Defiance Week in Review (Feb 16 - Feb 22)

What has been happening in Defiance this week? From patches to PTS from the blog to the forum we'll try to keep you updated.

Game Changes

• Defiance 2.602 (hotfix) - Charge weapons can no longer receive Fire Rate bonuses, accuaracy and velocity cannot roll in the legendary slot anymore and other fixes
• Defiance 2.603 (hotfix) - Fix for weapons that were missing their legendary roll
• Trick's parting gift to the players:
  • Weapon "Trick'd Out"
  • Title "Trick'd Out"
  • Dodge Challenger RT Furious Fuchsia Pearlcoat White Stripe

PTS Updates

• Defiance 3.0 #4 - First pass at Cyber Rigs and additions and fixes for expeditions.
• Defiance 3.0 #5 - Fixes for Expeditions and improvements to Expedition Loot 

Dev Forum Posts

Important Threads

• Community Q&A: February 16th - Scapes presents a new Community Q&A mainly focusing on Hunter Requisitions and Expeditions
• Weekly Q&A Collections Thread - Kiwibird wants to know your questions for the Devs. Questions have been drawn from the forums thread on the 18th February
• Cyber Rigs are coming to PTS - Explanation and introduction of Cyber Rigs
• Meet the new Creative Lead: Carble "LoCarb" Cheung - Trick is leaving Defiance and LoCarb will take his place as Creative Lead.
• Expedition Tuning Goals - Rashere talks about the tuning goals the team has for Expeditions
• Developer Livestream, Feb 20th - A last good-bye to Trick, also introducing LoCarb

Phantasie says:

• You won't lose your expedition progress when disconnecting, as long as you log back in before the nightly server restart
• Phantasie confirms that you cannot roll the same mastery twice in a row
• PTS Character Copy Tool is working again
• Phantasie is asking if the monthly scrip grant should be increased

Rashere says:

• Effects of Chips can stack. You can stack up to 4 times the same chip on some rigs
• Rarity of drops in Expeditions increases with round and tier.
• Scaling after 5.500 EGO isn't finished and will be tweaked

LoCarb says:

• Spawn Location for a stuck Skitterling at Pacifica Temple will be fixed with the Alcatraz Update

Dev Blog Posts

• Expedition Preview - Trick Dempsey the Creative Lead for Defiance has posted a preview of Expeditions, the new game mode coming with Alcatraz
• Developer Interview with Rashere - A new thing we're trying on DD, mainly focusing on background and environment
• Party with Trion at PAX East - Have the chance to meet some of the Defiance Team at PAX East in Boston