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Paragon Chat 1.0.8 Patch Notes
Codewalker:
Patch notes for version 1.0.8
Update branch: Release
Release date: 27 Dec 2016
Events
* The Winter's Gift event has been revamped. There are many changes from the initial version.
* Powers gained from opening gifts, such as the Holiday Rocket Pack, will now persist across sessions.
* The Holiday Rocket Pack now lasts for 30 days after you receive it.
* The Snowball power lasts for 14 days after you receive it.
* The Snowball power can now be used on NPCs as well as other players.
* Two new rare reward powers added, in addition to the one that already existed (which is now a permanent reward). These three special toys can be found only in Mysterious Gifts given to you by other players. Or yourself, if you're antisocial and dual-box it.
* Candy canes can now be collected! Large boxes in the world may contain 2-4 candy canes. Small Mysterious Gifts from other players may contain 4-7 candy canes. Finally, the 'dud' gifts that only show a message now also reward 1 candy cane as a consolation prize.
* Candy canes currently do not have a function, but future plans include adding a vendor to redeem them. The most likely use of these will be to obtain the various fun toy powers if you don't receive one from opening a gift. Getting a Snowball off-season (or perhaps a permanent one) is another idea under consideration.
* The Snowball power now has a small chance of being found in the present boxes scattered around the world, rather than only in Mysterious Gifts. Mysterious Gifts from other players still have a much higher chance of containing a snowball and are a more reliable way to get one. Being hit by other players' snowballs enough times is another way to obtain it.
* As the protocol for synchronizing powers has changed in this version, the Holiday Cheer power to give a gift to a player now requires that the target be running Paragon Chat 1.0.8 or higher. If you try to use it on a player running an older version, it will fail with an Invalid Target error to prevent you from wasting a charge on someone who cannot receive the gift.
* Reduced the interaction time required to open present boxes in the world.
As the first week did not include any kind of persistence, for this year only the event has been extended to run through January 15, 2017. Subsequent years will run on the normal schedule of December 7 through January 6.Powers
* A basic powers system has been added to centralize the standard behavior of powers rather than implementing everything ad-hoc.
The power effects are still hardcoded, but the structure for things like range and target checks, how powers are added, etc. has been unified and a number of assumptions removed.
The new system has many features designed to make powers feel more like actual in-game powers behaved, such as:
* Power queuing
* Recharge
* Flexible toggle groups
* Ability to disable specific powers (needed for the rocket board and friends)
* Persistence of power ownership across sessions
* Powers with a usage count
* Time-limited powers
* A standardized system for synchronizing power effects over XMPP without having to write a custom protocol for every power.
Patch notes for version 1.0.8.1
Update branch: Release
Release date: 29 Dec 2016
Events
* Fixed an issue where opening a present would rarely show "You cannot enter" instead of the correct message.
* Fixed a bug preventing spawn state of presents from being remembered through map changes.
* Reduced the respawn timer on presents from 10 minutes to 5.
* Properly clear spawn point lookup table when zoning. This should prevent the occasional cases of presents randomly floating in midair.Powers
* New travel power: Teleport. The new powers system was a big step towards a working Teleport, though it still took a few more enhancements to it (as well as the animation system) to make it happen.
NOTE: Teleport in Paragon Chat works slightly different than the retail game. Instead of 4 seconds of a forced hover, after teleporting, you remain in dimensional flux, motionless and unaffected by gravity for 10 seconds. Attempting to move will break the flux early and drop you to the ground.
Stitchified:
I never really got into the Winter Event back when CoH was live, but I still enjoyed it to an extent, granted, I was only like 8 at the time, so it was more surprising that I was even playing a Mastermind rather well.
On a semi related note, The sound you hear when you're close to a Present is making me long for missions.
Now on a related note, thank you for all the work you've done CW (and anyone else who may have helped him, if anyone did).
Nyghtshade:
CodeWalker, this is So Much More than I thought possible for the Winter Event. Thank you tremendously!!
Pengy:
Pretty fun!
Also, I got two gifts that had a "You Cannot Enter" in them.
Kassandros:
Amazing! Got hit by a snowball which I never thought would happen again.
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