Console Launch Trove Update Out on PS4 & Xbox One

Update: If you’re a PlayStation Plus member, you can expect these bonuses in Trove:

A bonus 20% adventure XP all day every day!

A free PS Plus Pack is now available at PlayStation Store, which includes the Neon Ninja class, as well as the Lunar Ronin costume.

And as a special launch bonus, the new Double Dragon pack is 25% off for PS Plus members from March 14 through March 28!

Original Story: Now rolling out on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, today’s Trove update takes the game from beta to launch, fixes issues, adds features, and more. If you’ve yet to download Trove, it’s available for free from the PlayStation Store (North America, Europe).

Reportedly a 327MB download, here’s what you’ll find with the Trove Console Launch Patch today:

Loot Collector

Opening the Loot Collector imports your entire inventory and allows several new options:

If an item you’re collecting has a style you haven’t already unlocked you’ll see this in the menu

Lock items to prevent them from being accidentally loot collected

“Collect All” button for quickly collecting all unlocked loot

Buy back up to 150 items you’ve collected within the last 24 hours will be available to buy back

Crafting Inventory

Open the third inventory tab to check out the new storage system.

Any crafting materials collected will go directly into this new tab and can stack up to ridiculously massive numbers.

Items in your standard, adventure inventory will be moved to the new inventory slot when selected. Have no fear, your items are not lost – they are just finding their new home! Locate them by going back to the new tab

Marketplace

You can now select and purchase items past the first page of the Marketplace

The create button will now highlight properly in the marketplace

Fixed a bug that could cause marketplace purchases to fail, but still deduct currency

Fixed the Item Type and Currency drops downs in the Marketplace always being highlighted

Fixed a visual only Marketplace bug that displayed “Sold” even if you didn’t have enough currency to purchase the item

Clubs and Social

Club roster UI should now show up properly

Added confirmations for promoting, demoting or kicking other Club members

The Club button legend now shows the correct options available

Only online members are selected when navigating the Club member roster list with the gamepad when Show Offline Members is toggled off

Added an option to directly invite players to your current favorite Club via the chat contextual pop-out menu

Fixed a bug causing selected Club members to highlight incorrectly

Fix for incorrect behavior of the ignore option in the Social menu

Fixed a bug that could cause multiple friends to be highlighted in the Social menu

Fixed broken ignore/un-ignore functionality in Social menu

Vault Clubs

You can now create Vault Clubs! These are small Club Worlds that are used for storage rather than building

Craft a Vault Club Card at the Builder’s Workbench using Flux

Vault Clubs have 15 more storage slots in both the normal and officer club chests, but do not have modifiable worlds

The Vault worlds have a rejuvenation station, trading post, loot collector, personal chest, club chest, and officer chest

Club Cards can no longer be traded

Materials needed for crafting Club Cards have increased

Crafting

Fixed a bug with Ringcrafting which could cause new categories to not be unlocked even if you had the required skill level

Fixed multiple issues with the Forge which could cause the highlighted button to not be highlighted

Fixed various Crafting Bench Tooltips containing hotkey icons that are too large

Fixed a bug causing the right states pane in the Forge to display incorrect colors for statistic increases/decreases

Fixed crafting tables having oversized text in some cases

Fixed the Dragon Crucible UI so that all items can be selected

Increased the speed by which the quantity increases in the crafting UI

Control

Many of the interactions in the world that previously required you to focus the cross-hair on them now work by being within close proximity. This makes changing worlds, for example, immensely easier with a controller

Added analog steering allowing for full range of movement rather than being locked to the cardinal and ordinal directions. This change applies to movement when: unmounted, mounted, boat, magrider, and winged

Improved dead zone detection for analog sticks

Improved response time to controller input

Reduced the button hold time from 1 second to 0.25 seconds for opening the Character Sheet, Class Select UIs and the radial menu for selecting a Mount

UI

The tool tip for the loot collector and chaos forge are no longer in ALL CAPS!

Removed cubits from the several UI’s where they weren’t needed to be displayed

Fixed the filter for the Class Select UI

Fixed a spelling mistake in the loot collector

Fixed bug causing the chat menu to be available at various incorrect times, for example after going AFK or loading screens

Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the inventory selector to display twice the first time you opened a chest

Fixed a bug causing the experience and mastery bar to show a gap at the end, even if they were completely filled up

Fixed a bug causing health bars to display incorrectly occasionally

Fixed incorrect button display for Terraforming

Fixed a bug causing you to be able to navigate inventory with the analog stick while opening chaos chests

Fixed a bug causing the D pad icon to overlap the up and down count of items when moving a stack

You can now use the virtual keyboard to add item quantities in various UI rather than only using the analog stick.

Miscellaneous

Fixed a rare visual only bug that could cause store items that have their credit and cubit prices reversed

Fixed the text “Return to Hub” being occasionally cut off when waiting for a Battle Grounds match to begin

Fixed a bug causing the hotbar to not be populated with the proper icons if your current character was in “Build Mode” when you entered an adventure world

Fixed a bug that could cause events to not always show up properly on the Welcome Screen

Fixed bug causing the featured Club Worlds in the Hub to always display Shaztopia. Shaztopia is gone, but it spirit lives on

Fixed a bug causing controls to be mapped incorrectly after repeated switching of mounts

Fixed a bug that could cause your personal chest to automatically close without input

Fixed a bug that could disable input when switching personal chest tabs

Fixed a big that could prevent you from navigating to certain parts of your personal chest

Fixed a bug that could cause the “Unlock Key” to disable further input

Fixed a bug that could cause statistics to be incorrect when switching from a Trial Character to a normal Character

Fixed a bug that would cause the player to become stuck in the throwing animation when selecting a throwable item

Fixed a bug that could cause gems to be lost when unsocketing

Fixed a bug preventing you from inviting players to a Shadow Tower

Fixed a bug causing store items to disappear when switching tabs

Fixed a bug that would cause you to continue moving after you respawned if you died while moving

Fixed a bug causing the Shadow Hunters Shadow Mark to work incorrectly

Fixed various audio issues

The Trove Store now has consistent mapping of buttons across Tabs

Added better messaging regarding which controller to use when swapping profiles

Added in a slight delay when opening chests if you just received a rare item

Added ability to scroll text chat to see previous messages

Updated the button legend for the Barber Shop

Updated the account linking screen, and fixed bug that could cause the selected option to show up incorrectly

Updated the location of the Currency Counter on the Personal Chest

Updated the “Screenshot” text in the Epic Pose menu

Quick chat settings now saving properly

Trion Worlds says this is just the beginning of Trove, and they have many more updates coming in 2017 and beyond.

As Trion Worlds revealed earlier this month, the Trove beta on PS4 saw more than 1.5 million players.

Will you be playing Trove this week?

[Source: Trion Worlds (1), (2), (3), Reddit, PlayStation Blog]

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