Patch August 15, 2024

The August 15, 2024 patch changes 18 heroes, 52 items and 128 general changes. Most changes: Bebop (18), Viscous (15), Paradox (9), Pocket (7).

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Heroes

Abrams

Abrams counters →
  • Fixed Seismic Impact often not dragging enemies in the air along with you when you are slamming down
  • Fixed Shoulder Charge not always placing enemies in front of you

Seismic Impact

  • Damage reduced from 175 to 150

Bebop

Bebop counters →
  • Gun range reduced from 50m to 30m + 2.5m/boon (max of 58m)
  • Speed while shooting increased from 55% to 70%
  • Base regen increased from 2.5 to 3
  • Base Bullet Resist increased from 0% to 10%
  • Bullet Resist per boon reduced from 2.5% to 1.6% (same overall bullet resist at max)
  • Hook range reduced from 40m to 35m
  • Hook T2 increased from +25m to +30m
  • Fixed hooking through veils sometimes not working

Exploding Uppercut

  • Now has a slight angle limitation to prevent straight-up direction
  • Radius increased from 10m to 14m
  • T1 increased from -10s Cooldown to -11s

Sticky Bomb

  • Radius increased from 10m to 12m
  • Can now be cast on self using alt cast hotkey

Hyper Beam

  • T2 reduced from +140 to +100
  • Spirit scaling increased from 2.4 to 3.0
  • Turn rate improved by 10%
  • Nearby radius increased from 4.5m to 5m
  • Nearby damage now does 25% less than the full amount

Dynamo

Dynamo counters →
  • Fixed Kinetic Pulse sometimes getting caught on stairs

Rejuvenating Aurora

  • Can now be canceled by using stamina instead of needing to manually exit first (pre T3)

Singularity

  • Now has a 0.1s cast point

Kinetic Pulse

  • Width increased from 4.5m to 5m
  • T3 increased from +115 Damage to +125

Grey Talon

Grey Talon counters →
  • Fixed T3 Guided Owl not triggering correctly sometimes when the target has Spirit Armor

Charged Shot

  • Collision radius reduced by 10%

Haze

Haze counters →

Sleep Dagger

  • Now puts you in a brief drowsy state for 0.25s seconds where you move slowly before falling asleep (you still have the ability to shoot/cast/move/etc during this period)

Fixation

  • T2 from +6s Duration to +5s
  • T3 reduced from +0.25 to +0.2

Bullet Dance

  • T1 increased from +6 to +7

Ivy

Ivy counters →
  • Fixed melee still going through when casting Stone Form after initiating a melee attack
  • Watcher's Covenant T1 reduced from +15% Fire Rate to +10%
  • Now has a new ultimate ability, Air Drop. Take flight with an Ally (or self-cast to carry a bomb). You fly and drop the ally or bomb onto an area, dealing damage, slowing, and silencing enemies. Ivy and the ally gain a bullet shield when they are dropped. Allies can drop by themselves at any time. When using the ability without an ally (carrying a bomb), it has a 1 second cast time.

Stone Form

  • T2 stun reduced from 0.75s to 0.5s

Kelvin

Kelvin counters →

Arctic Beam

  • No longer applies a Disarm
  • Now slows Fire Rate (same values as slow)
  • Max slow reduced from 90% to 60%
  • Time to reach max slow increased from 1.2s to 2s

Frozen Shelter

  • Can now be cast while using Arctic Beam

Lash

Lash counters →
  • Health per boon increased from 37 to 42
  • Base spirit resist increased from 8% to 15%

Flog

  • Cooldown reduced from 30s to 25s
  • T3 now also reduces Fire Rate by 35%

McGinnis

McGinnis counters →
  • Speed while shooting increased from 55% to 70%
  • Mini Turrets now prioritize any heroes McGinnis is shooting at

Medicinal Specter

  • Duration Spirit Power scaling increased from 0.09 to 0.12

Heavy Barrage

  • T1 changed to Rockets apply 35% slow

Paradox

Paradox counters →
  • Base ammo reduced from 45 to 40

Kinetic Carbine

  • Projectile size reduced by 10%
  • Cooldown increased from 24s to 28s
  • Speed duration reduced from 4s to 3.5s
  • No longer affects channels, cast times or things like Lash's Death Slam
  • T1 reduced from +0.75s Max Stop duration to +0.5s
  • T2 cd reduction increased from -8s to -10s

Time Wall

  • T3 silence duration reduced from 3.5s to 3s

Paradoxical Swap

  • Projectile size reduced by 10%

Pocket

Pocket counters →
  • Base Bullet Resist increased from -15% to 0%
  • Base Spirit Resist reduced from 0% to -15%
  • Fixed the camera moving too slowly after teleporting with Cloak

Barrage

  • Now respects line of sight
  • Amp effect now shows on Pocket
  • Amp per stack reduced from 10% to 8%
  • T3 changed to +5% Amp Per Stack

Seven

Seven counters →
  • Fixed multiple instances of Static Charge not working correctly

Lightning Ball

  • Duration increased from 4s to 5s

Static Charge

  • Stun delay reduced from 4s to 3.5s

Vindicta

Vindicta counters →

Stake

  • Base duration reduced from 2.5s to 2.25s
  • T1 duration reduced from 1s to 0.75s

Viscous

Viscous counters →
  • Fixed Splatter direct hits counting as the second hit
  • Fix Damage prevention after being hit by Viscous' Goo Ball being reduced by Debuff Reducer
  • Stunning or immobilizing Viscous now stops the ball from moving, and prevents him from doing damage and stunning

The Cube

  • Cast range increased from 25m to 30m
  • T2 cooldown reduced from -25s to -22s

Puddle Punch

  • Now deals light melee damage and is affected by melee items
  • Charge Delay increased from 0.5s to 1.5s

Goo Ball

  • Duration reduced from 12s to 10s
  • T1 duration reduced from +6s to +5s
  • Cooldown increased from 80s to 90s
  • Now deals 50% damage to bosses
  • Spirit resist reduced from 80% to 70%
  • Bullet resist reduced from 70% to 60%
  • Can now only stun and damage a target once every 1.5s, up from once every 1.0s
  • Acceleration lowered a bit

Warden

Warden counters →

Binding Word

  • No longer drains 1 stamina
  • Immobilize duration reduced from 2s to 1.75
  • Now has a quick cast behavior (same as Static Charge)

Alchemical Flask

  • Cooldown reduced from 16s to 13s
  • T2 changed from -10s Cooldown to Drains 1 Stamina
  • T3 now also reduces cooldown by -7s

Wraith

Wraith counters →
  • Fixed being able to melee and parry while stunned by Wraith's Telekinesis

Card Trick

  • Now has 0.5s cd per cast

Telekinesis

  • T2 duration reduced from +0.75s to +0.5s

Full Auto

  • T2 changed to Imbues Bullets with +5 Spirit Damage (only affects Wraith)

Yamato

Yamato counters →
  • Base melee damage increased by 10%
  • Flying Strike T3 now procs after the ability ends, rather than when connecting to the target

Items

Weapon 19

Headshot Booster

800 souls
  • No longer has +40 Bonus Health
  • Now has +40 Bullet Shield

Monster Rounds

800 souls
  • Health reduced from +65 to +50
  • Now grants +30% Bullet Resistance vs NPCs

Restorative Shot

800 souls
  • Weapon Damage increased from 6% to 8%

Active Reload

1,600 souls
  • Lifesteal reduced from 40% to 30%
  • Fire Rate reduced from 24% to 20%

Intensifying Magazine

1,600 souls
  • Time for Max Damage reduced from 3.5s to 3s (this is a buff)

Kinetic Dash

1,600 souls
  • HP regen increased from 1 to 1.5

Long Range

1,600 souls
  • Min distance reduced from 18m to 15m

Mystic Shot

1,600 souls
  • Cooldown increased from 5s to 6s

Slowing Bullets

1,600 souls
  • Now grants +5 Spirit

Titanic Magazine

1,600 souls
  • Weapon Damage increased from 16% to 18%
  • Bullet Resist increased from 8% to 10%

Alchemical Fire

3,200 souls
  • Bullet Shield increased from 175 to 225

Berserker

3,200 souls
  • Fixed gaining stacks much faster than intended when taking damage from troopers

Escalating Resilience

3,200 souls
  • Max Bullet Resist increased from 30% to 36%

Heroic Aura

3,200 souls
  • Lifesteal increased from 18% to 20%

Point Blank

3,200 souls
  • No longer grants +300 Bullet Shield
  • Now grants +15% Bullet Armor

Sharpshooter

3,200 souls
  • Min distance reduced from 18m to 15m

Glass Cannon

6,400 souls
  • Now gives +1 Movement Speed
  • No longer gives +2 ammo on kill
  • Weapon Damage reduced from +75% to +70%
  • Now gives +10% Weapon Damage per kill (up to +50%)
  • When you die you lose a stack

Ricochet

6,400 souls
  • Fire Rate increased from +8% to +12%
  • Health increased from +125 to +150

Silencer

6,400 souls
  • Reduced active duration from 6s to 4s

Vitality 20

Extra Regen

800 souls
  • Regen increased from 2.7 to 2.8

Healing Rite

800 souls
  • Cooldown reduced from 75s to 65s
  • Cast Range increased from 20m to 30m

Melee Lifesteal

800 souls
  • Heal effectiveness vs non-heroes increased from 25% to 35%
  • Health increased from +70 to +75

Bullet Lifesteal

1,600 souls
  • Lifesteal increased from +26% to 28%

Healing Booster

1,600 souls
  • Spirit Resist reduced from +7% to +6%
  • Bullet Resist reduced from +7% to +6%

Restorative Locket

1,600 souls
  • Max Stacks reduced from 20 to 15
  • Heal per stack increased from 30 to 40

Fortitude

3,200 souls
  • Out of combat regen timer reduced from 13s to 12s

Lifestrike

3,200 souls
  • Heal effectiveness vs non-heroes increased from 25% to 35%
  • Heal increased from 45% of melee damage to +55%

Majestic Leap

3,200 souls
  • Health increased from +100 to +125
  • Spirit Power increased from +8 to +10

Metal Skin

3,200 souls
  • Cooldown reduced from 30s to 25s

Rescue Beam

3,200 souls
  • Cooldown reduced from 30s to 25s

Warp Stone

3,200 souls
  • Active Bullet Resist reduced from +60% to +40%
  • No longer grants +2 Sprint
  • Now gains +8 Spirit

Colossus

6,400 souls
  • Slow increased from 20% to 25%
  • Slow now affects stamina distances

Divine Barrier

6,400 souls
  • Duration increased from 4s to 5s
  • Cooldown reduced from 30s to 28s

Diviner's Kevlar

6,400 souls
  • Cooldown increased from 30s to 60s

Infuser

6,400 souls
  • No longer gives +7% Spirit Resist
  • Now gives +50 Health

Inhibitor

6,400 souls
  • Weapon Damage increased from 20% to 25%

Phantom Strike

6,400 souls
  • Cast range reduced from 35m to 30m

Siphon Bullets

6,400 souls
  • You permanently steal 1 stack (45 HP) from the enemy if they die under the debuff. If an enemy you stole a stack from kills you, they regain 1 stack back.

Soul Rebirth

6,400 souls
  • Rebirth Health increased from 40% to 50%
  • Cooldown reduced from 240s to 200s

Spirit 13

Ammo Scavenger

800 souls
  • Spirit Power Duration increased from 24s to 35s

Spirit Strike

800 souls
  • Spirit damage increased from 40 to 50
  • Debuff increased from -10% Spirit Resist to -12%

Cold Front

1,600 souls
  • Damage reduced from 100 to 75
  • Damage Spirit Power scaling increased from 1.25 to 1.5

Mystic Slow

1,600 souls
  • Fire Rate reduction increased from -30% to -40%

Quicksilver Reload

1,600 souls
  • Infused ability bonus damage increased from +30 to +50

Slowing Hex

1,600 souls
  • Debuff no longer cancels active mobility spells, it only prevents them from being casted
  • Damage reduced from 100 to 70
  • Cast range reduced from 35m to 25m
  • Now also reduces stamina distance by 30%
  • Projectile speed increased from 1200 to 1350

Decay

3,200 souls
  • Healing Reduction reduced from -70% to -50%
  • Bleed increased from 2.8% to 3.1%
  • Cooldown increased from 25s to 30s

Superior Cooldown

3,200 souls
  • Non-Imbued ability cd reduction increased from 22% to 24%

Superior Duration

3,200 souls
  • Now provides +15% Weapon Damage

Surge of Power

3,200 souls
  • Movespeed duration increased from 5s to 6s
  • Imbued Spirit increased from +26 to +28
  • Now grants +75 Health

Escalating Exposure

6,400 souls
  • Max Interval improved from 1s to 0.7s

Ethereal Shift

6,400 souls
  • No longer provides +10% Fire Rate
  • Cooldown increased from 25s to 30s

Refresher

6,400 souls
  • Spirit Resist increased from 14% to 16%

General changes

General Changes

  • Added a new hero, Shiv
  • Games can now be watched by an unlimited number of spectators
  • Spectator games now have 1 minute delay
  • Added localization for Simplified Chinese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Turkish, Ukrainian, Czech, and French. These are currently a work-in-progress.
  • Language can be selected from the settings menu
  • Matchmaking windows are now open 1 hour earlier in all regions
  • You can now prioritize your roster into three groups to indicate your preference ordering to the matchmaker: Selected, Priority, High Priority
  • Added customization options for your crosshair
  • Builds: You can now author a suggested ordering of Ability Upgrades
  • Builds: You can now add per-item author comments by right clicking on items while editing builds that will show up in the item tooltip for users of the build
  • Fixed a bug that allowed published build data to overwrite local changes to a published build
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the last used hero build from loading when it was not a favorited build
  • Hovering items in the shop will now highlight their components, or which item they are components of
  • Reworked the Hero Stats UI in the shop
  • Hero Stats in the shop have been expanded and are now broken up by Weapon, Vitality, and Spirit. Various additional stats that were previously hidden have been added here.
  • Individual stats can now be hovered over to see a breakdown of all the bonuses contributing to a value, including things like golden statues
  • Added descriptive gun information to each hero
  • Added Spirit Power Impact panel that displays the effect of Spirit Power on your Abilities and Items
  • Added Outgoing Damage as a UI display mode that you can toggle through
  • Added a setting to let you customize the ability cancel hotkey (default is spacebar)
  • Added a "Friends Only" checkbox to filter the watch tab
  • Added an option to control zoom sensitivity
  • Fixed Candle Troopers sometimes instantly disappearing on death rather than going into their death flash state
  • Using an active item or ability removes the undo option for the item/AP
  • Fixed some abuse cases with undoing AP cooldown reductions
  • Added a video setting to reduce flashing effects
  • Unpause hotkey is now displayed when the game is paused
  • Pause cooldown per player increased from 10 minutes to 15 minutes
  • Improved visual clarity of Grey Talon's trap armed state
  • Replaced the Urn drop parachute with new effects
  • Fixed some cases where the comeback souls would be higher than intended in the early game
  • Fixed being unable to ping while dead
  • Fixed Bebop's Sticky Bomb sometimes misfiring
  • Improved smoothing of spectator camera position and angles
  • Fixed a bug that allowed teleporters to be used while carrying the Soul Urn
  • Fixed targeting previews that draw a model (like McGinnis's turrets) to update every frame, instead of being fixed at 60hz
  • Fixed stuns resetting their duration if you were on the ground and became airborne
  • Fixed some cases where Lash's Ground Strike would cause your hero to be stuck
  • Fixed Ricochet sometimes shooting the extra bullet from your gun rather than the target
  • Fixed Arctic Beam T3 range not being calculated correctly when you have range increase items
  • Fixed ESC not working to close Settings popup sometimes
  • Various visual adjustments on highlight and strobe effects being too loud in some cases
  • Holding M1 down while Flame Dash ends will now cause you to fire your gun instead of requiring you to let go and press again
  • Added popup to bot games to indicate that they tend to be much longer games than normal ones
  • Improved Abrams Siphon and Seismic Impact visuals to not obstruct player view as much
  • Added new Silence status effect sound
  • Updated bullet whizby sounds for nearly all characters
  • Updated Haze Sleep Dagger cast, projectile loop and whizby
  • Updated Haze Smoke Bomb sound
  • Removed Haze Smoke Bomb voice line for everyone except the casting player and spectators
  • Fixed some spectator/replay sound and music bugs
  • Various sound related performance improvements
  • More impactful damage indication sound for attackers
  • Remastered Abrams, Pocket, and Dynamo weapon fire sounds
  • Improved lighting performance around shop
  • Improved Wraith tracers to feel more connected to their bullet
  • Improved visibility of AOE around Bebop while casting Hyper Beam
  • Improved effects around Lady Geist Soul Exchange to help with clarity
  • Updated Infernus tracer, muzzle, and impact fx revisions for better performance
  • Fixed Mimic options in sandbox not working properly
  • Added a sound for movement being restricted by Slowing Hex and Vindicta tether
  • Revised sounds for Pocket Flying Cloak duration and warp
  • Clarified Vindicta Flight T1 tooltip
  • Added alternate shop music
  • Added Refresher cast sound

Misc Gameplay

  • Teleporter activation no longer gets canceled on incoming damage.
  • Teleporter channel time increased from 4s to 5s
  • Walkers now require you to be within 30m to deal damage to them
  • Walker Health increased by 15%
  • Base Guardian Health increased by 20%
  • Patron damage increased by 30% after it is vulnerable
  • Weakened Patron Health increased by 15%
  • Weakened Patron now has a Torment Pulse style effect, hitting up to 2 enemies in the pit for 75 damage per second
  • You can now use melee hotkey while zoomed to exit zoom and perform a melee
  • Added Bounce Pads in various areas of the map that launch you in a defined direction bounce_pad_locations.jpg
  • Added one-way defender exits beside each outer lane entrance
  • Added Speed Boost Volumes in the defender passages on the outsides of the base base_speed_boost.jpg
  • Firehouse (building next to Sapphire Yellow Guardian) has been reworked to match the layout of the Chapel
  • Low roof buildings beside Amber Purple Guardian and Sapphire Yellow Guardian are now valid play spaces
  • Removed zap triggers
  • Added truck on the back side of those buildings to allow climbing up
  • Removed rooftop props for those buildings
  • Added billboards to the edge closest to the lane
  • Low roof buildings between inner lane Walker arenas are now valid play spaces
  • Removed zap triggers
  • Expanded rooftop size
  • Added fire escape stairs to allow access from the upper level from the Mid rooftop_locations_large.jpg
  • Walker Arena - Amber Yellow/Sapphire Purple:
  • Added catwalks from high ground defender area to building across the street
  • Added passage through building and stairs up to a peek spot toward the Guardian
  • Replaced upper floor juke spot with a connection through building across from new peek spot amber_yellow_walker_arena.jpg
  • Walker Arena - Amber Orange/Sapphire Blue:
  • Added catwalk from the low roof building to the building across the street
  • Replaced juke spot in the courtyard with passage connecting to the new catwalk
  • Widened hallway above Underground Shop
  • Removed railing and added stairs in the passage toward the Guardian
  • Courtyard floor opening to the Underground Shop moved closer to above the shop
  • Bounce Pad added to allow easier navigation from the Underground Shop to the upper courtyard. Replaces a juke spot. amber_orange_walker_arena.jpg
  • Walker Arena - Amber Blue/Sapphire Orange:
  • Added interior shaft with Bounce Pad to an upper level balcony from defender side to face the Guardian
  • Added a Bounce Pad on the ground floor of the Police Station/Garment Building to the upper floor
  • Added a juke spot inside the Police Station/Garment Building
  • Added a juke spot down the stairs from the Guardian to the left amber_blue_walker_arena.jpg
  • Walker Arena - Amber Purple/Sapphire Yellow:
  • Added an interior corridor through the building between the base and the Walker
  • Added a balcony that borders the arena on the back side of the Walker amber_purple_walker_arena.jpg

Weapon Items

  • Soul Shredder Bullets: Now grants +6% Weapon Damage
  • Soul Shredder Bullets: Debuff duration increased from 5s to 6s

Vitality Items

  • Health Nova: Health increased from +75 to +100
  • Combat Barrier: Weapon Damage While Shielded increased from +24% to +28%
  • Enchanter's Barrier: Spirit Power while Shielded increased from +17 to +20
  • Superior Stamina: Air Jump/Dash Distance reduced from +50% to +40%
  • Superior Stamina: Fire Rate reduced from 10% to 7%
  • Debuff Remover: Debuff resistance reduced from +40% to +35%

Spirit Items

  • Mystic Reach: Now gives +5% Spirit Resist
  • Withering Whip: Now applies -40% Fire Rate instead of a Disarm
  • Withering Whip: Duration increased from 3s to 4.5s
  • Withering Whip: Cast range increased from 18m to 24m
  • Improved Cooldown: Cooldown reduction increased from 14% to 15%
  • Improved Burst: Reduced Weapon Damage from +12% to +8%
  • Improved Reach: Now gives +10% Spirit Resist
  • Silence Glyph: No longer reduces Spirit Resist
  • Silence Glyph: Now deals +150 damage on impact
  • Curse: Cooldown increased from 40s to 50s

New Items

  • Added a new T1 Weapon item. Grants +35% Bullet Projectile Speed, +14% Weapon Damage and +50 Bullet Shield.
  • Inspired by: https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/projectile-speed-increase-item.1539/
  • Added a new T4 Spirit item, Magic Carpet: Active - After a 1.3s delay, a magic carpet arrives to pick you up. You gain full flight controls and have +6 m/s movement speed. Lasts 7 seconds. If you cast abilities or use your gun, the carpet disappears. While on the Magic Carpet you gain +400 Bullet and +400 Spirit Shields. Passively grants +150 Health, +10% Ability Duration, and +15 Spirit Power. Cooldown: 40s
  • Inspired by: https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/a-bunch-of-loose-item-ideas.11618/

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