Patch 2.17 - New Taunt, Training Options and Balance!

New Skins

• Lion Rampant Roland

• The Heavyweights (Gauntlets skin)

• Photo Op (Taunt)

Server Migration Tonight After the Patch.

We’ve heard your complaints about server performance, and after a lot of investigation and deliberation we’ll be migrating our servers tonight. While that means some extended downtime, we’re aiming to have better networking performance for everyone afterwards. Thanks for your patience! See you on the flip side.

• Four Hours Extended Server Downtime tonight (Est. June 15, 10:00 pm EDT - June 16, 2:00 am EDT)

• Better networking performance in the future

Training Mode Update!

We’ve added some new features to the training room that will allow players to get even more out of their training time. If you’re a lab monster, scientist, or technician, you’ll be able to find all new kinds of strings and resets with the new ‘Dodge Out’ setting that will allow you to choose what direction bots dodge out of strings. We look forward to seeing what you all come up with!

• Difficulty renamed to CPU.

• Removed Dodge Out from CPU and made it its own setting.

• Dodge Out can now do directional dodges and random.

• New page labeled Bot Options 2.

• Items are now equipped instead of spawned.

• Added item option to bots.

• Added Position Reset.

Community Request

• In Couch Party and Custom Online, the game will do a better job of not randomly picking the same map in consecutive games. It will only do this if Map Choosing is set to “Random” or if the “Random” map wins when Map Choosing is set to “Voting.” This will have no effect on any “Striking” modes.

• Steam Launcher command -noskulls will remove the skulls from the bouncy bomb

• Steam Launcher command -noskulls also turns off the skulls in shipwreck.

UI and Animation

• Changed start up animation on the Axe's Side Air so that it telegraphs better

• Changed "confirm" button to "set region" button inside the region settings screen

• Slight tweak to the tail orientation in the High Five Taunt animation so that it will support a wider variety of sidekick body types

• Taunt icons incorporating sidekicks now scale to better fit the square icon space in the store and inventory

• Redrew missing frames from the collectors KO fx animation.

• Reduced opacity of the swooshes on the axe's recover animation so that the axe head would be easier to track

Controller Support

• Added PC support for Intsun T3

New Weekly Legend Rotation

This week's Legend rotation features Asuri, Brynn, Cassidy, Koji, Lord Vraxx, and Ulgrim.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare crash bug in custom lobbies involving a race condition with someone leaving.

• Fixed a bug in Training Mode where spawned weapons were invisible until unpaused.

• Fixed a bug where setting your region wasn't getting handled properly.

• Fixed a bug that removed the back button to exit the game.

• Fixed a highlighter issue