AGENT UPDATES

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VIPER:

Toxin (passive)

• Enemies that cross through Viper’s Poison Cloud, Toxic Screen, or Viper’s Pit .
• instantly inflicted with at least 50 decay. Their decay level increases the longer.
• remain in contact with toxin.
• While in cloud, Decay over time decreased 15 >>> 10.
• When out of Viper’s cloud, delay before health regen decreased 2.5 >>> 1.5.

Poison Cloud (Q)

• Can now immediately be redeployed when picked up, but grants a temporary charge instead of a permanent charge.
• If active when Viper dies, Poison Cloud now remains up for an additional 2 seconds, or until Viper runs out of fuel.
• Pickup distance increased 200 >>> 400

Toxic Screen (E)

• If active when Viper dies, Toxic Screen now remains up for an additional 2 seconds before deactivating.
• Full blind distance from the wall increased to better match the blind distance from the edge of smokes.

Snakebite (C)

• Equip time decreased 1.1 >>> 8.

Practice Tools

• In custom games with cheats and infinite abilities enabled, Viper can hold down “activate” on Poison Cloud and Toxic Screen to recall them.
• In custom games with cheats and infinite abilities enabled, Poison Cloud’s landing location is shown on the minimap while equipped.

YORU:

Blindside (Q)

• Flash activation time decreased 0.8 >>> 0.6 seconds.
• Flash duration increased from 1.1 >>> 1.5.

Gatecrash (E)

• Gatecrash is no longer refreshed on kills and is instead replenished every 35 seconds.
• Lifetime of the Gatecrash fragment increased 20 seconds >>> 30 seconds.
• The range at which the Gatecrash fragment is revealed from stealth decreased 7m >>> 4m.
• Visuals for visibility range added to the moving fragment.

Dimensional Drift (X)

• Ult Points reduced 7 >>> 6.
• Yoru can now reactivate Gatecrash while in Dimensional Drift.

KILLJOY:

Nanoswarm (C)

• Killjoy can now pick up deployed Nanoswarm grenades during the buy phase to get the charge back.

WEAPONS UPDATES

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Bucky:

• Primary fire (left-click) bullet spread decreased 3.4 >>> 2.6.
• Decreased spread on Alt-fire (right-click) 3.4 >>> 2.0.
• Updated damage curve for both primary and alt-fire.
• 0m–8m is 20dmg per pellet.
• 8m–12m is 12dmg per pellet.
• Beyond 12m is 9dmg per pellet.
• Reduced amount of pellets in a right click shot from 15 >>> 5.

MODES UPDATES

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1. Escalation
2. Abilities

• Raze’s Showstopper now comes with two Blast Pack Charges which refill when you touch the ground. Practice those boosts!
• Snowball Launcher now comes with Skates—the increased mobility should give you an edge against the generally more lethal weapons.
• Big Knife now comes with one Tailwind (Jett Dash) charge which refills on kill. Close all the gaps!
• Loadout variations will be a bit of a surprise, and they’ll show up rarely. Let us know which ones you like!

COMPETITIVE UPDATES

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• You can now view a person’s career from the in-game Leaderboard.
• If you are on the the Leaderboard, but don’t want to give away who you are, you can leverage our in-client toggle to label yourself a ‘Secret Agent’.

QUALITY OF LIFE

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• To improve legibility, the megamap now consistently uses a mouse pointer instead of a crosshair for map pings.

Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF).

• Added an audio toggle located in the Audio settings panel to enable HRTF.

BUGS

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• 20 assorted bugs for Agents, QoL, Competitive, and more fixed for this patch.