Hotfix 15.1 Patch Notes

​Hotfix 15.1

GAMEPLAY AND BALANCING TWEAKS

Melee in PvE

One Handed Thunder Hammer

• Base damage is increased by 10%.
• Temporary removed forced stagger from charging stances.

It will return in the next patch, once we make it less spammable.

• Underhand Swing damage is increased by 67%.
• Echoing Swing waves damage is increased by 100%.
• Energised Strike damage is increased by 100% and damage radius is increased by 50%.
• Improved controls responsiveness after Energised Strikes.
• Charged attacks damage is increased by 25%. Greatly improved cleave.

One Handed Thunder Hammer Perks

• Charge Overflow: Duration is increased to 20 seconds.
• Rapid Recharge: Cooldown is decreased to 15 seconds.
• Deflective Charge: Cooldown is decreased to 20 seconds.
• Reverberating Slam: Fixed an issue that the second hit sometimes doesn't deal proper damage and not affected by perks.
• Perfect Reprisal: Now affects all Light Attacks for its 7 second duration, not the first one.
• Preparedness and Brutal Reforge: Are now triggered only by One Handed Hammer kills, rather than while the One Handed Hammer is equipped.

Heroic One Handed Thunder Hammer - Power Maul

• Damage bonus for each charge is increased to 30%.

Firearms in PvE

Melta Rifle

• Standard-Issue version and all non range-specialized versions: Damage fall off distance start point is changed from 2 to 3 meters.
• Default max ammo pool is increased by 2 (now 12).
• Default magazine size is increased by 1 (now 6).
• Magazine size and max ammo pool is increased by 1 for Master-Crafted - Beta, Drogos Reclamation - Alpha and Ophelian Liberation - Alpha versions.
• Master-Crafted - Alpha version: Damage fall off distance start point is changed from 2.5 to 5 meters.
• Salvation of Bakka version: Damage fall off distance start point is changed from 3 to 5 meters.
• Gathalamor Crusade version: Damage fall off distance start point is changed from 3.5 to 5 meters

Heavy Melta Rifle

• Standard-Issue version and all non range-specialized versions: Damage fall off distance start point is changed from 2 to 3 meters.
• Master-Crafted - Alpha version: Damage fall off distance start point is changed from 3 to 6 meters.
• Salvation of Bakka version: Damage fall off distance start point is changed from 4 to 6 meters.
• Gathalamor Crusade version: Damage fall off distance start point is changed from 5 to 6 meter.

Pickups

• Fixed an unintended consequence of a previous bug fix concerning relics spawn outside of the playable area which made relic spawns became more deterministic on higher difficulty levels.
• Fix also affects low spawn rate pickups such as Geneseed, which should not spawn outside of the playable area on levels that have branching paths anymore.

CRUCIBLE

• Fixed a bug where a previously selected Operation and difficulty would affect the Crucible Mode.
• Added a “Not Enough Penances” notification if too few penances are selected.
• Fixed a bug where "Guardian Glyph" Penance would not revive a player affected by the “Curse of the Warp” Penance.
• Fixed a bug where “Pandemonium” Penance did not increase the Majoris enemy type spawn rate in some cases.
• “Pandemonium” Penance value is adjusted from 15% to 25%.
• Fixed a bug where “Madness” Penance did not increase the number of enraged Majoris enemies in some cases.
• Fixed a bug where a player below Level 25 could enter a Crucible mission when two Level 25 players entered the ready zone;
• "Quick Match" window is updated to display “Bonus Crucible XP” and “Crucible XP” separately.
• "Corruptive Miasma'' Penance is disabled during certain boss sequences like Heldrake and Hierophant.

CHAOS SIEGE MODE

• Fixed a bug where players could take damage from friendly chaos portals.
• Summonable Hellbrute melee damage has been decreased by 30%.
• Fixed several issues with weapons not using Chaos skins in Chaos Siege.
• Loyalist Marines are much more effective in killing cultists in Chaos Siege.

CUSTOMISATION

• Fixed an issue with hoods not being recolourable.
• Fixed an issue with certain robes not being recolourable.
• Fixed an issue where cloth customization did not save between restarts.
• Lots of minor fixes and improvements.

QUALITY OF LIFE

• Added a small invulnerability window when the player rises up from knockback.

GENERAL FIXES

• Fixed: Auspex Scan buffs Gunstrike damage by default without any perks, behavior restored to patch 14.2.
• Fixed a bug with the Heroic Bolt Rifle’s Melta shot dealing different amounts of damage compared to the primary slot when equipped in the secondary slot using the “Tactical Reserve” perk.
• PvP: Fixed a bug with Abilities for all classes, including the Helbrute, recharge twice as fast as intended in some cases.
• Fixed a bug with the “Elusive Fire” perk not working with Heroic Melta-rifle.
• Fixed a bug where some Chaos Space Marine voiceovers were unprocessed in Chaos Siege.
• Campaign: Fixed a bug where players could spawn without the Thunder Hammer in the campaign mission Dawn's Descent.
• Lots of minor UI and localization fixes.
• Crash fixes and general stability improvements.