Heroes of Valor News

[p]Hello heroes! [/p][p][/p][p]The summer Heroes event has ended. But just closing the event would be a bit lame, don't you agree? That's why we added some new stuff with today's update. ;) Introducing a new battle chest shop, a brand new cowboy themed chest, new legendaries and much more! Check out the patch notes below for all the details. :D[/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]Patch notes:[/p][p]Battle Chests / Shop
-updated Battle Chest shop to new chest season system
-added new season chest: Outlaw's Bounty which includes Wild West themed cosmetics
-Templar Chest (season 2) added which contains only templar themed items
-added Brutal Slayer and Blessed Guardian legendary templar helmets
-old chests now became "The Box" (season 1) and contains all random cosmetics that do not fit into a theme
-chest item preview changed into a quick display when hovering over chests
-increased inner padding a bit on all visible cosmetic icons for a more universal and cleaner display
-old chests should now be automatically reimbursed into coins
-new pumpkin token icon
-reworked Halloween Heroes 2024 Witch Hats to be slightly more detailed and changed allied version into a green version that matches the plague masks
-added brains in glass dome cosmetics to Halloween Heroes 2024
-Steam coins and random chests now trigger every 15 mins instead of 20 minutes (cooldown reduced)
-Steam coins and random chest drop now requires a minimum of 750 score

Gameplay settings
-added camera position controls to options (height, horizontal offset and distance) which allows the player to fully customize the camera as camera position desires are divided
-changed default keybind for camera shoulder swap to empty as too many beginners press it accidentally without knowing how to change it back

Main menu
-added player avatars to leader boards
-improved leader board entry displaying a bit
-banner rank should now load in much quicker (within 0.5s)
-added new leader board player card with rank, rank title and supporter status that appears when clicking on a player in the leader boards

Planes and AA
-AA turret rotation speed increased from 50 -> 75
-plane rocket fire cooldown increased from 0.2s -> 0.5s
-plane rocket speed decreased from 15k -> 12.5k
-added plane MG distance based damage falloff (this might be way too aggressive, but we will tweak)
-slightly increased FOV change when WEP speed boosting

Map tweaks
-added many more sandbags to the bridge in Coastal Conflict

Bug fixes
-fixed black spot in eyes when wearing certain shirts
-fixed AA rotation sound not playing when movement of mouse matches rotation of turret itself (now it always makes a noise when rotating regardless of mouse barrel rotation matching)
-fixed slight offset with plane speed lines effect
-fixed motorcycle character position so hands line up with steering wheel again
-fixed leader board jump to page not jumping to the correct page when rank is on the brim between two pages[/p][p][/p][p]Cheers!

[p][/p][p]-new Trooper weapon: Single Barrel (shotgun)[/p][p]-slightly improved character proportions and mesh a bit[/p][p]-tweaked character skinning a bit[/p][p]-new dirt texture (experimental)[/p][p]-tweaked shader a bit (experimental)[/p][p]-tweaked straight pants meshes to be less bloated and more as they should be[/p][p]-post fire reload delay reduced from 0.5s to 0.3s[/p][p]-fixed reload spam exploit to get faster reloads[/p][p]-fixed empty new item popup appearing when buying a chest[/p][p]-pending rewards indicator should now disappear after opening all chests[/p]

-Fire Bullets skill duration reduced from 5s -> 3s
-Burning time decreased from 3s -> 2s (4 burn damage ticks total)
-Burning rate changed from 3 damage per 1s -> 2 damage per 0.5s
-Burning now only starts causing damage after 0.5s
-Critical hit bonus no longer affects DOT damage

-fixed pending rewards indicator
-fixed flag shader (appeared strange dark blueish, now flags appear as intended)

-added "Pending Rewards!" indicator to main menu to better indicate that you have unopened chests
-added 2 new achievements

-reduced scoped and unscoped kar98/Lee Enfield recoil by half
-experimental new tank turret direction system that should prevent weird behaviour under or close to obstacles

-fixed motorcycles falling over when not used or when freshly spawned
-fixed battle chests not showing up in battle shop and failing to open

-added 5 Steam achievements (more will follow)

-decreased tank speed from 900 -> 800
-tanks sometimes doing no damage should normally be fixed

-fixed t-shirt bug with underwear
-fixed and improved skinning of templar tabard
-fixed all templar items Steam inventory icons