Those who’ve been enjoying the free-to-play title, Warframe, on the PlayStation 4 platform can now look forward to the third-person sci-fi shooter receiving its first title update.
Among the new additions to the Playstation 4 version of Warframe is two new bosses, a new damage system, and new weapons to add to your arsenal. Check out the full patch notes below:
Playstation 4 Patch Notes
Additions
- New Warframe: Valkyr
- Female Berserker Class, Cosmetic Bastet Helmet & Cosmetic Restraints!
- New Weapons: “Tigris” Tenno Double-Barrel Shotgun (Primary), “Cestra” Corpus Mini-gun (Secondary) and “Lecta” Corpus Whip (Melee)
- New Prime Gear: Ember, Glaive, and Sicarus.
- Sprint is no longer needed to initiate a Wall-Run
- New Customizations: Warframe Skins for the first 8 Warframes!
- New Decorations for the Dojo (Including a Trading Kiosk!)
- New Tile Set: Corpus Gas City
- New Enemies: 3 Corpus enemy types to seek and destroy!
- New Boss: Sargus Ruk (Grineer)
- New Boss: Alad V & Zanuka (Corpus)
- New System: Trading 1.0! Build the Trading Kiosk in your Dojo to begin!
- New System: Codex and Scanner (Scan enemies to unlock entries & details in the Codex)
- New Damage Model 2.0! More information here
- New Mods for Slash (Health) Damage, Toxic (Poison) Damage, Impact (Shield) Damage, and Status (Proc Chance) Effects!
- New Resource Drone: collects crafting materials from planetary systems!
- Added option to opt-in to Nightmare nodes
- Added new icon for Boss nodes on the star chart
- Players can now copy other players’ mission votes by clicking on the squad info panel.
Changes
- Removed the Railgun MOAs from the Mastery Rank 1 Challenge
- Players can now mark Waypoints in game with the DUALSHOCK®4 wireless controller
- Players can turn Transmission Messages ON/OFF for the DUALSHOCK®4 wireless controller in the Options Menu
- Full on-screen map: During gameplay to view the overall level map as you uncover it through exploration by pressing the touch pad button
- Improved Main Menu navigation to include the Codex and Inbox
- Players can now access the Arsenal when in a lobby
- Remote Play control bindings are now displayed in game
- Players can now toggle crouch/slide to hold
- Capture targets are now more dynamic and mobile: there are a range of tougher Corpus and Grineer targets with varying abilities and weapons will flee at the first sign of danger. Stop them from boarding a shuttle and escaping!
- Star Chart progress, Sentinel and Sentinel-Weapon rank now contribute to Mastery level
- Sentinels now come with a default amount of armor
- Removed co-op doors from survival missions
- Time between Defense waves has been reduced to 6 seconds
- Updated Dojo room art for the following rooms (visual update will be automatic, no rebuild necessary):
- Oracle
- Barracks (Moon, Mountain, Storm, Shadow)
- Research Labs (Bio, Energy, Chem)
- Star Chart: added effects & colorization to further distinguish available nodes from completed/locked nodes, and highlight boss nodes.
- Stun Chance mods (Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun, Melee) are now Status Effect mods in accordance with new damage system
- 2D and 3D weapons duck ambience by 2 dB less and duck music by 1 dB less. 2D weapons duck 3D weapons by 2dB less
- Improved sound-ducking mixes
- Changed Europa planet description so that it wasn’t the same as Eris
- Added new icons for Sentinel weapons
- Switched the Prova to use Machete animations and finishers
- New space skybox added to the Grineer Galleon tile set
- Improved the sound for the Heavy Impact mod
- Audio improvements to some stealth finishers
- Rebalanced some mod types for Conclave battles (Stun mods, Crit mods, and Corrupted mods)
- Tuned conclave values for Brakk, Machete Wraith, and Obex
- Added sound for Galleon air lifts in Conclave map
- Stalker has been improving his melee combo techniques
- NPCs will no longer target Rescue agents
Fixes
- Fixes put in to address severe cases of texture popping
- Fixed the Shield Damage Indicator will no longer flicker in the opening tutorial
- Fixed Log-In Rewards not appearing
- Fixed selling multiple instances of an item not working
- Fixed the Clan Message of the Day not appearing until returning from a mission
- Fixed the AI occasionally shooting their weapon after death
- Experimental camera fixes – camera does not collide with enemies or players to avoid annoying jitter.
- Fixed issue where only host could invite players into a Dojo
- Fixed more instances of enemy AI spawning or falling into unreachable areas in Exterminate missions
- Fixed falling out of level in Mastery Challenge 7 costing a revive
- Fixed some navigation/design issues in new level connectors
- Fixed some issues related to Nyx’s Mind Control ability where brainwashed AI didn’t always attack enemies as intended
- Fixed various teleport issues that would result in “out of world” experiences
- Fixed Corpus Energy Rifle firing animation to match Clan Tech Tenno Energy Rifle (alternate between top and bottom barrels when firing)
- Fixed some missing materials identified in Corpus ship levels
- Fixed a case where you are unable to melee/block sometimes after being knocked down during melee swings
- Fixed a case where the player would stay in the melee charge anim sometimes if knocked down during melee attack
- Fixed missing respawn volume in Dojo obstacle course
- Fixed some reported issues of flickering textures
- Fixed missing jump actions required by enemies in certain levels
- Fixed Jackal robot missile seeking offset
- Fixed Security Camera sounds not playing for clients
- Fixed names of Gradivus Dilemma trophies
- Fixed Grineer Scorpion to have proper in-game description
- Fixed issue with Kestrel and Glaive animations for holstering
- Fixed all reported/known issues of players falling through elevators
- Fixed ledge-mantling mid wall-jump causing you to keep your push velocity
- Fixed Rhino’s Iron Skin ability that granted invulnerability during oxygen loss
- Fixed weapon attachments to now play the fire animation according to their respective fire rate (with any upgrade mods)
- Fixed broken weapon recoil behaviour; it now works as intended
- Fixed Roller idle animation jittering
- Fixed “power in use” issue after using Banshee’s Sonic Boom ability
- Fixed Acrid weapon not doing damage over time
- Fixed Saryn’s Miasma ability to apply damage over time
- Fixed issue where Ciphers were being consumed twice on a single hack
- Fixed Nekros Soul Punch ability to ragdoll target NPCs
- Fixed Trinity’s Energy Vampire in Conclave which caused enemies on the opposite team to regenerate energy as well
- Fixed issue that allowed spectators to fire the Ignis and Flux rifle while spectating in Conclave
- Fixed enemies not getting auto-killed if they ragdoll in the middle of a death animation
- Fixed multiple issues with Infested enemy types related to map navigation
- Fixed high level enemies spawning in low-level defense missions
- Fixed private session countdown not starting after friend joins/selects mission
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