This week is jam packed with excitement for Paladins fans.
We're going to start out with some more Valentine's Day themed fun and keep going with special teasers all week. Are you excited?
Here's what's going down:
Valentine's Day Pip Animated Avatar
Starting today (Monday) players will have until Wednesday to receive this all new animated avatar featuring everyone's favorite furry support, Pip.
Live: Monday, February 14th at 4AM EST
Ends: Wednesday, February 16th at 4AM EST
Teasers?!
Starting…TODAY…we are releasing various hints across social media for our next Champion coming to the Realm. In addition to this, there will be one every single day this week. Make sure you're tuning into Paladins Twitter, Facebook[facebook.com], Instagram[instagram.com], AND our new Official Subreddit for sneak peaks not only for this next Champion, but the theme for our next Event Pass.
We'll see you in the Realm!
LIMITED TIME MODE – Close Quarters Combat
VII and Corvus battle to determine the fate of the Outer Tribunal.
Save up to 30% on The New War Supporter Packs and reinforce your Arsenal with evolving Protovyre Customizations, Platinum, Sentient-themed Warframe Skins and much more!
Hurry, Tenno! These packs will only be on sale until February 23 at 10 a.m. ET.
Unleash lethal acrobatics or a cacophony of chaos! Get the prismatic Mirage Prime and bombastic Banshee Prime along with their Prime Weapons and exclusive Customizations on February 15 at 2 p.m. ET.
BANSHEE & MIRAGE DUAL PRIME PACK
- 1200 Platinum - Banshee Prime and Mirage Prime - Euphona Prime - Kogake Prime - Akbolto Prime - Helios Prime - Deconstructor Prime - Capella Prime Syandana - Abbera Prime Syandana - Atavist Prime Armor - Ictus Prime Sentinel Accessories - Banshee Prime and Mirage Prime Glyphs
BANSHEE PRIME PACK
- 400 Platinum - Banshee Prime Warframe - Euphona Prime - Helios Prime - Deconstructor Prime - Capella Prime Syandana - Ictus Prime Sentinel Accessories - Banshee Prime Glyphs
MIRAGE PRIME PACK
- 400 Platinum - Mirage Prime Warframe - Kogake Prime - Akbolto Prime - Abbera Prime Syandana - Atavist Prime Armor - Mirage Prime Glyphs
BANSHEE PRIME ACCESSORIES PACK
- 200 Platinum - Capella Prime Syandana - Ictus Prime Sentinel Accessories
MIRAGE PRIME ACCESSORIES PACK
- 200 Platinum - Abbera Prime Syandana - Atavist Prime Armor
Prime Warframes and Weapons are stronger than their non-Primed counterparts and have additional Polarity Slots! Experience next-level power by adding Banshee Prime and Mirage Prime to your Warframe roster on February 15 at 2 p.m. ET.
Honor love in all its forms during Star Days! Earn brand-new and returning Rewards like the feathered Eros Wings Ephemera, Ticker Floof, all-new Glyphs and much more when you exchange Debt-Bonds with Ticker in Fortuna until February 23!
Ticker's missed you since last year so make sure to stop by and check out her wares, including her new interactive Floof with heartwarming voice lines! If you already own the Ticker Floof from last year's Star Days, the interactive component has been retroactively added to them as well! Previous Tennobaum items that reflect Fortuna's frigid cold are also available from Ticker's shop including the Frostfall Ephemera and Solstice Weapon Skins!
Plus, to help get you in the spirit, you can get the Valentine Color Palette in the Market for only 1 Credit.
As part of our commitment to celebrating and supporting love, we are proud to share that Digital Extremes has donated $50,000 to The Trevor Project[www.thetrevorproject.org], the world's largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ young people
Jump in-game and fall in love with everything Star Days has to offer.
A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page [url=https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/238960/announcements/detail/6161490417408324391]here[/url].
We're always happy to see Path of Exile-inspired fan art from our players. In this news post we've gathered the recent fan art submissions to share with the wider community. Check them out below!
Get ready for a host of changes and improvements to the Origin System in the first mainline update since last year's debut of The New War! Update 31.1: Echoes of War introduces replayability to this epic, cinematic Quest, as well as QOL changes, new Customizations, and much more. Be sure to check out our Patch Notes[www.warframe.com] and Devstream 159 Overview[www.warframe.com] for additional details.
RELIVE THE NEW WAR
For the first time since The New War launched in December, you can now go back and replay Warframe's biggest cinematic Quest by accessing it from your Codex! This feature allows you to experience your favorite moments all over again and push deeper into any areas left unexplored during your initial run. You'll also be able to remake decisions and choose alternate interactions, but be advised that these new choices will not impact your game post-New War – the outcomes from your first playthrough will still stand.
The New War features unique playable characters, epic Missions, and a new Sentient-Warframe hybrid named Caliban. Acquire his component Blueprints in-game to wield his overwhelming offensive Abilities and adapt to any battlefield.
THE NEW WAR SUPPORTER PACKS
Whether you're deploying to the frontlines for the first time, or reliving your favorite moments, The New War Supporter Packs can give your Arsenal a stylish aesthetic makeover. For a limited time, enjoy up to 30% off evolving Armor, Warframe Skins and other exciting Customizations that feature a menacing new Sentient look! Click here[www.warframe.com] for a full list of what's included.
Rain death from the skies above in style! The Hildryn Einheri Collection highlights this tanky Warframe's physicality with stunning shield-powered armaments! Features the Hildryn Einheri Skin, Blodgard Heavy Blade Skin, the beguiling Brising Syandana, plus a new look for Hildryn's Balefire Charger.
HILDRYN EINHERI SKIN Descend from on high as the legend that Hildryn truly is. A Skin that ensures her legend will echo down the ages. Strength and glory!
BLODGARD HEAVY BLADE SKIN A master-crafted weapon, forged in fire for the hands of heroes - yet worthy of a goddess. Bestow this Skin upon any heavy blade.
BRISING SYANDANA The sun rises on the victor and sets upon the vanquished. This is how your legend is made. Adorn yourself with this exquisite Syandana, worthy of the sun herself.
TENNOGEN ROUND 21: PART 1
TennoGen Round 21: Part 1 features exciting Skins and Customizations for your Weapons and Warframes, including alluring new Skins for the ethereal Wisp! Look for your favorites in the in-game Market and add them to your Arsenal to support hard-working Tenno designers and elevate your Fashion Frame to new heights.
Update 31.1 introduces a new Quality of Life change designed to reduce the amount of time spent generating Progenitors (Kuva Larvlings or Sister Candidates) in search of a particular Kuva or Tenet weapon.
How it works: When you encounter a Progenitor with unwanted Weapons and opt not to mercy them, their spawned weapon is then added into a 'reject pile' until you go ahead and spawn an Adversary. This means that unwanted Weapons will no longer re-appear, ultimately reducing the weapon pool each time you 'reject' a Progenitor's Weapon.
With this change, you'll spend less time spawning new Progenitors, and more time blasting through foes with the powerful Kuva and Tenet Weapons of your choice!
NEW WARFRAME AUGMENTS
Save up your Syndicate standing and give your favorite Warframes an edge in battle with powerful new Augments:
Frost: Biting Frost (Passive) Frost gains 200% Critical Chance and 200% Critical Damage against frozen enemies.
Gauss: Thermal Transfer (Thermal Sunder) Allies in range gain 75% bonus Elemental Damage for 30s.
Grendel: Gourmand (Feast) Instead of Energy, consumes 200 Health on cast and 30 Health Drain.
Yareli: Surging Blades (Aquablades) Press 3 to hurl a single Aquablade, which gains 10% damage per enemy hit by your Aquablades. No cost to throw while riding Merulina.
OTHER ADDITIONS:
DOJO ADDITIONS
Customize your Clan's home base with two new Dojo Rooms, the Earth Forest Chamber and Uranus Chamber, and enjoy 100 newly-added Grineer Forest and Ocean themed Decorations, including water pumps, turbine blades, and more. Get creative and turn your Dojo into an artistic masterpiece!
NEW SOMACHORD TONES
Three new Somachord Tones have been added to the post-New War Plains of Eidolon and Orb Vallis, featuring some of the Quest's most-coveted musical tracks. Find them so you can re-listen whenever you'd like in your Orbiter's Personal Quarters! Unlike the original Orb Vallis Somachord Tones, these are stationary and can always be found in the same spot.
New Tones include:
"For Narmer"
"Hybrid Abominations"
"Sunkiller"
Relive The New War and enjoy all of the refinements that Update 31.1: Echoes of War has to offer. And if you have yet to experience The New War at all, then stop reading and check it out now!
From Wednesday, February 9th through Wednesday, February 16th, love will fill the air as we celebrate Valentine's Day with Love Evolved 3. While ARK is under Cupid's spell, go fishing for love and gain a chance at new skins, items, and five new chibi pets to collect!
Show yourself some love with the new self-hug emote, or try to reel in one of the new swimsuit skins!
This event can be manually activated with the server arg parameter: -ActiveEvent=vday
For the duration of Love Evolved, we will be disabling the world buffs from Baby Boon & Maewing Poach on Genesis Part 2 on the Official Network. In the past, we've adjusted for the impact event have had on the rates by tweaking the bonuses that we use during the holidays, however, those tweaks lead to unfavorable circumstances on maps that aren't Genesis Part 2, so going forward during breeding events, we'll be disabling these mission buffs specifically as not to affect the bonuses on other maps.
2/09/22 - 2/16/22
Valentines Coelacanth can be caught for chibis, chocolates, candies
Mating can randomly drop chocolates and candies!
*Note that these bonuses are multiplicative of the game's standard 1x rates.
Official Servers: 3x XP, Harvesting, Taming, and Breeding (imprint, maturation, hatch/gestation), 0.5x Mating Interval, 1.5x Hexagon Bonus
Note: Moving forward, our monthly Patch Notes will contain both PC and Console updates in a single announcement (thus the simple title).
16.1 Highlights
To be updated with the Live Server update.
※ Please keep in mind that the features and updates we provide below may be modified or even possibly removed due to reasons such as bugs, in-game issues, and/or community feedback. We will update our players if such changes occur.
Weapon Balance
We're back with another weapon balance in this update to provide each weapon type a chance to shine in tactical battles and to prevent scenarios where players are all holstering the identical, overperforming weapon.
After we toned down M416's reload time, base damage, initial bullet speed, and damage drop-off range in Update 7.2 due to the M416 being the most powerful AR and one of the top performing guns in the whole game, we noticed our players were gradually dropping the M416 for stronger ARs such as the Beryl M762. However, despite Beryl M762's several nerfs in past updates, the weapon continues to show strong in-game performance. Additionally, out of all the DMRs, we've noticed the SLR was being favored due to its powerful damage – therefore, players' options in battles seemed to be narrowed down to the Beryl M762 and the SLR.
Yet, we didn't want to stress our players out more by nerfing well-used weapons, so instead we've decided to not only bring M416's stats back up, but we also buffed the hard-hitting, high-velocity Mk12 while having it spawn in other maps to prompt more frequent 5.56mm ammo usage among DMRs.
※ Damage drop-off range: The distance at which the weapon's damage starts to decrease from its maximum damage percentage.
M416
Damage increase: 40 → 41
Initial bullet speed increase: 780m/s → 880m/s
Damage drop-off range increased: 50m → 60m
Mk12
Damage increase: 50 → 51
Damage drop-off range increased: 75m → 90m
The Mk12 will now spawn in every available map (Normal and Ranked).
The spawn settings in Custom Matches have been applied accordingly.
SMGs and Shotguns
We heard and are aware of our players' thoughts on our past weapon balancing on SMGs, Shotguns, etc., but the reason as to why it is difficult to actively readjust in-game balancing is due to the requirement of using several months of cumulative data as a foundation to potential changes. Therefore, we will continue tracking our players' feedback and data to bring healthier balances to the game.
Vehicle Spawn – Ranked
Fixed spawn spots for the Porter have been added to Taego in Ranked Matches.
Map Service
As the winter season melts away, we'll be saying goodbye to Vikendi for a while and welcoming Karakin back to normal matches this season.
Normal Match
Erangel / Miramar / Sanhok / Karakin / Taego
Ranked Match
Erangel / Miramar / Taego
Ranked – Season 16
A new Ranked season starts with this update. But before you dive right into Season 16, check the Season 15 reward list below to see what rewards you'll be receiving based on the final Tier you held in the previous season.
Tier
Season 15 Reward List
Bronze
Bronze PUBG ID Emblem
Silver
Silver PUBG ID Emblem
Gold
Gold PUBG ID EmblemRanked Parachute Skin
Platinum
Animated Platinum PUBG ID EmblemRanked Parachute Skin
Diamond
Animated Diamond PUBG ID EmblemRanked Parachute Skin
Master
Animated Master PUBG ID EmblemAnimated Master NameplateRanked Parachute Skin
Top 500
Bonus rewards for Top 500 players:Animated Top 500 PUBG ID EmblemAnimated Top 500 Nameplate
TheParachute Skin is a permanent reward.
The rest of the earnable rewards is available for use for the duration of a single Ranked Season.
Rewards can be found in the Inventory as soon as Season 16 starts.
Once Season 16 is over and the server undergoes maintenance, every reward but the Parachute Skin will be withdrawn from the Inventory.
Minimap
The colors of Miramar's minimap have been slightly adjusted to represent a clearer and more realistic appearance.
UI/UX
Friends List
The Previous List from the Friends List has been moved to a separate tab.
PUBG Friends / Platform Friends / Previous List
(Consoles) The default selection is placed on the page's very first player.
Applied to Friends List, Friend Requests, and Recent Players.
(Consoles) The selection remains in its current spot when lists are refreshed.
Applied to Friends List, Friend Requests, Recent Players, and Team Finder.
Match Report
The Summary tab in the Match Report page now shows players' combat records of kills and DBNOs.
QoL (PC Only)
To make it more convenient for players to use shortcut keys for sprays, the Emote Shortcut setting will now have the option to activate spray items as well.
The name for this option will be updated in the next 16.2 Update.
The spray items' spraying distance has increased.
Performance
Unnecessary in-game assets, widgets, sounds, and animations have been removed from each game mode and platform to enhance in-game stability and loading speed.
Anti-Cheat (Test Server Only)
A solution to the commonly reported cheat software ESP (that shows other players' locations) we've been working on will be initially tested on this update's Test Server.
To prevent possible issues such as enemy movements appearing awkward from afar to severely shaking character animations to spectating from underwater from occurring, the Death Cam and Replay features in this update's Test Server will be disabled.
Once this solution is concluded to be stable and safe to use, we will discuss implementing them to the Live Server.
Bug Fixes
Gameplay
(PC) Fixed the issue of bots unable to move to land from water.
(PC) Fixed the issue of a Blue Zone being spotted in Bootcamp, Sanhok (Team Deathmatch).
(PC) Fixed the issue in Custom Matches where the Observer is unable to click the Confirm/Cancel buttons after using the Kick feature.
(PC) Fixed the issue of the screen ping marker being marked to the player's current vehicle instead of the player's intended location when player is in a vehicle in ADS mode.
(Consoles) Fixed the issue in Basic Training where players are only able to complete the shooting mission in ADS mode.
(Consoles) Fixed the issue of the selection in the Inventory being automatically set to the bottom.
Fixed the issue of being able to carry more than one knocked out player.
Fixed the awkward animation when reviving a knocked out teammate after carrying more than one knocked out player.
Fixed the issue of a player being seen in an abnormal position after getting knocked out while putting down a knocked down teammate.
Fixed the issue of the knocked out feed and message not appearing after knocking down an enemy outside a certain range.
Fixed the issue of receiving unknown damage in the farm field near Go Dok, Taego when driving a three-wheeled motorcycle.
Fixed the issue of having the same amount of throwables as another player's after rejoining a game session.
Fixed the issue of the Comeback Arena message popping up when a player, with its whole team wiped out, is spectating an enemy.
Fixed the issue of DBNO messages popping up to players located outside the specific range.
Fixed the issue of players being in an invincible state when using the Drone while Auto Running.
Fixed the issue of players dying when trying to loot items through the Inventory while using a Self-AED.
Fixed the issue of the Drone icon's pointer pointing the other way in both the Minimap and the World Map.
World
(PC) Fixed the issue of flickering foliage and its slow loading speed in Erangel.
Fixed collision, texture, performance, and more general issues in Taego.
Fixed the issue of a flickering poster in Taego.
UX/UI
(Consoles) Fixed the screen dimming issue when players preview the PCS2 OUTFIT SET.
(Consoles) Fixed the Team Invite option moving to the right when enabling Team Finder in the Social page.
(Consoles) Fixed the broken text issue for the game perspective option in Ranked when the game language is set to Spanish.
(Consoles) Fixed the awkward text alignment of the Radio Message button preset description in Settings.
(PC) Fixed the disappearing Sandbox logo issue when turning the UI off and on in Sandbox Mode.
(PC) Fixed the missing teammate UI issue when entering the map from the Inventory screen.
(PC) Fixed the issue of the menu popping up on the left when clicking the Profile button in the main lobby.
(PC) Fixed the issue of the menu popping up on the left when clicking a player's nickname from the chat.
(PC) Fixed the issue of being unable to zoom in/out in the item previews after opening the chat in the Store.
(PC) Fixed the overlapping UI issue after reading a Reputation Level description in the Social page.
(PC) Fixed the issue of the missing game rating on the bottom left of the System Menu.
Fixed the issue of players momentarily seeing two obtained Ranked Season 13 parachute rewards in the Inventory.
Fixed the dark main lobby issue when the plane's door closes.
Items & Skins
※ Clipping issue: Graphics that are shown outside the visible part of an image/object.
(PC) Fixed the clipping issue when a character equips certain helmet items with eye accessory items.
Reduced the brightness of Jeremy Lin - AKM skin's Dot Sight/Magazine as they appeared relatively brighter indoors.
Fixed the issue of the character's armpit turning transparent when using emotes with certain jacket items equipped.
Fixed the issue of a female character's legs turning transparent after equipping the Manhunter Pants with any top.
Fixed the issue of the El Solitario Wolf Bodysuit's color appearing abnormal in-game.
Fixed the issue of the missing logo on the Ready to Rumble Gloves.
Fixed the texture issue of the PCS5 Squad Wipe Vest (Level 1).
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