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0.66 - Battlegrounds | February 21, 2018

BETA EXPECTATIONS

New Game Mode: Battlegrounds

“Welcome to the Battlegrounds, our newest game mode. Our intrepid Champions will fly by zeppelin into a massive battleground with a diverse set of environments. Players will scour the land looking for enemies, chests, and card shrines, As the deadly fog closes and Champions are forced to fight in a smaller and smaller area the battle for survival will become even more frantic. Last one standing wins.”

General

  • Players can now set decimal mouse and scope sensitivity.
  • Players can now toggle their loadouts to view the Bound values of each card.
  • The base free Champions have been updated. New players will have the following Champions unlocked for free: Ruckus, Jenos, Viktor, Lex, and Cassie.
    • Existing players will be granted the previous free Champions in addition to the new free Champions.
  • TDM and Onslaught have been merged into a single Queue.
  • The Frontline Pack will be disabled with OB66.
  • Chest Keys have been removed from the game.
    • Crystal refunds will be given to anyone that has keys in their inventory.
  • New: Legendary Champion Chest Legendary Champion Chests
    • Guarantees a Legendary Card for that Champion
  • Daily Quests and Daily Champion Chest Champion Chest statistics have been added to the Home Screen.
  • Added the Facebook Live streaming option.
    • Use ESC menu to activate streaming to Facebook Live from the Paladins game client.
    • Facebook Live streaming requires that your Hi-Rez account has been linked to a Facebook account.
  • Changes to minimum specifications:
    • Paladins will automatically launch in the 64-bit Client if it detects it is capable of executing.
    • The 32-bit Client will not allow players to queue to Battlegrounds, displaying a message that it requires the 64-bit Client.
    • In 64-bit, ‘High’ will now be minimum setting for various graphical settings.
    • The ‘Use64’ option has been added to the Hi-Rez Launcher that will turn on/off the 64-bit Client. NOTE: Battlegrounds requires the 64-bit Client to play.
  • Reduced Team Deathmatch preparation time from 45s to 20s
  • Big improvements to third person perspective. Many improvements and issues were addressed in preparation for Battlegrounds. Here are the major items of note:
    • Mounted camera has been brought further back
    • Fixed issue where Champion was not facing in the correct direction when firing and mounted
    • Repositioned camera when using aim down sights
  • The Champion Quest now appears on the right hand side of the Quests Screen.
  • Classic Siege
    • Now has a minimum required level of 15.
    • Developer Comments: Our classic Siege ruleset is the primary mode for competitive Paladins players. To promote a more balanced and fair environment, we have increased the minimum level requirement of this queue.
  • Added music for Queue Pop timer

Customizations

General

  • The REKT Weapons Chest REKT Chest is available once again!
    • Added Rekt Stingers (Lex)
    • Added DZ-03 Draco Collection (Drogoz)

Champion Kinessa Icon Kinessa

  • New Base Weapon
  • Old Base Weapon “Buster Rifle”: Available for 1 Currency Gold Gold for a limited time

Champion Lex Icon Lex

  • Rekt Stingers: Available in the REKT Weapons Chest REKT Chest

Champion Makoa Icon Makoa

  • Plushy Makoa Collection: VIP current rotation

Champion Strix Icon Strix

  • Infiltrator Strix Bundle: 600 Currency Crystals Crystals or 95,000 Currency VIP VIP Points (6x Value)
    • Infiltrator (Champion Skin/Weapon/Voice Pack/Spray)
    • 20 Champion Chest Champion Chests
    • 10 Legendary Champion Chest Legendary Champion Chests

Champion Terminus Icon Terminus

Champion Viktor Icon Viktor

Balance Updates and Bug Fixes

Champion Androxus Icon Androxus

  • Revolver
    • Recoil treatment has been adjusted
  • Reversal
    • Lowered cooldown from 16s to 14s
  • Increase Maximum Health from 2000 to 2100

Champion Ash Icon Ash

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a grammatical error in the description of Rally Here.

Champion Bomb King Icon Bomb King

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a typo in the description of Demolition.

Champion Buck Icon Buck

  • Recovery
    • Increased the animation time by 0.5s

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where sometimes Buck would T-Pose when hitting a wall during Heroic Leap.
  • Reworded Bucking Madness to make it more clear.

Champion Cassie Icon Cassie

General

  • Health increased from 2200 to 2300
  • Crossbow
    • Increased damage from 650 to 680
  • Blast Shot
    • Increased Projectile speed
    • No longer reduces healing.

Legendary Cards

  • Just Breathe
    • 70ft Threshold before damage starts scaling
    • Level 1 damage decreased from 42.5% to 22%
    • Level 4 damage decreased from 50% to 30%
    • Level 10 damage decreased from 65% to 40%
    • Just Breathe was a powerful legendary at all levels of play, and proved to be the most effective choice in nearly every situation. Our goal is to have multiple paths for players to take when selecting their Legendary and building their loadouts, and the previous iteration of Just Breathe did now allow for that player flexibility. Therefore, we have adjusted the bonus damage scaling to occur after 70ft, up from 0ft. This enables Just Breathe to continue to be effective at its intended design, making Cassie a more effective long range damage dealer, but allows Champions, like Flanks, to deal with her more effectively if they manage to get up close.

Cards

  • Kinetics
    • Now reduces healing by 9% per rank

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a typo in the description of Impulse.

Champion Drogoz Icon Drogoz

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a grammatical error in the description of W.Y.R.M. Jets

Champion Evie Icon Evie

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an inconsistent delay in Evie’s blink.
  • Fixed a bug where Evie’s blink targeter could display during Soar.
  • Fixed a wording issue for Evie’s Ice Storm.

Champion Fernando Icon Fernando

General

    • Now looks more beautiful than ever in the lobby
  • Immortal
    • No longer requires line of sight

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Fernando’s Shield wouldn’t be canceled when affected by some Crowd Control abilities, such as Fear.
  • Fixed a bug where the visual effect for Fernando’s Shield would last longer than the actual shield.
  • Fixed a bug with Fernando where when he casted Fireball after using Shield, sometimes he would be unable to use his weapon.

Champion Grohk Icon Grohk

General

  • Grohk fills a unique role as a Support in Paladins. With a strong localized heal, consistent damage output, and high survivability, he is very effective at controlling objectives. Grohk not only has the highest win rate of any Support Champion, but also one of the highest win rates across all champions, skill levels, and queues. We have reduced the health on Healing Totem to allow players a better opportunity to counter Grohk’s healing, and lowered his base health and the internal cooldown on Wraith to bring his survivability in line with other Supports.
  • Reduced health from 2500 to 2400
  • Healing Totem
    • Reduced health from 1500 to 1000

Legendary Cards

  • Totemic Ward
    • Decreased healing buff to totem by 10%
  • Wraith
    • Increased internal cd by 15s

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Grohk’s Healing Totem indicator was creating red squares.
  • Fixed a bug where Grohk’s totem placement indicator could appear during his ultimate.
  • Addressed an issue where Wraith could cause Grohk to be unkillable if Ghost Walk was on cooldown.
  • Addressed an issue that caused Grohk to be immune to death in unintended ways when the Wraith legendary was equipped.
  • Reworded the description of Wraith to make it more clear.

Champion Grover Icon Grover

General

  • Throwing Axe
    • Damage reduced from 330 to 300

Legendary Cards

  • Efflorescence
    • Passive healing radius is no longer scalable with level
    • Now increases passive healing radius by 50%
        • Efflorescence was scaling two effects instead of one. It has changed to be in line with other legendaries and now will only scale healing value.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a typo in the description of Efflorescence

Champion Jenos Icon Jenos

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Jenos’s void grip was not interrupted by Polymorph.
  • Fixed a bug with Binary Star where the card description indicated that the card did less damage than it actually did.

Champion Kinessa Icon Kinessa

General

  • Sniper Rifle
    • Decreased falloff in Carbine Mode
    • Increased initial Accuracy of Carbine Mode
    • Increased ammo from 20 to 24
  • Oppressor Mine
    • Removed Bonus Damage from hitting enemies affected by Oppressor Mines with Carbine
    • No longer applies a slow to enemies
    • Damage increased from 20 per second to 100 per second
    • Increased velocity of Mine when thrown
    • We have made changes to Kinessa’s unscoped Sniper Rifle to improve overall feel and usability. We have also made fundamental changes to Oppressor Mines and related cards to reduce frustration caused from the ability and improve overall efficacy. Oppressor Mines now act as a secondary damage source that has options for added utility.

Legendary Cards

  • Suppression
    • Changed to: “Oppressor Mines may now target 2 additional enemies. Deal {22 | 2}% more damage to affect targets when in Sniper Mode.”
    • Level 4 value: 30% damage

Cards

  • Well Stocked
    • Changed to: “Throwing an Oppressor Mine regenerates 1 ammo every 0.5s for {1 | 1}s.”
    • Level 4 value: 4s
  • Octoppressor
    • Changed to: “Enemies affected by Oppressor Mine receive {8 | 8}% less healing.”
    • Level 4 value: 32% healing reduction.
  • Amplitude
    • Decreased Oppressor Mine range increase from 15% per level to 10% per level

Champion Lian Icon Lian

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where interrupting Lian’s reload with her altfire (valor) would cause her to not reload but still let the player try to fire.

Champion Maeve Icon Maeve

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where sometimes Maeve would respawn in the air.

Champion Makoa Icon Makoa

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where makoa could falsefire after using Dredge anchor if he fired between 0.3 and 0.4s after pulling someone.
  • Fixed a bug with Makoa’s Ancient Resolve card that caused his shell shield to last shorter than intended.
  • Reworded the description of Leviathan to make it more clear.

Champion Mal'Damba Icon Mal'Damba

Legendary Cards

  • Wekono’s Curse
    • Lowered Damage values:
      • Level 1 from 595 to 440
      • Level 4 from 700 to 560
      • Level 10 from 910 to 800

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a typo in the description of Ripened Gourd.

Champion Moji Icon Moji

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where players could not create Moji loadouts immediately after unlocking her.
  • Reworded the description of Snack Attack to make it more clear.

Champion Pip Icon Pip

Cards

  • Escape Artist
    • Removed the ability for Escape Artist to cancel Weightless
    • Gain {3|3}% damage reduction during Weightless.
    • Level 4 value: 12% Damage Reduction.
    • Escape Artist was an underused card with a large trade-off when firing. While it could have powerful results, we have normalized it to make it a clear benefit to the player.

Champion Ruckus Icon Ruckus

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the Ruckus card Metal March would stack with itself.
  • Fixed a bug where the Ruckus card Proximity would stack with itself.
  • Fixed a bug where Ruckus’s missiles would stop his weapon from firing.
  • Fixed a bug where Ruckus could keep his miniguns spun up while reloading.
  • Fixed a bug where trying to fire as Ruckus while reloading would apply self-slow.

Champion Seris Icon Seris

Bug Fixes

  • Reworded the description of Soul Collector to make it more clear.

Champion Sha Lin Icon Sha Lin

General

  • Withdraw
    • No longer leaves an “illusion” of Sha Lin
  • Heat Haze
    • Firing during Heat Haze no longer leaves “illusions” of Sha Lin and Instead reveals him for 0.5s
    • Sha Lin’s illusions have been removed in order to improve clarity around his abilities.

Champion Skye Icon Skye

Bug Fixes

  • Reworded the description for Preparation to make it more clear.

Champion Talus Icon Talus

General

  • Blitz Upper
    • Increased Cooldown from 8s to 10s
  • Overcharge
    • Increased Cooldown from 8s to 10s
    • Talus’ strength resides in high burst potential over short periods of time. We’re happy with Talus’ lethality and his window based playstyle, but the rate at which he does it was a little too high.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug with Talus’s Raging Demon legendary where the duration increase was longer than intended.

Champion Terminus Icon Terminus

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where Terminus would become invisible if he died to a golden weapon with his ultimate available at the end of a round
  • Fixed an issue with Terminus’s body parts floating when he dies with ultimate available.

Champion Viktor Icon Viktor

General

  • Frag Grenade
    • Increased projectile speed

Bug Fixes

  • Patched a tear in V1KT0R’s pants. lol

Champion Vivian Icon Vivian

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where Vivian’s drones would move in the wrong direction based on her aim.
  • Fixed an issue where Vivian’s drones were infringing on screen space during 3rd person ADS.

Champion Willo Icon Willo

General

  • In response to player feedback Willo has received a new default voice.
  • Fixed a bug where the Deadzone projectile would not properly deal damage if it did not hit directly.
  • Fixed a bug where Deadzone did not have damage falloff for its AoE hit.
  • Seedling
    • Fixed a bug in the description that indicated Seedling did 500 damage instead of 400 damage.

Champion Ying Icon Ying

General

  • Illusory Mirror
    • Increased maximum range from 100 to 300
    • Damage now begins to fall off at 100 ft.
    • We have made changes to Ying’s weapon in order to improve player experience and increase her viability. The increase in Illusionary Mirror’s Maximum Range will allow players to continue to heal from a safe distance, and actively participate in fights.

Legendary Cards

  • Life Exchange
    • Now also reduces the Cooldown of Shatter by 1s.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where Ying’s mystic skin could cause her illusions to be invisible.
  • Fixed a bug where Ying’s convention skin was not marked as Limited.
  • Fixed a bug where Ying’s Illusions would have the default accessory equipped, instead of Ying’s accessory.
  • Fixed spelling error with Ying Replicant’s Filaments.

Champion Zhin Icon Zhin

Bug Fixes

  • Reworded the description of Spite to make it more clear.
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