 Hey there lads and ladies it is Petrifying Pumpkins here with a brand new firewall zero hour news video. Today's video is all about the newly released update 1.13 that has brought with us some fairly huge changes that will change the way firewall is played so it's very exciting stuff but before I get into the patch notes let me just remind all of you who may not already own firewall zero hour that this weekend from the 18th to the 20th there is a free trial as long as you're a member of ps plus you'll be able to download this and take part in the weekend for free so if you've been thinking about trying firewall house then now is your chance and remember you don't need an aim controller and the game doesn't even support the move controllers so you can just use your jewel shock for now might not be as good as using the aim controller but it's still very viable so definitely check it out lads and ladies for reels anyway let's jump into the patch notes for update 1.13 okay so starting with the first point here players will now earn more xp for knock downs assists and completing public contracts matches okay so i tested this new patch out last night for a little while a little bit over an hour and i can tell you that you will now get 50 xp for a knock down which is actually the same as an elimination now so before knock downs were only worth five xp i think so this is like a 10 time increase and it's very welcome in my opinion it'll help make the grind a little bit easier plus i might get people complaining less about kill stealing or whatever just keep in mind that knock downs don't count as kills only eliminations do so if you're someone who cares about your kill death ratio then there's no change to that as for the assists that has changed from 15 xp to 25 xp and i'm fairly happy with that again it'll help the grind slightly finally the last one there is for completing public contracts matches but i think the wording is a little bit unclear for that one because what it actually is is if you win a match you still get 600 xp there's no change there the difference is when you lose a match so it used to be you'd get 100 xp if you lost now you get 200 xp so that's a nice increase and a little bit more incentive not to rage quit maybe so just with that first pair to the patch notes there i think that's very welcome i particularly love the new knock down xp gain so good job first contact entertainment next up we have a couple of changes meant to two of the skills so the first one is the investor skill this skill allows you to earn extra crypto while playing the game and i always found it to not really be worth but now the skill unlocks at level 10 it used to be a much higher level but i can't remember right now what level that was but if i was ever going to use the investor skill it would have been at the lower levels back when you want to grind for a particular weapon or a piece of gear so that's a smart change also the price of the skill itself has been reduced to make it even more enticing i still won't use this but for the lower level players i think it's a very decent option now so the second skill that has been adjusted then is the heavy juicy skill so this skill allows you to take extra damage from explosives and it was quite a popular skill even before this patch but now not only does it unlock at an area level level 20 now and costs less than it used to it has been buffed to have extra resistance towards the dreaded grenade launcher so well that's pretty big but speaking of the grenade launcher that too has been altered so let's take a look so players are now knocked down after being hit by the grenade launcher and additional tuning changes have been made so what that means is you will no longer be instantly eliminated by the grenade launcher instead you will be downed and you can be revived by your teammates and on top of that our old pal germ warfare has been doing some testing and he has discovered the additional tuning made to the grenade launcher so you can no longer shoot your rifle and the grenade launcher at the same time there's a slight delay now i think he said it's around a second or so so when you add these changes together with the heavy juicy skill buff the grenade launcher has been severely nerfed to the point where i'm not sure anyone will even pick it anymore this is the biggest change to the game the grenade launcher was the matter there for the last month or two and now there's this vacuum now so who knows what the new mess is going to be that's what makes it exciting maybe impact grenades i don't know what do you guys think let me know in the comments below anyway moving on to the last patch knows abandoning a public match before the game ends will now incur a crypto penalty and from what i've read over on or slash firewall zero hour the official firewall subreddit by the way so go check that out the penalty is 1000 crypto which is fairly steep for like a low level player and on this reddit post down in the comments first contact entertainment CEO hes barber himself has stated that this was just the first step and more will be coming so it sounds like more penalties may be introduced down the line who knows what they could be maybe some xp penalties that would be interesting anyway this is definitely a great first step and should hopefully cut down on host dropouts a little bit at least finally there are some bug fixes at the end but those aren't details i don't know what they are now there is one other thing i noticed while playing the game since 1.13 released that wasn't mentioned in the patch notes and that is when you enter the lobby there is now a 10 second countdown that appears before you're able to exist so i'm not sure what the reason behind that is but it is an interesting change let me know down below if you know what that is and with that lads and ladies i will end this video for those of you who wanted the grenade launcher nerfed congratulations i hope this will make you very happy it's going to be an interesting couple of weeks now to see how this updates evolves the game so now is definitely a good time to jump in before i go let me just give a quick thank you to my patreon supporters on the screen right now thank you very much lads pre-sale this and if you like this video then please consider doing all that usual shite to help me out i'd appreciate that very much until next time stay moist