Date: Friday, July 18

Time: 4pm CEST - 10pm CEST

Duration: 6 hours

Region: EU

Platform: Steam PC

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Pro tip: "Exploding barrels should not be used as shields" - Jazz

• Reduced team size from 4 to 3 players.

• Hero picks are now exclusive within a team.

• Change loadouts available during respawn.

• Character pages have been added to the main menu.

• Teams now have individual colors displayed in the UI. This can be disabled in the settings.

• Major audio updates including friend and foe identifiers and binaural positioning.

Heroes

• New prototype Hero “Krush - the Champion”. 

• Koji

  • Increased the Ultimate handling speed.

• Rickshaw

  • Active replaced by a rocket grab, passive replaced by an enhanced revive.

• Crow

  • Increased flight speed.

• Prodigy

  • Nerfed active wallhack ability slightly, improved handling of the Ultimate.

Flux

• Magnetically triggered “Flux Cores” can now be found in the Arena:

• The Scrambler - magnetize it and trigger a disabling EMP blast.

• The Watchdog - magnetize it and use it as a fiery proximity mine.

• The Turbine - magnetize it and trigger a powerful air burst that sends everything flying in the opposite direction.

• Updates and fixes:

  • Speeds have been adjusted - Flux slightly reduced, standard movement slightly increased.

• Loose metal object physics updates, improving handling and visibility.

• Tethering objects now have proper UI, tracking and concussive impact.

Other Updates

• Weapon Balancing

  • Tons of tweaks, bringing the weapons closer to their intended roles.

• Wall jumping is now possible when hitting walls mid air.

• The Energy overload that occurs at the second team’s elimination now respawns all players in their spawn rooms.

• Energy balancing pass:

  • No more Energy drops from flatlining opponents.

  • Small amounts of Energy can appear in the Arena center.

  • The heart drains faster when planted on a team with lots of energy and deposits faster when planted on a team with low energy.

• In-match Rank Rewards adjusted:

  • Only the leading team is rewarded with ziplines and base alarm.

  • Energy difference is converted to shields at the final showdown.

• Updated score and map screens.

• Arena updates:

  • Visual polish on several locations.

  • Updates to magnetic surfaces and object placements.

  • Updates to loot chest locations and pickup distribution.

• Improvements to pinging, making targeting easier.

• Some additional performance stats displayed at end of match.

• Loading and saving settings to the cloud does not work.

• Pressing ESC during the in-game loadout selection (default key “H”) will cause your mouse cursor to be disabled. Just press “H” again to close the selector.

• When a match is about to start, there will be a “connection interruption” for about 2 seconds while the server receives the players’ selections. This is normal until we optimize this data transfer, your internet connection is perfectly fine!