Fragment 2.1.0 | Renewed

New Beginnings

Technical rework to add new system from Awakening to the New Beginnings campaign, including:

• Leave & rejoin

• Checkpoints

• Respawn timers for multiplayer

• Groups functionality

• Completely remade most cutscenes from the ground up

• Slightly tweaked the boss fights for missions 4, 5 and 6

Awakening

Random Encounters

• Complete rework

• Added new Encounters

• Changed rewards from only materials to also include gear (Based on your Gear Level and the Encounter's difficulty level.) 

• Encounters now have one of 3 difficulty tiers assigned based on their location

Roaming Powerful Enemies

• Now once again spawn around the Destinations

• Each miniboss is generally deadlier in some form

• Every unique item drop has been buffed, adding new enchants/armor bonuses
  -Drop rate remains unchanged (100% for Rare drop, 20% for Epic drop)

• No longer drop a Compressed Emerald on death
  -Instead will drop 6x Bounty Notes for all nearby players

• Generally more frequent spawns

Enemy Sectors

• Added a unique Epic item drop for every Enemy Sector boss still missing one

• Across the board buffed all existing Enemy Sector uniques to better reflect their rarity

• Fixed an issue causing Hard Mode Enemy Sectors in the Valley of Azarax to not exist

• All Enemy Sector bosses are now classed as bosses instead of minibosses, making them interact differently with certain effects/abilities (ex. Abyss Anchors and the Harpoon enchantment no longer have any effect on these enemies.) 

• Watchpoint will no longer occasionally softlock on the first floor while on Normal Mode. 

Fragment

• Complete backend rehaul of the dialogue system, for improved experience when multiple players are on the same quest step.

Added respawn timers, quit and rejoin features, along with groups functionality for the missions: 

• Operation: Lost and Found

• Velatus Index

• On The Trail

• Vacant Keep

Distant Echoes

• Fixed an issue causing the mission to become soft locked upon killing the first boss in the mission, Return Statement. 

High Winds

Enchantments

• Added 11 new enchantments

• Long Shot's damage boost now only activates after 0,4s, after which the arrow's damage is increased by 2/3/4 dmg based on level every 0,2s. The arrows will now emit yellow particles when the damage ramp up has started, switching to red particles upon reaching maximum damage 

• Increased the damage granted by Focus at all stages.
  -Flat dmg buff at each tier (1,2,3 -> 2,4,5)
  -% Damage multiplier for each tier (25%,35%,50% -> 50%,75%,100%) 

• Swift Swing now also grants a movement speed modifier while active

• The weakness effect applied by Dwindling Counter has an increased duration and strength
  -This effect now also triggers on Perfect Blocks.(Perfectly timing a shield block.) While the weapon is equipped

• Hitting an enemy with a thrown Channeling trident no longer strikes the enemy with lightning, instead applying shock to them and simultaneously triggering the shock 

• Replaced Blast Protection with Filtration on the "Deadzone" set (Filtration reduces damage from the poison and wither effects.) 

General

Slaughter

• You can no longer jump or hold a shield while using Appetizer

• Cooldown doubled (25s -> 50s), but is now reduced by 5s when killing enemies with Slaughter

• Switching off of Slaughter while using Appetizer now cancels the attack, and only reduces the cooldown to 25s 

• Damage unchanged 

Technocrat's Hubris

• Now only opens the menu when tapping crouch

• Added a 2s cooldown between pulse activations

• Strength pulse no longer grants the strength effect, instead granting a 50% melee damage multiplier for 8s

No Prisoners

Short-range Configuration:

• You now move faster while drawing

Long-range Configuration:

• No longer passively stops movement while held

• Now disabled walking, sprinting and jumping while drawing

Dreaded Emptiness

• Direct hits on enemies pull in nearby enemies

• Direct hits on bosses, or while Abyss Anchors is active cause the hit enemy to become a Anchor

Technical Knockout

• Reduced missile count from 4 to 3

• Missiles now spawn in the direction the player is facing, in a arrow formation

• Missiles now spawn higher in the air, but fall faster

• Missiles now track nearby targets

• Missiles will now phase through blocks when spawned in, attempting to land at the player's level

• Missiles will now also detonate upon collision with enemies, not just blocks

• Cooldown increased from 19s to 30s

Triple Threat

• Increased the damage of Combination Blow against minibosses (42 -> 55)

• Slightly reduced the damage of Combination Blow against normal enemies (35 -> 30)

• Increased the damage of Combination Blow against players (20 -> 100) 

• For reference, Combination Blow deals 30 damage against boss level enemies

Accelerated Retribution

• Increased damage against non boss/miniboss enemies (35 -> 75)

• Increased damage against boss/miboss enemies (50 -> 55)

• Damage bonus against shocked enemies reduced (50% -> 25%)

Groundbreakers

Completely rewamped:

• Instead of an instant detonation that deals damage to grounded enemies around the player, now spawns a wave around the player which travels away, dealing damage to enemies it comes in contact with

• Can now hit airborne enemies, but does not deal damage to flying enemy types

• Base cooldown increased from 15s to 20s, and now also increases cooldown based on how much Seismic Quake was charged

• On a perfectly timed block, creates a small quake

Ember's Refuge

• Effect now has multiple stacks
  Stacks gained from:
  -Every burning enemy within 7,5 blocks
  -Every blaze within 7,5 blocks
  -Having fire resistance

• Range at which allies gain effects now increases based on the amount of stacks

• The health recovery speed buff now scales by stack count (1-3 50% slower, 4-5 same as before, 6+ 50% faster)

• Increased natural health regeneration strength while at 6 or more stacks

• Kills at 6 or more stacks will now heal you and nearby allies

Project: Meltdown

Poison

• Added poison

• Deals slow damage over time to a single enemy, but can be stacked multiple times to increase the speed of the damage ticks

Shock

Fully reworked:

• When a shocked enemy takes enough damage, they will create a chain of shock toward another enemy, dealing damage and continuing the chain as long as unshocked enemies remain

• No longer reduces movement speed

Bleed

Feature Mission

• There is now a featured mission which rotates every hour, with random modifiers for increased score 

• High reward levels in the featured mission have an increased chance to drop the current featured weapon (This also changes every Activity Reset) 

General

• Added 2 new operations to the Mission Playlist (These require completion of the Awakening campaign.) 

• Added a set of Epic Tier 2 weapons to match the armor set 

• Joining a operation in progress will now start the operation from the beginning if no players were present upon joining 

• Increased score thresholds for all operations, to match with the increased rewards at higher tiers 

• Pieces of the Operative armor set that drop from the legendary reward tier now roll with a random Tier 3 bonus (ex. Sturdy, Invigorating, Agile, etc.) 

• Operations now correctly count every player's kills and deaths, instead of only counting a random player's

Oasis

General

• Keys for hidden Dungeon chests can now be acquired from their respective destination's Random Encounters, along with their previous drop sources

Crypt Reawakened

• Added 2 chests into the Dungeon, hidden in the transition's between encounters

Prismatic Citadel

• Shields now have health, blocking incoming damage reduces the health and reaching 0 will disable the shield as if a axe was used to hit it
  -Shield health will passively regenerate, and can be fully replenished by perfectly timing a block 

• The Menu item in the hotbar now displays the player's Gear Level

• Moving the Menu item in your inventory no longer opens the Menu unless the item is moved out of your inventory 

• Enemies now have a colored skull in their name if they are a Mythic or Hard Mode enemy

• Players can now see their own death messages  

• Items given to players directly now directly enter the inventory, instead of falling to the ground, while the player is moving 

• Lockouts and cooldowns which expire every Activity Reset, now also get cleared if the player was not online during the reset 

• Dying now resets the player's InCombat status 

• The player will no longer occasionally be forced into the pre-mission blackbox after leaving and rejoining the server while in a Mission Playlist operation 

• Dropped items can now only be picked up by the player who dropped them 

• Loot drops that are directly given to players (Dungeon loot for example) can now only be picked up by the player it dropped for 

• Increased maximum render distance to 15 chunks 

• The Exploration tab in Advancements has been renamed to the Fragment tab, as it will house any future advancements on the planet

Textures

Added animated features to the textures of:

• Technical Knockout

• Helping Hand

• Coalescence

• Accelerated Retribution

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