PlayStation 4 Update / Hot Fix Information – Gearbox Entertainment Support

An update contains changes that are permanently stored on your system and only needs to be downloaded once. You can download the latest update by launching Battleborn while connected to the Playstation Network. You will be prompted to install the update if you do not already have the latest version.

A hot fix is automatically applied at the title screen when Battleborn is connected to the internet. In general, hot fixes are used to temporarily address issues between major updates.

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February 27, 2018

Hot-Fixes

Marketplace

VIP Passes and Finishers will be available for purchase with Credits or Platinum through the Bundles page

February 22, 2018

Hot-Fixes

Marketplace

15% Price reduction across the Marketplace: including Skins, Taunts, Boosts, and Loot Packs.
Borderlands Skins price reduction: The price of the Borderlands skins is being reduced from 1855 to 1360 PC
Free Rotation: All skins and taunts related to characters on Free Rotation will be on sale 25% off
Earned Currency: Magnus Packs, VIP Passes, and Finishers will be available for purchase with EC.
Flair: the chance to get Gear items with Flair from Core and faction Loot Packs is being significantly increased.

December 21, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Damage Adjustments

Quick or Off-hand melee damage can be a crucial part of some characters’ kits while for others, it is largely ineffective. The intent of the quick melee is to be a tool that allows Battleborn to give themselves some space to maneuver and to deal a moderate amount of damage to enemies crowding into melee range. While it was largely serving its purpose, the aforementioned extreme cases highlighted inconsistency regarding the effective quick melee damage per second available across characters. As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the balance impact of esoteric game elements, we’ve made some adjustments to the base off-hand melee damage for a number of characters.

The following reflect quick melee damage values at Level 1 before and after the adjustments.

Increases

Rath: 67 -> 151
Phoebe: 42 -> 63
Montana: 104 -> 151
Galilea: 94 -> 120
Deande: 99 -> 120
Alani: 54 -> 63
Kleese: 78 -> 94
Attikus: 66 -> 78
El Dragón: 73 -> 84

Decreases

Ghalt: 84 -> 47
Toby: 104 -> 78
Ernest: 104 -> 78
Whiskey Foxtrot: 130 -> 78
Pendles: 104 -> 84
Beatrix: 104 -> 89
ISIC: 70 -> 63

December 14, 2017

Hot-Fixes

General

Enabled stat progression in Private Matches for the following Play Modes:

Versus Rumble

Multiplayer

Enabled the following Play Modes for Private Matches:

Big Head Rumble

November 21, 2017

Hot-Fixes

General

Fixed issue where bot subs would not spawn.

Titles

Fixed issue with “Nope, Nope, Nope!” and “Heliophage” titles not displaying correctly

November 17, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Challenges

Enabled challenge progression in Private Matches for the following Play Modes:

Versus Classic
Versus Face-Off
Versus Supercharge

October 18, 2017

Fall Update

Skins

Borderlands Skins:

Alani

Maya - Impending Storm

Caldarius

Maliwan - J-HTX-M1 "Katagawa"

El Dragón

Psycho Bandit - Bicicleta de Carne

ISIC

CL4P-TRP - I'm Actually Quite Depressed! \o/

Orendi

Tiny Tina - PLAY WITH THE ASHES

Rath

Zer0 - Art of Deception

Color Skins:

Added two new sets of 30 colorization skins

Taunts

Ambra - Eccentric Orbits
Attikus - Lights Out
Beatrix - Parts and Crafts
Galilea - Keep on Giving
Kelvin - Glacial Movement
Kid Ultra - * Actual Drop Rate May Vary
Oscar Mike - Psychological Warfare
Shayne & Aurox - Rock Opera
Thorn - Green Energy
Toby - Overload

Titles

Updated existing titles

Admiral - Play as a Peacekeeper Battleborn 250 times
Angel - Assist in killing 500 Battleborn
Angel of Death - Kill 10,000 Battleborn
Archon - Play as an Eldrid Battleborn 250 times
Battleborn - You are a true Battleborn
Deep Diver - Deeper into the depths you go!
Destroyer - Win 50 Versus Matches
Fours Sensitive - Get 25 Quad Kills in Versus
High Commander - Win as a Peacekeeper Battleborn 100 times
I Believe... - The legend of Deep Dive lives on!
Legend - Win as a Rogue Battleborn 100 times
Master of Minions - Kill 1,000 Blade Bots, Gun Bots, or Boom Bots
Nut Buster - Kill 5,000 Minion Robotics enemies
Obliterator - Win 250 Versus matches
Observer - Win as an Eldrid Battleborn 100 times
Old Man Cranky - Win a Capture match by 1,000 points
Pentastrike - Get a Pentakill in Versus
Sustained - Win as a Jennerit Battleborn 100 times
Technocrat - Play as an LLC Battleborn 250 times
Three Sum - Get 25 Triple Kills in Versus
Tradelord - Win as an LLC Battleborn 100 times
Valkyrie - Play as a Rogue Battleborn 250 times
Worthy of Song - In a single match, kill 25 Battleborn

Updated colors of the Lost Hero title

Finishers

Added four new Finishers
- Show your sweeter side by raining candy on KO'd enemy players!
- Take out the trash and drop garbage on KO'd enemy players!
- Ruin the day with a cloud of sadness when you KO enemy players!
- Turn out the lights with a Varelsi portal when you KO enemy players!

Sugar Rush Finisher
Garbage Dump Finisher
Gray Skies Finisher
Darkening Finisher

Characters

Updated Skill Damage growth formulas to be percentage based.

Prior to these changes, low damage skills became relatively more powerful as players leveled up when compared to high damage skills and attacks. These changes are intended to normalize those relationships so that as players level up, strength relationships are preserved. This should eliminate some esoteric power dynamics as players level and allow augments and mutations to be the source of power spikes as well as early/mid/late-game differences in character strength. This effort also resulted in a number of bug fixes for skills that scaled incorrectly.

Outcast Thrall

Outcast Thrall in Incursion have a new, updated look
Outcast Thrall Brutes
- Gun damage increased by 50%
- Increased experience granted to the team for killing Middle Thrall from 52 to 98
- Middle Thralls now take 150% damage when critically hit rather than 300%
- Made targeting priority adjustments
- Grenade now deals 150-200 damage to players
- Increased grenade damage radius by 50%
- Increased grenade projectile speed
- Outcast Thrall Brutes are less effective against Sentries.

General
Grenade

Bug Fixes

Characters:

Beatrix: The duration of Patient Zero will reset if it is reapplied while active
Boldur: Fixed an issue that caused the DoT component of Rune Power: Boldurdash to grow more than intended with player level
Caldarius: Fixed an issue that caused lights spawned by Caldarius' skills to persist in the world
Ernest: Level 10 Right Helix Augment Watch Your Step no longer gives an additional permanent damage increase after selecting the augment
Ernest: Increased the duration of the damage buff from Level 10 Right Helix Augment Watch Your Step to last the entire duration of Mine Grid
Galilea: Fixed an issue that caused Abyssal Form's damage reduction to last indefinitely
Marquis: Fixed an issue that caused zoomed shots from Bindlebane to grow more than intended with player level
Shayne & Aurox: Fixed a collision issue with Fetch
Thorn: Fixed an issue that caused Kreshek damage to grow more than intended with player level

Gear:

Bola's Target Finder: Added appropriate CC effects when Damage Amp is applied to a player

FX:

General

Third Person Helix effects are now removed from the world if a player leaves while their Helix is open

Characters

Galilea: FIxed an issue that caused Galilea's Corruption effects to persist after all Corruption stacks were removed
Pendles: Fixed an issue with the command ring decal for Miasma
Rath: Level 9 Left Helix Augment Softened Target effects now appear correctly

Gear Flair

Removed visible texture seams on Speaker Ear Flair
Removed extraneous FX from the Nurse Hat gear flair
Gear Flair no longer turns black when teleporting back to base
Flair is not visible if activated while stealthed
Gear Flair is visible on Deande's Holotwin
Fixed a number of character specific issues with ear gear Flair

Finishers

Lowered the Dance Off Finisher effects
Added a white outline to the I Heart Finisher to help with visibility
Adjusted the color of the Something Fishy Finisher to stand out more

Maps

Incursion Tutorial: The Sentry firing FX now match those of the normal Incursion mode

Writing:

Attikus: The damage value listed in the description of Hedronic Arc is now consistent with the damage dealt
El Dragón: Updated the description of Level 1 Mutation Untouchable to no longer use a negative verb to describe a beneficial effect
Galilea: Updated the description of Wraith's Greatsword to be more consistent with the functionality
Galilea: Updated the description of Level 5 Left Helix Augment Last Light to be more consistent with the functionality
Marquis: The description of Predatory Strike no longer incorrectly indicates the Reveal CC
Kid Ultra: Fixed a grammatical error in the description of Bola Snare
Pendles: Updated the description of Level 7 Mutation Poison Blood to specify melee damage reduction
Phoebe: Updated the description of Level 8 Right Helix Augment Phase Stability to be more consistent with the functionality
Phoebe: Fixed a grammatical error in Level 7 Left Helix Augment Core Overload
Rath: Updated the stat line description of Level 2 Right Helix Augment Shield Syphon to more accurately reflect the functionality
Rath: Updated the description of Crossblades to include the target penetration functionality
Rath: Updated the description of Dreadwind to more accurately reflect the functionality
Rath: Fixed a grammatical error in the description of Level 7 Left Helix Augment Evasive Maneuvers
Rath: Fixed a grammatical error in the description of Level 7 Right Helix Augment To The Point
Reyna: The description of Priority Target no longer incorrectly indicates the Reveal CC

Miscellaneous:

Fixed an issue where Broadcasters would not see players on the Versus Clash screen
Time remaining on active boosters are aligned when scrolling through multiple active boosters
Fixed an issue that prevented players from scrolling through all boosters in the Marketplace
Fixed an issue where buying loot packs in the Command Menu would reset the player's cursor/current selection
Fixed an issue with taunt selection that caused players to load in with a different taunt than the one selected
Fixed an issue where EC was no longer awarded for obtaining duplicate skins or taunts in packs
Fixed an issue where the scroll bars would overlap when viewing Owned and Available Boosts in the Marketplace in non-16:9 aspect ratios

Bots:

Boldur Bot will engage in combat

Modes:

Capture: Varelsi Notification message now only states that Varelsi will be spawning soon

UI:

Made improvements to the Command Menu

Maps:

Tank Yankers: Fixed an issue where players could get stuck on collision below the intended playable space
Horizon (Supercharge): Fixed an exploit where players could safely sit in their base and damage enemy players

September 14, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Characters

Oscar Mike

Increased the base damage of the UPR-AR7 Assault Rifle by about 17% (from 17 to 21 at level 1).

Boldur

Reduced the unarmed movement speed bonus from 30% to 20%.
Decreased the amount of Damage Reduction granted by Rage from 25% to 15%.
Reduced the base damage of Quick Melee by 25% (from 84 to 63 at level 1).

July 6, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Characters

Boldur:

• Reduced the damage of L4 Hatchet Man from 240 to 120 damage over 4 seconds.

Kelvin:

• Reduced the duration of Sublimate from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.

June 29, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Characters

Rath:

Increased the skill and melee lifesteal granted by Rath's passive, Genetic Syphon, from 10 to 12.5% and from 7.5 to 9.3%, respectively.

General

Increased the construction cost of MX.Elite Bot buildables in Meltdown and Incursion from 600 to 800 shards.

June 22, 2017

Hot-Fixes

General

Introducing Mini Match (3v3) - This is a mix of all modes featuring Supercharge
Versus Draft will no longer be part of the normal list.
Reducing the number of available queues for Novice players, Novice Incursion and Novice Quick Match have been combined.

Marketplace

Three extra bank slots, and five extra loadout slots will be available for purchase in the in-game Marketplace.

June 15, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Character Rotation and Marketplace Changes

New Rotation: Ambra, Toby, Thorn, Oscar Mike, Phoebe, Montana
Next week’s rotation (Week 3): Kid Ultra, Kelvin, Orendi, Oscar Mike, Rath, Reyna
New bundles are on sale in the in-game marketplace to coincide with this weeks’ free character rotation!

Addition of the “All Operations” Queue

Join this queue to match with other players and play any of the five operation missions available to you! Players will be able to vote on their choice from three operations at a time.
You must own the Season Pass or all five Operation Missions in order to match into this queue.
Operations Required to enter the “All Operations” queue: Attikus and the Thrall Rebellion, Toby's Friendship Raid, Oscar Mike vs. the Battle School, Montana and the Demon Bear, Phoebe and the Heart of Ekkunar

Faction Kill Challenges Fix

We’ve fixed an issue that prevented bot versions of Deande, El Dragón, Ernest, and Pendles from counting towards faction kill challenges.

Voting Returns to Quick Match Queue on PC

PC only: Voting has been enabled in the Quick Match queue.

June 12, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Gear:

Shard of Solus: Can no longer be sold

June 9, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Characters:

El Dragón – Fixed an issue that caused his Undisputed Champ passive to grant more primary attack damage than intended.
Galilea – Fixed an issue with the M5 Antihero mutation.

June 6, 2017

Battleborn Free Trial Update Patch Notes

Battleborn Free Trial:

Training

All Skins and Taunts are now available for players to preview in the Dojo

Training & New Player Experience

We want to give all new players – especially you who have joined us through the Battleborn Free Trial – a much improved entry in to the Battleborn Versus matches! With so much depth, it takes a few games to get your feet wet and to master the basics you'll need to succeed against experienced players. To help with that, we're changing how new players begin their Battleborn experience.

Versus Prologue

All new players must now play through the Versus Prologue before gaining access to the other multiplayer queues. While this training focuses on "Incursion", it also trains many of the core concepts of Versus Battleborn, including the Helix system, minions, buildables, and which button you push to Return to Base for instant healing! (By the way - it's "B" on PC and "D-Pad Down" on Xbox One and PS4).

Novice Queues & Command Rank Restrictions

With the update, we want new Battleborn players to have the best chance possible at finding matches closer to their skill level. So, we are introducing "Novice" queues for players below Command Rank 20.

After completing the Versus Prologue, new players will unlock new queues as they gain command ranks.

Command Rank 1-2 (after Versus Prologue)
- "Novice Versus" - Incursion maps Versus Bots
Command Rank 3
- "Novice Incursion (5v5) - Match against other novice players (below CR 20)
Command Rank 5
- "Novice Quick Match (5v5)" - Meltdown, Capture, and Face-Off maps matched against other novice players (below CR 20)
Command Rank 10
- "Bots Battle" replaces "Novice Versus" - Play against Bots matched with players of any command rank.
Command Rank 20
- All regular Versus queues.

Novice queues will be unavailable to players above command rank 20, even if they are in groups of players of lower command rank. Players below command rank 20 can join a group with a higher command rank player and be matched into the regular queues; however, novice players cannot match into those queues themselves.

Boosters / Consumables

We made a few quality-of-life changes to Boost UI, adding widgets to the Command Menu AND the front end to let you know which boosts are running and how much longer they will last.

Also, we've added a new type of Boost available to Trial players called the "Battle Pass" booster. The "Battle Pass" will grant you access to Private Matches, and will temporarily unlock enough characters for Private Matches to allow you to participate in Draft Mode tournaments. In addition to the "Battle Pass" we've also introduced the "VIP Pass." The "VIP Pass" unlocks all characters, mutations, and customizations for your team, grants bonus credits for Victories, and of course unlocks an exclusive temporary title.

Active Boosters are now displayed in the Command Menu
Added a Battle Pass booster
Added a VIP Pass booster

Founder's Pack

As a "thank you" to all the players who have joined us for the last year of Battleborn, we dub you "Founders"! We're giving you several gifts to say thank you in a very tangible way, but the Founder's Loot pack is one of the coolest parts. As a Founder, the Founder's Pack will show up in your Command > Gear inventory and opening it will give you the following rewards:

1 random Legendary gear item, with guaranteed Flair
1 random Legendary gear item from Story Mission boss drops, with guaranteed Flair
2 common or better gear items, with guaranteed Flair
1 exclusive Founder's Legendary gear item the "Shard of Solus", with exclusive Founder Flair
Founder's Crown flair

June 5, 2017

Battleborn Update Patch Notes

New Features

Gear Flair:

HATS! HORNS! EARS! Oh, my! We've added a new visual Gear Flair system to Battleborn! Hunt down visual aesthetic customization enhancements to make your favorite Battleborn look SWANK! Flair has a random chance to be added to any gear item. To wear a piece of Flair, activate that Gear item within any match or mission.

Hats
Ears
Horns

Finishers:

Want a way to celebrate each competitive KO with a bang? Finishers let you do just that! Finishers are purchased boosts which will add special FX to a player kill anytime you secure the KO. Pick up a Finisher today and celebrate the sweet taste of victory!

Fireworks Finisher: Replaces the player kill beam visual FX with a flashy fireworks display!
Something Fishy Finisher: Replaces the player kill beam visual FX with a pile of rotten fish, now with extra-taunt flavor!
Dance Off Finisher: Replaces the player kill beam visual FX with sparkling disco ball, as you dance your way to the top!
"I Heart" Finisher: Replace the player kill beam visual FX with hearts, smiles, and flowers as you send your love to your defeated foe!

Character Role Specialization:

We want to bring more emphasis to our three character archetypes: Attacker, Defender, and Supporter. While we have always tried to maintain versatility with our Battleborn, we will be taking several steps to create more noticeable differences between the broad categories of characters.

Our first change in this direction is to tweak global attack and defense numbers when fighting non-player enemies, such as bots, sentries, thrall, and any enemy in a Story Mission. Attacker characters will get a general damage boost against non-players, and Defenders will take less damage against non-players allowing them to feel more "tanky".

Attackers deal 15% more damage to non-Battleborn enemies
Defenders take 15% less damage from non-Battleborn enemies

New Loot Packs

Magnus Pack:

For the serious customization collector, Magnus Packs are now available in the Marketplace for purchase with Platinum! Each Magnus Pack contains the following:

1 Rare or higher gear item, with guaranteed Flair
2 Common or higher gear items, with guaranteed Flair
1 guaranteed Common Skin or Taunt
Chance for a Premium Skin or Taunt

General

Dramatically reduced the amount of critical hits from NPCs, thralls, and minions. Critical Hits are mostly reserved for Players and Bots now, with few exceptions.
Minions are no longer stunned when Silenced
Any unused Hero Keys will automatically unlock a locked DLC character or, if all DLC characters are unlocked, be exchanged for 47,500 Credits per unused Hero Key.

Performance

Made optimizations to reduce the performance impact of Deande's Holotwinskill activation

Characters

Along with the Character Role specialization changes, we've taken a number of steps to reign in some abilities that provided unintended advantages for particular characters. Chief among these was the amount of Damage Amp available to certain team compositions. While the previous values were appropriate for single target Damage Amp abilities, we concluded that Damage Amp abilities that can easily be applied to multiple targets should be toned down.

Reduced the Damage Amplification of AoE abilities from 16% to 8%
Characters with physical shields can no longer block while turning in Masks in Face-off

Alani:

Alani is still performing as an extremely powerful character, very strong in both support an attack roles. We are making a few adjustments to bring her back in line with other Support characters, and to take a bit of the edge from her strength as a ranged attacker. While she can still play the hybrid attacker / healer role, our intent is to remove some of the lane dominance from her current play.

Reduced base attack damage of Torrent by 10% (from 63 to 57 at level 1)
Adjusted Wellspring heal amount when healing with Osmosis stacks (level 1 values below):
- Zero Osmosis stacks: no change
- One Osmosis stack: 225 to 180
- Two Osmosis stacks: 394 to 315
- Three Osmosis stacks: 674 to 450

Attikus:

While we have been happy with the results from the previous re-work of Attikus, we feel that his Pounce needed a bit more punch to ground him as a melee initiator. We're increasing the size of the damage radius caused by Pounce making it easier to land, but adding damage falloff to that radius so that you are still rewarded for skilled placement of the Pounce. Since he is such a big target for up-front brawling, we're boosting his health a bit. As well, we're giving players more options for lowering skill cooldowns to increase his effectiveness at initiating with a burst.

Increased the AoE of Pounce by 33%
Added damage falloff to Pounce
Increased base health by 10% (from 2440 to 2678 at level 1)
Changed functionality of Level 5 Right Helix Augment Hedronic Haste:

Using a Fully Charged skill reduces Attikus' active cooldowns by 30%

Reduced the AoE increase granted by Level 8 Left Helix Augment Big Splash from 50% to 33%.
Increased Level 10 Mutation Payback Time from up to +60 damage to up to +120 damage
Re-named Rank 20 title to "Daddikus". You're welcome, r/Battleborn!

Beatrix:

Even after some earlier adjustments, Beatrix is still far more lethal than is good for a strong support, especially with access to Silence at low levels. We're reducing her base attack damage, and the damage of Patient Zero and Plague Rat to help mitigate her effectiveness as a damage dealer. We're also decreasing her health a small amount to bring her in line with other Support characters.

Most importantly, we're changing the way Fulminate works. The Silence duration is now split across each of the Fulminate projectiles as a stacking value. While it is still possible to silence a character for 3 seconds, it now requires you to focus a single player to maximize the duration. Previously, the full value applied to each target hit, meaning you could silence an entire group at range for the full duration. You will still be able to use Fulminate as a group interrupt (from the short-duration Silence), but it is no longer possible to apply such a long Silence to an entire group.

Each projectile inFulminate now silences for a portion of the 3 second duration
Reduced the base attack damage ofIncistyx Injector by 20% (from 42 to 38 at level 1)
Reduced base health by 10% (from 1010 to 915 at level 1)
Reduced Patient Zerodamage from 70/s to 35/s at level 1
Reduced Level 5 Left Helix Augment Plague Ratdamage from 25 per second to 20

Boldur:

The Level 1 Right Helix Augment Crash Helmet will now only grant an overshield after successfully hitting an enemy with Boldurdash

El Dragón:

El Dragón is still lower on both win rate and average kills than we would expect from an attacker. However, in higher-skill play, we still see cases where a well-supported El Dragón can be very effective. We want to create a bit more independence for him, so we're adding stacking damage reduction to his Passive ability. Now, as El Dragón engages in his principal play loop --defeating enemies and gaining stacks of Undisputed Champion-- he will increase in damage dealing and damage reduction. This should give him the edge he needs to survive more of his attack runs as a skirmisher, but requires him to still work for it. As a last note, if you want to maximize survivability, Level 5 Left Helix Augment Heavyweight still grants additional stacking damage bonus IN ADDITION to that gained from Undisputed Champion making him even harder to kill.

Each stack of Undisputed Champgrants 2% damage reduction and 2% primary attack damage
Level 5 Left Helix AugmentHeavyweight now rewards an additional 1.5% damage reduction per stack down from 3%

Ernest:

Ernest has been gaining a lot of benefit from splash damage on his grenades, requiring less skill than we would prefer to master his potential for damage. We are removing the damage bonus from splash damage of his Direct Hit passive, but increasing the damage dealt to the target. Well-aimed grenades still have the ability to be very effective, but will no longer spread that bonus to every target in a nearby radius.

Changed the functionality of Direct Hitand increased the damage dealt from 15% to 30%:

Grenades that directly hit an enemy deal 30% additional damage to the target hit

Changed the functionality of Level 5 Left Helix Augment Shellshocker:

Direct Hit wounds enemies caught in the blast for a brief time. +1 Second Wound Duration

Changed the functionality of Level 5 Mutation The Ol' Razzle-Dazzle:

Landing a Direct Hit marks the target. Direct Hit deals increased damage to marked enemies, consuming the mark

Changed the functionality of Level 5 Right Helix Augment Expedited Explosives:

Landing a Direct Hit reduces Explosive Charge's cooldown

Galilea:

Oh, Galilea. The legend of the Wraith of Bliss has continued to cast fear in the hearts of opponents. With this round of changes, our intent is to continue to tune Galilea more strongly into her role as territorial defender, still allowing her to be strong, but restricting where she can wield that strength. With these changes, Galilea players will need to focus more on maintaining Corruption, and will need to be more precise with the timing and use of Desecrate to gain her full advantage.

Corruption is getting an overhaul. The radius is shrinking, and we are doubling the amount of stacks Galilea has to gain to achieve the same bonus. It will take Galilea longer to get to the full benefit of Corruption, and she must be more diligent about staying in active combat to maintain those stacks.

We're also changing the default benefit from Desecration from Damage Amplication to Slow. Galilea will still be strong within her Desecrate AoE, and will have more ability to use melee to hunt down foes. That should require more skill than the benefit from damage amplification which allowed her to close in and swing wildly close in for big spikes of damage.

Lastly of note, we like the fun of It's Dangerous to Go Alone and the ability for Galilea to finish off ranged targets (especially in Story missions). However, we noticed many Galilea players exploiting this additional attack for more burst damage at close range. So, we're reducing the amount of damage done by this skill at close range to make it less reliable as an augmentation for melee-range damage output.

Reduced the AoE of Corruption by 20%
Increased Corruption stacks from 20 to 40
Melee attacks gain 1 stack of Corruption
Skills gain 5 stacks of Corruption
DesecrateSlows enemies by default rather than applying Damage Amplification
Skill usage is no longer interrupted when pulled by Level 1 Mutation Vortex
Level 3 Right Helix Augment It's Dangerous to Go Alone projectiles deal less damage at close range
Changed the functionality of Level 4 Mutation Bleak Quiet:

While standing in Desecrate, Galilea takes reduced damage. +30% Damage Reduction

Changed the functionality of Level 5 Left Helix Augment Last Light to scale Health Regeneration based on Corruption:

Health Regeneration now scales up as Corruption grows. Up to +21 Health Regeneration per Second

Reduced the reflect chance granted by Level 7 Left Helix Augment Mirror Knightfrom 35% to 25%
Changed the conditional on Level 7 Right Helix Augment Duelist:

Increases the damage of Galilea's Greatsword attacks while in Desecrate. +18% Damage

Changed the functionality of Level 8 Left Helix Augment Inescapable Fate:

Enemies standing in Desecrate fields are weakened. -30% Damage Dealt

Changed the functionality of Level 8 Right Helix Augment The Black Wind Howls:

Enemies standing in Desecrate take additional damage from all sources. +8% Damage Amplification

Level 8 Mutation Blight Town increases the AoE ofDesecrate by 25% down from 50%

Kid Ultra:

Kid Ultra has been a powerful support / damage hybrid, but like several other support characters, we find his damage output too high given his other strengths. We're applying a small damage reduction to his primary attack, and also dropping down the damage from the Bola Snare on multiple targets to reduce his effectiveness at multi-target damage.

Reduced the base damage of Rocket Gauntlet and Rocket Vortex by 10% (from 54 to 49 per rocket at level 1)
Bola Snareprojectiles now deal 33% less damage after hitting the first target
Reduced the damage over time granted by Level 1 Left Helix Augment Pain Compliancedamage from 213/2s to 107/2s

Mellka:

Adjusted the damage fall-off of Custom Machine Pistolto be consistent with that of similar weapons

Montana:

While Montana does a great job of filling his role as a Defender capable of tanking and pushing waves, his sustained damage output was a bit higher than we'd like to see from a Defender. Increased Heat generation will entice Montana players to be more conscientious of their Heat level and the ways they interact with it. Additionally, Big Payback was capable of being the highest single instance of damage in the game in extreme situations. By soaking up focused fire or Sentry blasts, Montana could one-shot entire teams with Big Payback, so we've put cap on the amount of damage the blast can deal.

Level 10 Left Helix Augment Big Payback now deals a maximum of 750 damage to nearby enemies
Increased the rate at which Heat is generated by 20%
Reduced the accuracy bonus granted by Level 1 Left Helix Augment Weather Manfrom 50% to 40%

Orendi:

Orendi is very close to where we would like most Attackers to be in regards to kills, damage, and wins. With this update, we are taking a small edge off her primary attack.

Pillarstorm is also getting some adjustment. Even though Pillarstorm typically only shows up late game and requires special circumstances for it to be most effective, when the stars align it has been devastating. So, we're reducing the size of the additional Pillars making it far harder to gain the advantage from overlapping damage. We're also dramatically reducing the targeting area of Pillarstorm. Previously, Pillarstorm targeted every Battleborn in a radius around Orendi, making it an automatic hit on any enemy near her. Now, Pillarstorm will only trigger on enemies hit by Paradigm Shift, effectively constraining it to a thick, straight beam.

Reduced attack damage of primary and secondary attack Chaos Bolts by 10% (from 48/23 to 44/21 at level 1)
Reduced the size of the Pillars spawned by Level 10 Mutation Pillarstorm by 50%
Pillarstorm now only places Shadowfire Pillars under enemies in the area of Paradigm Shift

Gear

As usual, we're making a few changes (Bola's Target Finder, I'm looking at you!) and bug fixes to gear. As well, we've made a few sweeping changes that should alter the gear landscape in what we feel are interesting ways.

Legendary gear items have received a lot of feedback, and have often been hard to balance, especially as they were constrained to a fixed activation cost of 1800 shards. As activation cost is of our primary methods of balancing for gear strength, we found this restriction to be...restrictive. So, with this update, Legendary gear activation costs now scale with the random level of the gear. That means you will see some lower-powered Legendaries with lower costs, hopefully increasing the effectiveness of some previously overlooked gear items. Also, we now have the ability to adjust cost on a “per legendary” basis, so we'll be using that as a tool going forward to help balance out Legendary Gear.

With that change, all Character Lore Legendary items are now iLvl 100, or "max roll" legendaries. We found that only a handful of character legendaries were being used with any regularity, and would like more of them to feel valuable to players. This is part of the solution to achieving that.

Added Operation Specific Commander packs so players have more control over the legendaries they're hunting for
Legendary gear activation costs now scale with gear iLvl
Characters Legendaries are now max item level
Bola's Target Finder: Legendary effect amplifies skill damage only
Bola's Target Finder: Legendary effect requires a minimum amount of damage
Firmware Update 1.51C: Added a 15 second internal cooldown on the legendary effect

Interface

Made Command Rank, Profile Name, Earned Currency, Premium Currency, and Active Boosters visible while on the Main Menu

Game Modes

Incursion:

Simply put, our Incursion sentries have been pretty dumb, often neglecting to protect their assigned areas. So, we've upgraded them. Sentries will now be more vigilant at finding, tracking and damaging enemy targets, they will be less vulnerable to interruption, and they will re-evaluate their targeting priorities more frequently and from further away.

Along with this change, our big NPCs are getting a scaling health buff to keep them viable as the match progresses. Thralls and Super Minions have always been intended to be "tide turners" in battle, and with this update, they should be more effective in that role.

Sentry Improvements
- Sentries no longer flinch when hit with Skills
- Increased Sentry targeting distance
- Sentries more accurately prioritize targets that are in line of sight
- Sentries are now immune to Weaken, Damage Amp, and Wound
Thrall Crusher, Thrall Guard, and Super Minion health and damage increases every 3 minutes

Meltdown:

Super Minion health and damage now increases every 2 minutes

Scoreboard

Our attempt to improve the tie-breaking mechanic in matches did not yield the results we desired. Our goal was to provide more tangible ways for players to contribute to tie-breakers, especially in Incursion where ties between evenly-matched teams are fairly common. In doing so, we changed which stats appeared on the default screen of the scoreboard to coincide with the tie-breaking stats to help players understand which stats were important to track for securing a win.

After listening to discussion and re-evaluating our design, we determined that our changes weren't achieving our goals. Some stats which were useful to players for gauging the heart of gameplay were hidden. Some stats were being used for tie-breaker evaluation that weren't as important for the game mode. Some stats (like Damage Taken) were debatable about whether high stats or low stats were best. And we found some bugs in how some stats were being evaluated.

While we are sticking with the tie-breaker mechanic for now, we have re-evaluated the used and displayed stats for each game mode and are making changes on which stats are evaluated for tie-breaker victories.

Replaced Healing Givenstat with Shards
Replaced Buildables Builtstat with Objects Built
The seven in-game stats are displayed on the first page of stats in the Post-Match Statistics tab
Incursion: Replaced Sentry Killswith Objects Built on the scoreboard
Incursion: Replaced Damage Takenwith Minions Killed on the scoreboard
Incursion: Added Sentry Damageto post-match statistics
Meltdown: Replaced Damage Takenwith Objects Built on the scoreboard
Capture: Replaced Damage Takenwith Points Defended on the scoreboard
Face-Off: Replaced Damage Takenwith Varelsi Killed on the scoreboard

Maps

Paradise:

Supply Stations are Tier 3 at the beginning of the match

Outskirts:

Supply Stations are Tier 3 at the beginning of the match

Bots:

Added Bot support for Pendles, Ernest, Kid Ultra, and Beatrix
Bots can now use all Marketplace Skins and Taunts

Quality of Life:

Added a confirmation dialog box when selecting or banning a character
After selecting a character, the Loadout tab is displayed instead of the Skin tab
Single Boosts are no longer displayed under the Bundles tab in the Marketplace
Added a Blind Pick option to character select
Fixed an issue on PC that caused the Gear Bank to scroll when attempting to select an item by clicking on it.
Added a Taunt button prompt to character select
Character confirmation dialogs do not close when a teammate selects a character
Added screen message call-outs for specific game mode events

Bug Fixes

Characters:

Stunned enemies can now be knocked back
Beatrix: Adjusted weight so that she reacts properly when hit with knockbacks
Beatrix: Fixed an issue with Beatrix's Melancholic Medic skin when using Fulminateor Patient Zero
Beatrix: Outbreaknow only lasts for its remaining duration when spreading to additional targets
El Dragón: The projectiles from Level 10 Right Helix Augment Dragonfirenow deal damage when reflected
El Dragón: Level 2 Right Helix Augment Momentumdoes not trigger when using Dragon Splash on shard clusters
Ernest: UPR-G73 Grenade Launcherprojectiles deal damage when reflected
Kelvin: Fixed an issue with Level 6 Left Helix Augment Windchillthat prevented Kelvin from stunning more than three enemies
Kid Ultra: Fixed an issue that caused rocket attacks to gain more damage than intended each level
Montana: Level 9 Mutation The Coolerdisplays the appropriate icon
Orendi: Fixed an issue which could cause Orendi to lose primary and secondary attack functionality when using Shadowfire Pillar
Orendi: Fixed an issue that allowed Paradigm Shiftto deal full damage in multiple areas
Pendles: The cast bar timer for Miasmawill deactivate if the skill is interrupted.
Phoebe: Level 4 Right Helix Augment Raddoppio no longer reduces the cooldown of Blade Rushwhen reflected
Phoebe: Fixed an issue which could cause Phoebe to lose functionality when using Phasegate
Shayne and Aurox: Aurox can no longer be destroyed by other projectiles
Shayne and Aurox: Aurox can now properly destroy shard barrels and open chests
Toby: Level 10 Left Helix Augment Triple Charge pushes Toby away when reflected instead of pulling him closer
Toby: Fixed an issue that caused Level 3 Left Helix Augment Targeting Overlayto highlight enemies inconsistently
Whiskey Foxtrot:Overdrive remains fully automatic when Level 7 Right Helix Augment When Three Just Isn't Enough is activated while his Ultimate is active

Gear:

Fixed an issue that caused gear to appear purchasable after activation
Beneficial CC effects are not affected by CC Reduction Gear
Bola's Target Finder: Has an appropriate entry on the death recap screen
Corpse Reviver: Fixed an issue that caused some Rare versions to appears as Epic versions
Doomsday Key: All item-level variants now award appropriate Attack Speed values for the Legendary effect
Mini-Singularity Launcher: Fixed an issue where players could become permanently slowed by the Legendary effect
Mini-Singularity Launcher: The Legendary effect no longer slows the player who activated the gear
Oath of the Sustained: Has an appropriate entry on the death recap screen
RDC Ground-Pounders: Legendary effect can be triggered by minions
Phlogiston Propulsor: Fixed an issue that caused enemies to be knocked back in the wrong direction
Poor "M-Pulse" Controller: An appropriate entry appears on death recap screen
Solar Sustainer: The increased attack damage from the Legendary effect of only triggers when the healing provided is greater than 0
Stolen Edge of Arcvynorr: Stacks from the legendary effect properly decay after 5 seconds

Game Modes:

Meltdown Finale: Fixed an issue that prevented Ultra Minions from spawning during the Finale

Versus Maps:

Snowblind: Fixed multiple collision issues

Story Maps:

Prologue: Fixed an issue that allowed Mellka to become stuck on top of the S1.Huntsman Sentry
Toby's Friendship Raid: Deande's Holotwin cannot cause the player to fail the side objective "Avoid Taking damage from MX.Boom Bots"
Phoebe and the Heart of Ekkunar: Fixed an issue that allowed the boss to die prematurely causing a blocker
Phoebe and the Heart of Ekkunar: Players cannot become stuck when revived inside shard battery pads
Oscar Mike vs The Battle School: Fixed an issue that allowed the S1.Wolf Sentry to become stuck on buildable turrets

Character Select:

Fixed an issue that caused all of the icons in the phase timeline of Draft Mode character select styles to display the enemy team color
Fixed an issue that caused the chat box to display incorrectly during character select
Players cannot initiate a surrender vote during character select
Golden Pedestals are visible during character select

Broadcaster:

Gear menu displays correctly
Selection team colors are correct during Captain's Draft Ban and Pick phase.
All characters are positioned correctly during character selection

Audio:

Nova's voiceover lines play after receiving Epic or Legendary Gear regardless of training message settings
The "Friendly Sentry Under Attack" voiceover alert plays consistently

Character FX:

Caldarius: Basic Skins display properly
Kelvin: Effects are visible when Ice Wall is destroyed.
Oscar Mike: Stealth Generator screen effects are displayed properly
Phoebe: Level 5 Left Helix Augment Passata Sottodisplays damage reduction screen FX when active
Toby: Level 7 Mutation Self-Destruct Sequenceeffects play consistently

Miscellaneous FX:

Super Minions: Fixed an issue with the mortar explosion effects that made it difficult to see in larger barrages
Shepherd Minions: Fixed an issue that made the death effects appear incorrectly

Miscellaneous:

Operation Bundles are not available for Platinum Currency purchase if you have already purchased the Season Pass
Fixed an issue where the XP and Loot Booster bracelets would not display properly after teleporting back to base
Fixed an issue that prevented some challenges from incrementing correctly when playing against Bots
Fixed an issue that allowed players to stun friendly Thralls and Minions
Tie-Breakers are consistent with in-match scoreboard statistics
Fixed an issue with the Largest Killing Spree stat for each character
Fixed an issue that caused the Battleborn icon to disappear from the taskbar after using the Alt-Tab or Alt-Enter keyboard shortcuts
TheUnfriendly Fire challenge increments when team members kill enemies
Fixed an issue that caused Thrall to deal unintended amounts of damage to players with their Mortar attack
Fixed an issue that caused some text to appear in a different language than the system language

Text Adjustments

Characters:

El Dragón: Added En Fuegoeffect description to his primary attack
El Dragón: Updated the description of En Fuegoto clarify that it increases attack speed and damage
Galilea: Added the duration of the movement speed increase to the description of Level 9 Right Helix Augment Tideturner
Marquis: Updated the description of Level 4 Left Helix Augment Time Killerto display the appropriate amount of damage per second
Oscar Mike: Added the temporary damage boost duration to the description of Level 1 Left Helix Augment Sneak Attack
Reyna: Updated the description of Level 5 Left Helix Augment Improvised Tacticsto match the functionality
- For as long as Failsafe is active, all of Reyna's active skill cooldowns are reduced. Up to -2 Seconds Cooldown Time
Toby: Updated the description of Level 10 Left Helix Augment Charged Blasts to accurately reflect that it adds a knock-back toCore Discharge

Gear:

Added text to specify legendary effects that are Operations exclusive
Eye of the Storm: Updated legendary effect description for clarity and consistency
Peril-Sensitive Pauldrons: Updated legendary effect description for clarity and consistency
Petrified Dragonfeather: Fixed a grammatical error in the description
Predator's Step: Updated legendary effect description for clarity and consistency
Silverback Hydebear Hide: Updated legendary effect description for clarity and consistency
Vacuum Energy Converter: Updated legendary effect description for clarity and consistency

Character Select:

Changed the text displayed while waiting for all players to join character select from "Preparing for Battle" to "Waiting for Other Players"

May 25, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Characters

Boldur:

Reduced damage of Rune Power Axe Toss from 420 to 308 at level 10.
Reduced damage of Rune Power Boldurdash from 267 to 235 at level 10.

March 30, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Characters

Orendi:

Reduced base damage of Primary and Secondary attacks by 10% (50/25 to 44/22 at level 1)

March 23, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Characters:

Ghalt:

Reduced UPR M8-R Shotgun damage by 15%
Increased Scraptrap damage from 142 to 208 at level 1

Mellka:

Increased Venom bonus damage from 16% to 32%
Increased base damage of Claw Lunge from 142 to 208 at level 1

Minions

Fixed an issue that caused M1.Blade Bot damage to scale higher than intended with each level

March 16, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Phoebe and the Heart of Ekkunar

Increased starting health of the Aztanti Name-Eater and initial damage threshold to reduce the chance that excessive damage will cause it to die prematurely
Fixed an issue that caused a loot chest to spawn below the terrain

Gear

Fixed an issue with the "Stolen Edge of Arcvynorr" that caused its legendary effect to be active longer than intended

February 23, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Characters:

Mellka:

Fixed an issue that caused her Venom to last longer than intended when her level 8 Mutation "Potent Toxins" is active

February 16, 2017

Hot-Fixes

General

Fixed an issue that allowed Beatrix and Benedict to be continually healed for "1" hp when at max health

Meltdown: Finale

Increased the regulation score limit from 300 to 400

February 9, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Characters:

El Dragón:

Increased base max shield from 300 to 400
Increased the damage of the Power Fist augment's combo finisher approximately 12% from 126 to 142 at level 3
Increased the amount of Health Regeneration granted by Hang Time from 84 to 112 HP over 4 seconds

Ban/Pick Draft:

Adjusted the draft order of the 5v5 Ban/Pick Character Select Style to match the draft order found in Captains Draft

February 2, 2017

Hot-Fixes

Characters:

Pendles:

Reduced the duration of the slow on Injection from 4 seconds to 2 seconds
Reduced the duration of the slow added by Potent Venom from 2 seconds to 1 second

Mellka:

Increased the duration of Venom from 4 seconds to 8 seconds and increased the tick interval from once every .5 seconds to once every second
Increased the amount of Health Regeneration granted by her Adrenaline Rush augment from 7 to 14hp/s
Increased the base damage of her Custom Machine Pistol by 12% from 24 to 27 at level 1

Beatrix:

Decreased Beatrix's base health from 1310 to 1011 at level 1
Decreased the lifesteal on melee granted by her Bloodshot augment from 75% to 50%
Decreased the lifesteal granted by her Leech Therapy augment from 40% to 30%
Decreased the magnitude Speed buff granted by her Vitality Chirality augment from 50% to 30%
Fixed an issue that caused Outbreak to last longer than intended

Meltdown: Finale

Increased the experience gained by killing minions by about 50%
Increased the "advantage" threshold from 30 points to 50
Decreased MX.Ultra Bot base health approximately 30% from 6300 to 4500 at level 0

January 17, 2017

Battleborn Winter Update Notes

General:

Command Rank maximum has been increased to 150, with additional rewards for each rank after rank 100.

Core Packs awarded for most Command Ranks
Legendary Packs awarded every 10 Command Ranks
New Titles awarded every 10 Command Ranks
"Battleborn" achievement still awarded at rank 100

Character Rank maximum for all characters has been increased to 20, with additional rewards for ranks 16-20.

Earn a Faction Pack for the associated character faction for each for ranks 16-20.
Earn new Character-specific titles at rank 17 and rank 20.
Character Mastery rewards are still granted at rank 15.
"First Among Heroes" achievement still awarded at rank 15.

Added support for the PlayStation 4 Pro
- 1080p @ 30fps
- 1080p @ 60fps
- Native 4K @ 30fps

PlayStation 4 Pro now has the following video options

PlayStation 4 OG can select between 1080p @ 30fps and 1080p @ up to 60fps
All consoles have the ability to now toggle between Minimum and Normal for Particle Detail in the video options

Performance:

Numerous performance improvements to maps and FX content
Improved Command UI performance
Bandwidth improvements to reduce amount of data needed when replicating shield, health, experience, and stat data
Fixed a bug with map driven player alerts allowing them to be re-implemented using much less bandwidth
Optimized client and server processing of player profile data
Optimized purchase item functionality in Command UI
Optimized friends list functionality on the frontend

Main Quests & Daily Quests:

While battling to save the Universe is a reward in itself, we've always wanted a way to reward coming back and playing daily in Battleborn. We've heard that request a number of times from players as well, so here it is! Quests!

Main Quests are one-time-completion tasks that help train new players, while offering huge bonus Credit rewards. Daily Quests are forever! Come back every day and complete new daily quests for additional rewards.

Players now receive a Main Quest chain and additional Daily Quests that can be completed for rewards

When first logging in, you will receive a Main Quest. Subsequent Quests become available when the previous one has been completed
After completing one match, and then after once per day, you will receive a Daily Quest. No more than 3 Daily Quests can be active at a time, so make sure to complete your Daily Quests promptly!

Improved Character Select:

Since before launch, we've wanted to integrate Draft selection mode into competitive play. To do that, we needed to overhaul Character Select to handle different types of character selection depending on which mode you're about to play. With the Winter Update, character select is completely reskinned and cleaned up, and is now more versatile than ever!

Players may now choose from up to 5 different character select styles in Versus game modes

Captains Draft 5v5
Ban Pick 5v5
Quick Select
Chaos Rumble
Classic

Character select is now broken into multiple phases, which depend on the character select style
Players can now reselect their characters during the selection phase by navigating to the character list and backing out of their selection

Training:

One of the most consistent requests we've received from players was for help understanding the unique game modes of Battleborn. We've tackled that in a few distinct ways. The new Versus Training mode uses Nova to walk you through many of the basics of competitive gameplay, including Helixes, bases, buildables, minions, sentries, and one of the most overlooked features - teleporting back to base!

We also heard that players wanted a way to try out characters outside of a match. So, we've created the Dojo! Jump in, starting at level 5 with 100,000 Shards, and practice your skills on waves of minions. Level up quickly and play with combinations of abilities. Tap Nova when you're ready to leave and reset the Dojo.

Added a Versus tutorial, featuring concepts from the Incursion game mode

Players will initially be able to access a single-player Incursion tutorial to learn the basics of the game mode
After completing the tutorial, players will be able to access a training experience that matches 3 players against 3 bots

Added a single-player Dojo training map

Characters:

General

The base 25 characters are now unlocked after completing the Prologue.
Previous character unlock challenges now reward a special skin for that character instead of unlocking the character. The initial 7 characters receive the skin unlocks after completing the Prologue.

Ambra

Added a team color outline to Sunspots
Added team color FX to the Extinction Event diamond

Caldarius

The character team wanted to increase viability of close range attacks with Caldarius and focused on improving augmentations to the melee attack. In addition, we modified some of the power growth of Flashbang without reducing any of the core functionality.

Moved the Level 5 Mutation Energy Transfusion from the level 5 Helix tier to the level 3 Helix tier
Increased the life steal of Level 3 Mutation Energy Transfusion from 15% to 20%
Swapped the Helix locations of Level 6 Mutation Gravitic Anomaly with Level 1 Left Helix Augment Energy Cascade
Reduced the duration of Level 1 Left Helix Augment Gravitic Anomaly from 3 seconds to 2 seconds
Increased the slow strength of Level 1 Left Helix Augment Gravitic Anomaly
The Level 4 Right Helix Augment FlashMIRV now spawns six child grenades that explode mid-air
Changed the functionality of Level 6 Mutation Energy Cascade

Activating Gravitic Burst increases Caldarius' TMP fire rate. +10% Attack Speed for 5 Seconds

Swapped the Helix locations of Level 9 Mutation Range Finder with Level 4 Mutation Cluster Burst
Decreased the area of effect reduction of Level 9 Mutation Cluster Burst from 66% to 25%
Decreased the damage increase of Level 9 Mutation Cluster Burst from 75% to 10%
In addition to increasing his Gravitic Manipulator jump height, Level 5 Left Helix Augment Gravitic Ascent now also decreases Caldarius' fall speed
The Level 10 Mutation Ground Zeroed now uses the knockback crowd control instead of a physics push back

Kid Ultra

Aura of Justice now affects Kid Ultra in addition to his allies
Increased the base healing radius of To The Rescue by 20%
The healing radius of To The Rescue now slowly diminishes when Kid Ultra slows down or stops
The Level 9 Right Helix Augment Tranq Shot now only stuns a single target, regardless of how many are damaged by Bola Snare

Marquis

Reduced the reveal radius of Level 2 Mutation Eyes Everywhere

Miko

Increased the health of the Fungus Among Us mushroom by 50% (from 428 to 650 at level 5)

Montana

We updated Montana's weapon with some quality of life adjustments. We want to allow Montana players to have an easier time hitting thinner characters so we increased accuracy bonuses. In addition, we wanted to give Montana players more options when managing minigun heat.

Increased heat reduction while Hailstorm is active
Swapped the Helix locations of Level 9 Mutation Icy Resolve with Level 4 Left Helix Augment The Cooler
Increased the accuracy bonus of Level 1 Right Helix Augment Weather Man from 30% to 50%
Changed the functionality of Level 3 Right Helix Augment Gatling Grease augment

At max heat, the cooldown rate of Montana's Lumberjack Dash is greatly increased for a short period of time. +50% Cooldown Rate Over 3 Seconds

Decreased the damage reduction of Level 4 Left Helix Augment Icy Resolve from 25% to 20%
Changed the functionality of Level 9 Mutation The Cooler

Increases all healing Montana receives. +10% Healing Received

Added a unique audio effect to Instant Payback

Orendi

Orendi also got some quality of life adjustments and increased utility in the Nullify skill. We wanted to give players more ways to execute pillar combos and to encourage alternatives to skill damage augmentations.”

Increased the travel speed of Chaos Bolts
Reduced the total damage of Level 1 Left Helix Augment Fire Walk with Me from 410 to 210 at level 1
Replaced Level 3 Left Helix Augment Let's Bounce with Cadence

Increases Orendi's attack speed. +10% Attack Speed

Moved the Level 4 Mutation Instant Gratification from the level 4 Helix tier to the level 6 Helix tier
Reduced the damage penalty of Level 6 Mutation Instant Gratification from 50% to 35%
Changed the functionality of Level 6 Left Helix Augment Nihilism

After activating Nullify, the next Shadowfire Pillar will have no cast time. This does not apply to Pillarstorm

Replaced Level 8 Right Helix Augment I Hate Your Pretty Shields with Stay... Right... There!

For 2 seconds after activating Nullify, Orendi's basic attacks slow enemies

Replaced Level 9 Mutation Chaotic Reach with Faster Faster Faster Faster

Each enemy hit with Shadowfire Pillar briefly increases Orendi's movement speed by 3%. Up to +12% Movement Speed for 7 Seconds

Reyna

Allies can be targeted by Shield Booster while aiming slightly further away from them
Reduced the delay before Shield Booster can be used after being primed

Thorn

The character team wants to improve the archery fantasy of Thorn so focused on augmentations to promote firing more arrows. We also felt that Thorn lost a lot of damage with the recent Blight changes so we wanted to return some of it via augmentations.

Increased the zoom of Thorn's secondary attack
Swapped the Helix locations of Level 6 Left Helix Augment Brutal Blight with Level 1 Left Helix Augment Swampfoot
Swapped the Helix locations of Level 2 Right Helix Augment Fell Wind with Level 8 Right Helix Augment Distant Blight
Replaced Level 2 Mutation Blightbrawler with The Wait Is Over

The final tick of Blight deals greatly increased damage. 300% Damage on Final Tick

In addition to propelling Thorn backwards, Level 3 Right Helix Augment Burst Propulsion now also increases quick melee damage once every 2 seconds
Replaced Level 4 Mutation Focused Volley with Splinter

When Thorn's Volley arrows hit an enemy, they splinter toward up to 2 enemies, causing reduced damage. 25% Damage per Splinter Arrow

Increased the damage of the Level 5 Right Helix Augment Hexsanguination by 50% (from 12/s to 18/s at level 5)
Increased the shield penetration of the Level 7 Mutation Phasing Arrows from 25% to 75%
Modified the way Level 9 Left Helix Augment Archer's Boon restores health. Thorn now regenerates 48 Health over a short period of time for each Volley arrow that damages an enemy.

Incursion:

Added a Nova callout when the M7.Super Sentry is destroyed

Meltdown:

Meltdown has been a popular game mode, but we felt that it had some issues. It was a bit longer than we wanted it to be, it was hard to get a comeback, and the ending was somewhat anti-climactic.

So, we've updated Meltdown to a new version called Meltdown: Finale!

While you're still helping MINREC escort minions through recycling grinders to appease his mad-robot-godhood, you now require less score to advance the mode to its new Finale stage! During the Finale, gigantic Ultra Minions spawn and you only need to get one of those Ultra Minions through a recycling gate to win! While the leaders will still have advantages here, there's now more of a chance for a dramatic swing in the late game.

Once either team reaches 300 score or 20 minutes have passed, the Meltdown Finale begins!

Ultra Minions begin spawning instead of normal minions for the remainder of the game. The first team to score a single Ultra Minion into the enemy's final grinder wins
The team with the greater score after the initial Meltdown phase receives advantages in the Finale based off of the size of their lead, such as stronger Ultra minions and an uncontested first wave of Ultra Minions
Ultra Minions become stronger in each successive wave

Capture:

Many players have appreciated Capture as a fast brawl-type mode in Battleborn. We felt, though, that Capture was failing to capture what is unique about Battleborn - the strategy of leveling, activating gear, and working with a team to hold points. So, we've re-worked the mode to give players a much faster start, and have re-worked experience awards in the mode to better reward the types of play that we feel make Capture interesting.

Players now start at Level 3
Players now start with 500 Shards
Reduced the amount of time required to capture or neutralize a point from 8 seconds to 6 seconds
Increased Experience bonuses for capturing, occupying, and neutralizing capture points
Varelsi Scouts no longer drop Helix pickups when killed
Varelsi Scouts now drop 150 Shards when killed
Varelsi Scouts now provide the entire killing team with significant Experience
Varelsi Scouts no longer gain brief invulnerability while turning
Reduced the respawn time of small and medium Shard clusters from 30 seconds to 15 seconds

Face-Off:

Improved the pathing of Varelsi enemies
Players now receive a Nova callout when a team collects 500 masks
Snowblind: Reduced the value of Shards near the southern Tier 3 Varelsi camp

Story Missions:

Players can now acquire Diamond score medals in the 8 original Story missions. Acquiring a new Diamond rating awards a awards a Legendary Gear Pack, up to 4 per mission (Normal, Normal Hardcore, Advanced, and Advanced Hardcore).

The Algorithm

Increased the damage Geoff takes from area of effect attacks
The health of ISIC's head slowly drains for the duration of the second phase of the Magnus boss fight

The Experiment

Reduced the aim assistance when targeting Antem

The Void's Edge

Players can no longer become stuck in the Varelsi Void if Deande's Holotwin decoy is alive at the end of the Void phase
Players can no longer become stuck in the Varelsi Void by activating a teleport skill during the Void phase transition
The number of activation pads required to start the Conservator boss encounter no longer scales up with player count

Gear and Economy:

While loot has been fairly generous in Story Missions, we felt (and heard!) that Versus matches were less satisfying in the rewards players earned. So, we're changing several things in order to help Versus play be more equitable to story missions in terms of what you can earn.

We're more than doubling the average amount of credits you earn per hour. We're also consolidating loot packs for sale in the Marketplace into one new loot pack - the Core Pack. The Core Pack is much more expensive than our previous Common Pack, but it now guarantees at least one Rare piece of gear, and has a much better chance of giving higher rarity gear from its three additional slots. The Core Pack has been priced at 2,500 credits, which means you'll be buying these fairly regularly, after a few matches of play.

We like the excitement of opening packs, and wanted to focus that in, while reducing the complexity of trying to understand a marketplace full of packs with subtle differences.

Dramatically increased the amount of credits earned per hour when playing Versus matches.
Players can now purchase the Core Loot Pack, which has replaced the Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Faction Loot Packs in the Marketplace

Each pack contain 4 pieces of gear (one of which will be Rare or better), and also has a chance to drop a skin or taunt
Packs can be purchased for 2,500 Credits
Previously acquired Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, and Faction Loot Packs will not be modified by this change, and can still be earned through Story Missions, gaining Character Ranks, and completing Operations with 100 Ops points.

Legendary gear is exciting and powerful, but over the last few months, we've discovered a number of ways that gear can be combined with other skills or systems to be more powerful than intended. Sometimes, the best temporary solutions we could offer were to reduce stat numbers to make those gear items almost useless. Conversely, many pieces never lived up to their potential, and as a result did not warrant the activation cost of a Legendary item.

With the Winter Update, we've performed a full audit of our Legendary gear and have made a number of changes and enhancements to attempt to tune each Legendary item to be balanced and useful.

Arcship Buoy: Reduced the cooldown time of the Legendary effect from 30 seconds to 15 seconds
Blissbeast Skull Plate: Increased the Health Regeneration per Second given by the Legendary effect from a maximum of 14.00 to a maximum of 28.00
Blissbeast Skull Plate: Reduced the trigger threshold of the Legendary effect from 25% to 15%
"Bloody Mess" Burst Kit: Increased the Attack Damage of the Legendary effect from a maximum of +9.10% to a maximum of +13.65%
Bola's Target Finder: Increased the damage amplification of the Legendary effect from a maximum of 5.60% to a maximum of 12.60%
Borrowed Timer: Increased the health threshold of the Legendary effect from 10% to 25%
Borrowed Timer: Increased the cooldown time of the Legendary effect from 30 seconds to 60 seconds
The De-Turtler: The Legendary effect has been significantly modified, and now functions as follows:

"Critical hits wound enemies for up to 5.0 seconds (depending on item level) once every 15 seconds."

The Double-Hug: The Legendary effect now reduces the cooldown time of Arc Mine by 75% instead of instantly resetting it
Dr. Fist's Medic Bag: Increased the duration of Maximum Health stacks granted by the Legendary effect from 5 to 10 seconds
Emergency Auto-Medic: Increased the Health Regeneration per Second of the Legendary effect from a maximum of +14.00 to a maximum of +21.00
Finiscian Wrench: Increased the trigger chance of the Legendary effect from 6% to 25%
Firmware Update 1.51C: Increased the Legendary effect trigger chance from a maximum of 7% to a maximum of 30%, and increased the cooldown reduction from 2 seconds to 4 seconds
Getaway Grog: Multiple instances of the Legendary effect no longer stack
Guardian Shieldbreaker: Increased the Bonus Damage to Shields of the Legendary effect from a maximum of 5.4% to a maximum of 9.1%
Hate Reflector: Increased the health threshold of the Legendary effect from 25% to 30%
Hate Reflector: Increased the trigger chance of the Legendary effect from 20% to a maximum of 35%
H3NCHM4N's Capacitor: Changed the Maximum Shield Strength granted to buildables by the legendary effect from 20% to a maximum of +100
Helm of the Imperium: Increased the duration of the Legendary effect from 5 seconds to 7 seconds
Hemsworth Sparkleshield: Reduced the time required to generate a Legendary effect stack from 6 seconds to 2 seconds.
Hidden Charger: Increased the Shield Recharge Delay granted by the Legendary effect from a maximum of 1.05s to a maximum of 4.05s
Hostile_Takeover.exe: Increased the shield regeneration prevention Legendary effect from 8 seconds to 10 seconds
Intermittent Angel: Increased the trigger chance of the Legendary effect from a maximum of 20% to a maximum of 40%
Lorrian Skill Spike: Increased the trigger chance of the Legendary effect from a maximum of 7% to a maximum of 35%, and reduced the bonus damage of the Legendary effect from 50% to 30%
Longarm Scope-Goat: Increased the cooldown time of the Legendary effect from 15 to 60 seconds
Medical Nano-Colony: Increased the Health Regeneration per Second of the Legendary effect from a maximum of +7.00 to a maximum of +21.00
Mini-Singularity Launcher: Increased the cooldown time of the Legendary effect from 10 to 30 seconds
Mossire's Mukluks: The Legendary effect has been significantly modified, and now functions as follows:

"Gain Sprint Speed while healing an ally."

Orbital Tracking Spike: The Legendary effect now scales up to a maximum of +8.40% Attack Speed inversely proportional to current movement speed instead of only providing the bonus while stationary
Premium Health Plan: The Legendary effect now scales up to a maximum of +28.00 Shield Recharge per Second directly proportional to current health instead of only providing the bonus at maximum health
Philotic Pylon: The Legendary effect has been significantly modified, and now functions as follows:

"LLC Only: Heal LLC allies' shields for a percentage of your Shield Recharge Rate while your shield is recharging."

Poor "M-Pulse" Controller: The Legendary effect now explodes on all killing blows instead of only critical hit killing blows
Keeper-Seeker Reaper Rounds: Increased the Legendary effect's damage per stack from a maximum of 1.2% to a maximum of 1.5%
Shadoculars: The Legendary effect has been significantly modified, and now functions as follows:

"Dealing more than 50 skill damage to an enemy reveals them."

Shield Web Interdictor: Increased the shield regeneration prevention Legendary effect from 8 seconds to 10 seconds
The Stable Executioner: Increased the Legendary effect's trigger chance from a maximum of 7% to a maximum of 20%
Sustainment Well: Increased the Health Regeneration per Second provided by the legendary effect from a maximum of +8.00 to a maximum of +16.00
Vampiric Vestment: Increased the Maximum Health per Legendary effect stack from a maximum of +28 to a maximum of +56, and reduced the maximum number of stacks from 10 to 5.
Vow of Zealous Fury: Removed the stacking component of the Legendary effect. Activating a skill now grants a maximum of +8.40% Attack Speed for 5 seconds
Waveform Destabilizer: Increased the Shield Penetration per Legendary effect stack from a maximum of +4.20% to a maximum of +10.50%, and reduced the maximum number of stacks from 5 to 3.

New and Reworked Boosts:

A new Boosts section has been added to the Marketplace for purchasing and managing Boosts
Boosts no longer activate on purchase. You can choose to activate a boost through the Boosts screen in the Marketplace.
Double XP Boost now provides stacking bonuses when multiple players in a group have them active at the same time.
New Boosts:

Loot Booster - Grants gear pack rewards for completing matches and missions. Rewards are increased for Victories, and are greater when stacked with teammates' Loot Boosters.
VIP Pass - Unlocks all characters and customizations for your team and grants a credits bonus for victories that stacks with other VIP Pass holders

Each boost unlocks a temporary animated title while the boost is active.

Interface:

The Command Menu has received a visual makeover!
- The "Objective" statistic has been replaced by a game mode-specific statistic in each Versus mode
- Added Character Statistics for Best Damage Dealt, Best Healing Given, and Best Damage Taken

New layout for the Information page
Stats page has received a major update

Added a new Gameplay option for Damage Number Styles

Show Combined Damage Numbers: Multiple instances of damage or healing will show a single combined number
Show Individual Damage Numbers: Multiple instances of damage or healing will show individual numbers for each instance

The default team colors have been changed to blue for allies and orange for enemies
Combined the "Extras" and "Options" menus.
Added attention-grabbing animation to Sentry health HUD bar when being attacked

Broadcaster Mode:

Added a first-person camera view (Go into the normal third-person follow-cam and then zoom in (mousewheel/LT-up) until the mode changes to first-person; go back to third-person again by zooming out.
Set first-person spectating preferences in the Options Menu (first-person only, third-person only, prefer-current and prefer-third)
Broadcasters now see skill targeting indicators in the third-person camera view
Broadcasters now see teleport timers when in both first-person and third-person camera views
When the killer of a spectated player taunts, the camera will automatically jump to spectate the taunting player.

Quality of Life:

Reduced the duration of the Victory and Defeat screens
Reduced the time required to initiate a vote to surrender if a player has abandoned the match
Reduced the time until a player is kicked for idling from 7 minutes to 4.5 minutes

FX:

Numerous FX adjustments have been made to reduce visual noise and improve performance
Improved the buildable cooldown timer bar
Added third person FX when a player respawns

Audio:

Added music to the Victory and Defeat screens
Re-activated additional Ultimate skill voice over lines for each character

Surrender System:

Surrendering is now allowed earlier than normal to a team if they are outnumbered.

Challenges:

Created career challenges for Face-Off games played and matches won.
Challenges which previously unlocked characters now unlock special skins for those characters.

Scoreboard:

All Versus scoreboards now show damage dealt, damage taken, and healing given along with kills, deaths, assists and one stat specific to each game mode
Each team winning a particular column of stats is highlighted
Versus mode tie-breaking no longer uses player score as this stat has been removed.

Instead, the first tie breaking step is to check which team won the most scoreboard stat categories.
If this is a tie, then the previous tie-breaking steps are used.

Bug Fixes:

Characters:

Fixed an issue that caused bots to frequently become stuck on Shard clusters
Alani: Fixed an issue that prevents Eldrid-specific functionality from affecting Alani
Alani: Fixed a visual issue with the "Rainy Season" taunt on character select
Attikus: Hedronic Eruption no longer ends before the final shockwaves is fired
Boldur: Fixed an issue that prevented Level 1 Left Helix Augment Axe Ricochet from reducing the cooldown of Axe Toss
Boldur: Fixed a visual issue with the "Cut Down" taunt in the Command menu
Caldarius: Activating Gravitic Burst while respawning no longer prevents the player from activating skills
Deande: Blink Storm no longer allows Deande to clip through geometry
Deande: The Holotwin decoy no longer explodes for more than the described damage
El Dragón: Fixed a visual issue with the "Three-Count" taunt in-game
El Dragón: Added audio FX to Level 10 Right Helix Augment Dragonfire
Ernest: Fixed an issue that prevented Level 10 Right Helix Augment Watch Your Step from functioning
Fixed an issue that allowed Level 6 Right Helix Augment Proximity Alarm to reveal allies
Ernest: The "Mine Grid Damage" post-match statistic now displays an accurate value
Galilea: The Level 3 Mutation Gnashing Bash no longer does less damage than described
Galilea: Fixed a visual issue when using certain taunts with the "Apocalypse", "Destruction", and "Annihilation" skins
Ghalt: Fixed an issue that prevents UPR-specific functionality from affecting Ghalt
ISIC: Fixed a visual issue with the "Heavy Machinery" taunt on character select
Kid Ultra: Gear that increases Healing Power now affects Support Drone healing
Kid Ultra: Fixed an issue that prevented assists from activating Aura of Justice
Kid Ultra: Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented Level 5 Right Helix Augment Swarming Nanites from healing allies
Kid Ultra: Level 4 Right Helix Augment Bank Shot no longer allows bouncing bolas to deal full damage with Level 6 Mutation Snare Spread active
Kid Ultra: The Level 10 Left Helix Augment Stick with Me augment no longer heals Sentries
Kid Ultra: Fixed an issue that prevented the Drone HUD counter from updating when a Support Drone is destroyed
Kleese: Fixed a visual issue with the "Retiree Rumba" taunt on character select
Kleese: Fixed a visual issue with the overshield given by Level 10 Left Helix Augment Sharing is Caring
Marquis: Fixed an issue that prevents LLC-specific functionality from affecting Marquis
Miko: Fixed an issue that prevents Eldrid-specific functionality from affecting Miko
Miko: The Cloud of Spores projectile no longer increases in size when the skill is activated
Miko: Fixed a visual issue with the "Super Mushroom" taunt on character select
Montana: Fixed an issue that allowed Level 2 Mutation Lumberjack Blast to deal excessive damage
Montana: Fixed an issue that prevented players from completing the "No Charge for the Evaluation" lore challenge after selecting the Level 2 Mutation Lumberjack Blast
Oscar Mike: Activating Stealth Generator before and again after the Void phase transition in Face-Off maps no longer temporarily breaks Oscar Mike's functionality
Pendles: Fixed a visual issue with the "Kama Toss" taunt on character select
Pendles: Fixed a visual issue with the "Freeze Frame" taunt in the Command menu
Phoebe: Using True Strike while being healed no longer severely impacts performance
Phoebe: Modified the description of Level 9 Mutation Close-Quarters Training to accurately reflect the damage increase
Reyna: The Level 9 Right Helix Augment Kinetic Deflection now reflects damage sources that fully deplete the overshield
Shayne & Aurox: The Level 9 Mutation Got 'Em no longer fails to pull targets far enough from long ranges
Toby: The damage reduction from Level 5 Right Helix Augment Panic Mode no longer ends before Toby receives an additional Booster charge
Toby: Changed the description of Force Field to correctly indicate how much damage it blocks
Whiskey Foxtrot: Enemies are now outlined when revealed by Level 2 Left Helix Augment Swiss Cheese

Story Missions:

Fixed an issue that resulted in players receiving a score of 0
Attikus and the Thrall Rebellion: The destination platform of the jump pad during the "Harvest shards before the Jennerit ship" side objective now remains after the objective has ended.
Toby's Friendship Raid: Added Bronze, Silver and Gold score medals
Toby's Friendship Raid: Players can no longer bypass the "Access ventilation shaft" objective with certain characters

Incursion

Players no longer receive a defeat when their M7.Super Sentry is destroyed immediately after destroying enemy team's M7.Super Sentry
Friendly M3.Shepherds no longer trigger "Sentry Under Attack" notifications

Meltdown:

Paradise: Fixed a map hole that allowed players to place certain deployables inside the terrain

Face-Off:

Fixed an exploit that allowed players to pick up masks through base force fields
Fixed a collision issue with the mask collector
The "Mask Amasser" challenge now properly progresses when turning in the requisite masks wins the game

Gear:

Activating multiple flawed "Drained" pieces of gear now appropriately reduces Shield Recharge per Second
Codex Fragment: All item-level variants now award appropriate Skill Damage values from the Legendary effect
Emergency Auto-Medic: All item-level variants now award appropriate Health Regeneration per Second values from the Legendary effect
Friction Fizz: Players no longer have to stop and restart sprinting to trigger the Legendary effect after receiving damage
Medical Nano-Colony: All item-level variants now award appropriate Health Regeneration per Second values from the Legendary effect
M.R. Synchro-Link: All item-level variants now award appropriate Shield Recharge per Second values from the Legendary effect
Pangenesis Glyph: Fixed a server crash caused by the Legendary effect
Shadow Mote Overflow: The Legendary effect no longer gives Galilea life steal against targets that are immune to stun
Solar Sustainer: Fixed an issue that prevented the Legendary effect from increasing allies' Attack Damage
Vampiric Vestment: Players no longer receive Maximum Health from the Legendary effect when killing a non-major enemy
Vow of Zealous Fury: Increases to the Attack Speed from the Legendary effect no longer last indefinitely
Vyn's Quiver: Benedict and Ernest now receive appropriate Health Regeneration per Second from the Legendary effect

Broadcaster Mode:

Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented player nameplates from being visible

Interface:

Potentially fixed an issue that caused certain locked titles to appear as 100% complete
Updated the Move Up (Broadcaster) keybind option to reflect that Player Alert (Ping) is controlled by the same key
Fixed a bug that would sometimes display Campaign Reward as the name for some challenge rewards

Miscellaneous:

Players can now retroactively acquire the "Tour of Duty" trophy/achievement if they had previously disconnected during the final map required for the challenge completion
Friendly minions no longer become outlined when they are pinged by an enemy player

Text Adjustments:

Characters:

Deande: Adjusted the description of Level 2 Left Helix Augment All Safeties Off to reflect the functionality of the augment
Kleese: Updated the description of Energy Rift to accurately reflect the Rift's health
Orendi: Changed the name of Level 9 Right Helix Augment from Still Hating Your Pretty Shields to I Hate Your Pretty Shields
Shayne & Aurox: Added the slow duration to the description of Stealth Strike

Gear:

Dr. Fist's Medic Bag: Adjusted the description to specify that health gained from the Legendary effect is not permanent
Executive Insurance Policy: Adjusted the description to specify that Legendary effect can only trigger if the player's shield has been depleted

Post-Match Scoreboard:

Renamed Logistics Destroyed stat column to Accelerators Destroyed to match their in-game name

November 17, 2016

The damage increase provided while Rune Power was active on Boldur's Axe was much higher than intended.
The damage increase was being applied to all damage dealt rather than just his Runic Axe primary attack.

November 10, 2016

Boldur

Reduced base health by 237
Reduced the duration of Rage from 8 seconds to 6 seconds

October 27, 2016

Incursion

Increased the amount of damage sentries deal to minions.

Ghalt

Reduced the base cooldown of Scraptrap from 18 seconds to 12 seconds.
Reduced the base trigger delay of Scraptrap from 2.5 seconds to 1.5 seconds.

Gear

Health Regeneration stats have been increased on all rarities and types of Gear that provide Health Regeneration.
Primary Health Regeneration has been increased to 10-14 Health Regeneration per Second.
Secondary Health Regeneration has been increased to 5-7 Health Regeneration per Second.
Damage Reduction stats have been increased on all rarities and types of Gear that provide Damage Reduction.
Primary Damage Reduction has been increased to 6-8.4% Damage Reduction.
Secondary Damage Reduction has been increased to 3-4.2% Damage Reduction.

October 13, 2016

For additional Developer commentary, check out our October Update Reveal stream: https://www.twitch.tv/gearboxsoftware/v/92103279

General:

Removed collision with allied players

Attempting to stand inside an ally will gently nudge the players apart
Bullets and projectiles also pass freely through allied players

Characters:

Benedict

UPR-SM23 Rocket Launcher rockets can no longer deal critical hits

Boldur

Boldurdash now activates Rage
Boldurdash no longer stuns Battleborn when they are knocked into other Battleborn
Increased the Rune Power damage over time of Boldurdash by 300% (from 48 to 202 at level 5)
The Rune Power damage over time of Boldurdash now scales with level
Slightly increased the distance traveled with Boldurdash
Made minor adjustments to improve the feel of Boldurdash
Reduced the damage reduction of Rage from 35% to 25%
Reduced the amount of health received from blocking damage with the Ekkuni Greatshield while Runes of Power is active from 50% to 25%
Increased the cooldown of Runes of Power by 67% (from 30 seconds to 50 seconds)
Swapped the Helix locations of Level 2 Left Helix Augment Aegis of Anger and Level 8 Left Helix Augment Long-Distance Dash
Increased the damage of Level 4 Left Helix Augment Hatchet Man by 500% (from +48 damage to +240 damage)
Changed the functionality of Level 5 Right Helix Augment Berserker Rage

Increases the duration of Rage. +25% Duration

Changed the functionality of Level 8 Left Helix Augment Aegis of Anger

Increases the effect of Rune Power on Boldurdash. +20% Rune Power Effect

Boldur's Level 7 Right Helix Augment Dwarven Constitution now increases Health Regeneration per Second by an additional +7 for a short period of time after hitting an enemy with a melee attack
Increased the base Health Regeneration of Level 7 Right Helix Augment Dwarven Constitution by +7 Health Regeneration per Second
Reduced the bonus damage of Level 10 Left Helix Augment Axe Mastery by 60% by increasing the current health threshold (from 2% per 100 Health to 2% per 250 Health)

Caldarius

Caldarius can no longer use his Gravitic Manipulators while slowed
Changed the functionality of Level 9 Left Helix Augment Phasebang

Flashbang's cooldown is reduced for each enemy hit. -0.5 Seconds Cooldown per Hit

Deande

Increased base health by 250
Increased the duration of The Element of Surprise by 66% (from 3 seconds to 5 seconds)

El Dragón

Reduced base health by 138
Reduced the damage of M-RBX Cybernetic Arms melee combo by 21% (from 57 to 47 at level 1)
Reduced the damage of M-RBX Cybernetic Arms Clap attack by 35% (from 78 to 58 at level 1)
Reduced the attack speed of M-RBX Cybernetic Arms Clap attack by 20%
Reduced the damage of En Fuego by 54% (from 207 to 96 at level 5)
Removed the damage over time component of En Fuego
Reduced the duration of Dragon Splash's stun while En Fuego is active from 2 seconds to 1 second
Reduced the damage of Level 2 Left Helix Augment Splash Damage by 50% (from 480 to 240)
Decreased the radius of Level 2 Left Helix Augment Splash Damage by 33%
Increased the damage of Level 10 Right Helix Augment Dragonfire by 11% (from 82 to 91)

Ernest

Reduced the area of effect of UPR-G73 Grenade Launcher grenades by 10%

Galilea

Increased base health by 300
Increased the Health Regeneration of Level 5 Right Helix Augment Last Light by 425% (from +4 to +21 Health Regeneration per Second)

Ghalt

Scraptrap now slows enemies for 2 seconds instead of stunning them
Increased the damage of UPR M8-R Revolver Shotgun by 15% (from 136 to 156 at level 1)
Reduced the damage of quick melee attack by 20% (from 104 to 84 at level 1)

Kelvin

Increased the duration of Sublimate's stun from 1 second to 2 seconds

Mellka

Changed the name of Mellka's Level 2 Right Helix Augment to Altitude Sickness

Montana

Lumberjack Dash no longer stuns Battleborn when they are knocked into other Battleborn

Oscar Mike

Reduced the damage and duration of Level 2 Left Helix Augment Fragcendiary Grenade from 720/6 seconds to 328/4 seconds

Phoebe

Increased base health by 200
Reduced the cooldown of Blade Rush by 15% (from 20 seconds to 17 seconds)
The silence from Level 1 Right Helix Augment Preparationnow applies on any primary Five Virtues melee attack
Reduced the slow duration applied by Level 2 Right Helix Augment Phase Distortionby 50% (from 3 seconds to 1.5 seconds) so that players who exit the Phase Distortion field return to normal speed more quickly

Rath

Increased base health by 200
Reduced the duration of Dreadwind by 25% (from 4 seconds to 3 seconds)
Reduced the damage of each Dreadwind strike by 18% (from 115 to 94 at level 5)

Reyna

Reduced the duration of the Slow applied by Level 2 Right Helix Augment Lockdown to make it more challenging to consistently Slow enemies for the full duration of Priority Target
Slightly increased the explosion radius of Level 3 Left Helix Augment Plasma Burst

Shayne & Aurox

Shayne and Aurox now receive 20% damage reduction while their shield is active
Stealth Strike now slows enemies when Shayne and Aurox exit stealth
Increased the damage of Level 1 Left Helix Augment Aura of Annoyance by 34% (from 201 to 270)
Changed the functionality of Level 2 Left Helix Augment Wait for the Drop

Intensifies the slowing effect of Stealth Strike. +100% Slow

Changed the functionality of Level 2 Right Helix Augment Surprise Party

At the conclusion of Stealth Strike, Shayne and Aurox's attack speed is increased. +15% Attack Speed for 5 Seconds

Increased the duration of Level 5 Right Helix Augment Don't Stop Running by 167% (from 1.5 seconds to 4 seconds)
Changed the functionality of Level 10 Left Helix Augment Aurox Hungers

When Tag Team ends, a portion of the damage dealt is returned to Shayne as health. +35% Damage Returned as Health

Reduced the area of effect of the pull effect of Level 10 Right Helix Augment Aurox Beckons to match the area of effect of Tag Team

Thorn

Increased the accuracy of Thorn's bow, Kreshek
Reduced the time required to charge arrows with Nature's Curse by .25 seconds.
Reduced the damage of Blight by 33% (from 63 to 43 at level 1)
Reduced the area of effect of Blight by 31%
Slightly increased the spread of Volley arrows. Level 4 Mutation Focused Volley is unaffected by this change

Toby

Changed the name of Toby's Level 1 Left Helix Augment to Remote Detonation

Whiskey Foxtrot

UPR-SL3 Tactical Rifle now continuously fires bursts when holding down Primary Attack button.
Reduced the duration and slightly increased the damage per second of Level 6 Mutation Napalm (from 520 damage over 6 seconds to 360 damage over 4 seconds)

Versus:

Minions now become stronger every 120 seconds after the match begins in Incursion and Meltdown

Campaign:

Significant revisions have been made to Bliss Golems in The Algorithm, The Void's Edge, and The Sentinel

Golems can now be damaged at any point of their body, but receive significantly more damage at their cores
Reduced the effectiveness of circle-strafing around Golems

The Algorithm

The Galactic Emperor now damages melee players more consistently
Frigid Guardians can no longer burrow underground
Increased the number of attacks capable of destroying the Frigid Guardians while they are deploying during the Galactic Emperor encounter
Improved the hit box of the Galactic Emperor's ice armor

The Sentinel

Guardian Vyn and Guardian Arc no longer regenerate their core armor

The Void's Edge

Reduced the number of enemies that spawn during the third force field defense
Improved S1.Wolf's pathing to prevent him from getting stuck
Increased the amount of loot in the locked armory rooms
Activating the jump pad to go around the third force field no longer requires players to continuously stand on its capture pads

Performance:

Significantly reduced character selection load times for players with a large number of loadouts
Improved lighting performance in Prologue.
Significant performance improvements in Snowblind, Monuments, and Outskirts

Gear:

Blissbeast Skull Plate: Changed the functionality of the Legendary effect from conditional damage reduction to conditional health regeneration
Boots of the Brute: The Legendary effect no longer slows multiple targets when using area of effect attacks
Bunker Buster: The bonus damage of Bunker Buster's Legendary effect no longer increases penetrative health damage
Executive Insurance Policy: The Legendary effect now activates when players receive full shields due to shield healing
Lorrian Purse Cutter: Players can no longer steal shards from non-player characters with the Legendary effect
Veil Manipulator: Increased the maximum health regeneration per second granted by 50%.
Voxis Core: The Legendary effect now affects non-Battleborn enemies
"White Lightning": Uncommon variants of "White Lightning" now give -CC Duration while all skills are on cooldown instead of + Sprint Speed after collecting a pickup

Interface:

Players now receive an "Annihilation!" gameplay notification when all players on the enemy team are dead simultaneously
Increased the readability of the minimap for Broadcasters, in Story, and in Versus
Players can now expand their maps while waiting to respawn in Versus games
Players can now view other players' gear loadouts post-match
Players can now choose how Health and Shield Regeneration values are displayed by changing the "Regen Text Display Mode" in the Gameplay Options menu

"Always Display Regen" - Regeneration values always reflect the potential health and shield regeneration, even when not currently regenerating
"Only Effective Regen" - Regeneration values reflect the current health and shield regeneration, and are not visible when not currently regenerating
"Never Display Regen" - Regeneration values are never visible

Players can now sort their titles and challenges by their completion percentage
Players can now clear all Command menu unlock notifications in the Gameplay Options menu
Improved UI support for 21:9 "Ultra-wide" resolutions in the Gear menu

Quality Of Life:

Players can now save multiple loadouts simultaneously
Selecting a random character no longer automatically selects a skin, taunt and gear loadout on occasion
Added a "Left Match Early" report option for players who have abandoned the match
Removed the ability to report players for "Frequently Idle" or "Cheating" prior to a match's start
Splitscreen players can no longer be removed from two-player games due to inactivity
Added a training hint about teleporting when players are low on health
Banned users now receive additional information when attempting to connect to a game
Added in support for Logitech ARX Control

Broadcaster Mode:

Added vertical movement control while in free camera mode
Improved the smoothness of third person camera mode.
Broadcasters can now see gear that has not been activated by players on the Scoreboard
- Inactive gear appears grayed-out to Broadcasters
Removed black-and-white filter when Broadcasters exit the confines of the map
Added gameplay notifications for Broadcasters
Holograms of unpurchased Buildables now appear for Broadcasters
Improved the visibility of player outlines through terrain
Hiding the Broadcaster hotkey interface also hides the F1-F10 player selection hotkeys.
Added a Broadcaster section to the Options menu
- "Camera Clipping" can be changed to prevent third person cameras from clipping into geometry
- Broadcasters can select whether or not the Death Recap screen appears by default

Match Making:

Players can now select a specific server region when entering a private match.

Audio:

Ultimate skill voice over lines are now audible by all players regardless of distance.
Fixed an issue that caused certain sounds to only utilize rear audio channels in surround sound audio configurations

Bug Fixes:

General:

Fixed an issue that allowed characters with damage-blocking shields to absorb more damage than intended.
Fixed several visibility issues with certain FX

Characters:

Ambra: Fixed an issue that caused enemies to be highlighted indefinitely when damaged by a Sunspot while Level 6 Left Helix Augment Agile Anomaly is active
Ambra: The description of Extinction Event now correctly reflects the damage it deals
Attikus: Fixed an issue that prevented Level 9 Mutation Greased Lightning from increasing the damage of Hedronic Arc
Marquis: Fixed a visual issue with Temporal Distortion on PC clients when Particle Detail Mode is set to Minimum
Pendles: Changed the Command menu portrait background color to match other Rogue characters
Orendi: Fixed an issue that allowed Level 5 Right Helix Augment Prognosticombo to benefit from the second Shadowfire Pillar of Level 4 Right Helix Augment Encore
Orendi: Fixed an issue that prevented "Very Morphic Pillars" challenge from incrementing when hitting more than three enemies with Shadowfire Pillar simultaneously
Reyna: Fixed an issue that allowed Reyna to damage herself with Level 3 Left Helix Augment Plasma Burst
Shayne & Aurox: Fixed an issue that prevented Level 4 Mutation We'll Take Everything from functioning consistently
Shayne & Aurox: Fixed an exploit with Level 5 Left Helix Augment The Immortal Aegis when using the Standard or Quick skill execution style
Toby: Fixed an issue that prevented "Killing on Rails" challenge from completing when getting more than two kills with Core Discharge
Toby: Fixed an issue that prevented Level 3 Left Helix Augment Targeting Overlay from consistently highlighting enemies
Toby: Level 9 Left Helix Augment What's Mine Is Yours no longer increases the Arc Mine Area of Effect Radius by more than the described amount

Campaign:

General: Fixed a very rare issue that allowed players to gain permanent damage immunity in Story missions
General: Fixed an inconsistency in the Total Team Score caused by non-player Battleborn

The Algorithm: Fixed an issue that allowed Frigid Guardians to jump out of the Galactic Emperor's boss arena
The Algorithm: Fixed a rare issue that caused the Galactic Emperor's frozen ice spikes persistent indefinitely
The Heliophage: Fixed a visual issue with Rendain during the boss rush
The Sentinel: Fixed an issue that resulted in The Old Sentinel gaining permanent damage immunity when the recharging shards were destroyed too quickly

Versus:

Temples: World team colors now display the correct team color

Gear:

General: Fixed an issue that prevented conditional stats which activate "after assisting in killing a player or major enemy" from functioning

Burning Sunset: Fixed an issue that granted players damage immunity against minions after activating the Burning Sunset Legendary gear
Go-Go Juice: Fixed an issue that caused the first stack of the Legendary effect to apply immediately after sprinting
Go-Go Juice: Fixed an issue with the Legendary effect that prevented 5 stacks of sprint speed from accumulating
Veil Manipulator: Fixed an issue that prevented players from receiving the correct amount of health regeneration per second.

Interface:

Fixed a soft lock issue when opening the command menu on Xbox One

Quality of Life:

Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented players from receiving the "Coopetition" title
Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented Steam avatars from appearing when matchmaking on PC

Broadcaster Mode:

Fixed an issue that prevented Broadcasters from viewing gear loadouts on the Scoreboard
Fixed a rare issue with the game score HUD element not displaying for Broadcasters

Text Adjustments:

Updated text throughout the title for increased clarity and consistency.

Characters

- Alani: Level 6 Right Helix Augment Refresher, Level 8 Mutation Pressure Valve, and Level 10 Left Helix Augment Transpiration
- Ambra: Extinction Event, Level 1 Left Helix Augment Sunspotter, Level 1 Right Helix Augment Illumination, Level 4 Right Helix Augment Searing Wind, Level 6 Mutation Solar Anomaly, and Level 8 Left Helix Augment Bask in the Light
- Attikus: "Rise of the Thrall" lore challenge, Hedronic Arc, Level 3 Left Helix Augment Brawler's Boon, and Level 4 Left Helix Augment Dampening Field
- Benedict: Level 3 Mutation Rejiggered Ordnance
- Boldur: Level 3 Left Helix Augment Stunning Blows, Level 3 Right Helix Augment Deft Defender, Level 6 Mutation Salt the Wound, Level 7 Left Helix Augment Wildblood, Level 8 Left Helix Augment Aegis of Anger, Level 8 Mutation Knockout Punch, and Level 9 Left Helix Augment Death and Axes
- Caldarius: Level 5 Left Helix Augment Gravitic Ascent
- Deande: Tessurim War Fans, Level 1 Mutation Wonder Twins, Level 3 Right Helix Augment Leechsteel, Level 5 Right Helix Augment Roguelike, Level 6 Mutation Ire's Echo, Level 7 Right Helix Augment The Culling, and Level 10 Left Helix Augment Doppelgangüp
- El Dragón: Undisputed Champ, Level 1 Right Helix Augment The Comeback, Level 3 Left Helix Augment Deafening Applause, Level 6 Left Helix Augment Hang Time, Level 6 Mutation Unstoppable, Level 9 Right Helix Augment Lifeline, and Level 10 Right Helix Augment Dragonfire
- Ernest: "Wings of Valor" lore challenge
- Galilea: Level 3 Mutation Gashing Bash, and Level 10 Left Helix Augment Deeper Than Doubt
- Ghalt: "The First Shots of the Solus War" lore challenge, and Level 9 Right Helix Augment Easy Target
- ISIC: Level 2 Right Helix Augment This Might Sting! :O, Level 3 Left Helix Augment Not Dyin' Today! :), Level 4 Left Helix Augment Hold It Right There! }:O, Level 6 Left Helix Augment Burlier Wards! :D, Level 6 Right Helix Augment Let's Hug It Out <3, and Level 7 Left Helix Augment Bring It On! :)
- Kelvin: Ice Fists
- Kleese: Level 1 Left Helix Augment Shocking Twist, Level 1 Right Helix Augment Shocking Pulse, Level 3 Left Helix Augment Chair Slam, and Level 4 Right Unstable Rifts
- Mellka: Level 3 Left Helix Augment Air Stall, Level 3 Right Helix Augment Frag Canister, Level 5 Mutation Venom Contagion, Level 5 Right Helix Augment Eldrid Rhythm, and Level 8 Left Helix Augment Thrill of the Hunt
- Miko: Level 4 Right Helix Augment Sporeshock
- Montana: "Fireside Sing-Along" lore challenge, Level 5 Left Helix Augment Cold-Blooded, Level 5 Right Helix Augment Hot-Blooded, Level 8 Left Helix Augment Too Big to Fail, Level 9 Left Helix Augment Bullet Buff, and Level 10 Left Helix Augment Big Payback
- Oscar Mike: "I am LITERALLY made for this" lore challenge, R2 Nades on Nades, and Level 6 Left Helix Augment Far-Flung Frags
- Pendles: Level 9 Left Helix Augment Relentless Strikes
- Phoebe:Five Virtues, Level 3 Right Helix Augment Sharpened Blades, Level 3 Mutation Crosscut, Level 5 Right Helix Augment Blade Sweep, and Level 10 Mutation Stormbringer
- Rath: Level 1 Mutation Concussive Smash, Level 5 Mutation Swordsman's Salve, Level 5 Right Helix Augment Not a Vampire, and Level 7 Right Helix Augment To the Point
- Shayne & Aurox: Fleet-Footed, Level 3 Helix Augment Boomerang Bounce, Level 3 Right Helix Augment Hulk Out with Your Djinn Out, Level 3 Mutation The Power of Two, Level 4 Left Helix Augment What's Yours Is Mine, Level 5 Right Helix Augment Don't Stop Running, and Level 7 Right Helix Augment Bigger, Badder Djinn
- Thorn: "Granddaughter of Stone" lore challenge, Level 2 Mutation Blightbrawler, Level 3 Right Helix Augment Burst Propulsion, Level 6 Left Helix Augment Brutal Blight, and Level 10 Left Helix Augment Wild Judgment
- Toby: Level 4 Mutation Arc Vortex, Level 7 Mutation Self-Destruct Sequence, Level 9 Left Helix Augment What's Mine Is Yours, and Level 9 Right Helix Augment Primed Catalyzers
- Whiskey Foxtrot: Level 4 Left Helix Augment Triple Threat, Level 4 Right Helix Augment Stick 'n Sap, Level 6 Right Helix Augment Napalm, Level 7 Left Helix Augment Duct-Taped Mags, and Level 8 Right Helix Augment Long-Distance Flak

Gear

Bunker Buster: Added a value to the description of the Legendary effect

September 8th, 2016

• Ernest's OMLT Blast Suit legendary gear no longer grants lifesteal to skills other than Explosive Charge.

September 1st, 2016

• Fixed an issue that caused some attacks to be slower when buffed by Ernest's Power Egg

August 25, 2016

• Increased the initial reload speed of Benedict's UPR-SM23 Rocket Launcher
• Fixed an issue that caused Benedict's L3 "Ready Rockets" Augment to reduce reload speed by 45% rather than 30%

August 18, 2016

• Reduced the damage of Benedict's UPR-SM23 Rocket Launcher by 10% (from 211 to 190 at level 1)
• Fixed an issue that allowed Reyna's "Captain's Snazzy Timepiece" Legendary gear to heal allies for double the intended amount after selecting her Left Helix Augment, Plasma Burst

August 11, 2016

Hot-Fixes

• Slow debuffs no longer decrease attack speed
• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented Rath's "Keeper of the Blades", Montana's "It's My Only Name, Chief", and Attikus' "Anarchy Rules" Achievements/Trophies from being awarded
• Increased the rate at which Character XP is awarded
• Toby's Force Field is no longer immune to the M7.Sentry's Tower Blast attack

August 4, 2016

Hot-Fixes

• Reduced Mellka's base health by 18% (from 1130 to 982 at level 1).
• Reduced Mellka's Custom Machine Pistol accuracy.
• Reduced the volume of music when in the Command Menu.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from incrementing Montana's "Fireside Sing-Along" lore challenge.

July 28, 2016

Hot-Fixes

Characters:

Ambra

Increased the base damage of Ambra's Solar Wind by 43%.

Boldur

Increased Boldur's Health Regeneration per second from 3 to 7.

El Dragón

Increased El Dragón's base health by 16%.
Fixed an issue that caused shadow effects to persist under El Dragón.

Galilea

Increased Galilea's primary attack base damage by 14%.

Marquis

Reduced Marquis's Bindlebane sniper base damage by 15%
Reduced Marquis's base health by 12%

Montana

Fixed an issue with the effects of Montana's Firestorm tracers.

Reyna

Increased Reyna's Laser Pistol base damage by 20%.

Gear:

Go-Go Juice

Adjusted the description of the Legendary effect of "Go-Go Juice" to more accurately reflect the functionality.

Boots of the Brute

Increased the Legendary effect cooldown time of "Boots of the Brute."

Campaign:

Made adjustments to PvE levels so that combat music will play more frequently.

Miscellaneous:

Removed an extraneous critical hit effect from minions.

Patch Notes

July 21, 2016

New Content:

5 new taunt customizations
3 new Versus maps (Monuments, Outskirts, and Snowblind)

Characters:

The Wound debuff has been modified
- Wound now reduces healing, health regeneration and lifesteal received by 60%
- Wounded targets now have a unique third person visual effect to indicate that they will receive reduced healing
All characters now have diminishing returns on the push of their quick melee attacks
- Consecutive quick melee attacks push enemies shorter distances. This effect resets after a short amount of time
All Bots now sprint more frequently

Alani

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Increased Alani’s base damage by 20% (52 to 63 at level 1)
Increased Alani's sprint speed by 10%
Alani's level 7 Left Helix Augment, Pressure Wash no longer increases Osmosis stack generation
Swapped the Helix locations of Alani's level 3 Left Helix Augment, Whitewater and level 3 Right Helix Augment, Go With the Flow with her level 7 Left Helix Augment, Pressure Wash and level 7 Right Helix Augment, Overflow
Reduced the duration of Geyser's bind effect from 2 second to 1.5 seconds
Reduced the radius of Geyser by 15%
Reduced the Damage Shared to Nearby Targets of Alani's level 2 Right Helix Augment, Surface Tension from 30% to 15%
Fixed an issue that caused Riptide to end prematurely after selecting Alani's level 4 Right Helix Augment, Ride the Wave and level 9 Right Helix Augment, Water Proof
Damage Reduction gear and augments no longer reduce Alani's healing

Description changes:

Changed the name of Alani's level 2 Left Helix Augment from Diffusion to Pressure Gradient
Changed the description of Alani's level 4 Left Helix Augment, Wet Blanket to reflect the duration of the Slow debuff
Fixed a minor text issue with Alani's level 2 Right Helix Augment, Surface Tension
The description of Alani's level 3 Right Helix Augment, Go With The Flow now displays the correct cooldown reduction in the Command Menu
The description of Alani's level 5 Right Helix Augment, Full Saturation now displays the correct damage reduction in the Command Menu
The description of Alani's level 5 Helix Augment, Karakafruit Express now displays the correct damage increase in the Command Menu
Changed the description of Riptide when viewed in Character Select to better reflect the skill's functionality.
Fixed a minor text issue with Alani's level 7 Right Helix Augment, Overflow

Challenges and Statistics:

Changed the requirement of Alani's “Another Million and We're Even” Lore Challenge from “Kill Ambra 25 times” to “Participate in killing Ambra 5 times”
Reduced the number of games required for Alani's “Helician Hellraisers” from 5 to 3 games
Reduced the number of Riptides required for Alani's “The Lifeguards Have Given Up” from 50 to 25
Alani's quick melee now properly displays on the Death Recap Screen
Alani's level 2 Right Helix Augment, Surface Tension no longer drastically increases the stat “Enemy Players Hit by Geyser”

Visual and Audio Effects:

Fixed a visual issue with Alani's Osmosis bubbles when playing Split Screen
Made a minor adjustment to Alani's main menu animation

Miscellaneous:

Added support for Bot Alani in Versus Private games

Ambra

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Melee strikes that consume Heat reduce the cooldown of Sunspot by 1 second
- Melee strikes that instantly deplete all Heat due to Ambra's level 7 Right Helix Augment, Radiant Spear reduce the cooldown of Sunspots by an increased amount
- Attacks that deplete Heat do not reduce the cooldown of Sunspots after selecting Ambra's level 7 Mutation, Radiant Halberd
Reduced cooldown of Sunspot from 12 seconds to 8 seconds
Increased Heat generation of the Staff of Radiance life drain attack by 100%
Increased the amount healed by Sunspots by 80% (18 to 32 at Level 1)
Reduced the maximum healing of Ambra's level 2 Right Helix Augment, Solar Burst from 280 to 133
Reduced the maximum damage of Ambra's level 2 Mutation, Soothing Sunlight augment from 280 to 133

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of enemy kills required by Ambra's “The Winds of Change” challenge from 500 to 100
Fixed a minor text issue with Ambra's “Staff of the Silent Sisters” Lore challenge

Attikus

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Increased Attikus' base health by 20% (2033 to 2439 at Level 1)
Hedronic Arcnow applies a 60% Wound debuff for 4 seconds
Pouncenow silences enemies for 1.5 seconds instead of knocking them back
Increased the damage of Pounce by 33% (75 to 141)
Decreased damage of Charge Hook by 18% (153 to 125 at level 1)
Changed Pounce to feel more responsive and controllable
Fully charged Hedronic Eruption now slows enemies instead of knocking them up
Reduced the directional variance of Hedronic Eruption
Fixed an issue that prevented Hedronic Arcfrom consistently chaining to enemies when fully charged while Attikus' level 9 Right Helix Augment, Hedronic Chain augment is active

Descriptions changes:

Hedronic Arc now displays the correct damage value in the Command Menu

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of Charged Hook critical hits required for Attikus' “In His Face” challenge from 12 to 1
Attikus' “Defender, You Have Become Defenseless” Lore challenge now displays correctly after unlocking

Visual and Audio Effects:

Fixed an issue that prevented Attikus' stun animation from playing when stunned while using Pounce
Attikus no longer sees Hedronic Charge notifications when dealing a killing blow an enemy after dying
Hedronic Arcno longer obscures the affected player's vision

Benedict

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Increased Benedict's base health by 20% (830 to 983 at Level 1)
Increased the damage of Rocket Launcher by 15% (184 to 211 at Level 1)
Benedict's level 7 Mutation, Multiloader now functions properly if it is selected while dead

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number kills required for Benedict's “Help for a Ground Recruit” challenge from 50 to 10
Reduced the total fly time required for Benedict's “Rocket Jump Professional” challenge from 3 hours to 1 hour
Reduced the number of games required for Benedict's “The Tour” challenge from 5 to 3
Reduced the number of rockets per match required for Benedict's “So Many Rockets” challenge from 425 to 300

Boldur

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Boldur's level 5 Mutation, Desperate Rage mutation no longer grants damage reduction when Rage is not active
Boldur's level 8 Mutation, Knockout Punch now functions properly against shields

Challenges and Statistics:

Renamed Boldur's “The Unbearable” Career Challenge to “Gathering No Moss!”
Reduced the number of kills required for Boldur's “Gather No Moss!” challenge from 1,000 to 100
Boldur's “The Dwarf's Favorite Axiom” Lore Challenge now displays correctly after unlocking

Caldarius

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Energy Blade now applies a Wound debuff for 2 seconds
Fixed an issue that gave Caldarius' level 9 Mutation, Rangefinder unintended functionality

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of kills required for Caldarius' “The Arena and You: Partners in Freedom” challenge from 750 to 500

Deande

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Increased the attack speed of Deande's Tessurim War Fans melee attacks by 15%
Changed the transition between Tessurim War Fans melee and ranged attacks to feel more responsive
Burst Dash no longer knocks enemies back
Increased damage of Blink Stormby 35% (63 damage per hit to 85 damage per hit at Level 5)
Deande's level 3 Mutation, Uppercut now applies a Wound debuff for 1.5 seconds instead of knocking enemies into the air
Deande can no longer gain permanent clones by using Holotwin immediately after Blink Storm while Deande's level 10 Left Helix Augment, Doppelgangüp is active

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of kills required for Deande's “Cloak and Dagger” challenge from 500 to 100
Reduced the number of games required for Deande's “The Seeds of Secret Orders” challenge from 5 to 3

Visual and Audio Effects:

Deande's Tessurim War Fansnow appear correctly with her Saboteur skin

El Dragón

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Bicycle Kick is now properly interrupted by Reyna's Photonic Ward

Description changes:
- El Dragón's level 5 Left Helix Augment, Heavyweight and level 5 Right Helix Augment, Welterweight now correctly refer to his passive Undisputed Champ
- Fixed a minor text issue with El Dragón's passive Undisputed Champ

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of kills required for El Dragón's “Fired Up” challenge from 50 to 20
Reduced the number of games required for El Dragón's “Armed and Handsomest” challenge from 5 to 3
Reduced the number of kills required for El Dragón's “The Fall of the Luchador” challenge from 1,000 to 100
The unlock requirement for El Dragón's “The Rise of the Dragon” no longer appears cut off

Miscellaneous:
- Bot El Dragón will no longer attempt to Clap enemies outside of his range

Galilea

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Reduced Galilea's LEVEL 1 Right Helix Augment, Calamity Wound debuff from 100% to 60% for 5 seconds to align with new Wound debuff
Reduced Galilea's level 2 Right Helix Augment, Mark of the Feeble Wound debuff from 100% to 60% for 5 seconds to align with new Wound debuff
Reduced the maximum number of projectiles spawned by Galilea's level 3 Right Helix Augment, It's Dangerous to Go Alone from 5 to 3

Challenges and Statistics:

Changed the requirements of Galilea's “Frienemies” Lore Challenge from “Kill Ambra 25 times” to “Participate in killing Ambra 5 times”
Reduced the number of games required for Galilea's “Sisterhood” challenge from 5 to 3

Miscellaneous:

Bot Galilea will no longer stand in place after using Abyssal Form

Ghalt

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Changed Ghalt's level 3 Left Helix Augment, from Slug Roundsto Barrier
- Barrier gives Ghalt +240 Shield Strength and +105 Shield Recharge per Second
Fixed an issue that prevented Ghalt's level 7 Right Helix Augment, Both Barrels Blazing from functioning
Ghalt no longer has a chance to become stuck when silenced during The Hook
Reduced the likelihood that The Hook will pull enemies behind Ghalt

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the First Blood requirement of Ghalt's “The First Battleborn” challenge from 10 to 1
Reduced the number of games required for Ghalt's “First Round Draft Picks” challenge from 5 to 3

ISIC

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Omega Strike now has a 40 second duration.
Reduced the duration of ISIC's level 4 Left Helix Augment, Hold it Right There! }:Ostun from 2 seconds to 1 second
ISIC's level 5 Mutation, Stopping Power ;)now applies a Wound debuff for 1 second instead of a slow
Increased the damage of Charged Cannon on Overcharged attacks from 175 to 177

Description changes:

Changed the description of Omega Strike to allow the Overcharged effect to be visible when viewed in the Helix menu
The description of ISIC's level 10 Left Helix Augment, Shield's Up! :D augment now displays the correct Damage Blocking amount in the Command Menu

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of games required for ISIC's “Warning: Rogue Magnus” challenge from 5 to 3
Reduced the number of kills required for ISIC's “Ocoban Mining Exploration Report” challenge from 250 to 10
ISIC's “MAGNUS SELF-REVIEW: MAG_MRBX-1210” lore challenge is now properly tracked when using Overcharged Plasma Dash

Kelvin

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Reduced Kelvin's movement speed bonus while he is Sublimated by 40%
Reduced the duration of Sublimate's stun from 2 seconds to 1 second
Fixed an issue that allowed Ice Wall to prevent minions from pathing in Meltdown or Incursion
Fixed an exploit that allowed Kelvin to gain unintended damage reduction
Kelvin no longer received conditional effects that activate on shield depletion by default

Description changes:

Changed the text of Permafrost to better reflect the skill's functionality

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of games required for Kelvin's “Miko Are All My Friends” challenge from 5 to 3
Reduced the number of stuns required for Kelvin's “The Best Defense is De Fence” challenge from 100 to 50
Reduced the number of stuns required for Kelvin's “Micro Macro Mist Me” challenge from 25 to 10

Kleese

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Increased Kleese’s base health by 88% (from 773 to 1,456 at Level 1)
Increased the projectile speed of energy blasts from Wrist Cannon
Reduced the damage of Wrist Cannonafter selecting Kleese's level 3 Mutation, Quantum Precision by 30% (384 to 281 at Level 3)
Kleese's level 3 Right Helix Augment, Don't Tase Me Bro no longer allows Shock Taser to damage stealthed enemies
Shock Taser can now damage Ghalt's Scraptraps
Energy Rifts no longer have player collision
Black Hole now deals a single combined instance of damage instead of two separate instances of damage

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of kills required for Kleese's “Slow, Not Dead” challenge from 500 to 50
Reduced the number of damaged enemies required for Kleese's “A Shocking Message” challenge from 250 to 100

Visual and Audio Effects:

Kleese's Tactical Battle Chair Energy no longer appears incorrectly after Kleese has died and respawned
Kleese's minimap death icon is no longer larger than intended

Marquis

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Reduced the bonus damage of Eins, Zwei, Die from 50% to 25%
Fixed an issue that allowed Marquis to damage a Sentry's health using its shield hit box
Marquis' level 4 Left Helix Augment, Time Killer now consistently damages enemies within Temporal Distortion regardless of terrain

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of games required for Marquis' “Hobo Eradication Protocol” challenge from 10 to 5
Reduced the number of games required for Marquis' “Overprotective” challenge from 5 to 3

Visual and Audio Effects:

Fixed a visual issue with Predatory Strike owls when they are affected by certain third person FX
Bindlebane attacks no longer trigger critical hit sound effects on Immune targets

Mellka

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Reduced the duration of venom from 8 seconds to 4 seconds
Increased the damage of venom by 50% (12 to 18 at Level 1)
Spike now applies a 60% Wound debuff for 4 seconds to enemies that are covered in venom

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of kills required for Mellka's “Spaceborne Malady” challenge from 500 to 100
Reduced the number of games required for Mellka's “Heeding the Call” challenge from 5 to 3
Mellka's “Best!” stat now properly increments after completing the Prologue

Miscellaneous:

Reduced the camera shake when using Mellka's melee combo

Miko

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Reduced Miko's base health by 16% (1,220 to 1,046 at Level 1)
Reduced the movement speed gained from Miko's level 1 Left Helix Augment, First Responder from 30% to 15%
Reduced the movement speed gained from Miko's level 7 Left Helix Augment, Fight or Flight from 30% to 15%
Miko's level 7 Left Helix Augment, Fight or Flight no longer refreshes when Miko is damaged while the effect is active

Description changes:

Biosynthesis now displays the correct value in the Command Menu
The description of Fungus Among Us now properly updates after activating Miko's level 10 Right Helix Augment, Vicious Strain

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of games required for Miko's “Two's a Crowd” challenge from 5 to 3

Visual and Audio Effects:

Fixed a minor visual issue when Miko's level 4 Mutation, Sticky Spores sticks to a recently revived player
Fixed a visual issue when Miko receives a movement speed increase from level 1 Left Helix Augment, First Responder or level 7 Left Helix Augment, Fight or Flight
Fixed a visual issue with the green heart icon on the player's HUD when being healed by Miko's level 2 Left Helix Augment, Regenerative Aura

Montana

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Montana's level 10 Right Helix Augment, Instant Payback no longer lasts until death if Montana is stunned while activating Mansformation
Montana's level 4 Right Helix Augment, Firestorm damage-over-time effect is no longer affected by Attack Damage gear
Montana's level 4 Right Helix Augment, Firestorm direct damage is now affected by Skill Damage gear

Description changes:

Fixed a minor text issue with Montana's level 7 Mutation, Barrel Cooling to better reflect the functionality

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of games required for Montana's “War is Bliss” challenge from 5 to 3

Orendi

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Improved Paradigm Shift's hit detection
Orendi's level 1 Right Helix Augment, Burned and Busted now reveals cloaked enemies near her instead of enemies in her Shadowfire Pillar
- A new effect is played on Orendi and on revealed victims when the ability is active

Challenges and Statistics:

Orendi's Lore Challenge “That's a Very Nice Hat Trick” will now increment properly when the Skill Activation Style is set to Instant
Reduced the number of games required for Orendi's “That's a Very Nice Hat Trick” challenge from 10 to 5
Orendi's Nullify is now properly displayed on the Death Recap Screen
Orendi's Lore Challenge “Very Morphic Pillars” will now increment properly

Oscar Mike

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Reduced the projectile speed of the child grenades from Oscar Mike's level 2 Right Helix Augment, Nades on Nades resulting in a tighter explosion area
Reduced the detonation time of the child grenades from Oscar Mike's level 2 Right Helix Augment, Nades on Nades while the level 1 Left Helix Augment, Impact Trigger augment is active

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of games required for Oscar Mike's “From Yer Best Bud” challenge from 5 to 3

Visual and Audio Effects:

Oscar Mike's level 1 Right Helix Augment, Sneak Attack no longer applies third person FX to Oscar Mike when using Stealth Generator
Oscar Mike's level 2 Left Helix Augment, Fragcendiary Grenade no longer applies first or third person FX to allies

Phoebe

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Increased the projectile speed of the rapiers from Blade Rush
Phoebe's level 6 Right Helix Augment, Disruptor Blades now applies a Wound debuff for 3 seconds instead of giving Blade Rush shield penetration
Phoebe's Phasegate damage is now affected by Skill Damage gear
Fixed an issue that caused Phoebe's level 10 Mutation, Stormbringer to reduce the damage of Blade Cascade excessively

Description changes:

Changed the description of Phoebe's level 4 Right Helix Augment, Raddoppio to better reflect the augment's functionality

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of games required for Phoebe's “My Butler Buddy” challenge from 5 to 3
Reduced the damage required for Phoebe's “Addonexus” challenge from 2,000 to 1,800

Visual and Audio Effects:

Phoebe's level 3 Mutation, Crosscut should now have sound effects
Phoebe's level 5 Left Helix Augment, Passata Sotto should now have sound effects
The volume of Phoebe's “Conductor” taunt is now controlled by the Sound Effects Volume audio option instead of the Music Volume audio option

Rath

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Changed Rath's level 3 Left Helix Augment, Terror From Above to make his double jump feel more responsive and controllable
Increased the cooldown of Dreadwind from 54 seconds to 75 seconds

Description changes:

Changed the name of Rath's “NOT A VAMPIRE” title to “Blademaster”

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of games required for Rath's “Sustained Across Time” challenge from 10 to 5
Reduced the number of games required for Rath's “Thank You Letter” challenge from 5 to 3

Reyna

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Increased the push distance of Photonic Ward
Reyna's level 10 Mutation, Huddle Up now grants her a Failsafe Overshield when an ally receives a Shield Booster Overshield from Photonic Ward

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of kills required for Reyna's “The Best Defense” challenge from 1,000 to 100

Shayne & Aurox

Description changes:

Made a slight adjustment to the unlock requirement text for the "Are TOO Detectives!" title

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of games required for Shayne & Aurox's “Mentor for Monsters” challenge from 5 to 3
Reduced the number of kills required for Shayne & Aurox's “Isn't This a Buddy COMEDY?!” challenge from 200 to 100

Thorn

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of kills required for Thorn's “Daughter of Shadows” challenge from 500 to 100
Reduced the number of kills required for Thorn's “Spry Sprite Spray” challenge from 20 to 10
Reduced the number of kills required for Thorn's “Vengeance for the Lost” challenge from 1,000 to 500
Reduced the number of games required for Thorn's “Granddaughter of Stone” challenge from 5 to 3

Miscellaneous:

Reduced the performance impact of Thorn's arrow effects at long distances

Toby

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Increased the damage of Core Discharge by 15% (313 per second to 406 per second at Level 5)
Increased the damage of Core Discharge after selecting Toby's level 10 Left Helix Augment, Triple Charge by 25% (375 to 563 at Level 10)
Fixed an issue that allowed allies to gain permanent health regeneration from Toby's R2 Best Offense augment

Description changes:

Changed the text of Toby's level 3 Left Helix Augment, Targeting Overlay to better reflect the augment's functionality

Challenges and Statistics:

Reduced the number of kills required for Toby's “Temper, Temper, TA-BOOM” challenge from 20 to 10
Reduced the number of double-kills required for Toby's “Killing on Rails” challenge from 10 to 1
The “Core Discharge Damage” Accomplishment increments properly when using Toby's L10 Triple Charge augment

Miscellaneous:

Reduced the controller vibration while using the UPR H8-MS Custom Railgun

Whiskey Foxtrot

Skills, Augments, and Balance changes:

Reduced the fire interval of the UPR-SL3 Tactical Rifle from .08 seconds to .07 seconds
Scrap Cannon can no longer be primed
Scrap Cannon now applies a 60% Wound debuff for 4 seconds
Reduced the cooldown of Scrap Cannon from 12 seconds to 10 seconds
Increased the number of ricochets from Scrap Cannon from 2 to 4
Increased the bonus UPR-SL3 Tactical Rifle damage granted by Whiskey Foxtrot's level 2 Left Helix Augment, Swiss Cheese from 15% to 25%
Increased the duration of Whiskey Foxtrot's level 2 Left Helix Augment, Swiss Cheese from 4 seconds to 8 seconds
Fixed an issue that allowed additional MIRV grenades to spawn after selecting Whiskey Foxtrot's level 4 Mutation, Sticky MIRV
Whiskey Foxtrot's iron sights now provide a small zoom while aiming down the sight

Description changes:

Changed the text of Whiskey Foxtrot's level 3 Left Helix Augment, Red Dot Sight to better reflect the augment's functionality

Challenges and Statistics:

Changed Whiskey Foxtrot's “Going Alone” Lore Challenge from “Kill Oscar Mike 25 times” to “Participate in killing Oscar Mike 5 times”
Reduced the number of knock backs required for Whiskey Foxtrot's “Some Find Me Repulsive” challenge from 2,500 to 500
Reduced the number of kills required for Whiskey Foxtrot's “Say Mike Again” challenge from 500 to 100

Campaign:

HUD elements no longer overlap when killed immediately after being revived

The Saboteur

Various changes were made to improve performance on The Saboteur
- Reduced the number of dynamic lights in The Saboteur
- Improved mesh culling at extreme distances in The Saboteur
- Reduced the performance impact of loot containers on The Saboteur
- Reduced the performance impact of all exploding shard barrels in The Saboteur
Fixed several issues that allowed players to skip objectives in The Saboteur
Fixed several issues that prevented certain skills from being useable when at certain areas
Thrall Shift Supervisor Varl now always leaves the Control Room
Fixed an issue with enemy pathing at the Foundry
Replaced a trap buildable with a turret buildable at the Reactor Facility
Fixed an issue with players becoming trapped in certain area of the map
Fixed a text issue with the “Pulverize” map challenge
Fixed a typographical error in one of the objective descriptions

Performance:

Reduced the performance impact of the directional damage indicator arrows

Gear:

Gear that increases maximum health will now also grant health when activated equal to the increase in maximum health
Gear that increases maximum shield strength will now also grant shield when activated equal to the increase in maximum shield strength
Shard count feed no longer displays negative values when two pieces of Gear with shard gain effects are active
Gear Box should always close automatically if no more pieces are affordable
Fixed an issue with activated gear appearing to become unequipped after dying and respawning
All rarities of the Janked “Painkiller” and Janked “Sidecar” now use the Dicey (Reduced Maximum Health) flaw

Anti-Motion Brace

Changed the Legendary effect of the Anti-Motion Brace
- Reduces recoil while using alternative aiming modes

Bunker Buster

Changed the description of the Legendary effect to improve clarity

Burning Sunset

Fixed an issue that prevented healing while the Burning Sunset is active
Added an invulnerability shield visual effect when players become invulnerable

Codex Fragment

Changed the secondary stat from Recoil Reduction to Maximum Health

Doomsday Key

Fixed an issue with the Legendary effect functionality

Emergency Auto-Medic

Changed the secondary stat from CC Duration Reduction to Damage Reduction

Emulan Tincture

The Emulan Tincture no longer uses randomized values

Energetic Refractor

The Legendary effect now heals Kleese for 10% of Shield Healing done to allies
Fixed a grammatical error in the description

Executive Insurance Policy

The Legendary effect will now trigger properly when shields are recharged by any source

The Finiscian Wrench

Updated the description of the Legendary effect from “chance to deal critical damage” to “chance to deal 50% bonus damage” to more accurately reflect the gear's functionality
Updated the description of the Legendary effect to specify that it affects all buildables

Firmware Update 1.51C

Increased the Legendary effect trigger chance from 5-9% to 15-20%
Made minor grammatical adjustment to the description.

Generous Refund Policy

Fixed an issue with the Legendary effect functionality

Hate Reflector

Fixed an issue that caused the Legendary effect to trigger more frequently than intended
Increased the Legendary effect trigger chance from 5-9% to 15-20%
Reflected Pull effects now use a consistent direction

Hemsworth Sparkleshield

Fixed an issue that caused the Legendary effect to give a greater damage bonus than intended

Hidden Charger

Changed the Legendary effect of the Hidden Charger
- Reloading your weapon reduces Shield Recharge Delay

Intermittent Angel

Fixed an issue that caused the Legendary effect to increase the player's Shield Recharge Delay
Increased the Legendary effect trigger chance from 5-9% to 15-20%

Lorrian Skill Spike

Updated the description of the Legendary effect from “chance to deal critical damage” to “chance to deal 50% bonus damage” to more accurately reflect the gear's functionality

Mag Daemon

Changed the Legendary effect of the Mag Daemon
- Reloads performed while sprinting have increased Reload speed

Mini-Singularity Launcher

Changed the secondary stat from Attack Damage to Health Regeneration

The Modernista's

Increased the Legendary effect trigger chance from 5-9% to 15-20%
Made minor grammatical adjustment to the description

Mossire's Mukluks

Updated the description of the Legendary effect from Sprint Speed to Movement Speed to more accurately reflect the gear's functionality

Mutated Magazines

Fixed a typographical error in the description

Oath of the Sustained

Fixed an issue that caused the Legendary effect to heal friendly Sentries

One-4-All™ Shield Array

The Legendary effect no longer applies to the equipping player
The Legendary effect can no longer be stacked

Orbital Tracking Spike

Fixed an issue that caused the Legendary effect to work while in motion

The Pacifier

Changed the secondary stat from Shield Penetration to Maximum Shield Capacity
Added a numerical value to the description of the Legendary effect

Song of Vigor

The Legendary effect no longer applies to the equipping player

The Stable Executioner

Changed the secondary stat from Critical Hit Damage to CC Duration Reduction

Sustainment Well

Fixed a capitalization error in the description

Symbiotic Gauntlet

Fixed an issue that caused the Legendary effect to increase Skill damage

Symbiotic Spores

The Legendary effect can no longer be stacked
Symbiotic Spores are no longer referred to as “Spores of Mikollopria” when players receive them during The Experiment

Time Killer

Fixed an issue with the Legendary effect functionality

Veil Breaker Rounds

Changed the Legendary effect of Veil Breaker Rounds
- The last round in a magazine temporarily prevents the target's shield from recharging

Veil Manipulator

Updated the description to better reflect Legendary effect's functionality

Vigilance Link

The Legendary effect can no longer be stacked

Vow of Vengeance

The Legendary effect can now be triggered by Quick melee attacks

Voxis Core

Changed the Legendary effect to no longer stack damage when hitting multiple targets with a single skill
Fixed an issue that caused the Legendary effect to deal damage to the initial target

Vyn's Quiver

Changed the Legendary effect of Vyn's Quiver
- On reload, gain Health Regeneration based on the number of bullets left in the magazine

Interface:

Added a Report Player function accessible through the scoreboard
Health Regeneration and Shield Regeneration values are now visible on the player's HUD
The Achievements Page on Steam should display correctly (PC)
Text chat in the main menu no longer appears off-screen at certain resolutions (PC)
Fixed a rare visual issue with the text chat expand button (PC)
Icons will not overlap when purchasing buildables
Fixed sorting Gear by Rarity
Title sorting types are now saved
The scroll speed in the Gear Bank is no longer affected by the player's sorting type
Sorting characters by “Unlocked” in the Command Menu will function correctly
Skins and Taunts now have descriptions when found in a loot pack for improved clarity
Fixed a minor text issue with unlocking characters with Hero Keys
Fixed an alignment issue with the “Mute All” button prompt on split screen clients
When interacting with Escort sentries' Power Skills Menu “Can't Afford” text will no longer overlap prices in split screen

Quality Of Life:

Player Alerts should function normally, allowing players to Ping consistently
Fixed a rare issue that caused players to not receive Legendary gear as challenge rewards. Missing gear will be retroactively rewarded after completing a game as the affected character
Players no longer receive challenge progress, EC, or XP if they are not connected to the server when a game ends
“Num Lock” is no longer a rebindable key (PC)
Fixed an issue that caused players to face the incorrect direction when respawning
Players will no longer appear to vote for a map multiple times
Fixed Average Player Score tie-breaker results
Added an achievement for Alani
Skins apply correctly in the Command Menu
Fixed an issue when selling duplicate pieces of gear
Fixed text displayed when a minion kills an enemy sentry
Locked characters will no longer appear unlocked in the Command Menu
Fixed an issue where the incorrect information is displayed in the command menu after unlocking a character
SHiFT codes will no longer appear to fail on the first try
Fixed an issue with “My Rewards” not functioning properly after signing in to SHiFT
Battleborn Support ID has been renamed to Battleborn Profile ID

Match Making:

Fixed an issue where the wrong map experiences appeared on the Map vote screen
Made a change to reduce queue times for users with exceptionally high or low Elo ratings
Fixed a rare issue that could cause players to lose the ability to exit matchmaking properly

Audio:

Adjusted the Music volume in The Saboteur
Added music to character select
Fixed an issue that allowed unintended audio to play during character select
Made adjustments to the combat music during defense waves in The Saboteur
Adjusted the volume of Varelsi Scaven tentacle sounds

July 14, 2016

• Reduced the base value of Attack Damage on gear by 0.5%

• Reduced the base value of Attack Speed on gear by 1%

• Increased the base value of Critical Hit Damage on gear by 1%

• Increased the base value of Skill Damage on gear by 1.5%

July 7, 2016

Removed the blurring FX caused by Ghalt's Dual Wield to improve visibility while the skill is active.

June 30, 2016

Increased the drop rate of Boss Legendary gear in all Story maps.

Reduced the duration of Thorn's Blight from 6 seconds to 4 seconds.

Reduced the duration increase of Thorn's level 8 left Helix Augment Enduring Blight from 6 seconds to 3 seconds.

Fixed an issue that allowed players to attack enemies’ players in their protected spawn area in Temples.

June 23, 2016

Reduced the Lifesteal percentage granted by Oath of the Sustained.
Temporarily disabled M.3 Shepherds in Incursion Mode
Adjust Character Select timer to 90 seconds for PvP maps.
The following pieces of Gear (mentioned provisionally last week) are being disabled temporarily:

• Lorrian Purse Cutter
• Vigilance Link
• One-4-All Shield Array

June 14, 2016

Map & Mode Changes:

Incursion

Increased the cooldown time of the Outcast Thrall Bonecrusher’s minion-destroying ground pound attack from 7 seconds to 14 seconds.
Increased the cooldown time of the Outcast Thrall Brute’s anti-Sentry grenade attack from 8 seconds to 10 seconds.
Fixed an issue preventing the correct notification from appearing when a Thrall kills a Sentry.
Added minion path indicators to the minimap.

Echelon:

Various changes were made to improve performance on Echelon.
- Reduced the performance impact of the skybox.
- Optimized certain rendered materials.
Slightly reduced the size of the pillar between the two stairways on the main approach to the first Sentry.
Moved the MX.Elite Bot spawners.
Increased the total value of shards available in Echelon to bring more consistency to the Incursion map economy.
- Moved several small and medium ground shards.
- Added four new medium shard clusters.
Modified some collision to prevent players from being able to attack the first Sentry without being targetable by the Sentry.
Cleaned up geometry to remove some toe-traps.
Removed several map escapes that allowed players to get below the map.
Improved bot pathing.

Overgrowth:

Various changes were made to improve performance on Overgrowth.
- Modified some dynamic lights.
Added some geometry to prevent players from easily attacking the enemy's second Sentry from their Supply Station room.
Fixed an issue that allowed certain characters to teleport through the shielded sniper perch walls.
Reduced the total value of shards available in Overgrowth to bring more consistency to the Incursion map economy.
- Removed two medium shard clusters.
Fixed an issue that allowed the Sentries to shoot through the shielded sniper perch walls.
Added some collision to prevent certain characters from getting into unintended locations.
Removed several map escapes that allowed players to get below the map.
Fixed an issue that prevented players from being pulled out of the sniper perches by certain skills.
Cleaned up geometry to remove some toe-traps and stuck spots.
Fixed an issue that prevented players from receiving a speed boost when exiting their bases.
Fixed an issue with the brightness of the tutorial video in Overgrowth.

Meltdown:

Added minion path indicators to the minimap.

Cold Snap:

Various changes were made to improve performance on Cold Snap.
- Reduced the performance impact of the skybox.
- Removed some dynamic lights.
- Removed some unnecessary meshes.
Moved the two large shard clusters that were near the MX.Elite Bot spawners.
Added some geometry at the top of several stairways to match the collision.

Paradise:

Changed the cliffs behind the first grinders in Lane A into pathways.
Added geometry to prevent players from getting on top of the first grinders in Lane A.
Improved the collision on all grinders.
Slightly increased the total value of shards available in Paradise to bring more consistency to the Meltdown map economy.
- Changed four medium ground shards into large ground shards.

Capture

Outback:

Cleaned up geometry to remove some toe-traps.
Added some collision to prevent players from falling off the map immediately outside of the spawn areas.
Added some collision to prevent players from entering the terrain between Points A and B.
Improved bot pathing.

Temples

Various changes were made to improve performance on Temples.
- Removed some dynamic lights.
- Optimized certain rendered materials.
Cleaned up geometry to remove some toe-traps.

Supply Stations

The second upgrade tier of Supply Stations now increases the health regeneration granted instead of providing a small damage boost buff.

Campaign Changes

Fixed a rare visual issue with the wave count down timer in Defense Point maps.

Characters

Alani:

Fixed an issue causing Alani’s crosshair to temporarily disappear after rejoining a game.
Fixed an issue that prevented Alani’s “Water Monk” title from displaying an icon.

Mellka:

Adjusted the audio of Mellka’s Custom Machine Pistol.

Shayne and Aurox:

Fixed a visual issue with the chain in Shayne and Aurox’s Fetch

Galilea

Fixed and issue that prevented certain Desecrate augment from functioning if Galilea’s level 1 Right Augment Calamity was not active.

Performance

Added a Particle Detail Mode setting in the Video options, with three available options (PC):
Maximum – All Particle Effects are always visible.
Normal – Optional Particle Effects are automatically disabled when poor performance is encountered.
Minimum – Optional Particle Effects are always disabled.
Removed the PhysX setting from the Video options. This feature has been replaced by the new Particle Detail Mode.
Improved performance for computers using NVIDIA SLI (PC).
Fixed an issue causing poor performance when opening the scoreboard.
Fixed an issue causing the tutorial video to use extra resources in all Versus maps.
Fixed a rare crash when minimizing the game on the Victory/Defeat screen (PC).

Quality of Life

Fixed an issue causing challenges to appear to give more experience and currency than they were awarding.
Pressing Escape from the Main Menu now exits the game instead of returning players to the title screen (PC).
Fixed a rare issue causing the Victory/Defeat screen to appear misaligned (Xbox One).
Fixed an issue that allowed players to see the Characters page in the Marketplace without being able to navigate to it.
Fixed a small visual issue when refunding Hero Keys.

Audio

Fixed an issue causing certain sound effects to be too quiet during dialog.
Adjusted the volume of hit notification sounds.

June 2, 2016

This week’s hot fixes are mainly focused on community feedback and small tweaks to improve certain FX. It should be noted that, while the Voxis Core Legendary has been temporarily disabled, it will be returning.

Reduced Alani's base health from 1451 to 1035.
The Voxis Core Legendary gear has been temporarily disabled due to unintended balance implications.
Fixed an issue causing players to burn indefinitely in The Archive.
Fixed an issue with snow FX appearing inconsistently in The Algorithm.
Fixed an issue causing audible impacts to play continuously due to Temporal Traps.
Fixed an issue causing third person FX to appear misaligned on M3.Shepherds.

May 23, 2016

New Content:

New Character, Alani
New Skins and Taunts for Alani
Hero Keys have been added

Mode & Map Changes:

We made a few changes to Incursion to prevent teams from snowballing to victory after defeating the first sentry. Now both teams get equal opportunities of lane pushing power at select times during the match. In addition, we added some extra power to the Thralls so that they help expedite team pushes.

Incursion

Empowered Minion Waves no longer spawn for a team after killing the enemy's first Sentry. They now spawn for both teams every fourth minion wave.

Incursion Thralls

All Thralls, when captured, no longer target enemy players
All Thralls no longer flinch when hit in the legs by players or minions
All Thralls no longer get knocked off the map
Thrall Crushers
- Now only attacks minions directly
- No longer charges
- New Skill: Has an area attack that destroys minions instantly and knocks up players (Usable once every 7 seconds)
Thrall Guards
- Now only attacks minions directly
- New Skill: Targets a sentry with a mortar that deals heavy damage to the Sentry (Usable once every 10 seconds)

Overgrowth:

Modified the sniper nests to prevent players from engaging the first sentry from across the map.
Shepherds spawn every fourth wave instead of after the first Sentry is destroyed.
Various level geometry changes to reduce collision issues.
Fixed a rare issue with the central Thrall mercenaries not pushing.

Echelon:

Shepherds spawn every fourth wave instead of after the first Sentry is destroyed.
Various level geometry changes to reduce collision issues.

Characters:

Ambra:

Ambra’s Extinction Event provided unnecessary crowd control due to the large area of effect. We removed the slowing effect to allow for better counter-play options around her ultimate.

Ambra’s Extinction Event skill no longer slows enemies.
Fixed an issue that allowed Ambra’s Scorching Strikes to deal extra damage.
Fixed an issue that prevented stealthed targets from being revealed when Ambra’s level 6 Left Helix Augment, Agile Anomaly and level 2 Right Helix Augment, Solar Burst were active.

Boldur:

Fixed an issue with the description of Boldur’s Legendary gear.

El Dragon:

Fixed an issue that allowed players to move bosses using El Dragon’s level 8 Mutation, Unbelievable.

Deande:

Added a short cooldown to Deande’s Drop Kick to fix unintended vertical maneuverability.

Galilea:

Galilea’s desecrate was never intended to constantly apply crowd control or debuffs on enemies throughout the duration. We changed the augmentations to only apply the effects at the cast of the skill. This change now requires Galilea players to use Desecrate more effectively and allow some counter-play if players find themselves falling into the Desecrate. In addition, we made some fixes to her melee attack so Galilea is now moving like all other melee when attacking.

Galilea’s level 1 Right Helix Augment, Calamitynow only wounds players when Desecrate is initially activated.
Galilea’s level 4 Mutation, Bleak Quiet now only silences players when Desecrateis initially activated.
Galilea’s level 8 Right Helix Augment, The Black Wind Howls now only increases her movement speed when Desecrateis initially activated.
Galilea can no longer attack while sprinting.
Fixed an issue that prevented Corruptionfrom damaging enemies affected by Galilea’s Desecrate after selecting her level 1 Right Helix Augment, Calamity.

Kleese:

Fixed an issue that allowed Kleese’s Energy Rifts to replenish Sentry shields in Incursion.
Changed Kleese’s HUD to use a jump meter instead of an ammo counter.
Fixed an issue that allowed Kleese’s Shock Taser to target stealthed enemies.
Fixed an issue with Kleese’s Energy Rift damage when both level 4 Left Helix Augment, Rift Network and level 6 Left Helix Augment, Bulk Savings are active.
Fixed an issue that increased the cast range of Kleese’s Energy Rifts and Black Hole.

Marquis:

Fixed an issue with Marquis’s level 2 Mutation, Eyes Everywhere.
Fixed an issue where Marquis’s ultimate Bindleblast damage was not tracked properly after taking level 10 Right Helix Augment, exe.

Miko:

Fixed an issue that prevented Miko’s Fungus Among Us from displaying the mushroom’s trajectory when primed.

Shayne and Aurox:

Fixed a rare issue that allowed Shayne and Aurox to gain permanent health regeneration with their level 7 Left Helix Augment, Alone Time
Fixed an issue that allowed Shayne and Aurox to use Tag Team through friendly base barriers.
Fixed an issue that allowed some projectiles to pass through Aurox.

Non-Player Characters:

Fixed an issue where minions could become very difficult to kill after being affected by certain healing sources.

Gear:

Character Legendary gear no longer uses randomized values.
Fixed an issue that prevented players from acquiring the “Medical Nano-Colony” Legendary gear.
Fixed an issue with the “Sentinel Reset Switch” Legendary gear.

Quality of Life:

Added “Faction”, “Character Rank”, “Lore Challenge Completion” and “Unlock” sorting for Battleborn in the Command menu.
Fixed a “Player Initialization Failed” error when users first attempt to sign in.
Fixed a rare issue that prevented players from controlling their characters if they were modifying their key bindings when starting a boss encounter. (PC)
Fixed a rare issue that resulted in black flickering on the main menu. (XB1)
Fixed an issue where an incorrect skin would appear for the second split screen user in the post-match screen.

Match Making:

Fixed an issue with matchmaking hosts that should reduce the number of connection failures. (XB1)
Various improvements have been made to reduce the number of matchmaking failures. (PS4)

Audio:

Added unique sounds for attacking Immune and Overshielded
Fixed an issue that allowed critical hit sounds to play against shielded players.
Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented music from playing in Incursion.
Various audio mix changes.

Localization:

Various localization bug fixes.

May 12, 2016

Hot-Fixes

Galilea:

We took a good look at Galilea’s damage and found that she still has the ability to kill players in a short amount of time. We want to promote the health regeneration and zone control loops so we reduced damage some more. The Shield Throw skill was set to a high damage multiplier which we usually award to skills that deal damage only. Since the Shield Throw has a stun, we reduced the damage to match other skills that contain crowd control on top of damage.

Reduced Galilea’s Great Sword damage by 18%
Reduced Shield Throw damage by 33%

Miko:

Miko's ability to heal others and itself at the same time proved to enable duos of players to dive enemies without much risk. Now, Miko players will have to navigate spaces with more precision and rely on allies to peel off enemies more often instead of being able to just turn and run away.

Reduced the movement speed bonus of Miko’s level 7 Left Helix Augment, Fight or Flight, to 15% and its duration to 2s
Reduced the healing effect of Biosynthesis by 25%

ISIC:

ISIC's Rotating Wards allowed ISIC to soak lots of damage while dealing lots of damage. The reduction of Rotating Wards’ strength gives enemies a faster window to prevent ISIC from controlling the area. In addition, ISIC players could manipulate their shield regen easily with the first augmentation and some gear pieces so we reduced the augmentation strength. And since ISIC has so many defensive options, we wanted players to be able to quickly whittle ISIC down if they got past his defenses so we reduced his base health.

Reduced ISIC’s base health by 20%
Reduced Rotating Wards’ block strength by 50%
Reduced Watchful Wards’ bonus by 40%

General:

Adjusted skill-based matchmaking ranges to speed up matchmaking times
Fixed a minor audio issue on the Meltdown map, Paradise
Changed all Faction loot packs to unlock at level 15
Reduced the Silver and Gold medal requirements for each medal in the story mission “The Archive” by 20%
Doubled the health of stationary defense objectives in story mode
Added a turret to the final defensive objective in “The Saboteur”
Made performance improvements on the multiplayer maps Echelon and Coldsnap

May 3, 2016

Hot-Fixes

Character Balance:

AMBRA:

Ambra’s damage output combined with her lifesteal and escape abilities resulted in very high survivability in fights. We wanted to bring this in line with our expectation and reinforce her melee loop as part of her damage output.

Reduced Staff of Radiance beam damage by 34%
Reduced damage of Radiant Wind by 33%
Reduced Left Helix Augmentation Cauterization movement speed gain to 30%

CALDARIUS:

Caldarius’s primary damage output was not as high as we would have liked to see. We’ve raised it to bring him close in line with other characters in his class.

Increased TMP damage by 25%

GHALT:

After a large buff during Open Beta, Ghalt’s shotgun was now over performing at his normal combat distance, so we have reduced it slightly.

Reduced Ghalt’s Revolver Shotgun damage by 13%

Versus:

To help address late game player dropping, we’ve made the time windows to vote for surrender more generous. We want players to play until the final whistle, but if you’re team is getting steamrolled, we’d prefer an orderly surrender, rather than people bailing early and leaving their teammates hanging. We will continue to look at data and feedback to decide how to handle players who perpetually show bad sportsmanship by dropping from matches.

Increased Surrender Time to Vote window from 30 seconds to 60 seconds
Decreased Surrender Revote time from 3 minutes to 1 minute

Story:

Based on Open Beta player data, we’ve made some balance changes to help speed up player progression through the level.

Reduced the health of the Galactic Emperor in The Algorithm
Increased the XP reward for killing the Galactic Emperor in The Algorithm
Reduced the health of all Frigid Golems in The Void’s Edge and The Algorithm
Increased the XP reward for killing Frigid Golems in The Void’s Edge and The Algorithm
Adjusted score requirements for Star Ratings

Bug Fixes:

We’ve made various bug fixes and quality of life adjustments to help assist players to beat up Rendain.

Fixed a bug with Miko’s heal beam aim assist
Fixed some navigational issues when using Kelvin’s Sublimate and traveling over small objects in the world.
Fixed some navigational issues when using Caldarius’s Dash and traveling over small objects in the world
Fixed a bug that caused players to spawn with invisible weapons and limited functionality.
Fixed a bug that prevented players from accessing their gear and loadouts.
Fixed several issues with unlocks not being awarded after completing a game.
Fixed a bug with Whiskey Foxtrot’s lore challenge awarding the incorrect Legendary gear.
Fixed various performance issues with Echelon.
Fixed a bug with Variable Morpher permanently increasing Orendi’s Shadowfire Pillar
Fixed a bug with text chat not functioning in the Main Menu.
Fixed a bug that allowed aim assist to function with mouse and keyboard.
Numerous other bug fixes and optimizations.

April 14, 2016

Patch Notes Open Beta 1.0

Character Balance:

AMBRA

Ambra's ability to sustain damage and keep herself alive kept her as one of the top offensive picks. By reducing the damage and survivability, we see Ambra going back into more zone control roles where she has to proactively manage her sun spots. In addition, we found the beam range to put her at a medium to long range allowing her to kite melee enemies so we reduced the range to keep her more in short range category.

Reduced melee damage by 15%
Reduced Staff of Radiance damage by 4%
Reduced passive overshield by 33%
Reduced initial range of Staff of Radiance beam by 20%
Reduced sustain range of Staff of Radiance beam by 30%

EL DRAGON

El Dragon's damage output scaled way too high due to the passive and some bugs we found in testing. In addition, his ultimate is meant to be more damage over time so we reduced the instant damage component.

Reduced Undisputed Champ bonus damage to melee damage from 3% to 1.5% per stack
Reduced Level 5 Mutation Uncanny passive bonus damage to skills from 3% to 1.5% per stack
Reduced damage of En Fuego explosion by 62%
Reduced Clap damage by 25%
Max health has been reduced

GALILEA

We like Galilea’s ability to jump into combat and be a front line tank. However, Galilea’s high attack damage promoted a much more aggressive behavior so we reduced her attack damage and immediate health regeneration. Reducing health regeneration maintains her ability to mitigate lots of incoming damage but now requires more tactical decision making then simply soaking damage and regenerating it all on a button push.

Reduced Level 4 Left Helix Augmentation Chaotic Infusion healing per second by 50%
Reduced Greatsword damage by 15%
Reduced Level 4 Right Helix Augmentation Forsaken Grounds damage by 33%
Reduced HP regen granted by Level 5 Left Helix Augmentation Last Light by 50%
Removed 100% movement speed from Level 10 Left Helix Augmentation Deeper Than Doubt

GHALT

Ghalt's promise of a shotgun wielding badass wasn't being fully realized with the low damage per pellet. We wanted to reward Ghalt for closing the range so we increased the shotgun damage. Players should now see the shotgun tear through enemies in close range.

Increased Shotgun damage by 50%
Increased firing speed of Shotgun by 18%

KELVIN

A lot of Kelvin's ability to soak damage revolves around the passive shield manipulation. Most of the shield manipulations are multipliers based off of Kelvin's Max Shield Value which was set to a low number. Increasing the Max Shield Value increases the passive and all augmentations that manipulate the shield. With the increased survivability, Kelvin better suits the hit-and-run Defender role.

Increased Permafrost passive shield regeneration amount by 80%
Increased shield max base

KLEESE

We believe Kleese's skills provide great area control but his base damage output was vastly underperforming. The increase to the primary attack and the secondary will reinforce some of the ranged damage loops for Kleese players.

Increased Wrist Cannon damage by 50%
Increased Shock Taser damage by 50%
Decreased Level 8 Right Helix Augmentation Brawn Before Brain bonus damage to 25%
Reduced Level 3 Mutation Quantum Precision charged Laser damage to compensate for Wrist Cannon damage increase

SHAYNE & AUROX

We reduced attack damage and Fetch damage to tone down Shayne & Aurox's ability to burst down targets while maintaining all the utility attached to Shayne & Aurox's skills. We like where Shayne & Aurox sits between a harassing defender and a potential stealth killer. Removing some of the burst damage innate to our specialized killers helps keep Shayne & Aurox in that mixed role of harasser and killer.

Reduced melee damage by 12%
Reduced damage of Fetch by 33%
Increased Level 4 Left Helix Augmentation What’s Yours Is Mine shield steal from 70% to 100%

Game Mode Balance:

INCURSION

We recognize some matches of Incursion stalling around the sentry. We'd like to iterate gradually since many changes can have huge rippling effects. We're going to start with increasing the amount of time before a Sentry is able to begin recharging shields. We're going to increase the time so that teams who control the push can sustain damage onto the Sentry without having to fight the complete shield every time.

Increased Sentry Shield Recharge Delay from 8 seconds to 12 seconds

Bug Fixes:

Fixed an issue with Shayne & Aurox’s stun animation
Adjusted Phoebe’s jump height
Decreased the height of El Dragon’s Dragon Splash
Fixed an issue where El Dragón’s Level 5 Right Helix Augmentation Welterweight increased Undisputed Champion bonus damage.
Replaced the 'Unsafe' -Health Regeneration per Second flaw on Rogue Gear with the 'Janked' -Healing Received flaw