Patch Notes — September 25, 2024

General

Squads

• You can now create squads of up to 8 players for full premades in matchmaking
• Fixed an issue with squads that could lead to crashes on joining one

Armor

Tanks now have intermediate penetration zones

• This will appear as yellow in the armor visualizer
• Yellow areas have a 50% chance of penetration when shot
• Green areas remain always penetrable
• Red areas remain always impenetrable
• Yellow areas appear when your pen value is less than but within 10% of the effective thickness of that plate
• These are intended to allow high-armor tanks (like the Sonar) to more often rely on their armor, while not becoming overly oppressive

Shells

• High Explosive shell penetration increased to 50 from 40

Misc

• Fixed an issue with camera zoom under legacy settings where it would return to max zoom when scrolling out of sniper mode (thanks to @PM for the report)
• Fixed an issue where the Ping Wheel would stick open (disabled for now until we revisit it)
• Changed the sound effects for UI interactions (thanks to @AzureAkua and others for calling that out)
• Fixed a bug where it would sometimes take a long time to start accelerating again after reversing while turning

Maps

• Note: These changes are generally aimed towards providing more cover and enabling players to push up against and siege sniping locations

Ravine Map

• Added more hardcover elements to the desert area
• Closed off sniping angles from the corner desert sniping locations looking into the desert itself. It should now be easier to siege sniping locations from the desert.
• Shaved down the cover for the western upper path area near the central entry

Fields Map

• Closed off the bush sniping positions from the midpoint of the large ridge so they no longer look out over or interact with the field
• Added rock cover outside the field entrances to the tunnels that connect to the brawl corridor

Vehicles

Siege Tank

• The Siege Shot ability now also knocks out enemy tracks

Valkyr - Medic Tank

• Lowered the heal coefficient to 250% of base damage from 300%
• Increased reload time to 6s from 5s

Wall Tank

• Wall tank has a new model
• Fixed an issue that caused the wall tank to not be spotted appropriately in some cases
• Wall ability now has a visual timer for its phase-in when first placed

Sonar Tank

• Fixed an unintentional armor weakspot behind the barrel on the gun mantlet

Stealth Tank

• Now has a more detailed model and ability effects