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Patch 7 is here!

The servers will be coming down in a few moments for Patch 7

Here are the patch notes!

------- PATCH 7 2014-01-18 03:16 EST -------

-BALANCE: Force Field Doors now have a higher drop chance.

-BALANCE: Active Nexus Nodes now stop people building near them. NOTE: The distance is 2x the Max Upgraded Radius to stop rampant griefing of people building Nexus Nodes on Top of Each Other.

-BALANCE PVE: If you are within another FOF Group's Nexus Shield you can no longer damage their Buildings

-IMPROVEMENT: Whenever there is a New Patch, we will auto save the previous version of the SaveData. This should help one recover from any Game Server Mishaps.

-IMPROVEMENT: World Data Download UNTHROTTLED

-IMPROVEMENT: TeamSay is now colored Blue

-IMPROVEMENT: Tech Hunters have found their Elemental Skins

-IMPROVEMENT: Tech Hunters Bosses are now decked out in some Tech Hunter Gear!

-IMPROVEMENT: You now spawn FACING your uplink so you have frame of references when you awake from death or being offline.

-IMPROVEMENT: New PlayerSkill: Pet Duration

-IMPROVEMENT: Increased the Responsiveness of Items on Client

-IMPROVEMENT: Nexus Shield Node's shield now scales with the Upgrade Level
-SHOUTOUT: reddit user: moose111 for the Nexus Shield Node scaling suggestion.

-IMPROVEMENT: Your backpack orb is now a gold color so you can more easily tell it apart from the other fallen on the alien planet surface

-NEWPLACEDITEM: Area Totem: Claim an area as your very own! Many more insane benefits coming in a future patch!

-IMPROVEMENT: Generators and Farms now have a TAKE ALL button. Let all the mice buttons in the world Rejoice.

-IMPROVEMENT: Server save optimizations.

-IMPROVEMENT: More server CPU optimizations.

-IMPROVEMENT: Player Health is now persisted. So if you Log Out to get full health it will no longer work.

-IMPROVEMENT: MultiTools Can Now Heal Rooms and Base Items via Right Clicking. It does cost Resources To Heal.

-IMPROVEMENT: Added Hotbar icons for Landmines and Stunner Landmines

-IMPROVEMENT: Client Side GPU optimizations

-BALANCE PVE: Landmines no longer harm other players.'

-BUGFIX: Landmines can now be destroyed by shooting or meleeing them'

-BUGFIX: Fix server browser sort tabs blanking out the list

-BUGFIX: Fixed Placed Base Items not being lit correctly.

-BUGFIX: Fix for people sometimes respawning at destroyed Uplinks

-BUGFIX: When building a nexus node it is no longer in the ground.

-BUGIX: MonoCycle no longer drives above the water. You will take damage from driving into the water.

-PATCHDANCE: A New Dance Added

-SHOUOUT: We missed giving a SHOUTOUT to WeiWei! He was the victor in our Pre-Early Access Alpha Race to Max Level on the Experimental Server. The Weary Wanderer is now named: WeiWei the Weary Wanderer. This tireless NPC wanders the world with his vow of silence keeping him quiet for the moment. But his vast wealth of IN-GAME knowledge shall flow into the worlds when he has completed his personal quest!