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Highlights
- New Ability
- Soul Gust
- “Send out a charging blast of magical energy that passes through walls and forces enemies back”
- The Mage is getting a new ability to replace her Ice Block ability
- Soul Gust will damage enemies and apply a significant knockback
- This ability can even travel through walls, rocks, trees, and bone! This is our first ability that won’t be stopped by pesky walls
- Talent: Soul Gust will now apply a 3.5 second reveal on the hit enemy
- Bass Drop Bundle
- A new bundle is available in the Shop containing 5 cosmetic items
- Technomancer Mage
- Beat Boks Chicken
- Neon Booster Mount
- Bass Drop Skydive
- Boosted Spray
- Communication Wheel
- Pressing the VGS button will now allow you to select more ways to communicate with friends and enemies while fighting your way to a Crown Royale
- The three options are Chatter, Emote, and Tactical wheels respectively
- Chatter - Filled with exclamations and general non-essential communication. Examples: Awesome!, Curses!, and Woohoo!
- Emote - Filled with your selected Emotes and Sprays as well as the ability to Joke and Taunt
- In the Armory you will be able to equip 3 Emotes and 3 Sprays to use while in a match
- Tactical - Filled with more objective-centered commands. Examples: Ready to Forge!, Under Fire!, and Fog is Coming!
- By default the C, V, and B Keys are bound to the new Communication Wheels
- Gamepad players will be able to open the Emote Communication Wheel by pressing Left on the D-Pad, and make a selection by using the right thumb stick
- Please note: All keybinds will be reset to default when this update goes live
- Ping System
- Added the ability to ping a point of interest, displaying a UI indicator to the player and their team for a short duration (10s)
- By default, this is bound to middle mouse button for PC players
- Gamepad players will access the ping system through the new Communication Wheel
Gameplay
- Weapons
- Stone Staff
- Time between shots has been increased slightly
- Base damage has been increased slightly
- Accuracy has been slightly reduced
- Longbow
- Increased gravity drop off when bow is fully drawn
- Environment
- Jade Gardens Environmental Updates
- Reduced some of the elevation in Jade Gardens to allow multiple paths to move around the point of interest
- Added more objects and terrain to add more coverability in the region
- Fixed the slope of several inclines to allow players to traverse up hills
Quality of Life Improvements
- The HUD now displays when a player enters a new region
- A number of improvements have been made to hit registration on all platforms
- Added the ability for players to scroll through Armory items using the mouse wheel
- Improved Blink responsiveness and accuracy even further
- Spectation
- Fixed issue where Runes weren't being shown properly when spectating
- Players can now chat while spectating
- Keybinds will now be hidden while spectating
- Damage numbers will now consistently show up while spectating
- Minimap will now update properly while spectating
Bug Fixes
- Fixed several audio mix issues
- Fixed an area in Jade Gardens where players could get stuck
- Fixed an issue where Legendary Ice Block would heal more than intended
- Fixed an issue where the Loot Goblin wouldn’t drop loot when killed
- Fixed an issue where several ceilings in Gun Town had improper collision
- Fixed an issue where the button to open the map on console wouldn’t toggle the map when pressed again
- Fixed an issue where characters would occasionally T-pose when picking up a new weapon
- Fixed an issue where crouching while vaulting through windows could put your character collision into a bad state
- Addressed some issues with being able to see shadows through walls
- Additional fixes will arrive with update 20
