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Hi-Rez Studios heeft een nieuwe update voor Tribes: Ascend uitgebracht met daarin een nieuwe map genaamd Hellfire plus een reeks van veranderingen, aangevraagd door de gemeenschap, voor de jetpack first-person shooter. Om de update te vieren zal de Ultimate Weapons Pack een voordeelkorting hebben van 50% en beschikbaar zijn voor €5.00 EUR.

Hieronder vind je de gehele patch note :

Notes

• We will be upgrading Tribes starting Wednesday, March 30th 2016, at 10:00 AM EDT (4:00 PM CEST)
• Expected downtime will be around 3 hours.
• Weapon statistics for Tribes:Ascend 1.3

Gameplay

• Hellfire is now available to play for CTF and Blitz and has been added to all appropriate server map rotations.
• Votekick percentage increased to 45%, up from 35%
• Changed votekick message to include player who initiated the votekick.

• “Vote by [votekick_starter]: kick [kickable_player]?”

• Ammo pickups now yield the same 400 hp heal on all armor types when picked up.

• Light – Heals for 400 HP, up from 300.
• Medium – Heals for 400 hp, down from 462.
• Heavy – Heals for 400 hp, down from 520.

• Blueshift has been removed from map rotations by community request. This map will still be available to play on custom servers.

Equipment Changes

• Automatic Weapons

• All rapid fire weapons have had RNG based spread completed removed in favor for precise shots based on player skill only.
• The following weapons have had their damage falloff values adjusted to 80% damage at range. This is to normalize the falloff between other similar weapons.

• Falcon
• NJ4
• X1 LMG

• Saber Launcher

• May now fire without locking a target. This will result a dumbfire missile with no tracking ability, similar to the old Titan Launcher.
• Tracking Missile

• Target vehicle is locked with the same previous method and timing
• Damage increased to 1350, up from 1200
• Impulsed increased to 85000, up from 80000
• Range increased to 360, up from 220

• Dumbfire Missile

• Damage set to 375
• Direct impact damage multiplier set to 2.0
• Impulse set to 85000
• Range set to 300
• Speed set to 3000
• Inheritance set to 50%
• Size set to 15

• Mortar Launcher

• Mortar direct impact timer increased to 0.75 seconds, up from 0.5 seconds.
• When hitting a vehicle the shorter timer is now used.
• Damage lowered to 1300, down from 1400.
• Direct hit bonus increased to 1.154, up from 1.0. Now deals 1500 damage on direct impact.
• Minimum damage decreased to 600 damage at max range.

• Thrown Disks

• Decreased damage to 350, down from 600.
• Increased direct hit multiplier to 2.0, up from 1.5. Now deals 700 damage on direct impact.

• Heavy weapons impulse reduction

• The following weapons have had their impulse values reduced to 85,000 down from 90,000.

• Heavy Spinfusor
• Heavy Bolt Launcher
• Heavy Blinksfusor

• Plasma Gun

• Fire interval reduced to 0.5, down from 0.6
• Damage reduced to 270, down from 280.

• NJ5 returns to Medium armor.

• Fire interval set to 0.2
• Damage set to 150
• Falls off to 80% damage at at max range of 6000.

• Impact Nitron

• Increased radius to 400, up from 350.

• Shocklance

• Damage increased to 600, up from 500.
• No longer drains energy for up to 250 bonus damage.
• Damage dealt from behind remains at 2x.
• Removed impulse given to hit target.

• Fixed a long standing issue where beams from sniper rifles would not connect with a target when successfully hit at long distances.
• Fixed an issue preventing players from equipping a repair tool at a repair station when they have the ELF gun equipped.
• Fixed an issue where the Flak Cannon / EFG would not reload at various stages in its clip.
• Fixed an issue where the Flak Cannon / EFG would award multiple kills on a single target.

Vehicles

• Vehicle ejection speeds have been increased.

• Light ejects at 50% vehicle speed, up from 40%
• Medium ejects at 40% vehicle speed, up from 35%

• GravCycle

• Health reduced to 1400, down from 2200.

• Shrike

• Health reduced to 1400, down from 2800
• Energy regeneration per second reduced to 10, down from 20
• Reduced impulse from weapon to 2500, down from 10,000
• Explosion radius reduced to 200, down from 250

• Fixed an issue where many projectiles were being killed on direct impact with a vehicle and not dealing damage to them, especially while stationary.

Misc.

• Additional network optimizations to improve performance.
• Tweaked load balancing logic to try and keep players on the same physical server between map transitions.
• Lowered minimum mip settings to allow players to adjust their INI settings for extremely low texture resolutions.
• Fixed an issue where the weapon HUD would turn back on after match completed even though it had been disabled.
• Fixed an issue where the laser targeter target location wasn’t being properly set while in 3rd person camera mode.
• Fixed an issue where empty perks were being shown in the spectator hud.