issue 27 [Beta] Patch Notes for May 2nd, 2021

[Jimmy]

Colour Key

• Most changes from the previous beta build are listed in green.
  • Green text will become white text in the next set of patch notes.
• Any changes or fixes that are only relevant to the beta builds (ie: fixes / tweaks to new features) are listed in blue.
  • Blue text will be deleted in the next set of patch notes as it is only relevant to highlight changes between beta builds, not changes from live.

 

Powers

•  Concealment > Infiltration
  • Increased Run Speed buff by 10%
  • Increased Jump Speed buff by 10%
  • Increased Jump Height buff by 10%
  • Removed the continuous humming sound
•  Inherent > Walk
  • No longer disables all powers (you can now use the Disable All Powers P2W power if this effect is desired)
  • Instead, Walk now applies Only Affect Self, caps your speed to the base values, and disables all travel powers
•  Umbral Aura > Stygian Circle
  • This power no longer roots

Combat Log

• Many, many absorb powers were missing their combat log messages - they will now use the following strings:
  • You grant {PlayerDest} {Damage} points of absorption over time with {PowerName}
  • {PlayerSource} grants you {Damage} points of absorption over time with their {PowerName}
  • You receive {Damage} points of absorption over time from your {PowerName}
• Full list of affected powers:

Spoiler

Awakened Mindcrasher Psionic_Carapace
Blaster_Support Ice_Manipulation Chilling_Embrace
Blaster_Support Martial_Manipulation Reaction_Time
Blaster_Support Plant_Manipulation Wild_Fortress
Blaster_Support Sonic_Manipulation Sound_Barrier
Blaster_Support Time_Manipulation Temporal_Healing
Boosts Attuned_Sentinels_Ward_F Attuned_Sentinels_Ward_F
Boosts Superior_Attuned_Superior_Sentinels_Ward_F Superior_Attuned_Superior_Sentinels_Ward_F
Brute_Defense Bio_Organic_Armor Ablative_Carapace
Brute_Defense Bio_Organic_Armor Parasitic_Aura
Brute_Defense Radiation_Armor Particle_Shielding
Controller_Buff Nature_Affinity Wild_Bastion
Controller_Buff Shock_Therapy Insulating_Circuit
Corruptor_Buff Nature_Affinity Wild_Bastion
Corruptor_Buff Shock_Therapy Insulating_Circuit
Defender_Buff Nature_Affinity Wild_Bastion
Defender_Buff Shock_Therapy Insulating_Circuit
DevouringEarth Mini_Hamidon_Powers Decay
Magisterium Pendragon Power_of_the_Fae
Magisterium Shadowhunter Transform
Mastermind_Buff Nature_Affinity Wild_Bastion
Mastermind_Buff Shock_Therapy Insulating_Circuit
Mission_Maker_Secondary Ice_Manipulation Chilling_Embrace
Pets Superior_Vigilant_Assault_Proc Superior_Vigilant_Assault
Pets Vigilant_Assault_Proc Vigilant_Assault
Pool Gadgetry Force_Barrier
Pool Sorcery Spirit_Ward
Primal_Gifts Primal_Gift Shifters_Shield
Scrapper_Defense Bio_Organic_Armor Ablative_Carapace
Scrapper_Defense Bio_Organic_Armor Parasitic_Aura
Scrapper_Defense Radiation_Armor Particle_Shielding
Sentinel_Defense Bio_Organic_Armor Ablative_Carapace
Sentinel_Defense Bio_Organic_Armor Parasitic_Leech
Sentinel_Defense Ice_Armor Frigid_Shield
Sentinel_Defense Invulnerability Durability
Sentinel_Defense Radiation_Armor Particle_Shielding
Sentinel_Defense Regeneration Instant_Regeneration
Sentinel_Defense Super_Reflexes Master_Brawler
Set_Bonus Set_Bonus Entomb_Proc
Set_Bonus Set_Bonus Gauntleted_Fist_Proc
Set_Bonus Set_Bonus Preventive_Medicine_Proc
Set_Bonus Set_Bonus Superior_Entomb_Proc
Set_Bonus Set_Bonus Superior_Gauntleted_Fist_Proc
Stalker_Defense Bio_Organic_Armor Ablative_Carapace
Stalker_Defense Bio_Organic_Armor Parasitic_Aura
Stalker_Defense Radiation_Armor Particle_Shielding
Tanker_Defense Bio_Organic_Armor Ablative_Carapace
Tanker_Defense Bio_Organic_Armor Parasitic_Aura
Tanker_Defense Radiation_Armor Particle_Shielding
Temporary_Powers Temporary_Powers Absorb_Test
Temporary_Powers Temporary_Powers Absorb_Toggle_Test
V_Arachnos_Proxy Bio_Armor Ablative_Carapace
V_Arachnos_Proxy Bio_Armor Parasitic_Aura
V_Arachnos_Proxy Ice_Manipulation Chilling_Embrace
V_Arachnos_Proxy Nature_Affinity Wild_Bastion
V_Arachnos_Proxy Plant_Manipulation Wild_Fortress
V_Arachnos_Proxy Shock_Therapy Insulating_Circuit
V_Arachnos_Proxy Sonic_Manipulation Sound_Barrier
V_Arachnos_Proxy Temporal_Manipulation Temporal_Healing

 

Enhancements

• +range set bonuses now have 7 tiers (like all other types), rather than 3
  • This should have no impact on existing sets

Miscellaneous

• Locking icons in power trays now also locks macros in power trays
• Added missing bio for Digiwrench from Sgt. Schorr's arc

Atlas Park & Mercy Island

• Reverted enemy spawning changes introduced in Issue 27, Page 2

Echo Plaza

• Added Luna near the TUNNEL portal in order to allow Praetorians to purchase past Anniversary badges
• Added P2W vendor by the hospital in order to easily get the new Only Affect Self and Disable All powers
• Logging off near the Hospital will now award credit towards the Caregiver / Pain Specialist day job
• Logging off near the Tailor will now award credit towards the Fashion Designer day job
  • This is the only Fashion Designer location available to Praetorians
• Removed fall damage

Sewer Network & Abandoned Sewer Network

• Updated the Abandoned Sewer Network minimap to correctly display Vahzilok's lab
  • This area was added to the zone in i25 but the minimap was never updated
• Updated the Sewer Network minimap to remove the trial room (which is only present in the Abandoned Sewers, not the regular sewers)
• Updated both maps to show the Skyway City entrance
• The "Living Dark" badge in the Abandoned Sewer Network has been moved into Vahzilok's lab

    

From left to right: old minimap for both zones, new minimap for Sewer Network, new minimap for Abandoned Sewer Network

 

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with minimap compass textures scaling incorrectly if Cimerora was the first map you loaded into
• Minor LoD fixes in Atlas Park

• Fix basic Freakshow Tank Swipers and Freakshow Tank Smashers counting twice for the Tankbuster badge

• Fix basic Watchers and Overseers counting twice for the Visionary badge

  • ("Basic" in this context means that they're not special versions used in the Catheral of Pain or alternate looks)
• Fixed Vespillo's Pass (ITF mission 3) minimap freaking out at the entrance and in the final area

Powers Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that would cause some oddities while running various stance-setting powers (like Ninja Run + Power Slide)
• Fixed a bug that was causing Low-G Pack and Zero-G Pack temp powers to break travel powers
• Dual Pistols (all versions): Addressed some issues with animations not executing for the next power right after a weapon redraw attack
• Peacebringer > Luminous Aura > Quantum Maneuvers: Fixed a bug that caused intermittent vfx
• Minor text fixes for Inherent powers

[Jimmy]

Brainstorm Only

These changes will not be going live in this patch - they are for testing only. Please provide your feedback if you would or would not like to see these changes go live!

 

PvP Powers Changes

• All travel power speed cap increases from Issue 27, Page 2 now also apply in PvP
• Sorcery > Arcane Bolt / Arcane Power
  • Arcane Power can now trigger in PvP
  • Damage bonus in PvP is 50% of the base damage rather than 100%
• Fortunata Hypnosis (IO proc): PvP placate effect reduced from 5.336s to 4s
  • This puts it in line with the Presence pool's Pacify, which also does 8s PvE and 4s PvP

[lemming]

I look forward to some QA work later today.  (Though I'll probably just be verifying Glacier Peak's findings)

So far, looking forward to these going live.  At least the changes to stuff I use, rest I don't have an opinion on such as PvP, but it looks reasonable.

[ZorkNemesis]

Hmm, I think you guys have now updated the Sewer Networks more than they were updated back on live.  Are there further plans for sonething down there?

[Darmian]

Are we getting a copy of Luna in Echo Plaza BTW?  

[Glacier Peak]

1 hour ago, Darmian said:

Are we getting a copy of Luna in Echo Plaza BTW?  

Yes.

[Darmian]

Good.  I'd like to be able to grab an anniversary badge or two for my Gold.

[Glacier Peak]

Just now, Darmian said:

Good.  I'd like to be able to grab an anniversary badge or two for my Gold.

And you'll be able to snag the Fashion Designer day job here as well.

[Darmian]

Is that there already? (goes to look)

[lemming]

1 minute ago, Darmian said:

Is that there already? (goes to look)

Not on live yet.  

[Darmian]

Oh well, I can wait!

 

[Darmian]

I just need Prometheus ranting at me too and all will be well!

[Myrmidon]

Whomever came up with the number tray lock needs to be venerated as true divinity.

[lemming]

Just to double check, I copied my Praetorian that I had parked in Echo Plaza on Live in the Icon, and I got time served for the day job.   So if you park your pratorian in that Icon now, and it's 100 hours later when you login if this goes live, you might get the Fashion Day Job right away.

 

Other thing noted:

On live: My Praetorian parked in Echo Plaza shows the Hero icon, not the Resistance Icon, but only when logged out while in Echo.   Not in Pocket D or elsewhere.  Doesn't seem to change any locations she can get to via the Tunnel, Base Ports, or other places. Hmm, one other thing to check with that

This seems to be resolved on the Beta shard.

 

Checked in on the Living Dark Badge and it's at [-896, -890, -1018]

 

 

[lemming]

1 hour ago, lemming said:

Other thing noted:

On live: My Praetorian parked in Echo Plaza shows the Hero icon, not the Resistance Icon, but only when logged out while in Echo.   Not in Pocket D or elsewhere.  Doesn't seem to change any locations she can get to via the Tunnel, Base Ports, or other places. Hmm, one other thing to check with thatThis seems to be resolved on the Beta shard. 

Hmm, I think something else triggered it on live, will have to check a few more things

 

I think this only changes the Icon on the character select screen to non-praetorian.

I did note this happens if I copy the character over to Beta, then it's selection icon is changed.

Edited May 3, 2021 by lemming
More info

[Wavicle]

I've reported this a couple times but not heard any response, so I'm starting to wonder if it's just me.

Are other people seeing the Double Jump icon blinking as soon as it is toggled on?

[Glacier Peak]

21 minutes ago, Wavicle said:

I've reported this a couple times but not heard any response, so I'm starting to wonder if it's just me.

Are other people seeing the Double Jump icon blinking as soon as it is toggled on?

I have only seen it in random instances and I can't successfully replicate it in order for it to be addressed. Not saying it isn't important though, but unless I knew exactly what is causing it... yeah I just haven't focused my efforts on troubleshooting it.

[Wavicle]

That’s so strange, because for me it’s literally every character that I have with super jump, when I turn on double jump the icon in the corner immediately starts blinking. What’s even stranger, is that when my friend and I teamed up and he was also on a character with super jump, he had the same exact bug, except when I looked at both of our buffs in the team window they were both blinking...but they were blinking at different rates! But for both his characters and my characters, the icon in the corner is blinking as soon as we toggle on DJ.

[Wavicle]

@Glacier Peak I just tested it again. Made a brand new character on Excelsior, a Katana/Invuln Scrapper. Ran her up to 4 real quick and took SJ.

 

This is a character with no toggles yet and no enhancements at all.

 

I toggle on SJ. The icon appears in the corner.

 

I toggle on DJ. The icon appears, blinking immediately.

 

I don't know what else to do to eliminate possible causes.

Edited May 3, 2021 by Wavicle

[lemming]

2 hours ago, Wavicle said:

I've reported this a couple times but not heard any response, so I'm starting to wonder if it's just me.

Are other people seeing the Double Jump icon blinking as soon as it is toggled on?

Just confirmed with my character on Excelsior, Tara Watt.

DJ Icon under health bar starts blinking as soon as it's turned on.   I copied her over to Beta, same thing.  I'll have to check more chars in the morning.

[lemming]

2 hours ago, lemming said:

Hmm, I think something else triggered it on live, will have to check a few more things

 

I think this only changes the Icon on the character select screen to non-praetorian.

I did note this happens if I copy the character over to Beta, then it's selection icon is changed.

Ok, it seems to only happen when a Praetorian Char is copied over to Beta. Icon will change to the Hero/Villain from it's Goldside counterpart and will be that on both Beta and the starting server, but only once.  Recreated on both a char in Echo Plaza and Nova Praetoria.

[Glacier Peak]

12 hours ago, Wavicle said:

@Glacier Peak I just tested it again. Made a brand new character on Excelsior, a Katana/Invuln Scrapper. Ran her up to 4 real quick and took SJ.

 

This is a character with no toggles yet and no enhancements at all.

 

I toggle on SJ. The icon appears in the corner.

 

I toggle on DJ. The icon appears, blinking immediately.

 

I don't know what else to do to eliminate possible causes.

Okay I am now getting the flashing icon consistently. In fact, it seems like anything I try it in conjunction with, it flashes on my status bar. Activating Super Jump then clicking Double Jump, yep it starts flashing. 

[Arbegla]

19 hours ago, Myrmidon said:

Whomever came up with the number tray lock needs to be venerated as true divinity.

 

I second this. Where do we send goodie baskets to?

[Alouu]

Travel DR Feedback

Due to DR, it is not possible to reach the newly ported over run speed or jump speed caps in pvp without external assistance (eg. speed boost, internal reduction).

The plot below shows how various travel powers function at various levels of enhancement on brainstorm:

 

 

The orange line is super speed (or speed of sound) + sprint + swift. (However, sprint and swift are always 53% enhanced at every point on the line).
The blue line is fly + evasive maneuvers + swift. (However, evasive maneuvers and swift are always 0% enhanced at every point on the line).
The red line is super jump (or mighty leap) + hurdle. (However, hurdle is always 53% enhanced at every point on the line).

 

The points show how fast in mph the travel powers go in pvp at 0%, 38%, 53%, 76% and 103.85% enhancement (after ED) in pvp.

 

The plot shows that run speed reaches around 94 mph in pvp when using a 103.85% enhanced super speed/speed of sound (and a 53% enhanced sprint & swift), a long way off the new run speed cap of 120.25 mph.

The plot also shows that jump speed reaches around 82 mph in pvp when using a 103.85% enhanced super jump/mighty leap (and a 53% enhanced hurdle), also a long way off the new jump speed cap of 105.57 mph.

 

In addition to this, the most problematic aspect of all for pvp balance is the fact that fly can reach the new flight speed cap of 87.95 mph, and can even almost do so without slotting evasive maneuvers or swift for any +flyspeed enhancement. Since I27P2 improved the -fly protection that a player can stack while maintaining full fly speed from magnitude 1.0 to magnitude 9.0, and because the movement speed a player can reach without external help with fly is greater than that they can reach in SJ, it seems possible that this could result in fly becoming the new travel power of choice. This is something I believe should be avoided since leaping-style travels demand more skill to utilize well.

 

With all that in mind, I have suggestions for how travel speed DR should be changed to remedy these issues. I will get to the numbers shortly but before that here is a plot of what my suggestions would look like, which can provide a point of comparison to the previous one:

 

 

This plot shows that run speed reaches around 120 mph when using a 103.85% enhanced super speed/speed of sound (and a 53% enhanced sprint & swift), I designed it this way so that it takes a full 3 slots of +5 IOs to reach capped run speed. The reason for that is so that the power “speed boost” can still have a benefit by allowing teammates to spare slotting from their travel powers, as well as not have to use sprint.

 

The plot also shows that jump speed reaches around 105 mph in pvp when using a 103.85% enhanced super jump/mighty leap (and a 53% enhanced hurdle), again I designed it this way so that it takes a full 3 slots of +5 IOs to reach capped jump speed. Similarly the reason for that is so that the power “internal reduction” can still have a benefit by allowing teammates to spare slotting.

 

As you can see in this new plot the ranking of flight and jumping travels has also been flipped. This should ensure that jumping travels remain the optimal form of movement in pvp.

 

Only 3 values need to be changed to achieve these results, the “DimCurB” values for SpeedFlying, SpeedJumping and SpeedRunning. Here is a table of what those are now and what they would need to be changed to in order to achieve the above results:

 

Travel Type	Current “DimCurB”	Suggested "DimCurB"
SpeedFlying	0.55	0.75
SpeedJumping	0.55	0.05
SpeedRunning	0.55	0.20

 

[arcane]

You PvPers and your actual data