Jump Pads, more Breach Points and anti-Spawn Camping

We've been closely following your feedback since releasing Early Access last week. And here's our first attempt at critical fixes. Plus new content!

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Highlights

• Reduced player name tag distance to support smaller maps
  
• Reduced projectile distance to support smaller maps
  
• Fixed payout screen (level to next) sometimes not populating data
  
• Implemented low risk solutions to test against spawn camping
  
• Addressed objective markers missing in flight
  
• Hotfix for crashes related to voice comms, changing teams and menu bugs
  
• Hotfix for breach targets appearing available to breach when unavailable from a destroyed pod to that breach target
  
• Added disclaimer where progression and unlocks are shown
  
• Hotfix for lockon staying on screen when ships move behind cover
  
• Implemented jump pads in FPS
  

Full Patch Notes

• Fix for Discord presence not updating
  
• Fix for bad collision on dominion capital ship bridge
  
• Fixed level up delay issue for first item to reveal instantly
  
• Modified progression animations
  
• Updates to loading screens and its animations
  
• Polish to various weapon animations
  
• ZOrder changes to level up screen
  
• Visual work to Jump Pads
  
• Increased revolver ammo to 8 from 6
  
• Decreased revolver vertical recoil
  
• Moved revolver ADS closer to camera
  
• Reduced shotgun damage per pellet from 13.5 to 12.5
  
• Reduced shotgun pellets from 12 to 10
  
• Made ion disruptor projectiles smaller
  
• Updated ship boosting to last around 50% longer for all ships
  
• Increased the regen time for ship boosting to a bit longer at 0.4-0.5
  
• Removed removed one interior dominion point to The Ring map
  
• Added jump pads for testing on The Ring map
  
• Scaled up jump pad trigger box
  
• Updated turret display offline material
  
• Updated lightmaps and adjusted fog settings for better parity between high/low quality settings on The Ring map
  
• Rifle and Pistol 45 degree sprint animations
  
• Fixed an issue where Players that changed Team would remain in the Voice Chat channel of their previous Team
  
• Refactored the Bridge Door Terminal Objective
  
• Made the auto shotgun pellet spread smaller
  
• Increased auto shotgun ammo from 8 to 10
  
• Increased montage blend-in to reduce huge animation kickback
  
• Increased pump shotgun pellet spread size
  
• Lowered KG AR damage to 25 from 30
  
• Lowered KG AR headshot multiplier to 1.5 from 1.65
  
• Lowered tank health to 250 from 300
  
• Lowered techno/toxic health from 250 to 225
  
• Made rogue a light avatar like the hacker
  
• Reduced frag grenade radius to 500 from 850
  
• Lowered frag grenade inner radius to 150 from 250
  
• Incendiary grenades now apply burn effect upon initial explosion
  
• Increased incendiary grenades burn radius to 150 from 135
  
• Turrets now deal damage to Assault Pods
  
• Refactored the Scoring variables on the Player State
  
• Refactored the Team Balancing
  
• Implemented temporary solutions for Team Balancing until we get more sophisticated Match Making Rules with Flexmatch
  
• Implemented a preliminary Spawn Protection system
  
• Ships have a Spawn Protection time of 3 seconds
  
• Avatars have a Spawn Protection time of 1.5 seconds
  
• Lowered kg revolver headshot multiplier from 2.0 to 1.85
  
• Reduced auto shotty magazine from 10 to 8
  
• Decreased auto shotty pellets to 9
  
• Reduced railgun range laser from 300,000 to 210,000
  
• Reduced clusterbomb cooldown from 7.5 to 5.5
  
• Increased laser gatling damage from 8.5 to 9.5
  
• Reduced missile range from 262.500 to 185,000
  
• Reduced ion repeater range from 200,000 to 180,000
  
• Reduced clusterbomb range from 188,000 to 175,000
  
• Reduced missile repeater burst interval from 0.15 to 0.11
  
• Changed FPS screen effect to use the incendiary one
  
• Integrated jump pads to Outposts
  
• Updated lightmaps to Outposts after jump pad integration
  
• Added UI disclaimer tool tip
  
• Added breach locations to detonation capital ships
  
• Fixed an issue where hitting anything and causing damage will have a HitMarker
  
• Updated detonation lightmaps after adding new breach points
  
• Fixed an issue where ObjectiveMarkers would not become visible if they were outside of the distance threshold
  
• Extended the match end period to 30 seconds from 20 seconds for a total end match time of 1 minute
  
• Fixed an issue where weapons would not transition into the reloading state if a reload was initiated while they were in the firing state.
  
• Jump pad audio pass + attenuation shape
  
• Moved the C dominion point to create separation from jump pad landing spot
  
• Increased jump pad attenuation to cover a larger area
  
• Fixed an issue where the profile button on the hangar flight deck was displaying the incorrect experience values for their given level
  
• Fixed an issue where match payouts was displaying the wrong value for the amount of experience that was gained from that Match as a total
  
• Set map world extents
  
• Fixed visual holes in the Terran capital ship
  
• Re-oriented select interior and exterior breach points to relate better