Dreadnought News

Fleet Flagship

You can now set the flagship for each fleet tier. This will use the first loadout of the selected ship for now.

• Your flagship is the default ship that will load at the start of a match unless you select another ship.
  
• You can set each flagship from the Manage Fleet option after you hit Play.
  
  • Click on a ship tile to access the Set Flagship option
    
  • Your selected flagship will display the flag below
    

Conquest on PS4

Conquest can now be played on PS4!


Scoring and Leaderboards

Scores for more game modes will now be recorded in preparation for having more leaderboards.

• Viewing leaderboards will be implemented in a future update.
  

Balance Changes

Artillery Cruiser Range

• Reduced T5 Heavy Artillery Cruiser range from 8500M to 8000M
  
• Normalized Medium Artillery Cruiser range to 7000M at all tiers.
  
• Changed max travel distance to be slightly longer than range to combat the instance where the reticule would change but the projectile would not reach the target.
  

Rocket Turrets

• Increased Projectile speed of rocket turrets
  

Light Rocket Turrets

• Increase damage and projectile speed
  
• T4 damage from 150 to 210 per projectile
  
• T5 damage from 180 to 245 per projectile
  
• Projectile speed increased by 50%
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Kinetic Weapon amp so that it now increases damage when taking damage.
  
• Fixed Elysium moon so it's not cut off on two sides.
  
• Fixed PS4 ship upgrade and xp conversion popups so they can both be closed correctly.
  
• This was difficult to test internally so let us know if any issues still occur
  
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New Vanity

• The Metal Goblin Figurehead, Decal, and Coating added for the Halloween season
  
• Previous seasonal vanity has returned at a discount!
  

This is the second part to the last release to get custom matches working on PS4. There are some other changes that also affect PC, which is why we are patching both. See below for details.

[h2]Custom Matches[/h2]

Custom Matches are now available on PS4

You should be able to invite players from your PSN friends list even if they are outside the game at the time of invite.

[h2]Weapons[/h2]

• Goliath and Scylla are now considered nukes and will be targeted by ANL
  
• Fixed Tartarus missile to apply the correct debuff at all tiers.
  
• Updated nuke blast radius in tooltips
  
• Changed swap weapon global cooldown functionality to be more reliable.
  
  • It now checks 1 second cooldown from your last switch when switching instead of the previous more complex formula.
    
  • Please let RayDog know how this is working for you after the update
    

[h2]Matchmaking[/h2]

• Changed matchmaking so that if a squad is in the queue, the opposing team has at least that many players.
  

[h2]Statistics[/h2]

• Resized elements on the statistics screen to fix cut off values.
  

[h2]Maps[/h2]

• Removed bright glowing light in the middle of Amirani.
  

[h2]Market[/h2]

[h3]The Tengshe Hero Ship is now available.[/h3]

Flagship of Admiral David Song, pirate turned hero of the Great Solar War who went on to rule New Singapore on Callisto as the Smuggler King, transforming it from a backwater outpost into one of the most vibrant colonies in the outer Solar System. Embodying both Song’s nobility and viciousness, the Tengshe is a feared presence on the battlefield.

This is a T4 Dreadnought with heavy mortars as a secondary weapons, featuring bombers, triad pods, anti missile lasers, and endurance mode as modules.

[h3]The Dragonhead Outfit is now available[/h3]

The opulent attire of the bosses of the Dragonhead Clan. Based in the colony of New Singapore on Callisto, the Dragonhead Clan controls nearly all trade, legal and otherwise, in the Jovian System.

[h2]XP Bonus Weekend[/h2]

• XP and Credits Boost will be Live from the Thursday 8/19 update through 2 AM CT Wednesday 8/25
  
• XP and Credits during the boost event have been increased for Turbo Mode based on feedback from the last event.
  

Custom Matches:
Members of your squad will now be pulled into the Custom Match lobby when you start a Custom Match.

• Note: Your squad will be disbanded when you join the Custom Match but all squad members at the time you started the Custom Match will be in your lobby.
  

PC Chat:
The minimized chat box in the hangar will no longer animate off the screen when you have an unread message in a channel.

• Note: The blink animation when you have an unread message is broken, but the chat won't hide off the screen.
  

[h2]Custom matches on PC[/h2]
We are introducing Custom Matches to PC Dreadnought for the first time. Players will have the ability to start matches with custom parameters such as game mode, map, teams, and players the host has selected.

Invites to Custom Match lobbies are based on your friends list. Once invited to the Custom Match lobby, your friends can also invite their friends.

Squads are not part of Custom Matches at this time.
You will exit your current squad when you join a custom match
If you invite someone who is currently in a squad the invite is only for them and not their squadmates.

There are no match rewards for Custom Matches at this time.
We may change this in the future but it would be at a lower reward level similar to Proving Grounds.

[h2]Known Issues - Custom Matches:[/h2]

• Currently you can start a custom match with just yourself (1v0). This can be a strange experience in some modes.
  
• Adding bots will fill the custom match to 8 v 8..
  
• We will update the custom match system for custom match sizes in the future.
  
• When you make a custom match while in a squad it will add your squadmates to the match but won’t pull them directly into the lobby. These players are already in the match and they will see the custom match chat tab in the hangar. They can select Play - Tier - Custom Game to enter the lobby.
  

[h2]Ship Modules:[/h2]

Heavy Mortars

• Added Heavy Mortars Tier 4. These are purchasable on T4 Dreadnoughts
  

Bombers:

• Increased Bomber move speed and damage to give them more of an impact.
  
• Bomber speeds have been adjusted
  
  • Cruise Target Speed: from 1250 to 2500
    
  • Top Target Speed: From 1750 to 3000
    
• Bomber Damage Values
  
  • T4 Damage : 450
    
  • T5 Damage : 500
    

[h2]Match Scoring:[/h2]

• Added Scoring for destroying deployables like pods and fighters. This is to incentivize targeting pods and fighters.
  
• Look for the scoring event called "DEBRIS".
  

[h2]Matchmaking:[/h2]
Added a second tier forced match start with bots. This will allow a shorter force start for one count of real players and a second if it is taking too long to start a match with a lower count of players.

Please Note: Matchmaking is a balance of trying to get players into the game quickly, trying to get them to play together, and trying to minimize several small matches of players happening at the same time instead of more players playing together.

This is another step in trying to improve matchmaking. It should allow more flexibility for higher peak and lower peak times. There can still be issues if you are on at a low peak time or if you queue right after 10 people just started a legendary match. Since matches can run 20-25 minutes and players can queue for specific match types it still may take a while to start a legendary match.

Your best bets to finding other players for Legendary queues are to add players to your friends list and to check Discord.

The current numbers for the legendary matchmaking checkpoints are 8 players minimum at 3 minutes and 4 players minimum at 10 minutes.
Veteran matches should always fire off around the 5 minute mark at the latest.
Recruit matches should start within 3 minutes.
Proving Grounds matches at all 3 levels will always start in less than 2 minutes.

[h2]Events[/h2]
The Ceres Awakens Event has ended. It will return next year in late spring or early summer

[h2]Market[/h2]
The Phoenix has risen again
The hero ship and outfit bundles are available for a limited time

[h2]Known Issue: PC Chat[/h2]

• The alert animation in the hangar that highlights the minimized chat bubble will push it off the screen when you get a message. You can get the chat window back by going into a Custom Match lobby and then going back to the hangar. This issue does not affect the chat window if it is open
  
• We will hotfix this sooner rather than later
  

https://www.greybox.com/dreadnought/en/news/dreadnought-release-26-patch-notes/

XP and Credits Boost Weekend

• Thursday 5/27 until Tuesday orning 6/1, players can earn about 50% extra Credits and XP from matches.
  

Steam DLC

The Dreadnought Battle Ready: Recruit Bundle is now available as DLC.

This bundle includes:

• The Marauder Hero Ship - Tier II Tactical Cruiser with an offense based loadout.
  
• Shugyosha Outfit
  
• 2,500 GP
  
• 110,000 Credits
  
• 90 Days of Elite Status
  

Market Updates

Hero Ships 50% Sale

• Akkoro - Tier IV Tactical Cruiser
  
• Hanuman - Tier III Dreadnought
  
• Hasta - Tier III Artillery Cruiser
  
• Naga - Tier III Corvette
  
• Zaratan - Tier IV Destroyer
  
• Demeter - Tier IV Corvette
  
• Leviathan - Tier IV Dreadnought
  
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Elite Status Sale

• 30 Day Elite Status is discounted 25%
  
• 90 Day Elite Status is discounted 50%
  

Credits

• 110,000 Credits are discounted 20%
  
• 300,000 Credits are discounted 40%
  
• 500,000 Credits are discounted 50%
  
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Bundles

• Sinley Bay Combat Training Bundle is discounted 50%
  
• memento Mori Mask is discounted 25%
  

PlayStation Bundle

This bundle includes:

• The Marouder Hero Ship - Tier II Tactical ruiser with an offense based loadout
  
• Shugyosha Outfit
  
• 110,000 Credits
  
• 90 Days of Elite Status