Code ZIN: Esper Arena news & patch notes

We are updating some SFX, our TouchDown Maps got a visual overhaul and our character-shader was adjusted! Bots are going to need some more cooking, but we are close to opening the gates for their entrance on our other TouchDown Maps. Skills and Weapons got some small adjustments.

Maps

• Full visual rework

• Added a collider to allow easier pathing towards Goal

• Lighting upgraded

• Fixed a bug where a collider was missing

SFX

• Guardgun (Item: Scarab) SFX replaced fully

• Melee SFX updated

• Movement SFX updated

• Shield SFX added

• HMG (Item: Wildfire) warmup and cooldown SFX added

• Riflecannon (Item: Helios) explosion SFX added

• Shooting and Running SFX got a fade-out feature

Weapons

• New Guard and Punch VFX

• Changed Shoot VFX

• Stab animation updated

• Stab attack duration increased by ~0.1s

• Shoot accuracy increased at start by 22%

• Shoot accuracy reduced at start by 60%

• Shoot accuracy rapidly increases until 2s then decreases again

Skills

• Changed speedcurve, reducing overall distance

• Size increased by 20%

• Duration increased by 2s

• Minimum duration increased by 2s

• Duration reduced by 2s

• Team-healing increased by 33%

• Self-healing reduced by 20%

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Here is a quick update on what is coming next for Code ZIN.

Coming in the near future:

• Bots will be added to all Touchdown maps

• Gameplay balancing updates

• A new weapon, currently leaning toward a healing role

• New SFX created by Planetboom

• Activation of the first Event system iteration

In earlier stages:

• Progression system (missions and similar features) is now in concept phase

• Chaser-inspired mode and its map are in early development

• And more, of course. So, stay tuned

As a small teaser of what is ahead with the chaser-like mode, take a look at this artwork made by Kiri.

Let us know what you are most interested in.

Dummies got an upgrade! You can now play with them in Touchdown, starting with Outer Space today and with rest of the maps added in the upcoming days. Currently they are babies, they might get stuck and/or stop at times but they should be able to do some basic combat, use skills and walljumps for navigating.

Gameplay

• Removed bugged walljump start where push didn’t happen but player went up already

• Changed walljump to be more linear and removed the drop gravity overwrite, leaving it on normal 1x gravity instead of 0.95x

• Added poison mechanic which stacks up to 5, dealing as much damage as the stack level every second. Clears by itself after 3 seconds of last poison application

• Added landing state for full body jump animations

Note: Regular poison received from attacks leaves you at 1 Health instead of killing you, but the map poison sources are stronger and will kill you if you don’t leave the source in time.

Game Modes

Touchdown

• Changed the ball texture

• Changed ball and blastable interaction to be same across server and client (interaction itself is still wrong, but should stay in sync in more cases now)

• Added maximum of 3 bots per side that will balance the teams and leave as real players join

Maps

Toxic Arena

• Removed death zone on central toxic pool

• Added poison that quickly stacks every 0.5 seconds in central toxic pool

Weapons

Rifle Cannon (Item: Helios)

• Added a hit VFX for the ray attack

Broadsword (Item: Durendal / Founders Sword)

• Jump Attack damage is doubled against blastable objects

Bat (Item: Cyclone)

• Jump Attack damage is doubled against blastable objects

Skills

Soar

• Fixed gliding animation not looping

• Disabled cancelling the skill while doing dive dash

Client

• Improved ESC menu toggle FPS drop and optimized game logic ever so slightly

• Fixed hitstop only hits creating a hit VFX (it was a visual bug only)

P.S.: We know that logging in via Steam often shows an error message at the moment. Please try again or use an email. We are working on that issue!

It’s been a while, friends! We have a bunch of balance changes, new systems added in the background for future use, and a friend's system. We want to expand on the social features over time, including whispers/private messages.

Gameplay

• Crouch healing now starts at 4 HP/s instead of 2 HP/s, and speed has changed to be more gradual

• Reduced running stamina consumption to 20 SP/s from 22 SP/s

• Walljump stick duration increased to 0.29s from 0.18s

• Walljump push animation has changed to be quicker, overall duration shortened to 4 seconds from 10 seconds

• Walljump movement speed increased by 24%

• Walljump gravity increased by 10% before the peak, and 1% after the peak

• Dodge and slide movement speeds have become more simplified

• Slide gravity now reaches full force in 0.52s instead of 0.8s, making it less floaty

• Fixed partially missed shots using the missing distance to calculate damage, reducing guns damage under certain circumstances (introduced in #25.10.30)

Game Modes

• Disabled the mode until next time

• Team scores now syncs upon join without a new Touchdown

Maps

• Fixed missing colliders

• Minor performance improvements

Weapons

• Swing speed reduced by 16% and attack now comes out 0.15s later

• Hold duration of LMB reduced by 0.032s to make the Jump Attack easier to cast and come out earlier

• Swing after Jump Attack animation has changed, movement speed slowed down by ~16.6% and the attack comes out 0.05s earlier

• Jump Attack’s crit position lowered to be on the same level

• Spin animation duration increased to 1.8s from 1.5s

• Spin’s movement speed reduced by 12.5%

• Spin’s attack cancelling dodge timing moved to 1.32s from 1.2s, making you stay in it for longer

• Spin hitbox radius reduced to 1.5m from 1.7m

• Increased accuracy by 25%

• Reduced bullet size by 33%

• Reduced maganize to 5 from 6

• Moved damage drop off start distance to 8m from 12m

• Lengthen the animation to 1.06s from 0.97s and slowed down the movement speed by 10%

• Attack cancelling dodge timing moved to 0.36s from 0.54s

• Increased accuracy by 16%

• Reduced bullet size by 16.6%

• Increased start up bloom amount by 50%

• Bloom now resets faster by 33%

• Reduced damage per bullet to 8 from 9

• Increased bullet crit damage to 16 from 13

• Reduced min hold duration by 0.12s to make it easier to get out of shooting

• No charge stab movement increased by 30%, and start off curve aligns with other charge levels

• No charge explosion animation duration increased to 0.71s from 0.5s

• No charge explosion hitbox reach reduced to 2.8m from 3.2m, width reduced to 0.65m from 1.2m

• No charge explosion crit hitbox spacing reduced to 0.5m from 0.8m, and now it starts at 0.3m instead of -0.2m while ending at 2.2m instead of 2.6m

• Mid charge stab movement speed reduced by 14.8%

• Mid charge explosion animation duration increased to 0.625s from 0.5s

• Mid charge explosion hitbox reach reduced to 3.3m from 3.6m, width reduced to 0.75m from 1.25m

• Mid charge explosion crit hitbox spacing reduced to 0.5m from 0.8m, and now it starts at 0.3m instead of -0.2m while ending at 2.2m instead of 2.6m

• Full charge stab movement speed reduced by 5%

• Full charge explosion animation duration increased to 0.56s from 0.5s

• Full charge explosion movement speed increased by 10%

• Full charge explosion hitbox reach reduced to 3.8m from 4m, width reduced to 0.85m from 1.3m

• Full charge explosion crit hitbox spacing reduced to 0.5m from 0.8m, and now it starts at 0.3m instead of -0.2m while ending at 2.2m instead of 2.6m

• Added hitstop to light slashes

• Light slash 1 to 2 combo window increased to 1.6s from 1s

• Light slash 1 animation duration decreased to 0.62s from 0.68s

• Light slash 1 movement speed reduced by 23%

• Light slash 1’s attack cancelling dodge timing moved to 0.36s from 0.4s

• Light slash 1 hitbox is not slanted anymore, starts at -1.2m instead of -0.4m and length of it is reduced to 1.5m from 1.8m

• Light slash 1 attack comes out 0.1s later

• Added another hit to light slash 2 which deals 10 damage with no crowd control

• Light slash 2 now allows casting dash on its recovery, 0.7s after initiating the slash

• Light slash 2 animation duration increased to 0.82s from 0.69s

• Light slash 2 movement speed increased by 16.6%

• Light slash 2 damage reduced to 10 from 20 due to additional hit, just splitting the damage over time

• Light slash 2 hitbox is not slanted anymore, width reduced to 0.8m from 1.3m and height increased to 1.2m from 0.9m

• Light slash 2 crit damage reduced to 15 from 16

• Light slash 2 knockback amount increased to 5 from 2

• Heavy slash hold duration reduced by 0.028s to make it easier to cast and come out earlier

• Heavy slash crit damage increased to 45 from 43.75

• Jump attack crit damage increased to 37.5 from 35

• Reduced chain timing from Jump attack -> dash to 0.3s from 0.4s

• Reduced chain timing from Jump attack -> Light slash to 0.3s from 0.35s

• Removed slap attack

• Allowed attack cancelling dodge to happen on guarding state at 0.32s

• Increased guarding movement speed by 6.6%

• Increased guarding angle range to 163° from 155°

• Decreased min guarding cost to 16 from 23, max guarding cost to 21 from 25

• Increased guarding duration to 0.5s from 0.4s

• Added hitstop to punch after guard

• Punch now has guard effect at the start up

• Punch movement speed increased by 20%

• Punch attack comes out 0.06s later

Skills

• Model changed

• Dive dash no longer cancels upon touching the ground, use Crouching or Jumping to cancel it

Client

• Updated translations & credits for community provided translations

• Added Friends menu at Home screen with friends list, incoming and outgoing friend requests

• Added event system, removing the need for updating matchmaking screen while also providing date & time information

• Added modular map functionality (WIP)

And it is once again snowing in Netsphere! There are also some creations roaming in snow, although they don’t seem very intelligent just yet.

Note that we plan to adjust the exp gain and robot logic of the event mode at a later date on server side. They are both in testing phase at this time but will not require a patch for these.

Game Modes

Snowball Fight

• Added Snowball Fight game mode into matchmaking for a limited time

Maps

Toxic Arena

• Fixed lasers and some colliders

• Added effects

Snow Globe

• Added Snow Globe map into Snowball Fight game mode

Weapons

Rifle Cannon (Item: Helios)

• Scaled down the charging VFX and reduced intensity of bloom

Event Club (Item: Icicle Club)

• Added simplified version of Bat with a single blunt attack which deals 50 damage, unobtainable outside of Snowball Fight game mode

• Switched to new bat swing compared to last version

Throwing Bomb (Item: Snowball)

• Added the weapon with a single projectile attack which deals 100 damage, unobtainable outside of Snowball Fight game mode. This variant does not explode upon contact, only causes impact damage

• Added walk animations, allowing 8-directional movement during the attack compared to last version

Client

• Re-enabled equipment check messages when trying to matchmake without any weapons or either of the skills

• Reduced visibility of disabled weapons to 25% instead of 50%

Before it starts to snow again, we are here to manage toxic waste of Netsphere…

Please try not to fall into it.

Maps

Toxic Arena

• Added the map to Touchdown and Practice game modes

Client

• Fixed second skill not showing up in waiting UI after switching teams

New content and gameplay changes are here. You asked for equipping two skills, so here it is as well

Gameplay

• Walljump’s gravity boost after the peak is removed, it will now use the same gravity over time and cover slightly more distance

• Running now clamps your vertical speed to +2 instead of -1, removing the install push down while still cutting it off

• Running movement speed increased to 1.74x from 1.6x (%8.75 increase), making up for the old speed increase of broadsword walk speed

• Added stun crowd control effect, unlike stagger it cannot be recovered using a dodge but other crowd controls can override it, allowing to cancel again even before its eventual time out

Weapons

• Added the weapon

• Shots are the same as old swordgun, same firerate and damage however, ammo is 40

• RMB consumes 23 Flux to initiate and goes into guard state between 0.3s – 1.4s as long 5.5 Flux is there to consume over time. At the end of guard state it will be followed up with a throwing attack

• RMB with not enough Flux will do weaker version of the follow up attack directly with no guard state, it is visually a combo to break the monotonous look on spam but both attacks features are nearly identical

• Reduced firerate to 7 bullets per second from 8

• Increased damage per bullet to 9 from 8

• Increased critical multiplier to 1.45x from 1.25x

• Increased spread over time quicker, making it bloom faster

• Increased normal attack damage to 20 from 16

• Increased Strong Cut damage to 25 from 20

• Reduced time to attack on Strong Cut by 0.18s and shortened the animation by 0.04s

• Changed critical points of Strong Cut to match general idea of “aim at the enemy to crit”

• Reduced mobility and disabled jump during Swing part of the Jump Attack -> Swing combo

• Delayed ability to Swing during Jump Attack recovery to 0.2s from 0.1s

• Fixed refill taking flux after charge was cancelled

• Allowed weapon to be cancelled with Crouch button while walking (although Crouch walk itself is not back yet)

• Charge VFX decided to appear in builds

Skills

• Added the skill under Movement category

• Activation on ground pushes you upwards and goes into gliding state

• You can get a dive boost by using the activation key again, but it only works once on every flight (UI has no indicator for this at the moment)

• Moved skill to Movement category

• Moved skill to Utility category

• Moved skill to Utility category

Maps

• Minor performance improvements on City Square, Ironworks and Service Point

Client

• Added separate keybinding in the settings for Utility skills

• Optimized SSR and Bloom performance

Hi everyone,

It’s been just a few days since Code ZIN: Esper Arena became free to play, and we’re genuinely grateful for the support and feedback so far.

Seeing new players join, share impressions, and help us shape the game during Early Access means a lot to the team.

We’re already working on the next update, which will introduce a new weapon and a new skill designed to open up fresh tactics and playstyles, arriving very soon.

Our current Roadmap you can read here: Code ZIN: Esper Arena - Steam News Hub

If you’re enjoying the experience or see the potential in what we’re building, a short review on Steam would really help others discover the game and support ongoing development. It only takes a moment, and your feedback makes a big difference.

Thank you again for playing, testing, and helping us improve Code ZIN: Esper Arena. We’re excited for what’s coming next.

We’re excited to share that Code ZIN is now Free to Play. Starting today, everyone can jump in and experience the game without any cost.

We’re continuing in Early Access, which also means the game remains in its Alpha stage. Our primary focus is on content development, overall improvements, balance, and, of course, your community feedback.

At this stage, there is no monetization, allowing everyone to enjoy the game freely while we continue to refine the core systems and expand the experience together.

Later in Early Access, we plan to introduce optional monetization featuring cosmetics, quality-of-life improvements, and other fair additions that enhance the game without affecting balance or competition.

Thank you to all players who have been with us so far. Your feedback and support mean a lot to us, and we look forward to welcoming many new players as Code ZIN continues to grow and evolve.

With the Free release set for November 5th, it is the perfect timing to share a playlist of tutorial videos created by our player, Rubi King. Check it out!

Guides - YouTube

See you on November 5th in-game!

While we are getting ready for Free to Play release and preparing new content, here’s a new patch putting out the rest.

Gameplay

• Added base recovery using Jump button at +0.3s for Stagger & Knockback states, and +0.4s for Throw state

• Changed crowd control sharing method and reduced 40 ms of latency on crowd control interactions

Game modes

Deathmatch

• Changed spawn distribution to reduce extremely isolated spawns

Weapons

Broadsword (Item: Durendal / Founders Sword)

• Increased jump attack range by 16% and increased vertical hitbox area to be even

• Added more critical hitboxes to make crits on dash attack more consistent when the attacker doesn’t stop on time

• Delayed heavy attack hit timing by 0.24s and shortened the total duration by 0.05s to fit the visuals

Bat (Item: Cyclone)

• Increased jump attack range by 16% and increased vertical hitbox area to be even (same as Broadsword)

• Swing animations changed and allows free movement now instead of locked forward step

• Reduced normal attack hitbox range behind the player

Heavy Machine Gun (Item: Wildfire)

• Reduced damage to 7 from 7.5

• Reduced accuracy (no direct values here sadly)

• Fire rate now ramps up in 0.48s to go full speed

• Reduced flux usage slightly to have round 130 ammo instead of 131

• Fixed dodge cancel causing rollbacks

Rifle Cannon (Item: Helios)

• Push back on shooting now linearly scales with charge level, 100% charge becoming the old push back amount

• Both explosion and ray now hits map blastables with 200% damage instead of 100%

• Increased fully charged ray damage to 22 instead of 21

• Shot push back animation now can be cancelled with dodge after 0.3s seconds

Revolver (Item: Resolver / Crimson Hound)

• Increased ammo to 6 from 5

• Push effect on bullets now scales linearly with each landing bullet

Note: Someone else shooting with Revolver after you will overwrite your push if theirs is stronger, but not if theirs is weaker

Skills

Zone

• Start and drop animations are now crowd control immune

Note: This mostly works, but it is vulnerable to latency induced race conditions in theory. Please report it if you capture such a case on video.

Client

• Attack cancelling dodge now shows up in the HUD as transparent when the state can be cancelled with it, and becomes opaque white when it’s time

• Reload and ammo indicators are now visible on HUD

• Fixed self indicator not showing up on TAB screen

• Added Brazil-Portuguese translations & credits

• Renamed the emote ": angry:" to “: annoyed:" and added alternative “-_-” kaomoji to use it

• Updated networking library

• Invulnerable players will no longer show up in damage combo counter

• Added hitbox & critical area visualizers on practice modes, enabled by F9 key

• Fixed practice dummy resetting your camera effects

We’re staying in Early Access, and at first, there’ll be no monetisation.

Later during EA, we’ll add monetization with optional cosmetics, quality-of-life features, and other fair additions that complement the game without affecting balance or competition.

The Steam-exclusive game items will no longer be given out once the game becomes free.

If you want them, buy & login to Code ZIN on Steam before Nov 5th; after that, they’re gone for good!

Hello,

Before continuing the work on the Tutorial, we wanted to add an area where you can test all the weapons. With some expansions, we should be able to combine them, too. Our plan there is to improve both over time to be more useful for newcomers, and of course, integrate your feedback. We also have some content and QoL updates, so without further ado…

Weapons

• Disabled awakening on RMB

• Increased damage per bullet to 7.5 from 7

• Increased fire rate to 15 from 12

• Increased accuracy

• Added a cooldown animation at the end of shooting that is 0.483s, which can be cancelled with a dodge

Skills

• Changed the shield visual effect

• Changed the icon to reflect the new shape

• Added the skill

Maps

• Added the map under Map Practice for now

Client

• Added the ability to switch teams while waiting for the match to start

• Added support for Korean and Japanese languages

• Changed bloom settings & adjusted every object accordingly

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This patch can be summed up as a QoL and balancing one.

Gameplay

• Fixed dead players absorbing attacks and causing hitstops

Game Modes

• Fixed certain game mode events such as ball pick ups still happening after match ends

• Increased player limit from 6 to 8

• Made players spawn away from every other player as much as possible (still random between the 3-9 furthest spots)

Weapons

• Added internal mode tracking to prevent having to reawaken if you get interrupted while holding RMB (experimental)

• Normal bullet damage reduced to 7 from 8

• Awakened bullet damage reduced to 5 from 6

• Awakened flux consumption speed increased to 20/s from 15/s

• Awakened bullet push now starts at 0% up until 3 meters, goes up to 100% at 10 meters and starts to go down again at 20 meters until it reaches 0% at 100 meters

Normalized curve for reference, 1.0 on Y axis is 100% and X axis covers 100 meters

• Zoom in and out can now happen while in jump and falling states

• Reduced hitstop range to make attackers get closer to their enemies

Maps

• Fixed a few visual problems such as gaps

• Lowered the map barrier that poked through the floor

Client

• Added a start button at the bottom (Temporary, intended system for future is a “ready up” one)

• Now you have to hold RMB to rotate the camera around in waiting mode

Changelogs #25.07.30

With this patch, we are adding our newest weapon, Heavy Machine Gun (HMG), and making a change to our Team Deathmatch mode, turning it into a (FFA) Deathmatch to allow a small and uneven number of players to enjoy the game without having to “sit” and wait for others. Aside from that, we revisited some existing maps to reduce their gameplay frustrations and made a few other minor adjustments.

Gameplay

• Disabled dodges resetting your vertical velocity and using a lower gravity in favour of keeping your existing vertical velocity and using regular gravity, allowing you to jump and dodge instantly for tricks without having to wait for the peak

Game Modes

Team Deathmatch:

• Disabled until further notice

Deathmatch:

• Added with a limit of 6 players and only a time limit of 15 minutes until we decide on a score limit as well

Animations

• Slightly improved left and right walljump animations

• Switched to a new forward jump style, adding a side flip to start

Weapons

Heavy Machine Gun (Item: Wildfire)

• Added the weapon with placeholder VFX and SFX

• LMB has a fire rate of 12 bullets per second, with each dealing 8 damage, with a similar drop off to Swordgun

• RMB goes into awakened state as long as you keep holding it, initially doing an explosion attack around you for 12 damage while transforming and then starts to shoot

• RMB’s awakened shooting has a fire rate of 16 bullets per second with double the spread on X axis with each dealing 6 damage and pushing enemies back (does not stack)

Bat (Item: Cyclone)

• Added trail effect for normal and spin attacks, in addition to a new VFX for the spin attack

Swordgun (Item: Scorpio)

• Changed the bullet pattern from a random position of 90-degree slice of a circle to the full circle all around the crosshair

Rifle Cannon (Item: Helios)

• Fixed explosions not critting behind a cover (done between patches as a quick server fix, now applying to clients as well)

Broadsword (Item: Durendal / Founder's Sword)

• Changed the strong cut to keep the vertical speed on the jump pads

Maps

Outer Space:

• Removed the majority of the balcony on top of the goal posts, only leaving a small extension

• Switched the goal post to a version without side walls to prevent blocking the entrance without jumping

• Adjusted the lighting to be brighter

Ironworks:

• Removed the majority of the tiny ledges, which caused inconsistent results on jumps

• Made some ramps slide better without getting stuck on corners (Experimental)

Service Point:

• Removed the railings from the central area, making it easier to climb out of the bottom with walljumps

Client

• Added more weapons to HUB

• Changed character shader to exaggerate received lighting

• Changed walljump effect (WIP)

• Changed some weapon textures to match their designs better, mostly on colours

• Changed weapon shaders to match player ones

Note: Dissolve timings have changed as a side effect of this change; we will retime them along with player dissolve at a later date.

Server

• Implemented fallback for custom hitbox rollbacks in case there isn’t enough accumulated data yet (done between patches to fix forever ghost players)

Changelogs #25.07.08

We are testing the new hitbox rollbacks for improved hit registration once again.

Maps

Ironworks

• Lights now react to settings

• Added pillar collider that was missing

Note: All maps either had very small fixes and/or small performance improvements, the latter being the case for Ironworks as well.

Client

• Reduced new smoothers interpolation time to 1 tick from 2 ticks

• Potato quality settings now has slightly less, rounded 20 meters real time light distance as opposed to 22.5 meters

• Character’s rim lighting now reacts to baked GI of the maps

• Inventory now shows Archetype and Type of the weapons below the item name

Server

• Switched to custom hitbox rollbacks to match attacker vision back in time better

Here are some balance changes while onboarding work continues in the background. We have once again applied fixes in between patches, both for a light issue with an accessory and the hitbox rollback. In case you missed it, the latter was brought up already on the earlier changelog, as it happened quickly.

Gameplay

• Decreased self-healing pool to 30 from 50

• Decreased recovery dodge health refunds to 37.5% from 75%

Weapons

Broadsword (Item: Durendal / Founder's Sword)

• Removed crowd control immunity on the dash start

More experiments are going on as usual. Also, as many of you already noticed, we have rolled back the 4 vs. 4 player limit in Touchdown between patches; it is now 5 vs. 5 again. We have also replaced the player smoother with a better one, which in return improved the hitbox rollbacks for hit registration, but it is minimal.

Gameplay

• Fixed walljump launching you up due to “landing” just as it starts

• Crowd control immunity is implemented into recovery dodges

• Recovery dodge no longer has a minimum time check to execute it from a crowd control

• Recovery dodge now refunds you 75% of the health you lost on the hit instance you recovered from

• Crouch and emotes now let you get out of the animation with just movement in panic, without forcing you to jump out

• Crouching starts to heal you after 0.3s with a curve that gets faster as you wait. Max heal amount is 40, but it will reduce your maximum health by the same amount it healed you

• Jump attacks now do one last hit once they touch the ground, allowing us to reduce the mid-air downward hitboxes we needed to hit the ground from air

Game Modes

Practice Mode:

• Fixed dummy not spawning correctly and staying in T pose

• Dummy now spawns in a random Beta team location instead of map center (use /tp to relocate them)

Maps

Ironworks

• Minor visual improvements

Weapons

Broadsword (Item: Durendal / Founders Sword)

• Increased normal attack 1 movement speed by 9.3%

• Increased normal attack 2 movement speed by 20%

• Increased strong cut after dash movement speed to 1.15 from 0.8 and reduced it with a curve rapidly instead of flat out 0.25

• Increased strong cut after dash duration by 0.155s, making it 0.955s from 0.8s

• Increased strong cut after dash damage to 30 from 20

• Decreased strong cut after dash critical multiplier to 1.5x from 1.75x

• Adjusted jump attack movement speed to diminish over time

• Adjusted jump attack hitboxes to fit the animations better

• Decreased jump attack damage to 25 from 32

• Increased jump attack critical multiplier to 1.4x from 1.25x

• Decreased dash attack duration by 0.49s, making it 1.25s from 1.74

• Adjusted dash attack animation to cut off the recovery early

• Adjusted dash attack speed curve start up to gain speed faster

• Added crowd control immunity at dash start up for 0.3s

• Changed dash attack hit instance damages to 10 + 5 + 15 from 14 + 14 + 14, reducing total damage by 12

• Changed dash attack critical multipliers to 1.2x + None + 1.2x from 1.25x + 1.25x + 1.25x

• Reduced refill movement speed to 1 from 1.2

Bat (Item: Cyclone)

• Reduced normal attack damage to 20 from 25

• Added critical multiplier to normal attack at 1.25x

• Adjusted jump attack hitboxes to fit the animations better

• Changed spin attack hit crowd controls to None + Stagger + Throw from Stagger + Stagger + Stagger

Swordgun (Item: Scorpio)

• Increased base shot damage to 8 from 6.5

• Increased critical multiplier to 1.25x from 1.2x

• Adjusted damage drop off to make it 5.6 at very close range and climb to 8 at mid range, then dropping off like usual on long range

• Made the real time light source while shooting brighter and enabled shadow casting on it

• Increased stab charge movement and forced movement but made them diminish over time

• Decreased stab charge forced movement duration to 0.36s from 0.5s

Rifle Cannon (Item: Helios)

• Decreased max charge ray attack to 21 from 27

• Increased critical multiplier of ray to 1.5x from 1.4x

• Increased push back after shots by 33%

• Decreased explosion damages per change to 5; 10; 15; 20; 25; 30 from 6; 12; 18; 24; 30; 36

• Decreased explosion delay to 0.46s from 0.58s

• Decreased explosion max radius to 2.7m from 3.42m

• Added critical zone to explosions with multiplier of 1.5x and radiuses of 0.1m; 0.2m; 0.3m; 0.4m; 0.5m; 0.6m

Client

• Settings now ask before resetting, they are still unsaved, and you need to press “apply all” after it

• Any health above 1 is now rounded to the closest whole number instead of being floored down, anything below 1 will still show up as 1 like before

• Added version check on login due to out-of-date Steam clients

• Added dissolve effect to accessories & they now have proper icons

Note: With the upcoming updates, we want to show weapon stats, including effective ranges, directly as part of item information

Hello,

Planetboom made another Video, this time about the Code ZIN songs "New Horizons" and "Outer Space."

Enjoy them!

• Reduced dodge cancel time to 0.05s from 0.2s
• Improved weapon switching by allowing it to happen right away on every state except for attacks themselves
• Attack inputs now will be ignored in favor of weapon switch input, allowing you to attack with the next weapon as soon as the current attack ends
• Fixed networked input drops causing you to take a Rifle Cannon shot out of nowhere
• Blastable objects no longer respawn when a player was inside them in the last second (Experimental)

• Reverted using mouse sensitivity settings on the spawn selection, it is back to using raw inputs again

• Added guide arrows that points at the enemy goal post when you pick up the ball
• Set player limit to 4v4 instead of 5v5 to reduce chaos (UI still has slots for 5, we are testing this out for now to get feedback on)

• Fixed some of the visual and collider issues
• Optimized volumetric lights

• Fixed some of the visual issues

• Dimmed the lighting

• Added switch sound & kill icon
• Normal Attacks durations changed to 1s from 0.8s, and increased inherit movement duration accordingly
• Normal Attacks movement speed decreased to 0.5 from 0.6
• Normal Attacks hitbox size increased in front
• Normal Attack 1 attack cancelling dodge timing allowing time increased to 0.62s from 0.42s
• Normal Attack 2 attack cancelling dodge disabled
• Normal Attacks now allow jumping
• Spin Attack now allows attack cancelling dodge at 1.2s
• Spin Attack crowd control effect changed from Knockback to Stagger
• Jump Attack is now on LMB, and requires you to hold it for 0.2s similar to Strong Cut attack on Broadsword
• Jump Attack damage reduced to 37 from 40
• Jump Attack critical multiplier increased to 2.03 from 1.875

• Removed attack cancelling dodge on shooting state
• Bullet radius increased to 3cm from 2.5cm
• Reduced Flux consumption of shooting, taking potential bullet count to 35 from 32
• Increased damage per bullet to 6.5 from 6
• Decreased shots critical multiplier to 1.2 from 1.25
• Damage drop off adjusted for a narrower midrange
• Swapped Stab hit 2 and 3 damages on all charge levels
• Stab hit 2 critical multiplier increased to 1.4 from 1.2 on all charge levels
• Stab hit 3 critical multiplier increased to 1.25 from 1.2 on all charge levels
• Charge now goes from 0 movement speed to 1 during the charge state instead of flat 0.4 movement speed multiplier

• Normal Attacks hitboxes and vfx adjusted to fit slash directions
• Normal Attacks damages increased to 16 from 15
• Normal Attack 1 movement speed decreased to 1.6 from 2
• Normal Attack 1 hits are delayed by 0.2s instead of 0.1s
• Normal Attack 1 critical multiplier decreased to 1.375 from 1.6
• Normal Attack 2 critical multiplier increased to 1.625 from 1.6
• Heavy Attacks critical multiplier decreased to 1.75 from 2
• Heavy Attack after Dash animation duration increased to 0.625s from 0.5s
• Heavy Attack after Dash movement speeds reduced at the start and cutting part to 0.8 and 0.25 from 1.2 and 0.35 respectively
• Dash Attack animation duration increased to 1.44s from 1.3s
• Dash Attack damage decreased to 14 x 3 from 16 x 3
• Dash Attack inherit movement speed decreased by 10%
• Dash Attack inherit movement durations reduced by 0.18s total

• Jumps and fall no longer reset the zoom
• Attack animation reduced to 0.75s from 0.86s and reduced inherit movement duration accordingly
• Decreased no charge ray damage to 15 from 18
• Increased max charge ray damage to 27 from 24
• Decreased critical multiplier for ray to 1.4 from 1.5

• Central bullet damage increased to 10 from 7
• Outer bullet damage decreased to 6 from 8
• Outer bullet critical multipler decreased to 1.7 from 1.88

• Made zoom and running FoV changes ~50% Faster
• Added hit marker sounds for guns with normal and critical variants
• Fixed leaderboard showing up on screen when the data is received after UI has already moved onto somewhere else
• Hidden Steam login options on Standalone as it only worked on Steam Client