Version 1.01.002 is scheduled for October 23, according to the publisher’s October 20 notice. As of this guide’s October 20 review, these are announced changes, not fixes we have verified in a released client. Check your installed version before applying post-update advice.
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Which campaign attempts need a version check?
| Task | What the notice announces | What remains unknown |
|---|---|---|
| Mission 15 Ladon | Difficulty adjustment on Elite and above | No new health value or S-rank threshold |
| Mission 28 Shadows | Adjustment to Shadow 22 and wingmen’s maximum flare count | No numerical flare cap or revised rank cutoff |
| Mission 28 stalls after resupply | A fix for missing radio that prevents another sortie | Successful installation and behavior in your particular save |
Keep launch-period successful routes as attributed examples. A behavior change does not establish a new score formula, erase your previous achievement or prove that every failed run had the same cause.
Online loadouts also have a version boundary
The notice announces shorter Online effect durations for ECM, ESM and IEWS. It gives no replacement duration values. Do not use pre-update footage as a measured demonstration of the later balance.
Keep blueprint reward allowances separate: this notice does not announce removal of their daily cap. Complaints about grinding are demand evidence, not a published cap change.
A practical before-and-after check
- Record the installed game version, platform and the exact symptom or mission phase.
- Keep the original difficulty, aircraft and loadout with a failed-run note or result image.
- After the scheduled release, use your platform’s normal game-update process and verify the installed version.
- Retry the same task under comparable conditions. For a progression block, success means reaching the next objective; for S-rank, inspect the actual result.
- If it persists, retain the version and reproduction steps for support. Do not delete your campaign save merely because a patch is announced.
Steam players looking for the new graphics switch should use the Async Compute availability and comparison guide. An option listed in upcoming notes can be absent from an older client.
Sources & limits
Community reports are attributed, not tests performed by this site. Builds are unspecified unless stated.
- Bandai Namco: 1.01.002 release notice ↗
Dated October 20; full English notice read October 20. Release is scheduled for October 23, not verified as installed.
- Reddit: Mission 15/28 pre-nerf discussion ↗
Original and visible replies read October 20. The poster identifies their image as phone-translated notes; the publisher supplies the version/date.