April 5th (2 weeks from today) will be the final day of Early Access Season 1, and the start of Early Access Season 2! The top 5 duel players, top 10 2v2 players and top 15 3v3 players of Early Access Season 1 will receive a special cosmetic reward and a title. In addition, all players in the top 50 of each bracket will receive a title. Expect an announcement for the specific timings regarding when exactly the ladder will close for Season 1 and what the rewards will be closer to April.
A small preview of what's to come in Season 2: [previewyoutube="PZZGdFdAdFI;full"]
0.42 Patch Notes
v0.42 ( Mar 20th, 2022 ) General Changes - Updated spell & talent tooltips to be a bit easier to read. - Target next enemy now starts by targeting the enemy closest to the center of your screen. - Target next enemy now works properly if you already have the first Titan targeted. Bug Fixes - Fixed the issue where some spell tooltips wouldn't show up on the Titan preview screen. - Fixed a rare bug where a spell would not work but the cooldown would still start. - Fixed a rare bug where casting spells while using an effect to increase cast speed sometimes wouldn't work. - Made spells more likely to register for players with higher ping. - Fixed a bug where if a spell could not be cast after the cast time (e.g. if the target was now out of line of sight) the cooldown would still activate. - Fixed a bug where passive damage (e.g. damage over time effects) wouldn't work if the attacker was dead. Balance Changes Volen - This isn't really a balance change, but there was a bug with Shadow Elusion causing it to drop combat. -> Instead of fixing the bug, I've added it to the tooltip, since it's an interesting synergy, and the spell is somewhat weak as is.
v0.41 Patch Notes
v0.41 ( Mar 16th, 2022 ) General Changes - Added a new section on the UI to customize your character. Currently you can only choose your equipped mount, but this is where future items will go. - Added the 2200 mount to the shop instead of having it automatically unlock. Currently there is no cost except requiring 2200 rating. -> If you already unlocked it, you'll automatically have it already. - Added a new mount to the shop which costs 2200 obols and requires account level 35. - Increased the daily obol cap to 200. You still gain 3 obols per loss and 7 per win. - Added a setting to turn off floating combat text (separate toggles for numbers and status text). - Added a setting to grey out skills that are unusuable so it can be disabled for those who dislike it. - Improved tooltip on Chain Breaker to more clearly indicate what it removes. Bug Fixes - Fixed an issue when using Dissociative Force while the camera was facing upwards. - Bandage now breaks on damage taken while shielded. - Heal over time effects no longer trigger combat. - Fixed some additional effects that were showing when cast on invisible Titans. Balance Changes General - Diminishing return timer increased to 16 sec (up from 15 sec). - Dampening now reduces shielding given in addition to healing done. Tarcza - Terrifying Shout now breaks if 15 damage is dealt to the target (down from 30). Malrah - Fear now breaks if 15 damage is dealt to the target (down from 20). Kanna - Shadow Demons now breaks if 15 damage is dealt to the target (down from 30). Terhun - Now has a total health of 214 (down from 218). - The radius of Freezing Trap has been reduced from 3yds to 1.5yds. - The cast range of Volley has been reduced to 30yds (from 40 yds). - The damage per tick of Volley has been reduced to 2 (from 3). - The duration of Volley has been reduced to 8 seconds (from 10). - The range of Paralytic Shot has been reduced to 25yds (down from 35yds). - The range of Poison Tipped Arrow has been reduced to 30yds (down from 35yds). - Short Draw now reads: "Long Draw becomes an instant cast skill, but does 10% less damage." - Extra Sedative now increases the cooldown of Sedative Shot to 20 seconds (up from 18 seconds).
v0.40 Patch Notes
v0.40 ( Mar 13th, 2022 ) General Changes - Won't give any details, but working on some anti-cheat improvements. - Custom games are in! Simply target someone in a lobby, right click their unit frame and challenge them to a match. -> Custom matches work for parties too, so if you party up first and both parties are the same size, it should work! -> No exp/obols/rating from custom games! Bug Fixes - Fixed a bug where Sweeping Revenge was only stunning for 1.5s (instead of 3s as intended). - Fixed a bug where Kanna could swap to Improved Righteous Shield after already using Righteous Shield for extra shielding.
v0.39 Patch Notes
v0.39 ( Mar 12th, 2022 ) General Changes - The pit arena no longer has a bridge. :O - Eye of Shadow now spawns in the arena maps and must be picked up instead of automatically applying to everyone in the arena. - Eye of Shadow now lasts 18 seconds (up from 15 seconds). - Loss of obols/exp/rating should now be nearly impossible. - The mature language filter no longer filters out words like class. - Effects and floating text no longer appear on invisible units. - Tweaked matchmaking so that higher ranked players should find matches slightly faster. - Added a setting (in UI settings) to enable a third action bar on the right with 14 more action slots. - Added settings (in UI settings) to enable/disable/scale/move the chat window. - Added settings to customize the scale/offset of diminishing return & cooldown indicators on unit frames. Bug Fixes - Fixed an issue preventing mouseover skills from working on unit frames with the cursor over them. Balance Changes Volen - Smoke Bomb and Shadow Crawl now have a max duration of 40 seconds. - Shadow Crawl and Shadow Elusion are no longer on the global cooldown. Tarcza - Menacing Blow now deals 9 damage (up from 8). - Power Strike now deals 12 base damage (up from 10). - Empowered Shields can now be cancelled, but the cooldown now begins after the effect ends.
v0.38a Patch Notes
v0.38a ( Mar 10th, 2022 ) General Changes - The client now supports choosing a master server if there are multiple choices. This will allow scaling up in higher load situations. - Added a setting for mature language filter which defaults to enabled. - Added a setting to invert mouse X or Y.
v0.38 Patch Notes
v0.38 ( Mar 9th, 2022 ) General Changes - Fixed the allowed targetability of a bunch of spells (e.g. you can no longer set bandage to focus, which didn't work anyway). - The camera can no longer go above 90 degrees. - Healers that are solo queued can no longer be paired with another healer (in both 2s and 3s). - The amount of damage required to break certain effects now shows in the tooltip. - Added keybindings for "Target Mouseover" and "Focus Mouseover" defauling to left + right click. - Added the option to set the target of an ability to your mouseover. - Added diminishing return icons to unit frames for your party & enemies. - Increased the DR timer to 15 seconds after a buff ends (up from 13 seconds). - Added settings to turn on / off cooldown tracker icons or diminishing return icons for each frame. - Added Sedative Shot to the list of CDs tracked by the interrupt icons in the middle of the screen. - Added a setting to hide empty action item slots. - Added a setting to hide grass. - Buffs always show up before debuffs now. - Removed the # of active matches from the queue menu since it didn't work anyway. Bug Fixes - Fixed leaving to main menu from an arena match breaking your game, now it properly "forfeits" you. - Fixed an issue where an already in progress match could restart again. - Fixed the tooltip on the Absorption general talent to show the correct amount and duration. - Using Bandage will now break invisibility. - Fixed an issue where projectiles could not damage invisible Titans. - Fixed an issue preventing changing talents while in the lobby. - Fixed an issue where random players in the lobby would show up as your teammates. - Hopefully fixed the issue where you'd randomly appear dead in the lobby. - Fixed an issue preventing the Ambush talent on Volen from working correctly. - Fixed a lot of the issues using Swift Justice and Sweeping Revenge on arenas with elevation. - Fixed auto run not cancelling when toggled again or when moving with both mouse buttons. - Fixed an issue where you could cast spells while dead if you left clicked on the icon. Balance General Talents - Meditation now reads: "Sit down and heal 30 health every 3 seconds. Must not be in combat to use. Any action taken or damage taken will stop the effect." Volen - Shadow Strike now deals 4 damage on the first hit and 7 on the second (down from 5/8). Azora - Pyromaniac talent now increases the cooldown of Fiery Infliction by 2 seconds. - The snare from the Frostbitten talent now DRs with itself. Terhun - Sedative Shot now only silences the target for 3 seconds (down from 4 seconds). - Removed the old Disengaged talent and made it baseline (jumping while casting Dissociative Force) - You can no longer use Dissociative Force while snared. - Volley & Flare no longer hit targets under the bridge on the bridge map if used on top of the bridge. - New description for Disengaged: -> "Every time you land a Basic Shot, increase your movement speed by 5% for 5 seconds. The effect can stack up to 6 times."
v0.37 Patch Notes
v0.37 ( Mar 6th, 2022 ) General Changes - Titans that leave the lobby are now properly removed, so the lobby won't grow indefinitely anymore if you stay in it for a while. - Added a lobby shard dropdown so you can change lobbies. By default the server will try to put 100 players per lobby, but you can change manually to any lobby you want. - Increased the font size for buff/debuff stack size and added an outline to improve clarity. Bug Fixes - (Already hotfixed) Fixed an issue where Freezing Trap would not reveal invisible units. - (Already hotfixed) Fixed an issue with Shadow Elusion causing immunity to all debuffs for 8 seconds. - Fixed an issue where the text was flipped for buffs/debuffs duration & stack size on some frames. - Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes be stuck in a party with yourself. Balance Tarcza - Blade Vortex now deals 20 damage per tick (up from 18). Volen - Shadow Strike damage reduced to 5/8 from 5/9.
Mar 6th Servers Hotfix
Hotfix deployed to fix: - Waiting for all players to connect indefinitely - Volen ability Shadow Elusion no longer immunes all debuffs - Titans will be pulled out from invisibility if they run into an Ice Trap.
0.36a Hotfix
Fixed the UI scaling issue for EU players (or any region using 0,00 notation for decimals)