Hurricane season hits ARC Raiders in update 1.17.0

Winter could also be slowly coming to an finish however that doesn’t imply the final of the acute climate in ARC Raiders. Embark launched replace 1.17.0 Shrouded Sky, which brings hurricanes to the sport. Meaning decrease visibility on the floor, flying particles, and two new ARC enemy sorts roaming round to concentrate on. You may seize the complete patch notes under.

ARC Raiders Shrouded Sky 1.17.0 replace patch notes

Hurricane Map Situation
Two New ARC Enemies
The Climate Monitoring System – Seasonal Participant Undertaking
Free Raider Deck
Dam Battlegrounds Map Replace
Expedition Window
Facial Hair Customization

Weapon balancing for Stitcher, Kettle, Venator, Jupiter and Aphelion.
Added a piano as an interactable object on the earth.
Prevented enabling all NVIDIA Freestyle filters concurrently to take away an unfair visible benefit.
Feats can now be rerolled thrice per day free of charge.
Eliminated PvP Feats, up to date just a few present Feats and added just a few new ones.
Ziplines can now not be positioned on carryable objects.
Mines, traps, or distant flares can now not be positioned on different deployables.

Stitcher

Dev Notice: The Stitcher has performed its position nicely as a detailed quarter weapon that rewards considerate positioning, however we’ve discovered that its quick TTK can generally result in conditions the place you’re ambushed and killed earlier than you have got a lot time to react. As lots of you have got identified, the excessive headshot harm is a big contributor to this downside. The TTK is usually high-quality when the weapon is aimed on the middle of mass, however whenever you get shut sufficient to land the vast majority of the photographs in your goal’s head, we see TTK numbers which can be a lot sooner than different weapons. These adjustments goal to carry that headshot TTK a bit nearer to the physique shot TTK by each decreasing the full-spray accuracy of the weapon, and decreasing the headshot multiplier.

Decreased Headshot Multiplier from 2.5 to 1.75
Decreased Base Injury from 7 to six.5
Elevated Per Shot Dispersion by round 50% (Making it bloom sooner)

Kettle

Dev Notice: The Kettle has been in a little bit of a bizarre place. Its excessive harm output was meant for use in a extra medium vary setting at a extra deliberate tempo, however we see lots of you bringing it up in shut quarters and successfully turning into an SMG. We wish to distinguish it extra from the Stitcher, however we additionally see that you just benefit from the versatility of this weapon. So we’re decreasing the bottom harm to carry its TTK extra in line, however we’re preserving the excessive headshot multiplier to see if we are able to push gamers to go for extra headshots.

Venator

Dev Notice: For the reason that final nerfs to the Venator in 1.3.0, we’ve stored an eye fixed on our information to see the way it performs. Throughout this time lots of you have got raised considerations that it’s nonetheless dominating in PVP, and our information has proven that it is without doubt one of the highest performing weapons within the sport proper now. For a weapon of this tier we wish it to carry out nicely, however possibly not this nicely. We’re an total nerf to its harm to carry down its TTK, and if that doesn’t work we’d have to look into its ammo consumption and price effectivity.

Decreased Headshot Multiplier from 2.5 to 2
Decreased Base Injury from 9 to eight

Jupiter

Dev Notice: In PVP, the Jupiter does essentially the most headshot harm within the sport, but it surely’s fairly tough to hit headshots with it at longer ranges. You’re additionally fairly susceptible whenever you use it in nearer ranges since lacking one shot will make you a sitting goal till you both reload or swap weapons. We’re growing how a lot you zoom whenever you use ADS to offer you a greater view of the targets you’re attempting to hit, and we’re decreasing its equip and unequip time to make it simpler to swap to a secondary weapon to observe up in your shot.

Improved ADS Magnification from ~1.9x to ~2.2x
Improved Equip Time from 1.2s to 1.05s
Improved Unequip Time from 0.9s to 0.75s

Aphelion

Dev Notice: We weren’t fairly pleased with the earlier balancing of the Aphelion. It was meant to be a extra PVP centered legendary weapon, but it surely couldn’t fairly sustain with the pacing of lots of our different PVP weapons. We’ve made some adjustments to make it really feel much less cumbersome and a bit extra nimble to make use of, to make it extra viable in PVP.

Decreased Base Reload Time from 4.5s to three.5s
Decreased Time Between Photographs from 0.9s to 0.7s
Decreased Vertical Recoil by ca 50%
Improved ADS Settle Velocity by ca 35%

Power clip

Merchandise Worth and Value Adjustments

Following merchandise values and prices have been adjusted with acceptable recycle and salvaging changes:

- Worth elevated from 5,000 to six,000.
- Dealer value elevated from 15,000 to 18,000.
- Added a brand new ARC half as a crafting value.

- Worth elevated from 1,600 to 2,200.
- Dealer value elevated from 4,800 to six,600.
- Added a brand new ARC half as a crafting value.

- Worth elevated from 5,000 to six,000.
- Added Rocketeer Driver as a crafting value.
- Decreased Refined Explosive value.

- Worth elevated from 3,000 to three,400.
- Added Tick Pod as a crafting value.

- Worth decreased from 2,200 to 2,100.
- Added Hornet Driver as a crafting value.
- Modified crafting element from Superior Electrical Parts to Electrical Parts.

Mounted numerous animation points whereas vaulting.
Mounted a problem the place some weapons didn’t drop magazines throughout reloads.
Mounted a problem the place reattaching to a ladder after leaping may distort the climbing animation.
Polished equip animations for pistols and hand cannon to raised match timing and scale back visible popping when switching from unarmed.
Improved arm and weapon positioning when swapping shoulders to stop visible popping through the transition.
Mounted a problem the place fall harm wouldn’t get utilized if the participant was in a knockback animation.
Polished low-health response animations for improved readability.
Mounted weapon-shake animation incorrectly triggering indoors throughout freezing climate; it now solely happens open air.

Mounted a problem the place Surveyors and Fireballs may open prematurely earlier than stabilizing.
Decreased erratic motion of ARC components when they’re caught to a looted merchandise.
Hornets now preserve their higher armor after being destroyed, making the lootable piece simpler to tell apart from Wasps.
Mounted a problem the place the Rocketeer generally wouldn’t shoot regardless of having a transparent view of its goal.
Decreased instances the place the Sentinel’s photographs may cross by means of geometry when its weapon clips into partitions at very shut vary.

Restricted bullet sound results per set off pull on burst weapons to the burst dimension to stop additional photographs from taking part in.
Decreased audio stuttering on lower-spec PCs for smoother, extra constant sound throughout gameplay.
Lowered non-radio voice volumes: in-game dialogue.
Mounted a problem the place sliding on stairs or particles may trigger audio stutters.
Scrappy has acquired your suggestions about being too noisy, he’ll now attempt to cluck much less regularly.
Decreased total quantity and rebalanced the menu SFX and music combine for a extra comfy Speranza expertise.
Shortened one tube deployment music monitor that lingered for too lengthy in session.
Birds perched on ziplines now screech with appropriate positional audio when startled.
Decreased audio occlusion / obstruction barely throughout the board and particularly for gamers .
Up to date acoustic guitar music tracks.

The Volare Set
The Surgeon Set
The Devotee Set coming quickly.
Added a brand new facial hair customization possibility.
Mounted incorrect visor glass materials on the Marco outfit’s inexperienced coloration variant.
Mounted numerous cases of clipping on sure outfits.

Added a piano as an interactable object on the earth.
Mounted a problem the place interactions may very well be triggered from too distant, permitting gamers to open doorways, begin hatches, or loot gadgets with out being close by.
Maintain and steady interactions now cancel when equipping one other merchandise or weapon.
Mounted a problem the place gamers may grow to be unable to maneuver after being revived with a defib.
Prevented gamers from standing on or being carried by thrown grenades and different non-walkable gadgets.
Added lacking gamepad goal help for Sentinels, Turrets, Shredders and Surveyors.
Disabled queuing for Follow Vary whereas in a celebration to stop matchmaking errors.
Mounted a problem the place a downed raider’s physique may block hatch extraction by triggering a search immediate.
Prevented enabling all NVIDIA Freestyle filters concurrently to take away an unfair visible benefit.
Now you can make purchases with seeds and free loadout augments even when your stash is overflowing.

Basic efficiency enhancements.
Mounted some popping points.
Mounted a crash when launching the sport with DirectX 11.
Mounted a crash that would occur when traversing ziplines.

Basic

Mounted damaged interactions close to the highest of sure ladders.
Mounted lacking collision on a number of setting props to cut back clipping and unintended traversal.
Basic lighting fixes throughout completely different maps.

Buried Metropolis

Stella Montis

Mounted a number of collision points on Stella Montis (Foyer, Atrium, Loading Bay, Prepare Station tunnels, Seed Vault) to stop gamers from reaching out-of-bounds areas utilizing the ‘Unstuck’ perform and to deal with photographs coming from the Foyer ceiling.
Adjusted evening lighting on Stella Montis to enhance visibility in darker areas.
Improved night-time visibility on the Seed Vault extraction by including native lighting.
Mounted a problem the place lowered Spillway bridges nonetheless displayed an interplay immediate, interplay is now accurately disabled when the bridge is down.
Mounted a problem that allowed gamers to get on prime of metro trains.

Blue Gate

Improved thunderstorm lighting for higher visible readability.
Mounted a problem the place gamers may exit of bounds within the Blue Gate tunnels.

Adjusted ladder jump-off to match vault jump-off habits, smoothing motion and stopping unintended momentum from fast inputs.
Mounted a problem the place sliding may clip by means of stairs and escalators.

Now you can reroll Feats thrice per day free of charge.
Eliminated PvP Feats, up to date just a few present Feats and added just a few new ones.
Added an Expedition catch-up system to earn missed Talent Factors from earlier runs, with an up to date UI to trace your progress.
Mounted a problem the place gamers sometimes didn’t obtain a ability level as indicated within the consequence display.
Candleberries in Blue Gate now depend towards the Harvest Crops trial.

Added clearer ping labels for quest-related world objects to enhance readability.
Mounted a problem the place the following goal pop-up in multi-step quests may very well be lacking or present a accomplished step. It now constantly shows the right upcoming goal.
Mounted a problem the place a quest merchandise may seem as world loot with out the associated quest being energetic.

When taking part in in a celebration, map choice now exhibits all places unlocked by the member with essentially the most rounds performed.
Mounted a problem the place earlier teammates may seem within the Social tab’s In Proximity checklist after beginning a brand new session.
Added clearer error messages when pal requests fail attributable to too many outgoing requests or fee limiting.
Mounted buddies showing offline once they have multiple platform linked.
Added the power to cover pal requests.

Merchandise pings for gadgets in containers now seem above the container’s interplay level and now not seem on the fallacious location in sure containers.
Added a ready-up warning when deploying with Raider Hatch keys right into a map with no energetic hatches.
Added icons to stock tooltips to point out recycle/salvage outputs.
Mounted a problem the place squad colours may show incorrectly after squad adjustments.
Mounted a bug the place including a secondary keybind would overwrite the first keybind within the subsequent spherical.
Up to date localization for distinctive loot from new enemy variants to enhance in-game naming and readability.
Improved matchmaking messaging when some social gathering members are nonetheless topside.
Mounted a problem the place end-of-round well being was not accurately proven for all gamers.
It’s now clearer whenever you be a part of a celebration which social gathering member is topside whilst you’re in Speranza.
Now you can use the mouse scroll wheel to modify between pages within the Raider Deck.
Polished UI textual content and up to date translations throughout supported languages.
Added further ping labels for numerous quest objects to enhance readability.
Mounted a problem the place mouse smoothing may stay enabled regardless of being turned off, making certain the setting is accurately utilized at spherical begin.
Improved the pink zipline preview when the zipline can’t be positioned.
Up to date login message to obviously clarify when entry is restricted as a result of the shared account proprietor has been banned.
Mounted a problem in Expeditions the place the timer may go adverse after the departure countdown and the Signal Up button stayed energetic; the display now updates accurately and the button is disabled.
Repair a problem the place the restore preview wasn’t displayed accurately when repairing gadgets.
Crafting and recycling screens now show merchandise prices and rewards in a constant order for simpler studying.
The VoIP icon within the HUD will now higher visually characterize if the microphone goes to transmit or not in case you’re utilizing Push To Discuss or Toggle To Discuss.

Added a brand new Subject craft merchandise: Shaker instrument.
Adjusted Vita Spray so therapeutic applies repeatedly whereas in use to stop exploit instances.
Mounted an unintended behaviour with the Snaphook inflicting it to drag gamers after it had been cancelled.
Ziplines can now not be positioned on carryable objects.
Mounted Zipline placement on ARC remnants that would eat the merchandise or depart it partially positioned.
Mines, traps, and distant flares can now not be positioned on ziplines, or on different small deployables.
The T3 Tactical (Therapeutic) Increase now accurately states that therapeutic is utilized immediately.

Mounted a problem the place Jupiter’s windup visible may face sideways, making the beam seem misaligned.
Mounted a problem the place Trailblazer’s gasoline impact may persist indefinitely if interrupted by the Matriarch’s protect.

Identified Points

‘Buy Raider Tokens’ web page might seem in entrance of the inbox and profile web page when switching between them.
Participant animations might seem damaged when interrupting a search of the Baron Husk.
Sure containers could also be unavailable to be interacted with.
Ziplines positioned onto destroyed ARC components won’t seem accurately.
Scrappy ‘Batting Helmet’ and the ‘Slugger’ outfit may not seem accurately within the occasion preview.
‘Comparative Research’ achievement generally doesn’t progress accurately after damaging the hanging drone dummies.
The ‘Unyielding’ achievement/trophy fails to progress on console when knocking out raiders utilizing the related immediate.
Some unintended VFX can seem sometimes.
One of many new ARC enemies has an unusable interplay sometimes when destroyed.
Flying ARC might generally seem caught in idle.
Typically the Embark ID Discriminator fails to point out.
Urgent LMB exterior of the merchandise choose space closes the merchandise choose window within the Expeditions menu.