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The Remote Observer – Vol 10
Optimizations, Weapon Changes and more!
Posted On 2017-08-04 04:21:00
The Remote Observer – Vol 10

Don’t miss the highlights from this week’s PC update and hotfixes with The Remote Observer! Don’t have the opportunity to read over our PC release notes? Worry not, Tenno! We’ve compiled all of the important changes you might have missed down below.
Our Console team is working on getting the next update your way, so stay tuned for your own section of the Remote Observer soon!

PC – WHAT YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

In-Mission
• Optimized Feral and Chesa Kubrow AI to reduce time spent looking for pickups.
• Oberon’s Hallowed Ground Grass and Prime ferns (Prime) will now match your accent color, and the ferns will get your energy color in the middle of them for 2-tone fashionframe.
• Reduced damage of the Swarmer weapon used by Comba and Scrambus units.
• Lowered Corpus Tech Fire Rate to 600 shots per minute and lowered damage to 25.
• Fixed the Jordas Verdict being uncompletable due to Jordas Golem sometimes not docking in the correct location.
• Fixed Sentinel Regen Mod not activating sometimes.
• Lessened the spread from the Heavy Caliber mod when used with the Scourge, Ferrox, and Javlok.
• Fixed Iron Skin on Rhino Prime being incorrectly colored.
• Fixed not being able to use gear item hotkeys as your Operator.

Weapon Changes
• Adjusted the AKBronco Prime’s Impact, Puncture, and Slash damage to match the Bronco Prime. Increased magazine to 8 and reduced fire rate to 5.5.
• Javlok alt fire’s AOE explosion happens 1 second after impact. Throwing now consumes ammo, with AOE damage increasing by 20% per round in mag when thrown. Ammo pool reduced to 300.
• Increased Tenora’s magazine size from 80 to 150.

UI and UX
• Kuva Siphons are now marked with an in-world marker. These will only be visible once a player is in the same tile as the Kuva Siphon.
• Searching a Focus school in the Arsenal will now display weapons that have a respective installed Lens.
• Fixed 4k Endo Sortie reward not showing in Reward list on the End of Mission screen.

Optimizations
• Optimized specific materials to improve rendering performance; the Void and the Kuva Fortress saw the most improvement but materials throughout the game were updated.
• Improved ambience performance in the Grineer Shipyard and Corpus Ship tilesets.
• Optimized Fog rendering performance.
• Optimized Dx10 and Dx11 memory footprint by a further 20-30MB.


That’s all for this week, Tenno! Be sure to keep an eye out for the next edition of The Remote Observer and we’ll keep an eye out for anything else you could have missed.