Possibly the largest update to date! New weapon classes, new weapons option for characters to equip, bug fixes, and much much more!

0.12.0 Weapon balance adjustments

Character Mechanics

• Perfect guard added. Raise your guard moments before receiving damage to evade all damage. Perfect guarding a melee strike will stun the opponent in return.
  • Zen: This is an experimental feature and may be removed in a future patch if it doesn't fit with the existing gameplay. You must raise your guard explicitly before receiving damage, it cannot be buffered or the shift key already held. Mashing the guard key will not engage the system. Briefly dropping your guard to raise it at the right time is eligible for a perfect guard. The only ranged attack that can be perfect-guarded currently are sniper rounds.
• Melee weapons dash further
  • Zen: This is to assist eith gap-closing for melee players and to encourage more technical play from ranged players. The increased momentum also feels better and is more intuitive.
• Made juggling slightly easier. This should also make it easier to juggle the host.
• New "Pistol" weapon type added. Available to Ivan and Elena.
• Elena can now equip Shotguns, for an old-school GunZ experience.
• All characters sprint 13% faster, to facilitate stealthier engagements

Ivan

• Sniper reload time increased.
  • Zen: Ivan's sniper is still by far the best weapon in the game and is extremely oppressive at mid to long range. With an increase to the reload time, it provides an opportunity for other classes to counterattack.
• Ivan can now equip the new Pistol weapon type. Click and drag a pistol into his loadout to equip it.
• The cape on the Western Silent Avenger avatar has been re-enabled.

Rena

• Fixed the movement bug that forced continued player movement upon raising her guard
• Butterfly and Lunge attacks are now 10% faster
  • Zen: Rena still struggles to compete with Ivan's larger hitboxes, but now she has a minor (but distinct) melee speed advantage

Elena

• Elena can now equip Shotguns and the new Pistol weapon type. Click and drag a shotgun or pistol into her loadout to equip it.

Max

• Shield show animation/delay can now be cancelled by Guarding, in line with all other classes
  • Zen: As a result, Max should feel significantly more responsive in melee combat, especially now that Perfect Guarding is available and being able to guard at short notice is important.
• Fixed weird animation when jumping while raising guard
• Fixed excessive ZP gain when guarding against ranged attacks
• Reduced ZP gain multiplier when guarding (50% -> 20%)

Wayne

• Fixed his left midair evasive roll with the Lever Action Rifle lacking momentum

Rose

• Mass Breaker & Backdraft explosion radius fixed.
• Fixed the movement bug that forced continued player movement upon raising her guard
• Fixed midair slash not working after a sprint jump
• Fixed midair ground stab not working after a midair dash
• Increased midair back aerial attack horizontal movement

General

• Main logo screen updated to include "Reborn" subtitle
• Lobby tabs reordered, the default tab is now "Custom Game"
• AP & HP pickup values have been doubled
  • This includes pickups spawned in PvP and those dropped by the AP/HP equippable kits.
  • Drop rate from NPCs remains the same in campaign Normal mode, making it more forgiving for new players
  • Drop rate from NPCs in campaign Hard mode has been halved to keep the difficulty the same, but now there is more reward for venturing out to collect dropped pickups when under fire
  • AP pickups on Optimite Refinery map have been removed/reduced
• Kill and assist crediting has been overhauled and upgraded
  • Zen: This should provide more sensible and consistent results during PvP gameplay. Campaign mode is unaffected for now.
• The sound for a sniper bullet flying past the camera has been improved

Campaign

• Easy difficulty added
• Rewards adjusted for each individual mission & difficulty
  • Hard mode rewards significantly increased
• Fixed a Gold/EXP exploit triggered by dying at the start of a campaign mission
• Fixed the Gustav fight triggering an unexpected respawn
• Bug fixed when respawning while on the "Continue?" screen after a player leaves
• Sniper Soldier rifle sound replaced to improve audibility

Website

• Improved weapon data stat visualisation
• Improved clan image loading performance
• Improved PvE clan ranking scoring algorithm
• Fixed match results player list order
• Match date and time is now based on the browser's local time

Shop

• Fixed numerous pricing errors in the shop

Other

• Fixed rolling for items in the tesla shop crashing practice games
• Fixed cape, cloth and scarf physics for all characters
• Fixed camera location on game start
• Fixed a bug related to equipped timed items when they expire
• Fixed respawning due to self-damage on "Practice Dummy" map
• Player score line item is now removed from scoreboard upon disconnecting, but their score is still retained upon reconnection
• Players with 0HP should no longer become immortal upon changing hosts