With Ryan Red & Baylix attending gamescom 2022 this year, we missed the mark with our Iggy & Scorch content release. We always want to release a new hero with their usual build-up of hype, but with how things lined up, we weren't able to get everything done that we wanted to by our internal deadline. We also didn't want to sit on a hero that was ready to go, as we know how much of you want new heroes in the game. Over the past few months, the community had already worked out who was coming (and thanks to Baylix, confirming it by accident live on stream[www.twitch.tv] 😅), so we already knew most of the secrecy surrounding 'who was next' had already been figured out. Therefore, we decided to release him anyway so you guys didn't have to wait. Regardless, this was not how we wanted to do things. We have learnt from this going forward and have made steps to make sure that things are better organized despite other events taking place.

With that being said, we still want to put on a mastery race event, so this is how we are going to do it this time around:‍‍

The Hero Mastery Race is a competition to see who can reach gold mastery on our latest hero the fastest! We want the race to be accessible to as many people as possible, therefore we have opted to only go as far as gold for now. We don't want players to play for extremely unreasonable amounts of time to win the race, but we will monitor how long it takes our players to accomplish this goal and adjust if necessary for next time. This is something we would like to continue doing for our future hero releases, so please let us know your feedback in our Discord[discord.com].‍

With Iggy & Scorch being released and players already reaching gold tier just by playing him naturally, we have to do things differently. We didn't want to reset everyone's progress so far, so we opted to track mastery XP just for the duration of the event. The amount of mastery XP required will be the same amount needed to reach gold tier, 16,000XP. This will be tracked separately from your current mastery level via a new event-specific quest window on the home screen. By doing this, we can still have a mastery race without affecting people that have already played Iggy, therefore giving people unfair advantages or resetting mastery progress. This also gives us the ability to give the community a heads up on the start time, so they can prepare in advance, should they wish to do so.‍

Play the game!‍

Anyone that owns Iggy & Scorch only needs to play the game as you would normally to earn mastery XP. Your match performance and match time affect the amount of mastery XP you earn, so rushing bot games or throwing matches won't help you here! We have also significantly reduced the amount of mastery XP you can earn in PVE games. Play as many PVP games of Iggy & Scorch as you can and you'll be sure to rank up as quickly as possible. If we find any players consistently dodging games, using bugs, exploits or abusing systems to gain an advantage, we will remove them from the race at our discretion and you will not be able to participate in future events. We will be closely monitoring the number of dodges and we will adjust and refine the dodge penalty timers if we find this to be a widespread issue. Play nice and win the race, fair and square!‍

We also have additional incentives this time around and you can earn rewards by playing any hero you like. Keep reading for more information!‍

The first person to reach 16,000 mastery XP throughout the duration of the event will win the hero mastery race. The winner will be awarded an ultra-exclusive, golden Scorch avatar and their name etched into Fault: Elder Orb history by being inducted into our Hall of Fame.

Exclusive Gold Scorch Avatar‍

That's not all! This time we want to reward the entire community for taking part and not only the first person that wins the race. After your feedback from the Crunch mastery race, we have added additional incentives so everyone can feel involved, even if they aren't shooting for that hall of fame spot.

RUNNERS-UP REWARD
This time around, anyone that reaches 16,000XP on Iggy & Scorch throughout the duration of the event, regardless of if you are 1st or 50th, will be awarded a silver version of the avatar.

Exclusive Silver Scorch Avatar‍

In addition to the avatar rewards above, we wanted to add even more ways for players to get involved, even if you aren't about that racing life by adding additional event-specific quests. We will also be adding a community-tracked quest that everyone can contribute to. Here is the list of all the quests with their respective rewards:‍

MASTERY QUEST:
Earn 16,000 Mastery XP on Iggy & Scorch
Rewards: Gold Scorch Avatar for 1st, Silver Scorch Avatar for reaching the goal within the event duration.‍

COMMUNITY QUEST:
Deal a Total of 100,000,000 Damage With Iggy & Scorch (Community Wide)
Rewards: 3x Prime Cores & Keys to every player that contributed to the total.‍

EVENT QUEST 1:
Play a Total of 10 PVP Games
Rewards: 3x Prime Orbs‍

EVENT QUEST 2:
Win a Total of 3 PVP Games
Rewards: 3x Common Orbs‍

In the future, we would like to implement a more interactive, systematical approach to event quests but for now, we feel like adding these additional, non-hero-specific quests gives players the opportunity to take part, even if they do not want to race and spam a certain hero all week or that they may not even enjoy.‍

Yes!

You can follow the progress on our live tracker here: https://www.playfault.com/mastery-race
(We will be tracking the top 10 players with the most mastery XP)

You can also track your progress in-game, even if you are not in the top 10, as well as every other quest in the event from the home screen in our new event-specific quest box.‍

START:
Monday, 19th September 2022
10:00 PST / 12:00 CT / 13:00 EST / 18:00 BST / 19:00 CET‍

END:
Sunday, 25th September 2022
15:00 PST / 17:00 CT / 18:00 EST / 23:00 BST / 00:00 CET (26th)‍

We hope this new approach to the mastery race benefits the majority, rather than the few and hope to hold even more regular in-game events in the future that are not just tied to mastery races. As always we appreciate all of your feedback and support and we hope to see you in-game soon. If you have any additional feedback regarding this new system to make it even better for next time, please join our Discord server and let us know! You can join it here[discord.com].‍

- Strange Matter Team

BASE STATS

• Health: 530 (+88)
  
• Health Regen: 1.2 (+0.11)
  
• Mana: 400 (+25)
  
• Mana Regen: 1.45 (+0.13)
  
• Attack Speed: 100 (+0.6)
  
• Attack Speed Scaling: 0.59
  
• Physical Armor: 20 (+3.25)
  
• Energy Armor: 29.5 (+0.5)
  
• Movement Speed: 555
  
• Basic Attack Damage: 52(+2.6)
  
• Basic Attack Cooldown: 1.15

TURRET (Q)

• Deploy up to 3 turrets on the battlefield, which last until destroyed. Turrets damage enemies, prioritizing units Iggy basic attacks. Turrets deactivate when Iggy is not within 2400 units and grant 5 gold to the killer. Turrets are destroyed if deactivated for 10 seconds. Turrets take 50% bonus damage from Towers and Large and Epic jungle camps.

MOLOTOV COCKTAIL (E)

• Throw a Molotov in a 500 unit area, Slowing enemies within by 20-40% and applying Burn over 6 seconds.
  
• Burn: Deal 30-150 (45% EP) damage over 3 seconds. Burn damage refreshes while within the explosion.

FIREBALL (RMB)

• Launch a fireball, exploding in an area and dealing 80-240 (70% EP) damage.

ADVANCED TURRET (R)

• Deploy an Enhanced Turret, lasting 8 seconds or until destroyed. Turrets attack in a line, dealing 10-30 (15% EP Scaling) damage every 0.25 seconds and Slowing targets by 20-40% for 0.25 seconds. Turrets grant 25 gold to the killer.

MECHANICAL INGENUITY (P)

• Gain 15% bonus Movement Speed while within the attack range of allied turrets, including Iggy's own deployable turrets.

Turret
BASE STATS

• Health: 180 (+30 per Hero Level, 5-55% EP)
  
• Physical Armor: 12 (+4)
  
• Energy Armor: 27 (+2)
  
• Damage: 5-25 (30% EP)
  
• Attack Cooldown: 0.85
  
• Range: 1150

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Advanced Turret
BASE STATS

• Health: 750 (+44 per Hero Level, 25-250% EP)
  
• Physical Armor: 12 (+4)
  
• Energy Armor: 27 (+2)
  
• Damage: 10-30 (15% EP)
  
• Attack Cooldown: 0.25
  
• Range: 1200

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After looking at lots of data from both new and current players, we have found that last hitting in our game is a much harder thing than expected. Although last hitting is a skill, we have not intended for it to be as hard as it currently is, and believe a part of this also comes from the game just being harder, in general, to focus on due to its third-person nature. To try to lessen the difficulty of last hitting, we are looking to implement a basic attack execute feature that should help heroes with low basic attack damage to still be able to last hit past the early game. We also have changed the minion health bars to better show the total amount of health the minions have left, as the current curved health bars do seem to obscure how much total health minions may actually have.

• Minions under 15% Health will now automatically be executed when damaged from a heroes basic attack.

The following languages are now translated and selectable in game:

• Chinese
  
• French
  
• German
  
• Italian
  
• Korean
  
• Portuguese
  
• Russian
  
• Spanish

• Aiming abilities such as Gideon’s Cosmic Rift have been updated so that the camera better shows the area the player is aiming.
  
• Some aiming camera curves have been adjusted to show a better birds eye view of the area.

• Added Nvidia DLSS support as an option that can be enabled in the video settings.
  
• DLSS support is only available on Windows 64 bit devices.

• Recommended items can now be automatically purchased when entering the base. Items bought will be based on the current smart shop items available for the player.
  
• Favor can now automatically be spent as soon as it is granted. Favor will be spent into the players faction slot.
  
• Both settings can be configured inside the gameplay settings under gameplay changes.

• The first 4 emotes of a hero can now be configured to be used with keybinds instead of the emote wheel.
  
• Quick emotes by default use the Shift key + 1-4 based on the emote, and can be configured inside the gameplay settings under keybindings.

• Optimized the game's file compression in order to reduce CPU usage. This change to file compression will cause a large redownload of game files on your next login.
  
• New Space Wards

VOID BOMB (RMB):
Adjusted aiming camera angle.
Slightly decreased overall size.
Slightly decreased overall size.
Base Health increased from 560 -> 575.
Base Physical Armor increased from 32 -> 35.
Physical Armor per Hero Level increased from 3.5 -> 3.6.
Base Health reduced from 530 -> 520.
Basic Attack Timer reduced from 1.15 -> 1.2 seconds.
‍ANTI-PERSONNEL MINE (Q):
Adjusted aiming camera angle.
VOID BREACH (RMB):
Base Damage reduced from 70/120/170/220/270 -> 60/110/160/210/260.
Projectile Speed reduced from 3000 -> 2750.
COSMIC RIFT (Q):
Adjusted aiming camera angle.
BLACK HOLE (R):
Mana Cost reduced from 120/130/140 -> 100 at all levels.
Will now appropriately show stacks on the passive indicator.
CLEAVE (RMB):
Basic Attack Damage Percentage reduced from 110/120/130/140/150 -> 100/110/120/130/140%.
CHALLENGER'S RANGE (R):
Mana Cost increased from 50 -> 100 at all levels.
Basic Attack Damage Percentage Scaling reduced from 30% -> 20% at all levels.
ASSASSIN'S EXECUTION (R):
Cast Time reduced from 1 -> 0.5 seconds.
HAIL OF ARROWS (Q):
Slow Percentage increased from 12/15/18/21/24% -> 20/25/30/35/40%.
INNER FIRE (R):
Side Projectile Damage changed from 50/65/80% -> 70% at all levels.
RELENTLESS (P):
Bonus Damage per Stack changed from 1/2.5/4/5.5/7% -> 4% at all levels.
FORCESHIELD (E):
Width reduced from 1400 -> 1100 at all levels.
Slow Percentage increased from 15/18/21/24/27% -> 20/24/28/32/36%.
SHIELD CRASH (R):
Range reduced from 1650 -> 1250 at all levels.
Radius increased from 440 -> 480 at all levels.
Mana Cost increased from 80/90/100 -> 100 at all levels.
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Attack Speed increased from 30 -> 40.
Removed Energy Armor.
Removed Physical Armor.
Added 65 Energy Power.
Added 15 CDR.
Added 400 Mana.
Gold increased from 2200 -> 2300.
Wither increased from 35% -> 40%.
Cooldown increased from 60 -> 120.
Cooldown increased from 120 -> 240.
Slow Duration reduced from 2 -> 1 second.
Base Healing reduced from 35 -> 20.
Health reduced from 360 -> 300.
Base Healing reduced from 50 -> 35.
Cooldown increased from 60 -> 120.
Physical and Energy Armor per nearby enemy hero reduced from 8 -> 7.
SpellVamp duration increased from 6 -> 8 seconds.
SpellVamp increased from 10% -> 25%.

FORCESHIELD (E):
Fixed an issue with the ability using the wrong values for duration.
Fixed an issue with the Starter passive not triggering on DOT damage.
Fixed an issue with the Purchase Quarters prompt not updating currency correctly.
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— Strange Matter Team

PSYCHIC LINK (RMB):

• Stun changed to a Root.
  
• Max Tether Range reduced from 2200 -> 1800 at all levels.
  
• Cast Range reduced from 1800 -> 1400 at all levels.

PSYCHIC ERUPTION (Q):

• Blind Duration reduced from 1/1.2/1.4/1.6/1.8 -> 0.6/0.8/1/1.2/1.4

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• Fixed an issue where getting stunned while casting a reset would not refund the full CD.

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• Fixed an issue where Crystals would make the Inhibitor targeting sound.

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We caught a bug preventing users from correctly receiving their Orbs. This issue was related to Level Up rewards and we have retroactively provided Orbs to those affected.

• Added new SFX and updated VFX to the orbs and cores.
  
• Increased Matter reward from Orbs.

• Void Rerolls now reward up to 3 fragments and may reward matter.

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— Strange Matter Team

UI

• Fixed an issue that caused the settings menu to lock the users cursor out of the application.

Daily/Weekly Rewards

• Daily and weekly challenges will now grant Lesser Orbs instead of Matter.

‍Orbs

• Added Matter to Orb reward pool.

We are receiving amazing feedback about our Orb and Core system and we will continue to make adjustments as needed. If you wish to have your feedback submitted to the team, simply type /feedback into our #community-feedback channel in our Discord[discord.gg].



‍Keep your eyes peeled as we keep everyone updated on the progress of our Epic Games Store launch later today. There will be no server downtime for this patch.

- Strange Matter Team

We are now LIVE and FREE-TO-PLAY on Steam!

There will be a small update going out with this announcement, so make sure to be fully updated before jumping in!

We will keep you all updated on the progress of the Epic Games launch, but we thank you for your continued patience! ⚔️

If you guys have any feedback or issues regarding the game, please join our Discord and let us know: https://discord.gg/strangematterstudios

• Fixed an issue allowing players to rent hero skins for heroes they did not own.
  
• Fixed an issue with not being able to trade in draft with rented heroes.
  
• Fixed an issue with exclusive fragments not being able to be used to rent, or combine unto the full product without the item in store.
  
• Fixed an issue with Cores using more keys then intended.

We have also posted the following update regarding our free-to-play launch and the recent currency conversion:


We are currently waiting on the Epic Games Store’s final certification checks so we can launch and go free-to-play!

Once we have an update to share, we will make sure to let you all know as soon as possible. Thank you all for your continued patience.‍

Also, we have seen the feedback about our new Orb and Core system. While we feel the new system benefits new players greatly compared to old, we now understand after initial feedback that this didn't work as well for you, our current players. We would like to state that we understand the frustration of those who were saving their marks or felt unhappy with the current conversion rate and we plan to compensate all of you who have been with us all this time. We are now pushing said compensation to our current players with a patch to address a few minor bugs. There will be roughly 5-10 minutes of server downtime.

On top of that, we are also working on a way to show off your status as a founding player in-game and will have more to share once we have finalized the details.


- Strange Matter Team

Patch 0.17.0 will launch 07/17/22 for testing purposes before the free-to-play launch. Downtime will begin 7:00pm EST and is expected to be down for 2 hours. This DOES NOT mean the game will be free-to-play until the original planned date of 07/18/22. The exact time is still to be confirmed but we will announce everywhere once it's live.

PLEASE NOTE: The game will be free-to-play on BOTH Steam and EGS. It is not exclusive to EGS only.



With patch 0.17.0 we have completely changed how the economy works in Fault.
We felt that with the previous system, the game did not feel rewarding enough for the average player. This complete rework removes the mark system and replaces it with Cores, these cores can be redeemed for fragments which allow you to unlock many different items found within the store. Below we have taken the time to fully explain this new system to our community.‍

What are Cores?
Cores are a chest that contains high-value rewards and requires a key to unlock their contents.

• Cores can be purchased individually or in bundles with coins and come with their respective keys.
  
• Cores can always be purchased in the in-game store and are also featured on the sales screen at a discount, with a limited number of purchases per player.
  
• Players can select up to 3 fragments to “augment” the value of a Core. This increases the value of the Core’s contents by the value amount of the fragments.‍

Types of Cores
There are two types of Cores in Fault:

• Lesser Cores are mainly granted from high-value in-game achievements and event rewards and contain both cosmetic and hero fragments.
  
• Prime Cores are only purchasable with Coins and mainly contain cosmetic rewards.‍

What are Orbs?
An Orb is a chest that contains low-value rewards and does NOT require a key or matter to unlock its contents.

• Orbs cannot be purchased with coins or Matter.
  
• Orbs are granted as in-game rewards for low-value achievements and event rewards.
  
• If the Orb only obtains a certain type of content, it can be categorized by the content type.
  
• If the Orb only contains fragments related to a hero, it can be considered a Hero Orb ie, Gideon Orb, Murdock Orb, etc.
  
• If the Orb only contains fragments for a monetization category (for example, skins), it can be considered a Skin Orb ie, Skin Orb, Ward Orb, etc.
  
• If the Orb only contains rewards exclusive to a progression/reward system (for example, Paragon/Honor system, coming soon), it can be considered a Paragon Orb ie, Paragon Orb, Event Orb (Halloween, New Years, etc.), etc.‍

Types of Orbs
There are three types of Orbs found within Fault: Lesser, Common, and Prime Orbs. These orbs can contain Matter, Fragments and Keys. Each level of Orb has a higher chance to drop higher tier rewards.

How to Earn Orbs
There are many ways to earn orbs in game to get a chance at some awesome loot, below we have listed how to earn them:

• Playing a Match
  
• Account Progression
  
• Hero Mastery System
  
• First Game of the Day
  
• First Win of the Day
  
• Daily Challenges
  
• Weekly Challenges
  
• Honor System/Level (Coming soon)‍

In Fault, you are able to re-roll fragments from your inventory in order to receive a random new fragment.‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

We have a feature that allows you to consume your fragments (of the same type) to rent out skins or heroes for 24 hours.
Once you have 3 of the same fragment, you can combine them and receive the reward they are tied to permanently, fragments exist for every item within the Fault in-game store.
We have begun working with an outside group named Pocketful of Quarters (https://www.poq.gg) who run events and tournaments for tons of different games. As a PvP game, we are very excited to work with them in the future, as they will be running events with some familiar faces in the Fault community. PoQ has a interoperable game token that players can earn in events and spend in many different games. This currency, named Quarters, can also be used on their website for cool prizes and other in-game goodies from popular titles. Our players will have the ability to link their accounts with PoQ in order to obtain and spend Quarters directly in Fault and everywhere they are accepted. Quarters can not be sold and are simply a way for gamers to have more freedom with their purchases.

Each Fault Coin will translate over to 4 Quarters if you link your account to PoQ.

This system is completely optional and you can continue to purchase Coins like you always have done.

Recently we started work on implementing T4 skin visual effects. The list below is all the currently implemented visual effects for these skins. Going forward with each new hero release, T4 skins will come with their visual effects ready to go. We plan on finishing the rest of the currently unimplemented T4 skins in the coming weeks.‍‍

Full List:

• Magma Scarab Grux
  
• Novaborn Greystone
  
• Undertow Gideon (Not his Q currently)
  
• Rogue Kallari
  
• Rogue Sparrow
  
• Northern Mystic Morigesh
  
• Summertime Twinblast
  
• Heavy Armor Belica
  
• Bad Santa Riktor‍

Name Changing
You can now change your name directly in game by clicking your name/avatar/currency.

• 10,000 Matter
  
• 400 Coins
  
• 1,600 Quarters‍

• Toxic Countess
  
• Polar Ops Boris
  
• High Tech Boris
  
• Epic Astro Gideon (Epic Games Store Exclusive)
  
• Dark Side Gideon‍‍
  

Today marks two years of Fault's early access period!
We are very grateful for the continued support from our community and we know we could not have made it this far without everyone who has stuck with us all this time. This journey has been amazing and we are very excited to take the next step towards full release with you all.We had planned to hold an anniversary stream to go over our journey with you all. Unfortunately, we have rescheduled the stream and will provide more details to everyone soon. In the meantime, we have made some of our early videos public again for today so that everyone can take a look back at where we started.

Playlist link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdkcySiFfJDmXD4_IyniCcGSDW3A2K0JA

If you would like to compare then vs now, here is our latest gameplay trailer:‍
Thank you all for playing our game, we look forward to the future.‍

- Strange Matter Team

Hello everyone and welcome to todays Developer blog!
We have been hard at work on many different things while we stayed fairly quiet, and today we want to share some big news with you all!

For those who may have missed it, we held a large developer stream yesterday to announce many topics that we will discuss in today's blog. We have added the YouTube video below for those who could not make it can view the entire stream including the Q&A.

We plan to continue holding regular streams to interact further with our amazing community.

We have changed the name of our game to Fault: Elder Orb!
This change was made for multiple reasons which include marketing, ideas for the future, and more!

We are very excited to announce that we will be launching on the Epic Games Store this Monday the 18th and going fully free to play on both Epic Games and Steam!

This has been a long time coming, and we can not wait to open the doors to new players everywhere as we launch our free-to-play model and start our marketing efforts to tell everyone about Fault: Elder Orb!
Those who download and play the Epic games version of Fault will be granted the Epic Astro Gideon skin for free!
As we had recently confirmed, Fault: Elder Orb will be featured in a movie from Buzzfeed and Lionsgate! We are very exited for the movies release this July 15th on Amazon, we had a blast working with them to create this film and can not wait for the future and everything this collaboration brings to both our game and the industry in general.
We have begun working with an outside group named Pocketful of Quarters who run events and tournaments for tons of different games. As a PvP game, we are very excited to work with them in the future, as they will be running events with some familiar faces in the Fault community.

POQ has a interoperable game token that players can earn in events and spend in many different games. This currency, named Quarters, can also be used on their website for cool prizes and other in-game goodies from popular titles. Our players will have the ability to link their accounts with P.O.Q in order to obtain and spend Quarters directly in Fault and everywhere they are accepted. Quarters can not be sold and are simply a way for gamers to have more freedom with their purchases.

We understand the concerns this may raise to some, so we have added information below for our players in order to be fully informed before making the decision to link their accounts.

You can learn more about P.O.Q in an article found here: Link[venturebeat.com]


As we stated on the dev stream, patch 0.17.0 contains a big overhaul to our in game economy, which includes a new store page and much more. We plan to share the patch notes live with everyone during our upcoming anniversary stream.

We will be holding a dev stream to celebrate our two year anniversary this Sunday July 17th at 3 PM EST!

During the stream, will be taking a look back on the history of Fault while comparing our EA launch to new content from the company, and the community.

The team has been hard at work on many items outside of what is coming with patch 0.17.0 and the 1UP Movie. We have prepared a brief summary below to get everyone caught up on a few of these.
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Our new map is in it's greybox stage and development of it continues along with internal testing. The new map will take time, but it is happening, our current focus is our current map and optimization.

We have seen many players jumping into our custom game modes and all running down the midline to have epic 5v5 battles right from the start of the match. We have seen this and the community's craving for an ARAM game mode and we are happy to inform everyone that this map is already in development.

Our original ARAM map is in it's greybox stage as well, and we anticipated it to be launched before our full new map we spoke of earlier.

We have been working on a new feature that will allow players to load into a new location that will be full of areas for practicing and testing heroes and builds against all of the monsters, buffs, heroes, and structures that exist within the battlefield of Fault. We do not have a date for this features launch, but we will keep everyone informed in futrue developer streams and blogs.

We received a lot of feedback on our previous tutorial and we have heard you. We are currently creating a list of role-specific tutorials and one going over the very basics of MOBA games as a whole. We have plans to upgrade our learn tab with multiple features to help new players gain an edge before even stepping onto the battlefield.

As a competitive game, we understand that there is toxicity in matches, we have worked hard to ensure we ban the ones who deserve to be removed from the game and we will continue to do all that we can to make our game as comfortable as possible for all players.

Outside of player reporting and chat muting that we have in-game, we are also working towards hardware bans in order to fully remove accounts of players who warrant permanent bans.

We will still be releasing new heroes and we have one planned to launch after we have gone free to play.

Mastery races will also be returning with our next hero, and we intend to keep them running for all future hero releases. We received a lot of feedback about our previous race and plan to make changes to the system before the next one begins.
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We receive constant messages from the console gaming community, and we can not wait to open the doors to all of you. We can confirm that we will still be releasing on console in the future and we are working hard to get Fault closer to its full release state while we also work to make that a reality.

Strange Matter Studios takes pride in being a company that has stood on it's own two feet all this time and holds it's creative freedom, which we value greatly. All of this could not have been possible with out every one of you, we are truly grateful to everyone who has supported us.

We have a lot we would like to say to you all, and we plan to speak more about our community during the anniversary stream this Sunday the 17th at 3 PM EST.

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— Strange Matter Team

• DirectX 12 is now enabled by default

• On your first match played the game will auto detect your visual settings and adjust them automatically.

• Lowered the occurrences of Voice Lines.
  
• Adjusted the Death and Spawn SFX for Raptors and Alpha Raptor to help players tell the difference.
  
• Adjusted Murdock LMB SFX.
  
• Steel SFX redesign.

CRUNCH PUNCH (P)

• Will now appropriately show stacks on the passive indicator.

BLOOD LUST (P)

• Will now work on all targets not only heroes.

TIER ONE TOWER

• Fixed a part of the terrain by Dawn side T1 that players could get stuck on.

ALPHA RAPTOR

• Fixed an issue causing the bite attack to not do damage.

RED BUFF

• Fixed an issue causing Red Buff to not lose aggro when out of its attack range.

• Can no longer accept invalid invites
  
• Will no longer show default avatar when first joining parties.
  
  Settings
• Fixed an issue with the apply button not saving all settings.
  
• Exiting a screen without an apply button will now auto apply the changed settings.
  
• Fixed an issue where logging out wouldn’t remove your saved password.
  
• On your first match played the game will now auto detect your visual settings and adjust them automatically.

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• Fixed an issue with Riktor's LMB sound not being attached to the hero.

• Fixed an issue with GRIM's Ion Mode (E) sound not being attached to the hero.

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• Warlock - Reduced Bonus Damage from 16% -> 15%.

Neural Disruptor (R):

• Fixed an issue where activating stasis during the animation would allow you to move while in stasis.

DARK DRAIN (P)

• Removed - No longer grants a percentage of Countess’ Base Health back on kill.
  
• New - Countess now regenerates a percentage of her slain targets Maximum Health (2.5% from minions / 15% from heroes) over 2 seconds occurring every 0.5 seconds, scaling with her total Energy Power (1% per 100 EP from minions / 5% per 100 EP from heroes).

BLADE SIPHON (RMB)

• Removed - No longer grants bonus damage based on next ability used against a target after hitting Blade Siphon.

DARK TIDE (E)

• Width increased from 200 -> 300 units.
  
• Range increased from 650 -> 850 units.

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• Basic Attack Timer increased from 1.15 -> 1.2 seconds.

IMPERIAL SENTENCE (R)

• Movement Penalty increased from 50% -> 75% while casting.
  
• Cooldown increased from 120/100/80 -> 150/120/90.
  
• Mana Cost changed from 100/110/120 -> 100 at all levels.

‍CHALLENGER’S RAGE (R)

• Duration increased from 10 -> 12 seconds at all levels.

CRUSHING BLOWS (P)

• Bonus Damage BAD Scaling increased from 10/15/20/25/30% -> 30% at all levels.

‍STATIC TRAP (E)

• Removed - Traps no longer slow enemy units or stun pushed enemy units.
  
• New - Now can hold up to 3 charges on a 30 second recharge time, with a 2 second mini-cooldown between placements.
  
• New - Traps now Root enemy units for 1 second at all levels.
  
• Lifetime of traps reduced from 60 at all levels -> 30/35/40/45/50.

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• Lifesteal from Overdrive proc increased from 10% -> 15%.

• Can no longer be activated while under the effects of hard CC.

• Vision Radius increased from 600 -> 800 units.
  
• Increased Cooldown Reduction from 15 -> 20.
  
• Reduced Physical Penetration from 12 -> 10.
  
• Reduced Gold Cost from 2600 -> 2400.

• Energy Power Scaling increased from 15% -> 20%.
  
• Attack Speed increased from 45 -> 50.

• Can no longer be activated while under the effects of hard CC.

• Can no longer be activated while under the effects of hard CC.

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— Strange Matter Team