1.4.2 - Discord Integration and Netcode Improvements

Hey everyone!

Today’s update highlights are the Discord Rich Presence integration, leaderboards, balance changes, netcode improvements and more. Check full details below!

Attention: due to Leaderboards changes and other technical problems, Leaderboards were reset. We're really sorry about that. Rewards will be distributed by the end of november regardless.



Now you can join your friend’s matches through Discord! Simply click on any member on our Discord server who’s online & playing Ballistic and you’ll be taken to his/her match! You can also invite a friend to your match through Discord the same way.

If you don’t participate of our official Discord server yet, please join us! Our community is very active and welcoming: https://discord.gg/ballisticoverkill

• Weapons
  • Constrictor: damage reduced.
    
• Skills
  • Swiftness: now Shadow gains 3% passive mobility and an extra 3% for every second he’s running (caps at 3 stacks for a total of 12% mobility).
    

• Weapons
  • One Shot reworked: now has faster fire rate, but smaller explosion radius to compensate it.
    
  • Destructor reworked: now has faster fire rate, but grenades explode on mid range (before hitting anything). We’ll watch closely how these reworks play and apply further changes to these weapons on the next update, if it’s necessary.
    
• Skills
  • Trait: grenade recovery cooldown increased to 10 seconds.
    
  • Restraint reworked: now instantly recovers a grenade after a kill. Name and icons changed.
    

• Weapons
  • Whirlwind and Quickfix: range reduced.
    

• Skills
  • Trait: no longer detects invisible enemies (now only the Awareness ability does).
    

• Skills
  • Critical Hit reworked: Wraith's guns do the same damage over the entire body. Headshot multipliers are retained.
    

• Weapons
  • Chainsaw: headshot multiplier reduced.
    
• Skills
  • Last Stand: now lasts 4 seconds (instead of 5).
    

• Now you get 10 extra skill points per match win and lose no points with a loss (before it was +10 per win and -5 per loss). Caps with 100 wins (1000 points).
  
• Skill points from wins are no longer applied to classes leaderboards.
  
• Capture Point game mode weight was increased (now it’s 100% like TDM and FFA).
  
• Kill streaks, multi kills and long headshots now rewards more skill points.
  

• Increased player position update rate from 15 to 30 per second.
  
• New blood particles for the zombie and elite skins.
  
• Fixed Forge Warden texture missing.
  
• Fixed Shadow Ninja skin not going invisible on low settings.
  
• Fixed LMG Master achievement being awarded without actually completing the requirements.