New Shiny Things:
- Players who bought the Founders' Pack will now be properly identified with borders to their avatars.
- Players who bought the Golden and Silver editions of the Founders' Pack will now receive the bonus XP listed on them.
- The Soundtrack has not yet been released in this update, but will be by the end of the month.
- A new button has been added to the main menu "Leaderboard", more details will come soon.
- A new news window has been added to main menu, to open it, all you gotta do is click the bell on the center of the bottom section of the window.
- A player that opens Heavy Metal Machines again after disconnecting from a match will automatically reconnect to it.
- Several bugs have been fixed and improvements have been made towards reducing the number of problems faced by less stable connections, this is however still a work in progress.
New Mechanic: Weekly Challenge
- Players will now be able to complete challenges on a weekly basis to gain rewards. We will announce a new challenge every week from now on.
- This starts today! This week we will be rewarding players who get the most medals at the end of a match. We will be giving 1500 Fame to the player who gets the most medals in each region [Europe, SA and NA] and 750 Fame to everyone who gets at least 10 golden medals or 15 silver medals. You have until 23h59 UTC of next Thursday [23/03/17] to do this.
- Only PvP Games will count towards completing the challenge.
Balance
Dirt Devil
- Weapon 1 - Land Mines:
- Damage has been reduced from 50 to 40.
- The duration of dazed has been increased from 0.35 to 0.5 seconds.
- The mines now recharge in 1.3 instead of 1.5 seconds.
- The mines now deal AOE damage in the same area as its visual size.
- Weapon 1, Upgrades:
- All-Father: The mines now deal AOE damage in the same area as its visual size.
- Concussion Mines: Dazed increased from 0.525 to 0.75 seconds.
- Incremental Explosive: The maximum damage bonus has been reduced from 75 to 60, however now you only need to hit 3 mines instead of 5.
- King of the Dunes: Increased the cool down recharge bonus from 0.2 to 0.4 seconds.
- Weapon 2: The Harpoon and Chain duration has been increased from 3 to 5 seconds.
- Special Weapon: Now follows Dirt Devil automatically without the need to press the hotkey again.
Photon
- Weapon 1 - Stellar Track:
- Damage per second has been reduced from 100 to 75.
- The duration of Stellar Track has been increased from 0.8 to 1 second.
- The duration of the energy trail has been increased from 0.5 to 0.6 seconds.
- It now gives fast 20% [There was a bug that caused it to give slightly more].
- Intangible removed.
- Reduced the Special recharge gain in 5%.
- Weapon 1, Upgrade - Irradiation: Now increases the duration of Stellar Track to 1.33 instead of 1.06 seconds.
- Weapon 2 - Cosmic Concord:
- Duration has been reduced from 5 to 3 seconds.
- Allies that leave the repair area will still be repaired for 3 seconds after doing so.
- Reduced the Special recharge gain in 5%.
- Weapon 2, Upgrade - Xanthium
- It now gives fast 10% [There was a bug that caused it to give slightly more].
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed a bug that could prevent a character from being picked in the pick screen.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the game from going past the initial splash screen.
- Fixed a bug that could make the game follow another machine during the match.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the XP gained not being added to the profile after a match.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent players from connecting to the match.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the voice chat to be activated if you pressed the hotkey while text chatting.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the button to exit the match after the stats screen to not work.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Photon to re spawn with her passive on after dying.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the Main Menu buttons from showing up.
- Fixed some bugs that could prevent players from Reconnecting to matches.
- Fixed some bugs in the interaction between Metal Herald's passive and other machines' abilities.
- 276 bugs have been fixed in Total.