IMPROVEMENT

BALANCING CHANGES

GB Vulnerability Adjustment
[olist][*] The Front Dodge Heavy attack Guardbreak Vulnerability for the following heroes has been lowered to 100ms (down from 433ms):[/olist]

• Aramusha
• Berserker
• Highlander
• Shinobi
• Tiandi

Dev comment: Many heroes have a Front Dodge Heavy attack that has 100ms of Guardbreak Vulnerability. This lets them beat Guardbreak attempts in multiple situations, but this did not apply to the listed heroes; we've therefore adjusted their Guardbreak Vulnerability to give them both more consistency with other heroes but also as a buff to these attacks.

Raider

• Top Chained Heavy now deals 29 damage (up from 28)
• Side Chained Heavy now deals 27 damage (up from 26)
• Raider's Fury now deals 30 damage (up from 28)
• Top Heavy Finisher now deals 32 damage (up from 30)
• Side Heavy Finishers now deal 30 damage (up from 28)

Dev comment: We previously lowered Raider's damage as the hero's curve was too high. After the dust has settled, Raider has been underperforming, so we're raising the damage the hero causes with some of his attacks to make Raider more competitive.

Varangian Guard

• Chain Link timing from blocked Dodge Attacks and Hjaldr Oathkeeper to Light Finishers is now 300ms (up from 200ms)

Dev comment: Varangian Guard's dodge attacks as well as Hjaldr Oathkeeper made the following Light finisher undodgeable when blocked, and so we're increasing the Chain Link timing to lower their reward.

Black Prior

• Tenebris Trust now has a Superior Block window of 200ms (down from 300ms), from 100ms to 300ms into the attack (from 100ms to 400ms)

Dev comment: We're reducing the Superior Block window for Tenebris Trust so that it correctly matches other Superior Block windows at 200ms.

Afeera

• Removed "Unlock Tech" that allowed Afeera to perform Astro Flip in incorrect directions when unlocking after attacks

Dev comment: While we made changes to Afeera in the last patch, there still remained situations where players could still perform the bug. We've applied a second fix to fully remove Afeera's ability to Astro Flip in incorrect directions.

BUG FIXES

GENERAL

• [Bug Fix] Fixed an issue where the players contacts are offset during the Respectful Kill Execution
• [Bug Fix] [PhotoMode] Fixed an issue where the fire texture in the Shard Defender spawn is offset
• [Bug Fix] Fixed an issue where the commands aren't displayed when a player is dead and spectate a teammate at ballista