Anarchy Online: 17.3 Preview Update!

We got an update to 17.3!

The main content update in the 17.3 version will be the release of a new playfield linked to Inferno in the Shadowlands.

Long known as Albtraum by the Yuttos, this previously hidden corner of Inferno has recently been revealed to JOBE scientists. The Yuttos have opened mystical portals in one of their camps that allow explorers to explore this new area, providing you are willing to help them with some tasks.

Gameplay Features

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New Shadowlands Team instanced playfield: High level players can now access a special new playfield in Inferno
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Playfield is instanced to your specific team
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A Quest series will give players a series of repeatable goals inside the playfield.
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Three separate types of bosses, mini-bosses during the quest chain, a final boss encounter as well as a series of spawnable pocket bosses
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New quest and monster loot to be found inside the playfield.

Players will for the first time be able to explore a team locked instance and face the challenges inside on the strengths of their own friends and team mates.

The new encounters also for the first time allow us to balance boss encounters for a set number of players. We hope that this will allow us to provide a series of boss encounters that will provide a real challenge for a range of players. Some of the encounters will be easier then others, with some providing a good challenge for even the most experienced of players.

The creatures found in Albtraum will drop a number of component parts that can be combined through a variety of tradeskill processes to create a series of new and upgradeable items.

The component parts will be able to be traded between players so that you can collect and exchange the parts required for the upgrades you wish to complete. The parts needed to upgrade your items can then freely be produced by those who have the necessary skills. This should allow for a new set of tradeskill processes where people can provide a useful service to their fellow players, and also where people can upgrade items without having to invest in the tradeskills themselves.

Each component part will have a variety of uses and options that will allow players to investigate and complete a series of increasing complex tradeskill processes.

Items will include new utility items, bracers, new stims and also special items that can upgrade existing items like NCU chips.

New Nano Formulas

There will be new nano-formulas available from the Victory Points vendors.

Bureaucrat Nanos

17.3 sees a stock of great new support tools for Bureaucrats and their trusty robotic assistants.

Firstly Last Minute Negotiations and Junior Last Minute Negotiations provide a new style of calming that will allow players to calm mobs that are otherwise not effected by these types of nanos. These specials calms do not belong to any resistance line and as such have a chance to work on any mob in the game. They are though of a short duration and the same mob cannot be effected by the same nano for a period of time afterwards. These nanos are designed to allow the Bureaucrat to give their team or themselves a reliable but brief respite from any encounter.

Next up the Bureaucrat gets the ability to provide their robotic pets with a little extra protection and power through a series of new buffs:

Calm and Charm Resist Buffs

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Lesser Corporate Insurance Policy
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Corporate Insurance Policy
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Greater Corporate Insurance Policy

Damage and Offensive buffs

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Droid Damage Matrix
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Corporate Strategy

Defensive Buffs

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Nanite Robot Protection
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Lesser Nanite Robot Protection
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Basic Nanite Robot Protection

Lastly there is a special new nano called Take the Bullet that allows the Bureaucrat to sacrifice their robotic assistance in return for a short protective shield that is designed to allow them to escape tricky situations.

New MP pet buffs

MPs can look forward to a series of pet buffs that can strengthen their pets with PVP in mind.

Damage Buff

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Evocation of The Enraged

Calm and Charm Resist Buffs

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Evocation of The Enlightened
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Evocation of The Empowered
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Evocation of The Reinforced

DoT Resist Buffs

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Evocation of The Pure
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Evocation of The Cleansed

Engineer Nanos

Like the other pet professions Engineers will have the ability to augment their pets resistance to roots and snares.

Calm and Charm Resistance Buffs

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Lesser Software Hacking Shielding
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Software Hacking Shielding
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Advanced Software Hacking Shielding

New Soldier Nano

Soldiers also get a new nano called Remedy Inhibitor that prevents the target from having certain HoTs placed on them.

New Doctor DoTs

Doctor's get some new Damage over Time nanos that are designed to be more PVP friendly with better damage and reduced casting times.

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Nanite Enhanced Mutagenic Compound
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Nanite Enhanced Mutagenic Plague
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Weak Mutagenic Plague

Lastly there is a very special new DoT called Dr Blazes Mutagenic Compound that can only be utilized when the Doctor is using certain new weapons that are rumored to have found their way to the military bosses introduced in 17.2

Upcoming Changes

Of course that is not all that will be in the 17.3 Update, here are some of the highlights from the rest of the changes in 17.3

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Single IPR points can now be purchased from the OFAB vendor for 50,000 VP or from Jobe for 250 million credits
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The Unicorns are interested in speaking to anyone who has secured the Alien Invasion plans from Sector 42
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New OFAB Vendor items including new profession rings and new Martial Arts attacks
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New Bureaucrat calm nanos aimed for use in boss encounters
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New Bureaucrat pet buff nanos
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Carlo Pinetti's contract has been renegotiated to be more flexible
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New MP pet buff nanos
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New Engineer pet buff nanos
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Reduced cost of plastic surgery clinic to 25 million credits
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Bank terminal added to player market buildings

You can see the update at the Anarchy Online Site!