Live Patch Notes 3.27.2008

[Taea]

There's so much for everyone in here. Lots of zone changes, new CP tokens and purchaseable Respecs, skill adjustments (not just for Rangers/Snipers!), clickable name menu in the chat window, Kael are scarier...

And on, and on, and on.

What are the highlights you pick out from the notes?

[Ops]

Knockback has been cleaned up. It should feel much less frustrating to get knockbacked.

Can i get an "amen?"

Torqueshell Rifle Changes:


Removed weapon 'charging' before you fire.

Added 'recoil' - when you fire the weapon kicks, requiring you to reacquire a bead on your target before the next shot to do full damage. You can fire again without doing this, but you will not do as much damage as the original shot.

The optimal range for the TSR is now 60m and beyond. Before it was 80m. The range finder may be misleading, when it is blue is when it is in optimal range, not yellow.

Damage is now about 75% of original across a 4-shot clip.

It is now an effective 2x rate of fire.

Rebeading while standing takes 5 seconds to reach max damage potential.

Rebeading while crouching takes 2.5 seconds to reach max damage potential.

Finally! I think we are almost there. Just need mah scope!

1,000 thankyous to the Dev's for the work they've done to/for the Sniper class in the past couple of patches!

[Shuttler]

What about this new flashpoint Mission then? :O

[Kaos]

Originally Posted by Shuttler

What about this new flashpoint Mission then? :O

Predator Prey is started every 30 minutes and needs 5 people to stay in Nyxroq Base I think. Only gives blue level 25 armor.

[eternalchaos]

hehe at lv 30 I had it trigger for me constantly well once it triggered i wouldget the message


Strange thing is... the trigger mission (Genetic Code) or whatever thatone is to takeyouto the robot factory wouldn't trigger. Instead I kept getting non-stop radio messages for the Predator Prey flashpoint

I bugged it however I saw thepreds flying around. LOL nothing like 5 beefy preds going arounda map raping everything they see

[Karatta]

Originally Posted by Ops

Can i get an "amen?"



Finally! I think we are almost there. Just need mah scope!

1,000 thankyous to the Dev's for the work they've done to/for the Sniper class in the past couple of patches!

Sounds like thats the score!

I really like the changes to the Sapper class!

My good friend says he really enjoys the changes to the TSR. He says its more of a skill than it was before to use it, and not so much a "F. & F." weapon. Seems right in line of where a real Sniper should be.

Im also hoping that the next patch change to "Reinforcements" will allow Snipers to see a farther distance?

Here's hoping anyway

[Redphantasm]

Yep, Things die much faster then before, but it takes a good amount of prep to get there. I find myself call-shot heading and target painting on just about every sniper shot. It honestly goes pretty well though. Now if only the magazine was larger then 4 rounds

[Karatta]

Well my friend said the same.

Usually just pulling out a chain gun is quicker work, but if you have some distance on the targets you might not even need target painting all the time. Although the boost it gives is enormus.

Some CP defense points, like very big CP Base in the middle of Thunderhead (whos name escapes me right now) is a great spot to TSR your brains out

[Kaos]

Originally Posted by eternalchaos

Strange thing is... the trigger mission (Genetic Code) or whatever thatone is to takeyouto the robot factory wouldn't trigger. Instead I kept getting non-stop radio messages for the Predator Prey flashpoint

Most of the time I set the sterilization procedure for Comm Tower to Stop for both Brann and Human. Last time around to be different, I decided to Stop for only Human. When I went to get the mission for Genetically Coded, it wasn't available. It was available for all my characters that chose to stop sterilization for Brann and Human.

[eternalchaos]

okay good this isn't me..

I chose 'stop for both brann and human' and it didn't trigger for me either.

Looks like genetically coded no longer triggers Seems both options result in reward but no genetically coded.