Okay this is one of the largest patches we’ve shipped, ever. And for good reason - there’s a lot of work to do as we rebuild the entire strategic layer of SUPERVIVE toward a brighter future. Speaking to the why: when we launched SUPERVIVE into open beta, we quickly saw that new players just didn’t know where to go or what to do in our more open-ended game. So we spiked some short-term changes like quests and the day 1 revival rules to try to expose the base game more quickly—which netted out some improvements.
That said, we knew there would be knock-on effects for the entire state of the game, like the revival rules reducing the consequentiality of the early game, and that teams would still struggle to make strategic decisions once their basic quests were done.
Looking forward, we believe that SUPERVIVE needs a lot more strategic structure to work as a deep, competitive game. We think it’s important that players can intuit what to do next in the game to win, as well as feeling there are meaningful choices to make along the way. This all starts with having a strong, knowable game structure to evaluate how you’re doing, which we can then build off of. This is why we’re starting with gold mattering a lot more, as this is one of the cleanest benchmarks of progression that almost all players understand.
P.S. We’re still working on that fireside to talk about the state of the game (and where we’re bringing it), but need some time to bake our thoughts. Thanks!
Also there is just an extreme amount of stuff in this patch you should read up on, including:
You upgrade your Equipment via gold at Basecamps, Boat Shops, and Wandering Shopkeepers
You now drop half of your gold on death
Powers below exotic are now soulbound
Mobility adjustments across the Hunter roster
You can link your Discord to import your friends list, send messages, and invite friends via Discord
A new missions hub has been added to the lobby next to the queue button
We are experimentally supporting controller gameplay
Also:
Crysta
NOTE: In most regions you can get Crysta for free by participating in the Discord quest! Go check your Discord quests to see if you’re eligible.
A new Hunter: Crysta, the Supercharged Burst Mage
Reverberation (PASSIVE)
Crysta’s abilities mark enemies that her basic attacks and ultimate can detonate.
Maybelle & Boo (LMB)
Fire a shot from your drone, dealing damage, and detonating Reverberation.
Flux Snare (RMB)
Fire an energy snare that does damage on the way out, then returns: pulling, dealing damage, and grounding targets it hits on the way back.
Double Dash (SHIFT)
A short dash with two charges.
After every dash, Crysta shoots an empowered doubled basic attack, which can stagger monsters.
Magireactive Burst (Q)
Press to fire a damage zone to target location.
Press again to detonate, dealing damage to enemies in the zone.
Nuclarite Salvo (R)
Fire a barrage of 5 energy beams at the target location, alternating over each shoulder, firing two projectiles on the last shot.
Discord Social
We believe SUPERVIVE is best played with friends and so we’re partnering with Discord in order to make that easier for everyone. SUPERVIVE accounts can now be linked with Discord!
Linking your Discord account will allow you to do the following:
See your Discord friends on your SUPERVIVE friends list
You can send party invites to your Discord friends, and they can accept them from in-game and/or from Discord itself
You can send Discord friend requests to your SUPERVIVE friends who have linked to Discord
Message them while in-game and have those messages persist between Discord and SUPERVIVE
NOTE: We do not have any access to your entire private DM history - our platform just acts as a data pipeline to Discord, who stores your messages on their platform
Display a rich social presence to Discord so friends can know how many minutes you are into your Squads game and when they can jump in.
You can unlink in the settings menu
Ranked Party Restrictions
In the Beebo patch we changed matchmaking in Ranked to be based on a combination of both rank and your MMR. This has improved matches and ensured that players are being matched more consistently with people of similar ranks. Historically we’ve let GrandMaster players party with Bronze players, which as you can imagine can make fair matchmaking pretty difficult. You can continue to party with friends in normal games with no restrictions, but when it comes to earning RP, there are now limits to how far apart ranks can be within a party.
The following is the full breakdown of allowed ranks (left is highest rank in your party, right is lowest rank allowed):
Platinum & lower <> Bronze
Diamond <> Gold
Master <> Platinum
GrandMaster+ <> Diamond
Game Structure
Early Game Structure - Gold Matters
A major theme of feedback we’ve heard from players across all skill bands (especially new ones) is that the early game of SUPERVIVE is really free-flowing, which results in an experience where it’s hard to know: am I doing the right things? Am I playing optimally or not?
The changes we made to the leveling structure (removing daily level caps) was the first step. We’re continuing on that path to both simplify our various ‘progression bars’ in the game, as well as having two key measuring sticks of power: levels and gold earned.
You must purchase consumables (Vive Brew, etc) at Shops or looted from enemy deathboxes
‘Gold Score’ (a combination of ‘held gold’ and ‘spent gold’) has been added to the UI - this is shown in the top right, next to damage, and on the *scoreboard next to Held Gold. You can use this score to roughly calibrate enemy strength in terms of what they’ve purchased for upgrades or compare farm *rates with the rest of your team.
Various parts of the economy have been tuned for this new gold world (including Shops costs and how much gold monsters give)
All boss monsters except biome bosses (the ones that spawn after you’ve cleared the zone) have had their EXP and gold rewards significantly increased
EXP Increased about 2.5x
Gold reward increased from ~600 gold to always giving 2,000 gold for every nearby ally
After the last night of the game, if there aren't any Shopkeepers in the game, one will be spawned at random and dropped onto the map after a short duration
Also a reminder that if your team doesn’t own a Base Camp you can still upgrade and buy supplies at Boat shops and wandering Shopkeepers.
Deathboxes are now colored to reflect how much gold they have in them
More Consequence - Gold Drops
A criticism of our day 1 revival rules is that there’s no early game consequence (valid). Trying to address that:
When you die, you lose 50% of your gold
EXP Changes
One of the biggest pain points we’ve heard with the leveling changes is that it can take forever to get your ‘kit unlocked.’ Part of what we liked about adding additional levels is more space between the kit unlocked breakpoint and getting your ultimate, so we’re shifting EXP from 1, 2, and 3 to levels 4, 5, and 6 so you can unlock your kit faster but still take the same amount of time to get your ultimate.
Attached to this, we overshot our changelist last patch in swinging the game too hard toward PvE farming, so we’re increasing the rewards of PvP (especially early game PvP) so those skirmishes matter in building a lead.
EXP gained from knocking enemies has been increased across the board (when they are higher level, at-level, or below level)
PvP knocks will grant a full level no matter what if you’re below level 3
Opening boxes and vaults now give XP, which scales up with the phase of the game
Level 1-6 EXP per-level requirements changed from 50/65/80/95/110/300 ➜ 45/55/85/100/115/300
Soulbound Powers (below Exotic)
In our current gold-matters world, we’re seeing powers be deprioritized for the more guaranteed, reliable value of equipment upgrades (which you don’t lose when you die). We want players to be able to learn and appreciate the value of powers, so that starts with them being reliably accessible at least throughout a game session.
All powers are soulbound, except exotics (meaning: powers don’t drop on death, only on team wipe)
Monster Staggering
What we mean by monster staggering: when there is a blue circle under the monster, hitting them with an ability will ‘stagger’ the monster, dealing a large % of their health as damage, and making them take bonus damage for a set period of time. With PvE playing a larger role in the game, we’re going to continue refining mechanics so they feel interesting.
Monster stagger windows are increased by 1 second
Monsters now become staggerable at set health thresholds
Stagger damage has been lowered from 60% total health ➜ 25% total health (but there are more windows)
Pod Drop Speed Increased, Especially for Solo Pods
In a world where split gold farming is more valuable, we’ve seen the desire for teams to split up even more in the early game. Basically this allows solo pods to break off and move further away from the main ‘team’ pod, faster.
Team drop pod speed has been increased by +50%
Solo pod drop speed has been increased by +200%.
Detach from team pod time reduced from 1 ➜ 0.5 seconds
Hunters
LMB Levels
Adding a little more build texture for where you put your early-to-midgame ability levels.
All Hunters can upgrade their primary attack (LMB), which will either grant +10% damage per upgrade or +20% ability power ratio (meaning they scale with your ability power)
Mobility, Balance, and You
We like that our action combat feels visceral and fast, but want to address cases that make you (or your target) feel out of control. These changes are targeted at making combat more predictable, knowable, and reactable by adding windowing—meaning clear windows or moments where you and your opponent can ‘see’ the next step in the combat flow and can micro-adjust, rather than just slamming out abilities.
Also to call out the addition of ‘winddown’ frames on Oath and Brall - we know that having mechanical optimizations for hyper-mobility is cool, but it creates an arms race where we either have to buff up the entire roster to match that level of speed and fluidity (we’re already seeing unreactable engagements) or we have to hold the line with reductions so there’s some form of parity. We choose the latter.
Anyway, going to call out the changes we’ve made explicitly toward our goals of mobility balance, the details of which will then be noted under the Hunter’s total changelist.
Joule’s Voltaic Spear (RMB) now spawns a lightning orb after a brief delay, rather than instantly, so she can’t instantly combo the two abilities for a free, unreactable dash reset
Joule’s Thunderstorm (R) has had its cast time increased and has a landing indicator
Kingpin’s level 4dash (SHIFT) is less effective at resetting his shotgun (LMB) attack speed so he can’t instantly mow you down with a combo
When Brall and Kingpin cast their big windup ability (Brall’s RMB or Kingpin’s Q) and then immediately dash to negate the cast-time of the ability, they are now restricted in how much they can turn/aim that ability
Brall’s Tether Strike (Q) impulse force has been decreased, cooldown has been increased, and level 4 upgrade now refunds less cooldown when an enemy is hit. Additionally, the tether now breaks if Brall is stunned, and cannot be activated if Brall is rooted or grounded
Oath and Brall now have ‘winddown’ frames on certain movement abilities, where they can’t immediately use their glider to sustain momentum
Bishop’s Blast-Off! (R) now has a cast time wind-up and has had its velocity decreased
Bishop
We’re hearing feedback that Bishop’s talents don’t have a lot of diversity, so we’re adjusting the other options to be more attractive, and giving her a general buff. Regarding the ultimate change - we like biasing her ult usage more toward offensive engages and less defensive ‘get out of jail’ use.
Rocket Launcher (LMB) - Big Rocket
Empowered shots now deal +20% more damage and have +10% explosion radius
Displacement Charge (RMB)
Level 4 upgrade now gives: -5 second cooldown and radius/impulse have been increased
Haymaker (Q)
Level 4 upgrade now gives a shield for hitting multiple targets (up to 2) and reduces the cooldown by 1 second for each target hit
Blast-Off! (R)
Initial cast time increased from 0.3 ➜ 0.5 seconds
Velocity decreased from 2500 ➜ 2250
Brall
Still does a lot of damage and is moving all over the place. We talked about the movement changes above, but to especially call out the winddown frames - we understand going from super-mobile Brall to this version might feel more restrictive, but we have to start clamping down on free movement to get to a more balanced world. Context on the RMB change: it’s an experiment where the spell is slower and heavier, but easier to aim—hopefully makes him feel rewarded for landing it, while being clearer to enemies.
General
Brall’s Flame Step (SHIFT) and Adaptive Strike (RMB) dash now have ‘winddown’ frames where Brall can’t immediately enter a glider state to preserve extreme forward momentum
Blazing Spirit (Passive)
Updated Blazing Spirit to be way more noticeable while also framing Brall more clearly
Now has a warning icon overhead of the Brall when casting
Now displays separate cast bars for press and hold vs. tap
Execution Slam
Execution multiplier decreased from 2x ➜ 1.5x
Execution threshold decreased from 45% ➜ 35%
Flame Step (SHIFT)
Cooldown increased from 10/6/6/6 ➜ 11/9/7/6 seconds
Casting Adaptive Strike (RMB) and then using Flame Step (SHIFT) now restricts how far you can turn while dashing
This means you can flick your RMB a lot less if you try to use Shift to get around RMB’s cast time
Tether Hook (Q)
Impulse force decreased from 2150 ➜ 1900
Cooldown increased from 14.5/12.5/10/10 ➜ 18/16/14/12 seconds
Level 4 Upgrade now refunds 50% ➜ 33% remaining cooldown when an enemy is hit
Tether now breaks if Brall is stunned
Tether cannot be activated when Brall is Rooted or Grounded
Ghost
Combat Slide (SHIFT)
Level 4 Upgrade now grants a 2 second Movement Speed buff on dash end
Kingpin
We’re keeping an eye on Kingpin, but for now just trying to curb his more extreme combos.
Dash (SHIFT)
Level 4 upgrade attack speed reset has been reduced from 100% ➜ 50%
Casting Primal Slam (Q) and then using Dash (SHIFT) now restricts how far you can turn while dashing
This means you can flick your Q a lot less if you try to use Shift to get around Q’s cast time
Jin
We felt like Jin did too much damage with his LMBs when sticking on targets and had access to his ultimate too frequently. We still want him to fulfill his role as an assassin so we’ve adjusted his Q to be slightly more consistent.
Ash’Gara Warblade (LMB)
Damage reduced by 20%
Flip Slash / Death Blow (Q)
Red decals now display on both spells to better communicate hitboxes
Death Blow base damage increased from 58/72/90/90 ➜ 81/101/126/126
Death Blow AP ratio scaling increased from 29%/36%/45%/45% ➜ 38%/48%/60%/60%
Death Blow execution damage scaling has been reduced from 100% <> 400% scaling to 100% <> 300% scaling from 0% to 80% missing health
Death Blow should do more damage than before until around the 60% health mark
Death Blow is slightly nerfed (~5%) to enemies below the 60% health mark
Feylight Clone (R)
Cooldown increased from 40/35/30 ➜ 45/40/35 seconds
Joule
Previously, Joule could snapcast her RMB and dash through it immediately knowing that it’d give her a reset. This change means that she’ll have to pause before committing. We know adding more windows to someone as lightning-fast as Joule may feel disruptive, but as we’ve said before, we need to start clamping down on these unreactable, hyper-fast actions to get to a readable, balanceable game state.
Voltaic Spear (RMB)
Lightning orb now spawns instantly ➜ after a 0.5 second delay
NOTE: 0.5 seconds is the value we’re starting with. We still want Joule to feel like lightning, but we also want it to feel like there’s a breath for other players to react. This is a lever we’re looking to tune so tell us how you feel.
Surge (Shift)
Dash explosion radius reduced from 200 ➜ 160
Thunderstorm (R)
Cast time increased from 0.15 ➜ 0.3 seconds
Landing indicator added
Oath
We’ll just keep saying this: we know that having cool mechanical optimizations for hyper mobility is fun, but it sets the stage for a mobility arms-race where everyone needs to either be able to react to lightning fast engagements or have ones of their own. Gotta start somewhere.
General
Oath’s Spin Dash (SHIFT) and Magnetic Hammer (LMB) attack now have ‘winddown’ frames where Oath can’t immediately enter a glider state to preserve extreme forward momentum
Shrike
General
Bugfix: Fixed an issue where Shrike’s Disengage (SHIFT) would sometimes get overwritten when trying to bunnyhop
Truetalon Rifle (LMB)
Reduced cooldown from 1.7 ➜ 1.5 seconds per shot (this increases her rate of fire)
Proc-ing Raptor’s Mark (PASSIVE) can now stagger Monster
Scout Hawk (Q)
Picking ward up makes you vulnerable and roots you now
Doubled the health of the ward, and added health bar visuals
Dive-Bomb (RMB)
Should feel better to use
Void
Gravity Orb (LMB)damage no longer scales continuously with time spent not firing. Instead, damage is binary (fully charged vs. uncharged)
Items
Consumables
We think the average SUPERVIVER-ian should be able to afford basic household goods, so we’ve asked vendors to lower prices and they listened (also they really upped their stock). One spicy one to note is that MOST WANTED is now available at the Shop - a hero play is just 3000 gold away.
New Map Area: Fortress (a sub-area of Chaos Steppes)
Gameplay and Visual Update
Client
Practice While in Queue
A common request from players has been that once you’re queued you’d like to be able to jump into Practice.
We’ve added a new queueing option so you don’t need to re-queue from Practice Mode
Custom Games
You now have the ability to disable the Day 1 revival rules in Custom Games as a setting
Tutorial
Removed parts that are no longer accurate
Team Communications/Coordination
"Fight!", "Group Up!", and "Help!" have been added to the ping wheel, now with new art
Ally Camera
We have new Keybinds to have your camera look at your teammates
Holding F2, F3, F4 switches the camera to your ally location for P2, P3, and P4
Keys are rebindable
You still have control over your character while looking at your ally
Will try and show ally deathbox if they're dead
Voiceover (VO) Updates
Added Announcer VO for 4 and 3 squads remaining
Increased Ability VO cooldowns across the board (e.g., Ghost players will hear "Firing Downrange!" less often)
Experimental Controller Support
VERY EXPERIMENTAL. TRY AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION BUT MAYBE TRY IN PRACTICE MODE FIRST.
KNOWN ISSUES:
The Controller is known not to work in the following areas:
Out of Game
Drop Phase (selecting drop location)
When interacting with Shop UI / Death boxes
Interacting with other HUD elements (when fully eliminated)
Missions Hub
While some players are grinding ranked all day every day, for many other players Hunter’s Journey, Mastery, and the Battle Pass are the core of their progression experience. Daily and Weekly missions are one of the biggest sources of EXP and while we’ve had a missions tab, it was hard to notice and most players never really realized that they were there. We’ve created a new missions hub that highlights new missions available to you and should make it easier for you to identify things to do to level up faster.
A new missions hub button has been added to the lobby
When you have new missions it will light up with a notification
When missions are complete, go back to the hub after your game to claim your rewards
Hudson: If you hit an enemy with your ultimate, you are no longer yaw locked to face them
Interact: Increased the interact buffer time from 0.2 ➜ 0.5 second to make it easier to interact with things like sniper ward
The Two-Way Tunnels and Beebo Hunter missions now progress if you get an assist while fulfilling the mission conditions, not just a knock (thank you for the suggestion Keldric Usugi!)
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quests and the day 1 revival rules to try to expose the base game more quickly—which netted out some improvements.
gold mattering a lot more, as this is one of the cleanest benchmarks of progression that almost all players understand.
Equipment via 
gold at Basecamps, Boat 
Shops, and Wandering Shopkeepers
Discord to import your friends list, send messages, and invite friends via 
Reverberation (PASSIVE)
Maybelle & Boo (LMB)
damage, and detonating Reverberation.
Flux Snare (RMB)
Double Dash (SHIFT)
Magireactive Burst (Q)
Nuclarite Salvo (R)
Vive Brew, etc) at 
health as
Joule’s 
Voltaic Spear (RMB) now spawns a lightning orb after a brief delay, rather than instantly, so she can’t instantly combo the two abilities for a free, unreactable 
dash reset
Thunderstorm (R) has had its cast time increased and has a landing indicator
Kingpin’s level 4
dash (SHIFT) is less effective at resetting his 
shotgun (LMB) attack speed so he can’t instantly mow you down with a combo
Brall and 
RMB or 
Q) and then immediately dash to negate the cast-time of the ability, they are now restricted in how much they can turn/aim that ability
Tether Strike (Q) impulse force has been decreased, 
cooldown has been increased, and level 4
Oath and 
Bishop’s 
Blast-Off! (R) now has a cast time wind-up and has had its velocity decreased
Rocket Launcher (LMB) - Big Rocket
Displacement Charge (RMB)
Haymaker (Q)
Flame Step (SHIFT) and 
Blazing Spirit (Passive)
Adaptive Strike (RMB)
Flame Step (SHIFT)
Combat Slide (SHIFT)
Dash (SHIFT)
Ash’Gara Warblade (LMB)
Flip Slash / Death Blow (Q)
Feylight Clone (R)
Voltaic Spear (RMB)
Surge (Shift)
Thunderstorm (R)
Spin Dash (SHIFT) and 
Magnetic Hammer (LMB) attack now have ‘winddown’ frames where Oath can’t immediately enter a glider state to preserve extreme forward momentum
Disengage (SHIFT) would sometimes get overwritten when trying to bunnyhop
Truetalon Rifle (LMB)
Raptor’s Mark (PASSIVE) can now stagger Monster
Scout Hawk (Q)
Dive-Bomb (RMB)
Gravity Orb (LMB) 
Hypervive: 2000 ➜ 1000 gold
Jump Pad: 2000 ➜ 3000 gold
NEW Elixir of Health: 1500 gold
Deployable Base: 5000 gold
range by 500
Abyssal Eye
Blinkstone
Delicate Barrier
Void has received updated tooltips (thank you OmnipresentOatmeal!)
Mana Cloud: Updated activation VFX
Hudson: If you hit an enemy with your ultimate, you are no longer yaw locked to face them
Beebo Hunter missions now progress if you get an assist while fulfilling the mission conditions, not just a knock (thank you for the suggestion Keldric Usugi!)
