WORLD BOSS Patch 1.0 Release Notes

Gladiators, are you ready?

WORLD BOSS’s highly anticipated 1.0 launch is here, bringing with it the completed vision for WORLD BOSS and some incredible new features. On behalf of Fresh and LazarBeam, we’re so excited for you all to experience what we have created!

Here’s a recap of what’s coming:

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The biggest change to the game is the Corruption Bomb. This allows the World Boss to plant Corruption Bombs and corrupt areas of the map for as long as they manage to hold the Crown. If you’re boss enough and can destroy all three sites, you can even end the entire match! This creates a definitive end state to your battle, while at the same time keeping the casual drop-in / drop-out style of WORLD BOSS at its core.

A visual feast is coming your way with the all-new Arena, including three all new Hexes! The new Arena vastly changes gameplay as it creates a plethora of opportunities for players to create new battle tactics. From higher vantage points, intricate building interiors, safe zones to choose your Perks and so much more, your battles will now feel completely different and even more exhilarating than before.

To help increase your accuracy and control, we have added Aim Down Sight (ADS) to most weapons. That precision comes with a price, though, as ADS will slow down your movement speed while in use.

With the all new map and terrain, it’s time to run and outlast the competition! Getting from one side of the map to the other and collecting those handy lives pickups will be easier than ever now with Sprint.

We’re not even close to being done yet, because we’re about to get perkier than ever. Perks have undergone a total overhaul to make them provide even more gameplay variation and power fantasy. Not only have we upped the ante on our existing Perks, we have added 11 new ones! A few of these Perks include:

Airborne Aggression - While airborne, increase your damage by 10% and increase it by 10% as you level up. It’s time to rain down terror from the skies!
Boss Killer - Increase your chances to delete the reigning World Boss. This Perk gives you an extra 10% damage against the current World Boss. With a chance to increase that by another 10% as you level up.
Ratman - Who needs to be World Boss when you can be Ratman?! Increase your crouch speed by 70% with this epic Perk.

Last, but certainly not least, Party Join now allows players to join and fight against up to three of their friends in the same match. It’s time for a bit of friendly competition, but will it be all for one or one for all? Don’t forget to gloat when you steal the crown from your mates!

Find out more about the New Arena, Corruption Bomb and more over on our Steam blogs.

To our loyal community, we want to say thank you. Our team has been developing WORLD BOSS in Early Access alongside you all and have appreciated all your feedback on the game. We hope you are all as thrilled as we are for our full release and all the new features that are coming along with it.

On your marks, Corruption Bomb ready, it’s time to let loose and conquer the Arena to become the ultimate World Boss!

To ensure the smoothest experience for WORLD BOSS, the minimum and recommended specs have been updated and are as listed below:

MINIMUM SPECIFICATIONS

OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10
PROCESSOR: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 or Intel i5-4440
MEMORY: 8 GB RAM
GRAPHICS: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4G
DIRECT X: DirectX: Version 11
STORAGE: 10 GB available space

RECOMMENDED SPECIFICATIONS

OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10
PROCESSOR: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel i7-9700k
MEMORY: 16 GB RAM
GRAPHICS: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 3060 8GB, AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
DIRECT X: DirectX: Version 11
STORAGE: 10 GB available space

As always please continue to report bugs to our Steam forums or in the bug reporting channel on our Discord, as we’re constantly monitoring those channels.

[h2]Release Notes[/h2]

[h3]New Features[/h3]

Server-ending Corruption Bomb
New Arena with three new Hexes
Party System
Aiming Down Sights for all weapons
New Sprinting Mechanic
Achievements
New Main Menu overhaul

[h3]New Character Skins[/h3]

Renamed Rare Character Skin: “Jack”
”Magma-n”
”Female Seraph”
”Max”

[h3]New Weapon Skins[/h3]

Renamed Epic Revolver Skin: “Tabor’s Sword”
”Nature” SMG
”Dragon” Shotgun
”Seraph” Marksman rifle
”Cardboard” Sniper Rifle
”Lava” Rocket Launcher
”Mega Soaker” Rocket Launcher
”Eldritch” Rocket Launcher
”Cardboard” Pistol
”Eldritch” Pistol

[h3]Lives[/h3]

Previously we had a safety zone at Levels 1-4, so Gladiators had an unlimited number of lives and were unable to be demoted if they were deleted. In the 1.0 update, Levels 1-4 will now have seven lives, and if you lose them all, you can be demoted back to level 1.
As we’ve added the extra challenge into the game with this change, we have also added Lives to drones as well as updating healing and life pickups to have pre-determined spawn points – so you always know where to find them!
Improved notification of lives lost in UI

[h3]Quality of Life[/h3]

Improvements to Perk readability on HUD
Improvements to Perk Selection readability
Improved Drone rotation
Added a bobble animation to each of the drones
Added glints to scoped weapons when aiming

[h3]BUG FIXES[/h3]

[h3]General[/h3]

FPS improvements
Fixed a range of incorrect meshes on character skins
Fixed an issue when the player holds a Pistol, the World Boss yellow glow aura is missing in first person
Fixed an issue where the 'World Boss Defeated' text would overlap with level up text
Fixed an issue when the reconnection timer appears for a second when leaving a match
Fixed an issue where Damage & Fire Rate increase perk PFX remained through respawn
Fixed an issue where the Leaderboard and respawn screen overlay each other
Fixed an issue where bots A-posed
Fixed an issue where bots demoted to Level 1 still had perk aura

[h3]Server[/h3]

Fixed a wide range of server issues
Improved Server performance and memory usage

[h3]Weapon Fixes[/h3]

Balance pass on all Weapons
Fixed an issue where AUG naming was inconsistent throughout the game
Fixed an issue where the default weapon skin is hidden when 'Show Locked Items' is unchecked
Fixed an issue where the RPG didn’t do splash damage

[h3]Equipment Fixes[/h3]

Fixed an issue where the Teleporter remained deployed after leaving and rejoining a match

[h3]Controller Support[/h3]

Fixed an issue where the player can't rotate 3D models with the controller
Fixed an issue when switching between daily and weekly missions showed two inputs
Fixed an issue when bumping the mouse whilst selecting a weapon with a controller, the game will start without the chosen weapon

[h3]Miscellaneous[/h3]

Fixed an issue where the World Boss task process was listed as "Unity playback engine." in Task Manager

[h3]Known Issues[/h3]
We are currently aware of a few known issues, these will be addressed in an upcoming patch.

Chance for a Player to start match light map issues, to fix this leave match and rejoin.
Players can become stuck at certain points in the map by using a teleporter to get into small gaps. Use the teleporter again to get out of said areas.
If a player is disconnected from a match after reaching Level 5, when they rejoin a match, the respawn screen will show an incorrect amount of lives left.
If a player collects a life pickup, the amount of lives shown on the UI when a player reaches a new life bracket may be incorrect
Joining a party while in the store menu or while previewing an item to purchase may cause overlapping UI when taken into the match
If the World Boss dies as a Corruption Bomb explodes, the hex will still have the corrupted PFX visible for the former World Boss
If the World Boss dies as a Corruption Bomb explodes, the explosion SFX for the Corruption Bomb will still play
Players can stay in a match after the World Boss successfully corrupts a server if they die as the final Corruption Bomb explodes
When the player joins a match for the first time while having a controller plugged in, the stats for the pistol will be incorrect. Pressing any button, including using the joystick, will immediately resolve this issue.
The Spectre skin has an issue while aiming down sights where part of the view is obscured by their shoulder
Sometimes the respawn screen will show the wrong information of how the player was actually killed

Where possible please ensure all drivers are updated to ensure the best and smoothest performance.

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