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Star Wars Galaxies: Test Center Update Notes - September 20th

| 21 Sep 2006 03:44

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Test Center Update Notes, Sept 20


These publish items are known issues or community reported issues that you may have noticed on Test Center that are being addressed before being published to live galaxies.

Combat

  • Damage from Area-of-Effect (AoE) attacks should no longer affect buildings.
  • The armor requirements for Expertise abilities with an activation have been removed.  Specifically the abilities: Bounty Hunter's Duelist Stance and Power Assisted Sprint and an Officer's Synaptic Stimulator and Environmental Purge no longer have "worn armor" requirements.

Galactic Civil War
  • The correct information will be displayed on the Bounty Hunter puzzle in player bases.
  • Weapons that can be purchased from a Faction Recruiter that cannot be used by a player due to level or profession restrictions will no longer be incorrectly displayed as available for purchase.
  • Added a stealth restriction to the self-destruct terminals in player-bases.
  • System messages for disabling the power regulator in player bases will now be properly displayed.
  • Player base terminals will now reboot their systems from an aborted shutdown in 30 seconds.
  • The /pvp command cannot be used by Special Forces in player bases.
  • The description on the Medic puzzle in player bases has been updated so that it is easier to understand the challenge.
  • GCW points will now be correctly awarded when you are both in and out of a group.

Profession: Smuggler
  • Cool-downs will now reset properly for the Expertise ability Card Up Your Sleeve.
  • Borvo's thugs, Jabba's thugs and other underworld favorites have been added as possible enemies to smuggler missions.
  • Smugglers can check corpses for contraband by using the radial menu option, "Find Illicit Goods".
  • The Expertise Ability Brawler Swipe 5 and 6 should work properly.
  • The description for the Expertise Ability modifier Under the Counter correctly displays the character attribute Precision.

Player Cities
  • Mayors no longer need a militia member to give them zoning rights when trying to transfer a structure.

Quests
  • Trials of Obi-Wan: The "Malevolent Heavy Sword" quest reward in Mustafar is now a two-handed weapon as it was intended.

User Interface
  • Smuggler buffs under your status bar that are cooling down after an attack can now be quickly spotted by the red arrow pointing down to the buff icon.
  • Smuggler skill modifiers are now displayed on the Character Sheet.
  • Combat Log: Instances of double spam have been removed.
  • The DPS meter now tracks damage by Damage-over-Time (DoT) attacks.
  • Commands on the space toolbar will work even if toolbar isn't visible.

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