Voice/Text chat is now opt-in. There is a prompt pre-match for joining the chat, or you can control it at any time from the ESC menu during a match.

You can now press ESC to mute individual players. Muted accounts will not be alerted, and mutes will persist across games.

Parties can now set their in-game chat mode to be Party-only, All Team or Chat Disabled (if using discord or other programs)

Spirit stat has now been renamed to Spirit Power with updated icon

Top bar now highlights your lane partner and lane enemies during the laning phase

Added overhead number counter effect for opponents to see the stacks of Berserker

Increased the range the enemy-candle-behind-wall indicator shows up from 25m to 35m

Added ping indicator on the HUD indicating the direction the ping came from (enabled by default in settings)

Ping Wheel context slot will now show nothing if there is no context currently

Moved HUD elements closer to center for ultra wide monitors

Added heal and kill events to the contextual ping wheel slot

Added indicator for burrow damage radius for the local player

Adjusted the builds drop down in-game to be more clear it can be changed there

Added instructional text to the bottom of the ping wheel container reminding that they can customize it in settings

Changed Ivy's True Form ability name to Stone Form

Increased difficulty for hard mode bots

Urn reward now has a comeback component where it gives extra gold for the team that is behind based on the magnitude

A small share of the comeback portion of hero kill bounty is now given to each other player outside of just the kill/assist players. This also makes the amount the killer gets be more consistent, previously the amount could vary significantly based on how many people were involved. The killer and assist players still get the bigger shares.

Kill assist window increased from 7s to 10s

Rejuvenator is no longer area pick up and now requires someone to heavy melee it to pick it up after it's dropped to the ground

Successful parry reduces the cooldown from 1s to 0.5s (unsuccessful parry cd is still 6s)

Heroes HP growth per boon increased by +5 (there are 11 instances of these). This is not done for Abrams or Dynamo.

Post lane medic troopers will heal other troopers if a hero within range is full hp

Post lane medic troopers' hero heal increased from 40 to 80

Base zipline speed increased by 5%

If the Soul Urn is dropped it goes back to its original spot a little bit faster

Healing/Spawn area in the base now has its defense damage go up over time

Carrying the Soul Urn no longer causes you to get slowed briefly by 50% when you get shot

Carrying the Soul Urn now always slows you by 15%

Carrying the Soul Urn now also silences your items

The silence effect for Soul Urn now applies as you start channeling to pick it up (0.5s after touching it, to prevent accidental walk overs)

Base side doors near the healing area now open a lot faster

Added sandbox option for spawning neutrals

Improved the camera when using Dynamo's Quantum Entanglement

You can air-dash downward by pressing CTRL+SHIFT while in the air

Fixed ping wheel randomly coming up instantly instead of doing an in-world ping

Fixed various issues with bots getting stuck

Fixed Build descriptions not showing up properly with the in-game tooltip version

Fixed AP not showing when you have your hero selected

Fixed TAB/ALT not bringing up your abilities when spectating the Patron

Fixed Affliction sometimes becoming lethal when combined with Escalating Exposure

Fixed Yamato's Crimson Slash visual direction being wrong sometimes

Fixed Dynamo's Singularity moving the Mid Boss

Fixed various bugs with Shifting Shroud

Fixed Lash's Ground Strike T3 not being accurate in the tooltip

Fixed Diviner's Kevlar gaining the Bullet Shield buff if the ultimate was manually cancelled

Reload anims now play correctly in relation to the reload timer. Previously they would end prematurely if reloads were paused during dash/melee/abilities

Fixed some bugs with Pocket/channeling

Fixed Mo & Krill gaining Reactive Barrier buff while channeling the ultimate

Fixed bugs that were keeping some heroes desperation ability use lines from playing correctly (casting an ability when you're below 10% should play different VO)

Fixed several instances of ability use VO getting swallowed up by SFX

Rejuvenator will no longer stop dropping if it touches player created geometry (like Ice Dome) and always goes down to the target position

Added new UI indicating how many friends you have that are in the game

Improved visibility of the edge of Dynamo's Singularity

Updated effects for Unstoppable

Minor improvements to visibility of Pocket's Affliction cast

Updated effects to Alchemical Fire to make it less noisy

Added new effects for Knockdown

Added new effects for Vampiric Burst

Added Patron VO for when allied or enemy base guardians are destroyed

Added a new "major damage" sound effect to indicate large instances of damage to the local player

Boosted volume of ult cast VO

Added various ambient sounds - walla, birds, drones - and overall mix tweaks

Iterated on binding word sound effects

Added Curse item selection start, loop, and end sounds

The Patrons no longer care about the well being of the Urn Runner, and so they will stop asking you to protect them (patrons will no longer call out the urn being picked up)

A few buildings are 2-3 stories taller

Added two new underground tunnels, one on each side of the map. The tunnels connect the underground shop to the Bodega area on Amber and the Theater area on Sapphire.

Added two new teleporters, one on each outer lane (behind the Chapel and behind the Firehouse)