For this week’s Remote Observer, we’re doing things a little differently: we’ll be featuring Console changes front and centre! Our PS4 and XB1 Tenno received a bunch of beefy content in addition to the Octavia Maestra and Ceramica Collections, the highlights of which we have laid out below.

PC players can see what came in their hotfixes (including Exodia Force changes – hype!) by scrolling a little farther down than usual.

ENDLESS KUVA SURVIVAL – DEV WORKSHOP

Before we jump into the patch notes, our Kuva-thirsty Tenno should know about our plans for adding an Endless Kuva Survival mode on the Fortress itself. All the details are in our Dev Workshop here.

This new mode is intended to complement the existing Siphon/Flood system, not to replace it! We wanted to add some diversity to your Kuva acquisition, so we’re excited to hear your constructive feedback prior to its launch.

CONSOLES – WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

Beam Weapons

• We revisited our Beam Weapons this week, including a slew of stat changes. If you want to see full details, please read our update notes here: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/935201-ps4-shrine-of-the-eidolon-update-22151-zephyr-prime/
• Beam weapons now state "STATUS" instead of "STATUS / SEC" in the Arsenal because they can now Status Effect more than once per second (like all other weapons).
• Weapon Range Mods (like Sinister Reach) no longer affect the distance of chains for chainable Beam weapons (like the Amprex). Main Beam distance is still affected by them.
• Damage now ramps up over 0.6 seconds and after moving off target there is a delay of 0.8 seconds before it starts to decay over 2 seconds.
• All Beam weapons now start their Damage ramp up at 20% (instead of 10%) with the following exceptions: Convectrix’s primary fire starts at 60%, and alt fire at 80%; Phage starts at 70%; Embolist starts at 30%.

Invasion Changes
Considering there are other “faster” mission types available to get your reward and get out, it was time to cut back a bit on the way 'endless' variants work within the Invasion system. As a result, the following mission completion requirements have been scaled back:

• Defense from 10 waves to 5 waves
• Survival from 10 minutes to 5 minutes
• Interception from 2 rounds to 1 round
• Excavation from 1000 Cryotic to 500 Cryotic

Advanced Captura Tools

• You can now have up to 8 players in a single Captura session without needing the Trial lobby!
• Added the ability to place up to 200 Camera Positions, adjust Camera Speeds, and more. Use the new Cinematic Mode button to the Camera track without UI!
• Place up to 5 in-world Text lines with the option to change text color.
• Added Lotus Glow and Edge of Shadows filters, plus Filter Opacity and Filter Depth sliders.

Arcane System

• Arcanes are no longer tied to cosmetics! They can now only be installed to Warframes and Operators (2 per), as well as Amps and Zaws (1 per) themselves. All Arcanes installed on Cosmetics/Helmets will be Distilled upon login.
• You can now trade Upgraded Arcanes!
• You can now search/sort within the Arcane Manager screen.
• You must be at least Mastery Rank 5 or have an Arcane owned if below Mastery Rank 5 to install an Arcane.
• Arcanes have received a visual overhaul! Arcane Rarity now matches the style we use on Mods and Relics.

PC – WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

Exodia Force Changes:

• Melee combo multiplier now applies to the radial blast of Exodia Force. This also fixes Exodia Force not scaling off of Modded Damage.
• Increased Status Chance from 5%/10%/15%/20% to 5%/20%/35%/50%.
• Changed Damage from 80%/100%/120%/150% to 50%/100%/150%/200%.
• Changed Radius from 5/6/7/8 meters to 3/4/5/6 meters.

Miscellaneous

· Ayatan Sculptures can now be placed and contributed to the Dojo! As most of you know, Decorations contributed to the Dojo are never refunded. If you contribute an Ayatan Sculpture, you will not be able to retrieve it for Endo. You have been warned!!

· Fixed crashes on some 32-bit systems caused by 100 MB of memory reserved by disabled GPU particles prototype. These crashes were predominately noticed when loading into the Plains or a Void Sabotage tileset.

· Fixed cases of the ultimate crossover of Cetus in the Sky as reported here.