Season 29 Battle Pass

[p]* New: Cthalha's ELDER MAGIC Podium[/p][p][/p][p]* Features seasonal content for winter and early spring[/p][p]* Features the previously Store Exclusive Valentine's Day weapons and vanities[/p]

New Ranked Play Rewards

[p]* Leaderboards and Skill Ratings have been reset for all game modes[/p][p]* Ranking Tiers updated: Bronze 1-599, Silver 600-1099, Gold 1100-1599, Diamond 1600-2099, Elite 2100+[/p][p]* New: GOLDEN CROWN vanity - Unlocked when a player earns Elite[/p][p][/p][p]* Every Champion has their own crown to earn, granted when playing as that champion in Elite.[/p]

New Controls+ menu

[p]* Added a Controls+ settings menu for advanced champion controls, and moved the special movement bind to this menu[/p][p]* Doom Slayer can now use the special movement bind for Double Jump[/p][p]* Nyx can now use the special movement bind for Wall Jump[/p][p]* Special Movement vars moved into the input config to address initialization concerns. This will mean that your preferences will need to be reset on the Controls+ menu, as they will no longer be read from the old config or the cloud[/p]

Spawn Code

[p]* Updated spawn code to no longer favor respawn locations near teammates and just try to spread players out as much as possible. It will largely behave like the old spawn code, except fixes the fundamental issues that had been discovered and still offers the two-best spawn possibilities in ranked modes.[/p][p]* Fixed line of sight check for respawns effecting spawn locations on Blood Run, Corrupted Keep, Crucible, Deep Embrace, that would cause the enemy to sometimes respawn within a close line of sight of their attacker[/p]

Map Updates

[p]* Corrupted Keep: Removed a totem spot outside the map[/p][p]* Crucible: Removed the central respawn locations and fixed spawn weight imbalances[/p][p]* Crucible: Fixed incorrect gamemode flags on 3 respawn locations, which made them unavailable in Duel[/p][p]* Deep Embrace: Made the trapped rl respawn location less likely to occur[/p][p]* Insomnia: Fixed incorrect gamemode flags on 3 respawn locations, which made them unavailable in Duel[/p]

Reduced Knockback

[p]* Reduced max knockback from 160 to 120[/p][p]* Reduced max knockback scale from 3x to 2x (reducing the amount of knockback created by quad damage)[/p][p]* Reduce the amount of knockback reduction provided by Protection, clamping knockback reduction between the bonus protection rate and 0.5 (protection reduces knockback by 1/2, instead of by 3/4)[/p][p]* Removed vertical knockback lift from Gauntlet, starting Machine Gun, and starting Shotgun[/p][p]* Reduced vertical knockback lift from Heavy Machine Gun, Super Shotgun, and Lightning Gun from 16u to 10u[/p][p]* Ranger: Dire Orb Knockback reduced from 75 to 40[/p][p]* Scalebearer: Reduced knockback from the Stomper passive from 50 to 25[/p][p]* Strogg: Reduced Peeker hyperblaster knockback from 22 to 15[/p][p]* Strogg: Reduced Peeker explosive knockback from 75 to 50[/p][p]Additional Weapon Updates[/p][p]* Lightning Gun rate of fire improved from 48 to 44 ms (125 to 136 dps)[/p]

Quality of Life on Champion Mechanics

[p]* Clutch: Dodge Stamina - increased stamina regen from 0.2 to 0.33[/p][p]* Clutch: Air Dodge - removed min time delay between dodge activations[/p][p]* Clutch: Air Dodge - removed the requirement of touching the ground after a dodge before being allowed to perform another dodge[/p][p]* Clutch: Reduced shield protection rate from 40% to 35%[/p][p]* Strogg: Stroyent drops on all kills, but the hp bonus was lowered from 20hp to 10hp[/p][p]* Visor: No longer required to zoom during ability to gain the Piercing Damage bonus[/p]

Quake 3 Shotgun, Rocket Launcher, and Lightning Gun Weapon models

[p][/p][p]* Due to player feedback, we have introduced higher quality models for the TERMINATOR, LAST JUDGMENT, and SHAFT, adding additional details and higher quality textures[/p]

Additional Fixes & Changes

[p]* Resolved the CPU-utilization issue introduced in the Nov anti-cheat updates[/p][p]* Fixed the Quake 2 BLASTER & Quake 4 CITIZEN KANE shot sounds (the de-synced firing rate)[/p][p]* Fixed main menu texture quality for the NAPALM LAUNCHER, PROXIMITY LAUNCHER and Q3 Medals Vanities[/p][p]* Increased the Ultra Texture Quality from 2k to 4k (source quality)[/p][p]* Bots will no longer steal major items from nearby players[/p]