Issue 26 Page 1

Issue 26 Page 1

05/16/19

General

• Halcyon has been renamed to Reunion (EU).
• For the next week each account will be given 20 transfer tokens every 3 days to allow for easier migration.
• The XP Boosters in Super Packs have been replaced with charges of the Experienced power (which grants Patrol XP).
• Moved the Respec Recipe from the Merit Vendor (formerly 50 Reward Merits) to P2W (10 million influence).
• Completing a Morality Mission now rewards 30 merits regardless of whether the player switched, reinforced, or double-reinforced their alignment.
• The costume change delay timer has been lowered to 15 seconds.

Custom XP Rates

• The base XP rate on all shards is now back to 100% (AE rewards still halved outside of Dev Choice content).
• You can now acquire +25%, +50%, and +100% XP boosters for free from the P2W Vendor (or the Transact 4 Victory vendor in Praetoria).
• These boosters will reduce your inf income by the same amount they boost your XP gain.
• The boosters last for 1 hour of in-game time, but you can acquire up to 8 hours at a time.
• The boosters stop working immediately at level 50 - Veteran Levels must be earned normally.
• The boosters can be deleted from the Powers window (right click > Delete Power).
• Please note that this is an experimental feature, it may be altered or removed without notice.

Power

• Beta Decay (Tanker, Scrapper, Brute, Blaster): the "first target" 10% recharge buff should no longer erroneously stack for all foes in range. The 2.5% per target recharge buff will continue to stack as expected. Max recharge buff with 10 targets should be +35%.
• Beta Decay (Blaster): Will now require a target for it's "first target" 10% recharge buff to be applied.
• Bio Armor > Evolving Armor: Fixed a bug where the stacking portion of the buff was overlapping 50% of the time.
• Frost Bite: Fixed a bug with the damage scale for this power which caused it to heal targets.
• Paragon Police > Call for Backup: this power will no longer endlessly summon PPD reinforcements. It previously attempted to limit itself to 3 uses by doing weird things with Stealth which didn't work; it now uses the Meter attribute.
• AV Purple Triangles now provide protection against OnlyAffectsSelf.

Bug Fixes

• The PPD in Kings Row will no longer infinitely multiply using the "Call for Backup" power.
• Patrol XP should now work again. It was not compatible with server-wide XP buffs.

05/09/19

• Arenas Enabled
• Salvage Market seeded to keep costs down: 10K for common salvage, 100K for uncommon salvage, 1M for rare salvage, and 50K for a Brainstorm Idea

05/07/19

General

• All servers now set to +50% XP Boost
  • There was an issue with Respecs granted from leveling badges; they were following the old limit of holding a maximum of 3 respecs at a time, which means you got the respec for levels 10, 20 and 30 but not 40 and 50. This should be fixed now
  • Added free respec for all due to the cooldown issue and the level 40 badge not awarding a respec (may take a day or two to arrive)
  • Fixed the infinite cooldown bug affecting some powers

Tasks

• Arcs marked Developer's Choice in Architect Entertainment will no longer be affected by the Architect XP reduction (This is an experimental change, and may not work as expected - in the event of bugs, we’ll work on fixes)
  • The minimum level for Positron TF Part 1 has been lowered to 8

Badges

• As the #badge-hoarders have noted, Echo: Faultline did not have any exploration badges. This patch fixes that oversight, returning three badges that were in the original Faultline zone before Issue 8 to Echo: Faultline, and adding 8 new exploration badges and a zone accolade
  • Moved "Newsman", "Faultless Mystic" and "Apex" from Faultline to Echo: Faultline
  • Added "Riveting", "Upcycled" and "Rock Bottom" to Faultline
  • Added "Forsaken", "Pristine", "Claim Denied", "Spare Parts" and "Dug Too Deep" to Echo: Faultline
  • Added "Epicenter", Echo: Faultline zone accolade.
  • Added "Fashion Victim" for spending 50,000,000 inf on the tailor. Rewards a Free tailor token for your trouble

05/05/19

• Super Packs Added
• XP Boosts adjusted for servers, on permanently until otherwise noted.
• Character Shard Transfers enabled

05/01/19

• Architect Entertainment -50% XP Nerf added to discourage farming missions from flooding the system.
• Weekday +50% XP Boost added on all servers to encourage players to spread out playtime away from weekends.
• Weekends on Everlasting and Indomitable will be set to +250% XP Boost
• Leveling Pacts disabled due to instability.
• Fixed scenario that allowed players to create Architect missions with enemies that actually healed you instead of damaging you.
• Fixed bug that caused players to receive multiple copies of the 15th Anniversary Badge reward

04/29/19

• City Zones set to unload if empty, may cause slightly increased loading times when entering an empty zone.
• Players can now skip the login queue if reconnecting within 10 minutes of a previous disconnect.
• All logging for player information has been disabled

04/28/19

• Indomitable and Everlasting shards added to the pool with +100% XP Boost
• Login Queue System enabled - Shards limited to 1,500 players
• 15th Anniversary badge added

04/28/19

• Excelsior Shard added to the pool