v2.4.7 Thicc Roccs Patch Notes

SUMMARY

• This started out as a minor patch to fix an Azure deprecation, but it got kinda big
• Fixed a lot of physics weirdness (dead spots, wall clipping, bridge sinkholes)
• Significantly reduced CPU and GPU load (new framerate setting!)
• Rebalanced and reworked many lesser-picked spells
• More wormhole

BUG FIXES

• Fixed Stage Bugs
• DONG! SFX on Plates are now properly controlled by the SFX volume level
• Deadspots bug fixed! Spells no longer get stuck on ground
• Replaced bridges on Bridges with thicker colliders that have better rotation and scaling (should drastically improve fall-through-bridge bugs)
• Units will no longer glitch and clip over Rock Block, Fissure walls, or Coffin walls
• Coffin walls also now have slippery slopes on the outsides, giving players a chance to recover before sliding to their doom

Fixed Spell Bugs

• Death Charge / Death Taxi combos work once again (Vanguard + Tow Vine interaction)
• Removed the friction from Earth Tomb to fix the Earth Tomb / Steal Trap combo
• Murder Leech and Murdurchain fixed! (rare bug caused by leech/urchain attaching after the caster dies, resulting in endless velocity)
• Getting hit by Sustain while in a midair jump no longer causes permanent velocity afterwards

Fixed Bot Bugs

• Fixed a bug with cyclone that prevented bots from attacking if they cycloned a reactivatable spell, and then cycloned a non-reactivatable spell
• Fixed a bug where bots would only avoid throwing spells into 1 thing per player (wormholes, pillars of fire, etc)

Other Fixed Bugs

• Fixed FMOD library bug in the Linux build that prevented the game from working on Steam Deck
• Steam Deck now defaults to using the Linux Runtime version of the game (windows version crashes)
• Fixed bug where cursor appeared to start on the top item in game settings selection in Couch, but was actually on the second option
• Fixed color assignment with electric body cosmetic

ADJUSTMENTS

• Flash Flood: teleporting refreshes your primary
• Chameleon: spell stealing makes you invisible for 5 seconds
• Wormhole: spawns regardless of distance from caster - no more duds!
• Rock Block: now with 80% more block and can be rotated based on curve
• Pillar of Fire
• Shows team color and no longer eats team spells
• Each consumed spell grows the fire and makes it last 0.1s longer

Hot Swap

• Curving the reactivation will apply a force to both units after the swap
• Left curve -> away
• Right curve -> together

Frog of Life: bounces players in addition to healing Steal Trap: curving the reactivation will now just release the trap - great for sports! Bubble Breaker

• Reduced cooldown from 24 to 21
• Max heal increased from 24 to 40 for player-based damage
• Max heal decreased from 24 to 18 for environmental damage (e.g. shark)

Reflex

• Reduced cooldown 13s -> 10s
• Reduced damage 7 -> 6

Cold Shoulder: increased fall time from 1.8s to 2.2s Ice Crystals are 30% more slidey Static: increased damage by 25% Vanguard: self-slow while shield is active reduced by 50% The Sports

• Goal pillars now deflect the puck properly
• New SFX for puck collisions and goals
• Added goal lines and adjusted the scoring regions (backwards a bit) to match

The Glaive

• Reduced lava damage to match other stages
• Increased the size of the stage by 15%
• Increased the size of the spike bumpers by 50%

Matchmaking Adjustments

• Mercy Rule is now on for quickplay
• Reduced the skill swing of the matchmaker by 40% between rounds (should lead to closer, more enjoyable matches)

Bot Adjustments

• Bots know how to use the new Flash Flood as an attack spell (refreshing primary cooldown)
• Bots will now attack through friendly Pillars of Fire
• Bots will now sometimes curve defensive spells (Rock Block, Vanguard, Pillar of Fire)

Spell HUD is now always displayed at the bottom in the tutorial

NEW FEATURES

• Settings menu improvements
• Added a new refresh rate menu item with options: Vsync, 30, 60, 75, 90, 120, 144, 165, 240, 360, Unlimited
• Ability to turn logging on or off
• Clicking an item now just moves the cursor there instead of incrementing it
• Removed refresh rate from the resolution option because it didn't do anything
• Restricted the selectable resolutions to 16:9 because other aspect ratios mess with the intended UI alignments in-game

This one is for me tbh: I can now override the matchmaker's IP address without a new build whenever I want or whenever Azure decides to deprecate something 2 new relay servers added

• Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Dubau, United Arab Emirates

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

• Removed background thread network logging as the files are no longer being sent over the network anyway
• I'm going to mention the new framerate setting again because I'm so happy with it

SPECIAL THANKS TO PYRO, BANAA, MAGEKAIDA, AND JOE/MEL FOR THEIR HELP WITH THIS PATCH <3