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New class DLC: The Ninja!
The release of the brand new Ninja DLC comes with a 10% discount for the first seven days! (Due to the time zone settings for automatic release on Steam, the DLC was not released as scheduled, but it's resolved now! )
The new DLC includes:
- A Brand new NINJA class with a full set of passives, abilities, outfits, ability to carry main weapons in its secondary slot, and a new weapon category: Throwables!
- 12 new "Throwing" weapons with unique playstyles: bouncing chakrams, various bombs, and healing salves.
- 3 new Ninja themed melee weapons
- 3 new Ninja based Gadgets, revolving around move speed, fire, and extreme power!
- New Ninja variations of nearly all existing outfits
Load of balance changes & bugfixes
v1.23
Changes
- All Lunar New year content removed
- God of Wealth skins can now be obtained normally (they are legendary)
- Total Custom Bots increased 9 > 15, so now you can have 16+ soldier matches (including yourself)
- Daily Mission harder difficlties are now unlocked after beating the campaign
- Challenges harder difficlties are now unlocked after beating the campaign
Fixes
Gameplay
- FFA Games will no longer end in defeat if you have 1 kill left to win and an enemy gets a kill
- Armor (Kevlar/Flamethrower/Juggernaut/etc) can now properly be applied multiple times in one life
- Melee weapons now properly dash to the left again
- Enemies who die from fire/bleed will now give kill credit to whoever set them on fire/bleed
- Adrenaline's heal is now refreshed when killing multiple enemies
- ^ All other status effects are also properly refreshed now when reapplied
- Flame thrower's sound now properly uses your sound volume setting
- Extreme focus no longer loses it's bonuses when switching weapons
- The Secret Assassin achievement can no longer be completed on any class (now requires the Assassin)
- Kill card no longer always seen at bottom of screen on taller monitors
- Assault Drone's duration is now properly extended with the Power Cell gadget
- Custom Mode option "Players are Bot Level" now properly adjusts weapon levels too
Menus
- Recoil weapon mod will no longer appear on new Melee weapons
- Headshot weapon mod will no longer appear on new Melee or Explosive weapons
- "+1 level higher stats" weapon mod will no longer appear, as it was just a more confusing version of the +damage mod
- Fixed a bug where AI keeps nearly all Ability charge after death. They now properly keep 60% of what they had, where players keep 50%
- The Slayer has entered the arena feat now properly requires insane dififculty on an FFA match
- Campaign stars now properly show 156 instead of incorrectly showing 159
Balance
Shotguns
- All shotguns have +1 range
- Spas12 Impact +7, RoF +20%
- Jackhammer Impact +5
- R870 Impact +7
- AA12 Impact +4
- Terminator Impact +4, Spare Clips +1
- Boomstick Impact +4
Secondaries
- Desert Eagle Impact -2, Range -0.5, RoF -15%
- UMP Impact +1, Range +0.5
- Vector Impact +1
Explosives
- M202 Impact +5, AoE -5%
- All Rocket explosives have -5% RoF
Machine Guns
- RPD Impact +1
- OICW RoF -7%
- Aug HBar Spare Clip +1
Assault Rifles
- G36 Impact -1, RoF -5%
- Fal -1, RoF -10%
Melee
- Baton Impact +5, range +5%, RoF +5%, Dash +20%
Skills
- Bouncing Betty charge required 2 > 1
- Maximum Overdrive was broken where some abilities were boosted and some weren't. It now boosts all abilities by 10%, and it's duration is 10 > 8 seconds, like the others.
- Smokebomb now has an effect to better show it's invincibility time (also slightly increased behind the scenes)
- Assault drone now fires about 50% further, but fire rate reduced by ~10%
- Martyrdom grenade timer reduced to 1 > 0.75 seconds. Damage boosted by 50%. grenades now fly out instead of dropping straight down
Gadgets
- Bayonettes execute threshhold increased: 5-10% > 10-15%
- Tactical reload speed: 30-90% > 30-75%
- Defibrilator no longer affects ability drain
Feats
- All cash rewards increased 250-4,000 > 400-12,000
- Don't be so obtuse - Shoot enemies at 45 degree angles, now allows 8 > 12 degrees of leeway
As always, thanks for sticking around as we continue to fix & improve the game.