• Immediate work is being put into performance, netcode and stability, with further-out work relating to more tutorials, training maps, UI/UX improvements and "progress loops" to keep players coming back every week.
  
• Clutch will be getting a new passive (hydralic dodge) and a second-stage to his active (Plasma Mining Drill) to give him a little more mobility and power.
  
• Hitboxes, for the most part, are lower-poly versions of the character's base, un-customized model, with some extra thickness or filling in where balance demands.
  
• Speedometer coming soon, along with training maps and other such tools.
  
• Super Nailgun getting a buff to match the stats of the QL Plasma Gun.
  
• Replay system is in development alongside other spectator tools like a minimap.
  
• Steam version confirmed, but will still use a Bethesda.net login. The only advantage is that you won't have to use their terrible launcher, but that's a pretty big advantage.
  

• Patch coming out hopefully next week with bug fixes and performance improvements.
  
• Hitboxes are being changed from an animated mesh wrapped around the player model to a static mesh for each animation state (jumping etc.), reducing lag/desynch and making hitboxes more forgiving
  
• Next update will move rocket explosions from client to server auth, fixing a cause of 0-damage rockets.
  
• Big October Update will fix the bug with railgun trails drawing late if you fire and move your aim in the same frame
  
• Future maps and modes will be free, to avoid splitting the community
  
• Big October Update will restrict certain cvars to maintain a level playing field
  
• Ranked Play coming during Early Access. I think they're targeting sometime this year?
  
• Clutch's mining drill "hasn't been successful", will probably be either tweaked or replaced. Will add sensitivity slider for the dodge double-tap.
  
• Sorlag's spit will likely be given a longer delay before she can fire again.
  
• LG will be changed from "firing invisible projectiles" to how it worked in previous games.
  
• Doom Slayer's berserk reliability has been improved, will hopefully be released in the Big October Update.
  

• Ranked play, starting with Duels
  
• Teammate outlines
  
• More sliders to adjust music volume in different situations (endgame, ingame etc.)
  
• 40+ options for custom crosshairs
  
• Little thirdperson animations upon first spawn (or spawning after changing champ). Won't be vulnerable until you enter first-person view.
  
• New champion!
  
• New duel map, "Veil of Pnath" that uses the same visual theme as Lockbox.
  
• Health stacks all getting increased + more potential armor pickups, to lengthen time-to-kill and emphasise map control
  
• More lenient hitboxes
  
• Anarki's max speed will be cut down slightly when moving normally, but can reach max speed when injecting
  
• Doom Slayer's berserk lockup range is reduced
  
• BJ getting a higher rate of fire
  
• Gauntlet range reduced by 25%, "fires" less frequently
  
• LG more reliable, without wriggling exploit
  
• FPS-dependant firing rates fixed
  
• Selected starting weapon will be saved for future matches
  
• Data center choice will be saved
  

• 2v2 ranked modes
  
• Instagib!
  
• Prototyping other types of duels - 1 champ, 3 champs, life limits etc.
  
• Want to change lore system to an endgame reward. Still want the pots to do something though...
  
• Revamp of runes system for better rewards and less lovely challenges
  
• Removing "blanket-type" hitboxes for a more flexible system.
  
• Tribolt getting "rounded out" as an area-of-denial weapon
  
• CTF is an important goal for 2018, currently being prototyped and maps being built
  

• More champ balance tweaking in the works - they want to bring the stats closer together so the abilities are the main difference between characters rather than starting health or whatever.
  
• Character rental will be replaced with the ability to just outright buy characters permanently using the free currency, along with a LoL-style "free champion of the week".
  
• Levelling up will be made a lot faster, and hopefully there'll be less item duplicates.
  
• AI bots are in the works, and will be released in phases. Phase 1 will be able to play DM, TDM and Instagib reasonably competently, but they won't know how to use abilities. Once all the phases are done, offline play might be possible.
  
• Tribolt changes in the works, changing from "explodes a short time after hitting something" to "explodes a short time after being fired", so you can pop people with mid air explosions once you get the timing/distance down.
  
• Anti-cheat has been silently collecting data since last summer, bans are just now starting.
  
• Teammate healthbars are coming.
  
• A nice new death screen is coming, focusing the camera on your killer and telling you things about them like their remaining health.
  
• Aaaaand a ridiculous new gore system is coming to replace the current Flesh Rugs.
  

The Kins fucked around with this message at 08:43 on May 29, 2018