{"id":651258,"date":"2026-05-05T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/651258\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:25:11","slug":"saros-new-update-1-004-applies-first-official-balance-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/651258\/","title":{"rendered":"Saros New Update 1.004 Applies First Official Balance Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Saros-Gameplay-Reveal-Trailer-_-PS5-Games-4-10-screenshot.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Saros New Update 1.004\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Housemarque has released Saros update 1.004 (complete version 1.004.000), and this time, the studio has finally given us a proper changelog! Aside from technical bug fixes, this game update also includes our first known balance changes.<\/p>\n<p>Players will be greeted with improved accuracy of bullet bounces, the amount of Power gained from the Power Generator weapon trait has been lowered as well.<\/p>\n<p>There are also quality-of-life additions made regarding the color settings, with everything detailed in the patch notes.<\/p>\n<p>Saros Updated on May 5 for Better Performance<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/saros-image4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-306543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/saros-image4.jpg\" alt=\"Saros Update 1.003.004\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gameplay &amp; Balance<\/p>\n<p>Improved the accuracy of bullet bounces<br \/>\nLowered the amount of Power gained from the Power Generator weapon trait<br \/>\nAdded damage scaling to the Powered Dash artifact and updated the visuals<\/p>\n<p>World &amp; Level Design<\/p>\n<p>Audio<\/p>\n<p>UI \/ Accessibility<\/p>\n<p data-local-id=\"e4ce67a58ead\" data-prosemirror-content-type=\"node\" data-prosemirror-node-name=\"paragraph\" data-prosemirror-node-block=\"true\">Colour settings:<\/p>\n<p>New colour categories<br \/>\nAdded preview images<br \/>\nSettings for HUD Power Indicator<br \/>\nAdded colour matching for Armor Integrity Gauge Corruption<\/p>\n<p>Fixed issues regarding ammo, weapon charge bar and boss invulnerability indicator<br \/>\nFixed Second Chance visibility when using Carcosan Modifiers<\/p>\n<p>Technical &amp; Performance<\/p>\n<p data-local-id=\"f16e46ec5141\" data-prosemirror-content-type=\"node\" data-prosemirror-node-name=\"paragraph\" data-prosemirror-node-block=\"true\">Optimization<\/p>\n<p data-local-id=\"f4c68f5beeb8\" data-prosemirror-content-type=\"node\" data-prosemirror-node-name=\"paragraph\" data-prosemirror-node-block=\"true\">Cinematics<\/p>\n<p>Prologue and Eclipse Device sequence\u00a0improvements<br \/>\nOptimizations to Depth of Field<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, we\u2019ll get a proper changelog next time once a new Saros update is out again.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, for those who to spice up their PSN profiles and show your love for the game, <a href=\"https:\/\/mp1st.com\/news\/saros-free-psn-avatars-shoots-out-for-all-regions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony is handing out a set of free Saros PSN avatars<\/a>, which you can obtain right now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 2em;\">Stay connected to MP1st and the latest news by following us on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/mp1st.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bluesky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MPFirst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MP1st\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mp1st.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TikTok<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MP1stTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqIggKIhxDQklTRHdnTWFnc0tDVzF3TVhOMExtTnZiU2dBUAE?hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US%3Aen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-unnamed-96x96.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                <\/p>\n<p>                    Alex Co<\/p>\n<p>Father, gamer, games media vet, writer of words, killer of noobs.<\/p>\n<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Housemarque has released Saros update 1.004 (complete version 1.004.000), and this time, the studio has finally given us&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,164358,105],"class_list":["post-651258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-saros","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}