When I asked whether this would be the case before the patch, our testers confirmed that they did indeed get the missing ascension point. I'm not sure why the behaviour is different in the retail environment, but I'll ask around.

I believe Stadia was patched alongside all other platforms yesterday.

Its a feature that allows you "lock" or "favourite" individual items. These items cannot be sold or dismantled as long as the lock remains in place.

It helps make items much safer from accidental removal while also speeding up players clearing their inventory with the help of the quick mark functionality.

Might be this from the other thread:

• Fixed a bug that was causing Status Power provided by items to be multiplied instead of decreased as players increased their Apocalypse Tiers. This could unintentionally lead to increases as high as 700% Status power at Apocalypse Tier 40.

No changes made here.

However, I do know that some folks are trying to research what mods can drop on what slots and I've asked for a list that I can share within the community. I'll see if I can find an opportunity to share that list in the near future.

None of those changes would matter if we left the over-performers entirely unchecked.

No further weapons balancing is planned at this time, but there is a change today that will benefit snipers.

Twin Reaper

Increased Echo damage from 25% to 35%.

Fixed a bug that prevented the Technomancer's "Twin Reaper" Pax node from functioning properly after loading into a level.

Explanation:

In order to stimulate the Sniper archetype presence, we are increasing the Echo damage provided by Twin Reaper in order to support the fantasy of precise sniper shots being a deadly threat.

This feedback came out of the Beta's but only made its way into the build now for various reasons.

The initial change to critical shot was too harming for Tricksters and console players who were relying on killing a weak enemy to activate the mod.

You don't need to guess, there's a whole blog post you can read and discover yourself.

I expect that would take game dev resources to recode part of the save game system... which honestly speaking we do NOT want to touch at this point in time given past adventures.

A rare occasion where the username does not check out.

Check the other thread.

We honestly tried our best to increase the stash size, but our experiments indicated that not only did more stash space lead to longer loading in times (and hang ups), but they even caused the frame rate to drop during regular gameplay. So it didnt just lead to a one-off frustration, but ongoing degradation in performance because of... code reasons (?)...

At 200 item slots in the stash, some of the Gen 8 consoles were taking up to 40 seconds just to load in.

I would have LOVED to have stash space in this patch, but from a tech perspective our hands are tied with the game code as it currently is.

Thank you for taking the time to read it all! I've written Essays in University that are shorter than patch notes these days.

Two threads today - the second one is here.

You're very welcome!

Always a pleasure to throw a pinch of spice into these.

Outriders Worldslayer has been updated!

Patch Notes

The complete Patch Notes spans two Announcements, as they are too long to be contained in a single one.

• This thread covers all changes regarding the game balance.
• You can find all info regarding General Changes, New Features and Bug Fixes in ...

Outriders Worldslayer has been updated!

Patch Notes

The complete Patch Notes spans two Announcements, as they are too long to be contained in a single one.

• This thread covers General Changes and Bug Fixes.
• You can find all changes regarding the game balance in this thread.
...

As mentioned, I was already on my way here to provide all related information, but before I was able to some folks took it upon themselves to be the mouthpiece, not considering that their actions actually sabotage themselves.

Regarding your questions about benefits of sharing full details with ambassadors early:

• We get an early indication of how changes will be received. We won't necessarily change a patch content (because timelines make that impossible), but it can help us prepare to react or ambassadors will point out things we missed before we go live.

• By getting advance notice, ambassadors can create content ahead of time without needing to create and rush it out as soon as the patch lands. This generally means higher quality and more thought through videos.

• Sharing info ahead of time with ambassadors evens the playing field, so that more content creators have a chance to create relevant content at the right moment, rath...