[Taku]

We will be performing shard maintenance on April 4 from 7-9:30 AM Pacific (15:00-17:30 UTC).

General:
• Celebrate the anniversary of First Contact Day!

○ Join in on this special re-enactment event from April 4th at 8am PT to April 11th at 10am PT.
○ Captains of level 10 and above may participate in this event.

• Play the event to unlock the following rewards:

○ When you complete the queue for the First Contact Day event, you will receive a special Zefram Cochrane Memorial Hologram Voucher (limit one per day, per character).
○ 1x Captain Specialization Point
○ Launch Toy Rocket
○ Holo Emitter - Phoenix Shuttle
○ (NEW!) Replica Thompson Submachine Gun

Ships:
• You can now properly select between windows types for the Faeht Intel Warbird.
• Aft torpedos now fire correctly on the Europa Heavy Battlecruiser.

Content:
• Enemies in Peril Over Pahvo & Dranuur Gauntlet Task Force Operations now award Experience Points when they are defeated.
• Addressed an issue that could cause debug text to appear in Quark's Lucky Seven while hacking the security office console.
• Resolved an issue that was causing D’Tans image not appear during the mission, Storm Clouds Gather.

UI:
• Resolved an issue in the lockbox opening animation where the middle ring wasn't changing colors according to the prize rarity.

Systems:
• Reduced the shared cooldown on all Combat Space Pets and Distress Call devices from 5 min to 2 min.
• Removed equip restrictions on the following universal consoles, to be usable on all starships:

○ Ablative Hazard Shielding (FED and KDF versions).
○ Dynamic Defense Deployment System.
○ Variable Auto-Targeting Armament.

• Reduced equip restrictions on the following universal consoles, to be usable on All Warbirds:

○ Ablative Hazard Shielding (ROM version).
○ Shield Absorptive Frequency Generator.
○ Ionized Particle Beam.

• Overload Power Cells:

○ Bridge Officers will no longer activate this ability while below 50% health.
○ If used by a bridge officer, this effect will now end when the officer reaches 25% health.

• Resolved an issue that could prevent the Micro Cryonic Warhead kit module from being treated as a Kit Module ability
• Resolved an issue that caused Modular Momentum to fail to apply in some cases
• Universal Kit Module - Agony Field Generator:

○ In addition to its previous effects, it now applies a large penalty to Phaser Damage Resistance Rating to enemies contacting the field, stacking up to an appropriately Imperial amount.

• Resolved an issue that could cause some of the buffs from Reroute Reserves to Weapons or Exceed Rated Limits to affect other weapon firing modes.
• Resolved an issue that prevented Omega Force Autocarbines from re-engineering their RT3 modifiers.
• The Nukara Crystalline Resilient Shields' Crystalline Refraction Buff can now reflect Proton Damage.
• Resolved an issue that allowed the Technical Mishap kit module to be activated while dead.
• Resolved an issue that allowed the Cloaked Mine Barrier kit module to be activated while dead.
• Resolved an issue that would cause an activation of Cryotronic Modulation to do nothing if you were already affected by the power.
• Resolved an issue that prevented Photonic Overcharge from working with some ground weapons.
• Updated the icon used by the Press the Advantage Starship Trait
• Corrected the icon used by the Energy Distributor Accelerator active ability.
• Cloaking devices now indicate the duration their Ambush bonus will last in their tooltips.
• Updated the description of the Fleet Coordinator personal trait.
• Resolved an issue that caused the displayed regeneration on the Medical Nanites trait to be inaccurate.

○ This is a tooltip change only.

• Resolved a typo in Coordination Protocols, Defensive Protocols, and Offensive Protocols (Player Skills).

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Age of Discovery Patch Notes Links

[Arno12]

Removing the equip restriction on some consoles, interesting.

[Blaster]

Cool!

[casualsto]

Good changes! I like it! I got plenty of changes to make on my ships now.

[Miles]

Reduced the shared cooldown on all Combat Space Pets and Distress Call devices from 5 min to 2 min.

This is an interested change

[Scarlett]

UI:
• Resolved an issue in the lockbox opening animation where the middle ring wasn't changing colors according to the prize rarity.

Finally.

[Arno12]

I'm curious about the universal consoles not being ship specific anymore, how could this influence builds in the future if more ship specific consoles are made unrestricted..

[Taku]

Finally.

I KNEW that was the one you were going to choose. I frickin' KNEW it. As soon as I saw it, I was all like, "Yup. That's the one."

[Scarlett]

Look man, some things matter in life

[Rellimie]

Look man, some things matter in life

I get it. You payed for an experience, it should be as promised.