TRIBES 3: Rivals Playtest #2 - Patch Notes

TRIBES 3: Rivals | 12.07.2023 | Prophecy Games

LOADOUTS

• Weapons

  • Fusion Mortar

    • Adjusted projectile speed

    • Adjusted projectile arc

  • Shotgun

    • Updated spread pattern

  • Spinfusors

    • Adjusted all Spinfusors passive reload times

  • Bolt Launcher

    • Adjusted passive reload time

  • Nova Colt

    • Kickback adjusted

  • Repair Tool added to Medium and Heavy loadouts

    • The Repair Tool can be used to heal Base Turrets, Generators and Radars

  • Honorfusor

    • Damage reduced by 100

  • Heavy Honorfusor

    • Damage reduced by 150

• Packs and Grenades

  • Overall ability balance pass

  • Team Portal

    • Friendly players use the Team Portal by stepping through the portal rather than using an interact button

  • Turret Pack

    • Deployable Turret now depletes energy on hit

  • Explosive Nitron

    • Reduced damage

    • Added damage and impulse falloff

  • Impact Nitron

    • Added damage and impulse falloff

  • Spinfusor Disc added to Heavy loadout

• Perks

  • Perks enabled

  • Egocentric Perk added

    • Reduces self damage by 20%

  • Rage Perk added

    • Rage gives players +50 energy, reduces their mass by 25%, and makes them immune to self-damage for 15 seconds after an enemy grabs their flag while they are within 240 meters of the flag. 

    • Rage is disabled once the player takes damage, or reaches the 15 second limit. Rage will not activate if they are holding the flag.

GAMEPLAY

• Movement

  • Improved the jetpack’s thrust acceleration to allow for better steering and micro adjustments. 

  • Added a configurable setting, Jetpack Lateral Angle, to control the jetpack thrust angle when attempting to jetpack laterally (i.e. holding W/S/A/D). Applying a low value adjusts jet thrust less vertically and more laterally, whereas a higher angle accelerates more upward, at the cost of lateral thrust.

  • Added more directional control while skiing. 

  • Addressed an issue where players could occasionally feel “glued” to a surface while skiing.

• General

  • Social tab added to the main lobby.

    • Players can now party up with two other players.

  • FOV range increased to 70-120.

  • Loadout tab removed from main lobby. 

  • Generators added

    • Generators added to bases. Destroying an enemy base Generator will disable turrets and reduce Radar capacity. 

  • Inventory Stations added

    • Inventory Stations can be found in spawn rooms. They will update player loadouts and refresh health, energy and ammo. 

  • Radars

    • Radars now show all player locations on the minimap.

    • If a team’s Radar is destroyed, then only friendly players and enemies within 150 meters of them will be shown on minimap.

  • Base Turrets

    • Base Turrets now have shields they will regen while the Generator is active.

  • Recall now refreshes loadout, even if the player stays in the same class.

  • Added a “Change Class” keybind. This is defaulted to ‘K.’

  • Jetpacks will continue to burn any fuel regenerated if the player holds down their jetpack keybind (default SPACE).

  • Players can impulse a dropped flag with weapons that have knockback.

  • The scoreboard tracks returning flags..

  • Current flag holder is now shown on the scoreboard.

  • Score added to the match result screen.

  • Base Turret health increased.

MAPS

• New map, Drydock, with a larger size.

• New spawn rooms added to each map.

  • Players will be able to update their loadout without recalling or dying whenever they make changes in the spawn rooms. 

• Katabatic

  • Lighting adjustments

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where some enemy jetpacks and the enemy flag would have conflicting team coloring effects.

• Fixed an issue where turrets could pick up the flag.

• Fixed an issue where projectiles could not do full damage on direct hits.

• Fixed an issue where the “Open Scoring” top-bar message could get stuck on.

• Fixed an issue where the flag could fall through the world. If the flag happens to move to an invalid playspace, a failsafe feature will reset the flag back at base. 

• Fixed an issue where Base Turrets could try to shoot players while they were out of range.

KNOWN ISSUES

• Party invites and friend requests have a delay when accepting and updating queues.

• Players may have a red Fresnels sometimes get stuck on