Fighters

All Heroes

[Bug Fix] We fixed multiple instances of soft feints and flickers regarding attacks, guardbreaks and dodges when playing within 100 ms latency.

Developer Comments: We hope that by removing the ability to soft feint consistently, these cases will not be exploitable anymore. The outcome being dependant on the latency between you and your target.

[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that allowed players, on an extremely short reaction window, to dodge out of certain death situations when thrown off ledges. This issue only occurred on specific ledges.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue where players would effectively miss their “Drop Attack” when opponent is unbalanced.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused the throw to interrupt the player that performed it. The throw can still interrupt other players in its path.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that allowed player to feint a guardbreak by quickly performing heavy attack after blocking the opponent.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused a conflict in between trying to activate a lever while a teammate is reviveable in the interaction area.

Peacekeeper

[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that could make the “Zone Attack” very hard to block while feinted during Revenge.

Conqueror

[Bug Fix] Reduced the tracking of the Conqueror’s “Spint Attack”.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a clipping issue for the “Garrot” Execution while performed by a female Conqueror.

Lawbringer

[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused the Lawbringer's target to not fall off ledges if he is hit by an external Shove during the “Impaling Charge” or “Impaling Riposte”.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused the opponent body to fly in air when executed with the “Long Shot” execution.
[Bug Fix] Reduced the tracking of the Lawbringer’s “Impaling Charge”.

Warlord

[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue with the Warlord’s “Auto-Revive” feat after being killed in the ballista.
[Bug Fix] Reduced the tracking of the Warlord’s “Sprint Attack” and “Jump Attack”.

Valkyrie

[Bug Fix] Valkyrie’s “Shield Charge” can now be cancelled by going out of lock.

Shugoki

[Bug Fix] The Stun of the “Headbutt” will now correctly be affected by “Debuff Resistance” gear.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused “Crashing Thunder” not to be interrupted by the Aramusha’s “Blade Blockade” or any other that move that offers Super Armor.

Orochi

[Bug Fix] Orochi “Storm Rush” can now be cancelled by going out of lock.

Shinobi

[Bug Fix] After any hit, the Shinobi did not reinitialize his charge when RT is still held. Now the charge of the Shinobi works (in term of input) like the charge of the Conqueror for example.
[Bug Fix] Shinobi is now vulnerable to guardbreak during the last 400ms (from 200 ms) of the “Front Roll Kick” Recovery.
[Bug Fix] Shinobi could perform “Sickle Rain” combo on an ally. This is now fixed.
[Bug Fix] When you perform a “Tackle” then lock your target just before the impact, your target was interrupted instead of unbalanced. This is now fixed.
[Bug Fix] Shinobi was able to use his “Super Sprint” without consuming stamina for a short period of time. This is now fixed.
[Bug Fix] Updated the “Super Sprint” animation on the Shinobi, fixed some animation issues going from “Sprint” to “Super Sprint” while climbing stairs.
[Bug Fix] Reduced the tracking of the Shinobi’s “Tackle”.

Centurion

[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused soldiers to interrupt the Centurion while he was using “Out of Lock” attacks on Minions.
[Bug Fix] The Centurion could soft feint a guardbreak into a “Fuscina Ictus”. This is now fixed.
[Bug Fix] Reduced the tracking of the Centurion’s “Jump Attack”.
[Bug Fix] The Centurion "Charged Jab" move did not knock down the opponents. This is now fixed.
[Bug Fix] Added a missing sound effect when the Centurion pulls his sword out during a finish kill and does not perform an execution.

Gladiator

[Bug Fix] When the opponent dodged the “Bamboozle” too early, the punch would hit the opponent without contact. This is now fixed.
[Bug Fix] Reduced the tracking of the Gladiator’s “Sprint Attack” and “Crowd Pleaser”.

Highlander

[Bug Fix] Added a missing sound effect for the Highlander’s “Fomorian Kick”.

Shaman

[Bug Fix] Removed Uninterruptible Stance property from the first 100ms of “Predator's Mercy”. “Predator's Mercy” will now be properly interrupted if another player hits the victim within 100ms of Predator’s Mercy hitting.
[Bug Fix] Opponent who stands up after “Predator's Mercy” can now activate Revenge 300 earlier after being bitten, and 500ms earlier when standing up from an external Hit.
[Bug Fix] A Shaman who is hit at the very end of the stand-up of “Predator's Mercy” (after the Bite) will now play a regular hit reaction, rather than the special hit animation that we used when she has yet to stand up.
[Bug Fix] ”Predator's Mercy” Bite no longer counts as a "Light" in the list of previous hits shown in the "Killer Info".
[Bug Fix] Can no longer perform “Predator's Mercy” on an opponent who just died.
[Bug Fix] Fixed the “Predator’s Mercy” incorrectly affecting the snapping while the opponent is bleeding.
[Bug Fix] Fixing an animation bug that occurred while feinting the Shaman's heavy pounce attacks.
[Bug Fix] Shaman's Woosh sound effect continued after cancelling the second heavy. This is now fixed.

Aramusha

[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that prevented Aramusha to become unbalanced when an opponent in “Revenge” parries his “Twin Vipers”.
[Bug Fix] The Aramusha could flicker the guardbreak icon if the guardbreak button is pressed before soft feinting the “Mountain Lion's Power” with a dodge. This is now fixed.
[Bug Fix] The Aramusha could cancel “Mountain Lions Power” with a dodge or soft cancel it into a guardbreak when out of stamina. This is now fixed.
[Bug Fix] The Aramusha could be guardbroken out of a right side light attack. This is now fixed.

Maps

Viking Village

[Bug Fix] Fixed an issues that caused the “Barrel Trap” to not execute the Shaman and the Aramusha.

Tribute

[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused “Friendly Fire” to make players drop the flag.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that cause players to be interruptible while the opponent is interacting with the “Offering”.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that allowed the Players to interact with the “Offering” after placing it in a “Shrine”.
[Bug Fix] Added a missing sound effect during the Win Confirm timer.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused the interaction sound effect to continue playing after being interrupted.

Duel Tournament

[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused some user interface and audio to persist until Faceoff screen while joining a match from the "Deploy Troops" menu.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused the Tournament matchmaking user interface to disappear upon receiving an error of matchmaking time out.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused the “Rank Update” interface to be displayed after a match ends in a Tie.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused the “Next Map” interface to sometimes remain displayed at the end of a Tournament.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused a Quit Penalty to trigger when leaving a Tournament after being eliminated in the Qualifiers.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused some elements of the Tournament Lobby to remain displayed after abandoning a Tournament.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that displayed the wrong player count while matchmaking.

Faction War:

[Bug Fix] On the end match reward screen, we added an interface to display how players earned their Troops.

Developer Comments:Players earn Troops based on the length of the match and their Score's rank against the scores of all the players in both teams. We expose these values when you hover over the Troops icon in the end flow to make it more transparent.

[Bug Fix] Added a weather icons above the territory’s icon and name.
[Bug Fix] Added an message for Isolated Territory & Capital Territory to clarify that Territories that are not connected to a Capital while be turned over to another Faction once the current Battle is over.
[Bug Fix] Added an icon to emphasize the selected Player's Faction.

User Interface:

[Bug Fix] Fixed a case that might have caused the user to join a match in progress and remain in stuck Tactical View for the whole game.
[Bug Fix] Player is not redirected back to the Events Playlist after pressing the "Back" button from the Faction War Tactical View invoked from Events Playlist. This is now fixed.
[Bug Fix] Fixed Map Overview while in match for some game modes that were not displaying the correct info.

PC

Dynamic Reflections quality selection

Replaced the current “Dynamic Reflection” toggle with a quality selection box. Available options are: Off, Low, Medium, High, & Extreme.

Bug Fixes

[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused the game to start without focus when display option is set to “Windowed” or “Borderless Windowed”.
[Bug Fix] While modifying the game settings, the “Apply Changes” pop up is not displayed if the payer leaves the menu by going directly to the Social tab.
[Bug Fix] Fixed the mouse clickable area of the Tab switch interaction for Duel, Brawl & Events Playlists.
[Bug Fix] Gear thumbnail displayed previously scavenged gear when scavenging with keyboard and mouse. This is now fixed.
[Bug Fix] Incorrect button depiction is shown for 'Close' button when toggled between Auto and PS4 in 'Control Icon Display” option while an Xbox 360 controller is connected or vice versa.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an issue that caused Post Launch Heroes to not unlock properly when bought with Keyboard and Mouse. The player was presented with a second Unlock pop up.
[Bug Fix] The recruit button does not to work when clicked with the mouse in the Hero's customization menu. This is now fixed.