Patch Notes - Season 2: Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Avast Ye, Sky-Rats!

• Patch went live on March 14th, 2017
• In Chapter 4,
  

  Helio

  Helio

  
  seeks help from Freebooters, the unsavory scrappers and scavengers who work in the shadows of Atlas. With both Omni and EvoS keen to publicly announce any slip-ups to discredit their new “partner” in Helio Corps, every member of the new trust is under close watch. That's where Freebooters come in: to get whatever you need under the shade – for a hefty reward, of course!

Yarr, we’ve found booty! Season 2, Chapter 4 is open!

• Check out all-new challenges and missions.
• New skins and taunts are available for Lockwood,
  

  Dr. Finn

  Dr. Finn

  
  ,
  

  Gremolitions Inc.

  Gremolitions Inc.

  
  , and
  

  Zuki

  Zuki

  
  . Earn them through special Freebooter Loot Matrices.
• They will be available for
  

   ISO

  

  ISO

  • A currency earned through

    

     Loot Matrices
  • Used to purchase loot
  and put into the general loot matrix after the event.
• Earn an Interrobang emoji just for logging in!
• Log in on St. Patrick’s Day weekend (Friday-Sunday Pacific time) to get a free Lockwood skin!

Game Mode: Extraction

• Due to popular demand: Extraction mode is back!
• Hold the case and get kills to earn points. When a team earns 10 points, an extraction zone will appear. First team to extract the case (or have the most points after 20 turns) wins!
• Draft-mode Extraction is available in Custom games
• One change from last time: you’ll need to hold the case to win the game if you have the most points after 20 turns.

Flux Items

• There is a new “Flux Capacity” title. Show off your wealth by leveling it up with Flux! Can you max it out?
• Will Fill now has a sweet new Fillmore skin! Is it ridiculous? Yes!
• A female Will Fill version is coming in a later hotfix. Any skins purchased will apply to both the male and female Will Fills.

Saint Patrick's Day Lockwood

• Show your St. Paddy’s Day spirit with this lucky scoundrel’s new skin! Just log in between March 17th and March 19th to receive the Shamrock Lockwood skin.

Helio Corps Skins

• The only person pickier than
  

  Helio

  Helio

  
  about clothes is
  

  Lockwood

  Lockwood

  
  . He’s finally approved his Helio Corps skin and it can be obtained via Daily Mission.

Bug Fixes/Performance Improvements

• Fixed an issue where continue button wasn’t appearing on game end.
• Improved the performance of the Friends list – particularly for users with a lot of Friends.
• Graphics should be sharper when using Options: Graphics Quality Medium and High on most PCs with modern graphics cards.
• Fixed a bug causing some chase paths and last-known-position-indicator positions to not work correctly when the target moves out of vision during Dash phase but gets hit by something mid-dash.

UI Enhancements

• Overcons were difficult to use in-match (
  #blamejames

  "He's the hero Atlas deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark producer."
  

  - Mr11
  ), so we’ve added an Overcon button to the HUD!
• An action can now be canceled by pressing its button again while already locked in for the turn.
• Alternate VFX now have video previews.
• Spectators should now see picks and bans in custom games.

Balance

General Ignore cover Cover Standing behind cover provides 50% damage reduction from damage coming from the other side of it mods now reduce cover effectiveness by half (deal 75% damage through cover instead of 100%) Cover reduction mods give too much value with not enough drawback. Their consistency generally made these mods better than other damage oriented mods, making selection too binary. *We're keeping an eye on the mod cost and will adjust based on their performance.

Brynn Aegis Aegis Free Action 2 Cooldown Gain Cover Cover Standing behind cover provides 50% damage reduction from damage coming from the other side of it in a direction for one turn, reducing damage from non-adjacent attacks. Gain 4 energy for each attack covered against. Now grants cover against adjacent enemies. Brynn’s job of getting in people’s faces was often at odds with her shield being ineffective in melee range. With this change Brynn can feel good about chasing down those pesky firepowers.

Quark Rushing Radiate has been removed It has proven to make Quark too strong at chasing down his enemies. Removing the counterplay of full moving to break Quark’s tether makes disengaging from Quark too difficult and often unfun to play against. A new mod will replace it soon.