Tribes 3: Rivals/Patches/v0.1.7.2

TRIBES 3: Rivals Playtest #7 - Patch Notes

TRIBES 3: Rivals | 01.25.2024 | Prophecy Games

Active Testing Modes:

• 7v7 Quick Play - CTF, Bomb Rush, and Team Hunters
• Time Trials
• Training
• Custom Matches - CTF, Bomb Rush, and Team Hunters

LOADOUTS

• Armor
  • Normalized Max Energy
    • Medium
      • Slightly reduced overall mobility
        • This is intended to slightly reduce the efficacy of the Medium class for capping while maintaining its effectiveness in duels
    • Heavy
      • Reduced overall mobility
        • This is intended to reinforce the Heavy armor class as a durable but less mobile option to defend and assault bases, while not being as effective at traversing the map or performing evasive maneuvers
• Weapons
  • Light Honorfusor
    • Projectile speed reduced to match the Light Spinfusor.
  • Honorfusor
    • Projectile speed reduced to match the Spinfusor.
  • Fusion Mortar
    • Reduced fuse length by 25%.
  • Stormslicer
    • Spread increases the more speed a player has.
      • This is the first iteration and we are still exploring ideas to limit the efficacy of Chainguns in general. Expect a future change to the other chainguns as we continue to work on preparing additional options such as an overheat mechanic, to find out what fits best within the game.
• Packs and Grenades
  • Lateral and forward inheritance added to grenades.
  • Dome Shield
    • Size increased by 25%.
    • Duration increased from 5 to 10 seconds.
  • Stealth
    • Stealth can now be canceled by activating the pack again.
    • Throwing grenades while in Stealth will semi-reveal the player instead of canceling Stealth.
    • Stealthed enemies are now revealed within 200 meters of the radar sensor while it is operational.
  • Phase Shift
    • Phase Shift can now be canceled by activating the pack again.
• Perks
  • Base Guard
    • Now also grants 15% damage reduction while near your flag stand.

GAMEPLAY

• Movement
  • Network performance improvements.
• Team Hunters Game Mode
  • Added Team Hunters mode to Katabatic and Dangerous Crossing.
  • Playable in Quick Play and Custom Matches.
  • Collect flags and deposit them in the Nexus to gain points. The more flags you deposit at once, the more points you gain.
  • There are some flags that spawn around the map. Killing players will also drop a flag.
• Bomb Rush
  • Players can now score bombs by tossing them into enemy vents.
  • Added scoreboard stat for bombs scored.
  • Bomb scoring vents and bases adjusted for better play, but should still be considered blockout testing.
  • Made picking up the bombs easier by removing the pedestals.
• Quickplay
  • Reduced to a 7v7.
• General
  • Repair Tool heal increased from 3% per second to 6% per second.
  • Adjusted flag physics to improve consistency especially when throwing in directions other than forward. Additional adjustments to come based on feedback.
  • Temporary shields now show on the player's health bar.
  • Added feedback to the minimap when a team’s Radar goes down.
  • Added a setting to hide the Ski Mode: Engaged/Disengaged UI.
  • Class icons updated.
  • Raised max fly height (stallz) in all maps to where it effectively should not be hit.

Maps

• All maps
  • General art improvements and bug fixes continue over time.
• Dangerous Crossing
  • Increased base sizes by 25%, to give a bit more room to maneuver while inside. Lowered the structure so the flag-stand is at the same relative height.
• New Map: Honor Dome
  • Only in Custom Matches, very early blockout.
  • A smaller map for 3v3 or 4v4 single Bomb Rush and CTF.
• New Map: Torment
  • Only in Custom Matches, very early blockout.
  • Larger CTF lava map.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where player damage was being multiplied with structure damage, causing some weapons to do more damage than intended on generators, radars and turrets.
• Fixed an issue where the dome shield visuals would disappear shortly after being deployed.
• Fixed an issue where flag carrying music would not stop playing if flag was passed using short-range teleport.
• Fixed an issue where recall sound on other players would not play at correct location
• Fixed an issue where turrets would be valid targets for flag passes.
• Fixed an issue where downed turrets were incorrectly showing as online on minimap when the Generator came online.
• Fixed issues with scoreboard responsiveness.
• Fixed an issue where the Honorfusor VFX would get stuck on.
• Fixed an issue where bullet whiz SFX would sometimes not play correctly when projectile hit a surface.
• Fixed an issue where VGS volume setting was not applying.
• Fixed an issue where stealth SFX wouldn't play when initiating stealth.
• Fixed an issue with respawn UI where the pending armor class was not showing correctly.
• Fixed an issue that was causing direct hits to sometimes not deal correct damage.
• Fixed an issue where players with the Base Guard perk were not dealing damage to enemies that collided with them.
• Fixed an issue where grenade icons would show as blocked after recalling.