Patch notes · Cypher

• 1.11

  Temporary charges

  Temporary charges will be applied for any abilities that are re-usable within the round whether it's to be recast or be repositioned. These charges aren't carried over into the next round. Camera is still able to be repositioned and recalled but the charges come for free anyways as part of the signature system.

• 1.11

  Trapwire upon death

  Trapwire is now disabled and revealed upon death. To reduce the total potential impact of these abilities, autonomous traps are now disabled when the deployer dies.

• 1.11

  Spy Camera upon death

  Spy Camera is now disabled and revealed upon death. We want to encourage Sentinel players to play more thoughtfully and carefully around their traps while increasing the reward for taking out the Sentinel player.

• 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.

• 1.04

  Cyber Cage pick-up

  Cyber Cage can now be picked up during the buy phase.

• 1.03

  Traps would not trigger

  Fixed a Cypher bug where traps that were placed such that they were on the inside of a doorway, would not trigger when someone walked through them.

• 1.02

  Tuning around screen effects

  Adjusted tuning around screen effects when exiting and entering smokes. Decreased blind "falloff" value. Decreased nearsighted intensity. The previous tuning for smokes made it far too punishing for players to push through and take a calculated risk—really encouraging them to be used as a powerful defensive stall tool. Pushing through a smoke will still be risky, just more reasonable.

• 1.02

  Spycam through teleporter doors

  Added prevention for Spycam going through teleporter doors on Bind when placed on the frame from the outside.

• 1.02

  Cyber Cage on a Trapwire

  Fixed an issue where players could place a Cyber Cage on a Trapwire.

• 1.02

  Spycam blocked defusal

  Fixed an issue where Spycam blocked Spike defusal.

• 1.01

  Spycam on teleporter doors

  Cypher Spycameras placed on the teleporter door frames on Bind no longer teleport it's view location underground.

• 1.01

  Cyber Cage holds the teleporter doors

  Cypher's Cyber Cage no longer holds the teleporter doors on Bind open.

• 1.0

  Tailwind breaks Trapwires

  Tailwind automatically breaks Cypher's Trapwires after being briefly revealed. Tailwind force is powerful enough that Jett should easily be able to break free of any leash. This should allow her a little more freedom to make that aggressive, but risky play that creates space for her team.

• 1.0

  Spycam direction

  Cypher's Spycam now shows the direction it is looking right when it is possessed.

• 1.0

  Spycam locations

  Fixed more unintended Cypher Spycam locations.

• 1.0

  Block Cypher's Spycam

  Continued to block spots on all maps for Cypher's Spycam that prevented counter-play; as always, huge thanks to everyone who helps us find these!

• 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

  Cypher no longer float

  Cypher will no longer float in the air if the Sage Barrier Orb wall they are standing on is destroyed while when using the Spycam.

• 0.50

  Cyber Cage no longer slows

  Cyber Cage no longer slows enemies that move through it. We've always envisioned Cypher as a premier sentinel gathering info on his enemies and picking them off, but the slow on the cage was allowing him to move into Sage's territory by stalling an entire enemy team. We still think this will be a tool he uses to buy some time, but enemies will now have more options when pushing his defenses, especially when coordinated.

• 0.50

  Trapwire no pickup

  Cypher can no longer pick up his trap after an enemy has triggered it.

• 0.50

  Spycam cooldown

  Spycam cooldown when destroyed increased from 30 to 45 seconds. Spycams have been flying into enemy territory like Sova darts at the start of rounds because the punishment for losing one to an enemy is so low. Hopefully this change pushes you to find a safe hiding place for your initial camera (please not inside a box).

• 0.50

  Spycam exploits

  Added fixes for Cypher Spy Camera exploits to all three maps—a huge thanks to everyone who has helped us track these down, including clutch stream's we lurked in for two days, writing down every camera placement and fixing them in real time.

• 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

  Spycam placement

  Fixed issue with Cypher camera being placed on the Haven A Main boxes.

• 0.49

  Cyber Cage range

  Fixed a bug where Cypher's Cyber Cage would be selected at a larger range than intended causing overlapping interaction issues.

• 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.

• 0.47+

  Spycam weapons

  Cypher's Spycam can no longer use weapons.

• Beta

  Availability of Cypher

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