Patch Notes for v6.30 - Mounted Turret, Food Fight LTM, and more

Limited Time Mode: Food Fight

Summary
The battle of Durrr Burger versus Pizza Pit has begun. Two teams on either side of the map. A huge barrier runs down the middle. Build a fort to protect your restaurant mascot. When the Barrier lowers, destroy the enemy's mascot to win the match!

Mode Details

• An impassable barrier will be spawned along the center of the map for the first several minutes.
• Each team will have an under-construction restaurant near the center of the map. Inside is a giant mascot head representing that team.
• If the mascot head is destroyed, that team loses the match.
• Teams should use the time that the barrier is up to construct a defensive fortress around their restaurant.
• As soon as the barrier lowers... fight to take out the enemy mascot before they destroy yours!
• Special red Supply Drops spawn at the start of the match. These hold a handful of weapons, ammo, consumables, traps and a few hundred metal building materials.
• Players will respawn after 7 seconds when eliminated, keeping their inventory.
• Eliminated players spawn a percentage of their ammo upon elimination, as well as 30/30/60 wood/stone/metal materials.
• 100% extra resources are gained from gathering.
• Building resources found on the ground increased from 20 to 50 per instance.
• No explosive weapons or items are in this mode.

Playground

Bug Fixes

• Port-a-Challenges no longer spawn below terrain.

Weapons + Items

• Mounted Turret added (Legendary Trap)
  • Found in Floor Loot, Supply Drops, Vending Machines, and Supply Llamas
  • Unlimited Ammo, but will overheat if fired too often.
  • Can only be placed on floors.
  • Damage the Mounted Turret by shooting it directly or by destroying structural support.
    • The floor piece it is placed on is invulnerable.
  • Once placed, can be used by any player regardless of team affiliation.
• When a vehicle passenger uses a Grappler, the movement has been smoothed out by retaining more vehicle momentum.
• Pickaxe damage against players has been increased from 10 to 20.

Bug Fixes

• Adjusted Assault Rifle shell ejection settings to prevent the shells from obstructing reticle while firing while aiming down sights.
• Balloons now have proper audio and visual effects if several are popped simultaneously.
• Fixed an issue in which players could take damage when leaving a Quadcrasher while using Balloons.
• Fixed Quadcrashers being movable by walking into them.

Gameplay

• Quadcrashers spawn rate has been increased to 100% from 50%.
• Gamepad Bindings; Changing the default gamepad config from Combat Pro to Builder Pro. Updating the default custom bindings to match Builder Pro instead of Combat Pro.
• Emoting, bandaging, shield potion usage and other movement cancellable actions can now be used while affected by Chillers.
• Damage numbers will now show up in the starting island.
  • Players will take damage, but not go below 1 health.
  • Local damage effects like screen shake will not play.
  • No quest progress will be gained for damage done in the warmup lobby.
• Better handling of effects when players fire short bursts of fully automatic weapons like the Submachine Gun.
  • Tracers and firing sounds will be more consistent.
• Added a new “Reset Camera” action on the Nintendo Switch that can be bound that brings the camera to the horizon.
  • Unbound by default.
  • This gives players with motion controls an easy way to reset their camera location.
• The time a player is in the Down But Not Out state before being eliminated has been increased from 50 seconds to 60 seconds.

Glider Redeploy

• Glider Redeploy will now only activate the Glider.
  • Skydiving will no longer be available when using Glider Redeploy.
    • The Skydiving state will still be activated when jumping from the Battle Bus, using Launch Pads, or any type of Rifts.
    • If Skydiving from Launch Pads or Rifts, the forced Glider deploy height has been raised from 15.5 meters to 35 meters.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where holding the Interact binding while skydiving would not automatically start opening chests upon landing.
• Fixed an issue where players briefly continued to look like they were skydiving when landing.
• Fixed issue where PS4 controller lighting could be the wrong color.

Events

• New Tournament: ‘Scavenger Pop-Up Cup’ (Solo)
  • Pop-Up Cups are tournaments testing temporary limited time modes. Scavenger will test several gameplay adjustments - reduced material limit, faster material harvesting, and earning health for eliminations.
    • Material Cap: 500 Wood, 500 Brick, 500 Metal
    • Harvesting Rate has been increased by 40%
    • Players gain 50 health when eliminating an opponent.
      • If health is full, players will receive shield.
• Players will no longer need to restart the game client to begin a tournament.
• Scheduled times will now correctly reflect Daylight Savings Time.
• Improved clarity for time until a tournament starts and time remaining in a tournament session.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue in Tournaments where players were not being matchmade against opponents with similar scores. This will greatly increase the difficulty of matches as players earn points.
  • Note that players with high scores during a session may experience longer matchmaking times as we search for suitable opponents.
  • After roughly 4 minutes of searching for opponents with similar scores, players will be placed in the best match available.
• Fixed an issue where tournament scoring would sometimes require restarting the client to update.
• Fixed an issue where Victory Royale’s would incorrectly appear as regular Placement points in the score summary.
• Fixed an issue where players would occasionally be granted a point incorrectly at the start of match, and it would disappear after the match.
• Fixed an issue where teammates would sometimes fail to queue into a match together.Fixed an issue where matches would start with fewer than 80 players.

Performance

• Improved lobby performance and memory usage on Switch.
• Optimized animation performance. Animation now operates with a fixed time budget, and will dynamically adjust quality and update rate based on load.

Audio

• Glider and footstep audio for out of sight players is now more accurately spatialized.
• Added hit notification audio when damaging vehicles from a distance.
• Added ‘wind’ audio cue for players traveling through the air, including yourself.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Cube Monster footsteps did not have a visual sound indicator.
• Fixed an issue that would cause tire bounce sounds to trigger twice.
• Fixed an issue where looping weapon sounds would occasionally be silent.
• Fixed an issue where jumping and landing audio for other players could fail to play reliably.

UI

• Added an indication of already completed secrets to the Hunting Party Challenges.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the jersey number could get reset when changing the style on a sports Outfit with selectable styles.

Art + Animation

Bug Fixes

• Updated unlock text for the pink variant of Scales to correctly state that it unlocks at Battle Pass tier 74 instead of tier 59.
• Updated the "Herald's Wand" harvesting tool to indicate that it is reactive.

Replay System

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where spamming the Play button on the Replay Browser would cause an error.
• Fixed an issue where the close button would become inactive when loading out of date replays.
• Quad Launcher explosions no longer reset when scrubbing during replays.

Spectating

• The primary quick bar is now visible when spectating a player.

Mobile

• Honk button added to extra buttons in the HUD Layout Tool for all your vehicular honking needs.
• Elimination feed can now be relocated in the HUD Layout Tool.
• The auto-pickup weapons and auto-open doors options will now be defaulted to off for new players.
• App icon now fills to the edge on newer Android versions.
• UI now accounts for the notches in the display of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL.
• Enabled shader cache on the Pixel2XL to address memory issues.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the crouch button would not be visible in build/edit modes.
• Fixed a bug causing persistent movement input when dragging over the quick bar.
• Fixed a bug causing sprint to not work on mobile for some players.