Patch notes · Phoenix

• 2.02

  Reduced flash brightness

  Reduced brightness on initial visuals when blinded from flashes.

• 2.01

  Run it Back minimap

  Fixed a bug where Phoenix's starting location would briefly be displayed on the minimap after being killed in Run it Back.

• 1.09

  Operator instant equip time

  Instant equip time adjusted from 0.3 to 0.5 seconds (instant equip plays after tapping orb, bomb defuse/plant tap, Jett Cloud Burst, and Phoenix Curveball).

• 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.

• 1.06

  Curveball audio and visuals

  The audio and visuals for Phoenix Curveball blinding effect should better indicate when to turn away, and when it's safe to look again.

• 1.05

  Nearsight not apply properly

  Fixed nearsight not apply properly when going through smoke parts of Phoenix's walls.

• 1.05

  Plant outside bomb site

  Fixed a bug where Phoenix could plant the Spike off the bomb site if he finished planting after Run it Back ended.

• 1.05

  Auto-defuse the Spike

  Fixed a bug where Phoenix could in rare cases begin to auto-defuse the Spike if he was defusing the Spike when Run it Back ended.

• 1.02

  Soul Orbs are now spawned

  Soul Orbs are now spawned when Reyna kills Phoenix during Run It Back.

• 1.02

  Blade Storm now refreshes

  Blade Storm now refreshes when Jett kills Phoenix during Run It Back.

• 1.0

  Inaccurate movement

  Fixed a bug where players were fully movement inaccurate after being resurrected or respawning.

• 1.0

  Blaze duration

  Blaze duration increased from 6 to 8 seconds. We felt like the short wall duration, combined with the long cast time and short range, was forcing Phoenix to play a little too predictably around his wall. We're bumping this up slightly to give him some more time to work with.

• 1.0

  Blaze damage

  Blaze damage changed from 15 every 0.25s, to 1 every 0.033 seconds.

• 1.0

  Blaze healing

  Blaze healing changed from 3 every 0.25s, to 1 every 0.16 seconds. These Damage over Time/Healing over Time models are updated to match the recent changes to our other DoT abilities. Additionally, we've matched the damage/healing values to be half as effective as Hot Hands, primarily so that the total healing output of these two abilities is at parity (50 health each). We're also doing this so that Blaze doesn't become the de-facto "healing" ability compared to Hot Hands.

• 1.0

  Hot Hands healing

  Hot Hands healing changed from 3 every 0.25s, to 1 every 0.08s. Updated the HoT model to match recent changes to the DoT abilities.

• 1.0

  Curveball duration

  Curveball max flash duration increased from 0.8 to 1.1 seconds. The flash duration is short given how quickly he can get his curveball out on an enemy caught out of position. Even still, it was a hair too short, especially to justify the new 200 credit price point.

• 1.0

  Run it Back reloads weapons

  Run it Back automatically reloads all weapons on respawn. This is closer to a quality of life improvement. Phoenix's ult often puts him in a position to empty his clips right before getting sent back. It was very jarring for a Phoenix player to wait several seconds to respawn, only to then have to spend another second reloading—potentially under pressure. We think the several second respawn time is enough time to justify an automatic reload.

• 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 Fireball

  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 Fireball 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

  Fireball tick speed

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

• 0.50

  Curveball cost

  Phoenix Curveball increased from 100 to 200 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

  Run It Back ascender

  Fixed a bug where Phoenix would get teleported back to an ascender (rope ladder) after respawning, in cases where Phoenix died while Run It Back was active and he was attached to an ascender.

• 0.49

  Run It Back could be damaged

  Fixed a bug where, for a brief time after Run It Back ended, Phoenix could be damaged in the place where he fizzled.

• 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 Phoenix

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