Developer Notes
Hello Crafters!
We’ve been listening to all of your thoughtful feedback, tuning into your live streams, and crunching the numbers, and we’re about to push out a balance and bugfix patch.
During these tests the development team is greeted every morning with the play metrics from the previous day. Tests like this are how we figure out what is broken, what is fun, and what could be fun (or more fun) if we made some tweaks.
Big changes this patch include a Europa tweak that should rein her in early in the match, while still letting her scale into a menace as Spell Power items come online. We’ve also poked and pulled at Bleed strats that were becoming a bit too dominant. And while we know Cage is counterable – especially at higher ranks – his Slam Dunk was a little overtuned.
Those balance changes and more, plus bug fixes, art and UX improvements, all going live right now. The game client will prompt you to restart and patch before your next match.
We'll continue to listen to feedback and look at data throughout the entire test to maximize learnings and ensure the game continues to be fun and doesn’t get stale. Thank you for playing so many games! Let us know what you think in the #game-feedback forum. We’ll see you in ranked queue!
Patch Notes
Bug Fixes
● “Invite to Game” on the main menu will now work after playing a Custom game.
● Fixed a bug where Giant Slice was dealing 250 less damage than expected to center space
Known Issues
● Sometimes Spell Scrolls aren’t visible in your Spellbar but are still castable with hotkeys.
Gameplay
● If your “Swab the deck” target tile is occupied, it will now prefer falling back to farther unoccupied spaces instead of closer.
● Bleed replaced with Poison. Poison increases physical damage and healing received by 5% per stack
--● Needle starting charge count 3 -] 1. Damage increased 1 -] 50. Upgraded damage 50 -] 100
--● Razertips Volley renamed to Corrosive Volley
--● Eviscerate damage decreased 200 (+200% AD) -] 150 (+150% AD) to compensate for how much harder this will now hit with Poison stacks.
● Our goals with Europa tweaks is to reduce her early damage a bit while still letting her scale into a menace as Spell Power items come online
--● Missile damage decreased 700 (+300% SP) -] 400 (+350% SP)
--● Missile Upgrade base damage decreased 1500 -] 1200
--● Grenade damage decreased 400 → 300
--● Grenade Upgrade damage decreased 600 → 450
--● Orbital Strike tweaks
----● Center damage decreased 1500 -] 1200
----● Upgraded damage decreased 2000 -] 1750
----● Orbital Strike ring damage decreased 750 (+100% SP) -] 600 + (150% SP)
----● Upgraded ring base damage decreased 1000 -] 875
● Ion Strike damage decreased 1500 -] 750
● Slam Dunk KO thresholds decreased 30/50% -] 25/35% respectively
● Restricted Zone AOE damage amp decreased 30% -] 20%. Fixed wording to ensure clarity that this is a global buff
● Shatter damage increased 500 -] 1000
● Frost Blink can be used to cancel out of Blizzard
Art
● Warding Dome visuals have been updated
● Improving readability of Meteor and Meteor Trail telegraph VFX
Audio
● Updated “Choose an item” voice line
● Fixed some 3d positional audio issues
UX & UI
● Ranked banner added to scoreboard
● The board will no longer be colored red when immediately trying to cast a spell that has just been cast
Please let us know what you think of the changes!