The headline addition includes five new Landsraad missions scattered across Hagga Basin and Smuggler’s Run. For players deep in the faction grind, this provides more avenues to exert influence and secure resources. Funcom is also decoupling the Landsraad cycle from the Coriolis cycle, a technical shift that gives the developers more flexibility in how these world-altering events rotate independently of one another.
Controller players are getting a significant buff in this update. The team has implemented extensive D-Pad support across numerous menus, finally moving away from the often-clumsy virtual cursor in dialogue screens. This should make inventory management and NPC interactions feel much more native to consoles and gamepads.
On the survival front, some clever physics tweaks are changing how we interact with the world. Cargo containers are now significantly heavier, preventing players from easily pushing them around—a change likely aimed at maintaining the intended challenge of logistics. More importantly, the "wing-surfing" meta is getting nerfed; you can no longer stand on ornithopters at high speeds, effectively closing a popular PvP exploit that allowed for some unintended aerial dominance.
Finally, PvE players in the Deep Desert will notice a massive reduction in logoff times, dropping from five minutes down to just 30 seconds. This makes a quick exit much safer when the environment or other threats close in. While these changes are currently limited to the PTC, they signal a more polished experience heading toward the live servers soon.
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