This weekend’s update:
Content:
- Chariot Judge: More aggressive self-destruct for wandering, camera zoom on racetrack minion
- Bomb boss: Shields at 50%, does a big full screen attack
- Improvements to bomb dungeon bullet exploders, added to Loose Bomb
- Increased the range and speed of many traps in the Laser Playground; made boss more dangerous for long range classes and less stompable in general.
- War Horse: new head guns, more health
- Added missing tags to Scythe of Zed
- More tackle damage on White Spider
- More aggressive return home for Ambassador Diplomats
- Added setpiece boss quests to daily quest buckets
- Changed Saturday quests drops from dark steel to 2 elemental steels
- Upgraded T10 items to “rare”
- Updated Rei with longer-range bullet patterns
- Fixed issue causing approximately half of quests to give loot one tier lower than intended
- Handful of new quests, including new campaign quest that introduces the concept of setpiece bosses
- Sneezy: Upgraded bomb vfx, detects when players are camping under its wings and lobs extra bombs at them, bombs drop less health and steam.
- Jinn: Fixed transition bug, improvements to existing guns, reduced “blind spots” to hang out in, lots of small improvements
UI:
- Disable damage flyups from allied players
- Fixed big perf drain in chat UI
- Fixed tutorial dialog sometimes showing over EULA
- Always show level numbers for enemies
- If either player changes any aspect of a trade, the ability to accept the trade will be disabled for 3 seconds
- Raw dungeon names won’t show up in friends lists
Other:
- More backend stability work
- Server perf improvements for plane switching
- Server perf improvement for store; should make RC in general more stable
- RC can now support significantly more than 60 players
- Support for new map creation features that should enable us to make dungeon generation more varied and interesting in the future
[Hotfix]
- Damage taken #s (only for your aircraft) have been restored to visibility
- Laser Playground’s immortal bosses have had their immortality brutally ripped away
- A few minor textfixes