Greetings, Agents and Mannequins 🫡👽,
The first FREE update is coming to Mannequin on September 26th! If you've been enjoying Mannequin, help us grow the community further by leaving a review! This helps us out a lot 👽.
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WHAT'S COMING?
NEW MAP 🪨
The battle continues underground in Excavation! This map features narrow tunnels, two story base tents and spectacular vistas.
NEW GAME MODE 👑
The social lobby will feature a brand new game mode: King of the Crown. Steal the crown from other players and keep it on for as long as you can to earn the title of Manneking or Mannequeen.
FINGER GESTURES 🫵
Players can now use figure gestures to point, give thumbs up and more while playing and posing.
AGENT SHIELD ABILITY 🛡️
Agents have gained a new shield ability, an EMG: Electric Magnetic Guard. A temporary protection against sudden Mannequin attacks. It can be activated once every round, so use it wisely.
AUDIO
- The game audio will receive a polish pass in this patch. This will include:
- More varied ambience in all levels
- Improved audio occlusion to make it easier to tell where sounds are coming from
- New and improved sound effects across the game
- Improved audio feedback when using push to talk
- Mixing and adjustments of all audio; ambience, sound effects, music and VO
MISC ADDITIONS
- Full screen feedback vignettes to highlight important game events, like advantage and revival
- Polish and haptics across the game
- The push to talk button will be activated by double tapping the left thumbstick
UI IMPROVMENTS
- Adding an update board in the lobby to highlight new and upcoming game content
- Custom lobby screen will let all players in a session know what map is selected as well as the game mode they’ll play
- Custom lobby screen will receive a polish pass to highlight relevant information and make the experience easier to navigate
- The scoreboard and player interaction screens will receive some overall polish and attention!
- The match objective status will be shown on the scoreboard
- Updated loading screen visuals
- HUD elements will have a visual overhaul, both to be less disrupting as well as more informative
- Team notifications (capture power generator, team advantage, team win) will be displayed with the colours of the corresponding team
- Prestige will now be properly displayed
- Expanding the player manual will display new relevant information
- Push to talk will have a mute/unmute indicator, to let players know if they’re in voice comms or not
If you have any further questions, feel free to leave them below where we will be more than happy to answer them!