For our first weekend, we’re excited to drop an experimental 5v5 Raid playlist, a new Base and a bunch of performance improvements for 3v3, along with some more options in the Settings menus for people to customize their game.

Read the details below!

We heard the feedback! 

For the weekend, we are experimenting with a 5v5 Raid Mode.

This is a separate playlist and not meant to replace 3’s. 

3v3 Raids are still there for people who enjoy it!

The lobby has been updated to allow for parties of 5 while the mode is live. Grab 4 friends and jump into some hectic raids!

A few small tweaks for this mode:

• Raids are now 10 lives instead of 6

• Respawns are slightly longer during raids to allow generators to be planted/defused

Dev note: As most of you know, we are working on optimizations across the game. Many are in this patch and 3v3 should see good improvements! But… adding 4 more players to the game is not going to improve performance, right? Please keep that in mind as you try 5v5!

Dev note 2: Firing Range does not support 5v5 at this time, so the Play button will be grayed out if your party is over 3.

Soul Well is a dark relic from a lost age. The Iron Vigil has now prepared this base construct for use in the field where the dead still speak.

Watch the Soul Well base vignette

This new base will be added to the rotation in all modes.

This patch contains several optimizations that touch on animation performance, projectiles, draw submission times, and other gameplay systems. These optimizations benefit console and PC, but every PC is different, so the exact speedup to overall framerate is dependent on GPU, CPU, and other factors. 

Enabled these visual settings on PC and consoles

• Motion blur toggle for PC and consoles

• Anisotropic materials toggle for consoles (PC has this already)

Hey Wardens! We’ve just pushed out a patch with a number of improvements, including FoV sliders for consoles, toggle options for ADS and Crouch, many video settings, and more. The team is also working on optimization improvements, they just need a few more days to cook.

See below to see the nitty gritty details, and we'll see you in Highguard

Note: in an effort to release these changes to our players as quickly as possible, a number of menu options are not yet localized in languages other than English. Properly localized settings will be prepared for a future patch.

• Added the ability to set Crouch to Hold or Toggle for all platforms.

• Added the ability to set Aim Down Sights to Hold or Toggle for PC only (for now).

Toggling into ADS then tapping Sprint (shift on PC, left stick on controller) will swap your scope. This is disorienting on controller. PC players are recommended to rebind scope swap if using Toggle ADS. We will continue to look into adding this for console players who can’t rebind buttons yet, but we will need more time.

• Console users can now adjust FoV to 110.

• Low scalability settings for shadows and reflections are tuned for even more performance at the cost of some image quality.

• Low shadow setting now also disables volumetric fog.

• Added a new "View Distance Quality" setting that controls skeletal mesh LODs, which can be another useful control to tune GPU and CPU usage.

Players now have the ability to toggle the following features on or off, irrespective of other quality options:

• Anisotropic Materials

• Chromatic Aberration

• Bloom

Motion Blur and Depth of Field need more testing to disable safely. Look for these options very soon.

• DLSS users now have the ability to select a DLSS preset. More presets and better descriptions are coming in the next patch.

• Players can now select Off to disable Global Illumination entirely.

• Resolved an engine bug which could inadvertently throttled laptop users to 60 FPS regardless of frame rate settings.

This patch resolves crashes that could occur in the following scenarios

• Leaving a match on PS5 with an unexpected input state.

• Loading into matches on machines with slower storage devices.

A number of other bugs related to online user presence and matchmaking were also resolved.

• Friends now appear online correctly after accepting requests, and Xbox presence updates properly. Major crash fixes have reduced crashes by 90%, significantly improving stability.

• Friend status is fixed - players now appear online correctly and Xbox presence updates reliably. Our top crash issues are gone resulting in a 90% crash reduction.