Release notes/20170314

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General

• The Temporal Transponder now functions.
  • Players will now be able to receive rewards through tasks completed by their 23rd Century Captain.
  • Open the Temporal Transponder which was earned once the 23rd Century captain after completing the episode “The Battle of Caleb IV”.
  • Tasks completed by the 23rd Century captain will grants rewards for all characters on an account.
• Resolved an issue where the turn rate was too slow on some ships notably, the Escort ships.
• “Echoes of Light” is now a level 60 episode found in the New Frontiers tab of the episode journal.
• Carrier Ship Fighters:
  • Resolved an issue where carrier fighters would become unresponsive when too far away from the player’s ship.
  • Reduced the follow distance when using full impulse so these better keep up with the player's ship.
  • Increased the docking range for carrier pets.
  • This prevents them from stalling during docking.
• “Researcher Rescue” can now be replayed by 23rd Century Captains.
• Resolved a few issues involving ship separation powers.
• 23rd Century Bridge Officers now have animations on the character select screen.
• Improves the lighting on a number of bridges which were too light or dark.
• Adjusted timing of cutscenes in Procyon 5 so audio does not play over each other.

UI

• Added 3 new categories in the menu options that separate some features to more easily find:
  • Duty Officers at level 11
    • Duty Officers
    • Admiralty
    • Research and Development
  • End game at level 50
    • Specializations
    • Reputation
    • PVE Queues
  • Fleet
    • Fleet
    • Fleet Holdings
    • Armada
    • Find a Fleet
  • These menu items will continue to be located at their previous locations as well.
• There’s now a “Change Outfit” option in the Standard Actions section of the Captain Commands window.
  • Player will need at least 2 outfits to see this option.
• A new category titled Projects has been added to the Captain Commands windows and will allow quick access to:
  • Duty Officers
  • Crafting
  • Reputation
  • Admiralty
• Added a button to disable ship equip visuals on ships.
• Added a button to disable holstered weapon visuals on captains.
• Resolved an issue that prevented the "Claim Item" button of the popup from working.
• Added a display for Temporary Hit points.
• Resolved an issue where shield percentage would report as 100% when it was actually 0%.

Systems

• Resolved an issue where Graviton Spike would not trigger if the player’s shot killed the target.
• Resolved an issue where Delphic Antiproton Beam Arrays would not fire Beam Overload 1's.
• Resolved an issue where Invincible could fail to apply immediately after Continuity had activated if both were equipped.
• Resolved a typo in the Heavy Phaser Assault Platform console's description.
• Resolved an issue where the 23rd century Medical tricorder was not available for use after upgrading.
• Resolved an issue where the "FireTorps" and "FirePhasersTorps" commands were not firing the Bio-Neural Warhead Launcher.
• Aegis Set Bonuses:
  • Resolved an issue where the 2 piece bonus Energy Negation never proc’d.
  • Resolved an issue where the 3 piece active power "Energy Feedback Conductor" did not appear on the power list.
• Quantum Singularity Manipulation, Romulan T5 active Reputation Power, can no longer show up as the default power in the Science Radial.
  • It now has a 3rd auto-execute condition, "Power auto-executes when your target is Cruiser rank or higher".
• Tractor Beam Repulsors now indicates that its damage ignores shields.
  • This is a tooltip change only.
• Feedback Pulse now has a more accurate description.