Update b34 nears the end!

Version beta 34 is now available for testers! It will appear as "b34_8.0". If you are just keeping up with development from the outside. thank you for your support. Make sure to join the Discord!

Content

• C4 Power: Combines the power of all four MEGA powerups. Rarely spawns in place of a standard MEGA powerup, with a notification.

• The Powered Minigun is now the Powered Miniguns.

• Splitscreen mode is now officially supported for FFA gamemodes.

Balance

• Air control has been increased substantially.

  • You will find air strafing creates a lot more speed than the "none" it made before.

• Replaced Precision-style weapon Plus-Power with "+Crit Chance".

• Nerfed the Handgun and Dual Pistols.

  • Increased shots-to-kill by 1 for each.

• ArenaBot hitboxes have been changed.

  • Arm hitboxes have made their long awaited return.

  • Head hitbox has shrunk slightly.

  • Upper torso no longer counts as a crit hitbox.

• Shotgun-style weapons now have more accurately shaped crosshairs.

  • Most noticeable, perhaps obviously, on the Vertical Shotgun.

• Improved pacing and damage output of the Tactical Sidearm.

• The Compound Bow now charges it's draw on a curve.

• Slug Repeater is now a ramping burst fire weapon.

• Static Cannon full-charge projectile damage increased and lingering behavior improved.

• Improved Ionizer Coil tracking + damage.

• Global weapon ammo grants per player count milestone have been increased.

• Armor Stacks now grant an increase to your crit rate multiplier, maxing out at +1.0x.

• Base full-damage crit rate has been reduced from 4.0x to 3.0x.

• Split the crit rate of certain slow or rarely firing weapons into a new higher-chance category.

• Reduced base crit rates.

  • Standard: 2% -> 1.5%

  • Heavy: 2.5%

  • Melee: 12%

• Automatic weapons now crit for a continuous period of 1s instead of 1.5s.

• Plus-power ammo effects no longer take crit bonus damage into account.

• Added "spam reduction" to view flinching.

• Quick restore-over-time effects (like Health Packs) now purge when your stat maxes out.

• Burst Bubble item now only absorbs one hit before popping, instead of 3.

Features

• Totally redid the Contest/Free Play switching and play-start experience with new buttons.

• Player List now displays "vote state". I Voted!

• ArenaBots now visibly holster a weapon model when they stow it.

• Improved Viewmodel appearance when crouching.

• Armor flash overlay now appears on the viewmodel as well as third-person character.

• NPC bots have some new favorite weapons.

• Bot pathfinding has been substantially improved.

• Dealing a Critical Hit now creates a unique "CRIT!" popup over the target.

• Improved the visuals of the Spawn Shield.

• New loading screen!

• Simplified the Match State HUD element.

• Improved the icon for the Shock Attractor.

• Touched up Surveillance with level props and a new room on blue/yellow side.

• Beautified the colors on Excavation just a hair.

• Departure planes have their wheels back!

• Consumerism (shopping mall map) has been renamed "Pastime".

• Moved the Pastime two-team team centers away from the alleyway doors.

• Added specific level details to the Lobby. Expanded the Lobby with a couple of (locked) doors.

• Added miscellaneous visual touches to a few maps.

• Changed the Mine Launcher's crosshair.

• Removed text from Contest card visuals.

  • Note: Tooltips contain this information now, and the text never looked good to begin with.

• Improved the visibility and readability of lobby/Contest tooltips.

• Improved the layout of Match Settings.

• Added a gamerule for whether Item Spirits should drop on death.

• Back to Menu now asks to confirm you really want to quit. Do you?

• Moved the Settings menu button so it's harder to accidentally smack.

• Updated the visuals for MEGA pickups, icons, and on-screen notifications.

• Visuals for the modifier grid above vital bars have been improved.

• Changed the icons for multiple UI elements to differentiate them.

• Musicified the main menu and match introduction.

• Improved firing sounds for a number of automatic weapons.

• Improved the timing and visuals for the Sniper Rifle and Akimbo SMGs' unique animations.

• A number of UI elements now show dynamic input prompts.

• Added an overview of gamepad controls to the Options.

• Improved gamepad Aim Assist.

• Added quotation syntax to command arguments. Arguments that contain invalid or delimiting characters can now be wrapped in "quotations".

• Camera mode is now accessed through a command instead of the system menu.

• Added some mysterious goodies for our golden supporters.

• Decreased the rarity of rare loading hint texts.

• Improved the on-screen popups for speaker texts. This is relevant to Challenges, and one other spot.