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Patch Notes: 1.10.3
Birds of War · Community Announcements · September 01, 2026
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Patch Notes 1.10.3
Gameplay & Balance
- Toucan
- Fruit Vortex pull radius: 700 → 560 uu (−20%).
- Fruit Vortex projectile speed: 2,000 → 1,600 uu/s (−20%).
- Fruit Vortex cooldown: 18 → 20 seconds (+2 seconds).
- Targets that complete their pull can no longer be pulled again by the same Fruit Vortex.
- Reduced Fruit Vortex hit SFX volume.
- Bat
- Primary Attack damage: 14 → 16.
- Blood Harvest cooldown: 3 → 5 seconds.
- Blood Harvest base damage: 20 → 8.
- Bonus damage from 1–5 Bite stacks: 12 / 24 / 36 / 48 / 60 → 8 / 21 / 39 / 62 / 90.
- Reduced the knockback velocity Bat suffers when Swarm is parried by 55%.
- Bat Swarm can now be parried once by each opposing player per activation. Repeat parries from the same player no longer block later Swarm pulses.
- Magpie
- Intervening players no longer stop Swooping Season from reaching its locked target. Terrain and other world geometry still block the attack.
- A parried Swooping Season now consumes the current cast and opens its normal 3-second recast window without refreshing Primary Attack.
- Wing of the Hill
- Score for securing a hill: 100 → 50.
- Score for holding a hill: 50 → 25 every 5 seconds.
- Squawkstreak progress for securing a hill: 100 → 50.
- Squawkstreak progress for holding a hill: 25 → 10 every 5 seconds.
Improvements
- Bat Bite feedback
- Bitten players now see a BITTEN debuff displaying their active Bite stacks.
- Added a crosshatched health-bar preview showing how much damage Blood Harvest would currently inflict without making that Health appear already lost.
- Added miniature bats that circle bitten players, with one bat appearing for each active Bite stack.
- Bitten players now hear victim-only randomized bat calls. Each active stack adds another audio layer with progressively higher pitch.
- Swarm now displays a CANCEL prompt once it can be ended early.
- Maps and modes
- Avatar now works in public matchmaking and can appear in eligible map-and-mode votes.
- Improved Avatar collision, water post-processing, performance and egg spawn locations.
- Thanks to Honer for helping us identify several of these Avatar issues!
- Updated the Suburbs loading screen.
- Fixed multiple collision problems throughout Suburbs.
- Improved the appearance and ground readability of objective areas in Domination, Wing of the Hill and Search & Destroy.
- Removed Wing of the Hill from maps where its objective layout was unsuitable.
- Reduced the game’s installed file size.
Bug Fixes
- Abilities and combat
- Fixed several issues that could cause abilities to stop working or become permanently stuck.
- Ability states and cooldowns now reset correctly on death and respawn, ensuring every respawn begins with abilities reset.
- Fixed Owl’s Stalker and Toucan’s RMB abilities sometimes becoming stuck or unusable.
- Fixed Toucan’s Toucarang remaining unavailable after death or respawn.
- Fixed Owl’s Stalker becoming stuck near lethal map geometry.
- Fixed lethal Swooping Season hits not consistently refreshing Magpie’s Primary Attack and RMB recast.
- Fixed Magpie ability sounds that were missing their intended sound class or distance attenuation.
- Matchmaking and modes
- Fixed map and mode votes being lost as a match entered its countdown.
- Fixed vote cards displaying a previous lobby’s tally or winning selection.
- Progression and inventory
- Fixed menu action state sometimes preventing Prestige after returning from a match.
- Fixed Fruit Platter, Bloody Mess and Swooping Season mastery rewards appearing as unresolved Inventory items after being earned.
- Fixed hidden reward receipts, including the Pre-Prestige Level 55 receipt, appearing as unresolved Inventory items.
- Cosmetics and presentation
- Fixed the Voodoo Bat being unlocked by default. It now follows its intended Legendary, crate-only ownership rules.
- Fixed prop placement, scale and animation issues affecting emotes on multiple birds, including Bat Pour and Prestige signs.
- Fixed texture and material problems affecting multiple birds and skins, including Magpie and Wooden Toucan.
- Fixed the Bat Tazer appearing oversized.
- Fixed missing Tazer animation links for Toucan and Magpie.
If anyone is experiencing crashes or any other issues, please reach out to support and we'll investigate. Thanks!
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