Update 1.11: Season 8, Typhoon Remake, New Anomalies

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Below are the content of this update:

Unit Remake: Typhoon

• \[Range Enhancement] Increases range by 40

• \[Anti-Air Marker] Every 10 seconds, fires a marker missile with a range of 160 meters, marking enemy air units within a 100-meter radius of the target. Marked units have their range reduced by 20 and take 30% additional damage for 10 seconds.

• \[Reactive Armor] Reduces incoming damage by 80%, up to 5 times.

• \[Maintenance Array] Every 3 seconds, restores 500 HP to the Typhoon and friendly units within 100 meters. The healing amount increases by 500 per level.

• \[Field Reassembly] When destroyed, the Typhoon begins field reassembly and returns to combat in 5 seconds with 100% HP. Limited to 1 activation per round.

• \[Wreckage Detonation] Units destroyed by the Typhoon explode violently, dealing 125 damage to all units within a 15m radius.

• \[Field Entrenchment] Deploys a trench at the start of battle. While entrenched, Typhoon cannot move, HP increases by 70%, Range increases by 20. If no enemies are in range for 7 seconds, Typhoon will leave and destroy the trench.

New Dimensional Rift Anomalies

• \[Typhoon Surge] Starts with 2 additional Typhoon

• \[Experimental Death Knell] Start with 1 extra Experimental Death Knell equipped with 20 unlockable Techs

• \[Battlefield Power Research] Players will be able to select different Battlefield Powers to research at the Research Center. Research requires a certain amount of time, and the research progress is visible to both players. Battlefield Powers moved into the Research Center cannot be obtained from Reinforcements again. Additionally, the cooldown time has been significantly increased.

Developer's Note: We will continue to adjust this Anomaly in the future. If this Anomaly is ultimately proven to be popular, we will consider adding it to other modes.

Anomaly Combo Schedule Adjustment

• The duration of each Anomaly Combo has been extended from 1 hour to 3 hours

• During Week 1 of Season 8, all Anomalies will include the Anomaly \[Experimental Death Knell]

• During Week 2 of Season 8, all Anomalies will include the Anomaly \[Battlefield Power Research]

4-Player Brawl

• Added Experimental Death Knell to Unit Drop in 4-Player Brawl Match

Survival Mode

• Added Experimental Death Knell to Unit Drop in Survival Mode

• Updated enemy lineup in Survival Mode; the enemy can now utilize more units.

Season 8 Rewards

New Skins

New Avatar

New Avatar Frame

New Emote

New Medal

Balance Adjustments

Battlefield Powers

• \[Smoke Bomb] Duration: 2 Rounds → 1 Round

• \[Acid Blast] Duration: 2 Rounds → 1 Round, Cost 200 → 100

Developer's Note: This significantly reduces the penalty players incur for failing to use shields in a timely manner to block Battlefield Powers.

• \[Electromagnetic Impact] Shield damage reduced from 35000 → 20000

• \[Electromagnetic Blast] Shield damage reduced from 35000 → 20000

Reinforcement Card

• Vortex and Void Eye that appear in Unit Drop will not exceed level 3

• Added a skip button to Unit Reinforcement, and the supplies obtained when skipping gradually increase with the number of rounds.

Scorpion

• New Tech \[Convergent Fire] Increases Attack Range by 20m and reduces Attack Interval by 1s, but decreases Splash Range by 8m

Developer's Note: The Scorpion's new Tech will allow it to significantly improve its combat capability against Giant units, at the cost of reduced efficiency against medium units.

Vortex

• Now in Starter Packs

• ATK 1385 → 1246 (-10%)

• Upgrade XP 700 → 750

• \[Accumulator Shield] changed to: Accumulates energy while attacking. Every 5 attacks, deploys a shield with a radius of 40m at the current location, and increases the required attacks for the next shield by 5. The shield has a base HP of 2000, increasing by an additional 2000 HP per Vortex level.

• \[Grid Integration] ATK modifier increases by +15% → +35% per linked unit, max +195% → +105%

• \[Emergency Armor] Cost 100 → 150

• \[Field Maintenance] Cost 100 → 150

• \[Electromagnetic Twin] Cost 400 → 350

Hound

• \[Chamber Compression] Cost 200 → 300

Developer's Note: The price to activate \[Chamber Compression] related tactics was too low, which made it overly popular. This price adjustment will delay the activation time of \[Chamber Compression] related tactics. The introduction of Vortex to the Starter Packs will significantly impact the Hounds. Further adjustments will be made to Hound once Vortex becomes more stable.

Hacker

• Hackers now require a 0.9s preparation time before controlling a new target

Developer's Note: This adjustment will significantly reduce the efficiency of hackers in controlling small units while keeping their efficiency in controlling medium and large units largely unchanged.

Abyss

• Each attack can now damage Sledgehammer up to 2 times (originally only 1)

Developer's Note: Previously, the Sledgehammer could effectively withstand attacks from the Abyss, while other units of a similar size would be quickly eliminated. This was very confusing for many players. The goal of this adjustment is to make the Sledgehammer's performance against the Abyss more consistent with other similarly sized units.

• \[Wreckage Recycling] Cost 300 → 200

Rhino

• \[Whirlwind] ATK modifier x1.5 → x1.4, Splash Range 32 → 35, Cost 250 → 150.

• \[Mechanical Rage] Cost 150 → 100

• \[Combat Evolvement] Cost 200 → 150

• \[Wreckage Recycling] ATK modifier +20% → +60%

Developer's Note: Rhino is one of the least popular units in the game, and we hope these adjustments expand Rhino's use cases.

Marksman

• \[Assault Mode] ATK modifier +50%→ +60%

• \[Quick Reload] Cost 250 → 150, Damage modifier -50% → -60%

Farseer

• \[Burst Mode] Cost 200 → 150

Tarantula

• \[Armor Enhancement] Cost 200 → 100

• \[Spider Mine] Explosive damage 1000 → 2500

Fang

• \[Mechanical Rage] Cost 300 → 250

Crawler

• \[Mechanical Rage] Cost 150 → 100

• \[Acidic Explosion] Cost 150 → 100

Raiden

• \[Energy Shield] Cost 300 → 200

Void Eye

• \[Electromagnetic Armor] Duration 3.5s → 3s

Sabertooth

• \[Missile Interceptor] Cost 150 → 100

• \[Field Maintenance] Cost 300 → 200

Sledgehammer

• \[Armor-Piercing Bullets] Cost 200 → 150

Phantom Ray

• \[Ground Targeting] ATK no longer decreases, Cost 150 → 200

Vulcan

• \[Best Partner] Cost 250 → 300

Starter Packs

• \[Crawler & Steel Ball] Player HP modifier +100 → +200

• \[Arclight & Steel Ball] Player HP modifier +200 → +300

Other QOL Improvement

• Now, after hiding the Reinforcement panel, players can open the Unit Unlock panel to view the Tech loadout

• Players can now toggle off new Rift Anomaly notifications in the Settings

• Clicking on a player's name in the Room now displays the interaction menu

• Added a new category label \[Unit Variants] to Testing Grounds Tools

• Optimized the sorting of units in Testing Grounds Tools

• Optimized several Tech icons

Bugfixes

• Fixed the issue where XP of units killed by Battlefield Powers was not properly distributed.

• Fixed the issue where Hacker-controlled units incorrectly gained XP

• Fixed the issue where Melting Point and Death Knell occasionally failed to damage aerial unit barriers

• Fixed a Fortress model error

• Fixed occasional Sabertooth animation errors

• Fixed several localization issues

Feedback & Bug Reports

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