Thousands of Tenno are still frantically trying to piece together the changes made in yesterday’s surprise 542 megabyte patch. [DE]Megan had posted the weekly deploy status thread on Wendesday, though the Hotfix 19.3.1 mentioned had already been implemented before Thursday. With hundreds of megabytes worth of undocumented changes made, the official forums have turned into chaos.

“Maybe they added in a new tile set?” asked SoloMaid, MR20, in one of the several dozen threads that had popped up trying to decipher the update. “Could make sense,” replied an equally confused Inkanji, MR23, “Art assets usually take up more file space than balance changes. Could be part of the new Infested frame, too. Any word from the data miners yet?”

Around 19:00 UTC, the mysterious update had rolled out across all regions without warning. All Tenno currently logged in to the servers were forcefully booted to the login screen and unable to login until having updated their game files. Without so much as a single Red Text message to indicate that the update was available for download, the Tenno were left in a state of bewilderment.

Hundreds of Tweets had been sent out to the official @PlayWarframe Twitter account, as well as some directed at @CrewmanDrew and @rebbford, in a desperate attempt to find an official response to the half a gigabyte of updated game files. “Will you guys at least talk about it on the devstream today???” asked the panicked Tenno @M4Aru. As of the time of this report, there has not been an indication that a statement will be made on the upcoming Devstream.

“I have noticed that Stalker has been attacking me more since the update, though.” stated Inkanji in a new thread dedicated to documenting all of the changes players have noticed. “Maybe it was meant to be a stealth update for assassins?” Other players collaborated his claims with anecdotal evidence that the Stalker had assaulted them as well since the update.

Our Senior Patch Analyst was unable to determine if the update had been in response to recent news regarding video game laws in China which broke prior to the release of the undocumented update. At press time, sources report that Digital Extremes was unaware an update had been made to the game and eagerly await data miners to reveal what had changed.