Changes: Patch 2.4.2 (undocumented changes)

Revision as of 16:55, 8 June 2008

This article lists undocumented changes that have appeared in Patch 2.4.2.

[Far Sight] can no longer be cast when using far sight. ie. no more chain casting to see far away. Also, if you far sight more than 30 yards or so all totems will be canceled when the far sight is canceled or wears off.

[Design: Purified Shadowsong Amethyst] was added to Shaani.
An epic version of the [Medallion of the Alliance]/[Medallion of the Horde] has been added to Master Sergeant Biggins/ Brave Stonehide. [1]
Cat mounts that are standing still have regained an audible roar when pressing the spacebar.
[Mithril Spurs] enchant text changed from "Mithril Spurs" to "+4% Mount Speed."
The enchant text for Enchant Gloves - Riding Skill has changed from "Riding Skill" to "+2% Mount Speed."
The cooldown of Power Circle granted by [Shifting Naaru Sliver] has been lowered from 2 minutes to 1.5 minute.
The buff granted by [Shard of Contempt] has been renamed to "Disdain" to avoid confusion with the Shaman ability [Heroism].

The Warrior's [Bloodrage] and [Berserker Rage] abilities and the troll [Berserking] and orc [Blood Fury] racial abilities have a new sound associated with them. This same sound is also used with shaman's [Bloodlust].

Chat filters have been fixed.
Lines that wrap in chat frames are now indented all subsequent lines after the first.
The "Mount" line has been added to the tooltips of all mounts.
Sending an \n to chat no longer instantly logs players out. \r cannot be used to place a newline in your messages. Chat messages will be truncated on these codes. If the resulting message length is 0, and channel is "say", "yell", or "emote" other players will see emotes "<player> says something unintelligible.", "<player> yells at his team members.", or "<player> makes some strange gestures." respectively. In most other channels empty messages will be displayed.
Players' deaths now correctly appear in the combat log.
Confirmation messages when looting BoP items that only you can loot are back.
Spaces are added when a character talks in excess of 1 line, this is to prevent players from impersonating a player.
Weapon oils placed in a guild bank now show the correct number of charges left.

Following changes have been made in LUA/XML which would effect macros and addons :

Constants GOLD,SILVER and COPPER changed to GOLD_AMOUNT, SILVER_AMOUNT and COPPER_AMOUNT ^[1]
GuildRosterSetOfficerNote - escape characters are now strictly evaluated and require escaping ^[2]
Minimap:PingLocation(0,0) is now a restricted function to the Blizzard UI only if you are currently targeting area of effect spell. ^[3]
CombatLogSetCurrentEntry() behavior for negative and zero ids is shifted by 1 position. Newest is at 0 (was at -1), oldest is at -CombatLogGetNumEntries() + 1 (was at -CombatLogGetNumEntries())
Most if not all constants for plural forms (<CONSTANT_NAME>_P1) are eliminated and singular ones updated to use new "|4" escape sequence for generating plural forms.
New 6th parameter "addToStart" added to ScrollingMessageFrame:AddMessage. When true, adds new message to the opposite end of the message frame.

Ontuvo and Anwehu‎ added to Shattrath City, to duplicate Shaani and Smith Hauthaa, respectively.
Technician Halmaha has been added next to the inn in the Aldor Rise, the NPC offers repairs as well as engineering supplies.
Horace Alder <Mage Trainer> was added in Theramore, inside the tower.
Windy Cloud have been fixed so half of the spawns are no longer unreachable.
Silva Fil'naveth again purges all buffs from a druid when they use the flight path to Rut'Theran Village. May also affect horde druids going to Thunder Bluff via their druid flight path.
Wretched Devourer now devour 370 mana instead of 1360

New experimental performance tweak added using a combination of full screen glow and multisampling. Add the line SET AllowMultisampleFBO "1" to "/Applications/World of Warcraft/WoWTest/WTF/Config.wtf". Results were positive or neutral in limited testing. ^[4]

If you stand far away from an NPC with a blue question mark (to interact with), and you hold your cursor on him, the cursor is now displayed properly. Before it disappeared. The cursor is now the same if you hold your cursor on an NPC with a yellow question mark.

Tiger mounts now properly make a sound when holding still and pressing the space bar.

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 * Constants GOLD,SILVER and COPPER changed to GOLD_AMOUNT, SILVER_AMOUNT and COPPER_AMOUNT <ref>http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=6440785021&sid=1</ref>
 * GuildRosterSetOfficerNote - escape characters are now strictly evaluated and require escaping <ref>http://code.google.com/p/epgp/issues/detail?id=162</ref>
-* Minimap:PingLocation(0,0) is now a restricted function to the Blizzard UI only. <ref>http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=6440945725&sid=1</ref>
+* Minimap:PingLocation(0,0) is now a restricted function to the Blizzard UI only if you are currently targeting area of effect spell. <ref>http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=6440945725&sid=1</ref>
 * CombatLogSetCurrentEntry() behavior for negative and zero ids is shifted by 1 position. Newest is at 0 (was at -1), oldest is at -CombatLogGetNumEntries() + 1 (was at -CombatLogGetNumEntries())
 * Most if not all constants for plural forms (<CONSTANT_NAME>_P1) are eliminated and singular ones updated to use new "|4" escape sequence for generating plural forms.