Update 7/06/2009

[Max]

At 7:00AM EST on Monday July 6, Nova TC was taken offline for a regular revision update. The following changes were made:


Numerous Updates to Swordsman skills and a Fencer Animation for Pre-CU accuracy
Added Padded and Ubese armor sets to the bluefrogs
Minor spawn changes around the galaxy
Updated Armor and weapon stats on the bluefrogs to reflect a more accurate 14.1 combat experience
Other minor fixes


Cheers! Enjoy!

EDIT PS: Thanks to Valkyra for performing all these fixes :)

[BigEvil]

Oiling the machine. Thanks always to all the dev staff.

Hope ya'll had a good holiday. :)

[Rodd]

I have to say, I was expecting nothing prior to the object restructure... so a wipe and a fix in one week = awesome... keep it up team!!!!

[djolovicl]

Omg!!! Omg!!! Omg!!! Great update!!!!

Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!

[Raven118]

YES!!!!!!! woot! an armor revamp i love u guys forever!!!!!!!!!

[Valkyra]

You're all very welcome. :)

And, there's a lot more for players to discover that was changed, too. :)

[xavia]

Thanks for the update!

[Tolbat]

<3 you Valkyra!!

Thx for the update Max, and to all who contributed!!!!!

Tol

[odwill]

<3 Valk for the Swordsman lovin!! Keep up the great work team!

[eddy696969]

/shout Amazing job, it feels more and more like the real thing!!
Sorry that i am shouting but i am sooooo excited here!!!:d

[TommyG]

Phenominal!!! What an unexpected surprise :D

Thank you all for everything you do to help us relive preCU.

[wrathofryft]

I can't wait to test out the new melee weapons! Thank you so much for this, Valkyra!

[emperoranubis]

Awesome!

[MarfeJokin]

Thanks for the updates fellas! Keep up the great work! :)

[PyrateLV]

Nice

1 thing though. This update stole my pants! Logged in and they were gone!

Also a question Ive been wondering. By "bluefrogs" do you mean the Gungan? Or are there bluefrogs like on SOE SWG:TC that I can get items from? If so where are they?

[djolovicl]

Nice

1 thing though. This update stole my pants! Logged in and they were gone!

Also a question Ive been wondering. By "bluefrogs" do you mean the Gungan? Or are there bluefrogs like on SOE SWG:TC that I can get items from? If so where are they?

Blue Frogs are Gungans to the left and right of the Theed Star port, one is in the med center, and one near the imperial recruiter, there is also a Zabrak bartender in Theed cantina. On Tatooine in Anchorhead near the shuttle port there are two or three jawas they to are Blue Frogs and finally on Corellia in Coronet there is one Bartender Blue Frog in front of the Star Port, and one in cantina.

I hope this helps.

[KroniK]

Sweet! Thanks for the update and thank you valk for doing them. Keep up the astounding work team.

[Joshino]

cheers valk.

[inyri]

*Inyri licks Valkyra.

Good updates. :)

[TommyG]

You're all very welcome. :)

And, there's a lot more for players to discover that was changed, too. :)

Man, that is like a brutal Kiddo-cliffhanger...a lot more???

[wookiesniper]

Way to go Valkyra! :)

[Exor]

Thank you, it was a good update !

[AlphaDawg]

Awesome stuff!! Thankx!!!

[Klay]

Much thanks ^^

Seeing everyone run around in the same armor was getting less and less appealing to my eyes.

Closer and closer to the end product..Keep it up.

[MrBlonde]

mmmm Updates

[Valkyra]

Man, that is like a brutal Kiddo-cliffhanger...a lot more???

More like kiddo than you think ;)

[EVILJUDE]

You're all very welcome. :)

And, there's a lot more for players to discover that was changed, too. :)

oooo..mystery.....

frickin sweet devs!

[Exo_Icto]

Also noticed the encumbrance bug is gone or at least doesn't work with the Ubese and Padded. Good job! Also, interesting choice going from 35% to 70% resists lol

[BigEvil]

Also noticed the encumbrance bug is gone or at least doesn't work with the Ubese and Padded. Good job! Also, interesting choice going from 35% to 70% resists lol

nice

[Chayn]

Thanks Valkyra... only a Rebel could be so cool...

nothing against Imps... you guys are just nifty tho... :D

[RedheartTempest]

sweet thanks for the updates!!!!

[Rodd]

Man, that is like a brutal Kiddo-cliffhanger...a lot more???

Haha the "Kiddo-Cliffhanger" thats classic!!

[S-Guy]

Omg!!! Omg!!! Omg!!! Great update!!!!

Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!

What he said! Ubese armor = Awesome. :D

[Diehomey!]

This is a boatload of updates, thanks Valk!

[WWhermit]

This should really go into the server-wipe thread from 7/4, but we can't keep up with your progress, so I'll put it here.

Created a couple characters last night, had them sampling and running around. I experienced no rubberbanding, which is awesome. When crafting, there is now experimentation...again, and best of all for surveyors, the resource tree is displayed on the survey tools! Yay!

Thanks guys, can't say enough about all your hard work. We all appreciate it very much!

WWhermit

[Joshino]

And, there's a lot more for players to discover that was changed, too. :)

The ewok valentines day nge gifts and npvc's ? :O

[AZIronman]

Epicz!!!

[trixoxic]

WOOH!! Ubese Armor is my favorite.:D

[dedaskalion]

yay

[Joshuaa]

Thanks valk

[Dialgo]

Awesome! I love updates! Keep em coming! You guys rock!

[dizmull]

aewsome update emu team

[Dishy]

about time! maybe people will stop running around in composite

[RedheartTempest]

Dishy...you got two posts........how long do you want us to believe you were testing for?


sheeesh......And who said something about ewok love gifts? DONT TAKE IT!!!! The fur will still be coming out of your rea.....well...never mind....you will learn....hehehe

[Ekowraith]

It's great to see new stuff occasionally during the Object Restructure. :) Thanks for this, Valkyra.

[axeman47]

OMG UBESE?
/crap pants

[Fedora]

Hey everyone, sorry to have been such a stranger for the past month or so. I'm back now - a little birdie told me some pretty unbelievable things about this new update and I was motivated to get back online a.s.a.p.

Needless to say, I don't regret it. Let me throw out a classic "keep up teh good work, guyz" to the devs here...come on fellas. Last leg of the race.

[Tropicana]

I'm not quite sure if this would be the "feedback" thread for this update, so if it is not, then feel free to move it.

First off, I'd like to thank all the staff for the new armor, and for fixing the resource spawns, and the survey tools, everything is working great. (I apologize for not applauding the various other things you have tweaked, I have yet to have time to test them)

There are a few things I have noticed that have gone arye since the update, however.

Yes, the new armor will undoubtedly feel more like Pre-CU, and fights will last longer, unless you have a stun weapon, and then it just doesn't matter. With the implementation of the new armor, people are simply running over to the gungans, and picking up Pistoleer, Rifleman, or Fencer to settle their disputes. (and for the most part, that is ALL they are using)

I was able to hit people in PvP with a PH (occasionally), but TKM is still the end-all in pvp for melee until the bugs are fixed, and the appropriate defenses work as they are suppose to...which brings me to my next point.

Myself, and a friend went out to go try out some NS, since afterall, the update gave us 90% armor, so Elders should be possible now...right? Wrong.

I am not sure if new loot tables (other than white weapons with worse-than-gungan stats, decorations, and credits) are something that will come with the Restructure, or if NS just have a horrible ratio of decent drops, but I noticed that all they drop are the above.

Anyway, as I was saying, myself, and a friend went out to go fight NS, and we found an elder. I was a near-defense-capped swordsman stacker, with Mbrawler, and he was a swordsman/MD. It literally took us over an hour to almost kill the elder, but our buffs ran out, and we ended up dying.

The points I would like to bring up are that, for some reason, I began to do less damage as the fight persisted. (No, my weapon wasn't low dura, and no I was not stunned or intim, I just started doing 100-200 less dmg as she began to near her death) Also, as the exact same spec, I was hitting less often now, with a PH, than I was before the update, again, I accounted for the times I was stunned, and intim, and I overlooked those occasions. Overall, it is still ridiculously hard to kill a NS elder, and that is not how it was Pre-CU. Yes, I know I was using a 407dmg PH, but that is more than enough to get an elder down in less than an HOUR.

I am assuming states, and their defenses are being worked on, but as a side note, I would like to mention that our defense vs posture change does nothing against NS (and various other npcs), I was kd'd 3 times in a row, and I was posture changed down over 5 times in less than 10 seconds. I vividly remember being able to KD/dizzy ANY humanoid in the game (with the acceptation of Corvette, DWB, and 'boss' npcs.) And NS, and other npcs just aren't effected by those states.

I am sure all of the above are being worked on/fixed in a timely fashion, I am just sharing some info about my experience.

[Ekowraith]

/crap pants

i'm so glad that's not a real command

[S-Guy]

"I swear, the text was gone when I got here!" - S-Guy*

Ooh. Orange text. Fancy. :)

[Sirius]

Yes, the new armor will undoubtedly feel more like Pre-CU, and fights will last longer, unless you have a stun weapon, and then it just doesn't matter. With the implementation of the new armor, people are simply running over to the gungans, and picking up Pistoleer, Rifleman, or Fencer to settle their disputes. (and for the most part, that is ALL they are using)

This is exactly how pvp was in pre-cu. They were called flavor of the month (fotm) templates, most being a defense stacking, stun weapon wielding combination. That is not to say that there weren't exceptions, you'd occasionally come across a very talented swordsman or carbineer(very occasionally, like benjai starlighter for those chilastra peoples that would remember him) that invested heavily in capping out their stats and the absolute best weapons and armor they could buy spending billions of credits on their characters.

Almost all of the rest of your observations are being looked at in the current code restructure and will be tested upon it's completion.

This update doesn't make the game perfect, we just wanted to let you all have fun while the restructure is being done and testing is a little slower.

[Tothix]

*Inyri licks Valkyra.

Good updates. :)

Ohh.

Thats hawt.

Great job!

[bongandbeer]

I have to say, I was expecting nothing prior to the object restructure... so a wipe and a fix in one week = awesome... keep it up team!!!!

just what came to my mind,.....

awesome surprise =D

edit:

You're all very welcome. :)

And, there's a lot more for players to discover that was changed, too. :)

i love lil secrets
TELL ME TELL ME!

[Tropicana]

This is exactly how pvp was in pre-cu. They were called flavor of the month (fotm) templates, most being a defense stacking, stun weapon wielding combination. That is not to say that there weren't exceptions, you'd occasionally come across a very talented swordsman or carbineer(very occasionally, like benjai starlighter for those chilastra peoples that would remember him) that invested heavily in capping out their stats and the absolute best weapons and armor they could buy spending billions of credits on their characters.

Almost all of the rest of your observations are being looked at in the current code restructure and will be tested upon it's completion.

This update doesn't make the game perfect, we just wanted to let you all have fun while the restructure is being done and testing is a little slower.

Yes, FoTM was very prevalent Pre-CU, but it took time to grind out your template, and you had to be either highly skilled, or very rich to accomplish what people are doing in 2 minutes on the TC. It is, afterall, a TC, so I guess it is something I will just have to get used to, but it is bothersome nonetheless.

[slyyke]

You're all very welcome. :)

And, there's a lot more for players to discover that was changed, too. :)

please elaborate or at least give us hints :D

[Ekowraith]

Maybe the five Jedi running around today had something to do with Valkyra's changes.

[Klay]

Maybe the five Jedi running around today had something to do with Valkyra's changes.

Thats what I said.

I guess we'll just have to figure it out on our own.:|

[Sharp2255]

Thats what I said.

I guess we'll just have to figure it out on our own.:|


I did not see this?:?

[Varanis Black]

This update doesn't make the game perfect, we just wanted to let you all have fun while the restructure is being done and testing is a little slower.

Any and all updates are verry much appreciated!
We know you all are working hard and doing your best!!:cool:

I cant wait to do some CH testing after the restructure and when you guys decide to reimplement it:cool:

[Wen Talross]

Christmas in July!! :D

Like the classical saying! Marvellous work, congratulations and a big hoorah! :) Above and beyond reproach, and highly commendable. Releasing this while object restructure is a welcome gift, I'm sure the majority of people are happy for such an epic gesture ;)

[Leoron]

anyone know when the server is gonna to shut down for maintenance again?

[djolovicl]

anyone know when the server is gonna to shut down for maintenance again?

No one can answer that question.

[Leoron]

looks like its down right now

[Zethariel]

Any idea for how long?

[Leoron]

until they post anything, your guesse is as good as mine

[djolovicl]

Its down until it goes up.

Don't ask about server status.