Focused Feedback: Badges

Jimmy · October 24, 2020

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Badges

Several new badges have been added to the game!

New Defeat Badges

Brass Hunter
- Defeat 1000 Nemesis Jaegers
Green Machine
- Defeat 100 Nemesis Warhulks
Brute Forced
- Defeat 500 points worth of Rularuu Brutes
  - Bosses are worth 5 points, all others are worth 1, like the Praetoria and Dark Astoria defeat badges
Winged Nuisance
- Defeat 500 Rularuu Natterlings of any rank
Running on Empty
- Defeat 200 Malta Sappers
  - Reduced from 250 to 200 - matches similar difficult defeat badges, like Tracer (for defeating 200 Tsoo Sorcerers)
Womp Womp
- Defeat 100 Immature Paragon Protectors
Assault and Battery
- Defeat 50 Freakshow Super Stunners

New Story Arc Badges

Spoilers in the box below

Spoiler

The Uncivil War
- Complete Agent Watkins' arc
Patient Zero
- Complete Doc Buzzsaw's arc
Containment Specialist
- Earned in Agent Watkins' arc (Spoilers in the box below)
- Spoiler
  
  Turn off the sprinklers before the timer runs out during The Graveyard Shift story arc
Went Off Script
- Earned in Agent Watkins' arc (Spoilers in the box below)
- Spoiler
  
  Refuse to quarantine during The Graveyard Shift story arc (mission owner only)
The Greater Good
- Earned in Agent Watkins' arc (Spoilers in the box below)
- Spoiler
  
  Quarantine during The Graveyard Shift story arc (mission owner only)
Tarnished Star
- Earned in Doc Buzzsaw's arc (Spoilers in the box below)
- Spoiler
  
  Fill every jail cell in The Zig during your life as a hero, before becoming a villain and releasing Bile during "The Freakish Lab of Dr. Vahzilok" story arc

Other New Badges

On the Shoulders of Giants
- Located in Kallisti Wharf
Behind Enemy Lines
- Complete at least one door mission in Bloody Bay, Siren's Call and Warburg (one mission per zone)

Existing Badges

Passport
- Moved from Events to Accolades, and no longer awarded automatically on character creation
- Now unlocked by earning either:
  - An exploration accolade in any zone with a Base Portal (see the above list for reference), or
  - The Pocket D VIP Gold Club Member badge (for spending 1 hour in Pocket D)
- Grants the Long Range Teleporter accolade power
- Hint text has been updated to explain exactly how you earn Long Range Teleporter
Pocket D VIP Gold Club Member
- No longer unlocks the Pocket D VIP Pass power
- Now unlocks Pocket D as a Long Range Teleporter destination (and unlocks Long Range Teleporter if you don't already have it)
Loyal Customer
- This badge now has new artwork (previously it was using the same artwork as the Air Pirate badge)
Unabashed
- Can now be acquired in the instanced Rikti Mothership Raid instead of just in the zone version
Visionary
- Changed from defeating 100 Rularuu Overseers bosses to 500 points worth of Rularuu eyes (Watchers, Observers and Overseers)
  - Bosses are worth 5 points, all others are worth 1, like the Praetoria and Dark Astoria defeat badges
  - Existing badge progress will be transferred (1 boss on the old tracker = 5 points on the new tracker)
Power Liberator / Master Thief
- Moved from PvP to Accomplishment as the Cathedral of Pain Trial has no relation to PvP
Monitor Duty
- No longer increases the rate at which you earn the Monitor Duty (Brain Storm Idea boost) day job power
- Now increases the rate at which you earn the Monitor Duty Teleporter day job power
Day Trader / Marketeer
- No longer increases the rate at which you earn Day Trader Teleporter / Marketeer's Teleporter day job power
- Now increases the rate at which you earn the Marketeer (Brain Storm Idea boost) day job power
Rapid Response Member / Trouble Maker
- No longer unlocks the Base Teleporter day job power (this power no longer requires unlocking)
- Now unlocks the Rapid Response Portal day job power
Entrusted with the Secret
- Moved to the top of the Flashback badge list
- Ouroboros Portals can now be summoned and entered by characters of any level
- The requirements to earn this badge have been cleaned up:
  - Completing any Flashback story arc using the Pillar of Ice and Flame will award the badge
  - Completing any story arc given directly by a Mender will award the badge
  - Completing any of the following missions will award the badge:
    - Follow up on Holsten Armitage's claim that Senator Dybalski has been kidnapped by Rikti
    - Defeat Ubelmann the Unknown in Ashwin Lannister or Laurie Pennington's story arc
    - Recover the PsychoChronoMetron or Destroy the PsychoChronoMetron from Agent G
    - Find "The Magic Man" and recover the Devil's Timepiece in Mercedes Shelton's story arc
    - Meet with Botis during Vincent Ross' story arc
    - Any mission with Professor Echo from Marshall Brass
    - Defeat Professor Echo when you encounter him during Pandora's Box story arc
    - Confront Mender Silos in the final mission of the Pandora's Box story arc
    - Travel to the ruined Cap Au Diable from the future in any Patron arc
    - Travel to the ruined Atlas Park from the Future in any Patron arc or the Lord Recluse Strike Force
    - Travel to the Dark Victory version of Atlas Park in Statesman's Task Force
  - Entering any of the following zones will award the badge:
    - Cimerora
    - Ouroboros
    - Recluse's Victory
    - Echo: Atlas Park
    - Echo: Galaxy City
    - Echo: Faultline
    - Echo: Dark Astoria
    - Echo: Rikti Crash Site
  - Entering one of these zones will also award the Ouroboros Portal power if you have somehow managed to lose it

Jimmy · October 24, 2020

Build 1 - October 24th, 2020

Spoiler

Badges

Several new badges have been added to the game!

New Defeat Badges

Brass Hunter
- Defeat 1000 Nemesis Jaegers
Green Machine
- Defeat 100 Nemesis Warhulks
Brute Forced
- Defeat 500 points worth of Rularuu Brutes
  - Bosses are worth 5 points, all others are worth 1, like the Praetoria and Dark Astoria defeat badges
Winged Nuisance
- Defeat 500 Rularuu Natterlings of any rank
Running on Empty
- Defeat 250 Malta Sappers
Womp Womp
- Defeat 100 Immature Paragon Protectors
Assault and Battery
- Defeat 50 Freakshow Super Stunners

New Story Arc Badges

Spoiler

The Uncivil War
- Complete Agent Watkins' arc
Patient Zero
- Complete Doc Buzzsaw's arc
Containment Specialist
- Earned in Agent Watkins' arc (Spoilers in the box below)
- Spoiler
  
  Turn off the sprinklers before the timer runs out during The Graveyard Shift story arc
Went Off Script
- Earned in Agent Watkins' arc (Spoilers in the box below)
- Spoiler
  
  Refuse to quarantine during The Graveyard Shift story arc (mission owner only)
The Greater Good
- Earned in Agent Watkins' arc (Spoilers in the box below)
- Spoiler
  
  Quarantine during The Graveyard Shift story arc (mission owner only)
Tarnished Star
- Earned in Doc Buzzsaw's arc (Spoilers in the box below)
- Spoiler
  
  Fill every jail cell in The Zig during your life as a hero, before becoming a villain and releasing Bile during "The Freakish Lab of Dr. Vahzilok" story arc

Existing Badges

Loyal Customer
- This badge now has new artwork (previously it was using the same artwork as the Air Pirate badge)
Unabashed
- Can now be acquired in the instanced Rikti Mothership Raid instead of just in the zone version
Visionary
- Changed from defeating 100 Rularuu Overseers bosses to 500 points worth of Rularuu eyes (Watchers, Observers and Overseers)
  - Bosses are worth 5 points, all others are worth 1, like the Praetoria and Dark Astoria defeat badges
  - Existing badge progress will be transferred (1 boss on the old tracker = 5 points on the new tracker)
Monitor Duty
- No longer increases the rate at which you earn the Monitor Duty (Brain Storm Idea boost) day job power
- Now increases the rate at which you earn the Base Teleporter day job power
Rapid Response Member / Trouble Maker
- No longer unlocks the Base Teleporter day job power (this power no longer requires unlocking)
- Now unlocks the Rapid Response Portal day job power
Entrusted with the Secret
- Moved to the top of the Flashback badge list
- Can now be earned by collecting any exploration badge from Cimerora
- Can now be earned by collecting A Scar in Time, True Neutral or Sick of Time Travel (the exploration badges added to Recluse's Victory in Issue 26, Page 3)
- Can no longer be earned by owning the 5th Columnist gladiator badge (it doesn't involve time travel)
- Ouroboros Portals can now be summoned and entered by characters of any level

Apparition · October 24, 2020

3 hours ago, Jimmy said:

Existing Badges

Unabashed
Can now be acquired in the instanced Rikti Mothership Raid instead of just in the zone version

Thank you!

Cinnder · October 24, 2020

Will the new defeat badges award retroactively?

Same question for the exploration accolades leading to the new teleport powers.

Jimmy · October 24, 2020

24 minutes ago, Cinnder said:

Will the new defeat badges award retroactively?

Same question for the exploration accolades leading to the new teleport powers.

The new defeat badges will not as those stats just aren't being tracked right now on live.

Previously earned exploration accolades will work for LRT.

Cinnder · October 24, 2020

Fair enough. Thanks!

EmperorSteele · October 24, 2020

Soooo.... The "defeat 100 Incomplete Paragon protectors" badge: I've never seen an "Incomplete" P.P. Do they only show up in a specific zone or mission?

Ruin Mage · October 24, 2020

I believe its to mean the 7th Generation PP. The ones you encounter in...I believe Unai Kemen's missions?

Vanden · October 24, 2020

They show up in one or both of the new arcs added in the patch.

Glacier Peak · October 24, 2020

10 hours ago, Jimmy said:

Winged Nuisance

Defeat 500 Rularuu Natterlings of any rank

Hi, just out of curiosity, shouldn't this be '500 points worth of Rularuu Natterlings of any rank' to bring it in line with the Brutes and Overseers versions?

Vanden · October 24, 2020

3 minutes ago, Glacier Peak said:

Hi, just out of curiosity, shouldn't this be '500 points worth of Rularuu Natterlings of any rank' to bring it in line with the Brutes and Overseers versions?

There's no such thing as a boss Natterling.

Although I don't see why lieutenants shouldn't count as 3, for all such badges.

Burk · October 25, 2020

16 hours ago, Jimmy said:

Bosses are worth 5 points, all others are worth 1, like the Praetoria and Dark Astoria defeat badges

For the Praetoria and Dark Astoria defeat badges, bosses are worth 5 and minions 1, but lieutenants are worth 2. I've even confirmed this to be the case on test by getting 2 points toward Exorcist by defeating a Behemoth Overlord in Dark Astoria.

Is it going to be different for these new badges, and if so, why?

Piyerus · October 26, 2020

On 10/25/2020 at 1:03 AM, Burk said:

For the Praetoria and Dark Astoria defeat badges, bosses are worth 5 and minions 1, but lieutenants are worth 2. I've even confirmed this to be the case on test by getting 2 points toward Exorcist by defeating a Behemoth Overlord in Dark Astoria.

Is it going to be different for these new badges, and if so, why?

That's how I thought it was, but I figured I must have been remembering it wrong.

AboveTheChemist · October 26, 2020

A couple of the badges listed above show up in-game under slightly different names:

The badge listed as 'Winged Nuisance' appears in-game as 'Flying Nuisance'
The badge listed as 'The Uncivil War' appears in-game as 'Uncivil Warrior'

Also the new story arc badges listed above appear under 'Accomplishments' if anyone was curious.

I'm not sure if anyone would find this useful but I've listed the /settitle IDs and badge tag IDs (for use with the /badge_grant command on the Beta servers) below, spoilered because I think some of the badge tags might be spoilery.

Spoiler

Semicolon delimited in the form: 'Settitle ID;Badge Name;Badge Tag ID

2433;Passport;LRTAccolade

2434;Containment Specialist;Mission_i27_Containment
2435;The Greater Good;Mission_i27_Hero
2436;Went Off Script;Mission_i27_Vigilante
2437;Uncivil Warrior;Mission_i27_Watkins
2438;Tarnished Star;Mission_i27_Manticore
2439;Patient Zero;Mission_i27_Buzzsaw
2440;Womp Womp;DefeatCreyBobo
2441;Running on Empty;DefeatSapper
2442;Brass Hunter;DefeatJaeger
2443;Green Machine;DefeatWarhulk
2444;Flying Nuisance;DefeatNatterlings
2445;Brute Forced;DefeatRularuuBrutes
2446;Assault and Battery;DefeatSuperStunners

2449;On the Shoulders of Giants;KallistiWharfTour1

2457;Behind Enemy Lines;BehindEnemyLines

Once i27p1 goes live I'll propogate this information to the appropriate places like the Badger site, the wiki settitle listing, my badge ID master list, my badge popmenu, and anywhere else I can think of.

Edited November 14, 2020 by AboveTheChemist
added Kallisti exploration badge to dataset, updated Passport Id and tag and added Behind Enemy Lines to dataset

EmperorSteele · October 30, 2020

RE: Womp Womp

By my calculations, I have to do the new redside arc 10 times to get this badge, as the "Immature" PPs only spawn as an ambush during one fight. It doesn't seem to include 7th gen PPs.

That's... a bit much. Unless they're gonna be making appearances elsewhere, I think "forcing" badgers to farm out the same mission 10 times is a bit redonk. Like, all the other enemies can be found elsewhere and you can gain the badges naturally. But this one? UGH. Not looking forward to this one on Live!

Mystic Fortune · October 30, 2020

42 minutes ago, EmperorSteele said:

RE: Womp Womp

By my calculations, I have to do the new redside arc 10 times to get this badge, as the "Immature" PPs only spawn as an ambush during one fight. It doesn't seem to include 7th gen PPs.

That's... a bit much. Unless they're gonna be making appearances elsewhere, I think "forcing" badgers to farm out the same mission 10 times is a bit redonk. Like, all the other enemies can be found elsewhere and you can gain the badges naturally. But this one? UGH. Not looking forward to this one on Live!

I've heard Piecemeal is going to be increasing the number of ambushes for that mission, but disregarding that for a moment. With that particular mission set to -1x8 you will get two ambushes of Incomplete Paragon Protectors consisting of 11 mobs each. That's a total of 22 for the single mission, which means 5 runs of the mission and not 10. However, any 'true' badger is going to reset the mission instead of repeating the entire arc 5 times.

All that aside, I wouldn't count out the possibility that Incomplete Paragon Protectors show up some place else in the future.

EmperorSteele · October 30, 2020

I was running at0/x8, and I only got one spawn of them, and the counter read "10" at the end. Maybe I missed one, but not a whole group!

And yeah, mission resets, though that's harder to do in TF mode than running it at-level.

Edited October 30, 2020 by EmperorSteele

Mystic Fortune · October 30, 2020

It's tedious, but usually the method for reseting a flashback mission is to log out for a few minutes then log back in.

If you only got 10, then one must have ran off, if I remember correctly the second wave of IPP will only spawn once the first wave is defeated in it's entirety.

Faultline · October 30, 2020

On 10/25/2020 at 2:03 AM, Burk said:

For the Praetoria and Dark Astoria defeat badges, bosses are worth 5 and minions 1, but lieutenants are worth 2. I've even confirmed this to be the case on test by getting 2 points toward Exorcist by defeating a Behemoth Overlord in Dark Astoria.

Is it going to be different for these new badges, and if so, why?

The game doesn't track defeats of anything unless a tracking stat is added for it (as explained above on why the new badges start at zero). For badges that only track a single number of defeats, the reward condition is simple; stat=100. For badges that track minions and bosses separately, they need two tracking stats, stat1+(stat2*5)=500. To count lietenants separately you need a third tracking stat in order to do stat1+(stat2*2)+(stat3*5)=500. At the time those badges were being implemented, there was an issue with tracking stats that crashed the entire alpha server database, so I was trying to be frugal when adding new ones.

Faultline · October 30, 2020

1 hour ago, Mystic Fortune said:

If you only got 10, then one must have ran off, if I remember correctly the second wave of IPP will only spawn once the first wave is defeated in it's entirety.

There should be five waves. I just looked at the missiondef to confirm.

Bionic_Flea · October 30, 2020

Then that's a bug. I only got 22 per run at x8 as well. Or maybe it's 5 waves that adds up to 22. Not sure on that.

Vanden · October 30, 2020

If it's the mission I'm thinking of, there are several ambush waves of Paragon Protectors, but only towards the end do they run out of working PPs and start throwing the defective ones at you.

Edited October 30, 2020 by Vanden

Jimmy · October 31, 2020

Build 2 - October 31st, 2020

Badges

Several new badges have been added to the game!

New Defeat Badges

Brass Hunter
- Defeat 1000 Nemesis Jaegers
Green Machine
- Defeat 100 Nemesis Warhulks
Brute Forced
- Defeat 500 points worth of Rularuu Brutes
  - Bosses are worth 5 points, all others are worth 1, like the Praetoria and Dark Astoria defeat badges
Winged Nuisance
- Defeat 500 Rularuu Natterlings of any rank
Running on Empty
- Defeat 250 Malta Sappers
Womp Womp
- Defeat 100 Immature Paragon Protectors
Assault and Battery
- Defeat 50 Freakshow Super Stunners

New Exploration Badges

On the Shoulders of Giants
- Located in Kallisti Wharf

New Story Arc Badges

Spoiler

The Uncivil War
- Complete Agent Watkins' arc
Patient Zero
- Complete Doc Buzzsaw's arc
Containment Specialist
- Earned in Agent Watkins' arc (Spoilers in the box below)
- Spoiler
  
  Turn off the sprinklers before the timer runs out during The Graveyard Shift story arc
Went Off Script
- Earned in Agent Watkins' arc (Spoilers in the box below)
- Spoiler
  
  Refuse to quarantine during The Graveyard Shift story arc (mission owner only)
The Greater Good
- Earned in Agent Watkins' arc (Spoilers in the box below)
- Spoiler
  
  Quarantine during The Graveyard Shift story arc (mission owner only)
Tarnished Star
- Earned in Doc Buzzsaw's arc (Spoilers in the box below)
- Spoiler
  
  Fill every jail cell in The Zig during your life as a hero, before becoming a villain and releasing Bile during "The Freakish Lab of Dr. Vahzilok" story arc

Existing Badges

Loyal Customer
- This badge now has new artwork (previously it was using the same artwork as the Air Pirate badge)
Unabashed
- Can now be acquired in the instanced Rikti Mothership Raid instead of just in the zone version
Visionary
- Changed from defeating 100 Rularuu Overseers bosses to 500 points worth of Rularuu eyes (Watchers, Observers and Overseers)
  - Bosses are worth 5 points, all others are worth 1, like the Praetoria and Dark Astoria defeat badges
  - Existing badge progress will be transferred (1 boss on the old tracker = 5 points on the new tracker)
Monitor Duty
- No longer increases the rate at which you earn the Monitor Duty (Brain Storm Idea boost) day job power
- Now increases the rate at which you earn the Base Teleporter day job power
Rapid Response Member / Trouble Maker
- No longer unlocks the Base Teleporter day job power (this power no longer requires unlocking)
- Now unlocks the Rapid Response Portal day job power
Pocket D VIP Gold Club Member
- No longer unlocks the Pocket D VIP Pass power
- Now unlocks Pocket D as a Long Range Teleporter destination (and unlocks LRT if you don't already have it)
Entrusted with the Secret
- Moved to the top of the Flashback badge list
- Ouroboros Portals can now be summoned and entered by characters of any level
- The requirements to earn this badge have been cleaned up:
  - Completing any Flashback story arc using the Pillar of Ice and Flame will award the badge
  - Completing any story arc given directly by a Mender will award the badge
  - Completing any of the following missions will award the badge:
    - Follow up on Holsten Armitage's claim that Senator Dybalski has been kidnapped by Rikti
    - Defeat Ubelmann the Unknown in Ashwin Lannister or Laurie Pennington's story arc
    - Recover the PsychoChronoMetron or Destroy the PsychoChronoMetron from Agent G
    - Find "The Magic Man" and recover the Devil's Timepiece in Mercedes Shelton's story arc
    - Meet with Botis during Vincent Ross' story arc
    - Any mission with Professor Echo from Marshall Brass
    - Defeat Professor Echo when you encounter him during Pandora's Box story arc
    - Confront Mender Silos in the final mission of the Pandora's Box story arc
    - Travel to the ruined Cap Au Diable from the future in any Patron arc
    - Travel to the ruined Atlas Park from the Future in any Patron arc or the Lord Recluse Strike Force
    - Travel to the Dark Victory version of Atlas Park in Statesman's Task Force
  - Entering any of the following zones will award the badge:
    - Cimerora
    - Ouroboros
    - Recluse's Victory
    - Echo: Atlas Park
    - Echo: Galaxy City
    - Echo: Faultline
    - Echo: Dark Astoria
    - Echo: Rikti Crash Site
  - Entering one of these zones will also award the Ouroboros Portal power if you have somehow managed to lose it

AboveTheChemist · October 31, 2020

I've added the badge tag and settitle ID for the new Kallisti exploration badge to my post above dated Oct 26.

One other tidbit I noticed in the badges bin:

Spoiler

The placeholder badge tags for the other 7 Kallisti exploration badges were in there so I suspect those are on the horizon. The badge tag can be used to grant the badge, but the name just shows up as a period. I also spent a little time looking around to see if any other markers had been placed, but I didn't find any. I assume they have not been placed but I also just might not have been lucky enough to stumble upon them.

Edited October 31, 2020 by AboveTheChemist

Coyotedancer · October 31, 2020

Now... about that badge for DE Devoured

(Yes. I love the new ones. But still want that one, too. 🤣)

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