Crytek has released the Hunt Showdown update 1.43 patch this December 15, and this is for hotfix 1.7.1.2 intended for the Winter Solstice event that starts today! Read on for the details regarding today’s title update below.
Hunters, We are bringing down the Console servers to deploy Hotfix 1.7.1.2 We apologize for the short notice, but we gotta make sure everything is ready for the Winter Solstice Event! Est Downtime: ~2 Hours We’ll post a reply once the servers are back online. Thanks
Console Hunters, The servers are now back online! Do not forget – Winter Solstice starts today at 3 PM UTC! We are still actively working on many of the known issues, including texture streaming and other reported bugs. We appreciate your continuous feedback!
Once the studio has released the changelog, we’ll update the post.
As for the event, check out the trailer and more for the Winter Solstice event starting today:
Once Crytek releases the official patch notes, we’ll be sure to update the post.
Raven Software has released the Modern Warfare & COD Warzone Pacific update 1.50 patch this December 15, and this is to bring a new holiday event into the game, and then some. Read up on what’s new down below.
[All Platforms] Loading Screen: Krampus has stolen the images that normally appear on the Loading Screen.
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Please bring them home.
Raven Software has not released the official patch notes for this Warzone update just yet, but Activision did announce the Festive Fervor event earlier this week, and it’s set to launch tomorrow, December 16!
Start Date: Festive Fervor will officially start on December 16 across Vanguard and Warzone Pacific, following an update to Vanguard on December 15 at 9 PM PT, and an update to Warzone Pacific on December 16 at 9PM PT.
Twelve Days of Deals on Classic Bundles. Starting on December 14, Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War Bundles will be available at a holiday discount for use in both Black Ops Cold War and Warzone Pacific.
– Sleigh in Style with New Vanguard Bundles. Four festive Bundles highlight new Store offerings as we rotate to 2022. Use these in both Vanguard and Warzone Pacific.
– Krampus Is Coming… For anyone who doesn’t play the objective in Vanguard, or whoever dares to find him on Caldera, prepare for his wrath….
– Elf Team Six, Reporting for Duty. Find these mischievous holiday helpers across Vanguard and Warzone Pacific and earn rewards.
– Vanguard Owners Get 10 Tier Skips, 10% Seasonal XP Boost, and More. Receive these gifts by purchasing and playing Vanguard before December 31. All owners will get these items starting on December 16, 2021.
– The Main Event: Complete Festive Fervor Challenges, Get Rewarded. Thirteen total items, including a Weapon Blueprint for completing all six Vanguard or Warzone Pacific challenges.
Warzone Pacific: Season’s Greetings from the Isles — Holiday Surprises Across Caldera, Rebirth Island
Caldera Receives Festive Fir Trees with Presents for All!
Those who drop into Caldera during Festive Fervor can’t miss the invasive vegetation among the palm trees and other Pacific foliage: Festive Fir Trees!
Marked on the Tac Map with a special tree icon, these temporary landmarks will be placed at specific points of interest across the island.
Any squad that stays within the Fir Tree’s zone — under the tree and around it — for a short period of time will cause several Supply Boxes to magically appear, including special Holiday Crates that could contain Legendary items for that match, limited-time rewards, or even some coal for those Operators on the naughty list.
Krampus — The Terror of the Isles with Plenty of “Gifts” for Festive Fervor
Beyond being a sign to do some good this holiday season, the coal found in those Holiday Crates does attract a certain folklore creature.
Krampus tends to spend his holidays on Caldera and Rebirth Island, where within minutes of a match starting, he goes on the hunt for sport. While his choice of target is more random here than in Vanguard, he does tend to hunt down those who received coal from the Holiday Crates.
This mythical creature will take three minutes to complete his hunt before he disappears for his next target, or he’ll be killed and give out a special permanent reward for the squad that faces his wrath.
Because these islands are his usual stomping grounds, Krampus has some other surprises in store throughout Festive Fervor. Fortunately, all of these are relatively nice — expect modifiers like increased chances of Legendary Supply Boxes or half-off Buybacks on each day of this holiday event.
Elf and Seek — The Gnomes Take Over the Islands
Just like Krampus, some mischievous creatures also call Caldera and Rebirth Island their home and are waiting for Operators to seek them.
These gnomes are just as carefree as Elf Team Six, hollering at any Operator who gets within 10 meters of them. Squads who find and destroy them will receive rewards like a Double XP Token or a Calling Card.
Vanguard’s Festive Fervor Event and Bundles Available in Warzone
Those who want to earn Festive Fervor’s ultimate Epic LMG Blueprint can alternatively complete six unique challenges in Warzone Pacific, each with a reward like a Battle Pass Tier Skip, Double XP Token, and more.
These challenges include dealing 365 points of damage to Krampus, destroying those pesky gnomes, or simply playing the game and roaming around Caldera or Rebirth Island.
In addition to this limited-time Vanguard event, all its Bundles are also available in Warzone Pacific, making it possible to dash through the sand as a Krampus lookalike or in that festive holiday sweater. (Note: There are some Vanguard-only items within these Bundles that cannot be accessed in Warzone Pacific; see the individual Bundles for details).
You can check out the new cosmetics set to become available right here.
Once Raven Software releases the official patch notes, we’ll be sure to update the post.
Update: Raven Software has released the official patch notes, and we’ve update the post.
Heads up, zombie hunters! Turtle Rock is about to drop a new Back 4 Blood patch this week! Dubbed the “December Update,” the patch is scheduled to be released this December 16 on all platforms. Thankfully, players won’t need to wait to know what the Back 4 Blood next update patch notes are, as the studio has released them today!
The Back 4 Blood Next Update Patch Notes, Release Schedule (December Update):
A reminder that our December 2021 Update goes live on Thursday, December 16th at 10am/1PM ET/2AM HKT – Pacific Time. As some of you may know, a draft briefly went live yesterday but they’re ready now. Huge shoutout to the community for helping us with a couple text edits! — Timezone Converter
NEW FEATURES
Offline Campaign with Progression
New Supply Lines – Roving Merchants
Time-limited track added that provides new unlocks to spend Supply Points on
New Card Type – Burn Cards
New card type added that is available through the Roving Merchants Supply Lines
This card type can be played in each Saferoom to gain temporary effects like instant healing, currency boosts, increasing resistances, and more
Holiday Seasonal Event
Holiday decorations added to Fort Hope and the Firing Range
Unlockable seasonal character skins, weapon skins, emblems, and sprays added
New (non-Burn) Cards
Belt Clip – Increase Quickslot Inventory by 1
Utility Belt -Increase Quickslot Inventory by 2. -10% Damage Dealt
Tool Belts – Increase Team Quickslot Inventory by 1
Ridden Practice Area added to Fort Hope
Option added to play as a Ridden while in Fort Hope to practice fighting and exploring Mutation abilities
Bots that accompany the player in Solo Campaign are randomized
Ultrawide improvements
Stat tracking now enabled in Training
Notable bug fix: Fixed an exploit that allowed players to duplicate offensive utility items
Notable bug fix: Fixed an exploit that allowed players to select duplicates instead of one card
CAMPAIGN UPDATES
General
Developer Note: We made the following changes to make the controls on PC feel more snappy.
Increase player acceleration to 2100 (was 1900)
Brake friction to 7 (was 6.5)
Player starts with max ammo when beginning a run
Cleaner hitboxes are more accurate, reducing accidental friendly fire
Aim assist when targeting armored commons is improved
Friendly fire damage no longer increases with each weapon tier
Healing Efficiency now improves temporary healing
Bots now keep their existing inventory and upgrade their weapons with each map
Made improvements to saving individual matchmaking settings in Quickplay, Campaign, and Training runs
Added clarification to the “Leave Game” prompt while in a party
Smoothed out player collision near the Ogre’s spawn points
ZWAT achievements now also grant the ZWAT Team title
Added one additional card draw to Acts 2 and 3
Improved the navigation of large Special Ridden between the first and second objectives on Search and Rescue: A Clean Sweep
The jukebox can no longer be damaged after the last bus is loaded on Search and Rescue: Bar Room Blitz
The remaining research boxes will be highlighted after a certain amount of time has passed on Dr. Rogers’ Neighborhood: T-5
Improved navigation for Special Ridden inside of the saferoom on Dr. Rogers’ Neighborhood: Garden Party
Made improvements to collision around the mortuary for Ridden and Cleaners on Remnants: A Friend in Need
Adjusted the waypoint for the gate objective on Remnants: The Road to Hell
Added additional spots for Ridden to enter the quarantine area if the one way door is closed on Remnants: The Road to Hell
Readjusted the appearance of an NPC in Job 10:22: Heralds of the Worm, Part 1 for consistency in Campaign and Training modes
Confirmation is now given immediately after reporting a player
Changes have been made to the Credits
Speed Card Updates
Developer Note: We noticed that the use of speed running decks was creating tension between players as a single player would utilize a speed running deck to separate from the rest of their team to rush ahead to finish the level. We made the following changes to bring speed running more in line with the viability of other strategies and builds.
Evasive – Speed reduced to 15% (from 20%)
Fleet of Foot – Move Speed bonus reduced to 8% (was 10%)
Fleet of Foot – Damage Resistance trade off increased to -7% (was -5%)
Mad Dash – Stamina Efficiency reduced to -40% (was -30%)
Olympic Sprinter – Damage Resistance trade off increased to -7% (was -5%)
Pep in your Step – Move Speed bonus reduced to 8% (was 10%)
Rhythmic Breathing – Stamina bonus reduced to 40% (was 60%)
Stimulants – Card Refactored. No longer gives move speed. Now gives 20% stamina regeneration, increased reload to 15% (was 10%), & increased swap speed to 15% (was 10%)
Combat Card Updates
Developer Note: We received feedback that players did not feel that slow and steady combat was as viable as other strategies. Additionally, we wanted to balance the changes to speed running in general. We’ve refactored and buffed the following combat cards to make combat more viable.
Combat Training – Removed 50% bullet penetration. Added +1 bullet stumble and +5 melee stumble
Combat Training – Now +5% bullet damage, +25% Bullet Stumble
Energy Drink – Stamina reduced to 15% (was 40%), Removed -5% damage resistance, Added Weapon Swap +25%, Move speed while firing +15%, Slow resistance +10%
Highwayman – Tooltip update to include all secondary weapons, ammo chance increased to 3% (was 2%), now has a chance to spawn Molotovs
Large Caliber Rounds – Now +7.5% bullet damage damage, +200% bullet pen, penalty removed
Line ‘Em Up – Now Range fall off +10%, Recoil Control +15, Bullet Pen +25%, ADS speed +25%. No longer requires ARs
Marathon Runner – No longer disables sprint
Developer Note: Intent with this is to enable kiting.
Mugger – Ammo chance increased to 3% (was 2%), now has a chance to drop razor wire
Patient Hunter – Reduced time per stack to 0.75 (was 1)
Power Swap – Effect can no longer be stacked
Power Swap – Weapon swap window increased to 1 second (was 0.75)
Power Reload – Reload window increased to 1 second (was 0.75)
Silver Bullets – Now +10% bullet damage, +15% to range falloff, penalty removed
Steady Aim – Added a stacking buff while ADS with that gives 10/20/30% recoil reduction over 2.25 seconds
Tunnel Vision – Added stat that increases weak spot damage the longer player is in ADS 5/10/15% over 2.25 seconds
Team Ammo (Vendor card) – Now also gives +1% increased damage
Well Fed – Removed 20% stamina efficiency
Healing Card Updates
Developer Note: In addition to the combat card buffs, we’ve made the following changes and buffs to healing cards.
Fresh Bandage – Now heals 15 health at the start of each level
Fresh Bandage – Trauma recovery increased to 15 (was 10)
Developer Note: This was buffed to mitigate the loss of trauma heal on Experienced EMT
Group Therapy – Heal increased to 8 (was 5)
Life Insurance – Life reduced to 1 (was 2), Now reduces team incap trauma by 15%, Remove copper loss
Needs of the Many – Health penalty reduced to -10 (was -20%)
Pep Talk – Now gives 3 flat damage resistance from all sources while reviving & grants 10 health to the revived target
Saferoom Recovery – Now also heals 15 health and trauma recovery up to 7 (was 5)
Developer Note: This was buffed to mitigate the loss of trauma heal on Experienced EMT
General Card Updates
The cards Share the Wealth, Box O’ Bags, Surplus Pouches, Experienced EMT, and Saferoom Recovery no longer apply their effects an additional time after a team wipe
Developer Note: We identified a bug where a number of cards were applied more or not as intended after a team wipe.
Team ammo cards on the vendor now give a 1% damage increase
Adrenaline Fueled – Card Refactored. No longer gives bonus stamina, no longer reduced stamina regen, no longer gives instant stamina, fueled stamina regen now stacks 5 times and gives 7 stamina over 7 seconds
Ammo Mule – No longer disables support items, but lowers move speed by 5%
Bounty Hunter – Updated text to mention contributing team kills
Experienced EMT – Card Refactored. Bonus Health reduced to 10% (was 20%), now also increases Stamina and Stamina Regen 10%
Card was refactored to make it usable in more situations.
Experienced EMT – No longer heals trauma
Developer Note: Due to the bug fix where this card was applying its effect more than intended, this ended up healing trauma which was not intended. We have buffed other cards such as Fresh Bandage and Saferoom Recovery to mitigate this change as well as adding a free first aid cabinet recharge to Nightmare.
Energy Bar – Stamina Regen increased to 30% (was 20%)
Hyper-Focused – Adjusted penalty to -40% move speed while shooting or melee attacking (was -75% ADS move speed)
Wooden Armor – No longer increases explosion damage taken
Corruption Card Updates
Corruption Boss cards will no longer appear at the start of an Act
Developer Note: These cards were causing a difficulty spike in all difficulties. We want players to have more time to prepare for bosses and later chapters.
Hag will no longer spawn with The Fog corruption card
Developer Note: The Hag was stacking with boss objectives, causing a difficulty spike in all difficulties.
Fog’s maximum density reduced for Gloomand The Fog corruption cards
Breakers removed from all difficulties of Search and Rescue: Book Worms
Balance Updates
All guns set to have the same Aim Assist snap length-duration
Aim Assist now locks onto the center of Sleeper base instead of the body
Aim snap time reduced to 0.1 seconds (was 0.25)
Made Aim Assist feel smoother when aiming at targets
Bird’s health reduced to 1 (was 10)
Flash Grenade damage reduced to 1 (was 5)
M16’s damage increased to 16 (was 14)
Burst M9’s damage increased to 12 (was 10)
Razor Wire is now a Quick Slot item
MP5 – Fire rate increased to 50%
Developer Note: decreased functionality was not intended, the MP5 is now in line with expectations.
870 – Fire rate reduced to 0.40 (was 0.55)
Combat Knife – Increased combat attack width
Lightweight Stock – Blue attachment movement speed buff reduced to +7.5% (was +10%)
Lightweight Stock – Purple attachment movement speed buff reduced to +10% (was +15%)
Nightmare and the shooting range in Fort Hope now multiply base friendly fire damage values by 2x
Balance Updates – Difficulty Specific
Developer Note: One of our goals this patch is to decrease the disparity between the various difficulties so there isn’t as much of a jump from Recruit to Veteran to Nightmare.
Recruit:
Player base damage resist increased to 25% (was 20%)
Continue currency bonus increased to 300 (was 250)
Continue Heal bonus increased to 75 (was 25)
Continue Trauma heal bonus increased to 25 (was 20)
Veteran:
Rescaled friendly fire values
Sleepers no longer call hordes
Player base damage increased to 120% (was 100%)
Player base Health increased to 115 (was 100)
Player Base ammo capacity increased 120% (was 100%)
Trauma heals per safe room +5 (was 0)
Continue currency bonus increased to 200 (was 150)
Continue Heal bonus increased to 25 (was 15)
First aid cabinet free use increased to 2 (was 1)
Nightmare:
Rescaled friendly fire values
First aid cabinet free use increased to 1 (was 0)
Special Ridden damage reduced by 35% (was 75%)
Common damage reduced by 50% (was 100%)
Nightmare extra trauma from incap reduced to 5 (was 10)
Reduce nightmare stumble resist on nightmare 25% (was 40%)
Reduced nightmare Special Ridden health buff to 7.5% (was 15%)
Continue currency bonus increased to 100 (was 0)
Continue Heal bonus increased to 10 (was 0)
Continue Trauma heal bonus increased to 5 (was 0)
Continue Card draw bonus increased to 1 (was 0)
Continue Ammo bonus increased to 15% (was 0)
Extra incap trauma reduced to 7 (was 10)
Spawning Updates
During endless Hordes and back-to-back hordes, all Horde Special Ridden are limited to 2 of a given type and a maximum of 4
Added a Horde Special Ridden cooldown
Developer Note: This helps avoid the doubling of Special Ridden when multiple hordes are triggered.
Timed Hordes made to have a longer minimum resume time of 60 seconds (was 30) with the exception of custom events.
Developer Note: If you triggered a horde while having a timed horde, it was possible to have the timed horde trigger too soon after the initial horde.
Roaming Special Ridden max count now 4 (was 6)
Developer Note: Limits the potential Special Ridden counts in certain situations.
Reduced chance for all Tallboy variants on Veteran and Nightmare difficulties
Increased Roaming Special Ridden minimum spawn distance to 30m (was 20m)
Increased Wander Special Ridden minimum spawn distance to 10m (was 5m)
Ridden AI Updates
Blighted Ridden no longer deal instant explosion damage when they die
Special Ridden’s defense against bullet penetration to weak spots has been reduced
Sleepers will more accurately connect with their targets
Tallboy & Bruiser hit boxes are more accurate and their weak spots are easier to hit
Developer Note: we cleaned up the Tallboy’s hit boxes to make them easier to hit. It should now be possible to hit their weak spot from the front if you have a precise weapon.
Developer Note: The following changes make their attacks a bit more forgiving to dodge.
Tallboy & Bruiser Overhead attack damage radius reduced to 200 units (was 250)
Tallboys have less ability to turn during a Burst traversal
Decreased Crusher squeeze attach distance for squeeze attack to 200 units (was 300)
Retch’s effective range in meters decreased to 22 (was 25), tracking and ramp up time adjusted to work better
Retch will rotate slightly slower and will track the target for slightly longer during vomit attack (2.25 seconds from 1.6)
Retch projectile spray starts at a lower velocity now (75% of max instead of 90% of max) and ramps up to max velocity over a longer period of time (0.75 seconds instead of 0.4 seconds)
Exploder’s explosion radius is now visible to the Ridden player
Developer Note: With the following changes, the Hocker’s ability should not be used as much, should be easier to dodge, and you should not take as much damage if an attack landed.
Hocker pin projectile speed reduced to 2500 (was 3500)
Hocker pin miss cooldown increased to 8 seconds (was 0)
Hocker pin hit cooldown increased to 8 seconds (was 2)
Hocker initial damage reduced to 5 (was 10)
Hocker damage over time increased to 3 (was 2)
Hag health reduced to 7500 (8200)
Hag weak spot multiplier increased to 2.25 (was 2)
Stinger projectile cooldown while perched increased
Developer Note: When the Stinger was perched, there was no cooldown on her projectile so she was able to rapidly attack Cleaners.
SWARM PVP UPDATES
General
Facial icons now appear when Ridden players ping Cleaners
All Cleaner dialogue for pinging Special Ridden is now audible to Ridden players
Survivor nameplates are visible to Ridden players
Card Updates
Inspiring Sacrifice – Sound effects volume reduced when effect is active
Balance Updates
General
Added leaver penalty warning popup in Fort Hope after leaving a PvP match
Cleaners
Cleaners now start each round with full ammo
Ridden
Mutation Points from players that disconnect in Swarm mode are now redistributed to their remaining teammates
Each player’s Mutation Points are now visible on their party frames
Hocker pin duration reduced back to 7 seconds (was showing 9999 on some pins)
Hocker pin damage reduced initial damage to 5 (was 10), increased the damage over time to 3 (was 2)
CONTROLLER UPDATES
Aim Assist Strength slider has been replaced by two separate sliders for Aim Assist Friction and Aim Assist Magnetism for Gamepad in the Options menu
Added options for Camera Acceleration (On/Off), Camera Movement (Linear/Exponential), and Player Movement (Linear/Exponential) to the Gamepad tab in the Options menu
UI/UX UPDATES
Cleaners being pursued by a Hag will now see a corresponding screen effect to indicate this
Can now easily duplicate decks in the Deck Manager
“Camera Smoothing Duration” has a slider added in the Options menu
Field of View options sliders separated for Cleaners and Ridden in the Graphics Options menu
FOV settings better support Ultrawide/ Multimonitor configurations
Added an option to toggle Blood / Vomit / Mud Drench in the Options menu
Added an option to set “Audio Input Device” in the Audio Options menu
The “Mute All” option is now toggled off automatically when you return to Fort Hope
Toggling VOIP on/off in options will enable/disable the other voice-related options & volume sliders. Warning message will say why it’s disabled
Improved the contrast and brightness of graphics on Xbox Series X
Jukebox tracks are now controlled by the Music slider instead of the SFX slider
Subtitles are now off by default
Social menu can now be brought up by selecting a player’s own banner in the Campaign menu
Updates to NVidia DLSS requires NVidia Driver 471.11 or later
BUG FIXES
FORT HOPE
General
Fixed an issue where players were not able to rejoin a private party from another player’s Fort Hope
Fixed an issue where damage numbers did not appear after changing characters in Fort Hope
Fixed an issue where the target dummy wouldn’t show consistent damage numbers in Fort Hope
Fixed camera view not resetting properly after dying while aiming down sights in Fort Hope
Fixed an issue where using the “Toggle Active Cards” key could disable the player’s HUD in Fort Hope
Fixed an issue where weapon skins were not always displaying properly in first person at Fort Hope
CAMPAIGN
Cards
Fixed Avenge The Fallen card showing an infinite amount of items in the offensive slot when active
Fixed Blood Donor card not playing its sound effects for the correct duration of time
Fixed Buckshot Bruiser reducing normal heal when temporary health decayed over time
Fixed Evasive Action card’s effect not triggering when the player was stomped by an Ogre
Fixed Field Surgeon card not applying the proper amount of negative use speed
Fixed Life Insurance card subtracting more copper than intended after a team wipe
Fixed Money Grubbers card having a discrepancy with the card values
Fixed Multitool card not applying -5% Damage resistance
Fixed Rousing Speech card having an incorrect incap trauma resistance of 80% instead of 20%
General
Fixed an issue where a late joining player’s ownership of a character could be lost if another player late joined the game
Fixed an issue where the The Lightning Strike skin for the Hatchet did not appear in 3rd person
Fixed an issue with the Combat Pro skin not displaying correctly on the Beretta M9
Fixed an issue where precision kill buffs were not activated from player and deck cards
Fixed an issue with all melee cards that did not function properly after a kill activation
Fixed an issue with Molotov flames not doing the right amount of damage to Ridden
Fixed an issue where jumping while sprinting wouldn’t consume additional stamina
Fixed an issue where Gunfire sound effects persisted on splash screens when the party host left the game
Fixed an issued where the player’s camera may snap up to 180° when entering ADS
Fixed damage numbers appearing twice when shooting at Ridden weakspots
Fixed the missing low ammo indicator when the clip is low, but ammo pool is infinite
Fixed certain weapon upgrades increasing damage by 25% when it should have been 20% and adjusted tier 1 weapon damage to compensate for this change
Fixed an issue causing players to aim down sights if the “Hold to ADS” option was off while healing a teammate
Fixed an issue where the “Give Up” prompt that was not properly displaying when the player was incapped a second time after taking over an incapped bot
Fixed an issue where bots were able to free each other remotely
Fixed an issue where bots would lose their accessories after a level transition
Fixed an issue where AI character cards stopped working after a team wipe
Fixed an issue where NPCs took friendly fire damage on Recruit difficulty
Fixed an issue where NPCs in saferooms are killable by players
Fixed an issue where the secondary objective timer could stop counting down after accessing the vendor
Fixed an issue that could result in 5+ players in a match when a player late joined
Fixed an issue with shotgun reload animations playing multiple times
Fixed an issue where players did not receive act achievements and accomplishments if a player died before reaching the saferoom
Fixed an issue with player shadows when illuminated by flashlights during The Dark and Gloom corruption cards
Fixed an issue where player loadouts were not being saved when they leave and rejoin after a map transition
Fixed an issue where players could still shoot while grabbed by the Ogre
Fixed an issue where the completion date could disappear from completed achievements when browsing the Accomplishments menu
Fixed icons for accomplishments that were not updating properly in the Accomplishments menu
The Devil’s Return: Resurgence
Fixed a rare issue where the bridge lacked collision
The Devil’s Return: The Crossing
Fixed an issue causing Coach to not give C4 instantly to players that were all gathered at the bridge
Fixed an issue where Coach was not giving players the C4 charges when players were more than halfway across the bridge
Search and Rescue: Book Worms
Fixed an issue that was preventing players from rescuing teammates from a rescue pod located on the second floor of the library
Job 10:22: Heralds of the Worm, Part 1
Fixed an issue where more than one Ogre card played per map after a team wiped
Dark Before the Dawn: Special Delivery
Fixed an issue where the supply box could disappear in the saferoom
Blue Dog Hollow: Bad Seeds
Fixed an issue where the kill feed was reporting the incorrect source of damage when players died in the river
Blue Dog Hollow: Abandoned
Fixed an issue preventing bots from reaching the tow truck
Blue Dog Hollow: The Sound of Thunder
Fixed collision issues with Ridden on the Howitzer
Plan B: The Broken Bird
Fixed an issue causing the helicopter to be misaligned
Dr. Rogers’ Neighborhood: Farther Afield
Fixed outlines for NPCs remaining on screen after the player was an appropriate distance away from the saferoom
Dr. Rogers Neighborhood: Cabins by the Lake
Fixed an issue that caused the game coach to repeat after delivering the battery to the gate
Dr. Rogers’ Neighborhood: Blazing Trails
Fixed an issue causing the Ogre to become stuck and unresponsive
Dr. Rogers’ Neighborhood: T-5
Fixed a crash that could occur when the player quit to Fort Hope
Remnants: Making the Grade
Fixed an issue causing [BOT] Holly to not have a deck
Fixed an issue where players could lose the battery if it was dropped in certain areas
Ridden
Fixed an issue where the Hag played the wrong animation when affected by a flash grenade
Fixed Ferocious Stalkers not healing while dealing damage
Fixed an issue where Stinger death sound effects did not always play
Fixed an issue where Hocker sound effects could still be heard after its death
Fixed an issue that was allowing bots to continue moving while they were pinned by the Hocker’s Impale attack
Fixed Blighted Ridden sound effects, which now only play while the Blighted card is active
Fixed an issue causing Ridden corpses to be missing half their body upon death
Fixed an issue where fire effects did not display on Hags hit with a molotov
SWARM PVP
Ridden
Fixed an issue where Ridden spawn visual effects did not appear
Fixed Tallboy’s Tier 3 Utility upgrade to reset properly after each overhead attack
Fixed an issue where playable Reekers and their variants could become stuck inside collision when charging and mantling over objects
Fixed the Stinger’s Kill Frenzy effect to last 10 seconds
ACCESSIBILITY
General
Fixed the red text on incap when players have Protanopia selected as the colorblind settings
UI/UX
General
Fixed an issue where players were unable to replay the tutorial from the main menu
Fixed HUD not displaying properly on Ultrawide resolutions
Fixed an issue with the look of loading screens on Ultrawide resolutions
Fixed the available amount of resolutions when in windowed mode when using a 21:9 monitor
Fixed Supply Lines and Character Selection screens not displaying properly on Ultrawide resolutions
Fixed an issue with the contrast levels of the contrast slider
Fixed an issue where weapons did not automatically swap from the primary to the secondary when out of ammo while “Auto Switch Weapons On Depleted Ammo” was toggled on in the options menu
MUXY – TWITCH EXTENSION
Features
Name a Ridden feature has been augmented to allow the Broadcaster to see visible nameplates in-game for viewers who have used bits to name a Ridden
Broadcasters can disable nameplates in the configuration page of the extension
Added more options for Bits
Broadcasters can now see how many people have voted in a card poll
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug preventing viewers names being associated with Ridden who killed Cleaners in the kill feed
Fix for Windows Store Builds that was preventing Authentication with the Extension
Fixed a bug that was causing the Name a Ridden feature to have duplicate names for a single viewer transaction
Once the patch is out, we’ll be sure to let our readers know. If you haven’t played the game yet, go read our review of it here, and see why it’s one heck of a multiplayer game.
Back in October, Ubisoft announced that The Division 2 will be getting its next major update in February 2022. Well, it seems, agents will have to wait a bit longer, as the publisher has announced that The Division 2 February update — and even the Apparel Event that was supposed to go live with Title Update 14 — has been delayed at a later, unspecified date!
Here’s the announcement from Ubisoft about it:
The Division 2 February Update Delay Confirmation:
That’s definitely a bummer, and what makes this even worse is, there’s not even a release window given to players. Given how The Division 2 seems to have underperformed, I guess this isn’t really that big of a surprise. That said, let’s hope there’s more to come in The Division 2 next year after this confirmed title update.
Speaking of which, Title Update 14 went live earlier today, and it features some holiday-themed stuff! Go check out the patch notes right here.
It’s that time of the year again, guardians! Bungie has launched the Destiny 2 Dawning 2021 event today, and same as in previous years, expect some holiday rewards, events and more! MP1st is here to help with the Destiny 2 Dawning 2021 schedule, rewards and more all in one place.
The Dawning is a limited-time live event in Destiny 2 which celebrates the winter season and the spirit of giving. The Dawning begins on December 14, 2021, and ends at the weekly reset on January 4, 2022.
During The Dawning, Eva Levante brings her baking supplies and Holiday Oven for all players to use and create holiday gifts that can be given to vendors across the system. To create these gifts, players must defeat various enemies in unique ways to earn materials and use Eva’s Holiday Oven 2.1 to combine them into baked gifts.
Players can expect the first-ever Statis-powered Sword named “Zephyr” to be reward by Eva!
Tess Everis will also have holiday stuff for guardians too! A new universal ornament set for each class will be available in Tess’ store in exchange for Bright Dust or Silver.
Quests and Bounties:
After players create their first holiday gift and speak to Eva, her full inventory will open up where players can obtain bounties, quests, and upgrades.
Dawning Spirit
Players will collect Dawning Spirit through completing bounties, claiming achievements, activating Boons of Friendship, and delivering cookies during the Dawning 2021. Collecting Dawning Spirit will progress Dawning-themed quests and can be exchanged at Eva for Dawning rewards and upgrades.
Upgrades:
Players can now purchase a variety of upgrades using their collected Dawning Spirit. Upgrades will last for the duration of the event, and provide bonus event rewards, add the ability for Dawning themed weapons to drop with additional perks, and increase the power and utility of Snowballs.
Merrymaker
Harvest
Essential Harvest
Perky Present
Perkier Presents
Long Winter
Longer Winter
Longest Winter
Stay Frosty
Gift That Keeps On Giving
Quests and Rewards:
Eva will offer two new quests to help players spread Dawning cheer throughout the system, “Rite of Dawning” and “The Pigeon Provides”. Completing these quests will unlock the Vapoorwill Spin exotic ship for players to acquire, as well as the Zephyr legendary sword. Players can also use Dawning Spirit to focus their “A Gift In Return” boxes from delivering cookies into “Unity Gift Exchanges” or “Edgy Gift Exchanges”. Once focused these gifts will provide targeted weapon drops from Dawnings past.
Unity Gift Exchange
Edgy Gift Exchange
Zephyr
Vapoorwill Spin
Players who missed out on previous year’s Dawning rewards will also be able to purchase two exotic Dawning Sparrows and an exotic Dawning ship with Glimmer and Legendary Shards:
Starfarer 7M
Dawning Cheer
Alpine Dash
Bounties:
Eva offers three different Dawning Bounties which will reward players for completing them: Weekly Bounties will reward Essence of Dawning and Bright Dust, Daily Bounties will reward different Ingredients, and Additional Bounties will reward Bright Dust and a random Ingredient. All bounties offer XP and Dawning Spirit, and players can add supplementary rewards through certain Dawning upgrades.
Weekly
Bounty
Daily
Bounty
Additional
Bounties
Recipes and Materials:
While Eva will bring her Holiday Oven with her, players will have to go out into the world to gather Materials and Essence of Dawning by defeating enemies and completing various activities in Destiny 2. Once players have enough Materials, they can combine them together to create tasty treats like Gjallardoodles and Dark Chocolate Motes. Players can combine Materials by finding Eva’s Holiday Oven 2.1 in their Quests, viewing the Oven’s “Details,” and selecting the Materials they wish to combine.
Players can then give these holiday gifts to vendors across the system, depending on what baked good has been created.
Gjallardoodles
For Commander Zavala
Materials : Ether Cane, Delicious Explosion
Traveler Donut Holes
For Ikora Rey
Materials : Cabal Oil, Flash of Inspiration
Chocolate Ship Cookies
For Amanda Holliday
Materials : Cabal Oil, Null Taste
Telemetry Tapioca
For Banshee-44
Materials : Vex Milk, Bullet Spray
Eliksni Birdseed
For Suraya Hawthorne
Materials : Ether Cane, Personal Touch
Gentleman’s Shortbread
For Devrim Kay
Materials : Ether Cane, Perfect Touch
Ascendant Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
For Eris Morn
Materials : Cabal Oil, Sharp Flavor
Infinite Forest Cake
For Failsafe
Materials : Vex Milk, Impossible Heat
Vanilla Blades
For Lord Shaxx
Materials : Cabal Oil, Sharp Flavor
Dark Chocolate Motes
For the Drifter
Materials : Taken Butter, Null Taste
Bright-Dusted Snowballs
For Tess Everis
Materials : Chitin Powder, Multifaceted Flavors
Ill-Fortune Cookies
For Petra Venj
Materials : Dark Ether Cane, Impossible Heat
Strange Cookies
For Xûr
Materials : Taken Butter, Electric Flavor
Lavender Ribbon Cookies
For Saint-14
Materials : Vex Milk, Personal Touch
Classic Butter Cookies
For Eva Levante
Materials : Taken Butter, Superb Texture
Eteric Coldsnaps
For Variks
Materials : Chitin Powder, Electric Flavor
Blueberry Crumblers
For Shaw Han
Materials : Ether Cane, Bullet Spray
Bittersweet Biscotti
For Crow
Materials : Dark Ether Cane, Balanced Flavors
Ascendant Apple Tart
For Mara Sov
Materials : REDACTED, REDACTED
Timeless Starwort Thins
For Elsie Bray
Materials : REDACTED, REDACTED
Triumphs:
During The Dawning, players can complete Dawning-related Triumphs for rewards. To track progress toward Dawning Triumphs, players should visit their Triumphs character menu, go into the Season of the Lost node, and navigate to the Events > The Dawning subpage.
Players have until The Dawning ends at the weekly reset on January 4, 2022, to complete Dawning Triumphs. Once The Dawning concludes, these Triumphs will no longer be eligible for progress, and incomplete Triumphs will be hidden.
PLEASE NOTE!
Triumphs for The Dawning 2021 that have been unlocked but not claimed will become inaccessible after The Dawning ends at the weekly reset on January 4, 2022.
Remedy Entertainment has confirmed that Alan Wake 2 will see the return of two voice actors, along with the confirmation that the title will maintain its third-person perspective.
Taking to Twitter, Game Director Sam Lake confirmed that both Ilkka Villi (voice of Mr. Scratch) and Matthew Porretta (voice of Alan Wake) will be returning to their role in the sequel.
Thank you for being as excited about Alan Wake 2 as we are ❤️🔥🔦. A couple of easy clarifications before we go dark to continue the work. Yes, this is a 3rd person game. Yes, both Ilkka Villi and Matthew Porretta return in the role of Alan Wake. #AlanWake@alanwake@remedygamespic.twitter.com/8UvzXGgKdE
What’s more, while Alan Wake 2 will be more focused on the horror survival side of things this time around, the title will indeed still be in third-person view, rather than something like first-person like so many other survival-based games. Not that this should be to the surprise of anyone, though it is nice to get some clarification on the matter, especially with so many studios changing up their franchise’s as of late (Resident Evil in particular).
In related news, Remedy recently commented on the new M rating for the franchise, stating that it’s “liberating” and won’t compromise on the horror side of things.
“For anything to do with Alan Wake the story is very central — this horror story,” Lake says. “Let’s do Remedy’s take on a survival horror game and focus on story… the horror story is this psychological, layered, deep mystery to dive into. And yes, it’s going to be scary. But it just works really really well with the gameplay.”
Alan Wake 2 is currently set to release sometimes in 2023 for the PS5, Xbox Series, and PC.
A gamer at heart, James has been working for MP1st for the last decade to do exactly what he loves, writing about video games and having fun doing it. Growing up in the 90's gaming has been in his DNA since the days of NES. One day he hopes to develop his own game.
Modus Games and Pixile today have released the all-new Super Animal Royale update 1.04 (PS5 version 1.004), bringing with it the start of Season 2! Here is everything included in today’s update in the official patch notes.
Super Animal Royale Update 1.04 | Super Animal Royale Update 1.004 | Super Animal Royale Season 2 Patch Notes:
Highlights
Season 2 Busy Busy Pass + New Starter Pack DLC
CRISPRmas Event: December 14th to January 4th
New Map Location: Beaver Construction HQ
New Super Animals: Super Beavers, Super Reindeer and a new Super Arctic Fox
Cross-play parties: invite your friends to squad up with any mixture of Steam, Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch!
SAR is now available to stream on Google Stadia in addition to GeForce Now, so you can play on your smartphone, in your browser, and more, with cross-play matchmaking and cross-save account syncing.
The Bwoking Dead limited-time mode returns during the CRISPRmas event!
Platform-Specific Highlights:
The PlayStation version no longer requires PlayStation Plus to play Super Animal Royale, but if you do have it, you’ll get a PlayStation exclusive cosmetic bundle of items!
We’re also debuting a new Xbox Game Pass Perks bundle for Ultimate subscribers!
The Nintendo Switch version of the Season 2 Starter Pack DLC arrives December 20th.
Stadia support for cross-play parties is coming soon.
We’ve also included a bunch of nice quality of life updates, game balancing and more, so read on below for all the details!
Season 2
Season 2 is here, and the formerly-pacifist beavers who work tirelessly behind the scenes to keep Super Animal Royale humming have finally joined the fight! To see why the beavers finally joined the fray, check out the latest episode of Super Animal Royale Tonight above.
Grab the new Busy Busy Pass for 49 tiers of unlockable items:
Construction-themed items inspired by Beaver Construction.
Steampunk items inspired by prolific S.A.W. inventor, and noted “busy busy” guy, Thomas Sledison.
Items to turn you into a busy bee.
And lots more, including S.A.W. Tickets and Super Serum.
Season 2 will last roughly three months and during that time you can unlock the pass for the discounted price of 550 S.A.W. Tickets. After that, it’ll move into the Archive for 750 tickets. As always, once you own it, you can take as long as you need to complete it, and when you own any Animal Pass from the archive you can make progress on up to two at once (including the current season’s pass) for double the earning. No more FOMO or rushing to complete passes!
Season 1 has now moved into the Archive, but if you already own it you can activate it on your second track to keep working on it, or purchase it if you missed it! We also made some improvements to controller navigation of the Animal Pass screen, and made button selection styles clearer.
Season 2 Starter Pack DLC
A new season also means a new Starter Pack DLC! Grab it while it’s available for the next ~3 months for a great deal on S.A.W. Tickets and exclusive cosmetic items and animal breed:
Super Moon Bear
Warrior Monk Outfit
Warrior Monk Sword
600 S.A.W. Tickets (500 + 100 bonus tickets)
Season 1’s Starter Pack DLC will go away on December 20th, so it’s your last chance to grab it now if you don’t have it yet!
CRISPRmas Event
December 14th to January 4th at 11:59pm PST
It’s CRISPRmas, Super Animals! The time of year when all Super Animals come together to celebrate the miracle of ethically dubious gene editing! And what better way to celebrate the cavalier rewriting of life’s sacred code than collecting the candy canes scattered around the island and redeeming them for 8 new limited-time CRISPRmas cosmetic items:
Snow Shovel
Red Pom Beanie
Ice Sunglasses
Gingerbread Gravestone
Snowflake Silenced Pistol
Festive Lights Umbrella
CRISPRmas Tree Dress
Winter Fur Hat
17 legacy CRISPRmas items also make their return and can be redeemed with candy canes. Make sure to also check out the S.A.W. Shop and Carl’s Cart during the event for additional holiday items.
Two new festive Super Animal breeds are also available in the Research Lab:
Super Arctic Fox
Super Reindeer
Note: The older versions of these breeds are still available and have been renamed Super White Fox and Super Rudolph. As always, the new breeds are permanent additions to the Research Lab, so you don’t need to rush to earn them during the event!
We’ve also added a leaderboard for the top 10 players collecting candy canes, for bragging rights. The leaderboard is hidden by default, but you can see who’s the candy caniest by pressing the white leaderboard button in the top right of the event window. Note that the amount displayed includes the total candy canes earned at the end of each match (not just from collecting them off the ground).
The Bwoking Dead infection mode returns!
The Cluckles outbreak continues: play The Bwoking Dead for the entire 3 week duration of the CRISPRmas event! Round up a squad of friends and try to survive the zombie chicken apocalypse and escape the island on a Giant Eagle. You can check out a full rundown on the mode in our previous patch notes here.
Beaver Construction HQ
Home to the island’s renowned (and only) general contracting company, Beaver Construction HQ is a hive of busy busy activity between the royales, and makes a dam good spot for gunfights during them. The sprawling complex is built along the river, like a traditional beaver lodge, with three crossable dams connecting the two main buildings, and a water-entry den that serves as the foreman’s (er…forebeaver’s) office.
Other details worth seeking out include the “Three Busy Beavers” lobby statue depicting the legendary founders of Beaver Construction, the lumber mill that feeds all the company’s projects…and some of their employees, the Emu cart loading dock, the vending machines selling choice cuts of fresh wood, a scale model of the Super Animal Super Stage, and a few stashed Lunar New Year statues taking their twelve-year timeouts.
Super Beavers
The beleaguered Beaver Construction workers who once labored tirelessly to build Super Animal World, and now labor thanklessly to clean it up after every messy battle, are ready to make their own messes. As seen on the latest episode of SAR Tonight, the Super Beavers are finally stepping out from their backstage roles and joining the fray!
To start, there’s three breeds that can be created in the Research Lab starting at Level 40:
Super Beaver
Super Pink Beaver
Super Beever
Squad up With Friends on Any Platform
You can now invite your friends to squad up with you regardless of which platform they’re playing on! Cross-play party invites generate a 4 digit code that your friends can enter to join your party (and there’s also a handy button to copy it to your clipboard to help with sharing it with them).
So whether you and your friends are playing on Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, or GeForce Now, you’ll be able to squad up with any combination of platforms. The PlayStation version of SAR also no longer requires PlayStation Plus to play!
We’ve also added the ability for hosts to be able to kick players from the group if necessary, and this applies to both cross-play and same-platform parties.
Gameplay / Quality of Life Updates
Ammo loot no longer glows like other loot to reduce visual clutter.
Improved collisions in the bamboo forest so they’re smoother and have fewer jagged edges to get caught on.
Increased Bandolier carrying capacity: light bullets from 140 to 150, shotgun shells from 35 to 40, big bullets from 100 to 110, sniper ammo from 35 to 40, dart ammo from 40 to 45, and sparrows from 40 to 45.
Dual Pistols initial fixed recoil has been increased from 1/2/3° to 1.5/2.5/4.0°, and random recoil increased from 4° to 4.4°. Dual Pistols perform very well, so this aims to balance them a bit by creating slightly more effort to control them.
Increased Hamsterball audible distance from 160 game units to 185 so you can hear them coming from even further away and get out of the way.
Skunk Bombs now have 40% reduced spawn rate in the Bwoking Dead mode. The maximum carrying capacity for Skunk Bombs in this mode has also been reduced to 3 (or max 4 with Bandolier).
Mole crate icon now displays for 45s, and the minimap icon no longer disappears when someone opens it. We increased its visible duration to 60s last patch and this ended up feeling a bit too long, and the addition of displaying its looted state on the minimap provided enemies too much information of what was happening in the fog of war so we’ve reverted this change.
For private match hosts:
/banana command can now specify the number of bananas, up to 10. (ie “/banana 6”)
/rainoff command to disable rain in a particular match. Note that this doesn’t work while it is already actively raining in-game.
/getpos can now specify a player number as well (ie “/getpos 14” to get position of player 14)
Removed /getposition variant of /getpos since it’s longer and not necessary.
S.A.W. Shop Sales
We previously added bundle sales to the S.A.W. Shop, and we’re continuing to add more of them (watch the S.A.W. Shop the week of December 28th for a new one), but now we’ll also be having sales on individual items! To start, we’re planning on discounting items that you’ll be familiar with and have already rotated through the shop a few times. If you boot up the game when the update arrives you’ll already see some individual item sales and they’ll continue to rotate in and out over the next few weeks!
Be sure to keep an eye on the S.A.W. Shop during the CRISPRmas event too, as we’ll be rotating in new featured items for the holidays each week.
Other Updates & Bug Fixes
Steam users can add the tag -novid in SAR’s Steam launch options to auto-skip logo videos.
Performance optimizations: Spine animations and game loot are now more efficient.
Reduced total number of environment texture atlases to help load times and reduce VRAM usage slightly.
SMOMA art pieces are now loaded individually from the hard-drive at the time of viewing, rather than all at game load, further reducing load time.
Controller Right-Trigger can now open the event shop when pressing it while on the last tab (DLC) of the Shop screen.
News box won’t auto-rotate while your mouse is hovering over it or while your controller is selecting it.
Bwoking Dead mode now warns the player if they’re leaving the match early and will miss out on the end-game rewards.
Improved spawn algorithm for zombies early on in Bwoking Dead matches, which should help eliminate the issue of respawning deep in the gas during the first circle.
Fixed a bug where the emote wheel could get stuck on-screen when boarding the escape eagle in Bwoking Dead.
Fixed a bug where throwing a grenade while dying would leave you unable to melee as a zombie in the Bwoking Dead.
Fixed a bug where loot would sometimes go behind a wall in Pixile Port.
Fixed a bug where the Bow & Sparrow’s pull-back sound was not matching the animation of 0.5s.
Fixed health bars not displaying while spectating the player who killed you.
Fixed a bug where binding a key would only check one conflict (for instance, binding Map to (A) was resetting the Reload binding, but not Mark Map, and now it does both correctly).
Animal Pass preview in the top-left of the main menu no longer shows an incorrect initial state (with the blue baseball cap) before finishing loading.
Fixed a bug where logging out or unlinking an account wouldn’t refresh the animal pass archive pass screen once logged back in.
Fixed controller navigation getting stuck when trying to buy an Archive Animal Pass without enough tickets.
Fix for in-game settings screen’s report button not being navigable by controller.
Fixed bug where binding (B) control with a controller (while in-game) would close the controls menu.
Fixed Coconut Costume being above armor visually.
Fixed incorrect icons for Farmer Outfit and RedShift Outfit.
Improved compression artifacts on Vampire Hunter items from Twitch Drops.
Halloween Tee has been renamed to Howloween Tee.
Added translations for errors with coupon code redemption.
Added several translation fixes.
These were some seriously long patch notes, so if you made it all the way to this point, a winner is you. Please enjoy this trailer, and we’ll see you on the island!
A gamer at heart, James has been working for MP1st for the last decade to do exactly what he loves, writing about video games and having fun doing it. Growing up in the 90's gaming has been in his DNA since the days of NES. One day he hopes to develop his own game.
In case you didn’t know, Studio Wildcard released a new Ark Survival Evolved update today that included free DLC! While that might be the biggest news for the game today, the studio has also launched the Ark Survival Evolved Winter Wonderland 2021 event too! Check out the schedule, skins and more details below.
Ark Survival Evolved Winter Wonderland 2021 Schedule, Skins and More:
Begins: December 14, 2021 – Ends: January 6, 2022
Deck the halls with boughs of holly! Winter Wonderland will be making a triumphant return with new presents and goodies for ARK survivors. The epic winter-themed holiday event begins on December 14th and will last until Thursday, January 6th. All maps will receive Winter Wonderland and all its content.
RaptorClaus will be sailing across the star-filled night sky in his sleigh, dropping off presents filled with high-end loot as well as Mistletoe, and Coal for those naughty Survivors. You’ll be able to catch RaptorClaus flying across the skies at midnight (game time) on all maps.
GachaClaus is also making a triumphant return to help RaptorClaus spread the holiday cheer! GachaClaus will be roaming all maps looking for eager recipients while sporting holiday-themed colors. He will be accepting your coal and in exchange will gift you holiday-themed items, or you can trade-in your mistletoe and coal for a chance at an animated TV Show Parasaur skin, a full-body Santa costume, new skins, weapons, armor, or 5 new Chibis!
This event can be manually activated with the server arg parameter: -ActiveEvent=WinterWonderland
December 14th to January 6th
*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game’s standard 1x rates.
Official Servers:3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
Small Tribe Servers:4.5x XP, 4.5x Harvesting, 4.5x Taming, and 4x Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
Studio Wildcard has released the Ark Survival Evolved update 2.71 patch this December 14 on all platforms, and this is for new DLC! Players will be getting the community map Lost Island with the title update, as well as the return of Winter Wonderland, and some fixes are included as well. Read on for the full patch notes.
Ark Survival Evolved Update 2.71 Patch Notes:
Patch File Sizes (Estimated):
PC / EGS: ~30GB
XBOX: ~50GB
PS4: ~50GB
Transfer Restrictions
Character Upload/Download is enabled
Item/Dino Upload is enabled
Item/Dino Download is disabled
Current Version: v698.18 – 12/14/2021 – Major version update for clients and servers
Free DLC ‘Lost Island’ is now available! Introducing a new map with over 150 sq km playable area, and 3 new creatures; the Amargasaurus, Dinopithecus, and Sinomacrops!
Winter Wonderland will be making a triumphant return with new presents and goodies for ARK survivors. Use the server parameter -ActiveEvent=WinterWonderland to begin the event.
For the duration of Winter Wonderland, we have disabled the world buffs from the Genesis Part 2 Missions on the Official Network: Baby Boon & Maewing Poach. In the past, we’ve adjusted for the impact this event has had on the rates by tweaking the bonuses that we use during the holidays, however those tweaks lead to unfavourable circumstances on maps that aren’t Genesis Part 2, so going forward during breeding events, we’ll be disabling these mission buffs specifically as not to affect the bonuses on other maps.
Fixed some exploits
Fixed some server and crashes
Fixed a bug where the TEK Bow would fire inconsistently
Regarding the Lost Island community map DLC, there are three new creatures included in it, and there’s a trailer and more revealed as well:
Ark Survival Evolved Lost Island Free DLC Details:
Explore the soaring heights and hidden depths of ARK’s newest official community map, featuring three new creatures for you to tame! Lost Island boasts 150 square kilometers of new biomes, new challenges, and mysterious ruins.
Discover jungle valleys fed by giant waterfalls, build a treehouse high in the forest canopies, get down and dirty in vast mangrove swamps, dive deep underwater, brave treacherous snowy peaks, or spelunk uncharted cave systems in search of treasure… There’s something here for everyone!
Lost Island is the first community map released with three new creatures, and the first to include a creature chosen by the ARK community. Unleash thermal hell from atop your Amargasaurus, glide into battle with Sinomacrops at your back, or treat your enemies to a shower of Tek-disabling Dinopithecus dung!
A 150 sq km map with a wide variety of unique biomes to explore
Cascade Rift, a rainforest chasm carved by a flowing river and strung with thick vines
Mangrove Mire, a forbidding region of flooded swamplands
Castellate Peaks, a snow-capped alpine ridge that comes pre-fortified with stone fortresses
Get ready to check out some pretty neat independent titles made by some passionate developers, as the Nintendo Indie World Showcase is scheduled to air tomorrow.
The show will be featured on the Nintendo YouTube channel, with the Indie World Showcase scheduled for December 15 at 9 am PT and 12 pm ET.
Set for approximately 20 minutes and delivering some news about the upcoming indie games coming to Nintendo Switch, the Indie World Showcase will be the latest video presentation since the last Nintendo Direct a couple of months ago. While we have no idea what kind of games will be coming and what will be revealed, there’ll definitely be some interesting new independent titles that will catch the eyes of Switch owners looking to try something different and unique.
If you missed the last Nintendo Direct, you can read the recap and highlights right here.
Norsfell has released the Tribes of Midgard update 2.00 (PS5 version 2.000) this December 14, and this is for the Season 2: The Serpent Saga content! Given the timing, players can expect some holiday-themed goodies and event as well, which are all listed in the patch notes below.
Tribes of Midgard Update 2.00 Patch Notes | Tribes of Midgard Update 2.000 Patch Notes | Tribes of Midgard Season 2 Patch Notes:
Embracing the festive spirit with sharpened candy canes held high, the launch of Saga 2 also marks the beginning of our Yulidays celebration! Starting on December 14th and continuing until January 3rd, 2022, you’ll notice a wintery makeover to the Main Menu as well as some decorations laid about the Village.
FEATURES
New Biome: Open Seas
The emergence of Jömungandr has changed the seas of Midgard forever! All Worlds are now generated with a far greater balance of water now populated with islands filled with dangerous creatures, rare resources, and valuable treasures.
New Structure: Shipyard
A new structure. A ruined Shipyard can be found on an Ash Beach biome located near the Village. Gather enough resources to rebuild the Shipyard, and you’ll be able to craft Boats from it directly
Boats, Boats, Boats!
Having conquered the Wolf Saga, the Einherjar further reflect on their past lives as Vikings and the old ways. With renewed purpose, they remembered the lost art of sailing these majestic vessels across the seas.
Swimming
That’s right, swim! Not only did the Einherjar recently remember the ancient art of sailing, but the crucial skills necessary to survive in a world with so much water—until they run out of stamina.
New Saga Boss: Jörmungandr
Jörmungandr has risen! The notorious poisonous World Serpent resides in his Lair at the heart of the ocean, and if he is not stopped soon, he will consume all of Midgard in the name of Ragnarök.
New Saga Quest and Saga Quest Selection
With a new Saga Boss introduced, we’ve also introduced a new Saga Quest that will guide you on your journey to defeat Jörmungandr.
Fenrir remains as part of the World, as is the Saga Quest to defeat him. If you’re feeling particularly brave (and fast), you can even attempt to complete both Saga Quests in a single World.
Please note that during Season 2, the Jörmungandr Saga is selected by default but can be changed at the Quest Board at any time.
New Condition: Poisoned
Some of the newly introduced enemy attacks, such as from a Selkie’s claws or Jörmungandr’s spit, are capable of poisoning you. The Poisoned condition will slowly eat away at your HP and Mana if you’re afflicted.
New Armor Perks
Saga 2 debuts the Armor Perks system. Every piece of Armor in Tribes of Midgard now contains an additional passive bonus.
Each Perk is assigned to a particular Armor Set.
You can also mix and match Armor Perks if you’re feeling creative. Multiple pieces with the same Armor Perk will stack the bonus!
Armor Perks per Armor Set:
Villager: Increase chance to receive double the loot from enemy drops per piece equipped.
Hersir: Increase Sword damage per piece equipped.
Raider: Increase Axe damage per piece equipped.
Feral: Increase Hammer damage per piece equipped.
Nornir: Increase Thunder damage per piece equipped.
Seiðr: Increase Damage against Helthing per piece equipped.
Útgarð: Increase Ice damage per piece equipped.
Gullveig: Increase Fire damage per piece equipped.
Serpent (New Set): Increase Dark damage per piece equipped.
Fornjót: Increase Damage against Jötunn per piece equipped.
Baldr: Regenerate HP every 10 seconds. Amount healed increases per piece equipped.
Fenrir: Increase Damage against Saga Bosses per piece equipped.
Jörmungandr (New Set): Regenerate Mana every 2 seconds. Amount gained increases per piece equipped.
CONTENT
New Creature: Seals (so cute)
A new docile creature that inhabits the coasts of Midgard.
New Creature: Selkie (not so cute)
Often disguising themselves as Seals, at first, these vicious creatures will lunge at you if you get too close and chant to slow you.
New Creature: Fossegrim (also not so cute)
Armed with their trusty lyres, Fossegrims come bearing one of three magical songs that provide benefits to their allies in a nearby radius.
New Camps: Beacons
These unique Camps are fortified with a gauntlet of Turrets and host enemies defending a sacred Beacon used to light the way to Jörmungandr.
New Runes:
We have added 5 new Runes to bolster your options and provide new strategies. See below for their abilities and how to acquire them:
Nothing to Wield [Rare].
Mana Pathfinder [Rare].
Harvest Boom [Rare].
Winter’s Wake [Epic].
Eira’s Gift [Legendary].
New Starter Kits:
We have added 6 Starter Kits to shake-up that early-game routine!
Builder Starter Kit [Uncommon].
Industrial Starter Kit [Rare].
Twin Knuckle Starter Kit [Rare].
Tactical Retreat Starter Kit [Rare].
Sailor Starter Kit [Epic].
Expedition Starter Kit [Legendary].
New Rewards Track
With the official arrival of our second Season, a fresh Rewards Track is ready to be conquered! Gain progress by playing Tribes of Midgard to earn Season XP and earn bonus XP from timed Challenges. 49 new levels and 49 new rewards await, Einherjar!
Season Rewards from the previous Season have been shifted to the Shop and can be acquired with Golden Horns. See Shop V2 section below for more details.
New Cosmetic Set:
Pirate Set – Armor x5 and Equipment x5
New Pet:
Flyte Master – Fight or flyte? Well, this snarky parrot has become somewhat of a local legend among the Einherjar for its skill at flyting. No feelings were spared.
Baby Jormie – Before he was the World Serpent, he was just a cute little fella who never wanted to leave his shell. Hard to believe how big he got.
And Much More!
New Ruin and decoration landmarks to enhance visual variety
New “Defeat Jörmungandr 1x, 5x, 10x” Challenges with unique rewards
New “Defeat 2 Saga Bosses in a single World” Challenge (for those who dare!)
Over 50 new sound effects and VOs in High Midgardian for immersion
Shimmering visual effect on the Village Quest Board to draw attention to it when no Personal Quest has been selected.
Multiple performance optimizations, updated visuals, and various other improvements
CRAFTING
New Crafted Equipment Recipes:
Jörmungandr’s Maw [Legendary]
Spell 1 – Whirlwind Tail++:
Spell 2 – Poison Spit+
Spell 3 – Crashing Waves
Jörmungandr Armor [Legendary]
Grants Poisonproof++
Jörmungandr Shield [Legendary]
Serpent Gnasher (Axe) I / II / III
Spell 1 – Slash
Spell 2 – Summon
Serpent Armor [Epic]
Grants Poisonproof+
Serpent Shield [Epic]
New Potion Recipe: Immunity Elixir
No longer worry about being stunned, slowed, poisoned, weakened or even lit on fire.
Yulidays Event – December 14th, 2021 – January 3rd, 2022
Festive Challenges:
During the Yulidays Event, there will be 3 Festive Challenges that can only be completed during this limited time event.
Complete these challenges to earn unique Yulidays Content, see Yulidays Content below for details.
Present Loot Chest:
We’ve added a new Loot Chest to safeguard your belongings when things don’t go as planned. This Loot Chest is specially gift wrapped for the Yulidays!
Yulidays Pet:
Bucky the Yule Goat – Oft-forgotten and stuck on the sidelines, this year’s holiday event marks Bucky the Yule Goat’s time to shine!
Yuliday Portrait:
A special Portrait to show off your festive spirit!
Yulidays Cosmetics:
Allfather Yule Set – Armor x5 and Equipment x5.
Balance Changes:
Jötunn pacing reduced to accommodate new world generation (smaller mainland)
The Nothing to Hide Rune’s behavior has been altered, in that now you only receive the Rune’s damage bonus if all Armor slots are empty, rather than an incremental bonus per empty slot. The total bonus damage remains the same, but you must embrace the full nakedness to wield it. Shine on you wild Viking!
Rarity of Sorcerer & Merchant Treasure Maps changed from Common to Uncommon
Personal Quests now contain a Treasure Map Consumable as a Reward to help exploration
Harshest Winter Personal Quest’s Speed Elixir reward replaced with Immunity Elixir
Immunity Elixir can now also be found in the Ruins treasure chests on an Ash Beach
Villager Bow II can be found in the Ruins Treasure Chests
Lair Treasure Maps can now be found in the last Treasure Chest of a Hideout
Hideout Artifacts can now be purchased at the Smoky Highlands Sorcerer for Souls
Jötunn Artifacts can now be purchased at the Ash Beach Sorcerer for Souls
All Elite Creatures are now immune to status effects
Dökkálfar enemy type now has Voidproof protection
Unsunken enemy type now has Voidproof protection
Explosive Finale Rune Damage has been increased by 100
Might of Mjolnir Rune Damage has been increased by 100
Storm Chaser Rune Damage has been increased by 100
Range of Baldr’s Blade Whirlwind Spell has been reduced by 100
Lumberyard now produces 20% more Materials
Farm now produces 20% more Materials
QoL Changes
Shop V2
We’ve redone the Shop layout and how items, old and new, are made available to players.
Most notably, the Shop categories and their contents have changed:
Firstly, based on your feedback, we’ve separated out the purely Cosmetic Items from items with Gameplay impact, such as Runes, Recipes, Tools and Starter Kits and made these Gameplay items available at all times.
By selecting Weapons, Protections, or Accessories from the Gameplay section, you’ll be able to unlock items from Season 1: Wolf Saga using Golden Horns.
The Essentials section now contains purely Cosmetic items for your Character Customization, such Hair Dye and Portraits and also includes Cosmetics from Season 1: Wolf Saga, all of which can be acquired with Golden Horns.
The Featured items will continue to rotate on a Weekly basis, but we’ve added the ability to select and browse entire themed Sets as ‘Bundles’. You can select the Bundle icon on the Shop menu to view all items associated with that Set and purchase them individually or grouped together as a Bundled unlock.
As always, all Gameplay content is attainable with Golden Horns and Season progression only. In other words, Gameplay items will always require Gameplay to unlock.
Auto-Equip V2
Upon crafting a piece of equipment more powerful than what is currently equipped, the newly crafted item will automatically be equipped instead.
Upon repairing a piece of equipment more powerful than what is currently equipped, the newly repaired item will automatically be equipped instead.
Donate Max
When donating resources to any structure or vendor, we’ve added a ‘Donate Max’ shortcut you can press to instantly deposit all the required Materials and Souls, provided you have them in your Inventory.
Consumable/Construction Drop
Players are now able to drop the number of Consumables or Constructions they want instead of their full stack. Works in the Inventory and War Chest.
Pre-Built Fortified Gates
All game modes now have their Villages come pre-equipped with Level 1 Gates at all entrances. They can still be upgraded to Levels 2 and 3 per normal. This should help alleviate a lot of the pressure of the first few days of exploration as the Village will be able to take care of itself for a little while. Just remember to close the Gates when you leave the Village (hey, it happens to the best of us).
Personal Quests and the Quest Board
All Personal Quests taken from the Quest Board will now skip the introductory step of requiring the Player to interact with the Quest NPC before they can get started on the objectives.
Now, when selecting a Personal Quest from the Quest Board, your tracker will update with the objective right away and you only need to interact with the Quest NPC when turning the Quest in.
Quest Rewards have been reworked to accommodate new content.
Quest progress can be tracked on the Quest Board itself now, instead of disappearing after selecting a Quest
Matchmaking Region Selection
Upon selecting a Matchmaking game, you can now select your choice of Server Region, or stick with Automatic, which will connect you to the fastest result as usual.
War Chest Arrows to Archer Tower
Donating Special Arrows to your Village’s Archer Tower now looks at your Inventory as well as the War Chest, just like Gates.
New and Improved Alerts
Session-wide text Alerts will now be displayed when a player:
Rebuilds a Village Fortification, the Bridge or the Shipyard
Upgrades a Village Station, Fortification or the Shipyard
Clears out all the enemies of a Hideout
Light up a Beacon
Steam/Epic Game Store Invites
With Tribes of Midgard now available on the Epic Games Store, players who link their Steam accounts to Epic Games Store accounts, and vice versa, will be able to send Invites to each other as normal.
Matchmaking on PC includes all PC Players regardless of platform.
Game Over Screen
We’ve updated the Game Over screen at the end of each Session to show some additional statistics:
Golden Horns earned is now displayed
Saga Bosses Slain is now displayed
Seed number of that World Generation is now displayed
Hunter Class Unlock
With the expanded World and addition of islands, we’ve changed the requirement for unlocking the Hunter Class from Activating all Shrines in a World to Activate 15 Shrines in a World to keep the challenge accessible.
Ranger Slow Poke
Ranger’s Slow Poke Blessing has been improved so that the effect can now also be triggered by Bow attacks in addition to standard melee attacks.
Notable Bug Fixes
Fixed some isolated instances of a World spawning without a Bridge or Fenrir Lair
Fixed an issue with Hunter’s Skaði’s Spirit Blessing in which the decoy would not taunt nearby enemies properly
Fixed some instances where players were getting kicked just after defeating Fenrir
Fixed an issue in which the Linnorm were far too mighty and able to fling Giants with their tail swipes
Fixed an issue that was causing Hálogi to get stuck at the Village Gates after destroying them
Fixed an issue in which the Far-Fetched Rune was not adding the full damage benefit
Kills made with Traps are now correctly attributed to the player and earn XP
Blizzard Entertainment has released the Diablo 2 Resurrected update 1.12 (PS5 version 1.012) patch this December 14, and this fixes the difficulty scaling access, alongside other bug fixes for both PC and consoles. Head on below for the full patch notes. Note that Blizzard also calls this the 12.6 title update, so don’t be confused if you see that version number used alongside the console version numbers.
A new patch is now available for Windows® PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation®5, and PlayStation®4. As of 12/14, the Nintendo Switch patch is now available.
BUG FIXES
Consoles
Fixed an issue that required players to have a premium account to access offline player difficulty scaling.
Fixed an issue that caused Assassin traps and Sorceress Hydras to teleport to the player after they move a certain distance from where the skill was cast.
Windows PC
Fixed an issue that caused Assassin traps and Sorceress Hydras to teleport to the player after they move a certain distance from where the skill was cast.
Fixed an issue where players were unable to bind mouse wheel inputs to skills.
That’s about it for this title update. Head on over here to see the past patches that Blizzard has released to see if there are certain bugs that still needs squashing.
Crystal Dynamics has released the Marvel’s Avengers update 1.000.031 patch this December 14, which is called update 2.2.1 by the studio. Head on below for the complete patch notes, and clarification/update on the missing Units and Fragments.
In Discordant Sound, the giant Klaw no longer fires his one-shot beam up to three times in a row, sometimes without indicators.
Stability improvements for the Discordant Sound Raid.
After completing the Forge or Control Room in Discordant Sound, the correct loading screen cinematic appears for all players when it previously didn’t play for some players.
When players take the elevator to the Forge in Discordant Sound, they no longer eject or clip through it.
USER INTERFACE
[PS] Spider-Man’s Wrestler and Alumnus Outfits’ preview icons now match the actual outfit.
[PS] The Marketplace preview image for the Spider-Man Emote ‘Aww Shucks’ is now the correct one.
COMBAT
[PS] Spider-Man’s Web-Repeater Skill description indicates that it can be used in air now.
[PS] Unlocking any Webbed Mastery Skill for Spider-Man no longer unlocks an additional Intrinsic Mastery Skill in the same position.
Iron Man no longer becomes invincible when failing to summon the Hulkbuster on uneven ground.
ART AND ANIMATION
[Xbox] The eyes and eyebrows for Captain America’s Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War Outfit appear correctly on Xbox.
GEAR, CHALLENGES, AND REWARDS
Players who previously unlocked Intel Outfits now have them properly unlocked again.
Kate Bishop now gets a piece of Vibranium Payload gear at low Power Levels in the Corrupted Vibranium Event.
Crystal Dynamics has also shared that they are still planning on reimbursing the lost Units and Fragments, though it is an “entirely seprate thing” from this patch, and an update about it will be shared “soon.”
Once the update or announcement is out for the missing Units and Fragments, we’ll let our readers know.
As expected given the previous announcement, Crystal Dynamics has released the Marvel’s Avengers update 1.56 patch this December 14, which is called update 2.2.1 by the studio. Check out the complete patch notes below, which lists various fixes from UI and combat tweaks to rewards.
In Discordant Sound, the giant Klaw no longer fires his one-shot beam up to three times in a row, sometimes without indicators.
Stability improvements for the Discordant Sound Raid.
After completing the Forge or Control Room in Discordant Sound, the correct loading screen cinematic appears for all players when it previously didn’t play for some players.
When players take the elevator to the Forge in Discordant Sound, they no longer eject or clip through it.
USER INTERFACE
[PS] Spider-Man’s Wrestler and Alumnus Outfits’ preview icons now match the actual outfit.
[PS] The Marketplace preview image for the Spider-Man Emote ‘Aww Shucks’ is now the correct one.
COMBAT
[PS] Spider-Man’s Web-Repeater Skill description indicates that it can be used in air now.
[PS] Unlocking any Webbed Mastery Skill for Spider-Man no longer unlocks an additional Intrinsic Mastery Skill in the same position.
Iron Man no longer becomes invincible when failing to summon the Hulkbuster on uneven ground.
ART AND ANIMATION
[Xbox] The eyes and eyebrows for Captain America’s Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War Outfit appear correctly on Xbox.
GEAR, CHALLENGES, AND REWARDS
Players who previously unlocked Intel Outfits now have them properly unlocked again.
Kate Bishop now gets a piece of Vibranium Payload gear at low Power Levels in the Corrupted Vibranium Event.
Crystal Dynamics has also shared that they are still planning on reimbursing the lost Units and Fragments, though it is an “entirely seprate thing” from this patch, and an update about it will be shared “soon.” Once we know more, we’ll let our readers know.
It’s Tuesday, and that means another heaping of activities are live for players to complete in Destiny 2 is now live! The new Destiny 2 weekly reset December 14, 2021 refresh of activities is now live, with details listed below, along with the Eververse rotation of items for sale.
New Destiny 2 Weekly Reset December 14, 2021 and Eververse Rotation:
As expected, Cold Iron Studios has released the Aliens Fireteam Elite update 1.14 (PS5 version 1.014) patch this December 14, which is for Season 2: Point Defense! Not only is there new content, but a ton of gameplay-related adjustments have been made as well. Read on for the full patch notes below.
Season 2: Point Defense is here, and with it we’ve introduced a new, free, survival-based defensive game mode called Point Defense. Explore an all new map while you defend against destructive hordes of xenomorphs. In addition to the launch of Point Defense, there’s a new Lifetime Stats feature, as well as new weapons, cosmetics, and rewards to unlock in-game.
Owners of the Deluxe edition will also receive the second of their four DLC Packs with the new Nostromo Salvage DLC, detailed below.
FREE CONTENT UPDATE
New Game Mode: Point Defense
Challenge your Fireteam with a new survival-based defensive game mode where you must protect, repair, and hold three different strategic points through multiple attack waves from the xenomorph threat. Use Fabrication Points earned during each wave to buy temporary Consumables, and help your team survive the next attack! Unlock up to 20 new rewards by succeeding at various difficulty levels.
Available for free to all players.
Unlocks immediately for all players who have already completed all four campaigns, and will unlock for all other players upon completion of all four campaigns.
3 emotes (“Come At Me,” “Noodle Arms,” and “Cower”)
13 new Attachments (Auxiliary Accelerator, Forward Mount Laser, Anti-Materiel Brake, SmartAssist Sight, Dual Optics, Augmented Sight, Inhibitor Rounds, Destabilizing Magazine, High Impact Rounds, Counterbalanced Magazine, Combat Actuator, Bracing Armature, and Smooth Bore)
New Game Feature: Lifetime Stats
Take pride in your Colonial Marine’s service record and keep track of your performance with the new Lifetime Stats feature. Track your progress as you work toward desired rewards and achievements. Review your general career stats, your performance with each Class Kit, and with each weapon. You can review each mission to see which Class Kits and difficulties you’ve completed it with, and check your best completion time.
Due to some legacy tracking issues prior to Season 1’s launch, you may notice some discrepancies.
New additions to SSgt Park’s Armory:
Four New Weapons:
Rifle: EVI-87 Zvezda Plasma Rifle
Heavy: Microburst
CQW: PPZ-49 Vol
Handgun: Frontier Revolver
Two New Weapon Colors:
Pineapple
Camo Tiger Orange
Two New Gun Decals:
UPP Flag
895 Speedway
Two New Emotes:
Quotes
Pose – Weapon Up
Two New Head Accessories:
Endeavor Wings Cap
Festive Hat
New Challenge Cards:
Keep It Tight, People – Exotic
Retro Cam – Rare
Robot Carnival – Rare
Ain’t Paying Us By The Hour – Rare
Speak Loud, Carry A Small Stick – Rare
Lightning Round – Uncommon
Quit Screwing Around – Uncommon
…Probably Won’t Need That – Uncommon
NOSTROMO SALVAGE PACK DLC
Now available in-game for all owners of the Deluxe Edition or for individual purchase for $9.99.
12 Kit Skins:
6 Nostromo Crew Jacket Kit Skins (One for each Kit)
6 Nostromo Flightsuit Kit Skins (One for each Kit)
4 Weapon Decals:
Wolf’s Head
Turbocharged
Always Faithful, Always Forward
Biohazard
4 Head Accessories:
Parade Dress Beret
Vintage Aviator
Gas Mask
Durag
8 Weapon Colors:
Bomb Squad
Edge-Traced – Crimson
Edge-Traced – Cyan
Edge-Traced – Violet
Opal
Splinter Camo – Titan
Splinter Camo – Venus
Splinter Camo – Mars
4 Emotes:
Celebrate
Mimic Xeno
Singing
Threaten
Additional Items:
3 Challenge Card Packs
3 Consumables Pack
Credit Pack:
12,000 Requisition Credits
750 Reputation Scrip
PC:
MODDED GAMES NOTICE
To reduce the risk of players with modified versions of the game negatively affecting the game experience of other players, modified versions of the game will have Multiplayer features disabled. Multiplayer features may be restored by following these instructions.
Players on modified versions of the game will now receive a notification that Multiplayer has been disabled.
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING
We’ve taken the photosensitivity warning part of our EULA and surfaced that in a separate message at the launch of the game.
INTEL
Fixed an issue that should now allow players to correctly be able to pick up Intel items in the “The Gift of Fire: Recon” Mission. If any issues do persist, please let us know via our Bug Report channel on our official Discord server.
MATCHMAKING
Players can now choose to leave their matchmaking queue open until it is full.
Players can now “Lock Fireteam” to close the group with fewer than 3 players.
The timer for a locked group has been extended to allow more time to modify loadouts.
Players can now “Ready Up” to skip or fast forward from the locked group phase and into Mission launch.
Fixed an issue where the Challenge Cards disable option in matchmaking was sometimes ignored.
Fixed an issue in Matchmaking where a new player couldn’t be found if another player left.
WEAPONS AND ATTACHMENTS
Area of Effect guns (such as Launchers and Flamethrowers) now deal half the normal Friendly Fire damage in modes where Friendly Fire is enabled.
All Launcher Weapons now properly have and display Stumble chances. The M12 RPG, M12A1 Rocket Launcher, and M95 Grenade Launcher all have a 100% stumble chance, while the M94 Impact Grenade has a 75% chance by default.
Updated the effect descriptions for the Rapid Release Magazine and Drum Magazine Weapon Attachments for more clarity. The faster reload speed effects now trigger briefly when the current magazine is emptied.
Fixed a UI issue where Max Ammo and Magazine Capacity values were displaying incorrect values.
Fixed an issue that could prevent flamethrower weapons from correctly displaying a warning icon when friendly fire is enabled.
Fixed an issue with the Quickloader so that it now correctly refills ammo in all cases and shows a correct ammo readout after killing an enemy with the final round.
Fixed an issue with the Compact Flash Hider so it now provides all the intended Stability bonuses, instead of the unintended bonuses it was giving before.
CLASS KITS
Fixed an issue where some Perks could unintentionally trigger twice, such as Anesthesiologist.
DEMOLISHER:
The Demolisher Kit’s Blastwave Ability can no longer be blocked by certain enemies.
The Demolisher Kit’s Napalm Rockets Ability now also slows targets and the visual effects will now last for the full duration of the Ability’s effect.
DOC:
Fixed an issue that could prevent the Doc Kit’s Trauma Station Ability (and associated Replacers) from scaling properly with Radius- and Duration- based Perk Modifiers.
Fixed an issue to prevent Doc Kit’s Anesthesiologist Perk from being continually stacked to unintended levels.
GUNNER:
Increased the range of the Gunner Kit’s Incendiary Burst Ability by 20%. It is also now more effective at hitting nearby targets when activated. The Stumble caused by this Ability is now more effective at hitting targets.
Fixed an issue where using the Gunner Kit’s Overclock Ability could sometimes have its countdown sound effect get stuck.
PHALANX:
The Phalanx Kit’s shield now blocks Burster explosion damage and no longer negates acid splash damage.
The Phalanx Kit’s Shield Up Ability now reduces damage received from environmental hazards by 35%.
The Phalanx Kit’s Passive Ability, Bulwark, now has a duration of 6 seconds (increased from 4 seconds).
The Phalanx Kit’s Shock Pulse Ability now has a slightly increased range and can no longer be blocked by some enemies.
The Phalanx Kit’s Shock Pulse Ability no longer has its Damage Over Time effect removed when another player with the Phalanx Kit applies the same effect to the same target.
The Phalanx Kit’s shield now properly unequips when going into cover without sliding.
RECON:
The Recon Kit’s Guard Dog Ability now correctly deals electric damage.
Fixed an issue where the Recon Kit’s Bloodhound Ability sometimes wouldn’t highlight enemies as expected.
The Recon Kit’s Rifle Expertise Perk now properly provides a 10% bonus to Fire Rate.
The Recon Kit’s CQW Training Perk now properly reduces the reload time for CQWs when equipped.
TECHNICIAN:
Fixed the Technician Kit’s Creative Pain Point Solutions Perk to consistently work with the Technician’s turret.
Technician Turret Changes:
Technician Kit Turrets no longer have a delay before firing. Note: This adjustment should make the turrets feel snappier, especially when acquiring new targets.
The Heavy Turret Ability Replacer now fires roughly 10% faster.
The Heavy Turret Ability Replacer’s base damage has been increased by 25%.
Fixed an issue where the Fire Rate bonuses from the Hyperlocal Logistics and Dynamic Delivery Systems Perks did not correctly increase the fire rate of the Heavy Turret Ability Replacer.
Fixed an issue where the Heavy Turret Ability Replacer would remain idle for a short period of time when it selected a new target.
Technicians no longer pull their Turret off their back when placing Consumable grids or mines.
AUDIO
Fixed an issue where the Mission Countdown audio would play multiple times if Challenge Cards were used while matchmaking.
Fixed an issue where some sound effects would become muted for the host if they completed a Mission in the downed position.
Fixed an issue where the motion tracker sound effects could continue to play in the Mission end screen.
Fixed an issue where players sometimes wouldn’t hear the Aid Kit pickup sound.
Fixed an issue where a player would sometimes not hear the ammo pickup sound when receiving ammo from an ammo crate.
Fixed an issue with the M39 Submachine Gun that switched the sound effects to single fire if the fire rate dropped below a certain threshold.
Fixed an issue where the dropship sound effects would sometimes trigger twice during the “Giants of the Earth: Insertion” Mission.
CHALLENGE CARDS
Fixed an issue where the Mindful Capacity Challenge Card was preventing the N79 Laser Pistol from shooting after it overheated and then cooled down.
Fixed an issue where players using mouse and keyboard controls and playing with a Challenge Card that disables main weapons could sometimes have the key bind for equipping their sidearm not work correctly.
Fixed an issue with the “Don’t Get Hurt” Challenge Card where it wouldn’t fail upon taking damage.
Fixed an issue where a Challenge Card selected by a player who left the match could still be activated.
Challenge Cards now default to enabled when returning to the Mission screen after playing Horde Mode.
COMBAT
Xenomorph Runners, Bursters, and Prowlers now greatly slow down when they are Stumbled while running, and are further affected by movement speed penalties while they are Stumbling.
Fixed an issue that could prevent a player from hearing the sound effect for a successful revival while reviving another player.
Fixed an issue on higher difficulties where consumable turrets wouldn’t despawn when they ran out of ammo.
Fixed an issue where an Area Of Effect field of an Ability, Consumable, or Weapon could sometimes spawn incorrectly.
Fixed an issue that could prevent weapons that cause Damage Over Time from correctly implementing friendly fire modifiers.
Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in the downed position after being stumbled.
Fixed an issue where large enemies could sometimes get stuck at their spawning point.
MISSIONS
Updated the population and voice over in the “The Only Way to be Sure: Breach” Mission to better introduce new enemies.
Fixed an issue where damaging the capacitors during the final Mission, “The Only Way to be Sure: Regicide,” would not generate hit markers to denote a hit on the target.
Fixed a collision issue where a player could get stuck in cover, preventing progression of a Mission.
Fixed an issue where the countdown timer in Horde Mode sometimes wouldn’t display correctly between waves.
Fixed an issue where some spawn points were not spawning enemies as intended.
Fixed an issue where Aid Kits sometimes wouldn’t distribute correctly on Extreme and Insane difficulties.
Fixed a text and audio discrepancy with the “The Gift of Fire: Recon” Mission.
Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause players to crash while loading into the “The Only Way to be Sure: Regicide” Mission.
Fixed an issue in the “The Gift of Fire: Recon” Mission where an open door would sometimes prevent Mission progression.
Changed the introduction of Eggs and Facehuggers in the Mission “The Only Way to be Sure: Breach” slightly.
Fixed an issue where the dropship’s rockets fired from the incorrect location in the Mission “Giants in the Earth: Insertion”
OPTIMIZATION
Adjusted some environmental audio effects.
Join Queue notification should no longer remain on the client player’s screen when the host player leaves the queue.
UI
Added an indicator to Campaigns and Mission buttons that shows highest difficulty completed.
Settings for Subtitle Size and Subtitle Background will now be grayed out if Subtitles are set to off. Settings for Colorblind Strength will now be grayed out if Colorblind Mode is set to none.
Updated some textures that were incorrectly displaying.
Updated the friendly fire indicator to display both in and out of ADS (Aim Down Sights).
Updated the friendly fire indicator to no longer appear inappropriately during weapon swaps.
Added a “Hide HUD” setting for turning off the Heads Up Display during gameplay.
Added a “Toggle Head Accessory” prompt in the Change Appearance screen.
Added an Audio option to turn off the headshot sound.
Added an Audio option to change footstep volume.
Improved visibility of the “Apply Window/Resolution” button in the Graphics settings.
“Aim Assist (Mouse)” setting has been renamed to “Aim Snap (Mouse)” and includes a description in the tooltip.
Resetting Graphics settings to default will now also reset brightness to default.
Fixed an issue that could prevent the Consumables wheel from automatically closing if open while a player goes down.
Fixed an issue where Health bars would not update when their underlying attributes changed.
Fixed an issue where the Ability active duration bars were grayed out.
Fixed an issue where the Voice Over would stop playing in the Ready Up screen if players changed their loadout or consumables.
Fixed an issue that could get players stuck in the viewer mode screen without an option to exit.
Fixed an issue that could disable some button prompts in the game menu.
Fixed an issue that prevented Damage Floaters from displaying on Xenomorph Eggs when damaged.
Fixed an issue that could prevent Damage Floaters from disappearing once the associated enemy dies.
Fixed an issue with the “Change Brightness” screen where you could unintendedly still control the background menu.
Fixed an issue where the Settings button was still clickable after selecting Continue Game in the game’s main menu.
GENERAL
Various stability and performance fixes.
Fixed a bug that could prevent rare mission drop rewards from being granted when they should be. Previously, if a rare reward attempted to grant something you already had, you could be granted nothing, instead of “re-rolling” for another reward you haven’t already earned.
Game save files will now be located at: C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Endeavor\Saved\SaveGames\<SteamID>. Saves will be automatically migrated to this directory. This will guarantee that the right save is used for a given Steam user.
Fixed a text and audio discrepancy with the “Log 09 UD-9C Condor Dropship” Intel item.
Fixed an issue where Aiming Down Sights from cover while facing left could get a character stuck facing left after leaving cover.
Fixed a crash sometimes caused by Electroshock Mines and/or Electroshock Rounds in the consumables slots.
Fixed an issue where some players experienced a crash while loading certain Kit Abilities into a mission.
Fixed a bug where Electroshock Popup and Phosphorous Popup Mine kills were not counted towards the Burn ‘Em Out and High Voltage Achievements.
Fixed an issue where enemies that were grappling were sometimes teleported during the grapple.
Fixed a variety of issues with showing accurate progress on Achievements.
PLAYSTATION:
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING
We’ve taken the photosensitivity warning part of our EULA and surfaced that in a separate message at the launch of the game.
INTEL
Fixed an issue that should now allow players to correctly be able to pick up Intel items in the “The Gift of Fire: Recon” Mission. If any issues do persist, please let us know via our Bug Report channel on our official Discord server.
MATCHMAKING
Players can now choose to leave their matchmaking queue open until it is full.
Players can now “Lock Fireteam” to close the group with fewer than 3 players.
The timer for a locked group has been extended to allow more time to modify loadouts.
Players can now “Ready Up” to skip or fast forward from the locked group phase and into Mission launch.
Fixed an issue where the Challenge Cards disable option in matchmaking was sometimes ignored.
Fixed an issue in Matchmaking where a new player couldn’t be found if another player left.
Optimized matchmaking on Playstation to be more consistent.
WEAPONS AND ATTACHMENTS
Area of Effect guns (such as Launchers and Flamethrowers) now deal half the normal Friendly Fire damage in modes where Friendly Fire is enabled.
All Launcher Weapons now properly have and display Stumble chances. The M12 RPG, M12A1 Rocket Launcher, and M95 Grenade Launcher all have a 100% stumble chance, while the M94 Impact Grenade has a 75% chance by default.
Updated the effect descriptions for the Rapid Release Magazine and Drum Magazine Weapon Attachments for more clarity. The faster reload speed effects now trigger briefly when the current magazine is emptied.
Fixed a UI issue where Max Ammo and Magazine Capacity values were displaying incorrect values.
Fixed an issue that could prevent flamethrower weapons from correctly displaying a warning icon when friendly fire is enabled.
Fixed an issue with the Quickloader so that it now correctly refills ammo in all cases and shows a correct ammo readout after killing an enemy with the final round.
Fixed an issue with the Compact Flash Hider so it now provides all the intended Stability bonuses, instead of the unintended bonuses it was giving before.
CLASS KITS
Fixed an issue where some Perks could unintentionally trigger twice, such as Anesthesiologist.
DEMOLISHER:
The Demolisher Kit’s Blastwave Ability can no longer be blocked by certain enemies.
The Demolisher Kit’s Napalm Rockets Ability now also slows targets and the visual effects will now last for the full duration of the Ability’s effect.
DOC:
Fixed an issue that could prevent the Doc Kit’s Trauma Station Ability (and associated Replacers) from scaling properly with Radius- and Duration- based Perk Modifiers.
Fixed an issue to prevent Doc Kit’s Anesthesiologist Perk from being continually stacked to unintended levels.
GUNNER:
Increased the range of the Gunner Kit’s Incendiary Burst Ability by 20%. It is also now more effective at hitting nearby targets when activated. The Stumble caused by this Ability is now more effective at hitting targets.
Fixed an issue where using the Gunner Kit’s Overclock Ability could sometimes have its countdown sound effect get stuck.
PHALANX:
The Phalanx Kit’s shield now blocks Burster explosion damage and no longer negates acid splash damage.
The Phalanx Kit’s Shield Up Ability now reduces damage received from environmental hazards by 35%.
The Phalanx Kit’s Passive Ability, Bulwark, now has a duration of 6 seconds (increased from 4 seconds).
The Phalanx Kit’s Shock Pulse Ability now has a slightly increased range and can no longer be blocked by some enemies.
The Phalanx Kit’s Shock Pulse Ability no longer has its Damage Over Time effect removed when another player with the Phalanx Kit applies the same effect to the same target.
The Phalanx Kit’s shield now properly unequips when going into cover without sliding.
RECON:
The Recon Kit’s Guard Dog Ability now correctly deals electric damage.
Fixed an issue where the Recon Kit’s Bloodhound Ability sometimes wouldn’t highlight enemies as expected.
The Recon Kit’s Rifle Expertise Perk now properly provides a 10% bonus to Fire Rate.
The Recon Kit’s CQW Training Perk now properly reduces the reload time for CQWs when equipped.
TECHNICIAN:
Fixed the Technician Kit’s Creative Pain Point Solutions Perk to consistently work with the Technician’s turret.
Technician Turret Changes:
Technician Kit Turrets no longer have a delay before firing. Note: This adjustment should make the turrets feel snappier, especially when acquiring new targets.
The Heavy Turret Ability Replacer now fires roughly 10% faster.
The Heavy Turret Ability Replacer’s base damage has been increased by 25%.
Fixed an issue where the Fire Rate bonuses from the Hyperlocal Logistics and Dynamic Delivery Systems Perks did not correctly increase the fire rate of the Heavy Turret Ability Replacer.
Fixed an issue where the Heavy Turret Ability Replacer would remain idle for a short period of time when it selected a new target.
Technicians no longer pull their Turret off their back when placing Consumable grids or mines.
AUDIO
Fixed an issue where the Mission Countdown audio would play multiple times if Challenge Cards were used while matchmaking.
Fixed an issue where some sound effects would become muted for the host if they completed a Mission in the downed position.
Fixed an issue where the motion tracker sound effects could continue to play in the Mission end screen.
Fixed an issue where players sometimes wouldn’t hear the Aid Kit pickup sound.
Fixed an issue where a player would sometimes not hear the ammo pickup sound when receiving ammo from an ammo crate.
Fixed an issue with the M39 Submachine Gun that switched the sound effects to single fire if the fire rate dropped below a certain threshold.
Fixed an issue where the dropship sound effects would sometimes trigger twice during the “Giants of the Earth: Insertion” Mission.
CHALLENGE CARDS
Fixed an issue where the Mindful Capacity Challenge Card was preventing the N79 Laser Pistol from shooting after it overheated and then cooled down.
Fixed an issue with the “Don’t Get Hurt” Challenge Card where it wouldn’t fail upon taking damage.
Fixed an issue where Challenge Cards would sometimes not activate on PlayStation.
Fixed an issue where a Challenge Card selected by a player who left the match could still be activated.
Challenge Cards now default to enabled when returning to the Mission screen after playing Horde Mode.
COMBAT
Xenomorph Runners, Bursters, and Prowlers now greatly slow down when they are Stumbled while running, and are further affected by movement speed penalties while they are Stumbling.
Fixed an issue that could prevent a player from hearing the sound effect for a successful revival while reviving another player.
Fixed an issue on higher difficulties where consumable turrets wouldn’t despawn when they ran out of ammo.
Fixed an issue where an Area Of Effect field of an Ability, Consumable, or Weapon could sometimes spawn incorrectly.
Fixed an issue that could prevent weapons that cause Damage Over Time from correctly implementing friendly fire modifiers.
Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in the downed position after being stumbled.
Fixed an issue where large enemies could sometimes get stuck at their spawning point.
MISSIONS
Updated the population and voice over in the “The Only Way to be Sure: Breach” Mission to better introduce new enemies.
Fixed an issue where damaging the capacitors during the final Mission, “The Only Way to be Sure: Regicide,” would not generate hit markers to denote a hit on the target.
Fixed a collision issue where a player could get stuck in cover, preventing progression of a Mission.
Fixed an issue where the countdown timer in Horde Mode sometimes wouldn’t display correctly between waves.
Fixed an issue where some spawn points were not spawning enemies as intended.
Fixed an issue where Aid Kits sometimes wouldn’t distribute correctly on Extreme and Insane difficulties.
Fixed a text and audio discrepancy with the “The Gift of Fire: Recon” Mission.
Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause players to crash while loading into the “The Only Way to be Sure: Regicide” Mission.
Fixed an issue in the “The Gift of Fire: Recon” Mission where an open door would sometimes prevent Mission progression.
Changed the introduction of Eggs and Facehuggers in the Mission “The Only Way to be Sure: Breach” slightly.
Fixed an issue where the dropship’s rockets fired from the incorrect location in the Mission “Giants in the Earth: Insertion”
OPTIMIZATION
Several fixes and updates to optimize performance on consoles.
Adjusted some environmental audio effects.
UI
Added an indicator to Campaigns and Mission buttons that shows highest difficulty completed.
Settings for Subtitle Size and Subtitle Background will now be grayed out if Subtitles are set to off. Settings for Colorblind Strength will now be grayed out if Colorblind Mode is set to none.
Updated some textures that were incorrectly displaying.
Updated the friendly fire indicator to display both in and out of ADS (Aim Down Sights).
Updated the friendly fire indicator to no longer appear inappropriately during weapon swaps.
Added a “Hide HUD” setting for turning off the Heads Up Display during gameplay.
Added a “Toggle Head Accessory” prompt in the Change Appearance screen.
Added an Audio option to turn off the headshot sound.
Added an Audio option to change footstep volume.
Improved visibility of the “Apply Window/Resolution” button in the Graphics settings.
Resetting Graphics settings to default will now also reset brightness to default.
Fixed an issue that could prevent the Consumables wheel from automatically closing if open while a player goes down.
Fixed an issue where Health bars would not update when their underlying attributes changed.
Fixed an issue where the Ability active duration bars were grayed out.
Fixed an issue where the Voice Over would stop playing in the Ready Up screen if players changed their loadout or consumables.
Fixed an issue that could get players stuck in the viewer mode screen without an option to exit.
Fixed an issue that could disable some button prompts in the game menu.
Fixed an issue that prevented Damage Floaters from displaying on Xenomorph Eggs when damaged.
Fixed an issue that could prevent Damage Floaters from disappearing once the associated enemy dies.
Fixed an issue with the “Change Brightness” screen where you could unintendedly still control the background menu.
Fixed an issue where the Settings button was still clickable after selecting Continue Game in the game’s main menu.
GENERAL
Various stability and performance fixes.
Fixed a bug that could prevent rare mission drop rewards from being granted when they should be. Previously, if a rare reward attempted to grant something you already had, you could be granted nothing, instead of “re-rolling” for another reward you haven’t already earned.
Fixed a text and audio discrepancy with the “Log 09 UD-9C Condor Dropship” Intel item.
Fixed an issue where Aiming Down Sights from cover while facing left could get a character stuck facing left after leaving cover.
Fixed a crash sometimes caused by Electroshock Mines and/or Electroshock Rounds in the consumables slots.
Fixed an issue where some players experienced a crash while loading certain Kit Abilities into a mission.
Fixed a bug where Electroshock Popup and Phosphorous Popup Mine kills were not counted towards the Burn ‘Em Out and High Voltage Achievements.
Fixed an issue where enemies that were grappling were sometimes teleported during the grapple.
Fixed a variety of issues with showing accurate progress on Achievements.
XBOX
PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING
We’ve taken the photosensitivity warning part of our EULA and surfaced that in a separate message at the launch of the game.
INTEL
Fixed an issue that should now allow players to correctly be able to pick up Intel items in the “The Gift of Fire: Recon” Mission. If any issues do persist, please let us know via our Bug Report channel on our official Discord server.
MATCHMAKING
Players can now choose to leave their matchmaking queue open until it is full.
Players can now “Lock Fireteam” to close the group with fewer than 3 players.
The timer for a locked group has been extended to allow more time to modify loadouts.
Players can now “Ready Up” to skip or fast forward from the locked group phase and into Mission launch.
Fixed an issue where the Challenge Cards disable option in matchmaking was sometimes ignored.
Fixed an issue in Matchmaking where a new player couldn’t be found if another player left.
WEAPONS AND ATTACHMENTS
Area of Effect guns (such as Launchers and Flamethrowers) now deal half the normal Friendly Fire damage in modes where Friendly Fire is enabled.
All Launcher Weapons now properly have and display Stumble chances. The M12 RPG, M12A1 Rocket Launcher, and M95 Grenade Launcher all have a 100% stumble chance, while the M94 Impact Grenade has a 75% chance by default.
Updated the effect descriptions for the Rapid Release Magazine and Drum Magazine Weapon Attachments for more clarity. The faster reload speed effects now trigger briefly when the current magazine is emptied.
Fixed a UI issue where Max Ammo and Magazine Capacity values were displaying incorrect values.
Fixed an issue that could prevent flamethrower weapons from correctly displaying a warning icon when friendly fire is enabled.
Fixed an issue with the Quickloader so that it now correctly refills ammo in all cases and shows a correct ammo readout after killing an enemy with the final round.
Fixed an issue with the Compact Flash Hider so it now provides all the intended Stability bonuses, instead of the unintended bonuses it was giving before.
CLASS KITS
Fixed an issue where some Perks could unintentionally trigger twice, such as Anesthesiologist.
Once we know more details regarding content after Season 2, we’ll be sure to let our readers know.
Ubisoft has released the Rainbow 6 Siege update 1.000.021 patch this December 14, and this is for the Y6S4.1 title update out now for both last-gen and next-gen platofrms. This title update brings in a change to the HUD, bug fixes and more! Players can also expect the Snowball Fight event that starts today, and will give players a free event pack as well.
Ubisoft is bringing some holiday cheer into Riders Republic today with a free title update! The Riders Republic update 1.05 (PS5 version 1.005) is now available, and it includes new features, improvements and more for the title update released this December 14! Read up on the official patch notes below.
· Season Progression added to complete the seasonal activities.
· The Tricks List is added in a sub menu.
· New features/modifiers added to the Mass Races.
IMPROVEMENTS
· Improved video quality for PS5 and Xbox Series X.
· Improved text for multiplayer competition.
· Game version is displayed on the start menu.
· Co-Op visual link has been updated.
· Season page has been updated to the Winter Bash Season.
· Adjustments to Mass Race bike collisions.
· Specific news is displayed after a mass grant.
· Improved visual quality of water and rivers.
There are some known issues which we are aware of and still looking to fix ASAP which can be found here
Additionally, The Green Smoke Helmet will be available with this update!
Having heard your feedback, we’ve made some changes to Tricks battles and Free For All game modes.
· Multiplayer divisions will be reduced from 10 to 5.
· As a result, we will be doing a global reset on all players division points to 0 for the start of the Winter Bash (Therefore, all players will start at Division 5).
· We have reduced the number of Free For All playlists to 1 weekly list.
We felt this was the best cause of action as it will provide the following for players
· Skill based matchmaking will be re-activated so players will face off with others of similar skill level.
· The reduced number of divisions should also speed up matchmaking allowing players to find matches quicker.
· We also removed the pop up to expand your match making search to other divisions and will now automatically expand the search after a short time within your current division.
· The single weekly Free For All list will focus the Free For All community in one place which should improve matchmaking time for this as well.
Power-disc slinging action comes your way next month, as the Windjammers 2 release date has been revealed today, and it’s pegged to spin out this January 20, 2022 for both consoles and PC! It’s also confirmed to be available on Xbox Game Pass on day one, and will offer backwards compatibilty to next-gen platforms at launch too.
Here’s the new release date trailer revealing some new footage to hype up the experience for fans.
Accompanying the new video is a post from the PlayStation Blog describing how Dotemu has worked hard to make sure that the sequel stays true to the spirit of the original Windjammers while also adding some new elements and mechanics to keep the game fresh for players new and old. Here’s an overview of what fans can expect from the sequel:
10 playable characters, including returning champions and new faces
New gameplay mechanics for even more depth
10 courts with different shapes and features
An epic arcade mode with bonus games and challenging matches
Online modes: play casually with friends or climb the leaderboard in the ranked league
We last heard from Windjammers 2 when Dotemu announced its Open Beta a few months back, and you can read about that story here.
Hi-Rez Studios has released the SMITE update 12.02 patch this December 14, and this is for Titan of the Cosmos 8.12 title update! Aside from Atlas’ introduction into the world of SMITE, this patch also brings new skins, gameplay-related adjustments, and of course, something for the holidays too! Read up on the official patch notes below.
SMITE Update 12.02 Patch Notes | SMITE Titan of the Cosmos Patch Notes | SMITE Update 8.12 Patch Notes:
ATLAS: TITAN OF THE COSMOS
BASIC ATTACK
37 + 1.5/Lvl (+20% of your Magical Power)
1.25/1.25/1.25 damage and swing time, hitting in an AoE on the final blow
PASSIVE – THE ASTROLABE
As Atlas deals or takes god damage he accumulates 1.25 Energy in his Astrolabe. Minions provide 1/10th of the Energy. When he reaches 20 Energy his next Basic Attack has 1.5x damage, 1.5s swing time, and deals bonus damage in an area in front of him. Gods hit are Trembled for 2s while minions are stunned. Atlas can store up to 30 Energy.
Empowered Bonus Damage : 8 * Level
UNBURDEN
Atlas throws his Astrolabe to a target location, damaging and slowing enemies where it lands. While deployed, his Basic Attack will cause an explosion at the target area that damages all enemies. This explosion deals 40% damage to Minions and costs 5 Mana to use. After 5s or when he re-fires this ability, the Astrolabe will return to him. Atlas’ second ability changes based on whether his Astrolabe is deployed or held.
Ability : Circle
Damage : 30/65/100/135/170 (+40% of your Magical Power)
Slow : 10/12.5/15/17.5/20%
Slow Duration : 2s
Basic Explosion : 23 + 6 Per Level
Cooldown : 15/14.5/14/13.5/13s
Cost : 65/70/75/80/85 Mana
GRAVITY PULL
Atlas pulls enemies towards his Astrolabe. Enemy gods who are too close get pulled into the Astrolabe. If Atlas is holding the Astrolabe enemies who get pulled into the Astrolabe get held in front of Atlas. After a brief delay, the held targets get launched in the direction Atlas is facing. If Atlas has thrown the Astrolabe, enemies who get pulled into the Astrolabe will get held at the Astrolabe’s location before being launched towards Atlas.
Ability : Cone / Circle
Pull Damage : 50/80/110/140/170 (+35% of your Magical Power)
Launch Damage : 50/80/110/140/170 (+35% of your Magical Power)
Cooldown : 16s
Cost : 50/55/60/65/70 Mana
KINETIC CHARGE
Atlas charges forward. Each allied god he charges near will have their burdens removed, cleansing them of any current slows and increasing their movement speed. When Atlas collides with an enemy god he will release accumulated burdens in an explosion. For every burden accumulated the slow is increased by 25% up to a maximum of 75%.
Ability : Line
Damage : 80/135/190/245/300 (+45% of your Magical Power)
Movement Speed : 25/27.5/30/32.5/35%
Cooldown : 16s
Cost : 60/65/70/75/80 Mana
GAMMA-RAY BURST
Atlas tears the sky asunder and calls forth a Gamma-Ray Burst. Enemies in this area are hit every 0.5s and gain a stack of Radiation. Radiation can stack up to 5/5/6/6/7 times and lowers the enemy’s Protections and Power. After 5s or upon re-fire the Gamma-Ray Burst will focus in power and begin traveling across the battleground. Enemies hit by this focused ray take heavier damage and gain Focused Radiation, lowering Protections and Power equal to 3 stacks of Radiation.
Ability : Circle
Damage : 25/35/45/55/65 (+10% of your Magical Power)
Protection Reduction : 5%
Power Reduction : 2%
Focused Damage : 100/145/190/235/280 (+40% of your Magical Power)
Cooldown : 90s
Cost : 60/70/80/90/100 Mana
EVENTS
Yulefest
Welcome to the Yulefest event! This event celebrates SMITE’s many friendships during this most joyous and cozy season! This event will have 6 purchasable Exclusive Skins in total with 2 Skins releasing every 2 weeks. Each Skin will have an initial discount of 25% for that release only. Also, don’t forget to participate in the quests to get more rewards!
Purchasing 3 skins from the Yulefest event will grant you the Little Helper Bastet Skin and purchasing 6 skins will grant you the unlimited Infinite Oracle Morgan Le Fay Skin!
When purchasing a Yulefest event Skin you will also receive a Gift Token of a certain gift type (Emote, Voice Pack, Tier 2 Skin, or Awesome Gift). Gift Tokens allow you to send a gift to a friend on your friends list, in the gift store, or to maybe make a new friend by giving a gift from the end of match lobby to a stellar teammate! Send your friends gifts this season and spread the joy of friendship!
Event Skins
Burning Desire Aphrodite
The Magnificent Sol
Cyberblade Amaterasu
Shadow hunter Hachiman
Plushie Raijin
Accursed Soul Set
Event Reward Skins
Little Helper Bastet
Infinite Oracle Morgan Le Fay
QUALITY OF LIFE
General
Custom Games
Added a new “Duel” mode to custom games which will utilize the specific map rules that Duel has – such as Titan and BDK HP changes
Added a new pick/ban type “All Ban” to match the new Ranked Conquest system
Leaderboards
Fixed various issues with leaderboards:
Leaderboards not loading
Duplicate names being visible
Being unable to properly promote to Grandmaster
There have also been a lot of changes for how many players are visible on the leaderboard at the same time. It will show a more narrow range around your progress, and inactive players will be removed from leaderboards.
There might be other changes to leaderboards in the future
This was completed in the last update and will go live for testing after patch notes on Tuesday 11-23. If there are any unintended consequences the changes might be temporarily reverted and adjusted again for 8.12.
Ranked MMR
Fixed an issue where players would sometimes earn 0 MMR for a win. It will no longer be intended for players to be able to earn 0 MMR for a win, even if the MMR difference is vast the winner will still gain some amount of MMR.
Ranked Conquest All Ban System
Teams will now see what pick they are during the planning phase when they first load in. The text in the top left will read:
Planning Phase for First Pick
Planning Phase for Second Pick
Matchmaking Changes for players under level 30
For Conquest, Arena, and Joust
Players level 1- 4
Will be routed to co-op vs AI bots
Players level 5 – 29
Will be routed to a new into pvp queue that will only be accessible to players of this level
Players level 30 – 160
Will be routed to normal pvp queues
This has 2 primary effects
It will no longer be possible for players 1 – 29 to be put into lobbies with players 30+
The only exception would be if they party with another 30+ player
Having even 1 player at 30+ will bring the entire party into the 30+ queue
New players will now have their MMR effectively reset upon hitting level 30 – as they will be entering a new queue
BUG FIXES
UI
Fixed an issue where If you lock in a god whose voice pack you don’t own, selecting the Voice tab breaks the other tabs
General Gameplay
Fixed an issue where various jungle camps could get stuck by bodyblocking them with pets
Gods
Cliodhna
Fixed an issue where her Ability 2 self buff would last longer than intended if it killed a god decoy
Raijin
Fixed an issue where his combat anim would play while running forward directions
Items
Hide of The Nemean Lion
Fixed an issue where this item was not stacking as intended
BALANCE LIVE WITH THE TITAN OF THE COSMOS UPDATE
Game Modes
SWC Conquest
The Winter Conquest map from 8.10 will have some added flair to it as we prepare for the Smite World Championships
Thor’s Hammer Trophy can be seen by the Pyromancer
SWC Logo is engraved on the Mid Lane Floor
Statues honoring previous world champion god skins are placed around the map
Items
Mage balance can be a difficult subject for everyone to agree on. What’s happening at pro levels vs ranked vs casuals tends to be a pretty different story. At this point in time we have seen Mages as a class take a dip in their overall damage. The boots change had a lot of wide reaching effects, mostly benefitting tanky and bruiser play styles and we have since adjusted every other class except mages. Recently we saw Warrior starter items gain some early power, and before that it was core Assassin items. In this update we are adding a small amount of power to a few mage items that focus on Penetration, as well as the Tier 2’s that support them. This should put us in a good spot for more traditional DPS Mages at worlds
ENCHANTED SPEAR
Increased Magical Power from 40 to 60
SPEAR OF DESOLATION
Increased Magical Power from 110 to 120
SPELL FOCUS
Increased Magical Power from 45 to 55
OBSIDIAN SHARD
Increased Magical Power from 80 to 90
BOOK OF SOULS
Increased Magical Power from 55 to 65
BOOK OF THE DEAD
Decreased the Shield Health on the passive from 30% to 25% of your max mana
EYE OF THE JUNGLE
A few starter items are still unpopular in the current meta, and this tree is one of them. We are increasing the regen while in the jungle as well as the upgrade stats on the upgrade to help this item compete with the other two Jungler Starter items.
Increased HP5 in jungle from 15 to 20
Increased MP5 in jungle from 10 to 15
PROTECTOR OF THE JUNGLE
Increased Attack Speed from 25 to 35%
Gods
TERRA
When Terra got the ability to re-fire Crushing Earth when CC’d or dead, she also got the ability to re-fire it while dashing. This allowed her to re-fire and dash shatter the ability at the same time, effectively detonating it twice. This feature walked the line between “bug” or “emergent mechanic” but after seeing her performance in live matches and SPL over multiple months we have determined that this effect is too strong, and Terra will be forced to choose between the re-fire or the shatter.
CRUSHING EARTH
This ability can now only be re-fired or shattered, not both at the same time
BELLONA
Warriors have seen their fair share of love across the various item and meta buffs, but Bellona has still failed to find her spot in the solo lane. She brings a lot to a team with her utility effects, but she seems to struggle out of the gate in lane. We are increasing the base damage on Scourge to help make sure she can clear lanes successfully, especially against gods who shut down bludgeon
SCOURGE
Increased Damage from 80/115/150/185/220 to 90/130/170/210/250
GANESHA
This peaceful god is ready to get back out on the battleground. Ganesha has a unique form of CC in his channeled silence, and to make sure his peel persists to the intended duration, we are providing him knockback immunity. This should prevent any unexpected interruptions of Ganesha’s meditation.
OHM
Ganesha is now knockback immune while channeling this ability
VAMANA
“We haven’t seen Vamana much lately, and it’s certainly not because of his height. This aggressive solo laner seems to just need too many items to find a perfect build that works for him. He synergizes well with attack speed and move speed, but he needs to stay sufficiently tankly as well. We are making a big change to his passive to help him find all the stats he needs to be successful.”
SLEEPING GIANT
Add a new component to his passive – 10% of Vamana’s Physical Protections is converted to % Attack Speed
“Boots are gone, Ratatoskr could never buy them (they simply would not fit) but he still deserves some compensation for the loss. Rat’s acorns were designed to occupy the boots space in a build, but now that builds don’t have a boots item in them we would like these Acorns to more closely fit the stats of a Tier 3 item. All acorns are seeing some stat increases to help with that, with slightly more stats going to the Acorns that are currently the least successful.”
EVERGREEN ACORN
Increased Physical Power from 25 to 35
THICKBARK ACORN
Increased Physical Power from 25 to 35
BRISTLEBUSH ACORN
Increased Physical Power from 35 to 45
Increased the buff Ratatoskr gains from hitting a god with Dart from 10% Physical Lifesteal and 10% Basic Attack damage to 15% Physical Lifesteal and 15% Basic Attack damage.
THISTLETHORN ACORN
Increased Physical Power from 45 to 50
MERCURY
“The fastest god has gotten even faster. When Mercury uses his “Made Ya Look” ability – he is actually sprinting to a location to hit enemies and then sprinting back. Well now he can do that through walls, for only this ability. Don’t ask us how, but it should be a solid quality of life buff for Mercury to snipe down more targets in the jungle.”
MADE YA LOOK
Can now be fired through walls
NEITH
“Fate has not favored this goddess. She got some buffs earlier in the year that seemed promising and we saw a glimpse of Neith at the competitive level and then she quickly fell off. We have two buffs prepped for her today to attempt to bring her back. Her passive weaves will now last twice as long, allowing Neiths to better lay out deployables for future advantages. We are also giving Unravel an extra damage boost to help her laning and 1v1. ”
BROKEN WEAVE
Increased Weave duration from 1m to 2m
UNRAVEL
Increased Damage from 70/100/130/160/190 to 70/110/150/190/230
JING WEI
“Oh hey, fam! It’s finally time for some Jing Wei buffs. For quite a while this evasive goddess had dodged any buffs because of her ability to return to the pro meta at any given time, especially when the stakes were high. There are other safe hunters that compete with Jing Wei now, so now looked like the perfect time for a buff. Explosive Bolts is getting a damage increase at all ranks to make sure the ability has an impact even when her Crit items aren’t online. We are also taking down a few mana costs to improve her lane phase.”
EXPLOSIVE BOLTS
Increased Damage per shot from 100% of Jing Wei’s Physical Power to 110%.
This includes targets hit by the explosion as well.
Fixed an issue where her ability screen displayed incorrect Basic Attack information when Explosive Bolts was active.
PERSISTENT GUST
Decreased Mana Cost from 70/75/80/85/90 to 60/65/70/75/80
AIR STRIKE
Decreased Mana Cost from 100/110/120/130/140 to 80/90/100/110/120
MEDUSA
“Don’t stare right at her but, some long awaited community requests are finally happening for Medusa. This iconic goddess has a fantastic kit that never quite found its competitive footing. In this update she’s going to be a considerably stronger anti-healing god, as well as having a better lane phase (or possibly jungle?) by making her dash finally able to damage minions!”
ACID SPRAY
Now applies Healing Reduction equal to 50% for 4s.
LACERATE
No longer applied Healing Reduction.
Now damages minions as Medusa travels through them.
