Economy
Fixed AP not showing when you have your hero selected
A small share of the comeback portion of hero kill bounty is now given to each other player outside of just the kill/assist players. This also makes the amount the killer gets be more consistent, previously the amount could vary significantly based on how many people were involved. The killer and assist players still get the bigger shares.
Heroes HP growth per boon increased by +5 there are 11 instances of these. This is not done for Abrams or Dynamo.
NPC
Added sandbox option for spawning neutrals
Fixed TAB/ALT not bringing up your abilities when spectating the Patron
Added Patron VO for when allied or enemy base guardians are destroyed
Post lane medic troopers will heal other troopers if a hero within range is full hp
Post lane medic troopers' hero heal increased 40 → 80
Mechanic
Increased the range the enemy-candle-behind-wall indicator shows up from 25m to 35m
Added indicator for burrow damage radius for the local player
Added a new "major damage" sound effect to indicate large instances of damage to the local player
Fixed Diviner's Kevlar gaining the Bullet Shield buff if the ultimate was manually cancelled
Reload anims now play correctly in relation to the reload timer. Previously they would end prematurely if reloads were paused during dash/melee/abilities
Fixed Mo & Krill gaining Reactive Barrier buff while channeling the ultimate
You can air-dash downward by pressing CTRL+SHIFT while in the air
Successful parry reduces the cooldown from 1s to 0.5s unsuccessful parry cd is still 6s
Base zipline speed increased by 5%
Healing/Spawn area in the base now has its defense damage go up over time
The Patrons no longer care about the well being of the Urn Runner, and so they will stop asking you to protect them patrons will no longer call out the urn being picked up
Urn reward now has a comeback component where it gives extra gold for the team that is behind based on the magnitude
If the Soul Urn is dropped it goes back to its original spot a little bit faster
Carrying the Soul Urn no longer causes you to get slowed briefly by 50% when you get shot
Carrying the Soul Urn now always slows you by 15%
Carrying the Soul Urn now also silences your items
The silence effect for Soul Urn now applies as you start channeling to pick it up 0.5s after touching it, to prevent accidental walk overs
Voice/Text chat is now opt-in. There is a prompt pre-match for joining the chat, or you can control it at any time from the ESC menu during a match.
You can now press ESC to mute individual players. Muted accounts will not be alerted, and mutes will persist across games.
Parties can now set their in-game chat mode to be Party-only, All Team or Chat Disabled if using discord or other programs
Spirit stat has now been renamed to Spirit Power with updated icon
Top bar now highlights your lane partner and lane enemies during the laning phase
Increased difficulty for hard mode bots
Improved the camera when using Dynamo's Quantum Entanglement
Added overhead number counter effect for opponents to see the stacks of Berserker
Fixed ping wheel randomly coming up instantly instead of doing an in-world ping
Added ping indicator on the HUD indicating the direction the ping came from enabled by default in settings
Ping Wheel context slot will now show nothing if there is no context currently
Added new UI indicating how many friends you have that are in the game
Improved visibility of the edge of Dynamo's Singularity
Fixed various issues with bots getting stuck
Fixed Build descriptions not showing up properly with the in-game tooltip version
Moved HUD elements closer to center for ultra wide monitors
Added heal and kill events to the contextual ping wheel slot
Fixed Affliction sometimes becoming lethal when combined with Escalating Exposure
Fixed Yamato's Crimson Slash visual direction being wrong sometimes
Adjusted the builds drop down in-game to be more clear it can be changed there
Fixed Dynamo's Singularity moving the Mid Boss
Fixed various bugs with Shifting Shroud
Fixed Lash's Ground Strike T3 not being accurate in the tooltip
Updated effects for Unstoppable
Minor improvements to visibility of Pocket's Affliction cast
Updated effects to Alchemical Fire to make it less noisy
Fixed some bugs with Pocket/channeling
A few buildings are 2-3 stories taller
Added new effects for Knockdown
Added new effects for Vampiric Burst
Added instructional text to the bottom of the ping wheel container reminding that they can customize it in settings
Changed Ivy's True Form ability name to Stone Form
Fixed bugs that were keeping some heroes desperation ability use lines from playing correctly casting an ability when you're below 10% should play different VO
Fixed several instances of ability use VO getting swallowed up by SFX
Boosted volume of ult cast VO
Added various ambient sounds - walla, birds, drones - and overall mix tweaks
Iterated on binding word sound effects
Added Curse item selection start, loop, and end sounds
Added two new underground tunnels, one on each side of the map. The tunnels connect the underground shop to the Bodega area on Amber and the Theater area on Sapphire.
Added two new teleporters, one on each outer lane behind the Chapel and behind the Firehouse
Kill assist window increased from 7s to 10s
Rejuvenator is no longer area pick up and now requires someone to heavy melee it to pick it up after it's dropped to the ground
Rejuvenator will no longer stop dropping if it touches player created geometry like Ice Dome and always goes down to the target position
Base side doors near the healing area now open a lot faster
Items
Mystic Burst
No longer grants +3 Spirit Power
No longer grants +1 Sprint
Now grants +40 Spirit Shield
Now grants +6% Weapon Power
Headshot Booster
Bonus headshot damage reduced 50 → 45
Healing from heroes increased 25 → 30
Extra Health
Health increased 125 → 135
Divine Barrier
No longer grants +2 Sprint
Bullet Resist reduced 10% → 7%
Cooldown increased 20 → 30
Active Move Speed reduced 3 → 2
Shield increased 275 → 300
Bullet Resist Shredder
Debuff duration increased from 4s to 5s
Healbane
Bonus HP increased 50 → 75
Healing Booster
No longer grants +50 HP
Now grants +8% Spirit Resist
Swift Striker
Armor penalty reduced -7% → -6%
Fleetfoot
Cooldown increased from 20s to 22s
Reactive Barrier
Cooldown reduced from 25s to 20s
Cold Front
Time to expand reduced from 1.5s to 0.75s
Majestic Leap
Cooldown increased from 15s to 20s
Drop down speed reduced 51 → 36
Burst Fire
Cooldown reduced from 10s to 9s
Rescue Beam
No longer grants movement speed
Active has been reworked. Now channels for 3 seconds, healing you and the target for up to 25% of Max HP. If you click the ally again during that time, you will pull them to you. Has 40m cast range and 45s cooldown. Can be self cast.
Tesla Bullets
Internal cooldown reduced from 0.4s to 0.35s
Mystic Slow
Bonus HP increased +75 → +100
Renamed to Ethereal Shift
Warp Stone
Fixed some cases where it would fail to cast near objects
Escalating Resilience
Stacks share a duration now and each new stack refreshes it
Duration reduced from 15s to 10s
Max resistance reduced 36% → 30%
Alchemical Fire
Cooldown reduced from 34s to 30s
Crippling Headshot
Bullet and Spirit resistance reduction reduced 35% → 30%
Boundless Spirit
Spirit Power increased +50 → +55
Now grants +175 Health
Ammo increased +25% → +30%
Vampiric Burst
Lifesteal increased 70% → 80%
Refresher
Now has a 0.3s cast time
Abrams
Base health regen reduced 2 → 1
Infernal Resilience T1 reduced from +2 HP Regen to +1.5
Bebop
Sticky Bomb base damage reduced 130 → 120
Hook grab radius reduced from 40 inches to 36
Hyper Beam movement and dash slow increased 30% → 40%
Hyper Beam DPS increased 210 → 220
Hyper Beam tracking speed increased by 10%
Dynamo
Singularity radius reduced from 10m to 9m
Grey Talon
Guided Owl cooldown reduced from 130s to 120s
Haze
Sleep Dagger damage Spirit growth increased 2.5 → 2.8
Sleep Dagger T3 is now -12% Bullet Resistance for 6 seconds
Smoke Bomb T1 increased from +4 m/s Invis Sprint Speed to +5
Smoke Bomb causes your footsteps to be silent
Ivy
Watcher's Covenant replicated healing reduced 55% → 45%
Watcher's Covenant no longer provides +2 m/s in the base ability
Watcher's Covenant T2 movement bonus increased from +2 m/s to +3
Kelvin
Frozen Shelter movement speed slow increased 25% → 35%
Can now dismiss Frozen Shelter while channeling other abilities Arctic Beam
Lash
Ground Strike base damage reduced 110 → 90
Ground Strike damage per meter increased 6 → 6.75
Ground Strike now reduced scaling after 25m height to 4.5
McGinnis
Mini Turret charge delay reduced from 10s to 8s
Fixed Echo Shard to be compatible with Spectral Wall again Activating echo shard resets the ability so you can cast it again and not have to cancel your first one. After casting the 2nd, using cancel will remove the first wall first
Can now dismiss Spectral Wall while channeling other abilities Heavy Barrage
Mo & Krill
HP Growth per boon reduced 48 → 42
Combo now grants 25 max hp each time a target dies during it
Seven
Storm Cloud initial radius increased from 10m to 12m
Storm Cloud T2 bonus radius reduced from 12m to 10m
Yamato
Power Slash T3 bonus damage reduced +210 → +200
Shadow Transformation cooldown increased 100 → 110