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Patch Notes for Halloween Build 2120.201110070442.1

Aneko

By Aneko,
Posted on: 2011-10-13 10:31 in The Global Training Room Test Server

 

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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.

Kevin Callanan
Community Specialist
Paragon Studios

 

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*crosses fingers for shock beam rifle*

I saw it on beta, my favorite beam gun. I was sad to see it go, glad that it's coming back.

 

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So this event can be done solo?

Can the team be greater than 4?

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Originally Posted by Freitag View Post
Dr Kane's House of Horrors is a co-op event for up to 4 characters from level 15-50.
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Originally Posted by Rajani Isa View Post
Can the team be greater than 4?
Apparently not.

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It's hard to test the new trial when the characters on test have been wiped and the copy tool is unavailable.

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Originally Posted by enderbean View Post
It's hard to test the new trial when the characters on test have been wiped and the copy tool is unavailable.
Been trying to copy over my characters for a bit now and it is still down.

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Originally Posted by Freitag View Post
Beam Rifle
  • Shock Rifle and Devastator weapons should now be available choices for Beam Rifle characters.
For real this time? Hurrah!
Any chance the other coupla missing guns were also investigated?


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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.
Like the second bit, but was there really such a problem with blank-man? I find costume building is a little bit easier starting at zero than trying to adjust a bunch of random features.

 

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Originally Posted by enderbean View Post
It's hard to test the new trial when the characters on test have been wiped and the copy tool is unavailable.
Yeah. I have about an hour after work that I could spend to help test this, if they can get the copy tool up.

Edit: So, since they copied Freedom, I just happen to have a level 22 character that I'd created for that invasion event. I guess I can test after all.

Still would be nice to have the tool working though.

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Copy Tool DOWN!

Since Test was wiped (good bye bases) and I had no Freedom server toons, I have no toons on Test to test anything above level 1.

Also, all new toons are being forced into the Tutorial. I thought after the first was created, we would get a choice to skip the tutorial. So, if there is any auto-level-granting going on, I wouldn't know because can't bypass the Tutorial.

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I had Freedom server toons but they no get copied over to Test.

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Originally Posted by Seldom View Post
*crosses fingers for shock beam rifle*

I saw it on beta, my favorite beam gun. I was sad to see it go, glad that it's coming back.
Anyone got pics of the two guns? Do any mobs in game wield em?

 

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Unsurprisingly, no Titan Weapons to test. The pictures lied!

 

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Originally Posted by Obsidius View Post
Unsurprisingly, no Titan Weapons to test. The pictures lied!
I feel sad, i really wanted to see what weapon models that had before it hits live. It seems it might come out within the 7 days(just a guess don't hold this to me).

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Originally Posted by Freitag View Post
Leonard
  • Players on the extra step "Test your brand new cutscene! NICE!" will be reset to the first part of Leonards story arc.
That was just a weird thing to experience (especially since it left models from the original scene around)... although I really do want to know what the story was behind the pretty test one.

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Facebook Friday suggests that Titan Weapons are on the Training Room for testing, is that the case?

 

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Originally Posted by Freitag View Post
Halloween 2011 - Dr. Kane's House of Horror

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.
  • Character Creator now has widescreen support!!
Fixed that for ya.

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Originally Posted by Jasra View Post
  • Character Creator now has widescreen support!!
So it does!

 

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Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
Copy Tool DOWN!

Since Test was wiped (good bye bases) and I had no Freedom server toons, I have no toons on Test to test anything above level 1.

Also, all new toons are being forced into the Tutorial. I thought after the first was created, we would get a choice to skip the tutorial. So, if there is any auto-level-granting going on, I wouldn't know because can't bypass the Tutorial.

I'll add to this:

Account services also still not synching. So even if we wanted to see the new Beam Rifle options, we can't, because it still thinks you haven't bought certain locked powersets and costume parts.

I also have no characters on Freedom. I do have a 38 Brute, with no money and all empty enh slots, now that's frustrating.

Thanks

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Originally Posted by Freitag View Post

Badges

Unveiler Badge
  • Removed an imposter world spawn version of Fake Nemesis which did not count towards this badge.
The plot thickens.

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