Xbox One Updates | Halo Wars 2

Crashes/Errors/Performance

- Fixed an issue where players could get stuck on the loading screen

- Several „desync“ fixes, one of which covered most of the tracked occurrences

- Fixed a Network Error on opening Blitz Packs

- Fixed some AI issues in Skirmish that could cause performance hits

- Fixed some performance hitches in Cooperative Campaign

- Made performance improvements on various hardware

- Overall multiplayer performance improvements

- Fixed some crashes that could occur when loading a saved game

- Fixed an issue that would cause a Campaign mission to get stuck after loading a save

- Fixed a bug with joining a party and getting a network error

- Fixed an issue that caused players to disconnect from multiplayer games at the beginning of the match

Gameplay

- Fixed issue with ‘Detect’ on some starting units not working properly

- Fixed an issue with getting the Palmer’s Pure Gold Achievement

- Fixed some bugs with Kodiaks in Campaign

- Fixed a bug with garrisoned Snipers not getting additional stats

- Fixed issue with squads getting stuck trying to garrison if another squad beats them to it

- Gold medal can now be more easily attained in ‘Hold the Line’

- Fixed a Cyclops and Reaver pathing bug where they would sometimes stop moving

- Fixed an issue with units getting stuck in bases after being made

- Fixed various skull functionality not working on some units or abilities

- Fixed some cross-skull interactions between Annihilation and Pestilence

- Fixed some Locust pathing issues in Blitz (even though they’re driven by Grunts)

- Fixed an issue with units becoming unresponsive in Blitz

- Fixed an issue in Blitz with units getting a x4 speed boost in a specific situation

- Fixed a conflict created by swapping d-pad functionality in Blitz

- Fixed an issue with the Blisterback not recovering from damage in Blitz

- Fixed behavior of Marines sometimes failing to get new targets after throwing a grenade

- Friendly cloaked units now appear on the minimap

- Made some adjustments to Scarab creation

- Tweaks to Grunt Mob, Bloodfuel Grunts, and Bloodfuel Locust

- Holo Decoy can no longer be used on Pelicans or Spirits

- Fixed card level of units affected by Holo Decoy not showing over clones

- Glassing beam always creates vision now in Blitz

- Adjusted AI to make better use of Healing and Cloaking fields

- Skirmish AI now uses Extraction and Teleport

- AIs have been practicing their Domination game

Metagame

- Fixed a bug where parties were always assigned to Team 1

- Fixed a rare issue with users not actually getting to play the leader they selected in Blitz

- “Halt” cinematic should no longer be unlocked early in theater

- Fixed some daily/weekly challenge issues where they were not tracked in some playlists

- Phoenix Log page adjustments

- Pause menu adjustments

- Set default difficulty of AI to normal from easy

Cosmetic

- Cleaned up some language localizations

- Fixed a bug with UI textures failing to load

- Fixed some minimap graphical issues

- Fixed some issues with individual card pack opening animations

- Fixed an issue with a terminal for a red barrier not having a display string

- Fixed a Domination icon issue, where it would rotate briefly when being recaptured

- Fixed an issue with Health bars getting stuck on the screen

- Fixed some issues with particles randomly shooting across the maps for various objects

- Adjusted transparency on locked skulls in the side panel

- Radial menu has been cleaned up a bit

- Added extra visual indicator to aid players when they are selecting cards

- Made some enhancements to the leader selection carousel

Audio

- Fixed an issue with the announcer constantly reporting Zone B is contested when it’s not

- Fixed an issue with the Condor being able to be heard through fog of war

- Fixed incorrect audio playing on some units when damaged

- Fixed some issues with units calling out the wrong attackers

- Fixed an issue with using right trigger or mouse wheel would cause audio spam

- Added audio to Plasma Mines deploy

- Added a variety of sound effects, and adjusted timing on some existing ones

Last, But Not Least

- Under-the-hood preparation for future ranked multiplayer

Known Issues

- We are still working on a fix for a known issue where a game can sometimes freeze or result in a very low frame rate

- Investigating reports of the „Short Term Commitment“ achievement not registering as intended

- Investigating some reports of performance issues with cinematics

- Investigating reports of the mini-map occasionally being unresponsive on PC

- Occasional infinite loading screen when loading into consecutive missions in co-op

- Game can sometimes hang indefinitely when restarting a mission

- Unit balance feedback and assessment is ongoing by the design team

Changes

- Scout Vehicles now take increased damage from Turrets, Leader Powers, Basic infantry weaponry, Marine grenades and Grunt squad Mines.

- Scout Vehicles deal reduced damage against Non-scout vehicles.

- Warthogs and Marauders increased damage versus Scout vehicles

- Ramming Vehicles now take increased reflect damage.

- Scout Vehicle cost changes: (100/50 = 100 Supply & 50 Power)

Banished Brute Chopper: 270/0 to 280/20

Banished Ghost: 250/0 to 265/20

UNSC Jackrabbit: 210/0 to 220/15

- Scout Vehicle build time changes:

Banished Brute Chopper: 23 to 25 seconds

Banished Ghost: 23 to 25 seconds

UNSC Jackrabbit: 21 to 24 seconds

- Grunt squad mines arming delay reduced from 5.0 to 3.0

- Grunt squad mines damage increased by 13%

- Marine grenade secondary area of effect damage increased from 30% to 50%

- Grunt Mob card cost increased from 50 to 60

- Bloodfuel Grunts card cost increased from 30 to 50

- Bloodfuel Locust card cost increased from 60 to 80

- Increased Watchtower’s line of sight from 50 to 90

- Forge’s economy powers nerfs

- Anders‘ Sentinels nerfs

- Wraith and Scorpion buffs

- Further Scout unit nerfs

- Cyclops and Hunter nerfs

- Suicide Grunts, Jump Pack Brutes and Elite rangers buff

- Flamers buff

- Supply pad diminishing returns curve adjustment

- Fixed a crash that could occur while a user signs out while loading into a certain game mode

- Fixed an Win 10 specific issue with the game hanging sometimes when restarting a mission

- Fixed some improper localization strings in controller layout while playing the Basic Tutorial

- Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when a Wolverine is destroyed by a Lightbridge toggling off while it was on it

- Fixed some performance hitches in Campaign that were caused by scripted events triggering

Gameplay

- Fixed an issue where players were sometimes able to quickly assign one Leader Power point to two different Leader Powers

- Fixed an issue with pressing the ‘Q’ key twice did not select all units, if there were no units on the screen

- Fixed an issue with Challenges sometimes not progressing in Solo/Team War or Team Objective Playlists

- Fixed a logic issue in “Lights Out” where a player could bypass part of the mission

- Fixed Shift-Right-clicking to set multiple waypoints not working in some cases

- Fixed an issue where the AI would sometimes kill its own units by toggling a Lightbridge

- Fixed an issue with “Departures” video being unlocked after completing “The Halo”

- Fixed a bug with “Just the Facts” and “The full story” achievements not triggering properly

- Fixed an issue where players would get their Favorite Leader instead of the one picked

Cosmetic

- Fixed some UI callouts for failed objectives in a previously played mission showing in a different mission

Audio

- Fixed some cases of audio corruption when multiple sound effects were played at the same time

- Fixed an issue with vehicle engine audio stuttering when on the edge of battle

- Fixed an issue with clipping/corruption occurring in higher waves of Blitz Firefight

Design & Balance Changes

LEADER POWERS:

CONOMY:

- Adjusted the Supply income curve to give less of a bonus income on the first few Supply Pads/Warehouses,

LEADERS:

- Sgt. Forge: Removed the discount on Supply Pads and Reactors in the “Rolling Economy” leader power

UNITS:

- Armor type changed to be more resistant to small arms fire from Marine & Grunt squads

- UNSC and Banished HQ HP increased to a constant, high HP amount across all tech tiers

- Fixed an issue where campaign save files from previous versions/patches were crashing on load.

- Fixed an issue where watchtowers and motion sensors did not detect cloaked units

- Fixed an issue where cloaking generators would stop cloaking after 15 seconds if the

- Fixed an issue where Forge’s warthog was not displaying aura VFX and his upgrades were not working.

- Updated text for Forge’s “Rolling Economy” Leader Power to match balance changes

- Fixed a performance issue on Banished buildings caused by some audio looping inappropriately

- Fixed an issue with players being able to build toward the pop cap of temporarily stolen units with Isabel’s Ghost in the Machine

- Fixed an issue where a shield generator wouldn’t spin up if the main base was damaged during construction

- Fixed an issue where Isabel’s ‘The Best Offense’ passive power would render Scorpions unresponsive

- Ark Defense spawns the correct number of Sentinels in Blitz, for all interactions with line of sight

- The campaign log „Beyond the Edge“ is now unlocked when completing campaign mission “The Halo”

- Neutral marines in the tutorial no longer attack and kill the player’s units, preventing them from completing the mission

- Strongholds custom game setting for “starting population count” now works as expected

- Fixed it so “Minibases count as HQ” enabled now prevents the game from ending when the player has no units and only minibases

- Fixed an issue where Holo-decoy units under the effects of the Hellcharge ability would do damage to enemy units

- Fixed text on Forge’s Rolling Economy text to match the changes that were applied in the previous update

- Aligned Kinsano’s flame VFX for her Flamewall power with the area in which it does damage

- Fixed some instances of debug strings showing up as UI text in a few locations

- An AI will no longer kill its own units by disabling a Lightbridge while they’re on it… RIP

- Fixed several instances in campaign when background music could be heard in cutscenes or ingame cinematics

- Fixed an issue with audio events getting spammed when interacting with Fog of War or Cloaking ability

- Fixed an issue where Grunt Squads turn into Grizzlies after the player kills them in any mission

when loading a save file with the skull “Grunt Birthday Party” active from a previous release

New Feature: Support for HDR lighting is now enabled for players with compatible hardware!

- Players should no longer have a chance of loading into the game without the ability to issue any commands

- Fixed a crash on “Last Stand” that could occur from loading from an old save from a previous release

- Fixed a crash that could occur when attacking the first barricade in the Prologue

- Made “Restoration Drones” get more expensive when it is upgraded to its 3rd tier

- Adjusted the Foundry so that its always hit by Hunters‘ and Marines‘ upgraded projectiles when attacked

- Added better “Combat Salvage” visual effects when a unit dies and is immediately built back at base

- Made card pack descriptions show up in the appropriate language for France and Taiwan

- Added text to the Pelican Transport level 2 when selected on the leader power radial

- Adjusted the audio to the Forerunner structure on Highway to remove the high frequency that could be unpleasant to hear

- Hellbringers should no longer play Kinsano voiceover when being attacked by an enemy Spartan

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UI/Navigation

- Improved selection box to allow for easier selection of units when on the fringe of the unit

- Selected unit sub-selection now more responsive

when using Right Trigger and Y button to cycle through the selection

- Fog of war made more readable

Now lines up more closely with logical sight ranges

The visual transition when units emerge from the fog of war is much quicker

- Improvements to camera scroll speed and feel when playing with a controller

regular scroll is noticeably more responsive, and fast scroll (holding LB) gives a much larger speed boost

Changing the Scroll Speed settings in options also has a much greater effect than before,

resulting in more control over how scroll speed to feels

Speed can be reduced to previous levels by adjusting the Scroll Speed setting in the Options menu

Hid player gamertag and rank in the map load screen

- AI is no longer able to place rally flags in places players are not allowed to place

- AI no longer knows when the player is beginning to target them with a leader power before they use it

- Units won’t be aggroed by Suicide Grunts and won’t automatically move towards them to engage (they will stand their ground instead)

Buildings/Units:

- Supply Pad upgrade time reduced from 25 to 18s

- Shield Generator stacking reduced per generator from 50% efficiency to 20%

- Special abilities (Hijack, Slam, Phoenix Missile, Brute Warlord’s Hammer Shockwave, etc.)

now gain the benefit from generic damage upgrades

- Fixed an issue where the Hunter Captain would not be able to attack if its taunt ability was interrupted

- Hunter Captain no longer receives as much healing from Combat Repair

- Hunter Captain health lowered

- Adjusted Locust’s behavior when targeting units in the fog of war

- Upgrade 3 for Vehicle, Air, and Infantry apply the correct amount of health to appropriate units

- Skitterer health from Vehicle Upgrade lowered at all levels

- Skitterer can no longer become useless if the unit it is going to pair with dies before pairing is complete

- Kodiaks should no longer fail to target an enemy on the other side of a cliff or hill if they have line of sight

- Cutter’s Jerome Hero unit will no longer get stuck in a vehicle if upgraded while in a vehicle

- Spartans no longer become unresponsive when slamming a teleport pad

- Spartans no longer damage the unit they’re hijacking

- Honor guard will now have more success when attempting to slay a fleeing unit

- Units grouped with engineers should now be able to use their Y ability when the group is selected

- Snipers can now be commanded to attack units in garrisons without being grouped with other units who could

- Units will now auto attack garrisoned units as they walk past

- Scorpions now have better accuracy when attacking garrisoned units

- Scorpion can no longer fire two canister shots

- Chopper can no longer trigger ram animation when selecting an air unit

- Condors will no longer waste their Y ability when targeting air units

- Decimus can now use Y ability on buildings

- Hornets no longer fail to do damage after firing at a target for a prolonged time

- Blisterbacks shouldn’t be deployed under the surface of the map anymore

- Veteran Blisterbacks can once again be healed to full

- Johnson’s heal beacon size and effect now correctly match

- Johnson can no longer move to cancel his animation and fire additional smart missiles

- Skitterers now correctly apply full damage from focus beam upgrade

- Colony’s Living Barrier benefits from base Fortify upgrades

- Shipmaster’s Grunt squad leaders are now rightfully Sangheili instead of Jiralhanae,

and now can be upgraded to cloak instead of having Shrapnel Mines

- Normalized damage of hijacked vehicles regardless of who made the vehicle

- Kinsano’s Cyclops Hero unit selection circle should now be more visible when not hovering over it

- Decimus and Warlord will no longer try to pull units that are already close to them

- Warlord no longer resets his attack animation when selecting a unit to attack

- ODST charges will now explode when placed on top of or next to buildings in side plots

- ODSTs can no longer throw more than 1 charge at a time

- ODSTs can’t attempt to throw their demo charge at air units

Leader Power:

- Atriox Fortifications slightly reduced in effectiveness at level 1, and greatly reduced at level 2,

and is specifically less beneficial to shield generators

Cost reduction on bases, stronghold upgrade, turrets and shield generators changed reduced to 15% per level.

Fortifications-altered cost of Fortify upgrades rounded to nearest 5.

Upgrade speed buff on stronghold upgrade and turret upgrades reduced to 15% per level.

- Vehicle Symbiotes power can now target turrets

- Buffed Vehicle Symbiotes to now apply correct armor and health

- Scorch Mines can no longer blow each other up on deployment

- Shipmaster’s Displacement can now affect Protector Sentinels

- Restoration Drones can now target turrets

- Scatter Bomb now more correctly aligns with its targeting reticle

- Vortex Lightning now damages and debuffs units in garrisons

- Garrisoned units no longer heal faster from leader powers than ungarrisoned units

- Mech Overcharge and Combat Salvage can now be invoked regardless of whether the reticle is in the fog of war or not

- Mass Cloaking now removes units from the minimap in Blitz mode

- Reavers will no longer continue to shoot when hit with EMP Mac Blast while stunned

- Vehicles stolen by Ghost in the Machine are no longer visible in the Fog of War

- Ghost in the Machine can no longer permanently increase Isabel’s population cap by using it on units that are teleported

- EMP Mac Blast now more correctly matches the targeting reticle

Art:

- Fixed graphical corruption that could appear near wraiths in campaign

- Nightingale’s smoke screen no longer disappears when camera moves view off of it and back

- Colossus’ legs face the right way when targeting enemies now

- Vulture’s yellow warning light is now attached to the craft when firing its missile

- Mantis chaingun effects have been cleaned up

- Decimus’ Siphon no longer leaves green effects on the units

Audio:

- Added some audio to the Cyclops death animation

- All leaders were missing the voice over callout when the player’s base was destroyed

- Fixed Chopper’s ramming audio loop

- Corrected explosion of Lotus Mines to play the appropriate sound effect

- Anders sentinels will no longer play Grunt audio upon death

- Johnson’s EMP should no longer cause audio to stutter

Last, but not Least:

- Players affected by earlier issues with loss of progress will have their progress restored,

based on their halowaypoint.com Service Record

- Clarified messaging when a player becomes disconnected and then is re-connected to online services.

- Fixed an issue where commands could not be queued for Spartans in hijacked vehicles.

- Grunt Squad health bars now increase in size when a Skitterer is attached.

- Rally points no longer persist after their associated base is recycled or destroyed

- Fixed an issue where in attempting to use a special ability on a portal caused units to become unresponsive.

- Fixed an issue where in Detectors could remove temporary ability cloaks on some units instead of only revealing them while in range.

- Detect units now reveal bases when it touches the obstruction radius of the building instead of the center point.

- Apex buildings placed on the corner base slot will no longer be missed by special abilities such as grenade throw.

- The Command Mantis now behaves correctly when being called down on a Lightbridge.

- Fixed an issue where some units’ attack cooldown could be reset if moved while attacking.

- Fixed a base plot on MP map Vault which allowed players to build buildings as the main base is constructed.

- Fixed an issue with erratic unit movement when attempting to ram a teleporting target.

- Fixed an issue with the Canister Shell special ability rendering Scorpion Tanks unresponsive in Mission 9.

- The Pestilence skull no longer affects the Retriever Sentinel in Mission 8 while it is repairing.

- Leader Power icon button is no longer displayed during Campaign cut scenes.

- Serina’s Ice Barrier Leader Power can no longer be used to freeze all base production.

- Trooper units no longer remain in game when a player resigns from a Blitz match.

- Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when using an Nvidia device with “SLI” enabled.

- Fixed some performance drops that occurred during 3v3 Strongholds gameplay.

- Fixed a crash when using Holo-Decoy on the Jerome hero unit and his Command Mantis at the same time.

- Kills from the Blast Unit Ability in Blitz will now count toward the player’s score.

- Leader Power mines no longer count toward units built, units killed, and units lost stats.

- A game patch was released today to address the recent increase in online disconnects and de-syncs.

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- Fixed progression blocker in Manifestation caused by recycling a Mega Turret

- Fixed friendly fire towards the Nexus and Spires from player turrets and offensive leader powers

- Fixed an issue where season leaderboards were not loading in the leaderboard data

GAMEPLAY FIXES

- Fixed a Leader Power exploit that resulted in earning Leader Points at a faster rate.

- Fixed an issue which allowed players to control opposing team units.

- Returned the cost increase of Colony’s Living Barrier leader power back to 0/0.

BALANCE CHANGES

- VORIDUS: Infusion damage and duration reduced

- Infusion Damage: Damage per second reduced by 8%

Infusion Duration

All Infusion Duration reduced by -11% except for:

Infusion Mine I reduced -22%

Infusion Mine II reduced -18%

Infused Engineer reduced -10%

Pool – Medium reduced -20%

Pool – Large reduced -20%

Pool – Extra Large reduced -20%

Infusion Wake I reduced -25%

Infusion Wake II reduced -20%

Infusion Wake III reduced -15%

Infusion Duration – Blitz

All Blitz Infusion Duration reduced by -11% except for:

Infusion Mine I – Blitz reduced -10%

Infusion Mine II – Blitz reduced -10%

Infusion Tech

Reverts earlier increases to Infusion Tech I/II to reflect relative strength of Infusion without further boosts.

- Infusion Tech I: Damage Scaling reduced -4%

- Infusion Tech II: Damage Scaling reduced -8%

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