Update 208 Changelog
Update size: 886.7MB
General
- Increased the health bonus for the 800-pound Gorilla card in the muscle perk deck from 40% to 60%.
- Fixed a graphical issue on the female version of the Saints & Sinners Outfit.
- Fixed a graphical issue on the male version of the Saints & Sinners Outfit when worn with certain gloves.
- Fixed an issue where the Boom Bap Outfit would cause a graphical issue in First Person View with the Joceline O/U 12G shotgun.
- Fixed a graphical issue that appeared when Ethan wore the Saints & Sinners Outfit in combination with certain gloves.
- Added tracking points for main menu items, to better understand how users interact with the menu.
- Added tracking for career mode progression, to better understand how users progress though the game mode.
- Lowered the amount of perk points needed to unlock the first card of each perk deck.
UI
- Improved clarity of mask and weapon inventory icons.
- Updated sorting for inventory items so all locked items are listed last and ordered by the type of lock.
- Locked items are in the order community, reputation level, side job, infamy, achievement, holdout, crimespree, dlc.
- Updated lock icons for inventory items to clearly separate dlc and progression locked items.
- Changed the color of the text for "Visit DLC store" to yellow.
- Simplified the HUD stats on the Main Menu UI for better clarity.
- Renamed main menu items for better readability.
- Changed size of some main menu items for better readability.
- Updated the inventory to hide certain items that are unavailable.
- Removed the "QUICKPLAY" button from the main menu and added it to the CrimeNet sidebar.
- Remove the pop-up for the tutorial.
- Remove the pop-up for the old safehouse.
Heists
- Fixed an issue on the Border Crossing heist where drop-in players would not receive XP at the end of the Heist.
- Fixed an issue on the Green Bridge heist where looting jewelry would not activate the loot drop-off point.
- Fixed an issue on the San Martín Bank heist where drop-in players would not receive XP at the end of the Heist.
- Added missing subtitles to the Four Stores heist.
Loud Tutorial
- Added a hint that the player can interact with objects to the loud tutorial.
- Added the objective to put in the mask to the loud tutorial.
- Added the hint to use the TAB UI to read objectives to the loud tutorial.
- Increased the rewards given by the tutorial heists.
- Updated the loud tutorial to show the player how to tie-up civilians.
- Updated the loud tutorial to show the player how to move a hostage.
Stealth Tutorial
- Fixed a progression blocker when a player bags the corpse of the second guard before going up the stairs.
- Added a delay to the pop-up about the TAB Ui to not cover the hint for how to crouch.
- Added an additional spawn point to avoid a teammate to spawn on top of the player.
- Moved the spawn of a guard to give the player a bit more time before the body is discovered.
- Removed the delay between the objective and the dumpster being active.
- Lowered the boxes to make it easier to throw away the body.
- Removed the objective to put on the mask.
- Removed teammate VO about providing cover if it goes loud.
- Rotated the player spawn to face the first objective.
- Adjusted the spawn of the last guard to be faster and less punishing.
- Adjusted the waypoint for where to hide the bodies to appear faster.
Safe House
- Clicking the "Safe house" button in Crime Net will always take the player to the new Safehouse.
- New Safe house is now unlocked from the start.
- Added a pop-up for a new safe house when a player reaches reputation level 20.
- Using the "Skip" button in Career mode missions gives half the original reward.
- Change name of Story Mode to Career Mode
- Streamlined early Career Mode progression
- Divided Career Mode heists into acts.
- Difficulty of Career Mode can now be chosen by the player.
- A "Skip" button has been implemented in Career Mode.
- Updated the Main Menu UI to highlight Career Mode when under reputation level 25.
- Added a "Start Level" button next to the tutorials.
- Removed the Shadow Raid from the career mode.
- Removed the mandatory visit to the safehouse from the career mode.
- Moved the stealth tutorial to the “Moving up in the World” mission.
- Updated the VO for certain heists in Career Mode.
- Updated some descriptions in Career mode Heists to fit the new story path.
- Increased the reward for "The Basics" mission from 4000xp to 6000xp.
Weapons
- Fixed an issue with the Miyaka 10 Akimbo SMGs where there was an additional delay between reloading and being able to shoot again.
- Fixed an issue with a missing description for the X1-a ZAPper underbarrel attachment on the Little Friend 7.62 Assault Rifle.
- Increased the ammo pickup for Gewehr 3 when the assault kit is equipped from approximately 5-7 to approximately 7-12.
- Lowered the unlock level for the Rattlesnake Sniperrifle from reputation level 15 to reputation level 0.
- Fixed an issue where the buckshot did not have a damage falloff.
- Fixed an issue that would change the position of a weapon in the player's hands after throwing the X1-ZAPper grenade.
- Tweaked the Chimano Compact pistol and Akimbo Chimano Compact pistols to make them stand out more from other Chimano pistols.
- Made the concealment boost mod available for the weapons.
- Removed concealment penalty from the “Striking Mag” weapon mod.
- Reduced the stability for the “Striking Mag” from +8 to +4.
- Removed concealment penalty from the “Striking Body Kit” weapon mod.
- Removed concealment penalty from the “Striking Slide” weapon mod.
- Reverted the Patchett L2A1 to a high damage tier Submachine Gun.
- Damage increased from 41 to 99.
- Accuracy increased from 28 to 54.
- Total Ammo decreased from 220 to 96 for the secondary variant and from 280 to 168 for the akimbo variant.
- Magazine Size increased from 20 to 24 for the secondary variant and from 40 to 48 for the akimbo variant.
- Damage falloff set to “Far”.
- Magazine Size reduction for the Short Mag mod decreased from -10 to -4 for the secondary variant and from -20 to -8 for the akimbo variant.
- Magazine Size boost for the Extended Mag mod decreased from 10 to 6 for the secondary variant and from 20 to 12 for the akimbo variant.
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