Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Coming into Open Beta, we knew there was still work to do, but wanted to get the game in your hands to validate feedback before digging into our competitive systems. Well… heard, chef! We were already working on a ranked upgrade for January/February, but have started yoinking things up to NOW per your feedback. So before we get to changes:

FOR THE FUTURE we would like to do a more comprehensive overhaul with plans for better leaderboards (friends, social, regional), rewards, and competitivityness. We also hear you regarding ranked feeling more grind-based than skill-based (we have some hypotheses as to why) and that doomed feeling as a solo player getting run over by a premade, but no promises yet, just plans.

FOR NOW: given all the constraints of shipping a patch within a week of launch and using the tools we have, we think we have a fun, temporary solution for the holidays.

• Anyone with more than 500 Ranked Points at Legend Rank will get reset back to 500 RP (this is to recalibrate the top of the ladder competition with our new premade restriction rules)
  
• Squads Master+ Queue will now be limited to duos premades at most
  
• Duos Master+ Queue will now be limited to solos at most (this has been reverted due to community feedback!)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

If you’ve ever been the top 0.01% of anything (couldn’t be me), you’ll know it’s lonely at the top and no matchmaking algorithm will save you when you’re just… better. Something something bell curves. Giving custom game access to Legend+ players lets these gifted SUPERVIVERS play socially after grinding through Masters with halved premades, while also upholding a core community philosophy of Theorycraft: the power of self-organization! There’s simply no way a formula can matchmake the best, but you can, through the power of friendship. Godspeed.

P.S. inevitably we’ll be asked about why not giving Custom Lobbies to everyone so I will speedrun the context:

• Individual games of SUPERVIVE cost us for each instance hosted - meaning a 1-player game of SUPERVIVE is about as expensive as a 40-player game (this is me generalizing to an extreme)
  
• Custom games also pull players out of the matchmaking pool, which harms matchmaking quality and queue times
  
• Therefore: giving custom game access is very scary for us from a cost and game quality perspective
  
• We’re gonna do it anyway (for Legend+ players) until January 15 because we don’t have other acceptable solutions for our very best

• At MONDAY, 12PM PST, we will manually grant every player who is ranked Legend+ (duos and squads) the ability to host custom games for the whole week. Since it’s not Monday, we have already done this week's grants
  
• If you fall out of Legend+ rank during the week, you'll retain access to custom games until the next sweep on Monday, so you have until then to reclaim your standing
  
• Custom games include the ability to set storm shifts, powers, and game modes. They are also a little janky (it’s a dev tool currently) so pardon the dust
  
• You can access Custom Games through the queue dropdown menu in the top left
  
• This is a temporary solution and will be removed on January 15th, 2025
  
• You must have at least 8 players in the lobby to start - we reserve the right to increase this threshold if things get scary (undefined). There is also no indicator as to why you can’t start (it just won’t start until you get 8+), so consider this patch note to be your UX
  
• Legend+ players, if you want us to set up something on our official Discord to help you organize, reach out to PWYFF - otherwise it’s in your hands now

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We've heard lots of feedback on the changes to the initial circle size. While we believe the smaller size has improved our early game pacing—especially in cases where things feel real empty for the first few minutes—we also hear that some drop paths end up feeling claustrophobic.

We’d like to preserve our current game pacing, but want to alleviate that feeling, so let’s try this first set of changes. Keep the feedback coming!

• Initial circle radius has been increased by +10%
  
• The first circle will still close in the same amount of time, so it will feel faster once it starts closing

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Ghost is looking weak across the board. Giving him a little more damage & mobility to bring him back into the fold.

• Damage increased by ~5%

• Cooldown reduced from 12/9/8 >>> 11/8/8 seconds
  
• NOTE: The level 2 to 3 change was not in the tooltip and not intended, so this is just buffing lvl 1 & 2, and leaving lvl 3 the same

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

We're seeing Hudson looking pretty dominant across all MMRs. Gun should go brr, but his mobility and range were feeling pretty out of line.

• Aim laser now accurately shows range, both empowered and unempowered

• Unempowered projectile range reduced from 1500 >>> 1400

• Hover duration reduced from 2/2/2.5 >>> 1.4/1.4/1.75 seconds

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Our resident hot assassin is looking a little weak. This is also the last time we will use objectifying language for Jin, but he has recently just come into hotness and so we must celebrate (momentarily). To the change: we expect Jin to get better as people get more games in, but this small change should help him get there a bit quicker.

• Cast warmup reduced from 0.3 >>> 0.1 seconds

• Recommended item changes from Rampage >>> Mindblade (it's better for her)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Shiv was impacted disproportionately by a tech change to more precisely control projectile ranges. This change gives her a little more threat range so she can function better at mid range.

• Base range increased from 800 >>> 850
  
• Empowered range increased from 925 >>> 950

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

These changes are mostly based on data we’re seeing - specifically: evolution pickrates, win rates, etc. Small nudges here and there to bring things in.

• All evolutions of Vampiric Axe are underperforming, so this is a category-wide buff:
  
• Base Omnivamp increased from 7.5% >>>8.5% (the in-game tooltip rounds up so it’ll look like 9%, sorry. Also: all evolutions get this buff)

• Self-heal on empowered attack increased from 50 >>> 60

• Ability Power at max stacks reduced from 50 >>> 40

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Some of y’all are sleeping on this power (and we know who because we’re tracking drop rates), so we're hoping light buffs will make it more exciting to hold on to. Some tips: teleport resurrection beacons! Pre-drop teleports for mid-fight flanks! Try third-party kidnapping someone from a fight! Oh the possibilities!

• Cooldown reduced from 100 >>> 70 seconds
  
• Minimum delay on reactivation reduced from 10 >>> 8 seconds (so it’s faster to teleport)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Philosophically we feel the same as above (cool power y’all sleeping on), so we’re gonna buff it until you like it >:^)

• Cooldown reduced from 20 >>> 16 seconds
  
• Shot warmup time reduced from 0.2 >>> 0 seconds (so it’s near instant)

• Fixed Felix’s name in French
  
• Fixed issue where AFK detection would kill players even when they return from being AFK
  
• Fixed Shiv’s Secret Agent Golden Gun Chroma so it isn’t pulling from base gun textures in-game
  
• Improved ping retry on region latency check to reduce issues where players get disconnected entirely from the internet due to spam

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Refer-a-friend is BACK and now all done in the game client!

• Earn points for referring friends into SUPERVIVE
  
• Earn even more points for playing together with those friends
  
• Earn enough points to earn exclusive cosmetic rewards!

• Has been added to the game. When a player is detected as AFK, they will be automatically killed/unable to be respawned
  
• Players on the team of a disconnected or AFK player are allowed to leave the game without penalty

• A new “Run It Back” button has been added on the team screen of Match Summary
  
• Pressing this button will send a party invite to everyone on your team

• Added further improvements to “Welcome to Skylands” Stormshift for newer players, including the introduction of Resurgence
  
• Resurgence: During the first 3 days, when a teammate is killed, a timer starts on remaining teammates. When the timer expires, the dead teammate is revived.
  
• Added updated tutorial videos in the Learn tab
  
• The Controls Tutorial now has Voiceover

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

In Open Beta we’re introducing a new system: Quests! Quests, or things like quests have been in the game before but we never found a shape that really fit… until now - we hope! The goals of the quest system are:

• Give players meaningful, strategic decisions in the early game
• Add immediate, clear, shared early game goals with compelling rewards
• Incentivize smaller-scale, early game PvP collisions

While these things will ideally make the game better for all players, we believe they’ll be especially helpful to players that are NOT in a premade, since there’s now a clear answer to “what should we do right now?”

And now some caveats. This system came in very late in development so there’s a good amount of temporary content associated with it, like:
• The vendor is a recolored version of the red key vendor, neither of which are necessarily final in terms of visuals or sound
• The way he distributes quests is very bare bones. We’re anticipating iterating here, so please give us feedback on what’s working or not working about interacting with him!
• Quest content is a pretty small set. We’d like to add more quests if the system sticks around, and we’d like to add more varied quests! We’re still assessing it ourselves and your feedback is a key driver to where we take it, so please let us know how you feel!

• Shortly after you drop, a vendor will appear near your team, offering a selection of different Quests for your team to complete. Your vendor can only be seen and used by your team.
  
• Successfully completing those Quests will give your team a unique reward.
  
• After you complete your first Quest, your team will be offered another Quest (until Day 4, at which point the Quest vendor will disappear). Each quest offered can be attempted once per game.
  
• The vendor will teleport after you every 15 seconds until you accept a quest, or capture a bonfire, or the game reaches day 2. At that point, the vendor will appear above your team’s Base Camp, or if you don’t have one, at the nearest uncaptured one.

• Brawlers: Kill 3 players. Reward: Megashard.
  
• Farm Creeps: Farm 16 creeps. Reward: 4 Vive Brews + 1 Hyperscrap per player.
  
• Open Vault: Open any Vault. Reward: 1 Tome of Knowledge per player + 1 Hyperscrap per player.
  
• Supply Drop: Spawn and loot a Supply Drop. Reward: 2 green armor + 1 Hyperscrap per player.
  
• Megaboar: Spawn and hunt a Megaboar. Reward: 2 green armor + 1 Hyperscrap per player.
  
• Note: you’ll either receive Supply Drop OR Megaboar each match, not both.

• BR games now start with an initial Death Circle. Gold zones and Major Objectives will not spawn in the initial death circle
  
• For Squad games: Day 1 circle duration lowered by 60s. Subsequent days lowered slightly

• Dying while Most Wanted now sends you straight to Deathbox
  
• Kill credit from spikes will always go to the player who hit the spike, and won't be stolen by damaging a player after the spike starts
  
• Last hit leniency - if the most wanted player has an assist within 0.5 seconds of a kill, they'll get full kill time reduction instead of assist reduction

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

This change shouldn’t feel like a change. In a previous playtest, we gave all hunters some passive damage reduction as an experiment to increase time-to-kill. We liked the change, so we’re swapping the invisible damage-reduction with health to get the same effect with better clarity.

• Hidden 3% damage reduction and 5% healing reduction removed from all hunters
  
• All hunters are given +30 base Health (and a small amount of scaling Health per Level) to compensate for the above removals

• As a reminder, all inventory and progression has been reset for Open Beta
  
• The glider “Soft Ceiling” pulls you down less harshly, and should generally feel better
  
• The "Out of Bounds” Buffer does not regenerate until you're on the ground again (thank you zzkknn for showing us that we need this…)
  
• All hunters have received a third Hunter Mastery mission. Some existing Hunter Mastery missions have been modified.
  
• You are now Vulnerable while repairing armor at a Basecamp (same as brewing Vive)
  
• You can now mute your teammates’ Emotes and Pings in Settings
  
• When you are dead, you can only hear sound that your living teammates can hear

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

These look like small notes, but they’re doing a lot of heavy lifting. Big environmental upgrades! And some context on random chests: given how much of SUPERVIVE relies on teammates to do efficiently (vaults, monster packs, etc) we wanted to add something that is easily solo-able and has good rewards to encourage teams breaking up to efficiently farm out a biome. Obviously this has its own risks, but it definitely adds ~ t e x t u r e ~ to your gaming experience. If you see a chest, you should probably open it.

• [!!!] Random Chests now spawn in the outskirts of most biomes: they contain goodies!
  
• [!!!] Kaiju Water now anti-heals for a short duration
  
• [!!!] Explosive barrels now have a slight delay before exploding, and they now apply anti-heal
  
• Environment looks nicer :^)
  
• Chaos Steppes has an updated layout, including a new Boss arena
  
• Prisma Falls has a secret area!

• Several minions have updated loot/XP adjustments to match their density/danger
  
• Creeps now ignore you if you sneak around them (unless you’re really really close to them)
  
• Wavemaker Boss: Projectile orbs are now destructible by melee attacks
  
• Town Guards now change color when they attack you
  
• Several minions have updated art

• Several powers have received visual updates

• Now lets you teleport everything into Abyss, including Revive Beacons and Base Camps
  
• Now no longer lets you target inside of mountains / invalid terrain

• Bonus root duration on enemies lowered from 0.5 >>> 0.1 second
  
• No longer has a minimum hit distance

• Duration reduced from 3.5 >>> 3 seconds
  
• Cooldown increased from 20 >>> 30 seconds

• Pulls you up more gently
  
• Burns you less
  
• Fixed a bug where you instantly start burning when gliding in Academy

• Follows you better

• Cooldown increased from 3 >>> 4 seconds
  
• Cooldown starts on mortar launch, instead of on initial cast

• Replicated Armor retains the value it had when cloned

• Base explosion damage increased from 2700 >>> 5000
  
• Exotic Tactical Nuke does 10x the explosion damage of regular Tactical Nuke

• Now also pulls living enemies while they are airborne
  
• Now applies a heal over time to you when pulling allies or enemies. The heal scales with targets pulled

• Shard drops from camps have been retuned
  
• You now vacuum up shards
  
• Equipment can go to Red Tier again
  
• Shard cost for Purple / Gold tiers increased slightly

• Powers are no longer affected by Ability Haste. Instead, there is a new stat, Power Haste, that uniquely affects Power cooldown reduction
  
• Currently, the only thing in the game that gives Power Haste is Power User (a Tech Blade evolution)

• Removed

• Removed

• If you jump right when you land, your next jump goes higher, up to 3 times

• Stomping or executing wisps heals you over time

• Now grants nearby stationary allies a mana regeneration buff as well at 25% effectiveness

• Cost for greed cashout lowered from 5K/10K >>> 4K/8K gold (stats granted unchanged)

• Shield amount increased from 20% >>> 25%
  
• Shield duration increased from 3 >>> 4 seconds

• Max mana granted when fully stacked increased from 50 >>> 100
  
• Max mana to AP conversion reduced from 10% >>> 8%

• No longer gives AP per stack
  
• Max stack count increased from 5 >>> 10
  
• Now grants all 50 AP at max stacks

• Now only spawns brush if you are not already in brush. Previously it would keep spawning brush, which would look… sus

• Stacks while you are dead
  
• Max stacks lowered from 10 >>> 8
  
• Stats per stack increased such that stats at max stacks are the same as before

• Removed

• Each time you use a movement ability, gain 50 movespeed that decays over 2s

• Movespeed granted per stack increased from 3 >>> 5
  
• Max stacks lowered from 5 >>> 3 (total movespeed at max stacks unchanged)

• On-hit proc damage increased from 40 >>> 45
  
• Removed a bug where Interweaver could still reduce ability cooldowns on-hit

• Removed

• Falling below 40% HP grants you +5% Omnivamp and +50% healing received from all sources

• Stacks lost on death reduced from 2 >>> 1

• Updated tooltip styling for all items and abilities
  
• Updated visuals for Hunter healthbars (new status icons, new broken armor indicator, new visuals on damage taken)
  
• Updated visuals for minion healthbars
  
• Updated visuals for combat damage numbers and several status effects
  
• You can now press Alt + 1-3 to upgrade your equipment/boots respectively
  
• As a reminder, you can also press Alt + your abilities to level them up
  
• The main lobby and team lineup screen have undergone makeovers
  
• Kill feed has a fresh look too
  
• Added visual indicators to signal things happening off-screen
  
• Added visual feedback for mana gain from consumables
  
• Off-screen indicators also show distance from the indicator
  
• Added additional game state information when you open the map
  
• Revive beacons have updated visuals and smoother animations
  
• Updated VFX on Spikes, Dunks, and Mantles
  
• There’s music in various parts of the game!
  
• Added sounds for when Exotic items spawn
  
• Trees are more treelike
  
• Large rocks are more rocklike
  
• Berries are more berrylike
  
• Birds are more birdlike

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Bishop was strong during Steam Next Fest, especially at higher MMRs.

• Level 3 upgrade now only resets the cooldown of Haymaker (Q) if the satchel hits an enemy

• Charge time increased from 10s >>> 11s

• Turn rate lowered by ~10%
  
• Detonation radius lowered by 25%
  
• Max stun duration decreased from 1.4 >>> 1.2 seconds
  
• QoL: No longer follows heightmap downward, meaning if you jumppad and ult, you’ll stay high up in the air

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

This is intended to be both a quality-of-life change (hitbox matches the animation), but also a buff especially to lower-skill Brall players who are having a hard time landing their LMB hits

• Now deals damage in a Slice shape rather than a Box (increased max angle)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Elluna is disproportionately strong at lower MMRs. We’re trading off offensive and defensive power to even out the discrepancy.

• Slow while picking up Wisps increased from 20% >>> 30%
  
• Shield reduced from 250 >>> 200

• Damage per burn stack increased by 10%

• Now has global iconography (visible only to enemies) that should make it easier to read the ability across different skins

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Removing an unwanted optimization, which should also be a minor nerf

• Cooldown between uses increased from 0.01 >>> 0.35 seconds
  
• Added a 0.35 second self-slow after letting go of the ability
  
• Improved visuals

• Now properly attaches to dynamic objects like Oath’s Brightshield (RMB) and Celete’s Barricade (Q) rather than deleting on impact

• Now has Bloom that starts out wide, then zeroes in the longer you hold it
  
• Goes further than before
  
• Improved visuals

• Also has bloom, but less than non-Overclocked Minigun
  
• Improved visuals

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

Oh no he’s hot (in-game)

• In-game model, VFX, and animations updated

• Kills/dunks will properly reset this ability
  
• Fixed a bug where leveling Flip Slash / Death Blow would cast it as well

• Minimum cast time increased from 0.2 >>> 0.4 seconds

• Damage increased by 15%

• [NEW] Level 3 upgrade: Casting Brute Dash resets the cooldown of your Scattergun (LMB). In addition, the next Scattergun shot reduces the cooldown of Brute Dash by 0.25s per pellet hit (max 1.75s)

• 0.15s wind down added (previously 0s)
  
• Level 3 upgrade: self-downward impulse doubled, meaning you slam down faster (careful over Abyss!)

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

After multiple rounds of nerfs to sharpen her identity, Myth finally has some room for buffs!

• Myth has received a VFX update on most things!

• Green arrow damage profile adjusted: base damage down, AP ratio up
  
• Perfect greens deal -5 damage w/ Gray equipment, +5 at Purple equipment, and +10 at Gold

• Max hold duration after cast increased from 1.5 >>> 3.0 seconds
  
• Pushes harder after shorter amounts of charge mininum charge and longer holds are unaffected
  
• Charging Heartpiercer is now visible to enemies when Myth is in a wall

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Myth to fall through the ground if Phase Walking in the Underrot Vault

• Level 3 Upgrade: cooldown -5 seconds, duration +1.5 seconds >>> cooldown -4 seconds, +30% Arc Width

• Damage increased by +10% at all ranks

Originally posted by Theorycraft:

This change should make Oath’s hammer feel smoother to spam, and you can’t autoclick your way to higher DPS beyond a certain point.

• Now has a minimum travel distance of 5m, and a minimum recall lockout time of 0.25 seconds

• Lowered healing to Brightshield (RMB) to now scale 1:1 with the regular heal

• Now properly attaches to dynamic objects like Oath’s Brightshield (RMB) and Celete’s Barricade (Q) rather than deleting on impact

• Improved visuals/decals

• Has a new in-game model

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused Invulnerable targets to not get stunned by Singularity even after their Invulnerability ended
  
• Thank you to everyone in the #void Discord channel for this one!

• [NEW] Level 3 upgrade - If cast over the abyss, Zeph creates Windrings on Dash (1 Windring for short dash, 2 for long dash). Rings last 20 seconds

• We’ve added a South American server for Open Beta
  
• Support for widescreen added
  
• Knock streaks (Double Knock, Triple Knock, etc.) reset after 10 seconds of not getting a knock, instead of resetting only on death
  
• Improved mantling - mantling should feel more physical and sandbox-y
  
• Improved behavior of Default zoom
  
• Players with Default zoom can activate Smart zoom by holding down RMB. When released, the map view will return back to where they were before
  
• Added a streamer/privacy mode in Settings
  
• Scan grenades now correctly show ally/enemy color
  
• Spray sizes reduced
  
• Added a terminal velocity to Windrings (don’t worry, you can still go Very Fast)
  
• Practice mode menu reordered/consolidated
  
• Cursor cooldown indicator is now rate limited, and can be turned off in Settings
  
• You can now grab onto grindrails from below (and start grinding on top of them)
  
• You no longer collide with allied minions
  
• The Train puzzle colors have been updated to make them colorblind-friendly
  
• Fixed a bug that muted ally emotes during Drop
  
• Fixed a bug where Chonker Cannon Chonkers would bounce too much
  
• Fixed a bug where shooting the Heart could sometimes spike enemies across the map
  
• Fixed a bug where Glider trails could spawn erratically on the map