Hi everyone! BadFox Eddie here, with a patch fully loaded with features, updates, and a new trooper!
Here’s a quick breakdown of what to expect in this upcoming patch:
- Minimap - See the whole map, including your allies and any enemies in their field of vision
- Clarity Part 3 - The final step of our clarity patch, updating sounds for all guns, abilities, and ambience, along with a final coat of visual polish
- Glorgan joins the Squad - Glorgan brings a new type of front-line support to the battlefield
We have been and will continue to, collect feedback regarding clarity, so make sure to join in on the Q&A after Friday’s playtest in our Discord Server or anything else you want to talk to the devs about!
Minimap
Today we’re rolling out a new feature for players – the minimap. With this we hope that you guys will be able to see what’s going on around the map more clearly and strategies with your team more through the chat feature we put in last patch.
Some key features of the minimap:
- Allies will always be visible on the minimap
- When an ally takes damage they will pulse on the minimap
- Enemies will be visible when they come into any ally’s field of vision
- Control points will be visible on the map, with filling or emptying team specific colours
With the implementation of the minimap, we are removing the edge of the screen UI in order to consolidate player focus on one place when they want to look, instead of having to scan around the edge of the entire screen.
Sound Update
All sound has been overhauled in the game. There are additional and improved sounds for levels and Troopers and volumes have been rebalanced to give a better and more immersive playing experience.
Sounds have been attenuated to allow players to understand where and what is going on around them by audio queues alone.
Glorgan
Glorgan is the culmination of Alien tech – a huge, unstoppable piece of machinery armed with a Laser Cannon and rallying beacon. Built specially to defend Nebular from both enemies and overzealous fans, Glorgan’s defensive capabilities will keep your Squad safe from harm and enable them to run away or engage with extreme velocity.
Stats
Defensive
Health – 750
Shield – 750
Damage
Shots for super charge – 6
Damage per Attack – 60
Damage Variance – 8
Range – 27m
Projectile Speed – 10500
Accuracy – 3000
Attack Speed – 1.67/s
On Hit CDR – 0.6
Abilities
Overcharge: Glorgan overcharges their shield, gaining an additional 50% of its maximum value for 10 seconds. If the shield becomes depleted within the 10 seconds then it explodes, dealing 320 damage to enemies within 10m.
- % Shield Increase - 50%
- Shield Increase Duration - 10s
- Explosion Damage - 320
- Effect Area - 10m
- Cooldown - 13s
Super Stats:
- % Shield Increase - 60%
- Explosion Damage - 380
Rallying Call: Glorgan emits a wave from his beacon, rallying all friendly Troopers within 10m. Rallied Troopers receive a damage and movement speed buff of 15% for 15 seconds.
- Effect Diameter - 10m
- Buff Duration - 10s
- Speed % Increase - 15%
- % Damage Reduction - 15%
- Cooldown - 15s
Super Stats
- Speed % Increase - 20%
- % Damage Reduction - 30%
Animation updates:
- Tharlin: has been scaled down to be his appropriate size, however, hitbox is unchanged.
- Nebular: all in game and menu animations have been updated.
- Crow: all in game and menu animations have been updated.
Super Meter 2.0
All troopers can now charge their Super Meter while any of their abilities are on cooldown. Once the meter is full, the next ability will have added effects like more damage or more range!
But Beware! If you use an ability while your meter is partially full you’ll lose the meter you’ve built up, so watch your meter and make sure not to waste it!
Sarge
Shots to charge super meter: 20
Crow
Shots to charge super meter: 4
Skull Crusher
We felt like the battlefield needed more headbutts and SC agreed, so we dropped its cooldown.
Shots to charge super meter: 11
Charge (buff) - Cooldown decreased from 10 to 8
Nebular
Focus was fizzling on allies if the cursor wasn’t exactly on them, so now it’ll be available until you land it on an ally
Shots to charge super meter: 7
Focus (Quality of Life) - No longer goes on cooldown if you miss the ability
Scorch
Shots to charge super meter: 6
Florp
Like Focus, Transfusion was fizzling without helping anyone, now it won’t activate until you land it!
Shots to charge super meter: 10
Transfusion (Quality of Life) - No longer goes on cooldown if you miss the ability
Tharlin
Shots to charge super meter: 4
Fang
Shots to charge super meter: 5
Flintlock
We noticed Flintlock has been a one-person army, so we toned down their damage and healing capabilities
Shots to charge super meter: 4
Double O’s (Nerf) - Initial Damage decreased from 150 to 100
Mysterious Liquid (Nerf) - Heal decreased from 320 to 280
Bug Fixes
- Fixed character rotation on squad select, so now everyone is facing the right way.
- Fixed a bug where some death animations were not working
- Fixed a bug where Scorch wasn’t being interrupted correctly during Rain of Fire
- Flintlock now has a weapon sound
- Fixed a bug where Tharlin placed too many mines
- Fixed a bug where Crow could hook shot into broken areas of the map
- Fixed Knockback shot not firing straight after hookshot
- Fixed a bug where Spam ability stopping you from using abilities until switch
Known Issues:
- Sometimes a pink message appears for a split second on the screen (In place of capture flag message)
- Sometimes bullets come out in a burst
- Sometimes abilities are locked off from use (Switch characters to get around the issue for now)
- Escape key doesn’t always work on menus (Switching tabs will fix this temporarly)
- Sometimes Troopers will not animate when they die, staying standing.
- Occasionally Tharlin will deploy multiple sets of mines
- Lightning Keeps retriggering when other characters select characters on unit select
- Troopers can occasionally lose their model, meaning that only their overhead UI can be seen.