Tribes 3: Rivals/Patches/PT2

TRIBES 3: Rivals Playtest #2 - Patch Notes

TRIBES 3: Rivals | 12.07.2023 | Prophecy Games

LOADOUTS

• Weapons
  • Fusion Mortar
    • Adjusted projectile speed
    • Adjusted projectile arc
  • Shotgun
    • Updated spread pattern
  • Spinfusors
    • Adjusted all Spinfusors passive reload times
  • Bolt Launcher
    • Adjusted passive reload time
  • Nova Colt
    • Kickback adjusted
  • Repair Tool added to Medium and Heavy loadouts
    • The Repair Tool can be used to heal Base Turrets, Generators and Radars
  • Honorfusor
    • Damage reduced by 100
  • Heavy Honorfusor
    • Damage reduced by 150
• Packs and Grenades
  • Overall ability balance pass
  • Team Portal
    • Friendly players use the Team Portal by stepping through the portal rather than using an interact button
  • Turret Pack
    • Deployable Turret now depletes energy on hit
  • Explosive Nitron
    • Reduced damage
    • Added damage and impulse falloff
  • Impact Nitron
    • Added damage and impulse falloff
  • Spinfusor Disc added to Heavy loadout
• Perks
  • Perks enabled
  • Egocentric Perk added
    • Reduces self damage by 20%
  • Rage Perk added
    • Rage gives players +50 energy, reduces their mass by 25%, and makes them immune to self-damage for 15 seconds after an enemy grabs their flag while they are within 240 meters of the flag.
    • Rage is disabled once the player takes damage, or reaches the 15 second limit. Rage will not activate if they are holding the flag.

GAMEPLAY

• Movement
  • Improved the jetpack’s thrust acceleration to allow for better steering and micro adjustments.
  • Added a configurable setting, Jetpack Lateral Angle, to control the jetpack thrust angle when attempting to jetpack laterally (i.e. holding W/S/A/D). Applying a low value adjusts jet thrust less vertically and more laterally, whereas a higher angle accelerates more upward, at the cost of lateral thrust.
  • Added more directional control while skiing.
  • Addressed an issue where players could occasionally feel “glued” to a surface while skiing.
• General
  • Social tab added to the main lobby.
    • Players can now party up with two other players.
  • FOV range increased to 70-120.
  • Loadout tab removed from main lobby.
  • Generators added
    • Generators added to bases. Destroying an enemy base Generator will disable turrets and reduce Radar capacity.
  • Inventory Stations added
    • Inventory Stations can be found in spawn rooms. They will update player loadouts and refresh health, energy and ammo.
  • Radars
    • Radars now show all player locations on the minimap.
    • If a team’s Radar is destroyed, then only friendly players and enemies within 150 meters of them will be shown on minimap.
  • Base Turrets
    • Base Turrets now have shields they will regen while the Generator is active.
  • Recall now refreshes loadout, even if the player stays in the same class.
  • Added a “Change Class” keybind. This is defaulted to ‘K.’
  • Jetpacks will continue to burn any fuel regenerated if the player holds down their jetpack keybind (default SPACE).
  • Players can impulse a dropped flag with weapons that have knockback.
  • The scoreboard tracks returning flags..
  • Current flag holder is now shown on the scoreboard.
  • Score added to the match result screen.
  • Base Turret health increased.

MAPS

• New map, Drydock, with a larger size.
• New spawn rooms added to each map.
  • Players will be able to update their loadout without recalling or dying whenever they make changes in the spawn rooms.
• Katabatic
  • Lighting adjustments

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where some enemy jetpacks and the enemy flag would have conflicting team coloring effects.
• Fixed an issue where turrets could pick up the flag.
• Fixed an issue where projectiles could not do full damage on direct hits.
• Fixed an issue where the “Open Scoring” top-bar message could get stuck on.
• Fixed an issue where the flag could fall through the world. If the flag happens to move to an invalid playspace, a failsafe feature will reset the flag back at base.
• Fixed an issue where Base Turrets could try to shoot players while they were out of range.

KNOWN ISSUES

• Party invites and friend requests have a delay when accepting and updating queues.
• Players may have a red Fresnels sometimes get stuck on