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Minor Update - 10-05-2026

2026-10-05 · 25 lines · 4 ▲ 17 ▼ · Steam

General (1)

•Fixed bugs that were causing troopers to walk too slowly in lane

Heroes (2)

Rat King

•Scrap Grenade - Fixed some bugs with bouncing targeting
▲Scrap Grenade - Damage increased from 65 to 70
▲Scrap Grenade - T2 Damage increased from 65 to 70
▲Rat Swarm - Base Cooldown reduced from 28s to 24s
▼Rule, Ratannia! - Cooldown increased from 130 to 160
▼Rule, Ratannia! - Damage Reduction reduced from 20% to 15%
▼Rule, Ratannia! - Radius reduced from 24m to 20m
▼Rule, Ratannia! - Charge Duration reduced from 12s to 10s
▼Rule, Ratannia! - Bonus Move speed no longer scales with Spirit
▲Rule, Ratannia! - Now falls faster while charging
•Rule, Ratannia! - T1 +1m/s Move Speed to +2m/s Move Speed
▼Rule, Ratannia! - T1 No longer gives -20s cooldown (Total cooldown from 110s to 160s)
▼Rule, Ratannia! - T2 No longer grants +8s Charge Duration (Total charge duration from 20s to 10s)
▼Rule, Ratannia! - T2 Flag Duration reduced from +8s to +5s
▼Rule, Ratannia! - T3 Damage Reduction reduced from 15% to 10% (Total Damage Reduction from 35% to 25%)

Sinclair

▼Base HP Regen reduced from 2 to 1
▼Gun - Falloff range reduced from 25-61 to 20-60
▼Gun - Reduced bullet base damage from 17.76 to 16.5
•Vexing Bolt - Now does half damage to objectives
▼Spectral Assistant - Gun falloff range reduced from 25-61 to 20-60
▼Rabbit Hex - Radius reduced from 6.5m to 6m
▼Rabbit Hex - T3 reduced from +3m Radius to +2m
▼Audience Participation - Copy duration reduced from 12s to 9s
▼Audience Participation - Copied cooldown increased from 40% to 60%

Listen up, Crumbums! Your King is here.

2026-10-02 · 0 lines · 0 ▲ 0 ▼ · Steam

An announcement without change lines. Read it on Steam.

City Never Sleeps

2026-09-29 · 0 lines · 0 ▲ 0 ▼ · Steam

An announcement without change lines. Read it on Steam.

Minor Update - 09-16-2026

2026-09-16 · 122 lines · 42 ▲ 59 ▼ · Steam

General (17)

•Unstable Rift comeback resist max values now scale over the course of the game. Previously the max values were 35%. Now it is 10% + 1% per minute (around ~20% for the first one), with an upper limit of 40% at 30 minutes.
▼Removed a fixed amount of extra bonus souls you would get for being behind even a very slightly amount in net worth for both hero kill bounties as well as Unstable Rift bounties (this had a larger impact on the early to mid game)
▼Slightly reduced comeback bounties in general (this is in addition to the above change)
•A portion of the comeback souls earned by players above enemy teams average net worth is instead distributed via the tick gold system that is given to the lowest 2 players (70% of the extra comeback value goes to them)
▲Guardian bounty increased by 10%
▲Walker bounty increased by 5%
▼Share for objectives bounty to nearby heroes reduced from 30% to 25% (the remaining gets split between all 6 players)
▲Respawn Time at 20 minutes increased from 35s to 38s (does not affect the max values later on, just a little higher earlier)
•Using parry now pauses reloading
•Parrying while doing a regular dash will now cancel the dash (and momentum) and parry on the spot
•Getting stunned now pauses your reload rather than restarting it
▲Breakables in the underground tunnels initial spawn time increased from 3m to 5m
▲Breakables in the underground tunnels respawn rate increased from 3m to 5m
▼All move slow values reduced by ~20% globally
▼All ground dash slows reduced by ~10% globally
•Slows now also affect air drag by 35% of the slow value (convar citadel_enable_slows_affect_air_drag
▼Dashes and light melee's no longer pause your gun's cycle time (this is a general change that affects high-cycle time weapons the most like Silver or Abrams)

Items (36)

▼Weakening Headshot: Bullet Resist Reduction reduced from -13% to -12%
▲Hollow Point: Bullet Resist Reduction increased from 9% to 10%
▲Toxic Bullets: Spirit scaling increased from 0.005% to 0.006%
•Shadow Weave: Now builds from Sprint Boots
▲Shadow Weave: Sprint speed increased from 1.5 to 2
▲Shadow Weave: Cooldown reduced from 45s to 37s
▼Cultist Sacrifice: Bounty reduced from 180% to 170%
▲Ballistic Enchantment: Duration increased from 14s to 20s
▼Spiritual Overflow: Buildup is 35% slower
▼Spiritual Overflow: Spirit Power on proc reduced from 40 to 30
▼Spiritual Overflow: Fire Rate reduced from 30% to 25%
▼Restorative Locket: Heal per boon reduced from 0.5 to 0.45
▼Restorative Locket: Stack range reduced from 35m to 32m
▼Trophy Collector: Souls per minute reduced from 18 to 16
▼Veil Walker: No longer builds from Sprint Boots
▼Veil Walker: No longer grants +2 Sprint and +2 Out of Combat Regen (due to loss of component)
▼Veil Walker: Movement speed bonus is now removed when the invisibility is removed
▼Veil Walker: Spirit Power reduced from 10 to 6
▲Fortitude: Max Health regen increased from 2% to 2.25%
▲Lifestrike: Heal on Melee hit increased from 100+1.5 to 120+1.75
▲Lifestrike: Melee hit heal increased from 30% to 35%
▲Leech: Bullet and Spirit Lifesteal increased from 25% to 28%
•Plated Armor: Fixed on-hit damage prevention not blocking the following on-hit spirit damage effects: Mercurial Magnum, Vindicta's Flight, Wraith's Full Auto, and Tesla Bullets/Capacitor
▲Diviner's Kevlar: Now grants +10% Ultimate Ability Cooldown Reduction
▲Golden Goose Egg: Damage Penalty increased from -10% to -15%
•Golden Goose Egg: Stored souls now count towards net worth (affects comeback reward calculations)
▼Golden Goose Egg: Souls per minute reduced from 90 to 80
▼Slowing Hex: Cooldown increased from 27s to 29s
▼Radiant Regeneration: Healing on Ability Cast per boon scaling reduced from 2 to 1.7
▼Tankbuster: Current Health Bonus damage reduced from 8% to 7.5%
▼Decay: DPS reduced by 25%
▲Decay: Duration increased by 20%
▼Mercurial Magnum: Base bullet damage scaling reduced from 0.49 to 0.38
▼Mercurial Magnum: Base bullet damage reduced from 25% to 20%
▲Focus Lens: Damage increased from 30% to 35%
▲Focus Lens: Cast range increased from 20m to 25m

Heroes (20)

Abrams

▲Infernal Resilience T3 increased from +8% to +9%
▼Seismic Impact T3 reduced from 6s Unstoppable to 5s

Celeste

▼Stamina cooldown increased from 5 to 5.3
▼Light Eater spirit lifesteal reduced from 20% to 18%
▼Light Eater T3 decreased from +25 to +22
▼Dazzling Trick cooldown increased from 34s to 38s
▼Radiant Daggers T2 reduced from +80 to +70
▼Shining Wonder radius reduced from 16.5m to 15.5m
▼Shining Wonder T3 Max Bounces reduced from +8 to +6

Graves

▲Health per boon increased from 33 to 35

Haze

▲Fixation headshot stack count increased from +2 to +3
▲Fixation T3 weapon scaling increased from 0.0003 to 0.00035

Holliday

▲Health per boon increased from 41 to 43
▲Crackshot T2 now also applies -6% Bullet Resistance for 5s
▲Lasso duration extention by Bounce Pad increased from +1s to +1.25s

Ivy

▼Stone Form radius reduced from 6m to 5.75m
▼Stone Form T1 max health heal reduced from 7% to 6%

Kelvin

•Frozen Shelter base ability health regen now scales with spirit power (0.2)

Lady Geist

▲Life Drain T3 spirit scaling increased from +0.3 to +0.45
▲Essence Bomb T3 damage increased from 26% to 30%

Lash

▼Gun falloff range reduced from 18m->54m to 16m->48m
▲Ground Strike T3 spirit scaling increased from +0.03 to +0.04
▲Ground Strike T3 damage per meter scaling increased from 110% to 120%
▼Grapple T2 Weapon Damage buff duration reduced from 10s to 6s
▼Flog heal reduced from 50% to 40%
▲Flog angle increased from 38 to 40
▼Flog T3 reduced from +40 degrees angle to +25
▼Flog T3 reduced from +20% heal to +15%

Paige

▲Heavy Melee spirit scaling increased from 0.3 to 0.45
▲Captivating Read T1 increased from -11s Cooldown to -14s
▲Captivating Read T3 increased from +1m to +2m
•Fixed some collision issues with Rallying Charge

Paradox

▼Kinetic Carbine min damage multiplier reduced from 25% to 10% (max damage multiplier unaffected)
▼Kinetic Carbine min damage multiplier no longer gets increased by the T3

Rem

•Fixed a bug where multiple helpers could be sent to follow a single player for no effect
•Lil Helpers now have a target UI when instant cast mode is selected

Shiv

▲Alt fire base damage increased by 4%
▲Alt fire damage per boon increased from +0.2 to +0.24
▲Serrated Knives while rage is full now deals 3.5% current HP damage on impact instead of ricocheting (0.01 spirit scaling)

Silver

▲Health per boon increased from 28 to 31
▲Sprint speed increased from 1.5 to 2.5
▼Dashes and light melee's no longer pause your gun's cycle time
•Boot Kick can only target heroes and objectives now
•Entangling Bola can only target heroes now
•Weighted Bola now increases gravity during the debuff duration, and interrupts flying abilities (same rules as Phantom Strike)

Venator

•Ira Domini now works with Ricochet, all the shots will bounce
•Ira Domini can now split shot (releases 1 extra bolt on each side, 3 total)

Viscous

▼Alt fire damage growth reduced by 10%
▲Splatter detonation cooldown reduced from 0.15 to 0.12
▼Splatter T1 reduced from +2m to +1.5m
▼The Cube cast range reduced from 26m to 20m
▼Puddle Punch cooldown increased from 21s to 24s
•Goo Ball T3 now also increases spirit scaling by 0.2

Vyper

▼Slither T3 barrier duration reduced from 5s to 4s
▼Petrifying Bola cooldown increased from 105s to 115s

Warden

▼Bullet damage per boon reduced from 0.28 to 0.25
▼Fire Rate spirit scaling reduced from 0.25 to 0.21
▼Alchemical Flask projectile range and speed reduced by 30%
▼Willpower T3 spirit scaling reduced from +2.7 to +2.1
▼Willpower T3 debuff resistance reduced from 40% to 30%

Wraith

▼Card Trick heart heal reduced from 75 to 60
▼Card Trick heart heal spirit scaling reduced from 0.75 to 0.5
▼Card Trick Diamond Bullet and Spirit Resist reduction reduced from -8% to -7%
▼Card Trick T3 Diamond Bullet and Spirit Resist reduction reduced from -5% to -4%
▼Card Trick T3 Clubs slow from +20% to +15%
•Fixed Project Mind getting caught on edges/corners when aiming past it
▲Full Auto spirit damage per bullet scaling increased from 0.03 to 0.045

Yamato

•Crimson Slash T3 now also increases the heal spirit scaling by +0.4
▲Flying Slash light melee scaling increased from 1.0 to 1.2

Minor Update - 08-22-2026

2026-08-22 · 12 lines · 2 ▲ 9 ▼ · Steam

Items (2)

▼Radiant Regeneration: Heal on cast reduced from 70 to 65
▼Restorative Locket: Spirit Resistance reduced from 10% to 8%

Heroes (1)

Celeste

▼Dazzling Trick cooldown increased from 32s to 34s
▼Dazzling Trick T2 barrier rescaled from "+80 and +0.7 scaling" to "+70 and +0.76"
▲Dazzling Trick T3 cooldown increased from -18s to -20s
▼Dazzling Trick T3 reduced from +1.5s Silence to +1.25s
▼Radiant Daggers Spirit Amp per stack reduced from +8% to +7%
▲Radiant Daggers T3 Spirit Amp per stack increased from +3% to +4%
▼Shining Wonder bounce range reduced from 17.5m to 16.5m
▼Shining Wonder damage reduced from 165 to 140
▼Shining Wonder spirit scaling reduced from 0.9 to 0.6
•Shining Wonder T2 now also increases spirit scaling by +0.45

Minor Update - 08-12-2026

2026-08-12 · 31 lines · 8 ▲ 19 ▼ · Steam

General (3)

▼Doorman: Doorway range reduced from 70m to 65m
▼Doorman: Walker will no longer consider Luggage Cart dragged enemies as valid targets to trigger the stomp on until soon after they are dropped off
•Doorman: Similar to the Walker change above, the turrets in the healing area in base now also wait on considering valid targets

Heroes (12)

Apollo

▲Riposte melee resist reduction increased from -22% to -25%
▼Riposte T2 changed from "-30% Melee Resist" to "-25% Melee Resist and +0.4s Stun Duration"
▲Riposte T3 increased from 60% Lifesteal for 7s to 75% Lifesteal for 13s
•Fixed Itani Lo Sahn being canceled with movement abilities

Billy

▼Base health regen reduced from 2.5 to 2.0
▲Rising Ram T3 changed from "On Impact: Deal 7% max health as spirit damage" to "On hero hit: +10% Max HP for 16s"
▼Chain Gang spirit scaling reduced from 1 to 0.7

Drifter

▼Rend spirit scaling reduced from 1.7 to 1.4
▼Stalker's Mark cooldown increased from 24s to 26s
▼Stalker's Mark T2 reduced from -12s Cooldown to -10s

Holliday

•Powder Keg now does half its damage immediately and half over 3s as a damage over time burn (same overall damage, multiple instances stack)

Ivy

▼Stone Form T3 stun duration reduced from +1s to +0.75s

Lash

▼Falloff range reduced from 20m->58m to 18m->54m

McGinnis

▼Bullet damage base and growth values reduced by 5%
▼Spirit Resist per boon reduced from +0.625% to +0.35%
▼Mini Turrets no longer shoots heroes on ziplines
▼Mini Turrets no longer have 80% decaying resist for the first 6s
▲Mini Turrets health increased from 90 + 7.8/boon to 100 + 9/boon
▼Medicinal Specter T1 changed from "Provides +40% Spirit Resist" to "+1.5s Duration"
▼Medicinal Specter T3 no longer increases duration by +1.5s
•Medicinal Specter T3 now also increases spirit resistance by +40%

Paige

▲Plot Armor weapon damage scaling increased from 0.2 to 0.3

Seven

▲Lightning Ball T3 radius increased from +1.5m to +1.75m

Vindicta

▼Stake T1 reduced from +65 Damage to +45

Vyper

▲Petrifying Bola radius increased from 8m to 12m
▲Petrifying Bola petrify duration increased from 2s to 2.2s

Wraith

▼Card Trick Heart heal spirit scaling reduced from 1 to 0.75
▼Full Auto T3 spirit scaling reduced from +0.06 to +0.045

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