Tribes 3: Rivals/Patches/v0.1.5.1

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2024-01-11 - 11 months ago

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TRIBES 3: Rivals Playtest #5 - Patch Notes^[1]

TRIBES 3: Rivals | 01.11.2024 | Prophecy Games

Armor classes have been resized to have unique hitboxes relative to their scale.
Weapons
- Chain Guns
  - Enabled Binocular zoom.
- Repair Tool
  - Removed from the third weapon slot and now on a universal hold keybind (Default ‘F’).
  - Repair tools can now heal friendly players.
- Phase Rifle
  - Increased hip fire spread.
  - Moved to the light loadout.
- BXT1 Rifle
  - The BXT1 Rifle has been temporarily removed pending a rework.
- Shocklance
  - Temporarily removed from loadouts
- Added Thumper to medium loadout.
- Gladiator added to heavy loadout.
- Nova Colt
  - Moved to the medium loadout.
  - Fire rate slowed from .38 to .6
  - Damage increased from 150 to 210.
- Spinfusors/Bolt Launchers/Thumper Projectile Speed reduced by 10%.
- All other Projectile Speeds reduced by 20%.
- Projectile Collision Spheres Reduced by 10%.
- Zoom levels added to most weapons.
- Weapons that reload after each shot no longer remove ADS/Zoom.
- Removed third weapon slot.
- Disabled Aim Assist on gamepad.
Packs and Grenades
- Stealth
  - Duration increased.
  - Reduced cooldown.
- Blink
  - Reduced cooldown.
- Thrust Pack
  - Reduced cooldown.
- Impact Nitron
  - Added to the light loadout.
  - Explosion radius reduced by 25%.

Movement
- FOV now adapted to speed (adjustable in the settings menu)
- Camera movement on surfaces at speed (adjustable in the settings menu)
- Improved Skiing Ground Control for all classes
- Added visual effects particles to the camera in order to reinforce speed
Custom Matches
- Mutators added
  - Mutators allow the lobby leader to adjust various class attributes.
  - These are still in development and may not work properly.
- Players can now mute other players in custom lobbies.
- The Lobby Leader can now lock players from switching teams.
Time Trials Mode
- New Time Trial Wavemist map added.
Training
- New Training and shooting range map added. This is not a full tutorial, but meant for practice.
General
- Reconnect
  - If a player crashes out of a game, upon relaunching, they will have the option to rejoin the match they were previously in if it is still running.
- VGS added:
  - V: Enter VGS
  - G: Right Menu (Comments)
  - C: Down Menu (Defense)
  - S: Left Menu (Taunts)
  - F: Up Menu (Offense)
  - Dev Note: this is a first pass at VGS. Voicelines and overall design may change in future passes.
- Flag captures required to win are reduced to 3 from 5.
- Adjusted the collision height of the flag and score volume.
- Adjusted flag drop physics to make the path more predictable.
- Adjusted flag reset timer to 30 seconds.
- Adjusted base turret logic so they have better sight.
- The Scoreboard will now always show the player’s team first.

Adjusted some base stands to have more forward and backward angles of attack.
Conduits added to Katabatic and Drydock maps
- Entering a Conduit will move the player up to the next level of an area.
Drydock
- Added rock formations.
- Reworked central mountain.

Fixed an issue where the Flag would sometimes not be able to be returned if it got stuck in terrain.
Fixed an issue where the player may be locked out of their abilities after scoring the flag.
Fixed an issue where players would only ever respawn on one side of the map.
Fixed an issue where energy would not be full on respawn.
Fixed an issue where a team could score twice if the flag was picked up on a flag stand.
Fixed an issue where ski impulse would not apply in the direction a player was looking.
Fixed an issue where players were not getting the ski impulse if they attempted to ski within 1s of spawning.
Fixed an issue where players would lose speed from their jetpack.
Fixed an issue where the pickup camera effect was not playing.
Fixed an issue where the repair tool had no 3p VFX.
Fixed an issue where weapons with a prefire time (i.e. shocklance) would play firing SFX/VFX twice in 3p.
Fixed an issue where muting and unmuting party members in the Lobby was not working.

We are aware of crashes that have affected players. We have pushed fixes in order to address some of these and are currently working on cleaning up others.
Radar may not always show enemy players properly.
Custom mutators may not apply properly.
Custom Matches that have ended may get recycled into the match again before being kicked to lobby.
Reconnecting may have the waiting for players UI and loading UI stuck on.