Welcome back. We know things have been hectic with last patch’s massive set of structural changes, so this patch we’re focused on follow-up: listening to feedback, smoothing out economic imbalances, and continuing our work on mobility. Let’s get to it!

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

Now that Gold matters more and related changes have settled, we’re doing another pass to smooth purchasing out. In addition, we’re always thinking of ways to get you to use powers (they’re fun, we promise!) so testing out a low-scope way to provide even more power reliability through a ‘fixed’ power store that rotates hourly.

Base Camps

• Armor Repair costs cut in half
  
• Base Camp Shop now has a fixed/permanent set of 4 powers that randomly rotates every real-life hour
  
  • Powers are randomly selected and can range from rune to purple (Epic) tier rarity
    
  • Prices are fixed to 1000/1000/1500/2000 gold

Shop and Trade

• Base Camp and shopkeeper models have been updated to make shop destinations clearer
  
• Shop styling UI has been updated to better support the amount of inventory
  
• Gold requests and gold trading sound effects have been updated to address feedback that people miss the pop-up request for Gold on the left side of the screen
  
• Shop Icons and Airdrop shop icons have been updated to be larger and more noticeable

Quests

• Quests that gave Scrap >>> give 1,000 gold
  
• 2 new in-game quests have been added:
  
  • Claim Meteor Soul
    
  • Capture an enemy Basecamp
• Reward values for quests have been updated
  
• All 3 Starter Quests now unlock a "Chain" into another quest
  
  • Brawlers >>> Wipe an enemy team
    
  • Farm Minions >>> Claim Meteor Soul
    
  • Unlock 1 Vault >>> Capture an enemy Basecamp

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

You should be rewarded for taking team actions (so we’re doing that).

• Additional XP for In-Game Actions: These actions now grant XP to the instigator and nearby allies:
  
  • Capturing enemy basecamps
    
  • Capturing a neutral basecamp for the first time (this does not apply to deploying your basecamp again)
    
  • Destroying a vault obelisk for the first time
    
  • Using a UAV for the first time

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

We don’t want games to feel so doomed if you’re really far behind, so attaching a stronger incentive to the comeback mechanic seems like a fine idea. Also remember: you can buy Most Wanted in the shop!

• Most Wanted catchup XP should now more effectively catch you up to the level floor of each phase
  
  • For example: in the lategame, it should bring you up to at least level 13 if you complete it

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

PvP success should still matter, even if your target’s got empty pockets.

• All kills now grant a flat 400 gold bounty bonus

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

Last patch we said we wanted to make combat more predictable, knowable, and reactable because mobility had gotten a little out of hand. Specifically: hard-to-react (or unreactable) engagements that can come from off-screen, or wild, careening dashes that make aggressive targets so hard to predict. Today we’re continuing the work by making jump dashes (and dash jumps) less explosive, which should lead to more predictability and depth in combat engagements (there’s also a silver lining here for Brall, Oath, and Jin players).

• Jump > Dash: Short duration dashes (<1) now have 15% reduced speed when used from a standstill. Longer and/or precision dashes (Celeste Dash, Joule Dash, Bishop Ult, Felix Ult, Beebo Ult) remain unaffected.
  
• Jump > Dash > Glide: Hunters still gain momentum from this combination, but braking now kicks in slightly faster. With this, we are removing the individual glide suppression (aka the gliding prevention that kicked in immediately after using certain abilities) that was on Brall, Oath, and Jin (we’ll note this in separate Hunter balance notes)
  
• Dash > Jump: Dampening is now applied more consistently while Dashing, preventing free big jumps. Still worth doing, but shouldn’t be as crazy as it used to be.
  
• Glider: Max glider gas increased by 25% to compensate for some of the mobility nerfs (we like mobility when it has risks or more readability)

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

Nobody likes to start with a caveat but there was a spicy version of this change we tested a few weeks back (FULL resets on kills) and lots of people didn’t like it. This is not that change.

Our goals remain the same though: let players dream of taking on outnumbered fights (we call them 1vNs) with the perfect play. We like this version because while it is appreciable power per knock, it’s not overwhelmingly so and still keeps fights readable.

• PvP knocks will now grant a Heal and cooldown reset for your dash (SHIFT) ability
  
• Heal amounts vary depending on the Hunter’s dueling potential:
  
  • Medium heal (500 heal): Beebo, Bishop, Celeste, Crysta, Elluna, Ghost, Myth, Shrike, Void, Zeph
    
  • Small heal (250 heal): Brall, Felix, Hudson, Jin, Joule, Kingpin, Oath, Shiv

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

In theory, introducing new things to upgrade should add more build diversity (upgrade my LMB or something else?), but since LMB upgrades were just raw power, the decision was rather flat for everyone (LMB-based Hunters upgraded it first at the cost of their cool abilities. Non-LMB-based Hunters upgraded it—surprise!—last). We hear your feedback this wasn’t it, so we’re reverting:

• You can no longer upgrade your basic attack (LMB)
  
• Level 14 & 15 now gives health & ability power - no ability point
  
• Basic attack (LMB) damage has been normalized to old values (fully upgraded values)

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

a.) Beebo could use durability buffs, so here are durability buffs.

b.) We had a long, philosophical discussion as to what degree of sentience is necessary to be held responsible for a life (both the taking and giving of), and came to the conclusion that a Beeb-omb is indeed a living, sentient capable of being held accountable for mortal outcomes, despite leading such short, brutal existences themselves (sometimes being hit by a bat in the middle of it). Maybe it gives them a deeper sense of purpose before blowing up. We like to think so.

General

• Base health increased from 1060 >>> 1200
  
• Health gain per level increased from 62 >>> 72
  
• At max level this is about ~250 additional health

Beeb-omb (Q)

• Beeb-ombs can now revive ally wisps and stomp enemy wisps

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

See the mobility changes above!

• Can now use glider immediately after using Flame Step (SHIFT) and Adaptive Strike (RMB)

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

Bishop's new RMB upgrade from the previous patch has been gaining popularity in high-MMR play. We're reducing the uptime to lower its power.

Displacement Charge (RMB)

• Cooldown increased from 15/10/10/5 >>> 15/12.5/12.5/10

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

We like how the last set of changes to Celeste made her more effective at controlling space and think we can go even further (SUPERVIVE needs all the space controllers it can get!).

General

• Base movement speed increased from 415 >>> 445

Frozen Barricade (Q)

• Cooldown reduced from 25/20/15 >>> 20/17.5/15 seconds
  
• Health increased by 250 across all levels

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

Crysta was looking very strong from release. We want to be cautious of overnerfing, but we're hitting damage across the board to bring her in line with the rest of the roster.

General

• BUGFIX: Fixed a bug where Crysta was getting Attack Speed when building Cooldown Reduction

Reverberation (Passive)

• Damage reduced from 51 (+32% ability power) >>> 48 base (+30% ability power)

Double Dash (Shift)

• Recharge time increased at higher levels from 15/11/7 >>> 15/12/9 seconds
  
• Level 4 refund on passive proc reduced from 100% >>> 50% of cooldown

Flux Snare (RMB)

• Flux Snare cooldown adjusted from 9/8/7.5/7.5 >>> 9.5/8.5/7.5/7.5 seconds

Nuclarite Salvo (R)

• Damage reduced from 45.5/50/55 (+23%/25%/27.5% ability power) >>> 41/45/50 (+20%/22%/24% ability power)

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

Hudson’s Barbed Wire felt like it wasn’t living up to its fantasy as real zone control because teams would burn through it so quickly.

Barbed Wire (Q)

• Health increased by 500 at all levels

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

See the mobility changes above!

• Can now use glider immediately after using Dodge Roll (SHIFT)

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

When you first look at Kingpin, you probably think he’s more of a bruiser type who wants to trade blows and wear you down over a reasonable amount of time but NO he’s actually a big purple assassin who only wears SWORDS and AXES (no armor, imagine that if you will) and he GRABS you through the wall and STUFFS you into your deathbox with a self-confirmed kill combination. Crazy!!!

I’ll stop the anti-Kingpin propaganda now, but we do think he’s too explosive and kill-reliable for what his thematic premise is (and what we think is reasonable), so we’re moving that power away and into his bruiser archetype who controls the battlefield and sets up plays.

Feed the Beast (Passive)

• Grants +30 maximum health per stack >>> +2.5% maximum health per stack (yes this is sort of a buff)
  
• Stacks were unlimited >>> now capped at 10 stacks maximum
  
• Kingpin lost half stacks on death >>> now drops 1 stack each time Kingpin is knocked

Scattergun (LMB)

• [NEW] Shots fired at 0 bloom/spread now shred additional armor (+67%)
  
• Base Damage from 37 >>> 30
  
• Ability Power Ratio 0.096 >>> 0.08

Primal Slam (Q)

• Stun duration adjusted from 1.4 >>> 1/1.1/1.2/1.4 seconds

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

See the mobility changes above!

• Can now use glider immediately after using Spin Dash (SHIFT) and Magnetic Hammer (LMB)

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

We unintentionally nerfed Void while simplifying his LMB damage calculations last patch, so now we’re buffing him intentionally.

Gravity Orb (LMB)

• Uncharged base damage increased from 205 >>> 212
  
• Charged base damage increased from 256 >>> 265

Power Specialist

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

Updating this now that normal Powers are Soulbound.

• Now grants more power cooldown per stack, and stacks up to 4 times
  
• No longer has a transformation effect

Abyss Specialist

• No longer is abusable by swapping slots

Express Delivery

• Turn speed and charge up speed increased

Two-Way Tunnel

• Cast time reduced from 1.5 >>> 0.75 seconds

Replicator

• Is now a consumable

Wall

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

Somewhere in these patch notes we said SUPERVIVE needs all the space controllers it can get, and I am happy to say we still believe that, a few paragraphs down. Buildables are another way to create and hold space, but 3 seconds is too long in SUPERVIVE time so… yeah. I guess that’s the patch note.

• Build time reduced from 3 >>> 2 seconds

• BUGFIX: Red chest shopkeepers no longer unintentionally offer Equipment upgrades alongside Red choices

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

Removal of the Global Shop made these a lot less accessible, so we're making them easier to complete.

• Seasonal Two-Way Tunnel mission changed from "Get a Knock after taking a Two-Way Tunnel” >>> “Take a Two-Way Tunnel"
  
• Seasonal Fan mission changed from "Place a Deployable Fan" >>> "Use any Deployable Fan”

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

This was a big player request - thanks for the feedback!

• Updated the store so the Hunter name appears in each skin card

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

In a world defined by FUNNELS and reducing FRICTION and CONVERSION (marketing jokes, haha) it may seem counterintuitive to add more clicks to getting rewards, but we’ve been hearing feedback from players not knowing at all what rewards they’re getting and where they’re coming from.

We give you a lot of cool stuff, and there’s even more cool stuff to be gotten if you know how to get it. So we’re now giving you notifications as to where to claim your cool stuff, which should help with attribution and let you know where the cool stuff is.

• You now need to “Click to Claim” Hunter’s Journey, Battlepass, and Hunter Mastery Rewards
  
  • There are bright notifications drawing you to where you need to click to claim your rewards

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

We’re trying a new kind of emote, intended to aid communication (especially when you or an ally prefer not to use voice chat).

• These emotes are granted to all accounts, display text instead of an image, and trigger voiceover (VO) from the Hunter you’re playing. They can be equipped to your emote wheel from the Loadout like normal emotes:
  
  • Yes
    
  • No
    
  • Thanks
    
  • Sorry
• Try responding to allied pings (“Let’s go here,” “Group up,” “Fight,” etc.) with “Yes” or “No.” Let’s start a conversation :)

• Ability upgraded/Ultimate Unlocked
  
• Added player-only voice lines for most Hunters that react to leveling up an ability
  
• Recall/Teleport Cancel
  
  • Canceling your recall or teleport now tells your allies “Never mind!” so that they don’t get baited into a move you decided was a bad idea

• You can now bind emotes to hot keys
  
• The settings will reflect your current loadout

• New stealth sound effect when played in fog-of-war
  
  • New Enemy Stealth Enter sound effect
    
  • New Enemy Stealth Loop sound effect
    
  • New Enemy Stealth Exit sound effect
    
  • Bugfix: All will play in fog-of-war now (Enter and Exit used to not play)
• Vaults have an increased vault lockpicking minimum hitbox size. Sweet spot size unchanged.
  
• The text “Staggerable” for enemy monsters has been changed >>> “Weak to Spells”

Practice Mode

• Training dummy (Shrike) health increased by 10x
  
• Killing the training dummy no longer grants XP

Bugfixes

• Golden Screamers no longer give 5x the intended rewards
  
• Countering minions stops them from casting their spells again
  
• Brush Baby (those weird little ghost guys who run out of the brush and you pop them for loot) rewards are actually fixed

Okay this is one of the largest patches we’ve shipped, ever. And for good reason - there’s a lot of work to do as we rebuild the entire strategic layer of SUPERVIVE toward a brighter future. Speaking to the why: when we launched SUPERVIVE into open beta, we quickly saw that new players just didn’t know where to go or what to do in our more open-ended game. So we spiked some short-term changes like quests and the day 1 revival rules to try to expose the base game more quickly—which netted out some improvements.

That said, we knew there would be knock-on effects for the entire state of the game, like the revival rules reducing the consequentiality of the early game, and that teams would still struggle to make strategic decisions once their basic quests were done.

Looking forward, we believe that SUPERVIVE needs a lot more strategic structure to work as a deep, competitive game. We think it’s important that players can intuit what to do next in the game to win, as well as feeling there are meaningful choices to make along the way. This all starts with having a strong, knowable game structure to evaluate how you’re doing, which we can then build off of. This is why we’re starting with gold mattering a lot more, as this is one of the cleanest benchmarks of progression that almost all players understand.

P.S. We’re still working on that fireside to talk about the state of the game (and where we’re bringing it), but need some time to bake our thoughts. Thanks!

Also there is just an extreme amount of stuff in this patch you should read up on, including:

• You upgrade your equipment via gold at Basecamps, Boat Shops, and Wandering Shopkeepers
  
• You now drop half of your gold on death
  
• Powers below exotic are now soulbound
  
• Mobility adjustments across the Hunter roster
  
• You can link your Discord to import your friends list, send messages, and invite friends via Discord
  
• A new missions hub has been added to the lobby next to the queue button
  
• We are experimentally supporting controller gameplay
  
• Also:

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

NOTE: In most regions you can get Crysta for free by participating in the Discord quest! Go check your Discord quests to see if you’re eligible.

A new Hunter: Crysta, the Supercharged Burst Mage

• Reverberation (PASSIVE): Crysta’s abilities mark enemies that her basic attacks and ultimate can detonate.
  
• Maybelle & Boo (LMB): Fire a shot from your drone, dealing damage, and detonating Reverberation.
  
• Flux Snare (RMB): Fire an energy snare that does damage on the way out, then returns: pulling, dealing damage, and grounding targets it hits on the way back.
  
• Double Dash (SHIFT): A short dash with two charges. After every dash, Crysta shoots an empowered doubled basic attack, which can stagger monsters.
  
• Magireactive Burst (Q): Press to fire a damage zone to target location. Press again to detonate, dealing damage to enemies in the zone.
  
• Nuclarite Salvo (R): Fire a barrage of 5 energy beams at the target location, alternating over each shoulder, firing two projectiles on the last shot.

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

We believe SUPERVIVE is best played with friends and so we’re partnering with Discord in order to make that easier for everyone. SUPERVIVE accounts can now be linked with Discord!

• Linking your Discord account will allow you to do the following:
  
  • See your Discord friends on your SUPERVIVE friends list
    
  • You can send party invites to your Discord friends, and they can accept them from in-game and/or from Discord itself
    
  • You can send Discord friend requests to your SUPERVIVE friends who have linked to Discord
    
  • Message them while in-game and have those messages persist between Discord and SUPERVIVE
    
    • NOTE: We do not have any access to your entire private DM history - our platform just acts as a data pipeline to Discord, who stores your messages on their platform
  • Display a rich social presence to Discord so friends can know how many minutes you are into your Squads game and when they can jump in.
• You can unlink in the settings menu

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

In the Beebo patch we changed matchmaking in Ranked to be based on a combination of both rank and your MMR. This has improved matches and ensured that players are being matched more consistently with people of similar ranks. Historically we’ve let GrandMaster players party with Bronze players, which as you can imagine can make fair matchmaking pretty difficult. You can continue to party with friends in normal games with no restrictions, but when it comes to earning RP, there are now limits to how far apart ranks can be within a party.

• The following is the full breakdown of allowed ranks (left is highest rank in your party, right is lowest rank allowed):
  
  • Platinum & lower <> Bronze
    
  • Diamond <> Gold
    
  • Master <> Platinum
    
  • GrandMaster+ <> Diamond

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

A major theme of feedback we’ve heard from players across all skill bands (especially new ones) is that the early game of SUPERVIVE is really free-flowing, which results in an experience where it’s hard to know: am I doing the right things? Am I playing optimally or not?

The changes we made to the leveling structure (removing daily level caps) was the first step. We’re continuing on that path to both simplify our various ‘progression bars’ in the game, as well as having two key measuring sticks of power: levels and gold earned.

• You now upgrade your equipment at Shops with gold
  
• Monsters mostly drop gold (Chargers and Screamers occasionally drop potions)
  
• All purple chests now drop guaranteed gold - along with other stuff
  
• You can now shop at Base Camps, Boat Shops, or wandering Shopkeepers
  
• The Anywhere Shop has been disabled
  
• Cooking is gone
  
• You must purchase consumables (VIVE Brew, etc) at Shops or looted from enemy deathboxes

• ‘Gold Score’ (a combination of ‘held gold’ and ‘spent gold’) has been added to the UI - this is shown in the top right, next to damage, and on the scoreboard next to Held Gold. You can use this score to roughly calibrate enemy strength in terms of what they’ve purchased for upgrades or compare farm rates with the rest of your team.

• Various parts of the economy have been tuned for this new gold world (including Shop costs and how much gold monsters give)
  
• All boss monsters except biome bosses (the ones that spawn after you’ve cleared the zone) have had their EXP and gold rewards significantly increased
  
  • EXP Increased about 2.5x
    
  • Gold reward increased from ~600 gold to always giving 2,000 gold for every nearby ally

• After the last night of the game, if there aren't any Shopkeepers in the game, one will be spawned at random and dropped onto the map after a short duration
  
• Also a reminder that if your team doesn’t own a Base Camp you can still upgrade and buy supplies at Boat Shops and wandering Shopkeepers.

• Deathboxes are now colored to reflect how much gold they have in them

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

A criticism of our day 1 revival rules is that there’s no early game consequence (valid). Trying to address that:

• When you die, you lose 50% of your gold

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

One of the biggest pain points we’ve heard with the leveling changes is that it can take forever to get your ‘kit unlocked.’ Part of what we liked about adding additional levels is more space between the kit unlocked breakpoint and getting your ultimate, so we’re shifting EXP from 1, 2, and 3 to levels 4, 5, and 6 so you can unlock your kit faster but still take the same amount of time to get your ultimate.

Attached to this, we overshot our changelist last patch in swinging the game too hard toward PvE farming, so we’re increasing the rewards of PvP (especially early game PvP) so those skirmishes matter in building a lead.

• EXP gained from knocking enemies has been increased across the board (when they are higher level, at-level, or below level)
  
• PvP knocks will grant a full level no matter what if you’re below level 3
  
• Opening boxes and vaults now give XP, which scales up with the phase of the game
  
• Level 1-6 EXP per-level requirements changed from 50/65/80/95/110/300 >>> 45/55/85/100/115/300

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

In our current gold-matters world, we’re seeing powers be deprioritized for the more guaranteed, reliable value of equipment upgrades (which you don’t lose when you die). We want players to be able to learn and appreciate the value of powers, so that starts with them being reliably accessible at least throughout a game session.

• All powers are soulbound, except exotics (meaning: powers don’t drop on death, only on team wipe)

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

What we mean by monster staggering: when there is a blue circle under the monster, hitting them with an ability will ‘stagger’ the monster, dealing a large % of their health as damage, and making them take bonus damage for a set period of time. With PvE playing a larger role in the game, we’re going to continue refining mechanics so they feel interesting.

• Monster stagger windows are increased by 1 second
  
• Monsters now become staggerable at set health thresholds
  
• Stagger damage has been lowered from 60% total health >>> 25% total health (but there are more windows)

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

In a world where split gold farming is more valuable, we’ve seen the desire for teams to split up even more in the early game. Basically this allows solo pods to break off and move further away from the main ‘team’ pod, faster.

• Team drop pod speed has been increased by +50%
  
• Solo pod drop speed has been increased by +200%.
  
• Detach from team pod time reduced from 1 >>> 0.5 seconds

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

Adding a little more build texture for where you put your early-to-midgame ability levels.

• All Hunters can upgrade their primary attack (LMB), which will either grant +10% damage per upgrade or +20% ability power ratio (meaning they scale with your ability power)

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

We like that our action combat feels visceral and fast, but want to address cases that make you (or your target) feel out of control. These changes are targeted at making combat more predictable, knowable, and reactable by adding windowing—meaning clear windows or moments where you and your opponent can ‘see’ the next step in the combat flow and can micro-adjust, rather than just slamming out abilities.

Also to call out the addition of ‘winddown’ frames on Oath and Brall - we know that having mechanical optimizations for hyper-mobility is cool, but it creates an arms race where we either have to buff up the entire roster to match that level of speed and fluidity (we’re already seeing unreactable engagements) or we have to hold the line with reductions so there’s some form of parity. We choose the latter.

Anyway, going to call out the changes we’ve made explicitly toward our goals of mobility balance, the details of which will then be noted under the Hunter’s total changelist.

• Joule’s Voltaic Spear (RMB) now spawns a lightning orb after a brief delay, rather than instantly, so she can’t instantly combo the two abilities for a free, unreactable dash reset
  
• Joule’s Thunderstorm (R) has had its cast time increased and has a landing indicator
  
• Kingpin’s level 4 dash (SHIFT) is less effective at resetting his shotgun (LMB) attack speed so he can’t instantly mow you down with a combo
  
• When Brall and Kingpin cast their big windup ability (Brall’s RMB or Kingpin’s Q) and then immediately dash to negate the cast-time of the ability, they are now restricted in how much they can turn/aim that ability
  
• Brall’s Tether Strike (Q) impulse force has been decreased, cooldown has been increased, and level 4 upgrade now refunds less cooldown when an enemy is hit. Additionally, the tether now breaks if Brall is stunned, and cannot be activated if Brall is rooted or grounded
  
• Oath and Brall now have ‘winddown’ frames on certain movement abilities, where they can’t immediately use their glider to sustain momentum
  
• Bishop’s Blast-Off! (R) now has a cast time wind-up and has had its velocity decreased

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

We’re hearing feedback that Bishop’s talents don’t have a lot of diversity, so we’re adjusting the other options to be more attractive, and giving her a general buff. Regarding the ultimate change - we like biasing her ult usage more toward offensive engages and less defensive ‘get out of jail’ use.

Rocket Launcher (LMB) - Big Rocket

• Empowered shots now deal +20% more damage and have +10% explosion radius

Displacement Charge (RMB)

• Level 4 upgrade now gives: -5 second cooldown and radius/impulse have been increased

Haymaker (Q)

• Level 4 upgrade now gives a shield for hitting multiple targets (up to 2) and reduces the cooldown by 1 second for each target hit

Blast-Off! (R)

• Initial cast time increased from 0.3 >>> 0.5 seconds
  
• Velocity decreased from 2500 >>> 2250

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

Still does a lot of damage and is moving all over the place. We talked about the movement changes above, but to especially call out the winddown frames - we understand going from super-mobile Brall to this version might feel more restrictive, but we have to start clamping down on free movement to get to a more balanced world. Context on the RMB change: it’s an experiment where the spell is slower and heavier, but easier to aim—hopefully makes him feel rewarded for landing it, while being clearer to enemies.

General

• Brall’s Flame Step (SHIFT) and Adaptive Strike (RMB) dash now have ‘winddown’ frames where Brall can’t immediately enter a glider state to preserve extreme forward momentum

Blazing Spirit (Passive)

• Updated Blazing Spirit to be way more noticeable while also framing Brall more clearly

Adaptive Strike (RMB)

• Cast time increased from 0.35 >>> 0.55 seconds
  
• Brall can now aim RMB freely
  
• Now has a warning icon overhead of the Brall when casting
  
• Now displays separate cast bars for press and hold vs. tap
  
• Execution Slam
  
  • Execution multiplier decreased from 2x >>> 1.5x
    
  • Execution threshold decreased from 45% >>> 35%

Flame Step (SHIFT)

• Cooldown increased from 10/6/6/6 >>> 11/9/7/6 seconds
  
• Casting Adaptive Strike (RMB) and then using Flame Step (SHIFT) now restricts how far you can turn while dashing
  
  • This means you can flick your RMB a lot less if you try to use Shift to get around RMB’s cast time

Tether Hook (Q)

• Impulse force decreased from 2150 >>>> 1900
  
• Cooldown increased from 14.5/12.5/10/10 >>> 18/16/14/12 seconds
  
• Level 4 Upgrade now refunds 50% >>> 33% remaining cooldown when an enemy is hit
  
• Tether now breaks if Brall is stunned
  
• Tether cannot be activated when Brall is Rooted or Grounded

Combat Slide (SHIFT)

• Level 4 Upgrade now grants a 2 second Movement Speed buff on dash end

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

We’re keeping an eye on Kingpin, but for now just trying to curb his more extreme combos.

Dash (SHIFT)

• Level 4 upgrade attack speed reset has been reduced from 100% >>> 50%
  
• Casting Primal Slam (Q) and then using Dash (SHIFT) now restricts how far you can turn while dashing
  
  • This means you can flick your Q a lot less if you try to use Shift to get around Q’s cast time

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

We felt like Jin did too much damage with his LMBs when sticking on targets and had access to his ultimate too frequently. We still want him to fulfill his role as an assassin so we’ve adjusted his Q to be slightly more consistent.

Ash’Gara Warblade (LMB)

• Damage reduced by 20%

Flip Slash / Death Blow (Q)

• Red decals now display on both spells to better communicate hitboxes
  
• Death Blow base damage increased from 58/72/90/90 >>> 81/101/126/126
  
• Death Blow AP ratio scaling increased from 29%/36%/45%/45% >>> 38%/48%/60%/60%
  
• Death Blow execution damage scaling has been reduced from 100% <> 400% scaling to 100% <> 300% scaling from 0% to 80% missing health
  
  • Death Blow should do more damage than before until around the 60% health mark
    
  • Death Blow is slightly nerfed (~5%) to enemies below the 60% health mark

Feylight Clone (R)

• Cooldown increased from 40/35/30 >>> 45/40/35 seconds

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

Previously, Joule could snapcast her RMB and dash through it immediately knowing that it’d give her a reset. This change means that she’ll have to pause before committing. We know adding more windows to someone as lightning-fast as Joule may feel disruptive, but as we’ve said before, we need to start clamping down on these unreactable, hyper-fast actions to get to a readable, balanceable game state.

Voltaic Spear (RMB)

• Lightning orb now spawns instantly >>> after a 0.5 second delay
  
  • NOTE: 0.5 seconds is the value we’re starting with. We still want Joule to feel like lightning, but we also want it to feel like there’s a breath for other players to react. This is a lever we’re looking to tune so tell us how you feel.

Surge (Shift)

• Dash explosion radius reduced from 200 >>> 160

Thunderstorm (R)

• Cast time increased from 0.15 >>> 0.3 seconds
  
• Landing indicator added

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

We’ll just keep saying this: we know that having cool mechanical optimizations for hyper mobility is fun, but it sets the stage for a mobility arms-race where everyone needs to either be able to react to lightning fast engagements or have ones of their own. Gotta start somewhere.

General

• Oath’s Spin Dash (SHIFT) and Magnetic Hammer (LMB) attack now have ‘winddown’ frames where Oath can’t immediately enter a glider state to preserve extreme forward momentum

General

• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where Shrike’s Disengage (SHIFT) would sometimes get overwritten when trying to bunnyhop

Truetalon Rifle (LMB)

• Reduced cooldown from 1.7 >>> 1.5 seconds per shot (this increases her rate of fire)
  
• Proc-ing Raptor’s Mark (PASSIVE) can now stagger Monster

Scout Hawk (Q)

• Picking ward up makes you vulnerable and roots you now
  
• Doubled the health of the ward, and added health bar visuals

Dive-Bomb (RMB)

• Should feel better to use

• Gravity Orb (LMB) damage no longer scales continuously with time spent not firing. Instead, damage is binary (fully charged vs. uncharged)

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

We think the average SUPERVIVER-ian should be able to afford basic household goods, so we’ve asked vendors to lower prices and they listened (also they really upped their stock). One spicy one to note is that MOST WANTED is now available at the Shop - a hero play is just 3000 gold away.

Base Camp Shop Prices:

• Hypervive: 2000 >>> 1000 gold
  
• Jump Pad: 2000 >>> 3000 gold
  
• *NEW* Elixir of Health: 1500 gold
  
• *NEW* Elixir of Mana: 1500 gold
  
• *NEW* Elixir of Speed: 1500 gold
  
• *NEW* Most Wanted: 3000 gold
  
• *NEW* Ultravive: 5000 gold
  
• Deployable Base: 5000 gold
  
• Respawn Beacon (Unchanged): 8000 gold

Scan Grenade

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

If you’re tired of getting bush cheesed, try one of these out.

• Can now be picked up off the ground
  
• Increased cast range by 500

Abyssal Eye

• Holder can now see invisible units
  
• Only their vision cone can see invisible units

Blinkstone

• Cooldown increased from 12.5 >>> 20 seconds

Delicate Barrier

• DR linger duration increased from 0.5 >>> 1 seconds
  
• DR amount decreased from 50% >>> 30%

Ion Acres + Site 38

• Has received a Gameplay and Visual Update

New Map Area: Fortress (a sub-area of Chaos Steppes)

• Gameplay and Visual Update

Practice While in Queue

• A common request from players has been that once you’re queued you’d like to be able to jump into Practice.
  
• We’ve added a new queueing option so you don’t need to re-queue from Practice Mode

Custom Games

• You now have the ability to disable the Day 1 revival rules in Custom Games as a setting

Tutorial

• Removed parts that are no longer accurate

• "Fight!", "Group Up!", and "Help!" have been added to the ping wheel, now with new art

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

We have new Keybinds to have your camera look at your teammates

• Holding F2, F3, F4 switches the camera to your ally location for P2, P3, and P4
  
• Keys are rebindable
  
• You still have control over your character while looking at your ally
  
• Will try and show ally deathbox if they're dead

• Added Announcer VO for 4 and 3 squads remaining
  
• Increased Ability VO cooldowns across the board (e.g., Ghost players will hear "Firing Downrange!" less often)

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

VERY EXPERIMENTAL. TRY AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION BUT MAYBE TRY IN PRACTICE MODE FIRST.

KNOWN ISSUES:

• The Controller is known not to work in the following areas:
  
  • Out of Game
    
  • Drop Phase (selecting drop location)
    
  • When interacting with Shop UI / Death boxes
    
  • Interacting with other HUD elements (when fully eliminated)

Originalmente postado por Theorycraft:

While some players are grinding ranked all day every day, for many other players Hunter’s Journey, Mastery, and the Battle Pass are the core of their progression experience. Daily and Weekly missions are one of the biggest sources of EXP and while we’ve had a missions tab, it was hard to notice and most players never really realized that they were there. We’ve created a new missions hub that highlights new missions available to you and should make it easier for you to identify things to do to level up faster.

• A new missions hub button has been added to the lobby
  
• When you have new missions it will light up with a notification
  
• When missions are complete, go back to the hub after your game to claim your rewards

• Void has received updated tooltips (thank you OmnipresentOatmeal!)
  
• Fixed an issue where Crystals that spawn in the second phase of Biome Soul Bosses would fall over and die on their own
  
• Mana Cloud: Updated activation VFX
  
• Hudson: If you hit an enemy with your ultimate, you are no longer yaw locked to face them
  
• Interact: Increased the interact buffer time from 0.2 >>> 0.5 second to make it easier to interact with things like sniper ward
  
• The Two-Way Tunnels and Beebo Hunter missions now progress if you get an assist while fulfilling the mission conditions, not just a knock (thank you for the suggestion Keldric Usugi!)