18.4.6 Update Release Notes

[Means]

18.4.6 Update Release Notes

Tenth Anniversary Celebrations!

• The 10th Anniversary is here! Join the festivities and watch out for the Desert Nomads!
• Parts of the Anniversary Sauna building are once again available to the brave.

General Changes

• Battlestations have updated collision and a new faster transportation system for easier access to Control Points.
• Being killed by an alien should no longer result in the loss of AXP.
• Duels can no longer be rejected after the duel begins.
• Redeemed Gilthar should now have the same drop chances as Unredeemed Dalja

Item Changes

• It will be possible to level Morphing Memory DOWN as well as up depending on what it is possible for your character to equip.
• Many original new icons have been added to old items.
• Thongs should no longer have green pixels around them on some character models.
• Subdued Flow of Novictum is no longer a Unique item.
• The Holiday Hovering Lantern may now be tradeskilled to wear in your shoulder slot
• Bracer of Focused Concentration now adds Defense modifier instead of projectile damage modifier for higher QL of the item.
• Power of the Mind no longer has an equipment delay and will add max health and nano instead of the nano damage modifier that only affects weapons dealing nano damage.
• Power of the Muscle no longer has an equipment delay and will now buff max health instead of body development like the other AI bracers.
• Shadowbreed items (ie: Lighter Side etc) should no longer vanish if used when you not meet criteria to upload the Shadowbreed.

Quests & Daily Missions Changes

• Elite Daily Mission: Mantis Hive II - will now give the full reward after the fourth step...bonus XP can be received by completing the rest of the mission chain and defeating the Mantis Queen.
• Elite Daily Mission: Hollow Island - will now give a full daily mission reward for killing 9 of the 10 Brood Champions. (previously required all 10.)
• Scheol Questline - Knowledge of the Yuttos will now give an appropriate level reward to Shades. Players who have already completed this mission can speak with Vanward Four to get the correct level Necklace (level 150).
• It should no longer be possible to jump and the wrong time and block the removal of the Prototype Formula required for completing a daily mission.
• Leveling up should no longer cause mission chains to get stuck in Elysium mission lines.
• Nascence Key quest should now properly be obtainable only once.

[Saetos]

Scheol Questline - Knowledge of the Yuttos will now give an appropriate level reward to Shades. Players who have already completed this mission can speak with Vanward Four to get the correct level Necklace (level 150).

Weird timing for this, as now that Shades can use tokenboards, the Necklace is reduced in usefulness to be a "I-want-more-evades-than-Neo" kind of item.

[Melcom]

and how long is the downtime ?

[Tazalanche]

- Scheol Questline - Knowledge of the Yuttos will now give an appropriate level reward to Shades. Players who have already completed this mission can speak with Vanward Four to get the correct level Necklace (level 150).

Thank you, but what about keepers???

The Scheol keeper shield rewards have the same QL problem, plus is in a useless location for a 2HE profession. What about changing the shield to QLs similar to the shade necklace change, plus changing it to a left wrist equipment location?

[Stigman]

Subdued Flow of Novictum is no longer a Unique item.


yay <3 it

[Saetos]

Thank you, but what about keepers???

The Scheol keeper shield rewards have the same QL problem, plus is in a useless location for a 2HE profession. What about changing the shield to QLs similar to the shade necklace change, plus changing it to a left wrist equipment location?

Both Keepers and Shades need new weapons to carry them from 70ish until further on down the line - the Sword of the Illuminated is way too expensive (and drops way too rarely), and Shades have almost nothing besides Kyr'Ozch Rapiers.

[HilloPurkki]

Don't tell me you're bringing down the servers with 15 mins notice for a patch? i can understand that you do that if there is a mayor problem but for a patch? very strange if that's the case.
Good fixes in there, but still.

I felt it was bit strange timing too.
My first thought was "what s wrong this time, did they miss something yesterday"

But nice to be able to hunt for birthday stuff

[Metafizis]

Subdued Flow of Novictum is no longer a Unique item.


yay <3 it

gz!

[PhoenixOfAges]

- Being killed by an alien should no longer result in the loss of AXP.

Wait, I've been out of the loop for months now but does that mean that short of the killed by aliens count on your char info window there's no alien specific penalty for being killed by an alien now? Or has the count been removed too?

It will be possible to level Morphing Memory DOWN as well as up depending on what it is possible for your character to equip.

Kinda neat, will other click to upgrade items get that too? Or do they have it already now?

Subdued Flow of Novictum is no longer a Unique item.

Nice.

Shadowbreed items (ie: Lighter Side etc) should no longer vanish if used when you not meet criteria to upload the Shadowbreed.

Last I checked those were broken so that you could go to shadowbreed level 3 at the same level shadowbreed level 1 became possible. Has that been corrected yet?

[Stigman]

Wait, I've been out of the loop for months now but does that mean that short of the killed by aliens count on your char info window there's no alien specific penalty for being killed by an alien now? Or has the count been removed too?

I'm assuming you just don't lose the 5k AXP now.

[PhoenixOfAges]

I'm assuming you just don't lose the 5k AXP now.

I get that but before you'd lose AXP and the death to alien count would go up. So now is there any new penalty to getting killed by an alien, is the kill count gone too or what? It kinda made sense to me that we had some extra penalty but would have preferred an AXP pool just as we have an XP/SK pool. Or are XP/SK loss on death penalties gone now too?

On a side note it wasn't always 5k AXP, that was just the max if I remember correctly.

[Saetos]

Once you got into the higher Shadowlevels and dallied around in Arid Rift, a 5k AIXP penalty meant absolutely nothing.

[Punfixa09]

Wewt for 10 years

[gozugod]

I have to say that ... some1 was drunk .. like .. real drunk .. when he designed the new Igocs and bracers and motr ( i personnaly hate it )

[Khlin]

Jeebus!!!

You guys changed lead viralbots icons! Almost cr@pped myself when checking the shop!

@FC: you guys owe some black hair dye now!!!

[Neocortess]

Funcom,i think the new Battlestation system is not true

[Yashimitzu]

LoL @ Battlestation changes ... worst thing u've ever done, bring back old ones as fast as possible

[Tazalanche]

I have to say that ... some1 was drunk .. like .. real drunk .. when he designed the new Igocs and bracers and motr ( i personnaly hate it )

Yeah. Since the change to the pearls last year, they no longer look like pearls... they look more like a cracked veneer of marble or granite.

[glassgoat]

Redeemed Gilthar should now have the same drop chances as Unredeemed Dalja

You know I petitioned this one about 6 times last year, and even talked to 2 or 3 GMs on the issue.

I'm still glad it's finally arrived, but we do need to work on the reaction time to these kinds of problems.

I'm off to kill a few, I hope Gilthar's ring now drops!

[playboyfixer]

Parts of the Anniversary Sauna building are once again available to the brave.

just did Vortexx run (and had to try VERY hard to even get a team together with desert rider stuff now, and guess what....

NO peridotite drop???? i thought it was available again

edit: 2nd kill, again no drop...