Paint Warfare news & patch notes

Capes are back!

Potions

• Anti-gravity potion: - this one's mostly for fun, it makes you jump super high and feel like you're in space
• Regeneration potion: - gives you a slight health regeneration boost
• XP potion: - doubles your XP, stacks with the supporter double XP boost

Ability Upgrades

Balancing

• Player effects are now disabled in first person
• Buffed all rocket jumping with explosives
• Fixed models in Mafia Island

• Fixed burst/palas gun model
• Fixed mine launcher model
• Fixed missing models in Dragon Valley
• Fixed a bug where the teleport orb was invisible
• Fixed microtransactions
• Fixed the game end leaderboard from being hidden in the Airfield map

• Can now double click in the armoury or cosmetics menu to equip/buy
• Added a pop up for capturing points in point capture mode
• Made the health bar bigger and clearer
• Added auto sprint
• Slide is now bound to shift by default and the walk key is control. If you played since before this update, your controls should be unaffected
• Improved a bug where asian translations would be simply white squares. This still exists but the game should be more usable now
• Fixed bugs with changing languages
• Implemented 1.32.2, 1.32.3 changes in macOS builds ---> so macOS now has all the fixes like everyone else

• Fixed bugs some people experienced with purchasing coins

• Lots of bug fixes to cosmetics menu
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to rejoin hunger games to respawn after you died
• Added fullscreen mode to options
• Other fixes and improvements

Hunger Games Changes

• Made a huge completely new map for hunger games
• Added healing zones
• Buffed HP from 300 to 500
• Added hunger games to the map rotation so its easier to play
• Improved spectating

9 New Ranks

Other Improvements

• Flamethrowers now leave fire FX on the ground
• Fixed freeze gun particle (was not spawning before)
• Buffed med kit heal size by x2
• For other players, when they use grapple hooks the rope will now follow the player instead of staying where the grapple was originally started
• Improved the huts in Mafia Island

• Buffed kingfisher at super close quarters
• Fixed rank up screen for new players
• Nerfed jetpack 15s --> 8s
• Fixed a missing building in airfield
• Fixed a bug with hats on the banana skin
• Fixed a bug where KOTH maps would show as FFA in map vote

• Fixed bugs that caused shadows and lighting to not render properly since 1.30.0
• Removed the AO setting in graphics settings. This option is now automatically turned off on lower graphics settings (like before) and uses a more optimized version on default graphics settings
• Lower graphics settings now use more optimized water
• Fixed a bug that caused the key bind tips (for beginners) to be broken
• Fixed a bug that caused weapons that are locked to be equippable
• Added butterflies (In castle map)
• Fixed leaderboard bug that prevented some top players from showing up in leaderboards

New Map: Palace!

New Gamemode: King Of the Hill

• Palace is the first map to be king of the hill
• It's basically FFA BUT
• There's a hot zone that gives you crazy amounts of points, and it changes location ever 45 seconds

Dunes Reworks

Reworked Movement

• Buffed the dash duration and made it more consistent
• Completely overhauled the grapple hook. It's now a swing instead of pulling you towards a target (you can still grapple to the roof– use it to build momentum). This differentiates it from jetpack more.
• The jetpack now slowly builds up speed instead of instantly making you fly. This means that if you're falling and you use it it will take a while to break your fall. Also if you use it long enough you can fly really fast up.
• Buffed jetpack duration 5s —> 15s

Fixed Coin Purchasing

Other

• New ingame leaderboard that shows player's ranks {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36177508/ee4bbcdb9065ed9d269d74e8545022b6cada3905.png
• A lot of new VFX
• New player respawn shield VFX {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36177508/c7fa29d412e655771978baec5fc01c6f07efaf69.png
• New grapple rope visuals
• Added a hook to the end of the grapple rope
• Paint splatters last 4x longer and are bigger (they're also more optimised now)
• Added scorch marks after explosions {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36177508/12d29d57b6e3a7b6fe888070235612f0dc98de56.png
• Minor blizzard map improvements
• FPS and network optimisations
• New launch screen
• Fixed pink box on the Burst gun
• Fixed a bug that would cause the audio to be super low quality on Bluetooth headphones
• New map icons
• Fixed menu screen performance by removing 3D icons

• Made the kingfisher barrel bigger so it looks more like a shotgun to new players
• It now has kickback so you can shoot it at your feet to jump up higher

• Added keybinds for weapon switching
• Added an option to disable/enable AO (shadows in the corners of objects)
• Added an option to enable motion blur
• Added an option to add a slight blur to your hands/when using sights (which I think looks nice)

• Fixed a bug where the ability/weapon equip menus were completely broken and nothing could be equipped
• Fixed a bug where joining a game by code would join the wrong game
• Reduced the brightness of Koto and other maps
• Fixed a bug where paint and kick splatters wouldn't show on top of some objects
• Fixed a bug where the removed snowball machine gun would leave pink boxes where it shot
• Fixed a bug where 3D icons wouldnt load in the cosmetics tab

New Menu

Equip 3 Guns At Once

Reduced Coin Prices

• 300 coins
• 1000 coins
• 2300 coins ---> 2500 coins
• 5500 coins (NEW)

• Reduced the price of Abilities from 150 coins to 100 coins to make them easier to unlock without paying

Koto is now Team Deathmatch

Other

• Added bots option to custom games
• Fixed UI bug on AMD GPUs
• Reinvested a bunch of money into some new assets—added a completely new water shader and birds on Mafia Island. The castle map also now has some ice on it
• Added a new cursor
• Added new screen VFX for burning, frozen and healing
• Player names are now based on Steam username
• Fixed issues with the keybind menu breaking and hidden UI
• Added a trampoline on the top of one of the towers in the castle map
• Other bug fixes and improvements

• Fixed a bug where the screen would keep tilting up when sprinting/getting kills
• Fixed various bugs on the new City Ruins map
• Buffed the black hole gun
• Nerfed the flare gun
• Improved the game chat filter to reduce false positives

• Fixed a bug where the coin sale and bundle were not purchasable
• Fixed a bug where the spoon was equippable in the ingame weapon selector

MAPS

City Ruins Map

Map improvements

WEAPONS

Flare Gun

• It has a slightly smaller blast radius than the launcher, but sets enemies on fire and has a faster fire rate
• It's also useful for grenade jumping! Shoot at your feet to get launched up, or jump and shoot at a wall to get launched sideways.

Black Hole Gun

• The black hole gun is also an explosive gun, but works pretty differently to the other explosives in the game
• Left click to fire a black hole, and right click after you've thrown it to freeze it wherever it is
• From there it will suck in and trap enemies. It can be escaped by running if you're not too close or grapple/dash
• After 5 seconds it explodes killing everyone in its radius, but be careful as it works on you too!
• Useful for protecting flags, bases or areas

Gun Reworks

• You can now right click to rapid fire the banana gun (it's a lot less accurate at long range though

• Fixed a bug that caused the recoil to go crazy and make it un usable

• No more camera shake/recoil on this gun either

• Now deals 2X more damage

ABILITIES

Voodoo Doll

Ammo Kit

• All allied players within its radius are granted a massive 1.5X fire rate and reload speed boost

NEW RANKING

Other

• New winter menu and music
• New directional walk animations
• Improved Russian, Spanish and Portuguese translations significantly

Bugs and polish

• Strengthened the anti cheat measures
• Coop minigame renamed to co-op for clarity
• Added a tutorial for buying/equipping abilities
• Fixed a bug where every ability was unlocked in the respawning armoury
• The water gun/pressure washer stream now always faces forward
• Fixed a bug with the smoke/bubble grenade where throwing it at your feet midair would cause it to explode on your feet
• Fixed a bug with the costume (DLC) equipping in the armoury where it would get reset each time you loaded into the menu
• Fixed a bug that caused the fire and freeze gun effects to not be applied
• The maps shown in the map votes will now show up slightly more evenly

Holiday Coins Sale

• Localised coin pricing (coins are now cheaper/more reasonably priced for people in Australia, brittain, etc.)
• Added 3 new achievements
• New art for all achievements
• New streamer/recording options in settings!
  • You can now enable/disable ingame UI. All thats visible is a square crosshair which can be edited out by overlaying a white square with 50% opacity
  • You can now enable/disable player name tags
• Fixed the ingame global leaderboard
• Your place in the world is also now displayed in the stats in your profile
• Slight improvements to the armoury
• Fixed a bug where the controls options menu would open scrolled fully down
• Added a new translation system
• Added a cool new effect where the speed of the game slows down 8 seconds before it ends
• Fixed a bug where voting for the castle map wouldn't disable the buttons for voting for other maps
• Improved the DLC banner UI
• Fixed various UI bugs
• Fixed more out of map bugs in the castle map

• You can now shoot through the fan columns in the castle map
• Fixed various Russian translations
• Fixed various out of map bugs in the Castle map
• The teleporter gun will now be less likely to be able to teleport you into walls
• Fixed shotgun spread patterns
• Fixed the random snapping of the AK when un scoping
• Fixed the recoil patterns of the AK while scoped
• Reworked player/camera animations to be less jarring
• The fans in the Castle map no longer cancel gliding
• Added 35 game tips to the connecting screen
• Fixed a bug on the mini gun where you wouldn’t be able to aim straight down while recoiling
• Fixed the key binds menu
• Fixed the chat re-bind keybind
• Fixed the team re balancing logic so you will no longer be randomly switching teams when re spawning
• Made a nice UI to show the next gun in the gun game mini game

• Fixed a bug where the shop timer for hats and skins would reset to 8 minutes every time you re opened the shop
• You can now buy any hat at any time in the armoury
• The hat section in the shop has been reworked, so that instead of being able to buy 1 hat per day, you get an offer for a 20% discount on a particular hat
• Aiming straight down with the launcher will now shoot down instead of exploding on your feet
• Walking up to a wall and shooting the launcher will no longer allow the launcher bullet to phase through the wall
• If you quit during the tutorial, you will now be given the option to replay the tutorial when you re open the game
• Fixed connection issues
• Improved the loading screens in between maps or menus
• Improved DLC selection screen
• Fixed the black screen bug
• Fixed bugs with coin buying where they would occasionally not be granted
• Improved english tutorial voice lines
• Completely overhauled the tutorial
• Added progress bars to both tutorials

New Map: Castle

• I've also bumped the number of maps in the map vote to 6 to accomadate

2 new Abilities

Hardened Bullet

• The first bullet of the mag deals 1.5X damage. For example, the damage for the AK is something like . For the shotgun pistol, one of the pellets is randomly chosen to do 1.5X damage
• Overall it's a pretty unique ability, there will be more abilities soon that modify game rules or centre around combat rather than movement. Let me know on the Paint Warfare Discord if you have ideas!

Med Kit

• This replaces the old 'Heal' ability with something that's also useful for cooperation team-based modes. If you bought the old heal ability, you'll have this automatically unlocked
• You can throw the medkit down to your feet (instantly drops) or anywhere you like
• It deals a small explosion where it drops where it heals 30HP for you/teammates in the radius
• It then heals 10HP every second for 8 seconds for you/teammates standing in the radius
• So essentially if you see one of your allies are low, you can throw the medkit at them and heal them :)

Overhauled: Glider

• Momentum: if you fly downwards for long/fast enough, you build up momentum in your glider which you can use to fly up really fast as well
• Buffed the overall speed of the glider
• Added wind SFX depending on the speed, and the camera now zooms slightly depending on how fast you're going {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36177508/a5836b250491df9b4e0d5537ca24398a6776a34b.gif

Overhauled: Radar

• The radar was very weak, so now on top of showing enemies through walls, it now displays directional arrows around your crosshair to reveal nearby enemies to you

Overhauled: Super Speed Boots

• Super speed boots now increase speed while midair as well

New Map Feature: Giant Fans

Polish & Bug Fixes

• Reworked a lot of the code base to minimise bugs and speed up future development time
• Fixed the consistency of double jumping—sometimes double jumping would not always work
• Fixed the glider not activating correctly
• Fixed the equip buttons not updating in the respawn armoury when changing from primary -> secondary weapons
• New quality option: Max (increases shadow rendering distance and makes them look a lot nicer by smoothing them)
• Smaller bug fixes

Fixes

• Fixed performance issues
• New invert Y/X mouse options
• Organised keybinds menu {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36177508/c07f3543710607516c39bf825c1ab3fa42013b1d.png
• New curated featured video feature to support Paint Warfare creators {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36177508/8d5c422661ef9cad687181be2a3b06458a0f33c8.png
• Fixed the grapple being "locked" respawn armoury
• Fixed a bug where the ingame pause/options menu would become broken and not show up
• Fixed some interactions in the menu so you can use the key to exit more menues

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Other news

Fixed XP and Coin bug

• Fixed a critical bug some people experienced on the last update that prevented XP/coins from being earnt

Other changes

• Fixed tutorial loading/ respawn bugs/ polish
• Optimized game size
• Added an ingame FPS counter in game options
• Fixed a bug that would cause the match timer to break when loading
• Fixed a bug that caused the health bar to get stuck on a red colour
• Fixed a bug with Fast/Super fast graphics settings on Apple Silicon macs that caused a grey screen
• Fixed a visual bug that caused the in-match weapon switcher weapon to show up in the map
• Typing in chat while in the pause menu no longer triggers the button hotkeys
• Fixed a rendering bug that caused the Galaxy skin and Blaze skin to show up in the menu on the player (even if it wasn't unlocked)
• You can no longer shoot team mate turrets
• Fixed team rebalancing
• Added DirectX12 and Vulkan rendering support (Improves rendering performance on modern GPUs)

• Reduced lag significantly - network usage reduced by 30-40%
• Fixed black screen bug
• Improved flamethrower VFX
• Fixed colliders in the Train Yard map
• Fixed the team rebalancing logic
• Improved chat filter
• Fixed minor bugs with juggernaut mode
• Optimised and fixed crashes caused by spamming the railgun

• Fixed a critical bug that caused the match timer to start on 10 seconds
• Improved various translations
• Fixed some crashes
• Various bug fixes and improvements

Improved language support

• Added support for 17 new languages
• Reworked the tutorial to be easier to understand on all languages
• New language switcher in options
• Added player nametag font support for all languages

Respawn Screen

• Fixed the profile picture display in the respawn screen
• The respawn screen now also shows the weapon used to kill you
• Nametags of players now properly face the respawn screen

Polish and bug fix

• When your teammates are damaged or heal in POINT/TDM/CTF, you will temporarily be able to see their health
• In POINT/TDM/CTF allies and enemies nametags will now be labeled "Ally" or "Enemy" to help new players and quickly distinguish between the two
• DLC buy buttons now display the localized pricing instead of USD
• Fixed the XP bar at the end of matches
• New credits screen
• You can now shoot through the glass in the Train Yard map
• Fixed strange behaviour when the game ends and you are in the respawn armoury
• Fixed the spamming of shoot and footstep SFX in the game end screen

Teams modes improvements (TDM, CFT, Point Capture)

• Teams now auto rebalance if the teams get too unfair
• Fixed visual bugs with your flag appearing as the enemy flag while respawning/enemy flag appearing as your flag
• Fixed a visual bug that could cause enemies to appear as allies the first time you spawn into a teams game

Better respawn screen

• Made a cleaner-looking respawning screen that now displays your enemy's Steam profile picture (if they have one) and their health

Bigger map votes

• Map vote size 4 --> 5

Kill streaks in chat

• Show off when you're on a roll and gang up on the top player

And more!

• Fixed a visual bug in the armoury that made 'no hat' appear as locked {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36177508/0875ea94a8bb6b4f4d7e129007ba54ac6527c8b5.png
• Various fixes and other improvements

New Custom Games Options

Here are some cool ideas to get the ball rolling

• 2.5X movement speed
• 0.4X size

• 3X Gravity
• 0.5X Jump force
• No abilities

• 0.8X movement speed
• 2X Gravity modifier
• 2X Jump force modifier (these two combined make jumping quicker)
• 100 HP
• No abilities

• 2X movement speed
• 3X Gravity modifier
• 3X Jump force modifier (these two combined make jumping quicker)
• No abilities
• Sniper only
• 0.7X player size
• 1.5X fire rate

Bug Fix

• You now get XP in custom games
• More invisibility particles
• Fixed bugs with custom games from the last update
• Fixed a bug that caused burst weapons to resume bursting when switching back to them
• You can now see when players kick in third person
• Fixed health bar in hunger games spectate
• New menu music song
• Fixed a bug where the shoot sounds would keep playing while paused or the game ended

• Fixed unlocking various achievements
• Fixed steam leaderboard & friends leaderboard
• Spoons no longer automatically fire
• Fixed bugs with oranges & kills exploits with turrets
• Fixed bugs with rocks in Blizzard
• Fixes to throwing the bubble grenade/ damage
• Invisibility particles are now more prominent
• Fixed the Radar ability

Added new ability: Half Shield

• This brand new ability protects you from the front from paintballs, kicks, spoons, you name it! Keep in mind you still take damage from behind :)

New Changes

• Added FOV slider
• More backups! — Coins, all weapon skins and hats are now backed up so you will never lose them
• Buffed every weapon by 5-15% to increase TTK
• The player camera no longer looks around in the pause menu/options menu ingame
• Removed aim smoothing

Train Yard Map

Better Ranking

Tutorial Improvements

• Fixed bugs with the maps and double jumping
• Shortened the voice lines in the tutorial to make it more straightforward
• New UIs
• The second stage of the tutorial is now in the Mafia Island map to allow new players to experience the entirety of the game's movement

Improvements & Polish

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• Camera shake can now be disabled in game options
• Clearer UI that you can't shoot teammates
• The bubble grenade and flamethrower now shows damage number popups when damaging enemies
• The game chat now remains visible in the game end and map vote screen
• Fixed a bug where both teams would keep getting points at the end of Point Capture games
• Made a new UI for picking up powerups/ drops from enemies when they die
• Make the hitbox for powerups larger
• Buffed the Akimbo pistols and pressure washer
• Fixed a bug that caused points to not be multiplied depending on your place in FFA

Changes:

• Fixed rock clipping exploits
• Explosives no longer damage teammates
• Teammates now properly show up as blue in Point Capture
• Added all the new weapons into the kill feed so they will display properly
• Added new change of language UI in options
• Fixed a bug that caused all the ranks to display at once in the profile
• Fixed Kingfisher SFX not playing
• Flamethrower now unlocks at Rank 1
• Oranges and explosives now destroy turrets
• Fixed a bug that caused explosives to explode multiple times, lagging the server
• Fixed loading issues & save issue
• The enemy that killed you is not highlighted through walls in the respawn screeen
• Added a player trail when dashing
• Added third-person tracers
• Fixed daily challenges
• The spoon is now the final gun in the gun game mode

Fixed Game Breaking Bug

• This bug is due to a corrupted save file. As the game grows, stuff like this can happen to people, so I've implemented a new save file recovery/backup system {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36177508/05a4ecc47c6e70d7b983253f798e312127e7cfe8.png
• Also added a lot of redundancy in saving games and connecting which should avoid issues

New Gun: Flamethrower

Rebalancing

• Buff: Increased accuracy
• Buff: Decreased the spray pattern intensity

• Nerf: Lengthened reload time by 60%

• The thundergun no longer one-shots enemies (but deals devastating damage 150 —> 100)
• Not only does it reflect, but now it both freezes your enemy in place and sets them on fire at the same time
• This paired with its use for movement makes it incredibly fun to use and sets it apart from the Sniper

• Buff: Increased damage by 15%

• Buff: Increased duration by 2 seconds

Fixed Voice Chat

• Voice chat is now more reliable and works
• Voice chat volume auto adjusts to bring loud noises down and quiet speaking up

Weapon Skins Synced Between Devices

• Both hats and weapon skins now sync between devices via Steam cloud. If you had 2 different collections, it will now merge them.

Others

• Fixed achievements and the global leaderboard. It was broken last update.
• New invisibility ability model in the Armoury
• Buying a hat or a gun skin in the shop now automatically refills it with another
• Removed some monetization like the bundle. I want to focus on gameplay
• Improved debuff UI
• Shortened match times to just over 6 minutes
• Improved scrolling in the Options menu, Map select & Profile
• Fixed a bug that caused the armoury to get stuck when ranking up
• More stylized (and hopefully nicer looking) pressure washer water beam{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36177508/b0d47339dc87f6c763e80d18fe2efd16e0bfebe3.png

• Fixed a bug where the weapon skin select UI (in the main armory) would not be visible to some players