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Patch notes for build 1800.201006040036.4Tr

City of Heroes® Super Booster V: Mutant is now in game and will be available tomorrow for $9.99/€8.99/£5.99 on the NCsoft® store. City of Heroes® Super Booster V: Mutant allows you to harness the powers of mutation to access fantastic new costume sets, bizarre emotes, and the exclusive Secondary Mutation power. This booster pack serial code enables the booster pack features for all characters on the game account from level 1. However, the costume change emotes** listed below require unlocking at least one additional costume slot.

Mutant Theme Costume Sets

• The Mutant theme costume sets unlock all-new heads, armor, sleeves, shoulders, gloves, tails, wings, pants and boots.
  
  • Organic Armor
  • Bioluminescent
• Custom weapons:
  
  • Dual Blades.
  • Broadsword
• Both costume sets include tintable costume pieces, a new feature that allows you to create unique glows for individual costume pieces.

Secondary Mutation Power

• Tap into the incredible potential locked within your DNA. Secondary Mutation allows your character to mutate itself for amazing, unexpected results. Charge into battle with new abilities. Be careful, they may help your foes more than you. There is a chance this power can backfire and turn you into a Rikti monkey. Secondary Mutation is available every 20 minutes and is not affected by recharge buffs. Its effects include:
  • Acute senses
  • Tough hide
  • Pain tolerance
  • Quick reflexes
  • Heightened speed

Character Emotes

• Showoff (/em showoff)
• Growl /em growl

Costume Change Emotes

• Activate the following mutant-themed costume change emotes using the costume change interface, selectable from the main Menu.
  • Energy Morph
  • Rapid Boil
  • Dimensional Shift

**By default characters only have one costume slot, and must unlock additional costume slots through activities in the game. This can be accomplished by completing costume slot missions at levels 20, 30, and 40, and by using Halloween Event salvage (which can also be bought and sold via the in-game Consignment Houses).

COMBINED


Powers

General

• Arachnos Heavy Blasters will no longer immediately run out of endurance.

Tasks

• Fixed a bug in all Police Band/Broker ‘rescue’ missions, where the boss guarding the rescue NPC would be named 'BOSS_DISPLAYNAME’
• Ouroboros – Fixed a bug in Flashback missions that caused Badges to be awarded only to the mission owner.

Tailor

• Put back the Warrior lower body option from the Martial Arts pack, which had temporarily gone missing.
• Fixed a bug that made the left hand gun of female Thugs Masterminds (except the Legacy Semi-Auto) invisible.
• Fixed a bug for Male and Huge characters where the legacy tails still showed up in the Belt category if the upper body was set to Armored or Baggy.

Global Email

• Increased the time before stored emails are deleted from 30 days to 60 days. There is now a column after the date that indicates how much longer an email will be stored.
• Fixed a bug that would cause attachments to be lost if an email was accidentally sent to an invalid name longer than 21 characters .

Arenas

• Fixed a bug that prevented players from issuing commands to Gladiators.

Options

• Fixed sound FX not playing properly when in flight and on Female and Huge models for various Costume Changes associated with the Mutant Pack
• Players who have not prepurchased the Going Rogue expansion can now open The NCsoft Store Going Rogue prepurchase page at the Character Select screen at log in.

CITY OF HEROES

• None

CITY OF VILLAINS

• None

You don't need to enter the hyphens and I confirm the code was claimed a few seconds after the image was published, somebody from North Carolina *waves*

And claimed! Congrats to the you!

Grab it while you can! First person to apply it to their account wins it. The image will then change to "Code claimed"!

And our last code was claimed by someone in the U.K.!! Congratulations all!

Last European code!!

Dernier code européen !

Lezter europäischer Code!

Woo Denmark it is! Congrats! 8th code now claimed!

8th European code below!

8e code européen ci-dessous !

8. europäischer Code da unten!

I don't want to stir the pot but so far our winners have either come from German or French speaking countries. Just saying...

Claimed!

Code utilisé !

Code verwendet!

4th code coming up! Refresh until I tell you it's been claimed!

4e code européen ! Rafraîchissez la page jusqu'à ce que je vous dise que le code a été utilisé !

4. Code ! Aktualisiert die Seite, bis ich euch mitteile, dass der Code verwendet wird.

http://bit.ly/aDB06a

The live servers are back up and running!

Tell me about it

The publish will run a bit longer than expected but the live servers should be available again in a bout 10 minutes. We'll keep you posted if this were to change.

Thank you for your patience!

I see someone is being fair play...

That'll teach me! No use trying others you won't find them until I've posted them on Facebook, Twitter or the forums!

Here's the second European code!

2nd code européen !

2. Code für unsere europäische Spieler!

http://bit.ly/bJuaMm

The North American and European Live Servers will be offline for a maintenance on Wednesday, 23rd June 2010.

Start Time: 8AM Pacific Time (11AM Eastern Time / 4PM British Time / 17:00 Central European Time)
Expected Duration: 2 hours
Expected Finish Time: 10AM Pacific Time (1PM Eastern Time / 6PM British Time / 19:00 Central Europpean Time)

Patch notes for this publish will be available after this downtime.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience!

NCsoft and Paragon Studios are proud to announce that players will have the opportunity to walk the line between good and evil (or cross it), on 17th August 2010 with the release of City of Heroes Going Rogue™. City of Heroes Going Rogue is the second paid expansion in the City of Heroes® franchise. For the first time in any super-powered MMORPG, the moral choices players make will affect their characters' game play experiences. Heroes can fall from grace to become villains, while villains can redeem themselves to become Heroes. In addition, players can now access the alternate universe of Praetoria where they can enjoy new missions, zones, costume sets, fight new villain groups, and play with new power sets including Demon Summoning, Dual Pistols, Electric Control and Kinetic Melee.

"I was proud when we launched City of Heroes® back in 2004 and even prouder when we unveiled the City of Villains® expansion in 2005, but Going Rogue is by far the best work that this team has ever done. Paragon Studios has distinguished itself as a premier studio committed to excellence with every issue and we've raised the bar on this expansion. I'm so honored to be a part of this team and I believe that our players will be absolutely amazed when they see what we've done." - Melissa Bianco, Lead Designer of City of Heroes.

City of Heroes Going Rogue will be available as an expansion-only, or as part of the City of Heroes Going Rogue Complete Collection, which includes both City of Heroes® and City of Villains®. Both versions of City of Heroes Going Rogue will be available from the NCsoft store.

Join in the Community discussion here!

NCsoft and Paragon Studios are proud to announce that players will have the opportunity to walk the line between good and evil (or cross it), on 17th August 2010 with the release of City of Heroes Going Rogue™. City of Heroes Going Rogue is the second paid expansion in the City of Heroes® franchise. For the first time in any super-powered MMORPG, the moral choices players make will affect their characters' game play experiences. Heroes can fall from grace to become villains, while villains can redeem themselves to become Heroes. In addition, players can now access the alternate universe of Praetoria where they can enjoy new missions, zones, costume sets, fight new villain groups, and play with new power sets including Demon Summoning, Dual Pistols, Electric Control and Kinetic Melee.

"I was proud when we launched City of Heroes® back in 2004 and even prouder when we unveiled the City of Villains® expansion in 2005, but Going Rogue is by far the best work that this team has ever done. Paragon Studios has distinguished itself as a premier studio committed to excellence with every issue and we've raised the bar on this expansion. I'm so honored to be a part of this team and I believe that our players will be absolutely amazed when they see what we've done." - Melissa Bianco, Lead Designer of City of Heroes.

City of Heroes Going Rogue will be available as an expansion-only, or as part of the City of Heroes Going Rogue Complete Collection, which includes both City of Heroes® and City of Villains®. Both versions of City of Heroes Going Rogue will be available from the NCsoft store.

We knew you folks would be curious about how the market merge will work, so we’ve done our best to answer some of what we think will be the most commonly asked questions. As we read more feedback, we will add to this FAQ as needed.


Q: When will the market merge occur?

A: The markets will be merged with the launch of Going Rogue.


Q: So what will happen to my inf when my characters switch alignments? Previously were heard about some sort of escrow system, will that still happen?

A: No. Influence/Infamy/Information, Salvage, Enhancements, and Recipes will not be escrowed. Your character will retain all their possessions and inf when they transfer sides.


Q: You said that there are some restrictions that apply to what items we can mail to our other characters, what are they?

A: The restrictions on mail will be as follows:

• Trial accounts will not be able to use Global email.
• Trial accounts will not be able to claim more than 50,000 inf.
• Merits cannot be globally emailed.
• Vanguard Merits cannot be globally emailed.
• The Gamestop Going Rogue Pre-Order Enhancements cannot be globally emailed.
• MA Tickets cannot be globally emailed.

Q: What will happen when the markets merge? How will current bids be resolved? Will all my items stored in the AH disappear?

A: All bids will be returned back to the “storage” state. For example, if you placed a 1000 Inf bid on Boresight, and that bid has not been filled, the 1000 inf bid will be cancelled, and will be returned in a “storage” state for your character to “claim”.

Everything currently on the market -- both items for sale and bids – will be cancelled and held in storage. In the case of bids, a message will display in a BIG RED FONT telling you that the bid was cancelled due to market merger.


Q: Are the currencies being renamed, or will they still be called “infamy” and “influence”?

A: We will not be renaming influence or infamy. On your character ID cards, we will be changing the appearance of Influence, Infamy and Information to “INF”.


Q: What will happen to the bid histories?

A: Wentworth and Black Market bid histories will be wiped, and will start with a clean slate.

Okay, I've updated the initial message to be more specific.

We have enabled the Going Rogue Prepurchase option on the North American Training Room but be careful this is an actual purchase site! This is NOT a test site. This is mainly for internal testing.

As a result only players who have prepurchased Going Rogue will have access to their Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning characters during this testing phase.

2nd Victory for Zombie Man, congratulations! Your title has been updated and all you need to do now is PM me your choice of costume code. Happy Monday everybody!

Hmm ce coup-ci, un petit problème technique est en effet la cause de cette suppression immédiate du concours et le verrouillage de la discussion correspondante puisque plus de concours. Je créerai une autre discussion une fois que ce soucis technique aura été résolu.

Quant à vous offrir cette possibilité malgré sa discutabilité soulevée par certains, c'est une opération Marketing.