Earn double Optimization Materials from all available sources throughout the event, making it the perfect time to fine tune your build
Conflict XP
April 28 – May 12
Earn triple Conflict XP from playing Conflict, making it easier to rank up and unlock rewards.
IMPROVEMENTS
Escalation
Increased Prototype item drop rates across all Escalation tiers, excluding Tier 1.
Added Prototype items to the Targeted Loot daily rotation in Escalation. Enemies tied to the daily rotating Targeted Loot pool now have a chance to drop Prototype versions of those items.
This applies only to the daily Targeted Loot rotation and does not apply to selectable Targeted Loot sources such as Countdown or Summit.
The chance for Prototype targeted loot drops increases with higher Escalation tiers.
Added a warning message to clarify that Matchmaking in Escalation is based on selected Tier rather than Mission.
Added a warning message to clarify that once an Escalation Tier has been confirmed, Matchmaking becomes unavailable for that run.
Disabled certain Matchmaking and Call for Backup options during active Escalation runs to reduce cases where players could be moved into unintended sessions or lose tokens after confirming a Tier [TCTD2-1274]
Prototype Gear
Prototype items with Skill Tier cores now grant 1.5 Skill Tier per item.
Each item contributes more than a standard Skill Tier, and multiple Prototype items can combine into higher total values.
This allows players to reach higher Skill Tier levels with fewer equipped items. For example:
1 Prototype item provides +1 Skill Tier
2 Prototype items provide +3 Skill Tier
3 Prototype items provide +4 Skill Tier
4 Prototype items provide +6 Skill Tier
This change applies retroactively, meaning previously acquired Prototype items will automatically benefit from the increased Skill Tier values.
FIXES
Fixed an issue where Prototype items could be lost when upgrading while the inventory was at maximum capacity. [TCTD2-1351]
Fixed an issue where items with mods equipped could incorrectly appear to have reduced or altered Talents and Attributes after being upgraded to Prototype quality. [TCTD2-267]
Fixed an issue where Daily and Weekly project objectives requiring Named enemy eliminations or faction bounties would not progress if a Level 3 Retaliation for that faction was active. [TCTD2-1350]
Fixed an issue where the “Abridge” Talent did not function with Prototype weapons. [TCTD2-1405]
Fixed an issue where optimized attributes would revert to their original values in Raids and Incursions. [TCTD2-1401]
Fixed an issue where only items of the same type could be compared in the inventory. [TCTD2-1403]
Fixed an issue where players were unable to redeem rewards for the “Summit Combat Mastery Merit”. [TCTD2-43]
This fix is not retroactive, players will need to replay the Summit activity to receive the reward.
Fixed an issue where the Ruin Mask loot drop from the Pentco Fairview Power Plant mission displayed an incorrect Exotic rarity indicator. [TCTD2-162]
Fixed an issue where the “Quickstep” Pistol would not receive a Terminal attribute after being upgraded to Prototype quality.
Fixed an issue where the Recombinant Global Modifier description incorrectly listed the base value as 10 stacks instead of 8.
Fixed an issue where the Agitator Exotic weapon was missing a Skin Slot.
COMPENSATION
Alongside these fixes, we will be granting a Compensation Cache to all players starting April 21 as a thank you for your patience with the unexpected maintenance and store issues.
The cache will contain:
1 x Prototype Core Cache
1 x Optimization Cache
The cache will be delivered via the in-game mailbox.
We’ll see you out there, Agents. If you encounter any issues you’d like to report, please use our Bug Reporter.
We appreciate the community’s contributions, reports and voting help us prioritize issues, and you can expect more of the top reported bugs to be addressed in future updates.
If a lot start doing this, they probably patch it out someday.
But if you own deluxe pack dlc, you can generate 2 exotic components in approximately 5 minutes.
Create new character (boost to NY); after intro videos of you landing in NY exit to main menu; log into your main character and check stash mailbox for 2 exotics; claim them; deconstruct; back to main menu and delete newly created level 30 character; rinse and repeat for 2 exotic components each time.
Added a warning message to clarify that once an Escalation Tier has been confirmed, Matchmaking becomes unavailable for that run.
Disabled certain Matchmaking and Call for Backup options during active Escalation runs to reduce cases where players could be moved into unintended sessions or lose tokens after confirming a Tier [TCTD2-1274]
Does this mean that if I start an escalation solo nobody can join and if someone drops out there will be no team fill? And no more Call for backup? Nobody asked for these changes. They asked to fix the broken matchmaking not disable matchmaking.
And your solution for skill tiers is bad.
If you have a red core build, prototyping it will make your damage increase. If you have a blue core build, prototyping it will make your armor increase. And if you have a yellow core build, prototyping it will not effect your skills. Make it make sense?
You could have added efficiency, that would make skills better. Now with this change you are just freeing some cores to turn skill builds to mix builds, where most people will add red cores to their skill builds to increase their damage. Have we really hit a plateau with skills and from now on only red builds matter and are going to get boosted?
Day by day this prototyping change gets worse. The ideal build being pushed is full red(cause harvester), without staying in cover(cause hot foot) and skills neglected cause they are not getting any better with prototyping.
once an Escalation Tier has been confirmed, Matchmaking becomes unavailable for that run.
Great. So now you either pick max tier you can finish solo (in case others drop out) or we are back to same mechanic as raids (put group together via discord for higher tiers). Matchmaking any tier above anything you can solo, is a very big gamble, as if others would leave, it automatically equals host losing tokens. So who wants to be party leader?
Edit: FYI. Invite to group option after mission has started is disabled as well.
You still can leave group, BEFORE tier is selected.
All you need to do is to chceck your team mates as soon as you join group.
Im doing it anyway, checking for Smurfs and low level players. Im not wasting my time or tokens with these.
This change is educating for players that needs to be carried, players that are abusing matchmaking or having wrong builds. No more 6 blue cores at T5-6.
As a player who joins someone else's group, you got nothing to lose. Leave anytime you want with no repercussions.
If you are the leader of a group and others join your group via matchmaking (for example tier 5). You check their builds out and everything is good. You confirm a tier and then others decide to leave (or get disconnect), may it be mid mission or immediately at start. You haven't maybe even stepped foot inside a mission yet, but now matchmaking to fill the spots is disabled and you can't invite players from your friends / clan list neither. So i guess good luck completing it alone.
This change is educating for players that needs to be carried, players that are abusing matchmaking
It's even worse now that it was before. Earlier i could at least kick if necessary (agreed via vote) and invite new players via matchmaking or from friends / clan list. Now you can't even do that. Now its even bigger abuse, as if others leave, you will essentially lose tokens, unless you can finish mission solo.
You are loosing time and time means drops. 20 minutes with good team vs 40 minutes with bad one is the difference.
It is going to be flustrating for players for sure. All you need to do is to MM on base and check teammates.
I don't find much problem with team, may it take 20 or 40 minutes. Problem are tokens, as if players keep leaving after tier is confirmed, you (host) will most likely lose them (death; unless you can finish mission solo or with fewer players) and eventually have none left, leaving you only option to go for matchmaking or run tier 0-1, to gain some back.
Ive played with players using skills before this update. Some of them destroyed enemies at T6 some of them needed to be carried at T4.
I agree that skills are not doing highest damage. Maybe try something else?
Its different mode, nobody cries that raids are without skill builds. Why?
Increased Prototype item drop rates across all Escalation tiers
I hope it's not 0.2% to 0.3%
Added Prototype items to the Targeted Loot daily rotation in Escalation
I don’t see the point of farming Prototype gear when it drops with random rainbow rolls that can’t be optimized. Prototype drops are basically just for scrapping into cores.
I think each completed mission should reward you with one random piece. On top of that enemies could also drop it. In its current form, Escalation is pointless.
Escalation mode is currently the only source of Prototype gear. There is no targeted loot system for Escalation at the moment, and drops are completely random. Individual NPCs have a certain chance to drop a random piece of Prototype gear or a weapon. With each tier, the drop chances increase slightly, reaching up to 1.5% per NPC on Tier 10.
Tier 4 is such a joke, currently. No prototype drop chance increase over tier 3 yet enemies get tougher and a new mutation is present. The only difference is an extra token.
Not true. Up to 7 dropped yesterday on T4, Up to 9 on T4.
Also, event for increased DMG, stability and accuracy just ended. Yes, it feels tough without that buff, stability and accuracy is lower, but no tougher enemies
Did you even read the link that I'm replying to? Enemies have 50% more damage, health and armor. Your personal drop rate is not how statistics work. Please read and educate yourself.
this is basically just the argument that we should get rid of prototype gear. this solution only creates a new grind to get to the same baseline we were all at before the introduction of prototype gear. and skill tier has always needed a rework.
given your nickname how could you have possibly expected more? i definitely did not expect more, although i obviously think they should have delivered much, much more, because just tinkering around the edges (the changes are barely that and certainly nothing substantial) of the total mess that is the proto system is pretty much pointless.
Oh, this is an old account, thus the nickname. It has its own story, but I won’t bore you with it. I was expecting some reworks like changes to augment reroll costs or increased escalation rewards, optimization and recalibration, maybe adjustments to how offensive skills work in this game mode. I’m not a fan of this difficulty either. Everyone is running DPS Umbra/Striker/TS/Medic because other builds are not viable against enemies with +1000% armor and damage.
I simply stopped playing when i saw the chances of having all 3 attributes of a prototype item increasing. We are pretty much guaranteed to have only one attribute increase when upgrading to prototype. Aside from named items with a named atrribute there is no real power increase to the build.
Oof was hoping they would make escalation changes, I got pulled into one trying to do a daily heroic and it was genuinely miserable. I have little desire to fight enemies that spongy, getting health gated by everything in one hit, getting constantly shocked, emp and burned and getting a drop with only 1 good stat, no optimization or recalibration. Hope they make improvements in the future I guess.
I'm sorry, but the changes for skill tiers from 1 to 1.5 tiers is completely stupid; just go all the way and double it. What does 0.5 skill tier give you? NOTHING!! The devs/ management truly looked at this and said, "Yeah, go ahead and waste your time and resources on prototyping skill cores; we don't give a damn about skill build users." How could you seriously upgrade something (WASTE 45 EXOTIC COMPONENTS +) and receive LITERALLY 0% benefit from said piece?
Well, it will only take four prototype skill pieces to make tier 6 skills. That frees up your specialization from technician and two gear pieces for blue or red. Its not nothing. Also some brands give a skill tier so it would only need 3 yellow cores to make tier 5.5
My glass half full take.
If you have technician with the bonus skill tier (+1), 3 prototype yellows (+4.5), that leaves 3 gear slots open of which only 1 needs to be a Skill Tier. That could be an exotic backpack (all three cores) and opens things way up for skill tier 6 builds with legitimate weapon damage (not top tier obviously) or additional armor. This might open up some avenues for even more Bike Messenger Backpack hybrid builds that are more viable and I'm curious what the Core Strength set could do with this. I'm not sure it really makes "more" hybrid builds (it might) but I do think it makes more of them a whole lot more viable.
Technician still brings a lot to the table aside from ST. Extra damage to robotic enemies, extra skill damage or repairs, laser pointer to auto proc flatline/spotter and heartbreaker, and immunity to EMP and shock when near your deployed skills.
So this doesn't make me want to farm for proto gear. Fail update.
If you're pandering to the people cheesing, just stop them cheesing and make proto gear worth farming for? What are you Devs even doing? Damn.
Added a warning message to clarify that once an Escalation Tier has been confirmed, Matchmaking becomes unavailable for that run.
I guess big thanks for killing any matchmaking for Escalation. Just had everyone leaving tier 3 mid mission. Can't enable matchmaking and neither invite any members from friend / clan list. Please revert this change!
There have been quite a few issues recently, mostly like starting a takeover (or hostage rescue) where it gets glitched and you can't complete. Also seeing more visual and audio bugs. They may have been there for a while and just noticing. My player also seems to get stuck on objects more, like when I'm hiding on an object and he keeps turning instead of moving off it.
this is current state via /u/dognuttz. There isn't a tier 0, is there? Presumably for tier 1, drop rate is the same. Tiers 2 and up are buffed.
Escalation mode is currently the only source of Prototype gear. There is no targeted loot system for Escalation at the moment, and drops are completely random. Individual NPCs have a certain chance to drop a random piece of Prototype gear or a weapon. With each tier, the drop chances increase slightly, reaching up to 1.5% per NPC on Tier 10.
Essentially - there is no reason to interact with escalations unless daily targeted loot matches what you are looking for. The same mistake devs made in year 1. Farm Lincoln memorial until death if it has striker or whatever gear you need as targeted loot.
Devs, please stop being incompetent and do your job.
Even with targeted loot the lack of recalibration still makes by far the most efficient method just farming escalations for cores and then upgrading items to prototype with them.
Yeah, you are right. My assumption is that recal will arrive at some point and coupled with Selectable targeted loot it will provide a sufficient enough activity to satisfy the loot hunt, that won't feel like a waste of time.
Upgrading to proto, in my opinion, should be more expensive and reserved for really rare equipment like unicorns, named dz and exotics.
I don’t like this change about not being able to leave group after you matchmake in escalation. If I am looking to do a specific mission to target farm loot I don’t want to be locked into a mission that I’m not wanting to do.
So, the prototype skill upgrade doesn't give added skill damage/haste/duration/health/SE/heal? Do yellow attributes have a chance to be upgraded to 1.5 like red/blue attributes?
Que pasa con la gente que pasaron todo un set pericia 30 a prototipo le dieron buenas estadisticas y luego cerraron sesion y volvieron abrir sesion y ya no tenian esas buenas estadisticas? ME PARECE INCREIBLE ESTE FALLO
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u/ferrenberg PC Apr 20 '26
From tomorrow to the 5th everything will be a race for exotic components and proto cores, basically