Patch 15.0

For the very first time, the ruinous forces of Chaos are stepping directly into the bitter war between the Imperium and the relentless Tyranid swarms.

Players can now step into battle as Heretic Astartes within Siege mode. Backed by fanatical Cultists and a menacing Helbrute, you must outmaneuver and destroy both the encroaching Hive Fleet and loyalist defenders.

The violent Tyranid assault has blown the cover off clandestine Chaos operations on Avarax. Deep within the sprawling architecture of the Hive City, Heretic Astartes are fortifying critical choke points to conduct dark, blasphemous rituals.

This marks our inaugural true endgame experience. We will actively refine it based on community feedback, with plans to significantly expand Crucible rewards over time.

Designed specifically for Level 25 classes, Crucible is a challenging new PvE mode. Access it via Operations, apply compounding Penances to ramp up the difficulty, and earn exclusive Crucible XP alongside rare cosmetic rewards. Crucible features a dedicated matchmaking pool separate from standard PvE queues.

Climbing the ranks in Crucible mode will ultimately unlock the distinct armor pieces of the Lamenters set.

The Tactical class perks have undergone a comprehensive overhaul to offer vastly improved build flexibility. Whether you prefer dual-wielding primary armaments, executing devastating Gun Strikes, or wading into melee combat, your playstyle is now fully supported alongside an expanded melee arsenal.

Take on fresh Ordeals featuring specialized challenges for the Vanguard and Heavy classes, alongside intense new scenarios for PvP and Siege modes.

A swift, versatile melee weapon capable of seamlessly transitioning between precise single-target strikes and wide-reaching area attacks. Build up charges during combat and unleash them to deliver cataclysmic blows.

Wargear personalization has been greatly expanded. Tabards and cloaks now occupy independent slots, complete with full color customization, an expanded palette of fabric tints, and unique camouflage painting patterns tailored for the Sniper class.

Unlock 3 Heroic Weapons using Accolades:

• Power Axe (Frost Axe – Balance): Scoring execution kills generates Power Charges that supercharge your next Whirl Slash, expanding its radius, increasing damage, and slowing impacted foes.
• One-Handed Thunder Hammer (Power Maul – Balance): Holding the attack button unleashes a devastating Ground Slam that consumes all stored charges, scaling damage dynamically with the number of charges spent.
• Auto Bolt Rifle (Iron Hands): Features an elevated base rate of fire that gradually decreases the longer you hold down the trigger.

Unlock 3 Heroic Armor Components using Accolades:

• Crusade Ancient Shoulder Pad
• Assault Iron Halo
• Mark VI Corvus Shoulder Pad

🐺 Space Wolves Champion Pack

1. Bulwark Champion (Wolf Guard)
2. One-Handed Thunder Hammer Weapon Skin

💀 Exorcists Cosmetic Pack

The Exorcists Cosmetic Pack contains:

• 2 Distinct Helmets
• Left & Right Pauldrons (x2 sets)
• Left & Right Gauntlets (x2 sets)
• 1 Standard Breastplate

All armor items are instantly unlocked and added straight to your inventory upon purchasing the bundle.

Tactical

These changes are designed to give the Tactical class significantly more diverse build paths. While the baseline Auspex Scan damage multiplier has been toned down, granting Kraken Penetrator rounds natively alongside across-the-board primary weapon buffs ensures balanced overall performance.

• Base perk updated: Bolt weapons now penetrate 1 additional enemy, and non-headshot damage with Bolters is boosted by 20%.
• Prestige perk Exigency Charge has been swapped out for Passive Chambering: “Stowed ranged weapons reload automatically after 10 seconds of disuse.”
• Kraken Penetrator Rounds has moved to the core class tree; its previous slot now houses Armor Reinforcement: “Non-finisher Gun Strikes restore 1 Armor Segment.”
• Steady Aim replaced by Focused Strike: “During a Gun Strike, you maintain composure against Heavy Hits, resist knockback, and take 30% reduced damage.”
• Close Targeting replaced by Vital Data: “Scanning an Extremis or Terminus-class threat immediately refunds 50% of your Auspex Scan charge.”
• Improved Efficiency replaces the former Vital Data slot, causing Auspex Scan to recharge 25% faster.
• Marksman’s Mandate replaces Improved Efficiency: “Enemies highlighted by Auspex Scan take 40% more ranged damage (base damage increased by 50%).”
• Priority Targeting swapped for Pulse Auspex: “Auspex Scan unleashes a concentrated pulse rather than a lingering zone. It holds 2 charges, though the area of effect is reduced by 25%.”
• Target Lock replaced by Mobile Auspex: “Auspex Scan projects directly around you, expanding its radius by 30% and extending duration by 4 seconds (base duration: 5 seconds).”
• Precise Calibration replaced by Bladesman’s Mandate: “Targets marked by Auspex Scan suffer 60% increased melee damage and take 20% more from Gun Strikes (base damage increased by 50%).”
• Expert Timing replaced by Strongpoint: “While inside your Auspex zone, you and your squad inflict 20% more melee damage and take 20% less health damage.”
• Concentrated Fire replaced by Prime Target: “Activating Auspex Scan automatically tags the most dangerous enemy within range with a Gun Strike marker.”
• Marked for Death reworked: “Triggering Auspex Scan debuffs a single Majoris- or Extremis-class enemy in range, doubling all Auspex damage bonuses against that specific target (+100%).”
• Signal Jammer replaced by Tactical Reserve: “Your secondary firearm is swapped for an integrated primary Bolt Rifle.”
• Secure Stockpile: Cooldown increased from 60 to 90 seconds.

Techmarine

• Combat Squad’s Resupply perk now correctly affects Melta Bombs as well.

Historically, weapon damage outputs were tightly restricted due to Auspex Scan’s capability to deliver a 3x damage multiplier to the entire strike team. With that efficiency reined in, we are elevating the base damage of nearly all primary armaments to compensate.

• Bolt Rifle: Base damage increased by 10%.
• Auto Bolt Rifle: Base damage increased by 15%.
• Heavy Bolt Rifle: Base damage increased by 5% (excludes the Heroic variant equipped with the Auxiliary Grenade Launcher).
• Bolt Carbine: Base damage increased by 7.5%.
• Instigator Bolt Carbine: Base damage increased by 7.5%.
• Occulus Bolt Carbine: Base damage increased by 15%.
• Plasma Incinerator: Standard fire base damage increased by 10%.
• Heavy Bolter: Base damage increased by 5%.
• Pyreblaster: Base damage increased by 10%.
• Pyrecannon: Base damage increased by 10%.
• One-Handed Bolt Carbine: Base damage increased by 10%.

Melta weapons debuted as powerhouse options but gradually fell behind the broader weapon roster. This update grants them massive baseline damage increases, balanced by sharper damage falloff curves and restricted ammunition pools. This cements their role as utterly lethal close-quarters executioners. These changes apply to Heroic variants as well.

• Melta Rifle:
  • Base damage increased by 65%.
  • Base ammunition capacity decreased from 15 to 10.
  • Standard-Issue: Falloff start distance adjusted from 5m to 2m; maximum damage reduction tightened from 50% to 30%.
  • Master-Crafted (Alpha): Falloff start distance adjusted from 8m to 2.5m; max damage reduction adjusted from 50% to 30%.
  • Salvation of Bakka: Falloff start distance adjusted from 9m to 3m; max damage reduction adjusted from 50% to 30%.
  • Gathalamor Crusade: Falloff start distance adjusted from 10m to 3m; max damage reduction adjusted from 50% to 30%.
  • Salamanders (Heroic): Damage falloff introduced, scaling up to a 70% reduction at distances between 25 and 30 meters.
• Heavy Melta Rifle:
  • Base damage increased by 60%.
  • Base ammunition capacity decreased from 20 to 16.
  • Standard-Issue: Falloff start distance adjusted from 5m to 2m; max damage reduction adjusted from 50% to 30%.
  • Master-Crafted (Alpha): Falloff start distance adjusted from 8m to 3m; max damage reduction adjusted from 50% to 30%.
  • Salvation of Bakka: Falloff start distance adjusted from 9m to 4m; max damage reduction adjusted from 50% to 30%.
  • Gathalamor Crusade: Falloff start distance adjusted from 10m to 5m; max damage reduction adjusted from 50% to 30%.
• Combi-melta (Heroic Bolt Rifle):
  • Melta barrel damage increased by 65%.
  • Falloff start distance moved from 5m to 2m.
  • Damage reduction adjusted from 30% to 20%.
• Deathwatch Stalker Bolt Rifle (Heroic):
  • Resolved tracking bugs affecting body shots, making heroic perk triggers far more consistent.

• Tactical: Added three new melee options—Power Sword, Power Axe, and One-Handed Thunder Hammer. Equipping these restricts the class from carrying a primary ranged weapon.
• Techmarine: Added the Two-Handed Thunder Hammer.
• Omnissian Axe: Updated the Rampage perk description to accurately reflect in-game mechanics.
• Deathwatch Power Fist (Heroic): Melta Blast attacks can now be chained seamlessly; fixed a bug where specific class and weapon perks failed to buff the Melta Blast.
• Lord Executioner’s Axe (Heroic Thunder Hammer): Fixed an issue where Adrenaline Surge stacks failed to register correctly in certain instances.

• The defeat timer for Corrupted and Hallowed Relic missions has been extended from 15 to 20 seconds.
• Resolved a bug where the Measured Mercy stratagem only rewarded a single relic during solo or bot-assisted playthroughs.
• Implemented numerous minor stability fixes across various stratagems.

Scoped camera positioning has been shifted closer to character models, significantly limiting the exploit of firing blindly from behind complete cover.

• Heavy: Iron Halo durability reduced by 25%.
• Techmarine: Core class ability cooldown shortened by 16%.

• Melta Rifle: Rate of fire increased by 10%.
• Instigator Bolt Carbine: Base damage reduced by 12.5%.
• Auto Bolt Rifle: Base damage reduced by 7.5%.
• Bolt Rifle: Maximum reticle spread decreased by 15%.
• Sniper Bolt Rifle: Rate of fire increased by 9%.

• Combat Knife: Added a stagger effect to the 4th strike in light combo chains; damage for this specific strike decreased by 33%.
• Power Sword: Power Whirl area-of-effect damage reduced by 20%.

Patch 16 brings additional tuning to Blessings and Atonements within Siege mode, alongside refinements to specific battlefield modifiers in Stratagems.

• The Cursed Relic modifier has been temporarily removed from the Atonement pool.
• Various minor bug fixes applied.

• Addressed numerous minor level-geometry and collision bugs.

• Ordeal trackers for unlocking Chaos Relic Armor now properly count kill assists.
• Fixed an issue preventing the Unending Vigil ordeal from being completed.
• Resolved bugs preventing Eternal Conflict and Ace of Aces from unlocking once completion criteria were met.

• Enraged enemy block stances (such as those used by Bonesword Tyranid Warriors) can now be shattered using heavy attacks.
• Barbed Strangler effect radius decreased by 10% to properly match its visual boundaries.
• The AI Director now prioritizes dropping ammo crates if a player’s secondary weapon barrel is depleted.
• Added the Biovore to the roster in the Battle Simulator.
• Integrated ammo crates into the Battle Simulator environment.

• Added unhelmed Salamander helmet variants and Salamander voice sets to Chapter Voice Pack 1 DLC.
• Added the unhelmed Raven Guard head option to the Refinement and Redemption shop.
• Added the unhelmed White Scar head option to the Refinement and Redemption shop.
• Introduced specialized Tabards for the Assault class representing the Iron Hands, Salamanders, and Space Wolves Champions.
• Added new Tabard options for the Vanguard and Heavy classes.
• Added the “Mark XI Hell’s Teeth” chainsword skin to the Refinement and Redemption shop.
• Introduced the Salamander Champion Cloak for the Assault class.
• Split the monolithic Cloth wargear slot into dedicated Cloth and Cloak slots, allowing tabards and cloaks to be equipped independently.
• Added a dedicated Cloth Wargear slot for Vanguard and Heavy classes.
• Expanded the color palette for both Cloth and Cloaks.
• Wargear items can now be tinted directly via their own customization slot rather than inheriting colors from Chest or Backpack pieces.
• Introduced separate camouflage pattern options exclusively for Sniper cloaks.
• Added comprehensive color-tinting support for:
  • Battleworn Tabard
  • Regal Tabard
  • Noble Tabard
  • Consecrated Tabard
  • Vermillion Cloak
  • Sable Cloak
• Techmarine: Manipulator slot split into distinct Manipulator and Backpack slots.
• Countless minor cosmetic bug fixes implemented for both Loyalist and Chaos factions.

• Fixed a bug where players took damage from Tzaangor Enlightened even after executing a flawless Perfect Dodge.
• Resolved various minor enemy animation glitches.

• Fixed an intermittent bug preventing execution finishers from properly restoring contested health.
• Resolved an issue where players couldn’t pick up Armor boosts after toggling off the Depleted Armor stratagem in Siege mode.
• Fixed a bug where the Assault class perk Furious Strike occasionally reset Jump Pack cooldown progress.
• Fixed a bug involving the Tactical perk Radiating Impact which could inadvertently damage teammates during high-difficulty stratagem runs.
• Resolved an issue where the Migraine stratagem failed to trigger an explosion when executing a Scarab Occult Terminator Sorcerer via a headshot.
• Implemented a wide array of miscellaneous bug fixes.
• Applied various minor user interface and audio corrections.

• Significantly improved loading times across all platforms.
• Executed extensive memory optimizations.
• Delivered minor overall performance enhancements.
• Improved general network connectivity stability.
• Patched multiple crash sources and bolstered overall software stability.