Hello Quakers!

Our Mid-Winter Update is now live, and brings a host of balance changes, tweaks, and bug fixes:

MID-WINTER UPDATE

MAP UPDATES

Deep Embrace

• Fixed the collision issue near lower Light Armor
• Added ability collision in the vista outside the power-up window

Exile

• Fixed the collision at Heavy Machinegun Teleporter

Insomnia
New Duel item layout:

• Railgun moved to Power-up Dungeon
• Shotgun moved to Railgun Ledge
• Dungeon Cooldowns moved up above where they are in TDM/FFA

• Fixed Duel & TDM starting spawns, updated respawn locations
• Fixed collision issue at Heavy Armor window above the jumppad (dire orb could go out of the map)
• Fixed a visibility popping issue at lower archway near Super Nailgun
• Disabled the commemorative 25th Anniversary banners in all maps except The Dark Zone

CHAMPION UPDATES

Clutch

• Starting Armor Points increased from 75 -> 100

SCALEBEARER

• Reduced passive Forward Ground Acceleration from 0.75 to 0.5
• Reduced Bullrush Ground Acceleration from 170 to 150
• Reduced Interruption Speed from 240 ups to 200 ups; if a rushing Scalebearer is slowed below the interruption speed, the Bullrush will stop
• Added a 200-320 ups damage range for Bullrush so that below 320 ups hits deal 25 dmg instead of 0 dmg (This is only during bullrush, still no passive damage below 400 ups)

WEAPON UPDATES

SHOTGUNS

• Added a center pellet to both Shotguns (increasing both max damages by 5, to 85 & 125 max dmg)

NAILGUNS

• Nails now do 10 & 15 damage instead of 12 & 20 (which is 100 & 150 DPS instead of 120 & 200 DPS) — BUT they are easier to hit with now. Nails are now 10u wide instead of 6.4u wide

SOUND UPDATES

• New Audio Hit Beep Options: ( OFF | DAMAGE DEALT | ADDITIVE )
• Reduced elevated pitch range from |-6 steps to +8 steps| to |-4 steps to +4 steps|
• Reduced elevation distance volume reduction from -5db to -3db at the max attenuation
• Fixed landing & fall sound volumes & mix
• Fixed Slash third-person crouchslide sounds after death
• Increased the volume of the Strogg >25 hp pain sounds
• Added four new Strogg VO lines (1 frag, 1 assist, 1 respawn, 1 low health)
• Prevent change weapon sound events from playing from the corpses of dead players & bots
• Increased Diablo SSG shot sounds by +2db
• Increased global max sound events value
• Made pain sounds for teammates quieter
• Fixed Localized VO for Athena, Death Knight, and Strogg medals: Air Assualt, Bombardment, Floor Is Lava, Psi Radar, Rope Trick, Smelter, Swinger, and Trident
• Fixed Tribolt max sound instances

Athena Ability VO:

• Reduced the first-person VO occurrence from 90% of the time to only 50% of the time
• Reduced the volume by -2db
• Reduced the chance of the "Woohoo" VO from 10% to 5%

BOT UPDATES

• Slight nerf to bots' nailgun skills
• Ability usage improvements

MISCELLANEOUS

• Allow new unidentified hardware detections to be set to ultra/high instead of med/low
• CTF - once again schedule end-of-game after the final capture, but now with a 1-second delay, instead of none or 3
• UI – Decreased the length of the Ranking Up & Down animations
• Fixed Anarki & Galena pink armor shaders
• Fixed the texture quality for all Lore Vanity items (Scroll 10)
• Fixed watermark code that was trying to drop the "-master-https" string
• Fixed a typo in the weapon switch/railgun loading screen hint
• Added a game tip about pain sounds to the loading screen hints

SERVICES

• Anti-cheat updates