Patch Notes for Live Build - Discussion - 8-4-09

Patch Notes for Live Build

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009



COMBINED



Arena

• Fixed Villain Pentad event to properly award the Pentad Arena badge

• Transformation Capsules now properly show their destroyed animation

• Quick-Chat Menu has gone through an overhaul and now includes all emotes available to all players.
• All versions of juggle emotes should now work with flight.

• Detonation Set: Fixed a bug that would cause the 5 piece set bonus from the Detonation Invention Origin set to require all 6 pieces.
• Focused Smite: Accuracy/Damage/Recharge should have its short help correctly state that it boosts Accuracy, Damage and Attack Rate instead of Damage, Reducing Endurance Cost and Increasing Attack Rate.

• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented an offline level-pacted player from receiving experience if the pact is broken while that player is offline.

• The Vanguard Warhead destructable object used in the Mission Architect should now correctly explode instead of vanishing.
• Custom Critters - Mercenaries summoning set - Attacks from this set now deal damage versus players.
• Destructable objects in arcs that are not flagged as Dev Choice will no longer cause secondary effects

• Dark Miasma/Dark Servant (all versions): Fixed a bug that caused this power to state that it would accept Recharge Intensive Pet enhancement sets. Since this pet cannot be slotted for damage, it should never have been able to accept these types of enhancements.
• Hit delay for Trick Arrow - Entangling Arrow and Ice Arrow should sync with the visuals of the projectile
• Fixed the bug where pets weren't phasing with their owners properly (with powers such as Phase Shift).

• If you defeat someone who has recently defeated you, this will no longer restrict you from receiving rewards from the PvP defeat. The PvP reputation timer is now no longer reset from a defeat that doesn't earn reputation.

• Fixed the /enter_base_from_sgid command so that it only works when the base entry dialog is Open.

• The issue involving random characters appearing in the chat line has been fixed. For example, players should now no longer see “asdawasdsawdsLevel 10 Scrapper LFT”
• Players can no longer use the /enter_base_from_sgid command to flee from danger.
• Global Chat Channels will no longer change colors randomly upon zoning.

• A small hole in Cimerora's geometry no longer allows players to teleport behind the war walls.

• Trick Arrow/Acid Arrow: This power should now correctly display its resistance debuff visual FX.
• Trick Arrow/Poison Gas Arrow: This power should now correctly display its damage debuff visual FX.

• Trick Arrow/Acid Arrow: This power should now correctly display its resistance debuff visual FX.
• Trick Arrow/Poison Gas Arrow: This power should now correctly display its damage debuff visual FX.
• Dark Miasma/Dark Servant: Text no longer claims that this power takes Recharge Intensive enhancement sets

• Ice Armor/Wet Ice: Fixed a typo in this power’s long help.

• Manticore Task Force: 1st Mission no longer spawns level 40 Paragon Protector Elites (This is a level 30-35 Task Force)

• Necromancy/Lich: This pet summoning power should no longer accept Defense Debuff enhancements, as the Lich doesn’t have any powers with a defense debuff component. The Lich can now be slotted for Accurate To-Hit Debuff Invention Origin sets.

• Thus Spoke the Reichsman: Ghost Widow's Betrayed Dialog now occurs at the proper time

Hooray for emote updates!

The rest - I don't think I encountered any problems with the above fixes so ... guess I'm lucky.

As usual, the question is: Why does it take hours to release the patch notes?
...and yeah, like the emote upgrade although I usually stick to slash commands for that.. old habits!

Nice bunch of fixes. Was wondering what they could have been but looking back at the test server recent patch notes I had a good idea what most of them probably were, this post just confirms what has been changed and what I noticed.

Very nice! The Chat Bug is Dead!!

Is it just me or is Liberty rubber-banding more now? I just logged in and did some crafting and it was quite laggy (was rubber-banding/seeing big blocks/red blocks/spikes in /netgraph 1 etc...).

And no, it doesn't appear to be my internet connection...this happened during the double xp weekend as well. Friday was really bad...I could log in to the game, stand around and be fine, then once I got into a team and was doing missions it was laggy (and others said the same thing); then Saturday was 'meh' hit-or-miss with lag...then Sunday I didn't have any issues (maybe the occasional thing here or there). Now today it seems to be spiking a lot.

Per discussion while this patch was on the Training room, Manticore can and probably will still spawn Level 40 PP elites in the various missions.......though I guess not in the first mission

Bring debuff. Hopkins finally got smart and hired help to protect his weak ***.

I've already forgotten about most of you

Hmm.....I never really noticed the bugs there, guess im a fortunate fellow,hehe.

...and still having MASSIVE issues (Infinity Server) with Mapserver Disconnects and associated lags.

Hmmm, since the patch I have noticed something I call 'I like to boogie' bug

Whenever I use something like Mission TP or Pocket D tp it looks like Im dancing because the arm movement keep repeating themselves!

Anyone else notice this?

Edit - After dancing around in Atlas for a while I would like to have this made into an emote!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zwillinger Quote: 16. Has Paragon Studios redefined "player" to require your mouse to subscribe separately from your keyboard? If your mouse has greater processing power than your gfx card, the answer is yes.

Anything done to the repairmen for the Towers on the last mission of the STF? Anything?

Emotes

• Quick-Chat Menu has gone through an overhaul and now includes all emotes available to all players.
• All versions of juggle emotes should now work with flight.