Weapon Balance

Buffs

• Burst Pistols
  • Snare: Time between bursts decreased from 0.31 to 0.30
• Burst Rifles
  • Jackhammer: Time between bursts decreased from 0.31 to 0.30
• Carbines
  • Cadence: Time between shots decreased from 0.35 to 0.33
• LMGs
  • Velocity: Time between shots decreased from 0.086 to 0.083
  • Strata: Time between bursts decreased from 0.15 to 0.14
  • Barrage: Time between shots decreased from 0.183 to 0.180

Nerfs

• Burst Pistols
  • Juke: Time between bursts increased from 0.36 to 0.39
  • Tetra: Time between bursts increased from 0.38 to 0.39
• Burst Rifles
  • Pulse: Time between bursts increased from 0.36 to 0.39
  • Quantum: Time between bursts increased from 0.38 to 0.39
• Carbines
  • Hyperline: Time between shots increased from 0.235 to 0.24
• SMGs
  • Sprinter: Base Damage decreased from 8.8 to 8.6
  • Sprinter: Headshot Damage decreased from 10.4 to 10.0
  • Phasma: Time between shots increased from 0.080 to 0.083

Game Modes

• Bot Arena playlists no longer counts towards weapon mastery progression
• Added “Arena Royale” - a new 24-player gamemode that is a hybrid between an arena mode and a battle royale
  • Be the last team standing - respawns are enabled, but your team is knocked out if everyone is killed at once
    • Kills reduce respawn timers, deaths increase them
    • Timers also increase the longer the match lasts
  • Vote for one of 4 biomes to play in each match: Outskirts, Glacier, Drought, Fracture
  • Proximity chat
    • Teammates can hear you from any distance, enemies can hear you (without any directionality or distance indication) when nearby
  • Upgrades
    • Weapons, equipment, armor, and the portal gun can now be upgraded on the fly from your inventory when you have enough credits
  • Arena events
    • Every round, one of three possible arena events spawn (Firecracker, Hotzone, Splitball)
    • Win the event to earn a large amount of credits for your entire team
  • Updates from our original battle royale
    • Being revived after your death box has been looted now spawns you with your selected loadout instead of just your fists.
    • All players on your team now earn credits when you kill someone, meaning every kill helps your whole team progress rather than just you.
    • Chests, airdrops, and enemy death boxes now open automatically, and most items (aside from weapons and equipment) will now be picked up automatically.
    • Armor and portal gun upgrades no longer drop when you die - once you upgrade, there’s no fear you’ll go back down a level.
    • The circle now closes in stages and can even “move” in the last round before closing entirely.
    • New respawn timers become disabled in the final moments of a match
      • Teammates can still be revived if you find an opportunity.
• Added “Teabag Confirmed”
  • Teabag enemies to score points, teabag allies to deny the enemy team points.
  • Teabag Takeover Event will be launching on January 23rd.
• One in the Chamber
  • Added non-event variants that use the Goliath Heavy Pistol
  • Changed from 4v4 to FFA

Maps

• Added “Trihard” Arena map
• Added “Runway” Arena map
  • Will come to playlists starting on January 29th
• Added “Outskirts” Arena Royale biome
• Inferno, Sanctum, Glacier, Outskirts, Drought, and Fracture have been made available for play in onslaught custom games

Map Creator

• Fixed texture corruption/z-fighting issue on Xbox
• Fixed issue where sun position wasn’t getting saved between sessions
• Item pads now offer more customization options

Performance

• General performance improvements across the board
• Indirect shadows no longer render when objects are too small on the screen, boosting performance without sacrificing quality
• Virtual textures (largely comprising landscapes and lightmaps) now have more room to stream on low/medium settings
• Numerous bug fixes to character and weapon skins that were hurting performance when you couldn’t even see them
• Arena Royale
  • Massive performance improvements over the original Battle Royale
  • Biomes are now loaded in their entirety as only one is needed per match, reducing hitches caused by having to stream the world as you move through it.
  • Biomes now use a much more optimized representation for geometry which improves loading time, memory usage, and overall framerate.
• Biome art has been given a once-over across all biomes to improve framerates and memory usage

General

• Fixed issue where players would sometimes not be visible in voice chat despite hearing their audio
• Fixed issue where players sometimes couldn’t be heard in voice chat or seen in text chat
• Fixed issue where some frontend progression tracks would have unlocked items shown as locked
• Fixed some cases where first-person visuals for some cosmetics would appear in third-person
• Fixed Banana Split (portal kill) medal not being awarded if you died

And in case you missed it here's our Update 2.2. preview video: