January 10, 2012
New Game Feature[]
Research & Development[]
Players are granted a new mission at Level 10 – Look for 'Research & Development' in your Mission Journal.
R&D Workstations and Vendors are located in the following locations*Hall of Doom, JLA Watchtower, Burnley and Midtown Nightclubs, Midtown and Diamond District Police Stations.
R&D parts including Exobits, Exobytes, Plans, Focusing Elements and Salvageable items can be found throughout DC Universe Online.
Player Pet Improvement[]
Summoned Player Pet stats now scale with its owner's combat rating making it more effective and viable in combat situations.
General[]
- Fixed an issue where players would not be returned to their last location when using the Batcave Teleporters inside the JLA Watchtower and Hall of Doom.
- Projectile based attacks should now reliably travel 25m, rather than occasionally falling short or going long.
- Multiple collection nodes have been lowered to be in reach by non-flying characters.
- The Defender's Compartment Trinket buffs are now correctly affected by their cool down.
- The Speedforce Rift that was directly underneath the Gotham Otisburg Adept Flight Challenge has been moved further away so it will not interfere with this challenge.
- The Catwoman race path has been adjusted so all players can fit through each race ring.
- Fixed an issue that could cause player combat rating to not update when receiving an item from a loot bauble.
- The Barbarian style belt is now available to everyone.
Alerts[]
Ace Chemicals[]
- Fixed an issue causing the doors to close too early on the security waves. The doors will now remain open until the security NPC's are engaged.
- There is now a short delay before the Scorecard appears after defeating Chemo.
Area 51[]
Assist Cadmus Agents with Munitions:
- Cadmus Agents should no longer have memory issues if you have already spoken with them once.
Kahndaq[]
- Players with Telekinesis Abilities can now affect the Rigid Bodies in this instance.
Duos[]
- The OMAC Base and Cape Carmine Lighthouse Duos now update the correct amount for the feats Duos Rookie, Expert, Master, Dynamo and Dynamic.
- Fixed Joyous Musical Balls to fire in a slow half-dome rather than shoot straight up into the air in the open area of the boss-fight room.
Feats[]
- New Feats have been added for the DLC 'Lightning Strikes' content to bring the possible skill points in-line with the previous DLC, 'Fight for the Light'.
Missions[]
- The door will now open when the 'Report to Flash' bulletin appears even if you are KO'd at the same time as Grodd.
- The Minotaur no longer returns after he has been defeated.
- Players that have finished the main quest line are now able to return and receive the Glutton Form to finish the side quest.
Raven's Destiny
- Fixed an issue where players could become gated due to the console that grants access to the rest of the Police Station de-spawning.
Party Time!
Marketplace[]
- When a player respecs to Light powers the Light power Ring VFX will appear on the player's hand immediately instead of appearing only after logout or after zoning.
Powers[]
- Updated the remaining tree descriptions for controllers to say they receive 100% Dominance when in Control Role.
- You will now see blue fly text reporting Power restoration effects instigated from super abilities and consumables.
- You will now see damage caused by your pets reported as orange fly text.
- You will now see damage taken by your pets reported as purple fly text.
- Your pet's damage, healing and power contributions are now credited to your score card at the end of instances and arena matches.
Electricity[]
- Bio-Capacitor and Invigorate will now properly heal group members when their health falls below 35%.
- Bio-Capacitor will now properly heal you and a teammate.
- Voltaic Bolt will now properly apply a de-buff to characters in the Tank Role when you are in Healer Role.
- Group Transducer's description was updated to reflect that it can damage attacking enemies.
- Invigorate's heal over time effect will no longer stack with multiple uses.
- Electrogenesis: Updated the description to be clearer about target types.
Gadgets[]
- The tooltip for Anesthetic now states the correct supercharge cost.
- Shortened the animation time on Neural Neutralizer
Mental[]
- Grandeur and Reflect Pain now correctly prevent damage roughly equal 100% of your Dominance and 50% of your Restoration.
Nature[]
- Using abilities in Insectoid Form will apply the standard Healing role anti-Tank de-buffs in PvP.
Sorcery[]
- Updated the Watcher, Fury, and Guardian pet to more consistently attack the last enemy you attacked.
User Interface[]
Map UI
- Street view mode: Street view mode now zooms in smoothly and fixed an issue with missing tiles.
- The Player icon now appears as green.
Inventory UI
- The Stack splitting UI will now always appear in the correct position when using a game controller.
- Stack splitting can now be initiated by holding SHIFT and clicking on a stack of items.
- Individual items can now be picked up from a stack by holding CTRL and clicking on a stack of items.
Visual[]
- Midtown Police Station: The police in Midtown Metropolis have come to the realization that the new pipes they added to their column near the holding cells were placed right on top of a wanted poster. They decided it was easier to move the wanted poster to another face of the column.
- Icons are now smoother and less aliased!
- The officials at Stryker's Island Prison have begun a long term renovation to the basic structure of the facility. The base structure is more durable to deal with the increased power levels of the inmates.
- The display time for the win/lose duel icons that appear above players heads has been reduced.