0.57 - Bird of Prey | August 23, 2017
New Champion - Strix, Ghost Feather
- Health: 2000
Weapon [LMB1] - Talon Rifle
- A powerful rifle that fires one 1300 damage shot every second.
Secondary Fire [RMB1] - Scope
- Look down your scope and gain pin point accuracy.
Weapon [LMB2] - Side Arm
- A semi-automatic pistol that deals 250 damage per shot.
Secondary Fire [RMB2] - Flare
- Fire a flare that reveals enemies in a large radius.
Ability 1 [Q] - Quick Switch
- Switch to your other weapon.
Ability 2 [F] - Stealth
- Enter stealth and hide yourself from vision. While in Stealth your energy is consumed.
Ultimate [E] - Flashbang
- Throw a Flashbang grenade that detonate on contact blinding nearby enemies for 3 seconds.
Cards
- Legendaries
- Ambush
- [Stealth] Weapon Shots Made in stealth deal 15% more damage.
- Crack Shot
- [Weapon] Your Side Arm deals 20% more damage to targets that you have hit with your Sniper within the last 4s.
- Nocturnal [Default]
- [Stealth] Your Stealth bar consumes 50% slower.
- Ambush
- Cards
- Grizzled
- [Armor] Gain 50/100/150/200 Health.
- Infused Crystals
- [Weapon] Increase the ammo count of both of your weapons by 1/2/3/4.
- Trigger Control
- [Weapon] Reduce maximum Side Arm inaccuracy by 8/16/24/32%.
- White Knuckle
- [Weapon] Reduce Side Arm recoil by 6/12/18/24%.
- Flare XL
- [Flare] Increase the Reveal range of Flare by 20/40/60/80%.
- Overburn
- [Flare] Flare's reveal effect lasts an additional 1/2/3/4s.
- Relentless
- [Scope] Reduce the movement speed penalty of Scope by 25/50/75/100%.
- Roost
- [Scope] While stationary and in Scope, consume 8/16/24/32% less Stealth resource
- Bushwhack
- [Quick Switch] Swapping to your Pistol grants 10/20/30/40% Lifesteal for 2s.
- Cooled Mags
- [Quick Switch] Every 2 Seconds your inactive Weapon generates 2/4/6/8 Ammo.
- Dexterous
- [Quick Switch] Reduce the time to swap to your Side Arm by 20/40/60/80%.
- Resourceful
- [Quick Switch] Every 2 seconds your rifle is out, the cooldown of Flare is reduced by 0.25/0.5/0.75/1.
- Escape Plan
- [Stealth] Entering stealth below 65% health heals you for 100/200/300/400 health.
- Guerilla Tactics
- [Stealth] Eliminations grant 15/30/40/60 Stealth Resource.
- Stalker
- [Stealth] Increase your Reload Speed by 10/20/30/40% while Stealth is active.
- Tactical Retreat
- [Stealth] Gain 10/20/30/40% Movement Speed for 2s when entering stealth.
- Grizzled
General
- Added ‘Reticle Change Over Target’ setting to the Gameplay Options menu.
- Added ‘Use Profanity Filter’ setting at the bottom of the Gameplay Options menu
- The featured Champion during Top Play will now play a Top Play specific line. VGS will be blocked for all others but only during the intro and only while this Top Play voice line is playing.
- When action is taken against a player that you have reported, there will be a message in the Notification Center and in chat.
- Added automatic Vox callouts when being attacked.
- New Champions will now be automatically banned in Competitive for 2 weeks.
General Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with the the Kunoichi spray displaying the wrong image
- Fixed an issue with the Quest reroll button not working
Ranked Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where personal losses would always display as 25 at the top of the leaderboard.
- Fixed a bug where players would not receive notification that they unlocked TerrorMorph Drogoz.
Customizations
- Discount Rates on Common and Uncommon Champion Skins have changed to reflect their new prices:
- Common Head Discount: 25 Crystals | 7,125 Gold
- Common Body Discount: 25 Crystals | 7,125 Gold
- Uncommon Head Discount: 25 Crystals | 11,250 Gold
- Uncommon Body Discount: 50 Crystals | 11,250 Gold
Champions
Strix
- Ghillie (Common)
- Champion Skin
- Weapon
- Phoenix (Uncommon)
- Champion Skin
- Weapon
- MISC
- Voice Pack: Strix
- Emote: 360 No Scope
- MVP: Mission Accomplished
Viktor
- V1-KTOR (Epic)
- Champion Skin + Voice Pack
- Weapon
- Spray
Lex
- L-Exo Suit (Epic)
- Champion Skin + Voice Pack
- Weapon
- Spray
Inara
- Sunstone (Uncommon)
- Champion Skin + Weapon
- Obsidian and Cosmic
- Champion Skin + Weapon
Cassie
- Obsidian and Cosmic
- Champion Skin + Weapon
Chests
- New Chest
Quests
- Deep Space Spoils
- Win 3 Siege games and be rewarded with a Deep Space Chest.
Maps
- Test Queue rotation
- Add
- Siege: Waterway
- Add
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue where Jaguar Falls would display the incorrect map name in Practice.
- Fixed an issue on Frozen Guard where the user could get stuck outside the map.
Champions
General
- Improved the behavior of how Root and Void Grip detect what abilities they can interrupt and prevent.
- “Root and Void Grip will now use the same logic as Cripple to determine what abilities they work against.”
- Champions without a Reload can no longer buy Deft Hands.
Fernando
- Shield
- Description updated to indicate that Shield lasts for 10s.
- Fireball
- No longer reduces healing.
- Charge
- Now passes through shields.
- Cooldown increased from 8s to 10s.
- Cards
- Brand
- Reworked.
- Fireball reduces healing by 20/40/60/80% for 3s.
- Brand
Jenos
- Astral Mark
- Healing reduced from 250 per second to 220 per second.
- Stellar Wind
- Movement Speed reduced from 75% to 65%.
Lex
- Magnums
- Now semi-automatic, will no longer repeatedly fire when holding down LMB.
- Time between shots reduced from 0.7s to 0.35s.
- Damage reduced from 680 to 400.
- Ammo count increased from 6 to 10.
- Now loses accuracy when fired repeatedly.
- Animations updated so that one gun can be finishing the fire animation as the other gun fires.
- Legendary Cards
- Heroism
- Reworked.
- Gain 90% Damage Reduction and CC Immunity while using Combat Slide.
- Heroism
Lian
- Legendary Cards
- Precision
- No longer grants increased damage.
- Precision
Maeve
- Daggers
- Fixed a bug where Maeve's weapons would fire slightly slower at lower framerates.
Makoa
- Dredge Anchor
- Fixed a bug where shooting your weapon before hooking someone could cancel the hook.
Pip
- Cards
- Pep in the Step
- Fixed a bug where this card could increase Pip's movement speed.
- Reload
- Updated text to indicate that Reload does not activate when Pip heals himself.
- Pep in the Step
Ruckus
- Repulsor Field
- Removed from the game.
- Emitter
- Moved from Altfire (Right Mouse) to Ability 1 (Q).
- Missile Launcher
- New ability.
- Fire two missiles that deal 250 damage each in a large area.
- Cards
- Metal March
- Reworked.
- [Missile Launcher] Gain 5/10/15/20% damage reduction for 3s after activating Missile Launcher.
- At The Ready
- Reworked.
- [Missile Launcher] Hitting an enemy with Missile Launcher reveals them for 1/2/3/4s.
- Crystal Capacitor
- Reworked.
- [Missile Launcher] Reduce the Cooldown of Missile Launcher by .5/1/1.5/2s.
- Opulence
- Reworked.
- [Missile Launcher] Heal for 75/150/225/300 health when activating Missile Launcher.
- Metal March
- Legendary Cards
- Flux Generator
- Reworked.
- Increase the Shielding from Emitter by 50%.
- Flux Generator
Skye
- Poison Bolts
- Duration Reduced from 5s to 4s.
- Tick frequency increased from 1s to 0.2s.
- Damage is now .5% per tick but still 10% over the duration of each poison bolt.
- No longer reduces healing.
- Cards
- Decrepify
- Reworked.
- Poison Bolts reduce healing by 20/40/60/80% for 3s.
- Decrepify
- Legendary Cards
- Surprise Attack
- Damage increased from 300 to 500.
- Debilitate
- Reworked.
- Poison Bolts now deals 33% more damage twice as fast.
- Surprise Attack
Ying
- Dimensional Link
- Added UI indicator for targeting specific illusions to swap places with.
- Illusory Rift
- No longer spawns deployables.
- Now applies a global buff on all allies that heals them for 600 health per second for 8 seconds.
- While Illusory Rift is active Dimensional Link can now teleport you to any ally.