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FormicideNewsPatch Released
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Patch Released

Formicide · published 14 Oct 2016, 03:53 UTC

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Balance Changes


Sniper

  • Gauss Gun level 2 charge damaged lowered to 250 from 500.
  • Gauss Gun level 3 now dissipates if target has more than 250 hit points, still deals 500 damage.
  • Mega Cannon cooldown increased to 48 seconds from 42.


Hunter

  • Bloodseeker dash damage lowered to 100/150 (normal/crit) from 150/225.


Shock Trooper

  • Thunderclap shockwave max damage lowered to 250 from 300.


Engineer

  • Turret health increased to 2750 from 2600.


Soldier

  • Health Bot changed to heal 198 health over 6 seconds, from 162 over 7 seconds.
  • Health Bot cooldown increased to 20 seconds from 16.5.
  • March! damage reduction lowered to 50% from 66%.
  • March! cooldown increased to 42 seconds from 37 seconds.

General Changes

  • Fixed terrain pathing issues on Wastelands.
  • Smoothed out hills in Undertow near central beacon so you can walk all the way up them.
  • Health powerup layering has moved back to be behind ants.
  • Beacon capturing provides 5 points per tick on the scoreboard.
  • Soldier March! buff no longer persists through death.
  • Shock Trooper Jaunt reticle now appears when ultimate is ready. This displays the maximum range which the Shock Trooper can Jaunt.
  • A crown icon is now displayed next to the local player's kills or beacon score in the player stats window when they have the highest kills or score on their team.
  • The dedicated server is now also included as part of the client installation, in addition to still being available as a standalone app. For details on getting it up and running, see our pinned post here.
  • Added a portrait to the local player stats window for the currently chosen class.
  • Added an AFK timer to the server. Players are removed from the server after 5 minutes of being idle.

Bug Fixes

  • Sniper level 3 charge no longer can damage own mines.
  • Sniper can no longer left click with the sniper rifle and fire while charging right click.
  • Fire Ant now bleeds when health is low.
  • Engineer Pulse Turret is destroyed when owning player leaves the server.
  • Hunter Seekers no longer are destroyed when hitting a phased Shock Trooper.
  • Ultimates with short cooldowns can no longer charge before the game has started.
  • Soldier March! sound effects should always play now.
  • Ultimate bars on the scoreboard for allied players now correctly show how full they are.
  • Fixed a rare crash that could occur when switching from the loading screen to in-game.
  • Fixed a bug that caused distortion effects to not be centered correctly when multiple were on screen at once.
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