WallBrawl – Patch Notes (1.16.01)

Large round of improvements focused on combat clarity, smoother UI, better map flow, and a more intuitive respawn experience.

🔥 New Feature — Map-Based Respawn Selection

• Players can now choose their respawn location directly from the map after death, allowing for faster and more strategic redeploys.

• Added new map UI elements to support selecting and highlighting available respawn points.

This makes respawning faster, clearer, and more strategic.

🏠 Respawn System Updates

• Houses now function as team respawn points in addition to reducing respawn time by 1 second.

• Stone Wall Towers continue to act as respawn points as before.

• Each team now starts with one House pre‑spawned at their base to prevent early elimination if all players fall before building their first structure.

⚔️ Combat & Gameplay Improvements

• Player base HP increased by 400 (~20% increase), giving players more room for clutch parries, evades, and consumable usage.

• Fire DoT damage significantly reduced (~50%) to make fire less oppressive while still rewarding players who stack multiple fire hits before the burn expires.

• NPC damage greatly increased — they attack slowly and predictably, but missing a parry now has real consequences.

• Frost weapon swing trail duration increased for more satisfying icy visuals.

• Fireballs with the final upgrade now leave permanent scorch marks and burn away foliage at the impact zone.

🏹 Weapons & Items

• Basic starter weapons no longer drop on player death to reduce battlefield clutter.

  • Players can still intentionally drop basic weapons via drag‑and‑drop (remains for 15 seconds).

  • Good, Legendary, and Consumables still drop normally on death.

🌍 Map & Objective Adjustments

• Dominion (central flag) win timer increased to 10 minutes, giving teams more time to mount counterattacks.

• Golden Shore: central flag repositioned closer to mid-map for more consistent travel times and pacing across all maps.

• Wall construction mode now snaps more reliably to the end of previously placed walls.

• Building a stone wall off a wood wall now correctly aligns based on the player’s rotation and pointing direction.

🎯 Visual & Audio Improvements

• Sunset lighting toned down to remove harsh brightness during combat.

• Fixed a rare healthbar jitter during hit animations for smoother readability.

• Mage Staff Shift+Mouse1 'dash attack'now correctly plays its hit sound when striking NPCs.

🛠️ UI & UX Fixes

• Infrastructure building interaction widgets now close automatically when the player steps away.

• Fixed rare cases where the build wheel could get stuck when interacting with infrastructure UI.

• Improved map UI responsiveness for selecting respawn points.

💥 Physics & Projectile Fixes

• Cannonballs now behave correctly when rolling into or through water.

• Fixed rare cases where tower arrows could get stuck floating in the air.

🏗️ General Stability & Polish

• Numerous small improvements across construction, combat readability, and environmental interactions to make the overall experience smoother and more consistent.

  Public playtest is coming soon — stay tuned for the date announcement!