Patch notes · Brimstone

• 2.02

  Abilities inside smoke

  Fixed issue where various abilities did not work inside Brimstone's smoke, even when they were visible to their target.

• 2.01

  Two Stim Packs

  Fixed fire rate stacking issue when a player is in one Brimstone Stim Pack while another ends.

• 2.00

  Sky Smoke sound

  Brimstone no longer makes a sound that enemies can hear when confirming the location of his smokes.

• 2.00

  Sky Smoke duration

  Sky Smoke duration increased from 14.25 to 19.25 seconds.

• 2.00

  Sky Smoke range

  Sky Smoke cast range increased from 4200 to 5000.

• 2.00

  Molotov cost reduced

  Incendiary Cost reduced from 300 to 200 credits.

• 2.00

  Stim Beacon quick cast

  Stim Beacon will now quick cast (no equip time). Too often Brimstone would pull out Stim Beacon only to see his allies disappearing around a corner, or correctly recognize a fight was coming, pull out stim to get buffed up for it, and get blown up before he could get his gun back up.

• 1.09

  Stim Beacon bonus

  Fire rate bonus increased from 10% to 15%. Paired with Reyna's change, we felt Brimstone's stim could use a little more punch. This also unifies our two fire rate increase buffs, making them easier to learn.

• 1.07

  Viper's smoke abilities decay on allies

  Decay on all Viper's smoke abilities no longer affects allies. This is mainly targeted towards Viper's Pit, and should help reduce some of the unintentional collateral damage she can cause to her team, while also opening new strategies for playing around her ult as a team.

• 1.07

  VFX to be multi-threaded

  Improved framerate by allowing a wider variety of VFX to be multi-threaded, examples include Brimstone' Sky Smokes.

• 1.04

  Orbital Strike cost

  Orbital Strike ultimate cost changed from 6 to 7 Ult points. Much like Raze's Ultimate, Brimstone's Ult is very impactful and useful in a wide variety of situations. We feel like it was impacting rounds a little too frequently, so decided to up the cost slightly.

• 1.04

  Stim Beacon no longer buffs enemies

  Stim Beacon no longer Buffs enemies and no longer shows its effect radius to enemies. The Stim beacon is meant to be a pretty situational ability but we felt that revealing Brimstone's location and having the potential to accidentally buff enemies was making this ability significantly weaker than we'd like.

• 1.04

  Brimstone's Arms Fidelity

  When you really think about an FPS, you'll notice you spend an awful amount of time looking at your arms… like all the time. Before launch, we intended to increase the fidelity of Brimstone's arms to match the overall quality of the game. We did it—now look at those guns!

• 1.04

  Smokes spawning offset

  Fixed Brimstone smokes on Haven spawning offset of where intended.

• 1.04

  One-way Brimstone smokes

  Fixed one-way Brimstone smokes when the player's camera was around the top of the smoke.

• 1.04

  Typo in biography

  Fixed a typo in Brimstone's biography (thanks mooonlimes for the report).

• 1.0

  Sound visualization

  We've brought in more sounds made by Agents under the category of sounds that display their audio distance on the mini-map via the white circle. This includes ability sounds, reloads, spike interactions and more. Why? We wanted to provide players with the ability to understand when their noise can be heard by enemies and give them an idea of how far the sounds can be heard.

• 0.50

  Jump out of Incendiary

  Height required to jump out of all damaging area denial abilities increased from 80 to 120. We see you b-hoppers out there, jumping through Incendiary while taking no damage. We don't want to completely negate this skill but we also don't want it to trivialize a whole set of character abilities.

• 0.50

  Incendiary tick speed

  Incendiary damage tick speed increased (total damage per second unchanged).

• 0.50

  Incendiary cost

  Brimstone's Incendiary increased from 200 to 300 credits.

• 0.50

  Ability details in the combat report

  Ability details in the combat report will now correctly appear in the buy phase of the round when teams switch sides.

• 0.50

  Players appeared to be standing

  Fixed a rare bug where players appeared to be standing, when they were actually crouching.

• 0.49

  Smoothed out movement

  Smoothed out movement during player-to-player collisions.

• 0.49

  Ultimate icon

  Fixed the ultimate ability icon above teammates' heads showing as charged after gaining 1 ult point instead of when actually charged.

• Beta

  Availability of Brimstone

  Brimstone is in the active duty since the very beginning of the Beta.