It’s the first update to Chapter Seven Pacific Break! Here’s a breakdown of the new item unvaults, balance changes, and major bug fixes in this patch:
New Unvaulted AR
The Tactical AR bursts onto Battlewood! Joining the Deadeye and Enforcer, the Tactical Assault Rifle brings a higher rate of fire to the AR loot pool while still being able to ADS first-person - perfect for short-range precision skirmishes.
Balance Adjustments Recap
While some of this occurred late last week, we’ve made several tweaks to the Battle Royale following the season’s launch. Here’s what changed:
🚑 Reboot Vans now start with a full tank of fuel, and we've lowered fuel consumption while boosting.
We have noted that Reboot Vans were being dumped more commonly on the map due to low-fuel than we intended.. This change brings their usage in-line with our expectations.
🚗 SUVs and Cars will now spawn with more starting fuel in the tank. Road trip, anyone?
As above, we see vehicles as an important vessel to help players traverse from location to location and wanted to see their usage for traversal sit a little higher.
🔮 Shockwaves have slightly reduced availability. You'll still find them, just not in every other chest.
With the Wingsuit and Forsaken Vow Blade already affording exciting new movement opportunities, on top of the above vehicle improvements, we feel that Shockwaves are too common.
⏱️ Self Revive Devices now revive a couple seconds faster. Every second counts when you're down!
We've noticed that successfully reviving yourself has been rarer than we'd like. This change gives you more of a fighting chance.
📉 Self Revive Devices prices have been reduced in Vending Machines.
We expected to see higher equip rates of Self Revive Devices, so have slightly tweaked their pricing to reflect this.
🎁 ICYMI: Chests are now more common across the Island!
We saw your feedback that loot was a little difficult to find in BR matches and, after reviewing loot data, agree and have increased spawn rates.
Bug Fixes 🛠️
We’ve seen you reporting these (please keep ‘em coming!) and these bugs are now fixed, including more not listed here:
Crashes on PC using DirectX 11 as the rendering mode were fixed.
Landing vehicles on Hot Air Balloons no longer occasionally launches you into some other Reality.
Some remaining issues with the Double Edit bug were fixed. This was a tough one, so let us know if there's more to investigate.
Audio Logs can now be interacted with properly after being unloaded.
Carletta's sword is no longer visible while performing emotes and default poses.
Players can Jam on top of Driveable Reboot Vans again 🤘
The Tag Bag Back Bling now has intended colors and textures.
The Katana Presentation Emote no longer presents a weird non-Katana object.
Players are no longer put into a zoomed out camera state after Rebooting.
The "Eliminate players with the Arc-Lightning Gun to spread fear" Dark Voyager Battle Pass Quest can now be completed across multiple matches (previously required full progress in a single match).
Kingston was correctly added to the Collection Book.
The Golden Coast has more updates on the sunset horizon - drop in and let us know your feedback!
