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Update Notes: 05/11/04


** Many client crashes that we've had sent in from users over the past two
weeks have been addressed. Keep sending in the error reports!**


City Zones:

* Unresponsive villains in the Sewer Network and Abandoned Sewer Network
should be ready to go!

* Removed lost and wandering NPCs from "The Hive."


Anti-griefing:

* A hero will now get defeat task credit for any villain defeat where his
team did at least 25% of the damage to the villain and they are within 200
ft of the villain when the villain is defeated. This is to minimize the
potential impact that "kill stealing" may have on the completion of defeat
tasks.


Powers:

* Fixed an issue that kept many powers (including Kinetics -> Transfusion and Kinetics -> Siphon Power) from working properly.

* Fixed mistake with Hasten where the recharge time was far too great.

* Empathy/Resurrect can no longer take Heal Enhancements - It doesn't need
them since it heals for 100% anyway, so these were wasted).

* Fixed the Endurance cost of Hack and Slash (for both Katana and

Broadsword). END costs were reversed.

* Increased the recharge time of Hasten and Accelerate Metabolism.

* Updated Fly description Text (power has not changed).

* Set all Scrapper and Tanker Dull Pain powers (and Earths Embrace) to cost
15 Endurance.

* Slightly increased Combustion Damage.

* Volume adjustment made to address complaint about Combat Jump SFX.

* Volume adjustment made to address complaints about targeting drone.

* Arctic Air can now be used with stealth powers.

* Increased Endurance cost of Telekinesis.

* Fixed Seismic Smash. Previously the power did not scale with the player's level.

* Telekinesis will no longer work on bosses, arch villains or giant monsters.

* Increased Endurance cost of Force bubble.

* Super Speed no longer buffs defense and debuffs ACC.

* Added Confusion to Controller/Ice Control/Arctic Air: "While
this power is active, you are surrounded in a fog of Arctic Air that
dramatically slows the attack and movement speed of nearby foes. The
chill of Arctic Air is so bitter that most foes are forced to flee,
albeit very slowly, from the immediate area. Those that do not flee from
the cold may attack their own allies, as the fog from the Arctic Air is
thick and can cause much confusion."

* Controller/Fire Control/Fire Imps: Reduced number if Fire Imps that are
summoned by 1 (it is now 2-5).

* Changed Gravity Control/Fold Space to Singularity (and moved
it to the end as the last power in the set): "You can create a very
powerful Gravitational Singularity. The Singularity will engage your
foes, assaulting them with various gravity powers. Any foes that attempt
to approach the Singularity will be violently hurls away. The
Singularity cannot be healed, but is highly resistant to all forms of
damage and nearly impervious to Controlling type powers."

* Increased Duration on Mesmerize, Mass Hypnotize and Salt Crystals.

* Increased Accuracy (more affected targets in the AoE) for Mass
Hypnotize and Salt Crystals.

* Dark Miasma/Darkest Night now also debuffs the target's Accuracy.

* Increased movement speed of Storm Summoning/Tornado.

* Decreased Recharge Time and Duration of Earth Control/Animate
Stone (to compensate for its slow movement).

* Update text on Earth Control to reflect its Debuff to Defense abilities.

* Fix Short Help (Tool Tips) for Blaster/Devices.

* Ice Armor/Wet Ice now takes Res Damage Enhancements.

* Increased Accuracy of Auto Turret.

* Fixed mistake with Hasten where the recharge time was far too great.

* Increased the recharge time of Hasten and Accelerate Metabolism.

Am I just reading this wrong or are they both increasing and decreasing the recharge time on Hasten at the same time?

Well when the first put in this patch (yesterday?) it increased the Hasten recharge time to an insane ammount.  That increased the recharge time is the patch note from the patch that was rolled back.  Now they added to the patch to decrease the time from the insane increase (but probably still increased compared to what it was last week) and that's the new patch note.

So they increased hasten recharge time by an insane amount, then decreased it from that level to a more appropriate level, but it's still increased from last week.. Make sense?

Volume adjustment made to address complaint about Combat Jump SFX.

* Slightly increased Combustion Damage.

Thank GOD! I haven't played my scrapper recently in large part because I couldn't freakin' STAND that goddamned hum...my whole desk and most of my internal organs would vibrate whenever I had it toggled on.

Is that why you caught your wife playing your scrapper when you weren't home? :)

But the duration of hasten is longer than 2.45 minutes I believe.

It has been changed so much it makes my head spin.  All I know is that at the end of beta at level 16 I had 2 level 15 dual origin recharge timer reductions on it and it came back almost at the exact same time the effect expired.  It was nice.  If it now has a long period of time where it is NOT on, it will KILL certain classes.  The regeneration scrapper for one.  They need hasten to be viable at mid-high level.  They have no defense and have to keep healing with their active powers to stay alive.  Hasten was the only way they could heal fast enough to survive encounters.  Any gap in its effect will be complete read a book downtime for them.

Any gap in its effect will be complete read a book downtime for them.

...If it now has a long period of time where it is NOT on, it will KILL certain classes.  The regeneration scrapper for one.  They need hasten to be viable at mid-high level.  They have no defense and have to keep healing with their active powers to stay alive.  Hasten was the only way they could heal fast enough to survive encounters.  Any gap in its effect will be complete read a book downtime for them.

* Increased Endurance cost of Telekinesis.
* Telekinesis will no longer work on bosses, arch villains or giant monsters

The thing with hasten, it quickly became the power everyone needed. It was just that good, and no power should be like that. With just a few enhancements, players were able to be permanently hastened. So we have increases its recharge time, but not as much as you saw in this mornings patch (since then reverted). It was not suppose to have over a 15 minite recharge.

The new hasten will work as follow:
Normal Rechage is 9 minutes. It have a 2 minute duration (this has not changed), so this gives you 7 minutes of down time.
3 Dual Origin Recharge Enhancements will give you a 5:40 recharge time (so only 3:40 downtime)
6 Single Origin Recharge Enhancements will give you a 2:40 recharge time, so only 45 seconds of downtime.

hasten decreases the recharge time of a power by 70%, not 35%.

That is, a 10 second recharge power becomes a 5.88 second recharge.

I would take 3 SO RT Enhanc, or 5 DO RT Enh in every power to give you the effectiveness of hasten. Its just that good.