In Patch 5.4, significant changes have been introduced to enhance gameplay and balance in various aspects of the game. The War Event has received substantial improvements, including a comeback mechanic that rewards the losing team with valuable stats, late join options for the losing side, and the ability to reroll helmets. New tier 2 War Event stats have been added, allowing players to further customize their characters.
The New Reno Wars experience has been fine-tuned, with events now occurring at scheduled times, and players' starting money based on their reputation. Additionally, players can earn reputation-based buffs, adding depth to their strategies.
Balancing changes have touched on perk requirements and weapon stats, reshaping the combat dynamics. A host of quality-of-life improvements, new locations, and rewards have been introduced, offering a more engaging and immersive gaming experience. Lastly, numerous bug fixes ensure smoother gameplay and more accurate mechanics.
Patch 5.4 brings a comprehensive set of changes that enrich the world of the game, offering players exciting new opportunities and challenges.
War Event Changes:
Comeback Mechanics: The losing team will now receive additional stats for every 250 points they fall behind. These bonuses stack and persist until the end of the event. The list of random stats includes:
• 15 Hit Points or 5% Critical Damage (for characters with less than 150 HP).
• 1 Damage Resistance (equivalent to Weakness 2 buffs; 1 normal DR and 1 laser DR for every 7 buffs).
• 1 Action Point.
• 1 S.P.E.C.I.A.L (separate buff for each attribute).
• 6% more currency gain.
Taking Flag Rewards: Capturing the flag now rewards players with currency. Starting the capture awards 1000 currency base, with additional bonuses based on time and currency boosts. Completing the capture awards 25000 currency base, also with time and currency boost multipliers.
Late Joining: Late joining to the event is now allowed between 5 to 20 minutes into the event, but only for the losing team.
Reroll Helmet: Players can now reroll their helmet for another one for 5000 currency.
Increased Starting Ammo: Starting ammo has been increased.
Ammo Refill: Ammo refill will no longer cause overweight issues.
Respawn: Players who are not killers will respawn with full Action Points.
Leaving Lobby Penalty: Leaving the lobby in Black Cross Outpost now imposes a 10-minute cooldown before rejoining (except for supporters).
Black Cross Outpost Changes:
• Before evolving a weapon, players must now confirm their choice in a dialog to prevent misclicks.
• Vehicles can now be parked in Black Cross Outpost from Friday to Monday, and only the owner will be able to use the car or truck. Be cautious if you used another vehicle before taking one from Black Cross Outpost, as you won't be able to take it until Tuesday.
Tier 2 War Event Stats: Tier 2 stats have been added. You can install only one Tier 2 stat, and you have a 30% chance to get it after having installed 10 stats. The list of Tier 2 stats includes:
• Super Utility: Offers bonuses such as 300 Carry Weight, a cap of 10 Rad Resistance, a cap of 5 Poison Resistance, 50% more currency/caps on events, 100 Accuracy, and 2 additional damage per bullet. Melee damage is reduced by 40%, and there's a +4 bonus to defensive rolls.
• Super Movement: Provides a 10% Movement Speed increase, 5 additional Action Points for movement in turn-based mode, an extra 4 Action Points, 60 Armor Class, and a 20% reduction in time to attack.
• Super Damage: Grants 20 additional Lethal Damage, 20 more Melee Damage, a 60% increase in critical power for melee attacks, a +20% Damage multiplier, and 20 additional minutes of drug effects (4 minutes for Cannibal). The duration is halved in fast meta.
• Super Criticals: Boosts critical power by 80%, critical roll by 60, and critical chance by 20%.
• Super Range: Enhances sight range by 20, sneak detection by 100, adds 4 to ranged weapon range, and increases the combat implant limit by 1.
• Super Health: Increases healing rate by 80, provides +30% resistance to Critical Rolls, adds 80 Hit Points, allows for 100% healing from First Aid, and offers a 20% heal from medications.
• Super Defense: Provides 10 to all Damage Resistance, 4 to all Damage Threshold, and a 40% resistance to Critical Chance.
• Super Regen: Grants 50 additional Sequence points and 100 Sneak points, boosts Action Point Regeneration by 50, reduces Action Points lost during Knockouts by 5, provides a 50% Action Point regeneration on kill, and offers a 20% Health Point regeneration on kill.
• Super Special: Adds +1 to one of the S.P.E.C.I.A.L attributes.
New Reno Wars Changes:
Event Scheduling: Events will no longer occur at random hours. Instead, they are scheduled as follows:
• Monday: 11 PM CEST
• Tuesday: 10 PM CEST
• Wednesday: 7 PM CEST
• Thursday: 5 PM CEST
• Friday: 2 PM CEST
• Saturday: 9 PM CEST
• Sunday (Morning): 9 AM CEST
• Sunday (Evening): 7 PM CEST
Starting Money: Starting money now depends on the reputation you have.
Reputation Gain: Reputation gain for winning is now 3 times the number of participants. Reputation gain for losing is equal to the number of participants.
Extra Reputation Buffs: Players can now purchase additional buffs with their reputation points:
• Bishops: Doubles experience gain for 24 hours.
• Mordinos: Grants +3 Action Points for 24 hours.
• Wrights: Provides +50 Hit Points for 24 hours.
• Salvatores: Offers +3 to all Damage Thresholds for 24 hours.
Balance Changes:
Changed Perk Requirements:
• Bonus Battle Stats: Now requires 6 Perception.
• Pyromaniac: Now requires 6 Endurance.
• In Your Face!: Now requires 6 Agility.
• Better HtH Criticals: Now requires 10 Strength.
• Bonus HtH Attacks: Now requires 10 Agility.
• Bonus HtH Damage: Now requires 5 Strength.
• Spray and Pray: Now requires 6 Luck.
• Hit the Gaps: Now requires 10 Charisma.
• Right between the Eyes: Now requires 10 Perception.
• Surgeon: Now requires 6 Intelligence.
• Faster Healing: Now requires 6 Endurance.
• Living Anatomy: Now requires 6 Intelligence.
• Medic: Now requires 10 Intelligence.
• Healer: Now requires 6 Endurance.
• Vampire: Now requires 10 Endurance.
• Even More Criticals: Now requires 10 Luck.
• Bonus Rate of Fire: Now requires 10 Agility.
• More Criticals: Now requires 6 Luck.
• Weapon Handling: Now requires 6 Charisma.
• Bonus Ranged Damage: Now requires 6 Perception.
• Sharpshooter: Now requires 10 Perception.
• Better Criticals: Now requires 10 Luck.
• More Ranged Damage: Now requires 10 Perception.
• Silent Running: Now requires 6 Agility.
• Ghost: Now requires 6 Perception.
• Heave Ho!: Now requires 6 Strength.
• Hit and Run: Now requires 6 Agility.
(Note: Level requirements remain the same, only skill requirements have been removed.)
Leader:
Changes:
• Buffs now work within a 20 hexes flag radius and no longer affect the entire map.
• Buffs no longer scale with the number of flags.
• Flags no longer block movement.
• Flags cannot be destroyed by clicking on them.
• Flag buffs now scale with the leader's charisma.
• Buffs apply to players and NPCs from the same faction.
• Buffs persist for 10 seconds after a faction member enters the radius.
• Flag cooldown no longer scales with charisma.
• Creating flags has a 60-second cooldown.
• Flags now last for 5 minutes.
Buffs:
A: leader's Charisma / 4
B: leader's Charisma / 2
C: leader's Charisma / 5
D: leader's Charisma / 3
E: leader's Charisma
F: leader's Charisma * 2
• Mobility:
+A Agility
+B Movement Speed
-B Attack Delay
+E AP Regen
Slow Immune
• Defense:
+A Strength
+A Damage Resistance
+A Damage Threshold
+C% Damage Protection
Knockout Immune
• Aggression:
+A Luck
+A DR Penetration
+D% Damage
+B Damage per bullet
Afterburner crit effect (stacks with gum)
• Vitality:
+A Endurance
+F Hit Points
-A sec Healing Rate Time
+E Healing Rate
Bleed Immune
• Power:
+A Perception
+D% Critical Power
+D Critical Power
+B Critical Chance
Halved reload cost
• Unity:
+A Intelligence
+B Critical Chance Resistance
+D% Critical Power Resistance
+B Critical Effect Resistance
Burn immune
Things That Remain the Same:
• +50% Critical Chance Resistance
• Ability to create flags that provide buffs to the team
• FoV is halved
• PvE Ability: Apply 2 weaknesses on NPCs
• Wood is still required to build a flag.
Bounty Hunter:
• Increased the bounty cap to 100.
• Non-criticals now have 1 less bounty power.
• Changed the damage reduction per bounty stack to 1% from 2%.
• Bounty effects have been adjusted, with targets having a chance to ignore critical resistance and even result in an instant kill at 100 stacks.
Deathclaw:
• Sneak scaling changed to 20 per Strength.
• Added ghost scaling based on charisma (determines how far from a wall a deathclaw can go without losing ghost bonus).
• Added Armor Class scaling based on sneak skill.
Combat Master:
• Increased melee bonus from 10 to 30.
• Increased critical chance bonus from 100% to 125%.
• Increased melee bonus from favorite weapon from 5 to 30.
Vitality:
• Reduced the effect of poison on healing rate from 50% to 25%.
• Reduced the effect of bleed on healing rate from 100% to 50%.
• Added a +50% Bonus Healing Rate.
Added Effects for Everyone in HtH Perks:
• Bonus HtH Damage: Shortens battle timer by 30%.
• Bonus HtH Criticals: Penetrates 20% critical chance resistance.
• In Your Face!: Lowers opponent's bounty power by 1.
Changed Table of Class Tank Stats:
Items:
Changed Experience Needed (Levels 1-4) for Armors:
• Leather Armors: 75%
• Metal Armors: 50%
• Combat Robes: 100%
• Combat Armors: 150%
Changed Stacking of Frozen Queen:
5-20 slow 1 confuse.
5-30 slow 1 confuse.
5-38 slow 1 confuse.
5-45 slow 2 confuse.
5-51 slow 2 confuse.
5-56 slow 3 confuse.
Weapon Changes:
• Solar Scorcher: Attack Delay changed to 800 🔴
• HK P90c: Damage changed to 9-23, Attack Delay changed to 1100 🔴
• Fire Rifle: Damage changed to 22-36 🟢
• Needler Pistol: Attack Delay changed to 750 🔴
• Plasma Torch: Damage changed to 66-116 🟢
• Ripper: Damage changed to 50-150 🟢
• 14mm Colt: Damage changed to 40-75, perks set changed to: Minimal Bonus Damage, Killing Spree, Fast Trigger 🔴
• Prototype 14: Range changed to 80, AP cost changed to 4, Attack Delay changed to 700 🟢
• MGL M32s: AP cost changed to 5, Attack Delay changed to 750 🟢
• Machete: Damage changed to 30-52 🟢
• Alien Blaster: Ammo cap changed to 10, Damage changed to 1-220, perks set changed to: More Critical Damage, Chip Shot, Bonus Critical Power 🟢
• Incinerator: Damage changed to 130-170, perks set changed to: Less AP cost, Bonus Max Damage, Penetrate 🔴
• Mega Sledge: AP cost changed to 6, Damage changed to 10-180 🟢
• DSR: Damage changed to 115-145 🔴
• Gatling Laser: AP cost changed to 6, Damage changed to 45-60, Attack Delay changed to 1000, Perks set changed to: Scoped, Ammo Upgrade, Damage per Bullet 🟢
• Punch Gun: Damage changed to 100-100 🟢
• Sniper Pistol: Range changed to 50 🟢
• H&K CAWS: Damage changed to 33-65, AP cost changed to 4/5, Attack Delay changed to 600/900 🟢
• H&K MP5: Damage changed to 14-28, Attack Delay changed to 1000 🔴
• RAD Spear: Damage changed to 50-99 🟢
• M16 MK.II: Attack Delay changed to 900 🟢
• Defender: Damage changed to 48-95 🔴
• Electro Cannon: Damage changed to 60-120 🟢
• Automatic Grenade Launcher: Attack Delay changed to 400 🟢
• Napalm Blaster: Damage changed to 160-200 🔴
• Commisar's Pistol: Damage changed to 70-100, Range changed to 48 🔴
• Gauss Pistol: Range changed to 58 🟢
• Pancor Jackhammer: Damage changed to 40-80, Attack Delay changed to 300/600 🟢
• Bass Rape: Damage changed to 150-446 🟢
• Heat Machine: Damage changed to 300-500 🟢
• Saiga-12: Damage changed to 50-100, Attack Delay changed to 200/400 🟢
(Note: Weapons with a 🔴 symbol have undergone nerfs, while those with a 🟢 symbol have received buffs. These changes are aimed at balancing the gameplay and may have a significant impact on combat dynamics.)
Miscellaneous:
• Traders and war officers have sorted items.
• Added war event maps: Radio Station (Wind of War), Old Town/Water Merchants (Hub).
• Increased the limit of items in a single base from 20,000 to 35,000.
• Tier 2+ supporter benefit: Swap war event teams in the lobby, ability to choose a random team in the war event.
• Tier 3+ supporter benefit: Join war events as a spectator.
• Lore faction have auto-skin when take mutant/deathclaw class
• Added blue robot skin for mutant
Added Nellis Base:
• Open location with one building in the middle.
• To open the building, you need a character with 500 science skill.
• Door opening takes 5 minutes on a global timer.
• After the timer, the door stays open for 15 minutes on a global timer.
• Inside the building is a tier 5 crafting station.
• Outside, there are laser turret NPCs.
Added Dungeon V rewards:
• Sierra Army Depot: Random war event stat for 1 person (global cooldown, Patch < 5.3 = 1 week, Patch >= 5.4 = 24h).
• Vault 13: V13 bless for any person, lasts 4 hours, gives 10% HP, 1 AP, 2 all DR, doesn't stack with other blesses.
• Vault 41: V41 bless for any person, lasts 4 hours, gives +1 to all SPECIAL, doesn't stack with other blesses.
• VT-HQ: Random war event stat for every person (personal cooldown, Patch < 5.3 = 1 week, Patch >= 5.4 = 24h).
• Vault 41 will require the Old Tribal Key to enter the dungeon.
• Unlocked Poseidon Oil Rig and Renesco Shelter.
Poseidon Oil Rig changes:
• Hacking the reactor terminal is automatic; players need to stay in the same room as the terminal to hack it.
• Trap room damage is automatic instead of per step.
Changed Town Control windows:
• 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
• 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
• 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM
• 11:00 PM - 4:00 AM
• 3:00 AM - 8:00 AM
• Anytime
• Anytime
• When TC times change, the Discord bot will post the updated times.
Fixes:
• Fixed war event (WE) perks in companions and too many perks exploits.
• Fixed Gifted trait in companions (you will need to reroll gifted companions).
• Fixed a bug where traders would refresh their gear during trader events.
• Fixed Rockside maps.
• Fixed the Bloody perk.
• Fixed grids in Diego.
• Fixed movement speed on regulator bruiser.
• Fixed 0 Intelligence (INT) Bonehead skill points.
• Fixed traits on Combat Master.
• Fixed walking on negative HP.
• Fixed not getting drugs on Deathclaw (WE NRW).
• Fixed not getting grenades on refill (WE NRW).
• Fixed currency in mine/junk machines.
• Fixed not spawning/refilling rare ammo for flamers, rocket launchers, miniguns, grenade launchers, big gun sniper rifles, SMGs, .223 AP (few guns) (WE NRW).
• Fixed a bug where assists were granted on non-dead characters.
• Fixed grey robot skin
• Fixed multihexed doors
Impressive!