Upcoming Balance Pass

[OldBloke]

Upcoming Balance Pass

This Thursday, July 30th, we’ll be releasing a minor version update on PC, Xbox, and PS4 which will contain a number of quality of life and balance changes. Here’s some of what you can expect to get your hands on. We'll share the full set of notes on patch day:

Creatures

Basilosaurus
 - Increased deep-sea-depth value at which damage taken by approximately 30%
Bloodstalker
 - Reduced armour penetration by approximately 35%
 - Reduced durability damage by 50%
Carno
 - Added 30% armour penetration to the Left Click attack
 - Added a Bleed effect to the right click attack which does up to 5% of targets health over 10 seconds, cannot
   be stacked but the timer can be reset.
Carbonemys
 - Increased resistance to TEK Turrets by 10%
Dunkleosteus
 - Reduced weight of Obsidian in inventory by approximately 75%
 - Reduced weight of metal, stone, crystal, and black pearls by approximately 50%
 - Increased swim speed by approximately 20%
Liopleurodon
 - Increased buff timer from 30 minutes to 6 hours
Megachelon
 - Reduced Shell Resistance by 30% (from 80% to 50%)
 - Reduced Health Per Level gains by approximately 15%
Paracer
 - Reduced Health Per Level gains by approximately 15%
Breeding

 - Reduced Mosasaur maturation time (now matches Yutyrannus)
 - Reduced Basilosaurus maturation time (now matches Gacha)
 - Reduced Tusoteuthis maturation time (now matches Yutyrannus)
 - Reduced Plesiosaur maturation time (now matches Gacha)
 - Reduced Compy maturation time (now matches Otter)
 - Reduced Equus maturation time (now matches Procoptodon)
 - Reduced Quetzal maturation time to approximately 5 and a half days
 - Reduced Phiomia maturation time (now matches Ovis)
 - Reduced Ichthyosaurus maturation time (now matches Roll Rat)
 - Reduced Dunkleosteus maturation time (now matches Mammoth)
 - Reduced Jerboa maturation time (now matches Otter)
 - Increased Rhino maturation time (now matches Doedicurus)
General

 - Flying creatures will prioritise picking up friendly-creatures rather than dismounting friendly riders
 - Baby Creatures will no longer auto-wander when hatched
- Mounting a flying creature will no longer instantly cause it to take off
 - Cryopods in a player’s inventory will now charge if a player is sleeping in a TEK Pod.
 - TEK Helm will now provide players with the Gas Mask bonus, protecting them from the Poison Wyvern
   and Basilisk spit.
 - TEK Turrets now require double the amount of shards per bullet
- Metal Ingot stack size has been increased to 300
 - Raw Metal stack size has been increased to 300
 - Spoil time on Lesser Antidote has been increased to 3 days
 - Spoil time on Prime Meat and Prime Fish have doubled
 - Gasbags will no longer push Dinos around in PVE when landing to prevent griefing and exploits
 - HLNA and Chibi Creatures no longer disable the protection against Bees buff.
 - Yell and Whisper can now switch between the following modifier keys on PC: Left Shift, Left Ctrl,
   and Left Alt
 - Added an additional 15 seconds to all race missions on Xbox and PS4
 - Added Event Emotes to the Hex Store at the cost of 50,000 hexagons
 - Boss Fight timer on Valguero has increased from 20 minutes to 30 minutes.
 - We are also adding a configurable GameUserSettings.ini which allows server hosts to limit the amount of
   gateways that can be placed on platform saddles. This configuration is not retroactive, so applying
   this change will require some manual administration work to clear up any pre-existing platforms that
   exceed the limit.

    MaxGateFrameOnSaddles=2

   We’ll be enabling this on our Official PvP Network and setting the limit to 2, on all platforms.
   Official PvP players will have approximately 30 days to adjust their current existing platforms
   to remove any that exceed the gateway limit.

[OldBloke]

Balance Pass Installed on our servers.

v312.65 "QOL/Balance Pass" - 07/30/2020

Creatures
Basilosaurus

 Increased deep-sea-depth value at which damage taken by approximately 30%
Bloodstalker

Reduced armour penetration by approximately 35%
Reduced durability damage by 50%
Carno

Added 30% armour penetration to the Left Click attack
Added a Bleed effect to the right click attack which does up to 5% of targets health over 10 seconds, cannot be stacked but the timer can be reset.
Carbonemys

Increased resistance to TEK Turrets by 10%
Dunkleosteus

Reduced weight of Obsidian in inventory by approximately 75%
Reduced weight of metal, stone, crystal, and black pearls by approximately 50%
Increased swim speed by approximately 20%
Liopleurodon

Increased buff timer from 30 minutes to 6 hours
Megachelon

Reduced Shell Resistance by 30% (from 80% to 50%)
Reduced Health Per Level gains by approximately 15%
Paracer

Reduced Health Per Level gains by approximately 15%
Gasbags

Can no longer inhale or exhale when being carried by skiff
Will no longer push Dinos around in PVE when landing to prevent griefing and exploits
Breeding

 Reduced Mosasaur maturation time (now matches Yutyrannus)
 Reduced Basilosaurus maturation time (now matches Gacha)
 Reduced Tusoteuthis maturation time (now matches Yutyrannus)
 Reduced Plesiosaur maturation time (now matches Gacha)
 Reduced Compy maturation time (now matches Otter)
 Reduced Equus maturation time (now matches Procoptodon)
 Reduced Quetzal maturation time to approximately 5 and a half days
 Reduced Phiomia maturation time (now matches Ovis)
 Reduced Ichthyosaurus maturation time (now matches Roll Rat)
 Reduced Dunkleosteus maturation time (now matches Mammoth)
 Reduced Jerboa maturation time (now matches Otter)
 Increased Rhino maturation time (now matches Doedicurus)
Genesis

Added an additional 15 seconds to all race missions on Xbox and PS4
Added Event Emotes to the Hex Store at the cost of 50,000 hexagons
Reduced Hexagons rewarded on Mound Over Matter and One Helluva Treasure Hunt by 25% on all difficulties
Increased the cost of Gunpowder in the Hex Exchange to 150 hexagons.
Increased the cost of Hide in the Hex Exchange to 60 Hexagons
Element Shards gained from Genesis Volcano Red Crystals have been reduced by approximately 40%
Per Character Hexagon clamp added to configurable ini (Defaults to 2.5m on Official Network, retroactive change). Can be edited on unofficials by changing this variable in GameUserSettings.ini: MaxHexagonsPerCharacter=2500000
Valguero

Boss Fight timer has increased from 20 minutes to 30 minutes.
General

Flying creatures will prioritize picking up friendly-creatures rather than dismounting friendly riders
Baby Creatures will no longer auto-wander when hatched
Mounting a flying creature will no longer instantly cause it to take off
Cryopods in a player’s inventory will now charge if a player is sleeping in a TEK Pod.
TEK Helm will now provide players with the Gas Mask bonus, protecting them from the Poison Wyvern and Basilisk spit.
Tamed Creatures can no longer consume antidote
Added multiple item-clamping checks to various areas of loot generation and crafting.
Heavy Turret damage increased by 15%
TEK Turrets now require double the amount of shards per bullet
Metal Ingot stack size has been increased to 300
Raw Metal stack size has been increased to 300
Spoil time on Lesser Antidote has been increased to 3 days
Spoil time on Prime Meat and Prime Fish have doubled
HLNA and Chibi Creatures no longer disable the protection against Bees buff.
Yell and Whisper can now switch between the following modifier keys on PC: Left Shift, Left Ctrl, and Left Alt.
A configurable GameUserSettings.ini which allows server hosts to limit the amount of gateways that can be placed on platform saddles. This  configuration is not retroactive, so applying this change will require some manual administration work to clear up any pre-existing platforms that exceed the limit. MaxGateFrameOnSaddles=2 We’ll be enabling this on our Official PvP Network and setting the limit to 2, on all platforms. Official PvP players will have approximately 30 days to adjust their current existing platforms to remove any that exceed the gateway limit.

[Penfold]

Thanks Oldie.

We really need to get TEK Pods then!
Can't believe they've made black pearl heavier, it's bad enough as it is!