Patch 1.1.8 - Health Pick-ups and Ammo changes

Hey guys! Firstly, we’re sorry about the delays on this update. We changed several things internally that could potentially break the game, so we had to take some extra time to test things out. Even with our efforts, though, you guys will most likely find bugs that slip through. If that’s the case, you can report bugs either here on steam or in our community forums. With that said, let's get to the good part.

Main Improvements

• Health Packs
  • Health stations are gone. Instead, we now have health packs scattered around the stages. When you pass through a health pack (if you’re not full health) you’ll pick it up and heal yourself instantly. The amount healed depends on the kind of health pack (big or small). After being pick-up, there will be a 10 seconds cooldown until the next pack appears in that station.

• Infinite Reserve Ammo
  • You’ll still need to reload your gun constantly, but your reserve ammo will never end. That change was made for two reasons. The first is that we believe that most players didn’t need to worry about ammo anyway. There was plenty of reserve ammo and you recovered ammo when healing yourself in the health station. Only in very specific cases players would be without ammo. The second reason is that without healing stations, there’s no way to recover ammo anymore. We didn’t like the idea of ammo packs because we already have health packs. Having this extra kind of pack could cause clutter in small stages.

• Weapon secondary function reworked
  • Weapon secondary functions are now called weapon skills. Pressing the weapon skill button now changes the weapon, shoots and then changes back to the original weapon. In addition, weapon skills don’t spend any ammo. To compensate for that, weapon skills have a cooldown of 6 seconds. In the current version, there’s no UI to inform if the skill is on cooldown or not, but that will certainly be featured in the new UI.
  • The default button for weapon skills was changed to E (was V)

• Map Voting System Changed
  • Now players can choose between 4 random maps, with each map representing a different game mode.

• Some shotguns right button is now a melee attack shortcut
  • We feel that leaving the right mouse button with a “less than ideal” function is not the way to go. Aiming with shotguns added no extra precision, so it was mostly useless. A melee strike is more fitting to the close quarters, run and gun style of most shotguns. We intend to make more of this kind of changes in the future, reinforcing the playstyle and differences of each gun.
  • Shotguns included in the change: Anakonda, Thumper, Bonebreaker, Terminator, Mammoth and Rhino.
  • The other shotguns now receive a small precision boost while aiming.

• Shotguns rebalance
  • All Shotguns rate of fire and damage decreased. Range and recoil increased.
  • The idea here is to make each shotgun shot more effective, while also not making shotguns overpowered.

Berserker

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skill - Hide in Plain Sight
    • While selected, Berserker loses his damage resistance trait.

  • Skill - Reliable Firearms
    • Renamed to Shotgun Expert
      • Berserker gains +2 +4 meters to the range of all weapons and +25% 15% reload speed.

  
  
• Weapon Balance
  • Gremlin removed
  • Thumper added
  • Anakonda reload time decreased
  • Anakonda reload can’t be interrupted by shooting anymore

Vanguard

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skill - Scavenger
    • Ammo recovery removed because it isn’t necessary anymore. To compensate, the damage resistance was buffed to 12% 10%

  
  
• Weapon Balance
  • Piledriver and Jackhammer are now primary weapons
  • Coyote and Stalker are now secondary weapons
  • Stalker accuracy while aiming increased slightly
  • Gremlin added as a secondary weapon
    • Damage, clip size and rate of fire reduced
    • Gremlin is now automatic

  • Heavy Metal clip size reduced and damage reduced slightly
    
  • Bonebreaker is now automatic

Wraith

• Weapon Balance
  • Magistrate (220 to 200) damage reduced
  • Interdiction rate of fire decreased slightly
  • Judge damage increased (100 to 120)
  • Deadeye, Magistrate and Interdiction accuracy while hip-firing reduced
  • Judge and Warden accuracy while hip-firing increased
  • Agitator accuracy reduced slightly and recoil increased slightly
  • Twister recoil reduced slightly
  • Machete clip size reduced and damage reduced slightly

Shadow

• Weapon Balance
  • Switchblade clip size reduced and damage reduced slightly
  • Persuader clip size reduced and damage reduced slightly
  • All swords strike angle reduced slightly

Grenadier

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skill - Launcher Specialist
    • Grenadier gains +25% reload speed and +10% explosive range.

  • Skill - Pyromaniac
    Grenadier gains +15% explosive damage and +10% damage resistance.

  
  
• Weapon Balance
  • Decimator clip size and reload time reduced. Damage increased slightly.
  • One Shot and Terminator are now automatic
  • Viper recoil reduced

Tank

• Weapon Balance
  • All LMGs clip size reduced
  • Agent damage reduced
  • Rhino and Mammoth range increased, but damage decreased
  • Rhino is now automatic
  • Rhino reload time increased

Fixes

• Settings not saving bug fixed
• Several shortcuts added to the Soldiers Screen
  • You can now quickly select a class and loadout by pressing W, S, Up Arrow, Down Arrow, 1, 2 and 3. The numbers change the loadout, while the other shortcuts change the current class.
  • You can now quickly join the selected Server by pressing “Enter” in the Server Browser Menu.

• Mouse wheel now changes weapons
  
• Pressing the sprint button will immediately end crouch when using crouch on toggle
  
• Damage numbers from shotgun shots now add up into one number
  
• Tank’s Last Stand kill being stolen or denied by other players fixed
  
• Grenade throw animation time decreased
  
• Grenade explosion volume decay increased