Graveyard (Lumberyard Event) b13

• New mechanic "Last Man Standing"
  • When your team is reduced to just one player, they will be announced as the last player remaining.
  • This player will be given mini-crits, speed, and a particle effect.
  • This effect will not apply if there is only 1 player on both teams when the round starts.

This new mechanic will help the underdog, ensuring an interesting final fight. This will also make final 1V1's less of a stalemate, since the minicrit damage will more effectively counter any healing the opponent is getting from ghosts. Let me know what you think!

• The spellbook on the log will now only appear once the control point is unlocked
  • This will stop the beginning of every round playing the same, where players would race for the spellbook right away.
  • Teams unable to contest the control point can counter a grouped-up enemy team with a well-placed spell.
• Ghosts can now see ally positions and health
  • Fly over to a teammate who needs some help!
• Ghost healing radius has been increased once more
• Merasmus VO now counts down the start of the round, and now announces events like sudden death, the point unlocking, and which team won a round
• Doors should hopefully not crush people any more
• Win condition is now 5 (from 6)
• Cleaned up more collisions and stuck spots
• Added skybox particles

A3 Patchnotes:

• Completely redid the HUD
  • There is now a counter at the top of the HUD that will display how many players are alive on each team, just like normal arena
  • The win counter looks much cleaner, now with new art
• Turned off all of the random events for the time being
• Text will appear on the screen to denote which team won the round
• Changed the win condition to 6 instead of 8
• Players without minimal HUD enabled will get a hint prompt letting them know what ghosts do
• Fixed players being ressurected after a round ended
• Cleaned up more collisions

TO DO:

1. Add a tie system
2. Add a balancing system for the losing team

• Radius for the ghost dispensers are larger
• Ghosts now drop ammo packs (previous oversight)
• Text will now pop up on the screen when you become a ghost, letting you know that you can heal teammates
• New hud
  • Now uses the PD hud as a base instead of a koth clock
  • The bar on the bottom tracks the wins each team has with text to hopefully explain it
  • Win condition is still the same; you dont drop cores or anything
  • Player counters will come soon
• Fixed issues with the lava event
  • Skybox lava now matches speeds with the playspace lava
  • Cap zone trigger now gets enabled on top of the hut, so you can win by capturing in the event of a bug or an invis spy hiding some weird spot
• Removed the "more spells" event
• Players now get overhealed during the "huge" event
• Sudden death now activates 120 seconds into the round
  • all players will take incrementing, doubling damage after another 60 seconds
• Control point now takes 10 seconds to cap (previously 15)
• Clipping improvements
• Random bits of detail