This is the Hero Battles Update Log. All changes are listed here!
Game officially released: 1.0.0 Pre-Alpha (Early Access) (4/6/23)
Keep an eye out for future updates and plans made for the game: Hero Battles Roadmap!
Newest Update
(Update 1) 1.1.0 Pre-Alpha (Early Access) (4/17/23)
Statement
The first Hero Battles update! Adding in a new Hero, 2 skins, and a ton of improvements. And importantly XP data saving issues have been fixed!
Content
- Commando Hero added
- (Commando) Blacksteel Skin added
- (Commando) Flamethrower Skin added
Features
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You now gain Kill credit (AKA Assist-Counts-As-Kill) when dealing 50% or more of an enemies HP but they die to someone else (this is not active during FFA-type modes)
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You now gain Assists from participating kills if you do not gain kill credit
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Your character now follows your mouse (currently only Console & Computer devices)
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You can now hold down RMB (Computer), Hold tap on screen (Mobile), or RightTrigger (RT1) (Console) to toggle your Basic Attack (now you don’t have to click so much!)
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Reworked continuity and fixed discrepancies in team names and colors. Enemies are all now labeled as [Enemy] and have red chats, health-bars, and their objectives are red. Regardless of what team you’re on. Enemies are Red, Allies are Blue, and you yourself are Green.
Balance Passes
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Stardaughter
- Scattershot projectiles reduced 5 > 2 (should help with lag when cast)
- Scattershot dmg per projectile increased 3 > 10
- Dash CD increased 5 > 7
- All ability ranges reduced 1000 > 250 studs (can no longer snipe across map)
- MS reduced 23 > 20
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Cygor
- MS increased 20 > 22
- Hurl Boulder range reduced 250 > 175
- Hurl Boulder dmg increased 10 > 25
- Hurl Boulder CD increased 6 > 9
- Ability animations sped up (casts faster)
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Assassin
- MS increased 26 > 27
- HP reduced 150 > 100
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Misc
- King Invigorate now has max enemies it counts towards buff 0 > 3
- Revenant HP reduced 400 > 350
- Bots now properly scale with # of plrs (the forumula was previously wrong)
- Bots now scale 15-0 based on # of plrs
- Server sizes reduced to 20 plrs
- Bot HP increased 100 > 175
- Bot dmg increased 25 > 35
- Server chat msg when someone purchases Gold or Gem rain
Bug Fixes
- Hero XP Data loss fixed
- Probably other bugs I forgot to document lol
Miscellaneous
- Added admin console for myself & staff, and banning is now possible with automatic ban expiry
- Added an OOR (out-of-range) combat toast to indicate you’re trying to project something out of stud range
- Sped up side notifications