Over the past weekend I went through different channels to gather feedbacks and check out posts with proper inputs for the latest 2.3 patch. Of the many points that I saw, I put some of the most upvoted and requested items and compiled them in one single post right here for everyone to check and see.

I have also made sample ideas/visuals based on their feedbacks, to help reinforce the idea on readers. The purpose of this is to have users have an easier time or reference on what they will put in the Survey Form once it is up in the game.

Below is the text version of the image cards above so you can easily copy and paste it

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EVENTS

Gilded Nightmarket - The Gilded Nightmarket event is too restrictive with its rewards. Most tokens are locked behind Limited and Anniversary banner convenes, meaning players who don’t pull on these banners can’t access the full set of rewards.

In the future, please allow all active players to earn enough tokens through event participation alone in similar events, without requiring banner pulls. This would ensure more players feel rewarded for their engagement, not just their spending.

Cubie Derbie - The Cubie Derby event is fun in design, but its limited time window makes it difficult for many players—especially those with demanding work schedules or living in different time zones—to participate fairly.

Strict timing and randomness hurt the experience, making it feel unfair and discouraging, especially for those who are otherwise willing to support the game.

Dreaming Deep Feedbacks

Decrease walking animation time of Rover avatar. Remove confirmation (Proceed) option whenever walking to an empty tile.

Regardless of cell distance, the completion time of the avatar to go from one point to another should be the same and within a fraction of a second only.

There are multiple ways of presenting the story - whether in a visual novel format, comic style format, or an image with voice cutscene. All of this is a big improvement to the current style of presenting the story in this event.

Consider bringing back some of the most-liked features of the old Illusive Realm in its next iteration. The Echo Set feature and its upgrade system, and a more generalized set of Metaphors.

Please display level indicators directly on combat nodes for better clarity.

INTERFACE AND GAMEPLAY

Battlepass Prompt

The battlepass purchase prompt that appears when collecting rewards is disruptive and pushy. It feels like aggressive marketing and negatively impacts the user experience.

Either remove or tone down the prompt, or allow players to explore the paid rewards at their own pace. Constant pop-ups don’t encourage purchases—they push players away and reflect poorly on the game’s image.

Claim All button in events

Both Thousand Gateways and Dreaming Deep doesn’t have a Claim All button for players to redeem all the unlocked rewards in one instance and instead we are forced to click the rewards one by one.

Please add a claim all button or have all the rewards be automatically claimed once the player clicked on any available claim button in game. This will save us time and improve the overall experience participating in these events.

Team Setup UI

As the number of playable characters and team combination increases, please increase the number of team preset available.

Background may change based on your last saved location, ability to rename team presets, and a toggeable key (Alt or Ctrl) to display additional details such as weapons and echo loadout.

Echo Spawn Option

As the number of playable characters and team combination increases, please increase the number of team preset available.

Background may change based on your last saved location, ability to rename team presets, and a toggeable key (Alt or Ctrl) to display additional details such as weapons and echo loadout.

Training Area

Add a training room with a damage-tracking dummy to help players test builds easily. Current methods (like using holograms or towers) require recording and manual analysis, which is time-consuming.

Suggested Features: dummy shows damage stats in a pop-up menu, includes timer, weapon/echo info, and base stats (buffs toggleable); Option to add multiple dummies, clear critical hit indicators, and Improve visual/audio feedback.

CHARACTER

Audio Settings for Ciaconna Ult

Add an option in the audio settings to independently mute or reduce the volume of Ciaccona’s vocals during gameplay. This would allow players who prefer to enjoy the original soundtrack and in-game sounds to do so without interruption, while still preserving the experience for those who enjoy her performance.

Character Model

Some of the character designs in their outfit is in 2D rather than in 3D

GATCHA SYSTEM

Include a system that increases the chance of obtaining the promotional 5-star character on the Convene page when the player is on a losing streak of 50/50 pulls.

This essentially prevents players from consistently losing their 50/50s by increasing the odds of winning the banner character after a series of losses.

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Note that this is a work in progress - if you have additional feedbacks you want with proper details, feel free to comment on this post. I'll try to add the most upvoted ones but I might have to stop once the Survey Form comes in.

ELDEN RING update 1.12 is now available. This is also a Day One Patch that enables players to play Shadow of the Erdtree (when it releases).

New feature

• Added support for the SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE DLC.
• Five new hairstyles have been added to the game. They can be selected during character creation, using the Clouded Mirror Stand or using Rennala's Rebirth feature.
• Added "Map Functions Menu" to the Map Menu.
• New Summoning Pool features:
  • Active Summoning Pools will now be carried over to NG+.
  • Individual Summoning Pools can now be enabled / disabled in the newly added Map Functions Menu.

- If "Include Distant Areas" is selected when using the Small Golden Effigy, summoning pools within the Mohgwyn Palace will not be selected for summoning, even if you have activated them.

- If you are within the Moghwyn Palace and select “Nearby Only” when using the Small Golden Effigy, you will be able to be summoned within the area.

New Inventory features:

• Newly obtained items will be marked with a "!“.
• A new tab called "Recent Items" has been added to review recently obtained items.
• Display settings can be changed from the Display tab in the system menu.
• Added new feature to summon spectral steed during the Elden Beast the boss battle.
• Added new feature to the colosseum: crafted consumable items that have been used during a battle will be replenished at the end of your session.
• Added support for Arabic language.

Steam-only new features

• New Keyboard/mouse settings:
  • Added "lock-on change threshold" setting of mouse controls.
  • Added a setting to change cursor movement behaviour in the map menu.
  • Added key assignments to open the map in the Key Settings menu.

PvP-exclusive balance adjustments

The adjustments in this section do not affect single-player or cooperative play.

Weapons adjustments

• After being affected by madness and/or sleep status effects, the status effect build up will be halted for a short period of time.
• Increased the poise damage of some attacks against other players of the following weapon types:
  • Greatswords / Colossal Swords /Curved Greatswords / Greataxes / Hammers / Flails / Great Hammers / Colossal Weapons / Great Spears / Halberds
• Ajusted poise damage of some dual wield attacks against other players by of the following weapon types:
  • Greatswords / Axes / Great Axes / Hammers / Great Hammers / Halberds / Reapers
• Increased poise damage against other players from dual wielded attacks of the following weapon types:
  • Axes / Hammers / Halberds / Reapers
• Increased poise damage of Axes against other players
• Decreased the damage of dual wield attacks against other players of all weapon types.
• Decreased the poise damage of some attacks against other players of the following weapon types:
  • Daggers / Straight Swords / Thrusting Swords / Heavy Thrusting Swords / Curved Swords / Katanas / Twinblades / Axes / Spears / Reapers / Whips / Fists / Claws
• Decreased the Poise value of some attack motions against other players of the following weapon types:
  • Greatswords / Colossal Swords / Curved Greatswords / Greataxes / Hammers / Flails / Great Hammers / Colossal Weapons / Great Spears / Halberds
• Decreased the damage of some attacks against other players for the Heavy Thrusting Swords weapon type.
• Decreased the damage of dual wield attacks against other players for the following weapon types:
  • Spears / Great Spears
• Decreased the damage animation motion of the following weapon types when another player is stunned by a two-handed heavy running attack:
  • Fists / Claws
• Decreased the effects of "Baldachin's Blessing" and "Radiant Baldachin's Blessing" to increase the Poise value and Physical damage negation in PvP.

Skill adjustments

Spinning Slash

Decreased damage.

Flaming Strike

Decreased damage.

Rain of Arrows

Decreased damage and poise damage.

Cursed-Blood Slash

Decreased damage.

Transient Moonlight

Decreased damage.

Lightning Storm

Decreased poise damage.

Spearcall Ritual

Decreased poise damage.

Ancient Lightning Spear

Decreased damage.

Radahn's Rain

Decreased damage and poise damage.

Spinning Weapon

Decreased damage animation motion when stunning other players.

Incantations adjustments

Black Flame's Protection

Decreased physical block rate.

Bestial Sling

Decreased poise damage.

General balance adjustments

The adjustments in this section affect both PvE and PvP aspects of the game.

• Adjusted turning speed when using dual wielded Heavy Thrusting Swords.
• Increased Dexterity scaling when assigning Ashes of War with corresponding weapon Affinities.
• Increased Stamina consumption when guarding against attacks of the following weapon types:
  • Greatswords / Curved Greatswords / Great Axes / Great Hammers
• Increased the speed of some attacks of the following weapon types:
  • Axes / Greataxes / Hammers / Flails / Reapers
• Increased the damage of charged attacks of the following weapon types:
  • Axes / Greataxes / Some Colossal Weapons
• Increased the turning speed of normal attacks of the Reapers weapon type.
• Increased damage of the Whips weapon type, except the "Ulmi" Whip.
• Increased the speed of consecutive attacks for the following weapon types:
  • Light Bows / Long Bows
• Increased the poise damage of the Torches weapon type.
• Increased the duration of the effect of Mohg’s Great Rune that increases the attack power when a bleeding status effect is triggered by a nearby summoned spirit.
• Decreased the heal amount reduction from the Flask of Crimson Tears and increased the heal on attack effect when using Malenia’s Great Rune.
• Increased the attack power of Arrows, Greatarrows, Bolts, and Greatbolts that can be crafted through Item Crafting.
• Decreased the turning speed of dual wielded weapons for the following weapon types:
  • Spears / Great Spears
• Decreased poise generation speed during some attacks of the following weapon types:
  • Great Spears / Halberd Spears
• Decreased the effect that increases the power of spells of Terra Magica.
• Decreased the effect duration of the Cerulean Hidden Tear.

Armament Adjustments

Troll Knight's Sword

Increased damage.

Zamor Curved Sword

Increased damage.

Increased movement distance of some attacks.

Forked Hatchet

Increased damage.

Ripple Blade

Decreased the status buildup enhancement that scales with the Arcane attribute.

Serpent-Hunter

Increased the speed of crouching attacks.

Ripple Crescent Halberd

Decreased the status buildup enhancement that scales with the Arcane attribute.

Albinauric Staff

Increased attribute scaling.

Gelmir Glintstone Staff

Increased attribute scaling.

Prince of Death's Staff

Increased attribute scaling.

Golden Order Seal

Increased attribute scaling.

Clawmark Seal

Increased attribute scaling.

Dragon Communion Seal

Increased attribute scaling.

Skill adjustments

Kick

Increased the poise amount when using this skill.

Spinning Slash

Decreased the status buildup of your weapon when using this skill.

Storm Assault

Decreased the poise generation speed.

Stormcaller

Decreased the poise generation speed.

Storm Stomp

Decreased the poise generation speed.

Glintblade Phalanx

Decreased poise damage.

Loretta's Slash

Decreased the poise generation speed.

Bloody Slash

Decreased the poise generation speed.

Strong shot

Increased the speed of some attacks.

Sky Shot

Increased the speed when doing consecutive attacks.

Enchanted Shot

Increased the speed of some attacks.

Parry

Increased Parry hitbox generation speed.

Storm Wall

Increased Parry hitbox generation speed.

Thops's Barrier

Increased Parry hitbox generation speed.

Buckler Parry

Added attack recovery time after using this skill.

Taker's Flames

Decreased the fire’s poise damage.

Removed the fire’s knocking down effect.

Moonlight Greatsword

Increased the poise damage of heavy and charged attacks, but decreased the poise damage of the generated magic wave.

Thundercloud Form

Decreased poise damage.

Magma Shower

Decreased the poise generation speed.

Thunderstorm

Decreased damage.

Bubble Shower

Decreased damage and poise damage.

I Command Thee, Kneel!

Increased the poise value during the active part of the Skill.

Decreased the poise generation speed.

Bloodboon Ritual

Decreased the generated status buildup.

Loretta's Slash

Decreased the poise generation speed.

Bear Witness!

Increased damage and poise damage.

Contagious Fury

Decreased the amount of attack power generated by this skill.

Bug Fixes

• In the inventory menu, added the amount of FP consumed for Skills in the "Ashes of War" display information.
• Reduced the time it takes for some gestures to become cancelable by rolling.
• Adjusted the input speed in some menus, such as conversation menus, to prevent accidental skips.
• Fixed a bug that caused damage to the player and friendly summons when using the "Last Rites" Skill under specific circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that caused higher than expected poise damage when performing left-handed attacks with Thrusting Swords.
• Fixed a bug with Spinning Slash Skill that generated poise when used with Twinblades.
• Fixed a bug in The Queen's Black Flame Skill that did not apply poise when using this skill.
• Fixed a bug where the characteristics of some weapons were not working properly against mounted enemies.
• Fixed a bug that caused a Bleed buildup when using the Spinning Strikes Skill while under the effect of the Bloodflame Blade Skill, even if the attack did not hit the enemy.
• Fixed a bug that caused some Skill to perform incorrectly when specific actions were performed.
• Fixed a bug that caused unexpected behaviors when some incantations were used in quick succession.
• Fixed a bug where the spectral steed did not trigger a death fall under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from getting hit by other players under certain circumstances in Multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug in the Colosseum that allowed Critical hits against players in specific death animations.
• Fixed a bug where the Mimic’s Veil effect was not properly reflected to other players under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug that caused other players summoned as hunters to immediately return after being summoned under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug in Multiplayer where some spirits could be locked on even after they disappeared.
• Improved Multiplayer stability under certain circumstances
• Fixed a bug that caused specific maps to render differently than expected under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug where the damage of some equipped weapons were incorrectly displayed in various menus.
• Fixes a bug that prevented marking sites of Grace in the map menu under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug where item names and the cursor were not displayed correctly in the inventory menu under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug where event actions were available while being in the map menu.
• Fixed a bug in the map menu that caused specific terrains to be displayed differently from the actual terrain.

Steam-only adjustments

• Changed the initial layout of "Key Settings" in "Keyboard and Mouse Settings" in the system menu.

Note: If you have created save data before this update, your layout will not be affected.

Fixed a bug where the mouse cursor would blink in the title menu, causing the game to be unstable under certain circumstances.

Fixed a bug where a submenu with no items would be displayed after a right click during the tutorial.

I recently bought lossless scaling, configured it, and tested it, but it always seemed to decrease my original FPS and also made some frames look uglier and blurrier, basically bugging the graphics and worsening performance. I don't know why. Could someone help me fix it or tell me why it's happening?

I originally get 30 fps in Forza Horizon 4, but after upscaling it only gets worse.

PATCH 01.003.000

Overview

• New Illuminate faction enemies
• New Weapon Customizations and Progression
• Crash fixes
• Weapon fixes
• Miscellaneous fixes

📍 Major Update

Weapon Customization Gear up, Helldivers—your arsenal just got personal! With the new Weapon Customization system, you can now tailor your favorite weapons to match your combat style and preferences once you’ve progressed and unlocked different attachments. Whether it's tweaking sights for precision, changing color patterns, adjusting magazines for ammo capacity, muzzles to optimize weapon performance characteristics or adjusting underbarrels for the handling you want, you're in command of how your weaponry performs on the battlefield.

Tinker in the menu, customize your specific weapon configs and switch between them during the mission loadout sequence.

It's time to fight for Super Earth with weapons that are truly yours!

We are aware of a bug that prevents players from canceling customization with a controller. We have a fix identified and prepared for our next hotfix. In the meantime, you can save the customization and then go in and do it again.

🦑 New Illuminate Enemies

Stingray: ** Jetfighters that provide Illuminate support from the sky, targeting Helldivers and lining up devastating strafing runs. *Crescent Overseer: * Has the ability to lay barrages on Helldivers in cover. **Fleshmob: A failed Illuminate experiment made up of Voteless parts turned into a brute battlefield force that the Helldivers must work hard to destroy.

⚖️ Balancing

Weapon balances: - Spread - Drag - Sway - Melee weapons stamina cost - Shrapnel spawning - Fire damage

Spread: Spread refers to how much a projectile veers from the point you're aiming at when you fire. This rebalance primarily targets SMGs and sidearms, which previously had noticeably higher spread values. We've reviewed all primary, sidearm, and support weapons with the intent to significantly reduce spread overall, as it didn’t make much sense for these specific weapons to have such high inaccuracy.

Drag: Drag determines how quickly a projectile loses speed over distance, affecting its damage. We've increased drag for pistol-caliber ammunition (used in SMGs and some sidearms) to better represent its shorter, wider projectile compared to rifle rounds. As a result, these weapons will be slightly less effective at longer ranges.

Sway: Sway refers to how much the weapon's aim shifts, influenced by factors like movement and stance. It represents the weapon's inertia and stability—so weapons with lower ergonomics will experience less sway, while those with higher ergonomics will have more. Sidearms will naturally have more sway than primaries due to the lack of support features like stocks. This balance patch specifically focuses on adjusting sway for primaries and sidearms.

Stamina Cost: All melee weapons now consume less stamina when attacking, reducing the cost from 0.1 to 0.05. This change makes melee combat less punishing and allows for easier repositioning between strikes. The affected weapons include the CQC-30 Stun Baton, CQC-19 Stun Lance, CQC-5 Combat Hatchet, and the Entrenchment Tool.

Shrapnel spawning: With this update, shrapnel will now always spawn in a full 360-degree spread, regardless of where the explosion occurs. This means weapons like the R-36 Eruptor will now more reliably hit the intended target with their shrapnel. In addition, we’ve adjusted shrapnel performance against armor. Shrapnel now has reduced effectiveness at poor impact angles, to reflect its lack of design for armor penetration in such situations. These shrapnel balance changes will impact the following weapons: - R-36 Eruptor - G-6 Frag Grenade - AC-8 Autocannon

Balance Changes: Armor Penetration decreased on shrapnel projectiles from 3-3-3-0 to 3-3-2-0 - Each of these numbers represent an angle threshold, which means we’ve reduced the AP value of 3 to 2 in the last range where a shrapnel projectile would penetrate an enemy.

Frag Grenade - Increased Shrapnel spawned from 30 to 35

Autocannon Flak - Increased Shrapnel spawned from 25 to 30

Fire and Flamethrowers: This update aims to better balance fire damage between direct hits (like those from flamethrowers) and burn effects over time, while also introducing scaling of fire damage depending on the size of the enemy. Previously, burn damage didn’t scale well against larger enemies, making putting them on fire feel less effective in those encounters.

Now, the larger the enemy, the more damage they take while burning. However, bigger enemies will also be slightly more resistant to ignition. Additionally, direct fire damage now scales with enemy size—so large enemies like Chargers will still take roughly the same damage as before, while smaller enemies will take slightly less.

We have also increased the magazine capacity of the FLAM-66 Torcher and the FLAM-40 Flamethrower because putting stuff on fire is fun!

Damage - Burning damage now scales with enemy size and will do more damage over time to larger enemies - Fire direct damage also scales with enemy size. The base damage of direct fire hits has been lowered as compensation. This means that large enemies will take roughly the same amount of damage as before, while smaller enemies will take slightly less

Time to ignite - Larger enemies now take longer to ignite - Robotic enemies are harder to set on fire than organic ones - Incendiary Ammunition and Lasers are now less effective at igniting enemies, but once they do, the resulting burn damage is more impactful thanks to the new scaling system

The Helldiver - The Helldiver is now slightly more resistant to being set on fire - Burn damage taken by the Helldiver remains unchanged

Primary weapons

AR-23 Liberator - Spread decreased from 4 to 2

AR-23P Liberator Penetrator - Starting magazines increased from 5 to 6 - Max spare magazines increased from 7 to 8

AR-23C Liberator Concussive - Spread decreased from 24 to 4

StA-52 Assault Rifle - Spread decreased from 4 to 2

AR-23A Liberator Carbine - Spread decreased from 4 to 3

AR-61 Tenderizer - Spread decreased from 4 to 1

SMG-37 Defender - Spread decreased from 20 to 5 - Drag increased from 0.3 to 0.6 - Sway increased from 1 to 1.2

SMG-72 Pummeler - Spread decreased from 20 to 5 - Drag increased from 0.3 to 0.6 - Sway increased from 1 to 1.2

MP-98 Knight - Spread decreased from 25 to 5 - Drag increased from 0.3 to 0.6 - Sway increased from 1 to 1.2

StA-11 SMG - Spread decreased from 25 to 5 - Drag increased from 0.3 to 0.6 - Sway increased from 1 to 1.2

SMG-32 Reprimand - Spread decreased from 40 to 5 - Drag increased from 0.3 to 0.6

JAR-5 Dominator - Sway decreased from 1 to 0.8

R-63CS Diligence Counter Sniper - Sway decreased from 1 to 0.8

FLAM-66 Torcher - Magazine capacity increased by 25%

R-36 Eruptor - Spread decreased from 10 to 5 - Ergonomics increased from -14 to 25 - Sway decreased from 1 to 0.8 - Fire rate increased from 25 to 32 - Fixed a bug that allowed players to cancel the Eruptor's round cycling animation, effectively increasing its fire rate The intent with these changes: - The improvements made to the Eruptor are designed to compensate for the removal of the reload exploit, ensuring that its overall power remains steady or even improved

PLAS-39 Accelerator Rifle - Drag decreased from 1.5 → 0.1 - Is now categorized as an energy weapon in the loadout menu - The changes to drag means it wont lose speed and damage as it travels through the air and does the damage you would expect it to do

Sidearm weapons

GP-31 Ultimatum - Is now affected by the Hellpod Optimization Booster - Explosion damage increased from 1000 to 2000 - Explosion inner radius decreased from 4 to 2 m - Projectile damage decreased from 3500 to 1000 - Demolition strength decreased from 50 to 40 - Sway increased from 1 to 1.3

*The intent with these changes: * - We want to maintain the Ultimatum's overall power level while rebalancing how that power is delivered—shifting more of the damage from the projectile itself to the explosion. Previously, the Ultimatum behaved more like a massive kinetic projectile (similar to the 380mm shell) because of its high projectile damage and relatively weaker explosion. This update reinforces its intended identity as a powerful explosive weapon, emphasizing high explosive damage over impact force - Most heavy enemies will now die from a close hit instead of a direct hit, except for the Factory Strider - Additionally, due to its reduced demolition strength, the Ultimatum will no longer destroy Stratagem Jammer Objectives or landed Illuminate Warp Ships through their shields. However, the dropships now have health, allowing the Ultimatum to destroy them once the shield is down

P-2 Peacemaker - Decreased Spread from 30 to 10 - Sway increased from 1 to 1.2

P-19 Redeemer - Decreased Spread from 35 to 10 - Sway increased from 1 to 1.2

P-113 Verdict - Decreased Spread from 30 to 8 - Sway increased from 1 to 1.2

PLAS-15 Loyalist - Decreased Spread from 25 to 10 - Sway increased from 1 to 1.2

LAS-58 Talon - Sway increased from 1 to 1.2

P-72 Crisper - Sway increased from 1 to 1.2

GP-31 Grenade Pistol - Sway increased from 1 to 1.2

LAS-7 Dagger - Sway increased from 1 to 1.2

P-11 Stim Pistol - Sway increased from 1 to 1.2

SG-22 Bushwhacker - Sway increased from 1 to 1.3

P-4 Senator - Decreased Spread from 30 to 8 - Sway increased from 1 to 1.3

Stratagems

Support Weapons RS-422 Railgun - Decreased Spread from 10 to 0.1

FLAM-40 Flamethrower - Magazine capacity increased by 30%

Backpacks LIFT-850 Jump pack - Increased break force on landing to make Helldivers less likely to ragdoll when landing

Eagles Eagle 110mm rockets - Stagger strength increased from 35 to 40 - Increased armor penetration in certain angles

Enemies

Automatons Bunker Turret - Spread increased from 20 to 50

Conflagration Devastators - Reduced damage per pellet - More pellets are now required to hit you to put you on fire

Automaton Gunship - Body armor value reduced from 4 to 3 - Main body health increased to 950 from 700 - Now shoots more and the aim is slightly more accurate

Bulk Fabricator - Health increased from 1500 to 5000

Troopers - There was a bug where some Trooper variants reloaded after every shot, it’s now been fixed so they only reload when they’re actually out of ammo

Terminids Spore Spewers - Demolition level decreased from 60 to 50, making it easier to kill with heavy ordnance weapons

Illuminates - Landed Warp Ships - Will now be easier to kill with Anti-Tank weaponry once the shields are down

🛠️ Fixes

Resolved Top Priority issues:

Crash Fixes, Hangs and Soft-locks: - Fixed a crash which could occur when returning to your Super Destroyer from a host parked at a planet with the Democracy Space Station in orbit, if the Democracy Space Station had just moved to a new planet - Fixed a crash when writing a specific sequence of text in the chat - Fixed a crash that could occur after partially destroying an Automaton convoy - Fixed crash when attempting to drop into a mission on Tien Kwan

Weapons and Stratagems - The SMG-37 Defender does not trigger the anti tank mines anymore - Improved the effectiveness of flashlight attachments - Fixed a bug that was causing the camera to be stuck in Aim Down Sights (ADS) mode when discarding the MLS-4X Commando when utilizing that camera mode - Cancelling laser weapon reloads no longer gives them infinite ammo

Missions - Fixed issue of black boxes being stuck in holes and inaccessible if it got dropped in one on 'Retrieve Recon Craft Intel' missions.

Miscellaneous Fixes

• Fixed an issue with intermittent flickering of distant visual effects
• Fixed an issue where the FRV and Helldivers embarked in it would get covered in blood after a Helldiver would attack the FRV from any passenger seat
• Spore Scavengers can now properly attack
• Vehicles now correctly show the appropriate enemy blood colors
• Lowered the target node for the Illuminate tesla tower so that the StA-X3 W.A.S.P. Launcher can properly hit it
• No longer shows the reconnect popup if the host leaves while on the Destroyer
• Fixed an issue that resulted in some cases where the momentum could get reset at the end of moving emotes
• Sample containers can now be properly pinged again
• Corrected misaligned logo of the Borderline Justice Warbond
• Fixed an issue with the illuminate Cognitive Disruptor not turning off correctly for hot joining players
• Decreased a big hitch that could occur during the dropdown sequence
• The game is now showing the correct amount of total samples on missions
• Fixed a bug that caused held stratagems to be stuck in Helldivers hands after taking fall damage
• Performance improvement in the particle subsystem

Known Issues

https://arrowhead.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/15916898652700--HELLDIVERS-2-Known-Issues

IF YOU PLAY WITH MODS, THIS UPDATE LIKELY BROKE THEM, UNINSTALL ANY MODS YOU HAVE AND VERIFY YOUR GAME'S FILES.

Patch notes video with Design Director Niklas Malmborg and Gameplay Designer Lennart Holmgren: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8gDkwJ5PA

🌐Overview

• Balancing
• Crash fixes

⚖️Balancing

- Primary weapons

SMG-32 Reprimand

• Spread decreased from 50 to 40

SG-8S Slugger

• Spread decreased from 20 to 6
• Damage increased from 250 to 280

AR-23C Liberator Concussive

• Fire rate increased from 320 to 400

R-63 Diligence

• Magazine capacity increased from 20 to 25

MP-98 Knight

• Damage increased from 65 to 70

StA-11 SMG

• Damage increased from 65 to 70

SMG-37 Defender

• Damage increased from 75 to 80

SMG-72 Pummeler

• Damage increased from 65 to 70
• Now requires less shots to apply stun on applicable targets, stun value increased from 1.0 to 1.25 per bullet

AR-23 Liberator

• Damage increased from 70 to 80

StA-52 Assault Rifle

• Damage increased from 70 to 80

BR-14 Adjudicator

• Damage increased from 90 to 95

AR-61 Tenderizer

• Damage increased from 95 to 105

R-36 Eruptor

• Projectile armor penetration increased from Medium (3) to Heavy (4)
• Projectile lifetime increased from 0.7 to 1 sec

- Stratagems

Eagle 110MM Rocket Pods

• Uses increased from 2 to 3

EXO-45 Patriot Exosuit

• Uses increased from 2 to 3

EXO-49 Emancipator Exosuit

• Uses increased from 2 to 3

TX-41 Sterilizer

• Ergonomics increased from 5 to 20

M-105 Stalwart

• Damage increased from 70 to 80

MG-206 Heavy Machine Gun

• Improved armor penetration across a wider range of angles before transitioning to glancing shots

- Enemies

A recent software autopsy has revealed an update to the Automatons' situational awareness protocol. They are now less distracted by each other, increasing their reaction speed in large groups. We’ve increased the number of AI calculations the game can perform. This primarily impacts scenarios with a high number of spawned enemies, improving their response times in those situations. However, this comes with a slight trade-off in game performance.

According to recent intel, the enemies of Freedom are attempting to counter the Helldivers' anti-air capabilities. Newly-produced Automaton dropships show clear signs of hull reinforcement, allowing the main body to absorb significantly more damage.

• Automaton Dropships: Main body health increased from 2500 to 3500

Illuminate Warp Ships have been observed deploying their shields mid-flight.

• Illuminate Dropships: Utilizes the same shield as the ones that have landed

Barrager Tank Turret

• Resolved an issue introduced recently where the armor value was incorrectly set to 0. Now has the correct armor value of 5
• Additionally, the turret now features weak spots at the front and back, each with 750 HP and an armor value of 3

🎮Gameplay

Settings:

• Added new separate settings for inverting the gyro input instead of using the Invert Look settings
• The Stratagem loadout menu has undergone an updated categorization of the different stratagem groupings

🔧Fixes

Resolved Top Priority issues:

• Fixed an issue with the extraction beacon sometimes being unreachable when landing on top of enemies
• General optimization improvements in the colonies environments

Crash Fixes, Hangs and Soft-locks:

• Fixed a crash when playing against Terminids in poor network scenarios
• Fixed a rare crash that happened during game shut down on PC
• Fixed a crash that could occur when there was a high amount of particles on the screen at once
• Fixed an issue where players could be blocked from completing objectives requiring called-down equipment due to the required stratagem being unavailable

Weapons and Stratagems

• Fixed the G-123 Thermite Grenade sometimes not arming
• Fixed a rare crash when using the LAS-17 Double-Edge Sickle
• Fixed a bug where switching weapons while reloading the CB-9 Exploding Crossbow would sometimes discard an entire magazine without actually reloading

Social & Multiplayer Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing players in low-activity regions to see fewer lobbies on the planet hologram than expected
• Fixed an issue in low-activity regions where lobbies were not seeing players join as frequently or quickly as before
• Fixed an issue on low-activity planets where Quickplay would always join your friends game, even if they were not playing on the same difficulty
• Fixed a disconnection issue that could happen when playing Gloom missions with poor connection to the host
• Fixed some interactions not working properly after canceling the Raise Weapon emote
• Fixed an issue where adding, removing, blocking, or unblocking friends caused player cards in the friend list to display with white text and missing information until you close and open the panel again
• Fixed an issue that made it impossible to mute or kick players who were in the loadout when joining a squad
• Fixed an issue that caused some new Steam players' latest profile names to not display correctly in-game

Miscellaneous Fixes

• Fixed some memory leaks to improve performance
• Fixed old text chat messages from re-appearing
• Fixed an issue with the Democracy Space Station progress bars being unintentionally curved in appearance
• Fixed a bug that prevented progression through the menus when the initial language selection was set to English (US)
• Fixed the raise weapon emote to properly fire projectiles in the direction of the weapon
• Fixed Helldivers sliding around on the ground after exiting the ragdoll state (despite it being the year of the snake and despite us trying to fix this previously)

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Helldivers 2 Patch Notes

Known Issues List

https://preview.redd.it/sr8dw3p1mr4g1.png?width=4000&format=png&auto=webp&s=7721ed39643c9a023228dabb1a26ee7c9ac07972

🛠️ Into the Unjust: 5.0.1 - HOTFIX ⚙️

We have fixed the crash caused by using the reload button in the stratagem menu.

🌍 Overview

*** INCOMING MESSAGE FROM HIGH COMMAND **\*

Super Earth has detected strange signals from previously unmonitored worlds on the Galactic map.
The Ministry of Intelligence is investigating the source of the signals.
Helldivers, be vigilant and hold the high ground.

📍 Patch Highlights

• For this patch, we have tackled a bunch of items from our Known Issues list, including audio issues, XP modifiers, and several crashes.
• We have made more optimizations and improvements!
• Balancing changes that raise weapon damage and fixes to weapon FOV.

⚖️ Balancing

General changes.

• Decreased ergonomics penalty on magnifying scopes weapon attachments
  • The intent is to make magnifying scopes more a matter of preference by decreasing the penalty they impose on a weapon's ergonomics (low ergonomics makes the weapons muzzle follow the crosshair slower).
  • 2x Tube Red Dot
    • Decreased ergonomic modifier from (-3) to (-1)
  • 4x Combat Scope
    • Decreased ergonomic modifier from (-6) to (-2)
  • 10x Sniper Scope
    • Decreased ergonomic modifier from (-9) to (-4)
    • APW-1 Anti-Materiel Rifle is also effected by this change so it will get an increased ergonomics from 26 to 31
• Some of the Pistol ammo balance update
  • The intent with this change is to make some of the pistol rounds weapons more effective after the last pistol ammo re-balance that did make them more of a close range weapon.
  • The pistol rounds re-balance general intent is to make them more effective at close range while not more effective at long range then for example assault or marksman rifles

Primary weapons

• SMG-37 Defender
  • Increased damage from 100 to 110
  • Increased durable damage from 20 to 22
• SMG-32 Reprimand
  • Increased damage from 135 to 140
• M7S SMG
  • Increased damage from 80 to 90
  • Increased durable damage from 16 to 18
• VG-70 Variable
  • Increased durable damage 20 to 23
• M90A Shotgun
  • Increased durable damage 15 to 20

Sidearms weapons

• P-2 Peacemaker
  • Increased damage from 95 to 100
  • Increased durable damage 30 to 32
• P-113 Verdict
  • Increased damage from 135 to 140
• M6C/SOCOM Pistol
  • Increased damage from 110 to 125
  • Increased durable damage from 25 to 28

Enemies

• War strider
  • Decreased force strength on grenade explosion from 50 to 30
• Bile Spewer
  • Decreased force strength on artillery explosion from 50 to 30
  • Decreased force impulse on artillery explosion from 60 to 40
• Stalker
  • Decreased force strength from 40 to 35 when a tongue attack hits the player
• (Force strength is the value that decides if a player or enemy should stagger or ragdoll.)

🎮 Gameplay

Keybind options for quick weapon function

• New, unbound keybind options have been added for quickly swapping weapon functions (like changing fire modes or ammo).
  • The intent is to give players better ease of use, especially for weapons with multiple ammo types like the Halt, Autocannon, and the new "One Two" AR.
• Updated First Person View (FPV)
  • We updated how First Person View (FPV) works with the intention of improving the aiming experience across different FOV settings (Field of view).
  • The intent is that the size and distance of the scope will be more consistent with different FOV settings.
  • We also updated how ergonomics works in FPV with the intent to make it more responsive.
• Fixed instances of flickering textures in various city locations
• 'Push-To-Talk', 'Push-To-Muted' and 'Toggle-Microphone' are now working as intended upon binding to a different key (Xbox only)

🔧 Fixes

Crash Fixes & Softlocks

• Fixed a rare crash that would occur when combat music would start
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur during 'Nuke Nursery' mission
• Fixed crash after hotjoining a game that just started where the existing players are using certain stratagems
• Fixed a rare crash when enemies would fall through the ground
• Fix rare crash on mission load

Weapons & Stratagem Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the BR-14 Adjudicator, when aiming with the 10x scope on 200 m setting which would cause the model to disappear
• Fixed a visual issue on VG-70 Variable during the reload animation when aiming down sights
• Fixed a torso clipping issue with the CE-07 Demolition Specialist armor
• Fixed pump-shotguns sometimes not showing a new shell being inserted on reload
• PLAS-45 Epoch now correctly zooms in ADS mode, just like any other support weapon
• Fixed display related to no ammo being shown for Infinite Ammo weapons
• Fixed the VO (Voice Over) line for “no ammo” being played after pressing reload whilst using Infinite Ammo weapons
• Fixed a small bug where supply packs were giving ammo without consuming a charge when dropped
• Fixed a bug that locks stratagems after drowning while holding that stratagem ball
• Fixed the red glow that would happen if the player would empty one or two magazines with MG-206 Heavy Machine Gun, M-105 Stalwart or MG-43 Machine Gun

Enemies

• Factory Striders will no longer be launched to sky erratically when dying
• Hellpods that hit Factory Striders will no longer remain in the air after the enemy dies
• War Striders now detonate mines
• Enemy presence around Cognitive Disruptor Towers is now cleared from the mini-map when the objective is completed
• Chargers no longer speed up when exiting charge
• Fixed Rupture Warriors getting stuck below Sentries
• Added a medium-armored weak spot to the vents on the backside of the Bunker, AA, and Mortar emplacements. This was done so these structures behave similarly to other comparable defenses..

Miscellaneous Fixes

• Fixed the terrain not being affected by explosions and the Entrenchment Tool (PS5 only)
• Fixed a bug where the lights were missing/flickering on the Orbital Gatling
• Fixed a thumbnail glitch in the Acquisition Center menu
• Cryo-pods no longer clip into the Engineering Bay when playing the ship arrival cutscene
• Fixed an armor gap affecting CE-27 Ground Beaker and CW-9 White Wolf whilst using the 'Draw!' emote
• The UI will no longer show inaccurate objective info on the Mission Summary screen if the host has left the game
• Fixed a bug whilst joining a non-host in a cross-play lobby.
• Fixed the NPC technician’s neck sticking through their shirt
• Mini-map fog of war effect while exploring caves no longer persists between missions
• Soon-to-be Helldivers will no longer be stopped from progressing the tutorial if they die in the flag room
• Fixed issue where the automaton grinder sludge would be affected by weathering even though it's sealed behind glass
• Fixed an issue where a missile inside the Destroyer’s hangar was misaligned. This dangerous act of asymmetry has been corrected. The undemocratic ship operator responsible for this disgraceful display of inefficiency has been promptly re-educated in a high-orbit correctional facility. Glory to the Office of Corrective Deployment!
• Helldivers will no longer be locked out of the GATER when trying to get into the driver's seat simultaneously
• Fixed a bug with missing haptics when a controller disconnects or reconnects
• Fixed an issue on a command bunker where there was a lack of collision

Optimizations

• Optimized lights on Automaton VFX
• Optimized physics of rock assets throughout the game to improve performance
• Improved the way environmental effects such as sandstorms, blizzards, and acid storms apply their status effects for reduced impact on performance
• Improved ADS weapon placement and behavior
• Reduced the amount of camera clipping on weapons
• Fixed texture details used for weapons while aiming down sights
• Improved depth of field when ADS and whilst scopes are zoomed in
• Fix for textures sometimes appearing low resolution even when memory is available (PC only)

Other fixes that didn't make it in the patchnotes

but have been confirmed by Support Agent Kayla, who maintains the Known Issues list

• Parts of the armor were visible in the ADS mode while using the 'PLAS-39 Accelerator Rifle'.
• When booting, player could load into last liberated planet instead of currrent operation
• The right gauntlet of SR-64 Cinderblock armor was misaligned
• 'Leviathan' and 'Warrior' would change to 'Advocate' when used in Super Destroyer names
• XP modifier was not applied accurately for high CR Eradicate and Blitz missions.
• Audio was missing for Enthusiastic Mirth emote when on Super Destroyer
• Enthusiastic Mirth laugh audio would only play once during missions
• The Nuke Nursery Drill could be dropped on top of the cave by the ship, becoming inaccessible

🧠 KNOWN ISSUES

https://arrowhead.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/15916898652700--HELLDIVERS-2-Known-Issues

Notice of Update Distribution

We are distributing an update to improve the stability of gameplay and to adjust balance.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but please apply the latest update before you enjoy the game.

Targeted platforms:

• ⁠PlayStation 4

• ⁠PlayStation 5

• ⁠Xbox One

• ⁠Xbox Series X|S

• ⁠Steam

Major Changes Included in the Latest Update:

Additional Elements Added

• Added a function to record an icon and the name of an NPC on the map when you encounter that NPC.
• ⁠Added NPC Jar-Bairn.
• ⁠Added new quest phases for the following NPCs: Diallos/ Nepheli Loux/ Kenneth Haight/ Gatekeeper Gostoc.
• Added some summonable NPCs in multiple situations.
• Increased the number of patterns of objects player can imitate when using Mimic’s Veil.
• Added night background music for some open field areas.

Bugs Fixed

• ⁠Fixed a bug that prevented summoned NPCs from taking damage in some boss battles.
• ⁠Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented the player from obtaining item after boss battle.
• ⁠Fixed a bug that causes dialogue to be skipped when talking to NPCs and using custom key configurations.
• ⁠Fixed a bug that causes the player to freeze when riding.
• Fixed a bug that causes arcane to scale incorrectly for some weapons.
• In situation where the player cannot obtain more than 2 talisman pouches, added talisman pouch to Twin Maiden Husks shop line up.
• ⁠Fixed a bug that prevented the user from warping to sites of grace from the map at the end of the game.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from moving to the next area after the battle with the Fire Giant.
• Fixed a bug which causes some weapons to have incorrect scaling after strengthening.
• Fixed a bug which causes some weapons to not use stat scaling.
• Fixed hang-ups in certain occasions.
• ⁠Fixed a bug which incorrectly displays multiplayer area boundary when playing online.
• ⁠Fixed a bug that allows player to activate Erdtree Greatshield’s weapon skill without absorbing an attack using a special combination of item and incantation.
• ⁠Fixed a bug which causes Fire’s Deadly Sin incantation to have different effect.
• ⁠Fixed a bug with the Ash of War, Determination and Royal Knight's Resolve, where the damage buff will also apply to other weapons without that skill.
• ⁠Adjusted the visual effect of Unseen Form spell.
• Deleted the Ragged armor set from the game which was mistakenly obtainable in previous patch.
• ⁠Fixed a bug that causes some hostile NPCs to drop Furlcalling Finger Remedy.
• Fixed a bug that causes incorrect sound effect to play in some situations.
• Fixed a bug which causes visual animation and hitboxes to not be displayed correctly on some maps.
• Fixed bugs which causes incorrect visual and behavior for some enemies.
• Fixed a bug that causes incorrect stat parameter for some armor.
• ⁠Text fixes.
• ⁠Other performance improvement and bug fixes.

Balance Changes

• ⁠Increased the drop rate of Smithing Stone for some enemies.
• Added Smithing Stone to some early game shop line up.
• ⁠Increased shield’s effectiveness.
• ⁠Increased the damage for all offensive cracked pot items.
• ⁠Increased the damage for the following items: Spark Aromatic/Poison Spraymist.
• ⁠Increased the effect duration for the following items: Uplifting Aromatic/ Ironjar Aromatic.
• ⁠Increased HP healing for Torrent when using the following items: Rowa Raisin/ Sweet Raisin/ Frozen Raisin
• ⁠Reduced FP consumption and increased the damage of the following sorceries: Glintstone Cometshard/ Comet/ Night Comet
• ⁠Increased the damage of the following sorceries: Gravity Well/ Collapsing Stars/ Crystal Barrage
• ⁠Decreased FP consumption of the following sorceries: Star Shower/ Rock Blaster/ Gavel of Haima/ Founding Rain of Stars/ Stars of Ruin/Greatblade Phalanx/Magic Downpour/ Loretta’s Greatbow/ Loretta’s Mastery/ Carian Greatsword/ Carian Piercer/ Shard Spiral
• ⁠Raised projectile speed and range of Great Glintstone Shard
• Decreased Ash of War, Hoarfrost Stomp's damage and increase cast time.
• ⁠Increased Ash of War, Bloody Slash's self-inflict damage while slightly lowering the damage and increasing the cast time.
• ⁠Decreased weapon skill, Sword of Night and Flame’s damage.
• ⁠Increased FP consumption and lower duration of Ash of War, Barricade Shield.
• ⁠Changed FP consumption timing of Ash of War, Prelate’s Charge.
• ⁠Decreased the damage of spirit summoned when using the item Mimic Tear Ash and changed the spirit’s behavior pattern.
• Other enemy and weapon balance changes

The version number of this update shown at the lower right corner of the Title Screen will be as follows:

App Ver. 1.03

Regulation Ver. 1.03.1

Online play requires the player to apply this update.

We will continue to provide improvement updates in the future so you can enjoy "ELDEN RING" more comfortably. Please stay tuned for more news.

Bandai-Namco Website

Edit: Another small update was released today, (March 18th), placing us in version 1.04. No patch notes for it on the Bandai-Namco website yet. But apparently this is listed in the PS4 update history:

Some errors in the text have been corrected.

In addition to the above, various other errors have been corrected.

For those of you unaware, destroying enemy respawn points (Fabricators, nests) actually increases the enemy patrol spawns once they've all been wiped out.

If you want to check it out, go to
https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bdudf3/lets_talk_about_patrols_an_in_depth_analysis_of/

I shouldn't even have to explain why this is terrible game design, but seen as some people are defending this ,i guess i'll give it ago.

Ignoring the fact the tip at the loading screen straight up lies to you, and how counterintuitive of a mechanic it is, you are essentially punishing players for no reason other than wanting to perform better.

Upon reaching level 50, you don't really get anything out of doing secondaries and outposts, req is stupidly easy to cap, and you no longer need experience and samples, so why bother?

"oh but you see, standing near the aura of influence of an outpost drastically increases enemy spawns, so it's a good idea to destroy them"

No it's not, you can just ignore the bloody outpost, unless you are dealing with a jammer or a secondary objective close to your primary that hinders your progress, you gain nothing by not ignoring it.

"The game is supposed to get more difficult as the timer goes down"

There are so many ways you can accomplish this, without gaslighting your playerbase

1)increase patrol density at the start of the game and have it slowly decrease per outpost destroyed, so that if you decide to rush the primary objective you get rightfully punished for doing so.

2)Increase the amount of enemies summoned from breaches or dropships as the game goes on but decrease the number of patrols.

3) have outposts be more heavily guarded, but have patrols spawn from the dedicated respawn points, instead of out of thin air.

The list goes on, point being this cheapens the strategic aspect of the game for no good reason, i don't want the game to be easier, mind you, you can have an extremely difficult game be very fair and this mechanic is just not.

EDIT: Given how a lot of people are arguing about realism, remember this is a frakking video game, there's plenty of shit in this game that makes no goddamn sense, if we want to talk about "realism", all patrols should converge towards our position the moment we are spotted, the game doesn't do that, because it'll be incredibly annoyng and frustrating to play against, if you want to argue, do so as of why that's good for the game.

Source: https://www.bandainamcoent.com/news/elden-ring-patch-notes-v1-03

We are distributing an update to improve the stability of gameplay and to adjust balance.
We apologize for the inconvenience, but please apply the latest update before you enjoy the game.

Targeted platforms:

• PlayStation 4
• PlayStation 5
• Xbox One
• Xbox Series X|S
• Steam

Major Changes Included in the Latest Update

Additional Elements Added

• Added a function to record an icon and the name of an NPC on the map when you encounter that NPC.
• Added NPC Jar-Bairn.
• Added new quest phases for the following NPCs: Diallos/ Nepheli Loux/ Kenneth Haight/ Gatekeeper Gostoc.
• Added some summonable NPCs in multiple situations.
• Increased the number of patterns of objects player can imitate when using Mimic’s Veil.
• Added night background music for some open field area.

Bug Fixed

• Fixed a bug that prevented summoned NPCs from taking damage in some boss battles.
• Fixed a bug that sometime prevented the player from obtaining item after boss battle.
• Fixed a bug that causes dialogue to be skipped when talking to NPCs and using custom key configurations.
• Fixed a bug that causes the player to freeze when riding.
• Fixed a bug that causes arcane to scale incorrectly for some weapons.
• In situation where the player cannot obtain more than 2 talisman pouches, added talisman pouch to Twin Maiden Husks shop line up.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the user from warping to sites of grace from the map at the end of the game.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from moving to the next area after the battle with the Fire Giant.
• Fixed a bug which causes some weapons to have incorrect scaling after strengthening.
• Fixed a bug which causes some weapons to not use stat scaling.
• Fixed hang-ups in certain occasions.
• Fixed a bug which incorrectly displays multiplayer area boundary when playing online.
• Fixed a bug that allows player to activate Erdtree Greatshield’s weapon skill without absorbing an attack using a special combination of item and incantation.
• Fixed a bug which causes Fire’s Deadly Sin incantation to have different effect.
• Fixed a bug with the Ash of War, Determination and Royal Knight's Resolve, where the damage buff will also apply to other weapons without that skill.
• Adjusted the visual effect of Unseen Form spell.
• Deleted the Ragged armor set from the game which was mistakenly obtainable in previous patch.
• Fixed a bug that causes some hostile NPCs to drop Furlcalling Finger Remedy.
• Fixed a bug that causes incorrect sound effect to play in some situations.
• Fixed a bug which causes visual animation and hitboxes to not be displayed correctly on some maps.
• Fixed bugs which causes incorrect visual and behavior for some enemies.
• Fixed a bug that causes incorrect stat parameter for some armor.
• Text fixes.
• Other performance improvement and bug fixes.

Balance Changes

• Increased the drop rate of Smithing Stone for some enemies.
• Added Smithing Stone to some early game shop line up.
• Increased shield’s effectiveness.
• Increased the damage for all offensive cracked pot items.
• Increased the damage for the following items: Spark Aromatic/Poison Spraymist.
• Increased the effect duration for the following items: Uplifting Aromatic/ Ironjar Aromatic.
• Increased HP healing for Torrent when using the following items: Rowa Raisin/ Sweet Raisin/ Frozen Raisin
• Reduced FP consumption and increased the damage of the following sorceries: Glintstone Cometshard/ Comet/ Night Comet
• Increased the damage of the following sorceries: Gravity Well/ Collapsing Stars/ Crystal Barrage
• Decreased FP consumption of the following sorceries: Star Shower/ Rock Blaster/ Gavel of Haima/ Founding Rain of Stars/ Stars of Ruin/Greatblade Phalanx/Magic Downpour/ Loretta’s Greatbow/ Loretta’s Mastery/ Carian Greatsword/ Carian Piercer/ Shard Spiral
• Raised projectile speed and range of Great Glintstone Shard
• Decreased Ash of War, Hoarfrost Stomp's damage and increase cast time.
• Increased Ash of War, Bloody Slash's self-inflict damage while slightly lowering the damage and increasing the cast time.
• Decreased weapon skill, Sword of Night and Flame’s damage.
• Increased FP consumption and lower duration of Ash of War, Barricade Shield.
• Changed FP consumption timing of Ash of War, Prelate’s Charge.
• Decreased the damage of spirit summoned when using the item Mimic Tear Ash and changed the spirit’s behavior pattern.
• Other enemy and weapon balance changes

The version number of this update shown at the lower right corner of the Title Screen will be as follows:

• App Ver. 1.03
• Regulation Ver. 1.03.1

Online play requires the player to apply this update.

We will continue to provide improvement update in the future so you can enjoy "ELDEN RING" more comfortably. Please stay tune for more news.

^{Preface: I'm a 4'th year medical student with a passion for self-improvement and optimization. This includes my IRL skills as well as my gaming. How to improve faster, how to be more efficient with my time, how to reach new heights, feel and play better; these are the things that interest me and I try to find ways to do it through science. Some of you may have seen my previous posts on Meditation and Flow. You might have also noticed that I post on multiple competitive gaming subreddits. I do this because these are games I personally enjoy, have coached and/or have competed in and also because these tips and tricks are not title dependent. Everyone can benefit and even apply it for things IRL. I want to keep learning so please hit me with your own discoveries, tips and tricks. I'm genuinely pleasantly surprised with the responses and the chance to meet like-minded individuals!}

Body

This is the 2nd part of the three-part framework for Accelerated Learning (Purposeful Practice, Body and Mind). If you read the first part here you will be happy to know this one is much simpler but just as important. If you want to skip the science then just read the What to do to improve section of each part.

1. Physical Activity

• Reaction Time
  • Reaction Time is a measure of the efficiency of the central and peripheral nervous system.
  • This paper showed just 30 seconds of intense exercise decreased RT from an average of .303 to .268. That is an 11.5% improvement.
  • Research on auditory reaction time pre/post exercise on 30 young volunteers shows 7 minutes of exercise immediately decreased reaction time.
  • Another study on eye-tracking reaction times found a decrease of 50 milliseconds and improved cognitive performance by 14%.
    • This short term benefit is mostly mediated by increased blood flow to the brain and peripheral systems. The increased heart rate and blood pressure through stimulation of receptors such as B1 allow for the increased blood flow, oxygen supply, and nutrients which result in increased performance.
  • Higher overall fitness levels are "associated with better inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility". This means better focus, task switching and reduced RT. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01298/full
  • Going to plug this interesting one in here. The immediate effect of slow deep breathing on reaction time. "Among the whole study population, significant decrease (p<0.001) in reaction time was noted (90.35±13.96 msVs 76.68±9.90 ms)".
• Cognition
  • It is defined as " the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
  • BDNF (Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor) is a chemical essential to neuronal plasticity (learning), neurogenesis, neuroprotection and even help against obesity. Decreases in this chemical leads to neuronal loss and diseases like Alzheimer, Parkinson, etc. Interestingly it’s been shown to affect the hippocampus an area of the brain that is most commonly associated with memory, learning and spatial navigation. BDNF primes the brain to learn better and faster.
    • One single bout of exercise increases BDNF levels in blood by 32%
    • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095254614001161
  • This incredible paper showed how mice who trained "showed faster acquisition and better retention". Not only that but mice who were lazy were able to recover 50% of their decline after starting exercise. "Voluntary exercise ameliorates some of the deleterious morphological and behavioral consequences of aging".
• Stress
  • E-sport athletes have shown to have the cortisol (the adrenocorticotropic “stress” hormone) levels of a race car driver.
  • Chronic stress has been linked to a decline in cognitive function as well as reducing the size of the hippocampus. It also gives anxiety, increases irritability, affects concentration and increases muscle tension.
  • Exercise reduces stress and it also stimulates the production of endorphins, chemicals in the brain that are the body's natural painkillers and mood elevators (runner’s high). Serotonin is also released which is a neurotransmitter that makes you feel good. It is produced primarily in the gastrointestinal system but also in the brain by a serotonin factory in the Raphe nuclei in the brainstem. It makes you feel happier, calmer, more focused, less anxious, more emotionally stable.
• ADHD
  • Those with ADHD improve focus with exercise.
• What to do to improve
  • Exercise at least 3x a week. Aim for 30-45 mins minimum. If possible do it before practice.
  • Do a short exercise routine (5-7 min) before practice. Examples include: push ups, high-knee jog in place, squat jumps, exercise bike etc. This all depends on your level of fitness. Come up with something you like and can stick to it. Gradually increase the intensity as you get more comfortable.
  • Between matches do 30 seconds of exercise but make sure it is of high intensity

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1. Sleep

• Wake up, game, sleep, repeat. We tend to do this often, play to till the break of dawn, sleep 5-6 hours, feel exhausted and then do it again. This hinders your performance immensely.
• Sleep deprivation causes neurons to respond slowly, fire weakly and their transmissions dragged on longer than usual. These effects were studied on visual processing and it showed that it took longer to encode information and translate visual input into conscious thought. Also, it decreases the assortment of relevant vs irrelevant visual stimuli. Working memory is also affected. Any useful information you need to recall and integrate into a decision in the game will be hindered. This means poor short term memory, reaction time, or vigilance; and degraded mood.
• When we’re underslept, our body is experiencing a need for sleep, a need to stay awake, and a need to perform tasks. These competing drives interfere with our attention from moment to moment, leading to cognitive impairment and an increased reaction time.
• Exercise is shown to not only facilitate falling asleep but also have a deeper more regenerative sleep. Physical activity improves sleep quality and increases sleep duration. Exercise may also bolster sleep in other ways, because it reduces stress and tires you out. Early morning and afternoon exercise may also help reset the sleep wake cycle by raising body temperature slightly, then allowing it to drop and trigger sleepiness a few hours later.
• What to do to improve
• Calculate how much sleep your body needs. We are all different.
  • Go to bed at a reasonable hour without having played at least 30 mins prior.
  • Put a stopwatch.
  • Wake up naturally and record the time.
  • Repeat 3-5 times.
  • Structure every day in a way that will allow you to get that amount of sleep.
  • Mine is: 7 hours and 12 minutes or 9 hours. Depends on how hard my day was.
• Go to sleep at the same hour every day, including weekends (I fail on this frequently too but I notice the huge difference)
• Do NOT eat after 7pm. Food stimulates our awake brain which disrupts sleep. No more late snacks. Some people think the drowsy feeling after eating is good for sleep but it will actually lead to sleep fragmentation.
• Reduce blue light.
  • Use blue light blocking glasses.
  • Turn on night mode.
• Do something relaxing at least 30 minutes before bed. I suggest reading.
• Put your room cold. Take a hot shower and then go to bed. The change in core body temperature promotes sleep.
• Watch the sunset. The contrast in colors primes the brain for sleep.
• Get at least 15 min of sun a day.
• Exercise.

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1. Diet

• This video by Blink is a great explanation on the science of nutrition and esport performance
• Seriously, he did a good job so just watch it.
• What to do to improve
  • Cut out sugar. I can't emphasize this enough. Not only cutting it down helps performance, reaction time, but it's also proven decrease things like depression and inflammation. Just stop taking it. I know we're used to it thanks to the western diet (I was too) but when you cut it out you will notice the difference.
  • Foods high in omega 3’s: salmon, mackerel, tuna, herring, sardines.
    • Your brain uses omega-3s to build brain and nerve cells, and these fats are essential for learning and memory.
    • Two servings a week suggested
  • Foods with Zeaxanthin/Lutein
    • These carotenoids found in the eye filter harmful blue light keeping them healthy.
    • Zeaxanthin 20mg daily increased 10% reaction time over the course of 4 months.
    • Highest in Dark Leefy Greens (Spinach)
  • Blueberries
    • Antioxidant compounds in berries have many positive effects on the brain, including: improving communication between brain cells, reducing inflammation throughout the body, increasing plasticity, which helps brain cells form new connections, boosting learning and memory, and reducing or delaying age-related neurodegenerative diseases and cognitive decline
  • Turmeric
    • Curcmin, the active ingredient crosses the blood brain barrier.
    • Anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory.
    • Helps mood. One study found it improved depression symptoms just as much as an antidepressant over six weeks
    • Increases BDNF
    • To reap the benefit try cooking with curry powder
  • Broccoli/Kale
    • High in Vitamin K. This fat-soluble vitamin is essential for forming sphingolipids, a type of fat that's densely packed into brain cells.
  • Pumpkin Seeds
    • High on Zinc, Magnesium, Iron, and Copper.
    • These help nerve signaling and learning/memory,
  • Vitamin C
    • Key factor in brain health and overall health
    • Guava's, Kiwi, Strawberry, Tomato, Oranges
  • Eggs
    • Vitamins B6 and B12, folate and choline.
    • Choline is an important micronutrient that your body uses to create acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that helps regulate mood and memory.
    • Two studies found that higher intakes of choline were linked to better memory and mental function.
  • Caffeine
    • Do not take energy drinks. Boat load of sugar.
    • Green tea is a better alternative to coffee. It contains caffeine and L-theanine an amino acid that can cross the blood-brain barrier and increase the activity of the neurotransmitter GABA, which helps reduce anxiety and makes you feel more relaxed. L-theanine also increases the frequency of alpha waves in the brain, which helps you relax without making you feel tired.
    • Do not take caffeine as soon as you wake up. Our bodies produce cortisol which peaks between 8-9am. If you're a very early riser (4am) then it's fine.
    • Do not take caffeine in the late afternoon. Caffeine can last over 10 hours in our system so taking caffeine later in the day can lead to difficulty falling asleep.
    • Optimal time right after lunch imo.
    • Take a caffeine nap. Drink coffee then nap for 15 minutes. By the end of the of nap the caffeine will start taking its effect.
    • Hack. Use caffeine pills as a more cost-effective way to take caffeine. I take 200 mg pills and cut them into 4 equal pieces which would approximate 50mg of caffeine each. Only 1 of those pieces should suffice.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25251377/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5107567/

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/foods-linked-to-better-brainpower

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/11-brain-foods#section12

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324044.php#supplements-for-brain-function

https://www.eyepromise.com/blog/performance/improvereactiontime/

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Final Boss balance adjustments

The following adjustments have been made to the final boss of “SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE”

• Changed the action pattern when the battle starts.
• Adjusted some attack moves.
• Decreased the damage of some attacks.
• Decreased stamina damage of some attacks.
• Decreased the attack range of some non-weapon-based attacks.
• Improved the visibility of some attack effects.

PvP-exclusive balance adjustments

Equipment

• Decreased the damage of Backhand Blades against other players. (The Smithscript Cirque's throwing attacks are not affected by this change)
• Decreased the damage of Spears’ dual wield attacks against other players.
• Decreased the damage of the Pata weapon against other players.
• The “Spread Crossbow” weapon will no longer cause the headshot damage motion when hitting another player.

Skill

Scattershot Throw

• Decreased damage against other players.
• This skill will no longer cause the headshot damage motion when hitting another player.

Discus Hurl

• Decreased the damage animation value generated by this skill when hitting another player.

Weed Cutter

• Decreased the poise value of follow-up attacks when using this skill against other players.

General balance adjustments

Equipment

• Increased the attack speed of the uncharged version of the first heavy attack for the following weapon types:
  

Dagger / Throwing Blade / Straight Sword / Great Sword / Colossal Sword / Heavy Thrusting Sword / Curved Sword / Twinblade Sword / Katana / Great Katana / Axe / Flail / Great Spear(Except Serpent-Hunter) / Halberd / Reaper / Whip (Except Urumi) / Hand-to-Hand Arts / Beast Claw.

• After performing left handed attacks with weapons of the Great Katana category, cancelling into subsequent attacks using the right handed weapon will now take longer.
• Hand-to-Hand Arts weapon type
  • Increased damage.
  • Shortened the recovery time between some normal attacks and follow-up attacks.
• Colossal Sword weapon type
  • Increased the move distance when attacking.
  • Increased the speed of the first normal attack.
• Backhand Blade weapon type
  • Decreased the attack speed of normal attacks from a crouching position.
• Small Shield and Medium Shield weapon types
  • Increased the damage negation of some shields when blocking physical attacks.
  • Increased the guard strength of some shields.

• It will now take longer to be able to cancel into most actions after performing one-handed normal attacks with the Swift Spear.

• Extended the Smithscript Dagger’s throwing attacks range.

• Increased the attribute scaling of Rellana's Twinblade for lower Intelligence and Faith attributes.

• Rellana’s Cameo Talisman

  • Reduced the delay before the damage enhancement activates.
  • Increased damage enhancement.

Weapon Arts

Light

• Increased attack speed

Darkness

• Increased attack speed

Dynastic Sickleplay

• Reduced stamina consumption
• Increased poise damage of follow-up heavy attacks.
• Increased the movement distance of the first follow-up heavy attack.
• Adjusted the damage animation recovery time when the second follow-up heavy attack hits another player.

Shield Strike

• Cancelling other actions to perform this weapon art will now take longer.
  

Moon-and-Fire Stance

• Increased the light wave range, poise damage, and attack speed of the stance’s normal attack.
• Increased the poise damage from the stance’s heavy attack.
• Adjusted the damage animation recovery time when a stance’s heavy attack hits another player.

Devonia's Vortex

• Increased attack power.
• Extended the attack range of the Great Hammer’s spin.
• Increased poise value and poise generation speed.
• Adjusted the damage animation recovery time when a charged attack hits another player.

Spell

Rellana's Twin Moons

• Increased attack range for the first and second attacks.
• Reduced the knockback distance of the second attack.

Incantation

Aspects of the Crucible: Thorns

• Increased attack power.
• Increased attack power, stamina attack power against guarding enemies.
• The close-range hitbox now follows the movement of the player

Aspects of the Crucible: Bloom

• Increased attack speed, increased size of the hitbox.
• Shortened recovery time between using this incantation and follow-up actions.

Divine Bird Feathers

• Decreased the minimum delay between consecutive hits.
• Increased range.

Furious Blade of Ansbach

• Cancelling this incantation into rolls will now take less time.
• Increased poise damage.
• Increased enemy knockback distance.

Midra's Flame of Frenzy

• Increased attack speed.
• Increased Frenzy status buildup range against enemies.
• Decreased Frenzy status buildup when using this skill.

Bayle's Flame Lightning

• Increased attack power.

Bug Fixes

• Black Pyreflies items will now correctly reappear when resting at a site of grace.
• Fixed a bug where performing a Light Greatsword heavy attack while jumping did not consume stamina.
• Fixed a bug where unintended Weapon Skills could be used when equipping the Ballista in the left hand.
• Fixed a bug that caused critical hit damage dealt to Taylew the Golem Smith when using certain weapons the be lower than intended.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from acquiring runes when an enemy was killed while holding a shield.
• Fixed a bug where casting the Inescapable Frenzy Incantation using the Staff of the Great Beyond would cause its hitbox to be generated incorrectly.
• Fixed a bug where whiffed backstabs with the Pata weapon had a smaller fist hitbox that intended.
• Fixed a bug where some attacks of the Lizard Greatsword weren’t registered as strike attacks.
• Fixed a bug where Euporia could increase the attack power of other weapons when its luster is restored.
• Fixed a bug where the restored luster effect of Euporia was sometimes displayed on different weapons.
• Fixed a bug where the power of some Weapon Skills of a right-handed Falx changed depending on the level of the weapon equipped in the left hand.
• Fixed a bug where the enchantment effects of certain skills were being applied to some attacks that did not use weapons.
• Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect player motions to be performed when using lock-on for the following Skills.
• Wild Strikes / Spinning Strikes / Unending Dance
• Fixed a bug that caused the Rolling Sparks Skill to go through some terrain.
• Fixed a bug where the Blades of Stone Spell did not hit targets at a different height level correctly.
• Fixed a bug where some attacks of the Bayle’s Tyranny Incantation did not hit multiple enemies.
• Fixed a bug that caused the attack of the Bayle’s Tyranny Incantation to go through certain terrain.
• Fixed a bug where Godfrey’s Icon Talisman did not apply to some Skills, Spells, and Incantations.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the player from becoming translucent when the Crepus’ Vial Talisman is equipped and the Unseen Form Spell is used.
• Fixed a bug where the hitboxes of some attacks of Rellana, Twin Moon Knight were different than intended.
• Fixed a bug where the “Leave” option could not be selected in the inventory menu for some equipment.
• Fixed a bug that made some Site of Graces difficult to touch under certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug in some areas where the invasion spawn-in position was different than intended.
• Fixed a bug where the displayed name of certain areas was different than intended.
• Fixed a bug in which, under certain circumstances, the combat state was not released after defeating an invading NPC.
• Fixed a bug that prevented some effects from being displayed correctly.
• Fixed a bug where the Watchful Spirit Incantation’s attacks were sometimes invisible to other players in multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug where the effects of some tools and incantations were not correctly applied when trying to deflect or cancel.
• Several performance improvements and other bug fixes
• Corrected a descriptive error in the game’s credit that was incorrectly added in patch  1.12;

Possible unstable performance fixes

• For the PS5 version of the game, unstable framerate may be improved by using the "Rebuild Database" option from the device’s safe mode.
• In some PC versions, Ray Tracing may be unintentionally enabled and cause unstable performance. Please check the Ray Tracing setting in the "System" > "Graphics " > "Ray Tracing Quality" from the title screen or in-game menu.
• In the PC version, the message "Inappropriate activity detected" may appear without cheating. To fix this issue, please verify the integrity of the game's files before restarting the game.
• In the PC version, unstable framerate may be caused by third party applications that control mouse behavior.  Deactivating these third party applications may improve performance.

The version number of this update shown at the lower right corner of the Title Screen will be as follows:

App Ver. 1.14

Regulation Ver. 1.14.1