Postcards From the Frontier

Postcards From the Frontier is the eighth DLC update for Titanfall 2. It was announced on August 22, 2017 and was released on August 29, 2017. It includes one new Live Fire map, UMA, and the addition of three maps to the Frontier Defense gamemode, alongside "Aegis" variants of LTS and Titan Brawl. It also includes a new Execution, featuring the use of A-Wall, and eight new Elite Warpaints available to buy for weapons. Three existing maps were also updated to support the Frontier Defense mode.

NEW CONTENT [FREE]

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• Map: UMA (Live Fire): Tight corridors guide combat into three arenas flanked by balconies, doorways, and windows. A large central divider provides cover for short range effectiveness, with a long flank that opens opportunities for confident marksmen.

• New Execution: Hole in the Wall [Amped Wall] : Get five kills while Amped Wall is active to unlock.
• Onyx 'Good Boy' Banner
• TitanToons banners [8 total]
• Community Creation Banners: Titan Restaurants by Nicole Peh [6 total]

NEW FEATURED MODES

• Aegis Titan Brawl: Standard Titan Brawl but with your Aegis Titans.
• Aegis Last Titan Standing: Standard Last Titan Standing but with your Aegis Titans.

NEW CONTENT [PURCHASABLE]

8 NEW ELITE WEAPON WARPAINTS: Each comes with a Squad Leader Bonus

• 10% chance per owned Elite skin (up to 30%) to earn a Double XP token at the end of a match.
• Grants one extra merit to you and your teammates at the end of a match. A player can only receive this bonus once per match.
• $4.99 each or $24.99 for the bundle of 8 (bundle limited time only until 9/26).

New Skins include

• Thunderbolt ‘8-Bit’ ELITE
• Spitfire ‘Lead Farmer’ ELITE
• Devotion ‘RSPN Custom’ ELITE
• Hemlok ‘Mochi’ ELITE
• Kraber ‘Masterwork’ ELITE
• R-97 ‘Purple Fade’ ELITE
• R-201 ‘Frontier Patriot’ ELITE
• Mozambique ‘Crimson Fury’ ELITE

GAME IMPROVEMENTS

• The purchasable Frontier Defense shoulder plate can now be applied to Prime Titans and all skins, and can be toggled on or off in the loadout menu.
• You can now edit Pilot loadouts from the Titan selection menu in Last Titan Standing
• Chat box added to Titan selection screen in LTS and FD.
• Single Player: BT’s loadout menu doesn’t delay when selecting loadout button [thanks Bryonato for reporting!]
• Added option for “Friendly” to Hold to Rodeo control - works on friendly Titans.
• Frontier Defense has been added to Private Match settings.

FRONTIER DEFENSE IMPROVEMENTS

• Applying an Amped Battery to a doomed Titan now provides a full shield when used to bring a Titan out of Doomed State.
• Reaper and Titan weak spots are now hidden when cloaked by Cloak Drones.
• Difficulty is now shown during Titan selection screen.

War Games

• Reduced difficulty of wave 2 and 5 on lower difficulty settings.
• Reduced chance of tick drop pods detonating upon landing.
• Reduced chance of ticks jumping to the pilot drop zone.

Rise

• Spawn-as-titan locations are now closer to the harvester.

TITANS

Legion

• Fixed a bug where Long Range Power Shot could hit a target twice.

Ion [Frontier Defense balance]

• Combined the Split Shot upgrades into one upgrade.
• Added a new Laser Shot upgrade that increases weak point damage.

Monarch [Frontier Defense balance]

• XO-16: Critical Hit now increases weak point damage by 50% from 25%.

Tone [Frontier Defense balance]

• Signal Strength Upgrade now increases the duration of Sonar Pulse by 100% from 60%.

MISC BUG FIXES

• Frontier Defense: Fixed bug where player would get stuck on Titan selection screen if they joined a game late and got killed while transitioning from Titan screen to game.
• Frontier Defense: Adjusted Stalkers pathing to reduce cases where they would go to unreachable areas of the map.
• Fixed bug where a Monarch with Superior Chassis would have more Health than displayed.
• Fixed a bug where a Titan that was undoomed with an Amped Battery would have less Health than displayed.
• Fixed issue where Classic Frontier Defense music option was missing for consoles.

Gallery

Titanfall 2 - Postcards From the Frontier Gameplay Trailer