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Build Spotlight:

New Vanguard Hero: Ryker: Master Tracker

Top Bar Abilities:

• Heel!: Ghost, Shadow and all owned Mecha S.C.O.U.T.s return to Ryker’s side, rapidly healing.
• Unleash!: Ghost, Shadow, and all owned Mecha S.C.O.U.T.s go stealth and gain 100% bonus Attack Damage and Attack Speed for 12 seconds. Each enemy killed during this duration refreshes the buff.
• Sic!: Target an enemy unit. All owned dogs in an area around the target will pounce on the target, each dealing 50 damage.

Basic Abilities:

• (Z) Summon Warhounds: Summons Ghost & Shadow at Ryker’s side. Ghost & Shadow gain 75% bonus Movement Speed for 15 seconds or until entering combat.
• (X) Tuck and Roll: Ryker dodges attacks, quickly tumbling to target location. Upon arrival he gains 50% Movement Speed and Attack Speed for 5 seconds.
• (C) Active Camouflage: After channeling for 1 seconds, Ryker enters Stealth and his next attack while Stealthed deals 300% bonus weapon damage.
• (V) Boom - Headshot!: Ryker takes aim, channeling and locking onto a target for 2 seconds. Upon channel completion, Ryker fires a massive shot at the target, dealing 1,000 damage. If the target dies, the Energy cost of this is refunded and the Cooldown is set to 10 seconds.

Global Passives:

• K9 Affinity: Upon death, refund 40% of Luminite cost of Mecha-S.C.O.U.T.s to Ryker.
• Sniper Mentality: Ranged Infantry units have a 1% chance to deal 1.25x damage.

Unique Upgrades

• Houndmaster (Passive): Attuned to his hounds, Ryker gains their strengths while each is alive. If Ghost is alive, he gains an additional 25% maximum Health. If Shadow is alive, he gains 25% increased attack speed.
• Lick Your Wounds: If Ryker, Ghost, or Shadow are out of combat for more than 2 seconds, their Health Regen is increased by 100%.
• Ambush Shot (Passive): Basic Attacks fired from Concealment are critical hits, dealing 50% more damage.
• Pack Mentality (Tier 2) (Passive): Ryker, Ghost, and Shadow all gain 15 Armor for each other member of the pack that is alive.
• Permanent Camouflage (Tier 3) (Passive): Basic Attacks no longer remove Stealth from Ryker.

New Units:

• Ghost: Ground Unit [list]
• Hound Radar: This unit can sense nearby enemies under the fog of war and detect stealthed enemies.
• Throat Rip: Gains 50% bonus movement speed and deals 100% bonus damage for the next attack. On impact it slows the target by 30% for 3 seconds.
• On the Prowl: Greatly increases Ghost’s vision radius and gains Stealth and Detection.

• Hound Radar: This unit can sense nearby enemies under the fog of war and detect stealthed enemies.
• Throat Rip: Gains 50% bonus movement speed and deals 100% bonus damage for the next attack. On impact it slows the target by 30% for 3 seconds.
• Death Howl: Pacifies & Silences all enemies within range for 1 second. All damage to affected units is increased by 30% for 20 seconds. [list]
• Autocastable: when at least 3 enemies are within 5 range of Shadow, Shadow will autocast Death Howl.

• Quickdraw Hustle: On-Attack: Gains 25% bonus movement speed for 2 seconds.
• Vengeance Detonation: Increases Max Health by 50%. Upon death their weapon detonates, dealing 50 (+15 light) damage to all enemy units within 1 radius.
• Explosive Impacts (Passive): This unit’s weapon attacks explode on impact.

• Expanded Cargo (Passive): Increases the Infantry Cargo of the Outrunner from 4 to 6.
• Expedited Departure (Passive): Infantry units that are unloaded gain 25% Movement Speed for 5 seconds.
• Infantry Support Ports (Passive): Each Infantry unit loaded into the Outrunner activates an additional weapon.
• Weight Limit (Passive): -.25 movement speed for every unit it carries.

• On the Hunt: Greatly increases the Mecha S.C.O.U.T.’s vision radius.
• Throat Rip: Gains 50% bonus movement speed and deals 100% bonus damage for the next attack. On-impact, it slows the target by 30% for 3 seconds.
• Pupper Sense: Money Back Guarantee (Passive): This unit can sense nearby enemies under the fog of war and detect stealthed enemies. In the event this unit dies, you are refunded half the cost of this unit.
• W.O.L.F. Software Upgrade (Tier 2): Mecha S.C.O.U.T.s can repair each other.

Replaced Units:

• Rocketeer replaces Exo
• Outrunner replaces Hedgehog
• Mecha S.C.O.U.T. replaces S.C.O.U.T.

New Structure:

• Artillery Cannon: Defensive Structure [list]
• Crater Creator (Passive): This structure's attack deals massive damage at its center and splash damage in the area around the impact site.
• Salvage: Recovers 100% of this structure's resource cost.

New Gear:

• Leave Us Alone: Workers gain 300 bonus Armor [Bob, Imp, Enflamed Imp, Prism].
• Best Friends: S.C.O.U.T.s and Mecha S.C.O.U.T.s are trained in pairs.
• Therium Reserves: Therium costs of units are reduced by 50%.
• Quiet Regeneration: Stealthed and Concealed units regenerate 5% of their maximum health per second.
• Double Time: Construction speed of all structures is increased by 100%.
• Cheap Housing: Resource costs of Tier 1 HQ are reduced by 80%.
• Small Friends: Light units deal 20% more Basic Attack damage and gain 20% additional max health.

Co-Op Hero Levels 16-20

• New 3rd Gear slot unlocked at level 20 for each Hero.
• New Gear Items: [list]
• Enhanced Turrets: Attacks from structures deal 75% bonus damage.
• Priority Support: Top-Bar cooldowns regenerate 50% faster.
• Master of Magic: Energy Bars all begin at maximum capacity and regenerate 50% faster.
• Augmented Arms: Ranged units deal 10% bonus attack damage
• Nanofilament Blades: Melee attacks deal 30% attack Damage.
• For the Host: Grants an escalating benefit to all units based on the player’s Tech level: [list]
• Tier 1: 5% bonus Health, Movement Speed, and Attack Speed
• Tier 2: 10% bonus Health, Movement Speed, and Attack Speed
• Tier 3: 15% bonus Health, Movement Speed, and Attack Speed

• Level 16: [list]
• Kastiel/Ryker/Amara: +10% Attack Damage Dealt
• Blockade/Auralanna: +10% Max Health
• Maloc/Warz: +10% Movement Speed

• Kastiel/Ryker: +10% Attack Speed
• Blockade/Auralanna: +10% Increased Healing
• Maloc/Warz: +10% Spell Damage Dealt
• Amara: +10% Spell Damage Dealt

• Kastiel/Ryker/Amara: +10% Attack Damage Dealt
• Blockade/Auralanna: +10% Max Health
• Maloc/Warz: +10% Movement Speed

• Kastiel/Ryker: +10% Attack Speed
• Blockade/Auralanna: +10% Increased Healing
• Maloc/Warz: +10% Spell Damage Dealt
• Amara: +10% Spell Damage Dealt

Patch Notes:

General:

• CPU optimizations for high unit counts. This includes faster lag recovery, faster rollback, and faster replay scrubbing.
• Optimizations for low-spec GPUs.
• Forest Autumn trees have been updated with higher-detail art.
• Many visual effects now dissipate more gracefully rather than pop suddenly out of existence. There are ongoing efforts to update all of the effects.
• Fixed an issue where Hornet sound effects were not tied to the volume mixer.
• The loud crickets found on certain maps have been quieted.
• Enter will no longer swap between Windowed and Full-Screen mode when pressed.
• You can now change Screen Percentage if the DLSS tickbox is unchecked but Super Resolution is set to something other than Off.
• Fixed an issue where certain visual effects would not play for a player if that player didn’t have vision of the center of the target. This was most commonly seen with Saber beam attacks.
• Fixed various issues that could occur while Alt-Tabbing.
• Player Pings [list]
• New minimap and in-world visualization of pings.
• Pings are now player-colored.
• Structures are now pingable through the Fog of War.
• Removed the ability to Cancel and Confirm Pings.
• Fixed ability cooldown pings displaying incorrect duration.

Co-op:

• The Adrenaline Amplifier Gear now has unique icon art.
• The Heavy Construction, Adrenaline Amplifiers, and Change of Plans Gears now each have unique Icon art in the UI menu.
• Pit Crew art is now consistent between Gear menu and when equipped.
• Combat Medic footsteps are no longer exceedingly loud.
• Warz’s Reap the Harvest audio has been adjusted when hitting multiple units.
• Eradicators firing sound effects are no longer spammy.

Versus:

• Enflamed Imps will no longer overkill targets with its attack.
• Therium Patches will no longer incorrectly show as Enriched when they respawn.
• Fixed an issue where the High Command radar dish animation did not loop smoothly.
• Morph Cores are no longer able to push units out of map-bounded camera range.
• MedTechs no longer cast Nanoswarm on non-Mechanical units when set to autocast.
• Fixed an issue where Atlases would not gain range bonuses from Veterancy when they morphed between modes.
• Unloading a unit from a transport will no longer cause them to be added to automated control groups.
• Fixed an issue where some users saw a greyed-out queue button after leaving a match, making it impossible to queue again immediately.
• Vectors (in large quantities) will now more consistently obey commands when Delta Jumping or Recalling.
• Ruination Map - [list]
• Flowers in the concealment were hard to click and have moved to easier-to-reach locations.
• Chickens no longer appear as enemies on the mini-map.
• A new lighting pass has been completed to fight the darkness on this map.
• Fixed some clipping issues ground units were experiencing with the center ramp walls.
• Removed the audio dead zones in terms of ambience.

Campaign:

• Medical Wrap will no longer activate when at full health.
• Skipping past the Ryker event in Mission 1 will no longer prevent Ryker from being recruited to your team.
• Fixed an issue in Mission 4 where structures could be built on, around, and even in the drill.
• Fixed an issue where cutscenes could be missing voiceover audio.
• Fixed an issue where the Campaign Inventory Bar remained on screen during in-game cutscenes.