Scheduled Maintenance and Patch Notes 07/01/2020

Hello, Metal Gladiators

Maintenance is scheduled for January 7, from 11:00 to 15:00 (UTC-0), to apply an update that brings a machine balance for a few characters, and the removal of the Jingle Hells event.

Version: 7.00.1457

• The Christmas bomb and main menu background/soundtrack were removed.
• The temporary Christmas items were removed from the store.

 

 

• Weapon 1

  – The projectile duration has been reduced from 0,9 to 0,7 seconds.

 

• Weapon 2

  – The pulling force has been reduced by 50%

 

• Special Weapon

  – The maximum number of stacked blades has been reduced from 25 to 20.

 

• General

  – The maximum HP has been increased from 450 to 500.

 

• Weapon 1

  – The temporary HP received by hitting enemies with projectiles has been increased from 40 to 55.
  – The projectile speed has been increased by 15%.
  – The projectile duration has been reduced from 2 to 1,5 seconds.

 

• Weapon 2

  – The cooldown has been reduced from 0,5 to 0,1 seconds.

 

• Weapon 1

  – The Special Weapon energy gain has been reduced by 15%

 

• Weapon 2

  – The Special Weapon energy gain has been reduced by 15%

 

• Weapon 3

  – The cooldown has been increased from 5 to 6 seconds.

 

After Photon’s machine balance, we analyzed the community feedback and our data again to decide which machines would receive a new balance round. In the first moment, we selected Vulture and Full Metal Judge, and then performed a few tweaks to Vulture to reduce his total power and the ability to hunt down enemies easily. For Judge, the changes were smaller, but very effective, and brought the machine to a competitive level. We’ve also added Artificer to the balance list because we also noted that we had the community feedback and the data to evidence the need for changes. We’ll continuously check our data and monitor the machine performance, and we might add a few more changes to Vulture and Artificer in the future.

 

• An “Add Friend” button has been added to the list of recent players, making it easier to add new friends.
• Some interface texts were adjusted.
• Fixed a bug with the PlayerTag displayed in the match ending screen for AFK players.
• Fixed a bug with the behavior of the Friend List’s tooltip while browsing friends options.

 

• The texts under the Metal League section were updated with the details for the new season that’ll take place starting from January 11th.

To share your feedback, please post in our Discord or the General Discussion forum.

Heavy Metal Machines Team