GENERAL
• Animation improvements for the G5 Earl pistol and the SAG-8 Reaper sniper rifle.
• Lots of audio improvements.
• Performance improvements.
STORE
• A new Premium Founder's Pack featuring:
• • Shellguard battle suit for all operatives.
• • Kite's Avenger blindfold, Simulation interface, and Cyborg helmet.
• • Malva's Extravagant eyeguard and Extravagant haircut.
• • Mongoose's Sensei beard and Kevlar helmet.
• • Ram's Shellguard visor and Skull helmet.
• • Brisa's Indigenous haircut and Simulation interface.
• • Orbit's Digital monocle, Half-Helmet, and Simulation interface.
• • Pill's Beanie hat and Robo-mask.
• • Strix's Tacticool haircut and Stratospheric helmet.
• • Weapon skins: TAC Magma, Pacifier Semiconductor, Drachen Stone Cold, Earl Ember, and Impala Infernal.
• • Weapon trinkets: Сartridge, Magma ball, Gasoline canister, Stone cold, and Lantern.
• Owners of the non-premium Founder's Pack can buy a premium one with a discount (the discounted price is 3,500 coins, taking into account the initial founder's pack price of 2,500).
BALANCE CHANGES
Weapon tweaks
• Shotguns:
• • In a lot of feedback about shotguns, players were concerned that shotguns were useless at mid-range. We agree: no damage at all at mid-range was strange, so now shotguns do deal small damage at mid-range.
• • Side Note: Overall, the shotgun is the most controversial weapon for the community in any FPS game, Shatterline being no exception. Thus another major part of the feedback was about shotguns being overpowered. We did our best to find any corroboration to that in our data, but alas, we found no proof of that theory. In any case, we are closely monitoring the situation with shotguns and will react accordingly if we find any imbalance proof in our data, including the impact of today's change in damage at mid-range.
• R21 Brute shotgun: fixed issues with incorrect damage.
• R60 Gevaudan shotgun:
• • stability was decreased by approximately 10%.
• • slightly decreased rate of fire.
• Bolt-action sniper rifles:
• • One shot kill to the head, neck, chest, shoulders, and upper arms.
• • No one shot kill to the belly, legs, and lower arms.
• Presarm VX-7 sniper rifle:
• • greatly decreased stability.
• • decreased precision damage at long range.
• • slightly decreased effective precision damage distance.
• Dragonfly sniper rifle:
• • increased precision damage at effective range.
• • decreased precision damage at long range.
• Impala sniper rifle: decreased precision damage at long range.
• TWD X-Treme sniper rifle:
• • slightly decreased aiming speed.
• • slightly decreased stability.
• SAG-8 Reaper sniper rifle: slightly decreased aiming speed.
• Zenith automatic rifle:
• • reworked recoil pattern
• • stability was decreased by around 10%
• • precision damage was decreased for very long distances
• • decreased precision damage effective distance.
• Cinetech M5 submachine gun:
• • reworked recoil pattern
• • stability was decreased by around 10%.
• Drachen submachine gun: slightly decreased overall effective damage distance.
• Lupara Compatta pistol: decreased effective damage distance.
• TAC Spiderweb shotgun legendary modification: has 6 shotshells in a clip now.
• VX-7 Santa Muerte sniper rifle legendary modification: damage effect was decreased from +100% to +50% and duration was decreased to 5 sec.
• Drachen Racer submachine gun: now the buff applies only after a precision kill, not any kill as before.
• Attachments:
• • RAINBOW-G grip for the Impala sniper rifle: stability buff was decreased to 15%.
• • GVLK Scope for the Impala sniper rifle: stability buff was decreased to 10%.
• • Tantalus Red laser scope for the TWD X-Treme sniper rifle: the buff was changed to increased precision damage by 15%.
• • GB-45 Striker grip for the TWD X-Treme sniper rifle: fixed issues with incorrect moving speed values.
• • PM PAW scope for the TWD X-Treme sniper rifle: 35% stability decrease debuff was added.
Megaheads PvP Event
• The minimum head size was decreased while the maximum head size was increased.
• The head size doesn't reset at respawn.
• The head size is depicted on HUD.
Other
• New movable vehicles on the Old Town PvP map.
• Malva won't receive a score for self-healing anymore.
• To prevent slide abuse, we added slide speed recovery time. During this time after the slide, you can still perform another one, but the starting speed will be much lower.
• Credit session rewards were increased.
• Ram's ultimate cooldown was increased by a third.
TASKS
• New daily tasks for Conquest and Escort.
• Task tweaks:
• • The "Outnumbered" task became easier. Instead of 5 kills with a primary weapon and 5 kills with a sidearm without dying in PvP, you now need to perform 4 and 2 kills without dying in PvP respectively.
• • The "Stealth Mode" task condition was changed. Instead of killing an enemy with a precision shot while crouching in PvP, you now need to kill an enemy with a sidearm while crouching in PvP.
EXPEDITION
• New encounter: Power Stones.
• New perks
• • Empowered Primary (Greatly increases damage after two kills. Resets on reload.)
• • Empowered Sidearm (Greatly increases damage after a kill. Resets on reload)
• • Freezing Touch (Gives a chance to freeze an enemy upon hit).
• • Slide Bomber (Enemies explode when killed during or shortly after a slide).
• The number of concurrent Strafer shields was reduced from 3 to 2.
UI
• The Operative Selection screen received a facelift and now looks in line with other menu screens.
• The new color scheme for attachment descriptions: improved parameter descriptions are now colored green while worsened are colored red.
• •The improved parameter descriptions for epic weapon modifications are colored yellow while legendary modifications are in magenta.
• Game tasks:
• • Game tasks were moved to the Season tab.
• • The game taskbar is now featured on the session's Play screen.
• Improved session result screen (don't forget you can skip some parts of it).
• In the previous release there was a bug: all weapon modifications were shown in the Armory, not only those that were available for crafting this season. This was fixed: you will see only those modifications that are available in the crafting machine. If a weapon has no modifications in the crafting machine at the moment, the modification button will be disabled altogether.
IN-GAME SUPPORT TICKETS AND PLAYER REPORTING
• Now you can create a support ticket without exiting the game. Just click on the Support button, fill in the details, and send it to our Support Team. Nice and easy.
• We added an option to report other players for suspected cheating, exploit use, or offensive behavior. You can report a player both from the game session or from the game lobby.
CONTROLLERS
• Aim Assist strength was considerably reduced.
OTHER
• The game will ask your permission to collect telemetry data at the first launch of the updated game. Kindly consent since telemetry is essential for our development and balancing efforts.
• Fixed EAC kick for Linux anti-cheat module.
• Hundreds of bug fixes.