Ryan Red

CONTENT Heroes Iggy and Scorch BASE STATS

• Health: 530 (+88)
  
• Health Regen: 1.2 (+0.11)
  
• Mana: 400 (+25)
  
• Mana Regen: 1.45 (+0.13)
  
• Attack Speed: 100 (+0.6)
  
• Attack Speed Scaling: 0.59
  
• Physical Armor: 20 (+3.25)
  
• Energy Armor: 29.5 (+0.5)
  
• Movement Speed: 555
  
• Basic Attack Damage: 52(+2.6)
  
• Basic Attack Cooldown: 1.15

TURRET (Q)

• Deploy up to 3 turrets on the battlefield, which last until destroyed. Turrets damage enemies, prioritizing units Iggy basic attacks. Turrets deactivate when Iggy is not within 2400 units and grant 5 gold to the killer. Turrets are destroyed if deactivated for 10 seconds. Turrets take 50% bonus damage from Towers and Large and Epic jungle camps.

MOLOTOV c*ckTAIL (E)

• Throw a Molotov in ...

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BALANCE Heroes
Phase PSYCHIC LINK (RMB):

• Stun changed to a Root.
  
• Max Tether Range reduced from 2200 -> 1800 at all levels.
  
• Cast Range reduced from 1800 -> 1400 at all levels.

PSYCHIC ERUPTION (Q):

• Blind Duration reduced from 1/1.2/1.4/1.6/1.8 -> 0.6/0.8/1/1.2/1.4

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BUGS Heroes
Feng Mao

• Fixed an issue where getting stunned while casting a reset would not refund the full CD.

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SFX

• Fixed an issue where Crystals would make the Inhibitor targeting sound.

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Econ We caught a bug preventing users from correctly receiving their Orbs. This issue was related to Lev... Read more

Major Announcements Hello everyone and welcome to todays Developer blog!
We have been hard at work on many different things while we stayed fairly quiet, and today we want to share some big news with you all!

Developer Stream For those who may have missed it, we held a large developer stream yesterday to announce many topics that we will discuss in today's blog. We have added the YouTube video below for those who could not make it can view the entire stream including the Q&A.

We plan to continue holding regular streams to interact further with our amazing community.

Name Change We have changed the name of our game to Fault: Elder Orb!

This change was made for multiple reasons which include marketing, ideas for the future, and more!

Free to Play & Epic Games Launch We are very excited to announce that we will be launching on th... Read more

GENERAL

• DirectX 12 is now enabled by default

GAME MECHANICS Menu Settings

• On your first match played the game will auto detect your visual settings and adjust them automatically.

SFX

• Lowered the occurrences of Voice Lines.
  
• Adjusted the Death and Spawn SFX for Raptors and Alpha Raptor to help players tell the difference.
  
• Adjusted Murdock LMB SFX.
  
• Steel SFX redesign.

BUG FIXES Heroes
Crunch CRUNCH PUNCH (P)

• Will now appropriately show stacks on the passive indicator.

Boris BLOOD LUST (P)

• Will now work on all targets not only heroes.
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CONTENT Item Art Rework

• All Legendary, Starter, and Word Items now have updated artworks.

A example of some of the updated items.
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GAME MECHANICS Raptor Rework ‍
After receiving a lot of feedback about how Raptor feeling unrewarding to take compared to other objectives on the map, we are now introducing a new Raptor system that intends to give it an identity outside of the favor system. Raptor will now grant four buffs, with the buffs received depending on how many raptors the killing team has taken. These buffs are team wide and will stay with the player for the duration of the game, while still giving a reduced amount of teamwide favor. We have also added in an endgame raptor intended to help teams finish out prolonged games, called the Alpha Raptor. The Alpha Raptor will give the killing team access to a combat buff over a short period that will deal true damage overtime to enemies and shred both armor types, scaling the damag... Read more

GENERAL Optimization With this patch, we have taken another step towards optimizing Fault with a memory and map pass. As always, we will continue to take feedback regarding player experience and work to improve the feel for all players as needed.
Skins We have built the foundation for implementing skins with their own VFX and SFX.

GAME MECHANICS General Low Health Camera Effect

• Reduced the low health camera effect so that it takes up less of the screen, based on player feedback.

Damage Taken Indicator

• Changed the damage taken indicator around the players crosshair to only show when a turret or an enemy hero damages the player.
  
• Duration of the indicator showing up reduced from 2 -> 1.5 seconds.

Menus
New History Tab

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BUG FIXES Heroes

Crunch GENERAL

• Fixed an issue causing Crunch to lose his cooldowns.
  
• Fixed an issue causing Heroes to respawn outside the map after dying to Crunch.

LEFT CRUNCH (Q)

• Fixed an issue causing Crunches Left Crunch (Q) not doing the correct cleave damage

FORWARD CRUNCH (RMB)

• Fixed an issue causing the ability to not have cast settings.

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CONTENT Heroes
NEW: Crunch Crunch is a melee diver with a unique set of abilities meant to combo together in various ways. We wanted Crunch to be very dynamic and fluid to play, so a lot of attention went into nailing down the feel of weaving abilities and basic attacks together in succession. Players that can effectively combo both his abilities and basic attacks together, and utilize on-hit ability effect items, will get the most out Crunch.
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Base Stats:
Health: 575 (+89)
Health Regen: 1.52 (+0.15)
Mana: 305 (+38)
Mana Regen: 1.47 (+0.12)
Attack Speed: 100 (+1.25)
Attack Speed Scaling: .7
Physical Armour: 34.5 (+3.6)
Energy Armour: 32 (+1.2)
Movement Speed: 570
Basic Attack Damage: 65 (+3.4)
Basic Attack Cooldown: 1.1

Crunch Punch (P)
Every th... Read more

Patch 0.15.4 hits servers today at:

10:30 PST
13:30 EST
18:30 GMT
19:30 CET

There will be no downtime but you will have to restart your game to update! If you don't see the update, please restart Steam. Have a great weekend! ⚔️



GAME MECHANICS SFX Rework Heroes
KWANG

• Full ability SFX Re-Design.

BUG FIXES Aspects
Ace

• Fixed an issue with Ace causing healing bounty to not grant Health.

Magician

• Fixed an iss...

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Patch 0.15.3 hits servers today at 3PM EST!

This patch is the first update in what we are calling the "clean up" phase of development.

While we continue to push content such as new heroes, cosmetics, and balance, we will be focusing heavily on squashing as many bugs as possible leading up to our FTP release.

There will be no server downtime for this patch, if the update does not populate for you, simply restart your Steam.


CONTENT New Skin Golden Age Dekker


GAME MECHANICS General Lane Minion Health Bar View Distance

• Distance players should be able to view a minion’s health bar has been changed from 1800 → 2500 units.

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Heroes ‍
NEW: Feng Mao
Feng Mao is our first “Duelist” class hero in Fault and is meant to be a very high melee damage dealer that scales well into the late game. With good tools for both maneuverability and limited survivability, Feng Mao can quickly get into or out of the fray while being able to take care of both himself and his allies.‍

‍Base Stats:

• Health: 550 (+90)
  
• Health Regen: 1.58 (+0.143)
  
• Mana: 315 (+43)
  
• Mana Regen: 1.64 (+0.14)
  
• Attack Speed: +1.5
  
• Attack Speed Scaling: 78%
  
• Physical Armour: 31 (+3.3)
  
• Energy Armour: 32 (+1.3)
  
• Movement Speed: 575
  
• Basic Attack Damage: 60 (+3.3)
  
• Basic Attack Cooldown: 1.1

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Notes delayed due to an error on publishing.

GENERAL Easy Anti Cheat Easy™ Anti-Cheat is the industry-leading anti–cheat service, countering hacking and cheating in multiplayer PC games through the use of hybrid anti–cheat mechanisms.

• With this patch, we have added Easy Anti Cheat to the game.

BUG FIXES Draft

• Fixed an issue causing players to be able to draft dodge without penalty if they did not lock in a hero.

Heroes All Heroes

• Fixed an issue with some Movement Speed Effects causing Base Movement Speed to default to the Base Movement Speed when the ability was first used.

Kallari Jump (Spacebar)

• Fixed Kallari double jump sometimes not playing the animation and not jumping prope...

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GENERAL Easy Anti Cheat Easy™ Anti-Cheat is the industry-leading anti–cheat service, countering hacking and cheating in multiplayer PC games through the use of hybrid anti–cheat mechanisms.

• With this patch, we have added Easy Anti Cheat to the game.

BUG FIXES Draft

• Fixed an issue causing players to be able to draft dodge without penalty if they did not lock in a hero.

Heroes All Heroes

• Fixed an issue with some Movement Speed Effects causing Base Movement Speed to default to the Base Movement Speed when the ability was first used.

Kallari Jump (Spacebar)

• Fixed Kallari double jump sometimes not playing the animation and not jumping properly

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General Optimization
We have performed a large optimization overhaul on the map to help correct fps issues with this patch. We will continue to monitor this issue on all ranges of player PC's and push fixes as needed.

Unreal Engine 4.27
We have recently moved Fault to the newer version of the Unreal Engine!

This change comes with many benefits to development and is another step towards improving the overall feel of our game. Updating to 4.27 was needed for some future large-scale plans that we hope to share with you soon.

We have some big things coming in our next set of in-game updates and we will continue to share all the details with you through our Discord[discord.com], ... Read more

BUG FIXES Aspects

Rook

• Fixed an issue with Rook not working

Draft Draft & Loading Screens

• Pre Draft loading screen updated.
  
• Fixed an issue with Gunmetal Grux’s loading portrait being stretched.

Heroes
Countess ‍DARK DRAIN (P)

• Fixed an issue causing passive to not work properly.

Phase PSYCHIC LINK (RMB)

• Fixed an issue causing Phase to pull heroes back to fountain as she recalls.
  
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Fault Free Weekend Event

Strange Matter Studios are hosting a free to play weekend starting December 17th!

The event will run from 1 pm EST on December 17th until 1 pm est on December 19th.

Price Reduction We stated at the beginning of our EA journey we would have a price reduction of our game leading up to Free To Play.

We're happy to announce that alongside our free weekend event, we will also be permanently lowering the base game of Fault to 9.99 USD



Patch 0.14 This free to play event directly follows Faults largest patch to date, if you missed the previous posts you can view the patch notes here: ... Read more

GENERAL Website

• Item page disabled until further notice.
  
• New hero pages are live.

CONTENT AI Game Mode
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Solo vs PVE and Co-op vs PVE game modes will now be available for players. In Solo vs PVE, players will be able to queue up with themselves or a part of premade players, filling up any empty spots with AI. Coop will use Fault's matchmaking system to fill in any missing party slots with other players also looking to queue up and play with others against AI.‍

New accounts will now have to play PVE Game Modes until they are level 5, at which point they will unlock PVP. This is aimed towards helping new players learn the basics of Fault without having the additional stress of having to play against other players looking to play in a more competitive environment.

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Servers will be shutting down at 12:45 PM EST as we work to deploy patch 0.14 to our players.

We will keep everyone updated on our progress throughout the day, patch notes will be posted later on when we announce the time for release.

✨MARK YOUR CALENDARS.✨

Phase hits servers December 10th alongside our largest patch to date!

Stay tuned Fault fam, we have more exciting news on the way...