Patchnotes – August 2013

Hi Space Pilots,


We know that we post a lot of announcements about features and events, but that you cannot always see what we are doing to improve the game.

These monthly patchnotes are intended as a way to keep you better informed.

In August we implemented the following features, events, etc.:

New Features

Account security improvements
Security improvements have been implemented to make players' accounts more secure. A major part of this new feature involves the implementation of the User Account Center, which allows for changes to passwords, email and other account information to be handled more securely than before.

Team Deathmatch Rework
The Team Deathmatch event game was relaunched in August after an overhaul based on the community's feedback.

Events (global and local)

Sugar Festival (TR)
A four-day event to celebrate the Turkish Sugar Festival on all Turkish instances on August 7 - 10, 2013. Various event games were scheduled each day in addition to Free Base Repairs, Fireworks, and Special Bonus Boxes.

Foundation Day (HU)
This event took place on all Hungarian instances on August 20, 2013 and featured Fireworks, Special Bonus Boxes with a Hungarian flag skin, Free Base Repairs, and several event games like Level Invasion Gate and Spaceball.


Improvements

Based on user feedback following Client Resolution 2.0, we have slightly increased the ranges for lasers and rockets to ensure that ships can only attack from within the viewport of their opponent.

Game Client: Tooltips have been implemented to provide the player with a short description of the ship skill's effects upon mouseover of the ship skill icon in the Quickslot bar.

Bug-fixes

Website

Auction:
The AM-CPU will be offered again.
Mines cannot be bought/bid on anymore if rocket cargo space is full.
The game client will now update stackable items (ammo, mines, ore, etc.) bought through auctions. This will prevent players from buying items that they cannot carry if their cargo is already full.
Drone prices in auctions now correctly increases depending on the number of drones already owned.

Clan page: It is no longer possible to submit clan leadership by using a malicious link.

Cloak CPU: Charges will no longer be deducted while on a map where use of the Cloak CPU is restricted.

EPPP: The user ID cannot be extracted by the profile picture URL anymore.

Shop:
Fixed a bug that made the Independence design available on non-US servers.
NC-AWL CPU is now correctly marked as a Credit item again.

Hall of Fame: The HoF overview is displayed correctly again (US instances only).

Ranking: Missing Ranking Points have been added to the Ranking Points calculation again.

Starter Quests: The Flax drone, given to the player as reward for completing the final quest, will no longer being saved in the player's inventory.

User Account Center:
Email addresses are now attached on a global level once users verify it on their main account.

Fixed a bug that removed Drone Designs from equipped drones under certain circumstances.

Game Client

Team Deathmatch:
Players are able to use jump gates again while the TDM is running.
Notification of the last TDM match will no longer appear repeatedly.

Fixed some incorrectly displayed texts for the Team Deathmatch.

Corsairs' HP/Shield bars are now displayed closer to the ship.

Fixed behaviour of the Resource Booster, which now grants extra loot from NPCs again.

Chain Impulse has its visual effect again when triggered.

Quests: The correct sound now plays upon finishing a quest.

Pirate Maps: Map 5-1 and 5-3 are no longer swapped in the Star system window.

Cubikon NPC: The Cubikon will no longer respawn at the same place directly after it was killed.

Quickslot-bar: The graphics of SAR-01 and SAR-02 are no longer swapped.

Items bought in the Auction are now directly updated in the game client after the purchase is completed.

PET: Level 11 and level 12 PETs now display the correct graphic again.

Ship sizes no longer increase exponentially when graphic settings are being changed.

Advanced Jump CPU can no longer be used to escape from Pirate maps.

The Solemn Ship design will now look the same in-game and on the website.

Corrected the damage deflection of the Citadel's Protection ability. It now correctly deflects 25% of the victims' damage.

We also carried out quite a few additional bug-fixes, text corrections and other improvements.

Regards,
Your DarkOrbit Team


Originally posted 13.09.13