Defiance Fortnight in Review (Jan 31 - Feb 14)

We missed last week, but what has been happening in the last 2 weeks on Defiance? We'll try and keep you informed of the patches, blog posts, and dev posts.

Game Changes

• Defiance 2.6: Colony Courtship - Weapon Bonus Rarity Changes are live now, Birdshot Pump is back in store boxes and other fixes
• Defiance 2.601 (hotfix) - Fix for a bug happening when upgrading weapons in the salvage matrix

PTS Updates

• PTS 2.6 #5 - Mass DB Update to encrypt all non-encrypted legendary weapons
• PTS 2.6 #6 - Localization updates, Stalker synergy change and outfits and headgears of the Valentine's Event added to the Loot Table.
• PTS 3.0: Alcatraz -  an early, incomplete, but still playable version of our next Defiance update to our Public Test Servers today - Alcatraz
• PTS 3.0: Alcatraz #2 - Fixes and additions for Expeditions
• PTS 3.0: Alcatraz #3 - Further additions and fixes to Expeditions and Alcatraz.

Dev Blog Posts

• Hellbug Season is Here
• Dev Q&A Feb 9
• Colony Courtship Trailer

Dev Forum Posts

• Phantasie agrees there needs to be a respawn point at the Water Temple
• Phantasie posts about the salvage matrix being temporarily disabled
• Rashere says future jackpots and special created guns will always have bonuses from the new table
• Rashere talks about accuracy affecting bloom when moving on Sawed-off Shotguns
• Rashere talks about upcoming economy changes, the removal of woot loot and increasing of base rewards
• Phantasie says PTS character copy is still unavailable
• Scapes clarifies the valentines outfit is only available from the store instead of the incorrect patch notes reference to arkfalls
• Rashere explains some of the reasoning behind the valentines outfit only being available in a lockbox
• Rashere acknowledges a bug which doubles chance of headgear in boxes, but is in no rush to fix
• Scapes acknowledges some mistakes that went out with a mass email
• Kiwibird is collecting names of people who see false store discounts