The Sorcerer - Patch Notes (257)

A new enemy type has arrived

New

New enemy type: Sorcerer (Elite Ranged Mercenary)
New mission interactable: Category Relay Shop
3 new Scout Perks

Updates

Firearm Lightning Ammo adjustments:
Hipfire: beam width increased to 125 (was 100), max hits reduced to 4 (was 8), damage reduced to 75% (was 95), perk chance increased to 28% (was 18)
New shouldering alt fire mode: narrows the beam, dealing 112% dmg but only hitting 1 target, 100% perk chance
Range reduced to 18% (was 20)
I had too much fun making this gun strong and overdid it, apologies for having to nerf something so badly. I also wanted ADS to actually mean something for the gun, so I gave it an alternate fire mode to help its weakness against single targets. I will be closely monitoring this weapon.
Enemies should less frequently switch targets mid-attack
Special spawn chances between the types has been tweaked back to previous (I messed up the resulting percentages in the last patch with some of the back end changes)
Increased melee base damage ~30%, Heavy Swings now have 25% base armor penetration (was 0)
Melee still feels too weak considering the extra risk you take for being in close range. I want pulling out your sword to be equally viable to ranged in every difficulty, not just be a defensive play at higher difficulties when you are out of ammo. I will be closely monitoring this and tweaking over the next few patches
Shockwave Blade now hits a max 5 targets. Stun amount has been increased to also scale with distance to target from 1 to 3. (was a flat 0.75)
With the new increased melee damage, shockwave is way too good as a primary damage dealer. It is intended to be used as a temporary way to silence ranged enemies, but the infinite hits made it way too easy to use for every situation.
Slicer health reduced ~5%
Fancy Blade Beacon duration increased to 1.5s per stack (was 1)

Fixes

Improvements to Assassin’s movement to reduce their seemingly recent newfound love of ignoring the run up and just jumping from the shadows
Fixed boss leap attack’s movement looking super weird on clients
Fixed an instance of boss teleporting far away after killing a player
Fixed some weird vfx related to firing shots into super close targets