Secret World Legends Patch 2.1.5 Notes

PATCH HIGHLIGHTS

  • The new Winter Cache is now dropping across the world! This arctic and frost-themed cache features a new Outfit, Pet, Mount, and a full set of Extraordinary Weapons! Winter Cache replaces Haunted Cache drops in the world. Haunted Cache, as with all previous caches, may still be traded and opened for their advertised contents.
  • Behold a winter wonderland starting December 12th through January 2nd! Defend the world from an icy invasion in groups and hourly public raids! Earn new daily login rewards, including a free pet–just for logging in! Exclusive seasonal achievements, legends, and cosmetics abound. Happy Holidays!
  • Ockham’s Razor (Barbershop) is now open for business, allowing players to make changes to their hair, makeup, and facial features!
  • Modern Prometheus (Plastic Surgeon) is now open for business, allowing players to make changes to their head, skin, and eyes!
  • Name changes are now available for purchase in the character selection screen!

 

GENERAL

  • Increased the amount of distillate XP gained when opening Purified Distillate Reward Bags gained from caches. The amount gained increases based on your highest achieved Item Power. The goal is to make the amount of distillate XP more relevant as the amount of XP required to level up items increases.
  • Added an animation that will play when the player unlocks a new title.
  • Added a new Interface Option to disable title unlock notifications.
  • Added an animation that will play when the player unlocks a new emote.
  • Added a new Interface Option to disable emote unlock notifications.
  • The reload UI command has been disabled while in character creation.
  • The Login Rewards window will now close itself when you switch to a character who has not unlocked it without closing the window.
  • Daily Event Login Rewards may now be obtained on each character on your account. Normal daily login rewards remain a once-per-account claim.
  • Added support for opening multiple lootboxes in succession.
  • Fixed a case where the lootbox interface could remain visible but not actually offer loot.
  • The Mission Items inventory bag will now default to the top left corner of the screen. This should make it more noticeable for players who have not customized its placement. Note: This change is not retroactive and will only affect characters created after this patch.
  • Added missing flavor text to the Jade Komainu.
  • Fixed a typo on the Repair Broken Data confirmation dialog.
  • Map waypoint for Seoul Fight Club is now properly labeled.
  • Barber Shop and Plastic Surgeon waypoints have been added to the London and New York maps, respectively.

 

GAMEPLAY

  • Museum items will now drop from killed monsters while in a raid group. This will make it easier to get museum items from some open-world bosses.
  • Fixed an issue during Killers on the Road where it was possible to complete certain objectives earlier than intended.
  • The Agitated Deep One will now give credit towards Slimy Shallows.
  • Super Charged Seeder will now give credit towards Shocking Infestation.
  • The Desecrated Relic in Sacred Protection can now be picked up if you have paused the mission.
  • The Syringe for Crying Wolf will no longer be deleted when pausing the mission.
  • Enraged Custurii fighting the Dark Woods Horror are now level 50.
  • Fixed an issue with the distribution of certain distillate types from Kaidan shipping container bosses which caused a certain value of distillate to have a significantly higher drop chance than others.
  • Filth-Encrusted Container Keys now have a chance to have become corrupted beyond use. Using one of these items no longer results in a guaranteed usable key. If you do not get a usable key you will instead gain Anima Shards.
  • Added a missing region value to the missions Inner Peace and Lights Out. These missions will now properly show in the Kaidan section of the completed mission log.
  • Added missing tracker FX to When the Hatchet Falls.
  • Fixed a bug during The Bank Heist where mission abilities would vanish while still wielding the Droid Arm.
  • To fix an issue during The Bank Heist where mission abilities would not be visible when returning to the mission area, the Droid Arm can no longer be equipped outside of the Faust Capital instance.
  • Seasonal emotes will now display their seasonal icon when the seasonal event is active, regardless of whether they are already owned or not.

 

COMBAT

  • Made it easier to target and attack larger destroyable objects such as Ak’ab Burrows, Statue of the Voice of Aten, and many others.
  • Fixed an issue where the bonus healing from Timeless Watch was being applied to the heal which triggered the bonus rather than the heal which came after the bonus effect was active.
  • Fixed an issue which caused the Spectre from Spectral Essence talismans to not work with the Revenant from the Shadow-Bound weapons.
  • Increased the base heat generated by Chain Lighting and Fire Bolt to 14.
  • Increased the base heat generated by Mjolnir and Inferno to 21.
  • Fixed an issue where the leech healing provided by Unveil Essence was bypassing the Blood Magic healing penalty from high Corruption or Martyrdom levels.

 

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

Hell Raised

  • Fixed a bug that caused Triggerthings in the Recursia, Many-in-One encounter to not scale with difficulty. This change will reduce the difficulty of this encounter at all difficulties except 10.

Hell Eternal

  • Reduced the Prime Maker’s basic attack damage.
  • Reduced the damage scaling effect of Arcane Peak on the Prime Maker.

Manhattan Exclusion Zone

  • All Difficulties
    • Eldritch Guardians are now immune to crowd control.
    • Fixed the victory music sometimes looping.
    • Tweaked the way targeting works with The Unutterable Lurker. It is now easier to target adds that are close to the boss.
    • The Unutterable Lurker has slightly adjusted his Final Resort ability placement.
  • Elite 1+
    • Fixed a series of miscalculations that caused enemies to have too little defense rating. Hit rating appropriate for the difficulty is now needed to reliably hit these enemies.
    • Fixed a case where dying could trap the player in Story Mode’s Subway Station.
  • Elite 10
    • Fixed Mouths of Montauk (aka “pod”) not applying Inevitable Doom to the targeted player.
    • Restored the visible in-world indicator over the head of Mouths of Montauk’s target.
    • Fixed an issue that caused Abominated Soldiers and Wave of Filth to deal damage from a previous age.
    • Dying to Shadow Out of Time will no longer permanently reduce damage dealt by 75%.
    • Gaia Incarnate buff tooltips now display the correct damage boost of +125%. The damage increase has not changed – this was a tooltip-only fix.
    • Wave of Filth damage has been rebalanced (greatly reduced).
    • The Unutterable Lurker has slightly adjusted his Personal Space ability placement. GIVE HIM HIS SPACE!

 

DRESSING ROOM

  • Updated the color value of The Black Watchmen hoodie in the Dressing Room to indicate it is grey and red.
  • Updated the color value of Suit pants, dark green in the Dressing Room to match their actual color.
  • Updated the thumbnail and preview of the Latex vampire mask to match what it actually looks like.
  • Added a missing thumbnail to the Goon boots in the Dressing Room.
  • Fixed an issue where the prices for the male Cosmonaut helmet and spacesuit were backwards.

GENERAL

  • Increased the range at which melee players can hit Hel in Steps to Nifelheim.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent players from being able to resurrect in Niflheim.
  • The portal in Niflheim now respects story progress when selecting a destination.
  • Snowballs will no longer target pets.
  • Krampus Rockets will now stack up to 100 per inventory slot.
  • Presents dropped from Krampus in open playfields will now have better feedback on what happens when you already own the clothing item contained within.
  • Fixed a case where the ability bar could appear even when the Show ability bar option was turned off.
  • Fixed certain objects not being attackable during the mission Dust Devils, which prevented progress.

GENERAL

  • Remaining Malevolent Snowflakes can now be used to gain 1,000 Anima Shards.
  • Updated the thumbnail images for Nightcaps in the Dressing Room.
  • Swapped the thumbnail images for the Fear Nothing shirts in the Dressing Room so they match the correct shirt.

The Secret World 1.9 Full Patch Notes

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UPDATE 1.9 HOTFIX – JUNE 23RD

GENERAL

Orochi Damage Inhibitor can no longer be deleted.
Orochi Damage Inhibitor is now character bound.
NPCs at Zeroes’ Wild and Susanoo’s Diner will no longer be total grumps and block access to the stairways.
Fixed an issue that could very rarely prevent the Hyper-Infected Citizen from properly spawning.
When using an AEGIS Transit Case or Biohazard Container, 1 Sequin of Sunrise will be given if you would otherwise have not received anything.

MISSIONS

Kaidan
Tower Defence – Reduced the amount of AEGIS research data given by the Transit Case rewards.

UPDATE 1.9 HOTFIX – JUNE 18TH

GENERAL

Fixed an issue with effects that should address at least some of the performance drops seen if you are logged in for a long time.

MISSIONS

Kaidan
The Pachinko Model – The last tier of the repeatable version of this mission now grants XP.
Tower Defence – Fixed an issue where headgear and hats were not properly removed during the cinematic.

UPDATE 1.9 HOTFIX – JUNE 12TH

GENERAL

Fixed an issue with AEGIS shields that could cause clients to crash.
AP Injectors will no longer be consumed if they would put the user over the AP cap.
Timed AP Boosts will no longer be consumed if there is already a Timed AP Boost buff running.
Removed invisible collision blocking the Agartha exit in Tokyo.

GUI

Fixed an issue where multiple copies of the AEGIS swapping UI would show when swapping to or from empty AEGIS slots.

COMBAT
Enemies will no longer attempt to cast Psychic Renewal while Obstructed.
Corrected an issue that prevented Full Momentum from granting 5 hammer resources.
Fixed an issue with some passive effects applying more often than they should.
Oni will no longer be broken by Strange Attractor.
Fixed an issue where some damage over time effects would not do the correct damage.

MISSIONS
New York
The Animate Clay – The exit grate from The Creature’s Abode will now work correctly again.
Kaidan
Right of Way – The repeatable version of this mission should now properly fail if players fail to enter the portal within the allotted time.
Hell of a Blow – Players should now keep the detonator until the mission has been completed.
Texts – This mission will now display in the proper mission journal category when completed.
Runaway Circus – In the event that a character somehow manages to lose the mission, it can now be re-obtained at the Subway Exit at the center of Kaidan City. Please note that this mission cannot be repeated.
Runaway Circus – Resolved an issue that prevented the player’s character from appearing during the first 2 shots of the cinematic played at the end of the mission.
Tower Defence – Fixed an issue where headgear and hats were not properly removed during the cinematic.
Tower Defence – Interacting with the generator when resuming the mission on Tier 4 will correctly give the generator and update the mission.
Tower Defence – Orochi defence tower manual is now a temporary mission item.
Tower Defence – Fixed an issue where players joining ‘Defend the breach’ while enemies are already fighting would not get a goal update after the assault ends.
The Pachinko Model – Sachiko is no longer the frail little ghost girl that she was.
Follow the White Rabbit – This mission can no longer be shared.
Hell’s Arsenal – Fixed a misleading waymarker.
Hell of a Blow – This mission will now display in the proper mission journal category when completed.
Spiral – The Home Alone achievement can now be completed after failing and re-entering the instance.
Right of Way – The Dignity Intact achievement can now be completed after failing and re-entering the instance.
The following missions will now award 3 Sequins of Sunrise (up from 2):
Venice Sinking (including repeatable version)Back to the Beginning (including repeatable version)
The Right of Way (including repeatable version)
Contract Killers (including repeatable version)
The Pachinko Model (including repeatable version)
Spiral (including repeatable version)
The following missions will now also award a Small Biohazard Container:
Venice Sinking (repeatable version only)
Back to the Beginning (repeatable version only)
The Right of Way (repeatable version only)
Contract Killers (repeatable version only)
The Pachinko Model (repeatable version only)
Spiral (repeatable version only)
The following missions now have an 18 hour cooldown (down from 68 hours):
Dear Diary
Filth Evolved
Noodles & Swords
Spy Games
Treachery in Purple
Masks in Exile
TextsHell’s Arsenal
Hell of a Blow
Feed the Tank
Chasing Bad Luck
Samurai Robots Can Happen to Anyone
The Ghost Lord
Pieces of Sarah
Population of Filth

UPDATE 1.9 HOTFIX – JUNE 6TH

GENERAL

The Wall – Lore 6 – is now accessible to players.
Fixed a client crash related to AEGIS controller switching.
Fixed a client crash related to the AEGIS system.

ITEMS

The Transdimensional Bank item has been restored.
Corrected Stimulant Brew Injector – Healing having a temporary name.
Changed the Stimulant Brew Injector – Healing functionality to allow it to be used on allies and on self.

COMBAT

Bosses in the story mission for Tokyo will no longer attempt to reapply their Psychic AEGIS.

MISSIONS

City of the Sun God
Black Sun, Red Sand – Fixed an issue that would not let players enter the Atenist temple.
Tokyo
The Pachinko Model – Placeholder text with unpowered computers replaced with correct text.
The Pachinko Model – Fixed an issue where the instance would appear differently for players in a group.
Tower Defence – Fixed an issue with players sometimes getting stuck on the goal “Defend the Breach”.
Right of Way – Ibaraki should now reset if he becomes unresponsive.

UPDATE 1.9 HOTFIX – JUNE 5TH

GENERAL

Fixed an issue in the new player cinematics where the wrong clothing was displayed on characters.

GUI

The Eternal Echoes tab will no longer show any Eternal Echoes that you have only partially completed and that currently cannot be completed.

COMBAT

The Psychic Renewal ability cast by some NPCs now has a 15 second cooldown.
AEGIS controllers can no longer be swapped during the global recharge timer.

MISSIONS

Tokyo
Back to the Beginning – Resolved an issue that caused Sarah to occasionally become unresponsive near the start of this mission.

UPDATE 1.9 – JUNE 4TH

NEW!!

New missions! Travel to Tokyo to take on a brand new chapter in The Secret World’s main story!
Use the all new AEGIS System to overcome new challenges and customize your character more than ever before!
Explore an all new adventure playfield full of hours of entertainment with new characters, missions, monsters, lore, and achievements!

GENERAL

Sprint is now reapplied after going through Agartha fast travel portals.
Fixed an issue that could cause characters to play the wrong movement animation after a change in speed.
Fixed a case where sound effects for completing mission tiers and missions were not playing.
Leaving a playfield with active need/greed windows open will now pass on those rolls.
When a character who won an item roll can no longer receive the item it will instead be given to the top roller who can receive it.
The Buzz achievement no longer requires players to obtain The Abandoned lore entries.
The Abandoned lore entries have been moved to a new Sidestories category in the Lore window.
Crafting a stack of something will now put it all in your bag if you have space, and not sometimes leave some in your crafting result slot.
Reduced the amount of rare gadget toolkits that drop in the world.
Changed logging level of Scaleform log messages to reduce spam in the client logs.
Players should no longer be able to take missions from mission givers while they are threatened, regardless of whether they are actually in combat or not.
The Obsidian Pharaoh Hound now lists the correct month in which it was awarded.
Updated the descriptions for pets that require an achievement to specify which achievements are required.
Format of text in the options screen has been made more consistent.
Added a missing tooltip to the Show Tutorial Popups interface option.
Fixed the description of the Free for All loot option.
Updated the text for “Filth Exterminator” and “The Bane of Dis” in the achievement window to indicate that they are titles.
Updated several abilities to use the official spelling of metre.
Increased the amount of screenshots the client can save.

GUI

Added four new AEGIS weapon controller equipment slots to the character sheet. The AEGIS controller in the large central box will be the active one. Pressing the AEGIS swap keys (9 and 0 default) will switch your active AEGIS controller.
Added a display above the ability bar to show which AEGIS controllers are currently active. Clicking this display will switch your active aegis.
A new minimap and map has been added to Agartha.
Added a Character Select button to the main menu which will return you to the character selection screen.
Added an icon to the nametags of players who are currently watching a cinematic.
Fixed a case where you would sometimes not see the stats of other characters correctly. Typically this could manifest itself as seeing other players not at full health even though they were, especially when many players converge in a small area.
Fixed an issue where tooltips for buffs in the Team UI and Defensive Target UI would not appear.
Fixed an issue where tooltips for buffs in the Team UI and Defensive Target UI would not go away.
Fixed an issue that was causing XP values above 2,147,483,647 to display incorrectly. (The correction will happen after the next XP award).
Fixed a case where the Exit Game button in the main menu didn’t work on the login or character selection screens.
Clicking and dragging the Team UI will now allow you to move it to anywhere on your screen.
Clicking and dragging the Defensive Target UI will now allow you to move it to anywhere on your screen.
Clicking the menu button on the Team UI will now open a dropdown that will allow you to hide the Team UI, lock the position of the Team UI, or lock the position of the Defensive Target UI.
Added a menu button to the Defensive Target UI when the Team UI is not active that allows players to lock the Defensive Target UI in place.
Fixed several cases where the Team UI would not maintain its minimized state.
Team UI will now resize properly when new buffs are added to a team member.
Buffs displayed on the Team UI will now show counters and timers.
Fixed a case where there was extra space before a team member’s name after changing team leadership.
Made several changes to the way that buffs are displayed:
If a player has stacks of a buff running on a target, that player will be shown their own stacks and timers.
If a player does not have stacks of a buff running on a target, that player will be shown whichever copy of the buff has the most stacks.
Fixed a case where dragged item icons would be offset from the cursor while dragging.
The search functions on the Market have been expanded to help further filter search results.
Swapped the ring and wrist talisman slots in the gear manager.
Added a sound effect when switching equipment pages in the character sheet.
Fixed a case where the compass and share buttons in the Mission UI could not be clicked.
Added a new tab to the Achievement UI for Eternal Echoes. Eternal Echoes are achievements that are not permanently available.
The Eternal Echoes tab will show all Eternal Echoes that you have at least partially completed, as well as any that are currently available for completion.
The Eternal Echoes tab will not show any Echoes that you have not at least partially completed and that currently cannot be completed.
The Achievements/Lore UI should now reopen to the Achievement/Lore that it was last closed on.
Opening the Achievement/Lore UI by clicking the new Achievement or new Lore notification will open the UI to that achievement or lore entry.
New lore notification now vanishes when the achievement/lore UI is opened.
Newly acquired lore entries should now have a notification next to them in the lore GUI.
Fixed a case where the frame around newly unlocked achievements would be the wrong size.
Fixed a case where notifications on new achievements would not be cleared after viewing the new achievement.
The “Online” column in the cabal members list has been renamed “Activity”.
The “Activity” column in the cabal members list will now display the last date an offline cabal member was online.
The Friends list will now display the last online date for offline cabal members.
Added CharacterBase.IsThreatened() function to the UI. This function will return true if the character is hated by any enemy. Previously, CharacterBase.IsInCombat() was used, but only returns true if the player is actively in combat with the enemy.

CLOTHING

Fixed an issue that caused Work shirts to clip with Pinstripe suit jackets.
Fixed a graphical issue with the 50s styled female hair option.
Fixed a clipping issue with the female version of Black Metal – Brutal pants, black.
Fixed an issue with the size of the female version of Carapace of the Immaculate Machine – Boots.

ITEMS

We have changed the way vendors give you items to function in the same way as items that are given from loot, crafting, or quest rewards. This affects whether items are considered the same for inventory stacking purposes and will make some previously purchased items (like potions) unable to stack with newly purchased items of the same type. It will however also make newly purchased items able to stack with the same type of item acquired elsewhere.
Updated the prices for most consumables in all faction HQs. QL 8 prices stayed the same, while QL 10 prices have gone up. QL 2, 4, and 6 prices have gone down considerably.
Auxiliary weapon tooltips will no longer display as Bind on Equip.
Grim Glamour: Mummy, Grim Glamour: Vampire, and Grim Glamour: Zombie are now properly labeled as Bind on Pickup.
Corrected a typo with the Pure Anima – Attack Rating tooltip in the German client.
Corrected a typo on the Event Horizon Cannon tooltip.
Fixed a typo in the Artisan’s Tool Augmenter that should make it easier to search on the Market.
Sack of Penny Dreadfuls will now properly appear on the Market.
Left sock and Right sock will now properly appear on the Market.
Spoils of Niflheim will now properly appear on the Market.
Enruned Quetzal Bird will now properly appear on the Market.
Signet reward bags will now have their rarity represented in text as with other items.
Added a small cooldown to the AP Injectors to prevent more than one from being consumed at a time.
Renamed the various healing potions that are purchased from PvP vendors to differentiate them from the crafted versions.
Updated to the tooltips of all Trinkets on linked cooldowns to indicate which Trinkets affect each other’s cooldowns.
Fixed a display issue with the Burst of Energy advanced tooltip in the French client.
Red sargassum barrel can now be deleted.
Sufferer’s raiment can now be deleted.
Radar trackers will no longer play during cinematics.

COMBAT

General
Evades are now shown in the combat log.
Fixed an issue that could cause players to become permanently impaired.
All of the stacking rating effects in the game (Block Rating, Penetration Rating, Evade Rating, Hit Rating, Critical Rating, Critical Power Rating, Defense Rating, and Protection Rating) now provide 35 per stack instead of 30.
Attacks against enemies of a higher rank than your weapon skill will no longer have an increased chance to glance.
Any target affected by multiple successive taunts will now only be affected by the most recently applied taunt.
Abilities that act on hit should last only as long and affect the number of targets as intended.
Passives that are supposed to trigger from Hindering will now work more reliably.
Passives which trigger off impair will no longer trigger if the target is immune to impair effects.
Added new text to all abilities that are not affected by and that do not trigger the global recharge timer.
Updated the wording in all “Defence” gadgets to state that they are procced by glances.
Updated all percentage damage increasing effects to use the same method of damage increase. This change should make damage increases easier to understand and behave more consistently.
Updated all effects which heal for a flat amount, such as Karma Curio and Turn the Tables, to take into account negative healing modifiers from effects such as Corrupted.
Fixed an issue that caused percent max health based heals to not be modified by the Corrupted debuff or other heal reducing effects.
Fixed an issue where some stacking dots would not work correctly if more than one character was applying them.
Fixed an issue which caused passive proc effects to not always trigger in specific cases where multiple players attempted to trigger the same effect on the same target at the same time.
Damage over time effects, proc effects, and persistent ground damaging areas applied by players are now able to critically hit and penetrate. Likewise, they are now also able to glance and be blocked. These effects will still not trigger other effects, ie: a damage over time crit will not trigger One in the Chamber, they will just have their damage modified by these hit event types.
Updated heal procs and heal over time effects to now be able to critically hit, similar to how damage over time and damage proc effects are able.
Updated the tooltip of the Occluding Lens effect.
Reworked the way Gaian Exposure adds healing power. It will now increase the character’s overall healing power (instead of just the weapon’s) by 1% per stack. This allows Gaian Exposure to affect passives, Miscellaneous abilities, and any other item abilities that are calculated with the “Healing Power” stat.
Updated the tooltip of the Gaian Exposure buff.
The healing proc on Blood of the Old Ones will no longer affect NPCs.
Reduced the duration of the Entanglement effect on some Nightmare enemies.
Fixed several issues with dungeon Head Talisman items not providing their buff effects.
Fixed several issues with the Ma’at’s Judgement item.
Fixed various issues with the dungeon talisman Pride.
Removed the short silence effect from the Deathless form ability Blood Burst to prevent constant self-silencing.

Chaos
Intensity should now correctly increase hate generated by Escalation.
Updated the tooltip of Strange Attractor to denote that it Impairs affected targets.
Increased the cooldown of Strange Attractor to 45s (was 30s).
Prisoner of Fate will now go on cooldown immediately after use.
The evade effect from Illusion is now able to be purged in all cases.
Fixed an issue where Backlash would not always gain counters when evading.
Fixed an issue where the tooltip for Cry Havoc displayed more damage than it should (Note that the damage from Cry Havoc has not changed and this was only a display fix.).
Reduced the cooldown of Immutable to 80 seconds (from 100).

Elementalism
Updated the description of Short Fuse to indicate that it will multiply damage output.
Fixed an issue which caused Elemental Force to gain stacks when queuing a non-stack building ability after a damaging ability with a cast time.
Abilities such as turrets and manifestations which do not advance the Elemental Force counter are no longer able to take advantage of the bonus effect this passive generates.
Abilities which do not benefit from Elemental Force should no longer advance the counter and consume the effect.
Abilities which benefit from Elemental Force should now always advance the counter and consume the effect.
Fixed an issue where Magnetic Wipe would purge a target even if the ability did not successfully hit.
Criticality will now only cause damage to a single target once per second. For example, if you critically hit 5 targets in an AoE, there will no longer be 5 Criticality chains generated.
Fixed an issue where Criticality would not proc on separate targets if they were damaged by an earlier proc of Criticality.
Removed the cooldown from Thor’s Hammer.
Increased the damage dealt by Big Bang.
Removed the 5 second cooldown on Inferno.

Blood Magic
Clarified the description of Gross Anatomy to specify that it triggers when an affliction effect is renewed.
Splatter should now properly affect Conditional Force.
Increased the damage dealt by Arterial Pulse.
Arterial Pulse will now only cause damage to a single target once per second. For example, if you penetrate 5 targets in an AoE, there will no longer be 5 additional hits of Arterial Pulse generated.
Updated the tooltip for Thicker Than Water to reflect the fact that it will affect healing Blood Magic abilities.
Improved Angelic Aegis, Ruby Curtain, The Scarlet Arts, Exquisite Corpse, and Linked Veins to benefit from abilities that increase the healing power of Blood Magic abilities.
Removed the cooldown from There Will Be Blood.
Fixed an issue that caused Bloodsport and Corrupted Blood to not trigger Gross Anatomy when refreshed.
Blood Bank counters should now last 10 seconds as the tooltip states.
Reduced the max stack size on Blood Bank to 5.
Increased the damage bonus on Affliction effects on Blood Bank to 3% per stack.
Increased the next barrier granted by Infusion to 35% (from 30%).
Reduced the cooldown of Transfuse and Abuse to 25 seconds (from 45).
Contaminate can now be silenced, now counts as Blood Magic, and is now classified as a magical ability.

Blades
The extra hit performed by Steel Echo should now gain modifications from buff effects.
Fixed an issue with Chop Shop which made its radius smaller than it should be.
Fixed the simple tooltip of Chop Shop to more accurately reflect what the ability does.
Fixed an issue which caused Fatal Flourish to gain stacks when queuing a non-stack building ability after a damaging ability with a cast time.
Abilities such as turrets and manifestations which do not advance the Fatal Flourish counter are no longer able to take advantage of the bonus effect this passive generates.
Significantly increased the damage dealt by the Fortunate Strike passive ability.
Fixed an issue which caused Blade Torrent to generate more hate than it should.
Increased the base damage dealt by Grass Cutter while decreasing the bonus damage from hitting afflicted targets.
Increased the charge distance of Saving Grace to 20 (from 15).
Silver Streak now cleanses hinders.
Updated the description of Regeneration to state that it lasts 10 seconds.

Fists
Fixed an issue where Go for the Throat displayed lower damage in the tooltip than it should.
Predator passive now states that it improves healing as well as damage.
Increased the damage bonus value of Animal Instinct to 100%.
Animal Instinct will now also apply an affliction effect for 8 seconds to all targets hit by Savage Sweep.
Improved Cauterise, Vigour, Shelter, Inner Spark, and Fired Up to benefit from abilities that increase the healing power of Fist abilities.
Increased the bonus damage of Bear Knuckle when hitting impaired targets.
Creature Comfort is now considered both a direct heal and heal over time effect and can benefit from both categories of enhancements.
Increased the range of Blast of Light to 10 metres.

Hammers
Fixed an issue where the Hammer weapon skill Momentum was not granting the full damage bonus that it should.
Full Momentum now creates 5 instant resources.
Updated the description of Knuckle Down to state that it affects direct heals in addition to damage.
Updated several builders to ensure they are fully affected by Knuckle Down.
No Mercy will now properly gain its buff effect after killing an enemy even after changing areas.
Updated the tooltip of No Mercy to more accurately reflect its behavior.
The No Mercy marker debuff will now be visible and work properly when multiple players apply it at the same time to the same target.
Increased the damage bonus value of You’re Next to 6%.
Clarified the tooltip description for Raging Volcano.
Fixed an issue where Forged in Fire could trigger twice in one cooldown period.

Assault Rifles
Reduced the movement speed penalty when activating an Assault Rifle ability to 40%.
Leeching Frenzy is now affected by Experience and Signet of Hunger.
No Contest will now also increase damage dealt by 8% in addition to making the hit unavoidable.
Short Controlled Bursts will now increase Hit Rating by 200, and Penetration Chance and Critical Chance by 2.5% for Burst abilities.
Changed Accuracy to always provide a 5% damage bonus. It will also now add 50 Hit Rating.
Updated the tooltip description for the Accuracy passive to be more clear.
Reduced the damage dealt by Shoot ‘Em Up.
Reduced the damage dealt by Anticoagulant.
Reduced cast time of Incendiary Grenade to 0.5 seconds.
Fire in the Hole now has two damage components, one delayed and one upon activation. The delayed damage from this ability is now treated as a proc effect and cannot trigger or benefit from Elemental Force or other passive effects.
Suppressing Fire will now deal the majority of its damage on the first hit of the attack. This damage will be able to trigger procs and passives. The subsequent 3 hits will no longer be able to trigger procs and passives.
Tactical Retreat’s delayed damage will no longer benefit from Elemental Force.
Increased the damage dealt by Extra Bullet.
Increased the damage dealt by the primary hit of Trigger Happy.
Increased the back dash from Razor Wire to 10 metres (from 5).
Sharp Shooter now causes an additional hit at ranges greater than 12 metres instead of affecting Hit Rating.

Pistols
Updated the tooltip on Closer to indicate that it can also affect healing abilities.
Contortionist should now properly increase the barrier value on Expulsion.
Born Leader’s heal effect is now able to critically heal.
Increased the healing and damage of Born Leader.
Born Leader now follows the player as a PBAoE instead of remaining in place when cast.
Utilitarianism will now also cause allies affected by Greater Good to receive healing for the duration of the effect.
Reduced the cast time of Greater Good to instant.
Greater Good will no longer trigger or be affected by the global recharge timer.
Removed the cooldown from Collaboration.
Slightly reduced the damage dealt by Collaboration.
Collaboration will now provide a guaranteed cleanse with a 5 second internal recharge time.
Increased the damage dealt by Marked.
Increased the damage dealt by Above the Law.
Reduced the cooldown of Pistol Love to 25 seconds (from 30).
Increased the resistance duration of Pistol Love to 10 seconds (from 5).
Fixed an issue with Pistol Love that would cause friendly NPCs to hate players.
Bullet Ballet now adds a stack (up to 5) of bonus Critical Rating for each hit.
Updated the tooltip of Cleansing Drone to include the radius and to reflect that this ability lasts for 3 seconds.
Reduced the cooldown of Cleansing Drone to 6 seconds.
Increased the damage dealt by Cleansing Drone.
Increased the number of targets affected by Area Drone to 5 (from 3).
Fixed a typo in Area Drone’s description.
Area Drone will now correctly benefit from effects which increase resource consumer damage and effects which improve Pistol damage.
Reduced the cooldown of Health Drone to 4 seconds (from 20).
Health Drone now hits up to 5 targets (up from 3).
Drone support now heals all group members whenever Cleansing Drone attempts to cleanse.
Removed the 1 second cast time from Gun-Fu.
Gun-Fu will now reduce the cooldown on all Pistol consumers by 4 seconds.
Increased the damage of Bond, Strong Bond.
Increased the dash on Shake and Bake to 10 metres.
Rapid Getaway will now provide the Minor Critical Chance effect when activating any resource consumer. This is in addition to the increased movement speed.
Running Circles now hits the targeted enemy for a small amount of damage when you are moving.
Updated the tooltip of Shot in the Arm to reflect that this ability procs on attempts to cleanse (actually cleansing is not necessary).
Seal the Deal will now increase the damage and healing of all resource consumers rather than every other consumer. This will allow it to affect abilities such as Manifestations, Drones, and Turrets more reliably.
Seal the Deal’s damage bonus has been reduced to 15%.
Seal the Deal will now also increase critical chance for resource consuming abilities by 5%.

Shotguns
Fixed an issue that could cause the Shotgun Wedding damage increase effect to persist permanently.
Removed an extra period from Breach Party’s description.
Updated the word Weakened in Single Barrel’s description to have the correct link.
Stopping Power should now properly advance and consume Elemental Force.
Reduced the cooldown of Smart Bomb to 45 seconds (from 60).
Reduced the cooldown of Bomb Squad to 45 seconds (from 60).

Rocket Launcher
The Clusterstruck animation will now complete even if another action is performed immediately after its use.

Chainsaw
Activating Diamond Grit will now remove any active barrier effects.

Misc
Reduced the cooldown of Sleight of Hand to 30s (was 40s).
Fixed an issue where you would sometimes not be able to use Sleight of Hand while knocked down.
Reduced the cooldown of Last Resort to 60 seconds (from 80).
Added a damage mitigation effect to Last Resort that occurs after the invulnerability effect ends.
Last Resort will no longer trigger or be affected by the global recharge timer.
Speed Freak will now grant immunity to hinder effects for its duration, and remove hinder effects upon activation.

Signets
Signet of Valour will no longer erroneously affect your defensive target.
Signet of Reinforcement should now trigger more reliably when evading attacks.
Signet of Order and Signet of Salvation should now trigger more reliably against a variety of attacks.
Fixed an issue where in certain cases multiple copies of the Thirst effect from Signet of Thirst could work at the same time.
Fixed an issue where in certain cases multiple copies of the Equilibrium effect from Signet of Equilibrium could work at the same time.
Fixed several typos in Signet of Equilibrium.
Updated the trigger method for Signet of Aggression and Signet of Abuse to be more reliable.
All Signet effects which apply a beneficial effect or detrimental effect are now able to be purged or cleansed.

Augments
Updated the tooltip of Vivifying Augment to note that it only affects direct heals.
Significantly reduced the hate generated by the healing component of the Salubrious, Invulnerable, Quickening, and Curing Augment effects.
Mercurial and Accelerating Augments will now also reduce the remaining time on the Depleted, Shorted Out, and Uncalibrated debuffs applied by Breaching Shot, Short Fuse, and Deadly Aim.

MISSIONS

Story and Faction
London Underground – The Dragon version of this mission should now always update when a player approaches the Crocea Mors, as long as the timer has not yet expired.
Mortal Sins – The Silver Egg is now automatically removed when you complete the mission.
Mortal Sins – Body parts will no longer linger in player inventories after completing the associated zone.

The Savage Coast
Weapons of Minor Destruction – The Pitcher’s mound should no longer get stuck in a non-interactive state.
Jack’s Back – The Ghostlight field in Tier 4 should now properly reset.
Another Bug Hunt – This mission now works in a group. Additionally, two more poor souls have been claimed by the Ak’ab. The mission still only requires locating four.

The Blue Mountain
Dawning of an Endless Night – Fixed an issue causing the cinematic with Ami and Kyra to not play immediately after the first encounter with Beaumont in the Blue Ridge Mine.
The Research of Tyler Freeborn – The Guardian on Tier 1 should now always depart when it is time to go.

The Scorched Desert
The Big Terrible Picture – Players will no longer be killed by hostile wildlife while watching the cinematic in Tier 6 when returning to Montgomery.
From Oxford, With Love – Players will no longer be killed by hostile wildlife while watching the cinematic in Tier 1 when investigating the camp.
A Time to Every Purpose – The Scion of Pompilius will now return to the courtyard if scared off.
O Tempora! O Mores! – The Roman weapons and supplies no longer incorrectly update goal progress extra times.

City of the Sun God
The Binding – It should no longer be possible for aggressive wildlife to kill you while watching the cinematic during Tier 4.

The Shadowy Forest
Wild Hunt – Fixed a sync issue with the audio in the opening cinematic.
The Drăculeşti – The Explosives Detonator and Solomonar Cube are now cleaned up properly when finishing this mission.

DUNGEONS AND RAIDS

Hell Raised
Persistent area effects or meteor showers should no longer damage/kill players while watching the cinematic after Machine Tyrant is killed.
Manhattan Exclusion Zone
Fixed an issue that could cause The Unutterable Lurker to become unresponsive.

PVP

General
Engineer vendors in all faction Headquarters now sell a new set of gadgets. All of these gadgets except for the Restoration Contrivances are only usable in PvP areas, and all of them can be purchased for Black Marks.
Equal Footing will now be applied to all players in PvP areas. It will attempt to provide a statistical increase in power to players below a certain threshold. The priority in stats increased is based on the player’s chosen uniform.
The Equal Footing effect will be removed when updating gear, and will reapply shortly afterward.
The Equal Footing reapplication delay after changing gear will refresh in duration if you change gear while the delay is active.
Increased the bonus health granted by the High Powered Weaponry uniform to 10%.
Increased the bonus health granted by the Reinforced Armour uniform to 25%.
Increased the bonus health granted by the Integrated Anima Conduits uniform to 15%.
Fixed a case where the resurrection UI would show when the player was alive after exiting a PvP match while dead.
Fixed a case where the PvP GUI would break when joining a PvP match from within a different PvP match.
Players will now be removed from all other PvP queues when joining a PvP match.
El Dorado
Carrying a relic will now slow movement speed by 20% and reduce the power of incoming heals, barriers, and leech effects by 25%.
Movement abilities are now locked when carrying a relic.
It is no longer possible to sprint while holding a relic.
Fixed an issue where the Relic of the East and West messages were swapped.
The East Relic should now properly display which faction controls it.
Fixed an issue where the Plant Relic button would not appear on the scoreboard.
Fusang
Fusang mission rewards should now display the proper icon.
The rewards and cooldowns for the following missions have changed:
Capture Anima Well: Reward – 5 Black Marks // Cooldown – 18 Hours
The Underdogs: Reward – 5 Black Marks // Cooldown – 1 minute
Eliminate 10 Enemies: Reward – 10 Black Marks // Cooldown – 18 Hours
Capture a Facility: Reward – 50 Black Marks // Cooldown – 30 Hours

SCENARIOS

General
The announcers in Venice have been asked to stop lying to test participants about certain events as they occur during examinations. They thought it was funny. We, however, do not have a sense of humour.
The Hotel
The Jinn boss should no longer randomly target survivors with Unstable Eruption.

WORLD DESIGN

Fixed an issue with a wall in London that could allow players to fall underneath the playfield.
Fixed a location where players could get stuck near the Withered Spring in City of the Sun God.
Fixed a billboard in Kingsmouth Airport that was floating slightly off the ground.

The Secret World Issue #8 Full Patch Notes

tsw-issue8The latest content update for The Secret World, Issue #8 – The Venetian Agenda – is now live.

Here’s the full patch / update notes for your digestion if you can’t jump into the update itself right now:

UPDATE 1.8 CONTENT RELEASE – NOVEMBER 7TH

NEW!

  • Scenarios are now available! Secret Worlders can hone themselves in simulated training environments.  Players can select a destination, group size, and difficulty. Protect NPCs from hordes of ravening enemies and receive certification from the Council of Venice!
  • The Augment system can now be unlocked!  Tune your abilities to suit your playstyle’s needs!
  • A new story mission is available!  The main storyline continues, ramping up to the next pivotal chapter in Tokyo.

COMBAT

  • Fixed an issue where Suppressing Fire would sometimes not build resources when multiple players attacked the same target. Note that this now causes the ability to build resources at the end of the cast similar to Bloodline.
  • Increased the duration of Advantage Me to be 5 seconds.
  • Increased the jump distance of the chain spells Wanted, Electrical Storm, and Infection to 5 meters.

GUI

  • Fixed item shortcut window being cleared when loading a build in the gear manager.
  • Fixed an issue that caused minor talismans to be removed from saved builds when launching the client.
  • Fixed an issue where the Gear Manager would not equip certain items.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent the Gear Manager from equipping an Elite Passive ability.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent the Gear Manager from equipping an Elite Active ability.
  • Fixed an issue where the Gear Manager would preview the wrong set when more than 8 sets were saved.

CLOTHING

  • Fixed an issue where some gloves would get cut off when wearing a Strapless blouse and corset

 

MISSIONS

Kingsmouth Town

  • The Gypsy’s Diary – Fixed a typo in the mission description text

Savage Coast

  • The Rogue Groundskeeper – Fixed a typo in the Dragon faction report

 

 

UPDATE 1.8 HOTFIX – OCTOBER 31ST

GENERAL

  • Increased the duration of the snare effect applied by Razor Wire.
  • Fixed an issue that caused a visible seam to appear on character arms when wearing the Plague Doctor gloves with a long sleeved shirt.
  • Fixed an issue that caused visible seams to appear on character legs when wearing the Plague Doctor leggings with certain boots.
  • Fixed an issue that caused an errant texture to appear in front of a character’s abdomen while wearing the Creepy Equine Mask and being in combat stance with fist weapons.

MISSIONS

Kingsmouth Town

  • The Confession of Ellis Hill: Fixed a typo in the mission text.
  • The Ghost of Jack-o-Lantern: All pumpkins are despawned when Jack dies.
  • The Ghost of Jack-o-Lantern: Players can buy and carve new Jack-o-lanterns as often as they want while on the mission.

Savage Coast

  • Spooky Stories of Solomon Island: Removed the cooldown from this mission.

Blue Mountain

  • The Organ Smugglers: The mobs will now properly reset if players die during the ambush.
  • The Organ Smugglers: Organ Harvesters/Mark Davies will no longer affect gear durability.

Scorched Desert

  • The Prisoner: Removed an errant symbol in the subtitles during the final cinematic.
  • Last Train to Cairo: Added missing lip movement to Saïd during the opening cinematic.

Besieged Farmlands

  • The Gathering: Fixed some clipping issues with Cucuvea’s hair during the mission cinematic.
  • Deathless: Fixed some clipping issues with Cucuvea’s hair during the mission cinematic.

Carpathian Fangs

  • The Sound of Children: Fixed typos in the computer used during Tier 2 of this mission.

DUNGEONS

  • Corrupted Agartha: Creatures in the nightmare version of the Filthy Agartha instance are harder again.

PLEASE NOTE

  • The new Scenario, Augment System and Story Missions are not yet available. These will be added when Issue 8 goes live.

GENERAL

  • Adjusted the experience awarded to groups, depending on group size (awards are unchanged for solo play and for groups of five).
  • Gadgets will no longer trigger the global cooldown when used.
  • Updated the simple description for Sudden Return.
  • Fixed an issue with the tooltip for the heal value of My Bloody Valentine.
  • Resolved an issue that could leave the boss area for Aspect of the Long-Toothed inaccessible for future players when the boss despawns.
  • Fixed a problem that could cause characters to drop from sprint immediately after combat.

COMBAT

  • Deadly Aim now applies a debuff to all affected party members which prevents them from receiving the Deadly Aim effect for 90 seconds.
  • Calling the Shots now also reduces the duration of the Deadly Aim blocker effect.
  • Breaching Shot now applies a debuff to all affected party members which prevents them from receiving the Breaching Shot effect for 90 seconds.
  • Breach Party now also reduces the duration of the Breaching Shot blocker effect.
  • Fixed an issue where Aftershock could trigger more than once.
  • Splatter should now affect Health Drone and Linked Veins.
  • Misdirection can no longer be used on friendly NPCs.
  • Fixed an issue where Chain Feed would not affect all healing chains.
  • Sleight of Hand should be usable while silenced now.
  • Groundwork will no longer erroneously build resources for your secondary weapon.
  • Suppressing Fire should now add resources more reliably when multiple players are shooting the same target.
  • The cooldown of Death From Above will now be properly reduced when using both Rocket Science and Double Dash.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Grand Slam’s AoE damage to occur twice per use.
  • Updated the tooltip for Do or Die to more accurately reflect its effect.
  • Guts and Gory should now properly trigger and benefit from Elemental Force.
  • Tenacity crits should now trigger Empowerment.
  • The Hinder associated with Bomb Squad should now last the correct duration.
  • Corrected a problem with Damage Redirects which caused Benediction & Cold Blooded to increase damage taken.
  • Reduced rubber-banding issue that occurs when certain abilities are queued.

ITEMS

  • Fixed an issue that caused the reward bags from the Golem Anniversary Event to malfunction if players had the pet given by the bag stored in their bank.
  • Replaced the temporary text being used by Mark of the Illuminati/Dragon/Templar/etc. in the combat log.
  • It is no longer possible to stack the Signet of Salvation effect.

GUI

  • Character sheet will now remember which stats were displayed when it was last closed.
  • Fixed an issue where the camera would zoom in while scrolling through the Dressing Room.
  • Notifications for new lore entries now disappear after the lore is read.
  • Notifications for new achievements with sub-achievements now disappear when the sub achievement list is expanded.
  • Lore and Achievements are now marked as “old” as soon as they are read, rather than waiting until the notification fades out.
  • Added text for rarity levels to item tooltips.
  • Added a new Lockout Timers GUI accessible through the main menu, pressing Shift+L, or clicking the lockout buff.
  • Added a visual indication to the GUI for when players are in combat.
  • The gradient at the bottom of the screen now scales properly when changing HUD size.
  • Certain buffs should now always appear in the front of the buff list.
  • Fixed an issue where the buy button was disabled on skills after purchasing a skill and having exactly enough AP to purchase the next skill.
  • Fixed an issue where Battle Rank did not show in the character sheet for characters with maximum Faction Rank.
  • Increased the default width of vendor windows so that all prices are visible.
  • The broken items notification icon will now flash like other notifications.

CLOTHING

  • Fixed an issue that would cause a character’s legs to disappear when wearing the Ritual Coat over certain dresses.
  • Fixed an issue that would cause a character’s legs to disappear when wearing the Innsmouth hoodie over certain dresses.
  • Fixed an issue that would cause a character’s legs to disappear when wearing certain coat items over the Meat is Murder – Butcher apron.
  • Fixed a case where the Delta Force – Right arm wrap would not always display on characters.
  • Adjusted a bad seam caused by the My Flair Lady shirt.
  • Adjusted the Creepy Equine and Unicorn hats to reduce clipping with shirt collars.

MISSIONS

New York

  • Training Day: Fixed a clipping issue with Kirsten Geary during her cinematic.

Kingsmouth Town

  • Death and the Instruments Thereof: Fixed an issue in the cinematic that caused Sandy “Moose” Jansen’s leg to move unnaturally.
  • The Meowling: Werekittens should respawn quickly if there are still players in the area with the goal to kill them.
  • The Meowling: Removed temporary text from the tooltip for the Bag of Tricks and Treats reward.
  • Crossing the Black Path: Fixed an issue with Siabhra’s Air where the tooltip was referring to the wrong mission.

The Scorched Desert

  • Old Gods, New Tricks: Fixed a clipping issue that occurred with Tanis during the cinematic for this mission.

City of the Sun God

  • The Dark Places: Fixed a typo in the opening cinematic.

The Shadowy Forest

  • When the Hatchet Falls: Removed an extra period in the subtitles for this mission.

The Carpathian Fangs

  • You Only Die Twice: Fixed a clipping issue with Dragan Dzoavich’s headset.
  • The Sound of Children: Fixed a clipping issue with Lilith during a cinematic in this mission.

DUNGEONS

  • Hell Fallen: Killing Engine Tyrant Prime before it calls Alpha no longer prevents progress through the dungeon.
  • Hell Fallen: Fixed a pre-encounter animation glitch on Engine Tyrant Prime.

WORLD DESIGN

  • Removed an invisible barrier that was blocking a ramp in El Dorado.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed players to reach unintended areas of N’gha-Pei the Corpse-Island (Kingsmouth Lair Raid).
  • Collision tightened around the Squalid Hekaturgist in The Black Ankh.
  • Fixed a location in Blue Mountain where players could get stuck between some rocks.
  • Fixed a location in Blue Mountain where players could get stuck under a tree.
  • Fixed some missing collision in Shambhala which allowed players to reach unintended areas.
  • Fixed a location on The Last Train to Cairo where players could get stuck on crates.
  • Fixed a location in Fusang that allowed players to reach unintended areas.

The Secret World 1.8 Full Patch Notes

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Sorry for the tardiness, here are the full patch notes for The Secret World 1.8. Enjoy!

PLEASE NOTE

  • The new Scenario, Augment System and Story Missions are not yet available. These will be added when Issue 8 goes live.

GENERAL

  • Adjusted the experience awarded to groups, depending on group size (awards are unchanged for solo play and for groups of five).
  • Gadgets will no longer trigger the global cooldown when used.
  • Updated the simple description for Sudden Return.
  • Fixed an issue with the tooltip for the heal value of My Bloody Valentine.
  • Resolved an issue that could leave the boss area for Aspect of the Long-Toothed inaccessible for future players when the boss despawns.
  • Fixed a problem that could cause characters to drop from sprint immediately after combat.

COMBAT

  • Deadly Aim now applies a debuff to all affected party members which prevents them from receiving the Deadly Aim effect for 90 seconds.
  • Calling the Shots now also reduces the duration of the Deadly Aim blocker effect.
  • Breaching Shot now applies a debuff to all affected party members which prevents them from receiving the Breaching Shot effect for 90 seconds.
  • Breach Party now also reduces the duration of the Breaching Shot blocker effect.
  • Fixed an issue where Aftershock could trigger more than once.
  • Splatter should now affect Health Drone and Linked Veins.
  • Misdirection can no longer be used on friendly NPCs.
  • Fixed an issue where Chain Feed would not affect all healing chains.
  • Sleight of Hand should be usable while silenced now.
  • Groundwork will no longer erroneously build resources for your secondary weapon.
  • Suppressing Fire should now add resources more reliably when multiple players are shooting the same target.
  • The cooldown of Death From Above will now be properly reduced when using both Rocket Science and Double Dash.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Grand Slam’s AoE damage to occur twice per use.
  • Updated the tooltip for Do or Die to more accurately reflect its effect.
  • Guts and Gory should now properly trigger and benefit from Elemental Force.
  • Tenacity crits should now trigger Empowerment.
  • The Hinder associated with Bomb Squad should now last the correct duration.
  • Corrected a problem with Damage Redirects which caused Benediction & Cold Blooded to increase damage taken.
  • Reduced rubber-banding issue that occurs when certain abilities are queued.

ITEMS

  • Fixed an issue that caused the reward bags from the Golem Anniversary Event to malfunction if players had the pet given by the bag stored in their bank.
  • Replaced the temporary text being used by Mark of the Illuminati/Dragon/Templar/etc. in the combat log.
  • It is no longer possible to stack the Signet of Salvation effect.

GUI

  • Character sheet will now remember which stats were displayed when it was last closed.
  • Fixed an issue where the camera would zoom in while scrolling through the Dressing Room.
  • Notifications for new lore entries now disappear after the lore is read.
  • Notifications for new achievements with sub-achievements now disappear when the sub achievement list is expanded.
  • Lore and Achievements are now marked as “old” as soon as they are read, rather than waiting until the notification fades out.
  • Added text for rarity levels to item tooltips.
  • Added a new Lockout Timers GUI accessible through the main menu, pressing Shift+L, or clicking the lockout buff.
  • Added a visual indication to the GUI for when players are in combat.
  • The gradient at the bottom of the screen now scales properly when changing HUD size.
  • Certain buffs should now always appear in the front of the buff list.
  • Fixed an issue where the buy button was disabled on skills after purchasing a skill and having exactly enough AP to purchase the next skill.
  • Fixed an issue where Battle Rank did not show in the character sheet for characters with maximum Faction Rank.
  • Increased the default width of vendor windows so that all prices are visible.
  • The broken items notification icon will now flash like other notifications.

CLOTHING

  • Fixed an issue that would cause a character’s legs to disappear when wearing the Ritual Coat over certain dresses.
  • Fixed an issue that would cause a character’s legs to disappear when wearing the Innsmouth hoodie over certain dresses.
  • Fixed an issue that would cause a character’s legs to disappear when wearing certain coat items over the Meat is Murder – Butcher apron.
  • Fixed a case where the Delta Force – Right arm wrap would not always display on characters.
  • Adjusted a bad seam caused by the My Flair Lady shirt.
  • Adjusted the Creepy Equine and Unicorn hats to reduce clipping with shirt collars.

MISSIONS

New York

  • Training Day: Fixed a clipping issue with Kirsten Geary during her cinematic.

Kingsmouth Town

  • Death and the Instruments Thereof: Fixed an issue in the cinematic that caused Sandy “Moose” Jansen’s leg to move unnaturally.
  • The Meowling: Werekittens should respawn quickly if there are still players in the area with the goal to kill them.
  • The Meowling: Removed temporary text from the tooltip for the Bag of Tricks and Treats reward.
  • Crossing the Black Path: Fixed an issue with Siabhra’s Air where the tooltip was referring to the wrong mission.

The Scorched Desert

  • Old Gods, New Tricks: Fixed a clipping issue that occurred with Tanis during the cinematic for this mission.

City of the Sun God

  • The Dark Places: Fixed a typo in the opening cinematic.

The Shadowy Forest

  • When the Hatchet Falls: Removed an extra period in the subtitles for this mission.

The Carpathian Fangs

  • You Only Die Twice: Fixed a clipping issue with Dragan Dzoavich’s headset.
  • The Sound of Children: Fixed a clipping issue with Lilith during a cinematic in this mission.

DUNGEONS

  • Hell Fallen: Killing Engine Tyrant Prime before it calls Alpha no longer prevents progress through the dungeon.
  • Hell Fallen: Fixed a pre-encounter animation glitch on Engine Tyrant Prime.

WORLD DESIGN

  • Removed an invisible barrier that was blocking a ramp in El Dorado.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed players to reach unintended areas of N’gha-Pei the Corpse-Island (Kingsmouth Lair Raid).
  • Collision tightened around the Squalid Hekaturgist in The Black Ankh.
  • Fixed a location in Blue Mountain where players could get stuck between some rocks.
  • Fixed a location in Blue Mountain where players could get stuck under a tree.
  • Fixed some missing collision in Shambhala which allowed players to reach unintended areas.
  • Fixed a location on The Last Train to Cairo where players could get stuck on crates.
  • Fixed a location in Fusang that allowed players to reach unintended areas.

Secret World Issue #7 Full Patch Notes

innsmouthacademy4Issue #7 content update for The Secret World is now available, so we’ve taken the opportunity to provide the full patch notes for it and the ‘Anniversary’ patch together. If you haven’t logged into TSW for a little while, have a read through on what’s now on offer:

UPDATE ISSUE #7: A DREAM TO KILL – JULY 9TH

 

NEW!

  • A brand new story line in Transylvania has you investigating the presence of the werewolves in the area. This will lead you to take a closer look at the Orochi activities in the region, leading down a trail of dark deeds and deception! The brand new story line is not only full of plenty of new action filled missions, but also continues The Secret World’s main story line in Transylvania, and reveals significant details and important individuals crucial to the future of Gaia herself!
  • New Auxiliary weapon: the flamethrower! Get the parts needed from Vampire Hunter in the Besieged Farmlands and be on the lookout for a way to infuse the weapon with Anima so it can achieve its full power.
  • The Envoy of Ca’ d’Oro in The Shadowy Forest has new daily missions.

 

MISSIONS

  • The Savage Coast: Theme Park Tycoon – Zombies will now take damage from the Octotron.

 

PVP

  • An issue with queueing and entering Fusang has been resolved.

 

 

UPDATE ‘1.7 ANNIVERSARY’ – JULY 3RD

 

GENERAL

  • Illuminati and Down By Law gasmasks will now work as the CDC Respirator does in the Fog.
  • The Panopticon title has been restored.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Hippie Shades, gold with rose tint to not display with some uniforms.
  • The Carpathian Fangs – Fixed a floating power generator.

 

COMBAT

  • Elemental Manifestations no longer advance or consume Elemental Force.

 

GUI

  • Selecting decks in the ability wheel will highlight the correct abilities.
  • Fixed an issue where the close button on the skill window was not working.

 

UPDATE ‘1.7 FEATURES’ HOTFIX – JUNE 28TH

 

GENERAL

  • The Forgotten Ashes item can now be purchased again
  • Time Tomb Raider title can now be purchased again
  • Fixed a clipping issue with Strapless blouse and long gloves
  • Large frame glasses, black have been renamed to Large frame glasses, brown to match their actual color

 

COMBAT

  • Fatal Flourish will now trigger properly when using non-targeted AoE abilities
  • Fixed an issue that caused some attacks to not build and/or consume Elemental Force
  • Elemental Force and Fatal Flourish will no longer be gained when not hitting a target
  • Signet of Opportunism will no longer hit for more damage than it should
  • Using quantum abilities no longer causes item shortcuts to disappear

 

MISSIONS

New York

  • Questions and Answers – The door used to exit to New York can be used again

Kingsmouth

  • Dirty Laundry – The phone can once again be used

The Blue Mountain

  • Dawning of an Endless Night – Players can now enter the Blue Ridge Mine

The Scorched Desert

  • Tomb Raiders – The fifth tomb can once again be used
  • A Flight of Locusts – The keycards can once again be used
  • Headhunter – Players can now interact with Karim el Touni
  • Tainted Dreams – Players can now close the nightmare rift
  • From Oxford, With Love – Players can now retrieve the first artifact

City of the Sun God

  • They Were Beautiful Once – The digging machines can once again be used

The Besieged Farmlands

  • A Body of Work – Weapon cache can once again be used
  • Bearing Gifts – The note can now be inspected
  • Spy vs. Spy – Players can now interact with Zaha

The Shadowy Forest

  • Red Hand Down – The skeleton can once again be used

 

WORLD DESIGN

  • Blue Mountain – Fixed an issue where players could get stuck behind some crates
  • The Shadowy Forest – Moved a dead Orochi body so it is no longer floating
  • The Shadowy Forest – Moved a C4 explosive so it is no longer floating
  • The Shadowy Forest – Fixed an issue where an Orochi Computer was using an Illuminati symbol

UPDATE ‘1.7 FEATURES’ – JUNE 26TH

 

GENERAL

  • An issue causing players’ screens to remain black after finishing cinematics has been resolved.
  • You should no longer lose sprint when entering combat.
  • Item Shop Consumables can no longer be used before your character reaches Kingsmouth.
  • Character legs will no longer become invisible when wearing the Denim capri pants with Ankle boot heels.
  • Hands no longer disappear when wearing the Delta Force – Right arm wrap with long sleeves.
  • Quickened Anima should now be purchaseable at the correct faction ranks.
  • A few Transylvania monsters that were erroneously dropping New England Sequins will now drop Transylvania Sequins.
  • Faction Marks will no longer generate impact particles on their targets.
  • Vendors no longer trick you into thinking the veteran items are sellable.
  • Clarified the descriptions of the Quickened Animas and the Sprinting buffs.
  • You can no longer waste Astral Fuse or Criterion Upgrade on an upgrade where they are not needed.
  • The ’30 missions completed’ notification is now account wide, and will only appear once after one character completes 30 missions.
  • Added a heal over time effect to all practice Demons.
  • The Sherlock achievement now gets awarded correctly.
  • We have lowered prices for consumables from the pvp vendors.
  • Fixed an issue with the War Helmet and certain hairstyles.
  • Added a new dressing room slot for head accessories.
  • Disabled group invites when in the barber chair or plastic surgery table.
  • Send Report button should now be visible even when the mission tracker is disabled.
  • The playfield sequin vendors have received a new item of commerce.
  • Item Shop items now give onscreen feedback for why they are unusable before reaching Kingsmouth.
  • Look for a banner and sign displaying the names of the Music Contest winners in London!
  • Added ‘Powered by Dreamworld Technology’ logo to the login screen.
  • Added some text to the top of the bug report window to help players better understand the difference between bug reports and /petitions.

 

COMBAT

  • Beatdown will no longer apply its knockback effect to subsequent attacks.
  • Paradigm Shift has been redesigned. It now provides a 30% chance to gain the Minor Hit Chance effect whenever you apply the Weakened state. The reason for this change is to differentiate it from Call Your Shots.
  • Fatal Flourish has been redesigned. It now builds 1 Fatal Flourish counter every time you apply the Afflicted state. When the count reaches 8 the next attack will penetrate and reset the count. The reason for this change is to make it different than the Dark Potency passive.
  • Exploitation has been updated to provide a 33% chance to cleanse 1 effect from yourself whenever you hit a Hindered target. The reason for this change is to make it different than the Perjury passive.
  • Increased the damage dealt by the Sudden Return passive ability.
  • Contortionist will now remove only Hinder and Impair effects.
  • Fixed an issue which caused the stun component of Art of War to trigger even when the damage was evaded or glanced.
  • Defensive Turret will now apply its effect more reliably.
  • Passives which trigger when applying Hinder effects will no longer trigger if the target is immune to Hinder effects.
  • Deadly Aim’s duration will now be refreshed when reapplied.
  • Fixed a tooltip error with the Probability buff.
  • Fixed an issue where Bushwhack’s Obstruction effect did not last as long as it should.
  • The Charge effect when attached to a whip and triggered with Whip it Good will now hit reliably.
  • Win Win will now remove two stacks of the cleanseable dungeon debuffs.
  • Pistol Love will now remove three stacks of the cleanseable dungeon debuffs.
  • Cleansing Drone will now remove two stacks of the cleanseable dungeon debuffs if the target is Hindered when the drone is summoned.
  • Cry Havoc’s damaging ground area will now trigger correctly on any impaired targets.
  • Cry Havoc’s damaging ground area will now display properly in the combat log.
  • Updated the description of Cannonball to clarify which abilities it affects.
  • Cannonball will now trigger from Death from Above and Flicker.
  • Lock, Stock & Barrel will now consume and trigger properly when using Shotgun Turret and Defensive Turret.
  • Fixed a tooltip issue with Hog Wild.
  • Burst of Energy now works with Call for Eris.
  • Fixed an issue with the HoT effect of the quantum ability Charge.
  • Tooltips for barrier effects will now show the current value left on the barrier instead of showing the full value.
  • Increased the selection radius of Chain attacks so they work more reliably at selecting their maximum number of targets.
  • Updated the tooltip for Increased Dosage to show the healing range for 1-5 resources.
  • Increased the cooldown of Tear Gas to 4 seconds to match other ranged resource consuming abilities.
  • Reduced the damage of the extra hit to Safety Off caused by Extra Bullet.
  • Fixed a problem with Flight of Daggers.
  • Start & Finish should now benefit properly from all passive abilities.
  • Bond, Strong Bond will no longer incorrectly trigger Focus subtype passives.
  • Clarified Live Wire’s tooltip to indicate that it triggers off the 5th critical hit.
  • Updated description of Burst of Energy to specify that it only works with damaging abilities.
  • Corrected damage numbers in the tooltip for Bone Breaker.
  • Pressure Point and Elemental Force can no longer be removed via right click.
  • Soft Target should now apply ranged resources to your primary target when triggered.
  • The recharge modification from Rocket Science will now apply to Death from Above even if the jump kills you.
  • Fixed an issue where some HoT abilities were treated as active heals.
  • Reduced the total critical hit and penetrating hit chance on all abilities which hit multiple times per second. This is not a total normalization, but reduces their chances to be more in line with single hit abilities.
  • Momentum buff from the Hammer skill can no longer be canceled.
  • Fixed a tooltip error in the Striker ability.
  • Imprint will now trigger even if an attack is queued after Whip It Good.
  • Fixed an issue that caused Big Forty Five to consume an extra Pistol resource.
  • Made adjustments to the way Elemental Force and Fatal Flourish build counters to make them more reliable.
  • Channeling abilities can now be properly queued with themselves.
  • Fixed an issue with Strange Attractor which could cause it to not deal damage to targets who are immune to Impairs.
  • Anaesthesia will no longer apply 2 stacks of Rising Vigor.
  • Fixed the combat log to show proper leech percentages.

 

DUNGEONS

  • Slaughterhouse – The Tesla Coil AoE now deals damage properly.
  • Hell Eternal – Fixed an issue with performance during the Prime Maker fight.
  • The Polaris – If everyone is not ready to leave with the helicopter, a short grace period is now activated to allow them to catch up.
  • Resolved an issue that could in rare cases cause loot not to drop from the New York Raid or make the lockout apply to everyone in the playfield.
  • Fixed players being bound to their nightmare instances even when trying to travel to normal dungeons.
  • The Facility – Fixed an issue with unkillable resurrecting monsters around the pit in The Facility.

 

ITEMS

  • The Time Accelerator tooltip now includes a line in its description stating “Only usable by subscribers and Grand Masters.”
  • Increased the Physical Protection granted by Kickbacks and Stimulants.
  • Energy Drink – Barrier will now always apply to yourself when used.
  • Deleting items from inside the crafting window has been disabled to prevent an issue where future recipes failed because of this.

Signets

  • Fixed description text on many different Signets.
  • Signet of Abuse damage bonus has been slightly increased at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Abuse should trigger more reliably when multiple users with the Signet attack the same target.
  • Signet of Extrication healing has been increased at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Echoes will no longer trigger passive effects.
  • Signet of Order block chance increase has been increased at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Resilience will now correctly state that it increases physical and magical protection and not block rating. This is a tooltip fix, the signet was always increasing physical and magical protection.
  • Signet of Resilience buff counters will now fall off one at a time instead of all at once.
  • Signet of Sadism damage has been increased at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Sadism now specifies that it deals magical damage.
  • Signet of Sadism should trigger more reliably when multiple users with the Signet attack the same target.
  • Signet of Salvation effect will now display with the proper icon.
  • Signet of Opportunism damage has been increased at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Opportunism now specifies that it deals magical damage.
  • Signet of Opportunism should trigger more reliably when multiple users with the Signet attack the same target.
  • Signet of Breaching now has a 7 second cooldown upon applying its effect.
  • Signet of Breaching penetration damage increase value has been reduced at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Breaching will now apply 100% of the time on any penetrating hit, instead of a 33% chance to apply.
  • Signet of Castigation cooldown reduced at all rarity levels. Note there was a tooltip error which stated the cooldown was 10 seconds when it was 15 across all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Castigation will now provide a small damage increase while the effect is active.
  • Signet of Discipline will now grant more defense rating at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Discipline cooldown has been reduced at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Reinforcement physical and magical protection gained has been reduced at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Reinforcement buff counters will now fall off one at a time instead of all at once.
  • Signet of Reinforcement can now trigger when you evade an attack.
  • Signet of Aggression cooldown has been reduced at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Aggression should trigger more reliably when multiple users with the Signet attack the same target.
  • Signet of Temperance healing has been increased at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Temperance effect now has an 8 second cooldown upon applying its effect to match its duration and ensure reapplication does not cause any healing ticks to be missed.
  • Signet of Temperance should trigger more reliably when multiple users with the Signet heal the same target.
  • Signet of Benediction barrier value has been increased at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Benediction should trigger more reliably when multiple users with the Signet heal the same target.
  • Signet of Obedience damage bonus has been increased at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Obedience buff counters will now fall off one at a time instead of all at once.
  • Signet of Obedience should trigger more reliably when multiple users with the Signet attack the same target.
  • Signet of Cruel Delight healing has been increased at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Cruel Delight should trigger more reliably when multiple users with the Signet attack the same target.
  • Signet of Interdiction healing has been increased at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Interdiction should trigger more reliably when multiple users with the Signet attack the same target.
  • Signet of Fury damage bonus has been increased at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Corruption affliction damage bonus has been increased at all rarity levels.
  • Signet of Laceration critical damage bonus has been increased at all rarity levels.
  • Debuffs from lesser powered Signets of Breaching will no longer overwrite more powerful ones.
  • Added an icon to the Signet of Fury effect.
  • Fixed an issue with the Signet of Fortification which could cause it to make players take more damage than expected.

 

CRAFTING

  • Fixed an issue that prevented players from crafting multiple items using stacks of materials.

 

GUI

  • Loot type and threshold changes now appear in the onscreen messages correctly.
  • Fixed an issue where placeholder text appeared when disassembling items with a full inventory.
  • Fixed an error message seen when attempting to use the Flashbang Grenade in restricted areas.
  • “Enable Mouse Highlighting” – changed the option and tooltip text to make this functionality clearer.
  • Inspection GUI should now still be able to be opened after being closed with Shift+Esc.
  • Send Report button will now reappear after reviving if a player is killed while reading the mission reward window.
  • The SP icon should no longer disappear when opening the Achievement window.
  • The Achievement icon should now disappear when the Achievement window is opened.
  • The LFG list will now update more often.
  • Fixed a case where certain cells in the outer wheel could not be selected.
  • Achievements that give rewards now list those rewards on the achievements menu.
  • A new Cabal Log has been added to the Cabal interface. This tab will allow players to see a record of basic cabal activity.
  • Fixed an issue that caused shortcut bar items to disappear when using some quantum brace abilities.
  • Removed the ability to zoom in on the Skill Wheel.
  • Auxiliary weapon abilities and ability slots are now hidden until auxiliary weapons are unlocked.

 

MISSIONS

Kingsmouth

  • The Last Strand – Poison will not affect players in anima form anymore.
  • Dawning of an Endless Night – Cassandra no longer appears at the entrance to the Maintenance tunnels.
  • Scrapyard Defence – All members of the Draug raiding party will now reach the barricades.

The Savage Coast

  • Ami Legend can now be completed in a team.
  • Hell Hath No Vacancy – Send Report text and mission rewards have been fixed.
  • Crime and Punishment – Mancave computer entries can now be read multiple times without having to quit the interface.
  • Sinking Feelings and Nobel Calling now have different rewards.
  • The Black House – Removed temporary text from the message when trying to use Carrie’s Ashes away from the water.

The Blue Mountain

  • The Ghosts and the Darkness – The family photo in Chuck Thompson’s hand is no longer interactable.
  • Dreamcatcher – The portal at end of the instance will once again teleport the player back to Blue Mountain.
  • Enemy of my Enemy – Freed Sasquatch now perform emotes.
  • Up in Flames – When a player interacts with the fire extinguisher after another player does, they will now get the fire extinguisher in their inventory.
  • Up In Flames – The Fire Extinguisher is no longer interactable after you have already picked it up.
  • Treasure Hunt – All four stones are now placed outside of the cliffside.
  • Strangers from a Strange Land – Muninn will now be heard in French and German during Tiers 1, 2 and 7.
  • Off the Menu – Zombies now perform the eating animation instead of digging while eating the bait.

The Scorched Desert

  • Mean Streets – Picking up a charred note fragment will delete a Reassembled Atenist Orders item in your bank.
  • The Last Legion – Fixed an issue where Legatus Aulus did not behave correctly once spawned.
  • Last Train to Cairo – Your character will no longer briefly flicker before the cinematic.
  • Black Sun, Red Sand: Players stuck on Tier 7 will get their goal updated when interacting with the Song of the Sentinel.

City of the Sun God

  • Mummy Issues – Temple City Letters item is now deleted at the end of the mission.
  • Black Sun, Red Sand – An issue causing the Black Pharaoh to become permanently immune from taking damage has been resolved.

The Carpathian Fangs

  • Fixed an issue that may have blocked progress during Tier 4 of ‘The Red Thread’.
  • Breached – Orochi Troll files media popup will now appear in French and German when the game is set to these respective languages.
  • Body parts will remain on the Altar in The Palace Below after a player has died.

The Besieged Farmlands

  • The Cost of Magic: Fragmentation Grenades found during Tier 5 should now always properly highlight yellow.

 

PVP

  • There will now be a sound associated with a minigame invitation appearing onscreen.
  • Players will now see a buff whenever they are flagged for PvP outside of the battlegrounds.
  • The diminishing returns on pvp xp now properly affect group members while in the pvp battlegrounds.
  • Declining a battlefield invite will no longer remove you from the one you are in.
  • Accepting a battlefield invite no longer removes you from other battlefield queues.
  • Fixed an issue where the minigame score was not properly updated when joining a minigame late.
  • The Join as Party button on the signup ui is now hidden when in a PvP playfield.
  • Token reward amounts should now properly be displayed in PvP Minigames.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause players to be invisible in PvP Minigames.

Fusang

  • The population cap of Fusang is now set to the second highest faction plus ten percent. This means it should be easier to get into a Fusang game.
  • Reduced the power of the two most powerful Equal Footing buffs.
  • Switched the heal values of Custodian Heal Aura tier 2 and 3.
  • Fixed a bug where the character doing the upgrade would not get the heal for tiers 2 and 3.
  • The custodian itself will now be healed by the aura for all three tiers.
  • Players can now join Fusang Projects as a group.
  • Fixed an issue that could sometimes make players not automatically get formed in a raid correctly.

El Dorado

  • Anima Residue is now removed as soon as you start casting an ability.

 

WORLD DESIGN

  • Fixed a strange staircase in Thinis BCE.

  • Kingsmouth – Larger characters won’t become stuck on dumpsters anymore.

  • Kingsmouth – Harrison Blake is no longer standing in nearby crates.

  • Kingsmouth Town – Ellis Hill will not end up standing inside walls anymore.

  • Fixed a location in Blue Mountain where players could get stuck.

  • Fixed a location in Thinis 1897 BC where characters could get stuck.

The Secret World 1.6.2 Full Patch Notes

TSW 1.6.2 Patch NotesThe full 1.6.2 Patch Notes for you, enjoy!

UPDATE 1.6.2 – APRIL 15TH

NEW!

  • A new Lair encounter has been added! Some intrepid Secret Worlders have found a way to open a portal to the Eidolon of the Outer Dark’s dwelling place! You’ll want to gather 10 of your bravest and send them through to see what they find. Signs are pointing to a strange wreckage around Kingsmouth being the weakest thread between our realities.

GENERAL

  • Using the Reconstructor won’t show the dialog popup on other players’ clients anymore.
  • Opening the character sheet will no longer cause a clothing item to be previewed.
  • Renamed a crate in the Polaris to “Orochi crate”.
  • Fixed a stuck location in The City Before Us instance.
  • Fixed the snake’s sound effects during the mission cinematic for Old Gods, New Tricks.
  • Kingdom counters from Signet of the Kingdom will now have a description when viewed.
  • When earning multiple tokens would take a character over the token cap, the server previously rejected the entire award. Instead, the character now earns exactly enough tokens to reach the cap.
  • Signet of Thinis will now build ranged resources on your hostile target, even when using a purely friendly targeted heal.
  • Removed Mayan K’in from the wallet GUI.
  • Resolved an issue that would leave players with a black screen after repeatedly using the Hellevator in Hell Eternal.
  • Fixed an issue with hat items being removed when equipping certain uniforms.
  • The Envoy of Ca’ d’Oro now sells another item.
  • Fixed the cause of a server crash.
  • Fixed several exploits in PvP, Lairs and Dungeons.

COMBAT

  • Reduced the cast time of Win-Win to 0.5 seconds (was 1 second).
  • Increased the radius of Win-Win to 15 meters (was 5 meters).
  • Increased the max number of targets affected by Win-Win to 5 (was 3).

MISSIONS

Kingsmouth

  • Floater – Mission will now complete when the drone reaches the end of the escort even if player is still on “Defend the drone” goal.

The Scorched Desert

  • The Last Train to Cairo mission icon will now show below Mean Streets’ mission icon.
  • The Last Train to Cairo: You can now re-enter the train segment even if you are disconnected during the intro cutscene.
  • Added louder sound effects while outside of the train in The Last Train to Cairo mission instance.
  • Players should no longer be prevented from reentering Sol Glorificus 329AD if they camp during certain phases of ‘A Time to Every Purpose’ tier two.
  • The City Before Us – Door to Old al-Meryah tunnels will take player to the tunnels instead of Thinis if player is on goal to “Recover the ark”.
  • Burying the Ark in ‘The City Before Us’ now provides team credit.
  • The Last Train to Cairo – Fixed an issue where your weapon was visually missing after the first boss cutscene on the train.
  • King of the Hill – Mummies no longer get stuck in terrain.

City of the Sun God

  • The Binding – The Hollow spear will be removed from player’s inventory when pausing the mission, and the papyrus, hollow shaft, and sharp point will be removed from player’s inventory when picking up the hollow spear again if they already exist.

PVP

  • Fixed an issue where the minigame score was not properly updated when joining a minigame late.
  • Stonehenge will once again have a wave respawn.

The Secret World 1.6 and 1.6.1 Full Patch Notes

hellfallen2In case you didn’t know, the Last Train to Cairo expansion is now live, so as always we bring you the full patch notes. Enjoy:

 

UPDATE 1.6.1 – MARCH 16TH

 

GENERAL

  • Fixed the cause of a server crash.
  • The Scorched Desert – All ghouls who were previously lying down at Hotel Wahid will now sit down instead.
  • Male characters will no longer experience invisible arms while wearing the Village Garb coat with certain shirts.
  • Fixed an issue with too many sounds being played during the Darkness War end boss fight.
  • Slightly reduced the intense glow of the Orochi skin Whip.
  • Fixed a visual issue that occurred when switching Coats while wearing a new multislot uniform.
  • The uniform graphics for Basic and Rank 1 PvP armors for male and female Dragon characters no longer look the same.
  • Corrected an issue with Flame spirit npc patrols in The Scorched Desert.
  • The Silver Bullet, Blouse and scarf, black and white no longer has visual issues when worn with certain coats and pants.
  • The Harbinger of Nameless Days will no longer wander around The Savage Coast.
  • Fixed an issue with the Whip Binding affix effect.
  • Resolved a few exploits.

 

GUI

  • Icons should now react properly and display correct cooldowns for abilities such as Charge-Density and Polstar-Oblivion.

 

ITEMS

  • Fixed an issue where if the last buff counter of a Signet of Castigation effect was used on a Burst attack, only the first hit would get the bonus effect.

 

MISSIONS

  • Fixed an issue where several dynel items could not be interacted with to update missions.

 

KINGSMOUTH

  • Something Wicked – You can now interact with the ravens during tier 4.

 

THE SCORCHED DESERT

  • Pets will no longer set off Proximity C4 explosives placed for the mission Mean Streets.
  • Replacing the Ark in ‘The City Before Us’ now properly provides a group update.
  • The last goal of the first Tier of O Tempora! O Mores! will now update for groups.
  • Mean Streets – Atenist patrols now avoid the truck in front of the packing plant.
  • Five Ways to Kill a Man – ‘Go the Spoiled Farm’ goal now updates closer to the waypoint circle.
  • Five Ways to Kill a Man – Bosses’ death animations now plays before the bosses despawn.
  • The Defence Never Rests – Assault now correctly tracks player as they enter and leave the assault area.
  • A Time to Every Purpose – Stealing any Ancile will now close the doors to the room you steal it from.
  • The Last Train to Cairo – Corrected a few discrepancies between onscreen text and voiceover during the cinematics.
  • The Prisoner – The upstairs cameras should now become disabled when you disable the generator.
  • The City Before Us – Added a cinematic before the boulder spawns.
  • NPCs in the Date Factory now play the correct fight animations.
  • It is no longer possible to become stuck inside the Ancile room in Sol Glorificus, during the mission “A Time to Every Purpose”.

 

CARPATHIAN FANGS

  • ‘Where it Doesn’t Belong’ now displays the correct requirement text.

 

PVP

  • Fixed joining minigames that are already in progress.
  • All text instances in El Dorado should be properly localized.

UPDATE ISSUE #6: THE LAST TRAIN TO CAIRO – MARCH 14TH

DLC #6 is now available for $10/€10. Discounts for Members (10%) and Grand Masters (20%) apply. Customers who have set up DLC Autobuy from their account page now has unlocked DLC #6 for their account, with the item that gives access available under “CLAIM ITEMS” in the Item Store.

A range of new outfits and clothing is now available.

Veteran and Recruitment System

  • Members (and Grandmasters) get ten Veteran Points each month they are or have been a member.
  • These Veteran Points can be used to purchase unique and helpful new items in the Item Store.
  • Recruiting someone who purchases The Secret World gives the recruiter one month worth of Veteran Points. Recruitment is done on your account page.

A brand new mission line is now available:

“The Last Train to Cairo”. Play through a new, deep and revealing story within Egypt. Travel back in time to unearth powerful artifacts which can help you in the future, and see how the wondrous locations of The Scorched Desert looked in ages past. The new missions are:

  • Mean Streets
  • The Prisoner
  • The Escape
  • A Time to Every Purpose
  • O Tempora! O Mores!
  • The City Before Us
  • The City Beneath Us
  • Know Them by Their Works
  • Daily missions
  • The Coveters
  • Five Ways to Kill a Man
  • The Defence Never Rests
  • The new “Whip” Auxiliary weapon is now available.

GENERAL

  • The Time Accelerator item can no longer be deleted.
  • Flashbang grenade now has proper sound effects.
  • Corrected the cause of a server crash.
  • Fixed an issue that could crash the community server.
  • Client log file should no longer grow very large so quickly.
  • Fixed the buff description for the Coney Island Band.
  • Fire Manifestation damage has been increased. Lightning Manifestation damage has been decreased.
  • Resolved an issue where players continued to live for a while with 0 HP.
  • Fixed a clipping issue with Dae-su in Seoul.
  • Fixed a clipping issue with the Ninja mask and female faces.
  • The Third Core Capacitor can no longer be used in place of an Astral Fuse.
  • Added a description to the spawning buff used by monsters found in the Spoiled Garden lair of The Shadowy Forest.
  • Description added to the Affliction Counter buff that appears on monsters in the Installation 10 Lair in Carpathian Fangs.
  • Fixed a location in The Ankh where your character could get stuck.
  • Fixed a location in Seoul where your character could become permanently stuck.
  • The J-pop jacket will no longer change the visual look of your shirt sleeves.
  • The Scorched Desert: Moved Shani further away from the wall to avoid her spawning into it.

COMBAT

  • Fixed in error in Expulsion’s barrier calculation tooltip.
  • Seal the Deal should now modify consumers more reliably.
  • Closer should now modify consumers more reliably.
  • Anima Charge with High Voltage will now allow Inferno to critically hit.
  • The fact that Shot of Anima does damage is now mentioned in the tooltip.
  • Fixed a problem where auxiliary affixes could stop working for some time after dying.
  • Updated the description of Bond, Strong Bond to include number of allies and radius of effect.
  • Anima Vessel will now work as described, as in everyone damaging the target will get a heal.
  • Trucker will now work correctly with Thrill of the Chase.
  • Misdirection now works correctly.
  • Fixed an issue with Lock, Stock & Barrel.
  • The Minor Ward effect from Fluid Defence will now apply more reliably regardless of which attack should trigger it.
  • Rocket Launcher Augur effect will now trigger even if another weapon is used before it expires.
  • Description for Grounded passive ability was updated to show that it only triggers when a purge ability is used.
  • Fixed a problem with Powder Burn.
  • Updated the description of the Criticality ability.

GUI

  • Heal over time and damage over time ability effects applied by players no longer display heal or damage values, fixing an issue where 0 was shown to other players.
  • Fixed an issue where tooltips could appear blurry.
  • Dodging will no longer cause the expanded Ability Wheel description cells to collapse.
  • You should no longer randomly swap to the Quantum Ability wheel while using the main Ability wheel.
  • You should no longer see an incorrectly placed Equip button when rapidly selecting different abilities on the ability pane list.
  • Added a cooldownbar for a swapped abilities count down.
  • Health Bars no longer turn yellow when part of them is off any side of the screen.
  • Ability Wheel’ss navigation buttons are no longer enabled when the Power Inventory panel is open.
  • Barrier absorbs are now displayed in combat chat even if they reduce damage to 0.
  • Swapping two items on the shortcut bar should work more reliably now.
  • Your shortcut bar will now accurately reflect when an item in the inventory is removed or updated.

ITEMS

  • Blue quality Signet of Vigour will now increase max HP as stated by 330 (was 329).
  • If a glyph is not upgradable anyway, it will not say that the reason is because a PvP toolkit is used.
  • The damage from the gadget ‘Bitterness’ will now appear in the combat log.
  • Signet of Corruption should now properly increase Affliction effect damage.
  • Description of Kindle passive ability has been updated to show a range of healing values.

MISSIONS

New York

  • Crossroad of the World – Coda: the mission can now be resolved by visiting Dave Screed.

Kingsmouth

  • Kingsmouth Code: Missing tier text now appears again.

The Savage Coast

  • A sound effect is now played when using the Library Ward during the Breakfast cult.
  • To Sir, With Love: Breaking the mirrors in the classrooms should occur no more than 4 times before the goal is updated.
  • To Sir, With Love: Group members will get a goal update to Tier 6 even if they enter the media room after the fight with the wraith.
  • Theme Part Tycoon: The Angry Clown should spawn normally in the future.
  • The Strange Boat House in the Mist: The mutilated corpse should now be present.

Blue Mountain

  • The Search for Tyler Freeborn van wreckage cinematic should now have audio.

The Scorched Desert

  • The Big Terrible Picture – Door to the metallic ankh will open if the player is outside the room with the goal “Collect the metallic ankh”.
  • From Carthage to Cairo: The laptop now starts the tier 4 event, and the detonators can now be activated.
  • A Shadow Over Egypt: Elemental Guardian respawn is now every 30 secs, and the Elemental Guardian waypoint has been moved to more accurate position.
  • From Below: Dr. Shirui and the experiment will now respawn 30 secs after being killed.
  • A Lion in the Streets: NPCs no longer duplicate unnecessarily when respawning inside the cage.
  • The Big Terrible Picture: Ritual of Lineage will now reset correctly.
  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Event will now reset correctly after being completed multiple times.
  • Tainted Dreams: Eye of the Dream will now remain interactable throughout the mission even if the player gets out of the dream state.
  • The Traitor: The Informant should now respawn after getting killed.

City of the Sun God

  • There is no longer a placeholder name when using the scales during ‘The Stained Oasis’.
  • Adjusted the formatting for the mission text of The Black Pharaoh’s Guard.
  • Ravine of the Champion portals are now more multiplayer-friendly.
  • Reduced the damage of the General’s subordinates in The Corrupted General.
  • The 3rd Age: You can no longer get stuck by pausing the mission.
  • The Stained Oasis: Aspirants now wield swords.
  • They Were Beautiful Once: Slightly weakened the Dredge and The Excavator NPCs.

The Shadowy Forest

  • Fixed a typo in Tier 2 of ‘Root of the Problem’.

NPCS

  • The Savage Coast : Sam Krieg no longer has red eyebrows.

PVP

  • The minigame system has changed to support a team that comes in second place. This team will get higher rewards than the team to finish last. As a result the token and XP rewards for the minigames has been adjusted. All minigames reward more XP than before.
    • El Dorado
      • 1st: 20
      • 2nd: 10
      • 3rd: 5
    • Stonehenge
      • 1st: 15
      • 2nd: 8
      • 3rd: 4
  • The Seoul Fight Club resurrection point now works correctly.
  • Fixed an issue with the world domination buffs not showing up correctly.
  • Added new PvP rank uniforms to the mobility vendors in faction HQ.
  • It’s now possible to sign up for multiple minigames at the same time.
  • Players may now select respawn points in Fusang Projects.
  • Swapped the position of the Decline and Join buttons on the join window.
  • Added a PvP XP bar to the GUI.
  • Players no longer get removed from their group before accepting a minigame start notification.
  • Dead players will now be revived when they leave a PvP playfield.

Stonehenge

  • Fixed an issue where players would not get teleported out of the playfield correctly after finishing the minigame.
  • Fixed an issue that could make the Untouchable buff not get rewarded correctly.

El Dorado

  • Fixed an issue that prevented players from switching their abilities while standing in the resurrection area.
  • Fixed an issue where you would sometimes not be rewarded the “I want it all” achievement.

The Secret World Issue #5 Full Patch Notes

The Secret World Issue #5Better late than never, below are The Secret World Issue #5 full patch notes. Enjoy!

UPDATE “ISSUE# 5: THE VANISHING OF TYLER FREEBORN” – 19TH DECEMBER

NEW MISSIONS

  • A brand new mission line is now available: „The Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn“. This is the first DLC mission.  All current players and all players who purchase the game in December 2012 will receive it for free.  To access the mission please open the Item Store and claim it from the Boosts / Account tab.
  • The Uncertainty Principle – the mission to the new Auxiliary weapon ‘Quantum Brace’ has now been activated. To get started in this mission, talk to Moose in Kingsmouth.
  • From Carthage to Cairo – Tanis in the Scorched Desert needs help in covering her tracks in her involvement of a certain shipment.
  • Obstructive Persons – help Alina Florea in The Shadowy Forest with her plans to leave Morninglight.

GENERAL

  • A new Shortcut Bar is now available, which provides access to inventory slots that can be linked to hotkeys.
  • The maximum number of Gear Manager slots has now been correctly set to 100.
  • Equipping the chainsaw will now play a sound.
  • Fixed an issue where purchased items haven’t been delivered promptly.
  • If you log out or disconnect during the Ground Zero tutorial event, you will now be able to advance when you return to the game.
  • There is a new ‘smile’ emote available.
  • The chest category no longer shows empty when opening the Dressing Room GUI.
  • Albion Theatre: fixed some issues with sound from the stage being occluded on certain occasions.
  • There is now an animation shown from standing to sleeping when using the ‘sleep’ emote.

MISSIONS

  • Just a Flesh Wound – Tier 5: Dr. Aldini is again rewarding players with the Chainsaw.

ITEMS

  • The Time Accelerator item can no longer be deleted accidentially.
  • The Casting Toolkit can now create a mould from Shield of Barbarossa and Black Eagle.
  • Fixed a clipping issue with the Cosmonaut suit.
  • The ‘Suit Pants. Dark grey’ no longer appear white with blood splatters in the preview.
  • Fixed a clipping issue with the head piece of the Mercenary Multislot Deck outfit.

PVP

  • Fixed an issue that prevented the PvP role buffs from not showing their stats anymore.
  • Slightly increased the effects of the Integrated Anima Conduits uniform buff.
  • You can now queue for the PvP minigames while in Fusang.

Fusang

  • Getting killed by Fusang NPCs no longer causes durability loss on equipment.
  • Fixed an issue where the Custodian would walk in the wrong direction before turning around and proceeding in the correct direction.

WORLD DESIGN

  • You should no longer get stuck in the Red Hand Observatory area of The Besieged Farmlands.
  • You should no longer get stuck at the bottom of the Breach area in The Carpathian Fangs.
  • Fixed an issue with a floating propane bottle in The Carpathian Fangs.

TSW 1.4 Patch Notes

TSW 1.4 Patch NotesIt’s well and truly time for some Big Trouble in the Big Apple, and to go along with it are the full patch notes. Aside from all the new content, there’s a bunch of nice bug fixes as well, so browse through to see what love your character is getting.

Hell, everyone now gets to dance Gangnam style (/dance_gangnam_style) in The Secret World alongside the Macarena (/dance_macarena) – what else would you want!

The full patch notes for you:

Massive PvP Enhancements

Issue #4 includes massive PvP enhancements with the goal to make the conflict between the Secret Societies even more rewarding, more persistent and fairer. The update includes improvements and changes to rewards in Fusang, White Marks of Venice, Cross-Dimension Fusang, PvP Gear Progression, Matchmaking, a new PvP Mission and more! You can read all about these PvP enhancements here.

Take the Stage at the Albion Theatre

With Issue #4, you are able to enter the Albion Theatre in London and put on whatever kind of show your heart desires! Our goal is to empower players. Open mic night? Sketch comedy shows? Extensive Shakespearean productions? Cabaret? Music video? It’s really an open toolbox – you and your friends can use the Albion to do whatever you want. Check out this article on The Secret World website for more information.

Issue #4 also sets the stage for the big Raid in New York, which is undergoing final testing and will be brought Live as soon as possible.

Other brand new features available now:

  • New Auxiliary weapon : Chainsaws! Pick up the mission from Dr. Aldini in New York to begin!
  • Starter Decks – Nine decks have been added for players who finish the inner ring of combat abilities.
  • Character size slider has been added to character creation and the plastic surgeon!
  • Reticule targeting mode is now available. Toggle this mode on and off via the T key.
  • Slaughterhouse Nightmare mode is now officially open!
  • Pick up these brand new Missions:
    • All Roads Lead to Rome – from Mama Abena in London
    • To Sir with Love – from Hayden Montag in The Savage Coast
    • The Red Thread – from Callisto in Carpathian Fangs
  • New Lair Missions are available. These require you to have finished another mission first. These prerequesite missions will award an item which will help you in the new Lair missions.
    • The Last Strand (Kingsmouth Town)
      • Required mission: Coralations (Item: Red sargassum barrel)
    • The Cover-up (Savage Coast)
      • Required mission: Nobel Calling (Item: Dynamite)
    • The Whole Truth (Blue Mountain)
      • Required mission: Picking Up the Pieces (Item: Ward stone)
    • Up In Smoke (Scorched Desert)
      • Required mission: Blood Garments (Item: Sufferer’s raiment)
    • The Black Pharaoh’s Guard (City of the Sun God)
      • Required mission: The Trinket Trail (Item: Plenarius artifact)
    • Restoration (Besieged Farmlands)
      • Required mission: Blessed Are the Makers (Item: Enchanted statue)
    • Kreep Rush (Shadowy Forest)
      • Required mission: Seedy Underbelly (Item: Seeds of Cleansing)
    • The Shipping News (Carpathian Fangs)
      • Required mission: The Mortal Coil (Item: Tesla turret)

GENERAL

  • When equipping a weapon which has a weapon skin applied, the weapon skin will now show correctly. Previously it would only show up correctly if you zoned in with the weapon already equipped.
  • The Master Planner achievement will now reward a costume.
  • The I Am Legend achievement will now reward an item.
  • London: Dancers in the Horned God will now leave the floor to give groups of players more space.
  • Text should no longer show up in the chat window for long-winded civilians.
  • Fixed a clipping issue with the female Preacher outfit.
  • Male eyebrows no longer clip through the glasses on the Grifter outfit.
  • Movement speed while dead will now scale with your current rank of Sprinting.
  • Seoul: the Fight Club in Seoul is now open to Illuminati and Templar participation.
  • Fixed stat modifications that did not revert when items were unequipped.
  • Raid chat is available (except in Fusang Projects).
  • Fixed shadows at the Old Asylum Approach anima well in Blue Mountain.
  • Fixed the intensity of the moon in Shadowy Forest.
  • Adjusted chair height and brightness in the Horned God pub.
  • Try these new dance emotes:
    • /dance_gangnam_style
    • /dance_samba
    • /dance_macarena
    • /dance_sprinkler
  • All the repeatable solo nightmare missions should now reward a Signet Reward Bag.
  • The missions Cellar Door and Fungal Fireworks will no longer award a Signet Reward Bag, but will give out reward in line with their difficulty.
  • New Achievements for the Albion Theatre event are available!
  • NPCs with a spawn animation will now always play the full animation (previously the first part of it could get cut off).
  • Cats were moved back to their normal locations in Roget’s place and the Franklin Mansion.
  • The mission tracker will now close when you walk away from an open mission GUI.
  • Fixed the doors in the Slaughterhouse so they will not always appear open when viewed from a distance.
  • Lairs – The Last Strand – Draug no longer keep spawning after the assault is over.
  • Added sound effects to the turrets in The Shadowy Forest.
  • It is no longer possible to sit in the air by using the chair from distance.
  • A raid leader can now invite a group with a leader that has already left the raid.
  • The Achievement Love and Rockets will be awarded to players who have already finished the mission Venetian Missile Crisis when „Issue #4“ goes live.
  • Raid chat is available!
  • Fixed an issue that caused stacks of flowers bought at the florist to decrease by 2 each time one was consumed.
  • Fixed an issue where certain clothing would cause your female character’s arms to become invisible.
  • Seoul : Dae-su’s body is no longer invisible.

COMBAT

  • Increased the damage dealt by all Rocket Launcher abilities.
  • Increased the damage dealt by the See Red ability.
  • Healing friendly NPCs with the Adrenalise passive equipped will no longer cause them to attack you.
  • Assault Rifle – Improved Bursts passive will now properly increase the healing done by the Anima Burst ability.
  • Blade ability Sixth Sense will now build a counter for each received glancing hit instead of having a delay between counters to keep in line with other defensive effects.
  • Added a tooltip description to the Two Cuts Blade skill.
  • The Blood Spike DoT effect now has the correct icon.
  • Added tooltip description to the Elemental Skill “Fury”.
  • Hammer ability Grip Whip will now display the correct damage value in the tooltip. This is only a tooltip change. The ability itself has not been changed.
  • Hammers – Reduced the overall damage dealt by Epicentre.
  • Breakdown no longer requires Impaired state to apply the Exposed debuff.
  • Breakdown will only apply 1 stack of Exposed per hit.
  • Increased the damage dealt by Escalation.
  • Escalation will no longer apply the Exposed debuff.
  • Intensity has been changed to no longer grant Minor Ward when hitting Weakened targets with Escalation. It will now improve Escalation to apply the Exposed debuff.
  • Increased the damage dealt by Blood Magic abilities Blood Spike, Infection, Left Hand of Darkness, Bloodshot, and Guts and Gory.
  • Increased the healing and barrier provided by Blood Magic abilities Angelic Aegis, Exquisite Corpse, and Hematic Rites.
  • Increased the damage dealt by Elemental abilities Combust, Electrical Storm, Flame Strike, Blaze, Conditional Force, Fire Manifestation, Magnetic Wipe, and Lightning Manifestation.
  • Left Hand of Darkness damage has been rechecked for accuracy in Issue #4.
  • Fixed an issue with the description of Intensity.

PVP

Economy

  • All white marks of venice in the game have been wiped
  • Prices at all PvP vendors have been rebalanced to no longer cost any white marks
  • Prices at all PvP Vendors is now somewhat lower
  • Rewards for PvP minigames and Fusang has been changed so that you on average get the same amount of rewards for time spent doing them
  • All PvP vendors now allow you to convert 100 white marks into 1 black mark
  • PvP-gear can now be upgraded to 10.4
  • The pricing of PvP-gear has been tweaked, so the time it takes to get a full set of PvP 10.4 gear is in line (but not equal to) the amount of time it takes to get a full set of 10.4 Nightwatch gear.

Stonehenge and El Dorado

  • PvP matchmaking system tweaked
  • PvPPerformance stats on all players wiped for this change
  • If you are lower than QL10 you now get Equal Footing in minigames

Fusang

  • Fusang has been merged into 3 battlegroups for higher player population:
    • Group A: Cerberus, Arcadia, Leviathan
    • Group B: Drac, Kobold
    • Group C: Daemon, Grim, Huldra
  • Fusang Reward scheme changed into a tick-based system
  • Fusang PvP-missions no longer reward you with black marks.
  • PvP vendors with upgrades for your faction’s turrets and custodians are available near your faction home base anima well
  • A new PvP mission, The Underdogs is available for factions that are outmatched in Fusang.

DUNGEONS

  • Lairs
    • Vulkan’s persistent area effects will disappear after the encounter ends.
    • Nobel Calling – Blueprint rewards changed for a different lair boss.
  • Hell Eternal
    • Piston Predators should no longer stack in the encounter with the Flagellatrix Superior.
    • The “Enflamed” environmental debuff in Hell Eternal now stacks up to 10. At 10 stacks, it kills the affected player. Don’t stand in the fire!
    • Eblis will no longer cast Solar Collapse twice in a row if interrupted.
    • Eblis’s life drain, Consummation, can no longer be interrupted.
    • All players should now be able to see damage dealt by Eblis’s spell Consummation.
    • Eblis should now be more consistent about stunning his target during Consummation.
    • Eblis’s spell Cast Out can no longer be interrupted.
    • Eblis’s vortexes should now appear more quickly on phase transition.
    • Particles have been adjusted in the fight with Eblis to more accurately reflect damage areas.
    • Corrected several locations where players could become stuck. Fixed several world design issues.
  • Slaughterhouse – Fixed an issue with an invisible NPC in the NKL-107 fight.
  • Added the Slaughterhouse Nightmare mode to the LFG list.

MISSIONS

Story Mission Templars

  • Virgula Divina: If you enter the playroom keypad code before receiving all clues, your mission will now update appropriately.

New York

  • Questions and Answers – Leah’s arms no longer clip through the desk during the cinematic for tier 5.
  • Just a Flesh Wound
    • Fixed an issue with the Flesh Blob’s casting particles.
    • Your character will now wield a visible chainsaw in your hands when cutting through the wall.
    • Fixed the particles when collecting from corpses.
    • Added sound effects when hacking with a hammer.
    • Corrected placeholder names for abilities used during this mission.
    • Added goalmarkers for the major goals of the mission.
    • Mission now updates for all party members when one person uses the tube.
    • The loose limb will no longer despawn permanently if you die while fighting it.

Kingsmouth

  • The Pick-Up – Cassandra should no longer respawn twice or more.

The Savage Coast

  • Crime and Punishment – Feedback is provided when the player fails 3 times at entering the code.
  • The Black House – Strange candle will give the lore when used, but will only trigger the fire once every 5 minutes.
  • The Black House – Tier 3 urn screen effect will no longer play on other players’ game clients.
  • Hell and Bach – Wicker will now spawn in the middle of the circle in Tier 2.
  • Theme Part Tycoon – Angry Clown should spawn as normal.

The Blue Mountain

  • Ami Legend – Ami now has subtitles when she speaks during the mission.
  • Ami Legend – Assaulting ak’ab will spawn when player leaves and re-enter the assault area.

The Scorched Desert

  • The Living Oil – The letter will no longer remain stuck to your character’s foot after finishing the mission.
  • Fixed an issue that would sometimes make the crystals unresponsive during the mission The Big Terrible Picture.

City of the Sun God

  • The Prompt for the Pinnacle will no longer say that it is a solo instance (since it can be joined in groups).

The Besieged Farmlands

  • Mortal Sins – Cucuvea now holds an object in her hand during the cinematic.
  • Examining the drawing in Tier 1 of ‘The Kindly Ones’ will no longer provide group credit.
  • You can get the Statue from Mortal Coil and multiple players can use the statue if the mission is failed.

The Shadowy Forest

  • Mortal Sins – Fixed an issue with the tier 10 puzzle that prevented some instances of it from thinking they were solved properly.
  • Singing Stones – Corrected an issue where players could not interact with rocks during different tiers of the mission.

The Carpathian Fangs

  • They Mostly Come at Night – Mr. Ruffles will now be worn properly on your character’s body.
  • The Shipping News – The mission will no longer break after one person uses the console.

ITEMS

  • Energy Drink – Leech consumables will now give a leech effect equal to the power listed in the item tooltip.
  • Fixed an issue that created bald spots on hairstyles when wearing the female Pirate Hat.
  • All Male Templar uniforms have been dyed to a nice deep red, to match the female outfits.
  • Pure Anima – Max Health, Attack Rating, and Heal Rating will now stack with Anima – Block Rating, Crit Rating, Crit Damage Rating, Defense Rating, Evade Rating, Hit Rating, Penetration Rating, Physical Protection Rating, and Magical Protection Rating. You will now be able to have one Pure and one normal Anima buff active at the same time.
  • Sov-Tech auxiliary weapon moulds now transform auxiliary weapons into the correct Soviet look and not Orochi.
  • Signet of Corruption should now display the proper rarity color when attached to an item.
  • Signet of Thirst will no longer cause friendly targets to gain hate towards the user.
  • Internal cooldown on Signet of Thirst was updated to match the displayed value on the item tooltip.
  • Signet of Serenity should no longer cause friendly targets to gain hate towards the user.
  • Signet of Temperance should no longer cause friendly targets to gain hate towards the user.
  • Signet of Fury will now gain stacks for each successful hit rather than each successful attack.
  • Rocket Launchers will now display that they require 10 skill to equip when equip requirements are not met.
  • The male Snakeskin outfit now looks more like snakeskin.
  • Signet of Obedience will no longer stack higher than intended. This is a visual change only and does not affect the damage bonus.
  • Blue and Purple versions of Signet of Obedience will now properly provide the damage bonus.
  • The rifle Crushed Will is now worn like other rifles on the back.
  • Black Mark of the Morrigan proc effect will no longer trigger passives.
  • Black Mark of the Morrigan proc effect will only gain 1 stack per second.
  • Signet of Equilibrium and Signet of Benediction will no longer cause friendly NPCs to attack you after you heal them.

GUI

  • Increased the maximum purchasable inventory size to 250.
  • Increased the maximum purchasable bank size to 300.
  • Changed Enemy Evade Chance in the character sheet to Enemy Evade Penalty.
  • Changed Enemy Crit Chance in the character sheet to Enemy Crit Penalty.
  • Auxiliary Blueprints and the Moulds they create are now Green quality items instead of White to facilitate Need/Greed rolling.
  • Made improvements to the Raid menu.
  • Added an icon for Raid missions.
  • Fixed a problem when players were seeing a highlighted gear mouse cursor but received a “Too far away” message.
  • Resource bars for Fist and Hammers no longer stay at 0/5.
  • Stats should now update correctly on your Character sheet.
  • Fixed an issue where clicking on the Ability Wheel would sometimes bring up the Auxiliary cells instead of the Main Wheel cells.

The Secret World Issue #3 Patch Notes

The Secret World Issue #3Well it’s fair to say you could knock me down with a feather. True to their promises, Funcom are churning out new content for The Secret World on schedule now as promised.

Issue #3 is now live and it has two new missions plus a bunch of new Lair missions. In addition to that. there’s a bunch of bug fixes. Then, in the lead up to Halloween during October, The Cat God makes an appearance.

Here’s the full patch notes for Issue #3 for you:

“ISSUE# 3: THE CAT GOD” GAME UPDATE 1.3 – SEPTEMBER 26TH

 

HIGHLIGHTS

Two new missions are available with Issue #3:

  • ‘The Binding’, which brings you to the City of the Sun God in Egypt to learn more about the Seven Sentinels. This truly epic investigation mission is definitely one of the most challenging and extensive.
  • ‘Dogs of War’ plays on the mounting conflict between the vampires and their allies. Use your wits and battle prowess to instigate a war between the werewolves and the vampires.

 

There are also a full set of new Lair missions available!

 

The Cat God himself, after whom Issue #3 is named, will make his appearance in October as we are getting closer to Halloween. The Halloween event will run through the end of October and into the first week of November, and will include several missions which set off a brand new storyline including a new villain. So there’ll be plenty of opportunities to take on the challenge and learn what’s behind this new, dark threat to The Secret World come October!

 

GENERAL

  • Fixed an issue that caused some nVidia users to occasionally experience a Stop Error (BSOD) when zoning.
  • Fixed an issue with leech heals. “Reap and Sew” has been re-enabled.
  • Female hairstyles should no longer be offset by one in the list during character creation. ‘Sideswept Twist’ is no longer showing twice in the list of hair styles available for female characters.
  • Agartha: The portal to Hell Eternal (Elite) is now easier to access.
  • All of the faction marks have been updated to make them more visible.
  • Fixed an issue with hair clipping through some hats.
  • The ‘Close shaved’ hairstyle for males no longer shows over the character ears when viewed from the side.
  • Mark of the Templar and Mark of Blood no longer have the same visual effect on a target.
  • Social pets: The “Tabby-Cat” has been more accurately renamed “Calico Cat”
  • Fixed an issue with some shadows in The Shadowy Forest.
  • You can now swap weapons when you do not have one drawn.

 

MARKETPLACE / BANK

  • Fixed an issue with in-game messages that could not be received by some players.
  • Deleting a mail without removing an attachment first will no longer cause the item to eternally remain in sender’s bank.
  • Added a message warning users if they are the last member leaving their cabal, that anything left in the cabal bank will be lost.
  • Fixed the possibility of visually displaying very large expiration times in the marketplace.

 

GUI

  • Saved gamma settings will now load properly.
  • Shared gear manager builds do now appear correctly in the GUI.

 

DUNGEONS

  • The Facility: When Nodes get smashed you now immediately lose the buff if you are already inside the radius.
  • Darkness War – Wayeb-Xul: Bomb Mayans should now always explode at 0 HP.
  • Hell Raised: The Black Iron Artefacts no longer sound like they are machine-guns.

 

MISSIONS

  • Dawning of an Endless Night: To lessen the inventory clutter, we removed the Deep Shaft key from the Illuminati box in the Franklin’s mansion. Players that already have the key will still lose it upon finishing tier 17 of Dawning of an Endless Night.
  • Into the Darkness (Dragon): The Phoenician agent now sounds like he’s been corrupted by the filth.

 

New York

  • Mainframe: The entry field shown during tier 4 now provides information on how to enter data.

 

Kingsmouth Town

  • Death and the Instruments thereof: the diesel tank is no longer temporarily locked by other players.

 

Blue Mountain

  • Detritus Prime should appear more reliably in tier 1, though he still enjoys long walks in the bog.
  • The Haunting: Thomas is back in the fight during ‘Protect Margret and Thomas’ in tier 3.

 

Carpathian Fangs

  • The Motherlands: Fixed an issue with one mapmarker.
  • Stalker in the Darkness no longer resets during the fight.
  • Too Deep: Thirsting Shades will now provide the proper update when killed.
  • Too Deep: Metamorphosing Shades will now provide credit to all players involved in their death.
  • Too Deep – Tier 3: The mission goal now correctly instructs the player to kill a Shade from Beyond.
  • There are no Flowers in Pricolesti: Interacting with the mobile phone will now provide team credit.

 

Besieged Farmlands

  • The Forest God is no longer holding an invisible mug throughout the cinematic during tier 2.

 

The Shadowy Forest

  • Singing Stones – There is now an animation played when picking up a melody from a stone from tier 1.
  • Hungry like the Wolves – Tier 1: The Lone Wolf now shows a proper animation when he rotates to wait for you and when he returns to his patrol path.

 

City of the Sun God

  • Akir the Sun Guardian will now visit the City of the Sun God once in a while!

 

The Scorched Desert

  • Black Sun, Red Sand: There is now a visual indication that the tablet is “locked” for use while the guardian is alive during tier 4.

 

ABILITIES

  • You can no longer change a build in the gear manager while an ability is on cooldown.
  • Perseverance should now trigger on activation of Frenzy abilities regardless of the result.
  • The grenades from ability ‘Dirty Bombs’ are now placed on the ground when possible.

 

Blade

  • Updated the tooltip for On Guard to say that the effect can stack up to 5 times instead of 10.

 

Fists

  • Reckless will no longer be triggered by Canonball.
  • Warmth now consistently works on other targets and it no longer requires you have put points into Follow Up to function properly.

 

Rocket Launcher

  • The animation for the Big Red Button ability no longer shakes the character for a second or two in the beginning.

 

WORLD DESIGN

Blue Mountain

  • Getting between the scaffolding and the wall in the casino won’t make you slide out of control anymore.

TSW Issue #2 Full Patch Notes

It’s been a while coming but it’s now a reality. The Issue #2 content update is live on the servers, and we’ve got the full patch notes for you right here.

As you’ll see, there’s no shortage of things to delve into, so here we go:

 

“Issue #2: Digging Deeper” Game Update 1.2 – September 18th

Highlights

Brand new missions, the rocket launcher – our first auxiliary weapon including its own mission line – and the plastic surgery and barber shop are now all available as part of The Secret World Issue #2: Digging Deeper. Please click here for more information about the new missions in Issue #2.

And there is also a new title available if you complete all of the Digging Deeper missions!

 

Top changes

  • Two additional dungeon Nightmare modes are now available: The Facility and Hell Eternal.
  • The plastic surgeon’s shop Modern Prometheus in New York is now open for business.
  • Visit Ockham’s Razor barber shop in London for a new haircut or change of facial hair styles.
  • You can now access a Looking for Group (LFG) Tool using the Shift+C keyboard short cut or via the in-game menu.
  • You can now equip an 8th active/passive ability! This is reserved only for auxiliary abilities.
  • All lair NPCs now have a chance to drop Bind on Pickup rare core items.
  • All Lair bosses will now drop two Bind on Pickup rare items, 1 rare signet, 1 rare Glyph kit, and two Region boss blueprints.
  • All Region bosses will now drop a loot bag containing 2-4 blueprints to summon that boss, 3 epic Bind on Pickup items, 1 epic signet, 1 epic Glyph kit and a unique Raid Puzzle Piece.
  • NEW Lair Kill missions :
    • From Beyond the Iron Curtain (The Carpathian Fangs)
    • The Spoils of Cold War (The Shadowy Forest)
    • Midnight Mass (The Besieged Farmlands)
    • Sinking Feelings (The Savage Coast)
    • Unto the Beach (Kingsmouth)
    • Citadel of Pain (City of the Sun God)
    • Return of the Red Nights (The Scorched Desert)
    • The House always Wins (Blue Mountain)

 

General

  • London – Fixed the hat vendor’s voices to match their genders.
  • Tabula Rasa – Gave some NPCs more health. You can now use active dodge in this playfield.
  • Pangaea mannequins no longer have (U) tooltips.
  • Corrected several visual issues with clothing.
  • You are no longer able to get stuck between the bookcase and a chair in Dracula’s Castle.
  • Slightly optimized client memory usage.
  • Athletic Hoodie, blue should now appear correctly in the players Dressing Room after purchase.
  • Turrets will turn to their original rotation after combat and when they deactivate.
  • A new Anima Well can be found in the vicinity of the Lair area in Shadowy Forest.
  • The Magna Cum Laude achievement should now always be achievable.
  • You are now unable to accept dungeon teleports before reaching Jack Boone in Kingsmouth, to prevent an issue where your character could become totally unable to progress.
  • Adjusted the animation of running while using a cellphone.
  • Fixed an issue where the Shirt and Tie would clip through your equipped jacket.
  • Each lair now has a “warning area” encircling it on the map.
  • On the London map, the spelling of “Ealdwich alley” as been changed to “Ealdwych Alley”.
  • The clock on the top menu can now switch between showing game time and real time. Switch by clicking it.
  • Rifles will no longer clip through your character’s body when drawn.
  • Fixed an issue with naked characters in cinematics.
  • Fixed several locations worldwide where it was possible to get stuck.
  • Fixed some clipping issues with new female hairstyles and hats.
  • London: A specialised arms dealer in Ealdwic Station will now provide you with the necessary components to create and cast your auxiliary weapons.
  • Signet of Echoes will no longer cause friendly targets to attack you.
  • Fixed an issue with NPCs not playing attack animations for Assault Rifle attacks.
  • The sound of your headlamp will no longer be heard by other characters.
  • Fixed an issue with ocean reflections.
  • The camera will no longer jump when changing sex during character creation.
  • Fixed a few issues with hairstyles that caused clipping issues.
  • Fixed collision issues in several places worldwide.
  • Lair – Spoiled Garden – The Chain Spore detrimental effect on players should now display its icon correctly.
  • Fixed an issue with flickering shadows with crossfire enabled.
  • Fixed the cause of a server crash.
  • Fixed a spot where players took unintended environmental damage.
  • Fixed a crash caused when skipping introduction cinematics.

 

Abilities

  • Do or Die no longer has a brief delay after activating it.
  • Turn the Tables and The Scarlet Arts will build counters on Hot Iron.
  • Turn the Tables updated to indicate that it is not affected by any heal increasing effects.
  • Mass Provocation will now affect up to 5 targets.
  • Mass Confusion will now affect up to 5 targets.
  • Queued dash abilities will now change weapons correctly when they are executed.
  • Assault Rifle
    • The tooltip for Leeching Frenzy will now correctly state that the beneficial effect has a duration of 4 seconds.
    • Anima Outbreak now specifies the number of friendly targets healed per enemy target hit.
    • Tactical Retreat grenade will now damage targets.
    • Tactical Retreat will no longer go on cooldown if it can’t be used (e.g. if you have a cliff behind you).
    • High Explosive Grenade’s tooltip now reflects that it does more damage to Afflicted targets.
    • Frag Grenade now does area damage when used with 4 and 5 resources.
    • Lucky Bullet’s tooltip now reflects that the effect happens on the 7th attack, not on the 8th attack.
    • The tooltip for Shellshocker now correctly states that it hits every 0.25 seconds instead of every 0.3 seconds.
    • Fixed an issue with Demolition, Man.
    • Updated the tooltip for Groundwork to state that up to 5 friendly targets will be affected. Improved Groundwork will affect the same number of targets.
    • Updated Veteran Passive ability to only apply once per cast of abilities.
    • Demolition, Man will only proc once from Tactical Retreat.
    • Updated spelling error in Call your Shots.
  • Blood
    • Gaian Exposure’s buff is now correctly named “Gaian Exposure”.
    • Updated Blood Pact tooltip for barrier with numeric information (absorption rate and amount).
    • Updated the tooltip for Prolonged Darkness to correctly show that it adds 3 seconds (instead of 2 seconds) to Left Hand of Darkness’ damage over time effect.
    • Blood Pact: Updated tooltip for barrier with numeric information (absorption rate and amount).
  • Elementalism
    • Aidelon: Reduced the critical chance bonus on Afflicted targets with Blaze from 100% to 40%.
    • The damage buff from Short Fuse is now consistent whether the caster is in a group or not.
    • Group mates will receive the Short Fuse buff when a group member casts it.
    • Blaze is now affected by Seal the Deal.
    • Final Fuse passive ability now correctly improves the buff from Short Fuse.
    • Manifestations will now more reliably trigger the Elemental Skill: Fury.
    • Fire Manifestation will now trigger hit effects.
    • Updated description for Elemental Skill: Fury to clarify what triggers it.
    • Fixed several issues with Short Fuse and its passive Final Fuse.
    • Phantom Purge now removes the particle effects from targets that have been purged.
  • Fist
    • Hog Wild now only effects NPCs located within the specific cone effect area.
    • Lick Your Wounds’ healing ticks are no longer able to crit.
    • Using Anima Burst will now increment stacks of Hot Iron.
    • Nurture, Cauterise and Shelter will now trigger Adrenalise.
    • Vigour can now critically heal.
  • Hammer
    • Updated tooltip of Blowout to display proper health increase %.
    • The tooltip of Epicentre has been updated to say that it creates a damage area around the targets of the caster’s attacks.
    • The Thor Hammer ability will now stop to play its animation when the caster is interrupted.
    • Epicentre should no longer cause FPS drop when used by multiple players near each other.
  • Pistols
    • Big Bang will now actually trigger each time each time a manifestation, turret, or drone deals damage.
    • Critical Help will only trigger when a manifestation, turret, or drone is summoned.
    • Win-win will now affect the caster and cleanse the correct number of detrimental effects.
    • Mad Skills will now trigger when critically healing.
  • Shotgun
    • Smart Bomb: Reduced placement range to normal shotgun range.
    • Bomb Squad: Reduced placement range to normal shotgun range.
    • Riot Act will now show the advanced tooltip when the Show Advanced Ability Descriptions option is selected.
    • Shotgun Damage Skill attack will now appear in the combat message window as CQC instead of Point Blank.

 

PvP

  • Cover in Stonehenge has been more evenly spread out.
  • Hit Rating and Defence Rating have been removed from the World Domination buff.
  • Updated the mechanic for capturing an Anima Facility.

 

Dungeons

  • The Facility and Hell Eternal Nightmare portals in Agartha have been added.
  • You will now be able to rejoin a Nightmare dungeon that you previously left, provided the instance is still active. An instance will remain active for 5 minutes when empty.
  • Generic pets are now disabled in dungeons.
  • Wallachian nightmare dungeons give an increased amount of Black Bullion.
  • The Facility: Anima Control Rod beams should no longer flicker.
  • Hell Fallen – Nightmare: Some issues have been fixed and balance adjustments have been made.
  • Hell Raised Nightmare and Hell Eternal Nightmare: Lifeburn will no longer cause certain passives to damage you.
  • Nightmare Xibalban Bloodhound (Darkness War), Nightmare Pit Dweller (The Ankh), and Nightmare Piston Predator (Hell Eternal) mobs now have a 50% chance to drop Bind-On-Equip Band 10 purples.
  • Trash in Nightmare dungeons now has a chance of dropping either Band 10 blues or a low chance to drop Bind-On-Equip Band 10 purples.
  • The Slaughterhouse
    • The dungeon has been rebalanced extensively and it’s now significantly harder.
    • Aleksei-Chetyre should now die immediately when reaching 0 health.
  • Darkness War Nightmare
    • Wayeb-Xul: The duration of the stun applied by Concuss is now slightly shorter.
    • Wayeb-Xul now pauses his combat a few seconds after casting Concuss.
  • The Ankh
    • A particle now plays on the target and Doctor Klein right before he casts Dreaming Shroud.
    • Added tier and goal text in the mission journal for Pandora’s Box and Pandora’s Box Revisited.
    • Removed the filth spawned along the edge in Normal/Elite.

 

Items

  • Healing signets will now trigger on the correct target.
  • Signet of Castigation will now have a visual indicator when active.
  • Fixed an issue with Signet of Ablation not activating properly.
  • Fixed an issue with Signet of Equilibrium not applying properly.
  • Penetration kickbacks will now trigger correctly.
  • Black Mark of the Morrigan now correctly applies Flurry of Feathers from all heals, including blood magic barriers that have a direct healing component.
  • You can now create moulds with weapons such as Taipan’s Last Resort and Soul Crusher.
  • The clothing item Atenist Garb no longer causes your character’s eyebrows to change color to orange.
  • Fixed the name of the ability cast by the Fragmentation grenade, now named “Frag Grenade”.
  • The cost of purchasing Glyphs from the PvP vendors has been significantly reduced.
  • The cost of purchasing Venice Glyph Upgrade Toolkit has been significantly reduced.
  • The cost of purchasing Venice Talisman Upgrade Toolkit has been significantly reduced.
  • Auxiliary Weapon Mould: Original now for sale from vendors.
  • Auxiliary Weapon Mould: Gold-Plated now for sale from vendors.
  • Auxiliary casting Toolkit now for sale from vendors.
  • Auxiliary weapon mould blueprints now have a chance to drop from all Nightmare bosses.
  • Adjusted Signet of Order to behave more like its description.
  • Signet of Temperance should now trigger properly.
  • Plethron Epipens will now behave more consistently.
  • Fixed spelling mistakes in several signets.
  • The Atomos head talisman will no longer incorrectly place a stacking buff on your hostile target.
  • Fixed an issue where some Dress shirts would clip through the Punk Blazer.
  • Fixed some issues where the Female tight plaid pants would deform multiple shoes meshes.
  • The Orochi Field Uniform will no longer change the your pants and shoes when equipping it.
  • Shell of the Nautilus from normal Polaris has had its icon corrected.
  • Achievement Rewards: The male “Dawn Leathers” item is now a green poncho similar to the female, as intended.
  • Faction Marks sold by the Explosives Vendors now clear each other – a given target can only have 1 Mark. These Marks also no longer falsely claim to only effect one target at a time.
  • Thoth’s Condemnation (normal and elite versions) now add the correct amount of stats to you.
  • Wosret’s Marvel can now be properly disassembled.
  • Caress of the Void can now be properly disassembled.
  • Calabi-Yau Manifold can now be properly disassembled.
  • Grotesquely Bloated Heart can now be properly disassembled.
  • Pishacha’s Hunger can now be properly disassembled.
  • The coveted Taco Hat is now available if you have consumed 7460 tacos or more in-game.

 

GUI

  • Fixed an issue with the gear manager swapping builds with similar weapons.
  • Marketplace : The marketplace search no longer returns with items that are already sold.
  • The equip button has been replaced by a reassign button for abilities already equipped.
  • Improved the mission tracker visuals and feedback.
  • Cabals – Added a new permission to cabals (Can Withdraw Items).
  • Cabals – You can now invite other players to your cabal even if they are not in your area.
  • Made the GUI of states and resources a bit easier to understand.
  • Added burst as a subtype in ability search.
  • Fixed target decal option not saving properly.
  • Crafting – Assembly window should now never open without text on the assembly button.
  • The in-game browser should no longer crash when a download link is opened (it will rather just be ignored).
  • Fixed an issue where the PvP GUI would not update properly after a Battlefield was completed.
  • Fixed an issue where the Gear Manager would sometime not load the gears that are part of a build.
  • You can now invite other players to your Cabal by Right Clicking their name in chat regardless of how far the invited player is from you.
  • TO MODDERS: Added the possibility to set a target though the UseShortcut function in com.GameInterface.Game.Shortcut (UseShortcut(pos:Number, targetId:ID32)
  • Changed cabal member promote button from Ok to Ok/Cancel.
  • Opening up the dressing room tab should no longer show a blank Back tab by default.
  • Gear manager has been updated to work with auxiliary abilities and weapons.
  • Removed outdated achievements The Grimms and Heart of the Matter.
  • Fixed a brief delay when joining a group where group chat would not display right away.
  • Hazmat Suit will now correctly appear in the multislot section of the Dressing Room.
  • Corrected an incomplete sentence on a character selection screen popup.
  • The maximum number of possible gear manager slots your character can have when purchasing all upgrades, has been increased to 20.
  • Added new icons to playfield maps to show the lairs.
  • Area names and Lair names should no longer appear onscreen at the same time.

 

Missions

  • Into Darkness – Illuminati : You will now be able to continue if you skip the road flares and proceed to the meeting point in the dark.
  • Dawning of an Endless Night: Correct instance name will appear when attempting to enter Illuminati Archives.
  • Dawning of an Endless Night: You should no longer be attacked by friendly Undying Thanes in The Savage Coast stone encounter.
  • Hub cities: You are now unable to leave the training rooms until the weapon missions are complete.
  • Virgula Divina: Fixed an issue which caused some players to be unable to move after watching a cinematic in the mission.
  • To Catch a Thief: Goalmarker now guides you back to the instance on the ‘follow the rogue agent into Agartha’ step.
  • Total Eclipse: The Headlamp is now removed from inventory upon mission completion.

London

  • London Underground: Fixed an issue where the door found in the Bazalgette could be interacted with without having the mission active.
  • London Underground: The Crocea Mors item has been removed from the mission as it is no longer required.

New York

  • Mainframe: A locked door found in the instance will now provide appropriate feedback when interacted with.

Kingsmouth

  • The Pick-Up
    • Adjusted the trigger areas for this escort mission.
    • Fixed an issue where Cassandra would sometime stop following you during tier 6 which would prevent mission completion.
    • Fixed an issue where leaving the instance would sometime not solve the “Leave the maintenance tunnel” goal during tier 7.
    • One of the 3 doors will always allow you to pass through to the other side.
  • Floater: Lost Drone can now be spawned by other players after someone else already spawned it.
  • It takes Two to Tango: Tango should automatically respawn after it despawns either from mission completion or failure.
  • That’ll Leave a Mark: Fixed an issue where the Injured Man would duplicate himself.
  • The Kingsmouth Code: Fixed an issue where the mission would pause after clicking some paintings.
  • Runaway Light – Fixed a few issues with Ellis gun during the mission cinematic.
  • The Hunger: Voracious Wendigo will now consistently spawn at the bones for tier 1, and then run away after the first ambush (without getting stuck at half health).
  • Hell and Bach: Theodore Wicker’s spiritual memory re-lived on the seance circle in tier 2 is now distinct from his tape-recorded journal later in the mission, as intended.

The Savage Coast

  • Carter Unleashed
    • It is no longer possible to get stuck in the generators in the basement.
    • You can now complete the mission even if you have crafted the Charged Ward Generator before the intended goal.
    • Another Portable ward generator can be picked up while on goal “Assemble a charged ward generator” if it was used up previously.
    • The Media pop-up is now larger and easier to read.
  • A Carnival of Souls
    • Fixed an issue where you would sometimes be unable to destroy the Joy of Children during tier 3.
    • “Joy of Children” can be destroyed when re-entering the instance during “Free the Joy of Children”.
  • Bring it Bach: Camera effect appears when the camera is used.
  • Jack’s Back: Jack will reliably spawn after killing the 3 revenants in Tier 3.
  • Ami Legend: Fixed an issue where the encounter would sometimes break if you died during tier 2.
  • The Exterminator: Burrows can be attacked by melee attacks.
  • Dear Reader: Fixed an issue where the ravens would sometime not fly away when approached.
  • The Faculty: Professor Jones now drains less life from her familiars.
  • The Breakfast Cult: Ward generator effects in the library will show properly now.
  • Sinking Feelings: Added a text for when the mission has been solved. The number of slurs to kill has been adjusted.

The Blue Mountain

  • Bitter Servants can no longer attack you through walls in the Franklin Mansion and can no longer pass through walls.
  • Fixed an issue in pathfinding near the Franklin Mansion staircase where NPCs would end up under the stairs or on the above floor.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented you from entering the area for the Aspect of the Long-Toothed.
  • The Filth Amendment: The waypoint for finding Subject-Zero among the prisoners has been increased slightly in radius.
  • The Filth: The Media pop up in Tier 2 should now be localized in the mission journal.
  • His Master’s Voice: French and German version of the pages should appear correctly in the journal.
  • Jack of the Lantern: Fixed an issue that could make Jack of the Lantern take a lengthy amount of time before spawning in the pumpkin patch.
  • Up in Flames: The Hazmat Suit awarded when completing the mission will now properly appear as a Multislot item in the Dressing Room.
  • Scavengers: Fixed an issue where the Faction Report would not show any text.
  • Dreamcatcher
    • Fixed an issue that prevented you from completing the goal “Find a Wabanaki Guide’s feather” after pausing and unpausing the mission.
    • The mapmarkers for the Ancestor’s Nightmares have been adjusted to better reflect the location.
    • Fixed an issue that could cause the mission to not complete correctly.
    • Ancestor’s Nightmares will no longer keep you on their hatelist, preventing you from regenerating health.
  • The Orochi Group
    • The Poisonous Smoke can now be prevented by wearing the hazmat suit (from the Up in Flames mission).
    • Fixed an issue where the required password was incorrectly shown on the computer terminal GUI during Tier 3.
    • The Media pop up for Tier 4 of the mission should now be localized.
  • Homeland Insecurity
    • The Tactical Map found during the mission will now match the visual look of it’s media popup.
    • Fixed an issue that could prevent you from completing the mission if your inventory was full.
  • The Ghosts and the Darkness
    • Fixed an issue that prevented you from hearing Billy Woodrow’s spoken dialogue.
    • Jimmy Rigby’s corpse will now be easier to find.
  • Echoes in Eternity
    • Fixed an issue that prevented you from completing the mission if you resumed it on the last tier.
    • Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented you from completing the mission if you paused it.

The Scorched Desert

  • Old Gods, New Tricks: Mission dynel used to spy has been renamed to Spy on Tanis.
  • The High Cost of Dying
    • Tier 1: Interacting with the Altar of Learning inside the Ancient Marya Atheneum will now properly complete the mission goal.
    • Tier 2: Leaving the Ancient Marya Atheneum during the mission will no longer block the mission from progressing.

City of the Sun God

  • The 3rd Age – Tier 3: Fixed an issue that prevented you from completing the mission if it was paused.
  • Batteries Not Included: The Malfunctioning Drones found during the mission will no longer remain immobilized on the way to their destination.
  • Waters of the Nile: The mission will no longer disappear from certain instances.
  • Halls of Lost Records: The locked door in the Chambers of Horus will now unlock properly when the mission asks you to pick up the Key of Horus.
  • The Way of Things: Slightly improved lighting inside the pentagram room.
  • Blood and Fire: The Statue of the Voice of Aten encountered at the end of the mission will now respawn faster and should not lock anymore.
  • Changes to NPCs:
    • Shade Stalkers should be easier to handle.
    • Foreman Gahiji found new strength and should be slightly harder.
    • Eiz has drawn even more power from his altars.
    • Filth-Warped Aspirants now know how to use their weapons correctly.
    • Golems now properly bind to the will of the Shaper of Golems.
    • Transformed Orochi Soldiers have grown and found their proper powers.
    • Filthy Orochi Assaulter should be more interesting to fight.
    • Vile Dive ability from Soul Corruptors now have a clearer area of effect.
    • Bullrush ability from some Guardians now have a clearer area of effect.
    • The Corrupted Corpses NPCs in City of the Sun God have been tweaked to be more enjoyable.
    • Infectious Commander should be easier to handle.
    • Several NPCs have been made stronger in the mission “The way of things”.
    • Shezmu the Betrayer found new defensive moves making him harder.
    • The manifestations of Amir now have less health.
    • Mummy ability “Old Blood” area of effect will now be clearer.
    • Envoy Runihura has gained new gear and will be harder to kill.
    • Rib-Hadda has gone through some soul searching and has been completely rebalanced.
    • The Bling Blang ability of Mummies should be less of a problem.
    • All NPCs in the mission “The Sad Song” should be easier to handle.
    • Jinn Riftseeker has channelled more power.
    • Heropsis, found in the Tainted Burrow, will now properly spawn adds during combat.

The Shadowy Forest

  • Respawn timers for standard NPC population have been increased around The Shadowy Forest.
    • You should no longer find oddly placed object interaction labels around the playfield.
  • Mortal Sins
    • The Water of Life pouring should no longer appear to cut abruptly.
    • Puzzles in the Dreaming Prison can now be solved without audio.
    • Each letter of the Water of Life puzzle should now reset correctly after a moment.
  • The Cellar Door
    • Fixed an issue where you would be unable to complete the mission if you Disabled the Security Wall too early.
    • You won’t be able to skip ahead of the security systems and use levers unless you are on the appropriate objectives.
  • Fatal Framing
    • The Camera should now be removed from your inventory when you are not currently on the mission, or if you have completed it.
    • You should now be able to interact with the Romany Corpse again during the first goal of tier two, should you decide to abandon the mission.
    • The Camera should no longer be removed pre-emptively if you are in a grouped situation.
  • The Drăculeşti: The Goal Marker for the Photograph Fungal Incubators should now be more accurate.
  • The Amazing Brothers Blaga: The Electric Hazards debuffs in the area should no longer display placeholder text.
  • Free Spirit: The Goal Marker for Tier 1 is now more accurate.
  • The Wild Hunt: Leaving the cinematic directly after taking the mission does not continue to hinder your movement speed anymore.
  • Lord of the flies: You now have two minutes to kill the Forest Heart’s Decay, and should revert back to the first goal should you fail by dying or running out of time.
  • Fungal Fireworks: The Electrical Substation image should no longer display to every player in the area, it will only display for the player using the terminal.

The Besieged Farmlands

  • Moved General Rodica slightly to prevent him from floating.
  • The Lone Wolf won’t be lazy anymore, it will stand up and use its correct fight animations.
  • Added collision to Slave Dog Gladiators and Slave Dog Trackers in the Besieged Farmlands.
  • Ripples: The Herald of Sorrow won’t disappear anymore if summoned while the summoner is outside of the circle.
  • Mortal Sins: The Forest God will now properly hold a mug while he is drinking during the cinematic on tier 2.
  • The Cost of Magic: The page can be picked up again if deleted or never picked up in case of a full inventory.
  • The Kindly Ones: This mission can now be picked up again after being paused.

The Carpathian Fangs

  • NPC respawn times in Carpathian Fangs have been adjusted.
  • Improved pathfinding in The Breach.
  • Breached
    • The Orochi message triggered from the terminal now plays to completion in all languages.
    • Audio will now be played when accessing the audio file on the computer terminal.
    • The Zmeu-Mother’s will now respawn more quickly.
    • Adjusted the map marker for the “Access the terminal and find out what happened” goal during tier 1.
    • Adjusted the map marker for the “Gain access to the research data” goal during tier 2.
    • Adjusted the waymarker for ‘Breached – Tier Two’
    • Finding the Orochi terminal will now update closer to the actual terminal.
  • The Girl is Gone
    • Fixed an issue where the helicopter would despawn before you could reach it.
    • Lidiya will be more aware of new players entering the observatory while she is in combat.
    • The helicopter should now arrive on time.
    • Boss lockout barriers encountered in Tier 4 of the mission will now come down sooner following the encounter’s completion.
  • Eye Spy
    • The mission will now provide the correct amount of experience.
    • The mission will now fail properly if the triggering player disconnects. Note that the mission will only provide credit for grouped players – solo players must each escort the drone.
  • Too Deep: Fixed an issue where the four Bringer of the Beyond would sometime not spawn.
  • A Dying Breed: The mission will now provide the correct amount of experience.
  • Bloodlines: Added map markers to the goals requiring you to acquire blood sample from vampires.
  • Cabin Fever: Virgilu’s respawn timer has been adjusted.
  • The Castle: The ability cast by House of Danesti vampires now has a proper name.
  • Icebreaker: The Ice block found during the mission can now only be destroyed by players on the appropriate goal of the mission.
  • Metal Detective: Adjusted the waymarker for Tier 1.

 

NPCs

  • Blue Mountain soldier’s arms now match the color of the rest of their skin.
  • Blue Mountain – Fixed the respawn times on the Ellri Lords and Broodmothers in the Quarry.
  • Reanimated Warrior’s XX_Mesopotamian Snare cast is now named “Halting approach”.
  • Ellri Destroyers’ XX_Attract Zombie cast is now named “Undead attraction”.
  • Zamira Vata now has her shades above her head.
  • The House of Danesti Keeper located in Dracula’s Castle is now more aware of people sneaking up behind him.

 

World Design

Seoul

  • Added collision to some gas canister found in the Fight Club.

The Shadowy Forest

  • Fixed an issue where the runestones near Mama Padurii lair were floating above the ground.

The Savage Coast

  • Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in the Shadow version of the Theme Park instance.

The Secret World 1.1.2 Patch Notes

Here they are in full:

 

Update 1.1.2 – August 15th

General

  • Removed the need to chew tacos – they can now be consumed in under a second. Note: We cannot be held responsible for choking or other health risks related to rapid food consumption
  • Improved the cast and cooldown times on the Faction Mark items (please note: the cooldown of Mark of the Illuminati will also be changed accordingly in the next update)
  • Using Faction Marks will not put players in combat anymore
  • Fixed an error when trying to connect to Facebook
  • Fixed an issue where some characters could not authenticate with the chat server
  • The target decal option setting will now be saved properly
  • Fixed an issue where flying NPCs would slide across the ground
  • The ingame browser will no longer crash when a download link is opened (it will rather just be ignored)

Dungeons

  • Polaris: The Ur-Draug will now do a line of sight check after agroing a character to make sure he can actually see that character. If not, he’ll resume patrolling
  • The Ankh: Reduced the health of Melothat by 20%
  • Hell Fallen – Nightmare: Reduced the health of the Endjineers
  • Hell Fallen – Nightmare: The Arch-Myrmidon’s Phalanx can no longer be purged, and is only removed when his soldiers are killed
  • Hell Fallen: Ascendant ninjas have gone back to ninja school and learned how to not run away
  • A new, more attractive and less cluttered buff marker for Nightmare dungeon timers has been added. This is purely visual, and doesn’t change how the system works at all
  • The Facility: Soviet laser targeting systems have been upgraded. Lasers will no longer follow you back to the Anima Well

Missions

London – Amity House

  • Virgula Divina: Fixed an issue which caused some players to be unable to move after watching a cinematic in the mission

Kingsmouth

  • The Pick-Up: One of the 3 doors will always allow the player to pass through to the other side

Blue Mountain

  • Detritus Prime: Fixed an issue that prevented players from completing the mission

The Savage Coast

  • Ami Legend: The Tenebrous Brood Ravager should now always spawn during tier 2

The Shadowy Forest

  • Last Dance of the Padurii – Tier 3: Capturing Music Essence from spirits must now be done individually if players are to receive the Humming Box correctly. As such, team credit for these goals are now disabled

City of the Sun God

  • Halls of Lost Records: Resolved an issue preventing players from interacting with the nodes