Explorers,
We’ll be performing an update on Thursday, September 23rd, around 8 AM PT / 4 PM BST.
Scavengers will be unavailable for downtime starting at 8 AM PT / 4 PM BST. This downtime is expected to last for approximately 1 hour.
Here’s what to expect in this update:
Weapon Tuning
- Opus
- Damage reduced slightly
- Reload duration increased slightly
- A bit more recoil in hipfire
- Argonaut Splash
- ADS (aim down sights) movement speed reduced
- Pistols
- ADS movement speed increased
- Sniper rifles
- ADS movement speed reduced
- Shotguns
- Increased recoil to make super rapid shots less accurate
Gameplay
- Reduced the number of Rescue Beacons obtained from an Item Cache
- You can now equip Emotes into specific slots of your Emote Wheel
- You can preview Emotes while in the Explorer loadout screen
- New shotgun wildcard available in Research: the Grimalkin. For those of you who have been wanting a wildcard shotgun option, the Grimalkin has you covered!
- New throwable available in Research: the Bait Bomb. Toss one at your enemies to swarm them with Scourge enemies
- New Explorer skins, weapon skins, Keeper frames, emotes, and executions will be added to the Shop
- The slowdown applied to enemies hit by Reflector Shields has been reduced
- Research and seasons now paginate over when scrolling through the lists of items
- Explorer abilities now interrupt emotes
- Improvements to the VFX when Explorers warm up next to a fire
- New environmental locations to fill out the post-apocalyptic world of Cascade Springs
- The abandoned Cinemaze theater
- The Cluck King restaurant
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: Players can sometimes use their ability while downed
- Fixed: High latency icon shows up even when the network connection is stable
- Fixed: Rin’s SHIN-48 Tsunami chain lightning proc chance does not respect its cooldown
- Fixed: Floating environment assets and supply chests clipping into the snow
- Fixed: Several client crashes
- Fixed: Some buildables in Horde Mode were not respecting the minimum time to build
- Fixed: The sprint reticle is vertically off-center
- Fixed: Growth Cluster does not provide heat while standing near it
- Fixed: Cazador Cheetah drains stamina from teammates
- Fixed: If a single team remains in the match and dies on the planet they still see “Successful Extraction” at the end
- Fixed: The message feed sometimes says “[X] pinged a Keeper interactable” when you ping objectives
- Fixed: Fog of War icons sometimes fail to clear off the map
- Fixed: Previously-cleared Fog of War icons no longer remain on your minimap gutter
- Fixed: Several Fog of War icons are guttering in the minimap when they should not
- Fixed: Players sometimes spawn in facing the wrong way
- Fixed: Some buildings are inaccurately represented on the map
- Fixed: Warsong hipfire recoil forces the gun upwards continuously
- Fixed: Fires on torches have distorted sound effects
- Fixed: Thresh play the wrong animation when they are knocked down, causing them to instantly drop to the ground
- Fixed: Bears are using the wrong LODs (level of detail) at a near distance, causing them to look blocky
- Fixed: Retch head detaches from its neck during attacks
- Fixed: Retch weak spot can be hit even when not exposed
- Fixed: Teammates sometimes appear to be floating when moving around
- Fixed: Some parts of the environment cannot be mantled upon
- Fixed: Sluka sometimes does not appear or looks very blocky on lower-end PCs
- Fixed: Clone Kit does not animate while it clones Explorers
- Fixed: The Voidbarrel unlocks at Research Tier 4 but can only be researched in Tier 5
- Fixed: Outlander shoulder pads sometimes detach while they shoot
- Fixed: Growth Cluster shows the wrong name on the map
- Fixed: Jae’s Overshield sometimes appears visually permanent (though the Overshield behavior is not)
- Fixed: 1-handed melee weapons have a chance to stun enemies again
Keep Warm,
Midwinter