12/17/2024
Peacekeeper
- Fan the hammer secondary fire damage increased from 45 to 50.
9/17/2024
Developer Comment: We're reducing how impactful the hinder effect is by lowering its duration, as this crowd control can be a significant source of frustration for players. Since now there is less time to follow up with shots from the weapon while the opponent is hindered, we're increasing the explosion damage of Flashbang.
Flashbang
- Hinder duration reduced from 1.2 to 0.9 seconds.
- Explosion damage increased from 45 to 75.
Deadeye
- Ultimate cost reduced 10%.
7/5/2024
Developer Comments: With his current tuning Cassidy is performing well in too many aspects between his range, burst damage, and survivability, leading to him being a dominant choice among the Damage heroes by an overwhelming amount. The gameplay goal for Cassidy is to be the sturdier, close-range hitscan who is more proficient at dealing with high mobility flankers. With this in mind, we're pulling back the effective falloff range of his weapon to help align him with those gameplay goals and to open up more hero variety from the Damage role.
Peacekeeper
- Primary fire falloff range rescaled from 25-35 meters to 20-30 meters.
6/20/2024
Developer Comments: We’re reverting the Magnetic Grenade ability to be deployed like Cassidy's previous Flashbang ability, but it will keep the Hinder effect instead of a full stun. We've heard feedback surrounding the Magnetic Grenade ability and agree that while the fantasy of a homing grenade was fun, the moment-to-moment gameplay of it often felt too unpredictable as to whether it would land or not. The Hinder effect has been a useful tool to act as a counter to highly mobile heroes without going back to a full stun and the enemy player losing the ability to fight back.
The Deadeye ultimate is getting an adjustment to increase its flexibility toward the end of its duration, enabling it to get value outside of buying time for Cassidy or his allies, though it may be riskier to hold it for a long time as the damage reduction will fade away along with the movement speed penalty.
Peacekeeper
- Secondary fire "Fan the Hammer" damage reduced from 50 to 45.
Combat Roll
- Damage reduction reduced from 75 to 50%.
Flashbang
- Magnetic Grenade ability is now Flashbang.
- Hinders enemies instead of Stunning them for 1.2 seconds.
- Movement speed reduction increased from 30% to 50%.
- Hinder now prevents crouching movement.
- 45 explosive damage.
- 12 second cooldown.
Deadeye
- Movement speed penalty now scales down over time, from 70% to 35%.
- Damage reduction now scales down over time, from 40% to 0%.
4/1/2024
Developer Comments: Extra survivability is every cowboy’s dream – just don’t die.
Wanted!
- New Passive
- One enemy is marked. Kill them to gain 50 health until the next time you die. After 5 kills, you gain 1 health each time.
2/13/2024
- Health increased from 225 to 275.
Deadeye
- Initial damage rate increased from 130 to 150.
- Damage rate increased from 260 to 300.
10/31/2023
Magnetic Grenade
- Cooldown increased from 10 to 12 seconds.
10/10/2023
Combat Roll
- Damage reduction increased from 50% to 75%.
8/10/2023
Deadeye
- Initial charge rate increased from 130 to 325 damage per second.
- Ramped charge rate increased from 260 to 650 damager per second.
- Now has a maximum damage cap of 1560 per target.
6/28/2023
Magnetic Grenade
We'd like for Magnetic Grenade to require slightly more demanding aim and intention in its use, especially at the longer ranges. The following adjustments will enable more counterplay for some heroes with quick reactions to be able to escape before the grenade sticks to them as well.
- Seeking radius lowered from 1.5 to 1.3 meters.
- Homing duration lowered from 1 to 0.75 seconds.
6/13/2023
Developer Comment: The overall goals for Magnetic Grenade are to shift its use from purely damage into more of a utility, and change its deployment behavior from a close-range lock-on to more of an aimed projectile that magnetizes if it gets close to an enemy target. The previous "Stuck" banner text alert confused Tracer's Pulse Bomb message, so this mobility-locking status effect is being referred to as "Hindered.”
Magnetic Grenade
- No longer has a maximum projectile travel range of 10 meters.
- The projectile now magnetizes toward an enemy target from 1.5 meters away and chases them for up to 1 second.
- Impact damage increased from 0 to 10.
- Explosion damage reduced from 120 to 70.
- Stuck targets now have their movement slowed by 30%.
- Stuck targets are now affected by a "Hindered" status effect, interrupting and preventing movement abilities from being activated.
5/9/2023
Added the Hero-Specific Options:
- Hide Deadeye Timer - Off by default
- Hide Deadeye Cancel Text - Off by default
4/11/2023
Developer Comments: Magnetic Grenade only requiring one additional primary fire shot after sticking to a target was too reliable to execute on, even though it only works at close range. We're reducing the total damage on Magnetic Grenade, evenly split between the direct target damage and explosion. The reduced falloff-damage buff his primary fire received recently enables Cassidy to play from safer engagement ranges now, so we're reducing his health back to 200.
- Base health reduced from 225 to 200
Magnetic Grenade
- Damage reduced from 131 to 120
2/7/2023
Developer Comment: Combat Roll not being blocked by players is mostly a small quality-of-life change to make the ability feel smoother, particularly when rolling in a direction that you're not facing.
Peacekeeper
- Primary fire falloff range increased from 20 to 25 meters
Combat Roll
- Movement is no longer blocked by enemy player collision