Update 71 Release Notes
Here are the release notes for Update 71, released on Wednesday, December 11th, 2024.
Of Special Note:
Fall of the Night Brigade - FREE to VIPs!
Help a group of wererats to bring down the Night Brigade, a ruthless gang that's killed and pillaged its way into power. Transform into a rat to explore hidden nooks and crannies and bring the leaders of the Night Brigade to justice in four hand-crafted quests set inside Wheloon Prison.
"Fall of the Night Brigade" is a new Adventure Pack available in the DDO Store and FREE to VIPs! This quest pack is CR 4 in Heroic difficulty and CR 35 in Legendary difficulty! Get started by going to the Wheloon Docks, either via Gatekeeper's Grove in Eberron or by traveling there in Eveningstar in the Forgotten Realms. Look for the group of wererats and speak to the NPC Old Tarlow to get started! Includes the following quests:
- Rats in a Cage
- The Wizard's Labyrinth
- The Knife's Edge
- The Darkness and the Light
The Jester of Festivult has arrived!
The Jester of Festivult is now available to trade your Festivult Copper, Silver, and Gold Coins for cookies! Some cookies have been adjusted this year. Additionally, we've fixed a bug with last year's Abishai Cookies so you can once again eat all of them in a row for a buff. Festivult Coins will continue to appear through January 7th, and the Jester of Festivult will remain in-game throughout Eberron through January 14th, 2025.
News and Notes:
- Lanterns in the Mists rewards earned on Cormyr are now available to claim on other game worlds. Find the NPCs in the Hall of Heroes.
- The Lantern of the Seeker now properly gives you subsequent copies of the reward mount or creature companion, and a text error in its dialog has been corrected.
- A typo has been corrected along with the text when a higher level character defeats a Mist Stalker in a too-low-level quest.
- Festivult Cookie Updates:
- The Blue Abishai Cookie is now a Resist Electricity buff.
- The Green Abishai Cookie is now Neutralize Poison again.
- The Abishai Destroyer Buff can now be obtained again (due to the requirement of all Abishai cookies being a buff for this to work.)
- The Beholder cookie is now True Seeing.
- The Cupcake is now Lesser Restoration.
- The Daanvi Jelly Cake is now Order's Wrath
- Returning from 2023: There is a chance to receive a stack of small cards from the Deck of Many Curses when turning in a Gold Festivult Coin!
- The quest "Memoirs of an Illusory Larcener" has been permanently retired from the game due to irreconcilable performance issues. Unique treasure from the quest has been relocated to Mask of Deception, located in Eveningstar.
- Adjustments have been made to main party room of Partycrashers to improve frame rate.
- Fixed a stuck spot in Legendary Chronoscope.
- Fixed some lamps that were improperly floating in the air in "Just Business".
- Fixed a hole in the staircase of "Army of the Endless Night".
- Adjusted lighting in the Hall of Heroes to be more performant.
- The Hag in the quest "Witch Hunt" should now be more responsive to the placement of Banners.
- Optimized the performance of how certain game text is generated in various parts of the game interface.
- Renamed a portal in "Caught in the Web" to be more clear, and updated the map note as well so that it no longer claims to be taking you to "The Underdark".
- Reduced the difficulty of the traps that appear in the final room of "Finding Doris".
- Massaged a misbehaving staircase in the Marketplace to prevent getting stuck while using a Mount.
- Fixed a typo in "Eye Know Whodunnit".
- Fixed a bug that was preventing certain NPC rogues from dropping traps, exploding spiders, etc.
- Fixed a typo in the Wild Magic Fey feat granted to Eladrin Chaosmancers.
- Fixed an issue where Rinar d'Thuranni's reward window improperly stays open under certain conditions.
Known Issues:
- The Guest Pass for Fall of the Night Brigade is not currently available in the DDO Store. We expect to publish this item in the next game update.
