Reworked how friend invites work inside the client. You must now be Steam friends with a person to invite them. This has a friend recency requirement as well as your friend needing to not be a limited steam user. Previous requests do not need to be resubmitted.

Replaced the neutral vaults with a new model, the Sinner's Sacrifice

Added neutrals to Hero Sandbox (the small room in the back on the right)

Changed collision on barrel stand stacks to block bullets

Added zapper on factory outpost building

Removed roof duct on top of low building besides inner Walker

Removed street lamp post that was causing heroes to get stuck near inner lane Guardian

Added lights to outer lane Cosmic Veil tunnels

Moved the middle lane Base Guardians further out slightly

Mid boss area has reduced destructibles

Added the ability to change builds while in-game

Soul Vessel dropped from heroes (after killing neutrals) now scales in size based on how many souls are inside

Increased the speed of Guardian's melee attacks

Changed Guardian's behavior to only attempt melee when a unit is within 6m but still do damage to units in 12m range

Base hero kill value increased from 150 to 225

Rejuv duration reduced from 4 to 3 minutes

Rejuv buff no longer increases your ammo

Rejuv now causes all your candle troopers to have double health for 3 minutes

Mid Boss can now only be damaged by enemies inside the bottom pit

Mid Boss Rejuv claim time reduced from 2.5s to 1.5s

Strong neutrals HP reduced by 20%

Strong neutrals souls bounty reduced by 20%

4 Strong Neutral camps in the corners of the map have been replaced with Medium neutrals

Vaults souls increased from 260 to 300

Spirit tier bonus increased from 3/6/9/12 to 4/8/12/16

Vitality tier bonus increased from 5/10/15/20% to 8/12/16/20%

Bullet damage falloff now maxes out at ~65m instead of ~70m

Walker bomb damage reduced from 300 to 200

Powerups bonus types are now split between the regular destructibles like crates/vases/etc and the Golden Statues. Regular ones can only roll for souls and Golden Statues can only roll for buffs. Distribution of destructibles and Golden Statues around the map has been adjusted a bit.

Respawn rate for Destructibles/Statues (after initial spawn) slowed from 120s to 180s

Movement Speed powerup duration increased from 12s to 30s

Movement Speed powerup movespeed reduced from 2 to 1

Movement Speed powerup sprint speed increased from 2 to 4

Fire Rate powerup reduced from +20% to +15%

Fire Rate powerup duration increased from 25s to 35s

Health Regen powerup regen reduced from 1.5% to 1%

Health Regen powerup duration increased from 15s to 25s

Cooldown Reduction powerup reduced from 25% to 20%

Extra Clip powerup reduced from 4 clips to 3

Extra Stamina powerup duration increased from 60s to 80s

Extra Stamina powerup amount reduced from 2 to 1

Crouch movespeed increased from 4 to 4.75

Bullet Shields now block damage from melee (similar to resistance)

Increased the distance heroes slide when they come to the bottom of a ramp

Build descriptions can now be seen in-game via a tooltip

Added new objective health bars for Guardians and Walkers

Added Match History link to the top right

You can now move active item slots on the HUD while holding alt/tab

Improved visibility of the voice icon indicating who is talking

Hero icons on the minimap are scaled up a little when holding alt

Candle trooper health bars now stick around at 1% when they are in self destruct mode to make it more clear they can still be shot

Infernus's Afterburn now shows portraits of enemies that are burning for the full duration

Player's icon is highlighted in the top bar

Removed Pause cooldown in private bot matches and tutorial/sandbox

Improved networking when there is packet loss or jitter

Improved Grey Talon's trap visibility

Improved visuals for Kelvin's gun projectile

Added AoE effect to Pocket's Barrage

Updated weapon buff effect in Pocket's Flying Cloak upgrade

Visual effects updates for melee lifesteal items

Improved menu UI sound feedback

Added UI sound effects for team and opponent deaths

Added Kinetic Carbine charge audio loop

Updated Vindicta Flight sound effects

Added Vindicta Assassinate sound effect for targeted players

Updated sound effects for the Sinner's Sacrifice

Updated Pocket's Enchanted Satchel delay and explode sounds

Updated Pocket's Barrage cast and impact sounds

Updated Warden's Binding Word delay and impact sounds

Fixed some visual issues with Ice Path

Fixed Power Slash sometimes getting stuck on nearby geometry

Fixed Dynamo's Quantum Entanglement going through ceilings sometimes

Fixed an HTML exploit with chat

Fixed not being able to place deployable abilities at certain angles

Fixed moving active item slots causing the player to say "[ITEM] is on cooldown"

Fixed training Ivy's True Form causing you to get healed

Fixed a bug with Malice firing slightly upward

Fixed more instances of heroes being called out by the wrong name

More heroes will now compliment on good uses of ultimates instead of just saying "good work"