Update 8.9.0

Added the Blast Off Sour Core limited-time mode.

Cashout: Added more commentator voice line variations when a team is wiped

Customization: Added description to heads and headwears that modify the Contestant’s voice

Added support for Instant Replays on Xbox Series S

Practice Range: Added the Heaven or Else leaderboard trophy

Added a spectator option to hide player names and health bars beyond 80m, with a toggle to control visibility at long distances

Added an option to hide all HUD elements in Spectator mode, including world icons and scoreboards

Spectator: Added more fine-grained camera control

UI: Added a confirmation dialog when creating a new Contestant from Playstyles

UI: Added mouse-over sounds to voice customization and expression lists

Updated the sprint animations for Recurve Bow and Sledgehammer

Improved jump/landing transition animations while winding up Grenade throws

Improved animation blending when inspecting during manual reload on ARN-220 and M26 Matter to prevent hand and finger clipping

Customization: The Web Designer Pet now moves smoother

Gameplay: Improved destruction to reduce jitter and prevent buildings from ‘jumping’ during collapses by adding velocity limits and adjusting post-break impulse behavior

Optimized the time it takes to transition in and out of Instant Replays

Sys$horizon: Slightly adjusted some of the cubes around the voxel bridge connecting the two Library wings to remove some narrow unexpected sightlines between them and make climbing into the upper floors more intuitive

Practice Range: Optimized shader cache based on graphics quality. Reduces precompiled shaders by ~25% and PSO memory usage by ~20%

Practice Range: Various optimizations to textures, graphics and collision meshes in order to lower memory usage

Practice Range: Rebalanced raytraced global illumination graphics quality settings to improve performance

Practice Range: Improved performance on the Weapon/Gadget customization screen

Practice Range: Improved performance by optimizing audio systems

Practice Range: Improved threading efficiency on CPUs with low core count

Private Match: Host can now set squad colors separately for spectators and players

Private Match: Spectators can now see which player is currently stealing a Cashout in the team HUD

Social: Improved reliability and performance of rich presence to more consistently show player status to friends

Social: Friends set to invisible/hidden on their platform no longer trigger “went online” entries in the event log

Social: We’re testing a new voice moderation tool, so all voice chat settings are turned off by default in this Update. Go into your settings to re-enable your voice chat by enabling voice moderation

Social: Improved Discord friend presence updates: when a friend returns from Invisible/Offline, their status now refreshes correctly instead of appearing as Online Elsewhere or In Main Menu

Social: The ‘join game’ functionality is no longer shown on your Steam profile. Now random friends will not be able to enter your party uninvited

Improved spectator experience by making the spectator launch into the follow player view after the initial tunnel sequence

Improved spectator death camera: when spectating in first-person and the player you’re watching is eliminated, the camera now briefly tracks the killer before transitioning to their perspective for a smoother handoff

Spectator HUD: team background color now covers the full bottom bar

Spectator: Changed the default keybind for toggling ranged health bars from L to Y while spectating on Mouse & Keyboard to avoid overlapping inputs

Improved spectator team view with a gradient backplate and corrected horizontal alignment in the right-side

UI: Clarified the Social screen by adding separate labels for muting and unmuting voice and text chat

UI: Restored missing compass in certain event modes

Ranked Tournament: Improvements on the tournament introduction and outro screen now more accurately represent the selected archetype and, in some cases, will show more customization options

Ranked Tournament: The Windows activity bar will now flash to notify players of a started game

TeamDeathmatch: We have now added Match Recap to TDM!

The scoreboard now considers ongoing Cashouts when sorting teams

Animation: Fixed a first-person visual issue where the Heavy body could briefly clip into view when sliding when looking down

Animation: Fixed an issue where the first-person arm could sweep across the screen when repeatedly picking up and dropping Arena Carriables

Fixed a brief distortion in the Recurve Bow charging animation when starting a shot immediately after attaching to a Zipline

Fixed a first-person animation issue that could make hands look distorted when inspecting the Pyro Grenade while vaulting

Fixed an issue where the throwing animation could loop after firing the Recurve Bow and quickly swapping to throwable gadgets

Fixed a first-person animation issue where the left hand could jitter or clip when performing the Dagger Primary Attack, followed immediately by charging a Secondary Attack

Animation: Fixed an issue where C4 could visibly snap toward the hand when throwing while inspecting

Fixed missing animations in places such as self shadows, emoting, or using the Mesh Shield

Fixed an issue where animations could end up in a distorted state after teleporting through a Gateway

Fixed an issue where Gadget throwing animations could play when vaulting

Animation: Fixed an issue where the Throwing Knives of choice did not appear when thrown

Fixed cases where melee attack animations could fail to play after using a Gadget for Spear, Sledgehammer, Dual Blades, or Dagger

Customization: Fixed emote holograms overriding the props on gestures

Customization: Fixed an issue where performing actions like reload or inspect during an emote could reset the equipped weapon animation to the default animation

Customization: Fixed the rifle hologram in the Top Billing Emote from ALFA ACTA so it now renders correctly on player cards and billboards and appears as a proper hologram instead of a solid mesh

Customization: Fixed a visual issue where the left hand could briefly flash on screen while crouching or inspecting during the Model 1887 cycle action when using the Dough Wrangler or Eclipse Shade skins

Gameplay: Fixed an issue where destruction updates could desync the strain system, causing structures to break excessively

Gameplay: Fixed an issue where Vanishing Bomb invisibility could persist after firing the last bullet of some Weapons

Gameplay: Fixed an issue where changing between crouching and standing during an interaction (e.g. stealing) could cancel it when near the edge of the interaction range

Gameplay: Fixed an issue where you couldn’t respawn with a token after being revived while the loadout screen was open

Gameplay: Fixed an issue where the incorrect team would win in Powershift if Overtime was triggered while the platform was at the center of the map

Gameplay: Fixed an issue where the healing emitter would sometimes not starting healing after throws

Fortune Stadium: Fixed Zipline rotation to ensure correct orientation

Kyoto: Fixed grass clipping through Jump Pads and improved their integration with better level dressing and guidance

Kyoto: Corrected in-world branding visuals

Las Vegas: Fixed some ladders and Ziplines around the ENGIMO building having the wrong color

Practice Range: Fixed an issue where the Loadout selection overlay didn’t block background input

Practice Range: Fixed an issue that could cause overly blurry textures and lowpoly meshes when running close to video memory limits

Fixed an issue where navigating the Private Match lobby could move focus out of visible options and cause lost menu control when confirming with a controller

Fixed an issue where the Social menu didn’t update immediately. Requests, Recent, and Blocked tabs now refresh without needing to leave and re-enter the Social menu

Social: Fixed a VoIP issue where leaving a match while in a party would mute both members, requiring them to re-enable voice chat

Social: Fixed a bug where the Xbox icon was shown on the Xbox platform for Discord-only friends

Spectator: Fixed an issue where UI glitch/burst damage effects could persist on screen after switching from Follow Player to Free Camera while spectating in Private Matches

Stability: Resolved a rare crash that could happen when ending a private lobby session

UI: Fixed an issue where game mode specific Loadouts could not be re-ordered

Fixed an issue where newly purchased weapon skins and other customization items were not equipped after purchase when selecting equip

UI: Fixed multiple bugs where Fans earned at End of Round could appear negative

Cashout: Fixed an issue where the distance to the objective was not visible on objective icons

Cashout: Fixed an issue where the Cashbox distance marker could flicker when many world icons were on screen

Cashout: Fixed an issue where, if an opposing team is in possession of the Cashbox when a squad respawns, the Cashbox icon could go invisible forever

Fixed an issue where the Clubs background theme showed incorrect colors or defaulted to red after viewing the end-of-round landing page

Spear: Fixed an issue where the secondary attack could become unresponsive for a few seconds if it was interrupted by the Winch Claw

Private Match: Removed the round counter from the Choose Contestant Pack screen when a mode has only one round (e.g. Blast Off)

UI: Removed non-functional Create Contestant button when at the maximum number of Contestants