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v10.6.0

Midseason Update 10.6.0

Released

PC · PlayStation · Xbox

Midseason Update 10.6.0 brings balance changes to the Vanishing Bomb, Guardian Turret, .50 Akimbo and Chimera-XB and 38 bug fixes.

Added7

  • Added the Dragon’s Claim limited-time mode.

  • Cosmetic: Added Item Status Indicators to the Maw of Many Multidevice skin

  • Cosmetic: Added back compatibility between Puck Stopper and Dede's Mask as well as other masks that appear on the side of your head

  • Cosmetic: Added compatibility between face masks and Duskvane Helmet and Tradition's Edge

  • Added Dragon’s Claim to Private Matches

  • Social: Added a noise suppression option for voice chat to reduce background noise

  • Added a Spectator Zoom Speed slider in Gameplay Settings to adjust third-person zoom speed

Changed40

  • Vanishing Bomb: Decreased the duration of invisibility on the user from 6s to 5s

  • Vanishing Bomb: Increased cooldown from 18s to 22s

  • Increased the minimum distance a player must spawn from enemies when using a coin by approximately 20%. This impacts Cashout, Ranked Cashout and Quick Cash modes

  • Ranked Tournaments: Recalibrated league rank distribution to more evenly distribute players across the different ranks

  • Decreased the time it takes for Goo to break when overlapping a player from 0.8s to 0.35s

  • Reverted a change made in 10.3 that constrained how high players could be launched when combining the Shockwave with the Jump Pad

  • Guardian Turret: Increased the vertical vision angle from +-45 degrees to +-60 degrees, making it easier for the turret to attack targets above and below itself

  • .50 Akimbo: Decreased max bullet dispersion when firing from the hip from 8 to 7.5, making the weapon slightly more accurate

  • .50 Akimbo: Decreased the default hip fire dispersion when firing from the hip while standing from 2 to 1.8

  • .50 Akimbo: Decreased the default dispersion when firing from the hip while moving from 2.6 to 2.2

  • Chimera-XB: Decreased damage falloff minimum range from 20m to 17.5m, giving the weapon a slightly shorter effective range

  • Chimera-XB: Decreased damage falloff max range from 30m to 27.5m, giving the weapon a slightly shorter effective range

  • Chimera-XB: Decreased damage falloff multiplier from 0.6 to 0.53, meaning the weapon now does slightly less damage at range

  • M11: Increased damage falloff max range from 17.5m to 20m, giving the weapon a slightly longer effective range

  • M11: Decreased damage falloff multiplier from 0.52 to 0.45, meaning the weapon now does slightly less damage at range

  • Spear: Increased the cap on how many player targets a spin attack can hit from 8 to 24

  • Spear: Increased the cap on how many non-player targets on spin attack can hit from 20 to 60

  • V9S: Decreased magazine size from 20 to 18

  • Improved interactions with the right arm so they now track the target while looking around with the camera. This is purely visual and no boundaries on interactions have changed

  • The cannon audio is no longer muffled by its barrel in Monaco

  • Audio: Sliding sound now fades out faster when a slide is canceled

  • Improved handling of replay and reconnect audio to prevent lingering sounds (e.g., objective and emote SFX)

  • Cosmetic: For visual improvement, we removed the ability to use Crossbody items with the following Upper Body items: Skill Issue Vest, Predator Payload, Creamline Vest, Vaiiya Firewall Vest, Ospuze Tactical Vest and the Flak Vests

  • Cosmetic: Flower crowns should now work with more Face items

  • Cosmetic: Improved cloth simulation performance

  • Expressions: Updated the Major Coronation expression so that Nama Tama’s face is visible from further away

  • Glitch Trap: Can now be pinged

  • Pinging a placed Proximity Sensor now shows the correct icon, event log message, and voice line

  • Gameplay: Scissor lifts now stop when a Contestant is underneath, preventing clipping underground or out of bounds

  • Eliminations caused by opponents hitting a Hover Pad and falling into a death pit now correctly credit the Contestant who placed it

  • Reduced the depth of the floor indent below an escalator for smoother traversal in Fangwai City, Las Vegas, and Las Vegas Stadium

  • Monaco: Tweaked Vault placement and sped up defender approaches in the first phase of Point Break

  • Social: The “X Contestants joined the party” message now shows the correct party size to all party members without appearing twice

  • Improved visuals for the Match Summary Screen

  • Improved playstyle images in the unlock screen with higher-resolution art and refreshed icons

  • You can now see which tournament round you are in, in the tab scoreboard

  • Sights now show their zoom level (Slight, Enhanced, Strong) in the equipment screen when selected

  • Point Break: The Team list now shows all the players in your team, but in a more compact way

  • Point Break: Requesting a revive now displays a revive request marker to help teammates locate your Statue

  • End-of-round Progression screen now shows a checkmark when a Sponsorship track is finished

Fixed38

  • Fixed an issue where the ARN-220’s inspect animation could stop midway and get stuck in a pose

  • Riot Shield: Fixed an issue where custom hand gestures would not play

  • Fixed an issue where sprinting sideways or backward with the Spear caused it to cover too much of the screen

  • Fixed a several bugs and inconsistencies regarding hand gestures

  • Audio: Fixed an issue where audience sounds could cut out completely in the middle of a round

  • Audio: Fixed issues with Weapon firing sounds getting stuck when switching perspective while spectating

  • Audio: Fixed Vault and Cashout Station sounds getting stuck if a Practice Range challenge was cancelled

  • Audio: Fixed an issue where music could end earlier than the squad intro

  • Cosmetic: Fixed an issue where the Contestant voice was not modified while wearing the Critical Hit Mask

  • Expressions: Fixed an issue where the opening sound effects of the Furry Fury and Headstrong emotes were not audible in matches

  • Fixed a bug where trying to pick up objects (e.g. Barricade) could get unintentionally cancelled

  • Fixed an issue where Orbital Lasers audio and visual effects could replay after you respawned and returned to your point of elimination

  • Gameplay: Fixed an issue where the Revive Statue could clip into walls or doors when dropped, thrown, or when the carrier was eliminated

  • Fixed an exploit where certain actions could move Cashout Stations much farther than intended

  • Charge ‘n’ Slam: Fixed bug where hitting an enemy with a Melee Weapon at the same time as cancelling Charge 'N' Slam would cause an unintentional boost in movement

  • Fixed an issue where Practice Range Challenge bots would shoot the base of Guardian Turrets (dealing no damage)

  • Fixed a bug where the default AKM could sometimes appear over your selected Loadout at spawn

  • Fixed an issue that allowed players to ping cloaked Contestants

  • Fixed an issue on controller where switching from H+ Infuser to a Weapon could sometimes trigger a false firing animation on M11, XP-54, LH1, SH1900, V9S, 93R, M26 Matter, and ARN-220

  • Monaco: Fixed missing shadows on a cliffside corridor

  • Monaco: Fixed a visual issue where the map ceiling was visible during the tournament intro

  • Seoul: Fixed issue with invisible collision on a corner architecture piece

  • Social: Fixed an issues where voice chat could break after opening platform UI

  • Spectator: Fixed an issue where items did not correctly display their active state while spectating

  • Stability: Fixed a crash that could occur during tournament intro/outro on some Arenas

  • Stability: Fixed a crash that could occur at the end of a Tournament

  • Stability: Fixed an issue that could cause the loading screen to remain visible and block gameplay

  • Stability: Fixed an issue that would sometimes result in a crash when switching Contestants

  • Fixed an issue where New indicators in the inventory did not clear for some Multidevice items

  • Fixed an issue where Vault and Cashout icons could become invisible after elimination

  • Fixed an issue where Contestant icons could appear as black tiles or load with a delay in the Choose Contestant Pack screen

  • Fixed an issue where weapon level skin rewards were not shown in the end of round Progression tab

  • Fixed an issue where Sword, Dagger, Dual Blades, Riot Shield, Sledgehammer, and Spear showed incorrect ammo counts after spawning at the start of a match

  • Fixed an issue that sometimes caused sliders in settings to step to an incorrect value when editing with a controller

  • Fixed bug where reconnecting Teams caused incorrect sorting in the scoreboard

  • Fixed an issue where the New marker on the Contestant button in the Home screen did not appear for some new items

  • Fixed an issue where the World Tour progression screen ended too quickly after the progress bar completed, improving readability of your updated score

  • Fixed an issue where reloading the Model 1887 or CB-01 Repeater could desync the ammo count when interacting with a zipline mid-reload

Removed4

  • KS-23: Disabled trigger-hold delay on the pump action, reducing the chance of shots being delayed by misclicks

  • M26 Matter: Disabled trigger-hold delay on the pump action, reducing the chance of shots being delayed by misclicks

  • Model 1887: Disabled trigger-hold delay on the pump action, reducing the chance of shots being delayed by misclicks

  • Removed the button click sound when opening the scoreboard in the MVP screen

Embark released Midseason Update 10.6.0 on May 7, 2026, during Season 10 (Fantasy League).

Notable balance numbers: Vanishing Bomb: Decreased the duration of invisibility on the user from 6s to 5s. Vanishing Bomb: Increased cooldown from 18s to 22s. Guardian Turret: Increased the vertical vision angle from +-45 degrees to +-60 degrees, making it easier for the turret to attack targets above and below itself.

Added: Added the Dragon’s Claim limited-time mode; Cosmetic: Added Item Status Indicators to the Maw of Many Multidevice skin; Cosmetic: Added back compatibility between Puck Stopper and Dede's Mask as well as other masks that appear on the side of your head.

The patch also carries 38 bug fixes.