About this Patch
- We're pretty happy to present the new Heavy Metal Machines Arena! The Temple of Sacrifice waits for you in the game. The goal behind this patch is to showcase to you a new idea for an arena, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think of it! Do keep sending your feedback, mainly about the new arena and the random selection of map when entering the queue. Our art team brought along it some visual improvements to the game, and it's also valid to note that we didn't push any Balance changes yet because we wanted to see how the Championship played out. Now that it is over, we can go over the data and make the necessary changes. So expect a few adjustments in the next patches and do comment on what you think is needed too!
New Arena: Temple of Sacrifice
- The new Arena - Temple of Sacrifice - will be available for all players. The Metal God Arena will now be unlocked when reaching level 2 in your account.
- It will be possible for anyone to select and play any Arena in the Custom Match.
- Mud: While driving through the Mud, machines are much harder to control and drive.
- Shredder: All machines are instantly destroyed in all situations when stepping into the Shredder.
- Daily missions are now unlocked on Level 3.
Kill Feed
- Now players can know who destroyed who during the game, this will be shown in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Machines icons are now positioned in the upper center of the screen.
Pick Screen Tips
- We've added a system that will help players make a balanced team in the pick screens. It'll suggest at least 1 transporter, 1 support and 1 interceptor for the team.
- When the roles are filled, the warning should go away.
Improvements on other Screens:
- Changes:
- Main menu background.
- Visual improvements on the Screens.
- 2 new buttons have been added to invite people to groups.
- When hovering over the time on the queue a tooltip is shown.
- When hovering over the game mode, the region and ping are shown.
- PvP mode has been renamed to Casual.
- PvE mode has been renamed to Cooperative.
- Removed
- Player name.
- Upper and Lower bars.
- Position changes:
- News button - now it's on the upper right corner of the screen.
- Heavy Metal Machines logo - now on the upper part of the screen.
- Additions
- Buttons on the lower right corner of the Screen:
- Support
- VK
- Titles on all screens.
- Buttons on the lower right corner of the Screen:
Known bug:
- We are aware of a bug that may affect reconnecting to matches. If you play in a region that isn't your best ping match, you will be unable to reconnect to that match. Until we fix it, we recommend you to play in the region that matches your ping the closest. The current ETA for a fix is Monday the 7th.