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21 Nov 2024 Matchmaking & Ranked rework and balance changes across heroes and items

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Heroes

Abrams

Base regen increased from 1 to 1.5

Siphon Life range now scales with Spirit Power (0.05)

Siphon Life damage scaling with Spirit Power increased from 0.4 to 0.5

Seismic Impact drag down collision improved a bit

Infernal Resilience reduced from 14% to 11% and T3 from 7% to 5.5%

Siphon Life Heal vs Heroes reduced from 100% to 75%

Siphon Life Heal vs Non-Heroes reduced from 50% to 40%

Bebop

Exploding Uppercut T2 bonus now applies to melee damage too

Hook can now be canceled by allies with exit key (i.e. space bar, similar to existing Viscous Cube)

Hyper Beam T3 reduced from 100/33% for Heroes/Creeps to 80%/25%

Dynamo

Kinetic Pulse now slides around geometry when it hits an obstruction

Quantum Singularity pulling allies no longer cancels their channel

Rejuvenating Aurora now allows you to reload during it (currently only allows you to continue reloading if cast before)

Quantum Entanglement now has a visual indicator for allies that will teleport

Quantum Entanglement ally range increased from 9m to 10m

Quantum Entanglement cooldown increased from 15s to 16s

Quantum Entanglement T3 cooldown reduction improved from -4s to -5s

Rejuvenating Aurora now allows you to use melee before T3 upgrade

Rejuvenating Aurora regen reduced from 32 to 30

Rejuvenating Aurora Spirit Power scaling reduced from 0.5 to 0.45

Rejuvenating Aurora T3 reduced from 3.8% to 3.4%

Grey Talon

Bullet damage increased from 24 to 25

Health growth per boon increased from 27 to 29

Immobilizing Trap now tethers targets rather than rooting them

Immobilizing Trap tether duration increased 1.25s to 1.5s

Immobilizing Trap no longer applies 50% slow for 1s

Immobilizing Trap slow now starts immediately for 30% and lasts until 2s after the tether ends

Immobilizing Trap T2 changed from +2s Slow to +1s Tether

Immobilizing Trap radius increased from 6 to 6.2

Immobilizing Trap T1 CD improved from -19s to -20s

Guided Owl camera now returns more quickly when the Owl collides very far away

Rain of Arrows T3 reduced from 50% Lifesteal to 40%

Haze

Fixed Bullet Dance sometimes freezing your client

Using items during Smoke Bomb no longer breaks invisibility

Smoke Bomb cooldown reduced from 37s to 30s

Smoke Bomb T1 changed from -14s to +6 Invis Sprint Speed

Smoke Bomb T2 changed from +6 Invis Sprint Speed to +15% Bullet Lifesteal for 8s

Smoke Bomb T3 changed from +30% Bullet Lifesteal for 8s to Phases Out for 0.5s on cast and enables charges with 10s charge time

Fixation damage vs objectives reduced by 30%

Bullet Dance Bonus Damage changed from +5 Bullet Damage to +6 Spirit Damage (with 0.1 Spirit Scaling)

Bullet Dance T1 changed to +7 Spirit Damage

Infernus

Afterburn buildup decay time is now 15% slower

Concussive Combustion radius increased from 12m to 13m

Concussive Combustion T2 radius reduced from +4m to +3m

Catalyst T2 reduced from 15% Lifesteal to 12%

Catalyst T3 reduced from -40% Heal Degen to -33%

Concussive Combustion T3 reduced from 100% to 85%

Ivy

Stone Form drag down collision improved a bit

Bullet damage increased from 5 to 5.2

Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.36 to 0.34

Fixed being launched incorrectly when using Stone Form on certain geometry

Fixed Stone Form having a brief period of vulnerability after cast

Air Drop flight controls improved a bit

Air Drop duration reduced from 17s to 16s

Air Drop cooldown increased from 85s to 90s

Air Drop speed can now be increased with movespeed or sprint items (when out of combat)

Air Drop now amplifies Sprint values by 1.5x

Watcher's Covenant Bullet Lifesteal reduced from 15% to 12%

Stone Form Max Health Heal reduced from 10% to 8%

Stone Form T3 Max Health Heal reduced from +20% to +16%

Kelvin

Seismic Impact, Death Slam and Ground Strike now smash through Ice Path

Frost Grenade T2 reduced from +125 Heal to +100

Frozen Shelter regen reduced from 120 to 110

Frozen Shelter T3 reduced from +70 (1.6 Spirit Power) to +60 ( 1.4 Spirit Power)

Lady Geist

Essence Bomb Self Damage spirit scaling reduced from 2 to 1.8

Lash

Ground Strike drag down collision improved a bit

Flog heal vs heroes reduced from 70% to 65%

Flog heal vs creeps reduced from 25% to 20%

McGinnis

Bullet Velocity increased from 533 to 590

Fixed Wall triggering Reactive Barrier before T3 stun

Mini Turrets health no longer scales with your hero's health.

Mini Turrets Spirit Resist reduced from 70% to 30%

Mini Turrets base health increased from 75 to 150 (roughly same overall health as previous start of game)

Mini Turrets now gain +20 Health per Boon

Mini Turrets now take at most 33% of their Max HP per second from any damage source. Any excess damage is move to the following second. (In effect this means that turrets will always live at least 3 seconds)

Fixed Mini Turrets dying causing you to lose sprint

Mini Turrets cycle time reduced from 0.5 to 0.25 (DPS unchanged)

Mini Turrets bullet velocity increased from 406 to 500

Medicinal Specter T3 reduced from 5% to 4.5%

Mirage

Tornado speed reduced by 10%

Fixed Tornado being usable while immobilized

Tornado and Fire Scarabs ability slots swapped

Traveler cooldown increased from 130s to 145s

Traveler T2 increased from -40s to -55s

Traveler can now be cast by targeting the top bar portraits

Mo & Krill

Headshot resistance now only applies to the big head

Burrow can now go under Spectral Wall

Combo now pulls the target closer to you over time

Combo health gain increased from 30 to 70

Sand Blast duration reduced from 3.5s to 3s

Sand Blast T3 slow reduced from 50% to 40%

Scorn heal vs heroes reduced from 2x to 1.6x

Scorn heal vs creeps reduced from 0.7x to 0.6x

Paradox

Fixed Kinetic Carbine not proccing Headshot effects (Headshot booster, Headhunter, Crippling Headshot)

Paradoxical Swap time min/max increased by 0.2/0.3s (to help with camera)

Time Wall now deals 50 damage for going through it

Seven

Storm Cloud now causes you to levitate up and down a little bit in a cycle rather than being fully stationary

Storm Cloud expand time reduced from 2s to 1.5s

Shiv

Serrated Knives cooldown reduced from 19s to 16s

Serrated Knives can now capture souls

Slice and Dice base damage increased from 105 to 110

Slice and Dice T2 reduced from +75 to +70

Slice and Dice cooldown reduced from 16s to 15s

Slice and Dice T1 reduced from -4s to -3s

Killing Blow threshold increased from 20% to 22%

Killing Blow T2 reduced from +8% Enemy Health Threshold to +6%

Killing Blow Full Rage Damage Bonus increased from 15% to 17%

Killing Blow T2 reduced from +10% Full Rage Bonus Damage to +8%

Fixed an issue where using Serrated Knives and immediately holding M1 after to shoot not firing your gun

Killing Blow Rage per spirit damage increased from 0.013 to 0.014

Killing Blow cast range increased from 14m to 15m

Bloodletting reduced from 22% to 20%

Bloodletting T1 reduced from +8% to +6%

Bloodletting rage bonus reduced from +15% to 14%

Vindicta

Crow Familiar changed from 0.2s cast delay to 0.2s post cast time

Crow Familiar T3 changed from '+3% Bleed and -40% Anti Heal' to -12% Spirit and Bullet Resistance

Crow Familiar now also reduces spirit resistance by 6%

Stake radius increased from 8m to 9m

Stake now sucks enemies 3m towards the center (and limits movement to 6m from center)

Stake T1 changed from +0.5s to -40% Fire Rate

Stake T3 changed from Disarm to +0.75s

Assassinate min charge up increased from 25% to 50%

Assassinate bonus damage on low hp base damage reduced from 135 to 120

Fixed Assassinate being stuck if you zoom in and get silenced

Viscous

Puddle Punch can now be parried (does not stun Viscous, only blocks the puddle effect for the parrying player)

The Cube regen reduced from 40 to 35

The Cube T2 regen reduced from +35 to +30

The Cube regen spirit power scaling reduced from 0.2 to 0.18

Warden

Fire Rate spirit scaling reduced from 0.3 to 0.25

Alchemical Flask now respects LOS

Last Stand cooldown increased from 138s to 140s

Last Stand resistance during channel increased from 50% to 60%

Last Stand non-hero lifesteal reduced from 50% to 20%

Last Stand hero lifesteal reduced from 100% to 80%

Wraith

Full Auto T2 no longer has spirit scaling (moved to T3)

Full Auto T3 now also adds spirit scaling

Telekinesis now causes the target to oscillate up and down a little bit

Yamato

Improved cases where Power Slash would hit enemies behind cover

Shadow Transformation no longer heals on cast

Shadow Transformation T3 increased from +2s to +3s

Shadow Transformation now heals for 15% of your max hp on hero kill

Weapon Items

Soul Shredder Bullets

Spirit Lifesteal reduced from 20% to 18%

Spirit Amp reduced from 10% to 8%

Active Reload

Bullet Lifesteal reduced from 20% to 18%

Headhunter

Heal per Headshot reduced from 8% to 7%

Head Shot Bonus Damage reduced from +140 to +130

Heroic Aura

Bullet Lifesteal reduced from 20% to 18%

Cooldown reduced from 25s to 20s

Toxic Bullets

Healing Reduction reduced from 65% to 50%

Vampiric Burst

Bullet Lifesteal reduced from 100% to 80%

Rapid Rounds

Fire Rate increased from 10% to 11%

Monster Rounds

Bonus Health reduced from 50 to 30

Berserker

Weapon Damage per stack increased from 5% to 6%

Alchemical Fire

DPS burn lingers on targets for 1s

Hunter's Aura

Fire Rate slow reduced from 10% to 9%

Spellslinger Headshots

New T3 Weapon Item, Spellslinger Headshots

Landing a headshot on enemy heroes increases your total Spirit Power by 3% for 12s. Cooldown 1.5s. Max stacks 12. Grants +12% Weapon Damage, +8% Spirit Amp/18% Spirit Lifesteal (component passive), and +150 Health.

Glass Cannon

Now requires Slowing Bullets and grants the slow passive

Silencer

Reworked item

Passively builds up on enemies, silencing for 2s and then reducing spirit damage output by 40% for 4s. Enemies affected cannot be affected again for 12s. Grants +20% Weapon Damage, +15% Spirit Resist and 20% Debuff Reduction.

Lucky Shot

Damage multiplier increased from 90% to 110%

Now grants +150 Bullet Shield

Vitality Items

Melee Lifesteal

Lifesteal reduced from 20% to 18%

Now grants +3% Bullet Resist

Bullet Lifesteal

Lifesteal reduced from 28% to 26%

Restorative Locket

Regen per stack reduced from 35 to 32

Spirit Lifesteal

Lifesteal reduced from 23% to 22%

Healbane

Healing Reduction reduced from 45% to 40%

Duration increased from 6s to 7s

Lifestrike

Lifesteal reduced from 65% to 55%

Leech

Bullet Lifesteal reduced from 35% to 32%

Spirit Lifesteal reduced from 35% to 32%

Reactive Barrier

Bullet Shield health reduced from 400 to 350

Return Fire

Now requires Extra Regen

Debuff Reducer

Debuff Resist reduced from 30% to 28%

Weapon Damage increased from 6% to 8%

Divine Barrier

Now has +8% Ability Range again instead of +6 Spirit Power

No longer grants +1 Sprint

Healing Nova

No longer has +6% Ability Range

Debuff Remover

Active buff duration on purge increased from 3s to 4s

Purging a debuff now also heals you for 10% Max HP

Rescue Beam

Heal reduced from 26% to 24%

Now grants +6% Ability Range

Cooldown increased from 26s to 36s

Pull speed reduced by 15%

Metal Skin

Active now reduces your Move Speed by 1.5

Superior Stamina

Now grants +75 Health

Now increases Wall Jump count by 1 as well

Majestic Leap

Now grants +6% Spirit Resist

Phantom Strike

Cast range now ignores the Z height (similar to Lash's Death Slam)

Spirit Items

Decay

Healing Reduction reduced from 70% to 55%

Damage increased from 1% to 1.4%

Ammo Scavenger

While at max stacks you gain +2 Sprint

Infuser

Cooldown reduced from 37s to 32s

Withering Whip

Cooldown reduced from 18s to 15s

Improved Spirit

Health increased from 100 to 125

Silence Glyph

No longer a tracking projectile using a unit target, releases an aim-based projectile that silences on impact

Cooldown reduced from 32s to 24s

Ethereal Shift

Post Shift now also grants +20 Spirit Power

Rapid Recharge

Time between charges reduced from 65% to 60%

Mystic Slow

Now grants +1 Sprint

Health increased from 140 to 160

Torment Pulse

Now grants +15% Melee Resistance

Spirit Snatch

New T3 Spirit Item, Spirit Snatch

Causes your melee attacks to steal 12% Spirit Resist and 26 Spirit Power for 16s. Cooldown 6s. Buff you receive stacks if you hit different heroes. Grants +15% Melee Damage, +8% Spirit Resist, +125 Health and +1 Sprint.

Arcane Surge

New T3 Spirit Item, Arcane Surge

After successful Dash Jump, the next ability you use will also have +20% Range, +20% Duration and +20 Spirit Power. Grants +100 Health, +1 Stamina and +15% Slow Resist.

Diviner's Kevlar

No longer grants +20% Spirit Lifesteal

Now grants +7% Ability Duration

Echo Shard

Cast delay reduced from 0.3s to 0.25s

Mystic Reverb

Damage increased from 40% to 45%

Refresher

Cooldown increased from 230s to 260s

General Changes

- Added secondary key binds for actions
- You are now able to browse and favorite builds in the dashboard
- Sandbox mode now shows the souls value of the current items you have in your inventory
- Ability tooltips now list exactly which items the ability has been imbued with rather than 'Ability is imbued'
- Items in the shop that imbue abilities are tagged with a label with a similar styling to active items
- Commend toasts now stay on your screen until they are dismissed
- Commend toasts now have a button to return the commend to the player that commended you
- Adjusted the behavior of the Incoming Damage UI so that it can still be used in Sandbox mode
- There is now a Change Hero button in the Build Browser which brings up the hero picker to choose a different hero in both Sandbox and in the Dashboard
- Decision dialogs for dealing with item limits, imbuing, and activation slots are now shown at queue time rather than purchase time whenever possible
- You can now queue items to sell. If you right click on items that you own it will add them to the front of your quickbuy queue, and they will be queued to sell. The sale price of these items will be added to your current souls to calculate when you can afford to purchase the next item in your quickbuy queue.
- Adjusted Powerup Runes' design to look more visually breakable (due to melee change explained later in the gameplay section)
- Low priority games now require wins to count
- Gaining Rejuvenator buff now shows what stats have been improved on your hero (like powerups and other buffs)
- Fixed Abrams camera
- Added icon variants for high or low ground for small/medium/large camps
- Adding note below Cancel key in Settings explaining that 'Abilities will be cancelled with the Cancel Key when possible'
- Purchase Log in the shop now shows enemy and ally purchases with different colors
- Fixed F1-F5 Keys not working (for moving camera to allies)
- Updated active items to have uniform sliding/cast delay behavior
- The through-wall ally silhouette health bars are now more accurate
- Optimized lighting in the map for better rendering performance
- Fixed a bug where you would be prompted to sell an item if the component wasn't in the same category as the component you were buying (i.e. you go to buy slowing hex with your item slots full and you already own the component)
- Removed redundant Replay keybinds (now shares with Spectating)
- Added Chat Wheel Options as keybinds so you can bind keys to certain responses
- Fixed not being able to ping enemy items
- Added music and ambient sounds to hotel
- Added new run animation for Seven
- Revised Mirage Fire Scarabs projectile and cast sounds
- Revised Casting bridge buff loop
- Remastered weapon fire for Seven
- Remastered weapon fire for Paradox
- Fixed a bug where nearly all sound stops and never returns
- Fixed respawn music cue failing to play with shop menu open
- Fixed music not playing while the player is outside their base and their base is under attack
- Fixed haze smoke bomb loop not playing for teammates
- Improved negative feedback sound effect timing
- Fixed some cases where some sounds could overpower everything else
- Added key and button name localization support for keybinds
- Visual update to Mirage Tornado bullet evasion buff
- Visual update to Medicinal Specter to improve visibility
- Visual update to turret tracers, muzzle flash and impacts
- Sand Blast revision to help user judge distance and AOE
- Added preview state to Flying Strike
- Added effect to when the zipline ability first starts
- Added an AOE landing indicator for where units will be thrown with Death Slam (only shows for allies)
- Fixed Ground Strike preview cone visual to be more accurate
- Updated Patron VO to give the Amber Hand more lines that are unique to him as opposed to having the identical script of the Sapphire Flame (for instance, while the Sapphire Flame might praise Haze by saying 'you are perfection, Haze', the Amber Hand would say 'Haze will dance, and they will fall')
- Related to the above, both patrons will now call out the Greenwich/Green Lane objectives specifically when they are destroyed
- Updated Bebop VO: remaster pass and added some content
- Updated Viscous VO: he now comments on a lot more interactions in the game (no longer a small pool of reused lines for Goo Punch)
- Updated Paradox VO: remaster pass and added some content
- Updated Kelvin VO: remaster pass and added some content
- Stubbed in first pass VO for Fathom, Magician, Trapper, and Viper - the primary goal for these is to give coverage for pings, but we also added lines for hero select and ability usage
- Updated Holliday VO: remaster pass and added some content
- Some rendering performance improvements
- Fixed some lightmap quality regressions
- Fixed textures being slightly too blurry in FSR2
- Fixed some rendering features (such as distance field shadows) running despite being disabled in UI
- Fixed right-clicking on an item in the shop in build editing mode causing it to be added to your Quickbuy queue
- Steam Game Recording no longer records kills/deaths if you're dead and spectating another player
- Steam Game Recording timeline no longer records Shrine objectives as 'The World'
- Fixed fps_max accidentally being changed to slider maximum value when out of slider range
- Video Settings slider for fps_max goes up to 400
- Fixing tooltips on keybind dropdowns not working correctly
- New sounds added to Yamato's Flying Strike while aiming
- New sounds added to Mo & Krill's Burrow and Sand Blast abilities
- Hit confirm sound added to Lash's Flog ability
- Fixed a bug causing Mo & Krill's Burrow emerge sound to double up when not cancelling the burrow early
- Fixed Mo & Krill's Burrow traveling/underground sound not looping correctly
- Steam Input support
- Fixed Controller binds not working when the same Keyboard binds were empty
- Fixed Show Scoreboard glyph in Sandbox Mode UI

Misc Changes

- Added a truck to climb up into the interior bridge area at the Port Authority and Jazz Club buildings
- Moved stairs up from the central canal to the Radio Station interior closer to the inner lanes
- Removed stairs up to the Radio Station interior from the underground Teleport Station
- Redesigned Radio Station interior to be more open
- Moved connection corridor between Inner and Outer lanes (Amber Yellow and Sapphire Purple) to be farther from the base entrances
- Removed the cosmic veils from the entrances of the connection corridor
- Changed entrance to the Armory/Warehouse from the inner lane to be more direct (not a hallway)
- Moved the side lane teleporters to the crawl space under the Hard camp
- Removed bookshelf model inside the upper floor of the Police Station/Garment Building to see the corridor behind it
- Removed Rope inside the Police Station/Garment Building
- Added interior stair connection in Factory/Mansion to stay inside from lower to upper areas
- Added a fence guard beside the stairs inside the Garage/Night Club
- Added zapper effect to the antenna models on rooftops
- New building facade art in Amber Blue and Purple lanes
- Added a street gate structure between the Garage and the Record Shop

Weapon Items

Soul Shredder Bullets

Spirit Lifesteal reduced from 20% to 18%

Spirit Amp reduced from 10% to 8%

Active Reload

Bullet Lifesteal reduced from 20% to 18%

Headhunter

Heal per Headshot reduced from 8% to 7%

Head Shot Bonus Damage reduced from +140 to +130

Heroic Aura

Bullet Lifesteal reduced from 20% to 18%

Cooldown reduced from 25s to 20s

Toxic Bullets

Healing Reduction reduced from 65% to 50%

Vampiric Burst

Bullet Lifesteal reduced from 100% to 80%

Rapid Rounds

Fire Rate increased from 10% to 11%

Monster Rounds

Bonus Health reduced from 50 to 30

Berserker

Weapon Damage per stack increased from 5% to 6%

Alchemical Fire

DPS burn lingers on targets for 1s

Hunter's Aura

Fire Rate slow reduced from 10% to 9%

Spellslinger Headshots

New T3 Weapon Item, Spellslinger Headshots

Glass Cannon

Now requires Slowing Bullets and grants the slow passive

Silencer

Reworked item

Lucky Shot

Damage multiplier increased from 90% to 110%

Now grants +150 Bullet Shield

Vitality Items

Melee Lifesteal

Lifesteal reduced from 20% to 18%

Now grants +3% Bullet Resist

Bullet Lifesteal

Lifesteal reduced from 28% to 26%

Restorative Locket

Regen per stack reduced from 35 to 32

Spirit Lifesteal

Lifesteal reduced from 23% to 22%

Healbane

Healing Reduction reduced from 45% to 40%

Duration increased from 6s to 7s

Lifestrike

Lifesteal reduced from 65% to 55%

Leech

Bullet Lifesteal reduced from 35% to 32%

Spirit Lifesteal reduced from 35% to 32%

Reactive Barrier

Bullet Shield health reduced from 400 to 350

Return Fire

Now requires Extra Regen

Debuff Reducer

Debuff Resist reduced from 30% to 28%

Weapon Damage increased from 6% to 8%

Divine Barrier

Now has +8% Ability Range again instead of +6 Spirit Power

No longer grants +1 Sprint

Healing Nova

No longer has +6% Ability Range

Debuff Remover

Active buff duration on purge increased from 3s to 4s

Purging a debuff now also heals you for 10% Max HP

Rescue Beam

Heal reduced from 26% to 24%

Now grants +6% Ability Range

Cooldown increased from 26s to 36s

Pull speed reduced by 15%

Metal Skin

Active now reduces your Move Speed by 1.5

Superior Stamina

Now grants +75 Health

Now increases Wall Jump count by 1 as well

Majestic Leap

Now grants +6% Spirit Resist

Phantom Strike

Cast range now ignores the Z height (similar to Lash's Death Slam)

Spirit Items

Decay

Healing Reduction reduced from 70% to 55%

Damage increased from 1% to 1.4%

Ammo Scavenger

While at max stacks you gain +2 Sprint

Infuser

Cooldown reduced from 37s to 32s

Withering Whip

Cooldown reduced from 18s to 15s

Improved Spirit

Health increased from 100 to 125

Silence Glyph

No longer a tracking projectile using a unit target, releases an aim-based projectile that silences on impact

Cooldown reduced from 32s to 24s

Ethereal Shift

Post Shift now also grants +20 Spirit Power

Rapid Recharge

Time between charges reduced from 65% to 60%

Mystic Slow

Now grants +1 Sprint

Health increased from 140 to 160

Torment Pulse

Now grants +15% Melee Resistance

Spirit Snatch

New T3 Spirit Item, Spirit Snatch

Arcane Surge

New T3 Spirit Item, Arcane Surge

After successful Dash Jump, the next ability you use will also have +20% Range, +20% Duration and +20 Spirit Power. Grants +100 Health, +1 Stamina and +15% Slow Resist.

Diviner's Kevlar

No longer grants +20% Spirit Lifesteal

Now grants +7% Ability Duration

Echo Shard

Cast delay reduced from 0.3s to 0.25s

Mystic Reverb

Damage increased from 40% to 45%

Refresher

Cooldown increased from 230s to 260s

other patch notes

13 Nov 2024 Patch Note Summary: Balances in hero abilities and general gameplay mechanics.

Buffs