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Play with the Sniper Rifle and friend some people

We have been working on a new update which introduces a brand new friends system and a new badass weapon: the Sniper Rifle.

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Social system improvements

- Friends System (Beta version): Introducing the new friends system. You can now add a player to your friends list to know their online status and have the ability to whisper to them.
- Global Chat: introducing the new global chat system. It is in the main menu.

Gameplay modifications and new mechanisms

- Most of weapons are now freemium items.

- Armor system: introducing the new armor system. Armor decreases damage received from bullets, melee attacks and mines only.
- Extra life system: introducing the new extra life system. Melee weapons benefit from extra life when geared.
- Shortsword & Shield damage increased to 245, range increased to 80 (previously 75). Armor of 25 pts added (damage reduction). Extra life of 150 pts added.
- New weapons: Sniper Rifle and Water Pistol.
- Throw Axe cooldown decreased to 4.5s.
- Peaceful mode is temporarily disabled.
- Healing Staff heal increased to 300. Parry chance increased. Healing Staff is now free.
- Whip damage increased to 225.
- Shuriken damage increased to 85.
- Magic wand damage increased to 120.
- Changed max HP limit to 725.
- Fixed an issue where players were able to shoot from behind the visible scene of the game in TDM.
- Bullets precision has been increased (server tickrate decreased).
- The original FFA map is back. It will be the only map for this game mode.

Have fun on BattleStick ːsteamhappyː