New Hit Detection Integrated
- Phase 1: (NOW LIVE) Weapon hits are now detected client-side on our new capsule based hit skeletons, validated server-side. More details in our upcoming Dev Diary video
- Phase 2: (TBD) Move Champion Ability hit detection to the new capsule skeletons
Features
- Premium Weapon Shaders added
- Private Messaging added
- Voice chat voice activation added
- 3rd person spawn animations added
- Champion Difficulty Visual Indicators added
Champions
- Fixed issue for Keel’s ability which caused FPS drops
- Fixed issue when sometimes DOOM Slayer was missing punch animations
Champion Balance
- Anarki
- Starting Health 100 to 75
- Max Armor 75 to 50
- Injection - Cooldown 40 to 60
- Injection - Duration 8 to 10
- Injection - Health Bonus 1 to 3
- Movement - Max Speed 560 to 600
- Movement - Air Control Acceleration Reduced
- Movement - Enabled Crouch Ledge Grabbing
- Movement - Removed Forward Acceleration
- Movement - Removed Bunny Hop Acceleration
- B.J. Blazkowicz
- Max Armor 75 to 100
- Dual Wield - Increased Weapon Rate of Fire
- Dual Wield - Cooldown 48 to 45
- Dual Wield - Duration 5 to 7
- Clutch
- Mining Drill - Damage 5 to 7
- Mining Drill - Drill Radius 0.12 to 0.1
- Doom Slayer
- Berserk - Targeting Range 1.4 to 1.5
- Galena
- Unholy Totem - Cooldown 30 to 25
- Unholy Totem - Damage 75 to 100
- Movement - Base Speed 300 to 310
- Keel
- Grenade Swarm - Self-Knockback 1.0 to 1.5
- Nyx
- Movement - AirAcceleration 1.2 to 1
- Movement - Bunny Hop Added
- Ranger
- Dire Orb - Explosion radius 3 to 3.5m
- Dire Orb - Damage 100, with falloff
- Scalebearer
- Bull Rush - Increased damage from Bull Rush & Heavy Weight
- Bull Rush - 25 dmg > 300 ups (Bull Rush Only)
- Bull Rush - 50 dmg > 400 ups
- Bull Rush - 100 dmg > 500 ups
- Bull Rush - 150 dmg > 600 ups
- Slash
- Movement - Air Accelerate 1.1 to 1
- Movement - Forward Acceleration 0.7 to 0.5
- Sorlag
- Acid Spit - Acid Spit Damage 25 to 30
- Acid Spit - Spit Knockback 0 to 5
- Acid Spit - Acid Pool Damage over Time 7 to 10
- Visor
- Piercing Sight - Cooldown 43 to 40
- Piercing Sight - Duration 5 to 7
Maps
- Winter holiday décor removed
- Fixed issue on Blood Covenant where player could get stuck on jump pads using high speed movements
- Fixed more issues for falling out of the map after using Ranger's Dire Orb on multiple maps
- Improved issues with incorrect respawns on Blood Covenant in TDM
- Fixed issue when time zone was incorrect for sent messages
UI
- Fixed mouse sensitivity only being able to be adjusted by increments of 0.25
- Fixed misaligned PiPs for Clutch vanities
Tech
- Fixed an issue that caused some players to crash to desktop when launching the game
- Fixed issue where closing client using the exit button resulted in an error
- Fixed issue when Spectator experienced a jittery camera if the player they were spectating was running very high fps.
- Fixed issue when the ‘Play Now’ button could be locked when a player left a match
- Fixed Premium shaders that appeared low res in main menu
- Further traffic optimizations
- Fixed spike on victory podium screen
- Fixed issue where player could experience extra inputs moving champion with high FPS (phantom jumping)
Ranked
- Fixed issue when players who completed placement games had rating in all scoreboards
- Nameplates now have SR rating on them
- League icons are now synchronized with what’s shown on post-match sequence
- Fixed issue where player could receive negative rating for a win in Duel
- Leaving from ranked warm-up should now work correctly
Weapons
- Fixed issue when weapons with shader applied did not have quad vfx
- Fixed issue with broken sfx when player first spawns into training
Leaderboards
- Fixed issue in Leaderboards where the Game Type: Duel was not capitalized
- Fixed issue when Leaderboards button did not work if player was in the first page
- Fixed issue while changing league there was no correct change sequence
- Increased the amount of leaderboard pages supported
- Removed blank last page from leaderboards
Localization
- Fixed issue where Brazilian-Portuguese was not localized on Steam and displayed only in English
- Various Localization fixes made
Misc.
- Removed snowfall vfx in Main Menu
- Fixed issue when the one player who left the duel would see empty post-match podium
- Fixed issue when Play button may become grayed out and block consecutive matches for several minutes after completing a match
- Fixed issue on Steam: While being in the queue after linking an account, the user could still click the Create Account button
- Fixed issue where Confirmation pop-up icon went out of bounds
- Fixed issue for the number of Tokens collected was not displayed in-game or on the Training Completion screen
- Fixed issue for Blacklisted user receiving inconsistent messages when attempting to Follow, Invite, or Private Message
- Fixed issue where some weapon names under Weapon Statistics were inconsistent
- Fixed issue where incorrect champion was shown on the profile screen. Post-match statistics are now assigned to the correct champion
- Spectator in Free Camera can now use teleporters
Data Centers
- Added: INDIA, Mumbai
- Added: USA, Ohio; Removed: USA, Iowa
Source: Bethesda.net
