Original Story: Going live later today on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, the Monarch’s Reign Titanfall 2 update has been fully detailed by developer Respawn.
Adding the new Monarch Titan, the remastered Relic map, the Now You See Me execution, and more, here’s the patch notes for Monarch’s Reign:
New Content (Free)
Map: Relic
New Titan: Monarch
New Execution: Now You See Me [Cloak] – Requirement to unlock: Get 10 Pilot executions while cloaked [this is not counted retroactively].
New regen callsign banners for Gen 10-100 including prism versions.
New Content (Purchasable)
Prime Titan: Ronin
Prime Titan: Tone
Camos – 20 new camos
Callsigns and Patches – 20 Callsigns and 20 Patches [including Nessie and Spicy Boy patches!]
Nose Art – 5 new Nose Arts and 1 new Warpaint
Matchmaking and Network Improvements
You can now invite friends to Network in-game.
Added “confirm” dialogue when inviting a friend to Network.
Will no longer show the “invite friends to network” button if it’s not allowed for active Network or if the Network is invite only and the player is not an admin.
Game Improvements
Update to Crashsite map – Fixed around 100 instances of getting bumped, bonked, stuck or tripped up. During the clean-up, we also wanted to experiment with more mobility options. To that end we’ve added 8 ziplines to get around the map faster and a few more wallrunning locations.
Titan Balance
General
Titan Meter and Core Meter are now gained when damaging shielded Titans.
Slightly reduced Core Meter generation from damage to compensate.
Titan executions are no longer blocked by shields.
Ion
Laser Shot now requires more energy, preventing you from double tapping opponents.
Reduced Laser Shot damage.
Laser Core damage slightly decreased.
Pilot Balance
New Pilot Kit 2: Titan Hunter – Killing a Titan rewards 10% bonus to your Titan meter.
Pilot Weapons
Volt
Near damage and amped near damage increased.
Added a small amount of viewkick.
Flatline
Damage and amped damage reduced to bring it in line with other assault rifles.
R-201 and R-101
Very far damage slightly increased.
Devotion
Damage and amped damage reduced. It should now require ramping up to be more effective than the Spitfire.
DMR
Amped DMR damage reduced to 80 for a bodyshot.
P2016
Near damage reduced.
Very far damage value added, reducing the pistol’s damage at distance.
R-97
Very far damage reduced.
Tactikill Mod
Cooldown reduction per kill lowered to 25% from 35%.
Melee
Fixed issue with melee attacks not hitting near corners.
Improved hit accuracy when there is a height difference between players.
Game Mode Adjustments
Prevent phase shift players from earning meter by phase dropping the flag and then picking it back up.
Private match will no longer display win/loss messages as those are not tracked in Private Matches.
You can now skip the kill replay in Live Fire and Last Titan Standing matches.
Bug Fixes
Players dying inside their Titan will no longer award a “Pilot Assist”.
Pilots no longer considered idle and be kicked while rodeoing.
Fixed issue with Pilots getting stuck after grappling out of a rodeo near a ceiling.
Fixed issue with store where bundles would still show as purchasable after you already bought them.
Fixed issue with open invites not showing the correct icon for joined members.
Fixed several rare crash bugs.
Starting today, Respawn is offering double XP for all modes. They’ve also made Titan Brawl the Featured Mode.