With this patch we are adding our newest weapon, Heavy Machine Gun (HMG), and doing a change to our Team Deathmatch mode, turning into a (FFA) Deathmatch to allow small and uneven amount of players enjoy the game without having to “sit” and wait for others. Aside from that we revisited some existing maps to reduce their gameplay frustrations and did a few other small adjustments.
Gameplay
- Disabled dodges resetting your vertical velocity and using a lower gravity in favor of keeping your existing vertical velocity and using regular gravity, allowing you to jump and dodge instantly for tricks without having to wait for the peak
Game Modes
Team Deathmatch:
- Disabled until further notice
Deathmatch:
- Added with limit of 6 players and only a time limit of 15 minutes until we decide on a score limit as well
Animations
- Slightly improved left and right walljump animations
- Switched to a new forward jump style, adding a side flip to start
Weapons
Heavy Machine Gun (Item: Wildfire)
- Added the weapon with placeholder VFX and SFX
- LMB has a fire rate of 12 bullets per second with each dealing 8 damage with a similar drop off to Swordgun
- RMB goes into awakened state as long as you keep holding it, initially doing an explosion attack around you for 12 damage while transforming and then starts to shoot
- RMB’s awakened shooting has a fire rate of 16 bullets per second with double the spread on X axis with each dealing 6 damage and pushing enemies back (does not stack)
Bat (Item: Cyclone)
- Added trail effect for normal and spin attacks, in addition to a new VFX for the spin attack
Swordgun (Item: Scorpio)
- Changed the bullet pattern from a random position of 90 degrees slice of a circle to the full circle all around the crosshair
Rifle Cannon (Item: Helios)
- Fixed explosions not critting behind a cover (done between patches as a quick server fix, now applying to clients as well)
Broadsword (Item: Durendal / Founders Sword)
- Changed strong cut to keep the vertical speed on jump pads
Maps
Outer Space:
- Removed majority of balcony on top of the goal posts, only leaving a small extension
- Switched goal post to a version without side walls to prevent blocking the entrance without jumping
- Adjusted lighting to be brighter
Ironworks:
- Removed majority of the tiny ledges which caused inconsistent results on jumps
- Made some ramps slide better without getting stuck on corners (Experimental)
Service Point:
- Removed the railings from central area, making it easier to climb out of bottom with walljumps
Client
- Added more weapons to HUB
- Changed character shader to exaggerate received lighting
- Changed walljump effect (WIP)
- Changed some weapon textures to match their designs better, mostly on colors
- Changed weapon shaders to match player ones
Note: Dissolve timings has changed as a side effect of this change, we will retime them along with player dissolve at a later date.
Server
- Implemented fallback for custom hitbox rollbacks in case there isn’t enough accumulated data yet (done between patches to fix forever ghost players)