New Season 19 Content:
🌟 Added Summer Beach Podium = BattlePass Level 50
🌟 Added SUMMER BLAST water gun Lightning Gun = BattlePass Level 100, or 1000 Platinum | Solid color shader pack 500 Shards, or 500 Platinum.
🌟 Added SUNRISE 69 Water balloon Tri-bolt = BattlePass Level 1, or 1000 Platinum | Solid color shader Pack 500 shards, or 500 Platinum
🌟 Added Anarki DEATH BY TELEVISION surfboard Vanity = BattlePass Level 34
🌟 Added B.J. Blazkowicz FLY FISHERMAN’S HAT Vanity = BattlePass Level 5
🌟 Added Nyx SUNHAT Vanity = BattlePass Level 69
Added a new advanced video options menu, which contains the following new options:
⭐ Fog Volumes – Disable fog volumes
⭐ Transparent Particles – Disables all transparent particle fx
⭐ Cubemap Reflections – Disables cubemap reflections
⭐ Screenspace Reflections – Disables screenspace reflections
⭐ Light Shaft FX – Disables light shaft fx, such as god rays from the sun
⭐ Water Simulations – Disables water simulations when shooting or moving through liquids
⭐ Water Caustic FX – Disabled caustics fx
⭐ Scorchmarks Effects – Disable weapon scorchmark decals
⭐ Weapon Effects – Disable all weapon end effects, such as explosions and sparks.
Added a new game option:
⭐ Champion Blood FX – Disable blood on hit and death
Engine Updates:
🔹 Set a max fps cap at 300, to address gameplay issues we have identified occur when your opponents are running higher framerates than their max packet rates
🔹 Increased max packet rate from 200 to 300
🔹 Reduced max Lag Compensation period and history size from 300 ms to 200 ms
🔹 Engine optimizations, improvements for CPU bound users
🔹 Reintegrated Nvidia Reflex
🗒 Updated to the latest Nvidia SDK
🔹 Fixed crash in the Chromium Embedded Framework when viewing the Learn section in the Main Menu
Map Updates:
🔹 Awoken – Fixed orb collision exploit above power-up hallway
🔹 Crucible – Simplified stone textures, removing lava sub materials
🔹 Corrupted Keep – Fixed an FX issue which may have been hindering map performance
🔹 Deep Embrace – Fixed exploitable rock on the docks ring-out
🔹 Deep Embrace – Added a texture management config to manage texture quality
🔹 Deep Embrace – Fixed dire orb exploit near power-up
🔹 Deep Embrace – Fixed exploit near LG LA
🔹 The Molten Falls – Fixed exploit near bones ring-out between RG & SNG
🔹 Vale of Pnath – Fixed collision on HA churro pillar
🔹 Vestibule of Exile – Fixed wall collision left of the HA jumppad
🔹 Vestibule of Exile – Fixed two collision issues where players could get stuck, one in the narrow foggy tunnel, one next to the HA jumppad
Champion Updates:
🔹 Keel – Reduced delay between grenades from 500 ms to 400 ms
Weapon Updates:
Starting Shotgun
🔹 Reduced damage falloff range from 386 u to 256 u (9.65 m to 6.4 m)
Starting Nailgun
🔹 Increased damage from 10 to 12
Super Shotgun
🔹 Reduced damage falloff range from 386 u to 320 u (9.65 m to 8 m)
🔹 Increased knockback from 1.0 to 1.25 on ground and to 1.5 in air
Super Nailgun
🔹 Increased projectile speed from 1800 ups to 2000 ups (45 m/s to 50 m/s)
Rocket Launcher
🔹 Increased the splash damage trace reversal from 10 u to 16 u
Bot Updates:
🔹 Added support to play Timelimit Duel alone or vs a bot in Custom Game
🔹 Added support to play Duel Rounds vs a bot in Custom Game
🔹 Improved Tri-bolt aim targeting
🔹 Improved respawn times
🔹 Increased the “Human Teammate Defer Powerup Distance” from 768 to 1024u
🔹 Increased the priority of hitscan weapons
Sound Updates:
🔹 Fixed reverb voices not being managed by the Champion VO volume slider
🔹 Spectators no longer hear “You Win”, “You Lose”, or “Round Draw” announcer sounds
Game Updates:
🔹 Fixed the third person beam muzzle size for every lightning gun.
🔹 Sort champions on CTF endgame podium by Score instead of XP
🔹 Fixed totem health (issue which required Peeker to need more shots than necessary to destroy the totem)
🔹 Fixed Loveless LG texture quality
🔹 Updated Loveless LG beam fx
🔹 Fixed main menu/customization/profile podium rotation (we haven’t yet had a podium where this issue was noticeable, but this had to be fixed for the new seasonal podiums)
🔹 UI – Updates to Battle Report skipping logic
🔹 Fixed a texture quality issue for scorch marks, trails, and explosions causing lower quality than desired at Low, Medium, & High.
🔹 Moved Gore Details & Blood Enabled from Advance Video to Game Settings
🔹 Moved FPS Display and Performance Icon settings options from Game to HUD Settings
🔹 No longer save max fps in the backend config, as this is a hardware dependent value
🔹 Updated Russian “Bug Report” localization
🔹 Reduced ranked mode XP
🔹 Reduced TDM 2v2 minimum respawn time from 3 to 2 seconds (previously deployed to live)
🔹 Reduced TDM 2v2 maximum respawn time from 10 to 5 seconds (previously deployed to live)
Service Updates:
🔹 Ranking Reset – 1500 Starting SR, all tier values +300 SR from previous tier values
🔹 Anti-cheat updates
🗒 Fixed compatibility with Logitech GHub
🗒 Fixed gamepad compatibility
Additional Notes:
🗒 Streaming applications, such as OBS, may need to be ran as administrator
