- Executioner Perk: Previously, the Gold Armor perk, “Executioner”, gave a full shield recharge on successful completion of a finisher. In Season 3, all Legends will have this perk meaning--finishers will fully recharge your shields regardless if you have Gold Armor equipped or not. Gold Armor will now have a Guardian Angel perk that is detailed below in the Loot/Meta Changes section.
Gibraltar
- Dome Shield
- Players in the Dome Shield use healing items 25% faster.
- Increased the throw distance by 60%.
- Increased cooldown.
- 20 seconds -> 30 seconds.
- Defensive Bombardment
- Decreased cooldown.
- 4.5 minutes -> 3 minutes.
- Decreased duration
- Increased throw distance by 36%.
Bloodhound
- Reduced the animation time to activate by 33%.
- Now immediately tells you how many targets have been pinged.
- Fixed an issue with FoV scaling messing up ADS aim sensitivity.
- Reduced animation time to activate by 30%.
- Increased movement speed bonus
Bangalore
Octane
- Fixed an issue with FoV scaling messing up ADS aim sensitivity.
Wraith
[Designer notes: We’ve pulled back additional nerfs for further testing, but Wraith’s power balance is definitely on our radar.]
- No longer deploys if you are downed before placing it.
Pathfinder
- Reduced the grapple projectile velocity by 33%, meaning it takes a fraction of a second longer to connect the grapple to the wall. The behavior once you are connected remains the same.
- Increased cooldown
- 90 seconds -> 120 seconds.
WEAPON AND LOOT META
Hop-ups
[Designer notes: We think the number of hop-up types in the game is about as high as we want to go right now when we consider loot dilution and the likelihood of finding a desired hop-up. Going forward, we intend to rotate hop-ups each season -- some may be removed from the loot pool to make room for new or returning ones. Below are the changes we’ll be making to hop-ups for Season 3.]
- REMOVED: Disruptor Rounds
- REMOVED: Skullpiercer Rifling
- Wingman: Was 2.0 base / 2.25 with Skullpiercer. Is now 2.15 base.
- DMR: Was 2.0 base / 2.5 with Skullpiercer. Is now 2.15 base.
- The base headshot damage multipliers of the DMR and Wingman have been increased slightly.
- NEW HOP-UP: Anvil Receiver
- Attaches to: Flatline and R-301.
- Rarity: level 4 (gold).
- This hop-up empowers semi-auto mode; it offers highly increased damage, but at the cost of reduced rate of fire and double ammo per shot.
- NEW HOP-UP: Double Tap Trigger
- Attaches to: G7 Scout and EVA-8 Auto.
- Rarity: level 3 (purple).
- This hop-up makes each trigger pull fire a quick two round burst.
Consumables
- Ultimate Accelerants
- Ultimate charge restored increased
- Reduced the amount in the world by around 40%.
GOLD GEAR CHANGES
- The gold backpack has a new perk, “Guardian Angel”. With Guardian Angel, you will revive downed teammates with bonus health and shields (if they have armor).
The gold armor will now have “Fast Use” (consumable items take half as long to use), which was previously on the gold backpack. Now, you will be able to tell when an opponent has the ability to heal faster by seeing the gold armor damage numbers.
WEAPONS
[Designer Notes: For Season 3 weapon changes, our goals were to encourage and improve longer range gunfights and reduce power on some of the weapons that have been dominating lately. We will of course be closely watching data and player feedback on these during the season.]
- Base mag size reduction
- Before: 18/22/26/30
- After: 18/20/23/27
- Added some recoil randomness to patterns.
- Added some slight recoil randomness while maintaining the same pattern when fired in full-auto mode.
- Reduced rate of fire
- Reduced leg damage multiplier
- Increased base damage
- Slight decrease to rate of fire to both fire modes.
- Mozambique
- Decreased pattern spread
- Mozambique will now reset from recoil faster, which should make it easier to track targets and see where shots land.
- Substantial reduction to horizontal recoil.
- Now comes equipped with 1x Digital Threat optic.
- Reduced damage
