Take the fight to Mirrors, playable now in the Mirage Beta!

• Play 9 new maps and variants
  
  
  
  
• Try out the new Character Customization system
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Fight under the Bridge, a map in the Mirage Beta (coming next patch as CTF & TDM variants)

Watch our latest fly-through video - Academy, a large Team Objective map coming very soon to the Mirage Beta.

Read on for a full list of today’s changes…

• Many crash & bug fixes
  
• More animation and Fx polish
  
• Abilities now continue to cooldown while you wait to respawn
  
  
  • This isn’t as drastic as resetting them on spawn but will go still go a long way
  
  
• Overtime added to symmetric Objective modes - If when time runs out, score is tied, players on both teams will stop respawning and next objective score wins, if a team is wiped out entirely the other team also wins in Overtime

• Centered third person camera
  
• A warning message now appears when the server has crashed or your connection is down
  
• Movement animation polish
  
• Added a saturated ambient occlusion effect
  
• Various tutorial improvements and bug fixes

• Fixed various state/queue desyncs
  
• Rebalanced health values
  
  
  • Primarily focused on nerfing some classes like the Vigilist & Taurant
  
  
• Reduced upper body bend blend time and bend caps
  
• Reduced back & strafe speed
  
• Reduced melee turn caps on overheads and stabs slightly
  
• Reduced stamina drain by 15% when blocking
  
• You can now jump during windups again
  
• Movement abilities can now be used out of Blocked/interrupt
  
• Reduced blocked/interrupt time slightly
  
• All abilities now receive a 4s cooldown when feinted/interrupted (previously ranged from 4-10s
• depending on the ability)
  
• Parries
  
  
  • Reduced active parry time
    
  • Narrowed parry box
    
  • Including some experimental changes to make swing manipulation more powerful against parries
  
  
• Melee
  
  
  • Melee damage balance - general increase in damage
    
  • Reduced some windup times slightly
    
  • Reduced recovery times slightly
    
  • Reduced feint recovery times
  
  
• Alchemancer
  
  
  • Increased spawn delay of Barrage and improved its indication
    
  • Ranged loadout:
    
    
    • Replaced melee attacks with punches
      
    • Increased the fireballs’ projectile speed
  
  
• Tinker
  
  
  • Increased proximity mine damage
    
  • Added damage over time effect to Stasis
    
  • Increased stasis cooldown
  
  
• Taurant
  
  
  • Decreased shove knockback
    
  • More taurant abilities can now be riposted against
  
  
• Vigilist
  
  
  • Increased windup mobility of disperse
    
  • Increased iron domes health
    
  • Increased ward strike cooldown
    
  • Increased heroic leap range

• Added in-world Damage/Healing numbers option
  
• Updated several ability icons

• Ability cooldowns are now visible when the ability is unavailable/silenced
  
• Fixed issue that caused servers to get laggier over time
  
• Fixed issue where damage/parry events were appearing that did not match the actual result
  
• Fixed issue that would frequently cause vaults to fail
  
• Fixed abilities being shown as active after they were used to kill someone
  
• Also fixes the Phoenix ability sometimes becoming unavailable until respawn
  
• Fixed certain keys not being bindable + format adjustments and bug fixes
  
• Muting VOIP no longer mutes Chat
  
• Loading screens now properly appear for each map
  
• Main menu video is no longer sometimes black
  
• Stasis bubble effect timing issues
  
• Battle cry and VO fading out after activation no longer occurs
  
• Fixed crash when returning to the main menu from gameplay
  
• Fixed VO command placement issues
  
• Fixed inconsistent end of match experience calculations
  
• Fixed some abilities allowing alchemancer to fly when activated
  
• Fixed some instances of animations playing incorrectly when being hit
  
• Multiple text fixes
  
• Multiple crash fixes

• AMD users may experience video driver crashes
  
• Death camera sometimes does not allow player control
  
• Playstation controllers may not work
  
• SLI may result in effects artifacts
  
• Pawns killed in the air may play death animations while floating
  
• Battlecry animations blend strangely when changing stance
  
• Out of stamina panting may stop playing
  
• Sometimes the crosshair will become locked in a state
  
• FX may sometimes not appear
  
• Overheal FX may stay longer than overheal
  
• 1st person sprint animations may sometimes not play
  
• Tinker mines may sometimes sink into level props
  
• Players may lose sound from other programs while playing Mirage
  
• Resolution options changes may sometimes not apply
  
• Low reproduction client crashes
  
• Double-speed audio when set to 192kHz in Windows
  
• Some keys cannot be rebound
  
• Some placeholder text still visible in the UI
  
• End of match timer will hang on 0
  
• Chat in post game will sometimes not work
  
• Players will sometimes jitter when using levitate
  

Check out our fly-through of Rock Bottom, a TDM / Capture Point map in the Mirage Beta, on now.

We hope you are enjoying the Mirage Beta!

• Better, more reactive ragdolls
  
• Blood stays around for longer
  
• Blood/Gore can also be turned off in the menu.

• Introduced 10v10 & Arena modes
  
• Introduced more movement to abilities
  
• Increased out of combat speed and wall jumps for better traversal
  
• Updated all animations

Complete Preview & Patchnotes continued on our official site.

• Six character classes with swappable tiers of magic abilities and hundreds of voice commands
  
• 11 environments and 5 different game modes (more maps and modes to come at launch), playable in NEW matchmaking system or server browser
  
• The reveal of the Entropist - a burly mage who rides a flying carpet
  
• No more NDA