1.2 Patch Notes | Ranked & Weapon Mastery Skins Have Arrived

New Playlist: Ranked Arena

• Unlocked by earning 100,00 XP in any other playlists

• Rise up through the ranks, from Bronze up to Champion

• Compete across 3 modes: Splitball, Hotzone, and Firecracker

• Earn exclusive weapon Charms and badges based on the highest rank you achieve each season

• Stay tuned for more info on additional Ranked modes and adjustments in future seasons

New Unlocks: Weapon Mastery Skins

• Prove your dedication by unlocking new, exclusive skins for every weapon

• Fully level a weapon to unlock its Mastery Challenges

• Complete a weapon’s first Mastery Challenge to unlock its Carbon skin

• Complete a weapon’s second Mastery Challenge to unlock its Gold skin

• Unlock 6 Gold weapon skins for a Faction to unlock the highest tier of Mastery Challenges which earn you Proelium skins

• Even more Mastery Challenges and exclusive skins are in the works for future seasons

New Battle Pass: Season 1 Chapter 2

• Unlock new rewards in the second Season 1 mini Battle Pass, including:

  • 3 exclusive character skins

  • 11 exclusive weapon skins

  • An exclusive portal skin

  • Multiple emotes, sprays, charms, player card banners, and player card titles

  • 500 Splitcoin + 60 Proelium

• The Premium Battle Pass will cost 500 Splitcoin (roughly $4.99 USD).

• As a reminder, your Battle Pass tokens are not reset between Chapters. If you didn’t complete the Chapter 1 Battle Pass yet, you’ll still be able to unlock that content over the rest of the season.

Read more about our Battle Pass system here.

New Takedown Map: Simulation Anomaly

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Battle Royale**

• Added a “Last Man Standing” announcement which plays when you’re the only one alive on your team

• Added a new Point of Interest to Glacier

• Added invisible walls around the outer bounds of each biome to prevent flying out of bounds

Arena

• Added the ability to rejoin a match in progress after leaving or being disconnected

• Reduced the number of rounds in Arena Quickplay matches from 5 to 3

  • Ranked Arena will remain 5 rounds with Sudden Death

• Added and adjusted a number of portal walls on Bypass

Balance Changes

• (Aeros) Rush Ability

  • Now also grants immunity from debuffs, such as stuns or slows, while the ability is active

• **(Meridian) Phasma SMG **

  • Reduced the speed at which shots grow by 50%

  • Reduced the maximum size of shots by 20%

  • Dev Note: Because the Phasma is not a hitscan weapon, its projectiles grow as they travel. These changes make it slightly harder to hit shots at longer ranges without impacting the weapon’s performance at close-range or overall damage

The Lab

• Added Mirroring options in the Context Menu

• Added new Sandbox building set to the Catalog

• Added new Glacier biome set to the Catalog

• Added Circular Portal Walls to the Catalog

• Adjusted maximum launch distance on Portal Walls from 3,500 to 10,000

• Added preview popup windows for Prefabs

• Adjusted all Lightshaft type content cost to 10 budget

• Updated some icons used for the Gameplay Volumes

• Improved Portal Wall Validation to prevent more false positives

• Fixed missing collision on Simulation Portal Cube 8x8

• Added King of the Hill zones to all base canvases

• Adjusted FlatEarth canvas barrier markers around the map to be better merged into the ground

• Lowered default kill boundary on the WetOcean canvas to -6 meters to prevent objectives from resetting when touching the water

• Added simple underwater post processing and audio effect

• Fixed grouped/prefabbed objects from breaking when transforming

• Fixed search functionality in the Prefabs tab

• Improved controller navigation in several areas of the UI

• Fixed various bugs with the UI, thumbnails, and displayed text

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed an issue in Arena where a tied round would display as a win, despite not counting towards the number of rounds won

• Fixed a visual bug in Firecracker that could cause the bomb indicator to appear over the heads of multiple teammates

• Improved performance and reduced reduced hitching in Battle Royale

• Improved the quality of Global Illumination in Battle Royale

• Improved performance and lighting for all dynamic and distant objects like item pickups, players, and chest in Battle Royale and Onslaught

• Fixed an issue where graphical artifacts could appear when swapping weapons

• Improved the visual quality and rendering performance of items in the Store

• Ice on Custom Maps is now slippery

• Fixed a variety of graphics crashes