The Secret World : June 6th Patch Notes

Jun 07,2012 - by 24

The Secret World received a small patch yesterday, addressing several issues with the UI and also bringing changes to several abilities. Enjoy the read below!

 

June 6th Patch Notes

GENERAL

  • * Fixed an issue where some text on various ui elements would appear as squares instead of letters.
  • * Lore object text descriptions and Mission completed messages are formatted correctly.
  • * Icons and flying numbers will appear properly (as long as the options are selected).
  • * New characters will no longer spawn with several unusable titles.
  • * Fixed an issue where if no target was selected a spell would fail the first time.
  • * Fixed an issue where shortcuts where removed on the server when logging to a different character on the same account.
  • * Fixed an issue where your character would stop sprinting around certain npcs.
  • * Fixed a bug causing the location selection dropdown in the Dressing Room GUI to sometimes fail.

ABILITIES

  • * Updated the tooltips of several abilities to clarify their intended function.
  • * Stoicism is now marked as an Elite ability.
  • * Do or Die now increases damage by 25%.
  • * Kill Streak can now be equipped.
  • * Corrected the function of several Fist and Hammer abilities.

Blood Magic

  • * Blood Shot – No longer does two hits to afflicted targets.
  • * Plague – No longer pauses for 25 seconds during casting.

Elementalism

  • * Electrical Bolt now builds resources for your secondary weapon when your target is hindered.

DUNGEONS

Hell Raised

  • * The Machine Tyrant will no longer jump around while chasing after the player.

MISSIONS

City of the Sun God

  • * The Sad Song : The King of Red Shadows will no longer appear as a corpse before you have killed him.

Kingsmouth

  • * You should no longer be prompted to pick up Dawning of an Endless Night again after having received it previously.
  • * Characters will no longer appear invisible after being caught by Orochi guards.
  • * Zombies should not be able to bypass the ward on the church door anymore.

The Carpathian Fangs

  • * Contracts, Vampires and SMS : Killing Young Turk vampires now gives mission credit. The mission now provides rewards when completed.

The Savage Coast

  • * Taking the Purple : Computer Terminal’s root command will now work during tier 3.
  • * The League of Monster Slayers – The Shadowrunner should always be around his waypoint area.

VENDORS & TRADE

  • * Fixed an issue where some articles of clothing could not be equipped despite having a white border, indicating your character met the requirements to wear them.

 



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  • Jazzbob

    This was actually quite major patch – but like last time, much of the stuff isn’t listed in the patchnotes.

    - First of all, general FPS improvements and a nasty crash was fixed.
    - Several UI interface improvements – much better mission-tracker system; easier to understand what kind of missions you currently have “picked up”, and also which ones you’re still able to “pick up”.
    - Improved and new combat animations.
    - Improved graphics – more advanced stuff to play around with.
    - The misc. abilities unlocked in the Abillity wheel – The entire wheel is now unlocked.
    - All the dungeons on Elite and Hardcore mode.

    And more stuff, that I just can’t remember on top of head.

    All in all, a very nice patch!

    • Brigade

      I dont like what they did with the quest log though. Now you have to do the alt-z crap to send in reports

      • Ahmnero

        its a known UI bug likely to be fixed in next build

      • Jazzbob

        Just got fixed today, actually!

    • Reggie

      OH and Active Dodge is working! But only in The Darkness War nightmare mode. Seems silly. It’s in the game at least, and it looks cool (and is not useless)

      Forwards: barrel roll
      left/ right: quick roll
      Backwards: backflip

      Cooldown is 5 seconds!

  • Jordan

    They fixed the bug with orochi guards…. Finally

  • ;O

    is the char creator better now?

    • Venom

      No one knows? .. give us some Intel ;)

      • Reggie

        Last I saw the character creation was 4 days ago, it’s now overloaded with clothing options but still many of the same face presets. Good news though: sliders work again (and work well) bad news: you have to: select faction -> go back to faction selection menu -> select faction again for the sliders to work.

        Just one of those minor niggles.

        As for the rest of the game. I am proud and feel like this closed beta has been the most evolving, well supported and clean pre-launch phase of any MMO I’ve played over the past 18 years, (even counting Rift alpha and closed beta here) and I am not burnt out one bit and will be buying lifetime.

        Unfortunately, games don’t get followings corresponding to how good they are, but how hyped they are. Thus the inferior Guild Wars 2 will run off with lots of players that would likely had a much better time with TSW. It’s a bit sad, but hopefully it means a lot better community for TSW.

        • Bob

          So they haven’t added more facial options? That is going to dissapoint to no end.

          • Kanabuk211

            The Character Creation is still limited regarding the facial options. But actually it seems much, much more limited than it actually is. I’ve seen tons of people complaining, that there’s only 3-4 different types of noses, lips and such. The thing is though, that there’s actually 20+ of each, since for every “face” there’s different options, tones, and such.

            Quite weird that they don’t mix it all together, instead of splitting it up like that.

          • Venom

            Thanks for answering Reggie!

            What I’m concern about is that there were few facial presets to begin with and those that were there were somehow tied to skin colors .. Like one facial preset has to be darker skin color and another must be white looking .. Has this changed? Are there more hair options? Please say there are more hair and nose options because the selection of those looked severely underdeveloped last I checked. I’m worried about the CC!

        • Soda

          In terms of character creation, are we looking at a bunch of actually different styles of clothing, or a bunch of different color schemes for only a few different shirts and pants?

        • Novas

          Just curious what MMO you were playing 18 years ago? The Realm Online didn’t come out til 1995. Meridian 59 came out the same year. UO didn’t come out til 1997. Underlight was in 1998, and EQ in 1999. If you are referring to a MUD, that isn’t the same thing as a MMO. Please enlighten me. And for anyone else, here a link so you have your facts straight!
          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_game#History

        • ;O

          Nice! Are there any skimpier clothes for males too or are they only for the female chars?

  • Ano

    There’s been a whole slew of patches lately! Like four biggish ones the last seven days.

  • 423543

    just received a closed beta invite
    as i understand it there are 3 weeks left , and i am pretty much a hardcore mmorpg-gamer by heart AND got a lot of free time atm…so i will play a SHITTON of this game over the next 3 weeks.
    what do you wish me do to leak and/or pay special attention to other than videos (i simply won’t do those , everything else is fair game)

    • http://twitter.com/Bolongo3 Bolongo

      Early access starts in 2 weeks, actually.

      • 423543

        my bad forgot EA , you are of course correct

    • Venom

      Would love to get a video on the new and improved character creator and combat animations!

      • 423543

        i don’t think either of those got updated , and tbh i doubt they will be
        they both are borderline horrible

      • 423543

        but it just might be your lucky day , someone official posted that we get retail client patch today (and servers should be up in about 5 hours) so i can show you what’s in at release apparently
        gonna make a vid later today of both..

        • One

          I have seen many post abou people saying to record videos, so where are they? or patch notes? would like to see whats in retail client. I guess there will still not be all the content. But should be pretty close.

          • Bob

            A video would be redundant at this stage I’d say. Patch notes would be good – if they exist.

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