Patch Notes/July 31, 2024

These are the Patch Notes for the July 31st, 2024 Season 1 update for XDefiant, referred to as Y1S1.3 (Year 1, Season 1, Patch 3).

Patch Notes

Gameplay

• XP Boosters will no longer count down when you're killing time in the Practice Zone.
• Increased vertical ADS sensitivity for controllers so that aiming up and down is more consistent with aiming left and right.

Game Modes

• Tweaked the Ranked mode pre-game. Ranked matches now won't start with less than 8 players. The Leave button has also been nixed from the map-voting screen to discourage players from dropping out (and Ranked matches will cancel if players manage to skedaddle during map voting).
• CTF mode is now available in Ranked play.

Factions

• Echelon's Intel Suit now only reveals enemies through walls for the player wearing it. Allies will still see enemy locations on the minimap, though.
• DedSec's spiderbots were shocking target players before leaping on their faces, which wasn't winning them fans. Now they only zap targets at the face-hugging stage of the relationship.

Weapons

• The Rapid Fire Barrel and Muzzle Booster attachments were causing less recoil on some weapons (such as the ACR 6.8, and AK-47) when they were supposed to cause more recoil. That's fixed.
• Reduced the MP7's magazine capacity from 35 to 30 and its rate of fire from 875 to 850 rounds per minute.
• Updated the old iron sights that were appearing on certain LVOA-C cosmetic skins.
• It's an extravaganza of shotgun balancing. Here's the nitty-gritty of each weapon's tuning:
  • M870
    • Short range increased from 10m to 13m.
    • Medium range increased from 15m to 18m.
    • Sprint Out Time (sprint-to-shoot time) reduced from 250ms to 200ms.
    • Hipfire spread range reduced roughly 10 percent from 3.4-4.0 to 3.0-3.6 degrees.
    • Aim spread range reduced roughly 18 percent from 2.55-3.0 to 2.0-2.6 degrees.
    • Crouch hipfire spread range reduced from 2.89-3.4 to 2.7-3.2 degrees.
    • Crouch aim spread range reduced from 2.55-3.0 to 2.0-2.6 degrees.
    • Crouch slide, in air, and mantle hipfire spread reduced by 40 percent from 9.0-13.5 to 5.0-9.0 degrees.
    • Crouch slide, in air, and mantle aim spread range reduced from 3.4-3.4 to 2.5-3.0 degrees.
  • AA-12
    • Short range increased from 7m to 10m.
    • Medium range increased from 10m to 13m.
    • Hipfire spread range reduced roughly 10 percent from 4.75-6.5 to 4.25-6.0 degrees.
    • Aim spread range reduced roughly 13 percent from 2.81-4.13 to 2.5-3.5 degrees.
    • Crouch hipfire spread range reduced from 4.04-5.53 to 3.5-5.0 degrees.
    • Crouch aim spread range reduced from 2.82-4.13 to 2.5-3.5 degrees.
    • Crouch slide, in air, and mantle hipfire spread reduced by 40 percent from 11.25-15.0 to 8.0-12.0 degrees.
    • Crouch slide, in air, and mantle aim spread range reduced from 3.75-3.75 to 3.0-3.5 degrees.
  • Double Barrel
    • Short range increased from 12m to 15m.
    • Medium range increased from 16m to 19m.
    • Reserve ammo increased from 12 to 16.
    • Crouch slide, in air, and mantle spread reduced by 40 percent from 11.13-15 to 7-11 degrees.
  • Sawed-Off Shotgun
    • Reserve ammo increased from 6 to 10.
    • Sprint-to-shoot time reduced from 250ms to 150ms.
    • Crouch slide, in air, and mantle spread reduced by 40 percent, from 11.25-15.0 to 6.68-9.0 degrees.
• The Pistol Grip and PEQ-15 Laser attachments for shotguns also had their spread Min/Max bonus reduced from 20 to 15 percent.
• Finally, all shotgun reticle blooms (visualized by the vertical and horizontal hash marks of the HUD reticule) are now enlarged slightly while leaping.

Devices

• Sticky grenades now stay put rather than disappearing if the deploying player kicks the bucket.

Miscellaneous

• The cursor no longer shifts to the main display when playing on a second monitor in fullscreen mode with the "lock mouse to game window" option turned on.
• Fixed an issue preventing players' kill/death ratio from updating properly after completing matches.

Undocumented

• Reduced the reserve ammo of the MP7 from 140 rounds to 120 rounds.
• Added the map Daytona.