• Fixed a bug where the screen would keep tilting up when sprinting/getting kills
  
• Fixed various bugs on the new City Ruins map
  
• Buffed the black hole gun
  
• Nerfed the flare gun
  
• Improved the game chat filter to reduce false positives
  

• Fixed a bug where the coin sale and bundle were not purchasable
  
• Fixed a bug where the spoon was equippable in the ingame weapon selector
  

MAPS

City Ruins Map

Map improvements

WEAPONS

Flare Gun

• It has a slightly smaller blast radius than the launcher, but sets enemies on fire and has a faster fire rate
  
• It's also useful for grenade jumping! Shoot at your feet to get launched up, or jump and shoot at a wall to get launched sideways.
  

Black Hole Gun

• The black hole gun is also an explosive gun, but works pretty differently to the other explosives in the game
  
• Left click to fire a black hole, and right click after you've thrown it to freeze it wherever it is
  
• From there it will suck in and trap enemies. It can be escaped by running if you're not too close or grapple/dash
  
• After 5 seconds it explodes killing everyone in its radius, but be careful as it works on you too!
  
• Useful for protecting flags, bases or areas
  

Gun Reworks

• You can now right click to rapid fire the banana gun (it's a lot less accurate at long range though

• Fixed a bug that caused the recoil to go crazy and make it un usable

• No more camera shake/recoil on this gun either

• Now deals 2X more damage
  

ABILITIES

Voodoo Doll

Ammo Kit

• All allied players within its radius are granted a massive 1.5X fire rate and reload speed boost
  

NEW RANKING

Other

• New winter menu and music
  
• New directional walk animations
  
• Improved Russian, Spanish and Portuguese translations significantly
  

Bugs and polish

• Strengthened the anti cheat measures
  
• Coop minigame renamed to co-op for clarity
  
• Added a tutorial for buying/equipping abilities
  
• Fixed a bug where every ability was unlocked in the respawning armoury
  
• The water gun/pressure washer stream now always faces forward
  
• Fixed a bug with the smoke/bubble grenade where throwing it at your feet midair would cause it to explode on your feet
  
• Fixed a bug with the costume (DLC) equipping in the armoury where it would get reset each time you loaded into the menu
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the fire and freeze gun effects to not be applied
  
• The maps shown in the map votes will now show up slightly more evenly
  

Holiday Coins Sale

• Localised coin pricing (coins are now cheaper/more reasonably priced for people in Australia, brittain, etc.)
  
• Added 3 new achievements
  
• New art for all achievements
  
• New streamer/recording options in settings!
  
  
  
  • You can now enable/disable ingame UI. All thats visible is a square crosshair which can be edited out by overlaying a white square with 50% opacity
    
  • You can now enable/disable player name tags
    
  
  
• Fixed the ingame global leaderboard
  
• Your place in the world is also now displayed in the stats in your profile
  
• Slight improvements to the armoury
  
• Fixed a bug where the controls options menu would open scrolled fully down
  
• Added a new translation system
  
• Added a cool new effect where the speed of the game slows down 8 seconds before it ends
  
• Fixed a bug where voting for the castle map wouldn't disable the buttons for voting for other maps
  
• Improved the DLC banner UI
  
• Fixed various UI bugs
  
• Fixed more out of map bugs in the castle map
  

• You can now shoot through the fan columns in the castle map
  
• Fixed various Russian translations
  
• Fixed various out of map bugs in the Castle map
  
• The teleporter gun will now be less likely to be able to teleport you into walls
  
• Fixed shotgun spread patterns
  
• Fixed the random snapping of the AK when un scoping
  
• Fixed the recoil patterns of the AK while scoped
  
• Reworked player/camera animations to be less jarring
  
• The fans in the Castle map no longer cancel gliding
  
• Added 35 game tips to the connecting screen
  
• Fixed a bug on the mini gun where you wouldn’t be able to aim straight down while recoiling
  
• Fixed the key binds menu
  
• Fixed the chat re-bind keybind
  
• Fixed the team re balancing logic so you will no longer be randomly switching teams when re spawning
  
• Made a nice UI to show the next gun in the gun game mini game
  

• Fixed a bug where the shop timer for hats and skins would reset to 8 minutes every time you re opened the shop
  
• You can now buy any hat at any time in the armoury
  
• The hat section in the shop has been reworked, so that instead of being able to buy 1 hat per day, you get an offer for a 20% discount on a particular hat
  
• Aiming straight down with the launcher will now shoot down instead of exploding on your feet
  
• Walking up to a wall and shooting the launcher will no longer allow the launcher bullet to phase through the wall
  
• If you quit during the tutorial, you will now be given the option to replay the tutorial when you re open the game
  
• Fixed connection issues
  
• Improved the loading screens in between maps or menus
  
• Improved DLC selection screen
  
• Fixed the black screen bug
  
• Fixed bugs with coin buying where they would occasionally not be granted
  
• Improved english tutorial voice lines
  
• Completely overhauled the tutorial
  
• Added progress bars to both tutorials
  

New Map: Castle

• I've also bumped the number of maps in the map vote to 6 to accomadate
  

2 new Abilities

Hardened Bullet

• The first bullet of the mag deals 1.5X damage. For example, the damage for the AK is something like [48, 23, 23, 23 etc]. For the shotgun pistol, one of the pellets is randomly chosen to do 1.5X damage
  
• Overall it's a pretty unique ability, there will be more abilities soon that modify game rules or centre around combat rather than movement. Let me know on the Paint Warfare Discord if you have ideas!
  

Med Kit

• This replaces the old 'Heal' ability with something that's also useful for cooperation team-based modes. If you bought the old heal ability, you'll have this automatically unlocked
  
• You can throw the medkit down to your feet (instantly drops) or anywhere you like
  
• It deals a small explosion where it drops where it heals 30HP for you/teammates in the radius
  
• It then heals 10HP every second for 8 seconds for you/teammates standing in the radius
  
• So essentially if you see one of your allies are low, you can throw the medkit at them and heal them :)
  

Overhauled: Glider

• Momentum: if you fly downwards for long/fast enough, you build up momentum in your glider which you can use to fly up really fast as well
  
• Buffed the overall speed of the glider
  
• Added wind SFX depending on the speed, and the camera now zooms slightly depending on how fast you're going
  
  

Overhauled: Radar

• The radar was very weak, so now on top of showing enemies through walls, it now displays directional arrows around your crosshair to reveal nearby enemies to you
  

Overhauled: Super Speed Boots

• Super speed boots now increase speed while midair as well
  

New Map Feature: Giant Fans

Polish & Bug Fixes

• Reworked a lot of the code base to minimise bugs and speed up future development time
  
• Fixed the consistency of double jumping—sometimes double jumping would not always work
  
• Fixed the glider not activating correctly
  
• Fixed the equip buttons not updating in the respawn armoury when changing from primary -> secondary weapons
  
• New quality option: Max (increases shadow rendering distance and makes them look a lot nicer by smoothing them)
  
• Smaller bug fixes
  

Fixes

• Fixed performance issues
  
• New invert Y/X mouse options
  
• Organised keybinds menu
  
  
• New curated featured video feature to support Paint Warfare creators
  
  
• Fixed the grapple being "locked" respawn armoury
  
• Fixed a bug where the ingame pause/options menu would become broken and not show up
  
• Fixed some interactions in the menu so you can use the [esc] key to exit more menues
  

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Other news

Fixed XP and Coin bug

• Fixed a critical bug some people experienced on the last update that prevented XP/coins from being earnt
  

Other changes

• Fixed tutorial loading/ respawn bugs/ polish
  
• Optimized game size
  
• Added an ingame FPS counter in game options
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause the match timer to break when loading
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the health bar to get stuck on a red colour
  
• Fixed a bug with Fast/Super fast graphics settings on Apple Silicon macs that caused a grey screen
  
• Fixed a visual bug that caused the in-match weapon switcher weapon to show up in the map
  
• Typing in chat while in the pause menu no longer triggers the button hotkeys
  
• Fixed a rendering bug that caused the Galaxy skin and Blaze skin to show up in the menu on the player (even if it wasn't unlocked)
  
• You can no longer shoot team mate turrets
  
• Fixed team rebalancing
  
• Added DirectX12 and Vulkan rendering support (Improves rendering performance on modern GPUs)
  

• Reduced lag significantly - network usage reduced by 30-40%
  
• Fixed black screen bug
  
• Improved flamethrower VFX
  
• Fixed colliders in the Train Yard map
  
• Fixed the team rebalancing logic
  
• Improved chat filter
  
• Fixed minor bugs with juggernaut mode
  
• Optimised and fixed crashes caused by spamming the railgun
  

• Fixed a critical bug that caused the match timer to start on 10 seconds
  
• Improved various translations
  
• Fixed some crashes
  
• Various bug fixes and improvements