Black Ice News

0.9.167 - 4/3/22 - Slow Projectiles

• Added Slow Projectiles server security, where both your an enemy projectiles move very slowly!
  
• New Achievement: Upgrade Item Rarity
  
• New Achievement: Find the Arcade Secret Shop
  
• Buffed Charge Jump height by 25% (to compensate for the recent physics change)
  
• Homing projectiles now acquire targets better (let me know if you notice any performance difference)
  
• Enemy HP now uses more bits to allow higher difficulty scaling
  
• Exploits now all have more homing, Ricochet, and no Dizzy, to make them easier to use
  
• Added more UI particles to the special arcade machines
  
• Advanced Tooltips now defaults to On
  
• Limited projectile hit particles/sounds at the very high end
  
• Latency projectile weapons now properly count as Explosive for affix generation purposes
  
• Fixed waypoints being left over in UI for some quests
  
• Fixed an infinite XP exploit in RE: Incoming Raid quest
  
• Fixed arcade secret shop being too easy to find
  
• Fixed enemies dying from explosives not causing death particles
  
• Fixed outline highlighting for .bat enemies
  
• Worked on the Act 2 end boss, for a later patch ;)
  

A new quest, a new projectile type, several fixes, and more framerate!

• Added a new level 35 quest (triggered at hack level 30) with a unique item reward
  
• Added a new projectile type which explodes a short time after sticking to something (new projectile and particles)
  
• Added pulse, hand cannon, and super duper SMG versions using it (new icon)
  
• Increased Micromissile explosion radius from 1 to 1.5m
  
• Reimagined visuals for Zones with new shaders
  
• Aimbot Fab now always level 35
  
• The Sell All button now mentions that Favorited items don't get sold
  
• Optimized framerate for Zones greatly, and for all projectiles to some extent
  
• Fixed volcano ambush having incorrect spawn points
  
• Fixed Portcullis 1 nav issues
  
• Fixed the in-game hotbar being clickable in some menus
  
• Fixed the Finality rooftop hologram shader
  
• Fixed the Stuck achievement/bounties not working
  
• Fixed Sticky grenades taking way too long to explode
  
• Fixed certain missions showing up again in your inbox after completion
  

This is the third patch in four days! I've been spoiling y'all, so I'm going to take a few days off this week. See y'all later!

Just some quick fixes, please enjoy the pizza

• Fixed an issue breaking missions at higher difficulty settings
  
• Temporarily disabled projectors (Zone center colors) until we can figure out what's going on (performance++)
  
• Scope tooltip fix
  
• Tutorial items will no longer be marked as New
  
• Inbox will always open to the inbox even if you close it in a weird way from an email
  

By community request, I've uploaded this build earlier than I'd planned, just so y'all can get the new stuff as soon as possible!

• Added a very special unique item reward to the Machiavelli's Pizza questline
  
• Added World Shortcut Tele-Porters - to/from the Arcade, find them in the world to unlock them
  
• Added (large) XP rewards to all Missions
  
• AI which are blocked by a player or AI while spawning will now try to spawn on another spawn point
  
• Mission rewarded credits now properly account for game difficulty level
  
• Mission inbox sorting now prioritizes Unread vs objectives
  
• Added a Total Unlocks progress bar in the unlock screen
  
• Improved framerate dramatically when Loot Find powerups are nearby
  
• Other minor framerate improvements (for ESD executables etc)
  
• Extra Charges on weapons which reload an entire clip now increase the reloaded amount too, so that you always reload the whole clip
  
• Fixed gambling shop color again
  
• Added a few new loading screen backgrounds, which now are chosen randomly
  
• Quests, Courier missions, and Ambushes now try to drop the reward directly in your inventory, then cache, then on the ground as a last resort
  
• Improved AI pathing in the crane area near Oshiro
  
• Fixed courier missions not showing the countdown timer properly