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• Deadaye13 Member Posts: 106

  December 2006

  Well.....a lot....
  
  I would check the new issues and their patch notes...I'll quote them here:

  Issue 8: To Protect and Serve

  Headlines

  Veteran Rewards: Now
  players will receive rewards for the time spent playing the game.  New
  costume pieces, badges, powers, pets and more!  Something new every 3
  months!

  Police Band and Safeguard Missions: Calling
  all Heroes! Bank Robberies, Sewer Bombings, Jail Breakouts and more
  villainous attacks are in progress!  Monitor the police scanner and
  come to the rescue to thwart these diabolical schemes!

  Fautlline: Rebuilding
  of ruined sections of Paragon City has been a long time goal for the
  city.  The old Overbrook area, known today as Faultline, has made
  significant restoration progress.  However, crime and crisis plague the
  area, requiring the vigilance of the cities’ Heroes.

   

  COMBINED NOTES

   Veteran Rewards

  New
  powers are available across Paragon City and the Rogue Isles: Veteran
  Rewards! Now, as your account accrues time, in 3 month intervals, your
  characters will gain access to all new badges, abilities, costume
  pieces and more! For complete details please visit the Official City of Heroes or City of Villains web site.

  Additionally, you can now visit PlayNC.com’s Account Management Page to view details of your account and a listing of which Veteran Rewards are available to it!

  Updater

  • If
    the update client fails to connect, it will cycle through ports 13094,
    6994, 80 and 23094 until it connects. Alternatively the ‘-port’ command
    line parameter can be used to specify one of these ports (for example:
    CohUpdater.exe –port 23094).

  Pocket D Changes

  • 
    Arena Kiosks: These Kiosks will allow Heroes and Villains to fight
    against each other more easily if they want to settle personal issues.
  • In
    front of the bars are two arena officials, an "Arena Information
    Operator", who will provide information on how to use the kiosks; and a
    "Games Information Operator", who will provide detailed information on
    each of the game types of the arena.
  • Rikti
    Monkey Fight Club: Due to a combination of the Family cutting in to the
    RMFC profits in Sharkhead, and an offer from DJ Zero to expand their
    enterprise, Joe Young and Cornelius have moved their "entertainment
    concern" on up to the Pocket D. They have set up a new "Lounge" on the
    hero side of the club. “It’s a lot classier than the old place”, says
    Joe Young.
  • It’s loud in Pocket D! Local chat in Pocket D will only be heard by players within 50ft of each other now.

  
  
  Powers

  • Many
    objects in the game which were meant to be immune to Teleportation have
    been made so. This affects several powers in the Traps Secondary and
    Devices secondary for players.
  • A large
    number of powers, most those that involved ground hugging or wall
    crawling type visual effects, were adjusted to perform better.
  • Dark Miasma's Tar Patch, Dark Miasma's Dark Servant, and Dark Blast's Life Drain will now play animation and effects when cast.
  • Altered Moment of Glory to insure that the -Regen portion goes away at the end of the duration of the power.
  • Added -Fly to Gravity Control Gravity Distortion power.
  • Jump
    Kick from the Leaping pool set now does Knock Up instead of Knockback.
    The chance of Knock Up occurring has increased to 20% (from 15%.)
  • Removed
    hesitation from the Mental Blast animation. There was a pause that
    prevented the character from acting, even after the power had finished
    animating.
  • Fixed missing animation for Ice Sword when used with Fly.
  • Various ‘Build Up’ and ‘Aim’ powers now have a new look.
  • Increased the base flight speed of Hover by 10%.
  • Added
    a slight delay to the usage of Team Teleport. This should alleviate the
    issue of Teammates randomly being left behind after a Teleport.
  • Soul
    Storm is now escapable. There is still a bit of delay after you escape
    before you can move or attack again, but it’s much less of an ‘I win’
    power.
  • Rikti ambushers will once again show teleportation FX.
  • The Helmet enhancement (Mutation/Magic - Range) was giving twice the bonus of other Range DOs. It has been reduced to match.
  • Rebalanced the powers used by some of the high end Longbow critters to make them less frustrating to fight.
  • Fixed some animation issues with the Jump Jet Pack power granted from the Good vs. Evil Edition.

  
  
  Tailor

  • Characters can have tails and wear trenchcoats at the same time
  • Chest patterns added to have as backdrop for chest emblems 
  •  Emblem Blend 
  •  Emblem Circle 
  •  Emblem Diamond 
  •  Emblem Heart 
  •  Emblem Shield 
  •  Emblem Square 
  •  Emblem Star 1 
  •  Emblem Star 2 
  •  Hair Style "ice" added to huge and male 
  •  Hair style "Buzz cut" revamped and added to huge and male 
  •  Zombie texture added to the monstrous legs 
  •  Jackets and Robes have had there shoulder geometry unified to work better with cape mantles 
  •  "Over Shoulder Cape" is available for all types 
  •  "Cellular" pattern added to gloves and boots 
  •  Military coat for huge and female revamped to fit better, prevent clipping, and to better work with other costume pieces 
  •  Some broaches moved to prevent hovering 
  •  Samurai belt added to all huge categories 
  •  Hoods and Hair reweighed to prevent bald spots when head scaling 
  • New costume pieces are available at the Tailor and at Character Generation:
    • Male/Huge/Female
      • (Head – Detail 1): Galactic Glasses, Government Glasses, Blast Goggles up
      • (Head – Ears): Floppy, Bunny, Cat, Rat, Teddy, Wildcat
    • Female
      • (Upper Body - Chest - Tops with Skin): Angelic, Assassin, Excess, Savage, Tanker
        
        (Lower body - Legs - Bottoms with Skin): Angelic, Assassin, Excess, Savage
  • Face masks revamped to prevent texture neck streaking.
  • Face masks "Ghost" & "Neck Cover"
  • A few female hair styles tweaked to fit better.
  • "Ponytails Fat" added to female hair styles.
  • Thin stripes 1 & 2 added.
  • Assassin pattern added to gloves and boots.

  Titles

  • Players
    may now change their title at levels 15, 25, 35, and 45. These title
    changes do not stack (if you do not use the one you get at level 25
    when you reach level 35, you only have the level 35 change, and lose
    the level 25 one). At 50, players may change their title without
    restriction. Talk to any trainer to change your title in this manner.

  Bases

  • Autonomous
    Expert System can now take a Mission Computer as an Aux Item, and
    Mystic Orrery can now take an Oracle as an Aux Item. These changes will
    allow Supergroups that only have those Control sources to run the
    Cathedral of Pain.

  Tasks

  • An
    icon will appear on a Contact in the Contact Window when you are on a
    Story Arc with that Contact. This will let you better manage the Story
    Arcs you are doing.
  • Set all PvP zone mission rewards down to the normal mission completion levels.

  Titles

  • Fixed bug that prevented players from being able to reset their second title to "none".

  List of new or updated emotes:

  
  
  Emote Invent
  
  Emote Dance1
  
  Emote Dance2
  
  Emote Dance3
  
  Emote Dance4
  
  Emote Dance5
  
  Emote Dance6
  
  Emote EatDonut
  
  Emote Donut
  
  Emote EatFood
  
  Emote Eat
  
  Emote Food
  
  Emote ListenPoliceBand (Heroes only)
  
  Emote SitChair1
  
  Emote SitChair2
  
  Emote SitChair3
  
  Emote SitBench1
  
  Emote SitBench2
  
  Emote SitBench3
  
  Emote SitBench4
  
  Emote SitExecutiveChair
  
  Emote SitStool
  
  Emote SitTable1
  
  Emote SitTable2
  
  Emote Teabag

   

  
  
  Changes specific to CITY OF HEROES:

  Faultline Redux

  
  Faultline officials recently provided funding for reconstruction and
  work was underway in the first neighborhood, when major disaster
  struck. Due to strange seismic activity on the moon, tidal anomalies
  caused the Overbrook Dam to rupture flooding the zone. Additional crews
  have been called in to assess the Dam and shore up the rest of the
  zone, however, they are continually thwarted by the recent arrival of
  new villain groups to the area and one group, in particular, that no
  one expected: Arachnos. It appears Arachnos has been poking around
  supergroup base wreckage in Faultline for some time, searching for
  technology that will further Lord Recluse’s nefarious plans. Paragon
  Officials have called in small detachments of the Paragon Police
  Department and Freedom Corps, but are also asking heroes to come
  forward and protect the new city.
  
  
  
  Features of the “new” Faultline:

  • Transition from Trial Zone to a City Zone (with Overbrook Dam as a Hazard area)
  • Level range has been adjusted to 15 – 25
  • Missions have been added (see Jim Temblor in New Overbrook at the Memorial statue in the park as your initial contact)
  • New Villain groups added: Arachnos, Freakshow, The Lost, Sky Raiders…and something lurking in the water.
    
    • More plaques and badges
    
    • Entrance to Pocket D
    
    • Stores, Trainer (Mirror Spirit), and a hospital have been added to Faultline

  
  
  Police Band Missions
  
  Paragon Police Department contacts have been added to all City Zones
  except for Atlas Park and Galaxy City. They will be added to a Hero’s
  contact list as soon as they enter a zone. These contacts will direct
  characters to missions aiding the PPD in fighting crime in Paragon City.
  
  

  • Once you talk to
    a PPD Contact, your contact list will have a "Police Band Tuner" added
    to the top of the list. Clicking this will bring up an assortment of
    crimes-in-progress.
  • You will fight
    level-appropriate Villain Groups in random maps and random mission
    objectives. Once you have outlevelled a zone, however, you will no
    longer be able to get Police Band missions in that zone.

  In
  addition to normal missions, the PPD will give out Safeguard Missions.
  You get Safeguard missions after performing three to five Police Band
  missions.

  
  
  
  
  Safeguard Missions
  
  Safeguard missions allow the Hero player to enter a large outdoor
  mission map and defend the city from invading villains. The goal is to
  defeat the Villain behind the attack, preventing a bank robbery, but
  there are lots of other things going on, too. Safeguard missions are
  set up for single players and teams.

  • Safeguard
    missions will issue a door in the zone the player is in when mission is
    accepted (i.e Kings Row Safeguard mission will lead the player to the
    Kings Row PPD truck door).
  • When you enter
    the instance, the bank is immediately being robbed. Don’t delay in
    getting to the bank, or the crooks could get away with the cash,
    failing the mission.
  • A 15 minute timer
    starts once the bank heist has been stopped and the mission is
    completed. At this point you can use the given time to secure the map,
    explore and fight for additional badges and rewards. This allows the
    players to end the mission quickly, or hunt for additional XP and
    rewards if they choose.
  • There are several
    goals and multiple side missions that can be unlocked and played once
    the bank robbery has been thwarted. Completing any section of goals or
    each side mission rewards the players with a special bonus (such as
    extra XP, temp powers, or unique salvage) and will add some time back
    to the counter. The more they complete the longer they have to try and
    complete more goals, so the better they do the higher their rewards.

  
  
  
  
  
  

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