% Hull capacity. The ability itself will always adjust to your current Hull%, or 50%, whichever is less at any point in time.
I can't really comment on what the wiki says, but that's the current functionality. Remember that the wiki is maintained by players like yourself, not Cryptic.
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
"Play smart!"
On behalf of all sci's who drain, control, placate, and debuff, we thank you for going back on DO, and keeping Sub Nuke, and making Sub Nuke a dam debuff as well.
And if it " It may never, ever return"
We are okay with this to
Does the Damage buff to Scattering Field affect yourself, or only all allies around you? Does that include hangar pets and non-hangar pets?
Speak for yourself. I'm an EPG Science captain with a devastating build that was even more devastating with DO. Whatever they have in mind I'm welcome to.
It includes yourself.
Unless you happen to not be your own ally. But then you may have bigger problems to worry about.
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
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Immunities are a massive pain to deal with with no real price to pay for using them. They allow for builds focused purely on attack and be tanky at the same time (a pilot ship being able to out-tank an English in a cruiser). That's a serious problem for anyone who doesn't use them or anyone who doesn't focus solely on defence or attack.
This needs to be addressed if you want more people playing the CPvEvP queues, doing PvP full stop and investing more money into the game during this risky revamp/re-balance, especially knowing what the majority and louder playbase think and feel about competition and PvP.
PvP attracts people in general but fair play attracts even more.
That is why i said "drain, control, placate, and debuff", and not EPG, you know that science stuff thats in the game
We've already made changes to Damage Immunities in recent patches, including introducing a mutual lockout period when any of them trigger. We are keeping an eye on how those changes may alter the game.
Cryptic - Lead Systems Designer
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It's entirely possible I'm my own worst enemy.
I ask because there are game mechanics which do affect allies (but not self), or it affects allies except for hangar pets and non-hangar pets.
I was assuming it affected yourself and your pets as well, but you know what they say about assuming.
Not quite how it's phrased...the highest buff is still at the lowest hull, it's just that that ceiling has been brought down. A 0% gdf on holodeck is, what, 150%? As I read the notes, what this means is that that goes down and the minimum goes up from the 37.5% currently on Tribble, i.e. the range is tightened.
Eng out of control? Not sure I've ever heard that claim before in more than 5 years.
With each passing day I wonder if I stepped into an alternate reality. The Cubs win the world series. Donald Trump is President. Britain leaves the EU. STO gets a dedicated PvP season. Engineers are "out of control" in STO.
Does the dmg buff stack? I.e. if I and my teammate both activate it, does everyone in range get dmg buff x2?
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Scattering Field: ALL Dmg Res Bonus + 21.2% all dmg bonus for 30 sec (at AUX 78).
I'm so appreciated to your effort.
But still some people talk about Deflector Overcharge.
If Photonic Officer is really rarely used, I may have some suggestions.
1) How about making Deflector Overcharge as Boff skill, instead of Photonic Officer?
Cooldown = 90 sec.
Deflector Overcharge I (Lt) = +15% Exotic dmg/Outgoing Shield Heal, +15 CtrlX/DrainX for 15 sec
Deflector Overcharge II (Lt. Cmdr.) = +17.5% Exotic dmg/Outgoing Shield Heal, +17.5 CtrlX/DrainX for 15 sec
Deflector Overcharge III (Cmdr) = +20% Exotic dmg/Outgoing Shield Heal, +20 CtrlX/DrainX for 15 sec
*+50% bonus if your character is science career.
2) How about buffing the trait "Conservation of Energy" more useful for science career officer, with keeping Photonic Officer skill ?
Currently, Conservation of Energy gives +10% Exotic dmg when hit by energy weapons, for 15 sec, up to 3 stacks. In addition to existing buff,
* +5% Outgoing Shield Heal for 15 sec up to 3 stacks, when hit by Energy Weapons.
* +2.5 All Power to Subsystems for 15 sec up to 3 stacks, when hit by Energy Weapons.