Patch May 3, 2024

The May 3, 2024 patch changes 13 heroes and 36 general changes. Most changes: Yamato (11), Lash (7), Mo & Krill (7), Lady Geist (4).

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Heroes

Abrams

Abrams counters →
  • Base Health increased from 550 to 600
  • Siphon DPS increased from 24 to 35

Dynamo

Dynamo counters →

Singularity

  • DPS increased from 48 to 60
  • T3 Max HP DPS increased from 3.2% to 3.8%

Grey Talon

Grey Talon counters →
  • Charge Shot damage increased from 95 to 105
  • Charge Shot T2 damage reduced from 80 to 70

Guided Owl

  • Damage increased from 200 to 300

Haze

Haze counters →

Bullet Dance

  • Bonus Fire Rate reduced from +30 to +20

Smoke Bomb

  • Duration scaling from Spirit improved from 0.2 to 0.3

Infernus

Infernus counters →
  • Catalyst no longer slows Infernus to 1.3 m/s during the cast delay

Concussive Combustion

  • Damage increased from 130 to 160

Lady Geist

Lady Geist counters →
  • Blood Bomb damage increased from 80 to 100
  • Blood Bomb T2 damage increased from +65 to +70
  • Blood Bomb tooltip fixed to reference the correct self damage type and that it can be reduced with armor

Malice

  • Damage amp per shard increased from 10% to 15%

Lash

Lash counters →
  • Fixed Death Slam's targeting cone not finding enemies near the edges
  • Fixed Death Slam to only target enemies who stay in the targeting cone

Grapple

  • Cooldown reduced from 55 to 45

Flog

  • Damage increased from 55 to 65
  • Lifesteal from heroes increased from 70% to 80% of damage dealt
  • Lifesteal from non-heroes reduced from 35% to 30% of damage dealt

Death Slam

  • T1 from +3m to +5m

McGinnis

McGinnis counters →

Heavy Barrage

  • Now reduces your speed rather than setting it to a low cap (by itself this change isn't a buff or a nerf, but it allows you to buy items to move faster during the ultimate)
  • Camera interaction with Fleetfoot Boots has been fixed

Mo & Krill

Mo & Krill counters →
  • No longer listed as a recommended new player hero

Sand Blast

  • Range increased from 25m to 30m
  • Width increased from 3m to 5m
  • Is now permissive with small obstructions in the way

Burrow

  • No longer loses its state as you change elevations
  • Now knocks enemies up when you come up

Combo

  • DPS increased from 50 to 60

Vindicta

Vindicta counters →
  • Base Bullet Damage reduced from 15 to 14
  • Bullet Damage gained per boon reduced from 0.88 to 0.7 (these are gained occasionally as you earn souls, up to 11 times)
  • Is now a recommended hero for new players

Stake

  • T1 bonus duration reduced from +1.5s to +1.0s

Yamato

Yamato counters →
  • Flying Strike cooldown reduced from 35 to 20
  • Flying Strike T2 changed from "-15s Cooldown" to "+20 Cast Range"
  • Flying Strike range no longer scales with Spirit
  • Shadow Explosion bonus Spirit per victim increased from 10 to 15
  • Shadow Explosion bonus Fire Rate per victim increased from 5 to 10
  • Shadow Explosion buff duration increased from 8s to 15s

Crimson Slash

  • Radius increased from 11m to 12m
  • Fire rate debuff duration increased from 3s to 4s
  • T2 changed from "-5s Cooldown" to "10% Max Health heal on hero hit"
  • T3 changed from "12% Max Health heal on hero hit" to "-6s Cooldown"

Power Slash

  • T1 Bullet Resist increased from 40% to 60%

General changes

  • General Changes:
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  • Added a Recommend A Friend button to the dashboard that you can use to send us requests for people to include in our playtesting
  • Added a Resources page to the dashboard which contains a browsable item shop
  • Added overhead text display when another hero uses active items
  • The hotkeys F1-F5 to change cameras to allied heroes now maps directly to the order of heroes on the top bar left to right
  • Added the Patron to the spectate-when-dead cycle if the enemy is in your base or everyone on your team is dead
  • Added support for Flex Items in the Hero Sandbox
  • Increased the range of the mouse sensitivity slider from 0.5->4.0 to 0.05->8.0
  • Increased the default framerate cap from 120 to 400
  • Improved UI display when endgame objectives are being attacked
  • Added music for when the base is under attack
  • Changed the local player icon on the the minimap to always be on top of enemy icons
  • Shop music will now only play for shops players can access
  • Postgame graphs now default to team stats rather than individual
  • Added borders around hero icons on the minimap when watching replays/spectating
  • Top bar now shows incoming players before they are fully connected
  • Added console command to hide the bar at the bottom in replays ('citadel_hide_replay_hud 1' to hide it, 'citadel_hide_replay_hud 0' to bring it back)
  • Various VOIP improvements
  • Fixed open mic threshold
  • Fixed various consistency issues with the presentation of Souls terminology, icons, etc
  • Fixed Flying Cloak teleporting players into geometry or out of the world
  • Fixed Warp Stone teleporting you through geometry
  • Fixed Fixation decimal point display
  • Fixed Parry animation not playing
  • Fixed various issues with the spectate UI display
  • Removed the slow climbing vertical recoil on Yamato's alt fire
  • Fixed AP count not showing if you are dead, spectating a team mate or when holding alt/tab to upgrade your abilities
  • Gameplay Changes:
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  • Troopers DPS vs Lane Guardians reduced from 44 to 36
  • Objectives now have 80% damage reduction anti-backdoor defense when there haven't been creeps nearby in a while
  • The uncapturable zipline nodes near your base now extend out 2 more nodes (this means attackers can't capture ziplines quite as close to the enemy base)
  • You are now silenced while carrying the Urn
  • Urn bounty increased from 900 + 160/minute to 900 + 200/minute
  • Vaults base bounty increased from 150 to 200

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