Patchnotes - April 2015

Greetings, Pilots!

We post a lot of announcements about features and events, but we know that you can’t always see what we are doing to improve the game. These monthly patchnotes are a way to keep you better informed.

We implemented the following features, events, improvements, and bug fixes in April:

Features

· “Easter Eggs” We implemented some“easter eggs” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)) in DarkOrbit. Due to some odd behavior in the game players are able to get hidden achievements. Until now, there are 4 “easter eggs” active but there may be coming more in the future.​

Events

· Aprils Fools
We exchanged the laser graphics for the 1 April 2015. Not as fancy as the nyan sheeps as last year but still funny.
· Alien Eggs Event
The event did run from 3 April to 6 April 2015 and offered Alien egg bonus boxes on the maps, additional event games, fireworks and last but not least one or another special sale in the shop.
· Demaner Hunt
Due to the popularity of the Demaner NPC we did run a Demaner Hunt for 10 days in mid of April. A special mission could be accepted which gave out a Hercules drone design as reward.​

Bug fixes

· Website

· Skill tree: The website no longer freezes if you try to reallocate pilot points after a skill tree reset.
· Skylab/Tech Center: Several Sepromexploits have been fixed.
· The login with Facebook credentials is working again.
· Shop: Player with discounts can buy the maximum of P.E.T.'s fuel without any issues again.​

· Game Client

· Solace ship design:
· The Nano-Cluster Repairer skill will no longer increase the hitpoints of group members on other maps but only in its effect radius.
· You can no longer use the Nano-Cluster Repairer skill continuously to make your ship almost invulnerable.
· In some cases upgrading generators and lasers with Seprom resulted in a display error where the amount of Seprom was "1" while at the same time the running time was correct. This was fixed.
· After changing the ship’s configuration, other players will no longer see the wrong drone designs on your ship.
· Training Arena: Players will no longer get stuck in TA map if they died.
· Minimap: In Firefox browsers the "Follow" function will draw a line on the minimap again.
· LoW Gate:

· Some texts were not displayed in the proper languages. This has been corrected.
· NPCs will not hide in inaccessible areas anymore where they could not be attacked.
· Refining: The display of the shields updated with Seprom will be displayed correctly again.​

· P.E.T.:

· It is no longer possible to trigger an opponent’s P.E.T. in guard mode to shoot down your own P.E.T. and cause honor deductions this way.
· The correct graphic for a level 15 P.E.T. will be displayed again.
· The P.E.T.’s behavior should now be save its setting between map jumps and not always revert to “passive” anymore.
· Shield bars will update correctly again if configuration was changed.
· Kamikaze gear damage distribution will work like intended again.​

o Citadel: The "Fortress" ability did not work correctly - the shield bonus was not applied and the damage taken was not reduced. This was fixed.
· Inventory: It was possible that booty keys were not properly deducted under certain circumstances. This has been fixed.
· NPC Behavior: Demaner Freighters would not be shown on a map after a map jump, resulting in attacks by an invisible enemy.
· Century Falcon: We have taught the Century Falcon correct behavior now. It will not spawn again with 0HP.​

Improvements

· P.E.T.: P.E.T. behavior will be saved even if it was killed and reactivated.
· Damage Warning: Should a player’s health go below 20% and the repair bot is not activated, a warning will be displayed and a warning sound will be played – like in the radiation zone. This can be deactivated in the game settings.
· Cubikon’s Graveyard (??? Map): If a player was disconnected from this map his ship will be placed on his home map and the player cannot get back on the map to farm it in groups.
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We also implemented a number of additional bug fixes, text corrections, and other improvements.

Regards,
Your DarkOrbit team