[2023] v2.4.6 Holiday Patch!

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

NEW FEATURES

• Added new stages
  
  • The Glaive
    
    
    
    
  • The Village
    
    
    
    
  • The Plates
    
    
• New element selection UI for online party only and couch games
  
  • Set individual elements to Included, Available, or Banned
    
    
• Added new Spell Selection Mode: Random 7 -- same as Random 7 Mirror except it's fully random and can be played FFA
  
• New Ice Skin
  
  
  
  
• Added a Sports Only preset
  
• Added 3 cursed presets (Oops All Wormholes, Too Many Mages On Ice, and Bottomless Pit)
  
• Added Istanbul "tr" and Dallas "ussc" servers to the server list
  
• Spectate mode can now be toggled in the Online Lobby and "Game Mode" option has been removed from main menu settings
  
• Added ability to show pings in the Online Lobby with Left Bumper on controller
  
• Added "press any key/button to continue" to couch loading screen

BUG FIXES

• Fixed online bug with Preserve where players would appear to stay on top of their crystal on other clients when they had actually used a movement spell to get off of it
  
• Made the puck on sports slightly larger so that point-blank spells and melee attacks don't get through the center of it and hit it backwards
  
• Fixed sudden death infinite loop bug
  
  • Spawned "vacuums" only apply to projectiles and not wizards
• Fixed bug where bots weren't properly targeting the puck on sports
  
• Fixed bug that caused Electric, Steam, and Metal skins not to unlock Somebody's Fabulous achievement
  
• Fixed bug where custom secondary team colors weren't showing up on player wardrobes
  
• Random controller dropping bug: removed controller caching to prevent referencing invalid controllers
  
• (PC Only) Fixed bug where toggling the xInput option in the main menu would cause your controller to stop working
  
• Changes to the physics layer should help the following spells work more consistently
  
  • Water Cannon (now also does a sphere cast instead of just a raycast)
    
  • Vanguard (now spawns a little closer to the wizard as well)
    
  • Earth Tomb
• If a spell reactivation becomes invalid, it is now hidden and cannot be reactivated
  
  • Tow Vine (hook destroyed, or hooked unit dies/expires)
    
  • Steal Trap (trap destroyed, or trapped player unit dies/expires)
    
  • Hot Swap (swap destroyed, or attached unit dies/expires)
    
  • Backup (clone to swap with dies early)
    
  • Decoy (clone to swap with dies early)
    
  • Ice Hook (tossed crystal expires early)
• Fixed bug where bot clones would have visible aimers, giving away which ones were the clones
  
• Fixed bug where multiple worms would spawn if Wormhole was blocked by a nullifying defensive spell like Rock Block

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

• Reworked physics layer to use velocities instead of overriding positions, preventing massive recalculations every frame and reducing the load on the CPU

ADJUSTMENTS

• Bots no longer hyperfocus a single (losing) player in team games
  
• Volcano damage is now dealt every tick (like insta-kill Coffin and Airship environments), so falling into the center with Bubble Breaker or Backup active will no longer save you, preventing awkward volcano standing
  
• Bots use the following spells more intelligently now
  
  • Frog of Life (current health is at least 15 below max)
    
  • Double Strike (landed a DoT spell)
    
  • Wormhole [close] (if traveled through, and not on lava)
    
  • Cold Shoulder (will whiff on purpose to transform an in-range crystal to cold)
    
  • Chainmail (hit by a DoT spell)
    
  • Discharge (hit by a DoT spell)
    
  • Double Strike (will use if DoT spell is landed)
    
  • Rewind (hit by a DoT spell)
• Bots now prioritize using spell reactivations
  
  • Somer Assault
    
  • Tow Vine
    
  • North Pull
    
  • Hot Swap
    
  • Backup
    
  • Decoy
    
  • Steal Trap
    
  • Chameleon
    
  • Ice Pack
    
  • Ice Hook
    
  • Preserve
• Increased the maximum targeting range of Bombshell from 22 to 30 to help keep the camera more zoomed in
  
• Renamed "Mirror Select" to "1v1"