Latest Neocron News and Information

Another patch very quickly on the heels on 182. This patch was released late in the evening on Monday 6th May 2013. You can continue to discuss the patch in this thread .

LAW ENFORCER

• City Administration have re-enabled the Law Enforcer tax in order to raise funds to increase the security of the Inner City (cash gain reduction). Due to the extra computational strain on the Law Enforcer, Runners may experience a sensation of light headedness while engaging in mentally stimulating activities (XP reduction)
  
• A malus has been activated reducing the amount of experience and money earned by players with a Law Enforcer.
  • A reduction in earned experience becomes active once a runner reaches a base rank of /30, beyond this level the reduction increases to a maximum of 25% at a base rank of /60 and above.
  • A reduction in earned cash becomes active once a Runner reaches a combat rank of 30/, beyond this level the reduction increases to 50% at a combat rank of 60 and above.

• ALL SECTORS
  
  • Snow has been removed from all weather patterns. Missing weather patterns, such as thunder storms, have been restored.
  
  
• PLAZA DISTRICT
  
  • Additional CopBots have been stationed at zone lines and in other important locations in Plaza Sector 1, 2, 3 & 4
  • A STORMbot is now on duty in Plaza 3 at the zone line to Pepper Park.
  • City Administration guards are stationed outside of City Administration HQ. Enemy runners will be shot on sight.
  • Windows in Archer & Wesson in Plaza Sector 2 are now solid.
  • Preventative measures have been installed to prevent CopBots falling into the pool in Plaza Sector 2.
  
  
• PEPPER PARK DISTRICT
  
  • CopBots have been removed from Pepper Park Sectors 1, 2 & 3. At the request of NExT, CopBots in the Subway entrances will stay at their posts a little while longer.
  • Apartment smuggler's position has been fixed.
  
  
• OUTZONE DISTRICT
  
  • Duplicate epic NPCs have been removed from Outzone Sector 8.
  • Position of some NPCs have been improved/fixed in Outzone Sector 8.

• New replacement sound effects have been added for Laser Cannons, Plasma Cannons, Ionic Rifles and Apartment Access Interfaces.
• A new RPOS color scheme is available with /set gfx_hudcolor 10
• Further additional changes were made to assist with the implementation of new features in the future.

Patch 182 is out, along with a double XP week.

SOUL LIGHT SYSTEM

• Access to the Gene Replication Network now requires Runners to have -31 Soul Light or higher.
• Access to the Venture Warp Network now requires Runners to have -31 Soul Light or higher.
• Access to vendors in safe zones requires Runners to have -31 Soul Light or higher.
• Access to Apartment Access Interfaces in safe zones requires Runners to have -31 Soul Light or higher.
• Automatic Soul Light regeneration has been disabled.

• Damage output of the TL115 Disruptor lowered by 25% to compensate for aggressive burst bonus.
• Damage output of the TL113 Ceres Assault Rifle CAR-47 and the TL108 Infiltration Assault Rifle IAR-47 lowered by 20% to compensate for aggressive burst bonus.
• Speed malus when equipping a heavy weapon has been reduced from 20% to 10%.
• Switching weapons while reloading has been disabled.

• New hit box colouring has been added to more easily identify clan mates. (Customise BBClanMate in rposcolor.ini)
• Gamemasters are now able to set zones to safezones while the server is running.
• Gamemasters are now able to set zones to automatically log out players after a certain time of idling.
• Gamemasters are now able to set zones to spawn players at the reset point after logging out.

You can discuss the patch notes here.

Patch R#175

Technical changes:

• Dropped support for DirectX 7
• Changed FoV, therefore players seem to be slower
• Fixed numerous exploits and vulnerabilities
• Fixed several possible server crashes
• Fixed a bug that stopped Neocron from launching when certain applications are open ("Chrome Bug")
• Fixed a crash on alt+tab in wastelands in fullscreen mode
• Fixed the main menu going black on alt+tab in fullscreen mode
• Fixed a crash caused by neocron.ini not being writable
• Changed the way interpolation is handeled ("clipping fix")
• Tweaked the netcode to always include y updates and update more frequently
• Fixed a bug that caused the HUD not being rendered on screenshots
• Screenshots are now saved as .jpg
• Fixed a bug that caused the HUD to reset to default state after a crash
• Removed legacy elements from the HUD (e.g.: recover backpack)
• Fixed misalignment of worldmap at widescreen resolutions (fullscreen mode)
• Fixed culling problems with widescreen resolutions (fullscreen mode)
• Fixed misaligned outpost signs
• Added widescreen resolutions to the launcher configuration panel
• Added Anisotropic Filtering, configurable via the launcher configuration panel
• Fixed truncation of entries inside error.log
• Added timestamps to the damage log
• Fixed Venture Warp returning players to appartment

Content changes:

• Turned around the CopBot staring at the wall in Plaza Sector 1 (after 8 years, the wall wins)
• Temporarily removed outpost turrets
• Added TL92 Tangent Assault Pulselaser Pistol to high level tech pistol vendor
• Added TL63 Gatlin Cannon to high level low tech cannon vendor
• Added permenant spawn for the Outzone 2 High Tech Cannon Smuggler
• Added entrance to the Drone Racetrack
• Added RN Terminals to Crahn HQ
• Replaced Outzone Station ambient sound
• Removed OOC advertisement from the Plaza area
• Fixed a conflict between Reza's Calling & Regant's Faith Missions
• Fixed spawn of Heff in TG Canyon.
• Fixed spawn of Malfunctioning Warbot Prototype in the MIRL-600 Warhammer Mission
• Fixed drop rate of fragment from Tacholytium Titan Warbot for Crahn Epic mision #4. Now always drops for those with the mission.
• Fixed a large number of wrong object types (e.g.: CityComs being tagged as chairs)
• Fixed position and alignment for a large number of static objects and NPCs
• Fixed many more miscellaneous gameworld issues
• Added a new loading screen

Gameplay changes

• Fixed an issue with team xp calculation
• Fixed combat rank not always being updated
• Fixed a bug that allowed overcasting of stronger shields.
• Fixed low level drones being very hard to use
• Reduced the intensity of visual interference when Drones are being damaged
• Fixed several issues and exploits concerning casting
• Changed the way combat ranks are being calculated
• Fixed AI not being able to target drones in special cases
• Fixed a reloading bug

Known Issues

• Entering wildcards in the player search does not work anymore, in case you want to know how many players are online, have a look at the front page of the official fansite Tech Haven Network
• Sometimes after zoning the screen becomes grey/blue/whatever, to fix it press alt+e twice

 

Patch R#176

Technical changes

Implemented a fallback inside the D3D9 driver, older cards should work again
Enlarged horizontal field of view to 110 degrees
Fixed several possible reasons for server crashes
Fixed issues with the netcode causing packet loss

Gameplay changes

Fixed issues with terminal missions in several HQs

 

Patch 174 is a rollback patch, which restores the client back to the same files as of patch level 168.

This is due to  networking issues that made the game almost unplayable with patches 169-173.

Only notes about this patch.

"This patch is not a content patch, but a technical patch to increase the security of Neocron's network traffic. These changes will break all known cheat programs.

Neocron now also requires newer Visual C++ runtimes. Odds are that another game or program has already installed these on your PC, but if Neocron does not start after applying the patch, you will need to go to Microsoft and download and install the vcredist_x86.exe at the bottom of the page."

Patch 169 is the main patch, while patches 170 to 173 are hotfix patches to try and fix the sync problems. (Which didn't work see patch 174)

It's here! Tha patch that changes the faction relations back to the old NC1 relations is here! The thread to discuss the changes can be found here! And for the Storyline on what went wrong in the dome, go here!

And of course click on Read More for the patch notes! 

So, a new patch.

Some changes to PPU abilities, some drone changes. Speeded up construction again and fixed various tradeskill bugs. Still no news on weapon balancing as a whole, or on NPC balancing. As ever, you can discuss at the offical forum thread. Or click read more to view full notes.

Certainly can't fault reakktors idea of "early this week " - monday afternoon is nice and early for a patch.

As well as a small collection of important bug fixes, we get a few major balancing issues looked at:

• Nanite healing
• PvP Damage
• Psi Shields
• Construction

Patch 162 has arrived just a few days after patch 161, with some more bug fixes, and some balancing.

As usual, click on Read more for the patch notes, and discuss the patch notes in this thread.

Update: 16:50BST - To fully understand the balancing done in this patch, please take a look at this thread.

Out of no-where comes patch 156. But there are no patch note! It's a content patch, and this is the only information everyone has in this thread.

In that thread Snowcrash said "No patch notes this time. It's ultra secret preparing content. Just keep your eyes open within the next days."

So, get those boots on and start looking!

Psst... It's a patch!

This is a small bugfix patch that was promised by KK a week ago, it still includes some new content. KK have said  the next set of patches in the coming weeks are going to be content patches.

Click on read more for the patch notes.