Hello, Metal Gladiators
Maintenance is scheduled for November 26, from 11:00 to 15:00 (UTC-0), to apply a machine balance update for Dirt Devil and Artificer.
Dirt Devil
- Weapon 2
- Weapon damage has been reduced from 200 to 160 per second.
Artificer
- Weapon 1
- Projectile speed has been increased by 33%.
- Projectile size has been increased by 13.5%.
- Weapon damage has been reduced from 100 to 75.
- The global cooldown has been reduced from 0,4s to 0,25s.
- Weapon 2
- Special Weapon energy gain has been reduced by 10%.
- Weapon 3
- The initial boost power has been reduced, and the total boost time has been increased from 0,2s to 0,5s.
- Cooldown has been reduced from 6 to 5 seconds.
- Passive
- The passive repair now also affects Artificer.
- Artificer’s passive self repair won’t count for the repair statistics.
- Movement
- The Machine handling has been improved for greater mobility and accuracy.
Developer’s Note
After internal discussion, and considering several feedbacks from the community over time, we started a new balance process for the game. This new process was created, aiming to make it more frequent and more efficiently.
For the first balance in this process, we decided to focus on changes for Artificer. The original idea was to bring her back to the game meta (most effective tactics available), which is something that the community has been talking about for a while.
We focused on improving her survivability in the Arenas, giving opportunities for her to flee from enemies with greater mobility, as well as changing the way her passive ability works, providing more repair sustain during the whole match. Besides, we also improved the Weapon 1, giving it a more rewarding experience.
We believe this was an excellent first step, and we're already planning new changes focused on the other Supports and bringing them back to the competitive scenario.
Last but not least, we also made a change on Dirt Devil's Weapon 2, because it was way too powerful on competitive matches.
To share your feedback, please post in our Discord or the General Discussion forum.
Heavy Metal Machines Team