Difference between revisions of "Multiplayer Updates"

Revision as of 17:01, 9 March 2012

The following is a list of updates made to the game since it entered open beta in 2011.

For planned future updates, see Nuku's six month plan at http://checkvist.com/checklists/97925-six-month-plan.

March

9th

RSX Operative buffed in fun new ways!
- Measured Breath - EnergyBreak now lasts 30 rounds, making it possible to keep this up at all times with upgrades, and almost all the time without.
- Practiced Haste - Haste removed, replaced with Charge, InstantCooldown, and Accuracy.
- RSX Connections' mako pool completed. The finished item adds +10 resources while you are dedicated to RSX, and gives you +15 loadout when the dedication is inactive.
New status: StatusBoost. Increases the magnitude of active power statuses.
- Howl is an active power, and would be impacted.
- Juggernaut or Furry Hide, being a toggle and a passive respectively, would not.
- This has soft caps at 25 and 50, with a hard cap at 75. This goes both ways.
The Scattershot 2000 now inflicts -10 StatusBoost on the wearer.
- The common energy salvage requirement has gone from 25 to 15, by way of apology.

8th

Fiery Hide upgrades improved.
Skunk Beasts now beget Skunk Girl babies. Somewhere, Daisy is shaking her fist angrily.
Racing updates:
- Racers now earn greater or fewer racer bucks depending on their level.
- You can now purchase reward tokens with racer bucks.
- When using a metabolism spiker, the racer is immediately marked as unfed, allowing them to recover from crashes or indecision more readily.
Oh lord, subscription changes! Please, do not panic.
- Everyone who has donated prior to the writing of this message is now Old School. This is a flag on your account, and not something you'll immediately see.
- The rules have changed! You now get different bonuses for how much you pay every month.
  - Full details available here
  - Donators who have been putting in less than $30 a month? Nothing has changed for you. At all. You get the Survivalist level despite your donation amount. Continue on as if you didn't notice this.
Dedications can now be swapped around in the Character tab of the web interface (or here.
- If you have a Training Respecializer will pay one hero point to use this shortcut, just like using it in a bond point.
  - You can also opt to simply pay 5 patrol points, instead.
- If you do not possess one, it will cost 25 patrol points, but no hero points.
In the wake of cheaper dedication swapping, the Training Respecializer has had its cost cut in half. Now only 25 mako at participating stores!
You can now buy (most) dedications on the web interface.
So many optimizations. So, so many optimizations. Your inventory, missions, web battles... pretty much everything is running much smoother now.

7th

Web Combat is full of colors. FULL!
- And water. Environmental water/cold/heat penalties should apply to web grinding.
Debuffs should announce when they expire. Only active ones, not toggles n' such.
Fighting in direct control in the area you have a web salvage mission going? Each battle will give some progress and deduct two patrol points.
Damaged softly churrs, "Overhaul of out of combat effect ticking. Now, items and passives/toggles are not processed every tick out of combat. They are activated initially (eg, if you get a new power/new gear/turn on a toggle) and after that, only debuffs and dots are actually processed and ticked down in duration (note, makoXP effects will be turned OFF out of combat.)"
- Removing an item will cause its base-recipe statuses to fade instantly. Like Underwear.
- Damaged softly churrs, "Game tick system: appendix 7. Only other player's effects (AoE ones), debuffs and dots will tick down, your own powers and equipment will just sit there, at full duration. AoE ally effects will hit friends in the same room and when you leave, they will disappear. Taking off equipment will INSTANTLY remove it's effects. Wearing an Experience Enhancer out of combat will not cause you to drain mako battery. (phew)"

6th

Plushie now comes with Stuffed, because you are so squishy! And fluffheaded.
Stretchy, a new offensive adaption, created and put on Latex Fox and Latex Snow Leopard legs.
Prime bosses will only appear at the top of the area's level range, instead of the greater of that and your unmentored level.
- Prime Specimen Primers will warn you if you are too high-level to get a reward from the boss.
Status effects no longer act while out of combat.

5th

Hits that you take thanks to cover now count for Outnumbered and Rage. Stacking just got a lot easier!
- Please note that you must take 2 or more damage from the hit, first.
You also no longer provide cover while at less than 25% health. You're not stupid, after all.
You can actually PLAY Marp-Off now! 'help marp' for details!

4th

String parsing can now make comparisons using 'is'. For example, [if Damaged is [player]].
- Also, [infection Fox of [player]] will now return the number of infections a player currently has that involve the word "Fox". Partial matches are allowed.
NPCs no longer need nanites to use naniteuse powers such as What is Mine.
The buffs from Outnumbered and Rage combat roles now last for 1.5 rounds, to make them easier to stack.
Cheetah had its powers revamped, making is less brokenly powerful for that point of the game. It got Camouflage, though.
Tokens gained from web missions turned up a bit.
Inventory code upgraded. This should mean it works a little faster now.
Some lunatic coded a bunch of new (currently unplaced) powers:
- Noxious Aura
- Shrooms
- Burninate (yes, really)
- Ice Shards (not new, but redesigned)
- Parasitic Nit
Typing 'list forms' now gives a total of how many forms you have mastered.
Almost every merit had its description updated.

3rd

Field Medic and Messiah roles added.
Fairhaven Park now shows up on the overworld.
Bozeman University opened, bringing the Rept-Taur, Pterosaurian, Stegosaurian, Raptorian, and Tricerataur to the grid!
- They come with gifts! Please enjoy Cold Blooded, What is Mine, Hateful Strike, Front and Center, Superior Balance, and Guarding Stance!
Cheetah added to the zoo.
Pretty Pony added to the Toy Factory. WHY.
You should no longer get hit by multiple ambushes at once when grouping in an area.
Having conflicting merits (such as Male Preferred and Female Preferred) will no longer result in wild, unpredictable effects. One will override another, and it'll become obvious real quick which one it is.
Rounding on quantities when making multi-pack items (such as most consumables) will now be done at the end, instead of after every mod.

2nd

Chemist and Paladin roles added.
Silver Leaf mako pool finished, and added to the elite store! When carried by an active Tanuki dedicant (or someone with the dedication inactive, but has a golden leaf), all body part powers will get the full bonus, even for parts you do not explicitly have.
String parsing function added: You can now test for number of infections. For example, [if infection Fox Boy of [player] > 5] will return true if you have at least five body parts that are Fox Boy. You can also do partial matching; just leaving it 'Fox' would work with Uber Fox, Fox Girl, Cat Fox, etcetera.
String parsing is also now capable of doing basic math. Check 'help string parsing' for details.
"Parent" AI block added to the token stores.

1st

Jerk and Blitz Leader roles added.
New prime type: Perplexing!
Salvage rolls now never go below .5%.
You can now upgrade items (that is, raise their level) using the web interface.
Mako market added to web interface.
Updates are now also visible here!
Field of Dread got even cooler, but still isn't available. :(

February

29th

Universal Antidote is no longer usable in combat.
"Confused" status coded. Causes you to have a chance (modified by magnitude) to use the wrong target for powers -- healing enemies, harming allies, etcetera.
- Coincidentally, Perplexing coded!

28th

Partying AI program added to Rsx's mart. Good for notuser buff type powers.
Negative Debuffresistdebuff has a soft cap of undisclosed nature.
Hyper Hypos work on kangaroo pets again. Still only for cosmetic effect.
Wikibot is smarter: powers like Breast Smash display the bodypart modifiers.
Damaged softly churrs, "Web crafting: You can now set a 'tax' on your crafting skill page. This allows others to make items using your skill, with their own material (giving you the taxed amount). Items made in this way WILL HAVE A LIMITED LIFETIME, appx 1 week at 1% tax, 1 month at 25% and 3 months at 100%. Only builder mass, freecred and salvage are taxed. At the moment, crafters have a 1 day cooldown after making something, but you can play around, see what COULD be made by them regardless."
Scaled Hide and Cold Blooded HPBuffers got larger.
Maximum Length, Maximum Depth and Breast Pump now prevent you from losing the last cock, cunt and pair of breasts respectively.
Nasty Insult improved in light of other taunt-type abilities.
Nanite Sponge made more sponge-y, can hold more distill points.
Nuku softly churrls, "With a defeaning bang and a hissing static of a veritable tsunami of unleashed nanites, Rsx becomes point zero to some sort of tremendous energy burst. Only minutes later, the stunt is repeated over at Zephyr. What was that? What does it mean?!(Level cap increased to 50)"

27th

New command: droprange. Type 'droprange 5-29' to drop all items in slots 5 through 29 (inclusive) in your inventory at once. Nobody gets spammed, and you get big piles of freecred!
~~An awesome, crazy new mechanic to preparation powers, like Pounce has been added!~~ Never mind. Carry on.
When clicking to use items in the web interface, you no longer have to scroll down and click them again to confirm.

26th

When creating new racers, there's now less chance of an equine, and now actual chances at uber-fox or feline. The odds of getting a human are up a bit, too.
- Feline racers now have a chance to gain speed when they hit a hazard.
Marp the marp to the marp! New mini-game added. marp-off! Type 'marp-help' for information!
Damagebuff adjusted, now soft caps at 50, 100, and 150. DamageDebuff held to same caps going down. DamageDebuff can not REDUCE your damage below 25%.
Racer-buck limit is now HARD capped at 50, meaning you cannot go above it (e.g, 49 daily, but race again for 20 racerbucks and getting 69 in that day)
Fishing logic changed; you are now more likely to catch the good stuff.

25th

Fishing skill twice as effective at keeping you from hooking things you cannot reel in.
Various tweaks to web crafting; the proper salvage amounts should show now.
You can no longer die from damaged caused by Cover. You might die a moment after, however.
- Real effects: you only cover up to two people per round. No more randomly appearing in front of the entire party simultaneously.
Scent Blocker added to the elite store.

24th

There's another badge added to the nanite presence. Give more freecreds!
Link to the forums added to the web interface.
+gear/condition allows you to set all your infection vials to 'finder: 1'. This helps to sort infection vials together, even if they came from multiple sources.
- To do so requires getting the Vial Conditioner from the mall.
Passives are now less likely to trigger abilities than active powers.
Rage has been revised. You now gain +7 DamageBuff when hit in combat, stacking up to 3/6/9 times.
- Rage, Outnumbered, and DamageReturn mechanics now only kick in if someone ELSE hits you. No using Fire Dance to get yourself all pissed off!
Whispers updated: You can now "+whisper name=message". You can also use it to target multiple people, such as in "+whisper nuku damaged=Where's my money?"
- This has been aliased to wh, @whisper, @wh, and mumble.
Bewitched buffed: it now gives an extra 2/4/6% resistance to enemy statuses applied to you, like a tiny version of Warded.
Scavenger buffed: Any debuff you lay on an enemy gives you a slight positive, opposite version applied to yourself, at 5/10/15% magnitude. So if you lay a 10-magnitude DamageDebuff to an enemy, you will get a .5/1/1.5 DamageBuff in return.
Health Snack and Energy Snack have had their charge dropped all the way to -100.
Medical Hypo (and by extension, Milk) has been significantly buffed.
Damagereturn effects cannot throw back more damage than the foe dealt originally.
- If you have separate physicaldamagereturn and energydamagereturn statuses, the game figures physical first. Then energy does a maximum of (80% minus physical's percent returned).

23rd

New status: you can apply a status that gives all attacks a chance to apply a second status. For example, Laser Emitting modifier, which is available via +reward.
Infuse Blood's upgrades set back to sane and rational numbers.
Wastelands area unlocked for web battling.
Web salvage missions advance per fight, not per enemy defeated.
Tactics - Accuracy and Tactics - Defense given proc effects. Survivalist Leaders lead better now--sometimes.

22nd

Only players in IC status can use powers. If you are IDL, OOC or JDG you can't affect combats in any way.
PREPARE YOUR WALLET FOR IMMEDIATE IMPLOSION! Nanite Presence in Rsx lobby for the level 50 cap.
Vote links have been added to the web interface, down at the bottom. Click them to help attract more people to the game!
+energyuse command added! It tells you your energy use per round, along with how much you have coming in. Budget yourself better, with science!
Chastity Belt added to the elite stores.
In unrelated news, you can now lose your virginity as a male in web-based combat.

21st

Enveloping Pain will no longer heal the enemies it attacks. Kitsune forest wisps are no longer bipolar.
Namidian spirit companion health increased.
Spam removal: starting an instance won't show all the powers every mutant inside uses all at once, and Crown of Fire won't constantly complain when there are no secondary targets.
Nuku softly churrls, "Debuffclear made smarter in a subtle way. It will try to terminate debuffs with a duration over 2 -first-, then go for anything else."
- Nuku softly churrls, "Update on that, now checks for -original duration- over 2 and -current- duration over 1."
- Nuku softly churrls, "Since most toggles/passives strike at duration 1 or 2, it means it will prioritize them lower."
- Nuku softly churrls, "And also low priority things that are about to fade anyway."
Damaged softly churrs, "Monster approval now has 3 ranks of approval. Basic, Average and Advanced, awarding 3, 5 and 10 mako respectively. This is so that staffers can give an extra award to really special monsters, while also allowing them to approve more basic designs without cheapening other's work."
Cooldown on expendable items, like Smoke Bomb, now actually prevent you from using them again.
New fishing spot: entrance to the river east of Fairhaven.
New fighting spot: solo-friendly area with no new species to collect.
Alas, poor Zombies! No ass, and now no cock as well!

20th

Nuku softly churrls, "TESTING REQUIRED: Any status that ends in 'debuff'(which are generally debuffs) will now 'loop' at the end of their duration, losing magnitude but regaining their duration. Enduring Malice causes the magnitude to decay slower."
- Nuku softly churrls, "When they run out of duration, they lose 4 mag, then 25% of whatever's left."
- Nuku softly churrls, "Enduring Malice reduces that 4 by 1 per point."
Genesis yips, "Customized Consumables now use the proper cooldowns when used."
AI for all minions, whether they be children, Roo pets, crafted drones, or dedication powers, now may have their AI set. Each minion gets half the AI slots you do.

19th

The wiki should load a little faster now.
Rest now clears debuffs, along with giving energy and lowering your defenses.
Recipe modifiers that add statuses, like Fast, had their crafting skill modifiers reduced or removed.
Large bug fixed in crafting skill requirements. It's now harder, apparently.
Kitsune (dedication) traded sharp claws for the ability to make illusions.
Female Husky gained Scratch. Female Husky, I choose you!
Damaged softly churrs, "New string parsing, [if size of [player] = 3] Works with > < = !="
Pets can have their AI set. While equipped, visit the [1] AI page and scroll to the bottom. Only works for pets that are equipped, mind you.

18th

Feesh upgraded. Tremble in terror, you are finished!

17th

Male and Female Preferred now make you slide toward a perfect heterosexual match for a mutant who mutates you. That means a Walking Vagina could make you collect twelve penises to match.
Minions and Mastermind combat skill significantly changed.
- Levels in Mastermind no longer boost the rank of summoned minions. The level stated on the power is now what they are summoned as; all minions have had their ranks adjusted accordingly.
- The bonus from reflected buffs is now +20/40/60%, double its previous values.
  - You must have at least one rank of Mastermind for buffs to reflect at all.
- Buffs no longer get spread out amongst all minions; each minion gets the full buff.
- Reflected buffs now stack with unreflected versions. This means they can get more than twice the effect of a well-used Banner, for instance.
Kangaroo pets summoned by anyone who is not either an active Kangaroo or a lapsed Kangaroo with the Fake Pouch will not be able to use upgrades in their powers.
- Kangaroo pet powers are capped at one upgrade per power, regardless of the number shown when examined.
The instance maker is ready to go! Head here to give it a try!
Namidian and Kitsune pets have been massively overhauled to be more awesome!
Reward tokens now show up on the web interface.

16th

Magatama now available in the Elite Shop. 25 mako, offer it at the Kitsune shrine for the ability to summon a smaller version of the forest wisp when not actively dedicated. Also, deposit credits for random blessings.
Converting salvage down is now less wasteful. Uncommon yields 95/100, rare yields 22/25, and Elite yields 9/10.

15th

Damage-over-time effects should now benefit from the 40% cap on resistances.
Modifiers that increase damage, like Extra Lethal, now increase secondary damage, like on Rocket Launcher.
Percentage-based modifiers, like Cool, now calculated after numerical ones, like Fast. Previously it was alphabetical.
Bugfixes for web battling:
- Web battles will inform you if your inventory is full when you receive an item such as an infection vial.
- Monsters in web battles no longer linger after the fight is over. For example, friendly NPCs won't invade other battles.
- Web battles should use your buffs before entry more reliably.
Racing minigame is expanding!
- Racer Examination allows you to peek at a racer to see what species it will grow into.
- Racer Metabolism Spiker allows a second try after a failed feeding.
- Animal Husband merit makes every feeding successful.
- Racer Cap gives some defense but more importantly raises your racer's obedience.
Salvage Booster's chance of generating rares increased. Nuku softly churrls, "Your chances are / 10 instead of / 100. So 120% becomes 12%."
HPBuffer effects, like Protein Shield, now protect you from damage collected via Cover.
Tanuki's dedication form picked up Protein Armor and Clever Paws.
Rank limitations on charming pets removed. You still can't tame the Ragnarok Beast, but you can tame, for example, a Golden Tousky.
- However, the charmed monster will not have dedication powers on it.
- Power upgrades now capped at one per power.
Reward tokens for web salvage missions toned down, just a hair. 30+ tokens for one mission was a bit much. Sorry!
There is now an option in 'editplayer' to specify that you have a screen reader. For those of you who are blind, or wish to be blind, this makes the overworld map simply be displayed as a list of exits.

14th

Race! You can now breed and race mutants for fun and profit. Start with 'help racers'.
Assistants in web battles now less likely to sneak away and leave.

13th

There was a bug that made fishing way harder. It's been squashed.
You can now gift the Survival Pack to other people! Details at http://flexiblesurvival.com/buymako
Scathing Diatribe is actually a useful power now! It's all... taunty.

12th

+pregtime is now a lot more readable.
Some zones are now marked as "High Danger". This causes you to *always* pull in backup when in web combat, and allows +1 people to show up. This does stack with any perks that bump up your maximum assistants.
The Survivalist camp now opens its doors to everyone, in the name of better commerce!
- You can still do the questline if you want. Good idea, if you want to experience their unique take on the apocalypse.
- They've also started selling the Duct Tape Backpack! 20 more slots in your inventory, stacks with other bags, drains 1000 freecred a day.
The final wave (for now) of recipes for the mini-factions has been released!
- Survivalists can now construct Rocket Launchairs!
- Mall Rats unlocked the secrets of the Automated Response Kit!
- Not that they need them, but the Skunks will teach you how to make Muscular Enhancers!
Now that things have stabilized, you can read up on all three factions at Category:Crafting Alliances
King's Stable has been located near the Farm, bringing back old favorites Centaur Mare and Centaur Stallion, along with introducing Friesian Stallion to the grid!
- Oh, and there's a boss fight. He's got some new toys for you!

11th

Children and other pets should no longer be crushed to 14% health out of combat randomly.
Roo pets change: Damaged softly churrs, "Very slight nerf to roo pets. In future, no single stat bonus on them will be able to go over 2x any upgrade for them. So no more, for instance, a priapan orca with +30 damage mag." Damaged softly churrs, "In that example, it would cap at +22"
More mods for the ever-growing war between factions!
- Skunks got more Potent.
- Rats have begun dabbling in Temporal distortion.
- The Survivalists are, for the first time ever, properly Directed.
Looking forward to beating up Surviving Human Jerks? Donate to the newest mako pool!
Now that it works, we can announce salvage missions! In the web interface, look on the right hand side. Kill stuff, win valuable tokens!
Equipment sets have been created. Type 'eqset/help' to learn how to set up your own gear.
Repeat attacks now do 60% damage on each tick, up from 50%.
General Hospital is now a level 44-55 zone.
Mako pools now vanish from +poollist after completion. The list no longer goes ever on and on.

10th

Recipe Modifiers with active and passive statuses will allow both halves to be applied to a subject. For example, a Fast Banner and a fast Module would work together.
Call HQ button on the web interface allows scavenging missions much like those Robert distributes in direct control.
The mini factions has once again added to their unique recipes. PickMeUps, Throwing Knives, and Smoke Bomb, were added to The Rats, The Skunks and The Survivalists, respectively.
New commands: voteidle and notidle. Allows you to attempt to push someone into IDL status if they are clogging up a combat or AFK when a judge will reward active RP.
You no longer need to upgrade child/egg objects~! Battle XP is all they need.