Playtest is now Live!!! 1/25 Patch Notes

Active Testing Modes: 

• 7v7 Quick Play - CTF,  Bomb Rush, and Team Hunters

• Time Trials

• Training

• Custom Matches - CTF, Bomb Rush, and Team Hunters

LOADOUTS

• Armor

  • Normalized Max Energy

  • Medium

    • Slightly reduced overall mobility

      • This is intended to slightly reduce the efficacy of the Medium class for capping while maintaining its effectiveness in duels

  • Heavy

    • Reduced overall mobility

      • This is intended to reinforce the Heavy armor class as a durable but less mobile option to defend and assault bases, while not being as effective at traversing the map or performing evasive maneuvers

• Weapons

  • Light Honorfusor

    • Projectile speed reduced to match the Light Spinfusor.

  • Honorfusor

    • Projectile speed reduced to match the Spinfusor.

  • Fusion Mortar

    • Reduced fuse length by 25%.

  • Stormslicer

    • Spread increases the more speed a player has. 

      • This is the first iteration and we are still exploring ideas to limit the efficacy of Chainguns in general. Expect a future change to the other chainguns as we continue to work on preparing additional options such as an overheat mechanic, to find out what fits best within the game.

• Packs and Grenades

  • Lateral and forward inheritance added to grenades. 

  • Dome Shield

    • Size increased by 25%.

    • Duration increased from 5 to 10 seconds.

  • Stealth

    • Stealth can now be canceled by activating the pack again.

    • Throwing grenades while in Stealth will semi-reveal the player instead of canceling Stealth.

    • Stealthed enemies are now revealed within 200 meters of the radar sensor while it is operational. 

  • Phase Shift

    • Phase Shift can now be canceled by activating the pack again. 

• Perks

  • Base Guard

    • Now also grants 15% damage reduction while near your flag stand.

GAMEPLAY

• Movement

  • Network performance improvements.

• Team Hunters Game Mode

  • Added Team Hunters mode to Katabatic and Dangerous Crossing.

  • Playable in Quick Play and Custom Matches.

  • Collect flags and deposit them in the Nexus to gain points. The more flags you deposit at once, the more points you gain. 

  • There are some flags that spawn around the map. Killing players will also drop a flag. 

• Bomb Rush

  • Players can now score bombs by tossing them into enemy vents. 

  • Added scoreboard stat for bombs scored. 

  • Bomb scoring vents and bases adjusted for better play, but should still be considered blockout testing.

  • Made picking up the bombs easier by removing the pedestals. 

• Quickplay

  • Reduced to a 7v7.

• General

  • Repair Tool heal increased from 3% per second to 6% per second.

  • Adjusted flag physics to improve consistency especially when throwing in directions other than forward. Additional adjustments to come based on feedback.

  • Temporary shields now show on the player's health bar.

  • Added feedback to the minimap when a team’s Radar goes down.

  • Added a setting to hide the Ski Mode: Engaged/Disengaged UI.

  • Class icons updated.

  • Raised max fly height (stallz) in all maps to where it effectively should not be hit.

Maps

• All maps

  • General art improvements and bug fixes continue over time.

• Dangerous Crossing

  • Increased base sizes by 25%, to give a bit more room to maneuver while inside. Lowered the structure so the flag-stand is at the same relative height.

• New Map: Honor Dome

  • Only in Custom Matches, very early blockout.

  • A smaller map for 3v3 or 4v4 single Bomb Rush and CTF.

• New Map: Torment

  • Only in Custom Matches, very early blockout.

  • Larger CTF lava map.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where player damage was being multiplied with structure damage, causing some weapons to do more damage than intended on generators, radars and turrets.

• Fixed an issue where the dome shield visuals would disappear shortly after being deployed.

• Fixed an issue where flag carrying music would not stop playing if flag was passed using short-range teleport.

• Fixed an issue where recall sound on other players would not play at correct location

• Fixed an issue where turrets would be valid targets for flag passes. 

• Fixed an issue where downed turrets were incorrectly showing as online on minimap when the Generator came online. 

• Fixed issues with scoreboard responsiveness.

• Fixed an issue where the Honorfusor VFX would get stuck on. 

• Fixed an issue where bullet whiz SFX would sometimes not play correctly when projectile hit a surface.

• Fixed an issue where VGS volume setting was not applying.

• Fixed an issue where stealth SFX wouldn't play when initiating stealth.

• Fixed an issue with respawn UI where the pending armor class was not showing correctly.

• Fixed an issue that was causing direct hits to sometimes not deal correct damage.

• Fixed an issue where players with the Base Guard perk were not dealing damage to enemies that collided with them.

• Fixed an issue where grenade icons would show as blocked after recalling.