Freitag

Hello Everyone!

The Known Issues list has been updated with issues for the Halloween Pack. You can find the updated list here.

Thank you!
~Freitag

Hello everyone!

Sorry to post again so soon, but another run was done today on Virtue! Today, myself and 7 brave, Virtuous souls ran Made to Wave the Flag by @LaserJesus (Arc #: 384776), an arc that takes you into the heart of a Malta base, where you are being mentally conditioned by a doctor who is suppressing the powers of Heroes while turning them to Malta's side, under the guise of fighting for America! The storytelling turns psychological at times, and you'll go down memory lane, but I won't spoil too much! You should definitely check out this arc: make sure to read the extensive descriptions, all the dialogue, and the Clues, so that you don't miss anything!

Halloween 2011 - Dr. Kane's House of Horror

The eccentric scientist Dr. Kane turned his home into a haunted house and has invited all of Paragon City to come and visit. Things are not as they seem in Dr. Kane's House of Horror though. Visitors enter the mansion never to be heard from again!

Dr. Kane's mansion is a zombie-filled nightmare, and while exploring it, you learn of the doctor's nefarious plot to transform the innocent people of Paragon City into a slavering horde of zombies. As you investigate the halls and rooms of the haunted mansion, you face off against Dr. Kane's freakish creations, including his greatest handiwork, the giant Abomination.

Succeed in defeating Dr. Kane and his monstrosities and earn new rewards, including the new Bats aura, and the Murder of Crows costume change emote.

Dr Kane's House of Horrors is a co-op event for up to 4 characters from level 15-50. Access this new event through the Team Up Teleporter.


COMBINED

Paragon Rewards

• Corrected text in Paragon Rewards Seismic Path Aura to indicate the Character Respec is an Account Item reward.
• Fixed a bug that allowed players who are neither VIP subscribers nor own Paragon Reward Tier 4 or greater to earn Merit Rewards from Exploration Accolade badges.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent Premium players who had Paragon Reward level 4 or greater from earning Vanguard Merits.

Mission Architect

• Buying costume parts while creating mission architect characters will no longer give the invalid costume message.
• Fixed an issue where custom characters were not updating to see all of a players recently unlocked costume pieces.

Auction House

• Messaging for Free Players trying to use the Auction House has been updated.
  • "You cannot perform that action due to insufficient permissions. Please upgrade to VIP or purchase an Auction House License."

Powers

Incarnate Powers

• Incarnate powers should now appear available instantly after zoning if they are accessible.

Rocket Board

• The Celestial Wings will no longer detach from the body when on the Rocket Board.

Beam Rifle

• Shock Rifle and Devastator weapons should now be available choices for Beam Rifle characters.

Inspirations

• Guarding Imbuement: Corrected this power's short help to clarify that it grants 7.5% damage resistance instead of 7.25% damage resistance.
• Tactical Imbuement: Corrected this power's short help to clarify that it grants +25% perception instead of +33% perception.

Character Creation

• A Random Costume Set will be selected upon entering character creation.
• Character creation data will not be reset after backing out to log in screen or character selection screen.

Character Creation and Tailor

• For weapon based powerset characters, tailoring body type will no longer discard costume changes if the weapon is not explicitly selected.
• In character creation, selected weapons will no longer change back to the default weapon after returning to the Powers menu.
• Fixed an Issue which could prevent Crab Spiders from coloring some armor parts.

Badges

Unveiler Badge

• Removed an imposter world spawn version of Fake Nemesis which did not count towards this badge.

Tasks

Leonard

• Players on the extra step "Test your brand new cutscene! NICE!" will be reset to the first part of Leonards story arc.

German Client

• Certain Recipes for Kismet and Aegis should no longer cause a German client crash when placed in the Auction House.

Hello everyone!

Unfortunately, I was unable to run an arc on Thursday last week, but to make up for it, I'm running two arcs this week! Tuesday's arc was "The Invasion of the Bikini-Clad Samurai Vampiresses from Outer Space!" (Arc #61013 by @Aliana Blue). In this arc, you help a film director stage his film, and fend off an attack by extraterrestrials! Or is it really a film? You'll have to play to find out!

Don't miss this arc, and make sure you read not only the contact dialogue in full, but also the descriptions of the custom npc's. Not only are they well written and funny, but there are also highly humorous commentaries by the actors and director! This is definitely one arc you won't want to miss!

Here's the team that came along for the fun!

The incorrect patch notes were posted earlier. We apologize for the confusion. These are the correct patch notes for today's publish.

COMBINED

Client Crash

• Fixed a client crash which could occur while loading into a new map.

Join the discussion here!

The incorrect patch notes were posted earlier. We apologize for the confusion. These are the correct patch notes for today's publish.

COMBINED

Client Crash

• Fixed a client crash which could occur while loading into a new map.

The Paragon Studios team is going to be donating Saturday, October 15th, 2011 to play video games! Wait a second… that doesn’t sound right. Hah! But it gets better! We are going to be participating in the Extra Life charity event starting at 8:00am PDT (11:00am EDT; 4:00pm BST; 17:00 MESZ) where we’ll combine our two favorite things: helping make people’s lives better and playing video games, in order to support a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital! You heard it right! We’ll be playing games throughout the day, and you’ll get to watch us do it on the Paragon Studios Ustream channel, and if you’re feeling charitable, you can even donate to your favorite dev and help support those in need.

Check out our team page on the extra life website and show your support here!!


Join the community discussion here!

The Paragon Studios team is going to be donating Saturday, October 15th, 2011 to play video games! Wait a second… that doesn’t sound right. Hah! But it gets better! We are going to be participating in the Extra Life charity event starting at 8:00am PDT (11:00am EDT; 4:00pm BST; 17:00 MESZ) where we’ll combine our two favorite things: helping make people’s lives better and playing video games, in order to support a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital! You heard it right! We’ll be playing games throughout the day, and you’ll get to watch us do it on the Paragon Studios Ustream channel, and if you’re feeling charitable, you can even donate to your favorite dev and help support those in need.

Check out our team page on the extra life website and show your support here!!

COMBINED

Character Creation

• Fixed a possible client crash when switching between Archetypes

Inf. Caps

• Premium Players who are above the influence cap should no longer have a chance to leak influence when trading.
• Players who attempt to take part in a trade would put either side of the trade above their influence cap will now get the following message:
  • Trading cancelled - either you or your trading partner did not have enough inventory slots open or did not have enough items in inventory to complete the trade
• Influence now shows up red in email interface if it is too much for a character to claim
  • Players who were stuck with too much influence in a pending claim should now be able to spend down to get out of their current state.

TASKS

Incarnate Trial - The Underground

• The final encounter in the Underground Incarnate Trial now properly ends the trial in failure if the enrage timer is reached.

First Ward - Seed of Hamidon

• Increased the range at which badge credit for defeating the Seed of Hamidon can be awarded to participants.

Alpha Incarnate - Mender Ramiel Arc

• Characters should no longer be able to get themselves into a state where they can no longer obtain missions to continue Mender Ramiel’s arc. Players whose characters are currently stuck on this arc should submit an in-game petition for resolution.

Hero Signature Story Arc I

• Fixed an issue in mission 3 where Lemkin was called a different name in a clue received.

Sewer Trial

• Players should no longer have the chance to get stuck in a mound of dirt when exiting to Mercy Island from the Sewer Trial.

POWERS

Mastermind - Incarnate Powers

• Supremacy's Incarnate Shifts to Mastermind Minion and Lieutenant ranked pets on Incarnate Trials should now be working again.

Ultra Tailor

• Fixed an issue which could cause gender deformation during Ultra Tailor sessions for players with weapon based powersets.

Join the community discussion here!

COMBINED

Character Creation

• Fixed a possible client crash when switching between Archetypes

Inf. Caps

• Premium Players who are above the influence cap should no longer have a chance to leak influence when trading.
• Players who attempt to take part in a trade would put either side of the trade above their influence cap will now get the following message:
  • Trading cancelled - either you or your trading partner did not have enough inventory slots open or did not have enough items in inventory to complete the trade
• Influence now shows up red in email interface if it is too much for a character to claim
  • Players who were stuck with too much influence in a pending claim should now be able to spend down to get out of their current state.

TASKS

Incarnate Trial - The Underground

• The final encounter in the Underground Incarnate Trial now properly ends the trial in failure if the enrage timer is reached.

First Ward - Seed of Hamidon

• Increased the range at which badge credit for defeating the Seed of Hamidon can be awarded to participants.

Alpha Incarnate - Mender Ramiel Arc

• Characters should no longer be able to get themselves into a state where they can no longer obtain missions to continue Mender Ramiel’s arc. Players whose characters are currently stuck on this arc should submit an in-game petition for resolution.

Hero Signature Story Arc I

• Fixed an issue in mission 3 where Lemkin was called a different name in a clue received.

Sewer Trial

• Players should no longer have the chance to get stuck in a mound of dirt when exiting to Mercy Island from the Sewer Trial.

POWERS

Mastermind - Incarnate Powers

• Supremacy's Incarnate Shifts to Mastermind Minion and Lieutenant ranked pets on Incarnate Trials should now be working again.

Ultra Tailor

• Fixed an issue which could cause gender deformation during Ultra Tailor sessions for players with weapon based powersets.

COMBINED

Character Creation

• Fixed a possible client crash when switching between Archetypes

TASKS

Incarnate Trial - The Underground

• The final encounter in the Underground Incarnate Trial now properly ends the trial in failure if the enrage timer is reached.

First Ward - Seed of Hamidon

• Increased the range at which badge credit for defeating the Seed of Hamidon can be awarded to participants.

Alpha Incarnate - Mender Ramiel Arc

• Characters should no longer be able to get themselves into a state where they can no longer obtain missions to continue Mender Ramiel’s arc. Players whose characters are currently stuck on this arc should submit an in-game petition for resolution.

Hero Signature Story Arc I

• Fixed an issue in mission 3 where Lemkin was called a different name in a clue received.

Sewer Trial

• Players should no longer have the chance to get stuck in a mound of dirt when exiting to Mercy Island from the Sewer Trial.

POWERS

Mastermind - Incarnate Powers

• Supremacy's Incarnate Shifts to Mastermind Minion and Lieutenant ranked pets on Incarnate Trials should now be working again.

Ultra Tailor

• Fixed an issue which could cause gender deformation during Ultra Tailor sessions for players with weapon based powersets.

Defiant is now available to players once again. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue.

~Freitag

An issue was discovered with the Defiant server after the publish, and it will unfortunately be necessary to take down the server in order to address this issue. We expect this maintenance to last approximately 1.5 hours, from approximately 9pm BST to 10:30pm BST.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding.

~Freitag

COMBINED

In addition to the patch notes below, a number of changes were made to address stability issues.

System Requirements

• Updated the error messaging for players who are unable to run the City of Heroes client due to missing OpenGL drivers.

Mac Client

• Addressed a Supergroup base editing issue in the Mac client.

Praetorian Level Restriction

• Praetorian characters on Free To Play Accounts should no longer have a chance to run into a level cap after level 14.

COMBINED

In addition to the patch notes below, a number of changes were made to address stability issues.

System Requirements

• Updated the error messaging for players who are unable to run the City of Heroes client due to missing OpenGL drivers.

Mac Client

• Addressed a Supergroup base editing issue in the Mac client.

Praetorian Level Restriction

• Praetorian characters on Free To Play Accounts should no longer have a chance to run into a level cap after level 14.

Join the Community Discussion here!

All servers are now open to the public. We apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you for your support and patience.

~Freitag

The live maintenance is taking longer than expected due to an issue that was discovered that needs to be addressed. We are still performing maintenance, and hope to have the servers back online as soon as possible. We will keep you updated and let you know as soon as we have more information.

We apologize for the inconvenience and delay, and thank you for your understanding and support.

~Freitag

UPDATE @ 12:38pm PDT: Defiant is now available to players once again. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue.

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UPDATE @ 11:50 PDT: An issue was discovered with the Defiant server after the publish, and it will unfortunately be necessary to take down the server in order to address this issue. We expect this maintenance to last approximately 1.5 hours, from approximately 9pm BST to 10:30pm BST.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding.

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The Live European and North American City of Heroes servers will be offline for maintenance on Friday, September 30, 2011.

Start Time: 6:00 a.m. PDT / 9:00 a.m. EDT / 2:00 p.m. BST / 15:00 CEST
Expected Duration: 2 hours
Expected Finish Time:8:00 a.m. PDT / 11:00 a.m. EDT / 4:00 p.m. BST / 17:00 CEST

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

That's a shame, but as you say, he's been at it forever. While Asterix & Obelix are French, they're super-popular in Germany as well. I collected all the comics and I still have them in a box at home. Definitely a shame to see them stop, but it's been so long, and Uderzo has been going alone for decades now, I think, so he's earned his retirement!

~Freitag

COMBINED

Login Screen

• The User account will log out when closing the client window during character selection.
  • The "You are already logged in" message should no longer appear during subsequent log in attempts after closing the client window during character selection.

Paragon Rewards

• Added text to the Paragon Rewards tree to indicate which rewards are Repeatable and which rewards will only be offered for a Limited Time.

General

• Purchases of the Vanguard Sigil costume change emote with Vanguard Merits should now properly unlock the emote on the character.

Enhancements

• Attuned Enhancements which provided a bonus when slotting a single enhancement in a set such as Karma +Knockback Protection should now apply the bonus properly.

Signature Stories

• Fixed an issue which was causing some of Alastor's chat to be blank.

Tin Mage

• Restored proper rewards to the Tin Mage Mk II Task Force.

Powers

• Claiming the Signature Summon power while under the effects of the Signature Summon Lock should no longer result in losing the claimed reward.
• Purchased powers can no longer be deleted from the powers inventory.
• Purchasable costume powers no longer have misleading text implying the powers can only be used for two weeks. These powers have always been permanent.

Dual Blades

• Organic Blades should now appear correctly for Huge models using Dual Blades

Character Creator

• Players who previously had access to the Cape of the Four Winds and Arachnos Cape should find them avaialble again in the costume screen
• Female characters should once again be able to find scarf 1 and scarf 2 in the costume screen

Paragon Market

• Powers - Travel - Rocket Board
  • Added more description to the store text to let players know that all powers become untoggled and disabled while the Rocket Board is in use.
• Powers - Travel - Mission Teleporter Power
  • Renamed the Mission Teleport Power to the Mission Transporter Power. This was to avoid confusion between the "temporary" version of the power. The Mission Transporter Power is the permanent version of the power.
• Costumes - Chest - Monstrous Fur Pattern.
  • Moved and edited the Monstrous Fur Pattern out of the Chest and into the "Legs" category. It was accidentally placed in the wrong section.

Customer Support

• The browser support links for German and French should no longer link to the English versions of these pages.

COMBINED

Login Screen

• The User account will log out when closing the client window during character selection.
  • The "You are already logged in" message should no longer appear during subsequent log in attempts after closing the client window during character selection.

Paragon Rewards

• Added text to the Paragon Rewards tree to indicate which rewards are Repeatable and which rewards will only be offered for a Limited Time.

General

• Purchases of the Vanguard Sigil costume change emote with Vanguard Merits should now properly unlock the emote on the character.

Enhancements

• Attuned Enhancements which provided a bonus when slotting a single enhancement in a set such as Karma +Knockback Protection should now apply the bonus properly.

Signature Stories

• Fixed an issue which was causing some of Alastor's chat to be blank.

Tin Mage

• Restored proper rewards to the Tin Mage Mk II Task Force.

Powers

• Claiming the Signature Summon power while under the effects of the Signature Summon Lock should no longer result in losing the claimed reward.
• Purchased powers can no longer be deleted from the powers inventory.
• Purchasable costume powers no longer have misleading text implying the powers can only be used for two weeks. These powers have always been permanent.

Dual Blades

• Organic Blades should now appear correctly for Huge models using Dual Blades

Character Creator

• Players who previously had access to the Cape of the Four Winds and Arachnos Cape should find them avaialble again in the costume screen
• Female characters should once again be able to find scarf 1 and scarf 2 in the costume screen

Paragon Market

• Powers - Travel - Rocket Board
  • Added more description to the store text to let players know that all powers become untoggled and disabled while the Rocket Board is in use.
• Powers - Travel - Mission Teleporter Power
  • Renamed the Mission Teleport Power to the Mission Transporter Power. This was to avoid confusion between the "temporary" version of the power. The Mission Transporter Power is the permanent version of the power.
• Costumes - Chest - Monstrous Fur Pattern.
  • Moved and edited the Monstrous Fur Pattern out of the Chest and into the "Legs" category. It was accidentally placed in the wrong section.

Customer Support

• The browser support links for German and French should no longer link to the English versions of these pages.

Join the discussion here!

The Live European and North American City of Heroes servers will be taken offline for further hardware upgrades on Friday, September 23, 2011.

Start Time: 3:30 a.m. PDT / 6:30 a.m. EDT / 11:30 a.m. BST / 12:30 CEST
Expected Duration: 8 hours
Expected Finish Time:11:30 a.m. PDT / 2:30 p.m. EDT / 7:30 p.m. BST / 20:30 CEST

This maintenance is to complete the City of Heroes server upgrades.

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

Good news! We will not need to restart the servers to resolve this issue after all.

~Freitag