{"id":1357,"date":"2009-09-09T22:28:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T04:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2009-09-09T22:43:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T04:43:57","slug":"big-co-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2009\/09\/big-co-patch.html","title":{"rendered":"Big CO patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been on Test a few days, and it goes live tonight. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.champions-online.com\/node\/526341\">There&#8217;s a lot there<\/a>, but here are a few highlights that caught my eye.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> A full Retcon is available for any character created before 2009-09-10 08:30 UTC. To use it, visit the Powers Trainer, choose &#8220;Retcon,&#8221; and click on &#8220;Use Free Reset.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li> This patch provides a number of changes to various power sets. Please check the detailed patch notes before making any decisions regarding power purchasing (or before redeeming your free Retcon).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Both very important notes. First off, they&#8217;ve decided not to finesse the respec to just characters that were created during the Early Start. Either that was more difficult than believed, or they figured they&#8217;d just do the right thing and give everyone a respec (which, given it&#8217;s a new game, and they&#8217;re doing some further power changes this time, makes sense).<\/p>\n<p>So RTFM!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a title=\"General\" name=\"General\"><\/a>General <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> [&#8230;] Changed the way Strength adds to physical melee damage powers. Damage bonus is still capped at 20%, but this cap is now much easier to reach, and can be reached just through some modest effort at collecting gear, without a Characteristic Focus in Strength. This change has NO EFFECT on damage added from taking Strength as a Characteristic Focus. This is a distinct and separate bonus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t particularly understand this one, but I don&#8217;t understand the normal Strength bonus for melee vs. what it sounds like comes when you take Strength as a Characteristic Focus.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> The help UI now includes an internal game manual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The more in-game help, the better.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> Reduced quantity of posts to Twitter and Facebook.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that doesn&#8217;t explain much, does it? I&#8217;ll have to look and see. I wonder if that will address the 408 error that was being generated by Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"UIChat\" name=\"UIChat\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>User Interface and Chat <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> The in-game mouse cursor has all-new appearances based on whether you&#8217;re pointing at a friend, an enemy, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Good.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> The minimap now has a settings button on the right side (indicated by a gear). Under settings you can toggle what kind of icons you want the minimap to display.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Useful.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> Added a new social button to the minimap which will open the social window.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Better than using the menu system,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> There is now a sell confirmation for double-clicking an item in the store, and by right-clicking an item in your inventory while the store is open. There will not be any confirmation if you click the sell button at the bottom of the store window.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes! I&#8217;ve sold several things inadvertently that way. &#8220;Hmmm, do I want to sell this? No, let&#8217;s put it in my &#8230; wait, where did it go?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> Added \/itunes and \/winamp to set the active music player and open it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Um &#8230; okay.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> Added search button to social UI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That sounds helpful.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> Large windows no longer auto-close fixed-position windows when opened (they still close other large windows, though).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a title=\"Powers\" name=\"Powers\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Powers <\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Margie observes that &#8220;now functions properly&#8221; usually means a nerf (if not further explained).<\/p>\n<p>Many Power tweaks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.champions-online.com\/node\/526341#Powers\">Worth reading in detail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"MissionsEnv\" name=\"MissionsEnv\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"Crafting\" name=\"Crafting\"><\/a>Crafting <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Added Competent, Skilled, Very Skilled, Highly Skilled to all component descriptions to clarify what band of skill levels they are used in Blueprints.<\/li>\n<li> If you have no crafting blueprints, you now get basic instructions in the crafting UI when you open it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anything they can do to make this more transparent and easier to understand is well worth it.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, is there a way to tell what school and subspecialty in crafting you&#8217;ve taken with a character?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as noted, there&#8217;s a ton more. Not surprising at this stage of the game, and good that they&#8217;re responding as quickly as they are to problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been on Test a few days, and it goes live tonight. There&#8217;s a lot there, but here are a few highlights that caught my eye. A full Retcon is available for any character created before 2009-09-10 08:30 UTC. To use it, visit the Powers Trainer, choose &#8220;Retcon,&#8221; and click on &#8220;Use Free Reset.&#8221;&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2009\/09\/big-co-patch.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big CO patch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champions-online","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}