NOTE: THIS PATCH WILL NOT BE LIVE UNTIL APRIL 16, 2025 @ 8AM PT / 11AM ET / 5PM CET / 12AM KST

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Greetings SUPERVIVERs! We’ve been chasing down balance outliers from our recent Arc 2 update with several hotfixes in the past week, but we do have a new feature - Account Unlocking - in this patch (that many of you will not notice since you’re already level 850 or whatever)

Let’s dive in!

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

New players joining SUPERVIVE often share that they’re overwhelmed by the number of concepts, systems, and features that they need to learn right off the bat. In this patch we’ve updated Hunter’s Journey to more gradually unlock parts of the game throughout a new player's first several matches.

We’ll be examining the results of these changes and may tweak or adjust individual unlocks depending on how things go. Our hope is that new players will have clear gameplay rewards they’re excited to unlock, and additional opportunities to learn about deeper mechanics once they’ve grasped the fundamentals of SUPERVIVE, rather than frontloading it all at the beginning.

Players above Hunter’s Journey level 25 will be completely unaffected by this change.

Hunter's Journey Feature Unlocks

• Level 3: Armor Evolves
  
• Level 5: Daily Missions
  
• Level 6: Weekly Missions
  
• Level 8: Weapon Evolves
  
• Level 9: Arena Mode
  
• Level 10: Level 4 Abilities
  
• Level 12: Boot Evolves
  
• Level 13: 3rd Consumable Slot
  
• Level 14: Seasonal Missions
  
• Level 15: Warped Evolves
  
• Level 17: 2nd Power Slot
  
• Level 18: 4th Consumable Slot
  
• Level 19: Hunter Mastery
  
• Level 22: Ranked Mode
  
• Level 24: Custom Games
  
• Level 25: Execute/Finishers

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Eva launched in a fairly underpowered state. We gave her a few hotfix buffs once we saw she was struggling; these ones should put her more on par with the rest of the cast and lean into her unique orb-based playstyle.

• Orbs now move more nicely around the terrain and get caught less.
  
• Increased Orb health from 1500 >>> 2000
  
• Decreased CD from 12/12/9 >>> 10/10/8
  
• Increased Orb healing by 50%

• Decreased CD from 9/7.5/6.5 >>> 8/6.5/5.5

• Increased Base move speed from 445 >>> 465

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

A core part of Jin’s identity is his mobility and evasiveness, but his ability to escape unconditionally has been feeling too high. This change should preserve his ability to gap-close and enter fights with his LMB, but exhaust Jin’s mana when he’s just using it to get away.

• Now prevents mana regen for 4s after casting
  
• Now refunds 5 mana on hit

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We’re implementing some changes to Beebo's LMB to make it easier to understand and read in combat, and fix some bugs in the process.

• LMB now is split up into two discrete segments that last a combined 1.3s
  • Part 1 (0.8s): After first charge, LMB reaches full knockback
    • After first charge, Bat will wallstun on hit
  • Part 2 (0.5s): After second charge, LMB reaches full damage
• LMB knockback at full charge reduced by 20% for non-Beeb-ombed targets. Beeb-omb knockback is unchanged.
  
• Cast bar on top of health bar now shows two distinct segments, one per phase
  
• LMB segments on bottom left also reflect these changes

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Adjusting this bonus down to account for the additional on-knock heals now inherent in Hunter kits.

• Bonus Healing reduced from 50% >>> 25%

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We’re increasing the size of Hunter vision cones to reward strategic play. The goal is to give you more information to make decisions like pathing or how to approach a fight. This should help reduce the frequency of surprise third partying and unearned ambushes.

• Increased proximity vision by 200 units
• Increased vision cone by 500 units

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Some Hunter AoE abilities were not correctly dealing damage to destructibles (such as Vault Pylons, Trees, Walls, etc). We’ve done a pass to make this more consistent on the following abilities:

• Summon Napalm (R)

• Rain of Arrows (Q)

• Lightning Strike (Q)
• Thunderstorm (R)

• Magicreactive Burst (Q)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We’ve seen some feedback about some audio cues being hard to notice, and are making changes to the biggest culprits.

• Void Snap (RMB) volume adjustments, especially from FoW
• Did a mix and priority change for Enemy perspective

• Tonk Tonk! (R) volume adjustments, especially when cast off screen
• Fixed bug where the loop shuts off when Beebo jumps off cart

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

With player feedback (thanks Anicmatic!) we’ve made a number of fixes to existing tooltip issues, and took some time to refresh our new player tooltips, too.

• Abilities that have charges now properly show their charge refresh time as the cooldown (previously showed minimum time between the two charge casts)
  
• Updated Beebo's LMB tooltip to match his changed knockback and damage functionality
  
• Added shield duration to Bubble Shield tooltip
  
• Added buff duration to Perseverance
  
• Added shield duration to Overdrive
  
• Celeste's Ice Spear (RMB) now does Explosive damage on both impact and detonation, as per the tooltip
  
• Fixed a tooltip error on Felix's Ignite (Passive) that incorrectly said abilities get their CD refunded at Level 3 of the ability
  
• Added additional information about Brall's Caldera, Molten Greatsword (LMB) damage and mana gain, and Flame Step (Shift) sweet spot damage
  
• Added additional information about Jin's Shadowgrace (Passive) movement speed
  
• Added additional information about Joule's Static (Passive) duration, Surge (Shift) mana gain, and Lightning Strike (Q) Grounded duration
  
• Added additional information about Myth's Heartpiercer (RMB) charge duration
  
• Added additional information about Shiv's Fusillade (Ult)
  
• Fixed tooltip error on Kingpin's Abyssal Grasp (RMB), and added additional information on Slugwave (Ult) second shot delay
  
• Updated new player tooltips to cover more events and includes bugfixes to current ones

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Previously Rare Skins were nested underneath the 'default' skin / version of the Hunter, visualized similarly to variants. These should be easier to spot now.

• Rare Skins visualized as their own skin on the left side of the screen with visible portrait image

• Fixed an issue where some players would get stuck on the “skip hunter unlock” screen if they had already obtained all hunters
• Fixed an issue where certain Resurrection Beacons were displaying inaccurate timers

These changes went live in a previous hotfix, but were not documented in the notes.

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

For both Kingpin and Joule, we think it’s healthy for them to interact more with the mana system and for that to introduce a degree of windowing in their kits. However, we don’t want them to be completely gassed after a full ability rotation. While mana items are a good solution for those who want to spam constant hooks, we wanted to give Kingpin and Joule a touch more breathing room to dash away or fire a key ability.

• Abyssal Grasp (RMB)
  • Mana cost reduced from 40 >>> 30
• Air Dash (Shift)
  • Mana cost reduced from 20 >>> 15

• Surge (Shift)
  • Mana cost reduced from 25 >>> 20
• Thunderstorm (R)
  • Mana cost reduced from 50 >>> 35

NOTE: THIS PATCH WILL NOT BE LIVE UNTIL APRIL 2, 2025 @ 8AM PT / 11AM ET / 5PM CET / 12AM KST

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

SALUTATIONS SUPERVIVERS. It’s a big day here in the skylands as we’ve got a new hunter, EVA, and TRIOS and a RANKED RESET along with a RANKED SPLIT - all of which promise to shake things up in dramatic and delightful ways.

There’s been a lot on our minds as we’re building toward a new SUPERVIVE 1.0, all of which I know you won’t read, so please hear it from executive producer Jessica ‘safelocked’ Nam.

Eva is a new Protector addition to the roster.
A new Hunter: Eva, the Devilish Healer

• Kiss of Death (PASSIVE): Executing or standing on enemy Wisps Heals Eva and lowers her remaining cooldowns.
  
• Corrupted Tether (LMB): Hold on an enemy to connect a beam that damages them. Hold on an ally to Heal them. Can be used to Heal and move Eva’s Orb of Argos (RMB).
  
• Orbs of Argos (RMB): Launch an Abyssal orb that heals allies and damages enemies. Orb effect area grows based on its health. Orbs lose health to heal allies, and gain health when damaging enemies. The orb can be healed with Eva’s Corrupted Tether.
  
• Sashay (SHIFT): Dash - briefly ignores projectiles and gains decaying movement speed.
  
• Beckon (Q): Fire out ethereal tendrils that drag enemies and Orbs toward Eva while applying Anti-Heal.
  
• Sinner’s Embrace (R): Throw an Abyssal oculus that binds all enemies in an area. If they leave the area before the oculus expires or is destroyed, they are Stunned and damaged. Enemies can destroy the oculus.

• Eva Track:
  • Level 1: Eva Hi Emote
    
  • Level 2: Eva Avatar and Banner
    
  • Level 3: Succubus Call Sign
    
  • Level 4: Eva Bye Emote
    
  • Level 5: Eva Call Sign
    
  • Level 6: 150 VP
• 
  Aid of Argos: Heal allies with Orb of Argos
  • 20K: Pet Call Sign
    
  • 200K: Kitten Call Sign
    
  • 800K: Argos Call Sign
• Domination: Stun enemies with Sinner’s Embrace
  • 10: Sinful Call Sign
    
  • 40: Lover Call Sign
    
  • 400: Dominator Call Sign
• Step on Me: Spend time stomping enemy Wisps
  • 60: Draining Call Sign
    
  • 600: Temptress Call Sign
    
  • 2400: Stiletto Call Sign

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Trios have arrived! We previously spoke about the benefits and reasons behind moving to trios in our blog post, which I’ll re-share:

We’ve heard from many of you that SUPERVIVE has a lethality problem. Specifically, organized teams can squish priority targets almost instantly without much response. This makes solo players really struggle to stick around, especially because it’s so hard to carry in a 1v4 or even 2v4 scenario. We’ve heard this consistently over the months and have tried a lot of things, but have yet to find anything really effective.

So after a lot of iteration and internal experiments, we’ve come to the decision that the game would be improved if we combined squads and duos into trios.

This isn’t a decision we make lightly, but we think the gains are just too important. Combat clarity goes way up when you take out 25% of the participants; positioning matters much more when you have only three scouts; and your ability to solo outplay an opposing team feels more achievable when it’s 25% easier (is this math even right, idk).

But we also know there are other tradeoffs to make for going to trios - some of which aren’t all benefits (like team compositions getting a little more restrictive). That said, with everything in front of us we believe this is the right path and hope you’ll be excited with all the extra positive changes we can make on top!

• Squad and Duo Queues are gone and have been consolidated into Trio Queue
  • BR game lobbies will now be 12 teams of 3
  • Arena remains 4v4
• You can now queue into Trios as a solo or duo party with No Fill selected, giving you the option to queue up without others joining

Trios Balancing:

• Gold Armor zone vault now contains 2 >>> 1 armor (total 3 in the zone)
  
• Early Game Circle reduced in size from 68,000 >> 65,000 units
  
• We’ve balanced some Hunters who were clear winners in the move to trios (context below)

Additional Benefits:

• Queue times should be faster for all
  
• Ranked and Unranked Queues have been split - now every lobby will have all ranked or all unranked players
  
• All players have access to Custom Game Mode where they can host invite-only games of Squads, Trios, Duos, or Arena

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Previously Custom Games were gated to folks who signed up on Discord with a credible event, but now we’re rolling this feature out to everyone. We may need to adjust access based on demand (because this does take people out of the queue), but let’s open the doors first to see. It’s also worth saying for you Squads/Duos lovers that you can host Squads/Duos Custom Games!

• All players can now host invite-only Custom Games, with a minimum player start size of 8

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

With this new Arc, we’ll be doing a soft Rank Reset, meaning everyone gets squished down and we get to see a new climb to the top in a trios world.

• Because we consolidating queues, this ranked reset will be based purely off of your squads rank - sorry duos players!
  
• Anyone in Grandmaster+ will be reset to Diamond 1 with 10 RP
  
• All other ranks will be reset 5 ranks (e.g. If you were Gold 2, you’ll now be Silver 3 with 10 RP)
  
• Ranked leaderboards will also be reset

Some examples of the upgrading ranked rewards you'll get for climbing the ladder!

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

As a reminder, you’ll get your Ranked Rewards the moment you hit the Ranked requirement. Check them out. For Arc 2:

• New Rewards
  • New Ranked Gliders have been added.
    
  • New Ranked Avatars for Arc 2 have been added.
• Distribution
  • You’ll be rewarded a glider for your highest rank achieved in Arc 1 by April 9th, 2025.
    
  • Moving forward in Arc 2 as you climb in ranked, you will gain both the Avatar and the Glider for each tier

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Per above, consolidating squad and duo queues into trios lets us split ranked and unranked queue.

• You can now queue for either Ranked or Unranked Trios queue, and will only be matched with and against players who explicitly queued for Ranked or Unranked, respectively

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We needed to be a bit more restrictive at upper ranks in order to support Trios. If we kept our previous restrictions (2 at GM+) the top would be starved out of solo players and it would be hard to make matches. With these restrictions we think matchmaking can be healthier at top ranks.

• Master tier+ premade parties are limited to a maximum of 2
  
• Grandmaster+ premade parties are limited to a maximum of 1

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Placement scoring has been updated since we now have 12 teams for Trios.

• 1st: 40 >>> 40
  
• 2nd: 30 >>> 30
  
• 3rd: 25 >>> 25
  
• 4th: 20 >>> 20
  
• 5th: 15 >>> 15
  
• 6th: 5 >>> 10
  
• 7th: 5 >>> 10
  
• 8th: 5 >>> 10
  
• 9th: 0 >>> 5
  
• 10th: 0 >>>5
  
• 11th: 0
  
• 12th: 0

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

While team eliminations helped to control inflation and reward teams for engaging in combat, some strange behaviors appeared when players tried to optimize for RP. Specifically: teams were orienting their compositions toward eliminations-at-all-costs, focusing on highly mobile assassins (like Jin) to constantly overextend for eliminations, even if it came at the cost of long-term strategic value or even victory. SUPERVIVE isn’t just about eliminations, so we’re trying again!

• Each team is worth 12 RP, which is divided amongst their deaths. The point distribution for kills on the team is weighted, with kills closer to elimination being worth more points. There is no longer a bonus for team eliminations
  • If you want some deep math: each subsequent kill is worth a multiple of how much the first kill is worth. So: the 2nd kill is worth 2x, the 3rd kill is worth 3x, etc… Each team’s worth adds to exactly 12, so to calculate how much each kill is worth on a team you’ll need to sum deaths. For example, if a team died 10 times, add 1-10 == 55. Now normalize that sum to make the addition of the kills to be worth 12 (multiple everything by 12/55). So the first kill is worth: 1*12/55, the second kill is worth 2*12/55, etc.

More on the system:

• All kills earn points to incentivize and maintain healthy combat engagement
  
• Kills that occur later in the match are worth more points than early kills, as these are often more strategically important
  
• Teams that die frequently are worth fewer points. This creates a soft skill variation system. Higher skilled teams will die less frequently, making a kill against them worth more points.
  
• You’ll only receive credit for kills on teams you outlast

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Automatic Respawns were originally introduced to give new and lower-skill players more time in combat. However, at higher skill levels, they’ve led to unintended dynamics—like teams constantly respawning and just RUNNING IT DOWN, which can make early-game fights feel chaotic and low-stakes. Now that we’re officially splitting the queues, with most lower-skill players in Unranked and higher-skill players in Ranked, we’re removing Automatic Respawns from Ranked. Ranked is intended to be a higher-stakes, more competitive mode, and this change reinforces that by making early fights more meaningful and the flow of combat more clear.

• Automatic Respawns are off in Ranked, and on in Unranked

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

While we generally want to incentivize PvP, knocking lower level players is too rewarding, resulting in level advantages (and everything else) feeling overly snowbally. So we’re reducing that.

• Knocks/Assists on players lower level than you give you less XP than before (also if you didn’t know, knocking an enemy always gave EXP relative to your level, rather than a flat EXP amount):
  • EXP gained from knocking an enemy player 1 level below you has been decreased from 37.5%/37.5% >>> 33%/16.5% of current level
    
  • EXP gained from knocking an enemy player 2 or more levels below you has been decreased from 37.5%/37.5% >>> 20%/10% of current level

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

A biome wipe boss is the boss that spawns when you’ve killed all the minions in a specific area. We’ve heard your feedback that Power availability feels lower this patch, and these were one of the more reliable ways to get them, so we’re reverting the change we made a while ago.

• These now drop Gold >>> Biome-Specific Powers (again)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

While we love the shmovement that wind rings provide, that you could basically fall through them and still get yooted around meant you were getting maximum movement with no risk. We think if you want the moves you gotta pay the price, whether it’s using a dash for momentum or using your glider and risking getting spiked.

• You must have your Glider out to get the full benefit from Wind Rings
  
• Non-Glider momentum gained from Wind Rings has been reduced by -10%

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

While we want to be careful about being too pre-emptive on balance changes with such a small sample size, there were a few Hunters that we saw who could use a tap one way or another in the Trios world.

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Objectively the #1 winner of the Trios world, this is one Hunter we feel confident pre-adjusting. Our goals here are to lower Shiv’s burst from slamming a well-timed ult into enemy teams, and to push her to rely more on her dueling capabilities to win fights. The Cartwheel changes may look a little fiddly, but we’re trying to reduce the number of movement corrections (that is: when you cartwheel and see a little ‘jitter’ in your movement because of a disagreement between your client and the server) that these changes should address.

Cartwheel (SHIFT)

• Movement Speed buff duration reduced from 3 >>> 2.25 seconds
  
• Movement correction improvements:
  • Gains Cartwheel’s movement speed bonus as a ramping effect rather than immediately on button press
    
  • No longer loses the Cartwheel movement speed buff on taking damage

Death Blossom (R)

• Flat Damage down from 34.7/38.2/42 >>> 25/28/31
  
• AP Ratio down from 0.18/0.2/0.22 >>> 0.13/0.15/0.17
  
• In practice, if you land all of the Death Blossom auto-fire shots (in the ring) the difference when testing against an unarmored target:
  • 5 Ring Shots Total Damage: 1225/1360/1500 >>> 975/1095/1215*
    
  • 5 Non-Ring Shots Total Damage: 515/571/630 >>> 410/460/510*

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Given every team has one less ally to chew through Oath’s shield, we’re doing some preemptive nerfing on its beefiness.

Brightshield (RMB)

• Max HP% ratio lowered from 51%/64%/64%/80% >>> 41%/54%/54%/70%

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Similar to Oath, except related to fewer allies to pick up, we figured we could give a small quality-of-life buff to her rather than just straight-up raising her power. We’ll still keep an eye on her performance in a post-Trios world.

Moonlight Blessing (Q)

• No longer disappears if attached to a stunned Ally
  
• Note: Will still disappear if it is attached to Elluna and she is stunned

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Because we’re sticking with our mana changes, we need to update some vestigial items related to the previous system.

[NEW] Glide Boots

• Give +20% extra glide fuel

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

In our first world, we were forcing you to unlock a Hunter every time you hit a milestone, but many of you felt that was too much pressure in the moment (fair). We then moved to a new world where you could defer your Hunter unlock decision until you claimed it later on, but then savvy folks started banking all of their unlocks for… ever.

Candidly: we don’t think it’s healthy for engagement to be able to save up an infinite number of Hunter unlocks, but we do want to let you bank some if you don’t want to make the decision immediately (or are waiting for a Hunter you really like).

• 2 Hunter tokens can now be banked
  
• If you exceed 2 Hunter tokens, you'll be forced to choose a Hunter unlock
  
• If you exceed the limit, you'll also automatically claim Hunter unlock levels
  
• You can unlock Hunters on the Hunter preview screen

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We’re nuking the rotating shop and staying with an open store. Candidly (lots of candor in this house): a rotating store is better for business because it gives players a reason to visit the store consistently, and there are those who enjoy the experience of seeing what’s in stock that day.

But those of you who don’t like rotating stores really don’t like them, and we figured rather than convincing you, we’d rather invest our time and effort into things you care about. Like a better battle pass.

• The Rotating Store is not coming back, the fixed/open Store will remain. We may need to do more UI improvements in the future!

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

There’s a new battlepass and it is much better than before! More skins! More cool content! Better!

• There are new seasonal missions… good luck

• Some Saros Dash bugs have been fixed
  
• Void’s Void Swap now works on projectiles again
  
• Removed one option (Help) from the ping wheel to make it easier to use
  
• Now when claiming rewards, there is a “Claim All” button to quickly claim all of your new unlocks
  
• Fixed a bug where in menus and hero select, flashing your Hunter mastery emote would flash your currently selected Hunter’s mastery level, rather than your equipped Hunter’s mastery emote

We've got a PLETHORA of stuff coming in Arc 2, including the consolidation of queues to trios, a ranked reset (and queue split), a new Hunter, and more! Come watch the preview in our special edition Arc 2 fireside chat with executive producer Jessica 'safelocked' Nam!

Hello SUPERVIVERs -

Let’s talk about our biggest change upcoming in our Arc 2 update on April 2nd, 2025. I’ll lead with a summary of the changes, and then give context on the why. With the Arc 2 patch, we will:

• Consolidating squad and duo queue together into trios queue - meaning our only game mode for Battle Royale will be trios
  
• As a benefit for consolidating these queues:
  
  • We can speed up queue times
    
  • We are able to split ranked and unranked games for more competitive ranked matches and less sweats in your unranked matches
• Trios will also ship with ‘no fill’ options so you can queue as a duo into trios, or - if you’re looking to make some YouTube challenge content - as a solo player into trios
  
• For those who miss other team sizes, we will be making Custom Games available to all, with the ability to start game lobbies in duos, trios, or squads

Now let’s talk about the why: we’ve heard from many of you that SUPERVIVE has a lethality problem. Specifically, organized teams can squish priority targets almost instantly without much response. This makes solo players really struggle to stick around, especially because it’s so hard to carry in a 1v4 or even 2v4 scenario. We’ve heard this consistently over the months and have tried a lot of things, but have yet to find anything really effective.

So after a lot of iteration and internal experiments, we’ve come to the decision that the game would be improved if we combined squads and duos into trios. So we’re going to do it.

This isn’t a decision we make lightly, but we think the gains are just too important. Combat clarity goes way up when you take out 25% of the participants; positioning matters much more when you have only three scouts; and your ability to solo outplay an opposing team feels more achievable when it’s 25% easier (is this math even right, idk).

But we also know there are other tradeoffs to make for going to trios - some of which aren’t all benefits (like team compositions getting a little more restrictive). That said, we are taking this transition seriously so we’ve been hosting playtests to get a read on Hunter balance and game pacing.

If you’re interested in helping us get trios to a good place, you’re invited to our next Trios Playtest, happening this Friday, March 21.

• European Playtest: 6pm to 8pm CET // 10am to 12pm PT // 1pm to 3pm ET
  
• North American Playtest: 3pm to 5pm PT // 6pm to 8pm ET // 11pm to 1am CET

• Right click SUPERVIVE in Steam > Properties > Betas
  
• In the "Private Betas" field, enter this code: MAKETRIOSGREAT
  
• Confirm you are opting into the "internal" development test branch
  
• Download the new game version
  
• Choose “Beta Environment” when launching
  
• Make sure you are queueing in the TRIOS queue or you will not get into any games

Once you’ve played in the trios playtest, this feedback survey will be open - we’d love to hear your thoughts on balance and pacing!

Hello hello SUPERVIVERS and welcome back to another patch. This one might seem small in word count, but each line means a lot, so read everything! All of it!!! Thematically, I’d say our orientation is toward making the game and combat state of SUPERVIVE more intuitive, action-oriented, and appreciable. This is just step one toward that goal, and our next patch - the launch of Arc 2! - should feel like a significant evolution for SUPERVIVE, so stay tuned.

P.S. Also, fireside chat is coming next patch as well to talk about where we are and where we’re going. Thanks for your patience!

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Currently bosses are easy to miss for a variety of reasons. We want to make them more consistent in delivery, ceremony, & timing to see if it helps you plan and strategize around them. Basically, we want you to always know (and be thinking about) when Bosses will arrive, where Bosses will land, and how to stay informed of a Boss’s location and health so you can contest them.

• All Bosses ride into the world on meteors and have an updated schedule
  
• At the start of a night, meteors launch and take 45 seconds to land
  
  • Night 1: 3 Night Bosses (two with exotics, and one with a legendary)
    
    • A third night boss will now also spawn at a set spawn point
  • Night 2: Meteor Beasts (which drop souls)
    
  • Night 3: Nothing
    
  • Night 4: Endgame Boss (which drop powerful endgame buffs or items)
    
    • Endgame boss map icon now shows which one it is
      
    • Endgame boss spawn rate adjusted to from 90% >>> 100%
• Meteor mechanism now additionally projects where they will spawn on the map, so you don't need to guess / infer where they'll be

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Philosophically I’d say we prefer more action-oriented plays, like securing the last hit on a monster to claim a buff versus standing around mashing F on a pedestal.

• Meteor Boss soul pedestal removed
  
• Whoever lands the killing blow on the Meteor Boss gets the soul instantly for their team
  
• Whoever lands the killing blow on Endgame Bosses also gets all of the rewards automatically placed into their inventory (if your inventory is full, it goes on the ground because you clearly didn’t want it)

• Landing the killing blow on Soul Warden instantly respawns all of your dead allies, in addition to dropping an extra Orb of Life and Mobile Respawn Beacon

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We’re trying to clean up early teamfights so they’re less clown-y, without pushing revival timers too far.

• Revival timers increased by 5 seconds

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Ability Haste is just too strong in SUPERVIVE, specifically because anyone who stacks it gets high uptime on their abilities and lots of extra mobility (because their dash is also an ability). This makes Ability Haste a must-take on a lot of Hunters - even LMB-focused ones who should be inclined to chase movement speed. So now we’re asking that you trade something for ability spam versus incredible dash mobility, and giving more value to leveling up your boots early.

• Ability Haste reduces all cooldowns >>> just ability cooldowns
  
• Introducing a new stat: Dash Haste, which reduces just dash cooldowns
  
• Tech Blade & Tech Helmet base ability haste has been increased from 15% >>> 20% + 1% per tier
  
• Quickblade & Bladed Helmet base stats:
  
  • 30 movement speed + 2/level >>> 15 movement speed + 1/level
    
  • 0% Dash Haste + 0%/level >>> 10% Dash Haste + 1%/level
• Boot base stats:
  
  • 5 movement speed + 6/level >>> 5 movement speed + 10/level
    
  • 0% Dash Haste + 0/level >>> 0% Dash Haste + 2%/level

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

In our effort to pull mobility back (and make it more appreciable), we nerfed air dashing (that is: jumping and using a dash) in a number of ways to make it less of a “yeet” and more of a dash. Now with our ability haste/dash haste separation to reduce mobility overall, we think we can revert one nerf that felt the worst.

• Air Dash Speed multiplier increased from 0.85 >>> 1.0 (meaning it no longer applies a small amount of friction when using an air dash)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Oh mana. We’ve gotten a lot of feedback on mana through the years, like, “How come some Hunters seem to need mana, while others don’t?” or more directly: “Why does it exist?” Just to answer for the current state of things, mana may not be the most well-implemented stat in SUPERVIVE, but it does add some build diversity for a few Hunters and is generally unoffensive.


That said, we know mana can be a lot more interesting as a stat and, if done right, could feel like a universally valuable optional stat rather than a per-Hunter required one. So with this patch we’re trying a new version of mana that might feel closer to energy or stamina: your abilities use mana to cast (per usual), but your mana regen is halted for 4 seconds after spending any mana. We’ve also significantly boosted everyone’s mana regeneration (provided they haven’t used an ability in the past 4 seconds), and removed mana regeneration from items (and decreased the +max mana stat).


Zooming out, the way we think about it is we want mana to be a short-term resource that gates you on the total number of actions you can take per fight rotation (and then you’ll need to find moments to regenerate), rather than being a long-term resource that you occasionally have to manage by going back to a basecamp and chugging a billion brews (or just negating all up).


You can also build max mana as a stat to increase your total ability casts in a fight, but not to the point where you’re ignoring mana forever. This shouldn’t feel very restrictive (if anything, it may be too generous), but let’s start here!

• Base mana regen 1.5 >>> 11 per second
  
  • Bonus mana regen per level 0 >>> 2.6 per second
    
  • The result is: at level 1, it takes 12 seconds to fully regenerate your mana, and at level 15, it takes 6 seconds. Previously it was 1.5 to 3.5 minutes.
• Mana regen is paused for 4 seconds after spending any mana
  
• Mana Equipment has been changed to give 150 + 7.5/level max mana + 1.5 + 0.1/level mana regen >>> 100+ 5/level max mana + NO mana regen

Hunter-specific changes
Zeph

• Mana recovery on landing Windslinger (LMB) hits reduced from 20/10 (hitting Hunters/Monsters) >>> 10/5
  
• Mending Breeze (RMB) mana cost reduced from 40 >>> 25
  
• Vortex Charm (Q) mana cost reduced from 40 >>> 30

Elluna

• Mana recovery on landing Crescent Bolt (LMB) hits reduced from 20/10 (empowered/unempowered) >>> 10/5

Crysta

• Mana recovery on landing Reverberation (Passive) hits reduced from 30 >>> 15
  
• Flux Snare (RMB) mana cost reduced from 30 >>> 20
  
• Nuclarite Salvo (R) mana cost reduced from 60 >>> 50

Brall

• Adaptive Strike (RMB) mana cost reduced from 25 >>> 20
  
• Flame Step (LSHIFT) mana cost reduced from 20 >>> 15
  
• Feysteel Chain (Q) mana cost reduced from 20 >>> 15

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

LIL’ STRONG.

Combat Rush (Passive)

• Omnivamp bonus reduced from 8% >>> 6% per stack

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

It always felt a little rules-y that Felix’s level 1 Ignite was non-lethal, so we’re shifting power around so it can be lethal.

Ignite (Passive)

• Level 1 Ignite is now lethal
  
• Level 1 and 2 damage-over-time duration reduced from 5.25 >>> 3 seconds

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

I’m not going to continue writing fan-fiction about the Beeb-omb supremacy and how sentience has made them more frail as they grappled with the fragility of their lives and existence, but imagine I did and I hope you are emotionally moved. From a balance perspective, we’re trying to give some counterplay to the case of Beebo planting a bomb and holding a bat threateningly (forever) while the bomb tanks a billion damage. We’re also trying to make Slingshot Beebo a little more appealing and skill-expressive.

Beeb-omb (Q)

• Bomb health reduced from 1600/1600/1600/1600 >> 1000/1133/1266/1400

Slingshot (RMB)

• Damage increased by 25%
  
• Level 2 upgrade: +25% damage
  
• Level 3 upgrade: -50% cooldown
  
• Level 4 upgrade: Slingshot ammo cycles 40% faster
  
• Heal Zeep makes a tree if not collected

Charge Sunfire (RMB)

• Saros no longer gains mana back for hitting monsters with Charge Sunfire (RMB), just Hunters

[NEW] Ricochet Shot

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Trying to give more tools for Hunters to fight clumps (of other Hunters or monsters), especially those without strong area-of-effect abilities.

• This passive power makes your LMB attacks spawn a homing ricochet projectile that bounces to nearby enemies up to 6 times, dealing damage

• Base Camp Recaller: Added a visual to the Base Camp when it is being recalled (you’ll know it when you see it)

• Added Final Boss Icons
  
• Hudson’s Dash properly resets on kill

Hallo SUPERVIVERs. Today’s patch is on the lighter side as we’re cooking on a number of changes that will have a large impact on the shape of the game. Does that sound vague? Maybe a little provocative? Good! Want to help out? You should join us on our Discord[discord.gg] to get into our beta playtests and see what’s on the horizon. We’re excited for these changes, but just want to make sure they’re well-baked.

Anyway, enough about that, let’s do the patch notes.
A new Hunter: Saros, Elite Solar Soldier

• Ionized (PASSIVE) - Using solar abilities empowers Saros. When he becomes Ionized, he gains move speed, mana regen, and increased rate of fire with Sunspear’s Rifle.
  
• Sunspear’s Rifle (LMB) - Fire a bolt of sunfire, dealing 70 (+45%) damage. Deals less damage up close and full damage after 900 units. Charge with RMB to fire a stronger shot that burns 100 mana. Kills grant 100 mana. Hits with uncharged Sunspear’s Rifle builds mana.
  
• Charge Sunfire (RMB) - HOLD to charge up your Sunspear’s Rifle (LMB), after charging PRESS Sunspear’s Rifle (LMB) to fire super charged shots. Each shot is Empowered when you have 100 mana. Empowered shots apply 2.5s of Anti-Heal. Empowered damage is applied in an area-of-effect when hitting Nova Orb (Q).
  
• Dive Slash (SHIFT) - Dash in with a light attack. Then recast to heavy slash, dealing damage and knocking back enemies. Hitting Slash grants bonus dash for a short duration. Can be used on Nova Orb (Q). This ability resets when hitting enemies with the explosion from Nova Orb (Q).
  
• Nova Orb (Q) - Throw a sunfire orb that grows as it travels. Orb will burn nearby enemies, dealing damage over time and slowing them. After a short arm time, shoot the orb to detonate it, dealing damage and shredding armor in an area-of-effect. Explosion hits Ionize Saros for a short duration. Explosion hits fully reset Dive Slash (SHIFT). Orb can be kicked into enemies using Dive Slash (SHIFT).
  
• Eclipse Portal (R) - Fire a projectile that, upon hitting a wall, creates a portal to the other side of that wall. If a portal would be made near another portal, the existing portal duration is refreshed and extended instead. Entering the portal Ionizes Saros. Allies that use the portal are temporarily buffed, gaining mana over time and movespeed for a short duration. Only goes on cooldown if you create or refresh a portal.

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We've been seeing a lot of feedback on Ranked, specifically that organized, premade squads tend to run the lobbies and it's really difficult for solo players to progress as they go higher.

Late last year, we added premade restrictions at the top to address this feedback, but saw negative responses from players not being able to play with their friends, so we walked it back. It's a rock and a hard place! But now that we've seen both realities, we think it's better on the interim that we go back to premade restrictions. That said, we can be sharper about those restrictions and, along with a lot of the ranked tunings we've been doing the past couple months, we can better target only the top of the ladder.

Worth calling out we do have more longer-term changes in the future. We're still keeping an eye out!

P.S. If you love organized, competitive play, we’ve also been supporting and promoting community tournaments on our Discord[discord.com] - many of which have in-game currency or cash prizes! Go check them out and sign up.

• Squads Grandmaster+ ranked players will now be restricted to duo or solo only when queueing for Ranked Squads games
  
  • This will not apply to Duos Grandmaster+ players (we are not applying premade restrictions on Duos ranked)

• If your team does not own a base camp, you can press the recall button (default keybind: B) to recall to your closest ally instead

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

As we saw our leveling/farming changes play out on live, we think we pushed possible power differentials (that is: how far apart two teams can be in terms of ‘raw power’ via levels, gear, stats, etc) too far. There’s a balance to be struck between “farming feels good” vs. “perma-farming is mandatory” somewhere in these changes.

• Soft level caps are back so you’re not perma-farming - if you reach a level breakpoint for the day, you'll earn 20% the exp you would normally earn from monsters (and never less than 1 EXP)
  
• When at the level breakpoint, you still gain reduced EXP but do not count as a “split EXP” target. What this means is if you’re killing monsters while at the level breakpoint with a low level ally, they will get full EXP as if they were solo
  
• AP per Level decreased from +10 >>> +5 per level

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Related to the above, we’re walking back our previous changes that made upgrade levels have a larger impact on the game.

• Equipment stats now start with +50% more base value (ie. 100 ability power >>> 150 ability power)
  
• Equipment upgrades grant 20 >>> 10 ability power per upgrade
  
• Upgrade prices have been reduced by 25% to account for upgrades being less impactful

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Now that the Heal/Dash reset change has settled a bit and we’re seeing good results, we’re going back and updating the Hunters that get less value from their kits due to this change. We’ll call those out in their respective Hunter sections.

On the other side, we also need to pull back some of the strength on this mechanic for Hunters that abused this the most. To document all of this:

• Hunters with multiple dashes (dash charges) only get 1 charge of their dash back on Knock
  
  • Affects: Brall, Bishop, Crysta, Myth, Beebo, Felix
    
  • Exception: Joule no longer receives Dash refresh on Knock
• Shrike has additional benefits for knocking enemies, Ghost has a new passive

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Last patch we said bombs are sentient and have power over life and death—this patch we realized all sentient things yearn for company (and not just being smashed into enemies), so we’re giving Beebo and his friends reasons to hang out with the Bee-bombs before their inevitable explosive demise.

Bee-bomb (Q)

• Allies and Beebo now gain +20% movement speed near the bomb

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Hunter Mastery

• Beebo RMB Super Zeep mission (A Zeep Too Far): changed from "Get Knocks with Super Zeep'" to "Get Knocks/Assists on units recently hit by Super Zeep"

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

While it’s a defining feature of Celeste’s ultimate that she has to ‘earn’ the full channel, it’s making her so predictable for experienced players to play around that we’d like to add just a smidge of variability for her to play some mind games.

Chilling Finale (R)

• Reactivating this ability early in the last 0.75 seconds of the spell now deals 33% less damage and stuns for 33% less duration
  
• Always displays an indicator on the floor and the detonation hitbox will always hit according to that indicator. Enemies will always see the full wind up but Celeste no longer needs to be near the floor to hit targets.
  
  • This removes the ability to catch people off-guard by falling from extremely high up

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

This might be too good, but… let’s see.

Lunar Air Dash (Shift)

• Level 4 now refreshes the cooldown entirely upon wisp pickup, up from 2 seconds

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

New passive!

Combat Rush (Passive)

• Whenever Ghost lands a non-LMB ability on an enemy, gain +8% Omnivamp for 3.5 seconds (this can stack)
  
• This stacks twice when you attach a grenade on an enemy (the attach and detonate both count as separate ability hits)
  
• Lasts for 3.5 seconds, and wears off all at once (not one stack at a time)

Combat Slide (SHIFT)

• Can now be tapped in the air for 2/3 of the distance of the full hold

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Someone make a montage reel of Hudson just body slamming people to death, please.

Hover Jets (Shift)

• Cooldown increased from 11/9.5/8/8 -> 12.5/11/9.5/9.5 seconds
  
• Hover Jets now refunds Hudson 25% of the cooldown per enemy hit when you dash into them

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Joule is too strong. Also we know that incorporeal >>> ignores projectiles nerf really nukes Joule’s use of Thunderstorm to just instantly get out of all dangerous situations, but maybe that’s a good thing.

Voltaic Spear (RMB)

• Cast time increased from 0.25 >>> 0.33 seconds

Surge (LSHIFT) and Thunderstorm (R)

• Surge and Thunderstorm now grant “INCORPOREAL” >>> “IGNORES PROJECTILES”
  
  • This means anything other than a projectile can still hit Joule
    
  • Stuns, Roots, Grounds, and Glider cancel the state

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

As our premiere sniper, Shrike struggles to pick off multiple enemies in a row, especially if she can’t two-shot someone reliably. Given the dash/heal reset benefits a long-range sniper less than others, we felt we could buff up her lethality once she gets rolling.

Truetalon Rifle (LMB)

• Whenever Shrike knocks an enemy, her next shot is empowered with +150% Armor Shred
  
• Lasts for 6 seconds or when she fires her next LMB (whichever is first)

• Abyss Specialist, Hover Wings, and Glider Jets are all Legendary (Tier 4 - Gold) Powers
  
• All Legendary Powers (including the 3 above) are NOT Soulbound

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We want to make Elixirs more exciting as a luxury item that you buy on top of your baseline equipment. Also: testing out some in-combat power to see how it feels.

• Elixir of Health
  
  • Out-of-combat health regens faster and scales off of max health (instead of flat amount)
    
  • Now grants in-combat Omnivamp on non-LMB abilities
• Elixir of Mana
  
  • Now also gives mana refund on LMB hit (only can trigger once every 0.5s)
• [NEW] Elixir of Vision
  
  • Consume to be able to see invisible units for 90s

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Those lava monsters…

• Magma Brute
  
  • Damage mitigation decreased from 90% >>> 50%

• Corrupted Guardians
  
  • Now drop 1000 Gold instead of a Power

• Gold Pickups: Gold pickups are now vacuumed from 300 range and the audio ceremony has been updated
  
• Minimap/Megamap: Icon visual pass to standardize points of interest and make them pop more
  
• Team HUD: Updated to make it clearer at a glance whether a teammate is dead or alive
  
• Team Eliminated: Audio cue updated
  
• XP Books: Audio cue updated

Pings

• Added chat messages for each of the ping wheel options

Emote regulation

• You can no longer bind emotes to the same keys as movement inputs
  
• Emotes now rate-limited

• Increased the number of Hunters granted from 4 to 5 (thanks for the heads up, carlos carbonara!)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

There’s no change here, but some of you may have noticed we’ve slowed a bit on shipping cosmetics. This is deliberate! We heard your feedback that our battlepass contents could be better, so we’ve been reshuffling our skin development pipeline to beef it up for our next season debut. Stay tuned!

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

For changes that weren’t reflected in previous patch notes. Listen, we’re not deliberately hiding stuff, we’re just bad at documentation.

Quests

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Quest rewards are now slightly higher than before and are now standardized to be shared across teammates (was true for some Quests, but not others)

• Brawlers - 2,000 gold per player
  
• Team Wipe - 2,000 gold per player
  
• Vault - 500 gold per player
  
• Take Enemy Basecamp - 2,000 gold per player
  
• Farm Minions - 500 gold per player
  
• Biome Soul - 2,000 gold per player
  
• Megaboar - 1,000 gold per player
  
• Supply Drop - unchanged

Welcome back. We know things have been hectic with last patch’s massive set of structural changes, so this patch we’re focused on follow-up: listening to feedback, smoothing out economic imbalances, and continuing our work on mobility. Let’s get to it!

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Now that Gold matters more and related changes have settled, we’re doing another pass to smooth purchasing out. In addition, we’re always thinking of ways to get you to use powers (they’re fun, we promise!) so testing out a low-scope way to provide even more power reliability through a ‘fixed’ power store that rotates hourly.

Base Camps

• Armor Repair costs cut in half
  
• Base Camp Shop now has a fixed/permanent set of 4 powers that randomly rotates every real-life hour
  
  • Powers are randomly selected and can range from rune to purple (Epic) tier rarity
    
  • Prices are fixed to 1000/1000/1500/2000 gold

Shop and Trade

• Base Camp and shopkeeper models have been updated to make shop destinations clearer
  
• Shop styling UI has been updated to better support the amount of inventory
  
• Gold requests and gold trading sound effects have been updated to address feedback that people miss the pop-up request for Gold on the left side of the screen
  
• Shop Icons and Airdrop shop icons have been updated to be larger and more noticeable

Quests

• Quests that gave Scrap >>> give 1,000 gold
  
• 2 new in-game quests have been added:
  
  • Claim Meteor Soul
    
  • Capture an enemy Basecamp
• Reward values for quests have been updated
  
• All 3 Starter Quests now unlock a "Chain" into another quest
  
  • Brawlers >>> Wipe an enemy team
    
  • Farm Minions >>> Claim Meteor Soul
    
  • Unlock 1 Vault >>> Capture an enemy Basecamp

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

You should be rewarded for taking team actions (so we’re doing that).

• Additional XP for In-Game Actions: These actions now grant XP to the instigator and nearby allies:
  
  • Capturing enemy basecamps
    
  • Capturing a neutral basecamp for the first time (this does not apply to deploying your basecamp again)
    
  • Destroying a vault obelisk for the first time
    
  • Using a UAV for the first time

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We don’t want games to feel so doomed if you’re really far behind, so attaching a stronger incentive to the comeback mechanic seems like a fine idea. Also remember: you can buy Most Wanted in the shop!

• Most Wanted catchup XP should now more effectively catch you up to the level floor of each phase
  
  • For example: in the lategame, it should bring you up to at least level 13 if you complete it

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

PvP success should still matter, even if your target’s got empty pockets.

• All kills now grant a flat 400 gold bounty bonus

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Last patch we said we wanted to make combat more predictable, knowable, and reactable because mobility had gotten a little out of hand. Specifically: hard-to-react (or unreactable) engagements that can come from off-screen, or wild, careening dashes that make aggressive targets so hard to predict. Today we’re continuing the work by making jump dashes (and dash jumps) less explosive, which should lead to more predictability and depth in combat engagements (there’s also a silver lining here for Brall, Oath, and Jin players).

• Jump > Dash: Short duration dashes (<1) now have 15% reduced speed when used from a standstill. Longer and/or precision dashes (Celeste Dash, Joule Dash, Bishop Ult, Felix Ult, Beebo Ult) remain unaffected.
  
• Jump > Dash > Glide: Hunters still gain momentum from this combination, but braking now kicks in slightly faster. With this, we are removing the individual glide suppression (aka the gliding prevention that kicked in immediately after using certain abilities) that was on Brall, Oath, and Jin (we’ll note this in separate Hunter balance notes)
  
• Dash > Jump: Dampening is now applied more consistently while Dashing, preventing free big jumps. Still worth doing, but shouldn’t be as crazy as it used to be.
  
• Glider: Max glider gas increased by 25% to compensate for some of the mobility nerfs (we like mobility when it has risks or more readability)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Nobody likes to start with a caveat but there was a spicy version of this change we tested a few weeks back (FULL resets on kills) and lots of people didn’t like it. This is not that change.

Our goals remain the same though: let players dream of taking on outnumbered fights (we call them 1vNs) with the perfect play. We like this version because while it is appreciable power per knock, it’s not overwhelmingly so and still keeps fights readable.

• PvP knocks will now grant a Heal and cooldown reset for your dash (SHIFT) ability
  
• Heal amounts vary depending on the Hunter’s dueling potential:
  
  • Medium heal (500 heal): Beebo, Bishop, Celeste, Crysta, Elluna, Ghost, Myth, Shrike, Void, Zeph
    
  • Small heal (250 heal): Brall, Felix, Hudson, Jin, Joule, Kingpin, Oath, Shiv

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

In theory, introducing new things to upgrade should add more build diversity (upgrade my LMB or something else?), but since LMB upgrades were just raw power, the decision was rather flat for everyone (LMB-based Hunters upgraded it first at the cost of their cool abilities. Non-LMB-based Hunters upgraded it—surprise!—last). We hear your feedback this wasn’t it, so we’re reverting:

• You can no longer upgrade your basic attack (LMB)
  
• Level 14 & 15 now gives health & ability power - no ability point
  
• Basic attack (LMB) damage has been normalized to old values (fully upgraded values)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

a.) Beebo could use durability buffs, so here are durability buffs.

b.) We had a long, philosophical discussion as to what degree of sentience is necessary to be held responsible for a life (both the taking and giving of), and came to the conclusion that a Beeb-omb is indeed a living, sentient capable of being held accountable for mortal outcomes, despite leading such short, brutal existences themselves (sometimes being hit by a bat in the middle of it). Maybe it gives them a deeper sense of purpose before blowing up. We like to think so.

General

• Base health increased from 1060 >>> 1200
  
• Health gain per level increased from 62 >>> 72
  
• At max level this is about ~250 additional health

Beeb-omb (Q)

• Beeb-ombs can now revive ally wisps and stomp enemy wisps

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

See the mobility changes above!

• Can now use glider immediately after using Flame Step (SHIFT) and Adaptive Strike (RMB)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Bishop's new RMB upgrade from the previous patch has been gaining popularity in high-MMR play. We're reducing the uptime to lower its power.

Displacement Charge (RMB)

• Cooldown increased from 15/10/10/5 >>> 15/12.5/12.5/10

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We like how the last set of changes to Celeste made her more effective at controlling space and think we can go even further (SUPERVIVE needs all the space controllers it can get!).

General

• Base movement speed increased from 415 >>> 445

Frozen Barricade (Q)

• Cooldown reduced from 25/20/15 >>> 20/17.5/15 seconds
  
• Health increased by 250 across all levels

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Crysta was looking very strong from release. We want to be cautious of overnerfing, but we're hitting damage across the board to bring her in line with the rest of the roster.

General

• BUGFIX: Fixed a bug where Crysta was getting Attack Speed when building Cooldown Reduction

Reverberation (Passive)

• Damage reduced from 51 (+32% ability power) >>> 48 base (+30% ability power)

Double Dash (Shift)

• Recharge time increased at higher levels from 15/11/7 >>> 15/12/9 seconds
  
• Level 4 refund on passive proc reduced from 100% >>> 50% of cooldown

Flux Snare (RMB)

• Flux Snare cooldown adjusted from 9/8/7.5/7.5 >>> 9.5/8.5/7.5/7.5 seconds

Nuclarite Salvo (R)

• Damage reduced from 45.5/50/55 (+23%/25%/27.5% ability power) >>> 41/45/50 (+20%/22%/24% ability power)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Hudson’s Barbed Wire felt like it wasn’t living up to its fantasy as real zone control because teams would burn through it so quickly.

Barbed Wire (Q)

• Health increased by 500 at all levels

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

See the mobility changes above!

• Can now use glider immediately after using Dodge Roll (SHIFT)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

When you first look at Kingpin, you probably think he’s more of a bruiser type who wants to trade blows and wear you down over a reasonable amount of time but NO he’s actually a big purple assassin who only wears SWORDS and AXES (no armor, imagine that if you will) and he GRABS you through the wall and STUFFS you into your deathbox with a self-confirmed kill combination. Crazy!!!

I’ll stop the anti-Kingpin propaganda now, but we do think he’s too explosive and kill-reliable for what his thematic premise is (and what we think is reasonable), so we’re moving that power away and into his bruiser archetype who controls the battlefield and sets up plays.

Feed the Beast (Passive)

• Grants +30 maximum health per stack >>> +2.5% maximum health per stack (yes this is sort of a buff)
  
• Stacks were unlimited >>> now capped at 10 stacks maximum
  
• Kingpin lost half stacks on death >>> now drops 1 stack each time Kingpin is knocked

Scattergun (LMB)

• [NEW] Shots fired at 0 bloom/spread now shred additional armor (+67%)
  
• Base Damage from 37 >>> 30
  
• Ability Power Ratio 0.096 >>> 0.08

Primal Slam (Q)

• Stun duration adjusted from 1.4 >>> 1/1.1/1.2/1.4 seconds

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

See the mobility changes above!

• Can now use glider immediately after using Spin Dash (SHIFT) and Magnetic Hammer (LMB)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We unintentionally nerfed Void while simplifying his LMB damage calculations last patch, so now we’re buffing him intentionally.

Gravity Orb (LMB)

• Uncharged base damage increased from 205 >>> 212
  
• Charged base damage increased from 256 >>> 265

Power Specialist

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Updating this now that normal Powers are Soulbound.

• Now grants more power cooldown per stack, and stacks up to 4 times
  
• No longer has a transformation effect

Abyss Specialist

• No longer is abusable by swapping slots

Express Delivery

• Turn speed and charge up speed increased

Two-Way Tunnel

• Cast time reduced from 1.5 >>> 0.75 seconds

Replicator

• Is now a consumable

Wall

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Somewhere in these patch notes we said SUPERVIVE needs all the space controllers it can get, and I am happy to say we still believe that, a few paragraphs down. Buildables are another way to create and hold space, but 3 seconds is too long in SUPERVIVE time so… yeah. I guess that’s the patch note.

• Build time reduced from 3 >>> 2 seconds

• BUGFIX: Red chest shopkeepers no longer unintentionally offer Equipment upgrades alongside Red choices

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Removal of the Global Shop made these a lot less accessible, so we're making them easier to complete.

• Seasonal Two-Way Tunnel mission changed from "Get a Knock after taking a Two-Way Tunnel” >>> “Take a Two-Way Tunnel"
  
• Seasonal Fan mission changed from "Place a Deployable Fan" >>> "Use any Deployable Fan”

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

This was a big player request - thanks for the feedback!

• Updated the store so the Hunter name appears in each skin card

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

In a world defined by FUNNELS and reducing FRICTION and CONVERSION (marketing jokes, haha) it may seem counterintuitive to add more clicks to getting rewards, but we’ve been hearing feedback from players not knowing at all what rewards they’re getting and where they’re coming from.

We give you a lot of cool stuff, and there’s even more cool stuff to be gotten if you know how to get it. So we’re now giving you notifications as to where to claim your cool stuff, which should help with attribution and let you know where the cool stuff is.

• You now need to “Click to Claim” Hunter’s Journey, Battlepass, and Hunter Mastery Rewards
  
  • There are bright notifications drawing you to where you need to click to claim your rewards

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We’re trying a new kind of emote, intended to aid communication (especially when you or an ally prefer not to use voice chat).

• These emotes are granted to all accounts, display text instead of an image, and trigger voiceover (VO) from the Hunter you’re playing. They can be equipped to your emote wheel from the Loadout like normal emotes:
  
  • Yes
    
  • No
    
  • Thanks
    
  • Sorry
• Try responding to allied pings (“Let’s go here,” “Group up,” “Fight,” etc.) with “Yes” or “No.” Let’s start a conversation :)

• Ability upgraded/Ultimate Unlocked
  
• Added player-only voice lines for most Hunters that react to leveling up an ability
  
• Recall/Teleport Cancel
  
  • Canceling your recall or teleport now tells your allies “Never mind!” so that they don’t get baited into a move you decided was a bad idea

• You can now bind emotes to hot keys
  
• The settings will reflect your current loadout

• New stealth sound effect when played in fog-of-war
  
  • New Enemy Stealth Enter sound effect
    
  • New Enemy Stealth Loop sound effect
    
  • New Enemy Stealth Exit sound effect
    
  • Bugfix: All will play in fog-of-war now (Enter and Exit used to not play)
• Vaults have an increased vault lockpicking minimum hitbox size. Sweet spot size unchanged.
  
• The text “Staggerable” for enemy monsters has been changed >>> “Weak to Spells”

Practice Mode

• Training dummy (Shrike) health increased by 10x
  
• Killing the training dummy no longer grants XP

Bugfixes

• Golden Screamers no longer give 5x the intended rewards
  
• Countering minions stops them from casting their spells again
  
• Brush Baby (those weird little ghost guys who run out of the brush and you pop them for loot) rewards are actually fixed

Okay this is one of the largest patches we’ve shipped, ever. And for good reason - there’s a lot of work to do as we rebuild the entire strategic layer of SUPERVIVE toward a brighter future. Speaking to the why: when we launched SUPERVIVE into open beta, we quickly saw that new players just didn’t know where to go or what to do in our more open-ended game. So we spiked some short-term changes like quests and the day 1 revival rules to try to expose the base game more quickly—which netted out some improvements.

That said, we knew there would be knock-on effects for the entire state of the game, like the revival rules reducing the consequentiality of the early game, and that teams would still struggle to make strategic decisions once their basic quests were done.

Looking forward, we believe that SUPERVIVE needs a lot more strategic structure to work as a deep, competitive game. We think it’s important that players can intuit what to do next in the game to win, as well as feeling there are meaningful choices to make along the way. This all starts with having a strong, knowable game structure to evaluate how you’re doing, which we can then build off of. This is why we’re starting with gold mattering a lot more, as this is one of the cleanest benchmarks of progression that almost all players understand.

P.S. We’re still working on that fireside to talk about the state of the game (and where we’re bringing it), but need some time to bake our thoughts. Thanks!

Also there is just an extreme amount of stuff in this patch you should read up on, including:

• You upgrade your equipment via gold at Basecamps, Boat Shops, and Wandering Shopkeepers
  
• You now drop half of your gold on death
  
• Powers below exotic are now soulbound
  
• Mobility adjustments across the Hunter roster
  
• You can link your Discord to import your friends list, send messages, and invite friends via Discord
  
• A new missions hub has been added to the lobby next to the queue button
  
• We are experimentally supporting controller gameplay
  
• Also:

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

NOTE: In most regions you can get Crysta for free by participating in the Discord quest! Go check your Discord quests to see if you’re eligible.

A new Hunter: Crysta, the Supercharged Burst Mage

• Reverberation (PASSIVE): Crysta’s abilities mark enemies that her basic attacks and ultimate can detonate.
  
• Maybelle & Boo (LMB): Fire a shot from your drone, dealing damage, and detonating Reverberation.
  
• Flux Snare (RMB): Fire an energy snare that does damage on the way out, then returns: pulling, dealing damage, and grounding targets it hits on the way back.
  
• Double Dash (SHIFT): A short dash with two charges. After every dash, Crysta shoots an empowered doubled basic attack, which can stagger monsters.
  
• Magireactive Burst (Q): Press to fire a damage zone to target location. Press again to detonate, dealing damage to enemies in the zone.
  
• Nuclarite Salvo (R): Fire a barrage of 5 energy beams at the target location, alternating over each shoulder, firing two projectiles on the last shot.

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We believe SUPERVIVE is best played with friends and so we’re partnering with Discord in order to make that easier for everyone. SUPERVIVE accounts can now be linked with Discord!

• Linking your Discord account will allow you to do the following:
  
  • See your Discord friends on your SUPERVIVE friends list
    
  • You can send party invites to your Discord friends, and they can accept them from in-game and/or from Discord itself
    
  • You can send Discord friend requests to your SUPERVIVE friends who have linked to Discord
    
  • Message them while in-game and have those messages persist between Discord and SUPERVIVE
    
    • NOTE: We do not have any access to your entire private DM history - our platform just acts as a data pipeline to Discord, who stores your messages on their platform
  • Display a rich social presence to Discord so friends can know how many minutes you are into your Squads game and when they can jump in.
• You can unlink in the settings menu

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

In the Beebo patch we changed matchmaking in Ranked to be based on a combination of both rank and your MMR. This has improved matches and ensured that players are being matched more consistently with people of similar ranks. Historically we’ve let GrandMaster players party with Bronze players, which as you can imagine can make fair matchmaking pretty difficult. You can continue to party with friends in normal games with no restrictions, but when it comes to earning RP, there are now limits to how far apart ranks can be within a party.

• The following is the full breakdown of allowed ranks (left is highest rank in your party, right is lowest rank allowed):
  
  • Platinum & lower <> Bronze
    
  • Diamond <> Gold
    
  • Master <> Platinum
    
  • GrandMaster+ <> Diamond

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

A major theme of feedback we’ve heard from players across all skill bands (especially new ones) is that the early game of SUPERVIVE is really free-flowing, which results in an experience where it’s hard to know: am I doing the right things? Am I playing optimally or not?

The changes we made to the leveling structure (removing daily level caps) was the first step. We’re continuing on that path to both simplify our various ‘progression bars’ in the game, as well as having two key measuring sticks of power: levels and gold earned.

• You now upgrade your equipment at Shops with gold
  
• Monsters mostly drop gold (Chargers and Screamers occasionally drop potions)
  
• All purple chests now drop guaranteed gold - along with other stuff
  
• You can now shop at Base Camps, Boat Shops, or wandering Shopkeepers
  
• The Anywhere Shop has been disabled
  
• Cooking is gone
  
• You must purchase consumables (VIVE Brew, etc) at Shops or looted from enemy deathboxes

• ‘Gold Score’ (a combination of ‘held gold’ and ‘spent gold’) has been added to the UI - this is shown in the top right, next to damage, and on the scoreboard next to Held Gold. You can use this score to roughly calibrate enemy strength in terms of what they’ve purchased for upgrades or compare farm rates with the rest of your team.

• Various parts of the economy have been tuned for this new gold world (including Shop costs and how much gold monsters give)
  
• All boss monsters except biome bosses (the ones that spawn after you’ve cleared the zone) have had their EXP and gold rewards significantly increased
  
  • EXP Increased about 2.5x
    
  • Gold reward increased from ~600 gold to always giving 2,000 gold for every nearby ally

• After the last night of the game, if there aren't any Shopkeepers in the game, one will be spawned at random and dropped onto the map after a short duration
  
• Also a reminder that if your team doesn’t own a Base Camp you can still upgrade and buy supplies at Boat Shops and wandering Shopkeepers.

• Deathboxes are now colored to reflect how much gold they have in them

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

A criticism of our day 1 revival rules is that there’s no early game consequence (valid). Trying to address that:

• When you die, you lose 50% of your gold

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

One of the biggest pain points we’ve heard with the leveling changes is that it can take forever to get your ‘kit unlocked.’ Part of what we liked about adding additional levels is more space between the kit unlocked breakpoint and getting your ultimate, so we’re shifting EXP from 1, 2, and 3 to levels 4, 5, and 6 so you can unlock your kit faster but still take the same amount of time to get your ultimate.

Attached to this, we overshot our changelist last patch in swinging the game too hard toward PvE farming, so we’re increasing the rewards of PvP (especially early game PvP) so those skirmishes matter in building a lead.

• EXP gained from knocking enemies has been increased across the board (when they are higher level, at-level, or below level)
  
• PvP knocks will grant a full level no matter what if you’re below level 3
  
• Opening boxes and vaults now give XP, which scales up with the phase of the game
  
• Level 1-6 EXP per-level requirements changed from 50/65/80/95/110/300 >>> 45/55/85/100/115/300

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

In our current gold-matters world, we’re seeing powers be deprioritized for the more guaranteed, reliable value of equipment upgrades (which you don’t lose when you die). We want players to be able to learn and appreciate the value of powers, so that starts with them being reliably accessible at least throughout a game session.

• All powers are soulbound, except exotics (meaning: powers don’t drop on death, only on team wipe)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

What we mean by monster staggering: when there is a blue circle under the monster, hitting them with an ability will ‘stagger’ the monster, dealing a large % of their health as damage, and making them take bonus damage for a set period of time. With PvE playing a larger role in the game, we’re going to continue refining mechanics so they feel interesting.

• Monster stagger windows are increased by 1 second
  
• Monsters now become staggerable at set health thresholds
  
• Stagger damage has been lowered from 60% total health >>> 25% total health (but there are more windows)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

In a world where split gold farming is more valuable, we’ve seen the desire for teams to split up even more in the early game. Basically this allows solo pods to break off and move further away from the main ‘team’ pod, faster.

• Team drop pod speed has been increased by +50%
  
• Solo pod drop speed has been increased by +200%.
  
• Detach from team pod time reduced from 1 >>> 0.5 seconds

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Adding a little more build texture for where you put your early-to-midgame ability levels.

• All Hunters can upgrade their primary attack (LMB), which will either grant +10% damage per upgrade or +20% ability power ratio (meaning they scale with your ability power)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We like that our action combat feels visceral and fast, but want to address cases that make you (or your target) feel out of control. These changes are targeted at making combat more predictable, knowable, and reactable by adding windowing—meaning clear windows or moments where you and your opponent can ‘see’ the next step in the combat flow and can micro-adjust, rather than just slamming out abilities.

Also to call out the addition of ‘winddown’ frames on Oath and Brall - we know that having mechanical optimizations for hyper-mobility is cool, but it creates an arms race where we either have to buff up the entire roster to match that level of speed and fluidity (we’re already seeing unreactable engagements) or we have to hold the line with reductions so there’s some form of parity. We choose the latter.

Anyway, going to call out the changes we’ve made explicitly toward our goals of mobility balance, the details of which will then be noted under the Hunter’s total changelist.

• Joule’s Voltaic Spear (RMB) now spawns a lightning orb after a brief delay, rather than instantly, so she can’t instantly combo the two abilities for a free, unreactable dash reset
  
• Joule’s Thunderstorm (R) has had its cast time increased and has a landing indicator
  
• Kingpin’s level 4 dash (SHIFT) is less effective at resetting his shotgun (LMB) attack speed so he can’t instantly mow you down with a combo
  
• When Brall and Kingpin cast their big windup ability (Brall’s RMB or Kingpin’s Q) and then immediately dash to negate the cast-time of the ability, they are now restricted in how much they can turn/aim that ability
  
• Brall’s Tether Strike (Q) impulse force has been decreased, cooldown has been increased, and level 4 upgrade now refunds less cooldown when an enemy is hit. Additionally, the tether now breaks if Brall is stunned, and cannot be activated if Brall is rooted or grounded
  
• Oath and Brall now have ‘winddown’ frames on certain movement abilities, where they can’t immediately use their glider to sustain momentum
  
• Bishop’s Blast-Off! (R) now has a cast time wind-up and has had its velocity decreased

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We’re hearing feedback that Bishop’s talents don’t have a lot of diversity, so we’re adjusting the other options to be more attractive, and giving her a general buff. Regarding the ultimate change - we like biasing her ult usage more toward offensive engages and less defensive ‘get out of jail’ use.

Rocket Launcher (LMB) - Big Rocket

• Empowered shots now deal +20% more damage and have +10% explosion radius

Displacement Charge (RMB)

• Level 4 upgrade now gives: -5 second cooldown and radius/impulse have been increased

Haymaker (Q)

• Level 4 upgrade now gives a shield for hitting multiple targets (up to 2) and reduces the cooldown by 1 second for each target hit

Blast-Off! (R)

• Initial cast time increased from 0.3 >>> 0.5 seconds
  
• Velocity decreased from 2500 >>> 2250

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Still does a lot of damage and is moving all over the place. We talked about the movement changes above, but to especially call out the winddown frames - we understand going from super-mobile Brall to this version might feel more restrictive, but we have to start clamping down on free movement to get to a more balanced world. Context on the RMB change: it’s an experiment where the spell is slower and heavier, but easier to aim—hopefully makes him feel rewarded for landing it, while being clearer to enemies.

General

• Brall’s Flame Step (SHIFT) and Adaptive Strike (RMB) dash now have ‘winddown’ frames where Brall can’t immediately enter a glider state to preserve extreme forward momentum

Blazing Spirit (Passive)

• Updated Blazing Spirit to be way more noticeable while also framing Brall more clearly

Adaptive Strike (RMB)

• Cast time increased from 0.35 >>> 0.55 seconds
  
• Brall can now aim RMB freely
  
• Now has a warning icon overhead of the Brall when casting
  
• Now displays separate cast bars for press and hold vs. tap
  
• Execution Slam
  
  • Execution multiplier decreased from 2x >>> 1.5x
    
  • Execution threshold decreased from 45% >>> 35%

Flame Step (SHIFT)

• Cooldown increased from 10/6/6/6 >>> 11/9/7/6 seconds
  
• Casting Adaptive Strike (RMB) and then using Flame Step (SHIFT) now restricts how far you can turn while dashing
  
  • This means you can flick your RMB a lot less if you try to use Shift to get around RMB’s cast time

Tether Hook (Q)

• Impulse force decreased from 2150 >>>> 1900
  
• Cooldown increased from 14.5/12.5/10/10 >>> 18/16/14/12 seconds
  
• Level 4 Upgrade now refunds 50% >>> 33% remaining cooldown when an enemy is hit
  
• Tether now breaks if Brall is stunned
  
• Tether cannot be activated when Brall is Rooted or Grounded

Combat Slide (SHIFT)

• Level 4 Upgrade now grants a 2 second Movement Speed buff on dash end

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We’re keeping an eye on Kingpin, but for now just trying to curb his more extreme combos.

Dash (SHIFT)

• Level 4 upgrade attack speed reset has been reduced from 100% >>> 50%
  
• Casting Primal Slam (Q) and then using Dash (SHIFT) now restricts how far you can turn while dashing
  
  • This means you can flick your Q a lot less if you try to use Shift to get around Q’s cast time

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We felt like Jin did too much damage with his LMBs when sticking on targets and had access to his ultimate too frequently. We still want him to fulfill his role as an assassin so we’ve adjusted his Q to be slightly more consistent.

Ash’Gara Warblade (LMB)

• Damage reduced by 20%

Flip Slash / Death Blow (Q)

• Red decals now display on both spells to better communicate hitboxes
  
• Death Blow base damage increased from 58/72/90/90 >>> 81/101/126/126
  
• Death Blow AP ratio scaling increased from 29%/36%/45%/45% >>> 38%/48%/60%/60%
  
• Death Blow execution damage scaling has been reduced from 100% <> 400% scaling to 100% <> 300% scaling from 0% to 80% missing health
  
  • Death Blow should do more damage than before until around the 60% health mark
    
  • Death Blow is slightly nerfed (~5%) to enemies below the 60% health mark

Feylight Clone (R)

• Cooldown increased from 40/35/30 >>> 45/40/35 seconds

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Previously, Joule could snapcast her RMB and dash through it immediately knowing that it’d give her a reset. This change means that she’ll have to pause before committing. We know adding more windows to someone as lightning-fast as Joule may feel disruptive, but as we’ve said before, we need to start clamping down on these unreactable, hyper-fast actions to get to a readable, balanceable game state.

Voltaic Spear (RMB)

• Lightning orb now spawns instantly >>> after a 0.5 second delay
  
  • NOTE: 0.5 seconds is the value we’re starting with. We still want Joule to feel like lightning, but we also want it to feel like there’s a breath for other players to react. This is a lever we’re looking to tune so tell us how you feel.

Surge (Shift)

• Dash explosion radius reduced from 200 >>> 160

Thunderstorm (R)

• Cast time increased from 0.15 >>> 0.3 seconds
  
• Landing indicator added

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We’ll just keep saying this: we know that having cool mechanical optimizations for hyper mobility is fun, but it sets the stage for a mobility arms-race where everyone needs to either be able to react to lightning fast engagements or have ones of their own. Gotta start somewhere.

General

• Oath’s Spin Dash (SHIFT) and Magnetic Hammer (LMB) attack now have ‘winddown’ frames where Oath can’t immediately enter a glider state to preserve extreme forward momentum

General

• Bugfix: Fixed an issue where Shrike’s Disengage (SHIFT) would sometimes get overwritten when trying to bunnyhop

Truetalon Rifle (LMB)

• Reduced cooldown from 1.7 >>> 1.5 seconds per shot (this increases her rate of fire)
  
• Proc-ing Raptor’s Mark (PASSIVE) can now stagger Monster

Scout Hawk (Q)

• Picking ward up makes you vulnerable and roots you now
  
• Doubled the health of the ward, and added health bar visuals

Dive-Bomb (RMB)

• Should feel better to use

• Gravity Orb (LMB) damage no longer scales continuously with time spent not firing. Instead, damage is binary (fully charged vs. uncharged)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We think the average SUPERVIVER-ian should be able to afford basic household goods, so we’ve asked vendors to lower prices and they listened (also they really upped their stock). One spicy one to note is that MOST WANTED is now available at the Shop - a hero play is just 3000 gold away.

Base Camp Shop Prices:

• Hypervive: 2000 >>> 1000 gold
  
• Jump Pad: 2000 >>> 3000 gold
  
• *NEW* Elixir of Health: 1500 gold
  
• *NEW* Elixir of Mana: 1500 gold
  
• *NEW* Elixir of Speed: 1500 gold
  
• *NEW* Most Wanted: 3000 gold
  
• *NEW* Ultravive: 5000 gold
  
• Deployable Base: 5000 gold
  
• Respawn Beacon (Unchanged): 8000 gold

Scan Grenade

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

If you’re tired of getting bush cheesed, try one of these out.

• Can now be picked up off the ground
  
• Increased cast range by 500

Abyssal Eye

• Holder can now see invisible units
  
• Only their vision cone can see invisible units

Blinkstone

• Cooldown increased from 12.5 >>> 20 seconds

Delicate Barrier

• DR linger duration increased from 0.5 >>> 1 seconds
  
• DR amount decreased from 50% >>> 30%

Ion Acres + Site 38

• Has received a Gameplay and Visual Update

New Map Area: Fortress (a sub-area of Chaos Steppes)

• Gameplay and Visual Update

Practice While in Queue

• A common request from players has been that once you’re queued you’d like to be able to jump into Practice.
  
• We’ve added a new queueing option so you don’t need to re-queue from Practice Mode

Custom Games

• You now have the ability to disable the Day 1 revival rules in Custom Games as a setting

Tutorial

• Removed parts that are no longer accurate

• "Fight!", "Group Up!", and "Help!" have been added to the ping wheel, now with new art

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We have new Keybinds to have your camera look at your teammates

• Holding F2, F3, F4 switches the camera to your ally location for P2, P3, and P4
  
• Keys are rebindable
  
• You still have control over your character while looking at your ally
  
• Will try and show ally deathbox if they're dead

• Added Announcer VO for 4 and 3 squads remaining
  
• Increased Ability VO cooldowns across the board (e.g., Ghost players will hear "Firing Downrange!" less often)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

VERY EXPERIMENTAL. TRY AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION BUT MAYBE TRY IN PRACTICE MODE FIRST.

KNOWN ISSUES:

• The Controller is known not to work in the following areas:
  
  • Out of Game
    
  • Drop Phase (selecting drop location)
    
  • When interacting with Shop UI / Death boxes
    
  • Interacting with other HUD elements (when fully eliminated)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

While some players are grinding ranked all day every day, for many other players Hunter’s Journey, Mastery, and the Battle Pass are the core of their progression experience. Daily and Weekly missions are one of the biggest sources of EXP and while we’ve had a missions tab, it was hard to notice and most players never really realized that they were there. We’ve created a new missions hub that highlights new missions available to you and should make it easier for you to identify things to do to level up faster.

• A new missions hub button has been added to the lobby
  
• When you have new missions it will light up with a notification
  
• When missions are complete, go back to the hub after your game to claim your rewards

• Void has received updated tooltips (thank you OmnipresentOatmeal!)
  
• Fixed an issue where Crystals that spawn in the second phase of Biome Soul Bosses would fall over and die on their own
  
• Mana Cloud: Updated activation VFX
  
• Hudson: If you hit an enemy with your ultimate, you are no longer yaw locked to face them
  
• Interact: Increased the interact buffer time from 0.2 >>> 0.5 second to make it easier to interact with things like sniper ward
  
• The Two-Way Tunnels and Beebo Hunter missions now progress if you get an assist while fulfilling the mission conditions, not just a knock (thank you for the suggestion Keldric Usugi!)

Welcome to the second patch of Season Zero, Arc One, Beebo’s… etc, etc. As with every patch, we’re trying to synthesize all of your feedback into a set of big, experimental changes to improve the game, which we’ll then learn from and continue iterating on in future patches.

Something to note: making large, systemic changes ends up having cascading effects on other areas of the game (and bugs… so many bugs), of which we sometimes miss. So if you find strange interactions coming from these big changes, please let us know on our Steam forums, Discord, or our social channels.

Finally: a request we’ve heard from many of you is to get a sort of “state of the game” fireside chat to hear about where SUPERVIVE is heading in the long-term. Heard! We’re thinking about this internally as well, but would like to request a little time as we cook, iterate, and learn for the future. Maybe give us a month or so.

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Since this is our first battlepass, we’ve been watching progression/completion rates and are feeling like we tuned this thing too aggressively, so we’re reducing the required EXP to complete the pass by roughly ~50%. We think the average player who plays an average amount of games should be able to reasonably finish the pass.

Simultaneously, we’ve been mapping out our patch cadence and realized we miscalibrated when the battlepass-ending patch would land - so we need to bring it in a week. All up, this is still a significant ‘buff’ (ie. easier to complete the battlepass) but we’re being transparent that it’s also coming with one less week.

• Overall, it should take less than half the time to complete the Season Zero, Arc 1 battlepass than before
  
• You will need to login and play a game for your battlepass progress to adjust to this patch
  
• If you play around 50 hours total and complete most weekly and daily missions, you should be able to finish the battlepass
  
• The battlepass end date has been updated to end on April 9th >>> April 2nd

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

In an effort to remove some of our more 'rules-y' systems and establish clearer paths to victory, we're testing removing the per-day level cap, increasing the maximum level for all hunters, and increasing equipment upgrade power. What we're hoping to see is that teams have more understandable paths to building a lead (when in doubt: farm for levels and upgrades) and others can better understand how they're behind.

• You will no longer be level-capped depending on the day - instead, monsters will always give EXP, with higher-level monsters giving a lot more
  
• Maximum level has been increased from 9 >>> 15
  
• All abilities can now be leveled up to 3 >>> 4, with the special bonus unlocking at 4
  
• You now gain +10 ability power per level, with base ability power being reduced
  
• Base equipment ability power/health has been reduced to 66% of previous values, while upgrades have been increased to 200% of previous values

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

A TL;DR here is: you will now be immediately rewarded for sniping knocks on higher-level teams, which should make comebacks far more immediate (previously you had to stomp the knocked wisp for the EXP, which made it very hard to even take an advantage on a higher level team). Additionally, farming/picking on lower-level teams won’t slam you into a massive lobby advantage because they’ll give less EXP overall.

• A knock is defined as: when you take someone’s health down to 0 and put them into a wisp state. A death or kill is when that player goes into a deathbox state.
  
• EXP is now granted at the KNOCK state, rather than the KILL state
  
• There are new PVP EXP calculations where knocking targets above your level gives a lot of EXP, scaling down to very little EXP for knocking targets below your level (so try to pick that juicy high-level target for a comeback)
  
• Repeated knocks on the same victim diminish by 50% each time (no blood bags pls)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

With a higher weight being placed on PvE farming, we’re making these guys a little easier to farm and solo.

Base Stats and Rewards

• Minions now spawn between level 6-15, rewards/level adjusted appropriately
  
• Minion backstab gone, except for Magma Brutes and Sand Brutes
  
• Minions now give 75% of the gold they used to give to account for more overall gold in the game due to more PvE farming

Counter damage and vulnerable state

• Counter damage means the damage the monster takes when you counter them (that is, using a boop/displacement/crowd control effect on a monster when it’s winding up with that blue circle under it). Vulnerable state is when the monster takes 2X bonus damage for a period of time after being countered. If you didn’t know about these things, then your PvEing is about to get a lot faster!
  
• Vulnerable state duration increased from 3.5 >>> 5 seconds
  
• Squad leader counter damage up from 40% >>> 60% total health
  
• Corrupted Guardian (biome leaders that spawn after clearing all monsters in the area) counter damage up from 5% >> 30% total health
  
• Abyssal Hatchlings up from 5% >> 30% total health
  
• Meteor Beast counter damage is 5% (unchanged) total health
  
• Final Abyssal counter damage up from 5% >>> 10% total health

• Level 14 & 15 now grant an ability point so you can take all your abilities to level 4
  
• If you acquire the EXP Meteor Soul at level 14, you'll instantly get 1 ability point
  
• If you acquire the EXP Meteor Soul at level 15, you'll instantly get 2 abilities points

• Players begin at Level 15, with 1 ability point to spend on a Level 4 ability
  
• Will match Arena behavior with the old levels

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We’re trying to reduce the endless lemming-zerg that happens on day 1 (especially at high level play). This should at least make things more manageable if a team is trying to slam bodies into an objective. In the next patch we’ll also offer the ability to turn off this rule in custom games.

• Timer is now based on how many times your TEAM has used a respawn (25 > 30 > 35 > 40 > 45 > 50 seconds)
  
• Previously it was the same sequence, but it would only increase when you INDIVIDUALLY respawned

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

An often-heard request is for more playstyle-changing (or evolving) ability upgrades. We’ll document the details of the upgrade under each Hunter’s section, but just noting so you don’t miss it.

• Celeste, Elluna, and Void have new level 4 ability upgrades

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Everyone’s still figuring this guy out, so we don’t want to over-buff for lack of familiarity.

Base Stats

• Toughness increased from 3 >>> 3.5
  
• Base health increased by 50

Beeb-omb (Q)

• Increased damage at all levels by 10%

Zeep Zeep (RMB)

• Fire Zeep’s damage-over-time now deals lethal damage
  
• Bugfix: Spell is no longer cast when leveled up

Tonk Tonk (R)

• Bugfix: Kart is no longer instantly destroyed when spell is cast near terrain
  
• Bugfix: General Kart behavior should be a (somewhat) smoother ride

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We want Brall to feel like an exciting, skill-expressive Hunter. These changes are targeted towards shifting away from LMBrall and reducing his oppressive mobility.

Historically, some of the worst feelings playing against Brall have come from him being able to repeatedly get value out of LMB without a whole lot of intentionality (SWOSH SWOSH SWOSH SWOSH). With this set of changes, we’re looking to introduce more mechanical skill-expression in both the “playing-as” and “playing-against” cases. Bralls will have to aim and track their targets better, whereas opponents will have more opportunity to use their movement options to dodge and weave.

Caldera, Molten Greatsword (LMB) / Blazing Spirit (Passive)

• Overall hitbox width reduced by 20%
  
• Sweet spot damage now applies to the entire edge of the hitbox >>> applies at the central tip of the hitbox
  
• Bonus damage from 3rd/4th consecutive LMBs removed. Previously, LMB was giving bonus damage on every swing after the 2nd.
  
• Empowered attack speed +100% >>> 0%

Volcanic Rebuke (R)

• No longer resets on Wisp execution

Flame Step (Shift)

• Flame Step no longer refunds all current charges when one charge comes off cooldown
  
  • New Cooldown per charge: 10/6/6/6 seconds

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

These changes are intended to sharpen Celeste’s role as a space controller on top of giving her more sandbox tools where she can really affect the shape of the battlefield. For the Celeste mains out there that specifically like to duel, these RMB changes are intended to provide more mechanical interest and options.

Frozen Barricade (Q)

• Celeste can reactivate Frozen Barricade to freeze it in place
  
  • Lasts for 6s when stopped
• +500 wall health at all levels
  
• Cast time decreased by 0.25 seconds

Cryo Spear (RMB)

• Now does between 30% - 150% damage based on distance traveled
  
• Now slows between to 40% - 10% based on how close the target is]

Skate (Shift)

• LEVEL 4 UPGRADE: Now creates ice islands underneath Celeste when she dashes over abyss
  
  • Repeatedly doing this over the abyss will reduce the lifetime of the ice islands
    
  • This resets if Celeste hasn’t dashed over the abyss for at least 20 seconds

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

With the earlier changes we made to Wisp burnout time, we wanted to give Elluna more options around her unique strength of picking up allies. We also remember there have been previous versions where Elluna had too much power in this respect. This is an attempt to give some of that back while still introducing meaningful windows for responses and counterplay. And for all the Brawllunas out there, check that level 4 upgrade on Righteous Root.

Moonlight’s Blessing (Q)

• Heal is 500% effective on Wisps
  
  • Depending on Moonlight Blessing’s ability level and your build, this heal is powerful enough to temporarily negate enemy stomps

Blessed Dash (Air Dash)

• [NEW] LEVEL 4 UPGRADE: Upon picking up an ally Wisp, if your cooldown is above 2 seconds, then set the cooldown to 2 seconds

Righteous Root (RMB)

• [NEW] LEVEL 4 UPGRADE: Detonation radius increased by +100%

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Everyone’s favorite stat-check benefits from the leveling rework more than others - especially when it comes to gaining bonus max HP (something he loves for his shield scaling). We’re preemptively adjusting.

• Toughness reduced from 4.5 >>> 4

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

After the great de-Hudsoning of last year, we’ve been slowly shifting power to areas where we think he should be strong - specifically when he’s set up and hunkered down (does anyone use that term anymore?).

Minigun (LMB) + Spin Barrels (RMB)

• TL;DR - We’ve swapped the ranges on base LMB and empowered LMB + RMB
  
• Base attack range (LMB) has been reduced from 1300 >>> 1150 range
  
• Empowered attack range (LMB + RMB) has been increased from 1150 >>> 1300 range

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

It’s worth calling out this mobility nerf is on top of the hotfix nerf we shipped last week where we removed his Q animation cancelling.

Ash’Gara Warblade (LMB)

• Nerfed the dash impulse on the charge by 10% - 40% based on timing
  
• Reduced damage by 5%

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

These changes are intended to give Void more options in skirmishes. For Voids that like to duke it out or find themselves pushed by other hunters, the Void Snap changes are intended to give you more maneuverability to either disengage or follow-up. For the more utility-oriented Void players, we thought that sharpening the defensive output from this ability upgrade would help you find more reliable value.

Void Snap (RMB)

• Void is slowed for 25% less when casting Void Snap
  
• [NEW] LEVEL 4 UPGRADE: On cast, Void gains +50 Movement Speed for 2 seconds. On impact, Void gains another +100 Movement speed for 2 seconds

Swap (Shift)

• [NEW] LEVEL 4 UPGRADE: Void and his allies gain a 300HP shield whenever they enter the outgoing teleport zone. This applies to Wisps.

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We think bunnyhopping (that is: using well-timed jumps to preserve forward momentum) on Zeph is cool and it’s a mechanic we want to keep. At the same time, being able to do so continuously without consequence has proven to be too much power (note: we’re aware other Hunters can also bunnyhop but that change had complications, so if you know you know and we’ll nerf it next time). Admin, he’s doing it sideways! (if you understood this reference, congratulations you’re old as hell)

• Each subsequent hop after the first is 90% as effective as the last in preserving forward momentum
  
• This ‘dampening’ resets after 6 seconds

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Goal here is to better associate the output of a spell with the input. Currently, there are times where spells activate long enough after the button press such that it no longer feels a part of the action. This should also reduce the number of unintended spell casts.

• Ability buffering means: when you press a button and can’t fire an ability for some reason (eg. you’re crowd controlled, there’s an overriding input, etc), the game will ‘preserve’ that intent for a little bit and keep trying to fire the ability
  
• Lowered the default buffer window from 0.3 >>> 0.2 seconds

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We’re asking you to fight a lot these days, which is resulting in a lot of sad third/fourth/fifth-partying shenanigans. So we’re trying to even the playing field for the fight-winning teams.

• Your mana is refilled upon knocking an enemy Hunter

[NEW] Beebo’s Boombox

• Plays otherworldly music that makes everyone in its radius invulnerable

[NEW] Thorn Shell

• Gain 10% damage reduction and 20% damage reflect for 2.5 seconds. Additionally, on activation gain an additional short burst (0.3s) of 75% damage reflect

Avalanche and Mega Avalanche

• They’re back and should no longer hit targets a few screens away from their path (lol)

Power Shuffler

• Now self-destructs when it upgrades a non-Exotic into an Exotic

Abyss Specialist

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Tracking an internal cooldown of 30 seconds is tough - especially for something as critical as “will I have an extra dash over the abyss or not?” With this change, it’s much easier to track if you ‘can’ proc Abyss Specialist, while also clamping down on extreme abyss mobility. Very elegant.

• Now consumes 50% of your glider gas instead of using a 30 second internal cooldown (if you have no glider gas, it will not proc)

Fate Rewinder

• Now only restores 50% of your previous HP, instead of all of it

Replicator

• Cooldown increased from 90 seconds >>> 5 minutes

Magnetic Vacuum

• Vacuum force on living players cut by 50%

Little Helper

• Death Grenade drop rate has been reduced

• PREVIOUSLY:
  
  • 14% Anywhere But Here
    
  • 42% Death Circle Grenade
    
  • 42% Ethereal Smoke
  • NOW:
    
  • 14% Anywhere But Here
    
  • 14% Death Circle Grenade
    
  • 28% EMP Grenade
    
  • 42% Ethereal Smoke
• Drop count is still 2 of the above items

Gnarl Heart

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

More farming, more gold, more Gnarl Hearts. While we always love a good Gnarl Heart into the “really silly endgame puzzle” play, we think it should be a hard-commit strategy to get the necessary gold.

• Increased price from 75,000 >>> 112,500 gold

EMP Grenade

• Throw a ground-targeted grenade that shreds armor and slows in an area-of-effect
  
• Deals 1 damage on explosion

Ascended Armor

• UI now shows Ascended progress towards next tier
  
• More differentiated audio ceremony when upgrading to each tier

Broken Armor

• Reverted to previous broken armor texture to differentiate more from Red Armor

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

The goal is to keep up with SUPERVIVE’s movement/combat pace and to make shopping a viable action more often.

• Drop duration lowered to 10 seconds at all times in the match (previously was 20 seconds in the early/midgame and 10 seconds at endgame).
  
• Power prices in Global Shop increased to 2,500/5,000/10,000/20,000 for Tier 1/2/3/Exotics
  
• Soulbound scroll price increased from 2,000 >>> 5,000 gold

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

A nerf to all you yimyams who were looting the academy, reading all the books, and then teleporting out.

• Academy Anomaly
  
  • The Anomaly will now be OFF at game start
    
  • The Anomaly will turn ON at the beginning of Day 2
    
  • Quality-of-life change: New player tooltip added to the anomaly

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Wellspring’s needed an update for a while. The area’s felt a little crowded with the different elements - vines, wind rings, abyss, geysers. The wind rings and the large amount of abyss also generally let you bypass needing to play around the geysers as the main traversal tool for the high ground surrounding it. We’re doubling down on this area’s namesake so this biome is giving its intended combat texture.

• Removed most Glide Rings from the biome
  
• Added a larger geyser at the center of Wellspring
  
• Reduce some of the abyss
  
• Better pathing from Desert traveling north into Wellspring

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

SUPERVIVE is most fun when you work together. We’re exploring ways to make it easier to non-verbally coordinate with teammates.

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Two goals - one is to add more fidelity to non-verbal ping communication so that you can communicate intent easier, and the other is to update ping voiceover to better match player intention.

• You can now double-press the ping button to issue a red "Enemy Here" ping
  
• "Let's Go Here" voiceover (VO) plays on default (ground) pings
  
• "I'm Going Here" VO now plays when the ping wheel's green arrow is used (used to play “Let’s Go Here”)

• Ping your HP bar to print your current HP & Mana into the chat
  
  • If your HP is below 50% your Hunter will also say "I'm hurt!"
    
  • If your HP is above 50%, but your mana is below 33%, your Hunter will say "I'm out of mana!"

• Ping your empty food to say "I need food!"
  
• Ping Vaults to say "Vault here!"
  
• Pinging Armor now correctly says "Loot here!"
  
• Updated chat messages associated with various contextual pings to improve clarity

• Using "Anywhere But Here" scroll or Teleport Soul now plays "I'm teleporting!" VO (used to say “I’m recalling”)

• You can now emote while dead to communicate important messages such as “Airhorn” to your teammates
  
• Emotes from dead Hunters have a radio effect on their audio to make clear that the person speaking is speaking from beyond their grave

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We’ve added VO to the Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down emotes (unlocked early in Hunter’s Journey) with the intention of making them more effective communication tools. Consider using these to inform allies that you agree… or disagree.

• Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down emote VO
  
  • “Thumbs Up” emote now plays “Roger That” VO
    
  • “Thumbs Down” emote now plays “No thanks / Nope” VO
• Decreased the number of Emote audio instances that can play simultaneously

Match History - Ally Record

• Match history now displays your allies names and provides a button to bring up their player context menu for invites and player reporting

Hunter Mastery Mission - Felix (Burned Out)

• No longer tracks number of knocks caused by Level 2 Ignite
  
• Instead, tracks number of times Level 2 Ignite is applied
  
• Refreshes of the same application do not count
  
• Thresholds are not changed in any way

Welcome to Season Zero, our first season of themed content after Open Beta launch. As a note, we may not stick absolutely to this theme, but we think it’s fun to have creative wrappers so here we are.

But before I get to the fun stuff, since this is our first patch back from the holidays, we should talk about how things are going and where we’re going with SUPERVIVE. First: we appreciate y’all playing and sticking around. Second: while things aren’t perfect, we did see improvements over the holidays (as measured by hours played, especially by new players), which we attribute to our experimental revival rule changes, ascending armor, and hunter mastery pass. We’re going to continue making big changes!

We also know not all of you will love all the changes we make, but we hope you agree that the current game as is is simply not thriving, which means we need to take big swings rather than small ones. This is what open beta is for! So expect us to be very experimental as we try to make the game deeper and more engaging for all - then it’s onto a 1.0 launch when we like what we see!

Now for context on this patch: for stability reasons we had to prepare most of this patch before the winter holidays, so we haven’t been able to act on all community feedback that’s come up over the holidays. For example, we do want to do some balancing on the new revival rules but since it’s a more complex system it’s too risky to slam in without extensive testing. It’s on our mind, however! Please just give us a bit to settle into our rhythm for the new year - thanks!

Matterball (PASSIVE) - Beebo’s Matterball lets him cross lava and other hazards safely. He is also 10% lighter than other Hunters

Bat (LMB) - Tap to swing Beebo's bat. HOLD to charge a powerful swing that deals significant knockback and damage

Zeep Zeep (RMB) - Press to fire a Zeep from Beebo’s slingshot. After firing, Beebo readies the next random shot. HOLD to cycle between Zeeps with different effects.

Schwoop (SHIFT) - Dash forward a short distance and gain a movement speed bonus for a period of time.

Beeb-omb (Q) - PRESS to throw a Beeb-omb that grows in size and damage over time. PRESS again to detonate!

Tonk Tonk! (R) - Drive a kart that picks up enemies and allies. Crashing into a wall deals damage to struck enemies. Recast to hop out early.’

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

By popular demand, he gets his own section, hehe. We hear you that Brall’s windows of vulnerability (and windows of opportunity) are too fuzzy, so here are some changes to meaningfully increase those windows on his mobility. Calling out the re-addition of the knockback: one thing it did was automatically create space when Brall was spamming LMBs on you, which we think helps create space against him.

Blazing Spirit (Passive)

• Dramatically reduced the amount of empowerment Brall gets from dealing damage to creeps

Caldera, Molten Greatsword (LMB)

• Damage has been reduced by 10%
  
• Hitbox width pulled in by ~30%
  
• Knockback has been re-added

Feysteel Chain (Q)

• Cooldown now begins counting down on second activation or chain break instead of when the ability is first activated
  
• Chain duration reduced from 7 >>> 5.5 seconds

Flame Step (Shift)

• Lv.3 Ability upgrade now gives less cooldown reduction from -3.5 >>> -2 seconds and dodging shots gives less empowerment energy from 95 >>> 65

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We significantly nerfed Hudson in a previous patch and have been thinking of ways to sharpen his other strengths in the meantime. Today we’re adding a little more conversation to Hudson's fortification abilities, which will let us in turn also dial up his power. Win win!

Barbed Wire (Q)

• Is now a destructible, with pass-through damage
  
• Health increases with ability level
  
• Width increased by 100
  
• Cast range increased and now shows a warning while lobbed
  
• Increased placement/lobbing duration when cast at max range (2x longer than the old speed)
  
• Increased total life time to 20 seconds at level 1/2, and 30 seconds at level 3

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

A common point of feedback we hear from players is they often choose the same evolves, over and over, for equipment. We’d like to add some spice to the system, and reward players for thinking on their feet.

• Blue tier equipment upgrades now have a 4th evolution choice: a Warped evolution
  
• Warped evolutions keep the base stats of the item, but can roll a random passive from any other item in the game - and sometimes come with additional benefits!
  
  • 75% chance: your warped evolution has a passive from any other blue equipment
    
  • 20% chance: your warped evolution comes with extra stats pulled from the evolution it got its passive from
    
  • 5% chance: your warped evolution has a unique ‘legendary’ passive! Currently there are 3 ‘legendary’ passives: Soulstealer, Glider, and Trail Blazer

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

A big point of feedback we’ve heard is that gold feels inconsistently valuable. Specifically because shops are inconsistently available, and (aside from armor) it’s hard to plan for what kind of inventory they have. We also want farming gold to be an “early game skill or strategy” that you can focus on in order to get better at the game, so we’re taking our first step with the Global Shop. This might not be the final shape of how we want to use gold as part of the strategic layer of SUPERVIVE, but let’s try it out!

• You can now shop anywhere. Default keybind is “V" to open the Global Shop (you can rebind via "Remote Shop" in keybinds)
  
• Upon purchase, a Delivery Drop Pod will be issued and sent down after with your requested Items. Normal time to drop is 20 seconds, which gets reduced in the late game
  
• Items purchased by allies while your team has an incoming Delivery Pod will be added to that Pod.
  
• Every match, 12 powers are rolled to be offered in limited quantities: 8 common/uncommon powers, 3 rare powers, and 1 exotic power
  
• The Global Shop has a smaller set of core items you can always purchase:
  
  • Hypervive
    
  • Green & Blue Armor
    
  • An Armor Repair Kit that repairs 1500 HP (3 bars) to your shield
    
  • ... and a Mobile Respawn Beacon
• Normal Shops no longer sell equipment or raw beans
  
• Each region’s shop has different default powers that you can reliably find

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

The main audience for this change was to teach newer players a skillset that’s a little foreign in the top-down camera setting: scouting for sound (shoutout to the music MOBA gamers). And because it’s a new behavior, we had to go a little more heavy-handed. On the other side, we hear you veteran players that this change felt like too much free information, and that it invalidated a skillset you’d been building over years of playtesting. Now that new players are adjusting and using the system, we’re toning it down as well as hitting the most egregious issues where pulses were pinging for VERY quiet sounds VERY far away.

• Max range for pulses has been reduced by 20% (that’s a total area reduction of 36%)
  
• Pulses within that range will no longer show if they’re at the lower end of their attenuation range (meaning very quiet sounds will no longer show up if they are at max range)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

With these changes, we’re trying to inject more variability in the early game strategy of SUPERVIVE, while also reducing the amount of exotics floating around in the endgame (particularly at high MMR) and adding more clarity/knowability when it comes to the high-end rarities.

• There is now a maximum of 8 >>> 4 exotics per game, except if modified by a storm shift
  
• Each game, these 4 exotics will be spread across:
  
  • 2 exotics in evil chests
    
  • 1 dropped by a first night boss
    
  • 1 as a Global Shop purchase

For clarity, we’ll list out the ways you can pursue legendary and exotic drops per game:

• 2 Evil Chests: Each contains an exotic item. As a reminder, if you get an evil key and both exotic items are claimed, the evil key will point toward the closest player with an exotic
  
• 2 Night Bosses: 1 spawns with an exotic, and 1 spawns with a legendary
  These will both spawn on the first night and will show their possible reward on the map.
  
• Abyssal Vaults: A special vault that holds an Abyssal Scale or Abyssal Eye legendary power. Can no longer spawn Abyssal Fang, which is now considered an exotic
  
• Train: Now always holds a legendary item at the start of the game
  
• Legendary Airdrop: A Legendary item that lands on the map at the start of day 3 in an airdrop
  
• Hot Zones: Randomly selected zones that hold 2 or 4 legendary armors. Can now also very rarely roll exotic armors

Item Rarities:

• LEGENDARY:
  
  • Mobile Beacon
    
  • 25,000 Gold
    
  • Deploy Base Camp Power
    
  • Glider Updraft
    
  • Wisp Magnet
    
  • Tier 5 Armor
    
  • Megashard
    
  • Soulstealer
    
  • Masamune (will now give you a basic dagger if you die and lose it)

• EXOTIC:
  
  • Replicator
    
  • Power Shuffler
    
  • Yearbook
    
  • Endless Reaper
    
  • Fate Rewinder
    
  • Armor Shredder
    
  • Mega Cluster Nuke
    
  • Blinkstone
    
  • Team Frog Jump
    
  • Guardian Archangel
    
  • Delicate Disguise
    
  • Abyssal Fang

• Successful non-perfect zone lockpicks will now spawn an Obelisk that deals half normal damage to the vault upon being destroyed

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

At a high level, our new revival rules are leading to new and solo players being able to survive longer in games, participate in combat, and thereby experience more of the session. As a result, we saw new and solo players sticking around with SUPERVIVE longer, which is obviously a good thing. We also check our survey results, and so far those responses are also positive. So overall: we like the change.

That said, no system is perfect and we know there are improvements we can make - resurgence is just a deep system that we didn’t feel confident putting in changes with limited testing for this patch. So this is context for why no changes were made for now.

• One-off Stealth effects like Brushwhacker or Ethereal Smoke are now removed on dash
  
• Active stealth effects like Mana Cloak are turned off on dash
  
• Always-on effects like Scuba, Delicate Disguise, and Night Soul are suppressed for 4 seconds on dash

• Dimensional Tunnel
  
• Deployable Fan
  
• Instant Fortress

• Power Shuffler can no longer reroll a power to Replicator
  
• Abyss Specialist now has an internal cooldown of 30 seconds

Unstable Portals

• Two-way portals will randomly spawn at the edges of the playable space for a limited amount of time

Berry Season

• The frequency of berries spawned in bushes across the map is dramatically increased. The amount that berries heal and restore is also increased substantially

• There are now “Mini-Warp” Anomalies found on the map. Step into one to see what happens!
  
• Academy now has a giant warp anomaly that will teleport you anywhere… but there
  
• Academy now has new Swamp territory to its right, adding a new combat space and making it so Academy is in play from session to session more often
  
• Scavenger Bay have been expanded into three discrete, more grokable combat spaces

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

As mentioned in our fireside chat last year, we want the battlepass to be a generous progression track that rewards you for playing, so we’re doing a few things to dial up the good vibes. The first is letting you go infinite through what you earn in the battlepass alone, as well as giving free-to-play players the ability to get a battlepass with enough time (and then go infinite). We also don’t want you to feel like you owe us your time if you purchased a battlepass, so we’re introducing a system called ‘juiced experience’ where, if you’re ‘behind the curve’ of battlepass progression, you’ll get an EXP buff for your games played to help catch you up.

• Season Zero comes with our first Battlepass! You can purchase the Battlepass for 1000 Theorycraft Coins (TC) or 300 VIVE Points (VP)
  
• Every battlepass contains a total of 300 VP, letting you purchase the next one for free
  
• We have also added VP to the free portion of the battlepass, so players can eventually buy a battlepass through regular play if they so choose
  
• When you are ‘behind the curve’ of battlepass progression (as in: behind the average player in progression), you’ll get a buff for all EXP gained while you are behind

Progression Trackers & Seasonal Missions

• New Progression trackers have been added to the lobby UI
  
• Just above your Progression Trackers, you’ll see a button that will take you to Season Zero’s Seasonal Missions, which are limited-time event missions that grant you exclusive Callsigns and cosmetic rewards

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

For open beta launch, we saw folks climbing much faster than anticipated in terms of their rank, so we’re implementing a few changes to clamp down on inflation while keeping the rank climb focused on the right actions. Regarding that solo player bonus - we know it’s sometimes rough out there as a solo player running into premades, so we’re trying a light solution because splitting the queues or adding premade restrictions adds another set of challenges.

Finally, for the shift on placement vs. elimination points distribution: today we think there’s not enough emphasis on mid-to-late game strategy, and want that to have a larger impact on your ranked progression, so we’re shifting the values to reflect this philosophy. The big danger if we go too far is that ratting becomes too prevalent of a way to climb - but we’ll be keeping an eye on this.

• There will be a full ranked reset with this patch
  
• This ranked season will last 3 months (until the end of March)

SYSTEM CHANGES

• Solo players now gain an extra +5 ranked points regardless of placement
  
• Ranked points required to progress between tiers has been increased from 100 >>> 200
  
• Ranked point ante costs will increase by 1 point for every 200 points you have at Grandmaster+
  
• As a reminder, last patch we changed ranked point changes from kills to team eliminations so that placements matter more than kill farming for climbing
  
• Below Master rank, you will get an extra ranked point bonus if your team gets a lot of kills but no team eliminations that game
  
• We've rebalanced the distribution of Ranked Points between Team Eliminations and Placement to weigh more toward Placement (think 60/40 where previously it was 50/50)
  
• Ranked matchmaking will attempt to match you based on your rank in addition to your MMR; this means you'll see less rank disparity in your matches

RANKED REWARDS

• Throughout this season, we’ll be offering ranked rewards and methods for tracking:
  
• Avatars - As you progress through the ranks, you’ll unlock Avatars that have borders to reflect your highest earned rank. You’ll be able to equip and use any rank you want via the Avatar selector
  
• Glider - At the end of Season Zero (April) we’ll be granting a custom glider based on your highest rank achieved
  
• Leaderboards - You can now filter ranked leaderboards by region or friends

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Not everyone likes to be on voice, and part of accommodating for that needs to be a better chat system, so we’re cleaning things up.

• Messages from your group/party will now always play a unique sound when a message is sent or received
  
• Sounds should be louder
  
• Pings send contextual messages to chat
  
• A variety of system messages like Day Night Cycle messages have been removed to reduce spamminess

• Fixed a bug that allowed dropped items to be duped by other players (thanks 슈선생 for discovering this!)
  
• Portuguese VO is now available
  
• Japanese text is now available
  
• You can now emote in the pre-game lobby… to the entire lobby
  
• Practice Mode now has Exotic Powers and Souls
  
• Social requests (invites and requests to join) can now be viewed from end of game screen or while spectating if fully eliminated
  
• You can now level up your equipment by pressing ALT + 1-4. You can adjust these keybinds in the settings as well
  
• AZERTY Keybinds have been added