What’s New?
Solo vs Squads
Solo vs Squads is a brand-new matchmaking option aimed at experienced, high-skill players who live for PvP. Solo Raiders level 40+ will see a “Solo vs Squads” toggle above matchmaking, letting them enter the Squads queue and go head-to-head against full teams.
If you opt in, you’ll receive a +20% bonus XP at the end of the round—whether you successfully extract or go down fighting.
Trophy Display
A new long-term project is now available, built around hunting increasingly dangerous ARC groups and turning in their parts for rewards.
Raiders can construct a new Display Case over 5 steps (mirroring the Candleberry Project). Each step upgrades the case and adds a new item to it.
Rewards per step include blueprints and Raider Tokens. Completing the full project grants extra rewards, including a Howl emote, a guitar, and 300,000 Coins. There’s currently no fixed end date, and it won’t be affected by Expedition resets.
Bird City
Birds have moved into Buried City, nesting in the empty chimneys. We’ve received reports they’re stashing shiny trinkets inside so keep your eyes open and check those nests.
This new permanent map condition applies only to Buried City, and will cycle in and out weekly. Expect:
- More bird traps and ziplines
- More rooftop combat and encounters around high ground
- More flying ARC
- More player proximity and overlap
New Items
- 2 new types of Epic Augments
- 7 new Quests
Patch Highlights
Open Parties
You can now set your party to Open, so your Embark and platform friends can join seamlessly—even while you’re in a round, they can wait in the lobby and hop into your next match.
Squad Invites
Squadmates can now invite others to the party, not only the party leader.
Achievement fixes
- Stella Montis Seed Vault extract fix
- Mouse smoothing option added
- Gamepad rebinding
Content and Bug Fixes
Achievements
- Fixed an issue where progress towards Enemy of my Enemy wasn’t being tracked.
- Fixed an issue where Hook, Line, and Sinker didn’t track correctly.
ARC
- Improved ARC traversal over obstacles.
Leaper
- Leaper now handles movement better after losing its legs.
Shredder
- Dead Shredders are now correctly labeled as scavengeable when pinged.
Snitch
- Fixed an issue where Snitches would cancel calling ARC if a Lure Grenade was thrown mid-call.
- Snitches will no longer make noise after being destroyed.
Spotter
- Fixed an issue where Spotters could follow players into buildings and get stuck.
Tick
- When grabbed by a Tick, players now get a short window to dodge-roll and remove it.
Audio
- Fixed missing emote voice lines in the store and customization preview.
- Fixed voice chat cutting out in some cases.
- Improved voice chat connection stability.
Maps
General
- Reduced the types of containers that can spawn condition-specific blueprints during Electromagnetic Storm, Hidden Bunker, and Locked Gate.
- Increased chances of finding higher-tier weapons in weapon cases.
- Slightly reduced chances of getting Matriarch and Queen unique parts from their armor pieces (making it harder to obtain without fully destroying them).
- Fixed multiple containers across maps that were not interactable.
- Fixed a Raider hatch timing issue and camera getting stuck when interaction fails.
Dam Battlegrounds
- Tweaked cliffs near the Raider outpost tower where players frequently got stuck.
- Adjusted elevator shaft collision to prevent getting stuck in Dam Control Tower.
- Fixed collision issues inside the Pattern House.
- Fixed an issue allowing access to an unintended location in Water Treatment.
Buried City
- Removed an invisible wall in a nook beneath the Buried City highway.
- Removed the musical puzzle from Buried City — the guitar is now purchasable at Shani’s.
Spaceport
- Fixed floating rocks and grass.
- Adjusted ARC spawn locations during Hidden Bunker on bunker antennas to reduce the chance of spawning directly on top of antennas.
Stella Montis
- Fixed the Seedvault extraction glitch that let players remain in the extraction point after it closed.
- Updated Night Raid lighting (most lamps turned off).
- Fixed 40 common stuck spots.
- Fixed Bastion spawning out of bounds and attacking through walls.
Miscellaneous
- Various crash fixes.
- Added mouse smoothing option.
- Added matchmaking delay option (stream sniping mitigation).
- Fixed an issue allowing guitar play while using a zipline.
- Made aim assist consistent across different framerates.
- Fixed inputs not always registering above 30 FPS.
- Fixed one Macro set helmet variant appearing incorrect in-game.
- Fixed some trinket items not being placeable in trinket slots.
- Fixed multiple clipping issues.
- Fixed sun lens flare VFX appearing even when the sun was behind thick clouds.
- Fixed selected codex entry not always being visible.
- Fireworks boxes may now trigger randomly after the deploying Raider gets knocked out.
- Fixed some graphics settings resetting to default after restarting on PS5.
- Lighting polish across various maps.
Movement
- Fixed player movement briefly becoming unresponsive after network connection issues.
- Fixed players falling off ladders when attempting to descend shortly after reaching the top.
- Fixed automatic ladder jump-off when entering while crouched.
UI
- Added a new Options tab for free rebinding of most gamepad buttons.
- Fixed VOIP trigger action display for gamepad on PC; improved wording to make VOIP mode clearer (push-to-talk vs toggle).
- Fixed UI sometimes showing too low inventory value in Expedition sign-up.
- Fixed Expedition stash-slot weapons not appearing in the weapon upgrade screen.
- Fixed item amounts not displaying for non-stackable items in Project donation rewards and Trials rewards.
- Added Open Party option for seamless joining (even when in a round).
- Added squadmate invite permissions (not just party leader).
- Added a display when a friend joins a player’s party while they’re topside.
- If Discord is linked: you can now invite Discord friends, or let them join directly via Open Party.
Utility
- Fixed zipline anchor point updating correctly when attached to a moving platform.
- Changing augments in loadout now organizes excess items in stash more cleanly.
- Fixed a case where two players defibbing at once would revive a downed player with full HP.
Quests
- Added extra interactions to the final objective in the Groundbreaking quest.
Anti-Cheat
- A three-strikes progressive ban system is being rolled out:
- 30 days → 60 days → permaban for repeat offenders
Known Issues
- The Solo vs Squads option currently does not show a pop-up when it becomes available at level 40+.
- Cosmetics purchasable via Raider Tokens that haven’t been bought yet may be missing from the customization menu.
- One Marco set helmet variant may appear incorrect in preview/menu but will appear correctly in-game.
- Players may occasionally not receive a skill point shown on the results screen; rebooting or playing another round resolves it.
