Patch Notes: Beta v 1.18.0

24 Sep 2015Developer post

1v1 Elo Reset

Added 1v1 Ranked queues for Europe and SE Asia.
1v1 Standings are now tracked separately for US, EU and SEA ladders.
2v2 and FFA remain on USA Server only at this time to prevent splitting queues too much
Capacity of EU Server doubled.
Players can now change what region they are playing in from the User Settings tab of the User Account screen. This will also change your default server selection for custom lobbies you host.

Asuri the Night Stalker has been added to the roster!
Weapons: Sword & Katar
Strength: 4
Dexterity: 7
Armor: 5
Move Speed: 6
Playstyle: Aggressive rushdown, agile movement and footsies, cat snatching enemies out of the sky and clawing hapless opponents to death.

New Sword Skin: Gilded Lily. "Owned by the richest of bloodlines. Contact Lucien for fast purchase."

Increased team rating gains for 2v2 for newer teams with higher personal elo. It fades outs as the team rating starts to catch up. (Remember, Team Rating does not get used for matchmaking, your individual elo determines it)
Added "Purchases" tab to the store where players can browse their purchase history and refund items. You get three refunds on us! Choose wisely...
You can now chat while in practice mode (when you're waiting for matchmaking to find you a game)
Account summary page now displays your top three ranked 2v2 teams.
"The" is no longer barred from being an abbreviation. ex: Players named "Thetch” will now be abbreviated to THE instead of TCH.
Fixed Xbox 360 controller support for OSX 10.11.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/291550/announcements/detail/91552727267527892

Added 4 frames of input buffering.
All Gadgets now take 15 seconds before they disappear. (Previous Timings ranged from 15 to 25 seconds)

Improved server performance.
Increased frequency of attempted input sending to help deal with packet loss and/or wireless connection latency. (Please let us know if you notice an improvement)

Touched up collisions on the bottom right of Blackguard Keep to better match expectations.

The Facepalm taunt no longer shows up as a victory pose, but it will show up as your defeat pose if you have it equipped.
Added charge up flashes for spear specials that had no FX.

Matchmaking queue has been reskinned and now correctly pins itself to the top-left corner of the screen.
Chat now indicates whether it is game chat or lobby chat.
Slightly improved performance in the store.
Improved performance for user account screens.
Text describing item types in the store now uses the same blue color used by text in the user account screen.
Game chat is now a different color from lobby chat.

General improvements to camera smoothness.
Camera now follows networked players and bots as closely as it follows local players.
Camera no longer pops when an item falls back down after a player has thrown it above the camera line.

Match history for 1v1 and 2v2 is working again.
Users can now reconnect to a game they have left during match countdown or during match preview screen.
Fixed spelling of Earthshaker "Seismic" Sledge. (hat tip huTch)
Fixed a bug where you could ignore yourself.
Fixed a bug where cursors would appear for a remote player (but not do anything) in 2v2 ranked.
Fixed a bug where a player couldn’t perform attacks with the keyboard in the 2v2 ranked queue after interacting with the chat while your partner enters the queue.
Fixed a bug where one player quitting the game while waiting for a match didn't cause the other player(s) to be backed out of matchmaking.