Added 6 new heroes to Hero Labs: Holliday, Calico, Wrecker, Fathom, Viper, and Magician (temporary names).

Introduced Hero Labs, a new experimental hero matchmaking mode for early hero design feedback.

Heroes in Hero Labs may have placeholder models, names, effects, and abilities. The mode has limited testing hours and requires at least 50 games played to queue.

Added Commends feature allowing players to commend teammates during or after a game. Commendations received are displayed on your profile per hero.

Implemented new character shader to improve player visibility and experiment with more stylized character model rendering.

Updated environment lighting and sky for improved visual experience.

Updated Lash's melee animations.

Updated McGinnis's melee animations.

Adjusted Pocket's climb animations.

Revised Lady Geist's Life Drain visuals to better indicate the start of the effect while reducing visual noise afterward.

Revised the silenced debuff visuals to reduce obstructed vision for players.

Reduced opacity after start for Infernus Afterburn debuff visual effects to reduce noise.

Revised Mirage's gun tracers, muzzle flash, and impacts.

Reduced size of stuck dagger in victim for Shiv's Dagger.

Made the start of the Unstoppable visual effects more obvious.

Reduced brightness of Lady Geist's Malice visual effects for nearby players.

Reduced visual noise for Shiv's Slice and Dice ability for nearby players.

Reduced darkness effect on players affected by Infernus's Catalyst debuff.

Reduced brightness and lingering effects of Infernus's Concussive Combustion.

Reduced visual noise of tracers and fire rate increases for Infernus.

Ivy's Kudzu Bomb effects now properly display visuals when above ground.

Added new effects for Lash's Flog.

Cleaned up visual effects for Viscous's alt-fire.

Fixed visual bugs on Rescue Beam effects.

Updated effect animation for Knockdown to alert when it will stun.

Reduced visual noise of Wraith's tracers when close up or with high fire rate.

Added looping telegraph for Seven's Static Charge ability.

Reduced visual noise of Seven's tracers, especially when close up or with high fire rate.

Added sequential kill streak music cues to enhance gameplay feedback.

Lowered the pitch of Haze's voice processing.

Added sound effects for teleporter channeling and appearance.

Added end sound for Healing Rite.

Added proc sound for Mystic Shot.

Added cast, cast delay, loop, and end sounds for Magic Carpet.

Updated projectile loop, hit, and debuff sounds for Slowing Hex.

Ammo Scavenger proc sound now only plays when applying a stack.

A sound now plays when a debuff is applied to the player but is purged due to invulnerability.

Fixed instances where mix ducking occurs too early in a sound event's lifetime.

Fixed audio occlusion filtering artifacts during high rates of change.

Enabled certain music cues like 'respawn' to interrupt base attack music.

Denied orb sound will no longer play beyond 2500 game units from the player.

Increased intelligibility of team-specific hero death sound.

Added victim-specific sound for Static Charge the moment it is applied.

Added keybinds for 'Fly Up' and 'Fly Down', used for flying abilities like Ivy's Air Drop and Vindicta's Flight.

Added a 'Mouse Sensitivity: Vertical Scaling' setting.

Added a 'Reset Camera' bind (available in Steam Input).

Fixed Steam Input 'Melee' action not resetting the camera vertically.

Added new Steam Input Analog Action: 'Aim', using angle-based sensitivity options (work-in-progress feature).

Fixed Steam Input aiming no longer being affected by Mouse Sensitivity options (including Invert Y).

Fixed a bug where the last controller plugged in would block actions from other controllers. Now multiple controllers can be combined.

Fixed an issue preventing players from reporting or muting disconnected players.

Players can now drag and drop build categories to rearrange them.

Introduced quick-selection for favorite builds via a dropdown in the shop, allowing easier switching between favorited builds for a hero.

Match history now displays the game mode for each match.

Added Rank badge display to matches on the Watch page.

Added a Rank History tab to the profile, allowing players to view their rank progression and Rank Report summaries.

The Windows Taskbar icon now flashes when the game window isn't in focus and you have 3 seconds until respawn.

Added Melee Resistance to the Vitality stat screen.

Mirage's Traveler ability now previews her model at the destination to show facing direction.

Moved Mirage Djinn's Mark debuff to overhead UI and revised damage visual effects to reduce visual noise.

Shrine Flex Slot moved to "All Shrines".

Fixed an issue in several languages where the team net worth number became too small to read.

Fixed a bug where Urns sometimes appeared to remain in the world after being picked up.

Fixed jittering when Lash's gun fired while running and aiming, reducing screen noise.

Fixed an issue where pressing ESC to close the intro movie also closed the ranked summary popup.

Fixed pregame countdown overlapping with the shop UI.

Yamato's Flying Strike now stops tracking targets that teleport.

Shiv's Killing Blow now stops tracking targets that teleport.

Abandoning Co-op bot matches with more than one party now brings up the Abandon Match confirmation warning instead of leaving immediately.

Bots are better at coming together to defend and push lanes.

Bots will prioritize assisting human allies on offense.

AP is no longer granted for Walkers.

Shrine/Patron no longer have Soul/AP bounties.

Missing AP from above is redistributed along the souls reward line at similar soul levels that the objectives previously died on average.

Trooper Soul Orbs now have a 90ms buffer to allow the server to better calculate who shot the orb first, minimizing latency advantages for denying.

Trooper soul split changed from 50/50% (kill/orb) to 60/40%.

Breakables spawn time increased from 2 minutes to 3 minutes.

Breakables Souls reduced from 35 + 3/min to 30 + 2.5/min.

Urn comeback properties now require an 8% net worth lead to activate.

Urn pickup locations remain the same, but drop-off locations vary based on which team is leading. The drop-off will be closer to the losing team's side if there's an 8% net worth lead.

If the Urn isn't delivered within 90 seconds of pickup, it drains 1% of Max HP per second and disables regen.

After 90 seconds of pickup time, dropping the Urn makes it return to its spawn point immediately and prevents the same team from picking it up for 12 seconds.

Increased the speed at which the Urn walks back to spawn.

Guardian attack range requirement changed from 20m to requiring players to be above the ramp on high ground.

Guardian resist vs. troopers adjusted from starting at 70% and ending at -30% at 10 minutes to starting at 60% and ending at -35% at 8 minutes.

Guardians now have resist vs. players starting at 40% and ending at -35% at 8 minutes.

Walkers now have resist vs. troopers starting at 60% and ending at -30% at 14 minutes.

Walkers now have resist vs. players starting at 60% and ending at -30% at 14 minutes.

Troopers gain +40% Spirit Resist gradually over 25 minutes, reaching 70% at 50 minutes.

Increased backdoor protection detection range for troopers to prevent stalling with long-range spells.

Backdoor protection removal now has a 20-second buffer to prevent immediate activation once creeps die.

Mid Boss respawn timer decreases with subsequent kills, from 7 to 7/6/5 minutes.

The 70-second respawn time now occurs at 30 minutes instead of 35 minutes.

Introduced a respawn curve that goes from 70s to 75s over 30 to 40 minutes.

Base Guardians and Shrines no longer have out-of-combat regeneration.

Parry active window increased from 0.7 to 0.75 seconds.

Parry cooldown reduced from 5 seconds to 4.5 seconds.

Medic Trooper heal now has 2 charges with a 6-second interval between casts.

Medic Trooper heal cooldown increased from 6 seconds to 35 seconds.

Sinner's Sacrifice now shares souls of subsequent hits with all recent attackers, rather than the last hit only.

Redesigned stairs from central canal to the outer lanes near Urn spawn.

Added a skybridge with interior from the Subway Entrance buildings into the Port Authority and Speakeasy buildings.

Connection hallways behind the Chapel and Firehouse now have an option to continue inside to the Walker arenas.

Added a Bounce Pad from these connection hallways to the front of the overpass.

Moved neutral camps beside Amber Purple and Sapphire Yellow Walker arenas from the ground floor to the upper floor.

Redesigned traversal from ground floor to upper floor of the Garage and Night Club to access the Sinner's Sacrifice neutrals.

Replaced fire escape stairs with ropes on the exterior of the Garage and Night Club.

Added more zipline nodes to outer lanes for improved mobility.