Patch Date: April 21, 2015
- New Player Experience
- New citizens of Rubi-Ka will start their journey in Arete Landing
- Explore a new starting playfield!
- Enjoy a new series of quests to guide new characters to the ICC HQ
- The 30 first levels, players will get an increased amount of xp for completing missions.
- All missions will now give players 1000 credits extra as a reward.
- Inventory save should now be more effective for the server.
- New characters now start out with 1 meter/second higher run speed than before.
- ICC HQ has been overhauled
- Added general stores to ICC
- Moved the Jobe whompah from Borealis to ICC
- The subway entrance is now located in ICC HQ.
- A FC shop/Phasefront dungeon has now been added to ICC HQ. Here you will be able to see items that you can buy in the FC shop.
- The unicorn Lander in Andromeda has been moved to ICC HQ and now has a proper door.
- Fast-access to Temple of Three Winds/Inner Sanctum will be exclusive to ICC
- Zyvania Bagh, Des Morck, Cody Monkie and Windcaller Karrec have moved to ICC HQ.
- Battlestation Changes
- Battlestations will allow you to choose which team you fight for, either Red or Blue
- Mechs/Turrets should be unavailable in the Battlestation Decontamination room
- Battlestation signup area now has an OFAB shop area in the duel room and this room has now been made bigger. Separate rooms for the signup terminals have been removed and the terminals have gotten a new visual appearance. The notum miner playfield now has a terminal.
- Using a Teleporter in the battle station should lock Treatment for 10 seconds, the player will not be able to use a teleporter again for 10 seconds.
- Using the stuck command in Battlestation should no longer make you lost in space.
- You should no longer be able to fall through the glass floor outside the battlestation's core.
- Glass windows have been removed from the battlestation's wings.
- The "thumpers" have been replaced by large pillars
- Parry/Glance Changes
- Parry has been renamed to Deflect.
- Deflect is a defensive stat that and not a melee special. Deflect increases the chance that incoming attacks become Glancing Hits. A Glancing Hit deals 50% damage. Glance chance is 0%->10%, between 0->3000 Deflect skill.
- Fast Attack: Glancing hit will deal normal damage.
- Fling Shot: Glancing hit will deal normal damage.
- Sneak Attack: Glance is 50% damage.
- Aimed Shot: Glance counts as a miss with 0 damage.
- Backstab: Glance is 50% damage (on the damage calculated before applying the backstab multiplier).
- Brawl: Glance is 50% damage.
- Burst: Per bullet: Glance is 50% damage.
- Dimach: Glance is 50% damage.
- Full Auto: If a shot is glanced, all subsequent bullets will do 50% damage.
- World Changes
- All areas with Whom-pahs have gotten new whom-pahs.
- Most areas on Rubi-Ka should now have their player city plots removed.
- A huge amount of trees and objects have stopped floating... Someone must have killed the floaty leets in those areas...
- All outdoor Jobe NPCs will no longer sell items
- The sky is suddenly more detailed
- One of the tower fields in Central Artery Valley should no longer be partly behind the zone border.
- One of the tower fields in 4 Holes should no longer be on top of a cliff that melee characters cannot reach.
- The Phasefront Vendor Area have been removed from Newland lake.
- Borealis has been under ICC's protection for a while and the city has started to show signs of that.
- The Ring has now been placed in Newland City. ARKs can utilize this area to run PvP Events.
- Coast of Tranquility and Coast of Peace should now be re-opened, no new content has been added there at this time.
- The zone border between Lush Fields and Clon**** should now work properly.
- Doors in the Broken Shores should no longer return an error.
- Doors in the Stret West Bank no longer have 'Nano Crystal' as their description.
- All seasonal content has been placed out with proper spawn points on Rubi-Ka.
- A Ganking Uncle Pumpkin-Head with a slow spawn timer will appear in the SBC Site Alpha Romeo areas and will have a high chance to drop the Oldschool Phats that we added to the GUPH last year.
- A Pumpkin on a Stick will indicate the spawn points of Griefing Uncle Pumpkin Heads during Halloween.
- Shadowlands startup area has now been closed down and Drake has moved to the bridge. He will give players a mission to seek out the Nascence Garden Key mission NPCs.
- Quests
- Subway now has a new mission to new help players get there.
- Temple of the Three Winds now has now a new mission and Windcaller Karrec has moved into a small cargo house in ICC HQ. This mission will allow players to use the portal to the Temple of the Three Winds area which is located inside Karrec's cargo house.
- The portal to enter the Temple of the Three Winds can be used by higher level players to get to the Inner Sanctum.
- The mission items for the sided shoulder pads (Alvin Odeleder/Dodga Demercel) Will now upload a mission with coordinates when used.
- The daily mission Distress Call should no longer break.
- A mission that directs you to Professor Dedlock will be given by an npc in the ICC HQ named the Representative of IPS.
- Professor Dedlock will no longer give Nano-Technicians a Cyberdeck upon completing the Nano Specializations, these can be bought instead.
- A mission that teaches players about the Mail Terminal has been added and Fia Lou in the ICC HQ will hand it out.
- Vendors
- All Neutral vending machines have now had their content updated.
- Veteran Shops are no longer outdoors and have been moved into the Tower Shop.
- The AI leet vending machine has been moved into the Tower Shop.
- Nano-Technicians will be able to buy their Cyberdecks from the Nano-Technician of IPS in Jobe.
- Garden keys can now be purchased from the Key Locked Garden Vendor in case you have deleted your key.
- A vendor had been added to the Pandemonium Gardens which sells Rare Nano Crystals, this NPC is called "Greedy Shade". The Greedy Shade will sell the following Nano Crystals to anyone who has all Garden and Sanctuary keys:
- Nano Crystal (Minor Nanobot Defense)
- Nano Crystal (Grand Theft Humidity)
- Nano Crystal (Nanobot Defense)
- Nano Crystal (My Enemy's Enemy is my Friend)
- Nano Crystal (Fists of the Winter Flame)
- Nano Crystal (Composite Heavy Artillery)
- Nano Crystal (Superior Notum Overflow Injector)
- Nano Crystal (Notum Overflow Injector)
- Nano Crystal (Nanobot Shelter)
- Nano Crystal (Poisoned Wounds)
- Nano Crystal (Simple Viral Agent)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Augmentation Cloud)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Bot Reproduction)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Continuous Reconstruction)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Hasty Augmentation Cloud)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Hearty Constitution)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Improved Cut Red Tape)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Improved Instinctive Control)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Improved Red Tape)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Neural Interfaced Augmentation Cloud)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Semi-Sentient Augmentation Cloud)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Serene Sky)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Smoke Bomb)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Soothing Breeze)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Soothing Calm)
- Weird Looking Nano Crystal (Tranquillity of the Vale)
- Item Shop
- Previous owners of Phasefront Points will now be able to claim rewards from the Item Shop.
- A Sealed Bazzit's Alien Library has been made for the Item Shop.
- A Treatment Transfer Nano Can has now been added to the Item Shop.
- An Insurance Agent Nano Can has been added to the Item Shop.
- A Resurrection Sickness Removal Nano Can has been added to the Item Shop.
- A Premium Lottery ticket has been created.
- We have now updated the rewards from the lottery item. What you can win will be in the description of each Lottery Ticket.
- Side changes will no longer make the character lose their purchased Item Shop Garden Key.
- NipponTech Glowing Mood Pads have now received a polish.
- Premium Nano Crystal (Pronouncement of Magnanimity) now has a new icon and is easier to read in the Nano description window.
- All replica armors should now be possible to equip in the chest slot.