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Patch Notes v1.37 / Autumn Update
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The Headlines
Complete list below...
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New Content
Arenas
Player Banners
General
Community Flags
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Changes and Updates
General
Main Menu
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Transparent Goalposts
Audio
Director Camera (Beta)
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Competitive Season 5
Competitive Season 6
Local Match (Steam Only)
Known Issues
Bug Fixes
General
Xbox One
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The Headlines
- Farmstead is now available as a Seasonal Arena in all Playlists
- Wasteland and Starbase ARC have been redesigned as Standard Arenas
- More than 90 FREE new items added as drops and Trade-Ins
- Accelerator Crate has been added
- Player Banners have been added as a new Customization Item
- The Main Menu has a redesigned blog UI
- New features include Transparent Goalposts, Director Camera, and Local Matches (Steam Only)
- Competitive Season 5 ends, and Competitive Season 6 begins
- Player Banners are being distributed as Season 5 Rewards
Complete list below...
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New Content
Arenas
- Farmstead is now available as a Seasonal Arena in all Playlists
- Wasteland and Starbase ARC have been redesigned as Standard Arenas.
- Previous versions are now called Badlands and ARCtagon, can be found in Rumble, Private Matches, and Offline
- DFH Stadium (Day)
- Champions Field (Day)
- Mannfield (Snowy)
- Snowy Arena variants will return to Casual and Competitive Playlists during the holiday season
Player Banners
- Player Banners are new Customization Items displayed in the main menu and during Goal Replays.
- Some Player Banners have customizable background colors, while others may have an animated background.
- Some Player Banners may drop with a Painted attribute
- Player Banners will be available as Common items after any match, while others will be Rare or Very Rare drops after Online Matches, or via the Trade-In system:
General
- More than 90 FREE new items added to the drop rate (including the Player Banners listed above)
- Accelerator Crate has been added
Community Flags
- Jon Sandman
- Woofless
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Changes and Updates
General
- Players can now change to another Custom Training pack while playing a Custom Training pack[/b]
- While in a Custom Training pack, pause the game, choose Change Training from the in-game menu
- Stick Sensitivity has been added to the Controls menu
- At the default value of 1.0, your controller will behave the same as before
- Your analog stick input is multiplied by these values. Increasing them makes your controller more sensitive at the cost of some fine-tuned control
- At the maximum value of 10.0, your controller behaves like Keyboard steering, turning at maximum speed from any stick tilt
- Camera Transition Speed option has been added to the Camera menu
- Increasing this value makes your camera blend between Ball Cam and Player Cam more quickly
- Always Show Nameplates option has been added to the Gameplay menu
- When enabled, this option will prevent other players nameplates from being hidden even at long distances
- All cars are now using one of the standardized presets for handling and hitbox introduced in the Anniversary Update
Main Menu
- The Main Menu has a redesigned blog UI
- The blog is now collapsable
- The blog will auto expand if new news has been added since your last play session
- More information about live esports events is now included
- The new Play submenu consolidates all Offline and Online play modes into one section.
- Exhibition and Season modes can now be found under Play Local
- Stats, Leaderboards, and League Rankings are now found under the Career submenu
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Transparent Goalposts
- A new Transparent Goalposts option has been added that causes goalposts and some walls to become see-through when necessary to see the ball
- All Arenas but Rocket Labs use this new feature
- Transparent Goalposts are enabled by default, but can be toggled off to return to their previous, non-transparent behavior
- To disable, uncheck the Transparent Goalposts box in your Video settings under the Options submenu
Audio
- Introduction of sound ducking in the audible items of the garage
- When browsing customization items with audio (Goal Explosions, Boosts), in-game background audio/music volume will automatically lower
- Added delay before playing hover item sound to reduce audio spamming in garage
- Performance pass on general gameplay to reduce voice count on lower volume assets
Director Camera (Beta)
- A new Spectator camera option called Director has been added
- The Director is an AI-controlled Camera mode that predicts Shots, Goals, and Saves and cuts to the best player view to frame the action
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Competitive Season 5
- Competitive Season 5 has ended. Titles and items will be awarded for your highest rank achieved during the season. Season 5 Rewards are custom, non-tradeable Player Banners
- Receiving the Season 5 Reward Player Banners is also contingent upon successful completion of Season Reward Levels
- Reward Player Banners:
- Season 5 - Bronze (Dragon)'
- Season 5 - Silver (Dragon)'
- Season 5 - Gold (Dragon)'
- Season 5 - Platinum (Dragon)'
- Season 5 - Diamond (Dragon)'
- Season 5 - Champion (Dragon)'
- Season 5 - Grand Champion (Dragon)'
- Season 5 Grand Champions will also receive the 'Season 5 Grand Champion' Title
- A second set of Season Reward Player Banners will also be awarded, with the same requirements outlined above:
- 'Season 5 - Bronze'
- 'Season 5 - Silver'
- 'Season 5 - Gold'
- 'Season 5 - Platinum'
- 'Season 5 - Diamond'
- 'Season 5 - Champion'
- 'Season 5 - Grand Champion'
Competitive Season 6
- Competitive Season 6 has begun
- Season 6 brings a soft reset that requires you to do placement matches in each playlist to recalibrate
- Winning half of your placement matches will land you near your previous season ranking
- Rank requirements have been updated to distribute more players into Platinum tier and higher, and to reduce the amount of players in Bronze I
- League Rankings will be temporarily empty until players complete their placement matches
Local Match (Steam Only)
- Players on Steam can now host and join LAN matches directly through the Play menu
- Host Local Lobby to create a LAN server that other players can join on your network
- Find Local Lobby to browse for LAN servers you can connect to
- Local / LAN matches allow you and your friends to compete without the need for an internet connection
- The LAN Lobby creator is hosting the match on their computer. Using Alt-Tab in Fullscreen mode or taking other actions on that computer may affect server performance. Using a Spectator PC to host the lobby for LAN events is recommended
Known Issues
- Starbase ARC has a few textures that aren't rendering correctly at map start
- These textures should correct once a match begins, should not affect gameplay
- Xbox One may crash in Main Menu if opening and closing too many menus quickly
Bug Fixes
General
- Bumping and Demolish Updates
- Fixed an issue where car collisions could be incorrectly handled depending on the order the physics engine processed them in
- Fixed an issue where Demolishes and Bumps could be incorrectly handled depending on the depth of its bumper penetration into the other cars collision.
- Ball Indicator on Champions Field has been fixed
- Restored Batmobile to its pre-Anniversary Update state based on community feedback
- The Steam Controller now works as intended on Mac hardware
- Party members can no longer be pulled out of a Ranked match by a Party Leader
- Winning player no longer receives a loss when leaving a Ranked 1v1 match during an overtime Goal Replay
- Entering Free Play while joining an Online Match no longer prevents players from joining an Online Match
Xbox One
- Crash fixes
- Fixed a performance issue related to a few Achievements
- Fixed an issue where VSync was not being properly disabled even when checked off in the Video Options
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Scootah95 (09-29-2017)
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You are the man with these update details! Was nice to see what we have to look forward to. Love the new update as well.
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Thanks for the info man
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Thanks for the information Brigand! And yeah what that guy said I also love the new update
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