The Nioh 1.06 update has gone live in Japan and is expected to land in other territories shortly, bringing with it no fewer than 10 new missions!
Related: Nioh Boss fight guide
The update is free for all players and in a press release sent out in Japan, via DualShockers, it confirms the following:
- 10 missions that award new titles and smithing texts
- A double boss battle against Oda Nobunaga + Obsidian Samurai
- Includes battles against two disciples of Kensei and Kamiizumi Nobutsuna
- Overall bug fixes and technical improvements
More details on the Nioh 1.06 update have emerged on Reddit:
New titles
- Pressing the "options" will now pause the game (Disabled during multiplayer)
- Add the following setting under "Game basic setting" of "System menu"
- Enable/Disable: Auto center camera when no target is locked on
- Enable/Disable "display level instead of performance on equipment"???
- A menu allowing the player to change the color of rarities [Colorblind options]
- Maximum possession limit of smithing materials expanded to 9999 [Personal inventory]
- Added the ability to move items in the equipment screen (item jump?)
- Adjustments were made Living Weapon gage recovery when in Living weapon state.
- You will regain less gage the longer you stay in Living Weapon.
- Along with the above adjustment, Living Weapon Tenacity was increase.
- Changes and Adjustments
- Suzaku was made less effective in general (doesn’t specific how). [Confirmed Nerf by Asian Region Players]
- Suzaku guardian spirit clears status aliments upon activation.
- Stance change ki pulse will now cancel a normal ki pulse.
- Adjusted of the attack power granted and duration of "Carnage Talisman"
- Adjusted of the attack power granted and duration of "Power pill"
- Adjusted the damage of the Axe Mystic Art "Intensity"
- Quick-Change Scroll activation will remove status aliments.
- Adjusted the damage of the Sword Mystic Art "Sword of Execution"
- Adjusted the Ki consumption of the kusarigama weapon skill "Blade Spin"
- Adjusted the rate that debuffs are applied via throwing weapons.
- Adjusted made to Fire Talisman, Water Talisman, Earth Talisman and Wind Talisman.
- Adjusted the range of the axe skill "Earth Carver"
- Adjustments were made to the camera angles in The Tower of London
- Adjustment to the effects that activate on critical condition.
- Adjusted glory for clan battles
- Increase glory for personal ranking in clan battles
- Reduce clans winning and winning rewards Mohri
Changes where made to the following clans (either rewards or passive):
- Toyotomi
- Utakita
- Murakami
- Maori
- Saika
- Mohri
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused players who died at the same times as the boss to not receive mission rewards.
- Fixed a Bug where glory acquired was not being applied to glory contributed to clans.
- Fixed a bug where players received the wrong reward for the personal ranking they in clan battles.
- Fixed a bug relating to attacking opponents who had the fire debuff.
- Fixed bug that Mimics attack power was not scaling to the level.
- Fixed a bug that "Titles Collected" in the gameplay records would not reach 100%
- Fixed a bug that prevented "Hide helmet" from working correctly in online multiplayer.
- Fixed a bug in Mr. Sakata Kimi (???I don’t know???)
- Fixed a bug that allowed for enemies to repeatedly knocked up when already airborne.
- Fixed a bug with Nobunaga Oda that caused the AI move erratically when the weapon skill "Backwave" was canceled early.
- Fixed a bug that caused certain bosses not to spawn if holding at bow at the start of the fight.
Nioh update 1.06 is expected to be released any time now. Check out our Nioh tips.