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Patch Notes Early Access v2236

Commanders, this week's patch will deploy on Thursday, June 8.

Gameplay Notes

  • 3v3 Improvements
    • The Command Grid in Team 3v3 now displays your teammates’ health and respawn timers, similar to the Command Grid in the 1v1 game mode
      • Hovering over allied pilot icons in the Command Grid will display your teammates’ gear loadout and skill cooldowns

  • AFK Detection

    • AFK detection is active in any mode where there is more than 1 human player (1v1, 2v2, 3v3, Infestation)
    • If a player has not made any commands in 90 seconds they will receive a timed pop up asking them if they are still playing. If the pop up is not responded to, the player will be removed from the match, they will receive a quickmatch penalty, and they will be replaced in the match with an AI player

  • Quickmatch Penalty

    • Quickmatch penalties have been put in place to prevent negative behavior that impacts the enjoyment of other players
    • Players can receive a Quickmatch penalty for:
      • Resigning from Draft
      • Being kicked from a game due to AFK detection

    • Players who receive a Quickmatch penalty will be unable to re-enter the queue (search for games) until the penalty timer expires
    • The Quickmatch penalty timer is shown under the Quickmatch button as well as in the Quickmatch Menu
    • The Quickmatch penalty timers will increase if players continue to show degenerate behavior
  • Achievements

    • Achievements can no longer be earned in Custom Lobby Matches or Challenge Matches
    • Due to this change, ‘Easy Pickings’ and ‘Double Humiliation’ cannot be completed at this time. They will be revised in an upcoming patch

  • Core locations for the shared hive in Styx have been updated. The cores will now spawn in a symmetrical way that’s fair to both teams

Miscellaneous Notes

  • Vanity (WIP)
    • Alter-egos skins and effects are now on a per-gear basis, and can be equipped to any Pilot that can use that gear
      • Players that purchased Squad or Commander Bundles will receive alter-ego skins for each gear piece that comprised an Alter-ego
      • Equipping a full set of alter-ego gear on eligible pilots will automatically switch their 2D pilot art and special move effects to their alter-ego version (Currently Daredevil Recon, Steam-powered Pandora, and Sportsball Vise)
      • The Alter-ego menu button in the builder is no longer available

Comments: With alter-egos, we wanted to create “What If?” alternate versions of pilots—what if Vise never took up core hunting, but became famous as a professional Sportsball player? While players thought that was cool, you also told us that the locked-in loadouts for alter-egos made them really limiting.
We’ve now tied the alter-ego skins and effects to gear pieces, so you can equip the skins on other pilots as well. (Example: using “Daredevil”-themed Rocket Cluster on Vanguard.)

  • The detection stat is now shown on the Stats Bar of the Command Grid
    • Because of this change, the kills stat is no longer shown on the Stats bar of the Command Grid – but this stat can still be observed on the Match Results screen

  • The detection stat is now shown on the tilde menu’s stats section’
  • Initiating a search in the Quickmatch menu now plays SFX
  • The XP bar has been updated to include a darker border, this is to prevent issues like the XP bar being obscured by the lava on the Styx map
  • The Pilot Details page style has been updated and now includes Pilot detection stats
  • Completed Daily Quests will now show different text based on their category
  • Custom Lobby chat will no longer automatically open when a Custom Lobby is created

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where new players without the Squad or Commander bundles were not getting Sniper gear at certain level ups correctly
  • Fixed an issue where the Tier I Mastery Chest could be opened again after the Mastery Tour was completed (These rewards were not given twice)
  • Fixed an issue where toggling the ready up option during the final second of the custom lobby countdown sequence would result in an error
  • Fixed an issue where health bar names could overlap and result in player names showing up on other rigs health bars
  • Fixed an issue where the Battle Cry effect would appear twice on the Command Grid if two were used near allied rigs at the same time. This effect did not actually stack, this was just a status effect fix for the Command Grid
  • Fixed an issue where clicking the 3-Rig Mastery button on the Player Overview page resulted in the user being taken to the 1-Rig mastery page
  • Fixed an issue where Omnipresence played no SFX when a user teleported in from off-screen
  • Fixed an issue where the Custom Games main menu option was not properly localized in all non-English languages
  • Fixed an issue where the boss stun ability VFX was cut off in certain areas
  • Fixed an issue where the banners for Wallace-Grumlin and Song Industries crates displayed truncated names
  • Fixed an issue where Tutorial Introduction pop ups displayed past-tense text – this text now reads “Skills Covered”
  • Fixed an issue where the player portrait would not update in the party UI after it was changed
  • Fixed an issue where Momentum Shifter could hit more than one large target
    • If a smaller target is hit on the same frame as a large target, they will still get the knockback

  • Minor SFX fixes
  • Minor localization fixes
  • Fixed an issue where Bounties were being awarded when you would resign from a 3v3 match
  • Fixed an issue where Lapse Generator and Nanite Wall were not counting towards the Mastery quest “The More the Merrier”

Known Issues

  • AVG antivirus software may incorrectly flag the Dropzone client as malicious. We have reached out to them to whitelist the client. In the meantime, you should be able to manually allow your antivirus software to allow the Dropzone client to run
  • There are known issues with words bleeding outside of their bounding boxes for every language other than English. Fixes are on the way
  • Locking Observer slots in Custom Matches only works when both slots are empty
  • The Private Match setting only works when the game is already created, so someone can join in-between
  • Hive Link does not have a cast ring around hives to show where the ability can be cast
  • The ‘Easy Pickings’ achievement does not count Hives killed by a teammate towards the goal
  • Global Chat does not reflect your changed name until you have restarted the game
  • Party members that did not initiate a seek will see incorrect checkboxes sometimes (WIP)

What are your thoughts on the changes in this update? Let us know in the forums!