Last Flag Update 1.1: Twin Temples & Graffiti — Last Flag News

Last Flag 1.1 Patch

New Features

Joining the contestant cast: Graffiti
- She's got wheels, she's got paint, and she's got SHOWTIME written all over her. Meet Stella Wylde, aka Graffiti, the tenth contestant to join the Last Flag roster, and Fex Television's boldest signing yet.
- On skates and armed with a can of spray paint, Graffiti rewrites the rules of the game in real time. Whether she's circling opponents on the field or tagging them with her signature moves, she's must-watch television.
Welcome to the Twin Temples
- Fex Television spared no expense unearthing this one. Hidden deep in the jungle, the Twin Temples have been restored to their glory, and their secrets, just for you. Explore them before anyone else does.
- Tight corridors, an exposed bridge, and the ruins of a long-lost civilization, Twin Temples is a flag-runner's nightmare and a defender's dream. Hold your breath. Both teams are coming.
Brand new sportswear
- Rep your home field and look the part doing it. The new jersey-themed cosmetic collection lets you suit up in your team's colors, flex your style on the battleground, and finish your opponents in spectacular fashion—local allegiance never looked so good.

50% Sale

Last Flag is now 50% off! Get it while it's hot and tell your friends the hottest Capture the Flag event is on a timed discount for the next week. Celebrate the new content and join up to hunt, capture, and outsmart the enemy to take home all of the fabulous prizes provided by Fex TV, its affiliates, and corporate partnerships.

Full Patch Notes

If you're newer to Last Flag, here's a quick reference for the terms and shorthand used throughout these notes:

Quick Glossary

Contestant: Any of the playable characters on the Last Flag roster.
Q / E / C: The default hotkeys for a Contestant's three abilities. Q is the first ability, E is the second, and C is the Ultimate.
Alt-Fire: A secondary action on a Contestant's primary weapon, mapped to right mouse button by default.
Ultimate: A Contestant's most powerful ability (the C key). Charges up over the course of a match as the player deals damage and completes objectives.
Charge: How full a Contestant's Ultimate ability is. Shown as a percentage on the ability icon until full.
Down But Not Out (DBNO): The state a Contestant enters after losing all their health. While downed, an ally can revive you. If left alone, you bleed out and respawn.
Finisher: A short animation that plays when you eliminate a downed Contestant.
MVP: The Most Valuable Player from each match. The MVP gets a spotlight pose during the post-match screens.
Cashbots: The robots that wander the map. Destroy them for in-match currency you can spend on ability upgrades.
Green Room: Last Flag's waiting area, where players go before matches, upon respawn, and after being eliminated.

Update Highlights

Introducing Graffiti: The newest Contestant skates onto the set, armed with twin paintball pistols, a devastating "Star Form" ultimate, and a knack for blending in.
Welcome to Twin Temples: A brand-new map enters rotation: a stone arena split between sun-soaked bright side and shadow-cloaked dark side.
Smarter Bots: Player Bots have received a major behavioral pass with improved pathing, ability use, and decision-making.
Streamer Mode: A new privacy setting in Game Settings that hides sensitive info from your overlay.
Audio Mixing Pass: A wide-ranging mixing pass to prioritize important gameplay sounds, plus brand-new hit and damage SFX.
Hundreds of Fixes: Tuning, audio polish, art polish, localization, bug fixes, and stability improvements across the entire game.

Introducing: Graffiti

There's a new artist on the set of Last Flag, and she's painting the town red, blue, yellow, and every color in between. Graffiti glides into the arena on a pair of custom roller skates, twin paintball pistols at the ready, with a talent for blending in when she'd rather not be seen. Whether she's covering the competition with splashes of paint or vanishing into the scenery, expect a colorful debut that the audience won't soon forget.

Paintball Pistols (Main Weapon)

Dual-wielded paintball pistols that splash paint on impact, aim for the head to cover your target's view and disrupt them in the heat of the moment.

Combat & Gameplay Updates

Sprint Cancellation: Sprint is no longer cancelled by Dash Stab or Dive Roll attacks that don't connect with a target.
Sprint & Jump Pads: Sprint is no longer cancelled when using a jump pad. You'll keep your momentum when you land.
Down But Not Dead: Fixed a bug where waiting in DBNO would lead to a longer respawn time. Now whether you wait until the end of DBNO, give up early or are killed your respawn time is the same (15 seconds).
Hit Impact Visuals: Decreased the visual size of hit impact effects. The previous size was overwhelming and made it hard to see what was happening in fights.
Flag Interactions: Fixed an issue where you could be automatically downed immediately after returning the flag.
Flag Interactions: If a player disconnected mid-flag-interaction, the flag could become unusable for about a minute. The lockout window has been substantially shortened.
Power-Up Stations: Projectiles and abilities (such as Tango's Proximity Mines) no longer pass through Power-Up stations.
Cashbot Spawning: Fixed an infrequent issue where Cashbots would spawn too closely rather than distributed across the map.
Smarter Player Bots: Bots now have significantly improved pathing, stuck movement recovery, and decision-making. They are also smarter about hunting for the flag, defending the pyramid, and choosing when to use their abilities.

Contestants

Bounty Hunter

Brass Belcher Minigun (C)

Cancel Animation: The Minigun no longer visually distorts when cancelling the Ultimate.

Shotguns (Primary)

Reload: Shotguns no longer occasionally fail to fully reload when triggered.

Knives

Sprint: Sprint no longer breaks when jumping mid-fall.

Dash Stab (Q)

Sound: Dash Stab sound now plays at the correct location.
Interrupt Restored: Hits with Dash Stab once again interrupt the target.

Going Dark (E)

Teleport Fix: Going Dark could fail to activate if Knives had just been teleported by Arsenal's Q.E.R. This has been resolved.

Lumberjack

Melee Alignment: Lumberjack's melee attacks were drifting out of alignment with his swing animations. They now connect where you'd expect.

Skyfire

Animation Hitches: Addressed jump hitches.

Stealth Interactions

Visibility Fix: Skyfire's VFX particles no longer appear while he is in Stealth, which previously gave his position away to enemies.

Roadie

Shield (Alt-Fire)

Stun on Break: When Roadie's Shield breaks, he is now stunned in place rather than knocked back. This comes with accompanying balance changes for Shield uptime.
Open/Close Audio: The Shield open sound no longer persists after the Shield has closed.
Server/Client Sync: Roadie's projectiles could explode on the server but appear to bounce off on the client. This desync has been fixed.
Scout Ultimate: Roadie now correctly takes damage from Scout's Ultimate while his Shield is open. He was unintentionally invulnerable to it before.

Inspired Riff (E)

Upgrade Radius: Fixed a bug where the Inspired Riff radius incorrectly grew when the radio was upgraded.
Snowfield Rooftops: Inspired Riff can now be placed on the roof of certain Snowfield buildings, where it previously could not be placed.

Redeemer Joyride (C)

Lean Animations: Lean animations correctly play again during Joyride.

Sound

Audio Mixing Pass

We performed a wide-ranging mixing pass to make sure important gameplay audio cues come through more clearly when there's a lot going on. Your ears will thank you.

Performed an HDR mixing pass prioritizing feedback sounds during combat.

Hit & Damage SFX

Hit Tick Volume: Hit ticks were too loud and dominating other audio cues. They have been brought down to a more reasonable level.
Critical Hit SFX: Implemented a new distinct sound effect for critical hits, so you immediately know when you've landed a meaningful shot.
Receiving Damage SFX: Designed and implemented a new version of the SFX that plays when you take damage so it's easier to quickly know the location of a firing enemy.

Contestant Audio

Knives: Dash Stab sound now plays at the correct location. Previously it could play silently or at world origin (which sounded silent to most players).

Audio Polish

Flag Capture Loop: Fixed an endless looping Last Flag sound effect that could persist when the capture ended.

UI

Minimap

Black Icons Fix: Fixed an issue where player icons on the minimap could appear solid black.
Green Room Visibility: Scout and Tango no longer incorrectly appear on the minimap while in the Green Room.
Twin Temples Minimap: Added the dedicated background art for the Twin Temples minimap.

Assorted UI

Bounty Hunter Ammo: Bounty Hunter's ammo count is no longer displayed as a progress bar; it shows numerically again.
Tango Bolas UI: Tango's Bolas UI effect no longer displays while the player is downed.
Reticle Visibility: Increased the opacity of reticle outlines so they're easier to see against busy backgrounds.
Player Names: Player names in Team Selection are no longer force-uppercased.
Leaderboard Nicknames: Nicknames now appear correctly on the in-game Leaderboard.
Bug Report Button: The Bug Report button no longer flickers when hovering over its left edge.

Localization

UI Overlap Fixes: Addressed multiple cases where UI buttons were overlapping or being overlapped by the chat box in Mexican Spanish, Italian, German, Ukrainian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Indonesian.
Activity Feed: Fixed previously untranslated Activity Feed for Mexican Spanish.

Stability

Friend Invite Crash: Fixed a crash that could occur after sending a friend invite.
Achievement-Get Crash: Fixed a rare crash that could occur during engine shutdown after achievements had been awarded in a match.
Friend-Result Crash: Fixed a rare crash related to receiving friend list updates.

Thanks for the support, feedback, ideas, and general good vibes. Happy flag hunting and see you on the set.

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