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Harness the powers of the elements! Make your foes yield to your 4 elemental powers!
Fire, Energy, Earth, and Air!
Gwen's playstyle revolves around picking an element to match the situation.

• Earth provides a shield to yourself, and allies when applied
  
• Fire provides a damage buff to yourself, and allies when applied
  
• Air provides movement speed
  
• Energy provides Energy regeneration!
  

The projectiles also have unique effects as well.

• Earth is a heavy hitting direct hit 60 damage attack.
  
• Fire is a Damage over Time effect, allowing you to track your foes.
  
• Air spawns a cyclone on surfaces, serving as "boost pads"
  
• Energy deals moderate damage, and spikes enemies whom are not 'grounded' enough. bolting them for massive damage!
  

[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]

+New Character:
Gwen - The Field Alchemist
Harness the power of 4 different elements to conquer the battlefield.
Buff your allies, yourself, or smite down enemies with alchemical combos.

+Balance Changes:
Friday
Heal Magnum
-Instant damage 7 to 4
-DoT 15 over 3 seconds to 12 over 3 seconds
Kick
-Damage 40 to 35
-Hurtbox Duration 0.4s to 0.3s

Abigail
+Starting Ammo 100 to 200 Scrap
BABY Shotgun
+Pellet damage 6 to 7 each (Regular shotgun off map is 8)

Hemlock
-Can no longer apply harpoon bleed to turrets, giving himself free speed.

Charlie mini-Rework
- Now takes 25% increased damage while holding the flag instead of 15%
- Brush-Off Passive:
- Before: 10% damage taken upfront, 90% of it delayed over 3 seconds
- After: 20% damage taken upfront, 80% of it delayed over 3 seconds
- Removed the ability to animation cancel her reverse "roll"
+ Movement speed increased by 18% (800 to 950)
+ Jump power 550 -> 650
+ Staff slam cost 60 -> 50
+ Staff slam damage 45 -> 55
+ Knock out Punch Momentum increased by 25%
+ Energy Tick changed from 0.35 to 0.245

Dalton
- Removed 50% Fire & Poison resistance

Map Changes

Mechanyon
- Removed Rifles from each base rooftop
+ Added a new Rifle spawn to under the bridge on the hill

BUG FIXES:
+ Camille USB Mouse skin headlamp was turned off (Fixed)
+ Kill-Streak Announcer in wave defense is now disabled
+ Dalton Scope didnt account for ultra-wide monitors (Fixed)
+ Wave Defense servers could not be converted back to normal servers once started (Fixed)
+ Items on Dalton disappear completely while scoped (All items attached to him, arrows, guns, etc)
+ Charlie's item slot marker no longer is bugged out & features a new instant cast animation
+ Randomizer no longer displays all character portraits while enabled (Was a bug) Never actually impacted gameplay, but was confusing
+ Plummeter now gives 10 ammo on pickup (Fixes an issue on Randomizer)
+ Wait to Respawn text no longer animates if you have no lives left


Other Features:
+ New Keybind: Hide UI (f2 by default)
+ New Default color option in the skin menu
+ Ability to make a list of allowed characters via the ServerSettings.ini (You can have a dalton only server if you want)
+ A new Character-Random select button on the character select screen

This DLC will be free! and included in the base game.


[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Harness the powers of the elements! Make your foes yield to your 4 elemental powers!
Fire, Energy, Earth, and Air!
Gwen's playstyle revolves around picking an element to match the situation.

• Earth provides a shield to yourself, and allies when applied
  
• Fire provides a damage buff to yourself, and allies when applied
  
• Air provides movement speed
  
• Energy provides Energy regeneration!
  

The projectiles also have unique effects as well.

• Earth is a heavy hitting direct hit 60 damage attack.
  
• Fire is a Damage over Time effect, allowing you to track your foes.
  
• Air spawns a cyclone on surfaces, serving as "boost pads"
  
• Energy deals moderate damage, and spikes enemies whom are not 'grounded' enough. bolting them for massive damage!
  

[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]

+New Character:
Gwen - The Field Alchemist
Harness the power of 4 different elements to conquer the battlefield.
Buff your allies, yourself, or smite down enemies with alchemical combos.

+Balance Changes:
Friday
Heal Magnum
-Instant damage 7 to 4
-DoT 15 over 3 seconds to 12 over 3 seconds
Kick
-Damage 40 to 35
-Hurtbox Duration 0.4s to 0.3s

Abigail
+Starting Ammo 100 to 200 Scrap
BABY Shotgun
+Pellet damage 6 to 7 each (Regular shotgun off map is 8)

Hemlock
-Can no longer apply harpoon bleed to turrets, giving himself free speed.

Charlie mini-Rework
- Now takes 25% increased damage while holding the flag instead of 15%
- Brush-Off Passive:
- Before: 10% damage taken upfront, 90% of it delayed over 3 seconds
- After: 20% damage taken upfront, 80% of it delayed over 3 seconds
- Removed the ability to animation cancel her reverse "roll"
+ Movement speed increased by 18% (800 to 950)
+ Jump power 550 -> 650
+ Staff slam cost 60 -> 50
+ Staff slam damage 45 -> 55
+ Knock out Punch Momentum increased by 25%
+ Energy Tick changed from 0.35 to 0.245

Dalton
- Removed 50% Fire & Poison resistance

Map Changes

Mechanyon
- Removed Rifles from each base rooftop
+ Added a new Rifle spawn to under the bridge on the hill

BUG FIXES:
+ Camille USB Mouse skin headlamp was turned off (Fixed)
+ Kill-Streak Announcer in wave defense is now disabled
+ Dalton Scope didnt account for ultra-wide monitors (Fixed)
+ Wave Defense servers could not be converted back to normal servers once started (Fixed)
+ Items on Dalton disappear completely while scoped (All items attached to him, arrows, guns, etc)
+ Charlie's item slot marker no longer is bugged out & features a new instant cast animation
+ Randomizer no longer displays all character portraits while enabled (Was a bug) Never actually impacted gameplay, but was confusing
+ Plummeter now gives 10 ammo on pickup (Fixes an issue on Randomizer)
+ Wait to Respawn text no longer animates if you have no lives left


Other Features:
+ New Keybind: Hide UI (f2 by default)
+ New Default color option in the skin menu
+ Ability to make a list of allowed characters via the ServerSettings.ini (You can have a dalton only server if you want)
+ A new Character-Random select button on the character select screen

Hotfix patch addressing some issues with Admin assignment to a server

• Prices of several purchasable weapons changed (Wrench, Heal Gun, Grapple Gun, etc)
  
• Waves 3, 4, 5, 6 nerfed bot health by 20%
  
• Repair doubled from 100 Tractor Health to 200 (Same cost)
  
• Forced respawn time to 1 second (So you dont miss the Break round if you are changing characters)
  

• Displayed item equipped after spawn didn't match your actual item equipped (Fixed)
  
• Moderation Panel bug fixed
  

[h2]Hemlock VU (Visual Update)[/h2]
• New Model, animations, FX, SFX, and a new skin!

[h2]In-game user interface revamp[/h2]
• User flow is a bit more stream lined, full screen menus are taken 1 at a time. Cleaner, less buggy
• Character descriptions are cleaner


[h2]Improved Skin Customization & Shop![/h2]
• You Can now unlock and equip skins while in-game
• Skin changes take effect on next respawn
• Colors are saved PER-character now :)

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]
[h3]Global[/h3]
• ALL character movement acceleration values have been changed from 2,000 to 3,072
---> This means changing direction while moving/strafing is now faster

[h3]Bingo[/h3]
• Bingo's passive weakness to fire has been removed
• Bingo's new passive is 20% resistance to melee damage

[h3]Hemlock[/h3]
• Hemlock has had 30% fire & poison resistance this whole time! And it was never documented. This is now documented in game at character select.

[h2]Reward Changes[/h2]
• Kill & Assist bonus ratio for Scrip changed from 10% to 20% (Better reward scaling if you get kills or assists)
• Bonus Orchard Scrip is earned while playing on Saturday & Sunday


Full list of Fixed bugs:
https://pastebin.com/2dPtu4QT