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[STREAM OVER] Community Livestream - Sept. 29, 2016

Hey LawBreakers,

Free Weekend on Steam is here, and what better way to celebrate than another community livestream with Community Manager Lumos and Senior Game Master Radrodo?!

Be sure to tune in on Friday, September 29 from 11am-12pm PDT. We’ll be answering your LawBreakers q's, playing customs with the community, giving away prizes, and more.

DATE / TIME


Friday, September 29 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!

[LEAVE QUESTIONS] Community Livestream - SEPT. 29, 2017

Hey LawBreakers,

Free Weekend on Steam is here, and what better way to celebrate than another community livestream with Community Manager Lumos and Senior Game Master Radrodo?!

Be sure to tune in on Friday, September 29 from 11am-12pm PDT. We’ll be answering your LawBreakers q's, playing customs with the community, giving away prizes, and more. Leave any questions you may have below, and we might answer it live on the stream tomorrow!

DATE / TIME


Friday, September 29 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!

PLAY FREE ON STEAM THIS WEEKEND!



Hey LawBreakers,

We have 4 words for you.

FREE. WEEKEND. ON. STEAM.

Yep, tell your family, tell your friends, hey - even tell those you may just want to take a little aggression out on. We're giving you new players out there the weekend to jump into zero-g, kick ass and take names.

It’s all goin’ down on Thursday, September 28 through Monday, October 2. Get ready to frag it up all weekend long.

DATES / TIMES:


Starts: September 28 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 7pm CEST
Ends: October 2 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 7pm CEST

And to celebrate, we’re giving everyone a shot at winning either a copy of the game or Stash Drops! ‘Cuz what’s better than FREE loot just for playing, right? See details below.

GAME + STASH DROPS GIVEAWAY


Official Rules



RULES / CRITERIA:

  • To be eligible for this event, you must have provided a valid email address during account sign up.
  • Players outside of the United States and Canada (excluding Quebec) are eligible to win in-game Stash Drops only.
  • Winners will be announced by October 2 at 8pm PDT. Rewards will be delivered by October 3 at 8pm PDT.

    • Game codes will be delivered via email. Look out for an email in your inbox.
    • Stash Drops will be delivered in-game. Look out for Stash Drops in-game.

  • FREE USERS: Play 50 matches during Free Weekend to enroll in the Base Game Code Giveaway.

    • STEAM only

  • EXISTING USERS: Play 50 matches during Free Weekend to enroll in the Stash Drops Giveaway.

    • STEAM and PS4



REWARDS:

  • FREE USERS: Randomly selected 100 people who meet the above criteria will each receive (1) Base Game Code for Steam.
  • EXISTING USERS: Randomly selected 100 people who meet the above criteria will each receive (24) Stash Drops.


We’ve also got a Retweet to Win contest going on over on Twitter. Help spread the word about Free Weekend for a chance at an NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX® 1080. We know, we know. That’s how much we love you.

RETWEET TO WIN CONTEST


GO HERE



Lastly, did we mention the sale going on RIGHT NOW? If you find yourself reveling in the chaos this weekend but haven’t picked up the game yet, be sure to purchase it now at a discount of 25% off. Purchase HERE, but don’t delay… the sale ends October 4.

For those of you who are totally new to this side of town, we have some handy links for ya:

ROLE ANALYSIS VIDEOS
RAPID FIRE TUTORIALS
MAP OVERVIEWS

All skill levels welcome. We’ll see you in-game.

- The LawBreakers Team

"The Weapons Available to You" - LawBreakers Free Weekend Trailer

It's time to gear up with the weapons available to you. Free weekend on Steam is coming Sept 28 - Oct 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lF-2nFDlJ8

Full details coming soon!

[STREAM OVER] Community Livestream - SEPT. 22, 2017

Hey LawBreakers,

Join us for another community livestream with Community Manager Lumos and Senior Game Master Radrodo!

Tune in on Friday, September 22 from 11am-12pm PDT. We’ll be showing off Patch 1.4 in all of its glory (SPAAACEYYYY!!!) and answering any patch q's you may have. We'll also be playing customs with the community and of course, giving away some prizes! Don't miss out!

DATE / TIME


Friday, September 22 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 - SEPT. 22, 2017

Hey LawBreakers,

Join us for another community livestream with Community Manager Lumos and Senior Game Master Radrodo!

Tune in on Friday, September 22 from 11am-12pm PDT. We’ll be showing off Patch 1.4 in all of its glory (SPAAACEYYYY!!!) and answering any patch q's you may have. We'll also be playing customs with the community and of course, giving away some prizes! Don't miss out!

DATE / TIME


Friday, September 22 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!

Patch Notes 1.4

“What's up LawBreakers,

It's time for Patch 1.4 and we're making some significant changes to how health works in the game. The main goal this patch is to increase average lifespans across the board, as we've found that many of our players are spending significantly more time staring at a respawn screen than we'd like.

Here's what we're doing to address this:

  • Health was increased for every role.
  • We now have health regen after an out of combat delay for all roles.
  • A group spawning system was implemented (you spawn with teammates more often instead of solo)


Here's what we're hoping to achieve with these changes:

  • Extend the combat dance and create more interesting decisions about when commit to a fight or retreat to safety.
  • Reduce the overall amount of insta-gibs.
  • Provide more incentive to use abilities and combos in order to finish a fight.
  • Health regen on all roles is about letting teams without a Battle Medic have a chance, who previously had too much of an impact on the outcome of a match.

    • We were careful here not to adjust regen values too high, we want to preserve the viability of both Battle Medic and Harrier as excellent support roles.

  • Health regen on all roles actually keep players in combat LONGER, which we’ve seen has been a positive change during internal testing. It increases players’ amount of action and fun rather than having them retreat to a health station.


We’re also exploring adding a toggle in Custom Game that players will have access to that will enable the old health values in the future.

In addition to all those changes, we have normal game balance changes. So check out the patch notes to see what else has changed.”

New Additions:



  • New Map - Namsan!
  • New Feature - Daily login rewards!

    • Earn 50 Creds the first time you log on to LawBreakers for the day.

  • New Feature - Team spawning logic in all modes!
  • New Feature - More matchmaking options!

    • Players will now have the following options to queue for:

      • Objectives - Play matches in all of the current objective-based modes.
      • *NEW* Skirmish - Team Deathmatch is now playable as our first limited time mode!
      • Quick Match - Search for matches in both Skirmish and Objective to find the fastest one.

        • NOTE: Quick Match queues you in both Objective and Skirmish Modes to find the fastest match. Once a match is found, you stay in that queue (either Objective or Skirmish) until you leave.





Role Changes:


Base Health (All Roles) –

  • Assassin HP 300 → 400.
  • Battle Medic HP 350 → 475.
  • Enforcer HP 400 → 500.
  • Gunslinger HP 325 → 400.
  • Harrier HP 350 → 450.
  • Juggernaut HP 600 → 700.
  • Titan HP 500 → 600.
  • Vanguard HP 325 → 425.
  • Wraith HP 325 → 425.


Health Regen (All Roles) –

  • Assassin 0 → 20.
  • Battle Medic 10 → 35.
  • Enforcer 0 → 20.
  • Gunslinger 0 → 20.
  • Harrier 0 → 20.
  • Juggernaut 0 → 20.
  • Titan 0 → 20.
  • Vanguard 0 → 20.
  • Wraith 0 → 20.


Assassin –
"We're buffing up the range on the Arc Blades and pulling back the damage on the Romerus charge shot in order to shift Assassin's play style a bit more towards her bread and butter melee."

  • Arc Blade's melee range increased from 400 → 425.
  • Romerus alt-fire projectile damage reduced from 27 → 25.
  • Dash travel speed reduced from 2500 → 2200.


Battle Medic –
"Battle Medic's win rate shows way too much impact on the outcome of games, despite having lackluster damage output. Instead of gutting their healing abilities, we decided instead to buff up the rest of our roles by adding the new out of combat health regen. To help compensate Battle Medic, we've given them some more direct damage on their lobber grenades and did a full tuning pass on their mobility. They no longer suffer from increased gravity and should be more agile when moving around the map. We also want to encourage Medics to get into the fray more with their teammates, so we've pulled in the range on the Support Drone's and given them a bit more health to help survive up close."

  • Removed increased gravity modifier.
  • Support Drone range decreased from 5100 → 4000.
  • Lobber grenade direct hit damage increased from 135 → 145.


Enforcer –
"We're shifting some of Enforcer's power out of his Bloodhound Rockets and into the rest of his kit. For a while the "memehounds" have been simply doing way too much damage for how easy they are to use, bordering on being a win-button. We've reduced the number of salvos fired to make them easier to dodge and lowered the damage per salvo to make them less punishing when hit. In exchange we're giving a bunch back to the Aerator and Distortion Field in terms of more accuracy, faster reloads and better mobility.”

  • Aerator minimum spread decreased from 0.35 → 0.
  • Aerator maximum spread decreased from 3.75 → 3.25.
  • Badger ammo per clip increased from 6 → 7.
  • Distortion Field's default active duration increased from 4 → 6 seconds.
  • Distortion Field's buff bonus to reload & weapon swap speeds has been increased from 25% → 35%.
  • Reduced acceleration speed while Distortion Field is active from 5000 → 2500.
  • *NEW* Enforcer can now use double jump even when distortion field is not active.
  • Fuel regeneration time decreased from 10 → 7 seconds.
  • Bloodhound Rocket's ammo has been reduced from 4 → 3 salvos.
  • Bloodhound Rocket's damage per rocket (4 per salvo) has been decreased from 40 → 38


Gunslinger –
"Gunslinger's have been annihilating everything in their path since they were buffed back in patch 1.1. Even though we pulled back on his damage a bit since then, those changes didn't go far enough and so we're doubling back and trimming more damage off of the Omega. We're also fixing a longstanding issue where releasing the Omega charge shot early would cause you to always get the minimum damage."

  • Omega's fully charged max damage decreased from 150 → 130.
  • Omega's base damage with no charge decreased from 85 → 70.
  • *NEW* Omega's damage now properly ramps up based upon charge duration.
  • Omega's base damage with no charge headshot multiplier increased from 1.1 → 1.5.
  • Omega's damage during a Warp combo increased from 45 → 70


Juggernaut –
"We’ve added a Blocker scoring event to reward Juggernaut players for using his Holo-Deflector effectively. We also added a Cross-checked event for getting kills with his specialty charge attack."

  • *NEW* Juggernaut Scoring Events:

    • Blocker - awarded for absorbing 300 enemy damage with the Holo-Deflector.
    • Cross-checked - awarded for getting a kill with the Juggernaut's Charge into Alt-fire melee attack.



Vanguard –
"We want Vanguard's to be able to escape sticky situations using their mobility, but not necessarily have the fastest top speed in the game."

  • Afterburner's top speed reduced from 2500 → 2200.
  • Afterburners acceleration speed increased from 4000 → 5000.


Wraith –
"Wraith's free mobility spam has broken every design rule we have in the game, complete with instant cooldown refreshes and infinite stab dashing. To keep him in check we've had to undertune the rest of his kit, which has left him feeling subar both to play as and to play against. We're pulling the trigger on some mobility restrictions for Wraith that allows us to open up the rest of his kit. First, Wraith will no longer immediately regenerate triple jump charges upon hitting the ground. Second, the lunge associated with the Wasp is now on a 3 second cooldown. You'll still be able to stab while it's on cooldown, but there will be no forward impulse and the damage will be significantly reduced. On the buffs train we're loading up improvements for almost every other aspect of the kit, with more damage on the Spektor, Slide Kick and Stinger, and a longer Key ability duration.”

  • *NEW* Triple jump now generates one charge upon landing, and subsequent charges after a 0.5 second delay.
  • *NEW* 3 second cooldown on the Wasp Stab lunge
  • Spektor's damage per bullet increased from 24 → 25.
  • Spektor's minimum spread decreased from 1.0 → 0.35.
  • Spektor's damage falloff range decreased from 1200 → 600.
  • Spektor's spread amount on bullets after 3 bullets have been shot increased from 2 → 3 per bullet.
  • Spektor's ammo increased from 25 → 30;
  • Stinger's single target damage with a direct hit increased from 150 → 175.
  • Stinger's travel speed increased from 8000 → 9000.
  • Slide Kick damage increased from 25 → 75.
  • Slide Kick travel speed reduced from 1850 → 1700.


Map & Mode Changes:


All Modes –

  • *NEW* Team Spawning:

    • We've added logic that tries to spawn teammates who died shortly after one another into collections. This means you will more frequent have some support when heading into battle.
    • Threshold to spawn is 3 seconds by default.

  • Added text messaging above the reticle to better inform the player of relevant mode information.

    • For instance, this message will now tell the ball carrier "YOU HAVE THE BALL" in Blitzball.



Blitzball Mode –
"Blitzball has been sped up a bit through score limit and overall game time changes. We've also added some defensive centric scoring events to help out player who like to defend and counter attack. This also helps all of you unsung heroes playing Juggernaut and Titan as goalies keep up with the speedy scoring roles a bit better."

  • Game timer reduced to 10 minutes.
  • Score limit reduced to 5 scores to win.
  • Improved the game clock by not counting down while waiting for the Blitzball to reset.
  • *NEW* Blitzball Scoring Events:

    • Goaltender - triggers when you are near the goal and the Blitzball carrier dies.
    • Carrier Denied - triggers when you kill the carrier near the goal.
    • We've also added bonus points for the person that scores the Blitzball.



Bug Fixes:


UI –

  • Fixed an issue where the "Out of Bounds" warning could get stuck on the screen.
  • Fixed numerous issues where achievement icons were missing information.
  • Fixed numerous issues where achievement icons were cut off in announcement windows.
  • Fixed player's health bars sometimes not updating when spectating another player.
  • Fixed the profile icon border sometimes becoming offset during the End of Match screen.
  • Fixed an issue where the game could get stuck when attempting to purchase a Stash Drop while Steam Overlay is disabled.


Custom game –

  • Fixed an issue where the start button would not function for a period of time after completing a match.


Sound / Discord –

  • Fixed an issue where players were forced to disconnect and reconnect to the Discord Client to be heard.
  • Fixed an issue where the game could potentially hang during gameplay due to excessive audio calls.
  • Fixed Blitzball overtime audio announcer message playing when jumping off the map while in overtime.
  • Fixed audio cue issues in Overcharge and Uplink where they may not play properly during your first match.


Gameplay –

  • Battle Medic

    • Fixed an issue with Blindfiring Firefly immediately after reloading would result in 2 energy charges being used instead of 1.

  • Gunslinger

    • Fixed an issue where the TAC Knife's melee attack could headshot certain characters for bonus damage

  • Harrier

    • Fixed an issue where the laser VFX would remain stuck.

  • Vanguard

    • Fixed an issue where Starfall would be interrupted in mid air due to camera collisions.



Settings –

  • Fixed issues with the HUD not scaling properly.


General Additions/Improvements:



  • Sandbox Tutorial has seen several improvements to Tips, Objective Pathing, and Bot performance.
  • *NEW* Gameplay tips now display in game.
  • The "Find Match UI" will now always show during the end of game experience to let players know that they are still searching, or if they have been booted from the game lobby.
  • Leaving a match during warmup or between matches phases do not count against player's consecutive match bonus timer.
  • Outdated versions of the game are no longer able to enter matchmaking
  • *NEW* Combined the end of match personal results and scoreboard screens into a new unified results screen.
  • Improved stability of the client and server.
  • Reduced hitches related to garbage collection.
  • Fixed an issue where the game server would not immediately remove a player after they disconnected.
  • Fixed an issue where multiple players could be awarded MVP.

Patch 1.4 is Coming!

Hey LawBreakers,

We are proud to announce that our first major update has arrived. We’re excited to unveil what’s coming to the game with Patch 1.4. Check out the latest Rapid Fire Dev Update from Boss Key Productions to get a preview of what’s to come. We’ll give you a few minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qWZG2Y1dwU

*taps watch* You back yet? Hope you’re hyped. Major game balancing is coming, a new map, mode, and more. Let’s dive in further.

Our first map post-launch is called Namsan, and features our favorite lil’ guy, Spacey. The Namsan Map Overview is coming soon, so stay tuned!

In addition, we’re adding a new way to play LawBreakers called Skirmish. First up in this limited time mode is none other than Team Deathmatch, and it’s on a brand-new BETA map created just for this Skirmish called Clash.

As we promised from the start, all maps, modes, and classes are free to all LawBreakers players once they’re added to the game. So all of this content will be comin’ at ya free of charge, and all you gotta do is update the game. And now that we’re on that topic...

Patch 1.4 will require a restart of the game/application at 8am PDT/ 11am EDT / 5pm CEST 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:


Thursday, September 21, 2017
Pacific: 8:00 AM
Eastern: 11:00 AM
CEST: 5:00 PM

Now that the technical stuff is over with, we know you’re asking - “where the fnck are my patch notes?” Don’t worry, we got you. Check ‘em out below.

PC Patch Notes: HERE

Thank you for your support thus far, and we hope you enjoy this update!

The LawBreakers Team

[STREAM OVER] Community Livestream - SEPT. 15, 2017

Hey all,

Join us for another community livestream with Community Manager Lumos and Senior Game Master Radrodo!

Tune in on Friday, September 15 from 11am-12pm PDT. We’ll be roaming the servers, playing customs with the community, and answering your LawBreakers q's.

DATE / TIME
Friday, September 15 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 - SEPT. 15, 2017

Hey all,

Join us for another community livestream with Community Manager Lumos and Senior Game Master Radrodo!

Tune in on Friday, September 15 from 11am-12pm PDT. We’ll be roaming the servers, playing customs with the community, and answering your LawBreakers q's.

DATE / TIME
Friday, September 15 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!