Patch Notes v0-8-1745

Patch version
 Is hotfix

## Battleframes

* Reduced the cooldown of melee from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
* Heal numbers will no longer appear over a target's head when they are at full health.

### Dragonfly

* The Rally tooltip has been updated to accurately reflect the ability's behavior.

### Arsenal

* Added a crafting component that can be used to modify Particle Beam's cooldown.

### Accord Engineer

* The amount of health the Charged Pulse Generator has can now be modified in crafting starting at Tech II.

### Electron

* Time between shots on the Shock Rail have been increased from 600 milliseconds to 1000 milliseconds.
* Shock Rail damage per round has been increased from 200 to 400 (base).
	+ The net effect of these changes will result in the Shock Rail having 400 base effective DPS, up from 333.
* Increased the range of Shock Rail from 80 meters to 120 meters.
* The Shock Rail's alternate fire projectile's damage has been adjusted to 80% of the primary fire.
* The alternate fire projectile can no longer be shot for additional damage.
* The alternate fire projectile speed has been increased from 15 meters per second to 45 meters per second.
* Fail-Safe has been removed and is replaced by a new passive: Dynamic Relay.
* Dealing damage causes the Electron to gain a bonus to shielding ability for 5 seconds (+10% to shields base).
* Shielding an ally causes the Electron to gain a bonus to its rate of fire for 5 seconds (+10% rate of fire base).
* Bulwark has been reworked and now erupts from the Electron, shelding itself and all allies within 6 meters.
* Added an optional component for crafting Bulwark to give it the behavior of the previous iteration.
* Increased the minimum cooldown of Boomerang Shot to 10 seconds.
* Slightly increased the range of Boomerang Shot.
* In addition to dealing damage to enemies it passes through, Boomerang Shot will also shield allies it passes through. Boomerang Shot's shield lasts 5 seconds and absorbs 500 damage (base).
* Note: Bulwark and Boomerang Shot shields currently stack.
* Electrical Storm is now a single-stage activation. Activating the HKM fires the storm out immediately, as opposed to having to activate the ability once to fire the projectile, and a second time to detonate the projectile, creating the Electrical Storm.

### Accord Recon

* The splash radius of the R36 when using Eruption Rounds (Nighthawk HKM) has been reduced from 4 meters to 1 meter (base).

### Nighthawk

* Eruption Rounds now has a craftable duration starting at 10 seconds.

## Open World

* Crystal Skull Pirates have been spotted in New Eden! These special enemies can only be found at special times. Killing Crystal Skull Pirates or completing their encounter has a chance of awarding you with their special Crystal Skull Helment New You Unlock.
* /duel now supports chat's autocomplete feature.
* The option to duel will now appear in player contextual menus.
* Storm Kestrels are more vulnerable to vehicular damage.
* Adjusted the Manufacturing Info Bot to give the proper information when inquiring about resource collection.
* After taking a certain amount of damage, Chosen have a random chance of getting knocked down.

## Campaign

* When multiple people in a squad need to complete the first mission, everyone gets credit along with the squad leader.

## Instances

* Gliderpad calldowns have been disabled inside instances.

## Items

* Weapons should now display the proper paint shop customizations while in the Garage.

## User Interface

* Disabled the 'Perks' button for locked battleframes.
* Helmets in the New You now display with the currently equipped Battleframe's warpaint.
* The cost of respecing professions should now be more clearly displayed.
* Added a comma separator for the Crystite count in the inventory panel.

## General

* Updated vehicle seat keybindings in the options menu.
* Shotcut keybindings now still work while in mouse mode.

## Bugfixes

* Fixed an issue where players could not click 'Accept' when switching to Borderless Window in the Video options.

### Battleframes & Combat

* The flashlight for HMG variants should now be properly aligned.
* Fixed an issue where the charge-up UI element would not display for weapons that require spin-up or charge-up (HMGs, Tesla).
* Adjusted the description of Healing Ball to say that it deals damage to enemies (previously stated NPC's).
* Fixed an issue where the Overclocking Station buff's refresh would reset a player's firing status.
* Fixed an issue where when using the Chemical Chamber on the Thermal Cannon it would use the Storm Chamber visual effects for the explosion.
* Activating SIN Scrambler should now properly only play one sound effect.
* Overclocking Station's buff visual effects should now correctly display on players for the duration of the buff.
* SIN Blade in first person view should now display properly.

### Open World

* Adjusted the Bandits' nameplates in the Road Ambush encounter to read 'Bandit' as opposed to 'Tanken.'
* Adjusted the Road Ambush reward name 'Tanken Loot' to be 'Bandit Loot.'
* Fixed an issue where Chosen were spawning under stairs in a bunker, affecting their ability to attack players.
* Fixed an issue where melee creatures would move too much once they've arrived at their target.
* The sound of the Melding getting pushed back in Northern Shores should play at its proper volume now.

### Campaign

* Fixed an issue where players' cameras were getting stuck after the fly-in of Campaign missions 1 and 5.
* Modified the terrain near Oilspill's dropship in the first mission so players can no longer get stuck.

### Instances

* Fixed an issue with Typhon's pathing in the new user experience.

### Items

* Removed the Crystite Boost from the description of Boost Crates as they were not intended to be a part of Boost Crates.

### User Interface

* After repairing equipment, any equipment that is not equipped will now correctly update.
* Refining twice in a row should no longer freeze the Firefall client.
* Fixed an issue where the rewards screens for Cliff's Edge, Tanken Cave, Thump Dump Invasion, and Chosen Death Squad were not showing stats properly.
* Stabilization Subroutines now properly show their values as percentages in tooltips.
* Players should now be able to purchase perk respecs.