Season 1 Launch - Release Patch Notes 1.2.0

Combat Animations: Added third-person reaction animations for Flashbangs, Gas, and Fire.

Added sensitivity scaling based on zoom FOV

Aim Assistance: Added better support and various improvements for sensitivity dampening on targets

Controller Settings: Added setting to allow players to further customize their controller experience

Controller Settings: Added separate dead zones for the different analog sticks

Skyway Stadium: Added ‘Evening’ environment condition

Cloaking Device: Added fade-in/out visual effect

Added a new hitmarker to crosshairs for damage over time effects

Introduced Throwing Knives to the Light archetype

Added ability for defibrillators to damage enemy players. They will do 50 damage and will enter cooldown if they land a successful hit

Gas Mine: Added trigger audio effect

Stun Gun: Added glitch effect to stunned players, rendering their Specialization and Gadgets unusable for a short time

Introduced Vanishing Bomb gadget to the Light archetype

Added line break effect to Ziplines

New ways to express yourself in the arena! Such as: Reload and Inspect animations, Emoticons, Gestures, Pets (!!!), Sounds, Watches

New ways to express yourself in the arena! Such as: More? Yes, more!

Content Updates: The Store is open and you’ll have access to an ever-changing selection of content to make your contestants pop in the arena.

That amounts to 96 exclusive rewards

29 rewards can be earned for free!

Unlock the whole BattlePass to receive a total of 1575 Multibucks!

Play and progress, master your loadout with: 6 Mastery Levels per weapon

Play and progress, master your loadout with: 6 Mastery Levels per gadget

Play and progress, master your loadout with: 5 levels per ability

New Map Las Vegas: Test your luck and reach for the stars in the glitz, glam, and tight-knit gameplay of this glittering arena

New Map variants: Don’t get lost in stinging sands! Seek shelter and glory in this Las Vegas map variant: Sandstorm.

New Map variants: Tripwires & turrets: The environment can work for or against you. Traverse Vegas but watch your step, around every corner could be a trap.

New event: Alien invasion: You’ll have to see this one to believe it. It’s outta this world!

Movement: Made multiple updates to vaulting responsiveness and general smoothness when traversing

Movement: Updated various first-person animations to better sync with footsteps

Movement: Improvements to syncing and stability when players are on moving surfaces such as elevators, sky-lifts, cranes, and moving platforms

Movement: Improved speed-matching and added in-air animations when coining other contestants

Movement: General polish updates to third-person locomotion

Combat Animations: Stabilized the camera for aim down sight reloads and bolt actions, for easier tracking of targets

Combat Animations: Updated jumping and zipline animations when aiming down sights

Combat Animations: Reworked the animations for the Charge’N’Slam specialization

Aim Assistance: Updated default aim down sights sensitivity reduction

Aim Assistance: Reduced zoom snapping active duration

Controller Vibration: Settings added

Finally, the wrecking ball is back! Check the cranes.

Monaco: Improved readability of map border

Charge’N’Slam: Updated damage of the ground slam so that it will break floors in buildings more consistently

Cloaking Device: Rebalanced fade-in/out durations to make it harder to vanish mid-combat

Recon Senses: Reduced the total fuel, shortening the max duration

Updated bullet dispersion system on all weapons when aiming down sights

AKM: Updated recoil pattern, making it slightly less easy to control

FCAR: Updated recoil pattern, making it slightly easier to control

Flamethrower: Max range reduced by 60 cm

Flamethrower: Fire rate reduced to 160 RPM from 180 RPM

Adjusted Flamethrower impact effects to make them less blinding for the target player

Flamethrower: Reduced damage to 28 from 31

Lewis Gun: Updated recoil pattern, making it slightly easier to control

LH1: Increased bullet dispersion when firing from the hip

LH1: Updated recoil pattern, making the weapon easier to control

LH1: Fire rate reduced to 300 RPM from 400 RPM

Increased LH1 damage from 41 to 45

M60: Updated recoil pattern, making it slightly less easy to control

V9S: Magazine size reduced to 20 from 24

V9S: Updated recoil pattern, making the weapon less easy to control

V9S: Increased damage fall-off to make the weapon less effective at long-range

C4: Increased health from 5 to 25

Glitch Grenade: Fuse time increased from 1.1s to 1.8s, giving it more range

Sonar Grenade: Radius reduced from 17.5m to 10m

Updated the crosshair hit marker that appears when the Sonar Grenade detects targets

Tactical Breach: Increased health from 5 to 25

Grapple Hook: Fixed a bug where players could become stuck when grappling during a vault

Fixed an issue where Recon Senses would trigger on enemy statues

Fixed various issues where weapons could fire infinitely or not at all

Fixed an issue where Gadgets could become stuck in an infinite cooldown

Fixed a bug where the Flamethrower could be fired without consuming ammo

Fixed an issue where the Riot Shield could block bullets while the player was emoting

Removed Night Vision from the game, to be reworked in a future update

Stun Gun: Removed sensitivity reduction from stunned players