Season 2 Change List!
May 13, 2021 Season 2 Update
[h2]New Items[/h2]
Matadors
Harmonica
Shield Shaker
[h2]Gameplay Changes[/h2]
General
Gun Balance
ARs:
SMGs:
Shotguns:
Item Balance
[h2]Private Rooms Beta[/h2]
Room Browser
New Customization
Voice Options:
Match Settings:
Team Settings:
Zone Settings:
Advanced:
New Room Settings
[h2]Environment Changes[/h2]
New Region - The Frontier
[h2]Season 2 Limited Content[/h2]
Battle Pass
[h2]General[/h2]
Audio
Particles
Matchmaker
Social Content
Thursday Double Day
Known Issues
[h2]New Items[/h2]
Matadors
- Dual wielded shotguns
- 8 shots in each gun
- Every shot fires 4 pellets that each deal 3 damage (for base level)
- Damage per pellet increases each rarity level
- Reload with a flicking hand gesture
Harmonica
- Music emitting device that restores teammate’s shield
- Does not regenerate shield for the person playing the harmonica
- Can regenerate up to 8 shield per second at full power
- When starting to play music, the regeneration begins at 2 shield per second
- Regeneration increases over 12 seconds until it reaches full power
- If shot while playing, the power level is reset
Shield Shaker
- Shield regenerating drink (additional to the Shield Soda)
- Shake to charge up the drink for 5 seconds and the top will pop up when complete
- Regenerates 50 shield immediately when drank
- Stacks 3 per slot in inventory
[h2]Gameplay Changes[/h2]
General
- Player Count: Player count for all modes increased from 18 -> 24
- Player Count: Squads mode is now 8 squads of 3
- Battle Zone: Hold times between zone movement doubled
- Battle Zone: Zone move speed decreased from 3.5 -> 2.5 m/s
- Battle Zone: Zone size is now on average 25% smaller per zone
- Ghost: Move speed increased from 50% -> 75% when downed
Gun Balance
ARs:
- AKM damage increased 16 -> 17
- M60: Rounds per second lowered 9 -> 8
- M60: Body damage lowered 22 -> 20
- M60: Full Damage Range lowered from 125m -> 100m (after this distance, damage starts decreasing)
- M60: Ramp up shots increased from 8 -> 10 (takes 10 shots before firing at full speed)
- M60: Much more wild when 1-handing
SMGs:
- P90: Damage increased 12 -> 13
Shotguns:
- DT11: Damage per pellet decreased 8 -> 7 (potential damage per shot lowered 72 -> 63)
Item Balance
- Katana: Vaulted (still available in Private Rooms)
- Health & Shield Sodas: Points to heal/regenerate lowered from 50 -> 20
- Health & Shield Sodas: Time to heal lowered to 10 seconds (2 per second).
- Health & Shield Sodas: Stack size increased from 3 -> 6.
- Small Battery: Regen amount increased from 5 -> 10
- Medium Battery: Regen amount increased from 10 -> 20
- Loot: Very minor tweaks to item spawn chances & rarity chances
[h2]Private Rooms Beta[/h2]
Room Browser
- New Private Room Browser for viewing Open Private Rooms to join
- Rooms set to “Open” will show in the Room Browser list
- Allows players to easily discover other rooms
New Customization
Voice Options:
- Options for team, proximity, team proximity, or open voice channels.
Match Settings:
- Weapons/Items: Choose which items are/aren’t available during a match
Team Settings:
- Squad size (Solos, Duos, Squads, etc...)
- Friendly fire (on / off)
Zone Settings:
- Zone damage rate multiplier
- Zone delay multiplier
- Zone move speed multiplier
- Option to spawn launch towers on opposite sides of the zone
Advanced:
- Option for Shield Regeneration which increases shield automatically over time
- Damage multiplier
- Revive (on / off)
- Health/Armor amount players spawn with after revive
- Revive respawn item
- Ghost move speed
New Room Settings
- Ability to transfer private room leader
- Option to hide room code
- Set the room name which is displayed in the Room Browser
[h2]Environment Changes[/h2]
New Region - The Frontier
- “The Frontier" has overtaken Cliffside — the Wild West has arrived to Pop1
- The Frontier marks a new town with a Saloon, Bureau Train Station, an open desert range, and much more!
- New exploding and lootable barrels have been added to this new region
[h2]Season 2 Limited Content[/h2]
Battle Pass
- 50 tiers total of new unlockable rewards (13 free rewards)
- Get access to all Battle Pass tiers for 330 Bureau Gold
- Re-designed point award system: daily dailies, stacked weeklies, & legendary challenges
[h2]General[/h2]
Audio
- New intro music and loading music
- New themed environment audio for the Frontier
Particles
- All particle effects for the drop pods improved
- Red loot pod smoke improved
- Improved door and window break effects
- New build tile create/destroy effects
- Player hit effects (blood/shield) improved
Matchmaker
- Countdown will shorten the wait time as more players fill a server
- Prevents waiting on 23 players for an extended period of time
- Biases towards starting the match instead of waiting several minutes for a final player
Social Content
- Clicking on a friend in the Social Panel will display their calling card
Thursday Double Day
- Season 2 will have double XP every Thursday, all season
- Starts at 11:59 pm Pacific and runs until 4 am Pacific the next day
Known Issues
- Steam VR: Matador flick reload is more difficult than it should be
