Hey, Fighters! 🛠️ UPDATE 0.7.7 IS LIVE!🛠️
We hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and New Year!
Plenty of changes and improvements have been made, so let's not delay any further and breakdown what to expect in this new update! 👀
🔹NEW WEAPONS AND UTILITY
- Shardinator (Grenade Launcher) - Creates damaging fragments upon explosion. Long reload and fire rate times but very powerful.
- Shox 33 (Grenade Launcher) - Shocks enemies on impact with it’s high voltage payload.
- Franta (Sniper Rifle) - Splits into penetrative shrapnel which can also deal bonus head shot damage.
- Hex-6 (Grenade) - Standard explosive grenade which packs a large amount of damage.
- Venom (Grenade) - Emits a toxic cloud damaging your opponent once in contact.
- Hive (Grenade) - Releases swarming shrapnel homing onto the enemy.
- Kewler (Grenade) - Slows down and freezes your opponents.
🔹WEAPON RAREITIES UPDATES
We are updating the rarity system to reflect upcoming changes and additions to the arsenal. The first step you can see with this update is that Base now includes not just default guns for each weapon family, but default versions of all guns in the game. Therefore within the Common rarity you will get slightly skinned versions, and greater skins moving up the rarity ranks.
🔹PROGRESSION SYSTEM UPDATES
- To gain new weapons, you need account progression with Valor.
- Hero masteries will not contain rewards BUT, this is only temporary.
Just to clarify, anything that you've unlocked previously will not be removed. Check your account progression to see if you have some new items to claim!
🔹CHOWDOWN MAP UPDATES
- Visual Team-colors focused redesign for the whole map to improve readability.
- Spawn rooms updated for an easier and more dynamic match start.
- Navigation signs are now placed on all major intersections to direct towards the next area with new names for the main sections of the map.
- One-Way Doors from the Basement changes the tactics and implies more cooperation from players to perform successful deliveries.
- Bridge-Area Redesign - now with a hanging physics bridge!
- Water will now extinguish fire or burning players.
- Questionable invisible colliders which would allow players to stand in impossible places removed.
- Clipping textures fixed.
- The flag room Wind tunnel was replaced with Escalator Wall for more accessible entrance and exit.
🔹AUDIO UPDATES
- New distance settings to better reflect positions of sounds on the map and provide a clearer audio picture of the surroundings.
- Numerous rerecorded and new sounds for weapons, pick-ups, effects, and more.
- Heroes have voices now! Hear them speak when you select who to start the battle with in the Loadout.
- Updated volume settings.
🔹CUSTOM LOBBY IMPROVEMENTS
- Chat on the left side scales properly for various aspect ratios and screen resolutions.
- Top bar shows your profile widget and allows access to Settings.
- Hover states fixed for lobby settings.
- Scrolling through drop-down lists now works properly.
- Special characters cannot be used in lobby name.
- Time limit value can’t be set to negative.
- Minor visual improvements.
🔹OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
- Chests will not automatically open. You can now unlock them at your own free will!
- New beast mode icon.
- New melee animations for Sonny, Laika, Nigel and Paavo.
🐞 BUG FIXES
- When the game is loading after the battle, you won’t see any tool tips appearing from behind.
- Ability icon animation doesn’t disappear after respawn.
- Numerous tweaks to the Custom lobby screens layout, it looks and feels smoother now.
- Number of over sized weapons have decreased.
- Fixed incorrect hand positions for Arx and Sonny.
- When you switch sets and change heroes including locked ones in the Loadout, there should be no errors anymore.
- No error appears after finishing a duel anymore.
- Eliminated Laikas equipped with Svarog SR won’t drop Artemis from now on.
- When you are eliminated with grenade selected, there is no aiming line on the respawn screen anymore.
- Wrong voice lines for CTF mode on flag being dropped fixed (FIXED FROM COMMUNITY FEEDBACK).
Again we would like to thank everyone for their feedback and contribution towards the PTS Update 0.7.6! The PTS has now been disabled and you can continue your journey on the Squad Blast Playtest Server.
Hotfixes
January 13, 2023 - 0.7.71
🔹QOL IMPROVEMENTS:
- You will now be able to see all 10 players on the map loading screen when it is a 5v5 match
- Minor visual updates for Muertigo map
- Weapon card in the Player's Tooltip on post-battle screen is now fully sized
⚖️ BALANCE CHANGES:
Logi SMG:
- Damage reduced from 30 to 25
- Range reduced from 34 to 30 meters
- Spread has been increased slightly
- Projectile speed reduced from 33 to 30
Tyrant AR:
- Damage Reduced from 8 to 6 per projectile
- Range Reduced from 23 to 15 meters
- Damage falloff starts at 10 meters, goes from 100% to 75% at max range
Hive Grenade:
- Reduced secondary projectile homing distance from 15 to 12 meters
- Reduced secondary projectile homing turn speed from 235°/sec to 180°/sec
- The secondary projectiles are now slower giving the players a better chance to avoid them
All Grenades:
- Grenade throwing speed is increased significantly and now takes 0.05 seconds instead of 0.3
🐞 BUGFIXES:
- Water on ChowDown will extinguish fire
- Fixed the unclaimable Camara reward in the main menu
- FPS drops when throwing grenades and while deploying turrets have been fixed
- Arx is now unlocked by default for all heroes, and will be available for those who didn’t unlock it with the old account progression lineup
‼️ KNOWN ISSUES:
- We are aware of grenade throws appearing to be out of sync, the team is working to fix it