What’s New?

Battle Hound Jonesy
Need more Grenades? No problem! Battle Hound Jonesy’s Rucksack perk has you covered.

Sir Lancelot
Make the Husks... dis-a-spear! You won’t be dis-a-pointed with these new attack animations.

Performance

• Greatly optimized bandwidth usage by eliminating transport of redundant information, particularly around inventory and ability updates.  
  • This should reduce networking-related hitching and de-sync issues, especially during combat.

Heroes

• Battle Hound Jonesy (Returning)
  • Standard Perk: Rucksack
    • Increases Frag Grenade maximum charges by 1
  • Commander Perk: Rucksack+
    • Increases Frag Grenade maximum charges by 4.
  • Available in the Weekly Store from March 20 at 8 PM Eastern Time to March 27 at 8 PM Eastern Time.

Bug Fixes

• Updated Hiro’s head model to the correct version
  • We will be marking Hiro eligible for reset due to this change.

Weapons + Items

• Sir Lancelot Spear will be available in the Weekly Store
  • A spear using a new set of long-range, narrow thrusting attacks.
    • Heavy Attack: Joust - Charge forward, damaging and knocking back smaller enemies in your way.
  • Available in the Weekly Store from March 20 at 8 PM Eastern Time to March 27 at 8 PM Eastern Time.
     

General

Performance

• Fixed a performance issue when caching shaders on Mac, which should improve load times.

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue that was preventing Xbox players from being able to accept party invites from friends.

Known Issues