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2 Oct 2026

Beta Patch 2

A big combat and quality-of-life patch: the beta now runs to 15 October, squads hold five, missile launchers move to battery hardpoints, armor and shields get base resistances, every ship gets a four-cell safety hold, and there are five camera modes.

What changed

  • The beta runs two weeks instead of one and ends on 15 October 2026.
  • Squads hold up to five pilots, up from three.
  • Missile and torpedo launchers fit battery hardpoints (diamond) instead of subsystem hardpoints (triangle), with visible launchers that aim at the cursor.
  • Missiles and mines deal high-explosive damage. Armor resists 24% kinetic and 20% high-explosive; shields resist 10% kinetic and 30% high-explosive.
  • Lower missile damage (Cruise Missile 180, Torpedo 225) and smaller homing bonuses across modules, regalia and affinity.
  • Every ship has a safety hold of four cells in a fixed 2×2 square at the top left of the cargo grid.
  • Tab targeting has a set order and cycles or unlocks on a second press; right-click harpooning toggles.
  • Nanite Regenerator repair scales with quality; a Standard one repairs 70 HP/s for 16 s.
  • Five camera modes on B, M, J, G and N, all rebindable.
  • A browser tab left in the background for over a minute disconnects.
  • NPCs steer around obstacles; Thrust Scramblers and Torque Snares shut off NPC boost and drift.
  • The faction picker closes the leading faction to new recruits, and Discord faction and rank roles update while you play.
  • Holding Z on a tooltip shows each modifier's roll range.
  • Faster UI response, restored sounds and a long list of bug fixes.

Updated for this patch

Answers (41)
Starter guide chapters (10)

Codex facts

From the official notes. Earlier values stay on each entry under “Earlier values”.

  • Missile
    • Launcher hardpoint: Battery (diamond) (was Subsystem (triangle))
    • Damage type: High-explosive (missiles, torpedoes and mines)
    • Cruise Missile base damage: 180 (was 200)
    • Torpedo base damage: 225 (was 250)
    • NPC torpedo base damage: 200 (was 220)
    • Launch: Leaves the tube slowly, coasts for 0.8 s, then speeds toward the aim point
    • Hotkeys: Matching torpedo launchers share one button and hotkey; with no turrets fitted, Tab fires your largest group of matching launchers
    • Missile affinity homing: 0.8% per point (was 1% per point)
    • Homing modifier rolls (by tier): 2–3%, 2–4%, 3–5%, 3–7% (was 2–5%, 3–6%, 4–8%, 5–11%)
    • TRACE homing bonus: 23% (was 34%)
    • IGNIS homing bonus: 14–22% (was 21–33%)
    • LUMEN homing bonus: 22% (was 33%)
    • HARBINGER homing bonus: 17% (was 25%)
  • Telemetry Core
    • Missile homing: 16% (was 24%)
  • Guidance System
    • Missile homing: 13% (was 19%)
  • Warhead Director
    • Missile homing: 10% (was 15%)
  • Crucis Oblation
    • Crucis Censer base (Cruise Missiles) slot: Battery (was Subsystem)
    • Crucis Censer linked missile homing: 8% (was 12%)
    • Set bonus missile homing (3 linked): 15% (was 23%)
  • Armor
    • Armor base kinetic resist: 24% (was 22%)
    • Armor base high-explosive resist: 20% (was 22%)
    • Raising armor high-explosive resist: Not possible above the base; modules and modifiers add kinetic resist only
  • Shield
    • Shield base kinetic resist: 10% (was 0%)
    • Shield base high-explosive resist: 30% (was 0%)
    • High-explosive resist modifiers: In the shield modifier pools
    • Reactive Barrier: One 180° curved shield that faces the hit that triggered it and turns with the ship
  • Nanite Regenerator
    • Repair rate (Standard): 70 HP/s
    • Repair duration: 16 s
    • Repair amount: Up to 1,120 HP at Standard; scales with module quality and armor-repair bonuses (was a flat amount)
  • Thrust Scrambler
    • On NPC ships: Shuts off their boost
  • Torque Snare
    • On NPC ships: Shuts off their drift
  • Rampart Gatling
    • Attack drones: Intercepted as soon as they're sent at you, a factionmate or a squadmate
  • Brood Queen
    • Thermavores and Nestlings: Shooting a Thermavore provokes it and nearby packmates, even with a cool reactor; frenzied or answering a pack call, they burst past top speed
  • Ganden
    • Faction picker: Weighs Merit rank as well as headcount, and closes the leading faction to new recruits while it leads
  • Tzhal
    • Faction picker: Weighs Merit rank as well as headcount, and closes the leading faction to new recruits while it leads
  • Every hull (20)
    • Build rating: 2,420 (was 2,730 or 2,700 or 2,800)
    • Battery hardpoints: 5 (was 4)
    • Subsystem hardpoints: 2 (was 3)
    • Propulsion hardpoints: 2 (was 3)
    • Core slots: 21 (was 20)
    • Safety hold slots: 4 (was 2 or 0)
    • Armor: 2,200 (was 1,750 or 2,138 or 1,838)
    • Hull: 600
    • Kinetic resist: 24% (was 22%)
    • Explosive resist: 20% (was 22%)
    • Max heat capacity: 475 GJ (was 578 GJ)
    • Heat dissipation: 4.5 /s
    • Mass: 4.8 t
    • Thrust: 135 N (was 138 N)
    • Acceleration: 66.9 m/s²
    • Turn acceleration: 52 °/s²
    • Turn rate: 21.6 °/s (was 29.8 °/s)
    • Max velocity: 283 m/s (was 264.5 m/s or 251.3 m/s or 321.2 m/s or 342.4 m/s or 290.5 m/s or 337.2 m/s or 283.4 m/s or 276.3 m/s or 305.1 m/s)
    • Sensor range: 5.4 km (was 4.49 km or 4.01 km or 4.96 km or 5.43 km)
    • Signature radius: 3.2 km (was 2,000 m or 1,450 m or 1,250 m or 1,400 m or 1,050 m or 1,350 m or 1,550 m)

    Achamoth, Acolyte, Augr, Beltane, Condor, Eidolon, Enforcer, Jackal, Legion, Mammon, Orstrog, Praetor, Roc, Rune, Scarab, Seraph, Skoll, Starrk, Typhon, Vektr

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Sources

The official notes were posted in #announcements in the Citadel Discord. This page sums them up in our own words.