06/27/2012: GU15 Movement Modes: Speedster Superspeed: Dash Attack is now a 25% supercharge, prevents damage for a short time and applies the breakout effect. Powers: Updated the text in the Fire, Ice, and Earth trait trees to reflect that you receive 100% increase in Dominance when in Tank Role. Fire Fixed an issue with Meteor Strike that could cause the meteor to spawn under the ground if the target was standing below the lip of higher terrain. Flashpoint's description has changed to clarify when the power interaction takes effect. Gadget Suppressor Turret now uses the same animation as the Sentry and Warden Turret. PvP: Arena PVP The Metropolis and Gotham City Police Departments are conducting a joint investigation in an effort to locate the missing Green Barrels from several locations in the Arenas. The cowering NPCs from each Safe House will now only speak with you once every 6 seconds. It's not that they don't trust you, it's just that...well okay, it IS that they don't trust you. Australia Players that are members of the Suicide Squad/Task Force X will no longer be affected by Encasements/Knockbacks activated by their own team. The Pit Green Ivy Seeds no longer damage allies. General PvP Players who die in PVP but do not pick a rally point within 30 seconds will be auto warped back to their starting point. Players who linger in the safe spawn areas will be kicked from PVP Arenas. Power up barrels found in the Headquarters PvP maps will no longer display interpenetrating effects. Resolved an issue where players on Suicide Squad orTask Force X would not receive quest updates for Legends: Ace Chemicals, Legends: Arkham Asylum, Legends: Batcave. Legends PVP Catwoman's Surprise Attack visual effects will no longer last for an entire match. Updated Power Girl and Ursa's Thermal Gaze the second hold range attack in the combo string to be a block breaker and vulnerable to interrupt and increased the damage from the Burning power interaction. It is also easier to combo into Thermal Gaze from Thermal Blast. Raids: Fortress of Solitude: The Chasm Should Superman or Lex get weak in the knees following the Broodmother battle and not open the door it will eventualy open on its own so you can continue. UI: Fixed an issue that could cause the incorrect number of skill points to be returned when resetting skill points if they had been partially spent in a multi-point trait. Collections, Breifings, and Investigations UI has been improved. Players will now be able to open the UI to see which collections have recently been updated. This will only persist until viewed or the current session ends. Visual: When encased, the camera now tracks the encasement better. When encased and smashed, the camera now tracks the smashed player better. The fly text for damage done by Battle Drone now displays as the proper color. Phantom Stranger has found the cape he had misplaced. The Kryptonian Medico style will no longer display clipping in the neck area for certain body types. Weapons: The lunge attacks for the following weapons should now more reliably damage opponents who are fleeing or near maximum range. o Bow o Dual Pistols o Hand Blaster o Martial Arts o One Handed o Shield o Staff
06/14/2012: DLC 4 - The Last Laugh THE JOKER RETURNS TO WREAK HAVOC IN DC UNIVERSE™ ONLINE Fourth DLC Pack, “The Last Laugh,” Features Large-Scale Multiplayer Combat, New Light-Powered Legends Characters and an All-New Weapon SAN DIEGO, Calif. – May 8, 2012 – The battle between heroes and villains in DC Universe™ Online (DCUO) continues as Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) today announced that The Last Laugh, the fourth downloadable content (DLC) pack for DCUO, will be available in June for download on the PC and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. The Last Laugh will pit players against each other in high-intensity multiplayer brawls, feature an all-new weapon, and introduce new Light-Powered Legends PvP characters. “We created this DLC purely for the players that like to take the fight to each other in DCUO's amazing PvP combat," said Jens Andersen, creative director on DC Universe Online. "Our community has continuously asked for more multiplayer action in DCUO, and we wanted to deliver content that fully meets their expectations and pushes PvP to another level. The Last Laugh is the first DLC that we've created that focuses almost entirely on player versus player battles, and it adds an exciting new element as some of DC's greatest heroes and villains join to fight alongside you. Players will have even more opportunities to prove to the world whether heroes or villains will be triumphant." The Last Laugh will include an all-new weapon, hours of multiplayer gameplay in the Safe Houses and Headquarters, and new Legends PvP characters: The Shield – Players can unleash this vicious new weapon to bash their opponents, or hurl it to take them down from a distance. Safe House Battles – No one is safe now that heroes and villains can invade each other’s Safe Houses in these four on four battles. Graviton Technology Recovery – Players will be tasked with retrieving cutting-edge technology from the hero or villain safe houses. It's a mad dash to grab the most graviton singularity capsules! The Rescue – Heroes must rescue hostages, while Villains will be freeing arrested criminals from opposing Safe Houses. Bomb Disposal – Stockpiles of explosives have been remotely armed by a mischievous third party! Players must gain control of the Bomb Squad's mech and either neutralize the bombs or use them for dastardly purposes! Headquarter Battles – In this two-part crusade, 16 players – eight heroes and eight villains – will face off for the ultimate player reward. At the request of Superman, heroes must take over the Hall of Doom, while villains, egged on by The Joker, will breach the Watchtower in order to create chaos. Legends Characters – Combat illuminates with the introduction of the first light-powered Legends for multiplayer combat. Players will soon have access to Kilowog, a Green Lantern, and Amon Sur, a member of the Sinestro Corps. DCUO’s The Last Laugh DLC pack will be accessible for free for the game’s Legendary members and available for purchase for Free and Premium players via the PlayStation®Network in-game Marketplace, and on the PC via the DCUniverseOnline.com website. For more information, click here! DCUO is licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on behalf of DC Entertainment. For more information about DCUO, visit www.DCUniverseOnline.com. About DC Universe Online Lex Luthor has traveled back through time with news of a dire future: While the heroes and villains spent years battling amongst themselves, Brainiac has been feeding on their powers, building strength to return to Earth and destroy humanity. To change the future, Lex has come back to set off a device that bestows super powers to thousands of every-day citizens and give humanity a fighting chance. Can Brainiac be stopped, or is this another nefarious Lex Luthor plot? For the first time, players and fans will be able to enter the DC Universe as an active force for good or evil. A massively multiplayer experience, DC Universe Online delivers unparalleled high-energy, physics-powered combat that brings the player's extraordinary powers to life. DC Universe Online was created in the artistic vision of legendary comic book artist Jim Lee, and set within a world created by famous DC writers including Geoff Johns and Marv Wolfman. Rated T for Teen with Mild Blood, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes and Violence, DC Universe Online is available for PC and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. DCUO Legendary access will be available for a $14.99 monthly fee. About SOE Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) is a recognized worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games. Best known for its blockbuster hits and franchises, including EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, Champions of Norrath®, PlanetSide®, Free Realms®, Clone Wars Adventures™ and DC Universe Online™, SOE creates, develops and provides compelling online entertainment for a variety of platforms. SOE is building on its proven legacy and pioneering the future of online worlds through creative development and inspired gameplay design for audiences of all ages. To learn more, visit www.soe.com. SOE, the SOE logo, EverQuest, Champions of Norrath, PlanetSide and Free Realms are registered trademarks of Sony Online Entertainment LLC. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved. About Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, is a premier worldwide publisher, developer, licensor and distributor of entertainment content for the interactive space across all current and future platforms, including console, handheld and PC-based gaming for both internal and third party game titles. About DC Entertainment DC Entertainment, home to such iconic DC Comics properties as Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Flash, MAD Magazine, and Fables, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating across Warner Bros. and Time Warner. DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its superheroic characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment, and interactive games. Publishing over 1,000 comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Comics is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world.
06/04/2012: GU14 All servers will be offline Monday, 06.04.12, beginning at 8:00 AM PDT (3:00 PM GMT) to launch Game Update 14. Downtime is expected to last about 4 hours. Please note also that the Spring event will end Monday, and that Marks of Conquest can only be used for Tokens of Merit after Game Update 14 is live. Players may notice the following changes: Spring Exit Springtime has come and gone in DC Universe Online, taking Poison Ivy, Swamp Thing, and all sorts of allergens with them (hopefully). Task Force X & Suicide Squad PvP Matchmaking Prepare to be enlisted by Amanda Waller into Task Force X and the Suicide Squad, the black ops division of her agency! Under Waller’s directive, heroes and villains can be placed on the same team in PvP Arenas. The PvP Matchmaking system has been updated to always try to place you with members of the same alignment (Heroes with Heroes and Villains with Villains) but when the PvP Matchmaking system runs out of options, it will allow for players to be temporarily assigned to a team with the opposing alignment until the PvP match is over. Suicide Squad (Villains) or Task Force X (Heroes) is defaulted to “on” for players and players can opt out of this by going to their Gameplay Settings under Options in their UI. Options >-Settings->Gameplay->Enable Task Force X or Suicide Squad. Promethium Lockboxes: “The New 52” inspired by Gear and Auras! We’ve added new items to Promethium Lockboxes! Now you can collect new Gear Set style items inspired by DC Comics “The New 52.” We’ve also added seven different color Auras that your character can now wear as an Accessory! Alerts: •Exits in Alerts will now show up properly on the map and radar. Ace Chemicals •Resolved various issues in Ace Chemicals that caused Boss Fight Lockouts, Door Issues and other inconsistencies. •Mad Duncan and Rinty will now shut the door regardless of what trickery is attempted. Bludhaven •Players will now be prompted with a message to "Leave Bludhaven" after they have defeated Chemo. Collections & Investigations: •Gorilla Bombs Components: Players should now be able to access all Gorilla Bomb Component Investigations. •Adjusted gold collections in Otisburg, Gotham where the gold collection icon was sticking into the ground. Combat: •Players may cancel into a Block after weak tap melee attacks much more quickly than before. •Block now has a minimum 0.5 second hold time. Players may still instantly cancel into a Dodge Roll from a Block. •Players can act after breaking out more quickly than before. •Controllers: oPowers that de-buff damage now also remove the Damage role buff. This affects the following powers: •Light: Grasping Hand and Light Weight. •Gadgets: Sleep Dart and Gag Glove. •Mental: Cryokinesis and Terrorize. Feats: •Offline Expert: Fixed an issue that would cause some Turrets in the Batcave PVP Instances to not count toward the Offline Expert Feat. •"Parts Direct" and "Master of Disassembly" are now 3-star feats. General: •Doors in the distance now update when they open or close rather than waiting until players approach them. •Miscellaneous environment art fixes throughout the world. •Miscellaneous visual effects and animation optimizations. Iconic NPCs: Killer Croc •Killer Croc now has swoosh visual effects with his melee attacks. •Killer Croc's ground smash visual effects timing will now align with the animation. •Killer Croc's roar will actually roar and breathe his “croc” breath all over you. Black Canary •Black Canary will actually stun her targets when she uses her Sonic Stun attack •Black Canary’s Sonic Blast will now have the chance to pull in more than one opponent, but the player will now be able to dodge/breakout from the attack. •Black Canary has less tolerance for plinkers and will shout until they are pulled close. Missions: •Exploration: Meta Hero players are now sent to the Exploration Quest closest to home first (Queensland Boardwalk) before being sent to explore elsewhere. •Central City: Fixed issue where quest givers would go on coffee break and come back in 2 minutes. They should return immediately. Lunar Eclipse •The treasure chest that was previously unreachable by villains has been moved to a new location in the same room and can now be seen and reached. •Various changes made to the Zatanna/Etrigan fight to ensure Etrigan shows up to fight. Powers: General •Fixed an issue that caused certain abilities to deactivate others in unexpected ways (i.e. Galvanize or Poison Spore was stomping on Electrogenesis). •Fixed an issue where the following single target pull powers would be able to pull more than one NPC. oTaser Pull - Gadgets oMesmerizing Lasso - Iconic Power oEarthen Grip - Earth oVine Lash - Nature oGrapple Line Attack - Acrobatics
06/04/2012: GU14 Iconic Player Powers Amazonium Deflection oAdded a 30% chance to stun from deflected hits oPower cost is now 275 with no extra per second cost Batarang Multi-Shot oLowered cool down oLowered power cost oUpped damage on second hit Freezing Breath oUpdated tooltip to say it is vulnerable to interrupt Heat Vision oUpdated the tooltip to say it is vulnerable to interrupt Mesmerizing Lasso oDeals damage if the target isn’t stunned oLowered the cool down oLowered power cost oNow does damage over time while stunned Pheromone Bloom oNow a Supercharge with 35% Supercharge cost oUseable while controlled oInstant big heal and small heal over time (for caster) oLowered the cast time animation by 1 second Word of Power oNow a Supercharge with 50% Supercharge cost oInstant medium heal (for caster) o5 ticks of 100 power to Raid group oAdded an electrified power interaction oNo longer vulnerable to interrupt Robot Sidekick oLooks like its icon now and has movement sounds oNew robotic appearance oAdded melee combo oAdded shield ability oIncreased rocket damage oProjectiles now properly travel 25 meters Sonic Cry oLowered the cool down by 23 seconds oRemoved the cast time oLowered the animation time oNo longer vulnerable to interrupt Sonic Shout oShortened the duration to 2.8 seconds oNow ticks for every 0.5 second instead of every second oIncreased the damage with each tick oLowered the power cost oShortened the cone from 25 to 12.5 meters Earth •Unstoppable will now play visual effects when used. Gadgets •Cryofoam's visual effects will play correctly for each weapon type. •Sleep Dart will now damage targets that resist stun effects if you are not in stealth. Light •Light Blast now de-buffs the targets ability to heal and removes Controller power over time effects. •Grasping Hand will now add the Crush power interaction when used in a Construct Combo. Nature •Players in Gorilla Form will now be able to add the Impaling Thorns ability to their load out! Promethium Lockboxes: •Fixed an issue where promethium lockboxes would not be collected if the player’s inventory was full.
06/04/2012: GU14 PvP: Arenas •Teams should now be more evenly matched when queuing for an arena. •S.T.A.R. Labs: Capture nodes will now stay active for a longer period of time and it is now possible for three nodes to be active at once. •All arenas now use a base 1000 point system for consistency. •Multiple Arenas have had their time changed to 15 mins and their scoring updated as follows: oAce Chemicals: KO – 20, 1 Point Held – 2 per tick, 2 Points Held – 5 per tick, 3 Points Held – 15 per tick oArkham Asylum: 1 Point Held – 2 per tick, 2 Points Held – 5 per tick, 3 Points Held – 15 per tick oAustralia: 1 Point Held – 3 per tick, 2 Points Held – 8 per tick, 3 Points Held – 25 per tick oBatcave: KO – 35, Point Held – 7 per tick oMoon: KO – 10, Flag delivered – 350, Total Score starts at 1,000 oS.T.A.R. Labs: 1 Point Held – 3 per tick, 2 Points Held – 8 per tick, 3 Points Held – 25 per tick oFortress of Solitude: KO – 20 points, victory achieved at 1,000 points oWatchtower Containment Facility: KO – 50 points, victory achieved at 1,000 points •Australia (8 vs. 8): Players will no longer have the option to secure a turret after it has already been activated. •Moon Base (5 vs. 5) oBlue and Orange Elements now use the proper name in the combat log. oActivated Defense Turrets are no longer interactable after being activated. •We made some adjustments to the end of arena matches: oThe scorecard does not pop up immediately. oPlayers are now able to show/hide the scorecard. oThe scorecard should now display the proper numbers when it exhibited automatically. oPlayers will no longer be able to deal damage once the match objective has been completed. oAdded a “Leave Arena” option to the quick menu UI. General PvP •Fixed an issue where block breakers would cause a player to be KO'd at the end of a duel. •Corrected an issue that could cause you to be unable to move or attack after recovering from a counter attack knockdown. •PvP Influence now has a cap of 25,000. •Marks of Conquest have been phased out and replaced by Marks of Tactics •All PvP items that used to be purchasable with Marks of Conquest are now purchasable with Marks of Tactics at a reduced cost. •An additional Mark of Tactics or Mark of Legend can now be earned once per week the first time you win a PvP Arena or Legends match. •The weapons previously available from the Diamond Heist and Metropolis Ring War events are now available on PvP Vendors in the Safehouses. •Metropolis Ring War: The Mission and Event will now remain in sync with each other and not give conflicting Lantern counts. ast Laugh”.
06/14/2012: GU14 Legends •Ace Chemicals: Competitors no longer have the option to interact with an invisible door at the start of the match. •Batcave: Fixed an issue where players would sometimes be unable to activate drones even when not being interrupted by other players. Legends Characters •We have made a number of minor changes to power cost and damage to bring Legends characters closer in line with one another. •Multiple Characters: oBackflip: Increased base damage, decreased cost. Bane oBattle Roar: Increased damage, decreased cost. oVenom Clap: Increased base damage, increase Damage over Time duration. oGrapple Line: Decreased damage. Batman oExplosive Batarang: Decreased cost. oGrapple Line: Increased damage Catwoman oSmoke Cloud: Added power cost. oWhip Pull: Increased damage, decreased cost. oCat Swipe: Increased Damage, decreased cost. oWhip Flurry: Decreased cost. Harley Quinn oGlove Punch: Decreased cost. oBomb Toss: Increased Cost. oHammer Spin: Increased damage, decreased cost. Huntress oWrangle: Decreased damage, decreased cost. Joker oConfetti Bomb: Decreased damage. Nightwing oClink: Decreased damage. oForward Flip: Increased damage, decreased cost. oTaser Line: Decreased damage, decreased cost. Robin o Batarang: Increased damage. oFlipline: Decreased damage and decreased cost. oBackflip Escape: Increased damage, decreased cost. Two Face oIn Your Face: Increased damage, decreased cost. oBullet Storm: Increased damage, decreased cost. oFire Barrel: Decreased damage, decreased cost. Harvey Dent Domination •Always: Increased health. •In Your Face: Increased damage, decreased cost. •Oil Barrel: Decreased base damage, decreased cost. •Bullet Storm: Increased damage, decreased cost. Two Face Domination •Always: Increased critical strike chance and no longer suffers reduction in Health. •In Your Face: Decreased base damage, increased duration of burning effect. •Acid Barrel: Decreased base damage, decreased cost, doubled damage over time tick rate. •Bullet Storm: Increased duration of burning effect. Raids: Brainiac Sub-Construct •Energy balls will no longer keep players locked in combat. Fortress of Solitude: Sunstone Matrix •The doors should now open allowing victors to roam the area after defeating General Zod. UI: •Renamed the "Eyes" category in the Style menu to "Face" since there are many varieties of Styles to collect for this slot. •Completed feats should no longer display an incorrect objective count. •Quick Menu: Selection no longer leaps to the top of the menu when backing out a menu level. •Added a new chat tab for non-English languages. •Adjusted the default chat channel colors. •A /tell now shows the correct color for the sender. •Inventory: Items may now be deleted by dragging and dropping outside of the UI •Bank: Items may now be deleted by dragging and dropping outside of the UI Weapons: Dual Pistols •Sweep Shot is now vulnerable to block AND interrupts instead of being vulnerable to interrupt. Martial Arts •Nature powered characters will now see visual effects when using Heavy Shuriken, Shuriken Storm, and Enhanced Shuriken. Shield New Shield weapons start dropping in anticipation of DLC4 “The Last Laugh”.
05/09/2012: GU13 All servers will be offline tomorrow, 05.09.12, beginning at 8:00 AM PDT (3:00 PM GMT) to launch Game Update 13. Downtime is anticipated to be less than 4 hours. Players may notice the following changes: Spring is in the air!Poison Ivy is back to wreak havoc on the people of Gotham's allergies... only it's much worse than that. Luckily for the innocents, Swamp Thing has returned to help thwart Poison Ivy's plans. Villains can learn more about Poison Ivy’s plans by speaking to her in the Hall of Doom’s Pit, while Heroes can speak to Swamp thing in the Watchtower’s Aquacultural Area to help bring down Ivy and her minions. Tokens of Merit! Tokens of Merit vendors are now available and can be found in the Watchtower War Room and the Hall of Doom Pit areas. Players can purchase Tokens of Merit with all existing Marks and Seasonal Currencies. The Tokens of Merit can be consumed to gain new Tokens of Merit Feats, which means more skill points to make you a more powerful force in the DC Universe! DCUO Raid Teleporters! We have added teleporters outside the boss fights for Raids, where applicable, to allow players an extra 15 seconds to enter the boss fights after the door closes. Purchasing the DLC just got easier! Players can now purchase any DLC content they do not have by selecting it during character create in the Inspired By section or by selecting a Power they do not have access to yet! Collections Update! Listen Up! We’ve updated our Collections system to give players an enriched experience with Investigations and Briefs! We’ve added new audio effects to the voice recordings of Collections to exhibit the source of the recording; from CB radio, to TV, to Satellite, even magically transmitted recordings! There is also a new UI element to reflect the newly processed transmission with special icons in the Communicator window. We will be adding more enhanced audio to our Collections in future updates, so keep your ears open! Alerts: Area 51 Defeating the Prime Servitor in Area 51 on normal difficulty will no longer show a loot lock for the Hard Mode Alert. Exit Locations are now properly labeled on the Map and Minimap UI. Bludhaven New advances in toxins ensure pools spilling from Toxic Chemical barrels will only cause chemical burns to enemies. S.T.A.R. Labs Players will now receive a Mission Objective message when the Alert is complete directing them to exit S.T.A.R. Labs. Audio: The Voice Over in DC Universe Online now has a priority system! Voice Over will now play without stacking up, so you can hear Iconic communicator messaging without being interrupted by vendor or collections Voice Over. Currency: Marks All “Marks” earned through PvE, PvP and Seasonal Content are now capped at 250. If you have 250 or more marks stored on your character, the number in the currencies tab will appear in red. You will be unable to earn more marks of that type until you reduce the number to below the cap. Duos: Gotham Hospital Guardian MK-IV’s shotgun attack has been adjusted to spread the damage more evenly between melee and ranged targets. Melee range targets will see reduced damage from this attack, while ranged targets will have more to actively avoid. Turrets during the boss encounter have had their damage reduced, and will now choose more random targets. Gotham University When defeated, Isis has agreed to always return to dust and bone. Riverfront Center Guardian MK-XXII’s Healer drones now have a 3 second gap between appearing, instead of all 3 at the same time. Feats: Assembly Line and Entering Mass Production now award the correct amount of feat points when completed. General: The Tap Room now has a proper Rally Point. Target Dummies now regain full health when dropping below 10% health. Target Dummies now return power to players during their training. The tour cam in the Hall of Doom has been updated to show off the new Pit area. Players will no longer sometimes lose control of their camera when being interrupted as they are starting an interaction such as a collection. Missions: Blind Eye: Players will now see the Entrance to the playroom without having the quest actively tracked in their Journal. Saving the Souls of Students (Hero) and Coed Chomping (Villain): Etrigan's spell will now properly convert you into a Zombie. T.O. Trap: T.O. Morrow has agreed to let players enter the room and not be locked out of the room left to watch Batman and Joker face off. T.O. Trap: Batman will now remember to bring his loot list with him to the fight. Villains that are victorious should now receive goodies when defeating Batman in T.O. Morrow's Lab.
05/09/2012: GU13 Powers: Earth Debris Field, Shards, Striking Stones, Pebble Blast, Localized Tremor and Jackhammer will no longer remove the Dazed and/or Crushed power interactions when used. Upheaval and Jackhammer will now give you 50% Damage Absorption for 12 seconds from Aftershocks unless Damage Shift is active Fire Flame Cascade and Fireburst should now perform their Power interactions correctly, dealing additional damage to Burning, Electrified, or Frostbitten targets. Gadgets Cryo-foam will now continue its damage after the root ends; The Burning interaction to electrified targets will now be applied even if the target is immune to knockdown. Hide is now usable while controlled. Cryo-foam should now perform its Power interaction correctly, inflicting Burning on Electrified targets. Fear Gas should now perform its Power interaction correctly, inflicting Burning on Electrified targets, causing Burning or Electrified targets to explode, and occasionally encasing Frostbitten targets. Nature Primal Wolf Form melee hold attack, Slam, now Interrupts as intended, rather than being a Block Breaker. Sorcery Transmutation should now deal additional damage to encased and polymorphed enemies. The description for Sacrificial Offering has been updated to make it clear that your Red Soul Aura is consumed when using this ability. PVP: Counter Attack Immunity: Performing a successful Block Break, Interrupt or Block Counter will now grant you a short respite during which you cannot be damaged, controlled or counter-attacked. Counter Attack Immunity will be indicated by a blue flash, instead of the normal white breakout flash. PvP weapons no longer de-buff an opponent’s Toughness. Blue quality level 30 PvP starter weapons now add a Precision bonus when used in PvP to give them an effective DPS value of 87.5 when used against players. PvP armor no longer has the Defense stat. PvP armor now offers less Toughness and more Health. Tank armor has more Toughness than non-Tank armor. Toughness values have been generally reduced overall, but survivability when wearing PvP armor has been increased due to the Health increase. Tank anti-controller de-buff protection and group Breakout effects now last three seconds and may only be applied a maximum of twice every 12 seconds. This affects the following abilities: Earth: Unstoppable and Crystal’s De-buff Protection Fire: Burning Determination and Burnout Ice: Winter Ward and Shatter Restraints. Controller healing de-buff powers now also strip normal power over time effects applied by controllers. This affects the following abilities: Pyrokinesis, Horrific Visage, Cryo-foam, Bomb and Snap Trap. Legends Increased the damage of a minimally charged Batarang Flurry for Batman and Robin. Reduced the damage output of Two-Face’s ranged minions Raids: Fortress of Solitude: The Power Core General Zod, Superman and Lex Luthor will no longer flee from battle when traveling through the halls of the Fortress of Solitude. Kahndaq Waterkeepers are now vulnerable to all damage sources. UI: The Soder Cola Type IV now has the correct tooltip. The Equipment Interface Type IV now stacks and has the correct item description. PvP Arena Queues are now in alphabetical order. Revised the description for all Marks to be more accurate. Feats that require a different feat pre-requisite will no longer be visible until the pre-requisite feat is completed. Feats: Completed feats should no longer display an incorrect objective count. Visual: The reward icon for the Seeds of Spring seasonal collection has now been fixed to match the actual inventory icon. Weapons: Dual Wield: Increased the damage of a minimally charged Charged Double Throw. Dual Pistols: Jump Shot is no longer Interruptible but it is now Vulnerable to Block and causes Interrupt. The Loft Shot attack now also Interrupts. Hand Blaster: Increased the damage of a maximally charged Charged Blast. One Handed: Increased the damage of a minimally charged Focused Blast.
04/19/2012: GU12 Update: Due to a serious technical issue, Game Update 12 has been postponed. There is a tentative plan to release this content at the same time tomorrow. We apologize for any confusion. All servers will be offline tomorrow, 04.19.12, beginning at 8:00 AM PDT (3:00 PM GMT) to launch Game Update 12. Downtime is anticipated to be less than 4 hours. Players may notice the following changes: New Bank UI! We’ve improved the overall look and feel of our Bank UI. Along with better manageability and messaging, the Shared Bank is now located on its own tab. Players also now have the flexibility to split stacks of items within the Bank UI that they once only had within their Inventory. We’ve also included the ability to quick swap items into your Bank or Shared Bank! With one click (right mouse button) you can instantly move items over without the need to pick items up and drag them to an empty space. Purchase Character Slots in Character Select! Want to create your Alter Ego? Now you can! Players now have the ability to add new character slots right in Character Select! The “Add Character Slots” button is located below the Character List on the Character Selection Screen. Alert Teleporters! We have added teleporters outside the boss fights for Alerts, where applicable, to allow players an extra 15 seconds to enter the boss fights after the boss fight door closes. Alerts: Ace Chemicals: Fixed an issue where it was possible to get stuck in the treasure rooms. Audio: Full House now plays combat music when you engage him in Amusement Mile. Raven Unbound: This playroom has improved Music. Bizarro, Minotaur and Solomon Grundy Open World Encounters now play combat music when you engage them. Duos: South Gotham entrances to the Duos are now properly limited to level 30 characters. General: Sparring Dummies in the Hall of Doom and Watchtower will no longer keep the players in combat. Really, we mean it this time. Players with saved settings will no longer experience the game resetting to default settings upon login. Fixed a bug where binding a key wouldn't always have the intended result. Mail no longer indicates there are attachments when none actually exist. Items: The Soder Cola Enhancer Type IV now has a max stack size of 16. Missions: Goddess of Peril: Villain and Lair of the Witch: Hero Missions no longer need to be active in order to enter their respective playroom. Riddle Me This: Fixed an issue where Heroes could receive damage during a cool cam. WANTED: Abra Kadabra: This bounty mission now correctly recognizes you are in Central City. Gorge Yourself: Villain: Gluttony Obelisks are no longer greedy and will update your quest upon arrival. Old Gotham Subway: You must be Level 30 to enter the Old Gotham Subway Challenge Mode Teleporter. Powers: Movement: The power regeneration triggered by Breakout Mastery and related Movement power traits now tick more slowly for larger chunks. The amount of power returned over time is unchanged. PVP: Fixed an issue that caused revive bars to display progress incorrectly. Critical effects are reduced while in PvP arena zones. PvP weapon Precision bonuses will always be present when you are in PvP arena zone and won’t require hitting an enemy player first. Legends: Bane will no longer lose the Venom Clap ability after pumping up with venom twice and reaching his maximum strength. All Legends characters now come equipped with the Breakout Mastery trait, allowing for gradual power recovery following the use of the Breakout ability. Joker’s Confetti Bomb now uses a faster animation without a cast time. Raids: Kahndaq Black Adam has decided to even the odds and allow players to be the first to attack him. He will now wait at the center of the room for worthy opponents to try their hand at defeating him. Prime Battleground Brainiac has updated his source code to ensure he receives Healer Drones during the final sequence. Prepare to be assimilated! Themyscira: The Gates of Tartarus Fixed an issue where Wonder Woman and Circe would become fear-stricken and refuse to continue. The Avatar of Magic has weakened, is no longer considered immortal and should always fall in battle if stripped of all life. South Gotham: Sub-Avatars: Brainiac has reconfigured his construction pads in an effort to increase Sub-Avatar production, raising the threat in South Gotham. UI: Bank Added better messaging when item trading or deleting is not available. Pressing X on a gamepad or right clicking on an item will now move it from the Bank to Inventory or vice versa. Broker Deposit and price cash fields are now formatted with commas to improve readability. Improved messaging in the Broker UI when you do not have enough cash to cover the Auction deposit price. Inventory The currency tab will now update properly if Marks are acquired while the inventory UI is open. On Duty Added "[LOCKED]" messaging for unavailable Legends PvP characters. Players can now type /help in the chat window for a list of slash commands. Custom Chat channels now show the correct channel name when talking into the channel. The “required time” section of the completed race UI is no longer displayed when finishing a race in Platinum time. Scrolling of text description on Collections has been added. Quest objectives in the Mission Journal HUD element are now displayed in the same order as in the Quest Journal. Visual: Fixed a number of environmental issues throughout the world.
04/10/2012: Hotfix A hotfix will be applied during regular restarts tonight. No additional downtime will be required. Players may notice the following changes: Replay Badges in the On Duty UI! Replay Badges can now be used directly in the On Duty UI to reset previously locked content. Players can also purchase these badges directly in the UI or in the Marketplace! Promethium Keys! Promethium Keys, used to unlock Promethium Lockboxes, are now available for all players to purchase directly in the Marketplace! Update: Please note that both Replay Badges and Promethium Keys will be available in the US PS3 Marketplace today before 5:00 PM PDT, after the US PSN updates, and in the EU PS3 Marketplace tomorrow after the EU PSN updates.
03/27/2012: GU11 All servers will be offline tomorrow, 03.27.12, beginning at 8:00 AM PT (3:00 PM GMT) to launch Game Update 11. Downtime is anticipated to be less than 4 hours. Players may notice the following changes: DCUO Teleporters! New teleporters have been added outside the boss fights for Duos. This will allow players an extra 15 seconds to enter the boss fights after the boss fight door closes. Alerts: Area 51: •The quest objectives have undergone formatting changes. Arkham Asylum: •Players no longer remain in combat once they make their way past the catwalks in the Mister Freeze Wing. HIVE Moon Base: •Fixed the combat log to display correctly for the Drill Beam. Smallville: •The correct amount of treasure chests will now spawn, and should now always drop loot. South Gotham Courthouse: •The Duration of the Damaging Testimony field has been greatly reduced. •The Damage from the Damaging Testimony field has been delayed by 2 seconds to allow time to move out of it. •The surviving Attorney will now do much more damage during ‘Closing Arguments’. Audio: •Added an additional piece of music to the player dueling playlist. •Psychosomatic Illness: Fixed an issue where Dr. Psycho’s dialog would play over the illusionary Wonder Woman and Super Girl's taunts. Bounties: Metropolis: •The Content Area Pointers for Kid Flash, Starfire and Weather Wizard have been updated and will no longer send you out into the sea to find them. Gotham: •The Content Area Pointer for Clayface has been updated and will now send you to the proper area to find him. Collections: •The icons for the South Gotham Collections should now appear properly. Combat: •The Block counter effect should now only trigger in response to attacks which are Vulnerable to Block. Duos: Gorilla Grodd’s Lab: •Players will no longer spawn inside a book shelf when first entering Grodd’s Lab. Feats: •Resolved an issue with the feat "Duos Dynamo" that was granting it extra counts for completing certain duos. Items: •The Lightning Strikes Ring Compartment Controller trinket should no longer apply its stat buff when the trinket is drained. •Healer items earned from Battle for Earth content have had their stats adjusted to offer more Restoration and less of other secondary stats. Missions: •Beat the Heat: The Freeze Agent quest giver will no longer jump off of the roof and should be easier to find. •Communication Breakdown: The cars, vans, and traffic cones around the area should no longer be targetable during combat. •Exobyte Eclipse: Fixed an issue that could cause NPCs to appear to slide when first attacked. •Falling STARs: The quest objectives have undergone formatting changes. •Lunar Eclipse: Villain: Lightkeeper Janis should now stay down when you defeat her and not get up (reset) looking for a second beating. •Raven Unleashed: The Science Police no longer use their stealth rockets out in the open as this weapon is still under development. Enemies of the Science Police will now see rockets barreling toward them. •Reign of Blood Players no longer remain in combat with Doctor Fate after defeating him. Villain: Fixed an issue where players could get attacked by invulnerable NPCs if they backtracked through the instance after wiping. •Smash and Grab: The Gotham Police Cars in this area no longer have a protective coating that makes them indestructible.
03/27/2012: GU11 Powers: •Electricity Powers Tesla Ball will now apply the Electrified power interaction even if the target is not stunned. Repulse, Static Push, and Circuit Breaker will apply the Polarization power interaction even if the target is not knocked down. Bio-Capacitor will now apply to you and 3 other group members properly. •Earth Powers: Changed the wording on Earthquake and Meteor Shower to indicate more about the effects of using these abilities. All attack movement mode powers, such as Whirlwind Attack, now give the proper Damage Absorption and Defense/Toughness bonus for Earth power characters. •Iconic Powers Reduced the channel duration of Heat Vision and increased the damage inflicted per second. Heat Vision and Freezing Breath will now play visual impact effects when hitting targets. •Gadgets: Pets now persist through zoning. •Light Powers: The trait tree description text should be visible when mousing over or selecting the mastery tree box for both the Assault and Support trees. •Nature: Primal Wolf Form “Slam” attack should no longer inflict a counter attack versus a target who is Vulnerable to Block. •Sorcery: For the purposes of clarity, the box formerly known as “Circle of Protection” in the Destiny tree is now known as “Circle of Destiny”. This grants Circle of Destruction in Damage role and Circle of Protection in Healer role. The functionality and statistics of these abilities remain unchanged. PVP: •All counter-attacks now inflict knockdown. •Corrected an issue that could occasionally cause you to have to break out after being hit with a counter attack if you wanted to begin moving right away. •Corrected an issue that could prevent block from working immediately after recovering from a counter attack. Legends: •The Legends PvP trinket may no longer be used while in stealth. •Charge up attacks when released early will cause less damage than fully charged ones. •Damage caused by tray powers should no longer vary with the level of the player while in Legends matches. •Pets summoned by players under level 30 will now have the proper level 30 combat stats. •Catwoman Her Whip Pull attack no longer affects friendly targets. Corrected a visual effects issue that would occur when she used her Smoke Cloud ability. Her weapon combo abilities now inflict damage commensurate to other Legends characters. Raid: Fortress of Solitude: Zod’s Revenge •Fixed an issue where Superman and Lex Luthor would refuse to 'shoot first' when threatened by Ursa and Zod. The two will now push themselves to be Heroic and assist the raid group in defeating Zod and his followers. Battle for Earth: Prime Battleground •Healer Drones should now properly de-spawn once Brainiac Prime is defeated. User Interface: •On Duty UI - "Ready" check box now remains disabled until actually needed. •Trade UI - Removed chat window spam when items are added or removed. •Partners in Crime: Now correctly displays as a Duo rather than an Alert in the Mission Journal. •Ferris Aircraft: Now correctly displays as a Duo rather than an Alert in the Mission Journal. •The Demon Inside: Bulletins will now update properly. •HUD Ability Tray: The cooldown and out-of-power icons now have improved readability. Visual: •Made a number of environment fixes throughout the game world. Weapons: •Dual Wield The animation speed of Dual Wield Phantom Slash (the ranged Tap) was decreased. The final combo hit of Whirlwind Overstrike, Stunning Swipe and Dual Flurry will now scale properly based on the total time of the tap attacks leading up to the final hold.
03/13/2012: DLC 3 - The Battle For Earth All servers will be offline tomorrow, 03.13.12, beginning at 8:00 AM PDT (4:00 PM CET) in preparation to launch DLC3 - The Battle For Earth! Downtime is anticipated to be less than 4 hours. The Battle For Earth will be available immediately for Legendary players on both US PS3 and EU PS3. THe DLC will become available for purchase on US PS3 later on Tuesday, 03.13.12, when the US PSN is updated. The DLC will become available for purchase on EU PS3 on Wednesday, 03.14.12, when the EU PSN is updated. Players may notice the following changes: DC Universe Online’s The Battle For Earth introduces new level 30 Daily Solo Missions, new Tier 2 Duos, a new Tier 3 Alert, new Tier 4 Raids, Earth Powers, and new rewards including gear inspired by Brainiac technology, mythical creatures, and ancient spirits! New Level 30 Daily Solo Missions! Converted citizens are wreaking havoc in South Gotham. Stop them at all costs! Look for “Threat in South Gotham” in your Mission Journal. New Tier 2 Duos! South Gotham has been shaken by Brainiac’s invasion. Enter Brainiac’s containment fields to sabotage Brainiac’s plans! Look for “Gotham Hospital”, “Riverfront Center” & “Riverside Hotel” under Duos in your On Duty menu. New Tier 3 Alert! South Gotham Courthouse - Brainiac’s Union has set up a reprogramming center at the steps of the Gotham City Courthouse. Disrupt their workflow and take down their Union leaders! Look for “Order in the Court” in your Mission Journal. New Tier 4 Raids! The Gates of Tartarus - Stop Brainiac’s latest deadly plan on Wonder Woman’s home island. Look for “Battle for Themyscira” in your Mission Journal. The Prime Battleground - Engage in the ultimate final battle against Brainiac and his Prime Avatars! Look for “The Omega and the Alpha” in your Mission Journal. Earth Powers! Choose Earth as your power type or choose “Geo-Force” or “Terra” if you want to be "inspired.” Earth powers can be used for both Tanking and Damage roles and have two ability trees, Geokinesis and Seismic. Geokinesis gives players the ability to shape earthen constructs to crush enemies and reinforce allies. New damage transfer mechanics give Earth users a unique way to swing the tide of battle by redirecting damage away from allies and onto themselves – or even away from themselves and onto their constructs! Seismic empowers players, allowing them to call mighty earth shaking forces that rattle and daze opponents. The Aftershock mechanic allows players to extend the effect of some Seismic powers so that your attacks keep rolling like an avalanche. Light: Hard light encasements now properly interact with Pyrokinesis, Telekinetic Bolt, Psychic Resonance, and Resonating Gale.
02/28/2012: GU10 US servers will be offline tomorrow, 02.28.12, beginning at 8:00 AM PT (5:00 PM CET) for a patch to the DCUO client. Downtime is anticipated to be less than 4 hours. Players may notice the following changes: Check out our new On Duty UI! In order to provide our players with a better experience when queuing for content, we have re-designed our On Duty UI to be more like the layout of our Mission Journal. Beyond just being familiar, players now have greater control and visibility when queuing. The new On Duty UI provides players with better feedback! For example, if a player is queuing and does not meet the requirements for the specific content, the On Duty UI now displays messaging as to what criteria the player does not meet. In addition, players now see the status of group members, and will be notified if a member of the party does not meet requirements. Character Background Selection! Legendary players and players that have purchased at least one DLC pack will have the option to change their Character Selection Background on the Character Select Screen! Audio: •When fighting Static, you should find him to be much more talkative now. Collections: •Fixed a number of gold collections that would spawn in locations players could not reach. •Improved placement of a number of Briefings in Metropolis. Research and Development: •Harvesting Exobytes while in a group should no longer cause a group roll. If you are the harvester you will receive the harvested materials. General: •Players will no longer be able to roll NEED on an item if they are unable to wear it. •The vending machines in Little Bohemia are no longer targetable. •Character list scrolling works properly now. •Some Paradox Ruptures have been closed and re-opened elsewhere to avoid interrupting players participating in other content. •Stat buffs applied from one trinket will no longer stack with the same stat from another trinket. Corrected a number of inconsistencies with trinkets buffing stats with incorrect tier values. Lightning Strikes: •Bounty and Wanted missions now have a chance to drop loot for any contributors currently on the mission. Marketplace: •DLC items in the marketplace should no longer be marked incorrectly as "Purchased" if your inventory is full. Missions: •South Gotham: With Brainiac consolidating his forces, and moving them into the bottles, Captain Cold and Cyborg no longer have daily missions for Villains or Heroes. •Party Time!: Fixed an issue that could cause the fight to break for higher level villains preventing them from completing the end sequence with Harley Quinn. •Hot Dog Zombie: Fixed a minor typo in the Mission Journal. •Garden of Eat Em!: Female citizens will no longer slide during this mission. Powers: •General: The following abilities now apply the “Crushed” effect on their targets: Thought Bubble, Stasis Field, Entrap, Grasping Hand, Deep Freeze, Carnivorous Plants, and Harvest. •Sorcery: Soul Well when used in the Damage role now correctly applies a critical hit chance buff to friendly targets within range when enemies are KOd. •Super Speed: Phase Dodge game effects have been updated to behave more closely to the standard Block ability and its counter effect is now resistible. •Staff: The progress bar has been removed from Martial Flowers, Launching Roundhouse Combo and Leaping Overhead Strike Combo. This means that canceling these attacks with a super power will no longer cause a loss of damage. •Two Handed: The Current Effects menu tooltip display for the Two Handed Weapon Critical Damage bonus will now display properly. •Martial Arts: The Current Effects menu tooltip display for the Martial Arts Weapon Critical Damage bonus will now display properly. •Gadgets: The damage prevention effect of Clown Box will now properly overwrite damage prevention effects from Neural Neutralizer and Hide. •Acrobatics: You may now control your height while using Rocket Assisted Glide by gesturing the movement controls forward or backward. •Acrobatics: Significantly increased the activation distance of Glide Line. PVP: •Diamond Heist: Due to Brainiac's movements in South Gotham the Diamond Heist will now begin at a location slightly to the West of the previously planned heist location. •KO’s on player’s summoned pets no longer affects the score in PvP Arenas. •Toughness now reduces damage caused by player pets in PvP •Legends: Batman and Robin characters will no longer slide along the floor after performing a Batarang Flurry attack Alerts: •The role-optional alerts should now balance properly, only using DPS people in place of other roles. oFor example, if you have 3 controllers and 3 DPS queued up before you could have had a group with 3 controllers and 1 DPS. Now you should get a group with 1 controller and 3 DPS. Duos: Flashback •Abrakadabra is no longer easy to juggle making him comparable in difficulty to Pied Piper.
02/28/2012: GU10 Raids: Batcave: The Inner Sanctum: •The Automated Robotic Custodian (ARC) boss will no longer animate incorrectly while using his Riot Foam attack. Batcave: Brainiac Sub-Construct: •NeurOMAC Elite droids are now able to ground players. •Brainiac can now be properly heard during his boss fight. •Attacks from Brainiac's Orbs will now display correctly in the combat log. Kahndaq: •When carrying the Heart of Anubis it’s de-buff will now display correctly in the Effects Menu. •Players will now receive a marker pointing to General Adnan's location. Fortress of Solitude: The Chasm: •Sunstone Turrets should now always be damageable. User Interface: •User can now scroll through tradable items if more than 16 are in the inventory. •Analog stick/d-pad should now function correctly when highlighting different characters in the Legends PVP section of the On Duty menu. •Marketplace: DLC items in the marketplace should no longer be marked incorrectly as "Purchased" if your inventory is full. •Players should no longer have to select the “Play” button multiple times in character select before entering the game. Visual: •Fixed a number of environmental issues throughout the Metropolis and Gotham City. •Power drain fly-text no longer has “+” sign in front of it.
02/02/2012: GU9 All servers will be offline tomorrow, 02.02.12, beginning at 8:00 AM PT (5:00 PM CET) for a patch to the DCUO client. Downtime is anticipated to be less than 4 hours. Players may notice the following changes: Role Optional Alert Queues Two of the exciting features we’re rolling out for Game Update 9 are Role Optional Alert Queues and the Team Buff. We have metrics that show us who is queuing for what, how long they’re waiting, and a number of other really useful things. As I’m sure you know when you queue for a Duo, you tend to get in and are able to start playing right away. Alerts are a different story, especially for those of you queuing for the damage role. It has nothing to do with Duos only requiring two people. It’s that they require any two people. As is common in a lot of MMOs, there is a population disparity between the different roles. There are as many players queuing for Damage as there are all the other roles combined. Healers are the least common, followed by Tanks, and finally Controllers. So the end result is Healers don’t wait long at all, but Damage tends to wait much longer. All Alerts are now role optional. Generally it shouldn’t take much more than a few minutes for an Alert queue to pop regardless of your role, assuming there are enough people willing to play that Alert. When the matchmaking system tries to form a group out of the pool of queued players it tries to form a balanced group first. As minutes pass, the system becomes increasingly less picky about finding a specific role for a given group slot. The end result of this is that wait times to get into an Alert should be dramatically decreased. Provided players are queued, you should be able to get into an instance in a matter of minutes, no matter your role. Team Buff The new Team Buff allows groups a better chance to overcome adversity, even when they find themselves missing one of the key roles. Any time three or more players are grouped together, within range and in line of sight of one another, they gain a bonus to compensate for roles missing from their group. If your group is missing a Tank, every group member gains additional damage mitigation. If you’re missing a Healer, group members gain a small amount of Health regeneration when they begin to take damage and gain a further health regeneration boost while holding the block button when health is at critical levels. If your group is missing a Controller you will gain a small amount of additional power regeneration when your power begins dipping low. The Team Buff is functional any time players are grouped, with the exception of PvP arenas, Legends matches, and duels. (It will work in raids.) The buffs are by no means a replacement for having the actual role in your group. But with some self reliance, it will provide you with enough of a boost to allow you to complete the Alert successfully. The Team Buff is not applied in PvP arenas, during Legends matches, nor will it function during Duels. Novice Raids In an effort to let more players experience more of the game, we’re launching Novice Raid modes for Game Update 9. Novice Raids are far less demanding than the Expert Raids. They are intended to allow more casual players and random pickup groups a chance to experience some of our best content they might not otherwise be able to experience. The combat rating requirement is just a little bit lower for Novice Raids so you can hit them a little sooner than you can the Expert version. The content, play flow, and boss fights are identical but the fights themselves are much more forgiving. That’s not to say they will be a complete cake walk! You’ll still need to learn and execute properly on the mechanics of the boss fights if you want to succeed. Some may find Novice Raids are a great way to get some practice in while they are gearing up for the Expert versions. Novice Raids do drop loot, however the loot will be of a lower item level. They also award the same badges, but you earn fewer of them. Novice Raids share the same lockout timer as Expert Raids, so you can’t earn loot and badges in both during the same week. Some existing feats can be completed in either the Novice or Expert version of a Raid. However others such as the speed feats can only be completed in Expert mode. Finally we’ve also added new feats for completing the Expert version of a raid. New Soder Colas plans available! Plans for Soder Cola Prime and Soder Cola Max are now available for purchase from Research and Development vendors. These recover more Health and Power than a Soder Cola Extreme but provide no additional buff effect and require no Exobytes to make. Audio: Seeds of Change: Hazmat Rhoades’ Quest VO is now playing correctly. Collections: Fixed several issues with collections spawning in places only reachable by fliers. Rose By Any Other Name: Raised multiple Investigations so they do not interpenetrate the ground. Adjusted the spawn location of some collections in the Burnley District of Gotham. Fixed a section where Paradox Reapers were spawning too close to a Gold Collection in Gotham. Feats: Completing the bounty missions for Flash, Professor Zoom, Black Lightning, and Abrakadabra in Central City will now properly count towards the bounty feats. Items: Items purchased with Marks of Momentum can no longer be sold. Missions: Storming the Ivory Tower: Powergirl will no longer keep players in combat after she is defeated. The Hunt for Grodd: Flash will no longer get cold feet and refuse to enter the final room in Grodd's Lair. Shipping and Handling: Fixed issue where you could accidentally kill the first detective behind the first gate, and Catwoman would no longer respond.
02/02/2012: GU9 Weapons: Two-Handed: Corrected an issue that could sometimes cause a fully charged Mega-Smash to only cause the damage of a 50% charged attack. Corrected an issue with Home Run that prevented it from striking multiple targets. Staff: Corrected an issue that would allow Focused Spin to be performed faster than intended and reduced the damage on a minimally charged Focused Spin. One Handed: Corrected an issue that would allow Focused Blast to be performed faster than intended and reduced the damage on a minimally charged Focused Blast. Powers: Electricity: Damage caused by Electrogenesis and Electrocute is now properly split when affecting many targets. Damage caused by Electrogensis no longer stacks with itself. Gadgets: Increased the cooldown and decreased damage and damage bonus for Neural Neutralizer. Light: Fan and Light Blast will now properly apply effects to players in healer stance. Decreased the cooldown of Light Barrier slightly. Mental: Decreased cooldown of Telekinetic Shield slightly. Sorcery: Reduced the supercharge cost of Arbiter of Destiny to 50%. Raids: Raid groups now have proper group functionality even when not in a raid region. Fortress of Solitude: The Power Core The Avatar of Meta has strengthened and is no longer vulnerable until the Fortress' defenses have been appropriately vanquished first. Lex Luthor's path has been adjusted so he is less likely to get distracted and stop helping the cause. Fortress of Solitude: Sunstone Matrix Superman and Lex Luthor will continue to attack others without taking sabbaticals at inappropriate times. Research & Development: Fixed a number of issues causing crafting items not to display properly in the recipe list. Recipes will now grey out if the player doesn't have the required materials. Fixed an issue that could cause scrolling issues when collapsing groups of plans. Fixed an issue that prevented players from socketing armor that was currently equipped. Workstations now properly display Icons for L1 and R1 to change tabs. Fixed an issue that could sometimes display an incorrect quantity on hand when combining items. Corrected certain tier I, II and III double stat mods that were adding a Combat Rating value that was lower than intended. Specifically this affected all Tier I, II and III mods of these types: Dominance/Might, Dominance/Precision, Health/Power, Restoration/Might, Restoration/Precision, Vitalization/Might and Vitalization/Precision. Attempting to consume an R&D Recipe item for which you are not qualified will display an error dialog rather than a confirmation dialog. User Interface: Chat logs should once again display cash amounts. Headlines: Entries in the Deeds->Headlines UI should no longer show a "movie" icon if there is no motion comic associated with that headline. Mail: Stacks should now properly display their amounts. The Watchtower 5v5 map is now an option when queuing for First Available in the On Duty menu for PvP. Some stats will now be displayed in percentages (IE: “25 Critical Healing Chance” will now display as “2.5% Critical Healing Chance”). Visual: Fixed a number of environmental issues throughout Metropolis and Gotham. Hall of Doom: Some Tour Cams have been revamped with a more cinematic look. JLA Watchtower: Some Tour Cams have been revamped with a more cinematic look. Corrected the effects for Sorcery users that have blaster gloves equipped and use Rejuvenate or Condemn.
01/10/2012: GU8 All servers will be offline tomorrow, 01.10.12, beginning at 8:00 AM PT (5:00 PM CET) for a patch to the DCUO client. Downtime is anticipated to be less than 3 hours. Please note that holiday content will end tomorrow. Players may notice the following changes: New Game Feature-Research & Development! Players are granted a new mission at Level 10 – Look for “Research & Development” in your Mission Journal. R&D Workstations and Vendors are located in the following locations: Hall of Doom, JLA Watchtower, Burnley and Midtown Nightclubs, Midtown and Diamond District Police Stations. R&D parts including Exobits, Exobytes, Plans, Focusing Elements and Salvageable items can be found throughout DC Universe Online. Player Pet Improvement! Summoned Player Pet stats now scale with its owner's combat rating making it more effective and viable in combat situations. General: Fixed an issue where players would not be returned to their last location when using the Batcave Teleporters inside the JLA Watchtower and Hall of Doom. Projectile based attacks should now reliably travel 25m, rather than occasionally falling short or going long. Multiple collection nodes have been lowered to be in reach by non-flying characters. The Defender’s Compartment Trinket buffs are now correctly affected by their cool down. The Speedforce Rift that was directly underneath the Gotham Otisburg Adept Flight Challenge has been moved further away so it will not interfere with this challenge. The Catwoman race path has been adjusted so all players can fit through each race ring. Fixed an issue that could cause player combat rating to not update when receiving an item from a loot bauble. The Barbarian style belt is now available to everyone. Alerts: Ace Chemicals Fixed an issue causing the doors to close too early on the security waves. The doors will now remain open until the security NPC’s are engaged. There is now a short delay before the Scorecard appears after defeating Chemo. Area 51 Assist Cadmus Agents with Munitions: Cadmus Agents should no longer have memory issues if you have already spoken with them once. Kahndaq Players with Telekinesis Abilities can now affect the Rigid Bodies in this instance. Duos: The OMAC Base and Cape Carmine Lighthouse Duos now update the correct amount for the feats Duos Rookie, Expert, Master, Dynamo and Dynamic. Flash Origin Duo: Fixed Joyous Musical Balls to fire in a slow half-dome rather than shoot straight up into the air in the open area of the boss-fight room. Feats: New Feats have been added for the DLC “Lightning Strikes” content to bring the possible skill points in-line with the previous DLC, “Fight for the Light”. Missions: He Wants a Devolution: The door will now open when the “Report to Flash” bulletin appears even if you are KO’d at the same time as Grodd. Unknown Evil: The Minotaur no longer returns after he has been defeated. Supersize Souls: Players that have finished the main quest line are now able to return and receive the Glutton Form to finish the side quest. Raven’s Destiny: Fixed an issue where players could become gated due to the console that grants access to the rest of the Police Station de-spawning. Party Time!: After defeating Batman or Joker in the final boss fight the door will now open. Powers: Updated the remaining tree descriptions for controllers to say they receive 100% Dominance when in Control Role. You will now see blue fly text reporting Power restoration effects instigated from super abilities and consumables. You will now see damage caused by your pets reported as orange fly text. You will now see damage taken by your pets reported as purple fly text. Your pet’s damage, healing and power contributions are now credited to your score card at the end of instances and arena matches. Electricity: Bio-Capacitor and Invigorate will now properly heal group members when their health falls below 35%. Bio-Capacitor will now properly heal you and a teammate. Voltaic Bolt will now properly apply a de-buff to characters in the Tank Role when you are in Healer Role. Group Transducer's description was updated to reflect that it can damage attacking enemies. Invigorate's heal over time effect will no longer stack with multiple uses. Electrogenesis: Updated the description to be clearer about target types. Gadgets The tooltip for Anesthetic now states the correct supercharge cost. Shortened the animation time on Neural Neutralizer Mental: Grandeur and Reflect Pain now correctly prevent damage roughly equal 100% of your Dominance and 50% of your Restoration. Nature: Using abilities in Insectoid Form will apply the standard Healing role anti-Tank de-buffs in PvP. Sorcery: Updated the Watcher, Fury, and Guardian pet to more consistently attack the last enemy you attacked. User Interface: Map UI: Street view mode: Street view mode now zooms in smoothly and fixed an issue with missing tiles. Map UI: The Player icon now appears as green. Inventory UI: The Stack splitting UI will now always appear in the correct position when using a game controller. Visual: Midtown Police Station: The police in Midtown Metropolis have come to the realization that the new pipes they added to their column near the holding cells were placed right on top of a wanted poster. They decided it was easier to move the wanted poster to another face of the column. Icons are now smoother and less aliased! The officials at Stryker's Island Prison have begun a long term renovation to the basic structure of the facility. The base structure is more durable to deal with the increased power levels of the inmates. The display time for the win/lose duel icons that appear above players heads has been reduced.
12/13/2012: GU7 All servers will be offline beginning at 8:00 AM PT (5:00 PM CET) for a patch to the DCUO client. Downtime is anticipated to be less than 3 hours. Players may note the following changes (more notes may be added): New PvP Arena! Watch your back! Take on other players in the new 5v5 death-match arena located high above Earth in the Justice League of America Watchtower! Look for “Watchtower (5 vs 5)” under Arenas: PvP in your On Duty menu. New Seasonal Content & Daily Mission! –Larfleeze wants the holidays all to himself. He stole everyone’s holiday gifts and is attempting to send them off-world for his own selfish use. Find and recover the stolen gifts in Metropolis and Gotham City before it’s too late! Look for “Yuletide Fear” (Villains) or “Winter Plunderland” (Heroes) in your Mission Journal. New Seasonal Collections –See who made the Naughty and Nice list this holiday season! New Seasonal Items and Appearances –Collect Holly Leaves by completing the “Season’s Greedings” Daily Mission. New Seasonal Feats – Winter is Coming so be sure to stock up on seasonal feats! Oolong Island! The defenses of Oolong Island have been redeployed in an effort to keep out those that threaten Chang Tzu's plans. Pterosaurs will now move to ground level when attacking, rather than nuking from orbit. Oolong Island is now shorter than previous versions. Many count requirements have been reduced. Crazed Robots no longer re-spawn in most areas. Players no longer need to collect parts for T.O. Morrow before gaining access to his Laboratory. The 'Protect the Scientists’ section is now a wave event that is more manageable. Various fixes were made throughout Oolong Island. Vendor Item Sorting! Vendors should now display a logical sorted order to their sale lists. Alerts: Oolong Island: Oolong Enforcer should now always summon its minions even if the fight resets. Oan Sciencells: Prison Break: This Mission should now complete properly. Audio: New music has been added for the Tap Room Safehouse. A new unique Winter Holiday seasonal piece of music has been added to Gotham City and Metropolis when players zone into each (available during the Winter Holiday only). Feats: The "Coast City Duo" feat has been renamed "Ferris Aircraft". “Deprogrammed” should now complete as intended. General: Players should now be able to consume collection items that have been removed from their bank or shared bank slots. Combat rating should no longer incorrectly display as zero after leaving Legends PvP or leveling up. Multiple stacks of the same item sent through the mail should now give the recipient the correct amount when claimed. Fixed pathing issues of Robot and Green Lantern in the Monitor Womb of the JLA Watchtower. Certain collection nodes in Gotham City that were re-spawning too fast have been fixed to have spawn times in-line with other collection nodes. The Lantern Corps Deputization Decree can now be deleted. Phase-with should now work properly for group mates in Central City. The Quick Menu option “Phase With” will now put you in the same Central City instance/area as your Group or Friend. Marketplace: Steam: You can no longer attempt to purchase Station Cash through the Steam wallet if you have Steam Community disabled in-game. You will be directed to turn this option back on in order to make Station Cash purchases. Players can now directly access the Marketplace through an Account Access Level dialog box in the User Interface. The Marketplace should now show the correct amount of Station Cash needed to gain Premium Access. PS3 Only: Users should now get a more accurate purchase completion message after purchasing items from the marketplace. A Festive Winter Hat and Reindeer Antlers have been added to the marketplace. Long hair will no longer show through the Sequined Urban Cap on male characters. Missions: Through the Portal: Donna Troy now properly resets to her starting locations after KO’ing players. Fear Itself: Scarecrow will no longer appear to have "deer in the headlights" syndrome after throwing grenades at his enemies. Movement Mode: Acrobat: Fixed an issue that prevented fast movement mode from increasing speed even though the effects were displaying. Powers: Increased the bonus to Dominance while in the Controller role to 100%. Gadgets: Neural Neutralizer is now properly listed as being useable while controlled as well as states it has a damage prevention barrier. Raids: Sunstone Matrix: Kryptonian Infantry's Whirlwind attack radius now matches its effects radius. Skills: The Stealth trait purchasable in the Martial Arts and Bow weapon trees has been renamed Cunning; This trait now boost Critical Power Chance by 1% in addition to increasing Stealth Rating by +1 Level. UI: Any stats on the character sheet that are zero should no longer be displayed. PS3 Only: Fixed a crash that could occur after pressing X when scrolling using the analog stick. Character Select: Fixed an issue where character count would increment on queue status updates. Corrected the description of the "Critical Healing Magnitude" Trait. It now properly reads as "Boost Critical Healing Magnitude..." Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause targetable NPC’s names and icons to display in yellow instead of their intended color. Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause your User Interface to show you were in a combat state when you were not. Visual: Fixed various environmental visual bugs in Metropolis and Gotham City. Fixed an issue with graphical distortion on Joker presents. The handholds for potted plants in the Gotham University duo have been corrected. Fixed an issue with graphical distortion in Area 51. Fixed an issue that could cause the fire or ice brawling ranged beam effects to play twice when used with an ability that has a longer animation. Shades of Gray: Fixed a number of geometry issues within the Oblivion Bar. Fixed various visual issues associated with clipping through gear. Fixed numerous issues with animal skin clipping through head gear. Out of the Shadows: Various particle effect adjustments and targetable objects fixed. Weapons: New 97DPS Epic Weapons for every role have been added to Oolong Island Hard Mode, HIVE Hard Mode, League of Assassins Stronghold and Batcave: Outer Caverns Alerts. Martial Arts: Increased the combo reset timer for Martial Arts to bring it in line with other melee weapons.
12/06/2011: DLC 2 - Lightning Strikes SAN DIEGO – November 17, 2011 – Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) will soon launch its second Downloadable Content (DLC) pack for DC Universe Online with the worldwide release of Lightning Strikes, later this year. Launching simultaneously on the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC, Lightning Strikes introduces Electricity Powers – the game's eighth power set – and a new adventure starring the iconic speedster The Flash. "In this DLC pack, fans have the opportunity to immerse themselves in another great character and action-packed story from the DC Universe," said Jens Andersen, Creative Director for DC Universe Online. "With exciting gameplay, a new power set and new locations to share with your friends, we packed a whole new kind of fun into this DLC pack and are eager for our players to dive into another legendary adventure." In addition to the new Electricity Power set, DC Universe Online players will also be able to interact with The Flash-themed characters and content with new maps and features: Central City – An all-new map that offers players a more open world experience that provides on-going gameplay, with solo and group missions. The Flash Museum Duo – Players can now experience the Central City of today and tomorrow. In The Flash Museum Duo, players can travel back in time to the very moment when Barry Allen became The Flash and battle foes inside the Central City Police Station! Electricity Powers – Players now have the opportunity to get the new Electricity Power set for current and new characters. The new Electricity Power set allows players to leverage the lightning power of electricity and use new types of attacks in combat. Electricity Powers include the Tesla Ball, which creates a floating ball of electricity that zaps nearby enemies; the Shockwave, which shoots streams of electric bolts at enemies; and Ionic Drain, which drains energy from the environment to replenish a player's health while simultaneously damaging surrounding enemies. New Gear – Players can earn all-new gear sets including the new Zoom-inspired gear set for villains, and the new Black Lightning-inspired gear set for heroes. New Characters – Lightning Strikes brings players new iconic DC Universe characters including Livewire, Black Lightning, The Top, The Trickster, Static and more. New characters – such as Livewire – will be featured as new "Inspired By" options for players who can choose to create a new character inspired by some of DC Universe's legendary characters. Additional new characters – such as Black Lighting – serve as a bounty mission that players can fight if they choose to be a villain. Lightning Strikes offers players a new story-driven adventure that offers up even more of the intense and fast-paced combat that distinguishes DC Universe Online, a game focused on superhero combat set in locations where gamers can showcase over-the-top powers in epic battles. The Flash adds another legendary superhero for players to battle against or alongside on their journey to becoming the next legend. DC Universe Online's Lightning Strikes DLC pack will be accessible for free for all of the game's Legendary players and available for purchase for $9.99 USD for all Free and Premium players from the PlayStation® Network Store, through the in-game Marketplace and on the PC from the DCUniverseOnline.com website. DC Universe Online is licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on behalf of DC Entertainment. For more information about DC Universe Online, visit www.DCUniverseOnline.com. For press assets, including box art, trailers and screenshots, visit: http://bhimpact.gamespress.com/prod..._page.asp?i=903. About DC Universe Online Lex Luthor has traveled back through time with news of a dire future: While the heroes and villains spent years battling amongst themselves, Brainiac has been feeding on their powers, building strength to return to Earth and destroy humanity. To change the future, Lex has come back to set off a device that bestows super powers to thousands of every-day citizens and give humanity a fighting chance. Can Brainiac be stopped, or is this another nefarious Lex Luthor plot? For the first time, players and fans will be able to enter the DC Universe as an active force for good or evil. A massively multiplayer experience, DC Universe Online delivers unparalleled high-energy, physics-powered combat that brings the player's extraordinary powers to life. DC Universe Online was created in the artistic vision of legendary comic book artist Jim Lee, and set within a world created by famous DC writers including Geoff Johns and Marv Wolfman. Rated T for Teen with Mild Blood, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes and Violence, DC Universe Online is available for PC and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. DCUO Legendary access will be available for a $14.99 monthly fee. For players of the PC version of the game, Legendary access to DCUO is included in the all-in-one SOE All Access subscription. About SOE Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) is a recognized worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online games. Best known for its blockbuster hits and franchises, including EverQuest®, EverQuest® II, Champions of Norrath®, PlanetSide®, Free Realms®, Clone Wars Adventures™ and DC Universe Online™, SOE creates, develops and provides compelling online entertainment for a variety of platforms. SOE is building on its proven legacy and pioneering the future of online worlds through creative development and inspired gameplay design for audiences of all ages. To learn more, visit www.soe.com. SOE, the SOE logo, EverQuest, Champions of Norrath, PlanetSide and Free Realms are registered trademarks of Sony Online Entertainment LLC. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved. About Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, is a premier worldwide publisher, developer, licensor and distributor of entertainment content for the interactive space across all current and future platforms, including console, handheld and PC-based gaming for both internal and third party game titles. About DC Entertainment DC Entertainment, home to such iconic DC Comics properties as Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, The Flash, MAD Magazine, and Fables, is the creative division charged with strategically integrating across Warner Bros. and Time Warner. DC Entertainment works in concert with many key Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its superheroic characters across all media, including but not limited to film, television, consumer products, home entertainment, and interactive games. Publishing over 1,000 comic books, graphic novels and magazines each year, DC Comics is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world.
