Season 13 Battle Pass
This season's Battle Pass is the gift that keeps on giving, with tons of rewards for you to unlock including holiday-themed profile icons, nameplates, and vanity items!New Vanity - ICE BEAM Lightning Gun
Give your enemies the cold shoulder with this new ice-themed Lightning Gun vanity, available in the Season 13 Battle Pass!
New Map - Insomnia
[i]I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea...[/i] Your restless battle continues within the ancient stone walls of this cathedral-fortress to Volkerh, the Whispering One. This moonlit arena is available for Duel, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Clan Arena modes!
Audio Settings
- Added Ambient Volume slider
- Added Announcer Volume slider
- Added a Champion Voice Volume slider (includes self, team, enemy VO and efforts)
Map Updates
- [b]Deep Embrace[/b] [list]
- Updated collision at the top of the stairs near the Rocket Launcher
- Fixed a major collision issue at the Light Armor "death window"
- Fixed a hole in the geometry near the Mega Health
- Updated Collision throughout the map
Champion Updates
- [b]BJ's[/b] Dual Wield now treats all weapons the same: increasing their firing rate by 1/3rd
- [b]DOOM Slayer -[/b] Changed ability duration from 6 seconds → 5 seconds, and increased delay between Punches from 500ms → 1s
- [b]Scalebearer -[/b] Forward acceleration 0.85 → 0.75
- Unified movement & knockback box sizes within weight classes to 0.8m, 0.9m, and 1.0m: [list]
- Anarki 0.9 → 0.8
- BJ Blazkowicz 1.0 → 0.9
- Death Knight 1.0 → 0.9
- Doom Slayer 0.8 → 0.9
- Eisen 0.85 → 0.9
- Ranger 0.95 → 0.9
- Strogg 0.8 → 0.9
- Visor 1.0 → 0.9
- Clutch 1.2 → 1.0 (knockback only)
- Keel 0.9 → 1.0
- Sorlag 1.2 → 1.0 (knockback only)
Weapon Updates
- [b]Shotgun:[/b] [list]
- Reduced pellet count and increased damage per pellet (same max damage) [list]
- Old: 20 pellets x 4 dmg = 80, SSG - 30 pellets x 4 dmg = 120
- New: 16 pellets x 5 dmg = 80, SSG - 24 pellets x 5 dmg = 120
- The Nailgun splash radius now matches the Super Nailgun splash radius of 20u
- Both the Nailgun and Super Nailgun projectiles have been changed to 1800 ups instead of 2000 ups
Gameplay Fixes
- Fixed the Respawn button not working during warmup
- The match will now end immediately when the CTF mercy limit is triggered. (Instead of scheduling it in 3 seconds.) This resolves issues when hitting the mercy limit near the end of the round
- Fixed Marauder Shotgun shells not vanishing in Ghostwalk
- Fixed Shaft Lightning Gun glass not vanishing in Ghostwalk
- Fixed Terminator Shotgun beam not vanishing in Ghostwalk
Sound Updates
- Fixed 5.1 and 7.1 Surround Sound options
- Fixed a large number of sounds cutting out
- Fixes sounds cutting out during/after Dual Wield
- Fixes a lot of cases for weapon shots cutting out
- Fixes a lot of cases of missing enemy sounds (steps, jumps, lands, etc)
- Fixed explosions cutting out
- Fixed range inconsistencies in champion movement sounds, now using 35m for all sounds (previously, some were 32, 35, 37.5)
- Fixed The Lurching King / Exile map loading loading music
- Normalized footstep volumes (some were too loud, some were too quiet; now they should be just right)
- Made pain sounds for teammates quieter
- Slighty increased the pitch of footsteps and jump sounds above you, and decreased the pitch of those below you
- Slight reduced the volume of occluded footsteps and jump sounds (helps with sounds through walls sounding like they are right next to you)
- Sound Mix - Slight decreased in third person champion voice, pain sounds, and death sounds volume
Bot Updates
- Slight nerf for Lightning Gun & Super Nailgun aiming
UI Updates
- Ranked UI skip fix
- Fixed typos in Nyx and Doom Slayer game tips
- Fixed inconsistent choices between UK/US English spelling
- Fixed typo in the Marauder Shotgun description
- Fixed typo in QuakeCon 2021 Gauntlet description
- Fixed watermark code that was trying to drop the "-master-https" string
- Watermark now hidden if there is an active match
- Cleaned up watermark formatting, shortened unconnected state text
Services
- Updated Bethesda.net BDK integration
- Security Updates
