Test Server Update - February 8, 2019

Mister Mxyzptlk is back!

Mister Mxyzptlk is back this year to taunt Metropolis with his riches! Look for “Mxyleprechauns!” in your Mission Journal, and speak to Mister Mxyzptlk in your HQ.

New Feats!

  • The Luck Stops Here

  • Eye See What you Did There

  • Knot Again

For 2019, Mister Mxyzptlk has new base and style items! Start now before your luck runs out!

Level Requirement: 10

Test Server Update - February 7, 2019

On-Duty
New Genesis Now

  • The New Genesis Now Operation is now cross-faction.

Brainiac's Bottle Ship

  • The Brainiac Bottle Ship Operation is now cross-faction.

Warp Menu

  • Metropolis & Gotham Warp Targets are now additional options in the Warp Menu.

UI

  • The Option Dialogues will now scale the window size so text is more legible.

  • The visual appearance of the Options Dialogue have been changed.

Performance

  • Various improvements to server performance.

    • Please let us know if you experience zones or instances not loading, or anything else strange related to server performance.

NPC

  • John Constantine is wearing some new digs.

Gadgets

  • Reduced Battle Drone super charge ability CD to 30 seconds (down from 60 seconds).

  • Fixed bug where Implosion Mine ignored Dominance check for resistances.

  • Fixed bug where Empowered Channeling Tactical Mod would not trigger with Fear Gas (Gadgets)

Test Server Update - January 11, 2019 - Valentine's Event

Enter the Tunnel of Love in 2019 with new Base Items, Feats and Styles!

The Star Sapphires are again making an effort to rekindle the love lost in Gotham City. Mister Freeze knows what the Zamaron crystals are capable of and has hatched a plan to bring his wife Nora back by integrating their crystals into his cryogenic technology. This misuse of the crystals is extremely dangerous and could cause an exothermic reaction that would destroy the entire city! Check the Events tab in the On Duty menu for “Love’s Battlefield” to aid the Star Sapphires (Heroes) or Mister Freeze (Villains).

  • New Feats!

    • A Touch of Romance

    • The Big Gesture

    • You’re a Firecracker

Open your map and choose the Love is in the Air destination. Speak to Hal Jordan in the Gotham East End Police Station Safehouse (Heroes) or Mister Freeze in the Gotham North Burnley Nightclub Safehouse (Villains). While in the Safehouse, visit the terminal next to Hal Jordan or Mister Freeze to pick up a Daily Valentine’s Race mission “Get Your Heart Racing”. This mission can also be picked up at a terminal in Northeast Metropolis near Union Station.

The seasonal missions can be completed daily during the event and reset with replay badges. Also make sure to speak with Mera, who is spending Valentine’s Day on dryland apart from her dearest love. Open your Mission Journal and track “Sea of Love” to find her!

And don’t forget to visit the Valentine’s Vendor to get seasonal clothing, candies, and base items! A Valentine’s Vendor is located in the East End Safehouse (Heroes)/North Burnley Nightclub (Villains) and inside Mister Freeze’s Laboratory.

UI

  • Character Select now includes each character's Combat Rating.

  • The world name is no longer reflected on the Character Select.

Test Server Update - December 3, 2018 - Anniversary Event

Attack of the Anti-Monitor Anniversary Event

The anniversary event is back, featuring open world missions, the Centennial Collapse raid, A World Past Hope and Fear solo, and a ton of new feats, styles, and rewards. Open your Mission Journal and look for "Monitoring the Situation" or queue up for "Centennial Collapse in the On Duty menu to get started. Or alternatively you can now use the Warp Menu to head directly to the Open World Content by selecting Metropolis Anti-Matter Invasion Zone. Here's what's new this year:

New Styles and More!

  • Unlock a new style-only gear set inspired by Future Joker.

    • Look for the "Clown Prince" styles on the vendor for Qwardian Crowns.

  • Discover two new collections for a title and new Antimatter Aura.

  • Find new apocalyptic base items.

New Combat Pet: Brainiac Drone!

Subvert a Brainiac Drone to serve your needs in combat with this exciting new trinket! Available on the vendor for Qwardian Crowns.

Atlantis: The Royal Palace

  • Commander Zoltar's abilities now do less damage in Event mode.

  • A scorecard was added to the solo when you complete the instance.

Race

  • Some ring adjustments to help with avoiding collision.

Research & Development

  • When the player receives Exobytes either as a result of Research & Development or from mission rewards, they will automatically stack.

Gear

  • Hair Styles will now display correctly when adding a material to the Bling and Normal Drowned Pirate Helmet.

Artifacts

  • Dilustel Refractor - Buffed Dilustel Refractor to be 5/15/30% more effective for tanks.

Test Server Hotfix - November 21, 2018

Atlantis
Seahorse Race

  • There is now a terminal present next to the Race start location. Interacting with this terminal and accepting the mission will allow you to earn an Atlantis Race Reward if you complete the Seahorse Race that day.

  • Adjusted times of the race for earning Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze.

  • Various changes were made to the Seahorse Race to prevent players from losing the form.

  • Fixed an issue where players would lose health/power when entering/exiting the Seahorse form change.

  • The “Seabiscuit” Feat will now grant when its objectives are met.

Atlantis: The Throne

  • Fixed an issue where Sea Beast could become unattackable under certain circumstances.

  • Morgwar will now keep maintaining its hate for players even when attempting to detaunt to absorb a pool of water.

Test Server Hotfix - November 20, 2018

Season’s Greedings for 2018 with new Base Items, Feats and Styles!

Larfleeze is back! Find and recover the stolen gifts in Metropolis and Gotham City before it’s too late! Look for “Yuletide Fear” (Villains) or “Winter Plunderland” (Heroes) in your Mission Journal. Or alternatively you can now use the Warp Menu to head directly to the Open World Content by selecting Season’s Greedings: Hal Jordan (Hero) or Season’s Greedings: Sinestro (Villain). There are also wondrous new feats to be found!

  • New Feats!

    • The Ice is Right

    • Wouldn’t it Be Ice

    • Ice Gouging

    • Wild Borealis


Larfleeze’s greed can’t be satisfied so he is taking advantage of a heated battle between the Green Lanterns and the Sinestro Corps. Look for “Ring in the Holidays” in your Mission Journal. Players must complete “Yuletide Fear” or “Winter Plunderland” and “Season’s Greedings” in order to receive the “Ring in the Holidays” Daily Mission. Each day of the event, look for “Season’s Greedings” and “Ring in the Holidays” in your Mission Journal to complete the mission and earn Holly Leaves.

Don’t forget to shop at Skeets’ Workshop to get the latest winter clothing, holiday goodies, and festive base items!

Level Requirement: 10

Multiplayer Race Swimming Seahorse Challenge!

A new race has arrived in DCUO with the Multiplayer Race Swimming Seahorse Challenge! Located on the large bridge in the middle of the Atlantis Open World area, this exciting new race will let you form-change into a seahorse and race through the streets of Atlantis in a battle to get the best time!

Known Issues:

  • The rewards system for the race is still in progress.

  • The feat for earning bronze or higher in the race is currently not functioning.



Materials UI

  • Revamped the Materials Panel in the Style UI to make it easier to view all of your collected materials, and improved the process by which materials are loaded into the three available slots.

  • Fixed an issue which made it difficult to use the material selector with a controller in the style “swap colors” customization panel.

  • The following materials have had the word "Material" removed from their name in the Style menu:

    • Mechanized Material, Sparking Material, Watchful Material, Mystical Material, Furious Material, Temporal Material, Wild Material, Enigmatic Material, Arctic Material, Nuclear Material, Scorching Material, Terrestrial Material, Sinister Material, Glowing Material, Wicked Material, Glorious Material, Surging Material, Blue Spark Material, Green Iridescent Material, Blue Iridescent Material, Yellow Forcefield Material, Gold Time Torn Material, Red Phoenix Material, Blue Phoenix Material, Green Hacker Material

Supercharge

  • You’ll no longer cast supercharge abilities while under Mind Control.

Loading Screens

  • New art is now featured on the loading screens.

Legends

  • Reduced damage from Batman and Robin’s Block Breaker.

Atlantis
The Throne

  • Added some cave pieces to make the first space of the map match the sunken entrance.

  • Munitions' Mini-Nuke now hits Sea Beast.

Artifacts – Eye of Gemini

  • Eye of Gemini should no longer get double procs from having a pet attacking while in Pollux Gaze field.

  • Increased the visual FX of Castor's Watch to match the size of the buff field.

Test Server Hotfix - November 6, 2018

Death of Superman
Mission

  • All's Well that Ends Well - Fixed an issue which prevented players from interacting with the Kryptonian box if they had unlocked a related feat and purchased the Omegahedron from John Constantine. Now a player in this situation can complete this mission, and will earn 25 Marks of Victory (the cost of buying the artifact from Constantine) when they open the gift Supergirl grants.

Atlantis 
Open World

  • Tweaked the Giant Brinehulk abilities to do less damage when blocking, overall damage values where needed, and longer delays in using special abilities.

  • Lowered aggro ranges for the Swarm Creatures.

4 Player
Atlantis: The Silent School

  • Added Event vs. Normal damage for the hazards in the Pisces Challenge.

  • Removed double FX on teleporting from chamber to chamber.

  • Removed unnecessary chevron tell from Thorn Golem.

  • Added a secondary FX to those inflicted from the carrier of the Dead King's Curse to help visibility.

  • Increased grounding effect on those hit by barnacles in the War Challenge chamber.

  • The Faceless One has mastered cosmic magic for a new special attack.

8 Player
Atlantis: Crown of Thorns

  • Fixed an issue where some FX for the Mages were not displaying correctly.

  • Consolation Prize Feat – Adjusted the feat description.

  • Fixed an issue where the map showed an errant teleporter in the King Shark room.

  • King Shark should no longer attack during the cinematic.

  • King Shark is no longer visible before the cinematic.

  • Adjusted damage on Murk's Battle Charge.

  • Successfully making it through the Crown of Thorns results in a Rally Point in the final crown room for respawning.

Atlantis: The Throne

  • Added more mini-map messaging to help during the final boss fight.

  • Further tuned difficulty for the Event mode version of the final boss fight.

Test Server Hotfix - November 5, 2018

Atlantis – PC TEST ONLY

General

  • Catalysts Type Undercurrent x10 box now awards the correct Catalysts Type Undercurrent.

  • Shard of the Aries Crystal can no longer be traded.

  • Quarks Gear now scales to max level 222.

4 Player
Atlantis: The Silent School

  • Added a visual component to the Pisces Challenge that counts down the time between Shark Statue environmental hazard activation.

  • Fixed an issue with Summoning Sigil not deactivating after the Faceless One is defeated.

  • The Summoning Sigil will activate sooner in the Faceless One fight if all artifacts have already been disabled.

  • The Sigil of Banishment will once again remove the Dead King's Curse when successfully used.

  • The Crab Guardian will show signs of confusion for a moment when the Curse is lifted in the Cancer Challenge chamber.

  • Added a longer visual cue for which Shark is the correct Shark to place the Moonstone in.

  • Adjusted the difficulty in both the defense and healing properties that the Faceless One takes from artifacts. Controllers are especially useful in diminishing said properties.

  • Added in a back up timer to the Cancer Challenge so that after 2 minutes after the Moonstones become available to destroy in Event Mode (3 minutes in Normal Mode), the curse is lifted and the fight with the Guardian begins. In Normal Mode, the Guardian becomes more powerful when the Moonstone is not destroyed in time.

  • Basepop chambers have different bulletin messaging than Challenge chambers.

Atlantis: The Throne

  • Made adjustments to how the Corum Rath fight plays out as he becomes invincible in the Normal and Elite versions of the fight.

  • Further difficulty tuning of Corum Rath fight (each version).

  • Minor improvements to Sea Beast fight, including allowing a little more time to react to one of its big attacks.

Atlantis Artifacts

  • Dead King's Scepter - Changed Dead King's Scepter Orbital Strike CD to only be 15%.

  • Manacles of Force

    • HP threshold for proc to be 35% Health taken.

    • Cooldown is now 60 seconds for ranks 80-159.

    • Cooldown is now 50 seconds for rank 160.

Investigations

  • Atlantis: Royal Palace - Two of the Investigations have had their locations swapped so as not to spoil story which hasn't been experienced yet.

Test Server Hotfix - November 2, 2018

Open World
• The giant Brine Hulk should now always grant credit, regardless of whether you're in a group.
• Swarm monsters have all been buffed.
• The chance for a loose brine hulk to get mad at you has been decreased.

1 Player
Atlantis: Royal Palace
• Mera and Ocean Master should now also run from the Crown of Thorns
• Commander Zoltar has increased stats and CC resistances, should now properly reset after a player dies, and will now jump to weapon racks instead of run.
• Skippable matinees are now accessible, as long as you've completed the Atlantis: Royal Palace at least once. 

4 Player
Atlantis: Silent School
• Adjustments to the Faceless One encounter have been made for Normal Mode, making the artifacts more vital for deactivating. 
• The Faceless One will no longer stutter when trying to sound threatening in the first chamber of the Silent School. 
• Fixed stuck ghostly spell effects on players in the last boss fight.
• To prevent issues with boss cameras, the teleporters will now stop you from auto moving for a second after you use them. Boss doors also start closed but open a short time after the first player enters the room.
• Added and removed some feats.
o The Timber Feat should fire correctly at the end of the boss fight, not at the start.
• The “Call me Kaldur” collection cannot currently be completed. 


8 Player
Atlantis: The Throne
• Additional differences between the Event, Normal and Elite modes have been implemented.
• More tuning changes were made to make the Event Mode version a little easier.

Atlantis: Crown of Thorns
• Added Elite Headline.
• The "On the Nose" Feat can now only be achieved in Elite Mode. 
• The "A Game of Thorns" Feat can now only be achieved in Elite Mode.
• Adjusted how the "A Game of Thorns" Feat functions.

Loot
• Renamed base item "Blue Cancer Zodiac Lamp - Tarnished" to "Pearl Cancer Zodiac Lamp - Tarnished".

Artifacts
Four new artifacts have been added to Atlantis missions.