WELCOME TO SEASON 1

Content Updates

• Reload and Inspect animations
• Emoticons
• Gestures
• Pets (!!!)
• Sounds
• Watches
• More? Yes, more!

• That amounts to 96 exclusive rewards
• 29 rewards can be earned for free!
• Unlock the whole BattlePass to receive a total of 1575 Multibucks!

• 6 Mastery Levels per weapon
• 6 Mastery Levels per gadget
• 5 levels per ability

New Features

• Test your luck and reach for the stars in the glitz, glam, and tight-knit gameplay of this glittering arena

• Don’t get lost in stinging sands! Seek shelter and glory in this Las Vegas map variant: Sandstorm.
• Tripwires & turrets: The environment can work for or against you. Traverse Vegas but watch your step, around every corner could be a trap.

• You’ll have to see this one to believe it. It’s outta this world!

Gameplay Changes & balance

Movement & Animation

• Made multiple updates to vaulting responsiveness and general smoothness when traversing
• Updated various first-person animations to better sync with footsteps
• Improvements to syncing and stability when players are on moving surfaces such as elevators, sky-lifts, cranes, and moving platforms
• Improved speed-matching and added in-air animations when coining other contestants
• General polish updates to third-person locomotion

• Stabilized the camera for aim down sight reloads and bolt actions, for easier tracking of targets
• Updated jumping and zipline animations when aiming down sights
• Added third-person reaction animations for Flashbangs, Gas, and Fire.
• Reworked the animations for the Charge’N’Slam specialization

Controller

• Added sensitivity scaling based on zoom FOV

• Added better support and various improvements for sensitivity dampening on targets
• Updated default aim down sights sensitivity reduction
• Reduced zoom snapping active duration

• Settings added

• Added setting to allow players to further customize their controller experience
• Added separate dead zones for the different analog sticks

Maps

• Finally, the wrecking ball is back! Check the cranes.

• Improved readability of map border

• Added ‘Evening’ environment condition

Specializations

• Updated damage of the ground slam so that it will break floors in buildings more consistently

• Rebalanced fade-in/out durations to make it harder to vanish mid-combat
• Added fade-in/out visual effect

• Fixed a bug where players could become stuck when grappling during a vault

• Reduced the total fuel, shortening the max duration
• Fixed an issue where Recon Senses would trigger on enemy statues

Weapons

• Updated bullet dispersion system on all weapons when aiming down sights
• Fixed various issues where weapons could fire infinitely or not at all
• Fixed an issue where Gadgets could become stuck in an infinite cooldown
• Added a new hitmarker to crosshairs for damage over time effects

• Updated recoil pattern, making it slightly less easy to control

• Updated recoil pattern, making it slightly easier to control

• Fixed a bug where the Flamethrower could be fired without consuming ammo
• Max range reduced by 60 cm
• Fire rate reduced to 160 RPM from 180 RPM
• Adjusted Flamethrower impact effects to make them less blinding for the target player
• Reduced damage to 28 from 31

• Updated recoil pattern, making it slightly easier to control

• Increased bullet dispersion when firing from the hip
• Updated recoil pattern, making the weapon easier to control
• Fire rate reduced to 300 RPM from 400 RPM
• Increased LH1 damage from 41 to 45

• Updated recoil pattern, making it slightly less easy to control

• Fixed an issue where the Riot Shield could block bullets while the player was emoting

• Introduced Throwing Knives to the Light archetype

• Magazine size reduced to 20 from 24
• Updated recoil pattern, making the weapon less easy to control
• Increased damage fall-off to make the weapon less effective at long-range

Gadgets

• Fixed an issue where Gadgets could become stuck in an infinite cooldown

• Increased health from 5 to 25

• Added ability for defibrillators to damage enemy players. They will do 50 damage and will enter cooldown if they land a successful hit

• Added trigger audio effect

• Fuse time increased from 1.1s to 1.8s, giving it more range

• Removed Night Vision from the game, to be reworked in a future update

• Radius reduced from 17.5m to 10m
• Updated the crosshair hit marker that appears when the Sonar Grenade detects targets

• Removed sensitivity reduction from stunned players
• Added glitch effect to stunned players, rendering their Specialization and Gadgets unusable for a short time

• Increased health from 5 to 25

• Introduced Vanishing Bomb gadget to the Light archetype

• Added line break effect to Ziplines