Patch Notes for Postcards from the Frontier!

Discussion in 'Titanfall 2 News & Discussion' started by Ik0n88x, Aug 28, 2017.

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  1. Ik0n88x

    Ik0n88x Generation 7
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    NEW CONTENT [FREE]
    • Map: UMA [Live Fire]: Tight corridors guide combat into three arenas flanked by balconies, doorways, and windows. A large central divider provides cover for short range effectiveness, with a long flank that opens opportunities for confident marksmen.
    • New Frontier Defense Maps: Exoplanet, Drydock, Angel City
    • New Execution: Hole in the Wall [Amped Wall] : Get five kills while Amped Wall is active to unlock.
    • Onyx 'Good Boy' Banner
    • TitanToons banners [8 total]
    • Community Creation Banners: Titan Restaurants by Nicole Peh [6 total]

    NEW FEATURED MODES
    • Aegis Titan Brawl: Standard Titan Brawl but with your Aegis Titans.
    • Aegis Last Titan Standing: Standard Last Titan Standing but with your Aegis Titans.

    NEW CONTENT [PURCHASABLE]

    8 NEW ELITE WEAPON WARPAINTS: Each comes with a Squad Leader Bonus
    • 10% chance per owned Elite skin (up to 30%) to earn a Double XP token at the end of a match.
    • Grants one extra merit to you and your teammates at the end of a match. A player can only receive this bonus once per match.
    • $4.99 each or $24.99 for the bundle of 8 (bundle limited time only until 9/26).

    New Skins include:
    • Thunderbolt ‘8-Bit’ ELITE
    • Spitfire ‘Lead Farmer’ ELITE
    • Devotion ‘RSPN Custom’ ELITE
    • Hemlock ‘Mochi’ ELITE
    • Kraber ‘Masterwork’ ELITE
    • R-97 ‘Purple Fade’ ELITE
    • R-201 ‘Frontier Patriot’ ELITE
    • Mozambique ‘Crimson Fury’ ELITE

    GAME IMPROVEMENTS
    • The purchasable Frontier Defense shoulder plate can now be applied to Prime Titans and all skins, and can be toggled on or off in the loadout menu.
    • You can now edit Pilot loadouts from the Titan selection menu in Last Titan Standing
    • Chat box added to Titan selection screen in LTS and FD.
    • Single Player: BT’s loadout menu doesn’t delay when selecting loadout button [thanks Bryonato for reporting!]
    • Added option for “Friendly” to Hold to Rodeo control - works on friendly Titans.
    • Frontier Defense has been added to Private Match settings.

    FRONTIER DEFENSE IMPROVEMENTS
    • Applying an Amped Battery to a doomed Titan now provides a full shield when used to bring a Titan out of Doomed State.
    • Reaper and Titan weak spots are now hidden when cloaked by Cloak Drones.
    • Difficulty is now shown during Titan selection screen.

    Wargames
    • Reduced difficulty of wave 2 and 5 on lower difficulty settings.
    • Reduced chance of tick drop pods detonating upon landing.
    • Reduced chance of ticks jumping to the pilot drop zone.

    Rise
    • Spawn-as-titan locations are now closer to the harvester.

    BALANCE CHANGES

    TITANS


    Legion
    • Fixed a bug where Long Range Power Shot could hit a target twice.

    Ion [Frontier Defense balance]
    • Combined the Split Shot upgrades into one upgrade.
    • Added a new Laser Shot upgrade that increases weak point damage.


    Monarch [Frontier Defense balance]
    • XO-16: Critical Hit now increases weak point damage by 50% from 25%.


    Tone [Frontier Defense balance]
    • Signal Strength Upgrade now increases the duration of Sonar Pulse by 100% from 60%.

    MISC BUG FIXES
    • Frontier Defense: Fixed bug where player would get stuck on Titan selection screen if they joined a game late and got killed while transitioning from Titan screen to game.
    • Frontier Defense: Adjusted Stalkers pathing to reduce cases where they would go to unreachable areas of the map.
    • Fixed bug where a Monarch with Superior Chassis would have more Health than displayed.
    • Fixed a bug where a Titan that was undoomed with an Amped Battery would have less Health than displayed.
    • Fixed issue where Classic Frontier Defense music option was missing for consoles.
     
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  2. rainman0211

    rainman0211 Generation 7
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    Looking forward to all that. Thanks for the update.
     
  3. Derrame

    Derrame Generation 6

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    good improvements to titans in FD, really
    i wanted Monarch to make more damage and Tone's sonar to last 100% more

    and it's good to have more maps for FD

    I hope Aegis Titan Brawl will be a normal permanent mode!

    thanks