Paragon Update Adds Gadget Shellshock Skin, Removes XP Boosters From Loot Crates

Epic Games’ Paragon has a new update going live later today. It comes with a few changes here and there but the biggest new addition is the Gadget Shellshock skin that fans have been craving. It’s the result of a poll from several months ago when fans had a choice between two skins. Shellshock emerged victorious.

Along with this, the update also added a Weekly Card Pack which contains Honor of the Pure, Charging Brute and Nanodrive. Daily Quests have also been adjusted with players no longer receiving quests that facilitate destroying enemy wards (since it was impossible to complete when playing co-op vs. AI).

XP and Reputation Boosters will also not drop from Loot Crates, instead awarding 45,000 Rep for anyone who owns all common items. For those who have received nothing but these boosters in the past few months, it’s a good change and increases the chance of worthwhile drops.

The full patch notes can be gleaned below:

MAJOR FEATURES

• Shellshock Gadget has been added to the store!

CARDS

• Weekly Card Pack
  • Honor of the Pure
  • Charging Brute
  • Nanodrive

HEROES

Fey

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Autumn Keeper Fey’s eyes no longer deform at the end of her Glitterbug emote

Greystone

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Added cloth physics and sound effects to Greystone’s Epic Riff emote

AI

• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Bots will now place wards

UI

• Daily Quests
  • Players will no longer receive quests that require them to destroy enemy wards
    • This quest was impossible to complete for Co-op vs AI players
• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Fixed a rare crash that occurred when the ready check was missed
• Loot Crate Update
  • Removed all XP and Rep Boosts from Loot Crates
  • The substitute reward for owning all common items has been changed to 45,000 Reputation
  • Added (Skin Variations)
    • Rare
      • Ruby Shellshock Gadget
      • Marine Shellshock Gadget
    • Common
      • Blush Default Gadget
      • Coral Default Gadget
      • Arctic Guerilla Gadget
      • Desert Guerilla Gadget
      • Cobalt Default Grux
      • Blush Default Grux
      • Emerald War Chief Grux
      • Cobalt War Chief Grux
    • Removed (Skins)
      • Guerilla Gadget
      • War Chief Grux