Tribes 3: Rivals/Patches/v0.1.5.1

TRIBES 3: Rivals Playtest #5 - Patch Notes

TRIBES 3: Rivals | 01.11.2024 | Prophecy Games

LOADOUTS

• Armor classes have been resized to have unique hitboxes relative to their scale.
• Weapons
  • Chain Guns
    • Enabled Binocular zoom.
  • Repair Tool
    • Removed from the third weapon slot and now on a universal hold keybind (Default ‘F’).
    • Repair tools can now heal friendly players.
  • Phase Rifle
    • Increased hip fire spread.
    • Moved to the light loadout.
  • BXT1 Rifle
    • The BXT1 Rifle has been temporarily removed pending a rework.
  • Shocklance
    • Temporarily removed from loadouts
  • Added Thumper to medium loadout.
  • Gladiator added to heavy loadout.
  • Nova Colt
    • Moved to the medium loadout.
    • Fire rate slowed from .38 to .6
    • Damage increased from 150 to 210.
  • Spinfusors/Bolt Launchers/Thumper Projectile Speed reduced by 10%.
  • All other Projectile Speeds reduced by 20%.
  • Projectile Collision Spheres Reduced by 10%.
  • Zoom levels added to most weapons.
  • Weapons that reload after each shot no longer remove ADS/Zoom.
  • Removed third weapon slot.
  • Disabled Aim Assist on gamepad.
• Packs and Grenades
  • Stealth
    • Duration increased.
    • Reduced cooldown.
  • Blink
    • Reduced cooldown.
  • Thrust Pack
    • Reduced cooldown.
  • Impact Nitron
    • Added to the light loadout.
    • Explosion radius reduced by 25%.

GAMEPLAY

• Movement
  • FOV now adapted to speed (adjustable in the settings menu)
  • Camera movement on surfaces at speed (adjustable in the settings menu)
  • Improved Skiing Ground Control for all classes
  • Added visual effects particles to the camera in order to reinforce speed
• Custom Matches
  • Mutators added
    • Mutators allow the lobby leader to adjust various class attributes.
    • These are still in development and may not work properly.
  • Players can now mute other players in custom lobbies.
  • The Lobby Leader can now lock players from switching teams.
• Time Trials Mode
  • New Time Trial Wavemist map added.
• Training
  • New Training and shooting range map added. This is not a full tutorial, but meant for practice.
• General
  • Reconnect
    • If a player crashes out of a game, upon relaunching, they will have the option to rejoin the match they were previously in if it is still running.
  • VGS added:
    • V: Enter VGS
    • G: Right Menu (Comments)
    • C: Down Menu (Defense)
    • S: Left Menu (Taunts)
    • F: Up Menu (Offense)
    • Dev Note: this is a first pass at VGS. Voicelines and overall design may change in future passes.
  • Flag captures required to win are reduced to 3 from 5.
  • Adjusted the collision height of the flag and score volume.
  • Adjusted flag drop physics to make the path more predictable.
  • Adjusted flag reset timer to 30 seconds.
  • Adjusted base turret logic so they have better sight.
  • The Scoreboard will now always show the player’s team first.

MAPS

• Adjusted some base stands to have more forward and backward angles of attack.
• Conduits added to Katabatic and Drydock maps
  • Entering a Conduit will move the player up to the next level of an area.
• Drydock
  • Added rock formations.
  • Reworked central mountain.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where the Flag would sometimes not be able to be returned if it got stuck in terrain.
• Fixed an issue where the player may be locked out of their abilities after scoring the flag.
• Fixed an issue where players would only ever respawn on one side of the map.
• Fixed an issue where energy would not be full on respawn.
• Fixed an issue where a team could score twice if the flag was picked up on a flag stand.
• Fixed an issue where ski impulse would not apply in the direction a player was looking.
• Fixed an issue where players were not getting the ski impulse if they attempted to ski within 1s of spawning.
• Fixed an issue where players would lose speed from their jetpack.
• Fixed an issue where the pickup camera effect was not playing.
• Fixed an issue where the repair tool had no 3p VFX.
• Fixed an issue where weapons with a prefire time (i.e. shocklance) would play firing SFX/VFX twice in 3p.
• Fixed an issue where muting and unmuting party members in the Lobby was not working.

Known Issues

• We are aware of crashes that have affected players. We have pushed fixes in order to address some of these and are currently working on cleaning up others.
• Radar may not always show enemy players properly.
• Custom mutators may not apply properly.
• Custom Matches that have ended may get recycled into the match again before being kicked to lobby.
• Reconnecting may have the waiting for players UI and loading UI stuck on.