New Arena – Crucible:
It is when the souls of the damned are tested and forged beneath the endless pool of night in the cauldron of the ebb and flow, which one discovers their true worth. Nothing.
Crucible is available for Duel, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Clan Arena modes!
New Vanity Item Type:
Added Podiums – Collect and display the podium beneath your Champion in the Lobby! Players can now access a new customization menu in their Profile (listed just below the Profile Icon & Nameplate customization).
Updated Content:
Pure Gold bundle updated to include a new Ranger Pure Gold Profile Icon & Pure Gold Pillar.
Season 17 New Content: Added Quake 3 Grenade Launcher as WARTHOG 3000 Tri-bolt
Added Quake 4 Grenade Launcher as GALANG Tri-bolt
Champion Updates:
Anarki: Reduced speed boost during Adrenaline use from 20% to 10% faster Athena: Reduced number of grapple charges from 3 to 2 Athena: Added an 800ms second cooldown between throwing grapples Athena: Added Stockpile passive, picking up ammo grants 10% cooldown Athena: Increase damage that can be sustained before breaking the rope from 50 to 100 Athena: Collision knockback reduced from 100 to 50 B.J. Blazkowicz: Increased rate of fire of Dual Wield TB & RL from 1.33x to 1.5x faster. B.J. Blazkowicz: Reduced the size of his upper and lower arm hitboxes Clutch: Reduced the volume of the first person jump and dodge sound effects Death Knight: Changed to the Flame Dot from 10 damage per second for 7 seconds to deal 15 damage per second for 5 seconds Doom Slayer: Allow the Berserk to be cancelled after 2 seconds of activation Eisen: Reduced turret deploy time from 2 to 1 second Eisen: Increased turret turn-speed from 180 to 270 degrees per second Keel: Reduced number of grenade charges from 5 to 3 Keel: Increased cooldown between shooting grenades from 400 to 800ms Keel: Increased movement speed to match that of a medium Keel: Increased the cooldown reduction of the Stockpile passive from 5% to 10% Nyx: Reduced Ghostwalk telefrag damage from 125 to 100 Ranger: Reduced Dire Orb total telefrag damage from 125 (25 touch + 100 telefrag) to 100 (25 touch + 75 telefrag) Slash: Reduced speed boost during Plasma Trail use from 25% to 10% faster Sorlag: Reduced the size of her head, arm, and leg hitboxes Strogg: Reduced Stroyent healing from 25 to 20 HP
Exile: Redid all of the map collision, hopefully fixing all Dire Orb and Peeker exploits, and fixing the uncomfortable ramped walls (except in the foggy cooldown tunnel where it’s expected). The arena has been renamed to its original full name, Vestibule of Exile. Exile: Simplified ambient soundscape Insomnia: Fixed visibility issue near Tri-bolt ledge Insomnia: Fixed collision of the blood pool archways Insomnia: Fixed staircase collision exiting both ends of the blood pool hallway Tempest Shrine: Fixed CTF flag placement at Point B The Dark Zone: Fixed players spawns at the same location in the corridor near the heavy armor Tower of Koth: Fixed visibility blocker issues on the other Maw staircase Tower of Koth: Both navigation updates, trying to resolve the issue of bots looping through the MH teleporter Vale of Pnath: Fixed collision along SG wall
Game Mode Updates: Healing Blood Pools are no longer active in Clan Arena modes
Game Updates: Updated Pure Gold bundle to include a new Ranger Pure Gold Profile Icon & Pure Gold Pillar. Updates to Pure Gold textures Fixed Pure Gold & Pure Silver shader icons Improvements to the Nvidia Reflex implementation Optimization pass on weapon end effects Optimization pass on Railgun trail affects Optimization pass on big flame particle affects Updated Flintlock power-up shaders Fixed ranked leaderboard favorite champion, now uses Most Frags in Duel Reverted recent Sorlag acid color changes Fixed a typo in the Death Knight Necrosis outfit torso description Fixed the cause of the UI_BACKEND_ERROR_10004 Fixed a crash due to a race condition on start-up Fixed Q2 TB muzzle animations in first and third Fixed Q1 TB muzzle animations in first and third Fixed Q3 RG animation errors
Additional Audio Updates: Reduced the volume of the ability ready sound effect
Service Updates: Improvements to Microsoft Store entitlement consumption Fixed external invites in the MS Game Pass build Fixed external platinum purchasing in the MS Store
