The latest Closed Beta update adds our first-pass implementation of wall-jumping for you to test out. We’d love to have your feedback on this feature, so be sure to share your thoughts after you’ve had a try.
There’s a whole bunch of other improvements as well, with lobbies, audio, maps, and our Mercs all getting some love. Here’s the full list:
New Feature: Wall-Jumping
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[li]Press jump whilst in the air against a wall to jump off the wall [/li][/ul]
General
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[li]Fixed a crash on match start [/li][li]First pass Objective Proficiency implementation: Escort repair objectives and C4 defusal objectives can be interacted with by multiple players but only one player, the one with the highest contribution, will contribute to progress and display firing animation upon it. More on this soon! [/li][li]Fixed an issue where the revive gun would deal additional damage after missing a shot [/li][li]Fixed issues where smoke effect would persist if player crosses two smokes that overlap [/li][li]Fixed an issue where a player couldn’t reclaim their mine after a respawn [/li][li]Improved valid/invalid location feedback on artillery pointer [/li][li]Updated badge art for missing badges and reduced size to 128x128 [/li][li]Weapon skins improvements [/li][/ul]
Levels
OBJ_WHITECHAPEL
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[li]Fixed several collision issues [/li][/ul]
OBJ_BATTERSEAPLANT
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[li]Fixed ammo spawns [/li][li]Updated battersea with removable mg shield secondary [/li][li]Updated first objective to be more biased for attackers going through the box tunnel bridge [/li][li]Fixed the a-frame bars so the get in the way less when traversing over them [/li][/ul]
OBJ_GREENWICH
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[li]Added two more Primary Objectives[/li][LIST]
[li]Carryable objective to plant thermite at a wall to open up the C4 Objective room [/li][li]C4 objective [/li][/ul]
[li]Added blockout VO [/li][li]Added intros for attackers and defenders [/li][li]Fixed some collision issues [/li][/LIST]
OBJ_TRAINYARD
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[li]Texture tone pass [/li][/ul]
Mercs
GENERAL
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[li]Increased body hitbox sizes by ~10% [/li][li]Increased all 75hp characters to 80hp (Aura, Proxy, Aimee, Sparks) [/li][li]Reduced all 150hp characters to 140hp (Fragger, Thunder) [/li][li]Maximum incap health is now 100hp, 80hp for the Skinny characters [/li][li]Increased Air-Control to 8 (From 6) [/li][li]Increased Mounted Gun Damage to 20 (From 18) [/li][li]Damage falloff system now causes damage to correctly falloff [/li][li]More forgiving reload fractions [/li][/ul]
Arty
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[li]Artillery: Increased to 80 damage per shell (from 75) [/li][li]Assault Rifle spread growth rate lowered [/li][/ul]
Aura
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[li]Increased Shotgun effective range [/li][/ul]
Bushwhacker
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[li]Increased Turret damage to 5 (from 4) [/li][li]Increased lock-on time to 0.4s (from 0.35s) [/li][li]Submachine Gun spread growth rate lowered [/li][/ul]
Fragger
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[li]Reduced Frag Grenades inner damage radius [/li][/ul]
Fletcher
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[li]Reduced Shotgun effective range [/li][li]Sticky Bomb: Increased to 80 damage (from 75) [/li][li]Sticky Bomb: Reduced inner damage radius [/li][/ul]
Nader
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[li]Moved the Grenade Launcher to an Ability slot and give it a cooldown[/li][LIST]
[li]Set grenadenade launcher cooldown to 6.5 sec [/li][li]Grenade Launcher: Increased to 80 damage (from 75) [/li][li]Grenade Launcher: Reduced inner damage radius [/li][/ul]
[li]Martyrdom: Reduced inner damage radius [/li][li]Now has an SMG as primary and a pistol as secondary [/li][/LIST]
Phantom
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[li]Katana: Increased lunge to 80 damage (from 75) [/li][/ul]
Phoenix
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[li]Submachine Gun spread growth rate lowered [/li][/ul]
Proxy
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[li]Increased Shotgun effective range [/li][li]Proximity Mine: Reduced inner damage radius [/li][/ul]
Redeye
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[li]Tweaked Smoke Grenade durations (reduced by ~3s total) [/li][li]Reduced Smoke Grenade cooldown to 20s [/li][li]Tweaked IR Goggle cooldown [/li][/ul]
Rhino
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[li]Minigun spread growth rate lowered [/li][/ul]
Skyhammer
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[li]Assault Rifle spread growth rate lowered [/li][/ul]
Sparks
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[li]Reduced Sparks revive gun tap-fire damage while it doesn’t have an overheat [/li][/ul]
Stoker
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[li]Reduced Molotov inner damage radius [/li][/ul]
Thunder
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[li]Machine Gun spread growth rate lowered [/li][/ul]
Vassili
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[li]Reduced Sniper Rifle damage to 70 (from 75) [/li][li]Reduced Sniper Rifle fire interval to 1.4s (from 1.5s) [/li][li]Increased Sniper Rifle ammo count to 7 (from 6) [/li][/ul]
User Interface
Lobby
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[li]When waiting for players in the lobby, you can now see “WAITING FOR PLAYER (1/3)” to let you know how many people need to join to meet minimum player requirement for play [/li][li]Lobby deployment time changed from 5 to 10 seconds [/li][li]During the lobby 10 second deployment time, squad selection for all players is locked [/li][li]Lobby ready button is now hidden for hot joiners once clicked [/li][li]Names in the lobby team widget are now white [/li][li]Text next to timer now reads “Starting match in…” [/li][li]“Waiting for player…” changed to “Select squad…” [/li][li]Added audio to lobby [/li][li]General visual tweaks and improvements [/li][/ul]
Miscellaneous
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[li]Badges are now in colour [/li][li]Scoreboard no longer intercepts input[/li][LIST]
[li]Players can still be muted through limbo scoreboard [/li][/ul]
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Audio
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[li]Smoke Grenade[/li][LIST]
[li]Added new pin sound and related events [/li][li]Pin away and pressure loop are now hooked up to item, not anim [/li][/ul]
[li]Cricket Bat[/li][ul]
[li]Updated audio [/li][li]Added events for surfaces dependent hits and pawns for the three perspectives [/li][li]Fixed various issues with looping audio [/li][/ul]
[li]Ammo Station[/li][ul]
[li]Added new ammo pickup sound [/li][li]Updated explosion sound [/li][li]Equip sound is now playing only for the local player [/li][/ul]
[li]Lobby[/li][ul]
[li]Added 10 secs countdown timer audio [/li][/ul]
[li]Removed “Need Medic” Autosay when incapacitated [/li][li]Added sound support for grenade pin/start throw [/li][li]Fixed reclaim sounds not playing as the items are being destroyed, play on the local player instead [/li][li]Added new audio for Skyhammer’s Rifle [/li][li]Added new end game review sounds [/li][li]Added first pass sweeteners for Defibrillators[/li][ul]
[li]Revive [/li][li]Enemy hit [/li][li]Low and Full charge [/li][/ul]
[li]Tuned the Active Camo audio [/li][/LIST]
Animation
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[li]Updated concussion and smoke grenade physics [/li][li]Added anim for concussion grenade [/li][li]Minor updates of a few of the run and walks [/li][/ul]
