Added an initial Anti-Cheat detection system. When a user is detected as cheating, during the game session the opponents will be given a choice between banning the user immediately and ending the match or turning the cheater into a frog for the rest of the game and then banning them afterwards. The system is set to conservative detection levels as we work on a v2 anti-cheat system that is more extensive. We will turn on the banning of users in a couple of days after the update is out. When a match is ended this way, the results will not count for other players.

Added global quickcast support. You can now configure your abilities and/or items to be on quickcast mode globally. You can also customize each ability individually to be quickcast or not. This also supports grenade style abilities.

Hero specific keybinds now say the ability name instead of ability 1-4

Added Zipline hotkey that can be independently bound from space/jump

Fixed per-hero keys not inheriting user-defined default keys properly

Added keybind indicator for hero-specific binds showing which keys have been bound for that hero

Added Custom Match play mode

Private lobbies now have an option to turn on cheats

Private lobbies now let you select the specific servers to use

Private lobbies now have an option to make the match publicly visible or private to only the players

Private lobbies now support post-game and replays properly

Private lobbies now allow picking specific lanes (solo and dual lane colors are displayed)

Added a cheat report option in-game and post-game

Can now mute and report enemy players using ESC while in-game

Updated the game access invite UI to make it clear when users have been accepted (in most cases we look into where a user said their friend wasn't accepted, the user was actually accepted but they never claimed the game on the Steam notifications side)

Added voice indicators for when players are speaking in party and team chat (green for party, white for team)

Updated Player Card and action menu when clicking on a player in the friend list or ESC menu

Fixed Rich Presence for Steam and in-game friend lists

Party Code is now hidden when you enable Streamer Mode

Added Region indicator to the matches on the watch tab

Fixed search by MatchID not working for games that are live

Added Spectator Fog of War toggle (hotkeys available in settings)

Added South Africa servers

Added Italian localization

Instead of showing the total number of favorites for each build, we now tag popular builds using a mix of both recent and historical usage so that newer builds are easier to find

Builds that haven't been updated in 30 days now have a distinct visual

General rendering performance improvements

Shadow quality improvements for higher shadow settings

Fixed issues with player outline rendering in FSR2

Fixed regression with saturation volumes outline not showing up

Displacement mapping no longer an official option and will likely be cut (it can be enabled with a ConVar after the game starts)

Lighting improvements in map

Picking up a powerup will now list all the stats they modify in the HUD instead of a generic name like 'Casting' or 'Gun'

Spirit scaling is now always shown on the tooltips without needing to hold alt/tab

Added frosted shell effect on the rejuv crystal when Frozen Shelter is active

Music and Sound effects will now pause during game pause

Fixed Guardian trying to shoot people unsuccessfully behind cover

Fixed Quicksilver Reload bonus damage not working correctly with things like Scorn and Flog

Added timer sound to the last couple seconds of Flying Cloak

Wall Jumps now use better animations to communicate directionality

Fixed jumping between ziplines consuming stamina

Fixed Magic Reverb not getting increased bonus damage from damage amps

Improved preloading during queue time

Updated Killing Blow effects

Updated Lightning Ball effects to reduce some visual noise

Fixed some issues with Crimson Slash effect not appearing reliably

Fixed Ricochet not respecting LOS when picking the targets

No longer play low ammo sounds when firing while sliding

Fixed not being able to bind Reload to Mouse Wheel Up/Down

Minimap line colors now match the color of the hero drawing them

Fixed spectator keybinds not showing correctly

Updated Flying Strike effects to reduce some visual noise

Fixed Flex Slot unlock order not matching the usual order of unlocks

Updated Sleep Dagger projectile, impact and sleeping debuff visuals

Fixed imbue and active abilities dialog not responding to keybinds if your ability/item binds included a modifier key or were bound to the mouse wheel

Updated bullet shield break effects

Updated Unstoppable effects to be clearer at cast time

Fixed various projectiles going through bosses (Wraith cards, Geist bombs, etc)

Fixed Dash not always breaking breakables

Breakables will now wait to spawn if a player is in the way

Fixed a bug where Kelvin desperation VO for Arctic Beam and Ice Path were flipped

Turned off a Shiv line where he referenced slowing down enemies when he wasn't actually doing so

Removed reason 31 of why Lash is better than Bebop and replaced it with reason 26 of why Lash is better than Bebop (fixed a bug with Lash's hero select lines)

Replaced a Grey Talon select line to make his intentions more clear

Bots can now choose to play Lady Geist, Mirage, Shiv, and Warden

Fixed min/max falloff range displaying incorrectly on Weapon Stats Tooltip

Updated Rejuvenator buff effect

Updated wall bounce effects for Viscous in ball form

Added citadel_give_gold cheat command

Improved read on the connecting rope for Flying Strike and reduced visual obstruction of the ending slash

Music bug fixes for replay and spectating

Allow announcer lines for kill streaks and various hero lines to play while the player is in an active combat encounter

Timing critical music and sfx will pause and resume in response to game pause

Side lanes are now a little further apart from the middle lanes

Added a First Blood bonus bounty for the first kill each player gets. Grants 150 bonus souls.

Lane setup is now always 1-2-2-1

Zipline Boost now starts on cooldown again

Trooper damage reduction from Guardians reduced from 35% to 28% (they die a little faster to Guardians now)

Trooper share radius reduced (from allied hero to allied hero 50m->40m, from orb to allied hero 40m->35m)

Reverted recent creep sharing duplication changes (back to how it was over a week ago, we want to see if it's still an issue with the other changes in this patch)

Some latency-related calculation improvements that help orbs be a little less deny favored

Orbs now appear a little smaller to the enemy that is trying to deny them

Added a Soul Generator (like the one in hero sandbox) in the respawn area. Starts spawning orbs at 3 minutes. Each orb is worth 10 souls when shot. (primary purpose for this is cases when you are very close to an item purchase)

Fire Rate slows now stack diminishingly

Rejuv bonus creep HP increased from 50% to 70%

Rejuv bonus is no longer consumed for dead players, they have it on their next life now

Troopers no longer give half bounty when base guardians are destroyed for that lane

Killer to Assist bounty ratio reduced from 2.0 to 1.7 (slightly more to assists)

Midgame respawn time increased a bit (reaches 50s at 20 min instead of 40s at 20 min)

Teleporter delay reduced from 5s to 4s

Guardians now deal 10% more damage to players

Sinner's Sacrifice now grants a permanent golden statue bonus when it is killed

Fixed Sinner's Sacrifice sharing bounty to nearby allies

Added indicator on the hud to help track your passive cooldown items when they are 1s from ready (headshot Booster, Medic Bullets, etc)

Boon count increased from 11 to 14 (added to 16/18/20k)

Non-Health boon bonuses rescaled over the 14 levels (same total as before)

Aggressive crouch spamming within a very narrow window will now cause you to very briefly move progressively slower

Added Rejuv drop on a loop in the sandbox mode

Added infinite ammo option to sandbox ("No Reload")

Fixed dashing downwards not destroying breakables

Silence now deselects your ability if you had it open when silenced

High-Velocity Mag: Bullet Velocity reduced from +30% to +25%

Outer lanes at the middle of the map pushed further away from the inner lanes

Added connection from canal near the urn platforms through the Radio Station and Apartment buildings

Reworked interior corridors of Fish Market/Nursery to exit to the buildings sooner

Added interior room partition from the Fish Market/Nursery to the Shops

Moved rope to the Fish Market/Nursery rooftop to the back of the building

Removed upper interior hallway from rope to the Fish Market/Nursery rooftops

Moved truck from in front of archway with cosmic veil to the back of the Fish Market/Nursery

Redesigned outer lane path (ziplines and trooper nodes) from Walker to Guardian on Amber Yellow and Sapphire Purple

Added interior passage beside Subway Entrance to the outer lanes

Bullet Armor: Bullet Resist increased from 20% to 25%

Improved Bullet Armor: Bullet Resist increased from 45% to 50%

Items

Ammo Scavenger

Ammo reduced from 15% to 10%

Health reduced from 60 to 40

Duration reduced from 35s to 30s

Max stacks reduced from 12 to 10

Berserker

Damage required per stack reduced from 110 to 100

Colossus

Slow radius increased from 12m to 14m

Combat Barrier

Fire Rate while shielded reduced from 8% to 6%

Weapon Damage while shielded reduced from 28% to 25%

Bullet Shield increased from +300 to +325

Decay

Cooldown increased from 32s to 45s

Cast range scaling reduced from 0.2 to 0.16

Divine Barrier

Bonus Health reduced from 75 to 50

Echo Shard

Now has a 0.3s cast delay (like Refresher)

Escalating Exposure

Fixed the bonus damage being reduced twice by resistance

Escalating Resilience

Fire Rate reduced from 14% to 12%

Extra Stamina

Stamina Recovery increased from 10% to 14%

Fortitude

Bonus Health increased from 275 to 300

Frenzy

Low HP Spirit Resist changed to Bullet Resist

Headhunter

Now requires Headshot Booster

No longer grants +50% Bullet Velocity

Now grants +5% Fire Rate

Fixed not being affected by cooldown reduction

Headshot Booster

Fire Rate reduced from +5% to +4%

Health Nova

Weapon Damage increased from 10% to 12%

Hollow Point Ward

Spirit Shield increased from +85 to +95

Improved Reach

Now provides 12% Bullet Resist instead of 12% Spirit Resist

Improved Spirit

Spirit Power increased from +21 to +23

Intensifying Magazine

Max Weapon Damage reduced from 75% to 60%

Kinetic Dash

Fire Rate reduced from 25% to 20%

Fire Rate max duration reduced from 8s to 7s

Knockdown

Now causes enemies to fall down faster

Lifestrike

Cooldown reduced from 5.25s to 5s

Fixed proccing heal more than once when hitting multiple targets

Magic Carpet

Fixed it consuming stamina when jumping off

Melee Charge

Impact now increases your ammo for that mag instead of reloading (so if your ammo is 2/8, it becomes 10/8). Reloads you instantly if in the middle of a reload.

Cooldown increased from 8.5s to 10s

Melee Lifesteal

Melee Damage reduced from 13% to 12%

Heal vs non-heroes reduced from 40% to 30%

Monster Rounds

Bullet Resist vs NPCs reduced from 35% to 30%

Mystic Reach

Ability Range increased from 16% to 18%

Now provides 6% Bullet Resist instead of 6% Spirit Resist

Mystic Shot

Damage spirit scaling increased from 0.6 to 0.8

Pristine Emblem

Now requires High-Velocity Mag

Now grants +35% Bullet Velocity

Quicksilver Reload

No longer triggers if your ammo is at max value already

Rapid Recharge

Faster Time Between Charges increased from +55% to +65%

Cooldown Reduction For Charged Abilities increased from +25% to 30%

Refresher

Bullet Resist increased from 8% to 16%

Spirit Resist reduced from 16% to 8%

Restorative Locket

No longer requires max stacks to restore a stamina point

Restorative Shot

Cooldown reduced from 6.2s to 5.5s

Return Fire

While active grants +25% Bullet Resistance

Bullet Damage Returned reduced from 70% to 60%

No longer grants +7% Fire Rate

Spirit Power increased from +7 to +9

Fixed Ricochet'd bullets not returning the right amount of damage

Ricochet

Fire Rate reduced from 12% to 10%

Shadow Weave

Now a T4 Weapon Item

Shadow Weave

Moved to T4 Weapon

Sharpshooter

Fixed falloff reduction not working properly

Silencer

Now grants +12 Spirit

Siphon Bullets

Moved to T4 Vitality

Siphon Bullets

Now a T4 Vitality Item

No longer grants +28% Weapon Damage

Now grants +18% Bullet Resistance

Soul Rebirth

Increases base respawn rate by +15s

Spirit Strike

No longer grants +0.8 Health Regen

Spiritual Overflow

Now grants +250 Bullet Shield

Titanic Magazine

Ammo increased from 100% to 120%

Torment Pulse

Health Bonus increased from 140 to 160

Spirit Power damage scaling increased from 0.25 to 0.33

Unstoppable

Can no longer be cast during channels

Vampiric Burst

Fixed casting it interrupting sliding

Veil Walker

No longer grants +20% Fire Rate

Warp Stone

Casting while on the ground will no longer stop the player in place, will try to move forward along the ground instead

Fixed cases of Warp Stone getting caught on geometry

Withering Whip

No longer grants +8% Fire Rate

Spirit Power increased from +4 to +6

Now grants +1 Sprint

Cast range increased from 24m to 30m

Fire Rate slow increased from 40% to 45%

Heroes

Abrams

Fixed Cases where Shoulder Charge was unexpectedly 'slamming' in to walls and stairs

Abrams now has a new custom heavy melee animation

Infernal Resilience

reduced from 16% to 15%

T3 reduced from 9% to 8%

Siphon Life

spirit scaling increased from 0.2 to 0.3

Bebop

Hook range reduced from 30m to 25m

Hyper Beam

duration spirit scaling reduced from 0.08 to 0.06

Dynamo

Fixed Dynamo not playing an animation during the cast delay on Singularity

Singularity

radius reduced from 8m to 7m

Grey Talon

Arrow cycle time reduced from 0.4s to 0.45s (overall dps unchanged)

Fixed air dash during Rain of Arrows going half the distance

Rain of Arrows

can be alternate-casted to remain near the ground

Guided Owl

bonus spirit on death now has a 3s buffer window

: very slight turn rate improvements

radius increased from 12m to 13m

Haze

Fixed refresher not working properly with Smoke Bomb

Fixed some items that didn't proc before: Tesla Bullets, Lucky Shot, Mystic Shot

Updated Haze VO

Sleep Dagger

hitbox reduced by 10%

Bullet Dance

now more accurately shows who it is shooting

Fixed sometimes not obeying line of sight accurately

bullets are now affected by Time Wall

evasion reduced from 50% to 25%

fire rate reduced from 25% to 15%

Ivy

Kudzu Bomb T3 now also grants +2m Radius

Kudzu Bomb spirit power scaling increased from 0.6 to 0.7

Fixed clicking noise when flying while disarmed

Fixed being able to Stone Form during the Take Flight animation to circumvent the vulnerable cast period

Stone Form

now works against airborne targets

Kelvin

Headshot bonus damage reduced by 20%

Bullet damage growth reduced from 1.2 to 0.9

Moving through breakables while on Ice Path now destroys them

Arctic Beam

movement slow reduced from 70% to 50%

Lady Geist

Sprint increased from 1 to 1.5

Life Drain

cooldown reduced from 42s to 30s

Fixed not healing extra based on amplifications (like Soul Shredder and Malice stacks)

Malice

cooldown reduced from 6.25s to 6s

T1 improved from -2.75s Cooldown to -3s

McGinnis

Fixed looking up circumventing the min range on Wall and Barrage

Can now cast parry to cancel your ult

Fixed various issues with Spectral Wall indoors and near walls spawning the wrong number of segments

Mo & Krill

Combo

duration reduced from 2.75s to 2.5s

damage spirit scaling increased from 0.8 to 1.1

kill trigger now has a 3s buffer window to get credit

Sand Blast

T1 reduced from +1.5s to +1s

range increased from 30m to 35m

Burrow

base speed increased from 3 to 4

T3 speed reduced from +3 to +2

Paradox

Fixed being unable to be damaged by multiple Time Walls

Pulse Grenade

T3 now also grants +2% Damage Amp

Pocket

Affliction

no longer goes through walls, now respects line of sight

Barrage

T3 reduced from +5% to +4%

Seven

Static Charge

stun duration reduced from 1.1 to 0.9

T3 reduced from 1.1 to 0.9

radius reduced from 6m to 5m

can now be alternate-casted on self (does not stun you)

now respects line of sight

Lightning Ball

T3 now also gives +1m Radius

Shiv

Slice and Dice

T2 reduced from +85 to +75

Killing Blow

Rage buildup per spirit damage reduced from 0.02 to 0.013

Rage drain rate increased from 0.3 to 0.35

Full Rage Bonus Damage reduced from 20% to 15%

T2 increased from 5% to 10%

Vindicta

Gun cycle time increased from 0.19s to 0.22s (same overall dps)

Max Falloff reduced from 58m to 45m

Low HP indication now also shows up while unscoped

Stake

: distance enemies are allowed to move increased from 6m to 8m

Flight

Fixed ending if you touch the ground

duration spirit scaling reduced from 0.2 to 0.15

Assassinate

Base damage reduced from 160 to 140

zoom level reduced a little bit

Viscous

Bullet Damage reduced from 13 to 12

Can now use down dash during Goo Ball

Fixed Phantom Strike not positioning you correctly when using it with your Goo Ball

Updated Viscous icon to look more different from Dynamo

Viscous Puddle Punch will now show a red preview for when the punch is out of range but within 2x of the cast range

The Cube

cleanse is now part of the T2

Puddle Punch

enemy warning time increased from 0.35s to 0.45s

Splatter

post cast delay reduced from 0.5s to 0.2s

Warden

Binding Word

escape range and escape time increased by 15%

Last Stand

spirit scaling increased from 0.9 to 1.2

Yamato

Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.5 to 0.45

Fixed various issues with Flying Strike pathing

Shadow Transformation duration reduced from 5s to 4.5s

Shadow Transformation T3 duration increased from +1.5s to +2s

Shadow Transformation no longer provides unlimited ammo

Crimson Slash

fire rate slow reduced from 30% to 20%

Infernus

Infernus will no longer appear in every bot match