Many of these are undocumented or at least were not immediately obvious during the BETA

UI/CONTROLS

1) Use the Mouse-wheel during the Character Creation process to see all the options. Scroll bars were apparently recently added, but the Mouse-wheel also works great.

2) You don’t have to hit “E” if you use a mouse. You can just click both mouse buttons at any npc or item that is “E” interactive.

3) Slash commands…there aren’t a lot ingame yet, but here are the ones posted so far (you can hit “o” to get to the chat window):

/say – Say something to anyone in your local area
/s – Same as /say
/groupsay – Say something to members of your group
/group – Same as /groupsay
/g – Same as /groupsay
/party – Same as /groupsay
/p – Same as /groupsay
/tell [name] – Send a private message to another person (use quotes around names with a space)
/t – Same as /tell
/reply – Send a private message to the last person that sent you a private message
/r – Same as /reply
/shout – Shout a message to everyone in the same region (like say but broader)
/invite [name] – Invite another person to join a group with you (no quotes needed)
/leave – Leave your current group
/kick [name] – Kick the specified person from your group (no quotes needed; must be leader)
/promote [name] – Promote the specified person to be the group leader (no quotes needed; must be leader)

4) When you hit “esc”, if you click on the “mask” at the bottom ui, you can change your look without changing the stats of what you are wearing. The “look” of items is dependent on what items you’ve collected and equiped so far. You can sell any item you have previously equiped and still keep the “look” as an option (so you can go to a vendor, buy all the gear, equip it, then sell it back losing a little bit of cash and add all those “looks” to your options).

5) Pressing the Shift key will release you from being crowd controlled (most of the time), as well as provide you with a couple of seconds of immunity.

6) If you hold the Shift key and a strafe movement key, you will do a rolling dodge in that direction.

7) F9 takes a screenshot. You can change your settings if you want the screenshot to show the UI or not (default is not showing the UI). Images are saved to Drive Installed:Program FilesSony Online EntertainmentInstalled GamesDC Universe Online BetaUnreal3DCGameScreenShots

Hovering over a gear item in your inventory, via a quest reward offer or via a vendor will now tell you the set type and whether you’ve collected it yet as a style item.

9) Auto-run is available at all levels, in or out of movement mode.

To auto run on the mouse/keyboard, press “num lock.”
To auto run on the controller, press and hold the left thumbstick.
Every movement mode allows you to purchase a “level up” to your auto-run speed via the skill tree, but you can still auto-run without it.
Note: you can’t engage auto-run while in the slower combat movement mode (i.e., if you’ve been attacking or have been attacked within the last few seconds).

10) Pressing the “R” key works the same way as the “Shift” key.

POWERS/ABILITIES

11) Don’t fly through doors…just don’t…

12) Something I learned because of #11. If you get stuck anywhere, just use your map (M) warp buttons to port yourself out of that stuck spot.

13) In acrobatics, to use the Grapple line climb abilities mount a wall and press and hold SPACE to zip up a wall. To use the grapple wall be near a wall and hit space to grapple and pull yourself to it while falling. To use the auto move abilities move forward and hit NUMLOCK.

14) With acrobatics, you can double jump by pressing jump again while in the air. If you hold jump down on the second tap, you glide. I played for quite a bit before I realized this.

15) In combat, your energy recharges and your supercharge meter fills up based on your combo. The higher your hit counter, the faster they fill. Your supercharge meter currently appears as a colored overlay on your hotbar’d supercharge powers. This is not final, and will be replaced with a real meter eventually.

16) You can switch roles using “T”, these can be configured in the Loadouts screen. Note: Some loadouts are for illusions/transformations, to get to these you have to use specific abilities. You can hit “P” to change your loadouts by dragging powers around.

17) Might increases the damage and healing of your powers. DPS and Precision increase the damage of your abilities and weapon attacks.

18) Pet commands:
To summon: Activate the ability like you would any other
To change tactics from aggressive to passive or back: Activate the ability again while the pet is summoned
To dismiss the pet: Hold the button for the ability until the pet goes away

19) You can enter flight mode by holding down the spacebar instead of hitting “F” (if you have the flying travel form). I believe you can activate the other travel modes the same way.

20) Enemies who are trapped by Encasement control effects (freezing, stasis field, etc) can only be damaged by certain powers — specifically, ones that say they do heavy damage to Encased enemies in the power description. Normal attacks and powers will not cause any damage, and will in fact break the Encasement faster.

21) Current Stats & Descriptions that effect powers, abilities and weapon attacks.

Note: These are found by going to your inventory tab (i) and clicking on the stats tab.

Health:Health measures the amount of damange you can take before being knocked out. Enemy attacks can reduce your health. You automatically begin regenerating health when you leave combat.
Power: ower is required to use super abilities and is drained as they are preformed. Power is recovered quickly when using weapon attacks to drive up the hit counter. Power returns slowly when out of combat.
Defense: Defense reduces the damage received by attacks made by non-player enemies.
Might: Might increases the damange and Health recovery effects caused by super powers.
Restoration: Restoration increases the potency of all Health recovery effects you activate.
Vitalization: Vitalization increases the potency of all Power recover effects you activate.
Precision: Precision adds to the base damage caused by all weapon attacks.
Toughness: Toughness reduces the damange you receive from attacks made by enemy players.
Dominance: Dominance makes your control effects such as stuns harder to escape. Dominance increases the damage an enemy must take before control is broken.

22) Stat Formulas

Precision: 10 Precision = +1 Weapon DPS
Might: 4 Might = +1% increase in base damage or healing
Restoration: 4 Restoration = +1% increase in base amount healed
Vitalization: 4 Vitalization = +1% more power generated by any effects you cause
Dominance: 2 Dominance = +1 additional damage an enemy must take before control is broken
Defense/Toughness: As you gain levels more Defense/Toughness is required to maintain the same protection. Roughly 15 Defense at level 1 and 71 Defense at level 30 = +1% more damage prevention.

There are hard caps but you shouldn’t be able to reach them. They are more or less just there in case the devs flubbed up somewhere.

23) passive bonuses available in the weapon trees are ALWAYS ACTIVE. You don’t need to be using a 1-Handed weapon to get the Precision bonus. If you buy a box you get that bonus no matter what weapon you’re using.

24) Certain select powers require the meter to be at a set level (full, half, etc.) before they can be used. The icons for these powers is grayed out if there is insufficient Supercharge, and they have a coloured outer ring that fills as you gain Supercharge. Once the ring is full the icon is no longer grayed out, and the power can be used. Mouse over the various power types to see if they require 50 to 100% of your full supercharge meter. The Supercharge Bar (and the Power Bar) is filled through the standard attack combo counter.

25) You do NOT get your designated second role/loadout until level 10. After that you can use “T” to switch roles outside combat.

LOCATIONS

41) On the Watch Tower, there are consoles in the place formally call the Habitat that you can respec with. The best way I’ve found to get to them is traveling from the Tech wing to the Meta wing or vice versa.

42) Teleport portals for Gotham are in the tech wing. Teleport portals for Metropolis are in the meta wing (pretty obvious, but didn’t click right away they were by wing). It is the same for the Watch Tower and Hall of Doom.

43) As you get to later levels, go to the Watch Tower for the better potions (healing/mana). The initial portals in the Meta and Tech wings have vendors just outside the door. One sells potions.

44) Your map contain 2 buttons on the bottom left where you can teleport to the nearest rally point or teleport directly to the watchtower. Cooldown for Rally teleport is just about 8 minutes. Cooldown for HQ teleport is 1 hour.

GENERAL/OTHER

45) Itemization Coloring:

Gray = not useful to you; sell it to a vendor
White = okay, but has no stat bonuses
Green = has good stat bonuses
Blue = has really good stat bonuses
Purple = has really, really good stat bonuses
Orange = Legendary

46) Regarding clickable “?” item in the World Environment

Collectible item = Yellow
Investigation item = Green
Brief = Blue

47) During Beta not all audio voices are in game yet. Many NPCs will have wrong voices until the actual voices are added to the game…This explains why Supergirl sounded over-dosed on Testosterone. Hopefully this is fixed by 11/11/11.

48) Falling does no damage. It doesn’t matter how high you fall from, you will take no fall damage ingame. One fun thing to do is fly up really high and turn off your flight ability (f) and just fall to earth. The devs decided it wasn’t very epic to die ingame via falling.

49) Badge Types:

Distinction - earned thru 8 man raids, used to buy “t2″ iconic armors (note that just because it queues under the raid tab doesn’t mean it’s a raid)
Triumph - earned thru duos and 4 mans, used to buy “t1″ iconic armors
Victory - earned thru pvp arena, used in conjunction with pvp cash to buy iconic pvp armor
Courage - earned thru pvp Legends, used in conjunction with pvp cash to buy pvp weapons and armors from the high level PD/Nightclubs

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