Hey all,
Below are the main highlights of today's update.
Roly Poly Fat Fat
This update brings a new Hero to Block N Load: Roly Poly Fat Fat!
The world’s cutest hamster. The world’s deadliest hamster ball. Roly Poly Fat Fat blasts onto the battlefield with her TankBall Cannons, Boosters, and Toxic Waste. Fully weaponised, she’s ready to roll.
If you want to know more about Roly Poly Fat Fat, her weapons, abilities, and Blocks click here.
Perks
We have just completed a review of all the perks in Block N Load and as a result our perks system has undergone a major re-balancing to make some pretty significant improvements.
The overall goal of the perks was to allow additional options in how Heroes are played through combining perks with Heroes and your personal play styles. We also wanted to make sure that as you progress through tier 1, 2 and 3 of each perk they were clearly improvements in your specialization. To this end we have decided to implement a flat negative for all tiers of a particular perk.
This means it is clearly better to continue down the line of the perk and invest in higher levels, in all instances of use. This has been done for all Offensive, Defensive and Hero Perks.
We have also normalized a lot of the numbers and done a balance pass on some of the perks to now take account of this new flat negative value.
Balancing Changes
A whole host of other balancing changes have been made including:
Cogwheel
- HP of Mortar Blocks has been reduced from 1000 HP to 500 HP. The damage Mortars do to themselves when firing has also been adjusted so they can still fire 10 times.
Yury the Yeti
- The ammo pool for the Snowball primary weapon has been increased from 1 to 3.
- The rate at which the SnowThrower regenerates ammunition when close to Snow, Ice, or an Ammo Crate has been increased.
Dream Genie
- The aura from Ifrit’s Grudge alternate attack no longer affects friendly targets. However, the final explosion when the orb hits anything will still damage friend and foe alike.
Doc Eliza
- The time between using the Chem Grenade’s alternate fire and it detonating has been decreased from 3 to 1.5 seconds.
O.P ‘Juan’ Shinobi
- When using his Katana alternate fire to teleport this now only produces smoke at the point he teleports to instead of creating a smoke bomb block model.
Improvements and Bug Fixes
A number of improvements have been made and bugs have also been squashed in this update. These include additional messaging as you progress through the Bronze, Silver, Gold and Pro Leagues; more information about completing challenges; and improvements to the way players with high latency are displayed moving about the arena.
For the full patch notes please follow the link here.