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[Patch Notes] - 09 FEB 2023

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    We will be performing shard maintenance on February 9 from 7-9:30 AM Pacific (14:00-16:30 UTC).

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    General:
    ● Improved Engineer Bridge Officer Abilities:
    ○ Emergency Power to Shields
    ◊ Now also grants Immunity to Shield Drain when your Shields are reduced to 20/35/50% total Capacity
    ○ Reverse Shield Polarity
    ◊ Now also grants Immunity to Shield Drain
    ● Improved Pilot Specialization Bridge Officer Abilities:
    ○ Energy weapons: Reroute Reserves to Weapons
    ◊ Haste improved from 20/40/60 to 75/150/225
    ◊ Engine power drain normalized at 8, was 8/6/4
    ► If Engine Power reaches 0, effect ends, the shared category cooldown is reset, and remaining duration is subtracted from other Energy Weapon Firing Mode recharge times
    ○ Clean Getaway
    ◊ Duration improved from 4/6/8 to 8/10/12
    ◊ After 3 seconds, each second your ship avoids damage recover 1 second recharge of bridge officer and captain abilities
    ○ Deploy Countermeasures
    ◊ Ability now additionally deploys holo images of your starship which taunt Foes and vanish after being damaged
    ◊ Number of images scales with ability rank
    ◊ Chance to Confuse removed
    ○ Reinforcements Squadron
    ◊ Ships Receive Bonus Damage from your Accuracy and Critical Severity
    ◊ Summoned fighters are immune to core breaches
    ○ Form Up
    ◊ Bonus Damage starts at max value, no longer ramps up over duration
    ◊ Teleport range now 20 km for all ranks
    ○ Subspace Boom
    ◊ Explosion damage significantly increased
    ◊ Large debuff to Accuracy added to the explosion
    ○ Lock Trajectory
    ◊ Added a buff to Critical Chance during active effect
    ○ Pilot Team
    ◊ Now grants a modest bonus to Defense during the effect
    ◊ Now grants Immunity to Placate during the effect
    ○ Hold Together
    ◊ Scaling from high Throttle doubled
    ○ Fly Her Apart
    ◊ Damage buff improved, happens during buildup as well as after
    ○ Coolant Ignition
    ◊ Damage scales with Engine Power
    ◊ Initial detonation now has a large burst of Damage
    ○ Attack Pattern Lambda
    ◊ Confuse lasts longer, also applies Placate to Foes that are not Players, but has a long Cooldown per target
    ◊ Now applies to all weapon types
    ◊ Higher ranks dramatically improve Accuracy and Perception

    For more information, please visit the “Changes to Pilot Bridge Officer Abilities” post.

    Known Issues:
    ● The Pilot Bridge Officer Abilities, Coolant Ignition 2 and Coolant Ignition 3 currently do not display their “At Ignition” damage in their descriptions.
    ● The fighters summoned by the Pilot Bridge Officer ability “Reinforcement Squadron” do not currently use all the abilities they are intended to use.

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    ○ Emergency Power to Shields
    ◊ Now also grants Immunity to Shield Drain when your Shields are reduced to 20/35/50% total Capacity
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    As much as I joke around here, finally this.
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    As much as I joke around here, finally this.
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    As much as I joke around here, finally this.
    Just a note on this - I noticed tonight when I used it, the sound and graphical effect now continues for the entire duration of the ability rather than just at the start like it used to, so it's more visual spam being vomited into our laps.
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    Just a note on this - I noticed tonight when I used it, the sound and graphical effect now continues for the entire duration of the ability rather than just at the start like it used to, so it's more visual spam being vomited into our laps.
    and it looks very much like Reverse Shield Polarity.
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