We are pushing a hotfix to address the following issues:

• River SFX volume adjustment.
  
• Countess SFX volume adjustment.
  
• Purity Of The Ancients now gives correct movespeed.
  
• Adjusted Twinblast's dash to now move diagonally.

Also, due to the feedback on our new matchmaking system, we have added a 'Preferred Matchmaking Server' setting. This setting will tell the game you are willing to accept higher ping in order to play with other regions quicker, should your own region be less populated. Think of it as a hybrid between the new and old matchmaking system. While this shouldn't effect NA & EU players as much, people from other regions should see a significant reduction in wait time if they opt in to a 'Preferred Region' outside of their own. 🌎

We will continue to monitor feedback and keep everyone updated on any further changes. Direct all feedback to our Discord server here ... Read more

We have pushed a hotfix to address the following:

• Mild server crashes.
  
• Item stacks not working as intended on Twinblast and Grux.
  
• Ward charge cooldowns not working as intended.
  
• Players with high ping having trouble queuing.
  
• Scoreboard hero level ping to reflect the last level visible.

We have also added a ping indicator to the draft lobby due to player feedback.

Enjoy the game everyone and keep that feedback coming via our Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/strangematterstudios ⚔️

- Strange Matter Team

GAME MECHANICS General Game Size

• Space needed to install the game should now be down to roughly 14 Gigabytes from the previous size of 53.7 Gigabytes. (74% decrease in total space needed).

With this patch we have reduced the file size of Fault dramatically, this is the result of some work we have done to optimize and improve the memory usage of our game. We have received positive feedback from our testers about this change and are eager to see how it effects our community. We plan to continue working on optimization in the following weeks and will continue to monitor related feedback.

Matchmaking

• Region selector has been removed from PVP matches and replaced with Ping dependent matchmaking.

To aid new players in finding matches in a reasonable time, and to give all players in a lobby the best matchmaking experience possible, we are testing out a new matchmaking system. The game will now take a u... Read more

WHAT IS THE HERO MASTERY RACE?
The Hero Mastery Race is a competition to see who can reach gold mastery on our latest hero the fastest! We want the race to be accessible to as many people as possible, therefore we have opted to only go as far as gold for now. We don't want players to play for extremely unreasonable amounts of time to win the race, but we will monitor how long it takes our players to accomplish this goal and adjust if necessary for next time. This is something we would like to continue doing for our future hero releases, so please let us know your feedback in our Discord.

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HOW DO I PARTICIPATE?
Play the game!

Anyone that owns Crunch only needs to play the game as you would normally to earn Mastery XP. Your match performance and match time affect the amount of Mastery XP you earn, so rushing bot games or throwing matches won't help you here! Play as many games of Crunch as you can and you'll be sure to rank up as quickly a... Read more

Get your hands on the latest hero to hit the battleground, Crunch!

Jump right into the fight with a flurry of punches and destroy the competition, coming this Friday!



- Strange Matter Team

We have released a hotfix to address a reconnection issue that was causing the game/server to crash.

Thank you all for your reports to help us find and address this issue swiftly. If you have any more problems, please reach out to us on our Discord server and report them here: http://discord.gg/strangematterstudios

CONTENT Skins
NEW: Valentine Skins

• Valentine Feng Mao
  
• Valentine Muriel
  
• Valentine Phase
  
• Valentine Riktor

Avatars

NEW: Crystal Heart (Valentine's Day Weekend 2022 Exclusive)‍


NEW: Sluggo Heart (Valentine's Day Weekend 2022 Exclusive)‍

PLEASE NOTE: The Valentine's Day Weekend event & its corresponding cosmetics will be available Saturday, February 12th at 1pm EST! To read the full event details and how to ea... Read more

Fault will be holding a special Valentine's Day event this weekend! It will run from Saturday 12th 13:00 EST to Monday 14th 23:59 EST. The event has some perks for all players who participate, so let’s jump into all the details and show you what you can expect.

Double XP Throughout the event, players in a party of at least 2 will be awarded double XP. This includes both Account AND Mastery XP, so use this as an opportunity to finish those masteries you’ve been chasing!

Community Challenge We are giving the community the chance to win an exclusive avatar for free if they manage to complete our community challenge this weekend, by racking up a total of 50,000 assists across all matchmade PVP games. If this goal is reached, all players that contributed to the total will be awarded the Crystal Heart avatar absolutely free, so make sure to log-in and support your friends!

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BUG FIXES
General
Abilities

• Fixed an issue on some stairs hindering the targeting of certain abilities.

Core

• Fixed an issue causing deaths to the enemy fountain to credit the kill to the target.

Heroes

Feng Mao
Guardian's Shield (RMB)

• Fixed an issue causing Guardian's Shield to do damage to heroes in stasis.

Reaping Dash (Q)

• Fixed an issue allowing player to dash out of the fountain before the start of the match.
  
• Fixed an issue causing ability to clip incorrectly on various objects.

Imperial Sentence (R)

• Fixed an issue with Imperial Sentence only granting the firs...

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Bug Fixes General

• Fixed a issue preventing players from selecting a new hero in draft if they select a skin.
  
• Fixed an issue causing game crashes
  
• Fixed the "Create" button on the login screen

Heroes
Phase Psychic Eruption (Q)

• Fixed Phase's Blind not showing up with the other Debuffs

Psychic Lance (E)

• Fixed an issue causing the lance to go through walls.

Psychic Link (RMB)

• Fixed an issue preventing Phase from pulling Grim.exe.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the link to reset it's cooldown after breaking.

Psychic Overload (R)

• Fixed an issue causing Overload's duration on enemies being at 8 seconds rathe...

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