[2020] v2.2.35 BIG RE-BALANCE Patch Notes

: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page [url=https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/572220/announcements/detail/1715244988583764243]here[/url].

NEW FEATURES

• Double points for late joins
  
• Kill feed to show who killed who and how during a match
  
• Added scrolling to wardrobe system
  
• XP is now displayed by level in player card on main menu
  
• Added 4 new combos to the practice range tips
  
  • Supercharge
    
  • Supercharge+
    
  • Death Charge
    
  • Death Taxi

BUG FIXES

• Wormhole now holds and refreshes its projectile before teleporting it (spark actually teleports now)
  
• Puck now only applies knockback and damage if being knocked toward you (fixes Tow Vine backfire on puck)
  
• Fixed rare bug where there would be more kills than wizards in team Sports
  
• Bullrush no longer prevents first instance of knockback after the rush is over (for about 2 seconds)
  
• Wizards will no longer clip through Earth Tomb!!
  
• Recasting Chameleon no longer causes Fireball to go on a 10 second cooldown

ADJUSTMENTS

• Increased range of Spark slightly
  
• North Pull tweaks
  
  • Increased damage
    
  • Decreased cast time of second dash
    
  • Added client-side prediction to dash
• Lightning Bug tweaks
  
  • Increased explosion damage 50%
    
  • Fixed bug with pull damaging teammates
    
  • Increased pull range by 10%
• Discharge tweaks
  
  • Reduced duration to 4s
    
  • Increased cast time from 0.25s to 0.5s and cooldown from 20s to 22s
    
  • Changed discharge return damage to be actual projectiles with jetstream speed
• Capacitor tweaks
  
  • Increased damage 25%
• Chain Lightning tweaks
  
  • Decreased bounce range by 20%
    
  • Decreased damage over time by 50%
    
  • Increased impact damage slightly by 20%
    
  • Reduced max duration from 6s to 5s
    
  • Made bounces only target objects they can hit
• Buff Tonic DoT, HoT, and AOE
  
  • Healing over time increased 50%
    
  • Damage over time increased 33%
    
  • Increased AoE 20%
• Lowered cooldown of CyClone from 15 to 10 seconds
  
• Frog of Life changed healing to only be 50% for enemies
  
• Electric is no longer in every game
  
• Bubble Breaker
  
  • Reduced max heal by 20%
    
  • Made bubble ending more elegant
• Vacuum updates
  
  • Added vacuum sound for the duration
    
  • Now has a unique looking projectile
    
  • Pull no longer occasionally tips things sideways
• Relapse now has a more obvious particle effect
  
• Vanguard updates
  
  • Energy wave now travels through obstacles like Tsunami
    
  • Energy wave can now be affected by Deflect, Pillar of Fire, Vacuum, and Vanguard
• Tsunami now does 10 impact damage instead of 15, but now also does 5 damage per second during contact
  
• Boomerang and Pet Rock now have a buffer for on-hit so the interactions (with vacuum) happen predictably
  
• Removed death beacons from coffin
  
• Removed windwalls on Coffin for 3-team games
  
• Readjusted height of lava collider / stages for Tower and Ruins so the damaging regions are more consistent
  
• Water Cannon updates
  
  • Added raycast check for walls
    
  • No longer able to spin the cannon after cast, but can apply curve it to turn the wizard a set amount during the cast
    
  • Added more particles
• Petrify now delays (finishing) casting a spell until petrification is complete
  
• Slightly nerfed vacuum + pet rock or boomerang
  
• Moved movement spell velocities to their own vectors (this means knockback during the listed movement spells will no longer be completely overridden)
  
  • Sustain (override this new vector while in the branches)
    
  • Somer Assault
    
  • Flame Leap
    
  • Bull Rush
    
  • North Pull
    
  • Chain Lightning
    
  • Suspend (will no longer absorb Somer Assault and Flame Leap casts)
• Overhauled wizard movement network syncing to be much smoother (should see a lot less jitter in the movement and knockback prediction of enemy wizards online now)

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

• Updated overlap spheres to only check for unit, projectile, and not ground layers
  
• Added a range check to the shark, so it just swims straight once it's far enough away from the stage