2016

Game Update – December 22nd, 2016

Fujin nanite cost reduced to 25, headshot multiplier increased to 2.2x
Minor Rocklet Rifle changes
Renamed Instat Action into Join Combat

Game Update – December 12th, 2016

New rocket launcher: NSX Masamune
NSX Directives Tier 3 reward: Fujin, a throwing knife, used in grenade slot.
New LA Tool: Rocklet Rifle.
Amaterasu knife damage increased to 350.

Game Update – December 1st, 2016

NSX Tomoe and auto scout rifles buffs.
Med and Resto kits automatically equip primary weapon after using. This forces a 0.5 sec cooldown for them.
Elysium Spawn Tubes can now be damaged by grenades and bullets.
All Tech Plant upper platforms no longer harbor Anti-Vehicle Turrets.
Has been removed and certs have been refunded
MAX Charge ability has been replaced by Emergency Repair: activate to repair 20% of a MAX’s health over 12 seconds.
Hipfire minimum cone of fire while airborne now uses the same minimum hipfire cone of fire as a player who is walking. For the Serpent VE92, VX6-7, LC2 Lynx, LC3 Jaguar, GD-7F, and AF-4A Bandit, these values are slightly larger.
Hip Fire CoF bloom buffs for many carbines. Lynx bloom buffs.

Game Update – November 18th, 2016

New Scout Rifle: NSX Tomoe
New Melee Weapon: NSX Amaterasu
Reduced recoil recovery delay for semi auto scout rifles, semi auto sniper rifles and battle rifles.
Some LMG changes.
Stalker Cloaking recharge rate buffs.
New models for some pistols. New FX for Resist shield.

Game Update – October 23rd, 2016

Added BattleEye anti-cheat system.
Continent Lock bonuses now persist until the continent is locked by another faction
Players may now summon and spawn directly into a vehicle on uncontested bases
from the redeploy screen, using its 1st loadout.
Construction System purchases with Daybreak Cash are now account-wide. DBC refunded where appropriate.
Bypassing construction object Cortium costs will now require certifications, instead of Daybreak Cash.
New Construction Objects: air and vehicle terminals, pillbox, vehicle gate, Glaive IPC artillery, alarm module, vehicle ammo dispenser, respawn tube.
New LMG: NS Naginata
New infantry armor sets
Valkyrie Squad Logistics certification is now baseline, certs refunded.
Valkyrie turret can now swivel 360 degrees.
ES Secondary vehicle weapon changes, C75 Viper changes: now has less recoil, but added CoF bloom. G40 Ranger damage buffs.
Motion spotter nerfs.
EMP grenade cost 25 -> 75 nanites.
Standard Flash Grenade now has 3 second fuse timer and increases enemy minimum CoF by 20%.
Added Quick-Det Flash Grenade with 1.5 second fuse timer which doesn’t affect enemy CoF.
A few weapon changes, notably Cyclone nerfs and TRAP buffs.
Bounties may now be purchased for certifications, as well as Daybreak Cash
Sound effects have been added for when players mount and dismount vehicles

Game Update – September 7th, 2016

All ranks of the repair tool are now able to deconstruct enemy tank mines.
All ranks of the medical applicator now revives soldiers at 100% health (does not apply to MAX units)
Minor class ability adjustments to: Combat Medic, Light Assault, Infiltrator
Basic Training directive kills should no longer update in VR
Added an improved camo selector
The ANT mineral radar is now a passive system
Removed distortion effects from shields on constructed objects
Structure Shield Module changes
Added a light to the top of the Cortium Solo that correlates to its power meter
Now a faction needs 20 Victory Points (up from 15) to capture a continent, but all faction will now start the map with 5-6 Victory Points.
A minor tracking delay has been reintroduced to G2A and G2G lock-on launchers.
Updated spot callout VO for the Flash, Liberator, and Valkyrie to make use of more specific VO lines.
Added Starter Loadouts that unlock a few necessary attachments for starter weapons and a fully certed suit slot (different per class).
New class-specific suit slots: Chameleon Module (Infiltrator), Flight Suit (Light Assault), Nano-Regen Capacitor (Combat Medic)
New utility item – Auxiliary Shield, unlocked and equipped by default by all classes. Passively increases Shield Health by 50.
To maintain appropriate lethality, some weapons have had their damage increased:
- Power Knives activated damage from 1000 to 1050.
- Titan-150 HE and Supernova VPC indirect max damage from 1000 to 1050.
- Proximity Mine and Bouncing Betty indirect max damage from 1000 to 1050.
- Blackhand min damage from 250 to 275.
Melee weapon buffs, especially in wielded mode
LC2 Lynx’ forward grip now properly reduces horizontal recoil by 25%
Semi-Auto Sniper Rifle buffs: Recoil Decrease from 6 to 10, added a new Rail Attachment: Ballistic Computer, which removes scope sway from all scopes.
Removed scope sway on non-sniper rifle 6x scopes
Further Air to Air Tuning
Vehicle Weapons: All 1.25x zooms unlocked and equipped by default.
The Flash ATV can now unlock a Gate Shield Diffusor.
Engineers piloting ESFs will enable health regeneration on the vehicle equivalent to rank 1 nanite auto repair system but with a 12 second damage delay. This does not stack with the nanite auto repair item.
ESF Nanite Auto Repair: Regen Delay lowered to 8 seconds down from 12.

Air-to-Air Balance Pass – July 7th, 2016

Multiple changes to aircraft weapons and systems. Among other things:
- Engagement Radar is now default for all ESF at max rank, certs refunded
- New versions of Afterburners: Quick-Recharge and High-Capacity
- Coyotes no longer affected by stealth
- A2A missiles have changed their primary role to hunting “big game”: libs and gals
New Construction Items: Reinforcements Module, Infantry Tower, Low Profile AV Turret, Faction Banner, Vehicle Ramp, Blast Wall.
Players can no longer place VP Chassis while they have an active HIVE in world.
Two roof entrances added to the Sunderer Garage
Hardened structures like walls and bunkers will now take no damage while under the influence of an active repair mod
Underbarrel Smoke Launchers now use a shorter duration smoke effect.
NS-61 Emissary had some changes in damage / recoil stats.
Decoy Grenade is back
Optics attachments have been added to all empire specific pistols.
Flash is now able to equip Gate Shield Diffuser
Added Vehicle gunner sensitivity setting
Revival timer on deployment screen, showing progress bar and time value now
Equipment terminal optimizations: should open and process 100-150% faster
Fixed an error where some Forward Grips would incorrectly increase the number of horizontal “kicks” in one direction.
Fixed AI mines doing damage through walls
Fix for long standing Tank Mine rendering issues (hopefully)
Fix for the issue where other players could appear dead, but still be running around and shooting.
Fix for the bug where the tracer is not visible and no audio plays when the constructed AI controlled turret is firing

Update – June 1st, 2016

Players fighting within a 150m radius of an active HIVE will receive a 20% XP bonus.
New Victory objectives:
- Faction has seven active Hives up at the same time: +3 VP permanently.
- Faction has the majority of active HIVEs: +2 VP, only while the objective criteria is met.
To prevent a faction from hogging all cores and not using them, Inactive cores now have a placement timer on them. If the timer reaches zero before a valid chassis is provided by players, the core will become neutral and be awarded to the faction with the oldest existing valid chassis.
Construction structures and turrets are now much more vulnerable to all types of damage while in the process of building.
Silo/Turret permissions do not reset when the owner logs out.
Reduced gravity on Slug Ammunition from 11.5 to 8. Fixed a bug where VS slugs were not using “the correct 300m/s projectile velocity”. A bit hard to tell what this change means, because some shotguns aren’t supposed to have 300 m/s velocity.
High Velocity Ammunition now increases minimum damage range by 20m for all weapons, increases projectile velocity by 5%, decreases maximum damage range by 2m. No longer increases vertical recoil.
Default velocity on some weapons has been adjusted.
Unarmed Flash ATVs may now free look 360 degrees.
Flak will no longer blind pilots hit by it in first person.
Auto AA turrets now attack drop pods that drop from above them

Update – May 12, 2016

Silos and turrets can now be individually locked by the owner using the Q menu.
Structure Shield Modules will now give active HIVEs a bubble shield for additional protection.
Empty HIVE chassis should now be more difficult to destroy.
Crystals within range of Mineral Radar are now visible on map/minimap
Friendly deployed Sunderers are now displayed on the mini-map with a unique icon
The tutorial has been re-enabled for new characters.
The cap on ammo resupply experience has been increased substantially.
Experience caps related to the Bounty system have been removed.
“Check your fire!” quick chat menu callout has been replaced with “I need a gunner!”
The EM6, Pulsar LSW, and TMG-50 have received new models.
GODSAW’s projectile velocity while aiming down sights is now properly 670m/s.
You can now see which continents have a queue while in the world terminal.
Utility Pouch replaced by two new cert lines: Mine Carrier and Demolitions Pouch
(Wasn’t in patchnotes) Spitfires now have a cert line to allow engineers to carry up to 4 spitfires with them.

Construction System Hotfix – May 3, 2016

Some nerfs to automated player-constructed AI turrets
Changes to HIVE damage resists
Changes to friendly fire on player-constructed objects.

Construction System – April 27, 2016

Construction system release
Indar Revamp
New MAX weapon: NS Gorgon
Squad browser now shows squad’s cohesion level
Map drawing now available for personal use
Hold Ctrl to click through map drawn objects
Deployable status indication on the HUD
Green IFF on main weapon reticles
HUD loadout UI polish and update: equipment slots with timers on them ( e.g. squad beacon ) now persist on the HUD until the timer is complete.

Sidearm Update – March 2, 2016

New sidearm: NS-61 Emissary
Added map drawing
Added new centralized HUD mode (from PS4)
Buffs to: T4 AMP, Mag Scatter, Inquisitor, Hunter QCX.

January Update – Jan 14th 2016

Maximum Battle Rank increased to 120
Leadership improvements:
- Squad/Platoon leaders can subdivide their squad into Fire Teams
- Players can be right clicked on thwe minimap for some squad interactions
- Increased distance for spawning into squad vehicles from 600 meters to 1000 meters.
- Reduced cooldowns for offensive/defensive markers from 5 minutes to 2:30 minutes.
- New button to invite all outfit members to squad/platoon.
- New button that allows a squad leader to remove their squad from a platoon.
- All squad members will show within 2500m.
- Depending on your position in squad hierarchy, different squad members will also edge clamp.
- Waypoints can now be removed individually without removing all other waypoints.
Increased reward on Bounty System:
- Bounty Hunter Award XP has been increased from 100 to 250xp per kill.
- Payback Award XP has been increased from 100 to 400 per kill.
Heavy Shield Changes:
- NMG and Adrenaline: total hit points reduced to 450, upkeep cost reduced, regeneration rate increased.
- Resist Shield: damage reduction reduced to 40%, active duration increased by 50%.
MR11 Gatekeeper nerfs: velocity decreased, drop increased.
Battle Rifles: recoil reduced, maximum damage range increased to 15m, added UBGL and UBSGL, reload speed reduced.
Auraxium Battle Rifles: similar buffs + vertical recoil reduced, velocity increased.
Flash Grenade Fuse timer to 1.5 sec from 3 sec.
Medical Applicator Revive range standardized to 6 meters at all ranks.
Flash Suppressor no longer increases CoF bloom, and instead increases minimap detection range by 15m.
Lightning tanks may now unlock Engagement Radar (autospots nearby enemy aircraft, shows direction to them if they are off screen, incredibly useful for Skyguards).
Players can now safely drop from a Valkyrie by default.
Fix that should make damage from C4 attached to a moving vehicle much more reliable.
Fixing erratic blinking of centralized HUD ammo/ability bars when at warning levels.