Early Access Patch V0.9

We're blasting off again!

Patch Notes 7 lug 2023

Summary

Patch releasing 12.00 GMT July 11th, 2023.

It’s time to load up, Champions!

The V0.9 Game Update is just around the corner, bringing with it our most Dashing new Hero yet, alongside some substantial improvements to our in-game chat moderation systems, as well as equally substantial changes to our in-game audio mixing!

The other big thing to talk about in V0.9 is arguably one of our biggest pushes to address in-game toxicity to date.

And lastly of course there’s our gun-toting new action Hero, TwinBlast!

A new hero appears

TwinBlast is locked and loaded!

Blast into battle with the gunslinging extraordinaire, TwinBlast, the latest Hero to join the Predecessor roster!

ABILITIES:

Gunslinger [Passive]:
Using an Ability will cause TwinBlast's next 2 basic attacks (within 5s) to benefit from 40% increased Total Attack Speed.

Double Shot [LMB]:
Ranged basic attack that fires two projectiles, each dealing 24 (+50% Bonus Physical Power) physical damage and applying on-hit effects at 50% effectiveness.

Vaporize [Q]:
Cooldown: 10/9/8/7/6
Cost: 40
Effect: TwinBlast charges and fires two super-heated piercing projectiles in the target’s direction with each dealing 40/60/80/100/120 (+40% Bonus Physical Power)(+60% Magical Power) physical damage and applying on-hit effects to all targets hit at 60% effectiveness.

Rocket Dash [E]:
Cooldown: 20/19/18/17/16
Cost: 40/35/30/25/20
Passive: When TwinBlast deals damage to an enemy Hero with a Basic Attack or Ability, Rocket Dash’s cooldown is decreased by 0.5s.

Vortex Grenade [RMB]:
Cooldown: 7/6.5/6/5.5/5
Cost: 20
Effect: Launch a grenade in target direction that explodes upon contact with an Enemy Target, dealing 20/35/50/65/80 (+100% Total Physical Power) physical damage in a small area and Slowing by 15% for 0.75s.

Max Charges: 2.

New

Ventilate [R]:
Cooldown: 120/100/80
Cost: 100
Effect: Transform your guns into fully automatic machine guns, unleashing a barrage of 25 (+6% Attack Speed) bullets over 3s, dealing 12/20/38 damage per bullet (+20% Bonus Physical Power)(+15% Magical Power), for a total of 300/500/700 (+500% Bonus Physical Power)(+375% Magical Power) at 25 bullets.

New Skin - Shadow Ops TwinBlast

Improved Chat Moderation

We’re pleased to reveal that as of V0.9 we’re getting with the times and deploying the latest in AI technology to help shore up our in-game message defences.

Sound Improvements:

We don’t normally hand the mic over to other teams in the fortnightly patch notes, but considering we wouldn’t have a mic if it wasn’t for the Sound Team we thought we’d make an exception!

Balance changes

Heroes

ReCrunch [R]:

◆ Base healing decreased from 30/85/140 to 20/80/140.

Khaimera’s Unleash:

◆ Added 75% On-Hit Modifier.
◆ Total Physical Power Scaling increased from 40% to 45%.

Kira’s Shadow Glide:

◆ Range decreased from 600 to 525.
◆ Mana Cost increased from 50 to 60.
◆ Cooldown increased from 18/17/16/15/14 to 20/18.5/17/15.5/14.

Items

Epoch:

A quick mana bump to leave our Mages feeling less parched for mana.
◆ Mana increased from 150 to 200.

Infernum:

◆ Cinder Base damage decreased from 20 to 15.
◆ Cinder Bonus Physical Power Scaling decreased from 110% to 100%.

Bug fixes

Additional bug fixes may be added after the patch is live.

◆ Fixed a bug where Kingsbane’s damage passive “Chaos” does not work.

That's all this week!
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