Free Fire New Update Indian Server: List Of All New Additions In The Upcoming OB26 Patch

Garena Free Fire is constantly releasing new updates to make the game fresh and stay on top of the mobile market in India. Free Fire's OB25 update was one of the biggest ever released - it has brought a lot of new additions and changes to the game including new weapons and characters. The next update, OB26, is going to be the same.

In this article, we would list out everything you need to know about OB26, the first Free Fire New Update Indian Server for 2021.

1 - The expected release date for OB26

According to the leaks, OB26 would hit the live server on Feb 4, 2021.

2 - Shirou

Shirou would be added right away after the update hit. His ability is a passive skill named "Damage Delivered". This is somewhat related to his background of being a Delivery Boy. Below are the details of the skill.

• Damage Delivered Level 1: When get hit by an enemy within 50 meters, the shooter will be marked for 3 seconds (only Shirou can see this mark). The first shot of Shrou on the marked target will have an additional 10% armor penetration. Cooldown: 60s.
• Damage Delivered Level 2: When get hit by an enemy within 50 meters, the shooter will be marked for 4 seconds (only Shirou can see this mark). The first shot of Shrou on the marked target will have an additional 30% armor penetration. Cooldown: 50s.
• Damage Delivered Level 3: When get hit by an enemy within 50 meters, the shooter will be marked for 5 seconds (only Shirou can see this mark). The first shot of Shrou on the marked target will have an additional 50% armor penetration. Cooldown: 40s.
• Damage Delivered Level 4: When get hit by an enemy within 50 meters, the shooter will be marked for 6 seconds (only Shirou can see this mark). The first shot of Shrou on the marked target will have an additional 70% armor penetration. Cooldown: 30s.
• Damage Delivered Level 5: When get hit by an enemy within 50 meters, the shooter will be marked for 7 seconds (only Shirou can see this mark). The first shot of Shrou on the marked target will have an additional 90% armor penetration. Cooldown: 20s.
• Damage Delivered Level 6: When get hit by an enemy within 50 meters, the shooter will be marked for 8 seconds (only Shirou can see this mark). The first shot of Shrou on the marked target will have an additional 100% armor penetration. Cooldown: 10s.

With this skill, Shiro can deal with long-range snipers and ambushers more effectively... and with a high damage weapon like a sniper rifle, the player can even one-shot people with that 100% armor penetration. Only you can respond to the attack, as the vision from this skill is not shared with your teammates.

This skill can also work in rusher builds as well - especially when you are using a high damage close-quarter weapon like shotguns... as you would get an edge in damage for the first shot. However, it is rather useless if you are the one who attacks first.

3 - Skyler

Skyler would be added to the game in the collab event at the end of the month. With the developers of Free Fire coming from Vietnam, it makes sense that a collab with a Vietnamese celebrity would happen sooner or later. Skyler's skill is fairly complicated, with an active component and passive component.

• Riptide Rhythm Level 1: Damage 5 Gloo Walls within 50m, 60s CD. If you have a Gloo Wall deployed, heal 2HP/second.
• Riptide Rhythm Level 2: Damage 5 Gloo Walls within 57m, 60s CD. If you have a Gloo Wall deployed, heal 3HP/second.
• Riptide Rhythm Level 3: Damage 5 Gloo Walls within 67m, 55s CD. If you have a Gloo Wall deployed, heal 4HP/second.
• Riptide Rhythm Level 4: Damage 5 Gloo Walls within 77m, 51s CD. If you have a Gloo Wall deployed, heal 5HP/second.
• Riptide Rhythm Level 5: Damage 5 Gloo Walls within 88m, 46s CD. If you have a Gloo Wall deployed, heal 6HP/second.
• Riptide Rhythm Level 6: Damage 5 Gloo Walls within 100m, 40s CD. If you have a Gloo Wall deployed, heal 7HP/second.

The wording of this skill implies that the effect stacks when you have multiple Gloo Walls deployed, but they said that the effect does not stack right afterward. Overall, this skill is fairly decent - it is worth using for the healing effect alone - the active ability of damaging enemies' Gloo Walls is just a nice bonus on top. Just remember to use this skill before deploying your own wall, as it also damages the walls you created.

4 - New Dragon Pet

Overall, Free Fire has been going overboard on designing pets, with multiple releases having pretty weird abilities... and the dragon is not an exception. The skill of this pet is a passive ability called "Dragon Glare" - it reveals enemies who are using Medkit in a certain radius around your location.

At level 1/2/3, users would be able to reveal up to 1/2/4 enemies who are using a Medkit in a radius of 10/20/30 around their location. The duration of this skill is 3/4/5 seconds.

Overall, this ability has very niche usage - it is useful when enemies escaping after a firefight and you need to know where they went... and that's about it. The radius of the skill is too small (only 30 meters) and because of that, it would be pretty hard for you to find anything with it. Not to mention the requirement of having enemies using a medkit... which usually only happens when they are at a safe place that you can't get to easily.

5 - New MAG-7 Shotgun; MP5 and MP40 added to Clash Squad

MAG-7 is the newest weapon added to Free Fire. It has been used very frequently in the Advance server, due to the insane fire rate, high damage and high ammo count. It is a lot better than M1887, the current best weapon in the shotgun class.

In Clash Squad, the Mp5 will have a price of 1400 whereas the MAG-7 would be 1700 and the MP40 would be 2000. These 3 close range weapons would be very useful in this mode, as pretty much half the engagements would be in close range.

6 - Bermuda 2.0 replaces normal Bermuda

Garena's long-awaited Bermuda 2.0 update has just been released as a temporary map during the new year patch. The devs have extended the duration of the event from Jan 10 to Jan 17 to gather more data - the full releases would probably be the next big patch: OB26

Below are the main changes. Overall, the least popular locations in Free Fire like the Graveyard, Riverside and Bullseye get removed... while Rim Nam village and Sentosa get an upgrade.

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