Game Update 25

Game Update 25 – Balancing Mines

We are deploying an update to all live servers on Thursday, November 14th. This update will contain rebalancing of the Mines / Mine fields, some smaller changes and bug fixes.

With this update we are making some smaller, but crucial adjustments to rebalance mines and mine fields. Those changes are for Strike and Escort mines:

Increased power cost
Increased activation timer from 3 to 5 seconds
Decreased radius
Changed the value for Critical Offense for mines / mine fields to 0.

This update will need a server maintenance of approx. 120 minutes overall. We are going to start to shut the servers down at 9.30am CET (UTC+1). The countdown will start around 15 minutes beforehand on each server.

The game update will be deployed as following:

9.30 am CET – EU Kobol
10.00 am CET – EU Libran, Virgon, Canceron
10.30 am CET – EU Tauron, Picon, Sagittaron
11.00 am CET – US EAST
11.30 am CET – US WEST

Features:

Items: To bring accuracy of all Escort cannons in line we raised the accuracy to 325 for Escort cannons won in Interdiction Duty
Items: Chang of stack size of “Unidentified Objects” from 5 to infinite and merged into one big stack
Assignments: Removal of “Invite a friend” assignment until we implement a new system
Assignments: Halloween Event ended last Sunday therefore removed assignment “Emergence”
Keybinding: Implemented the possibility to bind a hotkey to “Target nearest mine” (not yet translated).

Bugfixes:

Fixed an issue where it was not possible to promote / demote / remove wing members
Fixed an issue where the state of a player (online/offline) and new level was not updated
Fixed an issue where Top Gun Battle medals weren’t displayed prop