Release Notes for build 1600.20090918.1 - 9/22/09

Release Notes for build 1600.20090918.1
September 22, 2009


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Powers



Badges

• Corrected a typo in the Leader badge’s description.
• The Demonic Accolade will now correctly grant to players who have the required badges.
• Fixed a bug in the Celebrant badge that caused the description from another badge to be present in its description text.

• Electrical Melee (all ATs) – Jacob’s Ladder should look correct on male, female, and huge models now
• Fixes various issues with slide animations not playing consistently (includes sliding on snow/ice as well as Prestige Power Slide)
• Archery (all ATs) - Snap Shot will play the attack animation again.
• Flight animations should be reliably interrupted by attack animations.
• The Day Job power Warden Baton should now play the correct draw animation consistently.

• Obliteration will now sell for the proper amount of influence/infamy during a respec.

• Custom Critters - Earth Assault now available for primary and secondary selection. Due to stance issues it utilizes versions of Stone Fist animations instead of hammer animations.
• Clockwork Kingdom map can be used once again within Architect.
• Custom Critters - Claws and Stone Armor are now mutually exclusive at character creation due to animation issues
• Custom Critters - Kinetics - Transference and Transfusion have switched availability. Transference is now a minion - hard ability, and Transfusion is a LT - standard ability.

• Corrected orientation of the crystal theme’s Stone Mallet.
• Made Sonic Dispersion’s Clarity completely tintable. (The continuing effect on the head was previously the default orange.)
• The Sound effect for Gravity Control - Wormhole has been restored for the ‘Bright’ and ‘Dark’ versions of the customizable
• Cold Domination - Snow Storm (All ATs) should properly play on the target now, instead of the caster.
• Dark Armor now has a “No Fade or Pulse” theme, which will allow players customizable FX without the dark light pulses of various powers or transparency in Cloak of Darkness
• Pain Domination has been revised to better reflect selected colors.
• The brown ‘tints’ in customized Earth Control should now be gone.
• Fixed the default Ice Weapon to call the default Ice Sword instead of the Greater Ice Sword. (Both swords are still options in all Ice Sword attacks.)
• Effects on the default Ice Sword should now align properly.
• The second Lava theme in the tailor’s dropdown menu should now be gone.
• Plant Control’s customized Spore Burst for the Controller AT should now reference the correct, tintable continuing effect.
• The default themes for Electrical Melee and Electrical Armor for Scrappers and Tankers now have a consistent and thematically appropriate color.
• No FX themes now available for all versions of Super Reflexes, Regeneration, Willpower and Dull Pain.
• The Metal Spines on the lower left leg for female players now fits properly on the model
• Stalker - Spines - Impale hit FX should tint properly
• Tanker - Dark Armor - Cloak of Darkness has an additional theme that no longer makes the character invisible.
• Brute - Dark Armor - Cloak of Darkness has an additional theme that no longer makes the character invisible.
• Scrapper - Dark Armor - Cloak of Darkness has an additional theme that no longer makes the character invisible.

• Removed travel suppression from self buffing accolades. Including: Vanguard medal, Geas of the Kind Ones, Eye of the Magus, Demonic Aura, Megalomaniac, and Force of Nature.
• Scrapper - Super Reflexes - Practiced Brawler’s protection versus debuff effects should last the full 120 second duration.
• Stalker - Willpower - Mind over Body should no longer suppress resistances while in PVP zones.
• Stalker - Electric Armor - Charged Armor should no longer suppress resistances in PVP zones.
• Stalker - Electric Armor - Conductive Shield should no longer suppress resistances in PVP zones.

• Added teleport protection to the Mitochondria in the Lady Grey Task Force.

• Plant Control - Fly Trap summon should play its spawn animation.

• Kheldians in Nova form will no longer be impaled by the Nemesis Staff, Blackwand, or Ghost Slaying Axe.

• Electric Armor - The help text for this power set no longer states that it contains any healing powers. Instead it states that it offers no defense enhancing powers. – Added in to notes

• Electric Armor - The help text for this power set no longer states that it contains any healing powers. Instead it states that it offers no defense enhancing powers. – Added in to notes

• Claws - Swipe: Decreased this power’s damage scale from .89 to .83
• Claws - Strike: Decreased this power’s damage scale from 1.35 to 1.24
• Claws - Slash: Decreased this power’s damage scale from 1.64 to 1.48
• Claws - Focus: Decreased this power’s damage scale from 1.66 to 1.51
• Claws - Eviscerate: Decreased this power’s damage scale from 2.4 to 2.181
• Claws - Shockwave: Decreased this power’s damage scale from 1.25 to 1.13

• Trick Arrow - All powers in this set had their endurance cost decreased to correctly use Corruptor endurance cost modifiers instead of Mastermind costs.
• Trick Arrow - Poison Gas Arrow: This power was incorrectly using melee tables, it will now correctly refer to ranged tables. The end result is that this power’s damage debuff effect was increased slightly.

• Earth Assault - Seismic Smash: This power’s hold effect is now enhanced by Domination. Corrected normal hold magnitude to 3.
• Earth Assault - Fissure - This power’s hold effect is now enhanced by Domination.
• Plant Control - Fly Trap summon should play its spawn animation.

• Pain Domination - Suppress Pain will no longer root the player while activating.

• Mace Mastery - Shatter Armor - Added generic Resist Debuff visual effects.

• Electric Melee - the Stalker version of Lightning Rod received a moderate damage increase.

Looks good to me.

Looks like several bugfixes and tweaks which are all good. Looks like TA got fixed, and Earth Assault too.

The change to Brute claws was inevitable. Should still be a powerful set though.

No complaints here!

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Just noticed the change to Mitochondria. I will miss the hijinks.

Kinetics - Controllers/Corrupters

In Kinetics for Defenders, all the powers, are 100% fully tintable. However, Controllers/Corrupters still have 3 that aren't tintable in Kinetics, Siphon Power, Fulcrum Shift, and Transference. These powers still have the default effect on the player, when used by Controllers or Corrupters, but for Defenders, that Effect is fully tinted to the color the player has set it to when customizing it. I would like to know when this will actually be addressed, as this has been an issue since closed beta of I16... and if it works with Defenders, then why is it not working with the other two types?

From what I saw last night, Super Reflexes "FX in PvP only" option for Practied Brawler was not actually working, and on Elude, only part of the graphics were invisible. The swirly circle things were gone, but these other weird graphics were floating around, sort of to the left of the character instead.

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Glad they are fast-tracking the Demonic Accolade fix. Was annoying.

On the plus-side, two of my alts now have High Pain Threshold as that was the only way to get Demonic to award. Of course, I'm now cross-eyed and dizzy from circling The Flop in St. M for an hour or so to get enough Consiglieres. :P

Peacebringers and Warshades

* Kheldians in Nova form will no longer be impaled by the Nemesis Staff, Blackwand, or Ghost Slaying Axe.



That was my favorite thing to do with my Peacebringer.