The 1/11 Playtest is now Live!! - Patch Notes

The TRIBES 3: Rivals playtest is now live! It will be live for the next 24 hours unless otherwise states! Here are the patch notes!

LOADOUTS

• Armor classes have been resized to have unique hitboxes relative to their scale.

• Weapons

  • Chain Guns

    • Enabled Binocular zoom.

  • Repair Tool

    • Removed from the third weapon slot and now on a universal hold keybind (Default ‘F’).

    • Repair tools can now heal friendly players. 

  • Phase Rifle

    • Increased hip fire spread.

    • Moved to the light loadout.

  • BXT1 Rifle

    • The BXT1 Rifle has been temporarily removed pending a rework.

  • Shocklance

    • Temporarily removed from loadouts

  • Added Thumper to medium loadout.

  • Gladiator added to heavy loadout.

  • Nova Colt

    • Moved to the medium loadout.

    • Fire rate slowed from .38 to .6

    • Damage increased from 150 to 210.

  • Spinfusors/Bolt Launchers/Thumper Projectile Speed reduced by 10%.

    • All other Projectile Speeds reduced by 20%.

  • Projectile Collision Spheres Reduced by 10%.

  • Zoom levels added to most weapons.

  • Weapons that reload after each shot no longer remove ADS/Zoom.

  • Removed third weapon slot. 

  • Disabled Aim Assist on gamepad. 

• Packs and Grenades

  • Stealth

    • Duration increased.

    • Reduced cooldown.

  • Blink

    • Reduced cooldown. 

  • Thrust Pack

    • Reduced cooldown.

  • Impact Nitron

    • Added to the light loadout.

    • Explosion radius reduced by 25%.

GAMEPLAY

• Movement

  • FOV now adapted to speed (adjustable in the settings menu)

  • Camera movement on surfaces at speed (adjustable in the settings menu)

  • Improved Skiing Ground Control for all classes

  • Added visual effects particles to the camera in order to reinforce speed

• Custom Matches

  • Mutators added

    • Mutators allow the lobby leader to adjust various class attributes. 

    • These are still in development and may not work properly. 

  • Players can now mute other players in custom lobbies. 

  • The Lobby Leader can now lock players from switching teams.

• Time Trials Mode

  • New Time Trial Wavemist map added.

• Training

  • New Training and shooting range map added. This is not a full tutorial, but meant for practice.

• General

  • Reconnect

    • If a player crashes out of a game, upon relaunching, they will have the option to rejoin the match they were previously in if it is still running. 

  • VGS added:

    • V: Enter VGS

    • G: Right Menu (Comments)

    • C: Down Menu (Defense)

    • S: Left Menu (Taunts)

    • F: Up Menu (Offense)

    • Dev Note: this is a first pass at VGS. Voicelines and overall design may change in future passes. 

  • Flag captures required to win are reduced to 3 from 5.

  • Adjusted the collision height of the flag and score volume.

  • Adjusted flag drop physics to make the path more predictable.

  • Adjusted flag reset timer to 30 seconds.

  • Adjusted base turret logic so they have better sight.

  • The Scoreboard will now always show the player’s team first. 

MAPS

• Adjusted some base stands to have more forward and backward angles of attack.

• Conduits added to Katabatic and Drydock maps

  • Entering a Conduit will move the player up to the next level of an area. 

• Drydock

  • Added rock formations.

  • Reworked central mountain.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where the Flag would sometimes not be able to be returned if it got stuck in terrain. 

• Fixed an issue where the player may be locked out of their abilities after scoring the flag. 

• Fixed an issue where players would only ever respawn on one side of the map. 

• Fixed an issue where energy would not be full on respawn.

• Fixed an issue where a team could score twice if the flag was picked up on a flag stand.

• Fixed an issue where ski impulse would not apply in the direction a player was looking. 

• Fixed an issue where players were not getting the ski impulse if they attempted to ski within 1s of spawning.

• Fixed an issue where players would lose speed from their jetpack.

• Fixed an issue where the pickup camera effect was not playing.

• Fixed an issue where the repair tool had no 3p VFX.

• Fixed an issue where weapons with a prefire time (i.e. shocklance) would play firing SFX/VFX twice in 3p.

• Fixed an issue where muting and unmuting party members in the Lobby was not working.

Known Issues

• We are aware of crashes that have affected players. We have pushed fixes in order to address some of these and are currently working on cleaning up others.  

• Radar may not always show enemy players properly.

• Custom mutators may not apply properly.

• Custom Matches that have ended may get recycled into the match again before being kicked to lobby.

• Reconnecting may have the waiting for players UI and loading UI stuck on.