Greetings Champions,
We’ll be deploying an update on 25.01.2018 that includes: Phase 1 of our new hit detection system, many quality of life items and Champion balance changes. We estimate the update process will take place from 8AM EST - 3PM EST (1PM GMT to 8PM GMT).
New Hit Detection Integrated
Phase 1: (NOW LIVE) Weapon hits are now detected client-side on our new capsule based hit skeletons, validated server-side. More details in our upcoming Dev Diary video
Phase 2: (TBD) Move Champion Ability hit detection to the new capsule skeletons
Features
- Premium Weapon Shaders added in Reliquaries only
- Private Messaging added
- Voice chat voice activation added
- 3rd person spawn animations added
- Champion Difficulty Visual Indicators added
Champions
- Fixed issue for Keel’s ability which caused FPS drops
- Fixed issue when sometimes DOOM Slayer was missing punch animations
Champion Balance
Anarki
- Starting Health 100 to 75
- Max Armor 75 to 50
Injection
- Cooldown 40 to 60
- Duration 8 to 10
- Health Bonus 1 to 3
Movement
- Max Speed 560 to 600
- Air Control Acceleration Reduced
- Enabled Crouch Ledge Grabbing
- Removed Forward Acceleration
- Removed Bunny Hop Acceleration
B.J. Blazkowicz
- Max Armor 75 to 100
Dual Wield
- Increased Weapon Rate of Fire
- Cooldown 48 to 45
- Duration 5 to 7
Clutch
Mining Drill
- Damage 5 to 7
- Drill Radius 0.12 to 0.1
DOOM Slayer
Berserk
- Targeting Range 1.4 to 1.5
Galena
Unholy Totem
- Cooldown 30 to 25
- Damage 75 to 100
Movement
- Base Speed 300 to 310
Keel
Grenade Swarm
- Self-Knockback 1.0 to 1.5
Nyx
Movement
- AirAcceleration 1.2 to 1
- Bunny Hop Added
Ranger
Dire Orb
- Explosion radius 3 to 3.5m
- Damage 100, with falloff
Scalebearer
Bull Rush
- Increased damage from Bull Rush & Heavy Weight
- 25 dmg > 300 ups (Bull Rush Only)
- 50 dmg > 400 ups
- 100 dmg > 500 ups
- 150 dmg > 600 ups
Slash
Movement
- Air Accelerate 1.1 to 1
- Forward Acceleration 0.7 to 0.5
Sorlag
Acid Spit
- Acid Spit Damage 25 to 30
- Spit Knockback 0 to 5
- Acid Pool Damage over Time 7 to 10
Visor
Piercing Sight
- Cooldown 43 to 40
- Duration 5 to 7
Maps
- Winter holiday décor removed
- Fixed issue on Blood Covenant where player could get stuck on jump pads using high speed movements
- Fixed more issues for falling out of the map after using Ranger's Dire Orb on multiple maps
- Improved issues with incorrect respawns on Blood Covenant in TDM
- Fixed issue when time zone was incorrect for sent messages
UI
- Fixed mouse sensitivity only being able to be adjusted by increments of 0.25
- Fixed misaligned PiPs for Clutch vanities
Tech
- Fixed an issue that caused some players to crash to desktop when launching the game
- Fixed issue where closing client using the exit button resulted in an error
- Fixed issue when Spectator experienced a jittery camera if the player they were spectating was running very high fps.
- Fixed issue when the ‘Play Now’ button could be locked when a player left a match
- Fixed Premium shaders that appeared low res in main menu
- Further traffic optimizations
- Fixed spike on victory podium screen
- Fixed issue where player could experience extra inputs moving champion with high FPS (phantom jumping)
Ranked
- Fixed issue when players who completed placement games had rating in all scoreboards
- Nameplates now have SR rating on them
- League icons are now synchronized with what’s shown on post-match sequence
- Fixed issue where player could receive negative rating for a win in Duel
- Leaving from ranked warm-up should now work correctly
Weapons
- Fixed issue when weapons with shader applied did not have quad vfx
- Fixed issue with broken sfx when player first spawns into training
Leaderboards
- Fixed issue in Leaderboards where the Game Type: Duel was not capitalized
- Fixed issue when Leaderboards button did not work if player was in the first page
- Fixed issue while changing league there was no correct change sequence
- Increased the amount of leaderboard pages supported
- Removed blank last page from leaderboards
Localization
- Fixed issue where Brazilian-Portuguese was not localized on Steam and displayed only in English
- Various Localization fixes made
Misc.
- Removed snowfall vfx in Main Menu
- Fixed issue when the one player who left the duel would see empty post-match podium
- Fixed issue when Play button may become grayed out and block consecutive matches for several minutes after completing a match
- Fixed issue on Steam: While being in the queue after linking an account, the user could still click the Create Account button
- Fixed issue where Confirmation pop-up icon went out of bounds
- Fixed issue for the number of Tokens collected was not displayed in-game or on the Training Completion screen
- Fixed issue for Blacklisted user receiving inconsistent messages when attempting to Follow, Invite, or Private Message
- Fixed issue where some weapon names under Weapon Statistics were inconsistent
- Fixed issue where incorrect champion was shown on the profile screen. Post-match statistics are now assigned to the correct champion
- Spectator in Free Camera can now use teleporters
Data Centers
- Added: INDIA, Mumbai
- Added: USA, Ohio; Removed: USA, Iowa
- More Coming Soon...