Release notes/20180306c

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New Features

New Featured Episode: Scylla and Charybdis

• The new Featured Episode “Scylla and Charybdis” has been added to the Featured Episode tab in the journal.
• Travel to the Alpha Quadrant and await a hail from command to take the offensive against the Tzenkethi!
• This episode is available for level 10 Captains and above.
• For more information, please visit the “Scylla and Charybdis” blog at: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/xbox/star-trek-online/news/detail/10816594

Re-Engineering

• Re-Engineering gives the ability for players to re-roll some mods in order to craft and modify certain pieces of Equipment to greater satisfaction.
• A new resource has been added to the game to make this system work: Salvage.
  • Salvage is rewarded to Captains from salvaging equipment obtained from loot drops.
  • Salvaging a piece of equipment will destroy it and reward an amount of Salvage based on the equipment’s Mark and Quality.
  • Salvage cannot be traded between characters.
    • The amount of Salvage the captain possesses may be viewed on the Assets tab of the inventory.
• The cost of Re-Engineering a piece of equipment will be dependent on how many available mods the player has chosen to unlock.
  • The overall price to randomize increases with each mod that is unlocked, but the cost-per-mod goes down.
    • This translates as a cost efficiency bonus, at the cost of additional randomization.
• For more details, please visit the Re-Engineering blog at: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/playstation/star-trek-online/news/detail/10817144

General

• All Anniversary Ship Event Reputation Projects from past years have had their inputs updated to require 8th Anniversary Prize Vouchers.
  • If a player still have ship projects from previous years slotted, you may participate in this year's event to complete those projects, or cancel them to make room for this year's project.
  • Buyout packages may also be purchased using Lobi Crystals.
• Loadouts:
  • The player will now be able to see which loadout was saved or loaded last.
  • Reduced loadout save load times to 5 seconds.
• Weapons and Bridge Officer Powers no longer automatically slot onto a player’s power tray.
• Resolved an issue where players could not use item quick equip from other ships and the bank when in the Suliban or Freighter ship interiors.
• Added system traffic to the Risa System including Risian Luxury Cruisers and Risian Corvettes.
• Resolved a typo in the reward scoreboard for the Undine Planetkiller in the Dyson Sphere Voth Space Battlezone.

Content

• The Episode “Beyond the Nexus” has been moved to the New Frontiers arc before “Melting Pot” for Federation and Federation Aligned Romulan Captains.
• Fleet Colony Holding:
  • Fleet Colony: Attaining Tier 5 in the Main Colony Track now grants all members of a Fleet access to the Lukari Dranuur Scout Ship [T6].
    • For more information, please see our blog: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10779924
  • Resolved an issue where logging out then back in near the mine would place the player outside the playable area.
  • Non-Fleet Members can no longer start the Lukari Fleet Invasion.
• K-13 fleet holding:
  • Added special duty officer assignment to K-13 station, to survey the Draconis system for useful minerals.
    • Success awards energy credits and dilithium ore; critical success also awards K-13 fleet provisions.
    • The lieutenant handling these assignments is outside of the office in the main central area.
    • Assignments become available immediately upon reaching Tier 1 in the full K-13 holding
• Resolved an issue which caused inconsistent countdown timers to appear for PvE queues in certain circumstances.

Systems

• Fleet Colony Items:
  • Amount of Shield Healing from Elite Fleet Phaser space weapons increased to ~300% previous value
  • Amount of Shield and Hull Healing from Elite Colony space weapons has been completely rescaled.
    • Values previously present were the result of a bug caused by incorrect mathematical scaling.
  • All Elite Fleet Phaser and Elite Colony Space weapons now correctly proc once per cycle, instead of per shot.
  • Added a missing damage buff to Elite Colony space weapons
    • Included with special proc, since it replaces a [MOD] that would otherwise be present.
• Resolved an issue that caused the EWS and EAS modifiers to indicate they had a 1% chance to proc instead of 2%.
  • This is a display change only
• Resolved an issue that caused the EWS and EAS modifiers to indicate they gave +10 power instead of +15.
  • This is a display change only.
• Increased the duration of the procs from the EWS and EAS modifiers to 10 seconds from 5 seconds.
• Resolved an issue that would cause EWS, WAS, and CON modifiers to proc at about 20% of the intended rate.
• Increased the chance of the CON proc to 2% for consistency with the EWS and WAS procs.
• Resolved an issue that caused the EAS modifier to grant a boost to Weapon power instead of Auxiliary Power.
• Set emission-seeking torpedoes to be invalid targets for AoE attacks such as Fire at Will and Torpedo Spread since they can't be shot down anyway.
• Collective Static Grenade: Bridge Officers should now only use these grenades against Borg.
  • Message when thrown by a Bridge Officer should now read "Static grenade out!”
• Resolved an issue that would allow the [DoT3] weapon modifier to kill friendly personnel in some cases.
• The Duty Officer that used to boost Hull Regeneration out of Combat now always boosts Hull Regeneration.
  • In addition, the amount of Hull Regeneration provided has been significantly increased.
• Resolved an issue that caused Mental Discipline's recharge to be longer than indicated on its tooltip.
• Resolved an issue that prevented the Predictive Algorithms Starship Trait from activating off of Energy Weapons: Reroute Reserves to Weapons or Energy Weapons: Exceed Rated Limits.
• Resolved an issue where having a Vorgon Ryn’kodan Carrier commissioned would cause Tier 5 ships and some Tier 6 ships to gain double scaling from some skills.
• Resolved an issue that caused the Layered Defense Strategist Passive to make the player constantly immune to torpedo damage until hit by a kinetic torpedo.
  • It now will correctly start its lockout upon being hit by any torpedo.
• Resolved an issue that would cause the Console - Universal - Heavy Particle Focuser Array to frequently fail to deal damage when activated at long ranges.
• Resolved an issue that would cause the Defensive Drone Guardians to display level up effects.
• Resolved an issue that prevented the Lukari Piezo-Electric Wrist Apparatus from being affected by the Pistol Training or Mental Acuity traits.
• Resolved an issue that caused the Equipment Diagnostics kit module to get worse as its mark increased.
• Resolved an issue that prevented a few sources of +Torpedo Damage to not affect Energy Torpedoes.
• The Temporal Fracture set bonus's hold only lasts half as long versus players
• Updated the Nausicaan Weaponry Augmentation Set Bonus's description to be more accurate.
  • This is a tooltip change only.
• Resolved an issue where numerous carrier pets were labeled with the wrong quality.
  • This is just a text change.
• All Experimental Weapons are free to upgrade to MK XII
• All Experimental Weapons on ships and in reclaim stores are now obtained at MK X
  • They were previously obtained at MK XII
  • This resolved the issue where a player could commission ships with Experimental Weapons Slots at level 40 and be unable to use an Experimental Weapon until level 45.
• Resolved an issue that could cause ground mines to detonate several times on the same target.
• Resolved an issue that prevented Causal Reversion from activating the Directed Energy Flux Starship Trait.
• The Particle Emission Plasma Torpedo can now obtain crafting-only modifiers when initially crafted.
• The TR-116B Rifle can now obtain crafting-only modifiers when initially crafted.
• Resolved an issue that caused the Starfleet, Romulan, and Klingon Experimental Environmental Suits (c. 2293) to slowly drain the player’s health over time.
• Resolved an issue that prevented Overwhelm Emitters from being consistently treated as a shield drain ability.
• The Introspection Personal Trait now only plays FX while in combat.
• The "Furiadon Fangs" have undergone a slight re-design.
  • Stacks of "Momentum" now last for 25 seconds instead of 10 seconds.
  • The secondary attack now consumes 2 "Momentum" stacks instead of 3.
  • The tertiary attack now grants 5 "Momentum" stacks in addition to a heal if it's used to kill a foe.
• Tholian Captains' Web Mines now deal Radiation damage instead of Proton, and have had their base damage reduced to approximately 25% of previous values.
• Resolved an issue that caused some Wide Arc Dual Heavy Cannons to be obtained with the incorrect default modifiers.
  • Existing items will not be changed, but cannot interact with Re-Engineering.
  • Newly crafted Wide Arc Dual Heavy Cannons will correctly have the [Acc] [Arc] [Dmg] modifiers when obtained at Very Rare quality and can interact with Re-Engineering.
• Resolved an issue that allowed the Experimental Flak Shot Artillery to target cloaked enemies.
• Updating Tractor Beam Mines to claim they tractor things and not chase things.
• Updated the Turtle Starship Trait's icon
• Resolved an issue where the Turtle Starship Trait would activate at full throttle.
• Gravitic Induction Platform is now Immune to Warp Core Breaches.
• Resolved an issue that allowed Emitter Synergy to activate twice on some abilities.
• Powerboards and Floaters can now be used from the player’s inventory.
• Resolved an issue that prevented the Staff of Landru and Soothing Pheromones kit modules from being treated as control kit modules in some cases.
• Resolved an issue that prevented Automated Adrenal Hypo from being treated as a heal.
• Resolved an issue where Expedient Care and Expedient Repairs are currently not functioning as expected.
• Resolved an issue that prevented the Going the Extra Mile Starship Trait from increasing the effectiveness of Bridge Officer or Captain * Shield Heals.
• Resolved an issue that prevented the Resolute or Fleet Resolute from activating Subspace Interception.
• Resolved an issue that could cause the Automated Aggression Starship Trait to activate multiple times from some bridge officer abilities.
• Concentrate Firepower's free high yield no longer takes precedence over any torpedo firing mode, and no longer prevents you from activating any torpedo firing mode while available to fire.
• Resolved an issue where the Kentari Missile Launcher's High Yield would not give the player the Concentrate Firepower buff.
• Resolved an issue that caused Concentrate Firepower to show an incorrect debuff duration.