Patch Notes and Known Issues 5th December 2007 [Test Server]

The Centaurus Server data will remain on test this week. We are giving players patches earlier in the development process now - so this patch will NOT be going to the live servers. We will have another patch going on the test server in the near future that will be closer to a ‘live’ version. Any and all feedback and /bugs you can provide are much appreciated!

Holiday
Festive Seasonal Holiday Observance Flora have been placed in the following Secularly Oriented Locations.

• Wilderness – Twin Pillars Outpost
• Divide – Foreas Base
• Palisades – Cumbria Research
• Plateau – Fort Defiance
• Pools – Snake Pit
• Marshes – Paludos
• Plains – Irendas Penal Colony
• Incline – Plains Post
• Mires – Baylor Base
• Crucible – Fort Intrepid (near wormhole)
• Thunderhead – Thunderhead Base
• Ashen Desert – Shadow’s Edge Post
• Howling Maw – Gangus Outpost
• Abyss – Tantalus Base
• Descent – Fort Virgil

• Every character has had their skill points and attribute points reset so that they may make adjustments to these skills based on game changes.
• Added Personal Wormholes as Consumable Items. You can purchase them at Medical Vendors.
• A ton of tweaks to Pravus audio based on live feedback.
• Updated the range for auto-looting to make it a bit easier to auto-loot some creatures.
• Control Scheme in the keybindings tab of the options menu now displays a tooltip when moused over
• Added a text length limit to the text entry boxes for /bug and /petition (you should no longer be able to type more text than can fit)
• The help button on the “esc” menu is now enabled and functioning
• Performance/stability enhancements
• You can now buy and sell items from/to other players via Military Surplus. At this early stage you should be able to browse existing sales, make a purchase, and place an item for sale.
• Military Surplus Vendor Locations:
  
  * Wilderness: Twin Pillars
  * Palisades: Cumbria Research
  * Plateau: Fort Defiance
  * Plains: Irendas Colony
  * Thunderhead: Thunderhead Base

• Rage ability changed: Now fast-cast.
  * Rage 1: 30% damage self buff
  * Rage 2: 30% damage buff w/squad members
  * Rage 3: 40% damage self buff + 10% resist bonuses
  * Rage 4: 40% damage buff w/squad members
  * Rage 5: 50% damage buff w/squad members + 10% resist bonuses


• Leech is gone replaced with Viral Conversion
• Viral damage can be applied in a more varied fashion. Each pump allows the medic to convert damage done on a target from virulent into a different damage type.
  * Consumes Power to activate
  * Consumes programmable Micromech
  * The user targets self or an ally
  * Effect adds a buff to the ally: ally gains health when doing damage with weapons
  * Effect has a limited duration
  * Pump 1: Physical
  * Pump 2: Sonic
  * Pump 3: Ice
  * Pump 4: Fire
  * Pump 5: EMP


• Frighten is replaced by Cure
  * This ability removes debuffs of any type from the Biotechnician and their group. Starting at pump level 3, this ability resuscitates fallen comrades.
  * Requires Power to activate
  * Resuscitation works on any friendly unit, but removal of debuffs only works on group members.
  * Pump 1: Remove debuffs from single target
  * Pump 2: AoE version of pump 1 affecting squad mates
  * Pump 3: Resurrect with reduced death penalty and full health
  * Pump 4: Remove debuffs from target and block debuffs for short amount of time
  * Pump 5: AoE version resurrects with reduced death penalty and full health and removes debuffs of all in range


• Insanity has been changed to Mind Control
  * Player alters target organic creature’s mind in a variety of ways. Each pump level changes the way in which a creature is altered.
  * Consumes Power to activate
  * Target a single enemy
  * Clears target’s aggro list
  * End of duration of the ability makes the target add the Medic back to the top of the aggro list.
  * Single target, direct fire
  * Pump 1 - Frighten: Target flees
  * Pump 2 - Confusion: Target attacks anything and everything, randomly switching targets
  * Pump 3 - Subversion: Target attacks what were friendly units, makes it hostile to its own faction and adds hate for its own allies in a radius around it
  * Pump 4 - Enslavement: Target attacks anything attacking the player or anything the player attacks, does not follow the player after combat, but does go into wander mode.
  * Pump 5 - Infectious: Infectious. Every time the Mind Controlled creature damages something, it has a percentage chance to add the Pump 2 version of the Debuff.


• Lifeforce Funnel has been changed to Reconstruction
  * The Biotechnician uses the power of Logos to directly heal and affect the body.
  * It requires Power to activate
  * The ability creates an AoE healing / effect wave around the user
  * The effect has a limited duration
  * This is an area-of-effect ability
  * Pump 1: Heals health in an AoE, slightly damages enemies
  * Pump 2: Heals and damages in an AoE, slight spirit buff to allies and spirit debuff to enemies
  * Pump 3: Adds to the overall health pool of the targets, reduces the health pool of enemies. (Keeps the same ratio when cast and when it wears off)
  * Pump 4: Heal over time and adds Damage over Time (DoT) to enemies
  * Pump 5: Adds an adrenaline rush (adrenaline added to pool) with healing: damages enemies large amount and reduces adrenaline



• Resuscitate is gone and replaced with Disease
  * The Medic can use this ability to cause serious attribute harm to opponents.
  * Consumes Power to activate
  * Only works on hostile or neutral targets.
  * Pump 1: Spirit debuff
  * Pump 2: Body debuff
  * Pump 3: Mind debuff
  * Pump 4: No regen for health or power
  * Pump 5: Healing will not work on target except for debuff removal - armour or health



• Injection gun now only fires at 50m or less.
• Critical Damage changed to a 1.5x multiplier from 2.0x; PVP crits remain at 1.25x
• Changed Self Destruct to correctly trigger on any ability or weapon attack hit taken (previously it was just weapon attacks.)
• Corrected an issue causing Engineer created shield bots to out-damage offensive bots.

• Item Rarity (green, blue, purple) has new effects on equipment:
  * Green: Weapons do +20% damage and have +20% durability, armour absorbs 20% more damage, items sell for 2x as much to shopkeepers and cost 2x as much to repair
  * Blue: +40% damage / durability / absorption, 5x sellback and repair costs
  * Purple: +60% damage / durability / absorption, 10x sellback and repair costs


• The names for EMP damage RPG Launchers from levels 20 to 30 have been corrected from “EMP RPG Launcher” to “Pulse RPG Launcher”
• The name for the Fire damage Leech Gun at level 24 has been corrected from “Pyrogenic Leech Gun” to “Incendiary Leech Gun”
• The names for EMP damage Pistols from levels 5 to 30 have been corrected from “EMP Pistol” to “Pulse Pistol”
• The names for EMP damage Rifles from levels 6 to 26 have been corrected from “EMP Rifle” to “Pulse Rifle”
• The name for the EMP damage Staff at level 30 has been corrected from “EMP Staff” to “Pulse Staff”
• The name for the Ice damage Staff at level 30 has been corrected from “Ice Staff” to “Cryogenic Staff”
• The name for the Physical damage Staff at level 30 has been corrected from “Staff” to “Kinetic Staff”

• Atta Soldier spit is now considered virulent damage and is a direct damage attack rather than a DoT
• Atta harvesters will now call for assistance from nearby soldiers when attacked
• Atta harvesters are now able to debuff your resistance to physical damage with a powerful pheromone if you get too close
• Atta soldiers can now throw rocks at distant targets.
• Infected Forean is now immune to Virulent damage.
• The Mad Bomber of Retread caves should display correctly now
• Brann on Incline should no longer turn on each other in combat
• Increased Health and damage for all Tesla coils in Palisades
• Increased Health for all forcefields in Palisades
• Warden Bots and Reconstructor bots are now immune to virulent damage
• Non-boss Flaregasher creatures on battlefield maps will do less damage than before
• Flaregasher bosses will now do more damage with their melee attack than minions
• Flaregashers in instances will now do more damage with their melee attack than battlefield map versions
• Atta harvesters will now call for protection from any nearby Atta soldiers when agitated
• Atta harvesters will now emit a powerful pheromone which will reduce your resistance to physical damage
• Atta harvesters and soldiers will now have a chance to knockdown ranged targets with thrown rocks
• Treelurkers are now faster and more aggressive
• Miasma: Coalesced AoE damage reduced from a combined total of 200 to ~140 (Cold + Sonic), based on QA playtest feedback
• Miasma: Hitpoints on minion variants doubled based on recently introduced reduced chance to phase out.  Hitpoints of bosses increased slightly
• Thrax Lieutenant, Boss of Quasso station is no longer charmable
• Thrax Sharpshooters in Torden Mires will no longer have the white boss glow effect
• Some Thrax now use the Rage ability
• The Stalker’s charged energy attack wave will no longer have a few second delay before applying damage
• The Ojasa Defender in the Ojasa Atta Hive is now more frenzied in his attacks
• The damage output of Juggernauts has been moderately increased
• Atta soldier HP has been reduced by 33%

• Rewards for 125 missions have had their item enhancements evaluated. Duplicate enhancements have been changed or removed.


• Control Points for Wilderness, Divide, Palisades, Plains, Incline, and Mires now have Bane attacks at a more frequent interval.
  * Control Points for Abyss, Plateau, Pools, Marshes, Descent, Howling Maw, Crucible, Ashen Desert, and Thunderhead now have Bane attacks at a more frequent interval.
  * All Torden control points should now have at least one (and in some cases multiple) named bane boss defender and attacker.
  * Torden Incline Badlands CP now has bane boss defender(s)/attacker(s)
  * Torden Incline Ortho CP now has bane boss defender(s)/attacker(s)
  * Pools Retread CP now has bane boss defender(s)/attacker(s)
  * Torden Mires Iapyx CP now has bane boss defender(s)/attacker(s)
  * Torden Incline Badlands CP now has bane boss defender(s)/attacker(s)
  * Torden Incline Ortho CP now has bane boss defender(s)/attacker(s)
  * Pools Retread CP now has bane boss defender(s)/attacker(s)
  * Torden Mires Iapyx CP now has bane boss defender(s)/attacker(s)


• Wilderness Targets of Opportunity has a new visible objective upon acceptance, instructing the player to “Complete All 12 Wilderness Targets of Opportunity,” to better help them track their progress
  * Plateau Targets of Opportunity has a new visible objective upon acceptance to better help them track their progress
  * Howling Maw Targets of Opportunity - The objective to kill 500 Thrax has been reduced to 300 Thrax.
  * Howling Maw Targets of Opportunity - A new objective has been added that tells players when they have completed all objectives.
  * Ligo Ashen Desert Targets of Opportunity - A new objective has been added that tells players when they have completed all objectives.
  * Torden Plains Targets of Opportunity - added new objective “Complete all 9 Targets of Opportunity"
  * Crucible Targets of Opportunity - Added new, un-hidden objective “Complete All 10 Targets of Opportunity."
  * Abyss Targets of Opportunity - Added new, un-hidden objective “Complete All 10 Targets of Opportunity."
  * Ashen Desert Targets of Opportunity - Added an objective that requires players to collect all logos on the map.
  * Ashen Desert Targets of Opportunity - Added an objective that indicates to players whether they have completed all objectives of the mission.
  * Ligo Crucible Targets of Opportunity - Fixed a bug where the Complete all Operations objective was not registering.
  * Pools Targets of Opportunity: “Collect All Logos” objective not unlockable


• Concordia Wilderness:
  Mission “Conscientious Objector” - Fixed Broken escorts
  * Mission “Conscientious Objector - Part Two” - The rewards for this mission have been adjusted slightly.
  * Mission “Quarantine” - The rewards for this mission have been changed to modification recipes.
  * Mission “Rendezvous At the LZ” - The rewards for this mission have been adjusted slightly.
  * Mission “The Dead Live” - The rewards for this mission have been adjusted slightly.
  * Mission “Orders From High Command” will no longer break when two players attempt to make different branching choices simultaneously.
  * Mission “Sacs and Violence” will now properly credit group members for destroying Fithik Egg Sacs.
  * Mission “Silent but Deadly”: Fixed issue where bots were not turning evil when you failed this mission.


• Concordia Palisades:
  Added many new missions


• Valverde Plateau:
  * Mission: “One Way Trip” - added player messages to final mission objective in instance: Maligo Base in order to remind players how much time they have left to complete the objective.
  * Mission “Stainless Steel Bloodhound”: Fixed Broken escort


• Valverde Pools:
  * Removed Logos requirement for exiting Logos area on


• Valverde Howling Maw:
  * Mission “Tootin’ One’s Horn” - Fixed a bug where players would be given two dialogue windows even after making their dialogue choice.
  * Mission “Hallowed Ruins” - Fixed a directional typo in the objective for this mission.
  * Mission “Infection Connection” - Fixed a bug that allowed players to take this mission even after completing “Surgical Strike”.
  * Mission “Low Fidelity” - Fixed a bug that prevented players from completing the escort part of the mission


• Torden Abyss:
  * Mission “Prototype”: Rewards have been added to this mission


• Torden Incline:
  * Brann turret gets eaten alive by barb ticks
  * Tesla Coils around the Badlands Control Point do not attack targets


• Torden Plains:
  * Mission: “Operation Termination” - fixed broken mission, players can now place GPS beacon to move on to final objective
  * Mission: “Itching Powder” - Detonators are now mission only items
  * Mission “Interception”: - Fixed dialogue error that occurred upon mission completion. 


• Ligo Ashen Desert:
  * Mission “Gas Shortages”: Fixed a bug that prevented players from completing the mission if they got disconnected between setting a bomb and receiving credit
  * Mission “The Strongest Link”: Linkers around the Bane Conscription Control Point now properly give player kill credit. 
  * Mission “The Strongest Link”: The kill requirement of Linkers has been increased from 10 to 15.


• Brann Water Refinery:
  * Mission “Diffusing the Situation” - Players that fail this mission can now return to the Mission giver to retake it. This restores the detonators and allows the players to try again without resetting the instance.


• Cuthah Base:
  * Fixed a bug where certain NPCs in this instance were not appearing to have a orange glow in the targeting window.
  * Instance Entrance Marker added for Cuthah Base on the Overhead map of Howling Maw.


• Devils Den:
  * Devil’s Den Egg Clusters should now give proper credit when destroyed for Devil’s Strike.
  * Fixed repawning Boss


• Chaukas Robotics Facility:
  * Mission Factory Fortification: Rewards have been added to this mission


• Ojasa Atta Hive:
  * The Ojasa Defender did not fight back enough


• Maligo Base:
  * Fixed issue where players were unable to move after teleporting to the 2nd floor of the map


• Quasso Station:
  * Treasure Chest could be used more then once or not at all
  * Fixed Escort to Remote Station 3 to be more group friendly


• Fluxite Mines:
  * Fixed text error in state of flux mission.

• Reality Ripper will now show the radius around you effected by the ripper when targeting the ability.

• Forean prisoners in Caves of Donn and P’reo Das no longer have healing pads or field repair tools.
• Audio: Game sounds no longer plays while minimized
• Spy: Ability: Polymorph: Using Poly after attacking with any sword no longer crashes client
• Crash: No more crashing to desktop when going in or out of Polymorph
• Renaming a tab that has a name longer than can fit in the tab will no longer crash the client
• Fixed bug where players can access Bane controlled waypoints
• Fixed a problem where rocket launchers wouldn’t splash damage if the target was killed from (or before) the rocket hit.

Known Issues