December 3rd, 2016 Patch Notes Version 9159s

03 Dec 2016Developer post

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General

Squarebot and Circlebot are no longer ultra hated by the NPCs and will happily do their routines until heartless players mercilessly attack them.
Squarebot and Circlebot now explode upon heartless players destroying them.
Significant updates to game performance through updated in AI code and how the game handles it (most noticeable on game modes with lots of bots/npcs).
HUD has been fixed and you can now see the enemy target again on the top left of the screen next to your own player pog.
HUD has been fixed to show damage text again.
HUD radar no longer shows Squarebot and Circlebot (you’ll have to heartlessly hunt them down)
Significant updates to heroes with guns as weapons. They should now immediately hit what they are shooting at (under the dot).
Lancers no longer slide around the map (the ice-dancing world will never recover from this loss)
Brillis A2 animation added back in. You may now press 2 twice to be able to quickly tuck and roll at enemies (does significant damage).
Nyd A3 has had root removed so you no longer have to stop before running fast.
Banana leaves on all maps should now correctly show shadows and the proper lightness.
Sound attentuation for all guns can now be heard much further across each map.
Attackable/exploding objects (barrels, ammo crates, etc) will now cause a louder explosion and camera shake.
Alphineous A4 fix to not cause players to be forcibly respawned even when not dead.
A great many audio fixes for abilities that would play sounds even when audio set to off.
Improvements to loading screens when traveling between the lobby and the game map.
Tab menu (in-game) now shows the players names on top that has the highest kills (all modes)
In-game pickups (health, speed, damage, invincibility) have new models (so long potassium giving banana’s). Minor bug is currently causing the wrong models to spawn for the bonus given.
General crash fixes and bug fixes for various issues in code.

Lava Flow

Major lighting overhaul to change the ambiance and mood of the map to be darker and more brooding.

Lighting updates including more stationary lights for the casting of shadows.

Side doors to both reactor rooms removed and replaced with windows (unbreakable) to allow players to better funnel NPCs and create choke points.

Prop changes and updates to better help players quickly understand which side of the map they are on.

A cinematic added to let players know when the Experiments are free.

Unreine Krieger boss fight added. Good luck.

New Detroit

Beginning the overhaul of the lighting to better show depth, darkness, shadows, and brightness.
Updates to cull distance for foliage to improve performance across map.
Updates to side spawn points and the path flooring to get to the middle.
Fix for the Core not spawning (it was trying to spawn under the ground).
Minor prop updates to stop bots from getting stuck.

Skull Chasm

Minor updates to navigation to stop bots from getting stuck.

Tutorial Level

Updates to Tutorial level to allow all matinees and triggered event fire.
Known bug causing the materials which show the “keyboard control tip” to appear as grey boxes.
Updates to end of tutorial to properly show the correct dances for the various heroes.
Added more dancing heroes.

Overpass (not available in game yet)

Prepping the new Death & Glory map Overpass for trial runs.
6 player Co-Op

Mire’s Den (not available in game yet)

Prepping Mire’s Den map for trial runs.
3v3v3 PvPvE