Hello, Gun Rise fans! Another month means another update for the game! The team would like to extend a special thanks to those of you that took the time to fill out the Community Survey. We were pleasantly surprised to see just how passionate our community is, and your opinions have been heard! We’re so grateful to have such an involved and dedicated community!
Here’s what’s new in Gun Rise 0.6:
#New Features
##Co-op Raids
Kurtz is testing a deadly new Assault Walker. Team up with a friend to take it down in live co-operative raids across a variety of difficulties! For this first release, you will be able to Quick Match with another random player (no bots, so this may take some time!) or invite players from your Alliance.
Co-op Raids have a limited number of Wins, just like Daily Raids. However, accepting an invite from an Alliance member or a request to replay at the end of a match does not use one of your wins!
We’ve heard your feedback, and we think you’ll like the Co-op Prizes! Each day of the week features fragments of a different hero, and every day drops elusive Grenade crafting items!
##Elemental Hero Fragments
We’ve changed the way fragments work in the Crate Shop. Now when you purchase a Hero Crate and win a hero you’ve already unlocked, the duplicate will be automatically converted into Elemental Fragments. Imagine this; you’ve just opened a Hero Crate and you get Vanguard, but you already own him. Instead of receiving Vanguard Fragments, you’ll now receive Energy Fragments. These new Energy Fragments can be used to Evolve any of your Energy heroes.
There are Energy Fragments, Mechanical Fragments, Bio-Chem Fragments and Universal Fragments. When you unlock a duplicate hero, you will receive the corresponding amount of Elemental Fragments based on the Hero’s elemental affinity. Universal Fragments will be rarer; look for them in future events!
Note: Locked Heroes cannot be unlocked using these new Elemental Fragments, and existing hero-specific fragments will not be converted to Elemental Fragments. You’ll still be able to acquire Hero-specific fragments the same ways you do now. The new Fragment types are exclusive to the Hero Crate.
#Changes
##Events
- New events should now be labeled with a “NEW” tag to help identify them
- Events with unclaimed rewards should now be sorted first
- Alliance Events now require you to earn at least one point in the event to claim rewards
- You now need to claim unclaimed event rewards before leaving an Alliance
##Gauntlet
- Reduced power curve of Gauntlet mode based on feedback and data to better reflect player team power, especially during team levels 25 - 35
- Slightly reduced the difficulty of the first sector
##PvP
- Made tuning changes to the points awarded at the end of a PvP match. This should help with the disproportionate awards at the end of high tier matches
- Increased the time to find a match
##General
- The Crate Shop has received a facelift with awesome new crate models
- The game looks better than ever, with some amazing graphical improvements
#Hero Changes
##General
- Increased movement speed of all tracer bullets; this should make it easier to hit moving targets
- Several heroes have received visual polish. Go to the Hero Gallery to check them out!
##Role Specialization
- Changes to most Hero’s base stats, mainly starting Health and Damage stats to reinforce the differences between Frontline, Mid-line, and Rear Line Heroes, as well as attackers and support types
##Stealth
- Invisible Heroes cannot be directly targeted by hostile abilities. However, they can still be damaged by area of effect abilities that explode or trigger nearby.
##Beck
- Improvements to stat growth
##Bolt
- Improved basic attacks:
- Increased rate of fire
- Improvements to stat growth
##Cast
- Improved basic attacks:
- Increased rate of fire
##Clyde
- Improvements to stat growth
##Cross
- Improvements to stat growth
##Dogface
- Improved basic attacks:
- Increased rate of fire
##Elite Rifleman
- Improved basic attacks:
- Increased ammo capacity
- Improvements to stat growth
##Hardscope
- Improved basic attacks:
- Increased rate of fire
##Heckler
- Reductions to stat growth
##Heimlock
- Visual improvements to Chem Bath.
- Improved basic attacks:
- Reduced rate of fire and ammo capacity
- Increased reload speed
- More pellets per shot, with more spread
##Hideo
- Reductions to stat growth
##Jackson
- Charge Lance has been swapped with Missile Barrage as his Bronze Skill. Skill points put into Charge Lance will be transferred to Missile Barrage, and vice versa. This should ease new players into the game much quicker!
- Improved basic attacks:
- Increased rate of fire and ammo capacity
##Keel
- Visual improvements to Field Repairs
- Visual improvements to Hook Shot
- Improved basic attacks:
- Increased ammo capacity
- Reduced rate of fire
##Mandrake
- Improved basic attacks:
- Increased rate of fire
##Moss
- Changes to Healing Cloud (was Cleansing Cloud) ability:
- Allows manual ally targeting rather than auto-targeting the lowest health ally
- Visual improvements to make Healing Cloud area of effect easier to discern
- Fixes for Moss’s Healing Cloud creating red targeting areas when used on allies
- Improved basic attacks:
- Increased rate of fire
##Nightingale
- Improved basic attacks:
- Increased rate of fire
- Improvements to stat growth
##Odachi
- Improvements to Poison Caltrop ability:
- Debuffs all enemies within a limited area
- Deals damage over time whenever debuffed enemies move between cover
- Attacking debuffed enemies has a chance to stun them
##Oro
- Rebalanced damage distribution; deals more Elemental Damage at the cost of his Base Damage
- Improvements & reductions to stat growth
##Phalanx
- Reductions to stat growth
##Prophet
- Rebalanced damage distribution; deals more Elemental Damage at the cost of his Base Damage
- Reduced Elemental Defense to make his counters more effective
##Richter
- Reducing overall Defense, but greatly improving base Armor instead:
- This will help this hero from gaining disproportional amounts of HP but remaining very well armored
- Rebalanced damage distribution; deals more Elemental Damage at the cost of his Base Damage
- Improved basic attacks:
- Increased rate of fire and ammo capacity
##Ronin
- Changes to basic attacks:
- Reduced rate of fire and ammo capacity
##Surge
- Improved basic attacks:
- Increased rate of fire.
##Salvatore
- Rebalanced damage distribution; deals more Elemental Damage at the cost of his Base Damage
- Improved basic attacks:
- Increased rate of fire and reload speed
- Improvements & reductions to stat growth