We have the 0.6.0 Patch coming at 10:00 AM PT (GMT-7) on December 7th, 2023

This patch will add a completely new Planet and new missions, new enemies, new career rank unlocks and new accessibility features!

New Features / Content

New Planet: Agni Prime

• New 3 zone map set on the volcanic planet of Agni Prime, supporting AAS, ARC and Horde game modes
• Added 12 new AAS missions
• Added 4 new ARC missions
• Added 3 new Horde missions
• Added 3 new Hive Hunt maps located deep within Agni Prime

New Enemies

• Inferno Bug: a bug that fires flaming projectiles
• Fire Warrior: a fire-resistant Warrior mutation appearing on Agni Prime
• Royal Guard: a large and more dangerous evolution of the Tiger.  This bug guards Hive Core locations

Player Career Rank cap raised to 100

• Added second utility slot which unlocks at career rank 90
• Added a third perk slot which unlocks at career rank 30
• Added free visual customization items unlocking throughout the new ranks
  • Ten alternate uniform colors
  • Ten alternate helmet visor colors
  • Ten helmet decals

Shoot to Kick

• Teamkill mitigation feature: players who exceed a number of team kills are highlighted as Traitors, they are no longer able to cause team damage, and other players can shoot them to kick the Traitor out of the game.  Please check out the Developer diary for all the details
  • If you Team kill 2 players in a match you get a warning, if you kill 3 you are now a traitor and will be available to be executed by Loyal Troopers.  Once you are killed you will be removed from the match, lose all match progression and are banned from that server.
  • Also if you do up to 180 in friendly Trooper(s) HP damage you get a warning, if you do 360 HP damage to a Trooper(s) you are now a traitor and will be available to be executed by Loyal Troopers.  Once you are killed you will be removed from the match, lose all match progression and are banned from that server.

New side objectives

• New Hive Core objective appearing in the caves on Valaka during ARC missions
• Recovering supplies from a crashed Dropship during ARC missions

New accessibility and communication features

• Added Text Chat feature (default hotkey: Enter)
• Added Text to Speech: turning it on will read out text chat messages you receive in a synthetic voice
• Added Speech to Text: Activating will turn incoming voice messages into text chat messages

Bonus XP rewarded on Trooper and Veteran Difficulty

• Trooper and Veteran Modes will now offer bonus XP for successful completion
• The amount of Xp earned is displayed in the post-mission summary – round performance tab

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Balance changes

• Bastion: Reduced Siege Mode cooldown from 30 to 10 seconds
• Operator: Reduced Medical Drone cooldown from 240 to 180 seconds
• Reduced the friendly fire damage of the Shotguns and the XXX Sniper Rifle
• Increased turret ammo box ammo to 100
• Increased Twin MG and Sentry MG ammo capacity to 300
• Reduced Interaction time with ammo boxes from 0.5 seconds to 0.2
• Reduced Hive Hunt Bug XP from 10xp to 5xp
• Hive Hunt is now unlocked with career rank 5 (previously 10)
• Hive Cores can only be destroyed by the provided Nukes

Notable Bug Fixes

• AAS: parts of the bunker were appearing before the dropship carrying it was appearing
• When using the Reinforced Repairs perk, the crosshair was sometimes wrongly showing ‘Cannot repair’

Other improvements

• Reduced game installation size: Using advanced compression techniques in UE5 the game is a couple of gigabytes smaller, even with all of the added content in this release

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