Bloodrun has released new build, adding Slash as a new playable gladiator. The update brings her Plasma Trail and Crouch Slide abilities to the game, alongside visual updates for four arenas, new HUD ability indicators and additional gladiator settings.

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New gladiator: Slash

Slash joins Bloodrun as a light-class gladiator inspired by her Quake Champions counterpart, combining high movement speed with Crouch Slide and an offensive Plasma Trail ability.
  • Slash has a base speed of 320 and a speed cap of 700. She starts with 125 HP / 25 Armor, or 125 / 0 in Duel, with base health and armor values of 100 / 75 and overstack limits of 175 / 150.
  • Her active ability, Plasma Trail, leaves a damaging line of plasma behind her. Slash has three seconds to create the trail and another three seconds to detonate it with a second ability press.
  • The trail deals 10 damage every 200 ms to players close to it.
  • Explosion points are placed every 80 units along the trail and detonate sequentially from the oldest point to the newest.
  • Each explosion has a radius of 120 and deals between 25 damage at the center and 10 at the edge.
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Crouch Slide is Slash's passive ability. Holding crouch while landing starts a slide with greatly reduced friction, allowing her to preserve and build movement speed. Slide charge is accumulated while falling without crouch held, up to six seconds, while landing normally, jumping, using a jumppad or spending 200 ms airborne during a slide resets the charge.

Bots can also play Slash, using Crouch Slide as well as laying and detonating Plasma Trails. Visual options have been added for the ability, including \cg_plasmatrailGreyscale, \cg_plasmatrailLight, \cg_plasmatrailColor and \cg_enemyPlasmatrailColor. Server administrators also get \g_plasmatrailBoost and additional \g_slash* settings.

Gladiator movement:
  • Disabling Backflips under SETUP -> GLADIATORS -> COMMON now removes flips from every gladiator that uses them.
  • With Backflips disabled, Slash no longer flips during her movement animations, while Anarki and Daemia jump without rotation.
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Arena updates:
Four maps received stylistic updates:
  • Toxic Waste
  • Pentagram
  • Aero A
  • Venom
HUD and UI:
A new cooldown arc around the crosshair can display gladiator-specific information. For Angel it shows the countdown before passive invisibility activates, while for Slash it displays Crouch Slide charge.
  • \cg_drawCooldownArc 0 disables the arc.
  • \cg_drawCooldownArc 1 uses the position defined by the HUD layout.
  • Values 2–5 place it at the top, right, bottom or left of the crosshair.
  • \cg_drawCooldown 0 disables the ability ring under the gladiator portrait.
  • A new SETUP -> GLADIATORS section has been added for ability effect settings.

Links: Bloodrun Launcher RU | Bloodrun Launcher EU, Full changelog

Players who already have the launcher installed do not need to download it again – they can install the new Bloodrun build directly through the launcher.