Flashpoint — Patch Notes 1.22.0

Patch 1.22.0 brings the Flashpoint update. The hurricane subsides and leaves new threats behind: a new ARC Operation, evolving enemy types, and the unexplained aerial phenomena now drawing speculation across Speranza.

What’s New

• Close Scrutiny — new ARC Operation map condition
• ARC Vaporizer — new ARC enemy type
• Dolabra — Legendary Energy shotgun
• Canto — Rare Medium Ammo SMG
• Surge Coil — Rare Deployable
• High-Gain Antenna — new Player Project
• Shredders added to all maps
• Scrappy Feeding Boost
• Wasp Hunter Set and The Brigade Set

Patch Highlights

• Increased loot value in all locked rooms, with the increase scaled by key rarity
• Players building custom loadouts are more likely to join fresh servers
• Crafting improvements
• Hide HUD on console

Balance Changes

ARC

• Rocketeers take less collision damage and are no longer instantly destroyed when stunned on impact
• Reduced the chance for multiple Fireflies to spawn together
• Decreased the time it takes ARC to identify very close players in front of them

Items

• Free Augments can now be recycled into 6 plastic and 6 rubber parts
• Firefly Burner has new extra-spicy functionality

Free Loadouts are meant primarily as a safety net for a player’s personal economy. With these kits, players who play carefully should have enough to build themselves back up, complete a few tasks, or make a bit of progress.

Maps

• Increased loot value in all locked rooms, scaled by key rarity
• Increased loot spawns from Baron Husks
• Players with custom loadouts are more likely to join fresh servers

Content and Bug Fixes

Animation

• Reduced pose popping during sprint start, improved sprint transitions, and refined idle-to-movement animations
• Fixed Comet head jitter
• Fixed weapon mesh misplacement during the post-breach door re-equipping animation
• Fixed fire damage triggering bullet hit reactions

Audio

• Improved proximity voice chat stability
• Removed indoor wind reaction sounds that could be confused with looting
• Fixed missing secondary-use audio for the ARC Power Core
• Restored the use sound when repairing armor
• Improved positional audio clarity for other players
• Doors are now audible from farther away
• Improved directional audio for flying ARC
• Adjusted directional filtering for clearer rear sounds
• Improved long-range hit feedback with distant bullet impact variations
• Considerably reduced weapon audio latency (Windows systems with 16GB+ RAM only)
• Improved continuous-fire weapon audio responsiveness
• Fixed missing tab navigation sounds for gamepad UI

ARC

• Improved stunned Comet behavior
• Improved target selection so ARC switch targets more easily and lock onto the first target less often
• Fixed flying ARC, especially Fireflies, spawning inside walls in Stella Montis
• All interactions are disabled when grabbed by a Tick, except for fighting it off

Customization

• Fixed Low Bun and Curly Mullet animation
• Fixed beards disappearing with some headgear

Gameplay

• Fixed using ziplines and ladders while carrying items; carryables are now dropped
• Fixed late-joining players having ARC spawn directly on them
• Added gamepad aim assist to Leaper legs and core
• Fixed fall damage when vaulting on Comets
• Remote Raider Flares can now be disarmed with the Mine Sweeper skill
• Fixed LMB/RMB delays when equipping weapons, tools, or items while unarmed
• Fixed Trailblazer and Shrapnel Grenade eliminations not counting toward the “Horseshoes and Hand Grenades” achievement

Maps

• Shredders added to all maps (only under certain conditions on Dam Battlegrounds)
• Fixed an out-of-bounds tutorial instance

Dam Battlegrounds:

• Added more Sentinel spawn points
• Adjusted Leaper, Bombardier, and Bastion area coverage
• Fixed clipping, floating objects, and terrain gaps

Buried City:

• Fixed multiple stuck spots
• Added more consistent Sentinel spawn points
• Opened Old Town street navigation for ARC
• Adjusted Leaper, Bombardier, and Bastion coverage
• Increased Night Raid variety in Leaper, Bombardier, Bastion, and Rocketeer distribution

Blue Gate:

• Added more Sentinel spawn points
• Adjusted big enemy area coverage
• Reduced Comets during the Hurricane condition
• Locked Gate changes: side entrances now unlock with the main gate; Security Codes come from Code Printers rather than containers; Security Codes expire upon extraction

Spaceport:

• Fixed floating objects and clipping
• Added more Sentinel spawn points
• Fixed elevator shaft stuck instances
• Added more mushroom spawn locations
• Increased high-tier loot chances from rooftop activity under the Launch Tower Loot condition
• Added a delay after the final antenna activation before the bunker opens under the Hidden Bunker condition

Stella Montis:

• Fixed a missing wall in the Security Lobby

Movement

• Fixed characters not immediately facing ladders when aligning to climb
• Fixed sprint retriggering or canceling when holding fire and sprint together

Performance

• Improved texture streaming, reducing stalls and staying more responsive on lower-spec systems
• Corrected streaming calculations for component scale
• Optimized texture streaming calculations
• Optimized CPU performance

Rendering

• Reduced shadow popping
• Reduced vegetation and debris popping
• Fixed vegetation shadow flickering
• Upgraded Intel XeSS to SDK 2.1.1
• Upgraded AMD FSR to SDK 2.1.0
• Tweaked AMD FSR for improved responsiveness and clarity

Quests

• Fixed items being incorrectly consumed in the “After Rain Comes” quest
• Fixed effect syncing in the “A Dead End” quest
• Reworked quest tracking to prevent progression blocks and improve visualization; progress bars now reflect progress lost on extraction

Stability

• Resolved a tutorial crash
• Fixed a rare Practice Range session loading crash

UI

• Crafting improvements: quick material acquisition from the crafting view, with recycling, refining, and purchasing available in the same window
• All party members can see active map conditions in Speranza
• Members can ping departure destinations
• Checking Fill Squad or Solo vs. Squad now disables the other
• Matchmaking timer is shown at the bottom of the screen by destination
• Fixed stash overflow display on the inspect screen
• Fixed inverted gamepad camera zoom on Decks and Store screens
• Fixed missing action text for throwable items
• Added HUD visibility options for console (F10 on PC): Visible, Crosshair and Interactions Only, Crosshair Only, and Hidden
• Inventory screen now shows stash value
• Barricade pings now show by the crosshair instead of offset
• Emote tiles show a wheel icon for equipped slots
• Store tab shows a new-items marker on rotation change
• Purchase preview shows a detailed bundle breakdown
• Customization screen shows a bundle preview

VFX

• Fixed the Sentinel laser being shorter than its sight range
• Fixed ARC damage effects being visible through walls

Known Issues

• Fireflies may disappear after going idle and drop an incendiary grenade
• Destroyed Comet sounds occasionally persist
• Shredders float to the ceiling in Hidden Bunker rooms
• ARC may spawn inside geometry on The Dam
• Invisible collision under a Turret at Buried City and Spaceport locations
• Flying ARC sometimes get stuck in idle
• Helmet visors become transparent after the first extraction
• The Purchase Raider Tokens page can appear over the inbox or profile when switching
• Player animations break when interrupting a Baron Husk search
• Firing on an empty mag triggers a reload; on completion the weapon auto-fires without a trigger press
• Rapid clicking of a quick-use item prevents activation
• Stairs in the top Grandioso apartments are invisible, though collision is present