Patchnotes – October 2014

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 October:

Features

· Training ArenaA completely new feature, the Training Arena, was implemented to give players the chance to compete in PvP fights in a safe environment. Its matchmaking also guarantees that opponents are within the same account level range, ensuring that the fights are as fair and fun as possible.

· Cinema in Galaxy Gate MaterializerA cinema feature was added to the Galaxy Gate Materializer. It works basically like the cinema in the Skylab, giving one free spin for each video watched all the way through.

Events

· Halloween EventDarkOrbit celebrated Halloween with a one week event, from 27 October to 2 November 2014, with special event missions and new titles to be earned. Furthermore, pumpkin bonus boxes with special content and special NPCs were added to the maps.

· Columbus Day (ES only)We ran a one day event on all Spanish servers on 12 October 2014 to celebrate Christopher Columbus’ arrival in America. Special bonus boxes appeared on the maps as well as fireworks in the Shop. There were also, of course, additional event games running throughout the event.


· Republic Day (TR only)29 October 2014 was a public holiday in Turkey. We celebrated Republic Day with an action-packed one day event on all Turkish servers.

Bug-fixes

· Website

· Ranks: Player ranks will no longer be reset to Basic Space Pilot under certain circumstances.

· Hangar: If a player bought PLT-3030 or ECO-10 rockets with the Rocket CPU on the space map using the auto-buy function, he could sell those rockets in the hangar’s inventory and get Credits, but the rockets could still be used in the game. This is no longer possible.


· Game Client

· Ship window: If a player sets the ship window to display numbers, that will no longer be reset after logging out of the game client.

· P.E.T.: The P.E.T. will once again attack your enemy if it switches back to combo guard mode from combo repair mode.

· Enemy players will be attackable in non-attacking zones again.

· P.E.T.: Kamikaze Detonator’s cooldown will no longer begin before the P.E.T. explodes.

· Training Arena: In some cases, the loser of a Training Arena match did not get a reward. This was fixed.

· Halloween event: Mission could only be accepted at Mission Control on x-1 maps. This was fixed right away, after being reported on the first event day.

Improvements

· Cinema Videos: Number of available videos per day has been increased from 4 to 10.


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


Regards,

Your DarkOrbit team