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Game Patches

9 July 2008

Release Notes for Build 17.20080625.1T

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”