HEADWINDS - Patch Notes 1.13.0

Raiders,

Trouble is brewing in the Rust Belt.

Heavy sandstorms have been battering the surface. Flocks of birds have been spotted around Buried City, gathering around chimneys for what many assume to be nefarious reasons. And to top it all off, maverick Raiders have been spotted hunting ARC for sport, and single-handedly taking on entire squads.

What’s New?

• Solo vs Squads

  • Solo vs Squads is a new matchmaking option for our experienced and highly skilled players who enjoy the PvP aspect of the game. Solo Raiders level 40 and above will get the "Solo vs Squad" toggle above matchmaking to join the Squads queue and tackle squads of Raiders head-on. When opting in, players will receive +20% bonus XP at the end of the round on both successful extract, and defeat.

• Trophy Display

  • A new long-term project which requires players to hunt increasingly dangerous groups of ARC to submit their parts for rewards. Raiders will be able to build a new Display Case over 5 different steps (same as for the Candleberry Project) and each level will add a new item to the Display Case.

  • The rewards for completing each step include blueprints as well as Raider Tokens, and full completion also brings additional rewards including a Howl emote, a guitar and 300,000 Coins. There is currently no fixed end date and it will not be impacted by Expedition resets.

• Bird City

  • Flocks of birds have moved into Buried City, building nests in the empty chimneys. We got some reports of them storing shiny trinkets inside so make sure to inspect them. This new permanent map condition will be applied to the Buried City map only which will cycle in and out of rotation weekly. There will be more bird traps and ziplines present on the map. Raiders can expect more combat in, on, or around the rooftops, including more flying ARC, and more players in proximity.

• New Items

  • 2 new types of Epic Augments

• 7 New Quests

Patch Highlights

• Open Parties

  • The option to set your party to open so your Embark and platform friends can join you seamlessly (even when you're in round to wait in the lobby to join your next match).

• Squad Invites

  • Added the option for squadmates to invite others to the party as well as the party leader.

• Achievement fixes.

• Stella Montis Seed Vault extract fix.

• Mouse smoothing option added.

• Gamepad rebinding.

Content and Bug Fixes

Achievements

• Fixed issue causing progress towards Enemy of my Enemy achievement to not get tracked.

• Fixed issue causing Hook, Line, and Sinker achievement to not track correctly.

ARC

• ARC traversing obstacles has been improved.

• Leaper

  • Leaper is now better at walking when it loses its legs.

• Shredder

  • Dead Shredders are now properly labelled as scavengeable when pinged.

• Snitch

  • Fixed an issue where Snitches would abort calling down ARC if players threw a Lure Grenade during the call.

  • Snitches will no longer make noise after they are destroyed.

• Spotter

  • Fixed an issue where Spotters would follow players into buildings and get stuck.

• Tick

  • When grabbed by the Tick, players will now have a brief window of time where they can dodge-roll to remove the Tick.

Audio

• Fixed an issue where emotes were missing voice lines in the store and customization preview.

• Fixed voice chat cutting in some cases.

• Improved voice chat connection.

Maps

• General

  • The types of containers that can spawn condition specific blueprints have been lowered during Electromagnetic Storm, Hidden Bunker, and Locked Gate.

  • Raised the chances