Greetings everyone.
We have a major update for you this week- Chapter 3, Update 1!
We also have upcoming 6th birthday festivities starting this upcoming weekend, July 29th. If you haven’t checked out the specifics, go give #events a look on Discord.
We’ve had quite a few things queued up on Test Center for awhile now, and are excited to announce that those changes are going live imminently.
The past few months have been challenging in many ways, but we are very happy to have made significant progress and be moving forward.
Over the rest of the year, you can expect us to start actioning several things;
- Mandal Motors re-enabled
- Leadorn (World Boss) finished and activated
- Vehicle Improvements (Multi Passenger, anyone?)
- Further BE Fixes and possible revamp
- New Creatures for CH/BE
- New Vehicles
- New questlines and content designed to deliver new assets into the game.
Of course, you can expect us to continue placing performance and uptime first. We have many changes going live in this release that we hope improve our position further here, and their specific impact will be analysed.
Note that we are not promising timelines on the above, but wanted to let you know the upcoming big items on our internal roadmap.
We hope to be able to publish a roadmap for the community in the coming weeks.
Now, for the patch notes themselves:
Overall, we’re looking at 360+ commits for 3.1.
Staff/Admin and Events:
[MODIFY] Mantis 0001705: /moveFurniture, /rotateFurniture commands now work outside of buildings for admins
[MODIFY] Item Pickup/Drop commands revamped for admins
[FIX] /teleportTarget crash issue
[MODIFY] Change event promoter “rentals” for flexibility (dev/admin can place nearly anywhere)
[ADD] 6th birthday reward items, events, and mobs/lairs.
[ADD] 6th birthday lambda invasion event
[ADD] Cookie/Bag of Cookies added for Event Coordinator use.
[ADD] 2 new armor sets added, prep for future content release
[Removed] Mantis 0001634: (Temporary) Remove buff npc conversation options*
[ADD] Mantis 0001690: Additional elite/unique world mob spawn logging to aid debugging/troubleshooting
Server Backend/Perf:
[ADD] Ability to enforce a mission bonus credit cap via config. Feature complete but not enabled.
[MODIFY] Optimized several AI references w.r.t. database saves
[FIX] stability issue in playermanager writeplayerlog
[FIX] escorts getting stuck in the conversing state (Mantis #8877)
[FIX] stability issue for null resource weights
[FIX] stability issue with lottery loot window and loot command
[FIX] base donation stability issue
[FIX] stability issue with turret donation (Mantis #8787)
[ADD] support for large objects to show up sooner in client (Mantis #8296)
[FIX] factoryCrateType FIX for multiple crafting components
[MODIFY] Fix several null reference exposures
[MODIFY] Fix several memory leak exposures
[MODIFY] Lua config reference cleanup (memory leak)
[MODIFY] Mantis 0001593: Tweak endor regions based on previous implementation and testing feedback
[MODIFY] Reduced smuggler and research OP +CITY flag ranges to more closely match “entering/leaving an outpost” messaging. Added +NOBUILD area to account for reduction at smuggler OP, matching previous design intent.
[MODIFY] Adjusted active spawn area minimum spawn interval timer
[MODIFY] Mantis 0001595/0001626: Respawns after lair destruction/mission completion should no longer be instant*
[FIX] Mantis 0001714: Tatooine mob names (womp rats: variegated, mutant, etc…)
[FIX] Resolved many lua issues with duplicated data (mobile names, social groups, etc..)
[FIX] AI continuing to patrol while conversing with a player
[FIX] players bypassing group ejection from DWB – Mantis #8233
Gameplay (General)
[FIX] Mantis 0001711: VIP Bunker now shows correctly in schematic view when crafting
[FIX] Mantis 0001471/0001703: NS/SMC Clothes Still Not Socketing
[FIX] Mantis 0001690: Gorax on Endor spawning (duplicate points)
[FIX] Mantis 0001723: City Skill Trainer – Wrong trainer being placed/unable to remove
[FIX] GCW base cluster config fix from 3 to 2. See GCW note ( 1 )
[FIX] Mantis 0001744: GCW bases no longer allow player items to be dropped inside. See GCW note ( 1 )
[FIX] Faction base deeds are again marked no-trade, as per patch 1.7
[MODIFY] Mantis 0001558: Jedi accuracy bonus has been reduced. Due to overlap of EMU and SR changes, an additional accuracy bonus was allowed beyond the intended change.*
[FIX] Several trade exploit fixes for “NoTrade” items
[FIX] Mantis 0001588 : Wampa ignoring mask scent completely
[MODIFY] Several previously disabled SEAs re-enabled as they are now fixed/functional
[FIX] Mantis 0001694/0001724: spawns too close to nyms shuttle
[MODIFY] Mantis 0001651: Wild spawn at POI
[MODIFY] Mantis 0001644: “looter pillager” mob behavior now matches it’s flag indicator (non aggressive but attackable)
[FIX] bad combat spam when lair is destroyed with auto attack (Mantis #7091)
[FIX] sharnaff lairs missing bulls – Mantis #8291
[FIX] Bad patrol y-coordinate for Wayfar NPC
[FIX] imperial compforce lair failing to spawn
[FIX] issue with group leader not updating when set – Mantis #8878
[FIX] issue when curing multiple dots on a player – Mantis #8894
[FIX] miscalculation of variable when curing DoT – Mantis #8894
[ADD] herd movement for theater spawned creatures
[FIX] Mantis 0001752: Nightsister Tainted/Tarnished Shroud and dress not dropping.
[FIX] DoTs not damaging targets on their final tick – Mantis #7700
Gameplay (Crafting, Resource Gathering)
[ADD] /harvesterHarvest command added*
[ADD] Milk harvesting is now reported to the player (quantity, type, name)
[ADD] Egg harvesting (foraging) is now reported to the player (quantity, type, name)
[FIX] Mantis 0001751: Cannot craft manufacturing schematic for X34 Landspeeder
Gameplay (Quests)
[FIX] crafting droids being killed by DWB npcs
[MODIFY] Moved NS Rancor Tamer from Mozo questline to Dolac
[MODIFY] Mantis 0001685: Adjust default themepark escort npc normalization for less frustrating escort quests
[MODIFY] 0001685: Singing Mountain Clan ThemePark: Zideera Quest to remove nearly guaranteed failures
[MODIFY] Bruce McBrain in Jabba’s Palace has been re-located
[MODIFY] Mantis 0001521: Dolal Legasi quest loot quality reduced to stop it being exploited. Rancor Tamer moved to correct stage and Escaped Prisoner escort/follow tested.
[FIX] Mantis0001692: rebel theme park (Eso escort issue due to pirate faction flag)
[FIX] Mantis 0001610: Imperial retreat Kaja Orze Quest 5 bug fix
Gameplay (Bio-Engineer):
[FIX] Mantis 0001706: BE DNA sample shows Ranged Attack for those without ( 2 )
[MODIFY] Adjust BE special stick rates. This should more accurately represent SR intended rates, as they were pre re-base*
[MODIFY] BE DNA crafts are now able (rarely) to roll 2 AOEs on the same craft
[MODIFY] BE DNA is set to prefer specials via the same mechanism before (slot based) ( 2 )
[ADD] Added ability to enable additional special selections from other DNA sample slots during the crafting process. This is currently disabled but feature complete. ( 2 )
Developer Notes:
For a more detailed listing of of commits, please see the associated text thread in Discord.
An asterisk (*) indicates that these changes are subject to additional review and tuning in the near future.
1 GCW Changes:
Some of the GCW code pre rebase wasn’t added and will be reinserted with these updates.
- This code prevented items being placed in bases to make terminal access trickier. Please ensure that any bases containing items are removed within 1 week of the announcement being made.
- Base placement proximity to other bases. This should mean the Chapter 1.7 code is now working properly. Whilst we acknowledge a pvp channel vote since indicated a desire to change this to one base per faction, concerns raised about how that could be exploited have not yet been fully explored or solutions found. Implementing those changes will not be actioned until we are more confident in a viable approach and that we won’t be creating a greater workload for the team.
In addition, we would like to remind all GCW participants that opposing players should have access to bases at all times. If you have a concern around items in the base / entrance blocking / griefing then please take screenshots, and report it to Coz in discord or via our dedicated email – [email protected]. You will need to include a waypoint and planet. This should be done in private so that we can investigate and resolve issues quickly
2 Bio-Engineer:
There are several frustrating issues with BE currently, and we are aware of them. We have plans to work on resolving these as quickly as possible, and will be pulling in several fixes with regard to this from upstream.
Additionally, we are actively discussing – with the community – what adjustments would better position both BE and CH as more viable options. We will need testing assistance, so keep an eye on the test channels if you are interested.