Abandoned Facilities

Wednesday June 2nd 2004

Version 15.5.4

Abandoned Facilities

It seems that somebody forgot to clean up after themselves when conducting some biological experiments in the swamplands on Rubi-Ka. Freelancers working with the ICC are attempting to contain the situation, while the Terra Firma clan and Omni-Med are accusing each other of irresponsibility and sabotage, respectively.

Game Mechanics

- The recycle time on Dimach has been lowered for Martial Artists with more than 1000 in Dimach skill.

Nano Programs

- Adventurers have gotten two new heal programs.

- Voice of Truth and Team Empowered Voice of Truth now have shorter execution time.

- My Way, Peer Pressure and the Voice of One now has increased range.

- The Bureaucrat's team empowered charms now have longer duration.

- Doctor heal programs introduced with Shadowlands no longer require the target to have the Shadowlands expansion.

- Fixers have gotten three new Heal-over-Time programs.

- Martial Artists have received two new healing programs.

- The Composite Physical Expertise programs now include a boost to Martial Arts.

- Relentless Slayer no longer reduces the target's Ranged Weapons Initiative.

- Traders have received a new calm program and a new health haggler program.

- The Enforcer's taunt proc programs have had their taunt effect increased by 10%.

Non-Player Characters (NPCs) and monsters

- Wandering creatures have become more interested in actual wandering, and less interested in staring at walls and rocks.

World

- The basic stores now contain a pre-made implants shop for Keepers.

Items

- Obtru Steel-Ribbed Armor Gloves now give protection against Cold, and less protection against Fire.

- Faithful Adventurer Armor is now correctly limited to clan members only at all quality levels.

- Queen Blade now has the CanBeParried flag, just like the Enhanced Queen Blade.

- Control Unit Chest Plate now gives a bonus to Chemistry skill. The same bonus has been removed from Chemical AC.

- Laughing Soul Stones and Whispering Soul Stones should now drop in the Jobe Research Training Facility.

- Essence of Pure Jealousy is now more available.

- Meta-Physicist summoned snake staves have been tweaked slightly.

- Izgimmer-Modified Cyberdeck now increases nano damage by 3%.

- The Trick Poker is trickier now, and the Spike of Menace is more menacing.

- Equipping the Inamorata Ocra Pistol now requires an Unredeemed faction rating above 2500, instead of exactly 2500.

- The Chosen and Faithful Metaphysicist Body Armors now reduce the cost of executing nano programs instead of increasing it.

Pets

- Engineer pet nano crystals are now spread out more in the different gardens and sanctuaries.

- Engineer pets introduced with Shadowlands are now a bit tougher.

Perks

- Snipe Shot 1 and Called Shot no longer depend on other effects.

- Treatment Transfer can now also be used on targets who have learned the sixth perk in the Nano Surgeon line.

- Weapon Bash, Laser Paint Target, Triangulate Target and Napalm Spray now use Assault Rifle as attack skill.

- The Violence special can now be used on less injured targets.

- The Accumulator perk line now gives a bigger bonus to nano pool.

- Big Smash, Followup Smash, and Blindside Blow now scale correctly with the user's Brawl skill.

Chat and GUI changes

- Fixed a bug causing the internal mouse-position to be one frame behind the actual position. This could make mouse-clicks go to the wrong window in some cases when the framerate was low.

- Added support for the <U> and </U> HTML tags (turns underlining on/off).

- It is now possible to disable underlining and linkcolor on hyperlinks by adding a "style=text-decoration:none" attribute to the <A> tag.

- When text-decoration is disabled the color and underlining of individual parts of the hyperlink can be controlled with <FONT> and <U> tags.

- The fade-delay and fade-time for fading text messages is now user configurable.

- Clicking on a group name in a chat window will now make that group the default output channel for the window. SHIFT + click on a group name will activate text-input and insert "/group <groupname> " into the input bar (this will also happen if you leftclick a group that is not subscribed to the window anymore even if SHIFT is not pressed).

- Clicking a user name in a chat window will open a private chat window for that user. SHIFT+lefclick on a username will activate text-input and insert "/tell <nick> " into the input bar.

- Fixed a typo in the "clickthrough enabled" message.

- Made private and system group colors configurable from TextColors.xml.

- Private messages to yourself is now stopped by the client.

- Autosubscribe windows now remember the selected output channel when relogging.

- Fixed the "Chat indicator (Flash head)" option.

- Fixed the '/invite' command, which is used to invite people to private chat groups. The syntax is '/invite <name>'.

- /cc addbuddy now add the new friend to the "known friends" list and not the "recent messages" list.

- Fixed some rendering glitches in the window border rendering.

- Implemented a workaround for broken Windows versions that don't report left/right distinguishing keystates for qualifiers (SHIFT/CTRL/ALT).

- Chat windows with both clickthrough enabled and text input disabled will now allow items to be dropped "through" the window.

- Increased the character-reference description size limit from 1KB to 31KB.

- Fixed a bug in the chat auto-completion system. If typing very fast, or when the framerate was low the auto-complete menu sometimes popped up when hitting SPACE even if an exact match should have been found.

- The text-view will now read/write ANSI text to the clipboard on windows versions that don't support UNICODE. Should make cut/past between the chat and external programs work on Win98.