Hi Coaches,
It’s time for the Season 5 kick-off! Here is the patch note listing all the changes applied before you enter the pitch in a few hours.
Features
- Crossplay
- Necromantic Horror faction
- 2 new starplayers: Skrull Halfheight and Gretchen Wachter
Rules update – Latest Games Workshop Errata
- Guard skill will now only activate on blocks, including as part of a Blitz Action
- Underworld Denizen snotlings no longer have the Swarming trait
Menu
- Fixed an issue where wrong text would appear in formation tab when creating a new formation
- Fixed an issue where invitations to competitions didn’t appear in notifications
- Added progress bar when going offline
- Added an ordering by number of participants in competitions
- Fixed various controller navigation issues
Match
- Fixed an issue where intensive training ui would be partly or completely hidden in some cases
- Fixed misleading turn indicator in specific drive setups
- Fixed an issue where the player mesh would be desynced with his actual position after a Shadowing, using Diving Tackle or reconnecting in some cases
- Fixed an issue where the player card of an injured player wouldn’t appear whe using the apothecary
- Fixed an issue where positional circles wouldn’t follow their players during solid defence koe
- You can now use both Pro and Brawler on the same block action when allowed
- Fixed an issue where 3d dices didn’t appear during Hypnotic Gaze
- Fixed an issue where a player could use pro with no effect during a blitz kick-off event
- Fixed an issue where Hypnotic Gaze trait is not greyed out on the action wheel when a prone player is selected
- When using Fend, the wheel now appears on the player using the skill and not on the destination square
- Fixed an issue where you could skip formation when pressing end turn during the ending sequence of a drive
- The first dice roll when using the pass skill is now written in the logs
- Fixed an issue where chained dices would appear twice in the logs
- Fixed an issue where treeman couldn’t use multiple block after being rooted
- Blitz cannot be activated by a rooted player anymore
- If both players get the same prayer to nuffle, both team logos will appear in the prayers tab
- Fixed an issue where throwing a prone team mate on the opponent ball carrier would cause a turnover
- Fixed an issue where a thrown player that fails his landing but doesn’t break armor could not be activated
- Fixed an issue where a player could activate a blitz a second time when failing Animal Savagery
- Moles under the pitch prayer can now activate twice and stack its effect if both players get it
- Fixed an issue where a ball that fell in a trap would bounce if a player succeeds it’s pickup and trap test
- Starplayers don’t activate animosity anymore
- Modified timers for prayers, the timer resets everytime a question is asked so players can react accordingly
- A -1 now applies on Brilliant Coaching roll when a coach has been sent off
- Fixed an issue where when a player fumbled a pass, any adjacent player wouldn’t be able to catch it
- Fixed an issue where a player with Wrestle would blitz another player with Wrestle, activating Juggernaut skill even though the player blitzing doesn’t have it
- Fixed an issue with Diving Tackle when triggered after a team re-roll usage during a dodge
- Fixed an issue causing a ball carrier using Pile Driver skill not triggering a turnover
Known issues
- Match UI displays Guard assists on fouls planification (visual issue only)
Visuals
- Fixed various clipping issues
- Added missing vomit fx in gobbler grimlich emote
- Added balls in Eldril Sidewinder’s juggling emote
- Fixed issue where the emote wheel would overlap the dice wheel
Official ladder changes
- The win streak bonus is now more restrictive: the bonus will start being effective on your third win in a row (instead of two, currently)
- There will no longer be win streaks bonuses in diamond division (currently only stopped for master division)
- The starting division of a new team will now be 1 division lower than your highest: if your highest division last or current season is platinum, your new teams will start on gold division. Platinum remains the highest starting division possible for diamond and master players.
- TV cap is raised to 1700
See you on the Pitch for the new season!
