Patch Notes

Badges

New Badges

Event

•  Cheers! - Log-in during the City of Heroes 21st anniversary to earn this badge. Purchasable from Luna in Ouroboros during the month of May.
• Mafioso - Defeat 25 old school Family during the City of Heroes Anniversary Event to earn this badge.
• Skull Killer - Defeat 25 old school Skulls during the City of Heroes Anniversary Event to earn this badge.

Events

Fixes

• Fixed a scaling issue with some of the higher-level enemy groups when spawned in low level zones via a Time Capsule that would cause them to be far more difficult than intended when fought by lower level characters.
• Old school Family / Skulls have had their spawn weight increased to match Circle of Thorns / Rikti so the mobs who give badge credit are most likely to spawn when opening Time Capsules.

Events

Pocket D

• Move Sigil, Kadabra Kill, and the Ouroboros crystal down to the main floor where it's less likely to cause traffic jams.

Sister Psyche's Wedding

• Pause the ceremony when no players are in the map; this fixes an issue with the post-cutscene spawns not triggering correctly if there are no players in the map.
• Fixed a bug that caused the hero version of the Nemesis Plot to consider the heroes defeated by default.

Badges

• Grant 'Entrusted With The Secret' to those entering the wedding flashback mission.

Enhancements

• Cupid's Crush: Add missing text for Universal Damage enhancement conversion.

Spring Fling Event

Spring Fling Event has been enabled and will run from 2/7/2025 - 3/11/2025
 

NEW Seasonal Mission

• Kadabra Kill & Sigil are available in Pocket D as mission contacts during the event.
• Help them solve a debate regarding the specific details from Manticore & Sister Psyche's wedding.
• Check out @Cobalt Arachne's Dev Diary on the event for further info!

Five NEW Badges

•  Best Man/Maid of Honor
•  Wedding Crasher
•  Down in Front
•  Chaos Spiel
•   Officiator

NEW Costume Aura

• Spring Aura has been added to the costume editor for Male, Female, and Huge body types.
• It includes 6 Sub-Variants:
  • Flowers
  • Love
  • Jealous
  • Flowers - Combat
  • Love - Combat
  • Jealousy - Combat

NEW Enhancement Set: Cupid's Crush

• Unique Universal Damage set (attuned-only)
• Special Chance for Confuse proc enhancement.
• Converting this set of enhancements out-of-set will result in an Overwhelming Force IO, and vice-versa.
• Available to be purchased from any Merit Vendors for 100 Reward Merits each, in the Auction House, or as a reward for completing the seasonal mission.
• Cannot be made Superior.

General

• Updated the UI of the City Info Terminal kiosks in order to improve legibility.

Badges

• River Rat's badge marker #6 in Nova Praetoria was floating above the water surface, it has been brought down to the same level as the other markers.

Enhancements

• Fix Brute's Fury: Recharge/Fury Bonus proc being affected by level differences with the target.
• Fix minimum slotting level for Dark Watcher's Despair.

Tasks

• The wounded Vanguard soldier in the last mission of the LGTF will stop talking if there's nobody nearby to hear them.

Zones

Labyrinth of Fog

• Fixed a number of tech lab doorways that could cause the Minotaur In The Fog to become stuck in the wall if they traveled through them.
• Prevented Benefactor in the Fog's Accelerate Metabolism from unintentionally buffing the Minotaur.
• Avatar of Achlys can now cast their cone attacks through mez.
• Players in the entrance lobby area or Core of the Labyrinth will no longer be timed out.
• Doubled the value of shift points earned by defeating Elite Bosses in the Labyrinth.
• Re-write of the Labyrinth's informational navigation window to better explain the zone.
• Minotaur's invincibility field now using a unique FX to be more visible.
• Mythic Fog's anchor field now using a unique FX to be more visible.
• Mythic Fog's appearance now includes a glowing chain that extends to the ceiling of the arena, to make positioning easier.
• Mythic Fog can no longer be targeted or killed.
• Font high score counter can now be viewed from the nav while inside the True Core of the Labyrinth.
• Description on the Avatar of Achlys cleaned up.
• Added some protection to the Font GM spawns to prevent more spawns than intended.
• Fixed a bug that caused the high score counter in the Font of Malevolence to not display.
• Restored the fog plume FX to the center of the Font of Malevolence.

Task Force:

Lady Grey Task Force (Advanced Mode)

• Adjusted K'ong's spawn so that the War Priest is always in the far away spot to prevent Recovery Aura inconsistencies.

Dr. Aeon's Strike Force

• Collision ramps added to the outer edges of the smelting cauldrons in the final encounter to allow King Midas to be pulled into them easier when he is inflicted with -Jump debuffs.

Miscellaneous

Bug Fixes

• Fixed invention vanity pet recipe crafts from not counting for the crafting badges.
• Fixed Crey Cryogenicist Beam Rifle attacks firing from their hands instead of their rifle.

Bug Fixes

• Fix a rare issue where under certain circumstances many more giant monsters could spawn in the Labyrinth of Fog than intended.

Server Stability

• Fix a potential crash issue in the Labyrinth zone.

Zones

Labyrinth of Fog

Additions

• High score counter added to the Font of Malevolence.
  • Appears in the navigation bar when in the Font.
  • Tracked per hour reset cycle, high score is recorded per server and persists.
  • Does not impact rewards, just statistical information for players.

Adjustments

• Enhanced visuals on the Font of Malevolence doors.
• Improved movement control on the Minotaur In The Fog.
• Avatar of Achyls given increased resistances to Slow, Endurance Drain, and Immobilize.
• Avatar of Achyls HP scaling changed to scale from 8 players up to 40 players, previously 16-32; Amount of HP per player increased slightly.
• Avatar of Achyls' Malevolent Explosion recharge increased to 45 seconds from 30 seconds.
• Increased delay between warning and execution on Malevolent Explosion to 5 seconds from 2 seconds.
• Mythic Fog are now 50% larger so they're easier to see.
• Mythic Fog now produce a bubble geometry surrounding their area of effect.
• Mythic Fog now plays a float message when changing location.
• Fall-off time for Anchor buff increased to 7 seconds from 3 seconds.
• Players can now activate powers in the True Core of the Labyrinth.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused many GMs to spawn in the Font of Malevolence.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Labyrinth zone to unload if idle.
• Temporary Halloween Minotaur costumes can now activate the secret cow door.

NPCs

Council

• Council Super Soldier is now less super.

5th Column

• Fixed Lt/Boss Rifle Butt missing an endurance cost.
• Fixed Steel Valkyrie Missile Launcher dealing smashing instead of fire damage.
• Fixed Robot defense having duplicate Terrorize protection.
• Fixed Krieger Dragons Tail having scrapper crit chance.

Banished Pantheon

• Fixed Storm Shaman Hurricane omitting certain archetypes from range debuff.

Carnival of Shadows

• Fixed the pet version of Illusionist Phase Shift not suppressing when mezzed.
• Fixed Vanessa's Psyche recovery debuff not affecting enemies.
• Fixed Carnival Mallet attacks redrawing off each other.

Crey

• Fixed Paragon Protector Spine Throwing missing toxic damage over time.
• Fixed Paragon Protector Elite Incinerate being an AoE.

Freakshow

• Fixed Super Stunner Paralyzing Blast not affecting players.
• Fixed Super Stunner using the wrong tinted FX for Reserve Power.

Rewards

Giant Monsters - Labyrinth of Fog

• Giant Monsters defeated in the Labyrinth of Fog no longer reward Monstrous Aether per the amount encountered there.

Costume Matrix Macro Accolade

• Fixed incorrectly named 'Mini Seed of Hamidon' to correct 'Mini Seedling of Hamidon'.

Powers

Energy Melee

• Fixed an FX error in fast cast Energy Transfer.

Miscellaneous

Bug Fixes

• Added missing defense debuff continuing FX to various NPC powers.
• Fixed FX / animation desyncs for various NPC weapon powers.
• Corrected the attack types used for defense checks for various NPC powers.
• Corrected the AIGroup / NPC behavior for some powers.
• Corrected typos in various missions and dialogues.
• Corrected the level ranges for critter spawns.
• Moved the Nutrient Rich badge to a more appropriate location in the badge list.

Bug Fixes

• Fix a long-standing bug in the chat system that could cause random client crashes in certain circumstances, more likely to be triggered by heavy use of the emote channel.

A small client-only hotfix has been released to the launcher.

Stability

• Added a workaround to mitigate a client crash in third-party PhysX code often seen under heavy graphical load (i.e. Peregrine Island trick-or-treat leagues).
• There was already a partial workaround for this crash in place that would prevent the client from crashing immediately, but it could still crash later when attempting to unload PhysX objects -- typically when leaving the zone to go somewhere else.
• The new workaround should mitigate this secondary crash as well. However, due to the PhysX engine being in an unstable state, clientside debris objects will be disabled for the rest of the game session, until the client is restarted.

Zones

Labyrinth of Fog

Additions

• Added a dialog loop option to return to the weapon checker page on the Labyrinth info NPC.
• Gateway to the Font of Malevolence given new visuals; Removed the box blocker.
  • Entering the Font of Malevolence while the Minotaur is alive will kick you to the entrance lobby.
• If you own the Avatar of Achlys mini pet a shortcut to the Font of Malevolence will appear in the True Core near the Benefactor In The Fog, if the Minotaur is dead.

Adjustments

• Minotaur now triggers arena transition at 95% HP.
• Font of Malevolence spawns individualized in packs of four based on their floor color.
  • This will result in them re-spawning more consistently.
• Font of Malevolence now spawns a random Giant Monster from the Labyrinth's GM spawn offerings every 75 defeats, before and after the Avatar spawns.
  • These GMs can trigger Spectral Pull at sub-50% HP.
• Avatar of Achlys can now be spawned once every Minotaur cycle; No longer on a 2-3 hour re-spawn timer.
  • Chalice of Malevolence removed as there is no longer a timer for it to track.
• Avatar of Achlys now spawns at 375 total defeats in the Font of Malevolence each cycle. Can only be summoned once per cycle.
• Avatar of Achlys' Malevolent Explosion damage increase/hit-timing staggered.
• Avatar of Achlys now given similar on/off scrolling +ToHit buff to the Minotaur.
• Avatar of Achlys' inherent resistances increased from 50% to 85%.
• Avatar of Achlys' now grants leadership buffs to the Font's spawned mobs.
• Skull FX that highlights the Font of Malevolence is using Spectral Pull now spins.
• Harridan EBs now spawn with Talons of Vengeance packs instead of two Keres.

Fixes

• Fixed a potential mapserver crash issue related to Draught of Fog usage.
• Fixed numerous misspellings of 'Achyls' in various locations.
• Fixed broken pathing beacons in the newer 5th Column sections.
• Lowered the violet mote's volume so getting it should be easier.

Kallisti Wharf

• Moved the spawn location for the Halloween event giant monsters away from drones which can insta-kill them.

Missions

Various

• Fixed AI pathing issues in the end room affecting a few maps in the office tileset.

NPCs

Warriors

• Updated Talos Island Alexander Pavlidis model to use newer Warriors assets.

Rewards

Mini Pets

• Fixed the Avatar of Achlys not being summon-able through the Hologram Matrix pop menu macro.

Events

Halloween 2022 - Trick-or-Treat Elite Bosses

• Power availability on the Arisen Mummy and Hollow Reaper enemies has been adjusted to be better balanced when they spawn at lower levels, gaining powers at Levels 30+ and 40+ to reach their current strength, rather than having full access to all powers at all levels.

Halloween 2009 - Dark Apocalypse

• Defeat badge credit for the banner event now guaranteed as long as the participant hits the target once, no longer requiring 10% team damage dealt for credit.