Patch 18.4.8 Update Release Notes

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Patch 18.4.8 Update Release Notes

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New Content:

- The final Dust Brigade door is now open. See if you can survive the most challenging DB Team instance yet.
- Many, many more daily missions added for more regular and alien missions.

Daily Mission changes:

- Wider level ranges are now associated with lower level Elite Daily Missions (available to a wider range of player levels).
- Unicorn Outpost teleporter moved from the Senior Handler room to the Alien Handler room.
- Everyone able to go into APF is now offered to take the alien team daily mission in the APF sector.
- Daily Mission: Bar Run - No longer available to players 200-220 (now available to 175-199).
- Daily Mission: Spaced Out - Cocoons should no longer be aggressive resulting in attack message spam.
- Daily Mission: The Contingent Spy - The NPCs associated with this mission no longer have a chance of attacking you while you're hiding in the box.

Battlestation Changes:

- The time spent in Decon on Battlestations has been adjusted and the heal will no longer continue outside the Decontamination room.
- Battlestation control points are no longer capturable during grace period.
- The Fixer debuff "Luck's Improved Capricious Consequence" will now be cleared in the Battlestation Decontamination room.

Item & Nano Changes:

- Shade nano "Defeat Righteousness" has now been replaced with a new nano "Shade's Caress". If you had Defeat Righteousness you will now have the new version instead.
- New Stims and Rechargers are now available in the shops, they can be used in both RK and SL. The requirements of the new kits are First Aid OR Treatment. The new stims require First Aid.
- Old-style Stims and Rechargers removed from shops. These will continue to drop in missions and from mobs. They may be tradeskilled into the new-style Stims & Rechargers with use of an item available for sale in RK general stores (QL 1-200) or for sale in Inferno (QL 200+).
- Ancient Novictum Refiner can now be bought from the Yutto Tools vendors. It is pricey when purchased directly from the Yuttos but may also be obtained for free from a short quest.
- Attempting to tradeskill a stack of items should now give proper feedback.
- Old "Throw Snowball" nanos may now be used on players, new snowball nano now has a cast and hit effect.
- Lower-level Adventurer nanos in the "Lick Wounds" line no longer give error messages when uploading.
- Removed Adventuring requirement from Hyper-Radiation Protection Skin and Glasses.
- OFAB Adventurer Protective Gear now requires same skills as the rest of the OFAB Adventurer gear.
- Mr. Squeaky Lantern + Screwdriver tradeskill process should now work properly.
- Manex armor tradeskill process no longer consumes the screwdriver.
- Profiteer's Helper can now be equipped using right-click.
- Desert Nomad shoulder pad should now be visible on Atroxes at all QLs.
- The Level 200 Hacker Tool is now called "Advanced Hacker Tool".
- Basic Cloak is now properly a Back item and not a Head item.

Mission, Encounter & NPC Changes:

- Many high level monsters will now have their originally intended level of Initiative skills. This will make some monsters hit faster and be more difficult to debuff.
- Dust Brigade Boss Aune will now stop you briefly before and after summoning you to the center of the great machine.
- Drake Rodriguez will accept the Improved Bracer during SL start-up missions.
- The Young Silvertail should once again actually return to his herd.
- Removed several places where it was possible to break the Nascence Key Quest by closing the chat too quickly.
- The pocket boss pattern for the Scheol Garden Quest will now drop with the same reliability for both Omni and Clan.
- The Unredeemed Visionist for the Scheol Garden quest is now located in the Unredeemed Temple.
- Urns for the Scheol quest now respawn properly every minute or so.
- The pattern for Infernal Demon (Adonis Sanctuary) now drops from Ghosts and Spirits in Adonis. This pattern no longer drops from sided monsters.
- Key to Camas Sanctuary quest should once again work as intended and be possible to complete.
- Grace period removed from most sided monsters in Shadowlands (only quest related monsters should now have this 10-min grace period).

World Changes:

- The exit in the ruin in Arid Rift can now be accessed at any time.
- Coast Of Peace grid exit moved to prevent exiting into a city building.

GUI & Code Changes:

- Feedback regarding player level given by elevators to Alien Sector 10, 13, 28 and 35 should now be less confusing.
- Inferface for /help updated: no more broken links or outdated information.

Misc. Changes:

- Camera position in Wolf Morph adjusted to make for less clipping in geometry for less obscured views.
- Improved animation on all "Shadowlands"-style portals, as well as allowing them to be clicked from both sides.
- Notum Wars towers should once again explode properly when they are destroyed.
- Fixed several exploits.
- Fixed various typos.
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