Welcome to PART 2 of the Cosmic Winter Jubilee patch notes. We've been listening to your feedback and share your feelings, so please read these patch notes with the belief that we hear you and are moving fast to improve SUPERVIVE. That is all. Thank you for staying with us, and we hope you enjoy all the new PROGRESSION updates!
This is a change aimed at solo and new players, as automating early-game revival rules will alleviate early death frustrations (also known as “does my teammate know what a Resurrection beacon is?”) while ensuring everyone gets more combat reps (a proven delighted). We also acknowledge this is a bit of a stopgap solution and we’re making tradeoffs for it. It’s why we’re running it as a limited-time experiment rather than just yeeting it in with no brakes. I won’t color your feedback too much, but we’ve already made some pacing changes based on our veteran group playtest to ensure combat clarity stays clean in the mid to late game, and are excited to see how this pans out.
These new revival rules will run as an experiment from December 18th to the 20th - we will communicate via our official Discord and update this patch note page to let you know if the rules are turned off, partially turned off, or kept on due to overwhelmingly positive feedback :)
For the first Day and Night, you will respawn in the air above a living ally after a delay
You will respawn over the ally you’re currently spectating
Respawn timer increases per respawn (increases individually)
At the end of the first night, any player waiting to respawn will automatically respawn
Regular respawn beacons begin ruined when these rules are active, and become regular beacons again when respawns end
There’s a timer next to the minimap that indicates automatic respawn time remaining
Ascending Armor
When you introduce early game brawling, you’d better include some incentives!!! While the intrinsic reward of stomping your enemies is good enough for some, we felt we could pair the above change with more chase, so: introducing Ascending armor. This is an explicit, always-on reward for those who choose violence.
Dealing damage to enemy hunters will always progress your current armor towards upgrading to the next tier. Actions that improve your armor include:
Dealing damage to enemy hunters
Knocking enemy hunters
Assisting knocks on enemy hunters
Damage thresholds ramp heavily the higher tier the armor becomes:
2000 points to hit Green
5000 points to hit Blue
15000 points to hit Gold
20000 points to hit Red
You do not gain any durability when you level armor up
Ranked Performance Score
We’re pulling up a change we were originally planning for our ranked update in January—both in anticipation of the new revival rules, but also because we want to reduce the ranked inflation that comes from especially bloody games.
Previously: in addition to earning ranked points (RP) for placement, you also earn ranked points for all kills scored during the game
Now: in addition to gaining points for placement, you will earn ranked points for “final kills” or “team eliminations”
Final Kills: If you were the last team to kill a player before their team was eliminated, you will gain +3 RP (squads) or +4 RP (duos)
Team Elimination: If you kill the last player on a team and knock that team out of the game permanently (thereby eliminating them), you will gain a bonus +2 RP on top of the final kill score
To earn final kill points, your team has to outlast the other (ie. if your team kills 3 enemies on a team, your team gets eliminated, and then the enemy team is eliminated, you will not get final kill points)
Holiday Progression & Cosmetics
Hunter Mastery Pass
Running until January 8, 2025, every level of Hunter Mastery you have or earn over this time will contribute that amount of points toward the Hunter Mastery Pass (so if you have Hunter Mastery 1 for Celeste, you’ll have 1 point—if you progress to Hunter Mastery 2 for Celeste, you’ll gain 2 points, totalling 3 points)
Get enough Hunter Mastery levels spread across any number of hunters, and you’ll unlock enough VIVE Points to unlock any legendary variant (or a bunch of goodies in the shop), as well as an exclusive Santa (?) wisp and titles!
Mastery Level 6
We’ve added another reward to Hunter Mastery level 6, which grants 150 VP - enough to buy a rare skin! This change is permanent so don’t feel like you gotta hit 6 right now - we’re just letting you know.
Expanded Holiday Store and VIVE Points for Cosmetics
In case you were wondering what to do with those points, we’re expanding the shop to include rare skins, gliders, wisps, and emotes that can all be purchased with your earnable VIVE Points
Hunters
The goal here is to bring a few Hunters who were a bit out of the meta, back in. Welcome back, friends.
Void
Gravity Orb (LMB)
Bloom resets faster
Unempowered shots no longer pierce terrain but now go 35% further (700 ➜ 950)
Swap (SHIFT)
Cooldown has been reduced from 12/9/9 ➜ 10/7/7 seconds
Unstable Anomaly (Q)
Bomb initial damage increased 10%
Ghost
MK7 Glyph Rifle (LMB)
Unempowered damage increased 20%
Spike Grenade (RMB)
Damage increased 20%
Arcane Railgun (Q)
Beam now deals explosive damage (blast Oath shields with it!)
Myth
Greenwood Bow (LMB)
Green LMB perfect shot damage increased 5%
All Blue LMB damage reduced 10%
Shiv
Continuing our work to add more exciting level 3 options.
Chain Bolas (RMB)
Level 3 now combines Malice stacks on all targets hit
Farstep Dagger (Q)
Level 3 now refreshes Quickflip’scooldown on enemy impact
Felix & Brall
We’re removing some ‘boops’ on abilities that add a lot of ‘movement corrections’ where - if you have a mid-to-high ping - you’d get hit by the ability and then micro-teleported because your client predicted you’d be in one place while the server knows you’re about 2cm off the mark (and then forcibly ‘corrects’ you to that spot). I won’t go further except to say: the magical spirit of online netcode dislikes fast, tiny movement disagreements between two clients and a server, so we are remediating.
Felix - Embry Bolt (RMB) no longer knocks back targets on hit
Brall - Caldera, Molten Greatsword (LMB) no longers knocks back targets on hit
Game Systems
It’s time to start improving the playing-against side of Stealth. While using Stealth can feel deceptive and fun, we’re seeing (and hearing) that Stealth warnings are too subtle. By the time you realize someone’s un-stealthed, it can feel within the range of - “you’re already dead!”
Stealth Nerfs (nerfs to Stealth, not secret nerfs)
Increased inner and outer ring detection ranges for Stealth
Volume brought up for Enemy Stealth SFX
More changes coming in a future patch—this is just the first step
Map Pulses for Audio
Audio scouting is obviously much harder in a top-down game than a full 3D shooter, so we’re trying to make that skill a little more accessible and equitable for all.
Enemy combat actions and loud sounds now show up as pulses on your minimap and megamap. Footsteps do not
These pulses get less accurate the further they are from your location
Evil Keys
These have already felt too plentiful, and more PVP will likely drive the count higher. We’re nerfing the drop rate of Evil Keys so these feel more appropriately special and rare
Reduced the spawn rate and maximum number of chests that can spawn each match
Wisps
We like that there's some conversational play when someone is down as a Wisp (I like to whisper to my teammates as I wiggle toward them), but we also want to increase urgency and tension for teammates who are considering rescuing you.
Resurrection beacon is?”) while ensuring everyone gets more combat reps (a proven delighted).
armor. This is an explicit, always-on reward for those who choose violence.
armor towards upgrading to the next tier. Actions that improve your 
Celeste, you’ll have 1 point—if you progress to Hunter Mastery 2 for 
VIVE Points to unlock any legendary variant (or a bunch of goodies in the shop), as well as an exclusive Santa (?) 
wisp and 
titles!
skin! This change is permanent so don’t feel like you gotta hit 6 right now - we’re just letting you know.
Gravity Orb (LMB)
Swap (SHIFT)
Cooldown has been reduced from 12/9/9 ➜ 10/7/7 seconds
Unstable Anomaly (Q)
MK7 Glyph Rifle (LMB)
Spike Grenade (RMB)
Arcane Railgun (Q)
Oath shields with it!)
Greenwood Bow (LMB)
level 3 options.
Chain Bolas (RMB)
Farstep Dagger (Q)
Quickflip’s 
cooldown on enemy impact
Evil Keys so these feel more appropriately special and rare
chests that can spawn each match
Beebo’s Boombox
Jelly Cube
Twister Blast
Pocket Geyser
