Beta 18: Guntown Showdown Update Notes

Highlights

• Guntown Point of Interest Updates
  • Rising from the sands, an imposing structure of crisscrossing wood presents new opportunities within the Realm
  • Expand the Next Frontier with a brand new multi-level Forge structure with branching bridges that connect the city, creating a maze of interesting encounters and exploration

• Night Stalker Bundle
  • The Nightstalker Bundle features three brand new vampiric cosmetic items for 1500 Crowns!
    • Nightstalker Hunter
    • Sanguine Warbeast Mount
    • Count Bokula Chicken

Gameplay

• Weapons
  • Sword
    • Damage reduced by 11%

  • Pistol
    • Damage increased by 10%

  • SMG
    • Damage increased by 10%

  • Burst Rifle
    • Damage increased by 10%

  • Assault Rifle
    • Damage increased by 10%

  • Longbow
    • Damage reduced by 6%

  • Throwing Axe
    • Damage reduced by 7%

  • LMG
    • Damage increased by 15%

  • The Gatekeeper
    • Damage increased by 15%

• Abilities
  • Deploy Turret
    • Damage reduced by 10%

  • Ice Block
    • Ice Block now heals the player for 150/300/450/600 health over its duration

  • Soar
    • Fly speed reduced by 10%

  • Dodge Roll
    • Cooldown reduced by 4 seconds at all rarities

• Runes
  • Chicken Revive Rune
    • Reduced Revive Time Reduction from 10s to 5s

Quality of Life Improvements

• Content Visibility Improvement
  • “Show off your superiority”
  • Titles and Avatars have become more visible for all players
  • Titles and Avatars can be seen while viewing the map screen for all party members

• Fog Awareness Improvements
  • The Fog timer bar is now red and will flash when the timer is getting closer to running out for increased visibility
  • An icon representing the nearest point of the next fog circle has been added to the Compass at the top of the screen
  • A distance indicator has been added to the minimap showing the distance to the nearest point of the next fog circle

• Additional HUD Improvements
  • Compass Visuals Updated
    • Improved visibility on directionality and cardinal directions that a player is facing
    • Teammates’ waypoints will now stick to the edge of the compass when outside FOV

  • Directional arrows for allies outside FOV
• End of Match Screen Improvements
  • Better visual breakdown of XP gained

• Audio Mix Pass
  • Audio mix adjustments have been made in the following areas:
    • Weapons
    • Environment
    • Dialogue (VOX + VGS)
    • Music
    • Skydives
    • User Interface
    • Mounts
    • Chickens
    • Emotes
    • Abilities

  • Additional adjustments will be made in future updates

Bug Fixes

• Gameplay
  • Fixed an issue where there were inconsistencies with actions that would break Stealth
  • Fixed an issue where shields would prevent "overkill" damage from affecting Health
  • Fixed an issue where players would have invisible lockout timers for enemy Runes
  • Fixed and issue where players using The Gatekeeper would experience slower movement speed while not firing
  • Fixed an issue where the Catapult would occasionally play its launching animation when a player enters relevancy of the Catapult
  • Fixed an issue where the Longbow would play the firing sound at the impact location
  • Fixed an issue where being resurrected after being eliminated while vaulting through a window would prevent the player from being able to Mount for the rest of the match
  • We have made a number of changes to the way the Blink ability functions.

• UI
  • Added a "back" button on the Report Player Screen
  • Fixed an issue where Map Markers wouldn't show in the purchase preview window

• Environment
  • Fixed several lighting issues around the map
  • Fixed several chest spawn locations around the map

• Misc
  • Fixed an issue where pressing enter on certain screens would crash the client
  • Fixed an issue where the animation for swapping the pistol would not play properly when switching from certain weapons