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Stephen
Big Boss Man
Posts: 583		 June 28 PTS Release!
#26197 - 06/28/07 07:25 PM

Build 81 is going up on PTS shortly. It fixes a few bugs and addresses a few balance issues in the current PTS build.

Changes are:

It seems that a health modifier property for monsters wasn't working as intended. This has been fixed. Ranged monsters should now have less health than melee.

The difficulty options have been adjusted. The new settings are:

  • Normal -- No change.

  • Formidable -- +50% monster hp, +20% monster dmg, +50% loot drops

  • Extreme -- +100% monster hp, +40% monster dmg, +100% loot drops

  • Insane! -- +150% monster hp, +80% monster dmg, +150% loot drops


    The "Unnerving Shout" skill has been adjusted. The attack speed debuff has been reduced to 5% per rank, down from 15%. The maximum attack speed reduction is now 25% instead of 75%.

    The "Offensive Gesture" skill has been adjusted. The aggro modifier is has been increased to a base of 200% with a per rank increase of 50%.

    A new mechanic has been added to the game -- Monster Frustration. When a monster is unable to make reasonable progress attacking a player it will become frustrated. A frustrated monster will happily stand on top of other monsters to reach its target, causing a bum rush effect vs. players that hide in restricted spaces to mitigate combat damage.

    Monster tracking of the player during combat is much more responsive now.

    Player skills that target objects will track moving objects more reliably now.

    The aggro calculation has been adjusted to give more weight to distance between the monsters and players.

    Players must now be within a reasonable distance of a dying monster to get experience for the kill.

    Players no longer receive an experience bonus for fighting monsters above their level. Monsters killed above the player's level will be treated as being the player's level.

    Level difference no longer imparts bonuses to hit chance, critical chance or resistances in PvP sessions.

    Item tooltips have been adjusted to maintain a maximum width. Word wrap has been enabled for large item names.

    Your character's health and mana can be shown simply by moving your mouse cursor over the nameplate.

    The chat window will now fade out while mouse looking.



    • LadyStarlight
    New Kid
    Posts: 6    		 Re: June 28 PTS Release!
    #26201 - 06/28/07 07:59 PM

    Quote:

    A new mechanic has been added to the game -- Monster Frustration. When a monster is unable to make reasonable progress attacking a player it will become frustrated. A frustrated monster will happily stand on top of other monsters to reach its target, causing a bum rush effect vs. players that hide in restricted spaces to mitigate combat damage.



    Realism for the win? Sounds like some folks are going have to relearn how to fight.

    Quote:

    The "Offensive Gesture" skill has been adjusted. The aggro modifier is has been increased to a base of 200% with a per rank increase of 50%.




    This ought to be interesting... Can't wait to get in the game to try it out. I will be downloading the PTS for certain now.

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    City of Heroes:

    Lady Thor: Level 50 Natural Tanker (Invulnerabilty/War Mace)

    Teresa Thorensen: Level 16 Natural Peacebringer



    tappa
    Actual Hawk
    Posts: 247    		 Re: June 28 PTS Release! [Re: #26201]
    #26202 - 06/28/07 08:12 PM

    Ah, so the targetting for fireballs and stuff has been fixed, well thats good news.


    Tachan
    Actual Hawk
    Posts: 207    		 Re: June 28 PTS Release!
    #26204 - 06/28/07 08:36 PM

    Since pvp is enabled on the PTS...does that mean Monday's live update will reflect that?


    JoeB1978
    Old Timer
    Posts: 675    		 Re: June 28 PTS Release! [Re: #26204]
    #26260 - 06/29/07 08:22 AM

    I cant wait to start running bosses at insane level. Should be a blast.

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    JoeB - Level 100 - Confused about my professional orientation - FINALLY
    Mearlin - Level 29 - Mage



    Kazima
    New Kid
    Posts: 6    		 Re: June 28 PTS Release! [Re: #26260]
    #26294 - 06/29/07 11:27 AM

    i donwloaded the update howwever i'm getting an message saying error connecting to server on the login screen


    RusKrieger
    Armchair Warrior
    Posts: 38    		 Re: June 28 PTS Release! [Re: #26294]
    #26295 - 06/29/07 11:31 AM

    Quote:

    i donwloaded the update howwever i'm getting an message saying error connecting to server on the login screen



    http://boards.dungeonrunners.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=26273&an=0&page=0#Post26273

    They had to shut it down for emergency maintenance.


    Reefken
    New Kid
    Posts: 4    		 Re: June 28 PTS Release! [Re: #26295]
    #26606 - 07/01/07 11:23 AM

    The insane setting is quite... INSANE!
    Soloing HDoL with insane difficulty = trouble Can't wait to try it with a decent group


    Magot
    New Kid
    Posts: 9    		 Re: June 28 PTS Release!
    #26716 - 07/02/07 12:30 PM

    Are we going to get another character slot in the new build?
    I'd love to make another character without having to re-spec instead.


    AlchemyGothic
    New Kid
    Posts: 7    		 Re: June 28 PTS Release! [Re: #26202]
    #26990 - 07/03/07 12:07 PM

    where do u download the PTS ver. of DR ,or are they one in the same?

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    AlchemyGothicLevel-27 Fighter



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