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News
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2/12/2013
Server Hotfix 02.13.13
A hotfix will be applied tonight during
regular restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Valentines Day!
Be our Valentine this year, and look for Love
Will Find A Way in your Mission Journal.
From this mission, players will be granted
completion of the 2011 Valentines Day
feats, and receive two gifts: a Box of
Valentines Gifts and a Box of
Valentines Candy! These gift boxes
will reward styles and treats from the original
Valentines Event. During this time, players
will also be able to collect the Valentines
Day themed collections to complete the rest of
the Valentines seasonal styles.
Also, new in the Vault, are two very special
Valentines Base items for a limited time!
Try now to get your very own Valentines
Heart Bed, or Valentines Heart Tub!
These Vault items will be available throughout
the month of February.
Bases
- Fixed an issue that would cause player
set Base colors to load improperly.
- Deleted characters and disbanded Leagues
can now be removed from Mainframe
Permissions.
- Deleted characters will now
appear as Unknown Character
in the Permissions UI.
- Disbanded Leagues will now appear
as Unknown League in
the Permissions UI.
Server Wide Chat
- The Looking for Group and Trade chat
channels are now global with the
exception of the Tutorial area.
Players will have access to these
channels even while inside a private
instance! Both the Looking for
Group and Trade channels will remain
separated for Heroes and Villains.
- The Global chat restrictions are
as follows:
- Legendary players have a
limit of one message per
30 seconds.
- Premium players have a
limit of one message per
60 seconds.
- Free players have a limit
of one message per 90
seconds.
Items
- The Unattuned Maniacal gear will now
properly attune when in Tank Role.
- Weekly Award boxes, Weekly Alert Reward
boxes and Monthly Raid Award boxes now
have a chance to contain Base items.
- The rings dropped by Home Turf solo
challenge bosses no longer contain an
unused ring socket.
- Fixed an issue with splitting groups of
crafted Exobytes.
Collections
- The Wedding Vow collection is
now properly listed in the Events
category in the Collections UI.
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2/5/2013
Server Hotfix 02.05.13
A hotfix will be applied tonight during
regular restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Bases
- The Small Reactor Incinerator and the
Damaged Small Reactor Incinerator have
had their names switched in order to
properly reflect which one was damaged
LFG Chat US Servers
- Current settings limit sending new
messages to the channel to:
- One message every 30 seconds for
Legendary and Premium players
- One message every 60 seconds for
Free players
- Messages are now limited to 60 characters
- European servers will be getting this
feature in the next update
- Please remember you can disable or move
LFG chat to a custom tab
- In your settings, select Chat
Options, then Edit next to your
Default or Custom tabs
Operations
- Hand of Fate: Introductory
cut-scene sequences have been
re-activated for all Hand of Fate
Operations
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2/2/2013
Server Hotfix 02.02.13
A hotfix will be applied tonight during
regular restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Base Builder's Weekend
In celebration of the launch of Home Turf, we
will be increasing your chances of getting Base
loot this weekend. We will improve the odds
that you will gain Base items when collecting
just about any type of loot in the game, starting
Saturday February 2. The event is scheduled
to run through Monday, February 4.
General
- Improved server stability.
- Hand of Fate Operations have
temporarily had their introductory
cut-scene sequences removed.
Chat
- The LFG chat channel now respects ignored
players.
Lair PvP Battles
- Increased round times to 5 minutes.
Missions
- Home Turf
- Steelworks
- Steel should now be
dropping loot when
knocked out in the
Steelworks instance.
- Death From Above: The
drone form now has the
supersonic speed ability
- Strykers Island
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- Mechanical Mech:
The robot form terminal
should more reliably
alter players.
- Solitary Riot:
The iconic prisoners will
now move past the red
wall and try to escape
properly.
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1/31/2013
Client Hotfix 01.31.13
A client hotfix will be deployed shortly. No
downtime will be required. Players will need to
log out of the game and back in if they wish to
download the update.
Players may notice the following changes:
Chat
- The Recent Text list can be found in the
Social Menu by pressing Left on the D-Pad
or F4. When you receive a message from a
player using the chat channels Say,
Shout, Group, League, Trade, Language,
LFG, or Tell, the senders name is put
into to the Recent Text list. This list
is ordered by the most recent messages
received. You can use this list to
access players quickly to do things like
Tell, "Invite to
Group", "Add Friend", or
"Phase with".
UI
- Fixed an issue that caused players to be
unable to rally or flee after being
knocked out.
- Base items can now be previewed in the
Base Item Inventory window.
Missions
- Home Turf: Strykers Island:
Solitary Riot:
Improved messaging for the protective
fields to more clearly reflect what they
protect against.
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1/31/2013
Server Hotfix 02.01.13
A hotfix will be applied tonight during
regular restarts. No additional downtime should
be requried. Players may notice the following
changes:
General
- Improved and resolved several server
stability issues.
PvP
- Lair Battles: Increased round times to 5
minutes.
Missions
- Stryker's Island: Mechanical
Mech: The robot form terminal should
more reliably alter players.
- Steelworks: Death From Above:
The drone form now has the supersonic
speed ability
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1/31/2013
Server Hotfix 01.30.13
All servers will be taken offline for a hotfix
tonight around 7:00 p.m. PST. Downtime is
expected to last about one hour. Players may
notice the following changes:
Bases
- Reduced the Base relocation cool down
time from seven days to one hour.
General
- Improved server stability.
- The Ace Chemicals and Strykers
Island safe areas will no longer reset
intermittently.
Investigations
- Home Turf: Corrections
Officers Report: Moved an
Investigation node to make it easier for
all players to find.
Items
- The Sub Bosses from Gates of Themyscira
now have a chance to drop Base Items.
- Arena Champion's Prize Boxes and Legends
Champion's Prize Boxes now have a chance
to reward Base Items when opened.
- The Escaped Inmate and Biohazard items in
Ace Chemicals and Arkham Asylum can now
be salvaged for their components at
Research and Development stations.
Lair PvP Battles
- Fixed an issue that would sometimes
prevent a player from being able to
target a PvP opponent in their Lair.
- Addressed an issue that would cause some
players to begin the match before their
opponent.
Missions
- The introductory Base missions will now
reflect the proper level in the Mission
Journal.
- Bounties: You can no longer heal
bounty NPC's of your own faction while
players of the opposing faction are
trying to take them down.
- Warehouse of the Dead: All gates
have been opened and now allow players to
access the warehouse.
- Home Turf
- Ace Chemicals
- Bounty: Ace Chemicals
Experiment: Comic
Gold will no longer have
the last laugh when he
grounds his opponents and
one-shot-kills them at
the same time.
- Bounty: Ace Chemical
Experiment: The
contribution requirements
have been adjusted to
help ensure that all
players participating in
the fight will get credit
for defeating the Bounty.
- Infiltrating Ace:
Fixed issue where Steel
could potentially get
stuck by his 3 escorted
Prototype robots because
they were trying to
remain too close to him.
- Toxic Trouble:
Ace Chemical's Hazmat
suits are now color
coordinated properly
- Weird Science:
Increased the amount of
Chemoids and Chemlings
that spawn for the
Mission.
- Various final bosses
should be easier to
control and battle solo.
- Fixed a potential issue
with the Ace Chemicals
instance where T.O.
Morrow never sends his
final wave of enemies,
making it so the
teleporter you need to
escape from never
finishes powering up,
thus preventing exiting.
- Arkham Asylum
- Suit Up: If you
need to replace your
cryogenic suit, there is
now a waypoint back to
where Mister Freeze's
goons are hanging out.
- Deliberate Acts of
Violence: If you
need a new disguise or if
you wish to change your
disguise, there is now a
hint about that and a
waypoint back to the
disguise imprinters.
- Steelworks
- Breaking Steel:
Steel no longer flies
inside walls if players
go out of combat during
this fight.
- Death From Above:
Improved the Mission
messaging to more
accurately guide players
to the location of the
Drone Custodian.
- Steel should now be
dropping loot when
knocked out in the
Steelworks instance.
- Strykers Island
- Bounty:
Strykers Island
Critical Defender: Stryker's
Island's Critical
Defenders will now call
in shield drones less
often.
- Bounty:
Strykers Island
Critical Defender: The
contribution requirements
have been adjusted to
help ensure that all
players participating in
the fight will get credit
for defeating the Bounty.
- Habeus Corpus:
The Senior Officer held
hostage by Gorilla
Grodds mind control
devices will now flee
after being freed.
- Mechanical Mech:
The black box has doubled
its available time and
the Nuclear Winter Leader
has become weakened by
his radiation sickness.
- Solitary Riot:
Players will no longer be
attacked before entering
the final room.
- Solitary Riot:
Prisoners should now exit
their cells more
reliably.
- Various final bosses
should be easier to
control and battle solo.
Powers
- Nature
- Swarm: This ability should
now properly damage enemies when
active.
- Gorilla Form: If your normal
movement mode is Acrobatics, the
Tumbling Master tactical mod
should world while in Gorilla
Form.
- Insectoid Form: If your normal
movement mode is Flight, the
Swoop Combos tactical mod should
world while in Insectoid Form.
- Primal Wolf Form: If your normal
movement mode is Superspeed, the
Dashing Combos tactical mod
should world while in Primal Wolf
Form.
Races
- Ace Chemicals: Players can now
participate in the races around Ace
Chemicals without drawing the attention
of surrounding enemy NPCs.
- Suicide Slums: Players can now
participate in the races around
Steelworks area without drawing the
attention of surrounding enemy NPCs.
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1/31/2013
Server Downtime 01.29.13 - Home Turf!
All servers will be offline Tuesday,
01.29.13, beginning at 7:00 AM PST to launch
Home Turf! Downtime is expected to last about 4
hours. Click here to convert to your
timezone.
Players may notice the following changes:
Home Turf DLC Pack Now Available!
Player Bases
Legendary members and owners of Home Turf
receive two Lair Themes: Gothic and
Deco, and a Theme for a smaller,
limited Dive Hideout available in the
Dispenser. Look for Home is Where
Your Base Is in your Mission Journal.
Complete the mission to receive one Deed
which can be used for placing a base at an
in-game address of your choice. The mission
is granted at level 12 or higher.
Base Decoration Mode &
Customization
Players are able to customize their Base in many
different ways using the Base Decoration
Mode. Accessed via the Control Panel
located near the entrance of your base,
Decoration Mode is the place for arranging items
throughout the Base, customizing the colors of
certain areas of the Base, selecting the
players Emblem to be displayed on a wall
plaque, and renaming the Base. Players can
customize their Base(s) by adding items found
throughout DC Universe Online.
Base Mainframe and Dispenser
Each Base comes equipped with a Mainframe and a
Dispenser that can be accessed inside your base.
Players can unlock and gain access to Upgrades
and temporary Boosts by activating the
Mainframes Generator power
cells. Players can also set
Permissions through their Mainframe to allow
friends and League mates to enter and help
decorate their Base.
Lair Battle PvP
Take on your opponent in your Lair or your
opponents Lair. Once you have created
your own Lair, go to your On Duty Menu, select
Lair Battles under the Arenas: PvP tab and select
your Lair to Queue. Level Requirement: 30
Tactical Mods
Tactical Mods are available through your
Bases Dispenser. Tactical Mods can be
socketed to your gear and weapons to add a wide
range of combat benefits. Level
Requirement: 30
Upgrades and Boosts
Players can access Upgrades and temporary Boosts
from their Mainframe. These Upgrades and
Boosts can be added to your Utility Belt and
ability bar to call in Orbital Strikes, Supply
Drops, Sidekicks or Back-Up (Heroes) and
Accomplices or Henchmen (Villains).
New Daily Missions
- Home Turf Daily Missions can be
found at Arkham Asylum, Ace Chemicals,
Steelworks, and Strykers Island
locations. Look for Trouble at Ace
Chemicals (Heroes) and
Hostile Takeover at
Steelworks (Villains) in your
Mission Journal. Level Requirement: 30
Combat Rating Requirement: 70
New Bounties for Heroes and Villains
- Bounty posters can be found at the Arkham
Water Processing Facility Dock,
Steelworks, the Processing Facility on
Strykers Island, and Ace Chemicals
in Gotham. Home Turf bounties
are Raid level so bring some
friends! Level Requirement:
30 Combat Rating Requirement: 70
New Collections and Feats
- New Feats, Collections, Investigations,
and Briefs added!
New Weapon Styles and Gear Sets
- Four new gear styles and two new weapon
sets inspired by Home Turf
added!
Hand of Fate
Boss Content Move
- All Hand of Fate Operation Boss
fights have moved to their own separate
instance. The Operation content
will remain the same and players will be
moved to a separate instance for the
final boss fight.
Looking For Group Chat Channel
- Players can now access the new Looking
for Group chat channel! This
channel allows players who are looking
for a group to communicate with one
another while in different areas
throughout DC Universe
Online. The LFG channel groups
players into one of four chat channel
groups depending on where you are in the
world; Safehouses and HQs, Metropolis,
Gotham, and Central City. The
Safehouses and HQs grouping includes The
Watchtower, Hall of Doom, Police
Stations, Nightclubs, and player Bases.
The Looking for Group channel works in
any public zone but not in private
instances. The Looking for Group channel
is cross phase but same faction. Typing
/lfg before any chat communication will
move the communication to a Looking for
Group channel and distribute the message
to everyone in that zone.
New to the Marketplace
- With the launch of the new Home Turf
DLC, Legendary members and owners of this
DLCcan purchase additional Deeds and Lair
Themes from the Marketplace! You
can change the look of your existing Base
with one of these Lair Themes, purchase
up to three additional Deeds, to have
more than one Base! The appearance of
your Hardware and Amenities will update
to match your new Lair theme. Themes also
allow access to matching
Back-Up/Henchmen! Your character
must be at least level 12 and have
completed the introductory Base mission
to purchase additional Deeds and Lairs
from the Marketplace.
- Additional Lair Themes available for
purchase:
- The Ancient Lair, complete with Stone
Statues
- The Bunker Lair, complete with Military
Operatives
- The Cave Lair, complete with High Tech
Robots
- The Industrial Lair, complete with
Retro-Futuristic Robots
Player Bases For Free to Play and
Premium Members
- Free to Play and Premium members receive
a limited Dive Hideout theme
that includes limited amenities and
limited features as part of the DLC Home
Turf release. Look for Hiding
Out in your Mission Journal and
complete the mission to receive one Deed
which can be used for placing a Hideout
base at an in-game address of your
choice. The mission is granted at level
12 or higher.
- Each Base comes equipped with a Mainframe
and a Dispenser that can be accessed
inside your base. Permissions can be set
through the Mainframe to allow friends
and League mates to enter and help
decorate their Base. Players are
able to customize their Base in many
different ways using the Base Decoration
Mode. Accessed via the Control
Panel located near the entrance of your
Base, Decoration Mode is the place for
arranging items throughout the Base,
customizing the colors of certain areas
of the base, selecting the players
Emblem to be displayed on a wall plaque,
and renaming the Base. Players can also
customize their Base(s) by adding items
found throughout DC Universe
Online.
- Free to Play and Premium Members can
access all of the Player Base features by
purchasing Home Turf or by
becoming a Legendary member.
General
- Marks of Triumph awarded from Daily
Dungeon bonus are now sent to the players
inventory overflow when the players
inventory is full.
- When the server determines a player is
stuck and automatically warped, this does
not affect your warp timers in the Map
UI.
- Custom Chat channels should now persist
after switching characters.
Items
- The 2 Year Anniversary Cake trinket icon
has changed to better represent the item.
- Fixed an issue where having a socketed
item in your inventory and purchasing the
same exact item from a vendor would prevent
the new item from being socketed.
- Minor text updates to player base item
drops.
- Catwomans Claw should now function
properly and no longer cause the player
to become unresponsive and unable to
attack or target.
- New PvP Mark Conversion items have been
added to the Mark Conversion vendors in
the Watchtower and Hall of Doom.
Martial Arts
- Heavy Shurikens damage should no
longer be blocked by friendly targets.
Missions
- Fear and Loathing:
- Green Lantern Alan Scott has
declared he will no longer be
brushed aside without a fight and
will knock any flying Villain
aggressors out of the air that
attempt to dodge his attacks.
- Green Lantern Alan Scott's
willpower has been restored and
his constructs are more deadly.
- Clinical Strike: Old air
scrubbers are now replaced with new air
scrubbers to ensure everyone gets their
fair share.
- Queen of Lies: Hero: Aquaman's
confusion while under Circe's spell
should no longer keep you from advancing
when defeating him.
Operations
- A Black Dawn:
- Fixed an issue where encasements
could break before the transport
timer was finished.
- Players now move faster when
transporting encased enemies.
- Wayward Souls: Avenging
Spirit Guidicus has agreed to fill his
pockets with loot before joining the
battle...it is now likely something will
fall out if he is defeated.
- With a Vengeance: Doctor Fate
has been reprimanded for his idea of a
practical joke; trapping players in an
infinite loop between the Watchtower and
his Sanctuary. He has agreed to allow you
to continue through the rest of the
operation.
UI
- Map: Sections of the map should no
longer disappear when using the + and
buttons on the Map UI.
- The Metropolis Master Flier - Villain
feat now has the correct description for
the Little Bohemia Adept Flight Challenge
in the Feats UI.
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1/22/2013
Server Hotfix 01.23.13
A hotfix will be applied tonight during
regular restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Hand of Fate Operations
- Hand of Fate Operations have temporarily
had their introductory cutscene sequences
removed.
- This was to address a client
crash/freeze that would
occasionally happen during the
movie. Once the crash fix has
been finalized and approved, we
will restore these sequences.
- You will now walk into the room
and find Dr Fate standing there
waiting for you to talk to him.
Talking to him will kick off the
encounter.
Friends List
- Deleted friend characters no longer show
up in your friends list as blank spaces.
Home Turf
- Gold Collections: A cleanup crew on
Arkham Island has removed Home Turf gold
collections from Arkham Island.
- The Riddler and the Question have
corrected a glitch with their email
server that was preventing their reward
email for the "Arkham's Personal
Collection" gold collection from
being sent.
Alert
Arkham Asylum
- Poison Ivy has vowed to let you attack
her should you make a second attempt to
defeat her.
2nd Anniversary
- The 2 year Anniversary party is back on
until February 11, 2013. Any characters
that have not yet claimed their gifts
should be able to until the final day of
the celebration. Each Anniversary Present
will contain one of three cake trinkets
and one of three fireworks trinkets, as
well as a chance to get select
marketplace items which include 1 or 5
R&D Scanners, 1 or 5 Radar Enhancers,
or a Vault Ticket.
- The details of the 2nd Anniversary gift
can once again be read in foreign
languages
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1/17/2013
Client Hotfix 01.17.13
A client hotfix will be deployed today around
1:00 p.m. PST. No downtime will be required.
Players will download the new client the next
time they log in.
Key Binding
Gamepad key binding has been restored to
previous functionality
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1/17/2013
Server Downtime 01.16.13 - Game Update
22!
All servers will be offline Wednesday,
01.16.13, beginning at 6:00 AM PST to launch
Game Update 22! Downtime is expected to last
about 6 hours. Click here to convert to your
timezone.
Players may notice the following changes:
Arenas
- The Ace Chemicals referee will no longer
become confused and grant control of a
capture point to both teams.
Combat
- Staff: Corrected the
combo description for Launching
Roundhouse to match the number of
attacks needed to perform it.
- Fixed a bug related to combat timing that
will ensure attacks and abilities last
the appropriate amount of time.
- Noticeably affected examples
include Sticky Bomb and some
Staff attacks.
Economy Changes
- We have made significant changes to the
end game cash drops. This includes
all Tier 1 through Tier 4 trash mob and
boss cash drops, Grey item sale values,
End-Game Daily Mission rewards, and Vault
cash drops.
General
- Many end game cash values have increased,
which include Daily Task rewards, Boss
cash drops, and poor quality item (Grey)
loot sale values.
- Old Gotham Subway: The Penguin now
chatters in his own voice.
- Players will automatically warp to the
nearest rally point if the server detects
the player is stuck and cant move
out of the object.
- NPC Voice Over and Communicator messages
should now interact with each other and
behave.
Items
- Player Base items start dropping in game
in preparation for DLC Home Turf.
NPCs
- Roaming robot R.E.E.S.E. used to patrol
the Monitor Womb in the Watchtower and
interact with nothing in front of him,
now he will now only type when in front
of a console.
- Lantern Veteran NPCs ranged projectile
attack should how only hit once, as
intended.
Powers
- Gadgets: Stasis Field's damage over time
will no longer stack while in control
role.
- Ice: Hibernation's ice encasement visual
effects will now play properly.
- Fire: Snuff Out is now a faster
activating two-stage channeled ability
that delivers a portion of its damage up
front and the remainder when the channel
completes similar to Final Ruin and
Impaling Thorns. The damage has been
reduced to account for the faster
activation time.
- Ice: Impaling Ice is now a faster
activating two-stage channeled ability
that delivers a portion of its damage up
front and the remainder when the channel
completes similar to Final Ruin and
Impaling Thorns. The damage has been
reduced to account for the faster
activation time.
UI
Combat Log
- Hand of Fate Wayward Souls Operation:
Fixed an attack by Solomon Grundy that
was showing incorrectly as an ability.
- Zombie Benefits: The Obelisks located
around the near Gotham University will
now display correctly in the combat log.
General
- Floating tooltips are now docked over the
players avatar when using mouse and
keyboard.
- Items in the Currency tab can now be
selected using a gamepad.
- Inventory: Stack counts now get properly
removed when swapping slots.
Visual
- Performing Sweep Shot on a Nature or Ice
character will now play the correct
visual
effects.
- Watchtower Containment Facility: The
Security Enforcers visual effects
should now appear correctly on his body.
Weapons
- Adjusted the animation length of a number
of weapon attacks to align weapon DPS
potential when clipping with a tray
ability. Generally clipping a weapon
attack further into a combo will more
consistently provide better DPS than
clipping a weapon attack near the
beginning of a combo. These changes do
not affect non-clipped weapon DPS unless
otherwise noted.
Brawling
- Ground Pound: This attack now
completes more quickly decreasing its
clipped DPS potential.
Martial Arts
- Elbow Drop: This attack now
completes more quickly decreasing its DPS
potential when clipped.
- Spinning Punch: This attack now
takes longer to complete increasing its
clipped DPS potential.
- Smoke Bomb: This attack now
takes longer to complete increasing its
clipped DPS potential.
One Handed
- Spin Chop: This attack now
completes more quickly decreasing its
clipped DPS potential.
Two Handed
- Big Scoop: This attack now takes
longer to complete increasing its clipped
DPS potential. It now also hits multiple
targets in a cone rather than a single
target.
- Home Run: This attack now takes
longer to complete increasing its clipped
DPS potential. In addition the base DPS
of this attack was increased improving
its damage in all cases.
- Doom Spin: This attack now
begins splitting damage when it hits more
than two targets instead of more than one
target.
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1/17/2013
Client Hotfix 01.10.13
A client hotfix will be deployed today around
3:30 p.m. PST. No downtime will be required.
Players will download the new client the next
time they log in.
2 Year Anniversary
DC Universe Online celebrates its 2 year
anniversary on January 11, 2013. As part of this
celebration, we will be giving players an
Anniversary Present tomorrow that will contain 1
of 3 cake trinkets and 1 of 3
fireworks trinkets, as well as a chance to get
select Marketplace items, which include 1 or 5
R&D Scanners, 1 or 5 Radar Enhancers, or a
Vault Ticket.
Feats:
Uncover
the Truth: This feat will now update for
everyone when completing the Gotham Scraps and
Court Orders Collections. Players prior to this
change will receive the appropriate feat updates
upon login.
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1/17/2013
Server Hotfix 01.02.13
A hotfix will be applied tonight during
regular restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Seasons Greedings
Winter Event Ends
- Larfleeze stole the Holiday decorations
but forgot to take the Holiday music
which can still be heard echoing through
the streets of Metropolis and Gotham
City. With no more holiday gifts to
steal Larfleeze left, vowing to return
again later this year.
Challenges
East End Regal Hotel
- The joker and his goons have all agreed
to quit playing a disappearing act when
they realize they no longer have the
upper hand.
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12/19/2012 Server Hotfix 12.19.12
A hotfix will be applied during regular
restarts tonight. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Winter Event
Spotting Larfleeze
Larfleeze
has agreed to give you credit for locating him
quicker than your previous spotting.
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12/19/2012
Loyalty Reward! 25th Century
Communicator!
Loyalty Reward! 25th Century
Communicator!
As a thank you to our most loyal members, we
are proud to present the 25th Century
Communicator. Using the communicator will grant a
5% Health buff for 30 seconds and summon Servo.
Servo is a security robot from the future that
will chat with you about various topics, such as
your "old" 21st century customs, while
watching your back (and attacking your enemies).
Log in now to claim your reward!
Frequently Asked Questions
I am a PC player. How do I claim my
reward and who is eligible?
PC players, to receive the 25th Century
Communicator loyalty reward, you must have an
active DC Universe Online Legendary
Membership as of December 10, 2012. The reward
will be available on your account on or before
December 18, 2012, and can be claimed in the
Redeem/Claim window in the in-game marketplace.
The item is available one per character and is
not tradeable.
I am a PS3 player from North America.
How do I claim my reward and who is eligible?
PlayStation®3 players in North America, to
receive the 25th Century Communicator loyalty
reward, you must have an active DC Universe
Online Legendary Membership as of December
5, 2012. The reward will be available on your
account on or before December 18, 2012, and can
be claimed in the Redeem/Claim window in the
in-game marketplace. The item is available one
per character and is not tradeable.
I am a PS3 player from Europe. How do
I claim my reward and who is eligible?
PlayStation®3 players in Europe, to receive
the 25th Century Communicator loyalty reward, you
must have an active DC Universe Online
Legendary Membership as of December 5, 2012. The
reward will be available on your account on or
before December 18, 2012, and can be claimed in
the Redeem/Claim window in the in-game
marketplace. The item is available one per
character and is not tradeable.
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12/19/2012
Welcome Back to DC Universe Online!
Welcome Back to DC Universe Online!
There's a lot going on in DC Universe Online,
and there's a lot you may have missed. This year
saw the release of three DLC Packs - The
Battle for Earth, The
Last Laugh, and Hand of
Fate - and 14 Game Updates, our
next DLC Pack Home Turf is due early in 2013, and
the winter seasonal event, Season's Greedings, is
currently ongoing! To make the holidays even more
exciting, we're offering 30 days of free
Legendary Access to all former subscribers. This
makes right now perhaps the best possible time to
get back into DCUO. We're looking forward to
seeing you back in Gotham City
and Metropolis!
Keep reading for full details:
For DC Universe Online PC Players,
this offer, and the period of free Legendary
Membership (subscription) described in this
offer, expires on January 16, 2013 at 11:59pm
PST. This offer is available to former Legendary
Members (subscribers) that were active and paid
for at least one billing cycle between January
11, 2011 and December 10, 2012, and is not
available for current DC Universe Online Members
or SOE All Access accounts. If you purchase a new
Membership package and enter billing information
before January 16, 2013 at 11:59 PM PST your new
Membership time will begin once your free 30-day
period ends.
For DC Universe Online PlayStation®3
customers in North America this offer,
and the period of free Legendary Membership
(subscription) described in this offer, expires
on January 16, 2013. This offer is available to
former Legendary Members (subscribers) that were
active and paid for at least one billing cycle
between January 11, 2011 and December 5, 2012,
and is not available for current DC Universe
Online Members. Purchasing a new Membership
package and entering billing information before
January 16, 2013 will terminate the free
Legendary Membership service and you will lose
the balance of any unused free Membership time.
For DC Universe Online PlayStation®3
customers in Europe this offer, and the
period of free Legendary Membership
(subscription) described in this offer, expires
on January 16, 2013. This offer is available to
former Legendary Members (subscribers) that were
active and paid for at least one billing cycle
between January 11, 2011 and December 5, 2012,
and is not available for current DC Universe
Online Members. Purchasing a new Membership
package and entering billing information before
January 16, 2013 will terminate the free
Legendary Membership service and you will lose
the balance of any unused free Membership time.
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12/18/2012
Server Hotfix 12.18.12
There will be a hotfix and maintenance
tomorrow, 12.18.12, beginning at 7:00 a.m. PST.
Downtime is expected to last about three hours.
Players may notice the following changes:
Alerts
League of Assassins
- Ra's al Ghul's Spinning Blade Trap has
gone through its yearly maintenance; the
blades have been sharpened and the blades
should no longer come off of their
tracks.
Arena PVP
Inner Sanctum
- The Inner Sanctum PVP match is no longer
restricted to DLC5 owners and can be
played by
anyone.
Challenges
One of Us
- When saving Hazmat Officers you will no
longer be asked to interact with him
twice.
Lunatic Fringe
- Harley Quinn will no longer lose her
train of thought when attacking with her
Melee Spinner attack.
Thief of Souls:
- Faust will now attack more often when in
his Soul Frenzy.
Duos
OMAC Base
- The OMAC Sigma will now properly identify
himself when you enter his chambers.
Explorations
Metropolis: Booster Gold Exploration
- Kiosks should now stay where you would
expect them to be.
Missions
Warehouse of the Dead
- Archmagent's will now stay inside the
warehouse and will not retreat to the
roof no matter how fearful they are of
you.
Toyman
Stryker's Island
- Toyman's Toyland area no longer requires
you to move to another area before you
can complete the Toyland Quest.
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12/11/2012
Server Hotfix 12.12.12
A hotfix will be applied tonight during
regular restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Winter Event
Secret Research Facility
- Larfleeze has been reprimanded and has
agreed to stop shutting down the playroom
when his opponents appear to have the
upper hand.
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12/11/2012
Server Hotfix 12.11.12
A hotfix was applied last night during regular
restarts. Players may notice the following
changes:
Winter Holiday Event 2012
Seasons
Greedings!
Larfleeze is back and wants the holidays all
to himself. He stole everyones
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 its too late! Look for
Yuletide Fear (Villains) or
Winter Plunderland (Heroes) in your
Mission Journal.
- Seasonal Collections See who made
the Naughty and Nice list.
- New Seasonal Items and Appearances
Collect Holly Leaves by completing
the Seasons Greedings
and Ring in the Holidays
Daily Missions. Redeem Holly Leaves
at Skeets Workshop found in your HQ
and inside the Secret Research
Facility.
- New Seasonal Feats Winter is
Coming so be sure to stock up on
feats!
New Winter Holiday Instance!
Larfleezes greed extends beyond holiday
gifts this year. He is taking advantage of a
heated battle between the Green Lanterns and the
Sinestro Corps by stealing Power Rings from
fallen Lanterns and hoarding them in a Secret
Research Facility. Look for Ring in the
Holidays in your Mission Journal. Players
must complete Yuletide Fear or
Winter Plunderland and
Seasons Greedings in order to
receive the Ring in the Holidays
Daily Mission.
Power
Gadgets
- Stasis Field's damage over time will no
longer stack while in control role.
PvP Legends
Lex Luthor
- Quantum Barrage' s animation duration has
been significantly reduced.
Friends Lists
- You can once again add and remove names
from your Friends & Ignore Lists.
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12/4/2012
New Organic and Tectonic Weapon Style
Packs!
New Style Items Available In The Marketplace!
Organic Weapon Style Pack -
500 Station Cash / $4.99
Make the all-natural choice with these Organic
weapon styles! The Organic Weapon Style Pack is
recommended for the hero or villain looking to
stay in tune with nature and the living world.
All 11 styles will put the fear of mother earth
into your enemies.
Tectonic Weapon Style Pack -
500 Station Cash / $4.99
For those of you looking for something a bit
more earthy, we have the Tectonic Weapon Style
Pack to offer. Wood and steel may be acceptable
for lesser heroes and villains, but the greatest
and strongest warriors require stone. Rock the
compeition with these rugged Tectonic weapon
styles!
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12/3/2012
Server Hotfix 12.04.12
A hotfix will be applied during regular
restarts tonight. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Challenges:
Gotham Sewer
- A treasure chest has been moved to a
different location so it can be accessed
by all.
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12/3/2012
Client Hotfix 12.03.12
A client hotfix will be deployed today at 2:30
p.m. PST. No downtime will be required. Players
will download the new client the next time they
log in.
Marketplace:
One-Click-Buy
- Upgrades like DLC and additional slots
like Inventory, Character, Bank, Broker,
etc. can once again be purchased quickly
through our One-Click-Buy feature.
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11/29/2012
Server Hotfix 11.30.12
There will be a hotfix tonight during regular
restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Hand of Fate DLC:
With a Vengeance
- Avenging Spirit Guidicus now has
projectiles that are less lethal.
Pets:
- Reduced the health of the Toy Copter and
Toy Blimp significantly.
Items:
- The Personal Dampening Field, Shadow
Concoction and Provocation Agent R&D
consumables will no longer remove
consumable buffs.
- All Lightning Strikes Compartment
Trinkets now share the same cooldown.
- Form: Snowman will now stack properly
with other disguises and form changing
abilities.
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11/29/2012
Server Hotfix 11.29.12
There will be a hotfix tonight during regular
restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Alert:
Arkham Asylum
- Players are no longer gated from entry to
the final boss battle by an invisible
wall.
Items:
- Ring Compartment Trinket: The stat buff
gained from the DPS version of the Ring
Compartment Trinket will now be
overwritten by the stat buffs gained from
the Role versions of those trinkets.
- The Tier 4 Gear now requires a combat
rating of 70 to be purchased from the
vendor
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11/28/2012
New Legends Characters Are Available In
The Marketplace!
Hal Jordan - 1000 Station
Cash / $9.99
The wait is over. The mightiest hero of the Green
Lantern Corps has arrived. Use your exceptional
willpower to defend what is right in Legends PvP
as the Green Lantern, Hal
Jordan! No evil shall escape your
sight.
Sinestro - 1000 Station Cash
/ 9.99
Tired of all that good and right talk? Think
might makes right? Do you really hate the color
green? Sinestro brings
the full power of the Sinestro Corps to Legends
PvP. From now on, fear will be the ultimate
weapon.
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11/28/2012
Server Downtime 11.27.12 - Game Update
21!
All servers will be offline Tuesday,
11.27.12, beginning at 6:00 AM PDT to launch
Game Update 21! Downtime is expected to last
about 5 hours. Click here to convert to your
timezone.
Players may notice the following changes:
New Legends PvP & Arena PvP Map!
Legendary members and owners of DLC
Hand of Fate will now be able to play
the Inner Sanctum in Arena PvP and Legends
PvP.
Introducing Auto Loot!
Players no longer need to gather their own loot
if they have space in their inventory. All loot,
including but not limited to Exobits,
Collections, Research and Development items,
Mission drops, and Boss drops is now
auto-magically gathered for you when it drops. If
your inventory is full you will receive a message
that you must clear space in your inventory to
receive your loot.
Combat Rating Requirement for Boss
Loot
All Tier 2 through Tier 4 Challenges, Duos,
Alerts, and Raids now only award tiered loot
drops to players that meet the Combat Rating
requirement. Players who do not meet the
minimum Combat Rating will still earn Marks of
Triumph, Marks of War, and Cash when appropriate,
but will not be eligible to roll on gear.
Alerts:
- Arkham Asylum
- Poison Ivy will no longer lose
the will to fight.
- The final encounter with Mister
Freeze, Poison Ivy, and the
Scarecrow will now award
appropriately tiered Research and
Development Plans, and
Components.
- League of Assassins: Ra's al Ghul will
now award appropriately tiered Research
and Development Plans and Components.
- Strykers Island Penitentiary: The
final encounter with Gorilla Grodd will
now award appropriately tiered Research
and Development Plans and Components.
Challenges:
- Old Gotham Subway: Bosses in this
challenge now have a chance to drop Tier
2 Research and Development plans.
- Lair of the Spectre Challenge: you now
receive credit for the "Lost and
Found" side mission.
General:
- Tier 3 Alerts now have a random daily
bonus. Players who complete the
daily Tier 3 Alert will receive a bonus
50 Marks of Triumph.
- The Booster Gold exploration terminals
will no longer cause players to become
stuck in an endless cinematic.
Items:
- The Mark of Legend x 5 box will now award
the five Marks of Legend directly to the
players currency, instead of
awarding five individual Mark of Legend
items in the inventory.
Missions:
- Queen of Lies: The Trident of Poseidon
will now ground players attempting to
escape its grasp.
- Lair of the Spectre: While in Spectre
form, ranged attacks will work properly.
PvP:
- Headquarters Assault: The match
timer will no longer count down during
the opening cinematic.
Raids:
- The Chasm: Superman and Lex Luthor should
be better travel companions after
defeating the Sunstone Herald.
- The Chasm: Kryptos Freeze Breath
encasement no longer gives you hope of an
early escape.
Style:
- Checkmate Informant: The chest piece no
longer causes visual issues when equipped
with certain weapon types.
- Kabuki Mask: This style no longer
causes a visual issue when worn by female
characters.
UI:
- Character Select: Player selected
backgrounds should now persist when
creating a new character or re-launching
the game.
- Once More With Rockets: Radical Rocket
Randys attacks now appear correctly
in the Combat Log.
- Style: The Save and Reset buttons
now function properly.
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11/16/2012
Coming Soon! 7-Eleven Double Station
Cash Weekend!
Coming Soon! 7-Eleven Double Station Cash
Weekend!
Now is a great time to stock up on SOE Game
Cards from your local 7-Eleven retailer. Between
11/16/12 and 11/18/12*, get Double Station Cash
when you redeem an SOE Game Card for Station
Cash. This promotion is exclusive to cards
purchased at 7-Eleven stores in the US.
But don't redeem those cards yet! Save them
for the promotional period: 11/16/12 through
11/18/12*. More details to come.
*Game Card must be purchased at a 7-Eleven
store in the United States and redeemed for
Station Cash (not membership time) during the
promotional period to qualify. Offer valid only
for qualifying Game Cards that are redeemed for
Station Cash between 12:01 AM PST 11/16/12 and
11:59 PM PST 11/18/12.
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11/16/2012
New Cerebral and Frozen Weapon Style
Packs!
New weapon style packs are now available in
the Marketplace!
Frozen Weapon Style Pack
For anyone who has ever been told you have ice
water in your veins or a cold heart, a chilling
demeanor or a soul like a frigid wasteland, or if
you maybe just enjoy the snowy winter, this is
the weapon style pack for you. Make your enemies'
blood run cold with these Frozen weapon styles!
This pack includes: Frozen Blade, Frozen Staff,
Frozen Bludgeon, Frozen Shield, Frozen Bow,
Frozen Rifle, Frozen Cestus, Frozen Blasters,
Frozen Claws, Frozen Axes, Frozen Pistols. Note:
These items are good for all characters on the
account, and are not tradeable. The color of
these items is not affected by your color
palette.
Cerebral Weapon Style Pack
Rely on the power of the mind, show off your
sixth sense, and psyche out allies and enemies
alike with these extraordinary Cerebral weapon
styles! This pack includes: Cerebral Blade,
Cerebral Staff, Cerebral Bludgeoner, Cerebral
Shield, Cerebral Bow, Cerebral Rifle, Cerebral
Cestus, Cerebral Blasters, Cerebral Claws,
Cerebral Axes, Cerebral Pistols. Note: These
items are good for all characters on the account,
and are not tradeable. The color of these items
is not affected by your color palette.
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11/16/2012
Client Hotfix 11.12.12
A client hotfix was deployed today, 11.12.12,
at 3:15 p.m. PST. Players will need to exit the
game to download the new client. Click here to convert to your
timezone.
Marketplace
- Updated security settings for PC
Marketplace Transactions.
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11/07/2012
Server Hotfix 11.07.12
A hotfix will be applied tonight during
regular restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Missions:
Toyman: Strykers
Island
- Toyman will no longer trap you on
Stryker's Island if you log out from
there.
- When leaving Stryker's Island you will be
sent to your HQ.
- Villains will now correctly be sent to
their own Strykers Island region.
- Once More with Rockets: This
mission will now update properly.
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11/5/2012
Server Downtime 11.06.2012 - Game Update
20
All servers will be brought down Tuesday,
November 6th at 7:00 AM PT to implement Game
Update 20. Downtime is anticipated to be
approximately 2.5 hours.
Temple of Isis Legends Arena Exclusive
for Hand of Fate owners and Legendary
members.
Legendary members and owners of Hand of
Fate will now be able to play the Temple of
Isis in Legends PvP Arena.
Strykers Island: Lockdown
Strykers Island open world content
(Toyland, Once More With Rockets, and Fun for
Girls and Boys) has moved to its own public
instance and is no longer available in the open
world of Metropolis. Players can now access these
Missions by using the Strykers
Island: Lockdown teleporter in their
Headquarters and entering Strykers Island.
These Missions can be picked up from the terminal
near the new Strykers Island: Lockdown
teleporter in the Watchtower Monitor Womb or the
Hall of Doom Inner Sanctum.
Once More With Rockets mission jump pads were
removed so players can now just speak to Radical
Rocket Randy to receive their disguise. Radical
Rocket Randy can be found on top of the entrance
to Strykers Island.
The Witching Hour
Klarion and Teekl are no longer amused and went
back to Limbo Town to prepare for next year.
Alerts:
· Arkham Asylum:
o Crow Illusions will now chase you through
doorways.
o You are now prompted to leave Arkham Asylum
after completing the instance.
· Strykers Island Penitentiary: The
entrance to the instance no longer floats above
the ground.
· Watchtower Containment Facility: Turret
projectiles will now use electricity on the
player.
· South Gotham Courthouse: The Bailiff no longer
requires a skill test to break out of his stun
attack.
Challenges:
· S.T.A.R. Labs Research Facility: Players are
now prompted to leave after completing the
instance.
Duos:
· Shady Nightclub: Bizarros Flame Breath
attack now displays the correct de-buff in the
Current De-buffs menu.
Items:
· Chattering Teeth: The Chattering Teeth item
has a new inventory icon.
· Phantom Zone Kryptonite Chunk Guise: This
guise now has block and dodge, plus all tray
abilities now have visual effects.
Missions:
· Raven Unleashed: Epsilon Science Police will
once again fire rockets at their foes.
· Sinestro's Spite: Failed Recruits have removed
the option from their rings to toggle between
Will and Fear and now only produce Fear
Constructs.
· Toyman: Toyland:
o Toyman has fixed various issues with the toys
on Strykers Island.
o Wind-Up Wally Toys will now display icons to
help direct you during your quests.
o Attacks from Toymans Toys will now
correctly report their attacks to the combat log.
o Toyman Toys will no longer keep you in combat
for extended periods of time.
o Toymans toys will no longer be seen
animating improperly (T-Posing) when viewed at a
distance.
o Once More With Rockets: When players shoot down
enemies from the sky, they will no longer remain
targeted as they fall to the ground.
o Once More With Rockets: Radical Rocket
Randys self heal is now named Self Repair
o Fun For Girls and Boys: When the Generator is
dropped during the race, players will regain the
toy form when they pick it back up.
o Toyland: While in Beautiful Betty form, players
will no longer see secure icons on toy crates and
presents.
· Queen of Lies: After defeating Circe, players
will now be prompted to leave the instance.
Powers:
· Light: Grasping Hand: Grasping Hand is now
easier to combo out of.
· Nature: The heal over time for Savage Growth
no longer splits when hitting more than four
targets.
Legends:
Steel
· Corrected an incorrect react animation for
targets affected by Steel's Atom Splitter attack
PvP:
Players will now have a default Rally location
selected after being knocked out in a PvP match.
UI:
· After completing a race, players will have the
option to retry the race from the scorecard.
· Mail:
o A player that is both a friend and a
league-mate will now only show up in your
contacts once as a friend.
o Friend and league-mate contacts are now sorted
together alphabetically.
o Fixed an issue that would cause the scrollbar
to behave improperly with large lists of contacts
· The Add Character Slots, No Thanks, and Buy
Now buttons now all play sound when selected.
· Tooltips for items in the inventory will no
longer float and will now be displayed over the
character when using a gamepad.
· Toyman missions will now appear under
Strykers Island when sorting by location in
the Journal UI.
· Players who do not own the Last Laugh DLC pack
will now be able to see the Legends characters
from Last Laugh on the Legends Exobyte vendors,
but will still be unable to purchase them without
owning the Last Laugh DLC.
· Style UI:
o The color tab has been reworked and features a
new color picker
o Save and reset functionality has been unified
between tabs
o Colors will now reset properly when a player
resets them
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11/03/2012
NEW Legends PvP Characters - Lex Luthor
and Steel!
New Legends PvP characters Lex
Luthor and Steel are
now available in the Marketplace! For those of
you wondering what it will be like to play as
these iconic characters, we were able to sit down
with Systems Designer Jesse "Spord"
Scott to talk details.
Mepps: I know you're hard at work on a
few other projects we won't be going into here,
but tell us a little bit about how these
characters act and play differently than the rest
of the Legends PvP cast. Tell us about Lex
Luthor.
Spord: Lex Luthor is a good damage
dealer. He is a hand blast character with
multiple long range attacks like Quantum Barrage
or Laser Beam. The laser will set his target on
fire dealing damage over time. He can also take
care of enemies that get in close with a frontal
cone attack called Energy Matrix or a localized
AoE named EMP. If the fight gets too intense he
has an escape plan in Tactical Blast. It will
launch him backwards with his power suits
stabilizer jets while damaging his multiple
enemies caught in the blast. When nothing less
than scorched earth will do (which is a lot of
the time, with Lex), he can use his LexCorp
Surface Strike to deal massive damage with a
barrage of rockets.
Mepps: That sounds...painful. How can
Steel compete with that?
Spord: Steel is more
of a support character. He is a two handed weapon
wielder that can help keep points with Proximity
Mine and his personal Prototype Protective
Barrier. He can also jump right in the middle of
a fight with his Big Swing lunge attack and use
either Hammer Drop or Atom Splitter to damage and
stun anyone unfortunate enough to still be
around. To round it out he has Hammerang, an
attack that has him throw his electrified hammer
to knockdown and deal damage over time to
multiple enemies.
Mepps: Thanks Jesse! Lex
Luthor and Steel
are both available now in-game in the
Marketplace!
Exobyte Data: Lex
Luthor 1000
Station Cash / $9.99
Make a memorable entrance into the DCUO
Legends PvP arena as the infamous Lex
Luthor! Show your enemies that a
true champion relies on strategy and skill, not
superhuman powers!
Exobyte Data: Steel
1000 Station Cash / $9.99
It's time to drop the hammer on the
competition! Join the battle in the DCUO
Legends PvP arena as the extraordinary Steel.
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11/03/2012
Next Triple Station Cash Sale
Due to the large amount of our customers
affected by the extended recovery from Hurricane
Sandy across much of the Eastern section of North
America, we are rescheduling our planned October
31st Triple Station Cash promotion to November
4th, 2012.
Our European partners, ProSiebenSat1. will
continue as planned and European customers will
be able to take advantage of Triple Seven Cash
for one day only from 12.00AM to 11.59PM GMT +1,
October 31st 2012.
The SOE player community looks forward to the
return of our storm-affected friends &
family.
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10/19/2012
Server Hotfix 10.19.12
There will be a hotfix tonight during regular
restarts, with no additional downtime. Players
may notice the following changes:
Hand of Fate
Utility Belt
- Purchasing a locked Utility Belt slot
should now always persist after the
player logs out and back into the game
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10/19/2012
Announcing DCUO's Next DLC Pack, Home
Turf!
Announcing Home Turf!
Anyone who has had any contact with me about
DC Universe Online knows that I love to hint
about whats coming next. I try and drop
hints, or make clever references that get people
stewing about what might be around the corner.
That is why it has been excruciatingly hard to
keep my mouth shut about our next DLC pack. Now
the time has finally come when the team is ready
to reveal what we have been working on for so
many months. So lets get right to it
The next DLC is called Home Turf, and
it introduces player housing to DC Universe
Online! Now that the bats out of the cave
or should I say in the cave? let me
go over some of the main features coming in Home
Turf.
Player Lairs
The Lair will offer several exciting things
for players. The first is a theme. Themes give
the lair a sense of location like a sewer
or a penthouse and anchor it to a
persistent entrance in Gotham City
or Metropolis. Lairs
will be fully customizable spaces. You can
collect props while playing and then use them to
decorate your Lair. These items will be tradable,
creating a secondary market for players. In the
coming weeks we will reveal more information
about Lair customization, themes, and props.
Mainframe and Generator
Every Lair has a Mainframe that can be
upgraded by the player. Mainframe upgrades give
you access to incredible Lair Features
like allies and technologies which can be
used in combat throughout the game. The Mainframe
abilities offer a whole new array of tactics.
Players will gain passive abilities and active
powers that they can bring to bear in battle. But
dont worry; these abilities are handled
through communication devices (trinkets), so they
wont compete with your normal super power
load outs.
Generators are the power that keeps a Lair
running. By powering your generator you can set
up amenities normally only found in HQs and Safe
Houses. Once you have Home Turf, it will
be up to you which amenities and how many you
want to maintain in your Lair, but the options
are at your fingertips. The team will be sharing
more news on Mainframes and Generators in the
days ahead so stay tuned for more specifics.
Lair Battles
This is where Home Turf sets itself apart from
normal housing systems. Players will be able to
do battle in each others Liars. Lair Duels
will match players up to fight. These battles
will be round-based and feel like an extended one
on-one-battle inside one of the combatants
Lairs. Nothing is more fun than trashing someone
elses Lair to bits. But dont worry
about protecting your priceless stuffed Wooly
Mammoth, the damage is temporary and will reset
once the battle is over. Youll really need
to see Lair Battles in action to fully understand
how cool this is going to be, so well have
some exciting Dev Videos in the weeks ahead.
New Missions
Home Turf introduces some new
adventures in some of the most iconic locations
in the game. New missions and content have been
created for the interiors and exteriors of Ace
Chemicals, Strykers Island, Steelworks, and
Arkham Asylum. There will be daily missions for
high end players at each of these locations. The
content inside and out will be solo
in nature. Well fill you on more specifics
in some features about Home Turf, so
hang tight for more details about the new daily
missions.
So that is a pretty high level breakdown of
our next DLC pack, Home Turf. We
look forward to sharing more about what Home
Turf has to offer. It is an exciting time to
see this hugely requested feature finally coming
to DCUO. We know youre going to love it. We
also know you will have lots of wish list
features for the system, and were anxious
to hear your thoughts, so jump on the Forums,
Facebook, or Twitter and let us hear it. We look
at Home Turf as a starting point, a
foundation to build on, for some amazing Lair
content, and we cant wait to show you more.
Until then, Ill see you in game!
Jens Andersen
Creative Director, DC Universe Online
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10/17/2012
Server Hotfix 10.17.12
The following hotfix was applied last night
during regular restarts. Players may notice the
following changes:
Halloween
The Witching Hour
- All the hiding places for Klarions
Spooky Bites have been removed, so they
can now be easily spotted in the center
of the room
Promethium Lock Box Items
- Consumables - Compound Drinks (ex. Compound
AUX-00) will once again add their
buffs when used.
Sorcery Powers
- Arbiter of Destiny will no
longer remove the healer role buff when
you revert back to your original form.
Raids
Fortress of Solitude: The Chasm
- Fixed an issue where Lex Luthor and
Superman would become fear-stricken and
refuse to open the door to the
Scorpionod.
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10/15/2012
Client Hotfix 10.15.12
A client hotfix will be deployed at 6:00 p.m.
PDT. No downtime is required, but players will
need to exit the game to download the new client.
Click here to convert to your
timezone.
This client will allow us to enable the
Halloween seasonal event, The Witching Hour, with
tonight's regular restarts. Players may notice
the following changes:
Hand of Fate
Utility Belt
- Fixed an issue where premium members that
own Hand of Fate werent
able to use purchased utility belt slots
after relog.
UI
- Resolved an issue that could cause the UI
to no longer display after being knocked
out
- PC Players using windowed mode will no
longer have to reposition the window
after zoning
- Players should no longer see a moment of
Default text when the
character select UI displays
Halloween Event
The Witching Hour
All hell has broken loose in the streets of
Gotham City and inside The Midnight Masquerade
Nightclub! Go to the East End safehouse in
Gotham City and speak to the Phantom Stranger
(Heroes) or Tala (Villains) to receive further
instructions. Each day of the event, look
for The Witching Hour in your Mission
Journal to complete and earn Spooky Bites! To
queue for The Midnight Masquerade, go
into your On Duty UI and look under the Events
Tab.
The mission and the event are available to
players at or above Level 5.
Characters that did not complete feats
associated with last years Spooktacular
event will still be able to complete these feats
during The Witching Hour.
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10/12/2012
Server Hotfix 10.12.12
There will be a hotfix tonight during regular
restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Skills/Powers
Respec
- Fixed an issue that would cause all
traits already allocated to be reset on
login
- Fixed an issue that would show random
traits allocated even before the player
had performed the initial skill/power
respec
- Fixed an issue that would require players
to respec their powers tree when only the
skills tree was intended to be reset.
Players that have not logged on should
only have their skill points reset going
forward.
Light Powers
- Snap Traps damage over time no
longer stacks with itself
Utility Belt
- Fixed an issue where Utility Belts slots
already purchased by a player would
appear to be locked after logging into
the game
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10/10/2012
Server Hotfix 10.11.12
Hand of Fate
Unpaid Dues Feats:
Assassin's Speed
- Ras Al Ghul will once again
recognize those that defeat him with
purpose.
Not Even a Scratch
- Felix Faust is once again grateful for
protecting him from Ras Al Ghul.
General
Toyman
- Toyman has tracked down the nefarious
culprits who spirited away his wacky
games at Strykers Island. You can
once again partake in the Toyman content
at Strykers.
Marketplace
- Purchasing DLC Hand of Fate
should now grant player premium status
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10/10/2012
Double Station Cash® Exclusive with
Walmart!
Make sure you visit your local Walmart this
week to purchase SOE Pre-Paid Game Cards because,
for a limited time, you can get DOUBLE Station
Cash® when you redeem them! What will you buy
with your additional SC?
Get Double Station Cash® when you buy an SOE
Pre-Paid Card at Walmart and redeem it October
12, 2012 through October 14, 2012.*
*Redeem between 12:01AM 10/12/12 through
11:59PM 10/14/12. Offer valid for SOE Pre-Paid
Game Cards purchased at Walmart stores in the
United States only.
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10/10/2012
Server Downtime 10.10.2012 - Game Update
19!
All servers will be offline Wednesday,
10.10.12, beginning at 7:00 AM PDT to launch
Game Update 19! Downtime is expected to last
about 5 hours. Click here to convert to your
timezone.
Players may notice the following changes:
The Witching Hour
Join us beginning October 16th for The
Witching Hour, our new Halloween seasonal
event! Gotham City will
be decorated for the season, Klarion the
Witch Boy will be causing all kinds of
ghoulish trouble, and there will be tricks and
treats to be had by all!
Research and Development Update!
With Game Update 19 we have added more
components and plans to create new Research and
Development consumables! Players will
have a chance to find these new plans from
endgame bosses throughout the game.
Some of the new components, which are required
for developing the new items, are available for
purchase from Research & Development
vendors. Two vendors are now located
at Research and Development stations within the
Headquarters, one sells only plans and the other,
only components. Other new components
are dropped by NPCs of various types throughout
the game.
The new Research & Development consumables
have a variety of potential functions, ranging
from offensive combat abilities to disguises for
the player!
Tutorial Update!
When players make new characters and go
through The Awakening on
Brainiacs ship, they will encounter some
new units trying to prevent their
escape. Players will need to master
Combat Counter mechanics in order to get past
these new foes before making it off the ship.
New Mail UI!
We have given the Mail UI a complete
overhaul! Beyond the new sleek look,
it is now much easier to use! Some of
the new features we have added include a Sent tab
to see outgoing mail, and an Archive tab for
those mails players wish to keep in a safe spot!
A new Compose tab is present as well and
features a list of Contacts that will populate
with your League mates and friends
list! Additionally a bigger, more
easily navigated inventory window is now
available to players when attaching items to your
mail!
Alerts:
Ace Chemicals
- Markers will now appear on the mini-map
inside Ace Chemicals when players are
told to close the valves.
Oan Sciencells
- Players are once again forbidden to enter
the green rooms where their enemies are
preparing for their attack.
Gotham Courthouse
- Removed collision from an invisible
object in the runway area
leading up to the Bailiff.
Audio:
- Improved music scripting in Metropolis
General Hospital Meta Human Wing instance
(Villain) to provide a more dramatic
experience.
- Fixed an issue with hearing disembodied
Security Guard voice over while fighting
Tiger Lords in the Gotham University
Warehouse.
- Upon entering the Hall of Doom,
Calculator's communicator message can now
be heard uninterrupted.
- The music scripting in the Penguin's Lair
should now make the encounter more
cinematic.
Challenges:
- Birdcaged: This mission
should no longer be granted daily.
- Gotham University Warehouse:
After defeating the Tiger
Boss the radar will no longer look as if
there is still an enemy in the room.
- The Jokers Funhouse:
Harley Quinn has agreed to stay down even
if you decide not to secure her right
away and explore the room instead!
- Old Gotham Subway: Players
can no longer get themselves stuck in the
train room.
- Old Gotham Subway: After
defeating Hush, players will no longer be
stuck in combat for the remainder of the
instance.
Collections:
- Investigation: LexCorp Genome Database:
The spawn location of the collection in
the University room has been adjusted so
everyone can now collect it.
Feats:
- Speedy Coin is now
restricted to only group runs.
- You Wouldn't Hit a Lady is
now being granted properly.
- Shake and Bake: All players will
now receive credit for expertly speeding
across Little Bohemia in record time.
- Organic Gardening: Swamp Thing
will now give credit where credit is due
and grant the Organic Gardening Feat to
those who are worthy.
General:
- More Gotham Citizens have learned of the
Gang War going on in the Burnley Freight
Yards, and therefore they are giving the
police a wider berth to deal with the
Falcones. Players will no longer
see seasonal content or incidental
content in that area.
- Added a Show Skill Point Progress
in Ability Tray option to display
Feat Point progression in place of the
experience progress bar.
Items:
- The Crown of the Noble Warrior now uses
the correct icon.
- The rate at which Research and
Development plans drop has been slightly
increased
Marketplace:
- Form: Angry Gorilla: The Chest Pound
ability should no longer cause the player
to slide. It can still be cancelled
by jumping.
Missions:
- The Big Payback: Patrolmen will
no longer hold their arms stiffly out to
their sides when you strap bombs to their
chest.
- Hospital Havok: LexCorp Security
Agents have pledged to refrain from
kicking patients while they are down.
- Ice Heist Baby: The crates
in the WayneTech Storage Facility are no
longer targetable by players during
combat.
- Falling STARS: When being
transformed into Gorilla Form, players
will not lose their ability to perform
basic attacks.
- Queen of Lies: Fixed an issue
where all doors would not open after you
defeat Aquaman.
- Queen of Lies: Aquaman should no
longer appear to be flying or falling
after heroes have rescued him from
Circe's influence and he jumped to be
beside Mera.
- Shadow Hearts: Fixed an issue
where the protect sequence for Shadowmen
would sometimes not finish.
- Shipping and Handling: Released
Falcone Mobsters will now leave the
warehouse through the proper doors.
- Student Protest: Players should
no longer fail to put on a lab coat when
attempting to use the DNA Sequencer.
Powers:
- Gadgets: Fixed an issue that made the
player immune to block counters after
using Distract.
PvP:
Ace Chemicals
- The initial Capture Points in Ace
Chemicals are no longer out of sync with
the bulletins.
Diamond Heist
- Villain-side money bags should no longer
drop into holes in the ground, protecting
them from impulses from explosions.
Headquarters Assault
- Superman, Gorilla Grodd, and all the
other iconic heroes and villains are
taking an increased interest in the
battle for the Hall of Doom. Look
for more heated exchanges between these
arch foes in the Hall of Doom
Headquarters Assault!
Raids:
Fortress of Solitude: The Sunstone
Matrix
- General Zod is now dropping the correct
Research & Development recipes.
Visual:
- HIVE Busting: The HIVE Minder
now disappears out of the players' eye
sights after his cut scene.
- Ice Powers: The visual effects
for Frost Snipe will play from the
character's left hand when using a bow.
- Fire Powers: Mass
Detonation has always been vulnerable to
interrupt and now the tooltip states this
fact.
- MPD 3rd Precinct Rookie Flight Challenge:
The beginning Race particle no longer
clips into the ground.
- Queen of Lies: Martian Manhunter
will now display the appropriate effects
during the Boss Fight.
Weapons:
Due to extensive
changes to all weapon trees, players will find
all weapon traits reset and those skill points
refunded. The starting box for all weapons
now automatically includes the attacks performed
by holding the melee or range buttons.
These attacks no longer must be purchased
separately and are part of that base weapon
package. Specifically, the following
attacks are gained automatically with the base
weapon purchase:
- Bow: Lunging Stab and Long Draw
- Brawling: Lunging Right and Stomp Smash
- Dual Pistols: Lunge Strike and Full Auto
- Dual Wield: Whirlwind Strike and Charged
Double Throw
- Hand Blaster: Leap Attack and Charged
Blast
- Martial Arts: Axe Kick and Heavy Shuriken
- One Handed: Quick Chop and Focused Blast
- Rifle: Surprise Volley and Grenade
Launcher
- Shield: Spinning Backhand and Sidearm
Throw
- Staff: Sweeping Slice and Focused Spin
- Two Handed: Lunging Smash and
Hammer Throw
One Handed
- The Cleave trait description erroneously
stated it granted a 1% Crit Chance
passive. This text has been removed from
the description.
Rifle
- Sustaining fire with Rifle Shot for more
than 1.5 seconds will now perform a Block
Break.
Dual Pistols
- Slip Shot and Magnum are now Block
Breakers
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10/1/2012
Server Hotfix 10.02.12
A hotfix will be applied tonight during
regular restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Challenge:
Circe's Lair
Enemies should no longer cower in fear up in
the rafters during the Boss Fight
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9/27/2012
Server Hotfix 09.28.12
A hotfix will be applied tonight during
regular restarts. Downtime is expected to be
extended by about 30 minutes. Players may notice
the following changes:
Villains
Beat the Heat
- SCU Forces are once again out in force to
threaten Mr. Freezes operations in
the Diamond District.
- SCU Squad Car radios are now reserved for
those currently assisting Mr. Freeze in
the Diamond District.
Operations
Wayward Souls
- More Soul-Infused corpses are prowling
the streets of Gothams Burnley
District.
- Sightings of the cursed Solomon Grundy
near the Monarch Playing Card Company
have increased!
Side Missions
Meta Research Wing Challenge
- The Hexed Metahuman has agreed to not
interfere with the business you have with
Dr Psycho and his hallucinations.
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9/27/2012
First Look! The Witching Hour!
Trick
or treat? Game Update 19 features a
new seasonal event for Halloween The
Witching Hour! This October, Gotham
City is getting a ghoulish
makeover, and there are tricks and treats aplenty
to go around. Dont miss this exciting new
event in DC Universe Online!
Chaos in Gotham City!
Klarion the Witch Boy
is stealing the powers of Heroes and Villains
throughout the DC Universe and using them to
cause quite a bit of Halloween mischief on the
streets of Gotham City.
Apparitions of all kinds are rising from the
earth and tormenting trick-or-treaters. Heroes,
it will be up to you to save the civilians, and
Villains, well, you should be able to find some
way to take
advantage
of the situation.
The Midnight Masquerade!
Its not Halloween without a great,
ghoulish costume party, and Klarion is no slouch
when it comes to throwing parties. Hes
taken over a club in the city and casting spells
on innocent civilians, forcing them to attend.
Whether Hero or Villain, you are going to have
good reason to crash this party. Be careful,
though. The powers Klarion has stolen are from
the some of the worlds most powerful magic
users, and look out for his cat, Teekl, too.
Treats!
Of course, we have treats to earn throughout
the event. Youll find new trinkets, a new
pet, and of course a ton of new Halloween-themed
styles.
The Witching Hour
will soon be available on the PC Test server
along with the rest of Game Update 19, and will
be moving to live in early October. If you have a
Legendary Membership on PC, please come over and
try out the new content! If you dont, stay
tuned for more information and get ready for when
the event goes live. You wont want to miss
it!
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9/25/2012
Server Hotfix 09.26.12
There will be a hotfix tonight during
regularly scheduled restarts. There should be no
additional downtime. Players may notice the
following changes:
General
- Resolved an issue where Marks of War
would sometimes not be granted to
players.
Pets
Sorcery
- The Guardian and Watcher will return to
your side after a duel and no longer
follow the other player forever.
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9/21/2012
Server Hotfix 09.22.12
A server hotfix will be deployed during
regular restarts tonight. No additional downtime
is required.
Players may notice the following changes:
General
Fixed an issue
where players on a group mission could be put
into different instances.
- We have changed the way loot is
distributed among contributing groups.
Now each group that meets the minimum
contribution threshold for a kill will
get their own loot to roll on. This has
changed from before where loot would be
distributed randomly between groups to
then be rolled on.
Missions:
Wayward Souls Operation
- Fixed an issue where Solomon Grundy and
the Soul-Infused Corpse would drop loot
for anyone in the vicinity, rather than
just to the groups(s) that contributed to
the knockout. This fix also addresses
mission updates firing for everyone in
the area as well.
Soul Alchemy
- The Soul Beating feat will now
only be granted to players who've
participated in the summoning and the
fight against the Fused Soul.
Unpaid Dues
- Ra's al Ghul now requires a little
interrogation at the end of the fight to
move on with the story.
Seeds of Rot
The Hazmat
Officer's truck now requires you to tag it for
destruction to advance the story.
Swamp Thing's
defense-boosting seeds are now more elusive and
more difficult to destroy.
Side Missions:
Nest Egg
- Penguin has agreed to allow players to
secure all five consoles required to
complete "Nest Egg" in a single
run if they can best his henchmen.
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9/21/2012
Client Hotfix 09.21.12
A client hotfix will be deployed today at
12:00 p.m. PDT. No downtime is required, but
players will need to exit the game to download
the new client. Click here to convert to your
timezone.
Players may notice the following changes:
General
- Investigated and fixed an out of memory
crash that could cause freezing and
crashes throughout the game, including
during Operations in the open
world.
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9/18/2012
NEW Voltaic and Fiery Weapon Style
Packs!
New weapon style packs are now available in
the Marketplace!
Fiery Weapon Style Pack
Is it getting hot in here? Smoke the
competition with these Fiery weapon styles!This
pack includes: Fiery Blade, Fiery Staff, Fiery
Bludgeon, Fiery Shield, Fiery Bow, Fiery Rifle,
Fiery Cestus, Fiery Blasters, Fiery Claws, Fiery
Axes, Fiery Pistols, These items are redeemable
for every character on the account, and they are
not tradeable. The color of these items is not
affected by your color palette.
Voltaic Weapon Style Pack
Shock your friends and blitz your enemies with
these exciting Electricity weapon styles! This
pack includes: Voltaic Blade, Voltaic Staff,
Voltaic Bludgeoner, Voltaic Shield, Voltaic Bow,
Voltaic Rifle, Voltaic Cestus, Voltaic Blasters,
Voltaic Claws, Voltaic Axes, Voltaic Pistols
These items are redeemable for every character on
the account, and they are not tradeable. The
color of these items is not affected by your
color palette.
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9/18/2012
Server Hotfix 09.18.12
A server hotfix was applied with last night's
restarts. Players may notice the following
changes:
- Weve adjusted pricing on the DLC 5
crafting component Ethereal Dust.
This is due to the fact that there
was a loot error that caused far more to
drop than planned. This drop rate
issue has been addressed, and we are
adjusting the vendor price to reflect the
rarity of the item.
- Ethereal Dust will no longer drop from
trash NPCs in Operations and will now
only drop from Bosses instead.
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9/18/2012
Hand of Fate is now available!
DC UNIVERSE™
ONLINES HAND
OF FATE DLC PACK NOW
AVAILABLE
Heroes and Villains
Challenged to Take Team-Focused Battles to the
Next Level in Games Fifth DLC Pack
SAN DIEGO Sept. 18, 2012
Sony
Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) today
announced that Hand of Fate,the
fifth downloadable content (DLC) pack for DC
Universe™ Online (DCUO),
is now available for download on the PC and
PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. At
the bidding of Doctor Fate or the evil sorcerer
Felix Faust, players will undertake Operations
six intense new episodes designed for
group play featuring three Heroic and three
Villainous that will take high level
players back out to the iconic, open-world cities
of Gotham City and Metropolis. Additionally, a
wealth of new side missions will be featured,
providing more fun and depth to the games
storyline and world. Hand of Fate
also provides players with new Utility Belt
Attachments and debuts magic-powered Legends PvP
characters, bringing a tale of magic and mystery
to life.
The fact that this is our fifth major
downloadable content pack showcases our
commitment to expanding the immersive player
experience through regular content updates,
said Jens Andersen, creative director on DC
Universe Online. Hand of
Fate is unlike anything weve
offered to date. From the very beginning, it was
designed to draw players back out to our massive
open-world cities and allow them to experience
them in new, unexpected ways. We are pleased with
what we have come up with and cant wait to
hear what the players think.
Hand of Fate
provides players with hours of new adventures and
content:
- Utility Belt Attachments
Utility Belt Attachments expand the
trinket load-out from one to up to four
slots, allowing players to equip multiple
trinkets, toys, pets, and consumables at
once. All Utility Belt Attachments have
at least two slots, while some also have
upgradeable slots! Utility Belt
Attachments give players more flexibility
and options in the heat of combat without
having to swap out items.
- New Legends Characters
Hand of Fate introduces the
first arcane characters to Legends PvP.
The Lord of Order, Doctor Fate and the
evil sorcerer Felix Faust make their
playable debut in Legends PvP as
magic-wielding hand-blasters who conjure
powerful spells and summon allies to
their aid.
- Operations
Six intense new episodes designed for
group play three Heroic and three
Villainous are now unleashed upon
players under the direction of Doctor
Fate and Felix Faust. Heroes will be
called to help the Lords of Order protect
innocent souls from the forces of
darkness. Villains must complete perilous
missions for Felix Faust to reap his
rewards.
- Side Missions
As players battle through the six
Operations, up to 60 side missions will
arise that take players all over
Metropolis, Gotham City and beyond,
pitting them against previous adversaries
and new dangers that have arisen.
Legendary members can now access DCUOs
Hand of Fate DLC
pack for free. Hand of Fate
is also available for $9.99 USD to Free and
Premium players via the PlayStation®Network, the
in-game Marketplace, or for PC players via the
DCUniverseOnline.com website.
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 the PC and
the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system.
DCUO Legendary access is 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 iconic brands DC Comics
(Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman,
The Flash), Vertigo
(Sandman, Fables) and MAD, is
the creative division charged with strategically
integrating its content across Warner Bros.
Entertainment and Time Warner. DC
Entertainment works in concert with many key
Warner Bros. divisions to unleash its stories and
characters across all media, including but not
limited to film, television, consumer products,
home entertainment and interactive
games. Publishing thousands of comic books,
graphic novels and magazines each year, DC
Entertainment is the largest English-language
publisher of comics in the world. In
January 2012, DC Entertainment, in collaboration
with Warner Bros. and Time Warner divisions,
launched We Can
Be Heroesa giving campaign featuring
the iconic Justice League super heroesto
raise awareness and funds to fight the hunger
crisis in the Horn of Africa.
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9/12/2012
Server Hotfix 09.13.12
All servers will be offline Thursday,
09.13.12, beginning at 9:00 AM PDT for a hotfix!
Downtime is expected to last about 2 hours.
Click here to convert to your
timezone.
Players may notice the following changes:
Currency Conversion
Marks of War are now able to be converted to
Marks of Triumph in order to purchase items that
are not Tier 4 Gear. This can be done on the Tokens
of Merit vendor.
Alerts:
Coast City
- The Award Box treasure lock should now be
functioning correctly.
South Gotham Courthouse
- Various tweaks to boss fight cinematic
cameras.
Awards:
- Monthly Raid Award III boxes will now
award 500 Marks of Triumph.
- Completing Fortress of Solitude: The
Chasm will net a total reward of 400
Marks of Triumph.
- Completing Fortress of Solitude: Power
Core will net a total reward of 400 Marks
of Triumph.
- Completing Fortress of Solitude: Sunstone
Matrix will net a total reward of 300
Marks of Triumph.
Pets
- Fixed an issue that could cause some pets
to run into the fight without their owner
attacking first.
- All pets now have increased health pools
and out of combat regeneration rates.
- Most pets now only attack targets within
30m of their owner. This keeps pets near
their owners current targets and
allows owners to back their pets out of
combat.
Currency:
- The cash price for converting Marks to
merit Tokens is now properly displaying
on the Tokens of Merit Vendor.
Cutscenes:
- For newly redone challenge cut scenes,
NPCs will no longer appear to
shake.
Duos:
Ferris Aircraft
- The weapons dropping off of Vice and
Atrocitus in the Ferris Aircraft duo have
had their stats changed to be in-line
with the other Tier 3 duo weapon drops.
Items:
- Utility Belts Attachments will now start
dropping throughout the game.
- The Award box from the Inner Sanctum will
now show when it is loot locked properly.
- General Zod in the Sunstone Matrix is now
dropping the correct R&D plans.
Missions:
Cats Eye
- Players should no longer have access to
the Cat's Eye mission in the
HQs. Players can now access this by
selecting Gotham University Warehouse
Challenge in their On Duty menu.
Shadow Hearts
- Fixed an issue where the protect task for
the Shadowmen would occasionally not
finish.
Spectral Embrace
- Heroes that defeat Eclipso will no longer
receive loot twice.
Unpaid Dues
- The mission description in the journal
should no longer have incorrect
characters
Powers:
Mental
- Telekinetic Push now has an improved
visual effect when dealing extra damage
to Dazed enemies that are not also
Helpless.
PvP:
Arena
- Trickster no longer uses a chevron to
warn of incoming attacks.
UI:
- The Combat Log now correctly pluralizes
Marks of Tactic or Marks of Lore when
multiple are received.
- A new UI has been added to better
visually demonstrate login wait times for
Premium, Free and Legendary account
levels.
- Scorecard:
- Players should now be able to see
their full lockout list from the
Info tab in the Scorecard
- Players will no longer see an
undefined message in
the Scorecard Info Tab
DLC Hand of Fate
(Purchasable on 9/1
Operations!
The balance between Order and Chaos is at risk!
Heroes, align yourself with Doctor Fate and the
Lords of Order to protect innocent souls from the
forces of darkness. Villains, join with Felix
Faust and tap into true power by reaping the
rewards of his schemes. Operations are available
for teams of 4 or 8 players. Look for them in the
On Duty UI. Players wanting to lock their
PVE or PVP phase for Operations can do so by
going to their Gameplay Settings in their Options
UI. Combat Rating 70
New Missions!
60 new high level Missions have been added. These
Arcane Edicts drop from the Operation end bosses
and will send you to locations in Metropolis,
Gotham City, and other iconic locales. Find one,
and you can help fight the dark spirits that are
possessing fighters on both sides of the
war! Combat Rating 70
New Legends!
Sorcerers make their debut in Legends PvP
with the introduction of Doctor Fate and Felix
Faust! These new characters can now be purchased
in-game with Marks of Legend at the Legends
Terminals in your HQ.
Utility Belt Attachments!
This is a new type of trinket slot item exclusive
to Hand of Fate. Utility Belt
Attachments increase the number of Trinket and
Consumable items that can be loaded out at any
given time. All Utility Belt Attachments provide
at least two more slots that can be used to load
out additional trinkets or consumables. Different
Utility Belt Attachments have different slot
configurations and some slots may even be
wild cards, which can accept either a
trinket or a consumable item! Higher level
Utility Belt Attachments may have a third or even
a fourth slot available that can be activated for
30 days using Marks of Triumph. Unlocking a third
or fourth slot unlocks that slot for all Utility
Belts Attachments. Although you have access to
the activated effects of trinkets, you do not
gain the regular equipped stats of a
trinket equipped within a Utility Belt Attachment
slot.
A basic starting Utility Belt Attachment may
be purchased from the renown vendors located in
each wing of your Headquarters. Utility Belt
Attachments are also available as drops in the
game.
New Gear and Weapons!
There are a total of 4 new Runic appearance sets
and 11 new Runic weapons. One set of gear is
available as drops in the 4 player Operations.
Two more sets drop in the 8 player Operations,
along with the Runic weapons. Additionally, a
Tier 4.5 Runic set of gear is available through
the acquisition and completion of R&D
Missions that are dropped as Codices from
Operation Bosses. (Hero: A Black Dawn, With a
Vengeance, Villain: Unpaid Dues, Seeds of Rot).
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9/4/2012
Server Downtime 09.05.2012 - Game Update
18!
All servers will be offline Wednesday,
09.05.12, beginning at 7:00 AM PDT to launch
Game Update 18! Downtime is expected to last
about 4 hours. Click here to convert to your
timezone.
Players may notice the following changes:
Alert, Challenge, and Duo NPCs
Some Alert NPCs and many Challenge and Duo NPCs
learned new tricks! These NPCs now use familiar
weapon combos as well as Block. Their attacks may
both inflict and be vulnerable to counter attack
mechanics such as Blocking, Interrupt and Block
Breaking.
Match rank NPCs in Solo and Duo
content, such as Circes Bestiamorph Rhinos
and the Jokers Wag goons, now have more
Health but do less damage. Many will now use
familiar weapon combos as well as Block. These
attacks may both inflict and be vulnerable to
counter attack mechanics such as Blocking,
Interrupt and Block Breaking.
Boss rank, Iconic and occasionally normal match
rank NPCs may try to trick you by performing
feint attacks. They may start a melee
combo to make you think you should block but then
suddenly perform a block breaking attack. A
bright yellow pulse on the sides of the character
is your hint that their next attack is really a
feint!
Bonus Awards
You will now receive a Weekly Award box the first
time you complete a Tier 1 through Tier 3
challenge, duo or alert within a week. This award
box offers a random level appropriate item as
well as additional Marks of Triumph. Using replay
badges to unlock the instance will also unlock
the weekly award.
Furthermore, Tier 2 and Tier 3 raids will award a
Monthly Raid Award box. This box includes a
random raid level item and additional Marks of
Triumph. Like the Weekly Awards, using replay
badges to unlock the raid will also unlock the
Monthly Raid Award.
Challenge Improvements
Challenge modes can now be accessed through the
On-Duty menu. The missions associated with
challenge modes have been removed and are no
longer available. If you still have one of these
missions in your journal, they can still be
completed normally.
Commendations
Completing a Challenge mode will now award a
commendation that grants renown. Using this item
increases your standing with that group by 125.
Faction commendations may also be purchased from
the appropriate faction vendor for 25 Marks of
Triumph.
Content Restructuring
Many Challenges, Duos and Alerts have had their
difficulty tiers increased in order to offer a
smoother progression and a full range of content
availability. In addition, a number of new
challenge modes are available! These higher
tiered instances now offer upgraded loot and
level appropriate rewards.
Although the amount of available content at the
lower tiers was decreased, the time required to
progress through any given tier remains or has
been decreased due to adjustments in tier item
costs.
Currency Conversion
Marks of Distinction, Marks of Momentum and Marks
of Krypton can be converted to Marks of Triumph.
You will find a mission in your journal
(Triumphant Transfer for Heroes or
Laundering Day for Villains) that
will point you toward a vendor in the Watchtower
or Hall of Doom that offers conversion packages.
These convert your old marks into the appropriate
number of Marks of Triumph. As an added bonus,
you will receive a Token of Merit for every mark
converted! There is no cash cost associated
with converting.
Marks of Distinction convert at a rate of 1 for
5. Marks of Momentum convert at a rate of 1 for
10. Marks of Krypton convert at a rate of 1 for
50.
Currency Unification
Marks of Distinction, Marks of Momentum and Marks
of Krypton will no longer be awarded and can no
longer be used to purchase items. All Tier 1
through 3 items are now purchased with Marks of
Triumph. Content that used to award Marks of
Distinction, Momentum and Krypton now award Marks
of Triumph. The number of Marks of Triumphs
awarded and the cost to purchase items increases
with each tier.
Marks of War are still used to purchase Tier 4
items and are still awarded for success in Tier 4
content.
Tier Items
The purchase of tiered items is now restricted by
Combat Rating. The combat rating required to
purchase a tiered item is equal to the Combat
Rating required to qualify for that content.
Alerts:
Ace Chemicals
- Each Boss in Ace Chemicals has agreed to
keep the hallway doors open to ensure
their enemies can gain access.
Arkham Asylum
- Death Blossoms will now disintegrate when
Poison Ivy is defeated.
Blüdhaven
- Chemo will no longer stand idly by and
stare at you if he doesn't feel like
jumping.
- Fixed various issues with the
Transporting of Supplies.
- Fixed an issue where players who were
further away from Chemo would sometimes
not see him during the Cinematic.
South Gotham Courthouse
- The Supreme Justice will no longer refuse
those who wish to enter his chambers.
League of Assassins Stronghold
- Ra's al Ghul sharpened the blades in his
trap room. They should be much more
deadly now.
Watchtower Containment Facility
- The System Hacker can now be damaged by
all attacks.
Audio:
- Fixed an issue that could cause the wrong
communicator message to be played at the
start of a Mission.
Challenges:
Gotham University Warehouse
- Fixed an issue where the Tiger Boss would
refuse to jump and attack his enemies.
Metropolis University
- Power Girl and Parasite have a brand new
exchange at the beginning of their
Metropolis University challenge mission.
Collections:
- Marine Life Fossils and Atlantean
Artifacts no longer have a required level
needed to add them to your collections.
Combat:
- Superpowers with a damage component that
are usable while controlled may
no longer be used while under a control
effect that cannot be broken such as
counter attacks.
- Added new counter attack effects to
message block breakers, interrupts and
block counters.
Currency:
- Commendations are now available from
factional vendors in the Watchtower and
the Hall of Doom. These items can be
purchased with Marks of Triumph and award
renown with those specific factions when
used.
- Marks of Triumph will now be rewarded or
drop in place of Marks of Distinction,
Krypton and Momentum. Whenever more than
one Mark of Triumph is dropped or mailed,
a physical representation of the mark
will drop into your inventory that must
be used to add the marks to your currency
tab.
- The Marks of Triumph cap has been raised
to 50,000.
- Tier 2 and Tier 3 iconic armor sets and
items are now purchased with Marks of
Triumph.
- The cost to purchase Tier 1 iconic armor
sets has been reduced.
- Tier 2 iconic armor sets and items are
now purchased with Marks of Triumph and
require a minimum combat rating of 43 to
purchase.
- Lightning Strikes DLC iconic armor sets
and items are now purchased with Marks of
Triumph and require a minimum combat
rating of 53 to purchase.
- Tier 3 iconic armor sets and items are
now purchased with Marks of Triumph and
require a minimum combat rating of 53 to
purchase.
Duos:
Cape Carmine Lighthouse
- Villain: If you are defeated, Nightwing
now insists you re-open the door to
confront him for another beat-down.
Metropolis City Hall
- Hero: The Treasure Chest now always
spawns properly.
Old Gotham Subway
- Players should no longer run into an
issue where they can not complete this
Duo.
- Removed collision from various invisible
objects that may interfere with players
in combat.
- Pengbot Maximus spin attack is now
vulnerable to block and causes interrupt.
- Pengbot Maximus Beak
Attack which he uses at low health,
is now vulnerable to interrupt and causes
appropriate damage.
- The pointer mission no longer sends you
to the Watchtower or the Hall of Doom.
You now are sent directly to the Penguin
Challenge instance.
Feats:
- "Swimming With the Sharks"
should now activate correctly when
completed.
- Speedy Coin is now restricted
to only group runs.
General:
- Diamond District Villain Rally Location:
Fixed an issue where the Rally Location
Platform could be moved.
Items:
- The Prime Battleground Raid now has a
chance of dropping an Unattuned
Prime Shield.
- General Zod in the Sunstone Matrix now
drops the correct R&D recipes.
- Items: All Wayward Drone items are now
properly flagged as no trade.
Missions:
- Pointer missions for Daily Challenge
Instances no longer send you to the
mission terminals Queue up in your
On Duty tab and get straight into the
action!
The Big Payback
- Patrolmen will no longer hold their arms
stiffly out to their sides when you strap
bombs to their chest.
Deadly Mischief
- Hero: The lockers inside the playroom can
no longer be targeted.
- Hero: Rescued Police Officers should now
walk instead of slide after you release
them.
- Heroes can no longer target the Mainframe
they have sworn to protect.
Exobyte Eclipse
- Various objects in this instance are no
longer targetable.
The First Clue
- GCPD officers and Rescued Citizens should
now run away instead of de-spawn.
Lunar Eclipse
- Players should no longer remain in combat
after defeating Zatanna.
- Zatanna's beam attack will no longer
display an impact particle on a player
until zoning out of the instance.
Party Time!
- Joker Gas now only affects enemies in the
playroom.
- Blue Barrels will now freeze enemies.
Rite Wronged
- Villain: Deathstroke should no longer be
afraid to show himself when you are
fighting Bruno Mannheim.
- Villain: Batwoman can no longer get
knocked off of the altar during your
scuffle with Bruno Mannheim.
The Root of Evil
- Poison Ivy is no longer camera shy and
will appear in all of her camera shots.
Queen of Lies
- Aquaman is no longer capable of stopping
players from moving for long periods of
time.
Powers:
- Corrected an issue that could leave you
stuck partially in the stealth state.
Gadgets
- Fear Gas's DoT no longer stacks with
itself.
- The Suppressor Turret now assists players
more reliably in combat.
Electricity
- Voltaic Bolt's DoT from the Electrified
power interaction no longer stacks with
itself and no longer consumes the
Electrified effect.
Fire
- Absorb heat will now display the proper
effects while using a shield weapon.
Light
- Grasping Hand should now
more reliably be able to combo into the
moves described in the tooltip when used
as a tray power.
- Corrected an issue that could prevent
comboing from the weapon attack version
of Minigun.
- Snap Trap will now apply damage over time
in control role when used from your power
tray.
Mental
- Bastion supercharge reduced to 50% cost
(from 640)
- Thought Bubble's main damage no longer
happens twice.
- Terrorize is now a channel to bring it in
line with other powers.
- Mass Terror's damage over time has been
reduced to bring it in line with other
powers.
Nature
- Increased the interrupt vulnerability
window of Primal Wolf Forms
Ferocious Backfist attack to match other
block breaking attacks.
- Effects from canine form's ability Sneak
are now removed when zoning to a new
location.
PvP:
- The Decoy consumable uses white effects
to help differentiate it from the new
Gadgets Holographic Decoy.
Arenas
- Ace Chemicals: On-Screen Text should now
remain in sync with capture point
information.
- Fortress of Solitude: Once again and
forever more, you do not want to be
locked in the center room.
Legends
- Bane, Arkillo, and Kilowog legends are
now able to weaponize larger objects,
bringing them in line with other legends.
- General Zod's Kryptonian Grenade
Toss and Subjugate abilities
now cost less power to use.
Raids:
Batcave: The Inner Sanctum
- Zetta-Drone should no longer become
bitter and prevent groups from advancing
if it is defeated quickly.
Fortress of Solitude: Power Core
- The first Bosses should no longer
occasionally spawn in pairs.
Themyscira: The Gates of Tartarus
- The Avatar of Magic is no longer open to
trickery that allows his enemies to zerg
him.
UI:
Matchmaking
- The confirmation dialog to enter a match
made instance now includes the category
of instance (Alert, Arena, etc.) and your
assigned role in that group.
- Players may not be kicked from a match
made group within 5 minutes of joining
that group or within 5 minutes of kicking
another player.
- Players will no longer incur the deserter
penalty if they are the only player left
in the instance when they leave.
General
- The Combo Counter is now located at the
top of the screen.
- Players are now able to spend replay
badges to reset their lockouts on the
scorecard within any instance.
The following instances have been adjusted or
added:
- The Greenhouse (Poison Ivy) Challenge
--> Now Tier 2
- Metropolis University (Power Girl)
Challenge --> Now Tier 2
- Gotham University Warehouse (Catwoman)
Challenge --> Now Tier 2
- Old Gotham Subway Challenge --> Now
Tier 2
- Gotham Sewers (Scarecrow) Challenge
--> New Tier 2
- Old Star Labs (Flash Family) Challenge
--> New Tier 2
- Coast City Alert --> Now Tier 3
- League of Assassins Alert --> Now Tier
3
- Strykers Island Penitentiary Alert
--> Now Tier 3
- Arkham Asylum Alert --> Now Tier 3
- East End Regal Hotel Challenge --> New
Tier 3
- STAR Labs Facility Challenge --> New
Tier 3
- Circes Stronghold Challenge -->
New Tier 3
- Monarch Playing Cards (Riddler) Challenge
--> New Tier 3
- Sentinels of Magic Base Challenge -->
New Tier 3
- Cape Carmine Lighthouse Duo--> Now
Tier 3
- Ferris Aircraft Duo--> Now Tier 3
- Old Gotham Subway Duo--> Now Tier 3
Visual:
- Robin makes an impressive new entry into
the fight against Poison Ivy. But, she
still seems to have him right where she
wants him...under her control!
- Text references to the "Chinatown
Cafe" are changing to "Circe's
Stronghold" to better describe the
content.
Weapon Types:
Brawler
-
- Headbutt has been renamed to
Hammer Fist.
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8/28/2012
Server Hotfix 08.29.12
There will be a hotfix tonight during regular
restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
General:
- Fixed issue that caused the wrong message
to be played for the start of some
missions.
- Several Rare shield drops have been fixed
so they are no longer tradable
PvP:
The Moon
- Fixed issue where players could get stuck
animating if the object they are trying
to interact with is picked up.
On-Duty UI:
- "No Laughing Matter" is now
correctly listed under "Alerts"
rather than "Group Missions".
Gadgets:
- Stasis Field will no longer play two
copies of the visual despawn effects.
Raids:
The Inner Sanctum
- Anti-Assault Turrets now sit properly on
their platforms
Alerts:
Hall of Doom Armory
- Removed some targetable objects that were
incorrectly present in the Arcanum
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8/22/2012
Client Hotfix 08.22.12
A client hotfix will be deployed today at 5:00
p.m. PDT. Players will receive the update the
next time they log in. Click here to convert to your
timezone. Players may notice the following
changes:
UI:
Chat UI
- Players will no longer experience chat
tabs displaying blank the first time they
complete an instance with a motion comic.
Crashes
- Fixed a crash that could occur when
zoning into an instance after using the
purchase prompt feature in the On Duty
UI.
- Fixed a crash that could occur if a
player received a trade invite or
instance pop up while editing a chat tab.
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8/22/2012
New Legends Characters Available in the
Marketplace!
Exobyte Data: Superman 1000
Station Cash / $9.99
Take to the skies and play Legends PvP
as the Man of Steel himself, Superman!
Use his classic powers like Heat Vision and
Freeze Breath to stop your enemies in their
tracks, and make a stand for truth and justice!
Other powers include Vacuum Spin, Shockwave
Punch, and Swoop Attack.
Exobyte Data: General Zod 1000
Station Cash / $9.99
Kneel before Zod!
If you like the way that sounds, youre
going to want General Zod
as a Legends PvP character. General Zod stands as
Supermans nemesis, and has the skills to
take him down. Beyond the classic Kryptonian
powers he shares with his brethren, look out for
his signature moves, Subjugate and Kryptonian
Grenade!
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8/20/2012
Server Hotfix 08.21.12
There will be a hotfix tonight during regular
restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Alerts:
Watchtower Containment Facility
- The System Hacker can now be damaged by
all attacks.
Collections:
- A number of collection locations have
been adjusted to allow players of all
movement modes to reach them.
Duos:
Gotham Mercy Hospital
- Mister Freeze has agreed to stop forcing
players to remain in combat with him once
he has been defeated.
Metropolis City Hall
- The on screen messaging now properly
instructs the player to leave once they
have completed the instance.
Items:
- The Novice Guardian's Badge
should now have the correct activated
effect.
Powers:
Mental
- The descriptions for Thought Bubble
and Psychic Resonance now
properly reflect the damage bonus when
used in a DPS role. They had previously
displayed with the opposite bonus.
PvP:
Arenas
- The daily mission will once again appear
properly in the Arena PvP section of the
On Duty UI.
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8/14/2012
Station Cash Bonus is Coming Soon!
Get 500 Station Cash when you buy a $15 SOE
Pre-paid Game Card at Best Buy and redeem between
August 17-19th.
* Redeem between 12:01AM PDT 8/17/2012 to
11:59PM PDT 8/19/2012.
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8/14/2012
Hand of Fate Producer Letter!
Hello everyone,
Im pleased to announce DC Universe
Online's next DLC Pack Hand of
Fate! This marks our fifth DLC
Pack, and it is unlike anything weve
offered to date. It brings a whole new type of
gameplay designed from the ground up to draw
players out into our iconic, open-world cities, Gotham
City and Metropolis. Featuring
loads of side missions and a whole new type of
group mission we call Operations, Hand
of Fate will
enrich our massive open world areas in unexpected
ways, deepening and enlivening the game as
players encounter not just the world and its
challenges, but each other along the way. We are
also excited to introduce Utility Belt
Attachments. This handy item greatly expands
loadout options and makes it viable to use more
trinkets, toys, and consumables ultimately
opening the door to more fun and deeper tactics.
Personally, I could never justify keeping a toy
equipped when I played, no matter how fun it was,
but now it's easy to have one at the ready. Read
on for details!
Hand of Fate
I dont want to share too much yet about
the backstory for Hand of Fate,
but it will pit Doctor Fate
and his heroic supporters against the evil
sorcerer Felix Faust
and his villainous cohorts in a classic tale of
magic and mystery. Even as the world reels from
Brainiacs invasion, other forces are
moving, and dangerous plots are afoot. And when
theres magic involved, anything can happen.
Operations
Operations, our new group missions, are what
make the open-world magic possible. You can think
of Operations as Raids or Alerts that can be set
in the open-world, but they're more than that.
For example, while on an Operation, up to eight
players will be queued up in a starting instance
to defeat a challenge alongside their iconic
ally. After they win this challenge, they will go
out into the open-world to take on the next stage
of the operation. Players can split up in smaller
groups to accomplish certain objectives, but they
will find others require the entire group working
as a team. In short, you and your friends will be
able to tackle more and more varied content than
ever before in the open world!
Youll probably find the new map UI from
Game Update 17 extremely useful here!
Why Operations? We wanted to take high level
players back out to Gotham and Metropolis, our
most iconic and, by far, biggest locations, and
add more excitement and activity all across the
cityscapes. When the team first started talking
about this, I had visions of new players being
drawn to witness an epic battle between 8
top-tier players and a powerful boss, witnessing
the high-level splendor firsthand, just like in
the comics.
Theres more to it, though. Players
dont have to just watch. They can choose to
get involved, and that's the type of emergent
experience that I think will set DCUO and Hand
of Fate apart. Especially on PvP
phases, I expect this to create fireworks,
awesome battles, and real strategy and
competition in the open world. Along with that,
one nice surprise for villains is that more than
ever, villainous content will truly be
villainous! It's from the perspective of the
villains. I know that's been a touchy subject
with many of our villains, forced to work long
and hard alongside heroes in defeating Brainiac.
Your pleas have not fallen on deaf ears! You get
to be evil.
Side Missions
Along with Operations, Hand of
Fate will feature roughly 60 side
missions. Let me repeat that. 60 missions.
These are similar to the Level 1-30 content that
a lot of our players really enjoyed and have been
asking for again. These missions are fun and add
depth to the narrative and world, and of course
offer their own rewards. I think players
will really enjoy the everyday variety and
challenges side missions have to offer.
Utility Belt Attachments
Last but certainly not least, I wanted to
offer a little more information on Utility Belt
Attachments. This feature is a useful and fun
upgrade for players in all aspects of the game.
There will be a variety of Utility Belts
offering anywhere from two to four Utility
Compartments or Slots. The slots themselves
can vary some will only accept certain
kinds of items, though the rarest will include
Wild Card slots that allow you to equip any kind
of trinket or consumable. Depending on the belt,
you can equip offensive and defensive
consumables, toys, or trinkets. As I mentioned
earlier, most belts have pre-defined slots,
encouraging balanced loadouts. One of the
benefits of this is that it will actually make
sense for more players to make use of toys. Toys
have always been fun to play around with, but
were not something that you could generally use
much on Live (I normally use a more sensible
trinket that offers the best combat
benefit). With the additional capacity
offered by Utility Compartments, I expect to see
a lot more people using Toys (Dice, Balls, etc.)
and Pets. These really do make the game more fun.
With that, I'll say goodbye. Remember to look
for more information on Hand of Fate
as we get closer to launch in the second half of
September. Well have a lot more to share.
Best,
Larry Liberty
Executive Producer
DC Universe Online
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8/14/2012
Announcing Hand of Fate!
HEROES AND VILLAINS
BATTLE ACROSS GOTHAM CITY
AND METROPOLIS IN DC
UNIVERSE™ ONLINES
NEXT DLC PACK
Fifth DLC Pack,
Hand of Fate, Features New Utility
Belt Attachments, Story Driven Operations,
New Magical Legends Characters, and Numerous Side
Missions
SAN DIEGO Aug. 14, 2012 Sony Online
Entertainment LLC (SOE) today announced that Hand
of Fate, the fifth downloadable
content (DLC) pack for DC
Universe™ Online (DCUO),
will be available for download on the PC and
PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system this
September. Hand of Fate
will challenge players to return to Gotham City
and Metropolis to experience high-level,
team-focused Operations that span the iconic
cityscapes. This DLC will also provide players
with new Utility Belt Attachments and introduce
magic-powered Legends PvP characters, as well as
a multitude of exhilarating new side missions.
Hand of Fate
is serial in nature and features massive,
team-oriented Operations, said Jens
Andersen, creative director on DC Universe
Online. We want to provide players
with unique Hero and Villain experiences that
immerse them in the most iconic DC Comics
locations: Gotham City and Metropolis. What we
hope players find in this DLC are emergent game
play moments that challenge and reinvigorate them
in the open world.
Hand of Fate will
throw players into hours of new adventures and
content:
- Utility Belt Attachments
Utility Belt Attachments will expand the
trinket load-out from one to up to four
slots, allowing players to equip multiple
trinkets and consumables at once. All
Utility Belt Attachments have at least
two slots, while some also have
upgradeable slots! Utility Belt
Attachments give players more flexibility
and options in the heat of combat without
having to swap out items.
- New Legends Characters
Hand of Fate will introduce the
first arcane characters to Legends PvP.
The Lord of Order, Doctor Fate and the
treacherous sorcerer Felix Faust make
their playable debut in Legends PvP as
magic-wielding hand-blasters who conjure
powerful spells and summon allies to
their aid.
- Operations
Six intense new episodes designed for
group play three Heroic and three
Villainous will be unleashed upon
players under the direction of Doctor
Fate and Felix Faust. Heroes will be
called to help the Lords of Order protect
innocent souls from the forces of
darkness. Villains must complete perilous
missions for Felix Faust to reap his
rewards.
- Side Missions
As players battle through the six
Operations, numerous side missions will
arise that take players all over
Metropolis, Gotham City, and beyond,
pitting them against previous adversaries
and new dangers that have arisen.
DCUOs Hand of Fate DLC
pack will be a free download for the games
Legendary members and will be available for
purchase for Free and Premium players via the
PlayStation®Network, the in-game Marketplace, or
for PC players via the DCUniverseOnline.com
website.
DCUO is licensed by Warner Bros. Interactive
Entertainment on behalf of DC Entertainment. For
more information about DCUO, visit www.DCUniverseOnline.com.
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8/14/2012
Server Downtime 08.13.2012
Both US and EU servers will come down August
14th at 7:00 AM PT for a small update to address
outstanding issues. This update will take
the place of the normal restarts and is
anticipated to be less than 2 hours.
Players may note the following changes:
General:
- Fixed a network disconnect issue that
would sometimes occur while creating a
pet.
- NPCs should now respect movement speed
modifications.
Challenges:
- Under the Red Sun Lamp: The scientist in
the Transport Meta Patients section will
now encase patients instead of always
encasing Powergirl.
Duos:
- Old Gotham Subway: Players should no
longer run into an issue where they can
not complete the instance.
Items:
- Uncommon rarity Shields dropped from
content now have a Level Requirement.
- The Timeworn Guard Shield now displays
the proper stats in its tooltip.
Marketplace:
- With the Summer Event now over, Vanguard
of the Deep, Dino Swim Ring and Scuba
Suit items are no longer available in the
Marketplace.
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8/6/2012
Server Downtime 08.07.12 - Game Update
17
All servers will be offline Tuesday,
08.07.12, beginning at 7:30 AM PDT to launch
Game Update 17! Downtime is expected to last
about 5 hours. Click here to convert to your
timezone. Please also note that there will be
maintenance preventing logins happening tomorrow
beginning at 6:00 a.m. PDT.
Players may notice the following changes:
The Tides of War
The Atlantean Warships have left the straits of
Metropolis, bringing an end to the Tides of
War.
Mental and Gadgets Powers Update
The Gadgets and Mental Power Sets have been
improved. Each Power Set has received upgraded
functionality, visual and audio effects. A few
abilities have been shifted to the Iconic Tree,
while some older, less popular abilities have
been retired and replaced with all new ones!
All Mental and Gadget players, and players
with Iconic Powers, will have their powers reset
upon login so they can respec to their new
abilities.
Ace Chemicals Map Exclusive for The
Last Laugh owners and
Legendary members
Legendary members and owners of The
Last Laugh will now be able to play
the Ace Chemicals Legends map as an Arena.
Map UI Update
The in game Map has been given a complete visual
overhaul! Players can now enjoy a more dynamic
map system allowing them to see and track with
much greater detail! Beyond improved navigation,
players are now color coded and waypoints can be
placed on group members to make them easier to
find! Place them by right clicking with the
mouse.
Group members are now color coded to
differentiate them on the Minimap. Each group
member will have a different randomly assigned
color, except for the group leader who is always
yellow. Group members can ping the
map by shift+ left clicking a spot on the map
which will create a temporary waypoint for group
members, seen both on the mini map and in the
main Map UI.
Alerts:
Arkham Asylum
- Mister Freeze's Boilers are now only
targetable when players can damage them
Bludhaven:
- Psionic Hal Jordans Construct
Fans turbulence and damage are now
a better fit for this construct
- Hazmat Officer Severson will now leave
Bludhaven when he is no longer needed
- Major Force will no longer run and
hide immediately after being defeated
Collections:
- Corrected the physical placement of
various Gold collections in Metropolis
and Gotham City.
Combat:
- Pet Improvements:
- General
- Pets now detect if they
get stuck behind a door
between themselves and
their destination, if
this occurs, the pet
warps to their
destination through the
door
- Pets have become more
obedient. Most pets now
follow to the side of
their owner
- Combat
- Pets are now more
responsive when entering
combat and most should
enter combat when their
owner enters combat.
- Pets should no longer
lose their targets in
combat and stop
attacking.
- Most pets attack the
recent target of their
owner. If the owner
switches targets, the pet
soon after changes to the
same target. Pets hold
their target for a
minimum of 5 seconds
before switching to its
owners current
target.
- In combat, if a pet gets
too far from its owner,
it will fall back to the
owner.
- An attacking pet keeps
its owner in combat and
attacks hitting a pet now
keep its owner in combat.
- Group heals and buffs
should now affect all
pets in the group.
-
- Flying Pets
- Out of combat, flying
pets now match their
owner speed (even while
boosted). If they get too
far behind, they warp to
their owner to keep up
- Flying pets now only
de-spawn if they are
killed or de-spawned
manually
- In combat, flying pets
now warp to their owner
if their owner gets too
far away
- Ground Pets
- Out of combat, ground
pets do not match their
owner speed and de-spawn
if their owner gets too
far away from them
(usually from the owner
using a super movement
mode)
- In combat, ground pets
de-spawn if their owner
gets too far away
Feats:
- Battle for Earth School
of Hard Knocks feats is now
only visible to Legendary players and
players who own Battle for Earth
- Metropolis Master
Speedster: Villain now
correctly refers to the Chinatown Expert
Speedster Challenge
Items:
- Noble Warrior items can now be deleted
- Coluan Crown of Defense now has an
inventory icon and the appearance will
display properly when the appearance is
worn.
- Promethium Lockboxes and PvP Champion
Bonus marks awarded from opening boxes
are now dropped into your inventory as
physical items. Using the item will add
the bonus mark to your currency tab.
Leagues:
- Players will now see messaging in their
chat log of how many League Members are
online when entering the game or when
joining a League
Powers:
- Iconic Powers
- The Clown Box
and Gag Glove
abilities have been removed from
Gadgets Power Set and added to
the Iconic Powers Tree.
- Controllers
- Control effects applied while in
the Controller role no longer
have a chance to break early due
to damage.
Gadgets:
- All Gadget power abilities have been
visually updated.
- Traps Tree
- Battle Drone
- Battle Drone now
provides power to your
group, up to 8 people
- Increased Supercharge
Cost of Battle Drone
to 35%
- Bunker Buster
- The Supercharge cost of Bunker
Buster has been
decreased to 50%
- Bunker Busters
damage has been decreased
slightly
- Cryo-field
- A small initial damage
burst was added to Cryo-field
- Fear Gas
- Increased range of Fear
Gas by 2 meters
- Fear Gas now
sends enemies into a
Panic
- Neural Neutralizer
- Increased Neural
Neutralizers
minimum damage so that it
never hits for less than Gauss
Grenade
- Increased the amount of
Damage Absorption based
on Restoration to 640
(matching the amount from
Dominance)
- Stealth
- Stealth now
removes on zone
- Stealth is now
useable while in combat
- Players are no longer
snared or use the
sneaking animation while
in Stealth
- Increased cooldown to 30
seconds
- Cuff 'Em
- Now deals damage, but
will take players out of
stealth when used
- Implosion
Mine
- Now deals damage
- Tooltip now states
that this ability retains
stealth when used but is
vulnerable to interrupt
- Decreased cooldown to
15 seconds
- Surprise
Attack
- Corrected an issue
that was preventing this
attack from playing its
full animation
- Thermite Mine
- Decreased the cast time
to 1.4 seconds
- Increased the cooldown to
1.5 seconds
- Sleep Dart
- The power cost of Sleep
Dart has been
decreased to 300
- Damage done by Sleep
Dart has been
increased
- Tricks Tree
- Anesthetic
- The amount healed by Anesthetic
has been increased
- Asphyxiation Gas
- Asphyxiation Gas
now uses more appropriate
animation and effects
- This powers damage
has been increased
- Distract
(formerly known as Hide)
- Decreased the duration of
damage absorption to 5
seconds
- Increased the amount of
Damage Absorption based
on Restoration to 640
(matching the amount from
Dominance)
- No longer makes you
invisible
- Energy Shield
- Energy Shield is
a new power that replaces
Clown Box
- Clown Box is
now in the Iconic Powers
Tree
- Shields you if your
health falls below 35%
- Holographic Decoy
- Holographic Decoy
is a new power that
replaces Sentry
Turret
- Players can transfer 25%
of incoming damage to
their new decoy
- Holographic Decoy
will taunt nearby enemies
- Napalm Grenade
- Napalm Grenade
is a new power that
replaces Bomb
- Hits in a larger radius
than Gauss Grenade with
fewer targets but sets
targets on fire
- Photon Blast
- Photon Blast is
a new power that replaces
Warden Turret
- Photon Blast
damages and stuns a
single target
- Deals more damage to
target under 35% health
- Stasis Field
- Stasis Field now
deals damage even if
target is immune to
encase
- AppliesCrushed power
interaction in Control
Stance
- Damage over time is as
long as the encasement
lasts
- Suppressor Turret
- Suppressor Turret
has added abilities:
Flamethrower, Taser Pull,
Stasis Encasement
(formerly Warden
Turret abilities)
- Increased damage of
primary attack
- The size of the Suppressor
Turret was reduced
by 25%
- The icon for Suppressor
Turret has been
updated
- Vortex Cannon
- Vortex Cannon is
a new power that replaces
Gag Glove
- Vortex Cannon
has the same
functionality that Gag
Glove had
- Damage to characters is
no longer split with
objects
- This also applies to Gag
Glove
Mental:
- All Mental power abilities have been
visually updated to a more organic energy
style.
- Telekinesis Tree
- Bastion
- Bastion now
restores power when hit
by enemies
- Bastion now has a chance
to damage enemy back when
hit
- Bastion now
affects all grouped
members
- Supercharge cost has been
increased to 640
- Bolt Barrage
- Bolt Barrage has
had its base damage
increased
- Bolt Barrage damage
is no longer split
between objects and
characters, it can hit 8
of each type of entity
- Cryokinesis
- Cryokinesis power
cost has been reduced
to 370
- Cryokinesis now
deals extra damage to
Dazed enemies and has a
chance to knock them down
- Mass Levitation
- Mass Levitation now
hits 8 targets instead of
4
- Mass Levitation now
also Dazes enemies
- The Tooltip for this
power has been corrected
to include this is
vulnerable to interrupt
- Psychic Empowerment
- Psychic Empowerment can
be used on the
Invisibility Loadout but
will remove Stealth on
use
- Psychic Resonance
- Psychic Resonance now
deals extra damage to
Dazed enemies
- The power cost for Psychic
Resonance has
been reduced
- Pyrokinesis
- The Tooltip for Pyrokinesis now
includes its ability to
Stun enemies
- Telekinesis
- Telekinesis now
also Dazes enemies
- Telekinetic Bolt
- The power cost for Telekinesis has
been reduced
- Telekinetic Push
- Telekinetic Push now
deals extra damage to
Dazed enemies
- Telekinetic Shield
- Increased the amount of
Damage Absorption based
on Restoration to 640
(matching the amount from
Dominance)
- The cooldown of Telekinetic
Shield has been
decreased
- Thought Bubble
- Thought Bubble will
damage the enemy even if
enemy is immune to being
encased
- Illusion Tree
- Convalesce
- Convalesce is a
new power that
replaces Psychic
Shield
- Convalesce will
break you out of control
effects on use
- Convalesce adds
Damage Absorption for 2
seconds
- Convalesce can
rapidly regenerate the
players
health
- Convalesce has
a Supercharge cost of 35%
- Terror Tendrils (Formerly Psychic
Blades)
- Terror Tendrils now
inflicts Terror on
enemies
- Horrific Visage
- Horrific Visage now
requires Level 8 (Changed
places in the tree
with Terrorize)
- Fixed an issue with Horrific
Visage where
the target would change
into the monster form
multiple times in a
second
- Invisibility
- Invisibility is
a new power that
replaces Illusory
Forms
- Invisibility works
like Stealth from
the Gadgets Power Set
- Ambush: Sleep
- Reduced stun duration
to 15 seconds
- Ambush:Sleep removes
stealth when used
- Ambush:Sleep now
also deals damage
- The cooldown has been
lowered cooldown to 10
seconds
- Ambush: Pain
Blast
- Updated the animation
so that all weapon types
play the same animation
- Grandeur
- Decreased the cooldown
of Grandeur to
20 seconds
- Increased the amount of
Damage Absorption based
on Restoration to 640
(matching the amount from
Dominance)
- Mass Hysteria
- Mass Hysteria no
longer snares the player
when in use Mass
Hysteria now
adds Terror to up to 8
targets
- Mass Terror
- Mass Terror now
can hit up to8 targets
- Damage from Mass Terror
is no longer split
between objects and
characters, it can hit 8
of each type of entity
- Mass Terror now
Panics enemies
- Menace
- Menace now
deals damage
- The power cost of Menace has
been increased to 250
- Menace deals
extra damage to Terrified
enemies
- Menace now
Panics enemies instead of
causing a Stun
- Phantom Flames
- Increased base damage
of Phantom
Flames
- Burning power interaction
damage of Phantom
Flames was
reduced to match
Fires power
interaction
- Reduced stun duration to
12 seconds when in
Control role
- Psychic Shock
- Tooltip of Psychic Shock
now includes the damage
to Terrified enemies
- Electrified power
interaction now lasts the
full 12 seconds even if
the target breaks out
- Reflect Pain
- The Tooltip of Reflect
Pain has been
correct to now include
that it is useable
while controlled
- Transfers 640 of incoming
damage to your target for
5 seconds capped at 15%
of your maximum Health
- The cool down of Reflect
Pain has been
increased to 28 seconds
- Terrorize
- Terrorize swapped
places in the Illusion
Tree with Horrific
Visage
- Terrorize now
also causes enemies to
Panic
- Damage dealt by Terrorize increases
on enemies at 35% health
or below
- Deals damage even if the
target is immune to Crowd
Control
- Terrorize is
now vulnerable to
interrupt
PVP:
- Battle for Earth Headquarters
battles: The Engine Core will now
properly report to the players
combat log when thrown at someone.
- Critical effect suppression is now
properly applied in Arena zones when
transformed into a Snowman by using the
rare Seasons Greedings winter
seasonal trinket.
Raids:
Battle for Earth: The Gates of
Tartarus
- We have corrected an issue where players
were not receiving loot as intended. Now,
when defeating Circe (Heroes) or Wonder
Woman (Villains) players have a chance to
receive a damaged circlet which grants a
Mission (Memento of Goddess for
Heroes or The Goddess Favor
for Villains). Completing the
Mission allows players to choose between
two rewards, with different appearances
Dark Witch or Valiant Warrior.
UI:
- Players can now create waypoints on group
members in the Map UI.
- Place them by right clicking with
the mouse
- Group Members are now color coded to
differentiate them on the Minimap. The
colors are randomly assigned with the
exception of the leader who is always
yellow.
- Players can now ping the map with a
temporary waypoint in the Map UI.
Shift+left click with the mouse on the
Map UI will create the waypoint that
group members can see both on the Map and
on the mini-map.
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7/27/2012
Next on PC Test: Game Update 17!
Starting today, Game Update 17 is available
for players to test on the PC Test Server! All PC
players with a Legendary Membership are invited.
Were looking forward to hearing your
feedback!
Please click here for more information in
the Testing Feedback forum.
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7/27/2012
Station Voice Maintenance Notice: Monday
July 30, 2012
Beginning at 1:00 a.m. Pacific Time*
on Monday, July 30, 2012, Vivox Operations
will be performing maintenance. We expect this
maintenance to take approximately 30
minutes. During the maintenance there may be
periods of time where the Station Voice Services
are unavailable.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you
for your patience.
Time
Zone Converter*
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7/24/2012
Server Downtime 07.26.12
We will perform maintenance to support
the ProSiebenSat.1 Games transition for DC
Universe Online PC, beginning at 12:01
AM on Thursday, July 26, 2012; this will impact
the following services:
Game Login (all servers, PC and PS3) will
be unavailable from 12:01 AM Pacific*
Thursday, July 26, 2012, to approximately 8:00
AM Pacific* Thursday, July 26, 2012.
Commerce transactions, including purchases on
our websites and in-game marketplaces, will be
unavailable from 12:01
AM Pacific* July 26, 2012, to
approximately 8:00
AM Pacific* Thursday, July 26, 2012.
Account management will be unavailable
from 12:01 AM Pacific* July 26,
2012, to approximately 8:00
AM Pacific* Thursday July 26, 2012.
Forums (PC and PS3) will be unavailable
from 12:01 AM Pacific* July 26,
2012, to approximately 6:00
AM Pacific* Thursday, July 26, 2012.
We apologize for this interruption and will
resume all affected services as soon as the
maintenance is completed.
For our European PC DCUO customers: please
refer to the FAQ for the transition to
ProSiebenSat.1 games!
Click
here for a Time Zone Calculator.
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7/23/2012
Client Hotfix 07.24.12
A client hotfix will be deployed tomorrow,
07.24.12, at 9:00 a.m. PDT. Players will receive
the update the next time they log
in. Click here to convert to your
timezone. Players may notice the following
changes:
Marketplace:
- When selecting to purchase or upgrade a
Legendary Membership, a pop-up will no
longer direct you to the DC Universe
Online website.
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7/18/2012
25% OFF MEMBERSHIPS!
Starting today, Wednesday, July 18, 2012, get
25% OFF when you buy a NEW or UPGRADED
multi-month recurring membership!
Hurry! Limited time offer!
Check out this link for
Membership benefits!
Players who sign up for a new or upgraded
multi-month recurring membership to any of the
following games will receive 25% off the regular
price: EverQuest, EverQuest II, and
DC Universe Online (PC only). If you have an
existing recurring membership, this offer is only
valid for a new recurring membership with a
longer term (e.g., upgrade from a 3-month
recurring to a 6-month recurring) or for an
upgrade from a single-game recurring membership
to an All Access recurring membership. If you
have an existing 12-month recurring membership,
you may redeem this offer for a new 12-month
recurring membership at the discounted price.
Promotional pricing will begin on your next
billing cycle and will continue until your
recurring membership lapses or is canceled. Offer
is valid between July 18, 2012 at 12:01AM PDT and
July 23, 2012 at 11:59PM PDT.
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7/17/2012
Server Hotfix 07.18.12
There will be a hotfix tonight during regular
restarts. No additional downtime will be
required. Players may notice the following
changes:
Marketplace
- When selecting to purchase or upgrade a
Legendary Membership at a discount, a
pop-up will direct you to the DC Universe
Online Website.
UI
- Currency: Replay Badges: Tooltip
description has been updated to include
all content in the On Duty menu.
Tides of War
- Atlantean defenses that are far away
should now render VFX
Bludhaven
- Chemo Toxic Dome VFX should now be
displayed
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7/17/2012
Client Hotfix 07.17.12
A client hotfix has just been deployed.
Players will receive the update the next time
they log in. Players may notice the following
changes:
Marketplace:
- When selecting to purchase or upgrade a
Legendary Membership at a discount, a
pop-up will direct you to the DC Universe
Online website.
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7/17/2012
New SUMMER Items Available on the
Marketplace!
New SUMMER
Items Available on the Marketplace!
The summer event,
Tides of War, is here and with it comes new
summer styles! If you like fun in the sun and
spending your days on or beneath the waves, we
have the outfits youre looking for.
Dino Swim
Ring 200 Station Cash/$1.99
Like the water, but
cant swim? Would you rather float easily
along Metropolis
gorgeous waterfront? Then the Dino Swim Ring is
for you! This friendly dinosaur will keep you
safe in the water and looking good, too!
SCUBA Suit
600 Station Cash/$5.99
If you plan on doing
much diving, perhaps to scout out Atlantean
Warposts or Mutineer activities, grab this state
of the art SCUBA suit! If youre serious
about water, youve got to be serious about
air. Pick yours up today!
Vanguard of
the Deep 400 Station Cash/$3.99
For those of you who
are really ready and willing to commit yourselves
wholly and truly to the water, weve got the
skin for you. Turn your entire body into water
and soak up the sunshine. Literally! Just
dont splash too much on your friends. And
please remember, we cannot be held responsible
for any issues involving or resulting in your
body evaporating, freezing, boiling, or
running. Thanks in advance for your
understanding.
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7/17/2012
Server Downtime 07.17.12 - Game Update
16
All servers will be offline Tuesday,
07.17.12, beginning at 7:00 AM PDT to launch
Game Update 16: Tides of War! Downtime is
expected to last about 4 hours. Click here to convert to your
timezone. Players may notice the following
changes:
The Tides of War
During the summer, the seas become restless,
churning with dangerous storms. Ocean Master,
Aquamans conniving half brother, has
rallied a force of mutineer Atlanteans in an
attempt to usurp the throne of Atlantis! Their
civil war has breached the waters of Metropolis,
a crucial piece in the plot to rule the sea.
Track Tides of War in your
Mission Journal to venture into the Cave. Track
Tides of War in your
Mission Journal to find the Atleantean Frigates
in Metropolis.
Moon Legends Map Exclusive for
The Last Laugh owners and Legendary
members
Legendary members and owners of The
Last Laugh will now be able to play
the Moon Arena map as a Legends character.
Vault Items Update
Three new military style gear set appearances
(Logistics Officer, Sharpshooter, Aeronaut -24
new items total) have a chance to drop in the
vault. Some older (launch) appearance items have
been removed from the vault to make way for the
new items and will continue to drop from
NPCs throughout the world.
Bludhaven Alert Update
The toxicity of Bludhaven has decreased slightly
over time resulting in enemies that are less
threatening in some areas. The exception being
Chemo whom now prevents his enemies from running
away in fear.
Alerts:
Bludhaven
- Area 1:
- Decreased the speed of the
Half-Mutants to help prevent
players from being overrun.
- Area 2:
- Adjusted the number of Chemoids
that spawn in this area.
- Area 3:
- Increased the delay between mobs
spawning from vats slightly.
- Area 4 (Gauntlet and Boss Fight):
- There are now fewer enemies when
escorting the Hazmat personnel to
Chemos last known location.
- Hazmat personnel that die while
being escorted will no longer
respawn at the beginning.
- Hazmat personnel have 2x health
while being escorted and have 30%
more time to be revived before
being KOd.
- There is a solo Hazmat that has
already located Chemo; he will
speak with you when you finish
clearing the gauntlet area. Chemo
now creates a chemical barrier to
keep his enemies from running.
Duos:
Shady Nightclub/Police Station
- Iconic NPCs are now more resistant to
crowd control.
Combat:
Fire
- Absorb Heat ability now displays multiple
beam effects as intended.
CounterAttack
- The visual effect related to counter
attacks (block breaking, block
countering, interrupting) are no longer
delayed.
Collections:
- Metropolis:
- Gold Collections in Suicide Slums
that were perfectly hidden inside
of buildings have been moved so
you can collect them.
- Fixed various Gold Collection
Locations in the Tomorrow
District.
- Gotham City:
- Fixed various Gold
Collection locations that were
inside of structures and/or under
the ground.
- Moved a Gold Collection that was
in danger of being pulled into a
Paradox Rupture.
- Fixed an issue where a Gold
Collection was sunk into the
ground south of the Knightsdome
in Otisburg.
- Fixed various Gold Collection
locations in the Burnley
district.
- Giordano Botanical Gardens: Moved
a Collection Node out from inside
of a building just south of the
Botanical Gardens.
Feats:
- "My Life as a Robot"
will now correctly update for villains.
General:
- Reduced the cost of resetting seasonal
events to 12 Replay Badges (from 29).
Marketplace:
- Adding a Sheer (the original) version of
net leggings to the Goth Leggings
marketplace item. Purchasing the Goth
Leggings from the Marketplace will now
allow you to claim two versions of the
item: one Sheer, and one not-Sheer. If
you have already purchased the Goth
Leggings, you will automatically be able
to claim both versions from the Claim
Window in the Marketplace UI.
PVP:
Arenas:
Headquarters Assault: Watchtower
- Due to the unstable energies of the Fuel
Cell the carrier is now vulnerable to
lunges and melee combos. This
vulnerability is apparent by the dizzy
effects on the carrier.
- Attack vulnerability while carrying the
fuel cell will now only start after three
seconds.
- Corrected location of villain
optional-mission reward barrels in the
first stage. They should now spawn in the
safe-area instead of out in the hangar.
- Corrected positioning of villain
safe-area door so there is no gap.
City Safehouses
- After carrying the Graviton Technology or
the Force Field Disruptor for 3 seconds,
the carrier will become vulnerable to
Interruption.
The Moon
- Fixed an issue where weaponizing the rock
did not interrupt the secure action.
- Players who enter a Moon PvP match in
progress will no longer experience a
looping sound issue.
S.T.A.R. Labs
- Fixed an issue where Capture Points
visual effect would activate when the
Capture Point was not active at the
beginning of a round.
Raids:
Fortress: The Chasm
- Superman and Lex Luthor have agreed to
stop failing to appear when you are
fighting the Sunstone Herald.
- Fixed an issue where a Briefing was
located inside of a wall.
UI:
- Dialog Window: Fixed an issue in which
the UI would get into a bad state if a
mouse-relevant Dialog was queued behind a
non-mouse-relevant Dialog.
Visual:
- Spider Blade dual wield
weapon has been reduced in size for brute
sized characters to avoid clipping
through the character body.
- Wonder Woman's Headband style
no longer clips into the forehead of male
brute characters.
- Sunstone Bulwark head style
no longer causes facial hair to
disappear.
- High Voltage face style no
longer clips into the brow of male brute
characters wearing an animal skin style.
- A number of environment fixes have been
made throughout the game world.
- Duct Tape Mask
- No longer clips into the cheeks
of male characters wearing animal
skins.
- No longer displays incorrectly on
Striker model characters.
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