This update includes a new version of the matchmaker. The matchmaking pools are no longer split between normal and ranked; there is only one primary matchmaking mode and there are no limited hours.

Badges will update immediately whenever you gain or lose enough MMR to change badges. You no longer have to wait a week or play a certain game count. There will sometimes be monthly global maintenance updates where we readjust the global curve based on the population, cheaters banned, recalculation adjustments, etc. (This will be done as needed and not necessarily every month).

Hero MMR is now used in the Matchmaker. Each player will have a "core" MMR, and your MMR per hero will be offsets of your core MMR. When you queue, we will match you based on that hero's MMR. So if you are unfamiliar or play worse with a given hero, you will be put in an easier match than your usual. Judgment on your skill and familiarity with a hero will be based on the 20 most recent games with that hero. In your profile, we have UI that shows you what the matchmaker thinks your relative ranking for each hero is.

You can queue as any party size; however, there are a few details. If the range of skill in your party is too wide, the amount of MMR you can gain will be reduced somewhat based on the degree. This is especially true if it’s a player we don't know anything about (like a very high MMR player queuing with a 'new' player). We will minimize updates to the known player until we are more confident we can trust the skill of that party overall.

The previous limit on high MMR party sizes is increased from 2 to 3. This applies to Ascendant 1 and above. This is the old limit we had on disallowing too many high MMR players to be in the same party together, for matchmaking quality reasons.

Given the updated no hour limits, if we think a match is of bad quality (like 5am games where there weren't a lot of players to pick from), we will weigh the match less heavily towards a rank update relative to what we would do with an average quality match.

When queuing as a party, you will have an option to override the default balance-oriented lane assignment system and make the system prioritize putting your party members in the same lanes together.

Added Swap Lanes feature. During the rooftop and zipline phase at the start of the game, you can now request to swap lanes with your teammates by clicking the button below their portrait on the scoreboard. If the other player accepts your request, you will immediately be swapped. You may decline an incoming request by right-clicking it.

Low priority games now require wins to count.

Updated active items to have uniform sliding/cast delay behavior.

Curse: Cast delay changed from 0.0s to 0.1s, to match other similar actives.

Slowing Hex: No longer interrupts sliding, to match other similar actives.

Decay: Cast delay changed from 0.25s to 0.1s, and it no longer interrupts sliding, to match other similar actives.

Withering Whip: No longer interrupts sliding, to match other similar actives.

Silence Glyph: Cast delay changed from 0.0s to 0.1s, to match other similar actives.

Knockdown: Cast delay changed from 0.25s to 0.1s, and it no longer interrupts sliding, to match other similar actives.

Soul Sharing ratios post-lane reduced from 100/70/45/33/25/20% to 100/60/35/25/20/16% for 1/2/3/4/5/6 players. Original was 100/50/33/25/20/16%.

Hero Kill souls decreased from 175→2000 to 175→1600 (from 0 min to 45 min).

Flex Slot changed from All Shrines to 1 Shrine and 2 Base Guardians.

Respawn time curves adjusted from occurring at 17/30 minutes for 40s/70s respawn to 20/40 minutes.

Falloff minimum range reduced from 22m to 20m.

Air Drag when exiting the zipline increased from 20% to 25% (default is 20%).

Powerups now require a heavy melee to claim and have updated visuals.

Powerups now start weaker and grow stronger from 10 to 40 minutes into the game.

Gun Powerup now ranges from '+10% Fire Rate and +30% Ammo' to '+30% Fire Rate and +60% Ammo'.

Survival Powerup now ranges from '+250 Health and 1% Max Health Regen' to '+700 Health and 1.5% Max Health Regen'.

Casting Powerup now ranges from '+20 Spirit Power and +15% Cooldown Reduction' to '+40 Spirit Power and +25% Cooldown Reduction'.

Movement Powerup now ranges from '+1 Stamina, +2 Sprint, +20% Stamina Regen, +40% Zipline Boost' to '+4 Stamina, +4 Sprint, +50% Stamina Regen, +80% Zipline Boost'.

Leaderboards are now included per region (North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania). There is a top 1000 Core MMR leaderboard as well as a top 1000 Hero MMR leaderboard for each hero (for each region separately). To qualify for being considered in leaderboards in general, you must have 50 games played in the last 30 days. To qualify for a specific hero's leaderboard, you must have played at least 20 games on that hero in the past 30 days.

There is an option to notify you anytime your rank levels up. There is also an option to show the average badge of each team for the post-game.

You are now able to browse and favorite builds in the dashboard.

Sandbox mode now shows the souls value of the current items you have in your inventory.

Ability tooltips now list exactly which items the ability has been imbued with rather than 'Ability is imbued'.

Items in the shop that imbue abilities are tagged with a label with a similar styling to active items.

Commend toasts now stay on your screen until they are dismissed.

Commend toasts now have a button to return the commend to the player that commended you.

Adjusted the behavior of the Incoming Damage UI so that it can still be used in Sandbox mode.

There is now a Change Hero button in the Build Browser which brings up the hero picker to choose a different hero in both Sandbox and in the Dashboard.

Decision dialogs for dealing with item limits, imbuing, and activation slots are now shown at queue time rather than purchase time whenever possible.

You can now queue items to sell. If you right-click on items that you own, it will add them to the front of your quickbuy queue, and they will be queued to sell. The sale price of these items will be added to your current souls to calculate when you can afford to purchase the next item in your quickbuy queue.

Gaining Rejuvenator buff now shows what stats have been improved on your hero (like powerups and other buffs).

Adding note below Cancel key in Settings explaining that Abilities will be cancelled with the Cancel Key when possible.

Purchase Log in the shop now shows enemy and ally purchases with different colors.

The through-wall ally silhouette health bars are now more accurate.

Sand Blast revision to help user judge distance and AOE.

Added preview state to Flying Strike.

Added an AOE landing indicator for where units will be thrown with Death Slam (only shows for allies).

Video Settings slider for fps_max goes up to 400.

If you prefer playing with only solos, there is a convar (mm_prefer_solo_only) you can use.

Added secondary key binds for actions.

Removed redundant Replay keybinds (now shares with Spectating).

Steam Input support.

Adjusted Powerup Runes' design to look more visually breakable (due to melee change explained later in the gameplay section).

Added new run animation for Seven.

Visual update to Mirage Tornado bullet evasion buff.

Visual update to Medicinal Specter to improve visibility.

Visual update to turret tracers, muzzle flash, and impacts.

Added effect to when the zipline ability first starts.

Fixed Abrams camera.

Fixed F1-F5 Keys not working (for moving camera to allies).

Fixed a bug where you would be prompted to sell an item if the component wasn't in the same category as the component you were buying.

Fixed not being able to ping enemy items.

Fixed a bug where nearly all sound stops and never returns.

Fixed respawn music cue failing to play with shop menu open.

Fixed music not playing while the player is outside their base and their base is under attack.

Fixed Haze smoke bomb loop not playing for teammates.

Fixed some cases where some sounds could overpower everything else.

Fixed Ground Strike preview cone visual to be more accurate.

Fixed some lightmap quality regressions.

Fixed textures being slightly too blurry in FSR2.

Fixed some rendering features (such as distance field shadows) running despite being disabled in UI.

Fixed right-clicking on an item in the shop in build editing mode causing it to be added to your Quickbuy queue.

Steam Game Recording no longer records kills/deaths if you're dead and spectating another player.

Steam Game Recording timeline no longer records Shrine objectives as "The World".

Fixed fps_max accidentally being changed to slider maximum value when out of slider range.

Fixed tooltips on keybind dropdowns not working correctly.

Fixed a bug causing Mo & Krill's Burrow emerge sound to double up when not cancelling the burrow early.

Fixed Mo & Krill's Burrow traveling/underground sound not looping correctly.

Fixed Controller binds not working when the same Keyboard binds were empty.

Fixed Show Scoreboard glyph in Sandbox Mode UI.

Improved various issues with Heavy Melee vs Dash/Parry when latency is present.

Optimized lighting in the map for better rendering performance.

Some rendering performance improvements.

Added Chat Wheel Options as keybinds so you can bind keys to certain responses.

Added music and ambient sounds to hotel.

Revised Mirage Fire Scarabs projectile and cast sounds.

Revised Casting bridge buff loop.

Remastered weapon fire for Seven.

Remastered weapon fire for Paradox.

Improved negative feedback sound effect timing.

Updated Patron VO to give the Amber Hand more unique lines.

Both patrons will now call out the Greenwich/Green Lane objectives specifically when they are destroyed.

Updated Bebop VO: remaster pass and added some content.

Updated Viscous VO: he now comments on a lot more interactions in the game.

Updated Paradox VO: remaster pass and added some content.

Updated Kelvin VO: remaster pass and added some content.

Stubbed in first pass VO for Fathom, Magician, Trapper, and Viper.

Updated Holliday VO: remaster pass and added some content.

New sounds added to Yamato's Flying Strike while aiming.

New sounds added to Mo & Krill's Burrow and Sand Blast abilities.

Hit confirm sound added to Lash's Flog ability.

Added key and button name localization support for keybinds.

Moved rooftop neutral camps on Amber Yellow and Sapphire Purple closer to the Guardian.

Added a truck to access the interior bridge area at Port Authority and Jazz Club buildings.

Relocated stairs from the central canal to the Radio Station interior closer to inner lanes.

Removed stairs to Radio Station interior from the underground Teleport Station.

Redesigned Radio Station interior to be more open.

Moved connection corridor between Inner and Outer lanes (Amber Yellow and Sapphire Purple) farther from base entrances.

Removed cosmic veils from the entrances of the connection corridor.

Modified entrance to the Armory/Warehouse from the inner lane to be more direct.

Moved side lane teleporters to the crawl space under the Hard camp.

Removed bookshelf model inside the upper floor of the Police Station/Garment Building.

Added interior stair connection in Factory/Mansion to connect lower and upper areas.

Added a fence guard beside the stairs inside the Garage/Night Club.

Added zapper effects to antenna models on rooftops.

New building facade art in Amber Blue and Purple lanes.

Added a street gate structure between the Garage and the Record Shop.