5.3.19 Update - Matchmaking changes and ability balance!

Game

• Significantly reduce the amount of time is takes for a match to start
  
• Allow players to drive during the lobby time
  
• Match starts immediately when all players are done travelling
  

• Fixed Squads team balancer not creating teams of 3
  

• Fixed some items on vehicle corpses causing spectate to break
  

Balance & Tuning

• Increased torque in the lower rpms
  
• Increased steering curve for all vehicle types
  
• Double the maximum load scale on the tires
  
• Double the boost acceleration
  

• Slightly decreased fire rate
  
• Slightly decreased reload speed
  
• Increased damage on low tiers
  
• Slightly reduced magazine size
  

• Slightly reduced fire rate
  
• Slightly reduced damage
  
• Slightly decreased magazine size of higher tiers
  
• Slightly increased magazine size of lower tiers
  

• Slightly decreased fire rate
  
• Slightly increased reload speed
  
• Increased damage of lower tiers
  
• Slightly reduced magazine size
  

• Reduced active time from 15s to 10s
  
• Reduced hit points of shield by 40%
  

• Increased active time from 8s to 10s
  

• Reduced active time from 13s to 10s
  

• Repair now takes slightly longer per item
  
• Shooting while using a repair consumable will now cancel the process
  

• Shifted large tier items to appear more frequently in indoor environments and less in outdoor environments
  

Art

• Removed some grass types
  
• Remove stadium and island from the main island
  
• Fixed several floating objects in world
  
• Fixed several loot objects inside of walls
  

• Barrier ability doesn't use the correct placement orientation when in Free Aim mode
  
• Players that disconnect during the match will leave their weapon behind in a non-functional state
  
• Playing on WiFi with a mechanical hard drive (non-SSD) on a lower end machine may cause performance issues