Hellgate: London Multiplayer Patch 1.2 Online

Posted by: GameBorder Staff on 2008-03-17 19:52:55

This patch is has some major skill changes, a few vital balance tweaks, some pesky bug fixes, and a highly-requested new feature. First and foremost is the introduction of our in-game mail system. We’re also rolling out the second of our major character class balance passes. In this patch, we’ve done a comprehensive balance pass on the Marksman. We focused on addressing a number of issues that have made the class vastly over-powered in comparison to the rest of the classes and the desired difficulty of the game. We’re also introducing our first "pets with abilities" in this patch. These pets can be found out in the Wild and offer more for brave adventurers than mere companionship. Keep an eye out for those Mysterious Eggs!


General Change List:

In-Game Mail
Characters can now send and receive mail from any other character, including characters within the same account. Mail consists of text messages, and one item of any size and any amount of Palladium can be attached for delivery. Here are some of the features of the mail system.
* Mail can be read anywhere in the game via the Mail panel. This can be accessed using the Z key or using the Mail icon located underneath the chat panel.
* Items and Palladium can only be attached or removed from mail while the character is in a Station.
* Mail can be sent to any player whose name is known, regardless of whether they are online or not. You can only send mail to one character at a time or to your entire guild.
* Mail is only stored for a certain amount of time. The mail panel shows how long each message has left before it is automatically deleted. Different types of mail (such as those with attachments or unread mail) may stay in your inbox for longer or shorter periods of time.
* While you can send mail to character in a different mode (Hardcore, Elite, and Hardcore Elite) you cannot attach items or Palladium in a cross-mode email. This follows the same rules as trading items.
* You can’t mail quest items or non-tradable items (such as Dye Kits or a Skill Retrainer).

General
* Adjusted difficulty of the Nightmare endgame. Decreased the ramp of the damage penalty that players face against monsters higher than their level.
* Fields from different sources can now stack. Please note that the graphics? from new fields still override those of previous fields.
* Players must now wait 5 seconds before they can re-enter a Hellrift.
* Fixed a bug which caused weapons to disappear when swapping weapon sets in the middle of performing certain skills.
* Fixed a bug which caused the /played command to display the incorrect amount of time played.
* If a player dies during (or just before) a cut-scene begins playing or the game begins loading, the re-spawn options menu will come up after the cut-scene or loading screen is completed.
* Vendor inventories in Nightmare difficulty should now be stocked with Nightmare-level items.
* The Shock effect now deals damage immediately when it’s applied.
* Several character and monster animations have been improved.
* Fixed known Blueprint exploits.
* Fixed a bug which sometimes caused files to require unnecessary patching.
* Fixed a bug which caused the mini-game to become stuck if the player zoned to town or quit the game immediately after completing a round of the mini-game.

Stonehenge
Moloch
* The Necro Fall zone has an increased monster spawn density of approximately 25% and the monsters are now 2 levels higher than before.
* Moloch has been further increased in difficulty, as well as being more resistant to Ignite and Ignite Damage. Be sure you’re well prepared before attempting to defeat him in Hardcore Elite Mode!
* Moloch now has a chance to drop the following additional, extra-rare loot for every player who defeats him:
o 1% chance to drop an Attribute Retrainer. This item allows a character to "zero out" all points put into attributes (Accuracy, Strength, Stamina, and Willpower) and freely reassign them. These items are tradable between all players.
o 5% chance to drop one of a new class of dye kits that have intrinsic properties. These properties scale with the level of the item, so one gained from Moloch at level 50 will be better than one gained from Moloch at level 30. These dye kits are tradable between subscribers. In order of least rare to most rare:
+ Earth Core Dye Kit: Health regeneration
+ Dark Vengeance Dye Kit: + to luck
+ Indigo Fire Dye Kit: Electricity "thorns damage" effect
+ Copper Sky Dye Kit: + to all Elemental special effect defense
+ Ivory Haze Dye Kit: + to Shields
+ Vanquish Dye Kit: +1 level of Sprint skill (this does not scale)
+ Cold Steel Dye Kit: + to Armor
+ Black Knight Dye Kit: + to all attributes

The Wild
* The Wild zone has a 20% higher monster spawn.
* The Foreboding Wild zone has a 30% higher monster spawn.
* The Deepest Wild zone has a 40% higher monster spawn.
* Even more champion monsters can be found in all the Wild zones
* Champion monsters in all Wild zones have a 1-in-250 chance to drop one of six new, Unique weapons. These weapons scale with the level of the champion dropping the weapon. These weapons are tradable between subscribers.
o Convulsor - a Sniper Rifle
o The Exterminator - a Heavy Rifle
o Novastorm - a Nova Gun
o The Unyielding Moon - a Sword
o Slipnaught - a Focus Item
o Alucard’s Continuum - a Dart Pistol
* A new boss monster, The Desiccator, has a 25% chance of appearing in The Deepest Wild zone. He should be extremely hard to kill, particularly solo or in small parties. As his health constantly regenerates, there is no guarantee a party will ever be able to kill him.
* When defeated, The Desiccator has a 20% chance to drop a "Mysterious Egg."
* When placed in the Transmogrifying Cube, a Mysterious Egg will hatch into one of three new "pets with abilities". These new pets and the Mysterious Egg are not tradable. These pets are:
o Nautilus - occasionally heals all friends in range
o Revenant - occasionally fires a spectral missile at enemies
o Heap Raptor - breaks all those pesky crates for you

General Stonehenge Updates
* Essences or Caste General Heads gathered in Normal and Nightmare difficulties may now be used in either difficulty setting.
* Players may no longer exploit the essence pedestals via trading.

Monsters
* Winged Imps now lose their invulnerability earlier.
* Fixed some cases where monsters would get stuck in the ground.
* Wurm no longer spawns maggots when it dies.
* Maggots summoned by Wurm will now automatically die upon Wurm’s death.
* Fixed a bug which allowed the Wurm encounter to be exploited.
* The Lightning now looks like a giant robot as intended.

Quests
* Fixed a bug which sometimes caused collection side-quest counters to count down under certain conditions.
* Players can now drop the train part quest items for the "…All the Live Long Day" quest. Also players may no longer pick up these items if they do not have the quest active or if they already have the item.
* Any leftover blueprint items from the "Threshold" quest will now be removed.
* Players who have more than one of an un-droppable quest items now have the option to destroy all but one of these items.

User Interface / Controls
* Some UI panels have been improved.
* Fixed two bugs which caused the automap fog of war to be reset either when using a PRD or in levels with hellrifts.
* Added class and character level to the party member windows.
* Improved the /whisper and /reply interface.
* Shift-activation should now work for skills granted by items.
* The [Shift], [Ctrl], and [Alt] keys are now re-mappable, and may be set as key-modifiers.
* The [ACCEPT] button on the trade panel now greys out for 3 seconds after the trade terms are changed by either player.
* Fixed a bug which would omit some guild members in the guild member list for very large guilds.

Graphics
* Fixed an issue where backgrounds would flicker or disappear.
Graphics (DX10 Only)
* Various distortion effects have been fixed.
* Fixed a Hellrift portal graphical issue in which the image would slide inappropriately.
* Translucent models now render properly against the background.
* Particles and translucent models are no longer out of focus with the depth-of-field effect.
* Depth-of-field blur amount has been reduced and is now more subtle.
* Fixed a resource/memory leak that showed as either Page File or Commit Size growth.

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