Tribes 3: Rivals/Patches/v0.1.4.1

TRIBES 3: Rivals Playtest #4 - Patch Notes

TRIBES 3: Rivals | 01.04.2024 | Prophecy Games

LOADOUTS

• Weapons
  • Added the Shocklance to Light and Medium loadouts.
  • Spinfusor, Honorfusor and the Bolt Launcher now have adjustable inheritance sliders.
    • This can be found under Settings -> Controls.
  • Projectile size and speed adjusted for all weapons.
  • Knockback and explosion radius adjusted on all weapons.
  • ADS time decreased on all weapons.
  • Removed Spinfusor XD from loadouts.
  • Removed the Sparrow and Shotgun from loadouts.
• Added Binocular view to all weapons.
  • Added a zoom reminder to scope weapons.
• Packs and Grenades
  • Light Turret
    • Added energy drain to the Light Turret.
    • Reduced Light Turret throw distance.
  • Some pack and Grenade iconography updated.
• Perks
  • Added a player’s currently equipped perk to the Scoreboard.

GAMEPLAY

• Movement
  • Significantly improved the performance and smoothness of other players’ movement.
  • Generally lifted some upper limits on achievable movement speeds.
  • Addressed an issue where spamming jetpack up hills could result in higher speeds.
• Custom Matches
  • Custom Matches allow players to make their own lobby up to 24 players (12v12) and pick which map they would like to play on.
• Time Trials Mode
  • Player deaths now restarts the time trial.
  • Reduced player respawn time.
  • Reduced start waiting time.
• General
  • Competitive queue increased to a 7v7.
  • Competitive and Casual queues now rotate between Katabatic, Drydock and Wavemist.
  • Added a 1v1 Custom Match.
  • Adjusted Respawn timers on death and recall.
  • Reduced scale of major HUD elements.
  • Adjusted the collision on the flag for more accurate pickups.
  • Kill feed now shows direct hit kills.
  • Added feedback when a player is hit by an energy drain weapon.
  • Added feedback when a player is locked out of using an ability.

MAPS

• Katabatic
  • Added more cover to bases.
  • Generator now sits inside a cave next to the bases.
• Wavemist
  • Increased base basement size.
  • Added more cover to bases.
• Drydock
  • Adjusted base size and entrance points.
  • Removed jumppad.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where players could still move around at the end of match if they were reviving.
• Fixed an issue where player minimap would disappear when recalling.
• Fixed an issue where for Turrets' bullets not passing through players.
• Fixed an issue where some health nuggets were missing from some maps.
• Fixed an issue where player death audio would rapidly play on repeat if player dies while under a health regen effect.
• Fixed an issue where force fields would reduce your speed when trying to leave spawn rooms.
• Fixed an issue where weapon highlights would show on players.
• Fixed an issue where players could pick up the flag mid-Blink teleport.
• Fixed an issue where returning the flag would show the event on the Kill Feed twice.
• Fixed an issue where Generators would sometimes go below 0 health.
• Fixed an issue where Health Nuggets would not successfully be picked when a player ran through them.
• Fixed an issue where reload would not be initiated when swapping to empty weapons.
• Fixed an issue where health nuggets could not be picked up in Time Trials.
• Fixed an issue where the Chain Gun would not work in Time Trials.
• Fixed bug where throwing a grenade while swapping to a weapon would block further attempts at swapping to that weapon.
• Fixed an issue where the background audio setting was not working.
• Fixed up an issue where some grenades wouldn't explode if they came in contact with a player.
• Fixed an issue where the wrong match end music would be played on match end screen
• Fixed an issue where the wrong generator message would be displayed when the enemy generator came back online.
• Fixed an issue where the EMP Grenade was not stalling players' energy.
• Fix for turret icon showing alive when the generator came online but turret was still downed.

Known Issues

• Loadouts will not update in the spawn room if players stay the same class. Changing class or recalling will properly change class loadout.