Farlight 84 New Season Update: "Weaver of Wonders"

Dear Lightcatcher,

Greetings!

The new season, "Weaver of Wonders", is set to go live on October 16!

Update Schedule:

• October 15, 23:30 UTC — Matchmaking temporarily disabled

• October 16, 00:00 UTC — Servers offline for maintenance

During this time, players can update to the latest version on their chosen platform (update times may vary). Maintenance is expected to last about 4 hours, and the new season will launch once the server reopens.

The "Weaver of Wonders" season introduces:

• The new Lightcatcher Jue Chen

• The new Skyland area

• The new Evo Raid Arcade Mode

• The new weapon Shuri-Cards

• The new Finisher System

• Plus, new mods, Buddies, and events

This update also brings balance improvements to Lightcatchers and weapons, bug fixes, and now supports multiple languages (Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese) as we continue improving localization quality for all players.

See below for details on the latest update:

New Support Hero: Jue Chen

• Tactical Skill: Yang Healing

· Places Yang Sigils that recover HP for nearby squadmates. Squadmates move faster toward Yang Sigils.

· Trait 1: Reduces cooldown and increases healing.

· Trait 2: Yang Sigils can rescue Jue Chen and squadmates when knocked down.

• Tactical Skill: Yin Destruction

· Places Yin Sigils that detonate multiple times, dealing damage. The first enemy to take damage gains debuffs and has their location revealed, and will become a Geist when Jue Chen uses her Ultimate.

· Trait 1: Reduces cooldown and slightly increases explosion damage.

· Trait 2: Damaged enemies are Slowed.

• Ultimate Skill: Yin-Yang Inversion

· Transports Jue Chen and all enemies marked by Yin Sigils into a Dark Realm where they cannot use skills. Enemies who take damage from Jue Chen gain Yin Destruction debuffs, revealing their location. Other Lightcatchers can enter the Dark Realm via Realm Fissures, which are generated at Jue Chen's position and wherever she has laid Sigils.

· Trait 1: Reduces cooldown.

· Trait 2: Jue Chen gains Yang Healing's effects whenever she enters the Dark Realm. Cannot be applied to other Lightcatchers.

New Area: Skyland

· Rumors abound of a floating "pavilion of the immortals", where only a fated few may enter and gain access to its secrets. Is it real or merely a fantasy? No one knows for sure...

· The new area is available in the Nextara and Sunder Realms maps.

New Arcade Mode: Evo Raid

· Work together to defeat enemies and upgrade your weapons! Max out the Evo Meter or have the highest Evo Meter progress when the match ends to win!

New Weapon: Shuri-Cards

· This high-powered single-shot throwing weapon is the final weapon in Evo Raid mode, and has a chance to appear in Airdrops in Matchmaking Modes.

New System: Finishers

· Get close to a downed enemy to trigger a deadly Finisher animation!

New Mods

1. 1x Target Enhancement Sight: A close-range sight that highlights enemies within view.

2. Target Enhancement Variable Scope: A long-range sight with adjustable zoom that highlights enemies within view.

3. Added a new Legendary Shotgun Choke.

4. Added Rapid-Fire Hammer to First Person Mode.

5. Added Mod Skins and Weapon Accessories, which can be viewed in the Weapons tab of the Warehouse.

New Buddies

1. Splatfish: Creates puddles that deal damage to enemy Lightcatchers and their summons.

2. Pandapon: Provides random items to Lightcatchers near its location.

3. Super Calamurky: Creates a large linear smokescreen when deployed that Slows enemies passing through it.

4. Super Nimbus: Allows Lightcatchers to pick up their squadmates and move quickly through the air.

New Events

1. New season "Weaver of Wonders", including Basic, Advanced, and Elite Triumph Trackers.

2. New Forge of Dreams item pack, available when the new season begins.

3. New Faction Clash event.

4. New Mystic Visions event. Complete missions to gain Jue Chen's True Fire skin.

5. New Dream Team event. Play matches in different modes to win cosmetic rewards. Triple your progress by teaming up with friends!

Hero Balance Adjustments

• Ducksyde

· Added a lasting shield that slowly recovers when out of combat.

· Ultimate Skill - Summit Crush:

Ducksyde's Ultimate Skill now has a slight in-air delay, allowing you to select a target. Impact damage adjusted to 45.

Trait 1: Gains a shield upon hitting enemies.

Trait 2: Reduces Rolling Impact cooldown depending on how many enemies are hit by Summit Crush.

• Ember

· All players gain restricted view distance while inside Shadow Barrier.

• Kui Dou

· Improved handling for Cosmic Authority. Kui Dou can now hover briefly in mid-air by hitting the Jump button when transformed, allowing him to pass over certain obstacles.

• Beau

· Ultimate Skill - Vengeance Bomb: Reduced damage dealt.

• Syfer

· Tactical Skill - Pixel Penetrator: Removed 5 damage on impact. Hitting enemies with Pixel Penetrator now slows down their use of healing items.

• Ling Bo

· Ultimate Skill - Turbulent Realm: Removed 5 damage on impact. Being within an Aquatic Zone now speeds up healing item use and reloading.

• The following skills can now be cast with the left hand at the same time as skills cast with the right hand (including Buddies):

· Maychelle - Sonic Tracking; Beau - Eye of Detonation; Freddie - Spectral Trap; Syfer - Pixel Penetrator; Ling Bo - Tidal Shield; Nightwatch - issuing orders to Sheriff during Sheriff's Patrol.

• The following skills can now be cast with the left hand while using healing items:

· Maychelle - Sonic Tracking; Freddie - Spectral Trap; Syfer - Pixel Penetrator; Ling Bo - Tidal Shield; Nightwatch - issuing orders to Sheriff during Sheriff's Patrol.

Weapon Balancing and Adjustments

• Assault Rifles

· Ranger: Magazine capacity changed to 24/27/30/33.

· Fenrir-33: Can now only be found in Airdrops. Will always be found with max-level mods. See below for other changes.

1. Base damage increased from 19 to 21.

2. Default magazine capacity of 36, containing 288 bullets.

3. Improved vertical recoil of first 3 rounds.

· M16: Removed from Airdrops and can now be found on the battlefield. See below for other changes.

1. Supports Muzzle, Magazine, Scope, and Stock mods.

2. Magazine capacity set at 24/27/30/33.

3. Base damage reduced from 27 to 24.

· VSS: Base damage reduced from 17 to 16.

• DMRs

· Thunder: Base damage increased from 65 to 70. Magazine capacity set at 8/10/11/13.

· MK-24: Base damage reduced from 45 to 42. Phase 1 optimum range reduced from 80m to 60m. Phase 2 optimum range reduced from 150m to 120m. Base magazine capacity set at 8/10/12/14.

• SMGs

· SMG optimum range reduced from 35m to 30m.

· Vector: Base damage increased from 14 to 15. Base hipfire spread reduced by 10%.

· PDW-7: Based damage reduced from 19 to 18. Base hipfire spread increased by 10%.

· Fanatic: Can now only be found in Airdrops. Will always be found with max-level mods. See below for other changes.

1. Base damage increased from 23 to 24.

2. Default magazine capacity of 36, containing 288 bullets.

3. Removed Muzzle mod.

4. Base hipfire spread reduced by 10%.

· UZI: Horizontal recoil reduced by 10%.

• Shotguns

· Removed Special Mod Dragonfire Shells. Shotgun shell radius increased from 1 to 2.5.

· M880: Removed from Airdrops and can now be found on the battlefield. See below for other changes.

1. Supports Shotgun Choke, Scope, and Stock mods.

2. Base magazine capacity increased from 6 to 7.

• Pistols

· PV9: Base damage increased from 24 to 25.

· Duelist: Optimum range increased from 40m to 50m.

Feature Changes

· Added Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese language options. We are working hard to fix any remaining language issues and make improvements where required.

· The starting jump vehicle has been changed from scattered pods to drop ships.

· Upon triggering a jump after reaching the end of the jump flightpath, your character will automatically change direction and fly in the opposite direction.

· Your tier points in the new season will be reset based on your tier in the previous season. Hero Power will be reset.

· Added new Tier Leaderboard Titles.

· Leaderboards and Hero Leaderboards are calculated separately for PC and mobile. Which leaderboard you place on will be determined by how many matches you play on each platform during the season.

· Added alternative game modes to Tracker Missions.

· The first time you enter the Triumph Tracker page, it will play an animation showing core season rewards. This animation can be replayed.

· You can now purchase the Elite Tracker by paying the difference in price between Advanced and Elite Trackers.

· Basic rewards and advanced rewards are now shown in the same track. Improved rewards interface on mobile.

· Tracker Missions now display accumulated progress.

· Improved rewards pop-up display when leveling up Triumph Tracker.

· Updated Farlight Collection prize pool, adding certain high-level Weapon Skins and Lightcatcher Skins.

· ADS now has synchronized jump and landing camera effects.

· After hitting a wall when Jetsliding, your character will continue to slide along the wall at a certain speed even if you release the direction button.

· Triggering auto-loot during an Inspect Weapon Emote will no longer interrupt the animation.

· Inspecting your weapon while empty-handed will trigger a random animation.

· Increased smoothness of transition animation between back-to-back Inspect Weapon Emotes.

· Improved M4 Assault Rifle Inspect Weapon Emote and added a special empty chamber Inspect Weapon Emote.

· Weapons will be automatically unequipped when entering forbidden areas.

· Improved distinctiveness of enemy footstep audio when indoors.

· Reduced alert voicelines from squadmates and increased distinctiveness of friendly and enemy voicelines.

· Increased speed retention between consecutive Jetslides from 70% to 85%.

· Improved animation transition timing between reload/weapon change and ADS.

· Improved animation for Ling Bo's Ultimate Skill in Third Person Mode.

· Increased Super Squeaky's maximum impact damage to 72.

· Improved bunker layout in the Dispatch Station on the Nextara map.

· Added Vaults to the tunnels beneath the Mega Factory and Drilling Platform on the Nextara map.

· Improved flowlines of large elevators in the Visitor Center on the Nextara map.

· Airdrops will now occur 4 times per match (up from 2). Weapons in Airdrops have been changed.

· In the mid- and late-game stages of a match, resurrected players will receive more basic supplies.

· Vault doors can now be forced open without a Keycard after a certain amount of time has passed in a match.

· You can now change Entrance animations directly from the Heroes tab of the Warehouse. The background for Heroes in the Warehouse has also been replaced.

· Added Weapon Mod Skins, which can be purchased from the Farlight Store. Certain Weapon Skin models are not compatible with Mod Skins.

· Added special Kills Broadcasts. Certain high-level Weapon Skins will unlock special Kills Broadcasts.

· Improved interface for Buzzy.

· Improved controls and animation for Snatchpaw.

· Adjusted weapon distribution logic in Warm-Up matches.

· Improved graphics for lootable items in matches.

· Improved mode select, season overview, friends overview, and store deals interfaces.

· Changed Syfer voice line names: "Oh, what a surprise!" changed to "Squad Defeated" , "Enemy squad defeated!" changed to "Squad Knockout" , "Ah-ha!" changed to "Achievement Unlocked" , "Bring it on!" changed to "Any Prizes?" .

· Due to an issue affecting the intro animations of certain hero skins (Mission Express, Ultimate Weapon, Starry Wander, Venus, Vanguard Commander), we have temporarily disabled the related animation display feature. The issue is currently being fixed, and the animations will be re-enabled once the fix is complete.

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