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Patch Notes / Test Server April 11, 2021 - Ri1

« on: April 11, 2021, 09:09:14 pm »

BUGFIX
    -Dequeueing bug should now work for toggles and interrupt powers

MARTIAL PROWESS
     -Stalkers have had their bows swapped out with hand crossbows due to an issue with certain weapon sets merging with the customized bow
     -Ranged Attacks damage slightly increased to compensate for longer animation time

BALANCING GUARDIANS

Fiery Composition:
- Soothing Flames have had its heal increased.
- Power of the Phoenix has been replaced with Phoenix Awakening, a new power designed to strengthen Fiery Composition and better support allies.
- Phoenix Awakening: "Unleashes the power of the immortal Phoenix to restore you and your allies and blast your foes. This fiery restoration blasts nearby foes with an explosion and knocks them down and Disorients them. All nearby fallen allies will be revived with all of their Hit Points and Endurance, and nearby living allies will be healed over time for a large portion of their health. Revived allies will be protected from XP Debt for 90 seconds. This power can even be used while you are defeated to allow you to revive yourself as well and you'll be briefly untouchable! Recharge: Very Long" "PBAoE, Team Rez, Healing over Time, Foe Extreme DMG(Fire), Knockback, Stun"
- Phoenix Awakening is the new T9 Power other powers have been rearranged as follows:
    Consume is now available at level 16
    Reforge is now available at level 20
    Heat Exhaustion is now available at level 28
    Melt Armor is now available at level 35
    Phoenix Awakening is available at level 38

Luminous Assault:
- Luminous Smite now has the correct help text.

Earth Assault:
- Tremor's recharge, endurance and damage have been rebalanced.
- Hurl Boulder's recharge, endurance and damage have been rebalanced.
- Some power unlock levels have been reordered.  The new power order is:
    Fissure is now available at level 4
    Stone Mallet is now available at level 6
    Tremor is now available at level 12
    Hurl Boulder is now available at level 26
    Seismic Smash is now available at level 32

Stone Composition:
- Rocky Armor now has the correct defense debuff resistance in PvP.
- Quicksand's recharge has restore to 30 seconds.
- Some power unlock levels have been reordered.  The new power order is:
    Quicksand is now available at level 4
    Gaia's Blessing is now available at level 16
    Crystalline Armor is now available at level 20
    Stone Skin is now available at level 28

Ice Composition:
- Some power unlock levels have been reordered.  The new power order is:
    Glacial Armor is now available at level 16
    Chilling Embrace is now available at level 28

Hellfire Assault:
- Hellfire Burst's recharge and endurance have been corrected.

Mace Assault:
- Mace Beam now has a chance to deal additional energy DoTs.
- Mace Beam Blast's recharge and damage have been balanced.

Dark Composition:
- Tar Patch's icon has been fixed.

Fiery Assault:
- Cremate's icon has been fixed.
- Incinerate's icon has been modified.

Epic Ice Master:
- Ice Storm now accepts accuracy enhancements.

Earth Assault:
- Stone Fist's text no longer incorrectly says it has -resistance in it.

Ice Assault:
- Bitter Freeze Ray no longer says it does "High" damage in one part and "moderate" in another.

Luminous Assault:
- Luminous Smite's short description now mention the damage that it does.

Hellfire Assault:
- Hellfire Blaze's short description now says "Ranged, High DMG(Fire/Toxic), Foe -Res"

Psionic Assault:
- Telekinetic Blow now accepts knockback IOs,
- Subdue now accept Immobilize IOs
- Psychic Shockwave now accepts Stun IOs
- Psychic Scream and Psychic Shockwave's descriptions now mention being able to grant insight
- Insight's description still has the text from Psionic Melee. Insight lockout is okay.

Radiation Assault:
- Atom Smasher now accepts Stun IOs

Contributors -FarmTank, LS, ElBee

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Patch Notes / Re: TEST SERVER April 4, 2021

« on: April 07, 2021, 03:45:10 pm »

Changes have been deployed and now should be available on the test server

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Patch Notes / Re: TEST SERVER April 4, 2021

« on: April 06, 2021, 09:46:19 am »

Deployment was delayed due to scheduling conflicts.   I will update this post when changes have been deployed.

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Patch Notes / TEST SERVER April 4, 2021 - Ri1

« on: April 04, 2021, 11:48:34 pm »

UI Adjustment
    -Page switching Icons on the character selection page have been shifted to be centered with the list of characters.

BUGFIX
    -Power de-queueing bug has been identified and possibly resolved.  Any auto-power that times out should no longer interfere with the attack chain.  This has been tested with ATO procs, Street Justice Combo system and a Beast/plant mastermind.  I am aware other combinations exist but chose to leave extensive testing to the people who I am sure will have no problem letting me know if it is still broke.

Contributor FarmTank

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Patch Notes / TEST SERVER (March 28, 2021) - Ri1

« on: March 28, 2021, 08:53:21 pm »

BUGFIX
    -Something important was fixed, don't worry to much about it

Cosmetics:

    New Emblems disabled for Supergroup usage:
        - New emblems were not displaying on SG base items properly. We have disabled usage of all new emblems for SG emblems until base decoration is given a robust development pass.

Contributers= SilverAgeFan, FarmTank

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Patch Notes / TEST SERVER (March, 21, 2021) - Ri1

« on: March 21, 2021, 09:15:36 pm »

AUCTION HOUSE BUGFIX
    -Invention generic, respec, temp power and costume recipes are now once again able to be placed on the AH.

GUARDIANS
     - Pushed a potential fix for the missing new third archetype shot in Character Creator


Cosmetics:

    Halloween 2012 Pack:
        - All items from the Halloween 2012 Paragon costume pack should now be unlocked for usage on all player models. Additionally, the vampire face with glowing eyes from Halloween 2011 should now be properly unlocked for all 3 player models.

    Powers:
        - BUGFIX: Fixed broken Pstring on all instances of Electric Armor's tier 9 Power Surge. Correct power description should display for Brute, Scrapper, Stalker, and Tanker.

Contributers: FarmTank, SilverAgeFan, ElBee

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Patch Notes / TEST SERVER - March 14, 2021 - Ri1

« on: March 14, 2021, 11:08:14 pm »

Cosmetics:

    Fashion Gloves & Boots:

        - BUGFIX: Fixed a bug which caused crash to desktop when female models selected the Widow Glove for their right hand

    Glove Diversification:

        - BUGFIX: All variants of Small Flared Glove for female models should now show the correct textures when set to combine with Witch Lace

Martial Prowess:

    Shukuchi:
        - Added .5 second delay to teleport effect. This allows users to teleport into a group with the stealth effect active.
        - Added .5 duration to effects to compensate.

Contributions by ElBee, SilverAgeFan

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Patch Notes / TEST SERVER - As of March 7, 2021 - Ri1

« on: March 09, 2021, 10:29:00 pm »

Guardians

Dark Composition
    - Howling Twilight: Corrected recharge time to match Corruptor and Defender values.

Atmospheric Composition
    -Gale Winds: This power now has a 100% chance to disorient foes with a Mag 2 stun.  The stun duration has been increased from 8 seconds to 10 seconds.

Reconstructive Healing
    -Pain Absorption: This power now grants Toxic damage resistance for 60 seconds.  The Toxic resistance can stack with multiple applications.

Temporal Composition
    -Practiced Brawler: Updated this power to use the i25 sound FX files.

Cosmetics:

Halloween Pack:

    The Paragon 2012 Halloween Pack has finally started playing nice with Rebirth's backend code. We have activated the full pack for your usage and a final pass of testing on PTS.

Fashion Gloves & Boots:

    This gem from Paragon's final days has now been activated on female models in the costume creator. There should be tight and flared models available at the bottom of your glove and boots menus, each with two textures.

Cape Packs 1 & 2 bug fix:

    - BUGFIX: All 45 new cape patterns should now be
      available as intended on all 3 player models.

Emblem Pack 1 revisions:

    Multiple emblems have had slight graphic revisions to change how high up they fall on the character models. Most changes are very subtle, but intended to register center of Male -> Chest Pattern -> Emblem Square

    Star 20 (Rainbow) has been reworked to increase the size of the central baked in rainbow colored star. (Long live Rainbow Brite!)

Glove Diversification Phase 1 updates

    - BUGFIX: Male -> Right Glove -> Plant With Leaves:
      Duplicate entries and 1 broken texture cleaned up.

    - BUGFIX: Female -> Right Glove -> Cloud Glove
      Metallic: Should now call in correct geometry

    - Proliferation: Glove diversification entries have
      been proliferated to jackets, trench coats, shirts,
      and robes replacing existing entries of identical
      gloves. Prior tolerance for clipping has been
      used as a guide in this proliferation.

Enemy Costume Bugfixes:

    - BUGFIX: Vahzilok Cadaver & Abomination boots and gloves
      should once again be properly colored

    - BUGFIX: Carnie Illusionists & Master Illusionists should no
       longer present green disembodied boots

    - BUGFIX: Arcana Staff & Vorpal Sword should no longer
       present green disembodied boots

Character Selection Slots Bugfix:

    -BUGFIX: The character selection page should no longer hide characters on page 5-8.  This was due to the file that saves your char slot placements having duplicate values.

Notes as per Xerephus, SilverAgeFan, FarmTank

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Patch Notes / TEST SERVER - Feb, 28, 2021 - Ri1

« on: March 01, 2021, 03:43:23 pm »

TEST SERVER PATCH NOTES: FEB / 28 / 2021

AH CHANGES
     - Number of base slots for every player character has been increased.  Values have been adjusted so that there is a progression of available slots as you level. (Roughly 5 slots every 5 levels.....ish )

SUPER-GROUP BASE RENT CHANGES
    - Base rent will no longer be calculated on the items in the base.  The exact value that each SG would pay was hard to anticipate and may have hindered some SGs from placing more items that they may have wanted.
    - SG base rent now calculated based on plot size.  These numbers are still up for discussion and may be subject to change.  However rent is currently set to be much less then it was on live.

CHARACTER SLOT PER ACCOUNT INCREASE
    - UI hard coding issues have been adjusted to allow more characters per account to be created.  Due to the nature of the UI slots can only be increased in multiples of 12.
    - Current slots on every account should now be 96.  This is from 12 slots on 8 pages.  This number may be subject to increase at a future date if there is demand for it.


Martial Prowess
    An Ancillary Power Pool for Scrappers and Stalkers themed around the idea of using techniques from history.

    Description:
         - Your experience in melee combat and your drive to improve has given you access to new techniques from a wide variety of disciplines. You utilize skills from archers and warriors of the medieval age to ninjitsu techniques of the shinobi.

DISCLAIMER: ALL POWERS IN MARTIAL PROWESS ARE SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION AND CHANGES AT ANY TIME DURING TESTING
- El Bee

    Universal powers available to both:
        Entangling Arrow
            - ST immobilize with -fly
            - Similar to Entangling Arrow from Trick Arrow
        Warriors Mark
            - ST Res and Def debuff (20 second duration) that gives Enemy Data in your Combat Attributes
            - Similar to Surveillance but with a natural/magic theme
            - 45 second recharge time
        Gather Chi
            - Click Regen and Recovery buff
            - Currently valued as twice as effective as Physical Perfection with up to half uptime on SOs.
            - 30 second duration with a 120 second base recharge
            - requires 2 powers

    Scrapper Exclusives
        Aimed Shot
            - st moderate damage range attack from a hand crossbow with high critical chance
            - 12 second recharge
            - requires 1 power pick
        Shukuchi
            - Moderate range teleport that gives 8 seconds of Intense Stealth and moderate damage boost
            - 120 second recharge time
            - requires 1 power pick

    Stalker Exclusives
        Assassins Arrow
            - st moderate damage ranged attack using your customizable bow. Double damage from hide
            - 6 second recharge
            - requires 1 power pick
        War Cry
            - PBaoe to hit and damage debuff. Chance of 2 mag terrorize.
            - 90 second recharge
            - requires 1 power pick


New Cosmetic Options

    Emblem Pack 1
        - New Emblems! Emblem Pack 1 is now available on PTS. There are 17 new emblems, starting with Star 17 - Star 23 inline with legacy star emblems and another batch found at the bottom of your chest symbol list.

        To be found in the Stars section of your alphabetized symbol list:
            - Star 17 (upwards shooting star)
            - Star 18 (5 star V)
            - Star 19 (interlinked stars)
            - Star 20 (triple bubble star)
            - Star 20 Rainbow (triple bubble star w baked in rainbow)
            - Star 21 (star fan)
            - Star 22 (star tunnel)
            - Star 23 (twin stars pulling away from each other)

        To be found at the bottom of your symbol list:
            - Barbell
            - Hammer & Wrench
            - Moon 2
            - Poison Syringe
            - Seahorse
            - Syringe
            - Weightlifter
            - Wrecking Ball

    - Please help us test! Every emblem should be available in all contexts for each gender, including on any shield that accepts emblems and even in super group base decorations.
Cape Packs 1 & 2

KNOWN ISSUE
    - New capes are currently only visible on male. Fix is already patched in for next build to make these appear on female and huge characters.

New cape patterns are now available wherever you find listings for basic cape patterns. 45 new patterns in total. All can be found at the bottom of the standard cape pattern list in your character creator.

    Cape Pack 1:
    To be found at the bottom of your cape patterns list:
        - All Seeing
        - Arbol
        - Astrolabe
        - Big Bolt
        - Cosmic Contrails
        - Crescent
        - Dart
        - Donkey
        - Fleur
        - Hive Tech
        - Icy Tunic
        - Keyhole
        - New Star
        - Serrated Fern
        - Splash

    Cape Pack 2
    Found below Cape Pack 1 in alphabetic order:
        - Art Deco 1
        - Art Deco 2
        - Button
        - Cleave
        - Crystalline
        - Flame Tongues
        - Fur 1
        - Fur 2
        - Gale Force
        - Geode
        - Gossamer Strands
        - Halftone
        - Impossible Dots
        - Ink
        - Lewitt
        - Lily Pad
        - Pangolin
        - Quizzical
        - Rockslide
        - Rose Curl
        - Sakura
        - Sheet Music
        - Spider Web 1
        - Spider Web 2
        - Stingray
        - Tradewinds
        - Triangles
        - Wasp
        - Waterfall
        - WPA

    Glove Diversification Phase 1:
    Glove Diversification debuts on Rebirth PTS! Many glove models that prior had only 1 possible wrist skin can now be customized to match many base textures and all standard glove patterns.

        This change affects the following glove models:
        - Tai
        - Overguard
        - Barbarian Ring (M & H only)
        - Small Pointed Glove
        - Small Flared Glove
        - Small Padded Glove (F)
        - Tied
        - Wristbands
        - Dragon Bracer (F)
        - Cloud Bracer (F)
        - Plant w/ Leaves
        - Spines

    Customizable metallic variants have been added to the game:
        - Small Pointed Glove
        - Small Flared Glove
        - Small Padded Glove (F)
        - Dragon Bracer (F)
        - Cloud Bracer (F)

   
    Static glowing variants of the following have been added:
        - Small Pointed Glove
        - Small Flared Glove
        - Dragon Bracer (F)
        - Cloud Bracer (F)

    Animated glowing variants of these are also now available:
        - Small Pointed Glove
        - Small Flared Glove
        - Dragon Bracer (F)