Patch notes · Sova

• 2.02

  Walk animation

  Fixed Sova not playing a proper walk animation right after his Owl Drone ends.

• 1.09

  Sova's hitbox

  Fixed issue where Sova's hitbox was incorrect while using his Owl Drone.

• 1.07

  Sova's cape

  Updated the physics on Sova's cape so that it should wiggle outside his hitbox less frequently.

• 1.07

  First-person hands

  Polish work on Sova's 1P hands to bring them up to the fidelity bar of the rest of our agents.

• 1.07

  Killjoy turret reveal

  Killjoy's turret no longer revealed by Sova's Recon Bolt.

• 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.

• 1.05

  Fixed Owl Drone rotate

  Fixed issue causing Sova's Owl Drone to rotate slower.

• 1.04

  Fixed jittering

  Fixed jittering when reaching the max flight height of Sova's drone.

• 1.03

  Sova's sensor arrow

  Removed more map locations where Sova's sensor arrow was able to go through walls.

• 1.01

  AoE indicator on minimap

  The Area-of-Effect indicators for Sova's Recon Bolt now only show up on the enemy's minimap if the player or their allies are close to the affected area.

• 1.01

  Recon Dart behave more consistently

  Sova's Recon Dart will behave more consistently and only reveal the portion of enemies behind a wall.

• 1.0

  Arrows unpredictable bouncing

  Fixed Sova's arrows sometimes unpredictable bouncing.

• 1.0

  Arrows revealing

  Fixed Sova arrows from revealing through some walls.

• 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

  Hunter's Fury foe coloring

  Added foe coloring for Sova's Hunter's Fury.

• 0.50

  Owl Drone rapid-fire

  Sova's Owl Drone can no longer rapid-fire darts if the prior one hits an enemy.

• 0.50

  Owl Drone rotor sounds

  Sova's Owl Drone now includes a layer of sound for engine rotors. Audio should better reflect thematics, while maintaining how noticeable the previous version of Owl Drone audio was for allies and enemies, as heard in 3rd-person.

• 0.50

  Arrows don't get stuck

  Reduced collision size on Sova's arrows so they don't get stuck on corners when fired near them.

• 0.50

  Recon Bolt over-penetration

  Fixed multiple spots where Sova's Recon Dart could over-penetrate map geometry—another shout out to everyone that helped with these as well!

• 0.50

  Sova no longer float

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

• 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 Sova

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