Discussion: Aug. 23rd Game Update
By
Akuma_Mishima,
Posted on: 2007-08-23 13:51 in Developers' Corner
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I was in-game for a bit this afternoon and noticed that they are now so unobtrusive that if someone doesn't know what to look for or what channels to include in their chat windows, they will miss the announcements.
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Yup, I have to say that the new "alerts" are so unnoticible now that as far as I know, unless I'm in the zone the invasion is happening in, I don't know they ARE happening.
I exited 3 seperate missions earlier today to find the zone was under invasion. Never saw the alert until I scrolled back through all the text to see it. And I KNEW about this change beforehand and made a tab specifically for the System messages that the new alerts fall under. Even with that, all the messages that fall under the "system" chat made it so I didn't see the message when it originally appeared.
I know most of the complaining was about the alerts being in the Admin channel and being totally unblockable. At least then I knew about the invasions.
Oh well, all things change.
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Costume pieces awarded during the 2007 Valentines event are once again available to players that have earned them.
I dont think I ever looked at what those pieces were I earned. So they werent available this whole time? Anyone have pics?
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Check out this link, midways down. It's the Heart pattern that is at issue.
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Okay Im not wearing that! 
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I wonder if, now that they're gone, someone might enlighten us as to how they were gotten in the first place 
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I wonder if they'll do similar things for other hero/villain badges....
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Badges
* Heroes who get a Villain Mission badge (and Villains who get a Hero Mission badge) will have that badge immediately revoked. Characters who already have badges for missions that they should not be able to access due to which side they are on, will have those badges revoked as well.
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Sucks for those who have these. 
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So I'm wondering: what about those players, back when COV was recently launched, who's Villain character suddenly appeared Hero side. I didn't follow all those threads, but I recall seeing a comment that the GMs couldn't return a couple of those characters to Villain side. Were these cases ever resolved?
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Costume pieces awarded during the 2007 Valentines event are once again available to players that have earned them.
I dont think I ever looked at what those pieces were I earned. So they werent available this whole time? Anyone have pics?
[/ QUOTE ]hearts was disabled when i tried to get them for a new costume for violet. was wondering about that.
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I know I didn't check this on the test server, but it seemed like such minor thing, that I figured it would just be fixed. The window opacity bug is still NOT FIXED. I logged into RWZ and, happy as a clam, moved my slider from 38% to 100%. Then I zoned to Atlas Park. It is now at 16%. So...no change whatsoever. Just an FYI.
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Well, I know a lot of people complained about the invasion messages being on that server alerts channel, but I personally have no idea why. Moving the announcements to the system channel is incredibly dumb. Before, there was a bold red alert that was easy to spot and in a channel where there was no other traffic. Now it's in a channel where there is a TON of traffic from combat, team changes, etc. This makes it extremely difficult to see the alerts about invasions. Add this to invasions only occurring once in a while and you have a recipe of only catching invasions if they happen to start while you're passing through a zone. I would think an alien invasion warrants better attention than subtle chance, it made much more sense before today's patch.
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Costume pieces awarded during the 2007 Valentines event are once again available to players that have earned them.
I dont think I ever looked at what those pieces were I earned. So they werent available this whole time? Anyone have pics?
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Check out this link, midways down. It's the Heart pattern that is at issue.
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Okay Im not wearing that!
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But a heart surrounding your skull would just be soooooo cute!
*ducks*
Anyways, as a badger does anyone know the name of the badges that will be specifically revoked?
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about the way we were notefied about the coming invasions- -
The old way was totally to intrusive,, hit every channel, all kinds of unwanted text every few mins. everytime some one did the TF or the invasion was in progress,, Gawd..it totally sukd. But for people who want to actually partecipate in it..the system notification seems to little, maybe the red letters again would help during heavier times...but i think a rikti invasion channel to add to tabs or for another seperate tab, would be a better fix. Then the channel option could be added to any tab Preferred.
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Well, I know a lot of people complained about the invasion messages being on that server alerts channel, but I personally have no idea why. Moving the announcements to the system channel is incredibly dumb. Before, there was a bold red alert that was easy to spot and in a channel where there was no other traffic. Now it's in a channel where there is a TON of traffic from combat, team changes, etc. This makes it extremely difficult to see the alerts about invasions. Add this to invasions only occurring once in a while and you have a recipe of only catching invasions if they happen to start while you're passing through a zone. I would think an alien invasion warrants better attention than subtle chance, it made much more sense before today's patch.
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I posted this same point immediately after this hit test. The complaints apparently are louder and more important than Vanguard's air raid sirens and an alien invasion of Earth. A Skull making threats as you run by is more noticeable in text than an invasion alert now. And all is well.... not.
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I only experienced the sound from Sonic Resonance - Disruption Field once - man it was horrible. I asked the sonic player to never put it on me again.
I'm glad they changed it. I hope it's much less annoying now. Good work, developers!
I would agree, I missed several zone messages about invasions becaused it looked like regular boxt text which didn't grab my attention so I contuined on to my mission and missed the invasion. I like the invasions they are fun but they aren't fun if you miss them.
How about you leave them how they are now but make them Orange in color to stand out better.
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Before, there was a bold red alert that was easy to spot and in a channel where there was no other traffic.
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The problem is that it was also in EVERY OTHER channel (and tab). Those of us who use several global channels (I have one for both of my usual playgroups) were getting spammed across the board, and regular conversations were getting interrupted/drowned out.
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Better than having your chat window spammed so often that you can't talk to your own team!
How about simply making the alerts all caps, perhaps framed in asterisks or crosshatches to stand out. Like :
** VANGUARD : ALERT : RIKTI SHIPS APPROACHING GRANDVILLE **
That would be somewhat better.
Or drop the Request channel and make that the Vanguard/special announcements channel. It's barely used.
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Why was Infernal's Altar's HP reduced again? How come no demons spawn from it anymore? How much easier does that mission have to get?
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The Lichen should be removed from the Eden trial if they are not going to give any XP. I've only done the trial a few times, but it doesn't seem right that something that can kill you, and that you can't avoid, gives no XP.
I understand that there was some farming going on, and if this is how it needs to be fixed to prevent that, so be it. But it penalizes those of us who do the trial "the right way".
I know that the CoT portal spawns in door missions don't give any XP, but in the vast majority of cases you can complete those missions without defeating the portals. You basically can't do the Eden trial without taking out the Lichen before approaching the second Wall.
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There were some "Board train" missions that villains could enter via a portal that acts like a train door in rwz.
Apparently that lead to some badges being given out that are forbidden. Wow, funny how the devs get all riled up about some badges.
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Probably because if and when they decide to allow side switching in creates a even footing for badgers. In addition badge hunting has a large following and badgers can get a little touchy about missed badges
I really like that they changed the default channel for Rikti Invasion broadcast messages to System instead of Admin. It's much easier on the eyes now and still not hard to notice if you are paying attention at all.
Who amoung you had the horrible idea to change the Raid Alerts to System? How about making it a seperate channel that we can choose to remove from a chat tab or can place in the chat window of our choice, and making it say... Orange... instead of system green and getting lost in all the other green text that pops up normally. As much as I disliked being bombarded with all the red, I would gladly have it back over not noticing the Alerts at all. I mean they are ALERTS!!!
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Why was Infernal's Altar's HP reduced again? How come no demons spawn from it anymore? How much easier does that mission have to get?
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There's a beta build where Infernal defeats the altar himself in a fit of rage, hands his axe to the nearest scrapper or tank, kneels down and openly weeping asks that the heroes just put him out of his misery.
Infinity and Victory mostly
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/waiting for patch note to say pkpkg spammers have had their site shut down and their bodies dismembered/
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Hit em with a Denial of Service attack.
WHAT?
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I need to successfully tracert them first.....
but perhaps I've said too much
<.<
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(runs away)
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Why was Infernal's Altar's HP reduced again? How come no demons spawn from it anymore? How much easier does that mission have to get?
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they could just turn the altar into a glowie 
Since it doesn't spawn anything any more, I think it *should* be a glowie.
*watches his window opacity drop to 6% on zoning to Galaxy* 
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Tailor
* Costume pieces awarded during the 2007 Valentines event are once again available to players that have earned them.
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Heart pattern is missing at the tailor for my female characters.
It is there for my male characters though. I bugged it earlier today.