Blindfire

• A freely playable area with training hints and information on how to use your skills, grenades, upgrades, how to pick up the orb or score with the bomb, a firing range, and a practice area where you can spawn bots and fight freely. • Players can swap between weapons and grenades freely and manipulate the training room in more ways than they typically could in normal gameplay. Explore the area and find out! • As a result of implementing this, we have removed the tutorial video section in the main menu. • Two new weapons have been added, the Goliath and Valkyrie! • This pistol and rifle are both charging variants of the original. • Hold down the fire button to create a shot that will deal significantly more damage than the weapon would have done with normal fire! • The Goliath can consume its entire clip in one charged barrage! • The Valkyrie can combine 3 ammo into one powerful shot. • A new Grenade has been added, the EMP Grenade! • EMP has the ability to disrupt the information your opponent receives. • Being hit by the blast of an EMP will prevent you from casting your Echo, disrupt the information shown by your HUD, and cause false positive enemy silhouettes to appear. • Use this confusion alongside your other tools to defeat your enemies! IMPROVEMENTS • There has been some iterative balance work on the existing weapons. • The HUD in game has undergone a full overhaul, and should hopefully feel cleaner and easier to understand. • You wont see the diegetic HUD on your weapon when using ADS anymore - instead a small marker at your crosshair will let you know what ammo you have left. • You can now inspect your weapon hitting the “i” key in active gameplay. Make sure you are somewhere you can see it… • Incremental improvements have been made to performance on several maps. • Some gantries now have strip lights running down them that can be activated. BUG FIXES • Bots have overcome their problems aiming with melee attacks. • Bots should be able to score consistently in Touchdown mode again. • We identified further areas where it was possible for a grenade to hit geometry unexpectedly. KNOWN ISSUES • It's possible the armoury may appear blank the next time you enter it, if you were in it when a game starts. • On rare occasions it is possible the Combat Training area within the Training Room is lit up - it should be shrouded in darkness in the same way normal maps are. • If this happens, leaving and re-entering the training room should resolve the issue.