Patch V1.1

Hotfix

Hotfix V1.1.1 (10/10/24)

• Fixed a cause of crashing affecting PlayStation 4 players.

• Adjusted Skylar's stats:

• Adjusted Skylar's Hypercharge damage to towers.

• Fixed a bug with Zinx's ultimate ability.

• Fixed an issue where the in-game shop would focus on the search field with a controller.

• Aurora's passive audio has been reduced.

• Fixed inaccurate settings descriptions.

Introduction

Greetings Champions!

It feels like it was only recently that we were celebrating our full release at Gamescom - and it’s already time for 1.1!

In update 1.1, we’re welcoming our 4th Omeda original Hero, Skylar, an aerial combat ace with some serious alien tech! Spooky season is officially kicking off too with the return of Shadow’s Eve, and of course, we have a bunch of new features, improvements, and bug fixes, alongside some highly requested community features (mouse and keyboard support on console anyone?) 

Let’s get stuck in!

New Hero: Skylar - The Winged Marauder!

Aerial Ace, Skylar, soars onto the battlefield!

Things just got more vertical! With her trusty, high-tech jetpack, Skylar can hover above the battlefield and rain destruction on her enemies below. 

Stats:

Abilities: 

Dissonance [Passive]:

Enemy Units killed by Skylar explode after 0.75s, dealing 30 (+5 per level) physical damage to nearby Enemies within 350u. If the Target is an Enemy Hero, the explosion damage and radius is tripled.

Additionally, Skylar utilises her Jetpack to gain increased Jump Height.

Starfire [Basic Attack]:

BAT: 1.5
Effect: Skylar’s basic Ranged attack, dealing 57 (+75% Bonus Physical Power) physical damage.

Plasma Grenade [Primary]:

CD: 14/13/12/11/10
Cost: 50/55/60/65/70
Effect: Skylar launches a bouncing Nano Bubble that attaches to the first Target hit for 0.75s and deals 25/40/55/70/85 (+20% Bonus Physical Power) physical damage.

After the duration, the Target and nearby Enemies take 70/100/130/160/190 (+90% Bonus Physical Power)(+50% Magical Power) physical damage and are Slowed by 40%/45%/50%/55%/60% for 1s.

Air Assault [Secondary]:

CD: 24/21.5/19/16.5/14
Cost: 70
Effect: Skylar thrusts upwards in her current direction and gains the ability to Glide for 3.25s. While Gliding, Skylar’s Movement Speed is increased by 25%.

During this time, dealing damage will cause Skylar to fire a missile that deals 25/35/45/55/65 (+15% Bonus Physical Power)(+10% Magical Power) physical damage to the Target. 

Hypercharge can only trigger missiles once every second, decreasing with additional Bonus Attack Speed.

Hypercharge [Alternate]:

CD: 6
Cost: 80/90/100/110/120
Effect: Skylar Hypercharges Starfire, augmenting her Basic Attack for the next 5s. Takedowns refresh the duration.

While Hypercharge is active, Skylar converts Bonus Attack Speed into additional On-Hit damage and her Basic Attack fires at a fixed rate of 10 attacks per second. 

Each hit deals 1/3/5/7/9 (+11% Total Physical Power)(+6% Magical Power)(+15% Bonus Attack Speed) physical damage per instance and applies On-Hit effects at 12% effectiveness. Dealing Damage to the same target within 1s increases the damage dealt to them by 1.25%, stacking up to 20 times. 

At maximum stacks, Hypercharge deals additional damage equal to 6/9/12/15/18% of the Target's Total Physical Armor.

Passive: Basic Attacks deal 4/8/12/16/20 (+10% Total Physical Power) bonus physical damage On-Hit.

Atomiser [Ultimate]:

CD: 120/100/80
Cost: 100
Effect: Skylar charges up her weapon for 0.5s before unleashing a large Orb of energy. The Orb explodes upon hitting an Enemy Hero or Terrain, dealing 200/330/460 (+135% Bonus Physical Power)(+100% Magical Power)(+15/20/25% of Target’s missing health) physical damage to all nearby Enemies.

Atomiser’s Missing Health Damage is capped at 300/450/600 against Non-Heroes.

Shadow’s Eve Event

Predecessor is getting dressed up for Halloween! Starting October 8th, our map is getting a harrowing makeover to help you feel that chill in the air… You’ll see a brand-new skybox, haunting new lighting effects, jack o’ lanterns, candles and more! Available until November 5th.

Store News

Starstruck Skylar [Uncommon]

This stellar, celestial-themed skin will get you over the moon! The sky’s the limit!

Bash-O-Lantern [Legendary]

Do you feel the chill? Do you hear the sound of the pumpkin drums? The Bash-O-Lantern Narbash skin comes with special visual effects, new sound effects, a bespoke recall animation, and a spooky voice-over… It may or may not come with a head.

Reaver Greystone & Kira [Rare]

Greystone and Kira are geared up and ready to fight off the spirits of the past with their brand new Reaver skins.

Spiderwitch Lt. Belica [Uncommon]

Join the witch hunt as Lt. Belica in one of Halloween's most iconic costumes. It’s a classic for a reason.

Feline Queen Sparrow [Common]

Just as sneaky, just as deadly, but a little more playful. Pounce into action with Feline Queen Sparrow!

New Bundles

Skylar Bundle

Everything you need to shoot for the stars!

Halloween Mega Bundle

Assemble the ultimate spooky crew!

Bash-O-Lantern Narbash Bundle

Reaver Greystone Bundle

Reaver Kira Bundle

Platinum Package Adjustments

We’re making some adjustments to the Platinum packages we currently offer to better align them with the prices of skins in the game, while also reducing situations where players have a small amount of Platinum left after a purchase that they can’t do much with. 

Want to grab a new Common skin? Grab the new 500 platinum pack! Maybe you like one of the Uncommon skins too? Pick up the 1300 Platinum pack instead! Check out the new bundles below:

Old

• 600 Platinum Pack ($5.99)

• 1650 Platinum Pack (1500 + 150) ($14.99)

• 2800 Platinum Pack (2500 + 300) ($24.99)

New

• 500 Platinum Pack ($4.99)

• 1300 Platinum Pack (1200 + 100) ($11.99)

• 2500 Platinum Pack (2200 + 300) ($21.99)

There are no changes to the 5900 or 12200 Platinum Packs!

Role Bundle Discounts

You may remember all the way back in update v0.16 we added new bundles for each role with an introductory discount to celebrate their arrival. Well, it’s finally time for these bundles to head back towards their standard price, but not all the way just yet… the offer continues with a slightly reduced discount for each of the bundles and a new price of 650 Platinum.

Note - these are dynamic bundles so the price will reduce based on what you already own. 

If you’ve been eyeing any of these bundles up, grab them at full discount until the patch drops!

V1.1 Twitch Drops

We couldn’t do Shadow’s Eve without some all-new Shadow’s Eve Twitch Drops! Starting shortly after the update goes live, watch any Predecessor streamer to get your hands on the the brand-new Pumpkin spray, or watch select Predecessor Creator Guild streamers to get your hands on the terrifying Sweet Dreams Khaimera spray, profile icon and skin!

Console Improvements

PlayStation Trophies

Trophy hunters rejoice! PlayStation players can now earn a bunch of different trophies, let the platinum run begin!

Console 120 FPS Mode

PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are getting a huge performance upgrade with 1.1! We’ve optimised the game to run at a buttery-smooth 120FPS.

Localisation

We're excited to announce Predecessor has been localised for consoles in German, French, Italian, Simplified Chinese and Brazilian-Portuguese!

Aim Assist

Aim assist for console players can now be toggled on or off so you can choose how you want to play! Additionally, we’ve also made some tweaks to improve aim assist when enemy players are closer to the camera. 

Mouse & Keyboard Support

This is perhaps one of the most requested quality-of-life improvements among console players, so we’re very excited to announce mouse and keyboard support is coming to PlayStation and Xbox in this update!

Draft Improvements

We implemented a lot of changes to the Draft and Role Select screens with 1.0 back in August, and we’ve been listening intently to your feedback since then to offer even more changes and improvements to the whole Draft experience. 

Draft Voice Lines

Some players reported a little confusion when selecting the same role as others during role select. To help with clarity, we’ve added a new voice line telling you which lane you’ve been assigned before heading into draft.

We also wanted to add some extra prompts that we hope will help to reduce the amount of accidental draft mishaps. We've probably all been there - gazing off into space while we're meant to be picking our Hero. So upon entering the Draft you'll be prompted to select your Hero.

Once you've selected your Hero, the VO reminds you to lock-in!

Finally, as the timer hits 10 seconds, the VO will tell you "Time's running out"

Ability Videos

For newer players heading into draft, whether it’s vs AI or PvP, picking a new Hero can be a bit daunting as you’re usually going in with only a description of what their abilities do. With 1.1 we’ve added small ability videos for each Hero and ability to provide further clarity on what each Hero can do.

This isn’t just for the draft screen either! You can head into the Hero Ability section in the Main Menu to take a closer look at them too.

Note - some Heroes have Passive abilities that are difficult to show clearly, for these cases we’ve opted to not include them for now but are looking into solutions.

Removed Subclasses

Subclasses in the draft screen were added in 1.0 and we saw that players felt it cluttered the screen without really offering much more in terms of information. So we’ve removed the subclasses in 1.1 to keep things clean and tidy. Thanks to everyone for the feedback!

Affinity Progress in the Draft Screen

Hero Affinity has become a popular feature for players to work towards, but the information isn’t as accessible as we’d like it to be, until now! 

Affinity progress for every Hero is now visible in the draft screen at the top of each Hero’s thumbnail, so you can easily see how far you have to go until the next affinity level.

Role Select Changes

We had some feedback from mouse and keyboard players who felt the extra click to “lock-in” your role during Role Select wasn’t necessary. Upon reviewing the change, we agree! 

Mouse & Keyboard players will be able to select and lock-in their role in one simple click. You’ll still be able to deselect the role if you change your mind though.

Players Names in Role Select

Currently when a role is picked, the game simply shows a number next to the icon. Continuing on with our mission to improve clarity within the game, we’ve made a change to show player names here, rather than just a number. 

Hero Camera Positions

Let’s be honest, some Heroes in the Draft screen looked a little… small. When you pick a Hero, they should feel like a Hero! So we’ve updated the camera position for all of our Heroes so they have a much better sense of scale. Check the comparison out below!

Old

New

Lane Lock Clarity

To help ensure players know which role they were assigned during Role Select, the screen will now show you exactly which role you’re about to play. This, alongside the newly added voiceline should really help to ensure players have all the information they need to pick the right Hero for the job. 

Post Match Screen Improvements

It’s no secret that some players weren’t huge fans of the new post-match screen we introduced in 1.0. We really appreciate the feedback and we’ve made some adjustments here to make everyone’s stats much easier to digest:

• Each stat section highlights the player who came on top in this particular category.

• Your own stats are now in the middle of the screen and mirror your direct opponent. This should make it easier to compare how you did vs the enemy laner.

• Your stat column is also highlighted so you immediately know where to look.

Some players were accidentally adding or blocking other players with the old setup, so we’ve added a contextual menu where you can add, block or report the people you just played with, without any accidents!

Other Improvements

Chat Readability Upgrade

Another area of community feedback has been the readability of the in-game chat. We’ve made some improvements to it in update 1.1 to ensure chat and system messages are much easier to see. 

Renamed Item Slots

Item slot 1, 2 and 3 weren’t very descriptive, particularly for new players who wondered what they even were! We’ve changed the name of these in the keybind menu to their relevant item: Blink, Utility (Hunt/Potion), Crest, Vision (Ward/Sentry).

Jump Pad VFX

While researching the new player experience, we noticed players avoiding the jump pads and walking to their lane instead. To help make them a little more obvious, we’ve added some snazzy new VFX to indicate their presence and what they do.   

Skin Selection

We've all got our favourite skins for our favourite Heroes, but having to select it every time you go into a match doesn't feel great. With v1.1 the game will save your last skin selection for each character so your Heroes are always looking their best! 

Renamed Sprays

Previously most sprays were named based on the Hero they were created in the likeness of. They are now named to represent the emotion they convey instead.

Adjusted Skin Button

We've changed the position and wording of the "Skin" button on the Main Menu thanks to your feedback. The button now reads "View Skin" (or "View Hero"), and has been moved towards the bottom right of the screen.

New Items

Who doesn’t love new items?! We always want to encourage build diversity in Predecessor, and the following items should help to give the meta a little shake up while giving you even more options for how you want to build and play your Heroes. 

Carry: 

Mage:

Support:

Removed Items:

• Kingsbane.
  

Hero Balance Changes

Countess is receiving some minor changes aimed at pivoting her damage profile further towards magical itemisation, with her Blade Siphon having lower inherent damage but higher Scaling, and some increases to her raw durability, thereby reducing the efficacy or need for tankier purchases such as Fire Blossom.

Crunch is receiving some increased healing from his Ultimate’s Passive effect, reinforcing his level-6 power-spike and allowing him more success in extended duels.

Greystone sometimes finds himself unable to transition his pressure into meaningful advantages, often struggling to find trade windows on more mobile opponents. To help bring him into greater contention, some additional uptime is being granted to Make Way to create less downtime between trading windows in lane while providing him with faster general clear speeds. Likewise, some additional sticking power and damage threat is being granted throughout his kit to better allow Greystone to translate a pressure advantage into a kill.

The previous round of changes to Grim.exe pushed down his strength a little too far, with him largely falling out of favor as a result. We’re partially reverting the BAT increase to a healthier middle-point to ensure he is adequately rewarded for investing into Attack Speed and better able to match the DPS of other Carries considering his immobility. Likewise, we’re  offering him some additional Scaling to his Displacement Blast to ensure it stays relevant throughout a match, be that in a Physical or Magical build.

Iggy is receiving some long-requested changes to his Molotov, with it now possessing a shorter overall range.This will reduce the frequency at which Iggy can safely fight from afar and default to passive gameplay, reinforcing his more mid-range identity and bringing some additional risk to his loop. As a consequence of this lower range, we can now offer Iggy some additional strength throughout his kit, bringing more parity to his risk and reward profile now that he must play at closer ranges to be as effective.

Khaimera continues to have a difficult time holding his own in the later stages of a match, often falling off when damage ramps up in the late-game. As a result, some additional regeneration is being granted to his Passive, better reinforcing his healing identity and further allowing him to soak damage in fights when he avoids being locked down.

Once again Kira is receiving some damage increases to Purge as it can feel too underwhelming to justify the positional risk required to use it successfully in a fight compared to relying exclusively on her base kit.

Narbash is receiving some additional uptime on his Thunk, better rewarding aggressive play styles that choose to invest in the ability earlier on during the laning phase.

Rampage's Pounce ability has been given a little QoL update to bring it line with similar vertical abilities from our other Heroes.

Revenant has recently risen as a mightier contender among the Carries, possessing a strong presence in lane and the ability to leverage this lane-bully strength to achieve a snowball. To ensure it’s not too easy for Revenant to run away with a lead, a small hit to Revenant’s Obliterate is being given, reducing his ability to poke and all-in opponents during the laning phase and better allowing them to hold up to the early pressure.

Riktor's rise to dominance in the Offlane is largely due to his ability to take heavy short-trades with his Riot Shield and the raw damage offered by maxing out Shock Therapy. Some slight hits are being levied to both, with his lane opponents now better able to take trades and duel against him as the mid-game rolls around.

Sparrow has fallen out of favour since her previous rounds of aggressive adjustments back in v0.18-0.19, often struggling to justify her place in a team over another Carry due to her inherent lack of safety. An increase to her Relentless damage and Piercing Shot uptime is being granted to offer her a more stable laning phase and a smoother transition from the early to late-game, better allowing her to secure a position of strength throughout a match.

Wraith’s recent rise in strength is largely due to his ability to secure an aggressive snowball while simultaneously remaining difficult to punish in lane thanks to the distance he can cover with his Camo’. A hit to both is required, with Knock, Knock possessing less raw Scaling meaning Wraith cannot as easily run away with a game when ahead in Gold, and a decrease to Surprise, Surprise’s duration to better allow his enemies to stick to, and punish him when he is caught out of position.

Zinx’s ability to dish out meaningful amounts of damage while being able to reset a fight with her Ultimate makes her a significant threat in fights. To ensure her damage profile is not as high and her general impact on fights is lessened, some Scaling Damage is being stripped back from Bad Medicine, and the amount of Health and Mana restored on successful Resurrection decreased.

Item Balance Changes

Crest:

Some additional Movement Speed is being granted to Soulbearer, allowing it to better compete with Epoch and better serve those Mages looking to stay nimble in a fight.

Tempest is receiving some adjustments to its damage to reduce the power spike it offers to Magical Bruisers, with it now dealing less upfront damage (and therefore healing less) on acquisition but Scaling heavier throughout the match with Magical Power builds.

Though it is niche by nature, Typhoon can struggle to provide enough Attack Speed to differentiate itself from other Crest choices or to justify its choice in the later stages of a match due to its lower Scaling. A small bump up is being offered, allowing Magical Attack Speed builds additional room to flourish and a smoother power curve throughout a match.

Tanks have seen a return to form as of late, with a large portion of their strength residing in Razorback’s ability to dissuade aggression from attackers. A decrease to its duration is being levied to provide a smaller window of inaction for the attackers, better allowing them to survive the duration and return fire. 

Despite its initiation strength, Nyr Warboots struggles to compete with Razorback and Saphir’s as a survivability tool and is receiving some additional healing to bring it into better parity.

Saphir’s lost some of its identity as a stacking health tool in the switch over to 6-items, with it often feeling inferior to the safer option of Razorback due to how long it can take to stack up. To close this gap, some additional Health Scaling is being granted to its effect, increasing the rate at which it can be stacked throughout a match.

A minor change to Leafsong Movement Speed to round out the number and provide it with a little extra punch..

Carry:

Due to it lacking a damaging component to its effect, Ashbringer can struggle to compete with other Attack Speed options that offer more meaningful damage bumps through their effects. Therefore, an increase to its Physical Power is being granted to provide for more stat efficiency on the item and further compensate for its more utility-oriented nature.

While Carries are undoubtedly strong as a class, Crit carries can often lack significant agency in the earlier stages of a match until they get their core build online. As a small step towards reducing the early-game autonomy gap, an increase in raw Physical Power is being granted to ‘Hawk, in return for some reduced late-game Scaling to its effect.

Sky Splitter is seeing a reduction to its minimum damage to further reduce its value as an early pick-up against targets with smaller health pools given how versatile it already is.

Assassin:

Another bump up in Omen’s Cooldown Reduction effect, better allowing it to serve as a refresher for higher cooldown abilities such as Kallari’s Death Mark, or Feng Mao’s Reaping Dash.

Mage:

Megacosm provides a little too much universal value, offering both substantial Tank killing capabilities while also providing a significant bulk of Magical Power. A reduction in both is needed to ensure that high health targets are not burned through too quickly, and that there is a clearer Magical Power tradeoff compared to other Mage options when damaging targets with lower health pools.

Tank:

Fire Blossom is receiving a small hit to its Health Stat, trimming off some of its raw durability and efficacy as a first buy to match other classes' first buy strengths more closely.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Lt. Belica’s Polar Strike skin would cause Void Drone to be undamageable. The Skin is now re-enabled.

• Fixed text readability issues on the items menu in frontend blending with the background.

• Fixed an issue where Hero Indicators would not show correctly on the HUD for some Users.

• Fixed an issue where Zinx’s Ricochet could be thrown through Enemy Towers.

• Fixed an issue where Players could stand inside a wall in the Red Jungles.

• Fixed an issue where Players could stand on a wall separating the Mid Lane and the Red Jungles.

• Fixed an issue where Role Text could scroll in the Role Selection screen in certain languages.

• Fixed an issue where Party Invitations could not be accepted while on the Items Tab.

• Fixed an issue where Hero Levels would not always update correctly on the Scoreboard.

• Fixed an issue where certain Materials would display incorrectly on PS5 Performance Mode.

• Fixed an issue where the incorrect Hero could become locked in during the Draft when quickly hovering multiple Heroes in succession.

• Fixed an issue where Rampage’s Recall would not play SFX correctly if used immediately after his Leap.

• Fixed an issue where the Scroll Bar would display incorrectly for Bundles with large amounts of content.

• Fixed an issue where Heroes could become un-targetable when Reconnecting to a match.

• Fixed an issue where Heroes would not display their Health bars while a Player is disconnected. 

• Fixed an issue where restarting the game could reset a Users Controller Hardware Setting to Auto-Detect.

• Fixed an issue where Adaptive Triggers would not always play correctly for certain Heroes.

• Fixed an issue where Adaptive Triggers could fail to play while in the Tutorial.

• Fixed an issue where Keybinds could not be reassigned until assigned elsewhere while they are listed as “None”.

• Fixed an issue where SFX would not play when opening and closing the Draft Chat.

• Fixed an issue where Wraith would not proc his Peekaboo! Mark with Knock, Knock! if he is under the effects of Hard-CC mid-shot.

• Fixed an issue where Items could visually jitter while in the Items Tab on Ultrawide mode.

• Fixed an issue where Heroes would not play their Voice Lines correctly when switching from the Post-match Screen to the Heroes Tab quickly.

• Fixed an issue where certain abilities could incorrectly display the “Out Of Range” text prompts when missed.

• Fixed an issue where Basic Attack Animation cycles could always play the first Animation after inputting a Comms-wheel command.

• Fixed an issue where Revenant’s Hand Cannon would not glow correctly on his Clockwork skin.

• Fixed an issue where Iceskorn Talons would affect users high in the air.

• Fixed an issue where Iceskorn Talons could be used during Hovering states.

• Fixed an issue where the Class header text would not update correctly when navigating through the Hero Tab classes.

• Fixed an issue where Crunch’s Empowered Forward Crunch would sometimes only Push one Hero.

• Fixed an issue where the Pause Menu could lose focus when transitioning between the Post-game Cinematic and Scoreboard.

• Fixed an issue where the Kill Feed could display overly small text for certain Entity Types.

• Fixed various localisation issues in German language.

Known Issues

• We're aware of some new crashes taking place on PS4 consoles in the new V1.1 update.

• We're aware of an issue borking the Platinum tab on PS consoles. Right now it's impossible to buy Platinum in game.

That’s a wrap on update 1.1! Your feedback has been incredibly helpful in shaping this update, and we can’t wait for all of you to jump into the Shadow’s Eve map, and rise to new heights with Skylar.

What do you think, Champions? Let us know your thoughts on Discord or Reddit.

Until next time,

Rei, Steggs, & Omeda_Zuzu
Game Design and Community @ Omeda Studios