It's that time of the week for another community stream with Community Manager Lumos and Senior Game Master Radrodo!
We will be answering your LawBreakers q's, playing customs with the community, and giving some awesome prizes. Don't miss out!
DATE / TIME
Friday, November 3 at 11am PDT/ 2pm EDT/ 7pm CET
Be sure to follow the channel at https://www.twitch.tv/lawbreakers and be notified of when we go live.
See you there!
LawBreakers Rapid Fire Dev Update | Patch 2.0.1
A new Rapid Fire Dev Update has arrived!
Get your Patch 2.0.1 details and the latest on what the team at Boss Key has been working on behind the scenes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2FGWEb-2RY
Come Play with the Devs - Weds, November 1!
From Boss Key Productions-
Hey LawBreakers fam!
Just wanted drop by and let you know that we will be hosting a Dev Night this Wednesday, November 1! From 7:00PM - 10:00PM/ET, you'll be able to find a number of our devs in the Quick Match playlist. We have devs from multiple departments including QA, Gameplay Programming, Technical Design, Audio Design and more! We'll be using the US-East and US-West queues, so feel free to take advantage of our new multi-region queuing option. Hope to see you there!
Hey PS4 players, don't worry! We got you guys next week!
PC Patch Notes 2.0.1
PC PATCH NOTES 2.0.1
GENERAL ADDITIONS/IMPROVEMENTS:
Region selection now defaults to any region under 150ms ping, and saves changes made to it.
Team Death Match has been officially promoted into the regular quick match queue rotation!
Skirmish option has been removed until a new mode is ready.
Adjusted the drop rates in stash drops to grant more Advanced or better rarity items overall.
BUG FIXES:
GENERAL –
Group respawn timer increased 3 → 5s.
Was noted in Patch 2.0 notes, but was not actually applied.
Fixed an issue where people couldn't queue in Boss Leagues if they were prestige'd and their level was less than 5.
Fixed issues with not being able to enter Boss Leagues as a party.
Fixed various other issues with Boss Leagues, UI, and added multiple crash fixes.
Fixed bronze rank icon not displaying.
Patch 2.0.1 Notice!
Hey LawBreakers,
We have a hotfix patch coming your way this Tuesday! This hotfix addresses a few key quality of life improvements and bugs that help supplement our last update.
Patch 2.0.1 will require a restart of the game/application at 8am PDT/ 11am EDT / 4pm CET when the update is available. However, we anticipate that the service may have interruptions from 8am-9am PDT so please keep updated on Twitter, Facebook, and Discord.
UPDATE DATE/TIME:
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Pacific: 8:00 AM
Eastern: 11:00 AM
CET: 4:00 PM
Join Community Manager Lumos and Senior Game Master Radrodo for another Friday community stream on October 27, 2017!
We will be answering your LawBreakers q's, playing customs with the community, and giving some awesome prizes. Don't miss out!
DATE / TIME Friday, October 27 at 11am PDT/ 2pm EDT/ 8pm CEST
Be sure to follow the channel at https://www.twitch.tv/lawbreakers and be notified of when we go live.
See you there!
[LIVESTREAM] Community Livestream - OCT. 27, 2017
Hey LawBreakers,
Join Community Manager Lumos and Senior Game Master Radrodo for another Friday community stream on October 27, 2017!
We will be answering your LawBreakers q's, playing customs with the community, and giving some awesome prizes. Don't miss out!
DATE / TIME Friday, October 27 at 11am PDT/ 2pm EDT/ 8pm CEST
Be sure to follow the channel at https://www.twitch.tv/lawbreakers and be notified of when we go live.
See you there!
[STREAM OVER] Community Livestream - OCT. 19, 2017
UPDATE: We will be delaying our community stream to 1pm PDT/ 4pm EDT/ 10pm CEST. See you then!
Hey LawBreakers,
Join Community Manager Lumos and Senior Game Master Radrodo for a special THURSDAY edition of the community stream on October 19, 2017!
Celebrate the launch of the All-Star Update with us! We will be answering your LawBreakers q's, playing customs with the community, and of course giving away some awesome prizes. This time, we have a few super cool shirts to give away too!
DATE / TIME
Thursday, October 19 at 11am PDT/ 2pm EDT/ 8pm CEST
Be sure to follow the channel at https://www.twitch.tv/lawbreakers and be notified of when we go live.
See you there!
We're going to DreamHack Denver!
It all comes down to this weekend. For six weeks teams have been blindfiring, pulverizing and fragging their way into gravity-defying battle in order to claim the top two spots to compete in the Grand Finals at DreamHack Denver. But before the players put on their headsets, crack their knuckles and take a deep breath as the match countdown from H.A.N.N.A.H. begins, we want to briefly take a look back at the competition over the past weeks.
Throughout the entire series, there was one unstoppable force that could not be taken down. Fuster Cluck took first place every week for the entire tournament series. Their teamwork, past FPS experience and outright talent led to a dominant performance. However, on one Saturday evening a team showed that the seemingly unstoppable champs, Fuster Cluck, could be taken down.
Neverless did something during week three that no other team could ever repeat during The Road to Colorado -- they defeated Fuster Cluck and sent them to the Loser’s Bracket. While FC still went on to win first place, it opened everyone’s eyes to the fact that with the right combination of teamwork and strategy, anyone in the tournament could be beaten. When analyzing past performances and seeing that week after week these two went to battle to claim the top spot, Neverless was the team everyone in the community expected to go head to head with FC at the Grand Finals at DreamHack Denver, but SLP had something to say about that.
There’s no better way to describe Stacked Like Pancakes other than being the underdog. While the team itself has a roster full of young talent, a misstep in execution would land them in third place every Saturday except one. But every weekend, they would return with a new gameplan and the will to improve. Then during the Final Qualifiers for DreamHack Denver, the underestimated made a statement.
The match-up of Neverless vs. Stacked Like Pancakes was tied 1-1. The last round to decide it all was Blitzball on Station - a map that team member Aluco mentioned was SLP’s “pocket pick.” The team cleared the center point for young Assassin, ChrissyJ, to carry his team (and the Blitzball) to victory. The map started just as furiously as it ended with SLP scoring five goals to Neverless’ one and secured them the last spot in the Grand Finals.
Our friends and series organizers over at GauntletGG are here to tell you a little more about SLP and FC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz5XhQjmP9M
A big thanks to GauntletGG for organizing the tournament and for putting on a great production every week. The Grand Finals between Stacked Like Pancakes and Fuster Cluck will be live streamed from DreamHack’s main stage on Saturday evening around 5PM/MT on twitch.tv/lawbreakers. Our devs will also be at DreamHack the entire weekend where LawBreakers will be featured at the freeplay area, and you may even see us at the BYOC LAN. Be sure to come by and try out all the new content in our new All-Star Update.
See you soon, Denver!
- The LawBreakers Team
All-Star Update | PC Patch Notes 2.0
Behold, the All-Star Update (patch 2.0), featuring new content and the latest round of balance adjustments. Beyond all the new content that features a new map, skins, Boss Leagues Ranked Mode and much more, below you’ll find the full 2.0 patch notes preceded by a quick blurb from the development team regarding the game’s balance and health. Check out all the new stuff in this latest update and read in what ways the core game has changed! Enjoy!
NEW ADDITIONS:
New Feature - Boss Leagues competitive mode!
New Feature - Linear tutorial mode!
New Map - Gateway: a Blitzball dedicated map!
New Map Variant - Redfalls Bloodmoon!
New Content - Blitzball themed Stash Drops!
Blitzball Stash Drops are time limited, so get yours from the store today!
Blitzball Stash Drops are awarded for account progression while the All-Star event is in progress.
Get at least one Blitzball themed item in every Blitzball Stash Drop.
New Blitzball themed items include:
Character skins
Weapon Skins
Account Portraits
Stickers
Kick decals
"Greetings Lawbreakers, and welcome to Patch 2.0 - the one where we adjust and do some cleanup after the major shift of last patch. Patch 1.4 introduced some sweeping changes to how health works in the game, bumping up base health values and adding out of combat regeneration. While our overall goal of increasing average lifespans was achieved, we overshot a bit with some of the tunings, so we're pulling back a bit on a few of those changes. We're also nudging up the headshot multipliers on a few of our weapons so that players with steady aim can whittle down the new health pools faster.
NOTE: Due to a build error in patch 2.0, the adjustment to group spawn time will be coming ASAP to patch 2.0.1. This adjustment with increase minimum respawn time from 3 -> 5 seconds. We will notify community on social once this hotfix goes live. Thank you for your understanding.”
ROLE CHANGES:
HEALTH REGEN (ALL ROLES) - "We're increasing the out of combat delay so that hopping from engagement to engagement takes more strategy."
Increased the time it takes out of combat for health regen to start from 3 → 5 seconds.
ASSASSIN - "With the health adjustments in Patch 1.4, Assassins aren't as squishy and don't need as much help sustaining while in Frenzy. We've cut down on the healing per hit to address this."
Arc Blade's healing per hit while Frenzy is active has been decreased from 70 → 55.
Frenzy replenishes all movement charges upon activation (Patch 1.4 missing note)
BATTLE MEDIC - "We've added more charges to Firefly so that Battle Medics can command the battlefield a bit better. Having the same amount of ammo on both weapons should help their swap timing and make them more viable in skirmish modes."
Firefly's number of charges increased from 4 → 6.
Increased time between replenishing Firefly charges from 0.2 → 0.25 seconds.
ENFORCER - "Enforcers health has been brought down since previous patches have increased his survivability."
Base health reduced from 500 → 475.
GUNSLINGER - "We've added charge multiplier logic to the Omega that increases alongside damage. This should reward high accuracy players and curtail "spam slinger" effectiveness."
*NEW* Gunslinger's Omega headshot multiplier will now scale up based upon how long your charge your shots.
Omega's min headshot multiplier is now 1.1.
Omega's max charged headshot multiplier is now 1.75.
HARRIER - “Harrier's kit inherently makes them extremely survivable, so we've knocked 25 points off of their Base Health. The Shoc-Croc has been adjusted to deal more damage if you can train your weapon on an enemy's head. We've also shortened the length of Convergence to make it less oppressive."
Base health reduced from 450 → 425.
Shoc-Croc's headshot multiplier increased from 1.5 → 1.75.
Laser Tag cooldown visual now changes from red to blue when able to fire.
Convergence beam duration reduced from 6 → 5 seconds.
JUGGERNAUT - "Juggernaut needed a bit of help when low on ammo, so Instigator has gotten a reload speed bump. We're working on some bug fixes to reload issues overall in future patches that will help them out."
Instigator's reload speed has been sped up by 10%.
Holo-Deflector can be manually destroyed by pressing the activation button again (Patch 1.4 missing note).
TITAN - "Titan has gotten some quality of life improvements this patch. They can now perform more actions while in Berserk mode, and we've added our version of a much requested range indicator for Hammerhead rockets."
*NEW* Detonation indicator will now appear when a target is within a rocket's explosion radius.
Pulverize's max damage increased from 125 → 175.
Titan can now kick and jump while Berserk is active.
VANGUARD - "Vanguard's Meteor Shells + Pulsar burst potential has been dialed in a bit and we've made the shell's self damage less punishing."
Pulsar's damage radius lowered from 200 → 175.
Pulsar's max damage lowered from 120 → 110.
Hydra's time its takes to get to full fire rate has been increased by 7.5%.
Updated Hydra's primary reticle.
Meteor Shells self damage reduced from 100% → 50%.
WRAITH - "Wraith is getting out dueled and damaged at his intended effective range. We've adjusted their reload speed to help them exchange fire and increased the minimum damage from Wasp to match a default kick. Chrono Switch has also seen an adjustment so that hitting targets with it should be more reliable."
Spektor's falloff start distance increased from 600 → 750.
Spektor's reload speed has been sped up by 25%.
Wasp's minimum stab damage increased from 30 → 75.
Chrono Switch's slowing rings travel speed has been increased by 30%.
Increased the time between firing Chrono Switch's slowing rings by 10%.
GENERAL ADDITIONS/IMPROVEMENTS:
*NEW* Multi-region Queue has been added to place players with acceptable latency in matches from all around country and/or world.
*NEW* First Win of the Day XP Bonus has been added for getting your first win in any mode.
*NEW* Progression UI Widget has been added to the bottom right to show current Account / Boss Leagues progression, as well as a current creds total.
*NEW* Customizable reticle options in the Settings menu now include a Simple Dot, Simple Circle, and Simple Crosshair plus color options.
Increased the amount of XP awarded in all modes for time played. This means quicker account progression for everyone.
Added in text for score amount awarded on scoring events.
Added in major text announcements for carriers picking up the objective object in Blitzball, Overcharge, and Uplink.
Crosshairs now draw on top of all HUD elements.
Made it so that text chat does not switch sides during death cam.
General Spectator improvements to overall visuals, clarity, and bug fixes.
Added in a ton of stat tracking for different weapons, abilities, and scoring events for roles that are displayed on the statistics page of the player profile.
Hit Detection Improvements
Improved hit registration by speeding up smoothing on replicas to make positions more accurate.
Added latency compensation logic to improve Arc Blade grapple hit detection.
Titan rocket air detonation has latency compensation (so if you detonate it when you see it near somebody, it should deal damage, even at higher pings)
Redesigned the "Play" mode selection screen.
Added bonus XP when backfilling into and completing a match that was missing players.
Don't count a match as a loss for a player that joined late and filled in a missing player's spot.
Visual improvements for full screen effects like Distortion Field and Chrono Switch's slowing effect.
BUG FIXES:
UI -
Fixed issues related to Blitzball carrier's status not updating for people who just joined a match in progress.
Fixed an issue where a teammate's name would sometimes appear red when you first see them.
Fixed a host of in game scoreboard alignment issues dealing with Twitch
status, icons, and text placement.
Fixed multiple issues during end of match podium not rendering appropriately on 21:9 aspect ratio monitors.
Fixed a bug where being stabbed and killed by TAC knife would cause death cam to break.
Fixed overtime text announcement not showing in Blitzball.
Fixed multiple match history issues related to missing player names and stats for matches played.
SOUND -
Fixed error sound not playing issue when attempting to equip a locked account portrait.
GAMEPLAY -
Gunslinger
Fixed an issue where shooting the Alpha while blindfiring Omega would interrupt Omega's animation.
Juggernaut
Fixed issues that improve the transition from sprint super jumping into blindfire.
Wraith
Fixed wall jump occasionally triggering on stairs and other unintended surfaces.
Turf War
Tie breaker overtime rules in Turf War fixed, so you have to capture 2 zones to win.
Fixed crashes occurring directly after killing an objective carrier with a kick.
Fixed an issue where players could potentially cycle to a new match and see a black screen during character select, they would not be able to play without restarting.
Fixed an issue where not all assist based scoring events were tracking for achievements.
SETTINGS -
Changing window settings from full-screen to windowed mode will now persist between game restarts.
Fixed an issue where changing the window mode while matchmaking may change a player's region.
