Ubisoft has plundered the Cranium & Bones Season 2 patch notes from pirate-infested uneven waters, which provides a heap of latest content material for the swashbuckling title, together with a brand new ship and weapon. You may learn the complete particulars on Cranium & Bones Season 2 beneath!
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HIGHLIGHTS
SEASONAL CONTENT: CHORUS OF HAVOC
- Commanding their Refrain Fleet, the flamboyant but lethal twins Armand and Bertrand Hubac have been despatched to the Indian Ocean alongside the Compagnie Royale to eradicate the Helm and the rising pirate menace.
- In finishing the Seasonal contracts, gamers can be rewarded with a Helm Lease. Gamers might use it to change for an obtainable Manufactory of their selecting. The selection of Manufactory is dependent upon the Lease kind: Faction, Regional, or World.
EPISODE 1: THE PIRATE’S LAMENT
- Ranging from Week 1 onward.
- Fend off the Refrain Fleet’s invasion and defend your rising Helm Empire.
- Full Episode 1 Seasonal contracts from Yanita Nara and William Blackwood to acquire a Helm Lease, a brand new weapon: Mine Spring Loader I and new furnishings: Spring Loader Furnace I and Spring Loader Powder Home I.
- Tackle new Bounty Contracts positioned on Armand Hubac, Bertrand Hubac, and the Elite Warship Soleil Royal.
- Notice that the bounties for Armand and Bertrand Hubac can be restricted to the primary week and can be develop into obtainable once more within the later episodes.
EPISODE 2: THE REBELLION’S SYMPHONY
- Ranging from Week 3 onward.
- The Refrain Fleet expands their attain to the East Indies the place Helm property proceed to be focused.
- Because the Helm drives to compete on this technological arms race in opposition to the Compagnie, full Episode 2 Seasonal contracts from Yanita Nara and William Blackwood to acquire extra Helm Leases, the Mine Spring Loader II and the Faule Ilse. Plus, a brand new Figurehead: Dying Forsworn.
- Tackle Bounty Contracts positioned on Bertrand Hubac, the Elite Warship Soleil Royal, and new sea monster, Mega Lestari.
EPISODE 3: SHADOW SONATA
- Ranging from Week 5 onward.
- Stories make point out of Compagnie ships gathering round key places, indicating that the Twins are making ready for one thing huge. In the meantime, rumours of a lingering plague and poison resurface together with sightings of a lethal new weapon, La Piqure – La Peste and his Plaguebringers stir.
- Full Episode 3 Seasonal contracts from Yanita Nara to acquire Helm Leases, a brand new weapon, La Piqure and extra key supplies to craft Season 2 tools.
- Tackle Bounty Contracts positioned on Armand Hubac, Bertrand Hubac, the Elite Warship Soleil Royal, and sea monster, Mega Lestari.
- The Soleil Royal holds 2 new furnishings to bolster your power whereas Mega Lestari’s disguise will let you craft a brand new Epic Armour, the Leviathan to clad your hull with.
EPISODE 4:THE PIRATE’S OVERTURE
- Ranging from Week 7 onward.
- Fend off the collective would possibly of the Hubac Twins and their Refrain Fleet in opposition to the all-out assault on the area.
- Full Episode 4 Seasonal contracts from Yanita Nara and be rewarded with Helm Leases, a brand new Springloader, Little Grace and the Hubac Strongbox.
- Tackle Bounty Contracts positioned on the Hubac Twins (new!), Armand Hubac, Bertrand Hubac, the Elite Warship Soleil Royal, and sea monster, Mega Lestari. The Blighted Bastion, Kumaharibu, and Rode Maangodin make their return as soon as once more.
NEW SHIP: BRIG
- Quick and agile, this help ship excels at deploying minefields and restore buoys utilizing the brand new Springloader weapon. Accessible free from finishing Smuggler Go challenges.
- Perk: Artificer
- Consecutive weapon hits to targets will increase effectiveness of subsequent Buoys by 2%, capping at 30%. Resets if greater than 12 seconds move between hits.
- Reduces reload time of Auxiliary weapons by 10%, in addition to for close by pleasant ships.
- Accessible upgrades:
- Higher navigation stats – elevated prime velocity and turning velocity.
- Extra furnishings slots.
- Secondary Perk: Advanced – Buoys you deploy lasts longer.
NEW WEAPON TYPE: MINE SPRINGLOADER
- Launches floating buoys that create minefields. These minefields deal harm to enemy ships and destroy torpedoes that collide into the minefield.
- Slot: Auxiliary
- New stats for Springloaders embody Operation Vary, Operation Time, Buoy Well being, Variety of Buoys.
NEW WEAPON VARIANTS
SPRINGLOADER VARIANTS
- Little Grace – Launches floating buoys that restore and restore the integrity of broken hulls and masts.
- Accessible from the Seasonal important contract “Curtain Name“.
- Infernal Maw – Launches Sea Hearth Mines, that deal fireplace harm to enemy ships and destroy torpedoes that collide into the minefield. These buoys additionally carry unstable sea fireplace that erupts when destroyed, dealing 300% harm.
- Accessible from the Smuggler Go
DEMI-CANNON VARIANT
- Faule Ilse – Shrapnel fired from this weapon ricochets to close by targets on affect. 75% of the unique harm is dealt upon secondary hit.
- Accessible within the Black Market.
ROCKET VARIANT
- The Warhammer – Fires a volley of 10 heavy explosive rockets from above.
- Accessible within the Black Market.
TORPEDO VARIANT
- Countless Requiem – Extremely superior torpedoes with goal searching for functionality.
- Accessible within the Black Market.
LONG GUN VARIANT
- La Piqure – A malicious weapon wielded by La Peste’s cronies. It fires tainted shells that drains Crew Stamina. Provides 20% harm that can not be blocked.
NEW ARMOUR: RHAPSODY OF THE DEEP
- A strong armour that gives safety in opposition to Torpedoes, and which may utterly counter the results of Flooding for so long as the participant retains bracing.
- Accessible free from finishing Smuggler Go challenges.
- Perks:
- Unsinkable: Whereas bracing the results of being afflicting with “Flooded” is negated.
- Iron Plastron: Decreased harm from Torpedoes by 25% and by a further 25% whereas bracing.
NEW ARMOUR VARIANTS
- Stormwoven Symphony with the brand new armour perk: Crescendo.
- Holding brace costs up a sonic assault that damages surrounding enemies
- Accessible from the Black Market.
- The Buccaneer’s Oath and Abyssal can be found from the Black Market.
- Leviathan can be obtainable as a reward from the Lestari Bounty.
NEW GAME MODES: MANUFACTORY BUYOUT & MANUFACTORY DEFENSE
- Manufactory Buyout:
It’s a solo (non-competitive) alternative the place gamers fulfil the calls for of a Helm agent in a race in opposition to time to safe a Manufactory.- Upon accepting the Buyout Alternative, the participant ought to journey to the goal outpost the place the Abroad Smuggler is situated.
- When the warm-up countdown timer is up, the Smuggler will reveal the merchandise(s) they require in change for possession of mentioned Manufactory. The goal manufactory will even be revealed at this level. The requested objects might vary from: Commodities, Contraband, Currencies and Gear, and so on.
- Collect the required merchandise(s) and submit them to the Smuggler inside the time restrict to finish the Buyout and procure the manufactory!
- Manufactory Protection:
Safeguard your Manufactory in opposition to faction rivals trying to cripple your Empire community.- Upon accepting the Manufactory Protection alternative, the participant ought to journey to the focused Manufactory.
- The participant might want to stay inside the space and defend their manufactory in opposition to incoming waves of enemies. There can be 5 waves of enemies, every with rising problem.
- Mixture of ships that prioritize both focusing on the participant or the manufactory.
- Be certain that your Manufactory’s HP doesn’t attain 0 on the finish of all 5 enemy waves.
- Upon efficiently defending their manufactory, the participant will obtain the next rewards.
- Manufactory Protection Rewards
Manufactory Well being | Manufactory State upon Reward | Rewards |
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>0% HP | · Manufactory is funded whereas receiving the rewards | · Manufactory Enhance (provide enhance) · 5000 Silver · 1x Gold Raider’s Cache |
>0% HP | · Manufactory is NOT funded whereas receiving the rewards | · 8000 Silver · 1x Gold Raider’s Cache |
- The Gold Raider’s Cache incorporates Silver, Items of Eight, Enhanced Restore Kits, Helm supplies, likelihood of some refined Helm Wares and an opportunity to acquire a World Helm Lease.
- If the participant fails at defending their manufactory, manufacturing of Items of Eight will stop briefly whereas the manufactory recovers. At stage 1, the broken manufactory will stay “in repairs” for 1 hour. With every rising Manufactory stage, there’s a corresponding enhance within the length of Po8 manufacturing downtime, as much as the max downtime of 14 hours for a stage 10 manufactory.
- This chance will solely generate for gamers that meet the next situations: Owns no less than 5 manufactories, the final protection alternative was accomplished no less than 4 hours in the past.
Manufactory Degree | Time to Restore |
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Degree 1 | 1 hour |
Degree 2 | 2 hours |
Degree 3 | 3 hours |
Degree 4 | 4 hours |
Degree 5 | 5 hours |
Degree 6 | 6 hours |
Degree 7 | 8 hours |
Degree 8 | 10 hours |
Degree 9 | 12 hours |
Degree 10 | 14 hours |
NEW SEA MONSTERS: LESTARI & MEGA LESTARI
- The contract “The Vanishing” can be obtainable from the Seapeople Huntmaster at Lanitra outpost.
- Subdue Lestari to acquire monster fangs which could be exchanged on the Huntmaster for an Epic Lestari Armour, a particular dish, and a firework. Turning within the contract additionally awards a silver reward.
- Choose up bounty contract “Silent Dying” on the dens – however be warned, the Mega Lestari is to not be trifled with (beneficial Ship Rank: 13).
- Full the bounty to obtain the Bounty Chest, which incorporates items of the vainness set “Legend of Lestari” and captain vainness set “Lestari Hunter“.
TIME LIMITED EVENT: DRAGON’S REGATTA
- Accessible from twenty eighth Could to 18th June.
- Over the span of three weeks, take part in 3 totally different races throughout 3 totally different areas.
- Make your strategy to the Race Official ship or the floating buoy and work together with them to start out the race. As soon as the timer begins, the checkpoints can be marked. To finish the race, meet all of the checkpoints (in any order) earlier than the timer runs out!
- Inside the race routes, gamers can activate Velocity boosters and Stamina boosters that may seem all through the course.
- Your finest time can be recorded and gamers who’ve accomplished all 3 races can be ranked on the Dragon’s Regatta Leaderboard based mostly on their finest time. On the finish of this time restricted occasion, the highest 100 gamers can be awarded the Golden Lemur pet.
- For every race accomplished, gamers can earn Regatta Tokens and a Regatta Chest containing: Items of Eight, new meals merchandise Rice Dumpling, supplies and likelihood for a brand new Epic Furnishings, Secret Cache I.
- Gamers might use their tokens to change for Regatta ship and captain vainness units.
TIME LIMITED EVENT: SUMMER FIESTA
- Accessible from 2nd July to sixteenth July.
- Extra info on this occasion can be shared nearer to its availability.
SHIP UPGRADES
- The shipwright will now present upgrades for ships of gamers which have reached Kingpin standing if they’ve the mandatory silver and supplies required, together with a brand new merchandise: Improve Elements.
- The very best Ship Rank is now 13, attainable on all small and medium ships, besides the Dhow.
- All ships (besides Dhow) have entry to six tiers of Upgrades, with every tier granting enhancements reminiscent of new perks, further furnishings slots, enhanced ship stats like hull well being, cargo area, velocity, and ship rank rating. Small ships are introduced as much as par with medium ships by way of these upgrades and acquire entry to weapon slots beforehand solely obtainable on medium ship.
- At improve tier 3/6, medium ships acquire a brand new perk – “Deep Blue” – that will increase manoeuvrability when traversing seas.
- At improve tier 4/6, small ships acquire a brand new perk – “River Rat” – that will increase velocity and manoeuvrability when traversing rivers.
- All absolutely upgraded ships will even unlock a brand new distinctive ship perk that present further bonuses for every ship:
Ship | Perk (Lv 6) | Operate |
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Bedar | Jousting | Ramming a goal reduces its armour score by 150 for 30 secs and will increase personal weapon harm by 10%. |
Hulk | Ironwill | Will increase Armour Score by 150 for your self and close by allies. |
Cutter | Unsparing | Will increase Restore Effectiveness of allies by 30% after repairing. |
Barge | Devouring | Applies Torn Sails standing impact when hitting a goal with Ablaze. |
Sloop | Wreck | Explosive Injury hits lower enemy’s weapon harm by 10% |
Padewakang | Siege | At half-sails or anchored, enhance weapon harm by 20% and reduce reload time by 20% for Explosive weapon. |
Snow | Vindictive | After bracing, will increase weapon harm by 20% for 20 seconds. |
Brigantine | Headstrong | When shifting at 14 knots and above, enhance ram harm by 30%. |
Sambuk | Firebug | Lower fireplace weapon reload time by 25% |
Barque | Mend | Improve Restore Quantity of Restore Weapons by 40% for ships with lower than 33% of Hull Well being. |
Brig | Advanced | Deployed buoys last more. |
UPGRADE PARTS
- Captains can acquire Improve Elements from:
- Finishing seasonal boss bounties and the brand new Fundamental Contracts.
- Commerce with Scurlock, Rahma.
- Finishing Smuggler Go challenges.
- Likelihood drop from recurring bounty chest such because the Rode Maangodin, Lestari.
- Finish of Season rewards based mostly on the development made in Empire sport mode.
FLEET MANAGEMENT
- Assign your ships to an owned Manufactory and have your fleet acquire Items of Eight for you! The fleet will acquire Po8 on a cycle.
- The length of the gathering run is dependent upon the Manufactory’s distance from the closest Den. Whereas in operation, you won’t be able to make use of the assigned ship or change its loadout.
- Ships can solely be assigned to manufactories which have reached stage 4 and above.
- Earlier than you assign your ship, make sure that the assigned ship’s rank meets the beneficial ranges. In any other case, your assigned ships could be vulnerable to encountering rival ships that will assault your assigned ship and attempt to loot your Items of Eight!
- Repairing the broken ship will value Silver.
- With every ship rank increment, you will have elevated effectivity – permitting the ship to hold extra Po8 at one time.
FLEET MANAGEMENT: SELLING SHIPS
- Now you can promote your ships on the shipwright for silver.
GAMEPLAY UPDATES
SEASONAL REWARDS
- Season 1 reward: “Gilded Sin” captain’s vainness set must be present in your stock for those who’ve reached Diamond tier on the Seasonal Leaderboard on the finish of Season 1, twenty eighth Could, 2 AM UTC.
- Season 2 reward: “Sovereign” nameplate.
HELM EMPIRE
- Introducing a wide range of new Helm Empire upgrades, break up by factional advantages. Common elevated value of shopping for upgrades.
- Dev observe: to encourage gamers to strategize about the place they need to begin constructing their Empire.
HELM OFFICE
- Now you can view your assortment of pets within the Helm workplace.
REMPAH AND FARA MERCHANT CONVOYS
- New Service provider Convoy provider ships.
CAMERA FEATURES
- Deathcam: Try the ship that received the final hit on you earlier than you sank.
- Photograph mode: Use the 4 new digicam angles to seize your ship’s vainness in a brand new gentle.
CHANGES TO SHIP RANK (SR)
Ship rank harm modifiers will now be much less important as soon as you’re of upper ship rank. The primary band begins at ship rank 8 when each entities are above, and the second band begins at ship rank 11.
- Dev observe: Ship rank harm modification felt synthetic and even irritating at endgame nevertheless its usefulness in the primary contract path and serving to gamers to shortly perceive common the facility stage of an merchandise. This modification permits us to maintain one of the best of the 2 methods.
Ship Rank modifiers will now be much less important as soon as you’re of upper ship rank. These modifiers are separated into three totally different SR bands:
PLAYER SHIP RANK 1-7 VS AI:
PLAYER SHIP RANK 8-10 VS AI SHIP RANK 8+:
- No change in harm taken vs AI of equal SR.
- No change in harm dealt vs AI of equal or decrease SR.
- 2-4% elevated harm taken vs AI of decrease SR relying on SR distinction.
- 10-30% diminished harm taken vs AI of upper SR relying on SR distinction.
- 10-30% elevated harm dealt vs AI of upper SR relying on SR distinction.
PLAYER SHIP RANK 11+ VS AI:
- No change in harm taken vs AI of equal SR.
- No change in harm dealt vs AI of equal or decrease SR.
- 4-6% elevated harm taken vs AI of decrease SR relying on SR distinction.
- 20-40% diminished harm taken vs AI of upper SR relying on SR distinction.
- 15-60% elevated harm dealt vs AI of upper SR relying on SR distinction.
Further steadiness adjustments to boss encounters:
FOR SHIP RANK 13 CONTENT:
FOR SHIP RANK 14 CONTENT:
- AI well being and harm diminished by 5%.
FOR SHIP RANK 15 CONTENT:
- AI well being diminished by 32%.
- AI harm diminished by 15%.
FOR SHIP RANK 16 CONTENT (SEASON 2):
- AI well being diminished by 25%.
- AI harm diminished by 15%.
SEASON 2 REWARDS
GAMEPLAY UPDATES
CONTRACTS/ BOUNTIES
- Problem of Kumaharibu has been elevated to account for the Ship Rank rebalancing. Elevated harm by 40% and hit Factors of Pursuits by 23%.
- Contract merchandise given throughout “A Nostril for Enterprise” has been renamed to “Writ of Possession“, to not be confused with the brand new merchandise, Helm Lease.
GAMEPLAY
- Gamers at the moment are solely in a position to heal different Gamers which might be in the identical exercise (e.g. Co-Op, Decide-In PvP, out of PvP).
PLUNDERING
- Gamers now have a grace interval to re-enter the placement they’re plundering earlier than it goes into restoration state.
THE HELM
- Barque blueprint is now obtainable within the Black Market, amongst different new objects.
WORLD EVENTS
- Re-routed La Potence crusing path because it was generally crusing too near Sainte-Anne.
LOCALISATION
- Placeholder voice now not current in dialogue at begin of “Satan’s Gambit” Contract in French.
SHIP & SHIP AI
- Gamers can now not heal AI Ships which might be hostile to the Participant.
HARVESTING
- Depleted useful resource nodes now present the “Depleted” immediate.
CAMERA
- Photomode now not exits when crew stamina is totally depleted.
SETTINGS/ MENU
- Adjusted most microphone quantity to mitigate distortion/background noise on voice chat.
UI/ UX
- Incorrect reward is displayed within the alternatives info widget for manufactories which might be already owned.
- Marking is now enabled within the quick journey map.
FIXED
CONTRACTS/ BOUNTIES
- Mounted a difficulty the place Rempah Traitor fails to spawn in “Blue Moon Bribes” Contract. Please observe that the fixes implement might reset the gamers’ Contract development.
- Mounted difficulty the place DMC corrupted officers’ ships weren’t spawning on specified location for Contract “A Clandestine Path“.
- Mounted difficulty the place “Anguish from the Abyss” Contract fails after the Host leaves.
- Rode Maangodin now not spawns in daytime.
LEGENDARY HEIST
- Mounted a difficulty the place a Legendary Heist immediately fails if Participant sinks the Convoy goal whereas having a full stock.
GAMEPLAY
- Mounted incorrect buff length referenced on the bonfire lit occasion notification.
ACHIEVEMENTS/ CHALLENGES
- Mounted a difficulty the place “The Folks’s Individual” trophy progresses/unlocks incorrectly after Participant interacts with Job/Bounty Board.
- Mounted difficulty the place “East Indies Explorer” Achievement Gained’t Unlock.
PLUNDERING
- Mounted difficulty with group member not exiting spyglass when plunder scene has been triggered by one other group mate.
THE HELM
- Mounted difficulty the place Helm Lease onboarding Contract not inserting markers on focused POIs.
- Mounted difficulty the place Participant was unable to fund newly Owned Manufactory.
MULTIPLAYER (CO-OP)
- Mounted a difficulty the place “Pursuing Plague” and “Encroaching Epidemic” weren’t set to shareable.
- Mounted a bug permitting gamers that haven’t reached Kingpin tier to progress previous “Rising Ambitions” and entry Kingpin tiered content material sooner than meant.
- Mounted a difficulty the place “Helm Wager Unsuccessful” notification is lacking for group member who failed Helm Wager whereas their group member efficiently accomplished the Alternative.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the group member is teleported out of Scurlock’s workplace and causes unintended Contract development after submitting Chief’s Contract merchandise whereas submitting their very own Contract.
VANITY ITEMS
- Mounted a difficulty the place preview for any vainness set is just not displayed after visiting retailer at Vainness Atelier.
- Added Oceanborn vainness to the reward definition for “Fates within the Stars“.
WORLD EVENTS
- Mounted a difficulty the place reinforcement ships generally fail to detect Participant as menace who’ve joined the World Occasion.
CAPTAIN’S LOGBOOK
- Mounted a difficulty the place preview photos for Motion Wheel and Enemy Flares are lacking in Data tab.
LOCALISATION
- Gunner’s quadrant French translation has been amended.
LOOT/ ITEMS
- Mounted difficulty the place “Clandestine Path” was giving Rocket Works 1 as a substitute of Rocket Grinder 1.
SHIPS & SHIP AI
- Mounted a difficulty the place reinforcements would fail to spawn throughout Hostile Takeovers at sure Manufactories.
- Mounted a difficulty the place ships can be pushed underwater after utilizing the Mortar.
CAMERA
- Decouple Digicam settings now not reset after restarting the sport.
UI/ UX
- Mounted difficulty the place contents of menu go lacking when Participant units totally different menu and subtitle language in JP SKU.
- Mounted difficulty the place Gamers have been caught within the Captain’s Creation display screen.
- Mounted a difficulty for Cutthroat Cargo widget the place the standing on the tracker incorrectly exhibits the warmup info when the map is already secured.
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers could also be unable to work together or plunder Ankohonana settlement.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the Contract beauty icon is just not current on the “Herald’s Honor” Contract Compagnie within the Sails tab whereas finishing 1 step of Contract “Delicate Alliance“.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the Helm tooltip doesn’t mirror the right variety of provide enhance supplies wanted after utilizing “Prolonged Provide Run I“.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the Participant is unable to work together with the Carpenter at Sainte-Anne.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the “Unequip” possibility is just not working for Physique Cosmetics at Vainness Atelier.
- Mounted a difficulty the place black display screen seems on Map UI when Participant opens “View in Map” from “Calls For Assist” whereas accessing Retailer.
- Mounted a difficulty the place display screen turns black after urgent again whereas scrolling down in Smuggler Go rewards menu.
- Present preview of well being when highlighting a restore equipment within the wheel.
- Resolved difficulty the place Contract aims would generally gray out and block development.
- Mounted choose button on the bottom button bar not displaying after looking objects belonging to a set and exiting after.
- Mounted Ship Information Show Mode “At all times On” not displaying Ship’s UI parts regardless that the ship’s Scouted/Spyglassed.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the out of bounds timer was not displaying whereas preventing an Elite enemy.
- Amended discrepancies and necessities are confirmed as Marauder.
AUDIO
- Mounted a difficulty the place a robotic voice is current in dialogue firstly and the tip of “Satan’s Gambit” Contract in French.
CONTROLS
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers getting caught in a bush in Grande Falaise.
TEXT/ VOICE CHAT
- Decreased occurrences of “KINGFISHER-4” and “NIGHTINGALE-12C” errors.
- Mounted a difficulty the place incoming speech-to-text works with turned off voice chat.
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers are unable to listen to group members after switching Crossplay settings.
- For optimum efficiency, contemplate protecting mic sensitivity and voice chat quantity at 100%.
- Mounted a difficulty the place gamers that have been kicked from servers for remaining idle, are subsequently unable to listen to group members after re-joining a gaggle.
- Mounted social interplay Mute button entry to be solely obtainable whereas in a gaggle with voice chat on.
OTHERS
- Mounted a difficulty the place Photomode digicam routinely strikes to main digicam’s default place.
- Mounted a difficulty the place the Participant would expertise an extended loading display screen when exiting Yanita’s interplay.
[Source – Skull & Bones Season 2 Patch Notes]