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Season 1: Uprising - Update



M60

• LMG designed around suppressing a position with constant, powerful fire
  
• Fire rate starts at 50% max and ramps up the longer it’s fired, with rarity level affecting how many shots it takes to reach max fire speed
  
• Players holding an M60 will be slowed down to 80% their max run speed (when in-hand)
  
• Base magazine capacity is 75, increases by 15 per rarity level
  
• 22 damage per bullet
  
• Destroys build walls with two bullets
  
• Requires 4 steps to reload instead of the usual 2
  

Knife

• Can deal up to 35 damage based on swing strength and distance
  
• Damage skips shield and hurts health directly
  
• Speeds up player movement by 10% when in-hand
  
• Automatically given to the player after leaving the launch platform (or when exiting the launch pod) and after being revived
  

Katana

• Can deal up to 75 damage based on swing strength and distance
  
• Damage skips shield and hurts health directly
  
• Speeds up player movement by 10% when holding in 1-hand, slows down player by 10% when 2-handing
  
• 2-handing the katana produces a small personal shield
  
• Shield mode blocks all bullets but does not block other damage types (grenades, melee items, etc)
  
• Using the shield is loud, it is more stealthy without the shield active
  

Zone Grenade

• Designed to force players out of cover (anti-peek tech)
  
• Sticks into the wall/floor/ceiling on impact
  
• Deals 10 damage per second (5 damage per tick) while inside its influence
  
• Starts with a 15 meter radius and shrinks down to nothing over 10 seconds
  
• Does not hurt squadmates, but does self damage
  

Shield Drink

• Blue soda can
  
• Restores 25 shield over 15 seconds
  
• See “Inventory Management” changes below for stacking info
  

Gun Balance Changes Pistols:

• 1911 base damage increased 20 -> 24
  
• 1911 fire rate decreased
  
• 1911 recoil increased on rapid successive shots
  
• Magnum .357 base damage increased 40 -> 44
  

SMGs:

• P90 recoil becomes more unstable the longer it’s fired
  

ARs:

• AKM recoil increased in later part of its pattern
  
• AKM damage decreased 17 -> 16
  
• AKM fire rate slightly increased
  
• CX4 base mag size decreased 30 -> 25
  
• CX4 fire rate rate increased
  
• CX4 damage increased 15 -> 16
  
• MK18 damage increased 15 -> 17
  
• MK18 rounds per second increased 6 -> 7
  

Snipers:

• AWP walk speed while scoped decreased to 25% max speed
  
• Sako85 recoil increased to include a bounce and overshoot on fire
  

Item Balance Changes

• Health Soda heal lowered from 50 -> 25
  
• Health Soda now heals 1 per second (instead of 2 per second)
  
• Large shield battery healing increased from 20 -> 50
  
• Large shield batteries are no longer found in-world
  
• Large shield batteries only spawn from players eliminated by your squad or in the loot drop
  

Inventory Management

• Shield Drinks and Health Sodas fit 5 per slot
  
• Frag grenade and Bananas fit 2 per slot
  
• Accessory Items (grenades & healing buffs) picked up with an offhand go directly into the inventory (if there space is available) and not auto-equip in the dominant hand
  
• Lower rarity weapons of the same type will be automatically dropped/swapped when a higher rarity one gets picked up
  

New Region

• "Summit" now located at the edge of Foothills
  
• Summit marks a new base erected by The Bureau
  

Region update

• The Tower's vicinity has been fortified by The Bureau
  
• South of The Tower now has a new blockade bordering Plains
  

Sprays

• Equip in the main menu under “Loadout”
  
• 3 sprays can be equipped at the same time
  
• Use them in-game by opening the ping wheel, selecting them, and place in the world with trigger
  

Calling Cards

• Equip in the main menu under “Loadout”
  
• After being eliminated, a player will see the selected calling card of their killer
  
• The calling card shows a pre-selected image and some player stats
  

Titles

• Equip in the main menu under “Loadout”
  
• These show below the player name tag and add some personal flavor
  
• The player’s title is also shown on their calling card
  

Battle Pass

• 50 tiers total of unlockable rewards (13 free rewards)
  
• Get access to all Battle Pass tiers for 330 Bureau Gold
  
• Daily and Weekly challenges for all users
  

Seeker Credits

• New social currency, no real money involved
  
• Send Seeker Credits to friends (1 per friend per day)
  
• Collect up to 25 Seeker Credits per day
  
• Spend them in the Seeker Credit specific shop
  

Lighting

• Improved environmental global illumination
  
• Increase in overall crispness, sharpness, and truer colors
  
• Better Skin lighting using global probes
  

Characters
Increased Fidelity on all Character Textures utilizing new compression tech
Improved Hand highlighting

• Fixed issue causing either challenge progress or match XP gain progress (not statistic progress) to fail to be reported
  
• Fixed missing “exit door” icon on Post Match screen to show when squadmates have exited