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Balance Changes

Gadgets

Barricade
- Increased the size of the Barricade by 20%

Glitch Grenade
- Update glitch effect so that it will now pass through Mesh Shields and Dome Shields

Stun Gun
- Increased the Stun Gun projectile’s maximum travel distance from 12m to 16m
- Players who are stunned can now use their Specializations and Gadgets while stunned
- Players who are stunned can now aim down sights while stunned
- Players who are stunned can now crouch
  Dev note: We felt that the Stun Gun was a little too dominant as a Gadget and led to many slow, inevitable deaths. The stun effect now mostly lowers the target’s movement speed, blocks them from jumping, mantling, or vaulting over obstacles, and interrupts interactions. This makes stunned players vulnerable but gives them a fighting chance.

Vanishing bomb
- Decreased the impact of the cloaking effect on the Vanishing Bomb, so affected players are slightly easier to see when moving

Maps

Monaco: Power Shift
- Tweaked the traversal options between Villas and Park for easier access to rooftops
- Minor adjustments to the spawn points around the Forest and Royal Plaza areas to provide a clearer frontline during the final stretch
- Slightly adjusted the path of the platform to fix some clipping issues and make it more accessible on the road between Shopping District and Forest

Specializations

Cloaking Device
- Decreased the impact of the cloaking effect so that cloaked players are slightly easier to see when they are moving

Weapons

FCAR
- Decreased damage from 25 to 22
- Increased magazine size from 20 to 25
- Increased the fall-off damage multiplier at max range from 50% to 55%, meaning the weapon does slightly more damage at range
  Dev Note: Our data shows us that the FCAR is very strong in the hands of good players but harder to use for newer players. These changes hopefully rein in the weapon’s power at higher skill levels, while making it slightly more forgiving to use for newer players

Content and Bug Fixes

Animation
- New intro and idle animation added for Dagger and Sword
- Swapping items when quick meleeing will now instantly cancel the quick melee animation
- Fixing an issue preventing hand gestures from playing for dual-wield items

Audio
- Increased priority of enemy footsteps, and tweaked attenuation and occlusion to make them easier to hear.
- Tweaked loudness of dematerialize and rematerialize sounds

Battlepass
- Added two bonus pages of rewards to the end of the BattlePass – good luck contestants!

Characters
- Fixed an issue where the fur on the bunny outfit was flickering when viewed at close distances
- Fixed an issue where players did not get the default outfit when creating a new contestant

Controller Gyro Aiming

Important! There is currently a serialization issue with some of the new gyro settings in this patch, which causes players to initially get the wrong defaults. We recommend that you restore defaults in the Gyro tab before enabling and trying out the new settings.

Moved gyro aiming options to a separate tab in the settings menu.
Made general improvements to the responsiveness and precision of gyro aiming controls.
The "gyro orientation" setting now has three modes:
World (New) - Rotation is based on the controller's rotational movement in the world
Local - Rotation is locally read from the controller's point of view
Player (Previously World) - Rotation is based on the controller's rotational movement from a player perspective
Vertical gyro sensitivity is now an absolute value, rather than based on a ratio of the horizontal sensitivity
Added a new setting that enables focal length scaling for gyro aiming, which scales sensitivity based on changes in FOV, making scoped weapons more precise
Added options for inverting each gyro axis individually
Added new settings for gyro acceleration, which increases sensitivity the faster the controller rotates, allowing for sharp turns while maintaining precision for small and steady adjustments
Add a new ‘flick stick’ mechanic that can be enabled with gyro, which changes the functionality of the look stick so that you can quickly snap to face any direction
Added the following optional controller binds:
- Reset vertical rotation (necessary when playing with flick stick)
- Toggle gyro aiming (On/Off)
- Disable gyro aiming (Hold)

Gadgets

Flashbang
- Fixed an issue where weak flashes could overwrite strong flashes
- Fixed an issue where Grenades, Mines, and C4s with default customization sometimes got a random customization applied
- Fixed an issue where spectators could trigger mines
- Fixed several issues where it looked like the player could place an object but no object appeared
- Fixed an issue where the preview arc showed the in-air detonation effect on grenades that don't actually detonate on a timer

Game Modes

Power Shift
- Added Seoul to the map pool

Graphics

Reduced graphical Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA) artifacts on consoles

Maps

General
- Adjusted collision on some bushes to improve interactions with placeable jump-pads
- Fixed an issue where Zipline Cables did not break correctly when intersecting certain objects

SYS$HORIZON
- Reduced the intensity of some of the interior colors

Dev note: Monitor and graphic settings that boost saturation make the colors more intense. Adjusting these settings can help to further reduce the intensity.

Private Matches

Lowered the requirement to start private matches to 2 players
The private match lobby creator now has the option to opt out of participating in the match
The private match lobby creator can now kick players from the lobby
Minor UI improvements to the private matches screen
Power Shift is now available in private matches

Ranked Tournaments

- Reduced Ranked Tournaments size from 48 to 24 players
  Dev Note: This change should make matchmaking faster, make tournaments available to more players in different regions, and help improve the quality of skill-based matchmaking leading to closer games.
- Reduced Ranked Tournament duration from four rounds to three, to account for the change in the number of players
- Increased the speed at which visible league rankings synchronize with SBMM ratings
- Improved matchmaking to closer matchmake player within their league rank
- Added an indicator in the league overview screen to show your change in rank progression from the last tournament you participated in
  Dev Note: This is the same arrow indicator that you get after a ranked tournament has been completed so that if you missed it, you can review it on the league overview page.

Settings

Add a link to the Embark Portal in the system menu

Specializations

Fixed an issue where turrets lost targeting on players with riot shield
Fixed an issue where turrets would fall through buildings and not rotate when landing

Stability

Fixed three of the most common crashes
Fix for being able to close the "Compiling shaders" screen resulting in a softlock

Store

Players can now purchase single items within a Bundle
There’s now an equip button in the store rewards screen

UI

We have added a score log to display more scoring events in all different game-modes
Various playertag marker changes
- Playertags now show distance to you
- Playertags in-game are now uppercase
- There’s now an effect on in-game healthbars to indicate healing
Fixed an issue in Game Summary where you could see duplicate stats for the same player
Fixed an issue where the 'Contracts' tab could faultily be accessed from the Battle Pass screen
Fixed an issue where the camera could be misplaced after inspecting rewards in the circuit screen
Polished and refined how pings are visualized in-game
- Ping-icons are now smaller and will scale depending on their screen-centeredness
- Pings, team health bars and objective icons now fade out when they come closer to the center of the screen
- Off-screen enemy pings now behave like other off-screen icons and hug the screen edge closest to the pinged location. (Was previously not visible when off-screen)
- Fixing bug where spectating players wouldn’t fade icons when the spectated player enters aim-down-sights
Voice lines for the default ping (when you ping a random location with no object attached to it) have been updated to be more consistent. Previously it would use “I will…” and “We should…” intermittently
In general, pinging something will now ask your allies to engage with that object, while pinging the ground will announce your own intention to move there
Updated options in the Contextual Ping menu
- “Huddle here” changed to “Group up,” with all new voice lines
- “Moving here” changed to “Go here,” using more consistent voice lines
Fixed an issue where you didn’t go to the correct page in the Battlepass from the outfit screen
Fix rare instances where first-person animations such as, reloads, inspects, and deploys could not be changed through customization
Added the ability to track contracts with a right click on the circuits screen
Fix for showing a single item rarity in the UI when previewing out of a bundle instead of the bundle rarity
Hit-indicator now differentiates damage from these types of attack
- Long range damage
- Short range damage
- Melee damage

VFX

Polished the grappling hook wire animation.

Weapons

Improved melee aim assistance so that it not only looks for targets when the attack is initiated by the player, but also validates that they are still correct at the time aim correction is applied. This should reduce the number of occasions where melee attacks could pull the player away from a target

Security and Anti-Cheat

Added a requirement to have Secure Boot enabled for certain players
Several new suspension rules based on anomaly detection
Added suspension rule for using Aimbot
General improvements and fixes


Feature	Description
New Gamemode	POWER SHIFT - It’s a casual 5v5 where you’ll compete to escort a physical platform through the arena as it rips through anything in its path.
New Map	SYS$HORIZON - CNS has introduced a new map: HORIZON. It’s a glitchy, colorful cityscape that’s partially loaded with floating geometric shapes. You’ll have plenty to explore and a night-time mode that glows under a neon sun.step, around every corner could be a trap
New Weapons	93R (L), FAMAS (M), KS-23 (H)
New Gadgets	Gateway (L), Data Reshaper (M), Anti-Gravity Cube (H)
New Medium Specialisation	Dematerializer - Enables the user to create temporary holes in the arena construction
Better Matches	League overhaul - The goal is to provide a much better quality experience when playing in the ranked tournament.
Private Matches	You’ll be able to organize matches with a minimum of six friends to play Bank It or QuickCash.