Patch Notes - 9 July 2008 / Notas del parche 9 Julio 2008

COMBINED

AI

• Lady Jane should act more intelligently in combat situations now.


• 48 Month Veteran Reward pets should no longer charge into combat. Really.

Animation

• New animation for Super Strength – Punch while flying.

Powers

• Changes to root time for Energy Blast - Power Burst. This does not affect the activation time, it’s just something that was broken when 1st and 2nd tier blaster powers had their Activation times shortened.


• Dark Armor/Dark Embrace: Corrected the activation text to explain it also adds toxic resistance.


• Energy Melee / Energy Transfer – Activation time changed from 1.0 seconds to 2.67 seconds. New Animation and Graphical Effects also made.


• Total Focus: All player versions of Total Focus Disorient Magnitude reduced to 3.


• All versions of Martial Arts Eagles Claw chance to Disorient a target increased from 75% per attack to 100% per attack.


• All versions of Martial Arts Storm Kick now have a 5% greater chance to cause a Critical Hit in all cases.


• FX for Controller and Mastermind Glue Arrow should persist after the initial target’s demise now (the Defender version already had this property.)


• Dual Blades/Vengeful Strike: Synched this power’s floating numbers to better fit with when the character hits the target.

User Interface

• Buff Icon Bugs
  
  • Fixed Buff Icon display issue where Icons would disappear from Allies before the Buff Timer was over.
  
  
  • Fixed Buff Icon display issue when Buff Icons would disappear when a teammate (in the same non-instanced zone) logs out of the game.
  
  
  • Fixed Buff Icon display issue where team mates Zoning into a mission at different times caused Buffs Icons to disappear

Chat

• Fixed condition for chat ban that would cause players to be banned for excessively long times.


• Fixed coalition chat name display to display SG name and player name correctly.


• Fixed a condition where a player could receive messages from a globally ignored player.

Badges

• Defeating Romulus Nictus should correctly award the Roman badge


• Rularuu weapons now unlocked via Shadow Shard TF badges

Tailor / Custom Weapons

• The Rulaaru claws should now be unlockable


• Bowstring on Talsorian bow should now stay attached to the bow

CITY of HEROES

Powers

• Scrapper Martial Arts Dragons Tail: Damage and Endurance cost were slightly too low. These have been adjusted.


• Defender Vigilance will no longer increase the Defenders endurance costs when grouped with team mates with greater than normal Health values.


• Fixed an issue with Tanker Dark Melee and Dual Blades powersets which allowed “Chance to” enhancements affect areas of effect, rather than just the target of the attack.


• Dual Blades/Vengeful Strike: Added PvP Knockdown suppression to this power for both Scrappers and Tankers.

Tasks

• Safeguard Missions: Burning Daemon should now always spawn at the appropriate level for the mission he is in.


• Gordon Stacy now assigns the second mission in his story arc again.

CITY of VILLAINS

Powers

• Stalker/Electrical Melee/Thunder Strike: This power should now accept PBAoE damage sets.


• Brute/Dark Armor/Dark Regeneration: This power should now accept taunt enhancements and enhancement sets.


• Brute/Dark Melee/Touch of Fear: This power should now accept taunt enhancements and enhancement sets.


• Changed “%”to “percent” in the Stalker/Assassination inherent ability. Some players were experiencing some information to be displayed incorrectly because of the % sign.


• Energy Assault - PowerBurst now using Red FX


• Mercenaries/Serum: Fixed a typo in this power.


• Added Taunt Enhancement ability to Brute Dark Melee Touch of Fear and Dark Armor Dark Regeneration.


• Trick Arrow powers should no longer cause weapon redraw issues with Archery or Ninja Mastermind bow powers.


• Bane Spider Cone attacks did not have a max number of targets defined. This has been corrected.


• Shortened the time between the activation and effect for Crab Spider Training – Serum


• Widow Teamwork - Placate should no longer cause redraw with Widow claw powers.

Veteran Rewards

• Fixed typo in villain veteran granted title from “Vengful” to “Vengeful”