We are expecting to release a required update for clients and servers later today. This will bring the build to version number 1038. The WIP changelog is as follows:
Balance Changes
- Greatly reduced the instances of Zed teleportation. Essentially players should never notice zeds teleport now unless a zed is completely stuck and cannot move, which should be extremely rare.
- Siren can no longer teleport. Added the Siren to the list of large and more powerful zeds that can not teleport.
- Crawlers - It was hard to notice when crawlers were attacking you so we adjusted the stationary attack animations. We've also redone their getup animations.
- You can now jump over and onto crawlers, knocking them down. Refined evade animations for Crawler, Slasher and Stalker
- Zeds now utilize evade animations when trying to avoid grenades
Sharpshooter
- Decreased EBR Rifle stun power to 8 (was 40)
- Decreased Railgun stun power reduced to 50 (was 100)
- Increased Railgun Lock on time for Bloat/Scrake/Fleshpound is now 1.1sec (was 0.35)
- Freeze Grenade radius has been increased to 900 (was 600)
Knockback refinements
- Crawlers
- Stationary attacks no longer push players
- lunge attack now only slightly pushes players
- Stationary attack has the crawler jump up higher so it's easier to see you’re being attacked
- Alpha Clot
- Stationary attacks no longer push players
- Lunge attack now only slightly pushes players
- Slasher Clot
- Stationary attacks no longer push players
- Lunge attack now only slightly pushes players
- Cyst Clot
- Attacks no longer push players
- Stalkers
- Stationary attacks no longer push players
- Lunge attack now only slightly pushes players
Stun duration refinements - After fixing an issue with how stun durations was calculated the following stun durations should now be applied. This should make it harder to stun-lock large Zeds.
- Cyst
- Stun length 3.0sec
- Slasher
- Stun length 3.0sec
- Alpha
- Stun length 3.0sec
- Crawler
- Stun length 2.5sec
- Stalker
- Stun length 3.0sec
- Gorefast
- Stun length 2.5sec
- Bloat
- Stun length 1.5sec
- Siren
- Stun length 1.5sec
- Husk
- Stun length 1.5sec
- Scrake
- Stun length 1.2sec
- FP
- Stun length 1.2sec
- Patriarch
- Stun length 1.0sec
- Hans
- Stun length 1.0sec
Difficulty
Hard - The Win rates are still lower in hard then we'd like so we're adjusting the damage mod for some of the zeds for Hard difficulty.
- Stalker
- damage mod 0.75 (was 1)
- Crawler
- damage mod 0.75 (was 1)
- Bloat
- damage mod 0.75 (was 1)
- Gorefast
- damage mod 0.75 (was 1)
- Siren
- damage mod 0.75 (was 1)
- Scrake
- damage mod 0.7 (was 1)
- Fleshpound
- damage mod 0.65 (was 1)
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue with the RPG and M79 not causing damage or knocking back Zeds at point-blank range
- Fixed an issue with the Combat Ready skill so that it now applies to the 9mm pistol
- Fixed a bug where stun duration wasn’t calculated properly
- Fixed an issue where a player could jump through the fence in Farmhouse map
- Fixed Rack 'em Up counter not decreasing with Crossbow misfire.
- Draw distance optimization for some maps
- Fixed a bug with light bulbs remaining lit after being shot
- Marksman skill no longer increases shotgun firing speed.
- Members of Zed team should no longer see human portraits on HUD
- Removed huge background volume on Hostile Grounds
- Top weapon Knife icon to display the correct knife
- Changed “Field Medic” localization for Romance languages.
- Fixed Collision Issues with Green Poles on Burning Paris during Versus
- Fixed Rotating Lights being fixed in place on Burning Paris
- Fixed issue in Versus with Husk fireball leaving flames on the floor that knock players back
- Fixed an issue with the Zed Napalm skill not properly lighting other Zeds on fire
- Sharpshooter passive, recoil, now works properly
- Fixed spectator's spawning under the world in Biotics Lab, Evac Point, and Prison
- Fixed Medic Enforcer Perk not giving new max ammo
- Fixed several achievement issues
- Fixed Hans not playing his correct VO for nerve gas barrages and grenade barrages. Now players will be able to tell the type of attack by the VO, and he sounds much more manic/desperate in later phases.