Good evening Quakers. This morning we received a Mid-Season Update for Season 13. A fairly meaty update for just being a Mid-Season Update. The NailGun rework is finally upon us, BOTs should be slightly smarter, Many audio additions | adjustments, and finally all 25th Anniversary banners have been removed from all arenas except The Dark Zone (DM6). Presumably because of its uniqueness being a remake. Check out all of details below.

MID-WINTER UPDATE:

MAP UPDATES:

All Maps:

Disabled the commemorative 25th Anniversary banners in all maps except The Dark Zone

Deep Embrace:

Fixed the collision issue near lower Light Armor
Added ability collision in the vista outside the power-up window

Exile:

Fixed the collision at Heavy Machinegun Teleporter

Insomnia:

New Duel item layout:
- Railgun moved to Power-up Dungeon
- Shotgun moved to Railgun Ledge
- Dungeon Cooldowns moved up above where they are in TDM/FFA
Fixed Duel & TDM starting spawns, updated respawn locations
Fixed collision issue at Heavy Armor window above the jumppad (dire orb could go out of the map)
Fixed a visibility popping issue at lower archway near Super Nailgun

CHAMPION UPDATES:

Clutch:

Starting Armor Points increased from 75 -> 100

SCALEBEARER:

Reduced passive Forward Ground Acceleration from 0.75 to 0.5
Reduced Bullrush Ground Acceleration from 170 to 150
Reduced Interruption Speed from 240 ups to 200 ups; if a rushing Scalebearer is slowed below the interruption speed, the Bullrush will stop
Added a 200-320 ups damage range for Bullrush so that below 320 ups hits deal 25 dmg instead of 0 dmg (This is only during bullrush, still no passive damage below 400 ups)

WEAPON UPDATES:

SHOTGUNS:

Added a center pellet to both Shotguns (increasing both max damages by 5, to 85 & 125 max dmg)

NAILGUNS:

Nails now do 10 & 15 damage instead of 12 & 20 (which is 100 & 150 DPS instead of 120 & 200 DPS) — BUT they are easier to hit with now. Nails are now 10u wide instead of 6.4u wide

SOUND UPDATES:

New Audio Hit Beep Options: ( OFF | DAMAGE DEALT | ADDITIVE )
Reduced elevated pitch range from |-6 steps to +8 steps| to |-4 steps to +4 steps|
Reduced elevation distance volume reduction from -5db to -3db at the max attenuation
Fixed landing & fall sound volumes & mix
Fixed Slash third-person crouchslide sounds after death
Increased the volume of the Strogg >25 hp pain sounds
Added four new Strogg VO lines (1 frag, 1 assist, 1 respawn, 1 low health)
Prevent change weapon sound events from playing from the corpses of dead players & bots
Increased Diablo SSG shot sounds by +2db
Increased global max sound events value
Made pain sounds for teammates quieter
Athena Ability VO:
- Reduced the first-person VO occurrence from 90% of the time to only 50% of the time
- Reduced the volume by -2db
- Reduced the chance of the “Woohoo” VO from 10% to 5%
Fixed Localized VO for Athena, Death Knight, and Strogg medals: Air Assualt, Bombardment, Floor Is Lava, Psi Radar, Rope Trick, Smelter, Swinger, and Trident
Fixed Tribolt max sound instances

BOT UPDATES:

Slight nerf to bots’ nailgun skills
Ability usage improvements

MISCELLANEOUS:

Allow new unidentified hardware detections to be set to ultra/high instead of med/low
CTF – once again schedule end-of-game after the final capture, but now with a 1-second delay, instead of none or 3
UI – Decreased the length of the Ranking Up & Down animations
Fixed Anarki & Galena pink armor shaders
Fixed the texture quality for all Lore Vanity items (Scroll 10)
Fixed watermark code that was trying to drop the “-master-https” string
Fixed a typo in the weapon switch/railgun loading screen hint
Added a game tip about pain sounds to the loading screen hints