Greetings, Mercs and Those Who Lurk in Shadows,
We're excited to roll out something new—our experimental Solo Queue mode!
🛠️ PATCH NOTES & WHAT’S IN STORE 🛠️
General Changes
- 📌 New Experimental Solo Queue Mode: You can now choose between Solo or Squad when queuing up for a map.
- 📌 Solo mode is a 9v1 challenge on the same maps.
- 📌 Squad mode stays the same, but solo players queuing up in squads will now earn a 30% currency bonus when extracting.
- 📌 Fill in mode from squad play is temporarily removed.
We’d love to hear your feedback on this new feature to help us fine-tune the balance and make it the best it can be.
Weekend Event
- 📌 During this weekend, enjoy a +30% XP boost on both alien and merc accounts.
Merc Changes
- Replaced Nail gun with a Fox Five pistol in the starting kit.
- New players will now get extraction tools for the Research Facility map on their first 5 matches.
- Improved the movement for mercs - we’ve identified and were able to fix character twitches that could happen when going in/out of sprint or suddenly stopping.
- Added report cheat button on merc’s death screen (prior to final screen).
- Melee weapons won’t instakill players without knocking them first.
- Improved visibility of player’s level on their dog tags.
- Fixed an issue with the Backup Power Device contract - it should now spawn properly.
Alien Changes
- Egg Traps can now be placed near mercs, but take 3 seconds to “activate” before it can be triggered.
- If one of the aliens leaves the game or is disconnected, the other aliens respawn timer is reduced by 50%.
- Fixed most of the cases where aliens were getting light damage through walls.
- Increased radius at which aliens can charge from wires.
- Corrected visual and actual light damage zones to be the same size, so aliens can better see when they’ll start getting damage from merc’s light sources.
- Added a feedback sound when the alien's energy is drained while under the effect of light in invisibility.
Other Changes
- Fixed several previously bugged Steam achievements.
- Added unique sounds for solo elevator doors on Caves of Turion.
- Added unique sounds to warehouse internal room doors on Research Facility.
- Increased volume of warehouse door siren on Caves of Turion.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that allowed aliens to place eggs on the ceiling in certain areas, including the ice corridor in the Research Facility.
- Fixed an issue with flash drive disappearing from the map when it’s carrier has been killed.
- Fixed an issue with aliens getting the burning sound stuck when turning invisible.
- Fixed an issue with aliens getting visual effects of burn stuck on character after stopping getting the light damage.
- Fixed an issue where aliens could spawn with active invisibility skill.
- Fixed an issue preventing mutants in warehouses to spit with acid.
- Minor tooltip fixes for medkit stations.
Please restart and update your game.
Thanks for sticking with us and for all your support. Have a great weekend!
Much love,
Lexarion & Doghowl Games