Client Patch Notes - R55 (Live 6/9)

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  • danikalil
    danikalil Posts: 502
    morgh wrote:
    KevinMark wrote:
    ZenBrillig wrote:
    Some people have reported not seeing any change. So it's not necessarily that easy.
    It's nearing the end of the PvE event. I always get either Deadly or Hard nodes in any PvE when it's close to its ending. What I'm trying to say is the patch might not be related to the scaling some people have been seeing.
    Be serious... one minute it's 180 and after you update the client it's 270 (+other nodes gaining a proportionate amount of levels)...

    It's definitely the patch. I updated my IPad, but not the IPod. Now in my IPad the C. Mags/Hood is 269/270, and in my IPod it's 141/141.
  • morgh
    morgh Posts: 539 Critical Contributor
    It now also gives a pretty big advantage to people without updated client ;-P
  • kilgarin
    kilgarin Posts: 57 Match Maker
    Just had my game crash mid battle in the Maggia event which, of course, lead to hurt team members. Play with caution!
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    Posts before updating: 'thanks D3 for removing the skip tax! Yay, you're listening to us!'

    Posts after updating: 'you are tinikittied in the head! my scaling has doubled! fix this tinykitty!'

    Glad to see all of the patches going through such thorough QA cycles icon_e_smile.gif
  • kidicarus
    kidicarus Posts: 420 Mover and Shaker
    Bowgentle wrote:
    Posts before updating: 'thanks D3 for removing the skip tax! Yay, you're listening to us!'

    Posts after updating: 'you are tinikittied in the head! my scaling has doubled! fix this tinykitty!'

    Glad to see all of the patches going through such thorough QA cycles icon_e_smile.gif

    I'm on steam but I have not received the R55 patch although I did receive a data set upgrade. According to the title page i'm on R54.0.CL206437, Data 210915.0.210915.0 Live. The community announcements do mention R55 as already out so there's that.

    Question: Does removing the skip tax from retaliations equate to not reducing the victory bonus in the new patch? I just tried skipping a retaliation and that reduced my victory bonus to +20.

    Also mag/hood are lvl 194/195 on business partners so I apparently have received the scaling bump.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    kidicarus wrote:
    I'm on steam but I have not received the R55 patch although I did receive a data set upgrade. According to the title page i'm on R54.0.CL206437, Data 210915.0.210915.0 Live. The community announcements do mention R55 as already out so there's that.

    Question: Does removing the skip tax from retaliations equate to not reducing the victory bonus in the new patch? I just tried skipping a retaliation and that reduced my victory bonus to +20.

    Also mag/hood are lvl 194/195 on business partners so I apparently have received the scaling bump.
    You still have the skip tax, because you're at R54. I'm on Steam, same here. Afraid to update but then again I already have Magneto/Hood at 301/302.
  • Shadow
    Shadow Posts: 155
    Bowgentle wrote:
    Posts before updating: 'thanks D3 for removing the skip tax! Yay, you're listening to us!'

    Posts after updating: 'you are tinikittied in the head! my scaling has doubled! fix this tinykitty!'

    Glad to see all of the patches going through such thorough QA cycles icon_e_smile.gif

    Actually, I think the scaling was pushed out rather than through client update. I saw the scaling increase even without updating the client. Died a couple of times and it lowered back to what it was previously.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Nothing to report scaling wise as I havent played yet today but i am a little confused as to what the Modern Hawkeye change actually does. I thought Hawkeye's Avoid ability made him jump to the back not the front and i always saw the problem with AoE abilities being that he Avoided them by jumping to the back and that should not happen as they already affect the back person just the same. So what does this actually change about him?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Pretty damn happy about everything else though, good set of changes.

    Apart from the scaling increase obviously, that sucks for everybody.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Just logged into MPQ on my iPad on R55, and my cMags/Hood node is at 287 or so. When I log in on my phone, which is still on R54, the same node is at level 187. That's fairly obvious proof that the patch is screwing with scaling. I think I'll still to playing on my phone until they sort this **** out.

    Typical D3 though, they put out what looks like a nice little patch, but can't even test it properly and they end up breaking a PvE event less than 2 days before the finish. If there was an award for incompetence these guys would win every time.
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    The PACman wrote:
    Pretty damn happy about everything else though, good set of changes.

    Apart from the scaling increase obviously, that sucks for everybody.
    No, it doesn't suck (as much) for the people who actually heard about it before patching. They get to leapfrog ahead, while we kill our personal scaling pulling out stuff like Cmags in order to just (try to) keep up
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    IceIX wrote:
    - Ares (Dark Avengers): Sunder
      - The Countdown tile will now properly disappear when Ares falls in battle due to using this ability.

    MPQ updated to R55 on my iPad this morning (GMT/UTC +10), and I have had this Ares bug happen to me twice since then. Both times were in the PvE with Ares on the opposing team. He killed himself when using Sunder, yet the tile was placed and stayed anyway. The first match was almost over so the tile was irrelevant. I lost the 2nd match because of the bugged tile, instead of winning it like I was set to before the tile appeared (I was aiming for a win that would minimise scaling).

    I haven't played enough PvP to see if Ares still has this bug when part of my team, or if it's only when he's an opponent. But either way : PLEASE FIX THIS BUG.

    Thanks!
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Spoit wrote:
    The PACman wrote:
    Pretty damn happy about everything else though, good set of changes.

    Apart from the scaling increase obviously, that sucks for everybody.
    No, it doesn't suck (as much) for the people who actually heard about it before patching. They get to leapfrog ahead, while we kill our personal scaling pulling out stuff like Cmags in order to just (try to) keep up
    I am offended at that icon_e_biggrin.gif Thanks to not knowing ahead, I started grinding early like a lil diligent girl, even was top 40 two times after subs ending. Then meter filled, I had lvl 255 Magneto/Hood out of the gate, they are level 301/302 now. The rest are doable but uncomfortably high, 160-170 at least. Shudder to think what might happen after the patch.
    Edit: essentials range to 143 for non-goons, non-essentials range as high as 184, Mag/Hood are back to 285 (joooy!).
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    morgh wrote:
    KevinMark wrote:
    ZenBrillig wrote:
    Some people have reported not seeing any change. So it's not necessarily that easy.
    It's nearing the end of the PvE event. I always get either Deadly or Hard nodes in any PvE when it's close to its ending. What I'm trying to say is the patch might not be related to the scaling some people have been seeing.
    Be serious... one minute it's 180 and after you update the client it's 270 (+other nodes gaining a proportionate amount of levels)...
    Then, how do you explain it not affecting everyone?
  • Wolarsen
    Wolarsen Posts: 326 Mover and Shaker
    Refresh timer was a must for me, will increase my satisfactin greatly. Having info is far better rhan nor having, imo.

    Retaliation tax and sunder bug fix so welcomed too.

    Keep going D3, you can do it!!!
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I updated to R55 and had the Sunder Bug still happen this morning. Whatever fix went through doesn't appear to have worked.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Yeah, we fixed it. No matter what You experience, no matter if nothing changed. It is fixed now. Period.

    - D3
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Well, after my initial ZOMG DISASTER reaction last night, I have to say that the level scaling has settled down a bit for me. Some nodes are still extremely hard but only one or two are virtually impossible. Just as well really as I was absolutely ready to quit if I woke up this morning and found lv256+ impossanodes staring back at me where lv110's used to sit.

    Unfortunately some of my alliance haven't seen a drop and are still struggling with the upscaling or have just given up.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited June 2014
    KevinMark wrote:
    Then, how do you explain it not affecting everyone?

    It's quite obviously a problem with the patch when you have people like myself playing on two different devices, with two different release versions, seeing two different levels of enemies. It's conclusive, it's provable. I can post screenshots if you like?

    As for it not effecting everyone, maybe it is? Maybe people are just like you and assuming that the scaling is right, when in fact they should actually be seeing enemies at a much lower level.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Indeed. Less forgivable than the decision to implement this change is the fact that it was deployed mid/late event that rewards a character that is likely to be very much in demand. Honestly, why would anyone choose to time it like that?

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