Patch 1.3 - 7th Legion

DLC EXCLUSIVE FEATURES

 

IMMEDIATE DLC BONUS: 7TH LEGION RECRUIT KIT

• Receive the Badlands Ronin Outfit, a 7th Legion Wanyu pump shotgun, a 7th Legion Inagaki bolt-action sniper rifle, and a 7th Legion shield!

ACCESS TO THE 7TH LEGION FACTION

• 7th Legion provides contracts for taking down Incursions and arkfall bosses.
• It also provides a faction stipend for members who complete Incursions.

NEW 7TH LEGION WEAPONS

• 7th Legion Sumimoto – Assault Rifle
• 7th Legion Nezumi - SMG
• 7th Legion Yamato - LMG
• 7th Legion Raijin – Combat Shotgun
• 7th Legion Yojimbo – Sawed-off Shotgun
• 7th Legion Daicho – Semi-auto Sniper Rifle
• 7th Legion Tetsuho – Heavy Pistol
• 7th Legion Wanyu – Pump Shotgun
• 7th Legion Inagaki – Bolt-Action Sniper Rifle
• 7th Legion Gashima - Detonator

NEW 7TH LEGION MODS

• New Mods: Fury synergy mods improve 7th Legion weapons!
• New Vendor: A 7th Legion faction vendor sells the 7th Legion weapons and lock boxes

NEW SHIELD EFFECTS

• Focus – Reduces recoil and spread after shield break
• Zanzou – 10% chance to release a decoy on shield break
• Surge – 50% melee damage bonus after shield fully recharges

NEW ACHIEVEMENTS/TROPHIES

• One Lucky Kitty, Shogun Master and Incursion Excursion now available!

NEW OUTFITS ON THE FACTION VENDOR

• 7th Legion Samurai
• Tsunami Samurai
• Phantom Samurai
• Shinigami Samurai
• Badlands Ronin
• Tsunami Ronin
• Shinigami Ronin
• 7th Legion Ronin
• Sedge Hat
• Votan Rebreather
• Tactical Rebreather

ADDITIONAL FEATURES

 

NEW DYNAMIC EVENTS: INCURSIONS

• Incursions provide region-wide dynamic events in which culminate in sieges.

NEW SIEGE

• New Serenity Academy mutant siege!

NEW FACTION LOCK BOXES

• Top-Notch, Soleptor, and VBI Mod Hoards now give 1 random mod for each slot and may roll EPIC mods.
• Top-Notch, Soleptor, and VBI lockboxes provide random weapons with their faction’s synergies.

GAME UPDATE

 

GENERAL

• When a player is out of a particular consumable, the HUD icon for it now glows red to signify it.
• Added a cooldown bar for vehicle summoning.
• Removed green items from merchant when purple items appear
• Added a new setting in the Gameplay options menu to filter Mass Breakdown by item rarity.
• Pressing Extract from the map screen while incapacitated now applies the death penalty appropriately
• The map legend now allows input regardless of its length.
• Clans: Member options are once again accessible for gamepads.
• Triage Center emergency can now be completed even if enemies appear nearby.
• Reduced the counts on Echelon Contracts-- some of them were quite unreasonable.
• Added Echelon reputation rewards to competitive multiplayer matches.

CHAT SYSTEM UPDATE

• Chat no longer brings up the huge chat window-- instead, brings focus to the chat window.
• Specify the number of chat tabs and what filters they use on the options screen.
• If you're using a controller, you can switch chat tabs with the left and right bumper.
• On a controller, navigate channels by hitting d-pad left while in chat mode, and then the A button.
• Chat and voice are now separate channels.

WEAPONS

• Weapon Mastery: Sniper Rifles, Shotguns (excluding sawed off), and Detonators/Rocket launchers with clip sizes larger than 1 now get a flat increase to clip size from their mastery, as opposed to a percentage based increase.
• Volge Battle Rifle reticule now better indicates the spread of the shots when fired from the hip and when aimed.
• "Volge Battle Rifle Gun" renamed to slightly less redundant "Volge Battle Rifle"
• Charge bonuses now correctly apply to BMGs.

VARIOUS FIXES

• The vehicle bar no longer shows up all the time.
• Fixed clan rename not working on consoles.
• Fixed the Warmaster exploit on live.
• Fix for client hanging on character creation.
• Fixed crash on cinematics.
• Resolved some matchmaking issues which could prevent competitive multiplayer matches from beginning.
• Gameplay setting are saved properly now.
• Fix for ark batteries not being displayed in chat.
• Fixed issue that would cause the "Volge Examination" pursuit to not update properly.
• Fixed missing weapon mastery bonuses.
• Fixed Clusterdrop projectile to use blue alientech instead of hightech yellow.
• Fix for guild related pursuits not updating for people who are not logged in at the time the pursuit was completed.

[PS&XBOX]

• Xbox and PS3 Trophies now rewarded to all players who participate in defeating the Warmaster