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Game Patches

5 July, 2006

Combined (CoH and CoV)

Powers - PvP

  • Trip Mines from all player Power Sets have had their Detoggle ability set to 10%.

Powers - Critters

  • Giant Monster, Arch Villain and Hero class entities’ regeneration levels have been reduced considerably.

City Zones

  • Recluse’s Victory: Signature Heroes and Villains will no longer give experience or debt. They will continue to give badges. Temporal Points for defeating them have been increased.
  • Recluse’s Victory: Fixed bug that caused player controlled heavies to persist after the player controlling them logged off or zoned.

Tasks

  • Fixed bug in ‘Running Boss’ missions that caused any Knockback or Immobilization on the Boss to count as an immediate escape.
  • Fixed a bug with CoT Portals that required players to destroy the Portals to complete ‘Defeat All’ missions.

Badges

  • Added female-style names to many male-oriented Badge Titles.
  • Added meters and hints to many badges that did not have them previously.
  • Renamed ‘Media Junkie’ badge to ‘Couch Potato’. ‘Media Junky’ badge remains unchanged.

Game

  • Fixed large memory leak that affected some graphics drivers.
  • Fixed rare crash that occurred when a character was defeated.
  • Fixed performance and stability issues that were occurring on Intel CPUs with HyperThreading enabled.
  • Fixed bug in NPC pathing that would occasionally degrade performance on some maps.
  • Improved server stability.

Graphics

  • Fixed issue with building lights not fading correctly if you have your world texture detail settings lowered.

UI

  • Players can now set themselves to automatically decline Supergroup and Trade invites. Under the Options/General/Chat, there are now two additional options to turn this functionality on or off. By default it is set to off, which will prompt players whenever they receive a super group or trade invite.
  • If a player is currently hidden from his global friends using the /ghide command, all global friend invites and global chat channel invites will automatically be declined.

Tailor

  • Female, Male and Huge costume creator clean up:
    • Unified naming conventions.
    • Gloves and boots reordered for less confusion.
    • More Chest textures in every available category.
    • Hip and Chest textures alphabetized.
    • Reptilian texture revamped.
    • Armored Pads added to chests and hips.
    • Crey Tech added to chests, hips, boots, and gloves.
    • Rough Leather added to hips.
    • “Chaos leather” revamped.
    • Shorts legs geometry fixed.
    • V belt revamped.
    • Skirts and Shorts Re-re-re-revamped to fit tighter and prevent clipping with belts.
    • Some belts revamped to better fit revamped skirts.
    • “Plain long skirt” added.
    • Long skirts revamped so geometry doesn’t clip with V and lone skull belt.
    • Matte boot texture added.

City of Heroes

Tasks

  • Eden Trial: Rock Beast Lieutenants should properly spawn Cairns again.

City of Villains

Powers - Players

  • Electric Armor Grounded will now have its protection from Knockback and Knockup scale per level at the same rate that other Knockback powers scale by level. This should result in consistent protection throughout a characters lifetime.
  • Dominator Icy Assault/Ice Sword Circle has had the long pause after casting removed.
  • Fixed typos in Thugs Power Set description.
  • Fixed a typo in the Mastermind Mercenaries Spec-Ops description.
  • The Psionic Activator Temporary Power should work correctly now.

Powers - PvP

  • Corruptor Kinetics Transfusion was inadvertently increasing a target’s regeneration rate in PvP, instead of decreasing it. This has been corrected.

Powers - Critters

  • Longbow Spec-Ops EMP Grenade power has had its Endurance Drain effect reduced.

Tasks

  • Fixed mission “Thwart Black Scorpion’s plans” on Black Scorpion’s Patron arc.
  • Fixed issue that prevented Brokers and Newspapers from assigning Malta and Carnival missions.
  • Hive Spires no longer give Bonus XP.
  • The high level Respec Trial now has appropriate level enemies.
  • Fixed graphics bugs in several Arachnoid Cave maps.
  • Fixed some text errors in the Beast Beneath the Mountain Strike Force.

City Zones

  • Grandville: The plaques describing Patron Powers have been updated to give much more detailed information.

Badges

  • The Born in Battle Accolade is now being awarded correctly.
  • Added badge reward to Mission 3 of the Future of Freedom Strike Force.

Game

  • All commands to make pets speak (/petsay, /petsayall, /petsayname, /petsaypow) are working again.