New:
Healing now shows some presence: green numbers float up whenever the Vita-Ray, a Field Medic's Bomb zone, or a lifesteal kill restores health.
The tutorial gained a skull on a post you can heal. (healing dummy)
Halo now wears a glowing, player-colored halo with a slowly rotating core and drifting holy-light embers.
Added Halo’s exclusive healing grenade, featuring a matching-colored aura.
Halo’s grenade deals no damage and revives downed or dead co-op teammates. Other characters’ healing grenades cannot revive, and Hardcore still disables revivals.
Healing perks gated squad-wide. While any player wears Halo, nobody is offered Regeneration, Lifesteal or Energy Shield
Vita-Ray scales with her perks. Damage perks raise healing at a quarter of the bonus (Bloodlust +40% = +10% healing; penalties apply the same way, floored). Fire-rate perks scale heal and shield charge one to one. High Velocity, the only projectile-range perk, scales acquire range one to one.
Overhead player health pills, default on, every body including yours: the turret pill shader, carbon inset, green to blood fill, eased, uniforms written only on change. Toggle under Settings > Game.
Jax, the new Warden replacing Spank equipped with a riot shield in his off hand that's up whenever he isn't shooting, cutting damage from the front by 80% and shoving him back on every block, plus a shotgun as his starting gun. (Instead of starting with a pistol he starts with a shotgun as a base weapon)
Fuel barrels now stand in the center of every large grate in Classic.
Joining a match already in progress now takes you to the character select screen before you load in.
Enemies killed by the flamethrower now burn down to a small pile of ash. Ash remains cannot be resurrected from the dead by necromancers.
Rebuilt the first three bosses with new models, modern animations, smoother movement-to-attack transitions, and properly scaled deaths.
Changed:
Vita-Ray Changes: the beam is now drawn in the healer's own colour with a bright core that glows, Stars no longer lag behind the beam when it attaches, Halo now heals herself when no teammate is under her aim, and a teammate under the cursor takes the beam back immediately.
Halo's attack drones now fire the same Vita-Ray beam she does when they heal
Psych's knack has been reworked. Instead of larger explosions, right click now throws a deployable twin barrel turret, stands for 15 seconds. Explodes on death.
Co-op: the pause menu no longer shows a RESTART button to players who joined someone else's match.
The Warmonger is now a towering robot firing from its arm cannon, with color-changing eye lights that telegraph attacks.
The Glutton now eats wheelchair enemies (visually), chair included, grows after meals, and throws bone volleys.
The Necromancer performs full summoning gestures, and launches rising projectile plumes that chase players before scattering.
Smoothed client-side homing projectiles and fixed the Glutton’s bones appearing as green lines in co-op.
Smoothed explosive barrel movement while preserving collision, damage, and resting positions.
Fixed:
Fixed a delay when changing your mind mid-join: if you tried to join an address that was not responding and then chose to host instead, the game refused until the connection attempt timed out on its own
Halo's rack pickups now land in her free slot.
Healing numbers over a moving player now glide with the body rather than juddering behind it.
Fixed healing numbers not appearing for players who are not the host.
Fixed Jax being able to farm unlimited turrets with Disposable Arsenal.
Fixed players being able to drop or swap weapons from the weapon bar while downed.
Healing numbers now behave like damage numbers. A green number pops where the heal landed and floats up from there instead of following the player, for the host and for clients.
Fixed an issue where perks could still be selected while the UI was hidden with Ctrl+Z.
The spectator banner cut long player names off at 12 characters.
The large barred grates in Classic arenas were see through at some angles.
Fixed the Missile Barrage power-up continuing to fire missiles from a player after they were downed.
Fixed the torch flames on the character select screen floating in front of the wall sconces instead of sitting in them. This issue was based on hyper wide monitors only
Fixed Perk Slow-Mo and Perk Freeze: enemies and bullets now slow down and stop with the rest of the game while you pick a perk.
Halo no longer sometimes starts RPG mode with the Grav Gun.