Release Notes: December 13, 2012
By PWE_BranFlakes @ December 12, 2012 at 5:18pm
General
- Added shields and armor to the ground devices vendor on New Romulus for the reputation system.
- Teamed players on New Romulus can now achieve the different exploration perks.
- Temporarily removed "Romulan Plasma Flamethrower" from the T5 Projects list.
- The Winter jacket can now display Fleet emblems.
- Updated the cropped Winter jacket for Trill, Caitian, and Ferasan females.
- Updated the C-store text for all the versions of the Vesta to include information about their consoles.
- Ferasans and Caitians can now use the winter scarves.
- Resolved the issue that incorrectly allowed Romulan Bridge Officers to have their costumes changed.
- Updated the location of the hidden Lobi in Cold Comfort so it's no longer incorrectly obscured by geometry.
- The Investigate Officer Reports mission now requires completing only 1 qualified mission, has a 30 min cooldown, and rewards 960 Dilithium and 50 Fleet Marks.
- The Fleet Action daily that randomly picks 1 of 3 missions now gives 50 Fleet Marks and 960 Dilithium.
- The Mining Event got a little more than a 50% boost to dilithium earned per node.
Winter Event
- Added a mini-Q to the gazebo who can handle bank, mail, and exchange needs.
- Added a Trade-in Store to the GPL Conversion Unit that will allow you to exchange Winter Epohh pets for Romulan Marks.
- Winter event: Updated competitive race so that players are not disqualified automatically when a teammate is disqualified.
- Added more snowmen that spawn if many players are on the map.
- Snowmen and boss are a bit tougher if there are more players on the map.
- Q now explicitly tells players to check their Duty Officer assignments while on the winter map to look for special holiday Duty Officer assignments.
- Extended no-knock volume to cover starting wooden platform of competitive race
- The snowball fight now requires the defeat of 150 snowmen to move to boss stage.
- Added a transwarp to ESD and Qo'noS to the winter event.
- Updated the FX for the Snowman Boss.
- Updated "The Fast and the Flurrious":
- Joining "The Fast and the Flurrious" race automatically removes Q's polymorph effect.
- "The Fast and the Flurrious" now has a race official who explains when to race, how to race, and what you win.
- Updated "The Fast and the Flurrious" to always award 2 winter epohh tags to people who finish the race without placing 1st-3rd.
- Finishers must now click a "Finish" flag at the end.
- Players in line for the single-person race are now safe from the snowmen.
Systems
- Tachyon Harmonic: The Shield Drain component of this power is once again fully-functional at all ranks.
- The Tetryon weapon ground proc now properly drains shields.
- The "Omega – Style 1" unlock will now properly grant Mk XI visuals instead of the old Mk X visuals.
- Obtaining a Mk XII set of Honor Guard or MACO ground gear will now properly unlock the associated Adapted set.
- Updated Winter Event abilities:
- The Secondary fire on "Flurry" is now 30m instead of 20m to match all other Snowball Weapon ranges.
- "Flurry" primary fire now does slightly more damage per tick.
- "Avalanche" primary fire recharge increased from .5sec to .75sec
- Free Snowballs now melt after 1 hour, instead of 10 minutes.
- "Free Snowballs" and "Unmelting Snowballs" now deal slightly less damage, but also have less damage variance.
- Beefed up the Snowman Overlord.
- Added a new Range-AOE power to the Snowman Overlord.
- Snowman Overlord's minion summon is now a shorter effect, allowing him to take other actions while it's activating.
- The Snowman Overlord is now more resilient to incoming fire from all Snowball Weaponry.
- Updated the description of the Frosted Boots.
- Removed references to a 30-hour lifespan, since they are now permanent.
- Federation characters can now purchase a Purple Nanopulse Bat'leth, and KDF characters can now purchase a Purple Nanopulse Lirpa.
- Increased the number of Holiday Collectibles received with a Critical Success on Holiday Duty Officer Assignments.
dauren8484 @ Dec 14th, 2012 7:40AM
Bad news Cryptic. Racers can still be attacked and frozen by the snowmen on the single man race.
knightheart2
Yep... Lost a few races like that!
vardariotai @ Dec 13th, 2012 10:41PM
Soo... Will you ever crop Short Tight skirt
dargod2012 @ Dec 13th, 2012 9:30AM
ah man, i was hoping for the flame thrower
caelan1982 @ Dec 13th, 2012 9:11AM
Is it just me or is the patching awfully slow?
timeras @ Dec 13th, 2012 8:54AM
Most awesome patchnotes ever. Permanent Frosted Boots, Lirpa/Bat'leth for either faction, updated Foundry Daily ... love you guys.
vonohzu @ Dec 13th, 2012 7:21AM
I think you'll find that traditionally, outerware for men covers from left to right where as outerware for women cover from right to left, you have the winter jacket for both genders set in the women's style.
knightheart2
For some reason that apply's to jeans, trousers and other pants!
vonohzu @ Dec 13th, 2012 7:18AM
PERMANENT FROSTED BOOTS? I NOW LOVE YOU FOREVER!
knightheart2
Yeah, they are great... I had a pair from last year they have alomst never been used and now I don't have to worry about how often I use them!
mikeyknight082 @ Dec 13th, 2012 7:14AM
Still no mention of the shield regeneration rate being fixed. Only shields that have a regeneration rate showing in defence stats are the Omega and Borg shields. I have sent 3 tickets in about it... as have many of my friends and people that I know. But once again they fix stupid things that do not need fixing... make all the opponents tougher.... but leave you defenceless.... and they wonder why people are stopping playing the game.... sort it out Perfect World!!!
tamjussi @ Dec 13th, 2012 6:39AM
And how about our honor guard and omega elite commander and shadow operative accolades not showing up???
kvet @ Dec 13th, 2012 5:22AM
So -- because the shortcut on the competitive race was not fixed, and there's been no mention of it (that I'm aware of) by Cryptic, I guess it's safe to assume it was intentional and that using it is NOT an exploit/cheat and that the other half of the race is really there for no reason. Thanks for the clarification Cryptic, I shall no longer refrain from using it or disparaging others who do as inaction and non-comment is validation in this case.
neoakiraii
They did mention it, and if you use the cliff you get DQ
paxalsinin @ Dec 13th, 2012 5:12AM
Why is the plasma flamethrower being removed? When is it coming back? That weapon was my main reason for getting Romulan Marks so I will be most displeased if I can never have one. Still, at least Tachyon Harmonic is being repaired. I can't wait to take on the beefier Snowverlord with my friends.
spaethman @ Dec 13th, 2012 3:05AM
We have Romulan Bridge Officers? How do you get them?
torsten1009
Those are from the Embassy, you need to be in a fleet which has unlocked the first tier of one of the lower-level progressions (don't ask me which one). Then you are allowed to get provisioned romulan Bridge Officers.
regnigode1 @ Dec 12th, 2012 11:04PM
No word on the Romulan 3 piece torp? WTH?
knightheart2 @ Dec 12th, 2012 7:39PM
"Romulan Plasma Flamethrower" Should rename this item... after all does it throw plasma or flame?
neoakiraii
In Star Tek they have Plasma fires.
gt500dotorg
Supposedly, plasma is a state of matter similar to gas where a particular portion of particles are ionized, and this can be caused by heat, so one could say that you are essentially blowing super-heated gas at someone, which would be similar to a flame thrower, and I would assume that it would do far more damage.
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