BONJOUR Strikers.
We’re serving you up the fattest micropatch of the day today, it’s pretty low carb and features things like BUFFS and NERFS and stuff like that. You know how it is.
We’ve actually got a tiny little surprise for you cookin' in our proverbial oven so keep your eyes peeled for that as we wrap things up there!!
Alright then for now, let’s just jump into this micropatch.

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Asher is not only the queen of a lot of your hearts, she’s also been the queen of the field. We’re toning her down as both goalie and forward to keep her in line. Don’t worry tho, she’s still plenty toned.

• Base Stats
  • Power: 125 → 120
• Breakthrough [SECONDARY]
  • Cooldown :: 15s → 16s
• Barrier Beam [PRIMARY]
  • Cooldown :: 9s → 9.5s

It’s getting close to winter so Drek needs to warm up a bit. (He’s a cold blooded kil - erm - lizard).

• Molten Bolt [SPECIAL]
  • DOT Damage :: 18(+9% Power) →20(+10% Power)
    • (Full duration burn damage :: 265.5 → 295)

Her speed was tuned down last patch. She landed a little weaker than we liked so we tuned up her power a bit elsewhere. (What is she like a muscle car? wtf)

• Crystal Thorns [SPECIAL]
  • Damage & Knockback :: 120 (+60% Power) → 130 (+65% Power)
  • Core Knockback :: 1220 (+120% Power) → 1240 (+130% Power)
• Piercing Shot [PRIMARY]
  • Damange & Knockback :: 180 (+90% Power) → 185 (+92.5% Power)
  • Core Knockback :: 1340 (+180% Power) → 1350 (+185% Power)

Last patch hit her a little harder than we intended so we’re splitting the difference and giving her a little gift of stagger for good measure. It’s ain’t OCTober without and OCTavia buff lol. Octavia Omega Strikers. October.

• Base Stats
  • Stagger Growth :: 125 → 200
• Flow State [SECONDARY]
  • Base Speed:: 20% → 24%
  • Speed per second :: 2% → 1.8%

We buffed Rasmus recently but now it’s time for the pendulum to swing the other way. (see what I did there)

• Pendulum Swing [PRIMARY]
  • Cooldown :: 8→ 9
  • Damage & Knockback :: 190 (95% Power) → 185 (+92.5% Power)
  • Core Knockback :: 1360 (190% Power) → 1350 (+185% Power)

Rune.

• Shadow Swap [SECONDARY]
  • Cooldown 10s → 11s

Vyce has been going through a bit of a rough patch. We’re going to try to smooth out that roughness with a kind buff. You’re welcome Vyce!

• Base Stats
  • Speed :: 450 → 455
• Power Chord [PRIMARY]
  • Damage & Knockback :: 170 (+85% Power) → 175 +(87.5% Power)
  • Core Knockback :: 1320 (+170% Power) → 1330 (+175% Power)

The gap between Zentaro’s highs and lows was a bit wider than we’d like. We're giving him some extra damage on imperfect Slice and Dices to make him a little less feast or famine.

• Slice and Dice [PRIMARY]
  • Sour spot Damage & Knockback multiplier:: 33% → 45%
    • (damage on a sour spot hit 80 → 108)
  • (Damage when hitting sweet spot and core Knockback unchanged)

Rotated In: Night Market, Ahten CityRotated Out: Clarion Corp., Oni VillageRotated out:

• Reverberation
• Glass Cannon
• Might of the Colossus
• Orb Ponderer
• Orb Dancer

Rotated In:

• Spark of Agility
• Spark of Focus
• Spark of Resilience
• Spark of Strength
• Knife's Edge

If you’re a projectile range hating Juno main, I apologize. Please direct your hate comments to me. Who am I? Good question. - Aesop

• Projectile range increase :: 30% → 40%

• Size :: 30% → 27.5%
• Stagger :: 200 → 175

Energy Awakenings go together like chocolate and peanut butter. Sorry if you’re allergic to peanuts tho. My heart goes out to you.

• Energy gained on light hit taken :: 1.5 → 1.2
• Energy gained on normal hit taken :: 4.5 → 3.6

After the Slick Kicks nerf, Fight or Flight was once again better Slick Kicks.

• Speed boost duration :: 1.75s → 1.5s

• Hit power increase :: 28% → 26 %
• Core hit power increase :: 14% → 13%
• Activation window :: 2.5s → 2s

Energy Awakenings go together like chocolate and peanut butter. Sorry if you’re allergic to peanuts tho. My heart goes out to you.

• Evade energy gain :: 12 → 8
• Burst energy gain :: 25 → 16

• Cooldown reduction :: 30% (Max 3s) → 32.5% (Max 3.25s)

Siphoning Wand was more like bottom feeder wand because it sucked idk sorry. We’re making it a little better now so people can win when they pick it.

• Normal hit burn :: 5% → 6%
• Light hit burn :: 1.66% → 2%
• Healing multiplier :: 150% → 125%
  • (Actual healing amount unchanged, because that's how math works!!)

• Duration :: 75% → 70%
• Size increase :: 40% → 35%

also 10 one-time use codes for a Sonii emote lol

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YO GANG


Snappy name, I know.

So. If you haven't seen before, I posted something like this on the Discord[discord.gg] a couple of times.

Basically, I'm straight up rewarding the "best of the best!" (It's actually also more like players that stay grinding!!!)

So each of the following players will get EXCLUSIVE TITLES to equip in game.

• Top knockouts get Verified KO Champ
  
• Top goalies get Verified Fortress
  
• Top scorers get Verified Egoist
  
• Top MVPs get Verified MVP

I want to do these every month or so but it takes some time to compile and there are some JERKS out there who tried to ruin games to get on the list. (72 KOs? C'mon bruh)

Well, without further ado, let's look at the winners from the ENTIRETY of Season 3

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ALRIGHT thanks for reading!!
To the winners: I'll have your titles to you by the time you read this!
The the losers: BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME, HOLD THIS L LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO

Okay that's all for now.
Talk to you later.
Love you,
Bye.

WE'RE (kind of) RELEASING A NEW GAME?


Byte Breakers is our newest prototype game - a 40 person platform fighter battle royale. Featuring the Omega Strikers characters you know and love in A NEW SETTING!!

The game is an early prototype and we're not even sure we're gonna actually make it. It's giga early, there's not a lot of polish, there's bugs, but at least 1 person thinks it's fun (me)

You can wishlist and request playtest access RIGHT NOW on Steam to check it out for yourself!!

We'll be playing this FRIDAY!!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2503080/Byte_Breakers/


FAQs:

• Why is it NA only???
  
  • That’s just for our first test. If this goes well, more regions will be included in future testing. We’re trying to validate the core game concept, not global networking infrastructure.
  
  
• What platforms?
  
  • Right now, only Steam (PC)
• OS characters?
  
  • You betcha
• Team size?
  
  • Duos! You can solo queue and get matched with someone.
• Will it be free-to-play or paid?
  
  • We’re not thinking about business model stuff yet, just focused on making a fun game.

HEY STRIKING STRIKERS
We really out here with a new patch for SEASON 4 OMEGA STRIKERS!!!
Naturally, we don’t have a ton of new stuff while the team cooks up some new prototypes (and this is technically a micropatch anyway) but we still want to bring you some nifty new changes.
Among those nifty changes are character adjustments and a NEW SKIN REWARD for you climbers.

We also got a couple more small features headed your way in a bigger patch, so keep an eye out for that!

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NEW SEASON!!! LET’S GOOOOO. START THE CLIMB!! The reset algorithm backend has been improved pretty nicely and we fixed some niche bugs where people were unintentionally losing progress or getting wrong gains. Sick.Ranked Rewards:

• Aqua Cannon goal explosion
  • (This isn't a seasonal reward btw, this is a forever thing that you'll unlock once you hit challenger any time in the future.)
• Top "x" titles
  • ex: Top 5, Top 10, Top 25, etc
• Nao Recolor
  • For anyone who reaches Gold!
• An emote for reaching plat
• An emote for playing a bunch of games
  • 25 Ranked Games to be exact

Most rewards will be based on your Season *Peak* rating, but the titles for "Top X%" will be based on your leaderboard position at the end of the season.As always, you can track your progress and match history at our site at https://stats.omegastrikers.gg/ Btw there’s 1 fewer map in the rotation now.Rotated Out

• Night Market
• Gates of Obscura
• Ahten City

Rotated In

• Atlas's Lab
• Taiko Temple

Nerf so small you can call this kitten sized.

• Cyber Swipe [SECONDARY]
  • Damage and Knockback :: 195 (+97.5) → 185 (+92.5%)
  • Secondary Core Knockback :: 1300(+185%) → 1280(+175%)

• Celestial Intervention [SPECIAL]
  • BUGFIX: Revives should now work properly. Should no longer fail to revive in some instances.

After his recent buffs, lizard has been uhhh… been burning up players at high elo and now he’s gonna do it less.

• Molten Bolt [SPECIAL]
  • Cooldown :: 30s → 35s

FINII GOALIE IS NUTS. FINII SHOW CANCELLED A LITTLE.

• Base Stats
  • Speed :: 475 → 465
• Triple Take [SECONDARY]
  • Cooldown :: 8s → 10s

10 speed is pretty big okay. Juliette strong now since she was falling off in the meta.

• Base Stats
  • Speed :: 450 → 460

10 speed AND 5 power is even BIGGER than just 10 speed. Juno mains rejoice.

• Base Stats
  • Power :: 90→ 95
  • Speed :: 450 → 460

Kazan goalie has been sleeper OP. We’re hitting these stats in particular to lower his prowess in net.

• Base Stats
  • Speed :: 450 → 440
• Crooked Leverage [PRIMARY - CLOSED]
  • Cooldown :: 9.5s → 10s

Struggling to keep the tempo after the instant-cast removal, so we’re loading more power into her secondary to make up for what she lost.

• Drum and Base [SECONDARY]
  • No longer tagged as MELEE
    • Functionality unchanged
  • Self slow :: 47% → 43% (Base speed while casting :: 289 → 314)
  • Cooldown :: 20s → 18s

Since launch, Nao’s strength has been divided among two groups: really powerful in coordinated play, but pretty weak in solo queue in not high tiers of play. We’ve adjusted a lot of stuff in her kit previously, but she’s still not really where we want her to be for either group. We’re shaking her kit up by removing the hit stun and some PVP power from her secondary to make it a more reliable tool and adding some extra strength to her primary. We’ll be keeping an eye on this and will follow up if needed.

• Proximity Drone [SECONDARY]
  • Hit type :: Normal → Light
  • Cooldown ::12s → 9s
  • Arm time :: 0.25s → 0.15s
• Sentry Drone [PRIMARY]
  • Max Duration :: 3.5s → 4s (Max hit power still occurs after 2s)

We’ve activated additional speed awakenings this patch so we’re making sure Octy doesn’t go crazy with those.

• Flow State [SECONDARY]
  • Base speed :: 28 → 20
  • Speed per second :: 1.6 → 2

Little boost aimed at higher-tier play.

• Whiplash [SECONDARY]
  • Damage and Knockback :: 150 (+70%) → 160 (+80%)
  • Core Knockback :: 1280 (+150%) → 1300 (+160%)

5 speed and 10 power? That’s the Juno change but reversed!!!

• Base Stats
  • Speed :: 160 → 165
  • Power :: 100 → 110

Last set of nerfs dampened her sound, man. We’re giving her some more reliable cooldowns, but still making sure she doesn’t drown out the rest of the cast.

• Thunderstruck [SECONDARY]
  • Cooldown :: 14s → 12s
  • Damage and Knockback :: 220 (+110%) → 200 (+100%)

He lost 5 power! Where did that go? To Juno? X was just kinda good last patch so we’re turning him down a bit.

• Base Stats
  • Power :: 130 → 125
• X Maximus! [SPECIAL]
  • Cooldown :: 35s → 37.5s

• Rotated out:
  • Heavy impact
  • Bulk Up
  • Stinger
  • Reptile Remedy
  • Quick Strikes
  • Peak Performance
• Rotated in:
  • Stagger Swagger [Retuned]
  • Built Different
  • Timeless Creator
  • Egoist [Retuned]
  • Fight or Flight
  • Super Surge

• Range required to activate :: 550 → 525

• Burst of speed when hitting max energy :: 80% → 60%
• Speed boost duration :: 8s → 6s
• Persistent Speed boost at max energy:: 12%→8%

• Speed boost at max stacks :: 20% → 15%

• Base Speed boost :: 10% → 7.5%
• Speed boost while staggered :: 20% → 15%

• Cooldown :: 2.5% Increase → 2.5% Decrease

Hey Strikers! We’re here with by far the biggest news of July 2024: an Omega Strikers Micropatch!
We’ve got a couple small adjustments and a little surprise: SUMMER SPLASH IS BACK! Except it’s in like mini form.
Check the Missions tab and you can unlock yourself some summery emotes and goodies.
As an added bonus, Summer Splash (Mini) is actually happening in summer this year! So let us begin.

High elo Atlas was kinda struggling. Celestial Intervention also was (is) kinda bugged so this should also help mitigate some of those effects, while also strengthening him.

• Celestial Intervention [SPECIAL]
  • Healing Per tick :: 3.75% Max stagger → 4% Max Stagger
• Cosmic Expanse [SECONDARY]
  • Cooldown :: 21s → 20s

Large Goalie Buffs: Part II. Dubu can now roll to stop that core a little more frequently. Just don’t miss or this buff might be a nerf.

• Somerassault [SECONDARY]
  • Cooldown :: 19s → 17s
• Damage & Knockback :: 200 (+100% Power) → 220 (+110%)

Estelle’s been slowly working her way to the top despite recent nerfs so we’re trying to keep her in check!

• Base Move speed :: 450 → 445
• Rose Warp [SECONDARY]
  • Cooldown :: 16s → 17s

Us: Juno, stop jumping around or you’re gonna get nerfed.
Juno: i know, i know. i wooon’t!
Juno 10 minutes later: omg ur gonna haaate me.

• Blob Bounce [SECONDARY]
  • Cooldown :: 11s → 13s

Did… did her legs get longer?

• Base Move Speed :: 450 → 460

The bugfix last patch had a sizeable impact on Mako’s game feel. We're pulling back some of those changes and loading more power into Drum and Base to compensate.

• Drum and Base [SECONDARY]
  • Minimum cast time :: 0.25s → 0.2s
  • Self-slow while channeling :: 52% → 47%
    • (Base speed while channeling :: 262 → 289)
  • Size and Haste linger after cast :: 0.5s → 0.75s
• Perfect Pitch [PRIMARY]
  • Minimum cast time :: 0.15s → 0.1s

2 more seconds of worry free gameplay on Ai.Mi’s app.

• Death Touch [SPECIAL]
  • Cooldown :: 20s → 22s

Vyce’s damage was *off the charts* - especially if she picked up a couple cooldown awakenings. So we nerfed her. Did we really need to write that last sentence? You can read the change and see what we did right? It’s totally intuitive. Nah.

• Power Chord [PRIMARY]
  • Cooldown :: 7s → 8.5s
  • Damage & Knockback :: 185 (+92.5% Power) → 175 (+87.5% Power)
  • Core Knockback :: 1350 (+185% Power) → 1330 (+175% Power)

Rotated In: Inky’s Splash Zone

Rotated Out: Ai.Mi’s App, Ahten City, Atlas’s Lab, Clarion Test Chamber, Demon Dais, Gates of Obscura, Night Market, Oni Village, Taiko Temple, Map Flipped, Corner Pocket, Back to Back, About Face, Neo Origins.

Just kidding I wanted to scare you all. We’re not changing any maps this patch lol.

• Movement ability boost :: 75% → 80%

• Buff / Debuff duration :: 45% → 50%

• Bonus Energy from dealing hits :: 20% → 15%

• Move speed boost at max stacks :: 60% → 55%

• Percentage Move speed per 100 stagger :: 0.6% → 0.55%

• Normal hit cooldown reduction :: 15% (max 1.5s) → 13.5% (Max 1.35s)
• Light hit cooldown reduction :: 5% (max 0.5s) → 4.5% (Max 0.45s)

• Power per stack :: 20 → 23

The change for stinger in the last patch ended up being a much more sizeable nerf than intended. This should still represent a nerf from two patches ago, while also bringing the awakening more in line with its peers.

• Percentage max stagger burn :: 8% → 9% (2.66% → 3% For Light hits)

Hello STRIKERS!! Hope your summer is going well!! (Or if you’re in like Australia, hope your winter is going well?)

Today’s update features a couple of quality of life features you’ve been requesting for a while, some new community stuff, and some of your favorite balance adjustments. We even threw in some bugfixes for good measure.

With that, shall we begin fellow strikers?

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• Now displays which team picks first when it’s snake draft!
  • Located in the top left under the current map name

• You can now show off how good you are at Asher before the match starts.

• Go to the Settings and change your name!
  • No cost (Ody/Striker Coins)
  • You can only change it once every 90 days.
    • Don’t change it and then be like “actually I don’t like it” and make a ticket, I’ll be so mad.

• Just a small update to the change we made a bit ago.
  • Increased size and some polish.

• Rotated in
  • Ai.Mi’s App
  • Oni Village
  • Demon Dais
• Rotated out
  • Taiko Temple
  • Atlas’s Lab
  • Inky’s Splash Zone

Thanks to our incredible community, we got a couple new emoticons, titles, and nameplates! We’ll be making ways to get those over the coming days.

• New Community Nameplates

• New Community Emoticons

• New community Titles

We’ve got just a couple adjustments to some Strikers. Nothing big like the last batch where we changed virtually everything though!Atlas has been exploring space and gaining knowledge so you haven’t seen him in a while. He learned how to reduce the cooldown of his Secondary so you might be seeing him more often.

• Cosmic Expanse [SECONDARY]
  • Cooldown :: 22s → 21s

He’s a little stronger now and upgraded his Xeno Cloak so he can go invisible for longer. In general, we are trying to push some power away from his primary and into his other abilities so that Drek’ar won’t be so much of a one trick lizard.

• Base Stats
  • Power :: 90 → 95
• Xeno Cloak [SECONDARY]
  • Duration :: 1.0s → 1.25s
  • Speed Boost :: 50% → 40%
  • Stealth hit amp now has a 0.25s post-stealth grace window

Crystal Volley balls too hard sometimes so we’re turning it down.

• Crystal Volley [SPECIAL]
  • Cooldown :: 20s → 22s

Finii was struggling to find her rabbit footing so we’re moving some of the power from her supportive utility to her own abilities. We’re also letting her hop across the battlefield a little quicker for good measure.

• Base Stats
  • Speed :: 470 → 475
• Triple Take [SECONDARY]
  • Damage per pulse :: 50(+25% Power) → 55(+27.5% Power)
  • Core Knockback :: 1080 (+50% Power) → 1090(+55% Power)
  • Ally Damage Boost :: 30% → 20%

Sick Giga Blasts from like across the map are now cooler and better. You just can’t try and spam it as frequently.

• Giga Blast [SPECIAL]
  • PvP Knockback and Damage :: 220 (+110% Power) → 240 (+120% Power)
  • Core Knockback :: 1390 (+205% Power) → 1400 (+210% Power)
  • Cooldown :: 22s → 23s

Try Juliette goalie! Surely it’s good!

• Flying Phoenix [Secondary]
  • Cooldown :: 16s → 15s

Luna was pretty good in all tiers, especially in higher skill levels. Fewer random across-map rockets now.

• W.H.A.M.M.Y. [PRIMARY]
  • Cooldown :: 6.5s → 7.5s
• Stagger Growth Tier :: 375 → 250

Nao is quite strong in coordinated and high-tier games.

• Proximity Drone [SECONDARY]
  • Cooldown :: 10s → 12s
• Base Speed: 460 → 455

Vyce KOs a lot of people, so let’s see how she likes it now with her lower stagger!!!

• Base Stagger :: 1300 → 1200
• Stagger Growth Tier :: 375 → 300
• Super Nova [SPECIAL]
  • [BUGFIX] Minimum cast time :: 0s → 0.25s
    • Due to how they were implemented, press and hold abilities were subverting the cast-time system that all abilities use and were effectively able to output hits faster than intended. We made a systemic change to normalize these abilities.

His special is pretty special am I right? Okay sorry, now it’s got a 5 second longer cooldown.

• Oni’s Blade [SPECIAL]
  • Cooldown :: 35s → 40s

Very prevalent in coordinated and high-tier play (like Nao), Mako needs a touch to ensure she isn’t domineering.

• Perfect Pitch [PRIMARY]
  • Cooldown :: 7s → 8.5s
  • [BUGFIX] Minimum cast time :: 0s → 0.15s
    • Due to how they were implemented, press and hold abilities were subverting the cast-time system that all abilities use and were effectively able to output hits faster than intended. We made a systemic change to normalize these abilities.
• Drum and Base [SECONDARY]
  • [BUGFIX] Minimum cast time :: 0s → 0.25s
    • See above

• Rotated out:
  • Specialized Training
  • Recovery Drone
  • Among Titans
• Rotated in:
  • Glass Cannon
  • Big Fish
  • Perfect Form

IT’S BACK BUT WEAKER THAN LAST TIME. YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT, BUT THIS FORM IS PERFECT. SURELY WE WON’T CHANGE IT EVER AGAIN.

• Normal hit cooldown reduction :: 20% (max 2s) → 15% (Max 1.5s)
• Light hit cooldown reduction :: 6.66% (max 0.66s) → 5% (Max 0.5s)

• Orb Cooldown Reduction (Before max stacks) :: 15% → 17.5%

• Base Size: 5% → 7.5%

• Max stagger increase: 350 → 400

Slick Kicks has been straight up really good for the past 10 years. Let’s try to give other Forward gear some love.

• Speed boost duration 1.5 → 1.25

• Speed per stack :: 0.08% → 0.075%
  • (Max speed :: 12/24% → 11.25/22.5%)

Increasing the duration of burns from Stinger so that quick reapplications of the debuff are weaker. This’ll be particularly noticeable when multiple people take Stinger and try and burn you to death.

• Duration :: 2.5s → 4s (Damage per second effectively reduced from 3% → 2%)
  • Note: Stinger does not prevent stagger regen so this won’t keep you from healing any longer than before.
• Burn :: 7.5% (2.5% for LIGHT hits) → 8% (2.66% for LIGHT hits)

• Secondary Cooldown Increase :: 5% → 2.5%

VV hasn’t really been poppin for a while. With the global stagger increase with the last big patch, VV was effectively healing you less. This should help it be decent again.

• Heal% :: 40% → 45%
• Core Heal% :: 8% → 9%

• Mako Japanese VO is once again Japanese.
• Zentaro Secondary dash will now travel full distance over terrain.
• Modified amount of time before Asher special starts applying hits to reduce leaks during it spawn.
• Rasmus secondary should no longer occasionally fail to cast. (Let us know if it does)
• Multiple awakenings that reduce the base cooldown of an ability should now always stack correctly.
• Fixed a bug where players using controllers could sometimes stop the core in place.
• Player reports now show confirmation of successful report submission.
• Slot swap UI should now be correct for all languages.
• Various small bug fixes.

Welcome Strikers to the patch notes of the May 9th, 2024 Micropatch!
Please remain seated and keep all arms and legs inside the ride as we take you on an exciting journey of map rotations, Striker adjustments, Awakening changes, and the return of Orbs.
That’s right, the orb map is back, so we're bringing the orb awakenings back with it! (Kind of, lol)

Strikes CD is being brought up to match Quick Strikes now that the global CD is gone. Also adding some strength to her Breakthrough to KILL PEOPLE

• Breakthrough [SECONDARY]
  • Strike CD reduction on her side of the field 15% → 20%
  • Knockback and Damage :: 130(+65% Power) → 140(+70% Power)
  • Core Knockback :: 1240(+130% Power) → 1260 (+140% Power)

Atlas has struggled finding his sure ground this year, so now he peers ahead to make his path clear. That's iambic pentameter I just really wanted to do that. But for real, Atlas hasn’t been doing great so far in Season 3 so we’re letting him project a little further into the future.

• Astral Projection [PRIMARY]
  • Damage & Knockback :: 170(+85% Power) → 180 (+90% Power)
  • Core Knockback :: 1320 (+170% Power) → 1340 (+180% Power)
  • Lifetime :: 0.65 → 0.70 (Effective range 450 → 480)

This witch can be quite annoying in some cases because of that beam you know what I mean? So it’s getting a slap to lower its strength.

• Bewitching Beam [PRIMARY]
  • Enemy Slow :: 25% → 20%
  • Enemy shrink :: 40% → 30%
  • Cooldown :: 8.5s → 9s

Juno has developed the taste for human blood and must kill. This will help her do so because we don’t have the bug where Stinger did 90% of enemy Max HP like it did in one of our playtests by accident.

• Friend Fling [PRIMARY]
  • KB & Damage :: 185 (+92% Power) → 200 (+100%Power)
  • Core KB :: 1350 (+185% Power) → 1380 (200% Power)

Small adjustment from the divergent base stats that will stop Kai from really outclassing other forwards.

• Stagger Growth Tier :: 425 → 250
• Base Stagger :: 1200 → 1150

HUGE buff

• Flow State [SECONDARY]
  • Cooldown :: 18s → 17s

HUUUUUUGE buff

• Base Speed :: 450 → 460

• Demon Dais
• Oni Village

• Atlas's Lab
• Ahten City

• Knife's Edge
• Demolitionist
• Timeless Creator

Orbs are back baby and I know you love it. We brought back and adjusted both Orb Dancer and Orb Ponderer. We wanted to “flatten” their strength curve so that compared to the previous iteration they perform better on average but have a lower top-end. We’re also keeping Orb Replicator out to prevent some snowballing with these changes.

• Orb Dancer [Retuned]
• Orb Ponderer [Retuned]
• Catalyst

• Movement/Haste buff :: 70% → 75%

• Core hit amp :: 12% → 13%

• Power scaling per size :: 0.75 → 0.65

• Speed Increase per orb :: 40% → 30%
• Speed increase per orb at max stacks :: 80% → 60%
• Max Stacks :: 10 → 5
• Duration :: 6s → 4.5

• Active cooldowns reduced per orb :: 25% → 15%
• Cooldown reduction per orb at max stacks :: 45% → 30%
• Max stacks :: 10 → 5

• Heal :: 4.5% → 5%
• Duration :: 3s → 4s

We’re trying something new on our pancakes where they take longer to stack but are stronger at max, making them more important to protect but also putting a bigger target on your back!

• Max stacks :: 100 → 150
• Speed per stack :: 0.1 → 0.08 (Max speed 10%/20% → 12%/24%)

• Burn :: 9% → 7.5% (Light Hits: 3% → 2.5%)

• Allied strike power buff :: 20% → 22.5%

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Alright with that patch note stuff outta they way I just wanna drop in for a sec and say I saw some stuff that you all have been posting on the World Wide Web about OS and just wanted to post up a reminder of what’s happening on our end.
While it’s true that, as previously announced, most of the team have moved onto other projects, (which are still open for playtest applications here [forms.gle]btw.) but a couple of us are still working on small quality-of-life stuff for Omega Strikers. For the future, we still want to bring some smaller updates to you all like:

• New seasons
• Recolors as skins for season rewards
• Additional Battlepass Levels
• Community-made emotes, titles, nameplates, etc.

For the next update patch, we’re just going to have some bug fixes and a couple smaller things. All that being said, we’re so stoked that you’ve been sticking with us so far and have been playing OS, enjoying the matches, and giving us feedback on everything we’ve done!! We hope you continue to do so into the future and we’ll see you soon <3

Hey gang, how’s the new season going?? Are ya winnin' son?
You all had some things to say about the new season and we are listening!!
This micropatch is live NOW with a couple of changes you probably will welcome.
Let us BEGIN!~

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We’ve heard your feedback on this one. We’re reverting the "ability cooldown from striking the core" change that came with the Season 3 update. The original goal was to add additional gameplay depth by giving players the opportunity to make more dynamic decisions around what to do with the Core once they have possession. However, it’s become apparent that this new rule has negatively impacted game pacing and promoted some unhealthy play patterns.

• Hitting the CORE with an ability will continue to reset your STRIKE cooldown (once per ability cast).
• Hitting the CORE with strike now reduces your ability cooldowns (Removed)

• We’re aware of the issue of not displaying which team is 1st pick in the draft order.
  • We’re exploring some solutions to see if we can amend this in a future patch.

The weight of the world is proving a little much for Atlas. We're increasing the uptime of his ranged tools to compensate him.

• Astral Projection [PRIMARY]
  • Cooldown :: 9s → 8.5s

Finii was kinda bad, now she will be good?

• Base Stats
  • Speed :: 460 → 470
  • Power :: 90 → 95

Goalie Kai is running circles around the competition, we're bumping his cooldowns a touch to give the rest of the cast some breathing room. As much as Kai probably dislikes that.

• Barrage [PRIMARY]
  • Cooldown :: 11s → 12s
• Giga Blast [SPECIAL]
  • Cooldown :: 20s → 22s

Mako’s struggling to find her footing this patch. With this change she may knock some other players off their footing too, so I guess that makes them even?

• Perfect Pitch [PRIMARY]
  • Projectile Base PvP Damage and Knockback :: 100 (+50% Power) → 105 (+52.5% Power)
    • i.e. Fully charged player hit with no Awakenings :: 310 → 326
  • Projectile Base Core Knockback :: 1180 (+100% Power) → 1190 (+105% Power)
    • i.e. Fully Charged Core hit with no Awakenings :: 1613 → 1632

Reverting this preemptive nerf on Octavia. She did not need it. Sorry Octy.

• Flow State [SECONDARY]
  • Cooldown :: 20s → 18s

X got way too buff way too fast this patch… what’s his diet anyway? We are stepping and hitting him with some immediate action from us.

• Bell Ringer [PRIMARY]
  • Cooldown :: 8s → 10s
• Bull Rush [SECONDARY]
  • PvP Damage and Knockback :: 210 (+105% Power) → 190 (+95% Power)
  • Core Knockback :: 1385 (+202.5% Power) → 1360 (+190% Power)
• X Strike [SPECIAL EMPOWERED STRIKE]
  • Strike Diameter :: 325 → 315

The Colossus was a bit more mighty than we intended.

• Power per 1% Size :: 1 → 0.75

I’m allergic to bees :(

• Normal hit burn :: 10% → 9%
• Light hit burn :: 3.33% → 3%

This remedy wasn’t able to keep up with the damage, we're increasing its healing powers with some new ingredients.

• Missing health heal per second :: 3% → 4.5%

Since we’re removing the strike CD change, we’re reverting the Quick Strike nerf that was affected by it.

• Strike Cooldown Reduction:: 15% → 20%
• Energy gain :: 2 → 1

GOOD DAY STRIKERS!!
We're here with Omega Strikers update 4 POINT 0!!!!!!!
We've got some new things we cooked up for you, ranging from a new friends list, new awakenings, new custom game options, and new gameplay changes to like every striker! (Keep reading for that)
This will also mark the beginning of A NEW SEASON!!!
With all of that out of the way, let us begin.

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  Now displays current game status!
  
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    Online, In Queue, In Game.

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  Filter out some custom games so your ping isn't hella high.

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  Strikers now have different initial speed/power/stagger.
  
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    Each striker is currently on a "tier" of the new base stats, but we these stats will likely branch out in the future.
    
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    On average, strikers recieved an increase to their base stagger to dampen damage-focused playstyles moving into 4.0
    
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    For example, in general, bigger characters will have more power and stagger but will be slower in contrast to smaller characters. These changes are also to help strikers develop their unique themes and sharpen their identities.
    
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    Also, this will serve as another balance lever for us!

We want to reward players for their sickass dribbling and passses while further disincentivize pingponging, so we're changing things up a bit. This new strike/ability adjustment should open up room for some new combos on many strikers while also shaking up "optimal" playstyles for everyone else. You can probably expect cooldown increases to strikers in future patches as we fine tune the game with these new rules.

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  Hitting the CORE with an ability resets your STRIKE cooldown (once per ability cast)
  
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  Hitting the CORE with strike now reduces your ability cooldowns

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  Can now choose starting awakenings, draft type, sets, goals per set, etc.
  
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    How customizable! Go check it out!

Big changes to Ranked are here! We'll be rolling out the new season starting today. The new season will feature all the goodies we mentioned before!
Ranked Rewards:

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  Aqua Cannon goal explosion
  
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    (This isn't a seasonal reward btw, this is a forever thing that you'll unlock once you hit challenger any time in the future.)
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  Top "x" titles
  
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    ex: Top 5, Top 10, Top 25, etc
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  Kazan Recolor
  
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    For anyone who reaches Gold!
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  An emote for reaching plat
  
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  An emote for playing a bunch of games
  
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    25 Ranked Games to be exact

Most rewards will be based on your Season *Peak* rating, but the titles for "Top X%" will be based on your leaderboard position at the end of the season.
We are also working on an external match history webpage for you to track your progress!

Picking teams in ranked is getting a shakeup. We're introducing a couple things to the game that'll change up the whole Striker draft. Snake draft, no mirrors, slot trading. Check it out. These changes will hopefully add more game-to-game variance and add to the dynamics of picking!

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  Snake Draft
  
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    Teams now take turns picking their characters
    
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      Blue team picks 1, red team picks 2, blue team picks 2, red picks 1.
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  No mirrors
  
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    You can't pick the same character as your opponent. Time to learn 3 more characters.
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  Slot trading
  
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    Want your goalie to go first? Trade them!
    
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    You'll be able to trade before the pick-phase for your team.
    
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      Ban and pre-selection phase have been slightly extended to give players time to trade.

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  Rotated in
  
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    Clarion Corp
    
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    Inky's Splash Zone
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  Rotated out
  
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    Atlas's Lab
    
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    Ai.Mi's App

We whipped up a couple cosmetics and some other goodies for your enjoyment! Especially if you're rich. Also our good ole' community sent some emotes our way. Shouts out to them.

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  Gold Kazan (Ranked Reward)

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  Big Spender
  
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    2,000,000 SC
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  New Community Nameplates

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  New Community Emoticons

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  Trading cards, badges, profile wallpapers, and more can be YOURS!!!
  
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    This is kinda unrelated to game cosmetics but I'm putting it here anyway. Fight me.

Like I mentioned above, Strikers are getting changes to their base stats. We've changed pretty much every Striker because of that, so there will be lots of numbers here.
Ai.Mi's been all sass and no swipe for the last few patches - especially at low-mid ranks. She's sharpening her claws now!!

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  Cyber Swipe [SECONDARY]
  
  • 
    Cooldown :: 14s → 13s

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Speed :: 450 → 440
    
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 125
    
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1400
  Breakthrough
  
  • Buff Strike CD reduction location :: Own goal zone -> Own side of the field
    
  • Buff Strike CD reduction :: 33% -> 15%

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Speed :: 450 → 440
    
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 90
    
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1400

Shotgun Lizard developed an upgrade to his active camoflauge. We've shifted some of his power towards his secondary to give help him relive his dreams as an assassin when he ambushes his opponents.

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Speed :: 450 → 460
    
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 90
    
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    Stagger Growth :: 500 → 375
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  Lock and Load [PRIMARY]
  
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    Cooldown :: 8 → 9
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  Xeno Cloak [SECONDARY]
  
  • 
    Rework: Become invisible and gain 50% Speed for 1s. Using an ability during this
    invisibility will reveal you and make that ability hit 25% harder (12.5% to
    Core).
    
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      The tooltip in-game is wrong for that, don't worry about it. It's right.

In addition to his base stat changes, Dubu is getting his old larger strike size back!

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Speed :: 450 → 435
    
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1500
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  Strike
  
  • 
    Strike Range :: 275 → 285

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Speed :: 450 → 460
    
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 90
    
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1300
• Bewitching Beam
  
  Ally power buff :: +70% Power -> +70 Power

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 110
    
  • 
    Stagger Growth :: 375 → 250

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Speed :: 450 → 460
    
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 90

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 110
    
  • 
    Stagger Growth :: 500 → 425
    
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1300
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  Flying Phoenix [SECONDARY]
  
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    Cooldown :: 18s → 16s

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 90
    
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1400

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Speed :: 450 → 475
    
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 90

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 90
    
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1100

Luna

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 110

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Speed :: 450 → 440
    
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 110
    
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1300
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  Drum and Base [SECONDARY]
  
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    Haste Granted :: 20% → 25%

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Speed :: 450 → 460
    
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 90
    
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1100

Flow State just got a lot faster with her base speed increase. We're gonna preemptively give her a tuning so she doesn't run over the competition.

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Speed :: 450 → 475
    
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 75
    
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1100
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  Flow State [SECONDARY]
  
  • 
    Cooldown :: 18s → 20s

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1300

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1300

In upper tiers of play, Vyce is a real star. Were turning her volume down just a touch.

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 110
    
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    Stagger :: 1200 → 1300
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  Power Chord
  
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    Damage & Knockback modifier for chained hits :: 60% → 50%
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  Thunderstruck [SECONDARY]
  
  • 
    Stun Duration :: 0.75s → 0.6s

X was sad last patch, but nothing will make him feel better than hitting you harder and more frequently!!

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Speed :: 450 → 440
    
  • 
    Power :: 100 → 130
    
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1250
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  Bell Ringer [PRIMARY]
  
  • 
    Cooldown :: 9s → 8s

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  Base Stats
  
  • 
    Speed :: 450 → 460
    
  • 
    Stagger :: 1200 → 1100

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  Rotated out:
  
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    Spark of Strength
    
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    Spark of Agility
    
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    Spark of Focus
    
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    Spark of Resilience
    
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    Spark of Leadership
    
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    Built Different
    
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    Stagger Swagger
    
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    Fight or Flight
    
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    Glass Cannon
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  Rotated in:
  
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    [NEW] Reptile Remedy
    
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      Gain 350 Stagger and heal 3% missing Stagger per second for 3 seconds whenever you strike the core.
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    [NEW] Might of the Colossus
    
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      Gain 15% Size and 1 Power per 1% bonus Size.
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    [NEW] Rampage
    
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      Gain 5% Size. Whenever you destroy or assist in destroying an enemy barrier, gain 7.5% more size. Lose additional size when KO'd and between sets.
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    Stinger
    
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      Normal hit burn :: 12% Max stagger → 10% Max Stagger
      
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      Light hit burn :: 12% Max Stagger → 3.33% Max Stagger
      
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      No Longer stacks if multiple players apply it to the same target
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    Adrenaline Rush
    
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      Speed granted from takedown :: 100% → 40%
      
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      Cooldown refund on takedown :: 5s → 10s
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    Stacks on Stacks
    
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    Peak Performance
    
  • 
    Bulk Up
    
  • 
    Reverberation

Heavy Impact had quite the impact on the last patch. We're turning down its cooldown refund capabilities to bring it fully in line with other similar awakenings.

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  CD Refund :: 35% → 30%
  
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  Maximum CD Refund :: 7s → 3s

Dust off these ole' boots, the weather is changing so it's time to try em out again.

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  Haste duration :: 1.5s → 2s

• Cooldown :: 20% -> 15%
  
• Energy :: 1 -> 2

With base stagger going up across the board were preemptively nerfing Siphoning Wand to keep it from going CRAZY.

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  Normal Hit Drain :: 6% → 5%
  
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  Light hit Drain :: 2% → 1.66%

Stagger Swagger is being nerfed on its way out.

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  Bonus Movespeed :: 12% → 10%

Strike Shot is a staple gear in high tiers. We're nudging it down a touch to give the other options some room to breathe.

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  Cooldown :: 8s → 9s

Sometimes Team Player was a bit too gatekeepy about whether your "pass" was truly a pass or just a random redirect. This should make it stop being so stingy.

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  Increased what counts as a pass for close-medium ranges.

What's even more timeless than timeless? Timelessless??

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  Creation Duration :: 65% → 75%

Unstoppable is still struggling to find a home across all tiers of play. We're giving it another nudge on the cooldown to see if it can live up to its dreams.

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  Recharge Time :: 7s → 6.5s

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  Fixed a bug where some creations visuals would disappear if the player had too much creation duration.
  
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  Clarion Corp: Project OBSCURA now correctly slows staggered players inside the zone
  
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  Clarion Corp: Project OBSCURA no longer adds multiple stacks of the intended slow onto staggered players
  
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  Improved consistency of Asher's Special once it is deployed (Some cases still exist where it will leak as the ability spawns)
  
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  Attempted to fix a bug where Recovery Drone and Atlas SPECIAL would revive players without cleansing their staggered state.
  
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  Mako's Primary Projectile now counts as part of her PRIMARY for the purposes of awakenings
  
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  Vyce Secondary now correctly grants her a Hit whenever she would stun a target with the ability
  
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  Reduced cases where Juno Blobbos would pass backwards to other Blobbos
  
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  Strike Shot now correctly has its knockback amped by Missile Propulsion
  
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  Fixed missing voice line from Shogun Asher's MVP celebration