Reworked how friend invites work inside the client. You must now be Steam friends with a person to invite them. This has a friend recency requirement as well as your friend needing to not be a limited steam user. Previous requests do not need to be resubmitted.

Replaced the neutral vaults with a new model, the Sinner's Sacrifice

Added the ability to change builds while in-game

Build descriptions can now be seen in-game via a tooltip

Added neutrals to Hero Sandbox (the small room in the back on the right)

Added new objective health bars for Guardians and Walkers

Added Match History link to the top right

You can now move active item slots on the HUD while holding alt/tab

Improved visibility of the voice icon indicating who is talking

Hero icons on the minimap are scaled up a little when holding alt

Removed Pause cooldown in private bot matches and tutorial/sandbox

Improved networking when there is packet loss or jitter

Soul Vessel dropped from heroes (after killing neutrals) now scales in size based on how many souls are inside

Increased the speed of Guardian's melee attacks

Changed Guardian's behavior to only attempt melee when a unit is within 6m but still do damage to units in 12m range

Candle trooper health bars now stick around at 1% when they are in self destruct mode to make it more clear they can still be shot

Improved menu UI sound feedback

Player's icon is highlighted in the top bar

Added UI sound effects for team and opponent deaths

Added Kinetic Carbine charge audio loop

Improved visuals for Kelvin's gun projectile

Fixed some visual issues with Ice Path

Added AoE effect to Pocket's Barrage

Updated weapon buff effect in Pocket's Flying Cloak upgrade

Visual effects updates for melee lifesteal items

Fixed Power Slash sometimes getting stuck on nearby geometry

Updated sound effects for the Sinner's Sacrifice

Fixed an HTML exploit with chat

Fixed not being able to place deployable abilities at certain angles

Fixed moving active item slots causing the player to say "[ITEM] is on cooldown"

Fixed training Ivy's True Form causing you to get healed

Fixed a bug with Malice firing slightly upward

Changed collision on barrel stand stacks to block bullets

Added zapper on factory outpost building

Removed roof duct on top of low building besides inner Walker

Removed street lamp post that was causing heroes to get stuck near inner lane Guardian

Added lights to outer lane Cosmic Veil tunnels

More heroes will now compliment on good uses of ultimates instead of just saying "good work"

Fixed more instances of heroes being called out by the wrong name

Base hero kill value increased from 150 to 225

Rejuv duration reduced from 4 to 3 minutes

Rejuv buff no longer increases your ammo

Rejuv now causes all your candle troopers to have double health for 3 minutes

Mid Boss can now only be damaged by enemies inside the bottom pit

Mid Boss Rejuv claim time reduced from 2.5s to 1.5s

Strong neutrals HP reduced by 20%

Strong neutrals souls bounty reduced by 20%

4 Strong Neutral camps in the corners of the map have been replaced with Medium neutrals

Vaults souls increased from 260 to 300

Spirit tier bonus increased from 3/6/9/12 to 4/8/12/16

Vitality tier bonus increased from 5/10/15/20% to 8/12/16/20%

Bullet damage falloff now maxes out at ~65m instead of ~70m

Walker bomb damage reduced from 300 to 200

Moved the middle lane Base Guardians further out slightly

Powerups bonus types are now split between the regular destructibles like crates/vases/etc and the Golden Statues. Regular ones can only roll for souls and Golden Statues can only roll for buffs. Distribution of destructibles and Golden Status around the map has been adjusted a bit.

Respawn rate for Destructibles/Statues (after initial spawn) slowed from 120s to 180s

Mid boss area has reduced destructibles

Movement Speed powerup duration increased from 12s to 30s

Movement Speed powerup movespeed reduced from 2 to 1

Movement Speed powerup sprint speed increased from 2 to 4

Fire Rate powerup reduced from +20% to +15%

Fire Rate powerup duration increased from 25s to 35s

Health Regen powerup regen reduced from 1.5% to 1%

Health Regen powerup duration increased from 15s to 25s

Cooldown Reduction powerup reduced from 25% to 20%

Extra Clip powerup reduced from 4 clips to 3

Crouch movespeed increased from 4 to 4.75

Bullet Shields now block damage from melee (similar to resistance)

Increased the distance heroes slide when they come to the bottom of a ramp

Items

Boundless Spirit

Spirit increased from 45 to 50

Cold Front

cooldown reduced from 40s to 32s

Curse

No longer prevents stamina usage

Now also prevents item usage

Duration reduced from 3.75s to 3.5s

Decay

changed from 2.2% of Max Health to 2.4% Current Health (less damage when the target is low, and non-lethal now)

Diviner's Kelvar

Bullet Shield increased from 700 to 1000

Enduring Spirit

Spirit Lifesteal reduced from +10% to +8%

Extra Regen

Regen increased from 1.75 to 2

Extra Stamina

powerup duration increased from 60s to 80s

powerup amount reduced from 2 to 1

Healbane

moved from Spirit tree to Vitality tree

now gives +50 Health

Improved Cooldown

HP Regen reduced from 2 to 1.5

Intensifying Magazine

Time for Max Damage reduced from 4s to 3.5s

Knockdown

No longer provides +2 Sprint

Now provides +1 Stamina

Leech

Spirit Lifesteal reduced from +35% to +33%

Majestic Leap

Velocity increased from 22.5 to 27

Metal Skin

duration reduced from 4s to 3s

cooldown increased from 25s to 30s

Mystic Reverb

Fixed the damage being reduced by armor twice

Damage reduced from 35% to 30%

Reactive Barrier

Cooldown reduced from 35s to 25s

Refresher

No longer has cast time (was 1s)

Sharpshooter

Damage falloff bonus reduced from 20% to 15%

Shifting Shroud

Cooldown reduced from 45s to 35s

Bonus spirit duration increased from 6s to 10s

Soul Shredder Bullets

Spirit Amp reduced from +12% to +10%

Spirit Lifesteal

Reduced from +25% to +23%

Spiritual Overflow

Spirit duration increased from 14s to 18s

Torment Pulse

Interval improved from 2s to 1.5s

Damage per pulse reduced from 45 to 40 (total dps from 22.5 to 26.6)

HP bonus reduced from +150 to +125

Heroes

Abrams

Base HP growth reduced from 36 to 32

Infernal Resilience

T2 reduced from +200 Health to +150

Seismic Impact

personal brief busy state upon landing increased from 0.2s to 0.3s

Bebop

Hyper Beam

slow now affects stamina dashes

Dynamo

Base HP growth reduced from 48 to 44

Fixed Dynamo's Quantum Entanglement going through ceilings sometimes

Quantum Entanglement

fire rate bonus reduced from +30% to +25%

Singularity

base radius increased from 8m to 10m

Haze

Sleep Dagger

T3 damage reduction on target improved from -30% to -40%

Smoke Bomb

sprint speed now instantly kicks in after casting it

Bullet Dance

cooldown reduced from 160s to 130s

T2 changed to -40s Cooldown

T3 changed to +1 Targets Hit Per Shot

Infernus

Infernus's Afterburn now shows portraits of enemies that are burning for the full duration

Flame Dash

cooldown increased from 30s to 38s

Ivy

Watcher's Covenant heal sharing reduced from 65% to 55%

Kelvin

Ice Path

sprint speed increased from +1 to +2

trail duration increased from 12s to 15s

Frozen Shelter

T2 changed to -40s Cooldown

T3 changed to +70 Health Regen that scales with Spirit

can now be dismissed early

McGinnis

Spectral Wall

can now be dismissed early

Pocket

Enchanted Satchel cast time reduced from 0.25s to 0.15s

Updated Pocket's Enchanted Satchel delay and explode sounds

Updated Pocket's Barrage cast and impact sounds

Barrage

channel can now be interrupted by casting your other abilities

radius increased from 6m to 6.5m

Seven

Storm Cloud

T1 increased from +30% to +35% Bullet Resist

Vindicta

Can no longer melee while flying for extra movement

Fixed being unable to move while scoped in with Assassinate

Updated Vindicta Flight sound effects

Added Vindicta Assassinate sound effect for targeted players

Flight

spirit bonus damage reduced from +12 to +10

no longer has +10% bonus range to damage falloff

cooldown increased from 35s to 50s

T2 changed from +12 Spirit Damage to -15s Cooldown

T3 changed from +3 m/s Bonus Air Speed to +12 Spirit Damage

Assassinate

now ramps up its total damage from 50% to 100% over 1 second of being zoomed (UI indication for this)

Warden

Base ammo increased from 14 to 16

Updated Warden's Binding Word delay and impact sounds

Alchemical Flask

T3 increased from +25% Fire Rate Slow to +35%

Willpower

T3 increased from +150 Spirit Shield to +200

Grey Talon

Improved Grey Talon's trap visibility