Patch notes · Viper

• 2.00

  Viper updates

  No updates just yet, but we're taking this opportunity to say we've got our eye on her. We still believe she is underperforming as a whole and we're looking at changes for her in the new year.

• 1.09

  Fuel

  Viper now starts the round at 100 fuel (previously 50). Now that Viper can place her wall pre-round, we want her to be able to act with her team right at barrier drop without the tension of also trying to maximize her fuel for an initial move.

• 1.09

  Snake Bite debuf

  Vulnerable debuff applied from Snake Bite now lingers for 2 seconds after leaving Viper's acid. mmediately dropping the vulnerable debuff upon exit wasn't creating the threat we've hoped for when we added it. This change should make the Viper (and team) advantage window more realistic, as well as project a unique threat on opponents playing around it.

• 1.09

  Viper's Pit and move speed

  Move speed doubled while casting Viper's Pit.

• 1.09

  Viper's Pit and fast equips

  Viper now fast equips her weapon after casting, re-equip times vary per gun—but on average will reduce her weapon down time by 0.4 seconds. The combination of a slow placement and re-equip time was resulting in Viper players getting too hurt or killed while casting ults in a situation we felt should be pretty safe. This change should increase the positional options available while casting, and get your weapon up sooner.

• 1.07

  Toxic Screen placing

  Toxic Screen can now be placed during the buy phase of rounds, through spawn barriers. This change should allow Viper, in many situations, to get her wall placed pre-round and then join her team before the barrier drops—or create uncertainty about her location when the round begins.

• 1.07

  Toxic Screen faster

  Toxic Screen now goes up faster along it's full length, once it starts to form. Increasing the speed of the wall rising should reduce the awkward period that occurs after it starts to rise but isn't covering all the angles Viper and her allies would expect.

• 1.07

  Decay on allies

  Decay on all 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

  Viper's Pit on minimap

  The area of Viper's Pit is now shown on her team's minimap when deployed.

• 1.05

  Nearsight not apply properly

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

• 1.04

  Viper's Pit collapse

  Max time outside of Viper's Pit ult before it collapses increased from 5 to 12 seconds. With Viper being allowed out of her ult for such a short period of time, we felt that she was not only limited in the plays she could make, but also gave too much continuous information to her enemies. The ability to move outside the ult smoke more freely should provide some new and interesting mind games for Viper to play—and hopefully puts the strategic pressure back on the enemy.

• 1.04

  Ult drop early

  Viper can hold the ability key to drop her ult early.

• 1.04

  Viper's Pit minimap

  Enemies in Viper's Pit have their minimap obscured and do not provide minimap detection to their allies. The other improvements should push Viper's advantage in her own smoke and help her avoid getting traded by enemies using minimap vision to target her.

• 1.04

  Red enemy glow

  Increased the brightness of the red enemy glow at the edge of Viper's near-sight.

• 1.04

  Enemy decay

  Enemy decay per second increased from 10 to 15 from all sources. Viper's decay depleting so quickly from enemies was limiting the advantage it provided and wasn't creating the threat we had hoped for as a result. Adding a delay before it fades will hopefully widen the window where Viper and her team can capitalize and pair with the Viper's Pit updates to provide fresh ways to play around her ult.

• 1.04

  Viper's smoke decay

  After exiting Viper's smoke, enemy decay sustains for 2.5 seconds before starting to fade.

• 1.04

  Poison Cloud and Toxic Screen not consume additional fuel

  Having both Poison Cloud and Toxic Screen active does not consume additional fuel beyond the cost of having one active. The reduction in total uptime when both her vision blockers were active was making it difficult for Viper to use both tools together. Since Viper's smoke has so much commitment and makes up so much of her kit, we want to free her to use them in tandem to create powerful options for her team to take sites.

• 1.02

  Poison Orb activation cooldown

  Poison Orb activation cooldown increased by 0.5 seconds, up to 6 seconds. We like Viper's unique ability to do "one-way" smokes, but some of the locations could create places where it was suicide to push through. An increased window should keep this viable without eliminating the strategy.

• 1.02

  Snake Bite damage make a player fragile

  Snake Bite, taking damage will make a player fragile for a short time. Fragile is a debuff that doubles damage taken. Note: the total damage is unchanged (the damage is lowered, but fragile increases it—it all evens out). With Viper applying decay on her smokes, but only providing moderate chip damage on her area-damage skill, pushing through it was hard to punish. With Fragile, Viper's team should have a big advantage on anyone if they fire on pushing enemies.

• 1.02

  Toxic Screen burns through walls

  Toxic Screen now burns through walls, placing emitters at all valid locations (e.g., the ground) over its length. Viper Toxic screen is a potentially-strong vision slicing tool, but its access was well… terrible, making it only useful in a few spots on most maps. This should allow Viper to cut up sights, maps, and other unique areas to either fake or help take ground.

• 1.01

  Improved performance

  Improved the performance of the Viper specific HUD elements which had some performance issues.

• 1.0

  Toxic Screen as a projectile

  Fixed a bug that let you shred the gnar at supersonic speeds using Viper's Toxic Screen as a projectile boost.

• 1.0

  Poison Cloud mid air

  Fixed the ability to activate Viper's Poison Cloud mid air if it has been picked up.

• 1.0

  Optimized VFX

  Optimized abilities VFX for Viper.

• 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

  Snake Bite radius

  Snake Bite radius increased from 350 to 450. We're increasing Snake Bite's radius to match other area denial abilities.

• 0.50

  Jump out of Snake Bite

  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 Snake Bite 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

  Snake Bite tick scpeed

  Snake Bite damage tick speed increased (total damage per second unchanged).

• 0.50

  Poison Cloud pick-up cooldown

  Viper's Poison Cloud no longer enters cooldown when picked up during the buy phase.

• 0.50

  Toxic Screen placeholder mesh

  Removed placeholder mesh from Viper's Toxic Screen projectile.

• 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

  Toxic Screen on the minimap

  Updated the appearance of Viper's Toxic Screen on the minimap to show gaps in the wall.

• 0.49

  Viper's Pit cancelation

  Fixed Viper being able to animation-cancel Viper's Pit.

• 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 Viper

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