Patch Notes — August 28, 2024

General

New Vehicle: VTOL Tank

• A scout tank with a four shot auto-cannon that can fly to hard to reach vantage points
• Ability: Transform into a jet to propel into the air for a short duration. The jet can glide after the propulsion until it lands on the ground again.

Ammo Slots Reworked (slightly)

• Any shell type can now be equipped in the third shell slot
• Capturing an ammo zone now also unlocks a fourth random shell type (the random type is consistent across a match for all players)
• Tanks with magazines now get more shells from ammo zones (they get a multiple of their magazine size)
• Shell swap time increased to 3s from 2s
• High Explosive shell damage bonus lowered to 30% from 40%
• High Explosive shell penetration lowered to 40 from 50
• Gargantuan shell damage bonus lowered to 20% from 25%

New Ping Types

• You can now hold the T key to select between two different types of pings - “Watching Here” and “Defend Here”
• Tapping ping on an enemy will trigger an “Attack this enemy” ping
• Tapping ping on yourself will trigger a “Help me” ping
• Note: The audio and visuals for these pings are still very placeholder
• Aiming reticle is now smoothed and stabilized when peeking over hills or rocking your hull
• Vehicle suspensions have been tuned across the board
• Vehicle movement should generally be more predictable
• Swapping to legacy controls in the settings menu now sets the Shift Key to entering sniper mode and Right Mouse Button to - Hold Turret

Maps

• There are now many different configurations of power-ups that can spawn on Fields

Vehicles

Donor - Ram Tank

• Max speed reduced to 40kph from 44kph
• Armor model updated to be slightly easier to track

Kwame - Force Push Tank

• Side armor improved for better sidescraping

Sonar Tank

• New placeholder model that’s more directionally accurate to where we want to take the armor model
• Fixed an unintentional weak spot on its gun mantlet

Siege Tank

• Reworked to operate more like a sniping Grille than a 4005
• Reworked ability: Transforms into a stationary siege shot mode that deals 25% increased damage and knocks out all internal modules on penetration
• Note on interaction: If you get sick of seeing VTOL tanks flying around, you can hit them with a Siege Shot to knock them out of the air since it disables their ability module.

Reworked stats

• The turret can now freely rotate
• Hull traverse speed lowered substantially
• Reload time and damage slightly reduced
• Slightly faster aim speed
• Faster shell velocity
• Reverse speed is nearly as fast as forward max speed