18.4.8 Update Release Notes

[aleah]

This is because you love me & want me to be happy.
It's very sweet & I appreciate it.

New Stims and Rechargers are now available in the shops, they can be used in both RK and SL.
The requirements of the new kits are First Aid OR Treatment. The new stims require First Aid.

[Cago30]

"Many high level monsters will now have their originally intended level of Initiative skills. This will make some monsters hit faster and be more difficult to debuff."

After re-reading this I am not so sure I like it without some explicit details. I would like some details and example on this please.

Thanks,
Cago30

[Mastablasta]

"Many high level monsters will now have their originally intended level of Initiative skills. This will make some monsters hit faster and be more difficult to debuff."

After re-reading this I am not so sure I like it without some explicit details. I would like some details and example on this please.

Thanks,
Cago30

FWM had some details. Not exhaustively, of course, too detailed to post in one thread. But hey, it'll be love. Maybe all those places that they said were so hard will actually be hard now

[Cogline]

By Goddess! Fixed cameras for when I use my hacked graft to wolf up! Yes! If you could make it so my light still works so I'm not stumbling around in the pitch dark for daring to morph that would be soooo good. : )

[Aeliniyah]

[*]Daily Mission: Bar Run - No longer available to players 200-220 (now available to 175-199).

Just noticed this. Thanks for making one of the most annoying dailies even worse by forcing it only to lower level characters with less runspeed. Atleast TL7's had the high runspeeds to make this slightly bearable. I remember seeing some very good suggestions to actually make this bearable. One of the best was making it one time only quest. But i guess making it more annoying was easier to accomplish.

Btw, got this 8 times in a row on my MP. And the 5 before that were the scooplet hunt, which for non-fixers is atleast as annoying. Well, I hope the new incoming dailes will make things better.

[Mastablasta]

Running around for 5 minutes is horrible and terrible? I see.

[Aeliniyah]

Running around for 5 minutes is horrible and terrible? I see.

Even 220's using all the possible city whompas and veteran RK beacon don't do it in 5 minutes. And while i admit it was nice and fun the first couple of times, after the 50th it becomes extremely annoying.

[lainbr]

Running around for 5 minutes is horrible and terrible? I see.

Nah. It takes a wooopping 15minutes. :3 I dont get why so much complaining as well.

[Cago30]

Thanks for the heads up, Mastablasta.

[Obtena]

Actually the bar run mission was probably one of the more easy and interesting missions. An element of danger, not technically difficult for any profession, not too long, Informative. What more could you ask for? I will be sad to see it removed from the TL7 range.

[DocJones]

Perhaps they should add it as elite daily option for TL7ers...

[mr_road]

Just noticed this. Thanks for making one of the most annoying dailies even worse by forcing it only to lower level characters with less runspeed. Atleast TL7's had the high runspeeds to make this slightly bearable. I remember seeing some very good suggestions to actually make this bearable. One of the best was making it one time only quest. But i guess making it more annoying was easier to accomplish.

Btw, got this 8 times in a row on my MP. And the 5 before that were the scooplet hunt, which for non-fixers is atleast as annoying. Well, I hope the new incoming dailes will make things better.

agreed.

after doing it once, it became an auto delete one for me.

i don't consider just running around for any length of time "fun". killing stuff, thats a different story.

[Biancha]

Perhaps they should add it as elite daily option for TL7ers...

hehee

[lainbr]

Perhaps they should add it as elite daily option for TL7ers...

There are, but nobody choice then ;P

[haxi]

New Content:

Ancient Novictum Refiner can now be bought from the Yutto Tools vendors. It is pricey when purchased directly from the Yuttos but may also be obtained for free from a short quest.

This was already available for the princely sum of 1 credit. It was just not a guaranteed in-stock item.

[Neista]

A Typically fine and well-balanced patch, i can see quite a lot of thought and testing has gone into the decisons. Congratulations to the team.

/Sarcasm off

[McKnuckleSamwich]

A Typically fine and well-balanced patch, i can see quite a lot of thought and testing has gone into the decisons. Congratulations to the team.

/Sarcasm off

urf. thats mean.

I think it's quite a good patch.

[Legendfluf]

FWM had some details. Not exhaustively, of course, too detailed to post in one thread. But hey, it'll be love. Maybe all those places that they said were so hard will actually be hard now

Oh great, I wonder if they included in The Mercenaries and the such in EFP and else where?
If so, well good luck to anyone doing those raids.
And this also means that froobs doing higher level missions for xp/money, I'd say have a good time killing them while you can, because you're going to get screwed after this patch.
You're losing more money to buy the stims and rechargers, but also getting hit for even more with the new mob inits, so you have to keep buying more stims faster. lose-lose all the way

[Mastablasta]

Oh great, I wonder if they included in The Mercenaries and the such in EFP and else where?
If so, well good luck to anyone doing those raids.
And this also means that froobs doing higher level missions for xp/money, I'd say have a good time killing them while you can, because you're going to get screwed after this patch.
You're losing more money to buy the stims and rechargers, but also getting hit for even more with the new mob inits, so you have to keep buying more stims faster. lose-lose all the way

Must also depend on the weapon item used by the monster. Mercs use different ones compared to new ones.

But hey if noone can do anything because very high level mobs get maybe 10% faster then the population as a whole must be in a really sorry state. I don't recall anything on the way up being actually difficult, save certain endbosses in very high level RK missions, and you can just skip those.

But then, even before SL mercs were getting easy.

[Neista]

Not really worried about Mercs or RK mission bosses, but it's going to be interesting to see how mobs like The Collector perform after they have their Limiters removed...