Patchnotes – August 2014

Greetings, Pilots!

We know that we post a lot of announcements about features and events, but you cannot 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 August:

Events

* Domination Another event to get players involved in fighting for their company’s pride like in Battle for Influence earlier this year. Players were able to capture beacons on PvP maps and build CBS to collect domination points for their faction. Finally, the Demaner Freighter roamed space on the last day of the event, keeping the pilots busy fighting back.

* Foundation Day (HU only) A one day event which we held on 20 August 2014, featuring several additional event games as well as bonus boxes in Hungarian design.​

Bug-fixes

* Website

* Achievements: The achievement description for the “Builders Guild” achievement was misleading. Therefore, it was changed so that it is now clear that players had to exchange a CBS module to get the achievement.

* Shop: ​

* The description of the P.E.T.’s radar protocol (AI-R1) is now correct.

* Rounding issues will no longer arise if a player purchases P.E.T. fuel.

* If you would like to purchase the max amount of ammunition in the shop all discounts will now be taken into account to calculate the correct amount.​

* Clan Page: ​

* Line breaks will now be formatted correctly in the clan information window and no longer displayed as “\r\n”.

* Clan administration: The typo in the German word "Transaktionen" has been corrected.​

* EPPP:

* Players can now save changes again.

* The visitor counter will now display the correct number of EPPP visits.

* Item Upgrading: The upgrade menu will be displayed correctly again. (RU only)​

* Hangar:

* Overview: The correct speed value will be displayed in the hangar overview if you are using a Leonov.

* Equipment: The error message when trying to equip certain combo gears in one particular order will no longer appear.

* Ranking: In some cases the player’s rank did not match his rank points. This has been fixed.

* Ingame Messaging: The tooltip for the mail button when you have 0 mails is no longer empty.​

* Game Client ​

* WIZ rockets:

* Fixed a bug which caused WIZ rockets to have no effect when being used.

* Cloaked players will no longer be uncloaked if hit by a WIZ rocket.​

* Domination:

* Extra rewards for capturing beacons had not been paid out from the beginning of the event. This was fixed as soon as we noticed the issue.

* The discount for the leading faction did not apply when buying Booty Keys using auto-buy function in the client. This has been fixed.

* At the end of the Domination event we did not activate part of the bonus rewards for the winning faction (10% more bonus box rewards and 10% more Credits for selling ore). Therefore, this reward was given for two weeks instead of only one.

* Demaner Freighter rewards: Due to an error in reward distribution calculation, the rewards were way too low for the Demaner Freightor destruction. Thus, we compensated the players with a package of EMP-01 bursts, DCR-250 rockets and a Havoc drone design.​

* Capture the Beacon: Certain players may have lost their captured beacon when pressing the "L" key. This will not happen anymore.

* P.E.T.:

* Wrong message would appear when the P.E.T. was not in combat and could not be repaired. This has been fixed.

* The trade window will close again after switching the P.E.T.'s cargo trader gear to the auto-looter gear​

* The Leonov will glow again on home maps to show that the bonus applies.

* Sector Control: The Sector Control window will now close automatically if a player has left the match.

* Titles: The title “One-man Army” will now be displayed in the game client if it has been selected and saved on the website.

* Mission Control: The description of the mission “Beneath the Terran Flag” will be adjusted to be clearer, in order to understand the respective mission conditions.

* Quickslot-bar: The AIM-01 and AIM-02 CPUs will no longer show up in the quickslot- bar if it is not equipped.

* Targeted Hints:

* The help text about Palladium did not appear at all.

* The help text about Palladium now states the correct location of the pirate base.​

* Advanced Jump CPU: Graphics are no longer misplaced (countdown and current position icons).​

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

Regards,

Your DarkOrbit team