This patch (Beta Patch 2) features many gameplay related changes and fixes, with a focus on build optimization and additional polish. The Mirage Beta represents an unfinished version of the game, but we’re getting there - piece by piece.

Coming at the end of April, Beta Patch 3 will feature several new maps, replacing some previous ones, as detailed in our Beta preview blog.

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

Discuss these changes here or on our forums or subreddit.