[2020] Upcoming Plans for the First Console Update of 2020!

Hello Switch, XB1, and PS4 Tenno! 

With Empyrean live on all consoles, the question at the forefront has been  “where are all those Railjack changes and fixes?”. For those of you who do not frequent our live streams and have missed our updates there, we’re here to give you an idea of what our plans are for the first major console update of 2020. 

We are aiming to send a build to Cert that includes the first PC content drop of the year (a predominantly Kuva Lich QOL update!), the many PC hotfixes deployed this year, and those that did not make it into the Empyrean build on consoles at the end of 2019. 

We know the wait has already been long on getting the many highly anticipated QOL changes and fixes that are pending for Railjack. Your frustration is certainly valid, especially with persistent issues such as the Shedu jamming bug. Since most of the changes/bug fixes touch on and intersect with code that is required to be submitted to Cert for approval (which is why the list of Railjack fixes for console hotfixes has been small so far), the goal with this all-in-one build is to avoid potential delays related to having two back-to-back Cert builds awaiting approval. 

That said, while we await the launch of PC’s Kuva Lich update, we are using this time to put some focus on the following console specific items: 

• Investigating some well-needed console performance optimizations (including Railjack) across some of the more notoriously choppy areas. 
• Investigating a handful of Railjack issues specific to Nintendo Switch - [DE]Helen has been replying in report threads if you wish to track the status!

As a thank you for your patience for what has already been a lengthy wait on Railjack QOL, when the update goes live you will receive an inbox message on login containing a 7-Day Resource Booster. With all the great economy changes coming, we hope this gives you that extra push in your Railjack progress - something we feel is well deserved! 

17 hours ago, (XB1)Hando said:

I think the crew ships not spawning needs to be looked at as a priority. It's a much more game breaking bug than a Shedu jamming.

17 hours ago, (PS4)DeZaruu said:

Thank you so much for this thread. Honestly means a lot to me - and I hope others - just to have a post addressing it ❤️

I don't know if it works for squads, but if I solo - they spawn each time I kill each ship and return to my Railjack. 

17 hours ago, (XB1)Hando said:

I'm afraid it's an issue with squads. The fix to it is for the host to abort. This instantly spawns up to 9 crew ships altogether at once. It's not frequent. You can do one or two missions just fine. Usually on that third mission it's an issue. I've seen it in public and with friends. And I'm also not the only one experiencing it. It's a waste of time when it happens and sad that people have to miss out on loot 😞

17 hours ago, (XB1)PhoenixReviving said:

What about crewships not spawning? That will cause you to lose everything from the mission - all your loot. It's extraordinarily frustrating to see a rare avionics drop and then not be able to keep it. Is this fix in the next update? 

This problem has caused some of my clan mates to literally refuse to play any railjack missions until it's fixed. 

16 hours ago, (XB1)Hando said:

For sure, and I've been able to find a single one before after fifteen minutes of looking, but I've honestly ran into the bug and been at 1/6 crew ships before. I've also spend 45 minutes looking once with no luck. It just seems crazy to me that this issue hasn't been the highlight of a bug, but "The shedu jamming bug" is.

Hey guys!! First of all I want to thank you immensely for all the details on this - I personally have not experience this myself amazingly enough, I'm surprised I haven't considering how rampant this sounds. Deepest apologies that it took this long to get on the radar. It's interesting because the build we sent to cert for Empyrean's release on consoles included many of the script error and other fixes that were causing spawn issues on PC from their launch. Looks like something funky is happening here. Either way! The team is looking into it to see what can be done. I'll keep you updated as we move along in investigations. 

16 hours ago, (PS4)Zuzu_with_a_Z said:

So just to be 100% clear this includes up to build 27.0.11 (reactor buffs)?

I know it says PC updates from this year, just want to be sure before I get my hopes up.  

Thanks for keeping us posted. 

Yes! Those Reactor buffs will be included. 

 

1 minute ago, (NSW)Kadet said:

Will this include sharing resources picked up in crewships and bases?  And those resources being usable in the forge?

Yup! The update will include everything from 27.0.6 to the PC Kuva Lich update coming up. 

6 minutes ago, (PS4)DeZaruu said:

@[DE]Danielle I saw PC just got 27.0.12, but no mentions of the Kuva changes - so I assume this is not the update you're waiting for?

Correct, that is a Hotfix. We're waiting for the next update 🙂 We'll grab all those Hotfixes though between now and when that drops!

Just now, (PS4)DeZaruu said:

Great - just making sure 🙂

Thanks once again for the info.

Somewhat tied to all this - is the Empyrean Supporter Bundle still arriving by the end of January, or is it pushed to February? I'm not sure if the current build we've supports it

That is still planned before the end of January, yup!

1 hour ago, (PS4)Le-petit-Nate said:

Fae Path Ephemera for when please ?

We're still looking for ways to make this happen on consoles - its a bit tricky given how it was set up on PC but we're hoping to find a loophole ahaha. 

1 hour ago, (XB1)The Neko Otaku said:

I imagine the tenebrous ephemera drop change will come with this update?

The change from PC's hotfix today will be coming: 

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Anomaly Shards
For every Sentient Anomaly POI that you complete you’ll earn a new Anomaly Shard; a shard ripped from a Sentient Anomaly in the Veil Proxima!

• As mentioned in 27.0.11, we wanted to implement a more token based system to obtain the Tenebrous Ephemera that we removed from the drop table. An Anomaly Shard is 100% guaranteed at End of Mission for every Sentient Anomaly POI you complete. 

Little Duck + Exotic Goods
Little Duck is no stranger to Exotic goods - an Amp assembler and Toroid master, the strong and the strange are what she makes her business on. Her interest in Anomaly shards allows you to access new Exotic Goods:

• Tenebrous Ephemera
• ALL Sentient Captura Scenes 
• Sentient Captura Scenes have also been removed from the drop table and will be purchasable from Little Duck exclusively. 

 

If you have read our Kuva Lich Changes Coming Soon™ PART 2 Dev Workshop you know that we are shipping the PC update next week so that we can do more testing. Since our original plan, as mentioned above, was to send the build to Cert once PC has launched their Kuva Lich update, we’re here to assure you that we are still including it in the console build and launching soon, but with one key and exciting change! 

We are now planning a simultaneous launch of the console update with the PC Kuva Lich update. That said, our timeline for launch has not changed now that we are aiming for a platform-wide release. Instead of waiting on PC to launch first, we are going to be building for Cert alongside PC’s testing so that we can have the most polished version of the Kuva Lich changes listed in Workshop. To avoid confusion, we are not extending the wait for our console Tenno who have been waiting patiently for the long-needed Railjack changes and fixes. PC was going to update this week, and consoles were promptly going to be sent to Cert following. The only difference now is that we are Certing without PC launching first! 

The goal here is to improve our release timing across all platforms. We want to find ourselves back in a release rhythm that we can all be happy about - we don’t expect this to be perfect all the time, but we want to start 2020 off on a better foot! 

Empyrean: Railjack + Kuva Lich Changes Update 27.1.0 is live on PS4 and XB1! A successful simultaneous deploy alongside PC starts off our year Updates for our console Tenno. For our Nintendo Switch Tenno, we mentioned there was a possibility that we are unable to launch at the same time due to Cert but we will continue you updated in the Status Thread! In the meantime, we have posted the latest for Switch news and what you can expect while we wait for Cert approval: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1164976-switch-update-271-status-in-cert/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-11352487