Greetings Champions,

We’ll be deploying an update on 25.01.2018 that includes: Phase 1 of our new hit detection system, many quality of life items and Champion balance changes. We estimate the update process will take place from 8AM EST - 3PM EST (1PM GMT to 8PM GMT).

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 in Reliquaries only

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

Duration 8 to 10

Health Bonus 1 to 3

Movement

Max Speed 560 to 600

Air Control Acceleration Reduced

Enabled Crouch Ledge Grabbing

Removed Forward Acceleration

Removed Bunny Hop Acceleration

B.J. Blazkowicz

Max Armor 75 to 100

Dual Wield

Increased Weapon Rate of Fire

Cooldown 48 to 45

Duration 5 to 7

Clutch

Mining Drill

Damage 5 to 7

Drill Radius 0.12 to 0.1

DOOM Slayer

Berserk

Targeting Range 1.4 to 1.5

Galena

Unholy Totem

Cooldown 30 to 25

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

Bunny Hop Added

Ranger

Dire Orb

Explosion radius 3 to 3.5m

Damage 100, with falloff

Scalebearer

Bull Rush

Increased damage from Bull Rush & Heavy Weight

25 dmg > 300 ups (Bull Rush Only)

50 dmg > 400 ups

100 dmg > 500 ups

150 dmg > 600 ups

Slash

Movement

Air Accelerate 1.1 to 1

Forward Acceleration 0.7 to 0.5

Sorlag

Acid Spit

Acid Spit Damage 25 to 30

Spit Knockback 0 to 5

Acid Pool Damage over Time 7 to 10

Visor

Piercing Sight

Cooldown 43 to 40

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