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Our team is working day and night to provide updates and add more polish to Defiance across all platforms. Below you will find the current draft patch notes for our first major update.
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GENERAL
? Improved server and client stability.
? Main missions are now replayable after completion of the last mission.
? Extraction timer upped from 30 to 90 seconds to allow more time for fellow players to revive you.
? Optimized objects throughout the world to minimize pop-up and improve overall performance.
? Area voice chat has been improved and is now on by default.
? Voice and text chat channels can now be muted independently.
? Text chat now displays for longer and no longer hides when sprinting or boosting.
MISSIONS
? General polish and bug fixes for all missions and side missions.
? Heart of Darkness: Completing this mission now unlocks new side missions.
? Removed timer delays between a few main missions.
? Updated several side missions to ensure that they would not be void of enemies.
? Bolinas Smeltery, North Point Mine, Alamo, Happy Pow Farms and Kinship Plaza now have increased rewards.
? Bug fixes
? Fixed some data recorder typos.
? Removed health bar from APS dropbox at the crash site.
? Kith and Kinship: Fixed flyout text for a dead soldier.
? Muir Processing: Fixed some inactive enemies.
? Sniper’s Ridge: Added flyout text to interactable ammo caches.
? Sniper’s Ridge: Fixed an issue where event would reset if you left the area during the boss stage.
? Sutro Tower: Added collision to the destroyed monolith.
? KTAM: Added some missing doors to the buildings that were disappearing if you returned after completing the mission.
? There Goes the Neighborhood: Removed some unnecessary EGO voice overs.
? Down at the Docks: Players now receive proper credit if they complete the mission outside the POI radius.
? Mine 98: Fixed a missing spawn door.
? Iron Demon Ranch: Players will no longer extract to a hostile environment.
? Good Ol’ Smets now matches the cutscene in Ridgecrest.
? Radio Silence: Fixed comlink antenna animation.
? Pirate Radio: Fixed continuously respawning scrappers after completing the mission.
? We’re on the Air: Cass should move up to fix the control panel sooner.
? Angel of Death: Fixed a bug in Part 1 that caused the mission to not complete properly.
? A Little Competition: Fixed an issue where you would be unable to obtain the mission until after you completed the event, if you had entered another player’s phase before getting the mission.
? Added some missing scanning interactions to various mission objectives.
? Raid the Medicine Cabinet: Fixed an issue that stopped progression
? Seize the Day: Fixed a potential progression issue.
? Control the Future: Fixed a potential progression issue.
? Torc’s Garage: Fixed an issue that caused Von Bach to float.
? San Quentin: Fixed some explosions that were not firing after the cutscene.
? Safe No More: Moved Smets to lean against the wall to match the cutscene.
? Murder in Madera: Fixed some raiders that were fighting each other on the docks.
? Enter the Law Keeper: Adjusted player position to match cutscene.
? Fixed the reactor in the tutorial being active before the player arrives.
? North Point Mine: Fixed an issue where the Foreman and Technician would stop patrolling to each of the objects they are interacting with.
? Fixed missing voice overs in a few missions.
? Miwok Ranch: Fixed an issue where the rancher during the Boss Stage would sometimes not move after reviving the first fallen rancher and would prevent you from completing the mission.
CHALLENGES AND RACES
? Hotshot: Dam Defense - Adjusted rocket launcher damage.
? Hotshot: Reservoir Chickens - Adjusted chicken re-spawn rates and made scoring points tweaks.
? Sharpshooting Savior and Hamburger Hill challenges have had their scoring tweaked.
? Rescored Rampage: Minigun Mayhem: Bronze: 20000, Silver: 40000, Gold: 60000
? Bug fixes
? Rankings should now be displaying on the end screen.
? Prevented an exploit in which players could get infinite ammo during a rampage.
? Players should no longer be able to enter a phase while in a race.
EMERGENCIES
? Added new emergency types throughout the bay area.
? General polish for all emergencies.
? Tuned emergency sockets in Marin.
? Bug fixes
? Road Minefield: Fixed an issue that caused delayed mine explosion.
? Fixed an issue that caused emergencies to not end properly.
? Gang War: Fixed a bug that caused enemies to ignore ATV collision.
? Fixed a problem where emergency vendors would show as interactive, but not actually be interactive.
? Fixed a “no string” text appearing upon completion of some emergencies.
ARKFALLS
? There’s a Bioman Minigunner in the final wave of the Mutant Mayhem Arkfall – Only accessible on the “hard” wave!
? Updated wave progressions for the 99er minor destroy arkfall.
? Adjusted arkfall difficulty scaling.
? Minor arkfalls will now respawn after 30 minutes.
? Progenitor Armatures will now destroy vehicles.
? Bug fixes
? Evolved Hellion arkfall now gives credit towards the Ark Hunting as a Way of Life pursuit.
? Fixed incorrect key code rewards for arkfalls.
? Fixed a floating arkfall crystal.
? Results screen now appears if the player teleports to an arkfall.
? Emergencies within a major arkfall radius should now despawn.
PLAYER CHARACTER
? Bug Fixes
? Fixed a bug that caused characters to dive-roll in place.
? Fixed a bug that caused characters to run in place.
? Fixed a bug that caused ladder animation to play while not on a ladder.
NPCS
? Updated Dark Matter enforcer’s cloak spawn animation.
? Added mutants to Serenity Academy after Kith and Kinship has been completed.
? Hellbug skitterlings are now a little more aggressive and deal a little more damage.
? Alamo Park in San Fran has now been occupied by Dark Matter when player is not on the area specific mission.
? Downtown San Francisco enemies have been updated.
? Added disguised Dark Matter allies to Dark Matter base.
? Friendly scrappers now have blue lasers instead of red.
? Elite Mad Mattock shields have been lowered from 5400 to 4500.
? Lowered health on Dark Matter snipers.
? Tuned Piercer Boss in Liberate the Lost.
? Mutant grenadier in Into the Depths is now Elite.
? Crashing a vehicle into a monarch will cause the vehicle to blow up.
? Improved “bulldoze” attack for various NPCs.
? Bug Fixes
? E Rep Camp: Fixed E Rep Technician animation.
? Sausalito: Fixed a Blitzer that was instantly respawning.
? Fixed some NPC helicopters that were flying through geo.
? Elemental raiders now use appropriate effects when taunting.
? North Point Mine: Fixed tanker boss pop-in.
? Happy Pow Farms: Fixed some disappearing hellbugs.
? Fixed a bug that caused some enemies to go invisible.
? Bernal Tower: Fixed some scrappers that would respawn after you completed the event.
? Fixed a bug that caused ally NPCs to retain their shader after being revived.
? Liberate the Lost: Fixed an issue that was causing the siphon monarch to not siphon correctly.
? Minimized the chance of blitzers firing out of the side of their guns while running.
? Mount Tam: Fixed various floating spawns and some collision issues.
? Fixed an exploit that caused mutant minigunners to have a hard time tracking players at close range.
? Fixed some 99ers that weren’t flailing when being electrocuted.
? East Shore Docks: Fixed an issue in which two hostages freed from the main warehouse would path through the vendor truck.
? Tanker rockets should not agro cloaked players.
? Fixed a few spawners that were appearing incorrectly.
? Fixed siphon blast pods that weren’t healing themselves with the syphon effect.
? Soleptor Excavations: Fixed a pathing issue with the Hulker Boss.
? Improved firing behavior for multiple enemy NPCs.
? Fixed multiple NPCs playing run animation while walking.
? Fixed multiple NPCs not playing animation when getting up after knockdown.
? Fix bug where NPCs were continually playing shooting animation even when they’ve run out of ammo.
? Fixed bug where NPC melee wasn’t damaging fully cloaked players
COMPETITIVE MULTIPLAYER
? Observatory & Waterfront: Updated and moved a few ammo caches.
? All capture and hold matches in both shadow war and battlegrounds now last for 20 minutes instead of 15.
? Updated scoring for capture and hold matches.
? Improved matchmaking for multiplayer.
? Bug fixes
? Players are now not able to use inventory vehicles in shadow war or shadow war vehicles outside of shadow war.
? Changed kill notifications when killed by an NPC so that it doesn’t look like a suicide.
? Kill notification now appears properly when killed by an elemental weapon proc.
CO-OP AND SOLO MAPS
? General polish and bug fixes for all co-op and solo maps.
? Updated timing for several interactables.
? Updated fence collision in Scrapworks and Angel Island.
? Ammo caches found in boss rooms have updated visuals.
? Time goals for certain Co-op Map Pursuits have been updated.
? Scrapworks: Added Dark Matter force fields.
? Players can no longer use vehicles to combat the mini-boss in Explosions 101.
? Reorganized queue menu so that co-op maps are listed in the right order.
? Improved matchmaking for co-op maps.
? Players that enter a co-op map now get put where the leader is.
? Fixed quick match so players don’t get put in matches they aren’t eligible for.
? Co-op map prerequisites now appear in the queue menu.
? Bug fixes
? Players abandoning “Into the Depths” while in the Delta West area of Mount Tam will now be removed from the phase and sent to an extraction point.
? Fixed some pathing issues in the hulker fight in Soleptor Excavations.
? Something Wicked This Way Comes should no longer end prematurely if multiple players are doing the mission at the same time.
? Fixed an issue in Scrapworks Excavation that could cause the progenitor arm bottom heatsink to be obscured by its base.
? Fixed missing EGO voice overs during the Motherlode boss battle.
? Players who don’t contribute in co-op maps now appear on the results screen.
? Fixed some issues with the mini map in Cronkhite Bunker.
? Fixed an issues that caused some notifications to appear twice.
WEAPONS
? Lowered damage output of sawed off shotguns.
? General tuning to improve LMGs.
? Rate of fire and mag size changes have been made to rocket launchers.
? Cluster launchers have had their damage lowered.
? Anti-vehicle launcher now does appropriate damage to humanoids and a bonus to damage vs vehicles.
? Updated bloom for VBI LMGs.
? Added cooldown to prevent elemental effects from constantly applying to player.
? Tuned lock-on rocket launchers.
? FRC LMGs now have a lower rate of fire than other LMGs.
? Lowered the damage and crit Multiplier on the Northstar Flare Pistol.
? Infectors have had their homing range decreased.
? All Infectors now have the same reticle and will not change size when moving crouching or aiming.
? Infector bug speed has been slightly decreased.
? Infector bug damage has been decreased.
? Pistols have had their ammo pools increased in competitive multiplayer.
? Legendary detonators no longer have +6 mag rarity bonus.
? Reduced auto lobbers’ rate of fire.
? Reduced damage for Crash Boomer, Rebounder Lobber and Auto Lobber.
? Bug fixes
? Fixed a bug that caused the swarm rocket launcher to deal too much damage.
? Super Rocket Pod from Echelon vendor should now correctly show its model.
? Fixed a weird xp bonus that was showing up on some weapons.
? VOT and VBI LMG animations now sync with the firing pattern.
? Fixed a potential crash caused by weapon holstering.
? Fixed the Bull Rush 45 causing an operated vehicle to explode when damaging players inside.
GRENADES
? Increased spread damage for incendiary grenades.
? Bug fixes
? Fixed an issue that caused damage from multiple grenades to stack incorrectly.
SHIELDS
? Bug fixes
? Fixed damage reducing effect while standing still on the VBI Sentinel.
LOOT AND AMMO
? Added and updated ammo caches throughout the world.
? Tuned amount of ammo that drops from NPCs.
? Increased chances of NPCs dropping a weapon.
? Ammo crates have been added near the vendors at Point Bonita, Bug N Chug and Coit Tower locations.
? Bug fixes
? Removed orange glow that sometimes appeared over loot weapons.
WEAPON MODS
? Removed magazine size mods for rocket launchers.
OUTFITS
? Bug fixes
? Fixed various issues with helmets and hats.
VEHICLES
? Shields for rollers have been reduced.
? Bug fixes
? Increasing vehicle skill now adds to EGO rating.
? Flyout will now specify when you enter a vehicle as a passenger.
? Fixed a bug that caused other players to appear to mount vehicles from the wrong side.
? Fixed a bug that caused placed Cerberuses to not have collision.
VENDORS
? Hidden vendors now appear as people instead of the vendor trucks.
? Titles are now available at faction vendors!
? Bug Fixes
? Fixed any duplicate items that might appear in stores.
EGO ABILITIES AND PERKS
? Updated placement of a few perks on the EGO grid.
? Thick Skinned perk now has a 15 second cooldown.
? Bug fixes
? Fixed an issue that caused decoy projections to not have shields.
? Fixed an issue that caused decoy pursuits to update when enemies attacked another player’s decoy.
? Fixed a bug that caused decoys to slide.
? Error audio will now play if you attempt to use an ability before its cooldown finishes.
PURSUITS AND CONTRACTS
? Updated the order in which pursuits are listed.
? Contracts now display the amount of time left until the contract expires, even after the contract has been completed.
? Updated outfit rewards for Living to Kill V and In the Inner Circle II pursuits.
? Bug fixes
? Fixed contract icons in notifications.
? Weekly contracts should now only be playable once per week.
? Mutants at the South Radio Tower now give credit towards the Atlas Attrition contract.
CINEMATICS
? General polish for all cinematics.
? Bug fixes
? Fixed a bug that caused incapacitation screen overlay to appear over cinematics.
AUDIO
? Updated music for co-op and solo maps.
? Updated combat music timing.
? Made some adjustments to when and how combat music comes in.
? Added spawn and despawn audio to Dark Matter drop ships.
? Added taunt audio to elemental blitzers.
USER INTERFACE
? Added pop-up text after completing the last mission notifying that missions can be played again.
? Previewing head gear in the loadout menu will now zoom in on the character’s head.
? You can create CS petitions in game now!
? Added Defiance Store option to quick menu.
? Hooked up new inventory items/new claim items indicator.
? Polished the character create screen.
? Added scrip deduction notification upon extraction.
? Added clan invite to the search list in the social menu.
? Added region and other location names to the map.
? Reconfigured player interaction picking to make interacting with objects easier in high population areas.
? Bug Fixes
? Fixed a bug that caused arkfall and multiplayer end screens to appear on top of each other.
? Fixed an issue that caused audio to loop when picking up an item.
? Fixed an issue that caused controllers to loose functionality when a drop down was expanded.
? Fixed an issue that caused direction pads on controllers to stop working in the pursuits menu.
? Fixed task boxes so that they update without opening different pursuits.
? Pursuit rewards preview pane now displays both helmet and outfit rewards.
? Fixed results screens to show consistent data.
? Fixed full screen settings persisting after logout.
? Fixed tutorial arrows persisting after logging out during the tutorial.
? Fixed skill progress bars to update correctly.
? Fixed clanmate options appearing when the clan member is offline.
? Fixed some issues with group invites.
? Fixed a bug that caused UI interact audio to play twice for some buttons.
? Fixed some buttons that were not highlighting properly in the salvage matrix.
? Fixed a bug that caused quantity to appear as -1 in the Defiance store.
? Prevented mission complete and mission reward notifications from overlapping.
? Medals displayed on multiplayer end screens no longer blink.
? Fixed a bug with revive stat on the arkfall end screen.
? Fixed an issue that caused key remappings to not save after exiting the client.
GENERAL
? Improved server and client stability.
? Main missions are now replayable after completion of the last mission.
? Extraction timer upped from 30 to 90 seconds to allow more time for fellow players to revive you.
? Optimized objects throughout the world to minimize pop-up and improve overall performance.
? Area voice chat has been improved and is now on by default.
? Voice and text chat channels can now be muted independently.
? Text chat now displays for longer and no longer hides when sprinting or boosting.
MISSIONS
? General polish and bug fixes for all missions and side missions.
? Heart of Darkness: Completing this mission now unlocks new side missions.
? Removed timer delays between a few main missions.
? Updated several side missions to ensure that they would not be void of enemies.
? Bolinas Smeltery, North Point Mine, Alamo, Happy Pow Farms and Kinship Plaza now have increased rewards.
? Bug fixes
? Fixed some data recorder typos.
? Removed health bar from APS dropbox at the crash site.
? Kith and Kinship: Fixed flyout text for a dead soldier.
? Muir Processing: Fixed some inactive enemies.
? Sniper’s Ridge: Added flyout text to interactable ammo caches.
? Sniper’s Ridge: Fixed an issue where event would reset if you left the area during the boss stage.
? Sutro Tower: Added collision to the destroyed monolith.
? KTAM: Added some missing doors to the buildings that were disappearing if you returned after completing the mission.
? There Goes the Neighborhood: Removed some unnecessary EGO voice overs.
? Down at the Docks: Players now receive proper credit if they complete the mission outside the POI radius.
? Mine 98: Fixed a missing spawn door.
? Iron Demon Ranch: Players will no longer extract to a hostile environment.
? Good Ol’ Smets now matches the cutscene in Ridgecrest.
? Radio Silence: Fixed comlink antenna animation.
? Pirate Radio: Fixed continuously respawning scrappers after completing the mission.
? We’re on the Air: Cass should move up to fix the control panel sooner.
? Angel of Death: Fixed a bug in Part 1 that caused the mission to not complete properly.
? A Little Competition: Fixed an issue where you would be unable to obtain the mission until after you completed the event, if you had entered another player’s phase before getting the mission.
? Added some missing scanning interactions to various mission objectives.
? Raid the Medicine Cabinet: Fixed an issue that stopped progression
? Seize the Day: Fixed a potential progression issue.
? Control the Future: Fixed a potential progression issue.
? Torc’s Garage: Fixed an issue that caused Von Bach to float.
? San Quentin: Fixed some explosions that were not firing after the cutscene.
? Safe No More: Moved Smets to lean against the wall to match the cutscene.
? Murder in Madera: Fixed some raiders that were fighting each other on the docks.
? Enter the Law Keeper: Adjusted player position to match cutscene.
? Fixed the reactor in the tutorial being active before the player arrives.
? North Point Mine: Fixed an issue where the Foreman and Technician would stop patrolling to each of the objects they are interacting with.
? Fixed missing voice overs in a few missions.
? Miwok Ranch: Fixed an issue where the rancher during the Boss Stage would sometimes not move after reviving the first fallen rancher and would prevent you from completing the mission.
CHALLENGES AND RACES
? Hotshot: Dam Defense - Adjusted rocket launcher damage.
? Hotshot: Reservoir Chickens - Adjusted chicken re-spawn rates and made scoring points tweaks.
? Sharpshooting Savior and Hamburger Hill challenges have had their scoring tweaked.
? Rescored Rampage: Minigun Mayhem: Bronze: 20000, Silver: 40000, Gold: 60000
? Bug fixes
? Rankings should now be displaying on the end screen.
? Prevented an exploit in which players could get infinite ammo during a rampage.
? Players should no longer be able to enter a phase while in a race.
EMERGENCIES
? Added new emergency types throughout the bay area.
? General polish for all emergencies.
? Tuned emergency sockets in Marin.
? Bug fixes
? Road Minefield: Fixed an issue that caused delayed mine explosion.
? Fixed an issue that caused emergencies to not end properly.
? Gang War: Fixed a bug that caused enemies to ignore ATV collision.
? Fixed a problem where emergency vendors would show as interactive, but not actually be interactive.
? Fixed a “no string” text appearing upon completion of some emergencies.
ARKFALLS
? There’s a Bioman Minigunner in the final wave of the Mutant Mayhem Arkfall – Only accessible on the “hard” wave!
? Updated wave progressions for the 99er minor destroy arkfall.
? Adjusted arkfall difficulty scaling.
? Minor arkfalls will now respawn after 30 minutes.
? Progenitor Armatures will now destroy vehicles.
? Bug fixes
? Evolved Hellion arkfall now gives credit towards the Ark Hunting as a Way of Life pursuit.
? Fixed incorrect key code rewards for arkfalls.
? Fixed a floating arkfall crystal.
? Results screen now appears if the player teleports to an arkfall.
? Emergencies within a major arkfall radius should now despawn.
PLAYER CHARACTER
? Bug Fixes
? Fixed a bug that caused characters to dive-roll in place.
? Fixed a bug that caused characters to run in place.
? Fixed a bug that caused ladder animation to play while not on a ladder.
NPCS
? Updated Dark Matter enforcer’s cloak spawn animation.
? Added mutants to Serenity Academy after Kith and Kinship has been completed.
? Hellbug skitterlings are now a little more aggressive and deal a little more damage.
? Alamo Park in San Fran has now been occupied by Dark Matter when player is not on the area specific mission.
? Downtown San Francisco enemies have been updated.
? Added disguised Dark Matter allies to Dark Matter base.
? Friendly scrappers now have blue lasers instead of red.
? Elite Mad Mattock shields have been lowered from 5400 to 4500.
? Lowered health on Dark Matter snipers.
? Tuned Piercer Boss in Liberate the Lost.
? Mutant grenadier in Into the Depths is now Elite.
? Crashing a vehicle into a monarch will cause the vehicle to blow up.
? Improved “bulldoze” attack for various NPCs.
? Bug Fixes
? E Rep Camp: Fixed E Rep Technician animation.
? Sausalito: Fixed a Blitzer that was instantly respawning.
? Fixed some NPC helicopters that were flying through geo.
? Elemental raiders now use appropriate effects when taunting.
? North Point Mine: Fixed tanker boss pop-in.
? Happy Pow Farms: Fixed some disappearing hellbugs.
? Fixed a bug that caused some enemies to go invisible.
? Bernal Tower: Fixed some scrappers that would respawn after you completed the event.
? Fixed a bug that caused ally NPCs to retain their shader after being revived.
? Liberate the Lost: Fixed an issue that was causing the siphon monarch to not siphon correctly.
? Minimized the chance of blitzers firing out of the side of their guns while running.
? Mount Tam: Fixed various floating spawns and some collision issues.
? Fixed an exploit that caused mutant minigunners to have a hard time tracking players at close range.
? Fixed some 99ers that weren’t flailing when being electrocuted.
? East Shore Docks: Fixed an issue in which two hostages freed from the main warehouse would path through the vendor truck.
? Tanker rockets should not agro cloaked players.
? Fixed a few spawners that were appearing incorrectly.
? Fixed siphon blast pods that weren’t healing themselves with the syphon effect.
? Soleptor Excavations: Fixed a pathing issue with the Hulker Boss.
? Improved firing behavior for multiple enemy NPCs.
? Fixed multiple NPCs playing run animation while walking.
? Fixed multiple NPCs not playing animation when getting up after knockdown.
? Fix bug where NPCs were continually playing shooting animation even when they’ve run out of ammo.
? Fixed bug where NPC melee wasn’t damaging fully cloaked players
COMPETITIVE MULTIPLAYER
? Observatory & Waterfront: Updated and moved a few ammo caches.
? All capture and hold matches in both shadow war and battlegrounds now last for 20 minutes instead of 15.
? Updated scoring for capture and hold matches.
? Improved matchmaking for multiplayer.
? Bug fixes
? Players are now not able to use inventory vehicles in shadow war or shadow war vehicles outside of shadow war.
? Changed kill notifications when killed by an NPC so that it doesn’t look like a suicide.
? Kill notification now appears properly when killed by an elemental weapon proc.
CO-OP AND SOLO MAPS
? General polish and bug fixes for all co-op and solo maps.
? Updated timing for several interactables.
? Updated fence collision in Scrapworks and Angel Island.
? Ammo caches found in boss rooms have updated visuals.
? Time goals for certain Co-op Map Pursuits have been updated.
? Scrapworks: Added Dark Matter force fields.
? Players can no longer use vehicles to combat the mini-boss in Explosions 101.
? Reorganized queue menu so that co-op maps are listed in the right order.
? Improved matchmaking for co-op maps.
? Players that enter a co-op map now get put where the leader is.
? Fixed quick match so players don’t get put in matches they aren’t eligible for.
? Co-op map prerequisites now appear in the queue menu.
? Bug fixes
? Players abandoning “Into the Depths” while in the Delta West area of Mount Tam will now be removed from the phase and sent to an extraction point.
? Fixed some pathing issues in the hulker fight in Soleptor Excavations.
? Something Wicked This Way Comes should no longer end prematurely if multiple players are doing the mission at the same time.
? Fixed an issue in Scrapworks Excavation that could cause the progenitor arm bottom heatsink to be obscured by its base.
? Fixed missing EGO voice overs during the Motherlode boss battle.
? Players who don’t contribute in co-op maps now appear on the results screen.
? Fixed some issues with the mini map in Cronkhite Bunker.
? Fixed an issues that caused some notifications to appear twice.
WEAPONS
? Lowered damage output of sawed off shotguns.
? General tuning to improve LMGs.
? Rate of fire and mag size changes have been made to rocket launchers.
? Cluster launchers have had their damage lowered.
? Anti-vehicle launcher now does appropriate damage to humanoids and a bonus to damage vs vehicles.
? Updated bloom for VBI LMGs.
? Added cooldown to prevent elemental effects from constantly applying to player.
? Tuned lock-on rocket launchers.
? FRC LMGs now have a lower rate of fire than other LMGs.
? Lowered the damage and crit Multiplier on the Northstar Flare Pistol.
? Infectors have had their homing range decreased.
? All Infectors now have the same reticle and will not change size when moving crouching or aiming.
? Infector bug speed has been slightly decreased.
? Infector bug damage has been decreased.
? Pistols have had their ammo pools increased in competitive multiplayer.
? Legendary detonators no longer have +6 mag rarity bonus.
? Reduced auto lobbers’ rate of fire.
? Reduced damage for Crash Boomer, Rebounder Lobber and Auto Lobber.
? Bug fixes
? Fixed a bug that caused the swarm rocket launcher to deal too much damage.
? Super Rocket Pod from Echelon vendor should now correctly show its model.
? Fixed a weird xp bonus that was showing up on some weapons.
? VOT and VBI LMG animations now sync with the firing pattern.
? Fixed a potential crash caused by weapon holstering.
? Fixed the Bull Rush 45 causing an operated vehicle to explode when damaging players inside.
GRENADES
? Increased spread damage for incendiary grenades.
? Bug fixes
? Fixed an issue that caused damage from multiple grenades to stack incorrectly.
SHIELDS
? Bug fixes
? Fixed damage reducing effect while standing still on the VBI Sentinel.
LOOT AND AMMO
? Added and updated ammo caches throughout the world.
? Tuned amount of ammo that drops from NPCs.
? Increased chances of NPCs dropping a weapon.
? Ammo crates have been added near the vendors at Point Bonita, Bug N Chug and Coit Tower locations.
? Bug fixes
? Removed orange glow that sometimes appeared over loot weapons.
WEAPON MODS
? Removed magazine size mods for rocket launchers.
OUTFITS
? Bug fixes
? Fixed various issues with helmets and hats.
VEHICLES
? Shields for rollers have been reduced.
? Bug fixes
? Increasing vehicle skill now adds to EGO rating.
? Flyout will now specify when you enter a vehicle as a passenger.
? Fixed a bug that caused other players to appear to mount vehicles from the wrong side.
? Fixed a bug that caused placed Cerberuses to not have collision.
VENDORS
? Hidden vendors now appear as people instead of the vendor trucks.
? Titles are now available at faction vendors!
? Bug Fixes
? Fixed any duplicate items that might appear in stores.
EGO ABILITIES AND PERKS
? Updated placement of a few perks on the EGO grid.
? Thick Skinned perk now has a 15 second cooldown.
? Bug fixes
? Fixed an issue that caused decoy projections to not have shields.
? Fixed an issue that caused decoy pursuits to update when enemies attacked another player’s decoy.
? Fixed a bug that caused decoys to slide.
? Error audio will now play if you attempt to use an ability before its cooldown finishes.
PURSUITS AND CONTRACTS
? Updated the order in which pursuits are listed.
? Contracts now display the amount of time left until the contract expires, even after the contract has been completed.
? Updated outfit rewards for Living to Kill V and In the Inner Circle II pursuits.
? Bug fixes
? Fixed contract icons in notifications.
? Weekly contracts should now only be playable once per week.
? Mutants at the South Radio Tower now give credit towards the Atlas Attrition contract.
CINEMATICS
? General polish for all cinematics.
? Bug fixes
? Fixed a bug that caused incapacitation screen overlay to appear over cinematics.
AUDIO
? Updated music for co-op and solo maps.
? Updated combat music timing.
? Made some adjustments to when and how combat music comes in.
? Added spawn and despawn audio to Dark Matter drop ships.
? Added taunt audio to elemental blitzers.
USER INTERFACE
? Added pop-up text after completing the last mission notifying that missions can be played again.
? Previewing head gear in the loadout menu will now zoom in on the character’s head.
? You can create CS petitions in game now!
? Added Defiance Store option to quick menu.
? Hooked up new inventory items/new claim items indicator.
? Polished the character create screen.
? Added scrip deduction notification upon extraction.
? Added clan invite to the search list in the social menu.
? Added region and other location names to the map.
? Reconfigured player interaction picking to make interacting with objects easier in high population areas.
? Bug Fixes
? Fixed a bug that caused arkfall and multiplayer end screens to appear on top of each other.
? Fixed an issue that caused audio to loop when picking up an item.
? Fixed an issue that caused controllers to loose functionality when a drop down was expanded.
? Fixed an issue that caused direction pads on controllers to stop working in the pursuits menu.
? Fixed task boxes so that they update without opening different pursuits.
? Pursuit rewards preview pane now displays both helmet and outfit rewards.
? Fixed results screens to show consistent data.
? Fixed full screen settings persisting after logout.
? Fixed tutorial arrows persisting after logging out during the tutorial.
? Fixed skill progress bars to update correctly.
? Fixed clanmate options appearing when the clan member is offline.
? Fixed some issues with group invites.
? Fixed a bug that caused UI interact audio to play twice for some buttons.
? Fixed some buttons that were not highlighting properly in the salvage matrix.
? Fixed a bug that caused quantity to appear as -1 in the Defiance store.
? Prevented mission complete and mission reward notifications from overlapping.
? Medals displayed on multiplayer end screens no longer blink.
? Fixed a bug with revive stat on the arkfall end screen.
? Fixed an issue that caused key remappings to not save after exiting the client.
PC
? Added option to turn off voice chat.
? Fixed not being able to select some options in character create with a controller.
? Removed non-functional Social button from the patcher.
? Fixed arkfall end screens only being scrollable with arrow keys.
XBOX 360
? Fixed various Kinect bugs.
? Fixed some voice chat issues.
? “Last online” for friends now appears correctly.
? Optimized audio.
? Fixed a bug that could causes players to fall through the world while on a vehicle.
PLAYSTATION 3
? Fixed a bug that caused friend invites to be delayed.
? Fixed a bug that caused friend logout notifications to be delayed.
? Fixed some voice chat issues.
? “Last online” for friends now appears correctly.
? Optimized audio.
? Fixed an issue that prevented some characters from being entered on the keypad.
Comments
I kept on reading on official forums that new patch notes are 8 pages long. Not even close.
However, i still don't see option for sending tells or keeping chat boxes on permanently. Voice chat is going to be a mess when large number of people are going to talk during arkfalls.
I wish they just give us good old chat system.
LMAO, so much for all the fanboy comments that the game will get fixed with the first patch. Looks to me like they didn't really address what was wrong with the game.
I guess having the ability to replay the main storyline is adding new content!!! LMAO
You know someone would shout, 'dumbing it down' and 'wow clone'.
Yes, once again you 'non' fan-boys have received a reason to be an ass on the forums. But, with no less than two "LMAO"'s and a total of three exclamation points, and the assumption that creating and adding new content could actually be possible without stopping time between release and the first patch......I'm not sure you need reason.
[mod edit] I remember people doing just what he said for a number of games right after launch. A large number of those were things we were begging for and reported during early "alpha". Trion in general has this poor habit of touching stuff and then showing it off like its all awesome even though they really did not do anything to it. They have done it with numerous class "revamps" and even with base systems like how rifts granted loot and xp right after launch. The sheer amount of hype and double talk they do to drive this great reputation really irks me, and I just see more of the same with Defiance.
http://chroniclesofthenerds.com/nerdfight/
Y U NO FLIP TABLE?!?!?!
Feel free to slam me for pointing out that Trion failed to live up to their promise of releasing an eight page patch to fix everything people are complaining about. Just because you think everything is all hunky dory doesn't mean I'm wrong. I am still confused how people like you can spend most of you day lauding the attributes of a crappy game design when the vast majority of players point out serious issues.
How can a MMO be released with so little content that every quest can be accomplished in about a week? I guess their "Contract" are supposed to give you something to do once tou finish all the other quests. Problem is that you have like 5 factions with only 2 quests each, one doable once per 24 hours and the other once per week. That isn't conent.
The chat fix isn't a fix at all one line of text available in an MMO? They didn't mention any fixes to VOIP chat that I can see.
So keep hating on people that would like to see the game get fixed as promised.
PC
? Added option to turn off voice chat.
Best fix in the patch.
Being a pessimist is a win-win pattern of thinking. If you're a pessimist (I'll admit that I am!) you're either:
A. Proven right (if something bad happens)
or
B. Pleasantly surprised (if something good happens)
Either way, you can't lose! Try it out sometime!
Don't feed the troll and he will go back trolling GW2 or whatever he does to keep himself amused
When you start and end your post with "LMAO" and calling the players fanboys, that tends to make it sound like you are the one hating and that you could care less that the game is being fixed. Don't get mad if someone is calling you out on how you are posting.
"If I offended you, you needed it" -Corey Taylor
I did.
But since my point seems lost on you: it was not what you said, but the way you said it.
Looks like a good start to me, and I dont think people should be so shocked that the cannot get to everyones pet peave with the first patch.
Most of the problems listed I have not even encountered yet because, well, I just don't burn through content like a ravenous flesh eating Zombie!
Now don't get me wrong, I really appreciate all of you "RFEZ's", because of you by the time I get to problem area's of a game all the issue's have been addressed.
So I want to thank all of you "RFEZ's" for your dedication to making Defiance a better game!
agreed here, curently only bad chat system is iritiated for me
You seem to forget that in games like wow and its clones you hit the level cap in 2-3 days, then you spend months doing the same repetive (dailies and the same raids over and over) content for gear that serves no uses anymore. All mmo's are the same pretty much.
Being a pessimist is a win-win pattern of thinking. If you're a pessimist (I'll admit that I am!) you're either:
A. Proven right (if something bad happens)
or
B. Pleasantly surprised (if something good happens)
Either way, you can't lose! Try it out sometime!
Sorry but that patch list looked pretty damn impressive to me. But seeing as how I actually play the game, I guess my opinio matters more than the trolls that tend to stick around and cry about a game they don't like, or play.
As for new content, if they have no content ready to roll out, wouldn't it come out Monday with the premier of the TV show? I would not expect new content at this stage of the game.
Not so nice guy!
This is a bug fix / improvement patch. Not a content patch. They never said this was for content, nor did any "fanboys", but nice try there. The 1st DLC is also coming out monday, along with the new episod emissions from the show airing coming out monday or tuesday. Knowing the difference between bug patches and content additions = win.
Kinda hate when they push a game they KNOW is broken or not ready then for the next 6 months they scramble like their asses are on fire to fix the game before they lose all their playerbase.
Just once wish someone would actually make their best damn effort to release a polished ready game.
Ehhhh, think before you type. I just pasted the patch notes into Word, and it comes out to 7.5 pages long with the default settings (Times New Roman, 12 point font, usual margins).
So.... yeah, the patch notes are 8 pages long.
There is no such thing when taking into account the number of variables they are working with, multiple video card makers, video card models, video card drivers, routers makers, models, router os, windows versions, etc...
The list woud go on for days. Look at a game like Everquest that released in 1998? It still gets bug patches. It part of the deal when trying to make millions of variations of PC, and communications play together.
Not so nice guy!
He's been posting since 09' he already knows this. It just suits him to use the same tired old excuse trolling this game
That would be a better argument if the vast, vast bulk of the issues weren't well known and discussed to death for months on the Alpha and Beta forums. And I don't just mean issues like draw distance (or lack thereof), there being no PTT or the laughably borked chat system, though those were discussed and ignored, I mean bugs, glitches, ways hotshots could be cheesed, in all a very long list of issues that were long known about and never should have been there at launch.
Trion really did severly drop the ball on this one.
In any event, there is one aspect of the patch notes that should bring hilarity to all:
? Area voice chat has been improved and is now on by default.
If nothing else, proof the devs definitely have a sense of humor.
"I’m going tease a little bit and give you the draft patch notes. They are incomplete, we haven’t put our nice explanatory voice into them or highlighted the big wins, they are buried in there for you to discover but we’re all gamers, right? We’re pretty sure you’ll appreciate this small heads-up and apply your gamer eye to them instead of take these as the Final Truth to Fight Over™. I’m going to regret publishing these, aren’t I?
Many questions will come up, such as, “why isn’t my problem fixed?”, “X is more important than Y”, “the most important thing is this, why not fix this first?” and “am I right to be afraid of pressure cookers?”. Some of these I can answer straight away. There are issues which are not on this list which require much larger changes to address than could fit into this patch, would have been too dangerous to change (server explode kind of way), didn’t have a clear resolution or simply, or the right fix might not have made it in time for the cut-off date.
That’s why you get the opportunity to comment right now. It won’t change this patch, it’s almost impossible. It’s on rails. But you can chime in on future patches. So don’t hesitate pointing out the issue you feel we should be addressing, we love constructive criticism. In most cases we know about it and it’s in the pipeline but as they say in Iceland, sometimes “it lies in the eyes upstairs”, sometimes it doesn’t. I’m sure you understand."
http://community.defiance.com/en/2013/04/11/day-29-its-tricky-to-rock-a-rhyme-thats-right-on-time-so-heres-a-patch-to-address-that/?utm_campaign=makegood_apr13&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email&utm_content=massive_patch_text
I call Bul SHIT!
If they can fix it 6 months down the road thru endless patches then there is ZERO reason they can't fix it before they release.
I'm not talking a bug that maybe pops up with some added content, or a bug that pops up due to a new headset or operating system.
I mean just sitting here running things through my head I can think of no other products or service in the world where it is acceptable to send a KNOWN broken, bugged, or flawed product to market.
None, why because of consumer protection laws...
So why should video games be given this free pass that nothing else in the world is given..
I mean even other software is not given the pass that video games are..