Patch Notes: Beta v 1.8.0

New Weapon

• Axe has been added!

• Teros the Minotaur uses the Axe.

• Collectors get a new Item Skin: the Asgardian Axe!

• The axe is coming down!

New Legend

• Teros the Minotaur has been added to the roster!

• Playable by everyone during Closed Beta Round 1.

• Mess with the bull, get the horns.

New Specials

• Queen Nai now has unique powers for all Heavy ground attacks with both weapons.

New Map

• The Mammoth Fortress is now in and ready for epic brawling.

• The fight of ages.

Lag Improvements

• Server is much more strict about how recent your packets need to come in.

• InputDelay has been decreased across the board by using your average ping and not factoring in spikes.

• When you get a lag spike, you will feel a local rollback, but it won't affect other players.

• Your input delay is currently shown by a ping bar in the corner (0-3 Green, 4-7 Yellow, 8-11 Orange, 12+ Red).

• We've still got more improvements to come, and there is a lot of logging in this patch that will help. Thanks for your testing and feedback.

Community Requests

• Server connection strength can now be seen in the top-right hand corner of the game next to the HUD when playing online matches.

• Friends List option menu has been updated with a new look and to better work with controller and mouse.

• Custom Online matches can now be set to public, private, or invite only. This new option is located in the character select settings panel.

• "Lives Mode" has been renamed "Stock Mode".

• The game now saves the last used settings for each Legend, and will default your selection to them.

• Choosing a random Legend will select from your saved Legend settings in Offline, Custom Online, and Matchmaking.

• Players can now leave an online game and play another without having to finish the previous game.

• PC Support for Play Sega, 1 Life, QanBa Q2, HORI fight stick Pro V4, controllers and the BestDealUSA PS2 Controller Adapter.

Powers

• AdjustedBlasters Air SideDecreased Hitbox size and increased Hit Window per shot; Increased Cooldown Time.
• AdjustedBlasters Air DownDecreased Hitbox size and Damage per shot; Decreased Stun Time; Increased Cooldown Time; Will now fire the final three shots if either of the first two hit; Increased Time to Hit.
• AdjustedBlasters AirDecreased Hitbox size; increased Damage; Increased Stun Time per shot; Slightly increased minimum Force; Decreased Time to Hit and Recover Time.
• AdjustedBlasters Side QuickDecreased Hitbox size; Greatly decreased Recover Time; Decreased Force, but increased minimum Force; Added a long Cooldown Time.
• AdjustedBlasters DownDecreased Damage per shot.
• AdjustedBlasters QuickNow uses a much shorter animation on hit; Decreased Hitbox size.

Gameplay

• Dodging will now properly go through soft platforms.

• When you do an attack very close to the ground coming out of the air, it will now properly reset your jumps and snap you to the ground.

• Reduced streakiness in item pickup randomness formula (It should feel "more random").

• Improved item spawning logic to increase variety of available gadgets.

• Lowered the threshold so that dodges happen sooner on controllers.

• Adjusted collisions on bottom of Blackguard Keep to better match the archway.

• Gadgets ejected from players' hands now bounce normally instead of stopping on any surface like a freshly spawned item.

• Decreased respawn duration by 1 second.

• Improvements to platform collision detection on The Enigma.

• Throwing item damage scales more based on the speed of the item. Generally less damage than before. Impulse