New update for Strife brings technical improvements, bug fixes and experimental gameplay changes.
Gameplay
- Damage of each Crux's weapon reduced by 50%. We expect this change to make one-sided games end faster, while not affecting matches with evenly matched teams. This is our first experimental change, that is result of discussions on our Discord. Experimental balance and gameplay changes are expected to be tweaked or even reverted based on player feedback. Expect more experimental changes like this in future patches.
Quality of life
- Windows: If either DirectX 9 or DirectX 11 renderer fails to start, game will try to launch the other renderer instead of crashing immediately. This should solve error "CreateDevice() failed" when trying to launch game on Windows for most players.
- Button for opening item builds menu in-game was renamed to "Builds". This should make its purpose more obvious for new players.
Bug fixes:
- Scoreboard: [list]
- Now available for Legacy UI.
- Hero tooltips now shos correct information instead of Ace icon and question marks.
- Player name no longer disappear when their hero is dead.
[*]Fixed Claudessa's Scale Shield (W) not being displayed visually and giving no resistance to Claudessa or her allies in online games.
[*]Titanslayer no longer deal extra damage to heroes equipped with Iceforged Plate with Command enchant. Redirected damage is calculated correctly now as well.
[*]Trace's bombs from Bomb Toss (W) can no longer be triggered by enemy Trace's Boomerang (Q).
[*]Trace's Boomerang (Q) now show correct base damage in tooltip.
[*]Chester can now use Mimic (E) on himself by double-pressing key and "Self Cast Ability" bind.
[*]Lady Tinder can no longer cast Tinder Touch (W) on PseudoPets like Bo's Tranquility Totem (E) and Zaku's Mending Pod (E).
[*]Aemon no longer gain permanent damage reduction from Justice (R) after the first charge no matter what amount of charges he has.
[*]Removed the broken visual effect on Rip preview in lobby.[/list]
Shoutout to everyone involved in developing or testing the changes for the patch:
- Pad
- The Chiprel
- Kairus
