New Releases/1.5.39

Omega 1.5.39 - 15/11/2013

Balance Changes

• Health per stat point has been increased to 1.25 from 1. Now every 4 stat points will give +5 Max Health.
• The base damage of all weapons (Primary, Gun, and Auxiliary) has been lowered by 2. The new minimum damage is 1.
• Critical Strikes now ignore 30% of defenses, down from 45%.
• Critical Strike minimum damage is now 3-5, down from 4-7. It increases at level 15 and 30.
• Energy per stat point has been increased to 1.25 from 1. Now every 4 stat points will give +5 Max Energy.
• EMP Grenade
  • Base energy drain was increased from 7-24 to 12-27.
  • Cooldown was increased from 2 to 3 turns.
  • Level scaling was removed.
• Atom Smasher
  • Cooldown was increased from 2 to 3 turns.
  • Energy drain amount was increased by 2% at all levels.
• Static Charge
  • It was made unblockable.
  • It can no longer cause a critical hit or be affected by rage.
  • Cooldown was increased from 2 to 3.
  • Energy restore amount was increased from 22-37% to 40-70%.
• Static Smash
  • Energy drain was lowered from 43-73% to 38-68%.
• Static Grenade (Replacement of Bounty Hunter EMP Grenade)
  • It has a base energy drain of 10-25.
  • It steals 50% of energy drained.
  • 0 Energy cost, 3 turn cooldown.
  • It gains +1 energy drain for every 4.5 Technology.
• Battery Backup
  • Base energy gain was lowered from 20-45 to 20-35.
  • Level scaling now works properly.
• Assimilation
  • Energy steal was increased by 4 at all levels.
  • It now steals 50% of energy drained, down from 100%.
• Energy Parasite
  • In cases where the enemy has more than 150 Energy, it will work as though they had 150 Energy instead. This is intended to only affect NPC battles.
• Plasma / Mineral Armor
  • Defenses were increased from 15-60% to 30-100%.
  • It is no longer affected by stat buffs and debuffs.
  • The duration now properly lasts for 4 turns.
• Hybrid Armor
  • Defenses were increased from 10-30% to 15-50%.
  • It is no longer affected by stat buffs and debuffs.
  • The duration now properly lasts for 4 turns.
• Mark of Blood
  • Energy cost was adjusted from 13-31 to 15-24.
• Toxic Grenade
  • Energy cost was adjusted from 15-33 to 10-28.
• Venom Strike
  • Energy cost was adjusted from 14-32 to 10-28.
• Reflex Boost
  • Energy gain effect was removed.
  • Dexterity bonus was increased to 2 at all levels.
• Smokescreen / Malfunction
  • Level scaling was removed.

Other Changes

• Omega 10,000 Varium package was removed.
• Exile and Legion 10,000 Varium packages were removed.
• Dread 10,000 Varium package was removed.
• Omega item are now tagged as Ultra-Rares.
• Promotional items from Dread, Exile and Legion packages can now be sold.
• All skill effects now only play once in order to improve performance.
• Battle error and status messages now include skill icons.
• Skill icon images have been given an update.
• Chairman Platinum's battle background was updated to look like his current background area.
• Retrain, Redeem Code, and Item Finder options have been removed from NPCs and added to the Upgrade Shop.
• Weapon damage was lowered by about 4 on all NPCs.

Bug Fixes

• NPCs with Bloodlust are no longer returned twice the intended health.
• Effects of Color Blast and Shadow Arts now clear upon death in battle.
• Mark of Blood can no longer be cast on targets that are already marked.
• Shadow Arts now only darkens the caster and it no longer affects things like robots and skill effects.
• Energy Parasite no longer restores energy on dead casters and it no longer visually revives them.
• Players no longer get a persistent yellow loop when loading battles.
• Players are now unable to change gear while moving.
• Flags can no longer be highlighted in battle.