Explorers,
We’ll be performing an update today, Wednesday, October 6th, around 8 AM PT / 4 PM BST. There will be downtime during this update, which is expected to last 1 hour and 30 mins.
Here’s what to expect in this update:
Bug Fixes
- Fixed: Red WiFi ping indicator flickering
- Fixed: No sound effects are heard when hitting AI with a vehicle
- Fixed: HUD disappears after changing the Resolution while in a match
- Fixed: The Curtain Call icon appears larger than other icons on the Emote Wheel
- Fixed: Incorrect sound effects were heard when shooting some metallic camp assets
- Fixed: Players on Recent Players list sometimes incorrectly show as ‘Sent you a friend request’ instead of ‘In party’
- Fixed: Kali sometimes still visible when using Active Camo in Rin’s Smoke Bomb or while in a Storm
- Fixed: When assigning the ‘Fancy Feet’ emote to Kali’s Emote Wheel, the ‘Fancy Feet’ icon isn’t visible
- Fixed: The Keeper is sometimes very bright when viewed at a distance
- Fixed: Letty’s Classic Backpack will sometimes not adhere to her, making it appear to float
- Fixed: First text message sent is not visible
- Fixed: Jae’s Survival Instinct skin will sometimes have cloth clipping with his Maverick
- Fixed: Loot can sometimes drop in inaccessible places
- Fixed: Map shows icons outside the Storm boundary
- Fixed: In the Tutorial, the mini-map icons are always oriented towards the north
- Fixed: Fog of War should be disabled in the Tutorial and Horde Mode
- In PvE Expedition Mode, players can reset the Dropship timer by entering and exiting a vehicle
- In PvE Expedition Mode, the team objective marker is different from the Scrap marker on the chest
- Fixed: The mini-map animation when some camp chests are looted is occasionally incorrect
- Fixed: Adjusted sound effects for Bloatbiles when inside buildings
- Fixed: Adjusted timing for Mother voice line and Level update music when they overlapped
- Fixed: Multiple Berry Bushes cannot be harvested
- Fixed: Music from some Emotes still persists after switching to a different tab while the Emote animation is active
- Fixed: Outlander Shryke cape animations don’t work correctly
- Fixed: Players are unable to use the Explorer Ability while an Emote is active
- Fixed: Clouds sometimes look pixelated
- Fixed: Sometimes there is no collision when the Dropship lands on a player, and the player is able to move around underneath the Dropship
- Fixed: Red WiFi icon is visible post-match, even when it wasn’t visible during the match
- Fixed: Storm cloud texture was sometimes incorrect
- Fixed: Rin’s Title Wildcard did not display correctly
- Fixed: AI enemies sometimes spawn underneath the floor
- Fixed: Sliding into a corner sometimes causes the Explorer to flicker when standing
- Fixed: Sluka’s pustules sometimes don’t take damage from Explosive rounds
- Fixed: Sniper glint sometimes doesn’t show up correctly or move with the sniper rifle
- Fixed: Spectator Mode camera sometimes set too low to the ground
- Fixed: Splash damage sometimes doesn’t work correctly
- Fixed: Sometimes unable to navigate tabs and menus with the keyboard or gamepad
- Fixed: Stun Trap sometimes too visible to the enemy team
- Fixed the ‘Wiggle Room’ Emote causes some Explorer skins to behave unnaturally
- Fixed: The pulley systems on the upper deck of encampments have incorrect collision damage, forcing players to jump over them
- Fixed: Players get stuck after driving a vehicle under the Dropship
- Fixed: Players sometimes fall through the map after respawning
- Fixed: Valora’s Devastator didn’t properly track damage for the Deal 2,000 Damage with Shotgun Challenge
- Fixed: Challenges with large SP awards don’t fit in the Challenge box
- Fixed: Career Challenges will sometimes disappear and the player will need to click on the Daily Challenges to get them to reappear
- Adjusted: Extract on Dropship Challenge changed to Extract from the planet, to reflect that players can extract via Dropship or R.A.S.P
- Fixed: A seam between wooden boards that shouldn’t be visible
- Fixed: Added missing audio for Warlord execution
- Fixed: When aiming a weapon, Jae’s arm strap sometimes appears to float in mid-air
- Fixed: For console, in-network friends should appear higher on the list than friends from other platforms
- Fixed: Players do not receive the Friend Request notification if the request was sent while they were in a match
- Fixed: Party Full message sometimes overlaps with other text in the Invites tab of the Social menu
- Fixed: In the Tutorial, some marker icons do not match the chest icon
- Fixed: In the Tutorial, the marker remains on the chest during the Crafting tutorial even if the player has enough Scrap and begins Crafting the weapon
- Fixed: In the Tutorial, sometimes the Outlanders don’t defend the Crystal
- Fixed: In the Tutorial, missing the tooltip to stow the weapon
- Fixed: In the Tutorial, not all Outlanders spawn at the beginning
- Fixed: In the Tutorial, sometimes objective markers don’t appear
- Fixed: In the Tutorial, an incorrect number of Outlanders spawn during the Storm
- Fixed: Sometimes unable to repair a vehicle when attempting to interact with the back of the vehicle
- Fixed: Invisible collision in the Sandstone Graces encounter
- Fixed: The bags attached to the Explorer’s leg will sometimes float during some Emotes
- Fixed: The bottom text is sometimes cut off in the Challenge box
- Fixed: Cruz appears to levitate when viewed in the Play tab
- Fixed: Damage Indicator sometimes briefly appears in an incorrect position
- Fixed: Mongrels do not spawn from the kennels
- Fixed: Downed player message sometimes does not appear
- Fixed: Dropship light pillar sometimes appears inside the Dropship
- Fixed: Emote voice lines can sometimes stack on top of each other
- Fixed: Player is removed from the Salvage tab after being idle for too long
- Fixed: After deconstructing Salvage, the UI sometimes disappears
- Fixed: Glass in Dropship door sometimes has the incorrect texture
- Fixed: After a player leaves the match, their ping remains on the map
- Fixed: PlayStation UI doesn’t show the Challenge UI when the game is first started
- Fixed: Pinging a Data Uplink, Growth, or R.A.S.P says ‘Pinged a Keeper Interactable’ in the message feed
- Fixed: R.A.S.P icon sometimes greyed out on the map
- Fixed: The UI did not always update after a weapon was reloaded, showing 0 ammo
- Fixed: Sometimes unable to move the Explorer after spawning
- Fixed: Vision circle of teammates sometimes remains after the teammate leaves the match
- Fixed: Several instances of floating assets such as trees and rocks
- Fixed: Several instances of assets clipping into the ground or walls, such as chests, lootable items, trees
- Fixed: Neck appears broken when a player is eliminated
- Fixed: Vehicle UI sometimes does not display players
- Fixed: Player unable to cross the road without jumping in certain locations
- Fixed: Some buildings in the world do not show up on the map
- Fixed: Several instances where objects float in the air
- Fixed: Instances where a player cannot walk under a building because the clearing is too short
- Fixed: In several locations, the map image doesn’t match the in-game structure
- Fixed: Rin’s voice line does not match the in-game subtitle
- Fixed: When being attacked by a bear, Halden says ‘I’m being shot at’
- Fixed: Various crashes
Keep Warm,
Midwinter