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The Big Explosions Update
January 11, 2021by TheLostWorldJP
GamePatchNote Digest
The Floor Is Still Really Cheap Lava Patch Notes — January 11, 2021
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
General
- New character: Mini Kangaroo
- New character: Johnny "The Brick" SIns
- Unlock this brick by owning the rare brick weapon (available in the weapon shoppe)
- Unlock this brick by owning the rare brick weapon (available in the weapon shoppe)
- New character: Mr. White
- Say his name. Free for people in the Discord server.
- Say his name. Free for people in the Discord server.
- You can unlock King Kangaroo's cutscene crown by placing top 5 for best times on King Kangaroo's Final Showdown. The green wireframe crown for top 3, and the purple wireframe crown for #1.
- New awards for leveling up!
- The level naming system has been redone and goes up to level 300.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue where players would appear invisible in the lobby and in lasertag.
- Fixed issue where players would appear invisible in the lobby and in lasertag.
Storymode
- If you open the map, on the bottom left, you will be able to see your current total meters.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where collecting an item that is supposed to reduce meters would grant the meters instead.
- Fixed cheap juice, snow, and blood tiles from clipping into the side barriers that would cause Z-fighting.
- Fixed an issue where collecting an item that is supposed to reduce meters would grant the meters instead.
Leaderboards
- Timed leaderboards are now formatted correctly.
- Leaderboard entries of friends are now marked correctly as a friend.
- The Most Eggs In a Single Game and Most Eggs Total Leaderboards have been reset due to an error where eggs were being counted in the credits (where there are an abundance of eggs for those unaware).
- Leaderboards are initialized when the game first opens. If you get an error saying there was an error loading the leaderboard, the leaderboard will be reinitialized. Wait a few seconds, and the leaderboard may now show results.
- Timed leaderboards are now formatted correctly.
King Kangaroo's Final Showdown
- New difficulty: Speedrun:
- Same as easy, but distance in between pie spawns is not random.
- Time it takes KIng Kangaroo to come out of the lava is not random.
- Same as easy, but distance in between pie spawns is not random.
- Added a "Restart" button to retry the boss.
- Because the health doesn't reset in Easy mode, the stage will not reset to the first stage per checkpoint anymore. This is to prevent you from completely missing some stages. This change is only in Easy mode, not Speedrun.
- New difficulty: Speedrun:
Lasertag
Stats
- Stats are now kept track of and can be seen in the Lasertag matchmaking UI.
- Stats will only count if you are not the only player in the lobby.
- You will be able to see your current world ranking on K/D and win%.
Awards
- Top 3 placement for best K/D is awarded the Purple Wireframe Crown.
- Top 3 placement for best win% is awarded the Green Wireframe Crown.
- Top 3 placement for best K/D is awarded the Purple Wireframe Crown.
- Stats are now kept track of and can be seen in the Lasertag matchmaking UI.
New Weapons and Gadgets
Air Bombardment Flare
- A flare that attracts 30 sky missiles that have a larger hit radius than airstrike missiles, have a larger explosion radius than airstrike missiles, and are faster at hitting the ground than airstrike missiles. Overpowered and unfair to say the least.
- A flare that attracts 30 sky missiles that have a larger hit radius than airstrike missiles, have a larger explosion radius than airstrike missiles, and are faster at hitting the ground than airstrike missiles. Overpowered and unfair to say the least.
The Megalodon
- What's better than 2 rotors and 12 barrels? 3 rotors and 18 barrels. Fire rate of 75 bullets per second.
- Unlock this item by reaching level 100.
- What's better than 2 rotors and 12 barrels? 3 rotors and 18 barrels. Fire rate of 75 bullets per second.
Homing Missile
- Lock onto enemies and send a heat seeking missile towards them!
- Unlock this item by completing the Hard... Wicked Hahd storymode challenge.
- Lock onto enemies and send a heat seeking missile towards them!
Barrage Missile
- Launch a missile that splits into more missiles that spits into even more missiles!
- Launch a missile that splits into more missiles that spits into even more missiles!
Rapid Fire Rocket Launcher
- A rocket launcher that can hold 4, 8, or 12 rockets at once. Nice.
- A rocket launcher that can hold 4, 8, or 12 rockets at once. Nice.
Scatter Grenade Launcher
- Shoot a cluster of bouncy grenades.
- Shoot a cluster of bouncy grenades.
Dynamite Cannon
- Shoot sticks of dynamite at friends. Enough said.
- Shoot sticks of dynamite at friends. Enough said.
Explosive Rifle
- A rifle that has explosive bullets.
- A rifle that has explosive bullets.
Explosive Shotgun
- A shotgun with a pelleted explosive nature.
- A shotgun with a pelleted explosive nature.
Propane Tank
- Highly flammable tank that explodes when shot or when other explosions hit it. If you throw it directly at the ground or up in the air, it might explode on impact... it's a propane tank.
- Highly flammable tank that explodes when shot or when other explosions hit it. If you throw it directly at the ground or up in the air, it might explode on impact... it's a propane tank.
Explosive Minigun
- A minigun that shoots explosive rounds... Stupid, but cool.
- A minigun that shoots explosive rounds... Stupid, but cool.
Flutter Grenades
- Spinning floating grenades that travel far and take a while to land. Explode on impact or in proximity to another player.
- Spinning floating grenades that travel far and take a while to land. Explode on impact or in proximity to another player.
Bowling Ball of Boom
- The bowling ball that doesn't stop giving. *Stand back when in use.
- The bowling ball that doesn't stop giving. *Stand back when in use.
Special Forces LMG
- An old time-y light machine gun with better accuracy, but worse recoil.
- Unlock this item by reaching level 70.
- An old time-y light machine gun with better accuracy, but worse recoil.
Trigger Drone
- Meet Trigger! He would love to make your acquaintance.
- Meet Trigger! He would love to make your acquaintance.
Box O' Tornado
- It's a tornado in a box. What more is there to life?
- It's a tornado in a box. What more is there to life?
Meteor Magnatron
- A laser rifle that shoots electromagnetic signals at the ground, sending coordinates to orbiting meteorites.
- A laser rifle that shoots electromagnetic signals at the ground, sending coordinates to orbiting meteorites.
Vehicles
- Where we're going... we don't need roads. New Hoverboard.
- Where we're going... we don't need roads. New Hoverboard.
Weapon Changes
- All snipers, arrowed weapons, explosive launchers, and the airstrike flare now have increased damage.
- Adjusted some explosion radii, reload times, and fire rates of some of the grenade launchers to make them better. The machine grenade launcher also has increased magazine from 10-12 to 12-24.
- Grenades now have a larger explosion radius, faster throw rate, and a much further throw force.
- Increased explosion radius on most explosive throwables.
- All arrowed weapons now have a much faster arrow launch speed.
- The bullet spread has been redone on almost all fast-firing weapons to make them more accurate. Except the Trooper of the Storm rifle, which got even less accurate.
- All LMGs now have a further effective range before damage starts to drop off.
- Sprayer SMG has much faster fire rate and decreased magazine size to make it more unique among the other SMGs.
- Baked potato from Hot Potato gamemode now has a faster launch speed and proximity detection where it will hit a player if it gets within a certain radius of them.
- Ghost eggs (for ghost spectators) now have a much larger lift force and a larger hit radius.
- All shock cannon upgrades now have a better starting blast PSI and increased charge rate.
- The brick is now the fastest projectile in the game, going slightly faster than a sniper round. It also has increased damage, because being hit with a 100mph brick is going to hurt.
- The Arabian Sword has a 66% larger hit radius.
- Box cutter's radius is twice as large and does 10 damage instead of 5.
- All snipers, arrowed weapons, explosive launchers, and the airstrike flare now have increased damage.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue where the Jewel Heist map wouldn't be unloaded when joining a Lasertag match directly from Jewel Heist.
- Fixed issue where wins would only be counted if you were the host.
- Fixed issue where you could collide with and take damage from fast firing projectiles you shot if you outran them.
- You can no longer shoot the C4's proximity collision.
- Fixed issue where TNT and C4's stick collision detection would re-trigger every time a new TNT or C4 was thrown onto it, causing them to make a ball.
- Fixed collision issue with TNT that would cause them to stack into each other.
- Fixed collision issues that prevented players from colliding with projectiles that stayed on the ground.
- Fixed visual glitch that showed weapons being different rarities in the Weapon Backpack if you owned the same weapon that was forced of a different rarity.
- Fixed issue where projectiles would not have the bullet spread that's listed on their stats.
- Fixed the 9 3/4 walls that appeared in Autumn Town, as well as a hole on the edge of the map.
- Fire damage now shows up on the responsible arsonist's screen.
- Fixed an issue where explosions that tick damage continuously could kill you after you died, causing the game to soft lock.
- Fixed a soft lock that occurred when trying to reload a gadget.
- Fixed issue where player's usernames would not remain a constant size when aiming in with a weapon.
- Fixed an issue where the player join audio would play multiple times when entering a match.
- Your weapon will no longer be visible through a scoped weapon when scoping in.
- Fixed issue with The Floor Is Lava gamemode where you could stand on or in the lava and be in godmode.
- Fixed issue where message would not reflect a no-scope kill when dying to a projectile.
- Fixed audio issue where the throwing sound on throwables could be heard from across the map.
- Fixed audio issue where hit sound would play when another client's throwable would hit an object.
- Fixed issue where the ghost egg would only create an impulse if it hit the player directly.
- Fixed issue where Gun Game could not be won.
- Fixed issue where the Jewel Heist map wouldn't be unloaded when joining a Lasertag match directly from Jewel Heist.
Other Changes
- Text chat is now available! Press 'T' and start chatting away!
- There is now an option to select random weapons and gadgets in the weapon selection menu. You can select both everything to be randomized, or a specific type of weapon/gadget.
- When you deal damage to someone, their damage will appear over their head as additive damage. For example, if you hit them for 3 and then again for 2, the damage text over their head will show 5 damage total. The damage will disappear after a few seconds.
- Damage received now shows up on your screen where damage dealt used to be.
- Gun Game now selects 25 random weapons instead of the same set of 25.
- Fire has been updated to look slightly more like fire.
- Bullet holes now have cool spark effect.
- Weapons that fire bullets now dispense shells.
- Projectiles now spawn from the end of the barrel or from your hand instead of behind your head.
- Increased size and detection radius of several projectiles.
- Increased size of muzzle flash.
- Added new death messages for when a player is poisoned.
- You can now wish everyone in the match a GG by pressing 'G'.
- The weapon shoppe now has an option to refresh it with more luck. This will have a greater chance of showing up with items that you don't already own.
- In the bottom right of the weapon shoppe, you can now see how many owned weapons you have and how many are left. These stats are for shoppe weapons only, not weapons awarded through storymode.
- The hella cool song just got even cooler.
- XP will no longer be given after winning if you are the only person in the lobby.
- Text chat is now available! Press 'T' and start chatting away!
