Patch Notes - Sept 27, 2025 to October 3, 2025

Daily updates are posted here:

https://shipofheroes.com/forum/patch-notes/

Top fixes

· Servers are now stable

· Improved public instancing routing for grouped players.

· Fixed some spots where NPCs could spawn in places that characters were unable to reach in some cases.

· Fixed a bug that was causing auto cast to disable itself.

Adjustments and fixes

Powers

· Fixed an application issue with resistance augmentations.

· Percentage based health effects now have their values properly reflected in tool tips.

· Reduced Gut Punch's cool down time from 5 to 3 seconds.

· Reduced innate tank defense and resistance bonuses.

· Passive buffs now begin at half effectiveness at level 1 and then scale up to full effectiveness by level 20.

· Powers will now properly consume energy.

· Reduced the magnitude of resistance buffs.

· Fixed an issue with Flash of Insight's duration.

· Made some small downward adjustments to NPC accuracy.

· Fixed a bug which would not save auto-slotted actions if you zoned shortly after auto-slotting the power in your action bar.

· Flash of Insight now has up to a 20 second duration and a 1 minute cool down. It should be noted this is a ground targeted radius that will last for 20 seconds. Entering the area grants the buff, and leaving the area of effect will remove it.

· Concentrated Darkness had its duration increases, to bring it in line with Overchill.

· Damage Boosting effects on player powers had their numbers reduced in many cases, as part of balancing pass.

· Focus Qi, Whetstone, and Brass Knuckles had their duration increased to 25 seconds.

NPCs

· Made some adjustments to NPC accuracy across the board. You can expect fewer misses on equal level NPCs, with bonuses based on level differentials.

· Fire element and Nagdellian Warbeast sound effects should now obey volume settings.

· Made small damage reductions to the Showdown boss damage output.

· Removed Energy Recovery debuffs from Red Sigil NPCs.

· Red Sigil NPCs should be a little easier than they were previously.

• Many NPC special attacks had their energy cost increased.

Missions

· Improved server side performance in the Plasma Cannon missions.

· Combat Biology II: You no longer need to change areas before being able to see the Overpowered Scanner.

· The Great River of Trade: Fixing some redundant dialogue conditions and adding some catches for missed return missions

· Snow Lair - Updating and balancing rewards. Some new items were added, and rewards rebalanced.

· Improved the wave spawn locations in the Snow Lair.

· Apotheosis - Yekus Ambush - Potentially fixed an issue causing enemies to spawn above the ceiling of Apotheosis - Yekus Ambush and be unhittable.

· Expeditionary Force: Added a "Strange Reading" Icon to the map to help guide players to important areas.

· Fixed broken sidewalk material on bridge.

· Combat Biology: improved goal wording.

UI

· Made some adjustments to the Mission Indexes icon colorations to make it easier to tell which missions have been completed, and which ones haven't.

· If you are in a team, the team's active mission will now appear with a redder tint on the mission tracker.

· The Map input key can now be rebound.

Social

· The Supergroup window's Form Supergroup buttons should now automatically toggle when your target changes, if it is open and you qualify to do so.

· Supergroup promotions should now be persistent. This corrects a bug.

· Potentially fixed the issue of players