TWID - 2/15/2024

TL;DR:

• Mass Effect collab is out. $20 a skin (yuck). Ship, sparrow, and ghost shell are free.

Sandbox Updates:

• Will try to summarize this quickly since it's a TL;DR. If you want all the details read the article.

Abilities:

• Threaded Spectre uptime reduced because of PvP.
  • Nerf for PvP only.
  • Damage buff in PvE.
• Threadlings nerf because of PVP.
  • Increasing aim assist against them.
  • Reducing damage to players.
  • Unclear if this carries over to PvE. It specifically says players so I don't think so.
• Arcane Needle buffs.
  • Aim assist and tracking improved.
  • Buffed to offset nerfs to Threadlings.
• Restoration and Raidiant timer bugs are getting fixed.
• Ember of Mercy and Empryean buffed.
• Consecration (Solar Titan jump slam) buffed to go further and hit airborne targets
• Gunpowder Gamble self damage decreased.

Weapons:

• Fixed M+K aim assist bug on burst Hand Cannons.
• Added Target Lock to Breakneck second column (lol)
• Lightweight scout 5% damage buff
• Reduced Sniper auto aim cone size by 10%
• Precision Rockets get more ammo reserves and damage penalty reduced to 5% from 10%
• High Impact Rockets
  • Ammo reserve up by 2
  • More blast damage than impact damage for ad clear (okay...)
  • Also affects Deathbringer, GHorn, and Truth.
• Heavy GLs
  • Ammo reserves increased by 6 to 10 depending on the weapon.
  • Reduced Spike Grenades per round damage buff from 50% to 12.5%. Total damage buff goes from 8% to 3%.
  • Increased direct hit impact for all Heavy GLs by 10%
  • Increased detonation damage by 5%
• Wave Frame Heavy GLs
  • Increased Damage by 20%
  • Increased wave size by 40%
• Caster Swords
  • Reduced heavy attack cost from 5 to 4
  • Increased heavy attack damage by 16%

Exotics:

• Vigilance Wing
  • Now has deterministic recoil
• Vex Mythoclast
  • Increased ADS falloff scaler
• Wish Ender
  • True Sight disappears after leaving ADS or being in ADS for more than 3 seconds
• Edge of Action
  • Increased bubble resistance to normal combatants to 85% and bosses to 15%
• Manticore
  • Must be airborne for .5 sec and deal damage to activate the perk
  • New special reload to disengage thrusters
  • Tarrabah also receives this special reload animation
  • While airborne PvE combatants will have worse targeting on the player. Similar to Always on Time.
  • With the catalyst sustained final blows grant void overshield.
• Ex Diris
  • Increased impact damage in PvE by 50%
  • Increase maximum rate of fire by 17%

Perks:

• Heal Clip

  • Grants Cure x2 to user and Cure x1 to allies.

• Trench Barrel

  • Can activate with ranged melee (spicy)

• Barrel Constrictor

  • Now lasts for 7.5 seconds. Enhanced at 8.5 sec.

• Loose Change

  • Now adds +20 aim assist stat and 20% reduced ADS.

• Dual Loader

  • Removed reload speed penalty
  • Will be added to other weapon types in the future.

• Tex Balanced Stock

  • Grants +20 range and 1.5 degree aim assist cone increase in hip fire.

• Hakke Breach Armaments, Deconstruct, and Sundering

  • All now work on Void souls, Strand Clones, Cabal shields, and Brigs

• Hakke Breach Armaments

  • Damage against stasis crystals reduced from 80% to 60%

• Sundering

  • Can now trigger on shield break.

• Hatchling

  • Now triggers on a precision kill or 3 non precisions

• Target Lock

  • Now activates later in the mag for SMGs

• Envious Assassin

  • Mag overflow capped to 100% instead of 150% due to GL changes (RIP my 3 rocket mag)

• Bait and Switch

  • Reduced damage bonus from 35% to 30%

• One Two Punch

  • Now deactivates after powered melee damage

• Deconstruct

  • Pulls from thin air and not reserves.

• More weapon tuning coming in TFS and Into the Light. Looking specifically at buffing under performing archetypes and not touching the top performers.

PVP Updates:

• Big wall of text about the PVP strike team's vision for Crucible.
• Player skill in general has gone up while ease of use hasn't gone down to compensate.
• Too easy to hit optimal TTK. Precision SMGs and Aggressive HCs called out.
• Hitting optimal TTK isn't representative of skill and is EXPECTED of standard play.
• All of this has lead to the following:
  • Ability spam builds with high uptime to counter fast TTK.
  • Overabundance of Special Ammo and One Hit Kill (OHK) weapons to counter ability spam.
  • Highly lethal primaries (sub 1sec TTK) to counter OHK and ability spam.

Actual PVP Changes:

• Changes listed below will NOT apply to Mayhem, Momentum, and Checkmate.
• Player Health:
  • Increased by 30 in base Crucible from 70 to 100. 116-130 Shield depending on Resil value.
• Ability Cooldowns:
  • Melee, Grenade, and Class Ability cooldowns increased by 15% IN PVP ONLY.
  • Super cooldowns increased by 20% IN PVP ONLY.
• Ability Damage increased to compensate:
  • Supers - base damage up by 31%
  • Melee - base damage up by 16%
  • Arc Flux Grenade - base damage up by 16%
• Weapons:
  • All primaries except bows will have their crit damage increased.
  • PR, AR, Scouts - up by 14%
  • HC - Crit up by 10%. Body down by 5%. Flinch reduced by 12.5% and 10% for explosive payload.
  • SMG - Crit up by 12.5%. Body down by 3%.
  • Bows - Reduced base damage by 15%.
• Special Ammo Acquisition
  • Start every game with 2 kills worth of special ammo
  • Special Ammo meter from Checkmate comes to regular crucible. Point values listed in the article.
  • Special and Heavy kills do not generate Special ammo.
  • Jumping off the map reduces the Special ammo meter.
  • Special ammo is not dropped on death and you do not loose what you have on death.
  • Special ammo carries over between rounds.
  • Swapping to a primary will reset your ammo meter.
• Special Weapon buffs
  • Traces - base damage up by 20%
  • Glaives - Projectile up by 20%. Melee up by 16%
• Heavy Weapon Changes:
  • GLs detonation damage down by 5%
  • LMG damage up by 20%
• Exotics
  • Fighting Lion - reduced damage in PVP by 20%.
  • Devil's Ruin - charge beam damage reduced by 15% in PVP.
  • Crimson - flinch dealt reduced by 17.5%.
  • Forerunner - damage increased bv 20% in PVP.
  • Symmetry - special fire damage increased by 16% in PVP.