Patchnotes: February 2015

Patchnotes – February 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 February:
Features

* Group Gate (LoW gate) Redesign Thanks to your feedback we decided to redesign the group gate and make it fairer. Now it is what it is supposed to be: a gate which is meant to be a challenge for a group.

* Battleray Redesign The Battleray was monopolized by some strong clans hindering other players to shoot it down. Therefore, we provided a higher number of Battlerays and a stronger version, the Deadly Battleray, on the pvp maps.

* Client Refactoring In reaction to major complaints about performance issues in the game client, we refactored the game client’s program code. This refactoring not only improved the game client’s performance but, the visual appearance of the game, too.
Events

* Constitution Day (MX server only) On February 4th, the Mexican Constitution Day was celebrated on our MX server. Additional event games and special bonus boxes were provided, as well as some fireworks in the shop.

* Carnival 2015 The Carnival event was online from 16-22 February 2015. It provided carnival bonus boxes on the maps as well as WIZ rockets and fireworks in the shop. Besides of an increased number of event games, the Disguiser NPC was roaming space.

Bug-fixes
* Website
* Achievements:
* The progress bar does not vanish anymore if a player reaches at least 99.1% of progress.
* Some event achievements were not booked properly. This was fixed.
* Galaxy Gates: Other players are no longer able to see the progress of the galaxy gates you are currently building, even if they know the correct deeplink.
* Logbook: An appropriate logbook entry will be created if a player gets a ship out of a blue booty box.
* Skill tree:
* The description of the skill “Electro-optics” now states the correct values.
* If you try to reset your skill tree without having enough Uridium, you will now be able to close the resulting error message.
* Hall of Fame:
* Title overview: In some cases the username was not displayed correctly. This was fixed.
* Top Clans Home: Clans without members are not displayed in clan rankings anymore.
* Event Ranking: The missing Spaceball ranking for the event of 22 January 2015 is now displayed.
* Jackpot Arena announcement layer: The layer will state the correct start time again (RU only).
* Game Client
* Pushing System: Players do not get positive rewards anymore if they kill themselves.
* Quickslot bar: The icon for the R-IC3 rocket now displays the correct image.
* Settings: If you define the key “Ä” as a hotkey, it is displayed correctly instead of being displayed as “undefined”.
* Training Arena: Players do not get stuck due to stopped countdown anymore.
* Cloak CPU: In some cases a player’s ship now gets de-cloaked after a config change and being involved in a fight.
* Ship Warp/Config change: Hitpoints now are updated correctly if you perform a ship warp or configuration change.
* WIZ rocket: Animation of WIZ rocket was incorrect under certain circumstances and did not fly in the direction of the target. We fixed this.
* Vengeance: Afterburner ability of the Vengeance works like intended again.
* Clan Battle Station: The remaining build time displayed on the clan page was not correct. This was fixed.
* Mission window: The window appeared right in the middle of the screen after login. The original position is now being saved.
* Hades Gate: If players die at the same time as the Emperor Kristallon and try to repair they will no longer get disconnected.
Improvements

* Game Client:
o Cubikon’s Graveyard (secret map): The logout button was removed so that players cannot rejoin this map once they have been killed.

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

Regards,
Your DarkOrbit team