[Patch Notes for March 31st, 2020 - Issue 26, Page 5]

9 minutes ago, Eran Rist said:

AMAZING!!!! Y'all did this for both Electrical Blast and Electrical Affinity!

Can not WAIT until you port this option over for the other Electrical sets, you can't quite get the right colors in the creator, and this makes it much easier if I've got an AT on the "wrong" side to get the right colors. (Currently Scrappers/Tankers get the Electric Control (purpley) of Controllers/Dominators as a default,  Sentinels still have the Heroic Blue, and Brutes/Dominator Assault/Stalkers have the Villainous Red.)

Glad you like it! You'll be quite pleased with what's currently in the tubes.

 

So the bad news is, this patch note was erroneously resurrected from one of the development builds and the feature did not actually make it into Page 5 for Electrical Blast. The short version of the reason it was cut involves, just, the most hideous lists of power set customization themes in certain epic sets that cherry-pick visual FX from other powers. Since Electrical Affinity uses all-new FX, it was safe to add the Heroic and Villainous sets there for this release.

 

The good news is, the technical hurdle has been overcome in development and a full implementation of legacy hero/villain effects is in the works across all archetypes (among other things). Because of the fact that this all transpired near the end of Page 5's development, the decision was made to postpone the feature to Page 6 to avoid any potential for delays related to unforeseen problems with the new tech.

[Focused Feedback: Electrical Affinity - Powers (Release Candidates)]

Is the four-minute duration on Faraday Cage unreasonable?

[Focused Feedback: Electrical Affinity - Powers (Build 5) (Now on Masterminds, Corruptors and Controllers!)]

4 hours ago, csr said:

Electrical Affinity seems to have a hard time remembering power customization.  I made a Controller and as I tweaked my costume to look better with the power customization I chose, each time I came back to power customization EA had reset to Heroic.

This applies to Electrical Blast on Blaster and Corruptor as well. It pertains to the new tech that allows the Heroic and Villainous themes to function: the policy that is initializing the power set theme is a little heavy-handed. I'll adjust this for the next build.

 

4 hours ago, General Idiot said:

Possibly it only resets during character creation, but I would've thought those two interfaces would be running off the same code. CoH spaghetti code strikes again, perhaps.

It only resets during character creation. Power customization is just one interface: one code module. Give the original devs a little credit!