Dirty Bomb presents… the Bushwhacker Update
Inviting friends, a new Merc, Balance fixes and UI Updates. All this and more to come in the latest Patch Update.
Highlights
Meet Bushwhacker
Bushwhacker is joining our merry band of playable Mercs, and he’s not afraid to wear a hat at all times. Better yet, Bushwhacker can set up an automated machine gun turret right on the battlefield, providing a handy portion of additional firepower.
Much like Proxy, Bushwhacker is also great at tackling objectives, and you can customise him with a variety of SMGs and augments by collecting his Loadout Cards.
Hot-joining Friends
One of the most requested features has been to make playing with friends easy and convenient. We couldn’t agree more! The first round of improvements arrives with this update, adding two ways to link up with friends
Joining Friends’ Games
If your friend is playing a Casual Match in Dirty Bomb (via Quick Match or the Server Browser), and that match has open slots, you can now join them directly through the Steam friends list. To do this, open up the Steam friends list, right-click on your friend’s name, and select Join Game.
Sending Invites
This one’s handy if you’re the one playing and your match has open slots. Just bring up the Steam overlay, right-click the friend you want to invite to your game, and select Send Invite. If they accept, they’ll end up right on your server. Easy!
Equipping Loadouts outside of Lobbies
Dirty Bomb’s Loadout Cards have received a ton of feedback (keep it coming!), and with this update we’re making it easier to equip them. Whereas before you could only select them in the pre-match lobby, you can now fully customise your squad in the Mercs tab. To do that, drag the Mercs you want to use up into the Current Squad widget, and select their Loadout Cards when prompted.
We’ll be making further improvements here, so do keep your comments coming.
Full Changelog
Map Balance - Objective Mode
• Reduced the Attacker Faster Respawn Bonus in Objective Mode to -30% (typically 6s faster) from -50% (typically 10s faster)
• This will help reduce the overall attacker bias we have seen across the maps
Merc Balance
Arty
• Reduced Artillery Cooldown to 20s (from 25s)
• This will help improve the effectiveness of Arty and should lead to more users playing as him
Proxy
• Reduced movement speed by ~5%
• This change makes her slightly slower than Aura which makes sense with the additional 10hp
• Reduced Proximity Mine damage radius by ~10%
• Proxy is currently killing more efficiently than most Mercs, this will reduce some of her killing potential
Arty & Skyhammer
• Increased XP reward when providing Ammo to 30xp per magazine (from 20xp)
• These two Mercs have been slightly below the average when it comes to XP gain rates and we have adjusted accordingly
Aura
• Reduced Healing Station deployable health to 90hp (from 100hp)
• This makes the station a little easier to destroy, without detracting from it’s role of powerful, fixed, in-combat healing
• Enemy healing stations now emit a red glow instead of blue to distinguish them against friendly ones
Weapon Balance
Caulden Pistol
• Increased recoil by ~20% and maximum spread by ~30%
• This pistol was too effective, dealing similar damage to the DE. 50 but with the control of much lower damage pistols
MP 400
• Reduced magazine size to 30 (from 35)
• Machine Pistols were too powerful compared to their Pistol counterparts
Tølen MP
• Reduced magazine size to 35 (from 40)
• Machine Pistols were too powerful compared to their Pistol counterparts
Empire-9
• Reduced magazine size to 40 (from 45)
• Machine Pistols were too powerful compared to their Pistol counterparts
Selbstadt .40 Pistol
• Increased starting minimum spread by ~15%
• This pistol was a little too accurate at range
Crotzni SMG
• Increased both maximum bullet and recoil kick spread by ~10%
• This SMG was shown as being more effective than the rest and needed some adjustment
Dreiss AR
• Increased fire rate to 360rpm (from 300rpm)
• Not only does this now feel better to use, it will also be more lethal in the right hands
M4A1
• Reduced recoil kick by ~10%
• This should bring up the M4A1 to the effectiveness of the Timik-47
BR-16
• Reduced maximum spread ~10%
Stark
• Reduced maximum spread ~10%
• General tweak to burst-fire rifles, these have been show as lacking after recent changes
Gameplay
• New Merc: Bushwhacker
• Daily Missions: Updated several requirements:
• Play Stopwatch Matches reduced from 4 to 2
• Play Objective Matches reduced from 6 to 4
• Win Stopwatch Matches reduced from 2 to 1
• Win Objective Matches reduced from 4 to 2
• Support XP reduced from 14,000 to 7,000
• Game Mode XP reduced from 14,000 to 7,000
• Reduced player collision on the Healing Station to more closely match the model
User Interface
• Improved general front-end performance
• Can now select Loadout Cards when updating Squad in the Mercs tab of the menu
• Can now connect directly to friends’ servers, and send game invites via the Steam friends list
• Team balance: Added “shuffle by skill” vote to the in-game escape menu
• ‘MiniMapScale’ options have been added to the options menu
• Added ‘Walk’ option to the Options menu
• Added tooltips to Loadout cards to show augments, weapons and rarity
• Opening a Case now displays more information on the Loadout Card received
• Added a “back” button to the “Mercs” screen
• Added a “back” button to the character selection in the lobby
• When using Quickmatch the server found is now displayed while connecting
• Match review screen’s credit breakdown now displays Credit penalties
• These are applied for playing with unbalanced teams or with less than 10 players
Miscellaneous
• Tweaked “Last Objective Activated” Music and Lobby music
• Some tweaks to aim poses and fire animations (male and female)
• Fixing up some issues with raising and lowering weapon/items
• Optimised decal performance
And that’s everything. Let us know your thoughts on the changes and what you think about Bushwhacker. Also if there is anything you were hoping for which isn’t included in this patch, let us know!
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