Hello, Ballistic veteran, It's been three years since we suspended support for Ballistic Overkill, shutting down the official servers and suspending any official operation for the game, only keeping the game on Steam for a token fee and giving players the opportunity to host their own servers. Today, as we enter 2023 looking to the future, we've decided to delist Ballistic from the Steam catalog once and for all on February 13th, 2023. We're very proud of what we've achieved in the past, but it's time to move on. With that, we'd like to thank our fan base and players who have stayed true to the game throughout this time. We invite you to keep an eye on Aquiris next steps, which has other games in its portfolio. Thank you very much! We hope to see you later! Aquiris Game Studio

Hi Soldiers, As announced on December 4, today the Official Servers were shut down. While you can still keep playing in private servers, this means all the Leaderboards, Missions and all achievements related to those features do not exist anymore. This also means that the badges are now related to the player level, as follows: Level 700, //LEGEND Level 500, //OVERLORD Level 300, //REAPER Level 200, //DESTROYER Level 100, //PUNISHER Level 90, //DEMON Level 80, //GHOST Level 70, //ASSASSIN Level 60, //HUNTER Level 50, //MERCENARY Level 40, //VETERAN Level 30, //SURVIVOR Level 20, //NOTEWORTHY Level 10, //WANDERER Level 5, //FUGITIVE Level 0, //ASPIRANT Thank you for all the support and for all the kind messages weve received in the last few months regarding the end of the game support. Be sure weve read all of them and take great appreciation for everyone who has dedicated their time to playing Ballistic Overkill. Aquiris Team

Ballistic was born around 8 years ago.

Hey guys, as you may know, the game is having issues with the leaderboards, items and other instabilities. We're working on to fix this issue as soon as possible. This happened due to some issues with the communication between the game and the Steam services. All will be back to normal in a couple of days. We deeply sorry for the inconvenience. Ballistic Overkill Dev Team

Hi, soldiers! The Juggernaut update is here and comes with a new game mode weve wanted to put in the game since time immemorial. Plus, it brings awesome new costumes for Shadow and Wraith, and some performance improvements.

Juggernaut Mode

Juggernaut Missions

New Female Skins

DLC: Guerrilla and La Muerte

General changes

• Increased amount of life of Grenadier from 200 to 230.
• Improvements on general performance.
• Cached character voices at start of game. This should reduce the amount of time to load a game map.
• Fixed DirectX 12 graphics API. If you have Windows 10, try the command -force-d3d12 for better performance!

Hi, soldiers! The Halloween update is here and with its arrival, you can expect all new content and a new feature that delivers awesome new and exciting challenges to overcome.

New Pumpkin Skins

Party!

Daily Missions

Increased Cooldown for Crates

New DLC

Improved Infrastructure

Hey Soldiers! Just a quick notice: We're upgrading and testing new server configurations today and you may experience some instability in the next hours. Our intention is to normalize the servers until the end of the day. Please, feel free to report any connection problem you may have in this thread. Thanks for your comprehension and stay safe in the battlefield!

Hey Soldiers! Following community feedback, we are launching a small hotfix for our last update (Bloodlust). This update improves the player in-game experience when playing the Rounds Mode.

Fixes:

• Round stats were not visible - now is visible
• We’ve lowered the requirements for a valid match when playing in Rounds Mode. Due to the nature of this game mode, the playtime is lower than other game modes;
• UI’s footer information in the Leaderboards Tab screen now displays the Rounds matches played correctly;

Known issue:

Hey Soldiers! Back on the 1 August, we released the beta version of the Rounds update. Since then, we have taken onboard the loads of player feedback we received, added in a number of additional improvements of our own and have come up with the all new Bloodlust update. You told us that the Rounds update was too passive. Well no longer - only the brave will succeed and the weak beaten.

The earlier you score a kill, the higher the points awarded will be.

With multi-kills at a premium, they now score double.

The Rounds game mode now features on the Leaderboards.

• Added Rounds to Leaderboards - you must complete 5 ‘Rounds’ matches each month to get ranked into Monthly Leaderboards.
• Added Rounds to Week Leaderboards (Same rules as other modes).
• Rounds warm-up time reduced from 34 to 26 seconds.
• Fixed a bug in Rounds where the enemy becomes visible on the radar when nearby to enemy base.
• Fixed bug on Reinstate map that allowed the Smoke team to access the map early.
• Fixed the 'Killed By' message bug in the Rounds mode.
• Added status of match to KillCam, so you can track your teammates progress while they are playing the current round.
• Added 'Bloodlust' system to the Rounds mode. We want to encourage combat and aggressive playing, so the faster you eliminate an opponent at the start of the game the higher the points you get (aside from 15 points, you get one point for every 2 seconds until the round ends, max 35). For example on the 1min 30 sec round count down, scoring could as follows: kill at 1:00 45 points kill at 0:42 36 points kill at 0:18 24 points and so on…
• Double, Triple and Overkill scores are double in Rounds.
• In rounds mode, players receive the same points for both a 'kill' and a 'kill assist.

Balance Changes

• Berserker weapons: Thumper: Fire rate slightly lowered
• Vanguard weapons: Jackhammer: Reload duration slightly increased and magazine size reduced from 8 to 7 bullets. Widower: Reduced damage slightly
• Tank Weapons: Mongoose: Increased slightly damage and fire rate Rhino: Increased slightly reload duration Rampart: Reduced number of bullets per shot from 17 to 15

Performance

First we told you that a new game mode was coming. Then we told you that the game mode was called Rounds. Today we can tell you that the BETA version of the Rounds game mode is LIVE! For a full break down of what you can expect from this new exciting game mode read on...

• Maximum team sizes are set to 6 a side, if there are fewer players new
• players can join but they will have to wait until the next round begins.
• There are no team shields in this game mode.
• There is a cap of no more than 2 of the same class per team.
• When a player dies, they will enter Spectator Mode (there is no free view camera; players will only able to spectate players from their team).
• Once all players on a team have been eliminated the opposing team will win the round.
• If a round ends without all players dying, the team with the most players alive wins. The first team to (win?) 4 rounds wins.
• Each round has a maximum duration of 90 seconds.
• If the same amount of players are alive on each team when the round ends, the round will result in a draw with neither team secure a round win point.
• Balance changes - The Grenadier's life was dropped from 250 to 200.

Hey Soldiers! Standby for deployment! Your all new Ballistic Overkill game mode is set for imminent launch. Sick and tired of Battle Royale style games? Don’t worry you will not find a “Ballistic Battlegrounds” here! We know that you would much rather run and gun than hide in a corner. We will be launching the Beta version of the 'Rounds' game mode on Thursday evening (EST). This will be a game mode with up to 6 players on each team. Each round will last 90 seconds and if you are eliminated you will only be able to spectate your own team members. The winning team is either the team with the last member alive or the most living players at the end of the round. The overall winner is the first team to win 4 rounds. We will announce further details on this game mode when the Beta version goes live on Thursday 2 August 2018

Hey soldiers! It's time to muster the troops -  Ballistic Overkill is gearing up for a major new update. Are you ready for an all new game mode? That's right soldiers, a totally new gameplay mode. Add in more new skins and a slew of gameplay enhancements and this will become our biggest and most exciting update yet. Stay tuned for further announcements!

Hey soldiers! Update 1.4.6 is now live! With the Steam Summer Sale starting today, it is time to freshen up the game! Not only will you enjoy a great sale discount, but you will also get 2 new character skins. New Characters Skins: Female Grenadier and Female Vanguard More choice always means a different gameplay experience and that's what these two new character skins bring. As with our last update back in April, these two new skins are totally free. Also included in this update are a number of small, but important bug fixes: * Fixed create match and callbacks * Optimized custom maps loading time * Fixed custom maps pink areas (Shader not found) * Upgraded Steam API version (should increase performance at CPU side) * Fixed not being able to vote for Blackfield map appearing on the next match Stay safe on the battlefield!

We are pleased to announce the development team have been working very hard on Ballistic Overkill and the next update will be launching Thursday the 21st of June, stay tuned for further information. we hope to see you then.

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Hey soldiers! Ballistic Overkill is 1 year old! 12 months ago, Ballistic Overkill launched on Steam and to celebrate we are back with a huge Anniversary Update! The Anniversary Update introduces 2 new female characters, Wraith and Tank. Both of these new skins are available for free! Read on for all the information you need on Wraith and Tank, plus all the other goodness included in the Anniversary Update.

New Characters Skins: Female Wraith and Female Tank

Now you can equip multiple accessories at the same time!

New Weapon Skins

Off Season Crates

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Hey everyone! A new patch is available for you to download and its a big one! This patch adds significant improvements to the game, so read on and learn more

Team Deathmatch Rework (BETA)

Workshop Integration (BETA)

Balance Changes

Berserker

• Weapons
  • Anakonda: increased the number of pellets per shot

Vanguard

• Weapons
  • Strife: damage reduced and clip size increased
  • Agent: damage increased

Wraith

• Weapons
  • Demon: clip size increased and now has infinite range (sniper range)
  • Firebrand: damage slightly increased and now has sniper range

Shadow

• Skills
  • Assassin: bonus damage increased to 20% but its now only applied when attacking from the back

Grenadier

• Skills
  • Strategist: damage reduction reduced from 10% to 6%
  • Opportunist: now also applies a +15% explosive radius buff for 8 seconds after a kill

• Weapons
  • Viper: range and headshot damage slightly reduced

Marksman

• Skills
  • Special Supplies: now also applies a +10% mobility buff for 6 seconds after picking a health pack up

Bugfixes & Changes

• On TDM and FFA game modes the deaths stats have been replaced with assists on the scoreboards.
• Fixed Reinstate background image.
• Fixed Gold Hunters icon.
• Inventory search function is now working (and some other UI improvements/fixes for the inventory screen).
• Fixed wrong ranking tier name being displayed in-game.
• Leaderboards median calculation consistency improved. Because of this, the number of matches required for placements have increased.

Hey everyone! A new patch is now live. Read below to learn more about the latest changes!

Team Deathmatch Rework (BETA)

Workshop Integration (BETA)

Balance Changes

Berserker

• Weapons
  • Anakonda: increased the number of pellets per shot

Vanguard

• Weapons
  • Strife: damage reduced and clip size increased
  • Agent: damage increased

Wraith

• Weapons
  • Demon: clip size increased and now has “infinite” range (sniper range)
  • Firebrand: damage slightly increased and now has sniper range

Shadow

• Skills
  • Assassin: bonus damage increased to 20% but it’s now only applied when attacking from the back

Grenadier

• Skills
  • Strategist: damage reduction reduced from 10% to 6%
  • Opportunist: now also applies a +15% explosive radius buff for 8 seconds after a kill

• Weapons
  • Viper: range and headshot damage slightly reduced

Marksman

• Skills
  • Special Supplies: now also applies a +10% mobility buff for 6 seconds after picking a health pack up

Bugfixes & Changes

• On TDM and FFA game modes the “deaths” stats have been replaced with “assists” on the scoreboards.
• Fixed Reinstate background image.
• Fixed Gold Hunter’s icon.
• Inventory search function is now working (and some other UI improvements/fixes for the inventory screen).
• Fixed wrong ranking tier name being displayed in-game.
• Leaderboards median calculation consistency improved. Because of this, the number of matches required for placements have increased.

Hey people! This patch is about some relevant balance changes and bug fixes for recent issues. We’d just like to thank you all for your support during 2017, the year Ballistic Overkill was officially launched on Steam! It was a great year for the game. However a lot still awaits us on 2018! We’re still working on the female variant of all classes, working on the Workshop so you guys can start creating your own maps, on the fourth season and a lot more. Hope you stick with us. We wish you happy holidays!

Balance Changes

Wraith

• Weapons
  • Ironveil, Curator, Magistrate and Deadeye: mobility, draw speed and fire rate increased

Grenadier

• Weapons
  • Destructor: fire rate reduced and time before explosion increased
  • One Shot: explosion radius slightly increased (affects only splash damage)
  • Rhino: range reduced
  • Hammer: adjusted damage and increased the number of pellets per shot for more consistent damage

Tank

• Weapons
  • Chainsaw and Mammoth: range reduced
• Skills
  • Blitzkrieg: ammo recovery after kill reduced to 20%

Berserker

• Weapons
  • Anakonda: damage greatly reduced and reload speed greatly increased

Vanguard

• Weapons
  • Slayer: fire rate increased and headshot damage reduced
  • Executioner: headshot damage increased
  • Stalker: damage slightly increased
  • Blackguard: recoil improved
• Skills
  • Trait change: now recovers 6% of Vanguard’s maximum HP and 10% of maximum ammo on kill
  • Barrage change: killing an enemy now adds a stack that enhances Vanguard's trait. Each stack adds an extra +3% of HP recovery and +20% of ammo recovery after killing an enemy. This skill stacks up to 3 times. After fully stacked and summed up with Vanguard's base trait attributes, killing an enemy will recover +15% of Vanguard's maximum HP and +70% ammo
  • Courage Under Fire: duration increased to 3 seconds

• Wraith and Shadow no longer have thicc legs with the Burning Feet accessory equipped
• Reinstate ambient sounds can now be lowered with in-game sound options
  
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Hey people! This patch is about some relevant balance changes and bug fixes for recent issues. Wed just like to thank you all for your support during 2017, the year Ballistic Overkill was officially launched on Steam! It was a great year for the game. However a lot still awaits us on 2018! Were still working on the female variant of all classes, working on the Workshop so you guys can start creating your own maps, on the fourth season and a lot more. Hope you stick with us. We wish you happy holidays!

Balance Changes

Wraith

• Weapons
  • Ironveil, Curator, Magistrate and Deadeye: mobility, draw speed and fire rate increased

Grenadier

• Weapons
  • Destructor: fire rate reduced and time before explosion increased
  • One Shot: explosion radius slightly increased (affects only splash damage)
  • Rhino: range reduced
  • Hammer: adjusted damage and increased the number of pellets per shot for more consistent damage

Tank

• Weapons
  • Chainsaw and Mammoth: range reduced
• Skills
  • Blitzkrieg: ammo recovery after kill reduced to 20%

Berserker

• Weapons
  • Anakonda: damage greatly reduced and reload speed greatly increased

Vanguard

• Weapons
  • Slayer: fire rate increased and headshot damage reduced
  • Executioner: headshot damage increased
  • Stalker: damage slightly increased
  • Blackguard: recoil improved
• Skills
  • Trait change: now recovers 6% of Vanguards maximum HP and 10% of maximum ammo on kill
  • Barrage change: killing an enemy now adds a stack that enhances Vanguard's trait. Each stack adds an extra +3% of HP recovery and +20% of ammo recovery after killing an enemy. This skill stacks up to 3 times. After fully stacked and summed up with Vanguard's base trait attributes, killing an enemy will recover +15% of Vanguard's maximum HP and +70% ammo
  • Courage Under Fire: duration increased to 3 seconds

• Wraith and Shadow no longer have thicc legs with the Burning Feet accessory equipped
• Reinstate ambient sounds can now be lowered with in-game sound options
  
  [ 2017-12-13 17:12:04 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! Today’s update highlights are the Discord Rich Presence integration, leaderboards, balance changes, netcode improvements and more. Check full details below! Attention: due to Leaderboards changes and other technical problems, Leaderboards were reset. We're really sorry about that. Rewards will be distributed by the end of november regardless.

Discord Rich Presence

Balance Changes

Shadow

• Weapons
  • Constrictor: damage reduced.
• Skills
  • Swiftness: now Shadow gains 3% passive mobility and an extra 3% for every second he’s running (caps at 3 stacks for a total of 12% mobility).

Grenadier

• Weapons
  • One Shot reworked: now has faster fire rate, but smaller explosion radius to compensate it.
  • Destructor reworked: now has faster fire rate, but grenades explode on mid range (before hitting anything). We’ll watch closely how these reworks play and apply further changes to these weapons on the next update, if it’s necessary.
• Skills
  • Trait: grenade recovery cooldown increased to 10 seconds.
  • Restraint reworked: now instantly recovers a grenade after a kill. Name and icons changed.

Berserker

• Weapons
  • Whirlwind and Quickfix: range reduced.

Marksman

• Skills
  • Trait: no longer detects invisible enemies (now only the Awareness ability does).

Tank

• Weapons
  • Chainsaw: headshot multiplier reduced.
• Skills
  • Last Stand: now lasts 4 seconds (instead of 5).

Leaderboards Changes

• Now you get 10 extra skill points per match win and lose no points with a loss (before it was +10 per win and -5 per loss). Caps with 100 wins (1000 points).
• Skill points from wins are no longer applied to classes leaderboards.
• Capture Point game mode weight was increased (now it’s 100% like TDM and FFA).
• Kill streaks, multi kills and long headshots now rewards more skill points.

Fixes and Changes

• Increased player position update rate from 15 to 30 per second.
• New blood particles for the zombie and elite skins.
• Fixed Forge Warden texture missing.
• Fixed Shadow Ninja skin not going invisible on low settings.
• Fixed LMG Master achievement being awarded without actually completing the requirements.

Hello everyone! Update 1.4.1 is now live! A big feature was introduced and now you can compete with other players for the best positions on global leaderboards! Additionally, a new season is here with brand new skins and accessories to collect! Read full details below.

Leaderboards

New Season - Third Strike

Bugfixes and Changes

• Standing on KOTH point now rewards a player with 50% less score points, while defense kill is now awarded when you kill an enemy who’s inside the point or when you kill an enemy from inside it (including on Capture Points).
• Added a new button on home screen that allows you to read the latest patch notes in-game.
• New leaderboards achievements added plus the missing LMG Master.
• Brute (Tank) range increased.
• Slayer (Vanguard) clip size increased.
• Fixed several weapons losing more than intended accuracy when jumping while aiming
• Fixed some collision bugs on Blackfield and Reinstate.
• Fixed admin commands not working. If you’re in a server you own/host, type ./help to see all commands.
• Fixed first match of the day XP bonus.
• Fixed not being kicked for inactivity when on respawn screen.

Hello everyone! Update 1.4.1 is now available on our test branch! A big feature was introduced and now you can compete with other players for the best positions on global leaderboards! Read full details below.

The Public Test Branch

Leaderboards

New Season - Third Strike

Fixes and Changes

• Brute (Tank) range increased.
• Slayer (Vanguard) clip size increased.
• Standing on KOTH point now rewards a player with 50% less score points, however defense kills are now awarded when you kill an enemy who’s inside the point or when you kill an enemy from inside it (including on Capture Points mode).
• New leaderboards achievements added plus the missing LMG Master achievement.
• Added a new button on home screen that allows you to read the latest patch notes in-game.
• Fixed several weapons losing more than intended accuracy when jumping while aiming.
• Fixed some collision bugs on Blackfield and Reinstate.
• Fixed admin commands not working. If you’re in a server you own/host, type ./help to see all commands.
• Fixed first match of the day XP bonus.

Hi everyone! First of all, a warm welcome to all new players! We hope you guys enjoyed the weekend deal on Ballistic Overkill. =) Today we’d like to share more detailed info on the update we’ve been working on (no ETA yet) that will bring a brand new feature: leaderboards! This update will add skill rating to all players. Skill rating is adjusted according to your score and performance within every valid* match. You can already preview your skill rating on Steam’s performance ladder screen, but note that we’re still working on it and we’ll let you know exactly how SR gain and loss works when the feature is release (we’re currently only testing it). There are 16 ranks you can climb through, each requiring a higher amount of skill rating to be reached. At the end of every month players will be rewarded according to their rank! The top 100 players on leaderboards will also receive monthly rewards. And there are also weekly rewards for the top 30 players on each class based leaderboard! Rewards go from regular scraps to golden lockboxes containing golden weapon skins! There is also a new item, the golden scrap, used to craft golden lockboxes. As long as you’re an active player, you will be rewarded! And rewards increase as you climb ranks and stay closer to the top 10 best players. We’re excited to see how this new feature will play and hope you enjoyed this preview! You can check more leaderboard UI preview here. *You will only gain or lose SR on valid matches, which are official dedicated servers matches that you’ve played for more than 4 spawned minutes with more than 8 players in it. Additionally we’re pushing a small hotfix update to improve matchmaking algorithms to better fit the current active player base. Community dedicated servers will now be searched through “play now” button and you can toggle it off on settings menu. On Linux we're experimenting a 64 bits version! You can try it when launching the game and let us know if it works great. There are also some balance changes you can check out below:

Balance Changes

• Weapons
  • All SMGs damage reduced
  • Rhino damage increased + ADS re-enabled

• Abilities
  • New trait: health packs now heal Tank for 1.5x HP (75 from small, 300 from big)
• Weapons
  • Mammoth damage increased + ADS re-enabled

• Fixed Switchblade and Executioner displaying incorrect damage when Firearms Expert is equipped
• Fixed Capture Point score not properly updating on all clients

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Hello everyone! Today we’re releasing a small hotfix patch to fix some reported bugs (specially the error joining match one) and apply a few balance changes. Ninja was a skill that left no room for counterplay so we’ve completely changed it. We’ve also buffed some of Wraith’s unpopular weapons to make them more competitive and increased Tank's and Vanguard's movement speed a little. You can read full patch details below!

Balance Changes

Shadow

• Skills
  • Swiftness movement speed reduced from 15% to 12%.
  • Ninja reworked
    • Shadow loses the ability to become invisible. In return, this soldier gains +15% damage resistance, +25% melee damage and his footsteps volume is reduced by 100%.

Wraith

• Weapons
  • Hydra clip size increased from 16 to 20
  • Demon and Firebrand damage increased (2 points)

Tank

• General
  • Tank and all LMGs movement speed increased

Vanguard

• General
  • Vanguard and Slayer movement speed increased

Fixes

• We’ve made changes to fix the “error joining match” issue. After leaving a match, wait a few seconds before joining another match to avoid this issue.
• Awareness (Marksman trait and skill) now properly detects Shadow and has a skill icon feedback.
• Fixed an issue with Wonderdome health packs not respawning.
• Fixed some elements missing on Hollow’s (map) sky.
• Fixed loadouts breaking after leveling up and equipping new skills between matches.
• Fixed duplicated player connected/disconnected messages on killfeed.
• Refined matchmaking algorithms.

Hello guys! This week we’ve been monitoring the new matchmaking system and reading your feedback and we’ve decided to add our official servers back to server browse. We’ve pushed some updates that improved the algorithms of the new matchmaking system and we will keep the “play now” button as we believe it’s a great tool for new players. But now, according to the veteran community feedback, you can also choose and join an official server through community servers list. The autobalance after every match will still happen on official servers. We hope your gaming experience with Ballistic Overkill will be better with this small update!

Hey guys! Update 1.4.0 is now live! On this update we’ve worked to improve the player matchmaking experience, assuring that with a single click the game will take you to the best match according to your region and latency. As you know, the game usually had many servers with none or very few players, and a few servers almost full, that made it hard for new players to start new servers. Now with the new system, the players are placed in the servers in a more balanced way, distributing them more equitative and scalable way. It may take a bit longer for you to enter a new game, but the final experience should be better in terms of lag and stability. If the game hasn't found the best server in 2 minutes, then it will place you in a more crowded server with an empty place and with the best conditions in terms of ping and occupancy. We’ve also made a few balance changes to address Berserker’s dominance and Shadow’s underperformance. Read the full details below!

Play Now and Community Servers

Autobalance is back!

Balance Changes

Berserker

• Skills
  • Go Ballistic base damage bonus reduced from 10% to 5%
  • Bloodlust fire rate per stack reduced from 5% to 3%
  • Guts damage resistance reduced from 15% to 10%
  • Hide in Plain sight now reduces 100% footstep volume during Fury Mode

Shadow

• Weapons
  • All Machine Pistols movement speed increased
• Skills
  • The instant invisibility effect is now a trait and Shadow Walker only adds +15% damage. Additionally Shadow Walker and Assassin had their names and icons switched.

Marksman

• Skills
  • Consistency accuracy reduced from 40% to 30%

General

• All melee weapons are now “automatic”

Fixes

• The “I see dead people” achievement is now working again
• Overhead crane sounds are now being muted through the sound effect slider

Hello soldiers! Meet “Second Wave”, the second drop season of Ballistic Overkill! This new season contains 5 rarity tier skins collections: Urban (common), rest of the Jungle skins (advanced), White Tiger (special), Rose (elite) and the legendary Seaquake skins! There are also 4 new accessories. You can unlock the Cat Backpack, the Frog Shoes, the Paw Shoes and the Samurai Helmet by collecting this season’s skins! Here’s how the lockbox drop system works if you’re wondering.

The 13th weapons are here!

Hello everyone! Today’s update is focused on stability improvements! We’ve been testing this build during the last days and hopefully you will see FPS improvements if you used to have performance issues. We’ve also fixed some issues and added a few balance changes. You can read detailed info below! Please, if you’re still having performance issues and general issues/bugs when you join a match, use our Steam forums to report them to us. Your feedback is really important! Here’s a guideline for reporting: http://steamcommunity.com/app/296300/discussions/3/487870763299866063/

Balance Changes

Vanguard

• Weapons
  • Switchblade and Agent are now full automatic

Marksman

• Weapons
  • Custodian
    • Damage increased from 110 to 130

Grenadier

• Skills
  • Firearms Expert removed
  • Pyromaniac added
    • Grenadier gains +15% explosive damage (affects both grenades and GLs)

Fixes

• Several stability and queue system improvements.
• Fixed Magistrate and Curator damage to properly deal 200 damage on Guts Berserker.
• You can no longer cancel reload animation with shooting with Tormentor, Mohawk and Piledriver (causing an “infinite” ammo effect). They are now automatic and have had their reload speed adjusted to maintain a similar balance they had before this fix.
• Pistols no longer bypass draw animations. This was done to refrain macro usage.
• Fixed some Assault Rifle’s GLs doing less damage than intended.

Hey everyone! Today’s patch contains some bug fixes, improvements to the queue system and some balance changes. We hope you like it! Also, stay tuned! A new season is coming soon. =)

Balance Changes

Berserker

• Weapons
  • Felon
    • Damage per bullet decreased from 38 to 34
  • Supernova
    • Minimum range decreased from 15 to 11 meters (i.e. after 11 meters this weapon’s damage starts to fall off).

Wraith

• Weapons
  • Magistrate
    • Damage increased from 225 to 235
  • Curator
    • Damage increased from 205 to 235
  • Judge
    • Damage increased from 130 to 150

Grenadier

• Weapons
  • Rattlesnake
    • Minimum range decreased from 10 meters to 8 meters.
    • Spread increased.
  • Serpent
    • Minimum range decreased from 10 meters to 8 meters.
    • Spread increased.
    • Damage reduced slightly.

• Skills
  • Last Laugh
    • Bonus movement speed reduced from 25% to 20%.

Tank

• Skills
  • Raging Bull
    • Damage reduction decreased from 50% to 40%.

Marksman

• Weapons
  • Drone and Warden
    • Damage increased from 195 to 205

Bug Fixes

• Several improvements to the queue system and spectator mode. Please let us know if you’re still facing issues with these systems
• Fixed an issue with Shadow Walker skill making Shadow permanently visible
• Headshot numbers are red again
• Fixed frozen 3rd person animations

Hello Folks! The last update changed some fundamental parts of game to introduce many new features. That cause problems to many users and like we discussed over Discord and foruns, we are working as fast as we can to make it stable again. This update should fix most of these problems. Others can take a little longer and may be fixed in a next update.

Game doesn't open

Wrong loadouts in Soldier Screen

Performance regression

Bug fixes

The first post-game launch update arrives with lots of improvements on the match selection system and server configuration, making life easier for those who want to play with friends and create teams. This is the first of many planned updates that will enhance the experience of creating teams and interacting with other players. We keep, as always, doing game balancing, bug fixing and content additions alongside these main improvements.

Find Your Friends on Home Screen

New Queue System

Team Selection

Spectator Mode Changes

Teammate Outlines

Gold Badges

New Weapon: Sledgehammer

New Melee Animations

New Weapon Stats Screen

New Antialiasing Modes

Custom Server Commands

• ./list Lists in numeric order, all players in the match.
• ./kick [player number from the list] Kicks the player identified by that number.
• ./blacklist [player number from the list] Permanently kick and ban the player identified by that number in this server.
• ./prioritylist [player number from the list] Includes the player in the priority list. This will give him priority in any future queue in this server.

Vulkan and Metal Support

Balance Changes

Melee Weapon Changes

• Backstab Multiplier added
  • Melee weapons won’t kill instantly on backstabs. Backstabs are now considered critical hits (similar to a headshot from a regular weapon). This means that each weapon has it’s own multiplier, allowing for extra variety in that weapon class.
  • You can check the actual values of Backstab Multipliers in the character sections below.

• Melee Strike angle reduced slightly on all melee weapons

Tank

• Weapons
  • Sledgehammer added

• Unlocks
  • Sledgehammer added as the new level 2 unlock
    • All other weapons pushed up in the progression
  • Rampart and Brigand unlock position switched
  • Raging Bull and Last Stand unlock position switched

• Skills
  • Raging Bull damage reduction increased from 30% to 50%

Shadow

• Weapons
  • Xian
    • 150% Backstab Damage Multiplier added instead of an instakill.
  • Ninjaken
    • Attack Speed increased from 100 to 120
    • 200% Backstab Multiplier added instead of an instakill.
  • Shinobi
    • Movement speed reduced
    • 50% Backstab Multiplier added instead of an instakill.
  • Unlocks
    • Vampire and Shadow Walker unlock position switched

Marksman

• Skills
  • Trait buffed
    • All enemies are revealed on the map for 1 second every 5 seconds. This ability reveals even invisible opponents.
  • Awareness
    • Time to activate reduced from 5 to 2 seconds.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed a bug that eventually freezes the free camera from the Spectator Mode.
• Fixed a series of validation errors on weapons skins.
• Reduced the overall memory usage.
• Hungarian language added.
• Fixed a bug that made the camera shake in a wrong intensity when the player gets hit by certain weapons.
• Fixed an audio bug that tied voice commands volume to general sound effects volume
• Fixed a problem that makes the Reset Statistics Button reset achievements too.
• Fixed a bug that makes the glass breaking noises too loud.
• Fixed a bug on Lone Wolf skill (Wraith) that allows allies positions to interfere with the skill’s effect.

Ballistic Overkill is Now Available on Steam!

Ballistic Overkill is a fast paced PvP shooter. Select one of 7 classes, each with their own skills and weapons. Make multiple loadouts with each, creating different builds within the same character. No wimpy support classes, in Ballistic everyone is a killer!

Hello everyone! We are proud to announce that tomorrow Ballistic Overkill will no longer be in Early Access! Which doesn't mean the game will no longer be updated and improved. There are major upcoming features still in development. We see this more as a great opportunity to promote the game and increase our community. This update is also packed with new content.

First Blood Season

Shadow Female Skin

Costume Skins as DLCs

Balance Changes

Grenadier

• Grenade Launchers
  • Removed character movement influence on projectile direction

• Shotguns
  • Increased number of bullets per shot
  • Reduced damage per bullet (max damage per shot either remains the same or is slightly higher)

Vanguard

• Executioner
  • Clip size increased from 25 to 30

Wraith

• Skill - Lone Hunter buffed
  • Reload speed increased from 20% to 30%

• Weapon - Persuader and Machete are now automatic
  • Recoil reduced slightly
  • This is a quality of life change. Overall balance remains the same

Shadow

• Skill - Assassin modified
  • While moving, Shadow gains +50% accuracy and +50% recoil reduction.

• Skill - Fast as Lightning modified
  • Shadow gains +10% rate of fire and +25% reload speed.

• Weapon - Shinobi
  • Attack speed (rate of fire) decreased slightly

Tank

• Weapon - Brute
  • Accuracy, damage and reload speed increased
  • Range increased slightly

• Weapon - Chainsaw
  • Damage increased
  • Range increased slightly

Bug Fixes

• Silenced and unsilenced weapon tags revised.
• Fixed an issue with not being able to disassemble some weapon skins.
• In-game chat improvements.
• Fixed melee attacks ignoring damage reduction.
• Fixed camouflage bugs when changing the game quality during a match.
• Fixed "This is Ballistic" achievement award detection.

Hi everyone! Thanks for the quick feedback on the last update. Here is a patch to fix some of the problems introduced in 1.3.4 and other requested features.

Move while using the Voice Wheel

Voice Volume Slider

Exclusive Fullscreen

End Match Music

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Shadow smoke and sound remaining after his death.
• Fixed Berserker's Bloodlust UI feedback stacking above limits.
• Revised some automatic voice probabilities to play less often.
• Fixed "Use Mouse Wheel" option to save consistently.
• Fixed a bug that caused end match screens to not show up sometimes.

Hi Friends! Have you ever wondered how your favorite soldier sound like? Now you can hear for yourself. We recorded voice commands and other useful speeches for all characters over the past months! This update also brings an important gameplay improvement, the "Skills Feedback".

Voice Commands

Skills Feedback

Mouse Sensitivity

Always Run

Credits Screen

Other Fixes and Improvements

• Added "Polish" language.
• Added a subtle feedback on the mini-map when you are revealed in the enemy radars.
• Added an error message when the game is unable to connect to Steam platform.
• Improved achievement detection for Sneaky Beaky, Force of Nature, Nostalgia and MVP.
• Fixed a bug in Soldiers screen that caused it to not update loadouts properly.
• Fixed a bug in Blackfield map that kills the player randomly.
• Fixed Last Stand not giving 10% extra life.

Hey Folks! Today we are proud to present Ballistic's 10th map, the Reinstate Factory. This map was designed to explore the abilities of all classes. It is of a considerable size compared to others, which in turn rewards a more tactical pacing, but also offers various spots where closed range classes can benefit from. We're also releasing several other features that were developed or improved:

Steam Achievements

Password Protected Servers

Enemy Area

Russian Language

New servers in China

Multi-Thread Improvements

Bug Fixes

• Steam invite is working again.
• Fixed Capture Point not scoring points sometimes.
• Fixed some minor collision issues in Nox Museum.

Balance Changes

• Vanguard
  • All Assault Rifles clip size reduced
    • Blackguard, Widower and Stalker
      • Clip size reduced by 10
    • All others
      • Clip size reduced by 5

• Shadow
  • All Dual Machine Pistols clip size reduced
    • Scorpion and Typhoon
      • Clip size reduced by 10
    • All others
      • Clip size reduced by 5
    • Typhoon
      • Increased accuracy slightly
    • Needler
      • Reload speed reduced slightly

• Grenadier
  • Destructor
    • Clip size increased to 6 (was 4)
    • Rate of fire decreased slightly

Hey guys! Hope you're all doing well. Over these first days of 2017 we worked on some bug fixes and added minor features to improve the overall experience. One of our favorites is the ability to setup a promotional banner in your dedicated server and advertise your Twitch/Youtube channel!

Bug Fixes

• Improved Free-for-All spawns to prevent players from respawn at the same point.
• Free-for-All now rewards players with Kill Assists.
• Sound effects revised to consistently respect volumes set in options screen.
• You can now disable the weapon swap with mouse wheel in the options menu.
• Added specific message when players can't enter a match because of a VAC ban.
• Improved Quick-Match algorithm.
• Sunnsquare Mall collision reworked to prevent players from getting stuck on the ceiling in some locations.
• Crouching repeatedly will not prevent players from take hazard damages anymore, e.g: Gas chambers in Blackfield.
• Fixed weapon skins not showing in third person with dual wields.

Optimizations

New Territories

Dedicated Server Banner

Hey guys! We are preparing some in-depth interviews about the making of Ballistic Overkill to document the development process. Would you like to participate with questions regarding any aspect of how the game is being developed, from game design, art, programming, production or any other areas? Feel free to submit your questions in the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfIGE8nUjsyN8lJUtAnDvvBEUM-OWYT8d9GQBBeBypFDVcApg/viewform Cheers, The Ballistic Overkill Team.

Hello everyone! Hope you're having a good time! This the last update of the year. As of tomorrow, we're on a break for the holidays. Thanks to everyone who’s been helping us in this journey to make an awesome game.

Hotfixes

• Players not being able to spawn fixed
• Wrong outline after changing teams fixed
• Death animation not playing fixed
• Increased the precision of the arrow that indicates where the player suffered damage.
• Traditional Chinese added

List of Servers

• NA West (North America)
• NA East (North America)
• Brazil (South America)
• Frankfurt (Central Europe)
• Singapore (Southeast Asia)

Winter Sale

Discord

Bug Reports

Anti-Cheat

Hey guys! As you might have noticed, we have already released a couple of fixes to solve the lag and teleport issues. Now we're releasing another patch to fix further issues and make a few improvements. You can check the list below.

• 0 ammo bug fixed
• Nox Barrier too short fixed
• "1","2" and "E" shortcuts now interrupt Weapon Secondary Functions
• Improved damage marker feedback direction
• Marksman Headhunter damage per stack reduced to 15% (was 20%) and max damage reduced to 60% (was 80%)

Hey guys! This announcement is just to let you know that we're aware of the bugs introduced in patch 1.3.1 and we are currently working on a quick way to fix it. Here's a list of the main issues that we're fixing right now:

• Players teleporting
• Players getting shot before seeing the enemy coming and/or after being protected
• Grenades exploding instantly

Hello everyone! 1.3.1 patch is live! The big highlights are the dedicated server improvements, Nox Museum map changes, a new holiday accessory, Steam cards and new language options. We hope you enjoy these changes! This is the last update of this year! Our team will take a holiday break. We’ll be back in action on january. This was an amazing year for Ballistic Overkill, the game has really improved a lot. From having only 3 classes early in 2016 to a full progression system, new UI and so many other improvements! Thanks to everyone who’s been helping us in this journey to make an awesome game. Happy Holidays and see you in 2017! Check out the full patch notes below and have fun! PS: In order to fix some issues, all loadouts were reset.

Main Improvements

• New Accessory - Early Access Christmas Hat
  • To celebrate the arrival of Christmas and the Early Access season, we’ve added a new accessory for you guys to unlock.
• Available Languages updated
  • Spanish, french, swedish, german, italian, chinese, croatian and turkish added
  • Members from the community that helped us translate the game will receive a special thanks in the credits in the future.
  • If you see any text in one of this languages that is still in english, it means that this text was not yet translated or was changed recently and we kept it in english to avoid misleading information. If you have the ability to make that translation, please contact us via email at: support@aquiris.com.br
• Dedicated Server Improvements
  • Singapore servers added
  • More servers added to each region
  • Greatly improved ping to the for players with certain network configurations
  • Players are no longer kicked from matches because of ping. Instead, they’re prevented from joining the match if their ping is above limit.
  • Showing wrong player count in Server Browser fixed
• Pick-up Locations in KOTH and CP updated
  • Pick-ups are no longer found inside the base. Instead, they’re better scattered around the map in these modes.
• Nox Level Design changes
  • We’ve opened a new high ground path for the “Smokes” team that leads to the center of the map. Now the team from this side of the map have more options to leave their base and ambush the enemy team.
• Steam Cards added

Vanguard

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Trait - Health Recovery removed
  • Trait - Scavenger added
    • Vanguard recovers grenades when walking over bodies
  • Skill Scavenger removed
  • New Skill - Barrage
    • After killing an enemy, Vanguard instantly fills 100% of his weapon clip.
  • Skill - Weapons Expert
    • Accuracy and recoil reduced to +25% (was 30%)
  • Skill - Courage Under Fire
    • Rate of fire reduced to +20% (was 25%)
• Weapons
  • Coyote
    • Spread slightly increased
    • Secondary Function cooldown time increased to 10 seconds (was 6)

Wraith

• Weapons
  • Magistrate damage increased

Shadow

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skill - Ninja
    • Added -5% mobility

• Weapons
  • Xian rate of fire increased slightly
  • Shinobi damage and rate of fire decreased slightly

Tank

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skill - Blitzkrieg modified
    • While shooting, Tank gains +10% damage resistance and +10% mobility per second. Caps at 3 seconds (+30% for each attribute). When he kills an enemy, Tank instantly fills 50% of his weapon clip.
  • Skill - Raging Bull modified
    • While sprinting, Tank gains +30% damage resistance.
• Weapons
  • Hornet
    • Reload time increased
    • Recoil increased

Fixes

• Change Team limitations
  • Changes when both teams have the same amount of players only possible until 25% of the match duration has passed.
  • Changes from the bigger to the smaller team available until 75% of the match.
  • After 75% of the match has passed, no changes are allowed.
• Average as default filter reverted back to all
• Quick match improved and re-enabled
• Last Stand sometimes not ending fixed
• Reset loadouts not working fixed
• Added on-screen score notifications for CP and KOTH
• Improved handling of shooting sounds in spectator mode
• Steam Overlay on MacOSX fixed
• Small performance optimizations

Hey guys! You might've noticed that Ballistic updated a few times last week. That's because we've been doing some fixes here and there to improve the overall experience. Below is a list of all those fixes, including the ones released today.

• Locked weapons level requirement visible on Soldiers screen
• Average as default server filter
  • Now when searching servers, the default filter is "Average" instead of "All". This means that matches that are not created in your continent/region or have a ping higher than 200 won't show. Our goal is to incentivize players to pick better matches.
  • If you have trouble finding matches, just change the option to "Bad". This will make so all matches are shown again.
• Secondary function improvements
  • Fixed a bug where players would be able to use the Secondary Function twice, making so they would be kicked from the match
  • Secondary Function is now cancelable by grenades, melee and weapon swaps
• Some servers now have ping limit
  • As you might have noticed, some servers name now includes a ping limit. Those servers will kick players that are, on average, above this limit. We've limited those servers to just a few per region, so players that can't play on those matches still have other matches available.
  • This system was improved during the week. At first, it was much more rigid, kicking several players. Now it's more forgiving, while still kicking players that are above the limit consistently. If you've joined one of those servers and have been kicked, we encourage you to try again and see if that is still the case.
• Character interpolation improved
  • Character movements online should be smoother overall both in regular matches and in spectator mode.
• Some internal optimizations
  • We've revised several small things in the code. You can expect a slight framerate improvement.
• A few progression related bugs fixed
• Some localization errors fixed

Hi there! A few minutes ago we did a patch on all servers to improve your experience with 1.3. You can check a list of fixes below. Have fun!

Fixes:

• Issues with Progression Unlocks fixed
• Progression Unlock Validation improved
• Improved Network Time and Sync
• Improved Interpolation between player positions.
  • This is important! let us know if players in your matches have less stutter and teleport less.
• Time till next match visual bug fixed (now it must show 90 sec or less)
• Lots of issues with Spectator Mode fixed
• Recently unlocked loadouts not appearing in the next match fixed
• Weapons skins not appearing in-game fixed
• Spectre removed and Maelstrom added in it's place

Hello everyone! We are preparing to add more languages to Ballistic Overkill and we're looking for community members to help us with that! If you're interested in helping us add your native language to the game, please contact us at support@aquiris.com.br so we can share with you all necessary information for us to work together! We're currently looking for native speakers of these following languages that can also understand english to colaborate:

• French
• Spanish
• Italian
• German

Hello everyone! 1.3 patch is live! Now you can enjoy Ballistic Overkill’s progression system and drop some skins for your weapons! Completing matches will now randomly drop lockboxes while also rewarding you with experience to level up your characters and account. Lockboxes contain random weapon skins but you can also buy more lockboxes or skins from other players using the Steam Marketplace! Additionally, completing your skin collections will unlock vanity accessories. You can also sell your skins and lockboxes or even disassemble undesired weapon skins to collect scrap metal, used to forge another lockbox. Check out the full patch notes below. Have fun!

Main Improvements

• Progression System
  • Completing matches will now reward you with experience. Experience will level your characters and account up.
  • Level up your characters to unlock weapons, skills and loadouts
  • Level up your account to earn new portrait. Bragging rights!
  • This is the first version of the progression system so issues are expected.
  • We have no plans to reset your progression in a near future, but be aware that this is a testing version of this system and a reset could be necessary to deal with issues. Your weapon skins and inventory are safe from resets, however!
• First Drop Season (Early Access Season)
  • Lockboxes will randomly drop after completing a match.
  • Lockboxes are separated by class. Items in a lockbox will always be of the same class or a random legendary.
  • The boxes will drop a random weapon skin based on the current season.
  • Skins are saved in your in-game and Steam inventory after dropped. In order to equip a skin you must have unlocked its equivalent weapon first, but they’ll stay in your inventory even if you don’t have its weapon yet.
  • Early Access Season is introducing three skin collections:
    • Volunteer (common)
    • Veteran (special)
    • Honored (legendary)
  • Regular Seasons (coming later, after Early Access one ends) will drop skins from every rarity tier: common, advanced, special, elite and legendary
  • You can expect 2-4 lockboxes drops per week
  • Meeting certain requirements, such as collecting 3 veteran skins and 1 honored for example, will unlock vanity accessories that can be equipped by any character and will be available as long as the requirements are met.
  • Undesired weapon skins can be disassembled in exchange of scrap metals. After collecting 10 scrap metals you’ll be able to get a new lockbox!
  • Ballistic Overkill is now integrated with Steam’s marketplace. This means you can buy weapon skins from the community by using the market, and trade or sell your skins too.
• Spectator Mode
  • You can now join matches as a Spectator instead of a player
  • Orbit and Free Camera modes available.

Berserker

• Weapons
  • Quickfix and Whirlwind clip size increased
  • Spectre removed

Vanguard

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skill - Modified DNA buffed
    • From 15% max health to 16%
  • Skill - Courage Under Fire nerfed
    • Duration reduced from 5 to 2 seconds
  • Skill - Action Hero nerfed
    • Headshot damage bonus reduced from 25% to 20%
  • Skill - Weapons Expert nerfed
    • Accuracy and recoil bonus reduced from 35% to 30% each

Wraith

• Weapons
  • Warden removed
  • Ironveil added

Shadow

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skill - Swiftblade removed
  • New Skill - Swiftness
    • While not using a sword, Shadow’s gains +15% mobility.
  • Skill - Shadow Walker buffed
    • Damage buffed from 10% to 15%

Grenadier

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skill - Launcher Specialist reworked
    • Grenadier gains +40% reload speed.
• Weapons
  • One Shot and Destructor projectile arc reduced and direct hit damage increased
  • One Shot rate of fire and damage decay reduced

Tank

• Class Traits and Skills
  • New Trait Added
    • Tank doesn’t take extra damage from backstabs
  • Skill - Unstoppable Force removed
  • New Skill - Raging Bull
    • While sprinting, Tank gains +60% frontal damage resistance.
  • Skill - Well Prepared reworked
    • Tank doesn’t take extra damage from headshots and receives +20% explosive damage resistance.
  • Skill - Provoke reworked
    • When hit, Tank gains +25% damage for 2 seconds. Being hit while under the effect of Provoke refreshes the duration.
  • Skill - Blitzkrieg reworked
    • While shooting, Tank gains +5% damage resistance per second. Caps at 6 seconds (30% damage resistance). When he kills an enemy, Tank instantly fills 50% of his weapon clip.
  • Skill - Last Stand modified
    • Tank receives +10% max health and resists death for 5 seconds. During this time, Tank can only use a specific weapon and cannot move.
• Weapons
  • Demon reload speed reduced
  • Prybar aiming recoil reduced
  • Rampart is now automatic

Marksman

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skill - Preparation reworked
    • While with a full clip, Marksman gains +20% damage.
  • Skill - Veteran reworked
    • When you reload, you reload both your weapons at the same time. While reloading, Marksman gains +50% damage resistance.
• Weapons
  • Ironveil removed
  • Warden added
  • Redeemer damage decay increased
  • Killmark
    • Rate of fire and damage increased
    • Accuracy increased slightly
    • Mobility increased

Fixes

• Shadow’s quick sword use through melee removed
• All shotguns headshot multiplier increased from 100% to 120%
• All weapon icons updated
• Damage numbers size system reworked
  • Now the size and color of the number has nothing to do with the damage itself, but with the body part hit
    • Feet and legs show small numbers
    • Torso, shoulders and arms show average numbers
    • Head shows large red numbers
• Allies show up on the map as enemies after changing teams fixed
• Multiple players on point capture speed fixed
• Players staying idle (AFK) in a match now will be automatically kicked

Hey guys! Remember about the vanity accessories we mentioned earlier? They're coming in the next update! A small list of details below.

• Accessories are global, so they can be used by all characters
• Like weapon skins, accessories are only cosmetic and don't affect gameplay in any way
• Each accessory has its own requirements. For example:
  • Having 10 different skins from a specific collection
  • Reach a certain account level
• If you lose items required for an already unlocked accessory, either by trading or dismounting, you lose access to that accessory until you meet it's requirements again
• New accessories will be added over time, probably a couple per season

Hello everyone! As you may already know, in the next update we'll be introducing Ballistic Overkill's very first weapon skins drop season! It's gonna be a special Early Access season that will drop only exclusive skins! Skins will have five rarity tiers: Common, Advanced, Special, Elite and Legendary. *During this first season, however, only three tiers will be introduced (common, special and legendary). These are samples of the early access exclusive skins! Every weapon is getting one of the skins above, totalizing 7 legendaries, 28 specials and 52 commons. Collecting them will unlock a exclusive vanity accessory that we'll share more info about soon! We're still working on the 1.3 update and hope to deliever is as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience and support and hope you liked the new skins look!

Hello everyone! First of all, thank you very much for your feedback from our last update. We’re very happy to know that, overall, you enjoyed this update! Rest assured we’re working to fix its small issues and working on more exciting updates! In this devlog we’d like to share further information about the update 1.3, which will contain Ballistic Overkill’s progression system and first drop season! Progression System:

• After the update, all of your characters will be level 1. At level 1, every character will have only 2 weapons, 2 skills and one loadout.
• You will gain XP after every match to level up and unlock more weapons, skills and loadouts.
• You will also have an account level which will be represented by a portrait according to you level.

• You will have a chance of dropping lockboxes containing weapon skins after every match played.
• There’s a weekly limit to how many items you can drop per account
• Weapon skins have different rarities and different boxes have different drop tables
• All skins are permanent and you will be able to sell, trade or buy skins from other players on Steam’s marketplace.
• We plan for 1.3 to have our first drop season containing exclusive weapons for our early access players. Items from this season will never drop again.
• After the game’s launch we’ll have more drop seasons containing more weapon skins and new drop tables.

Hey guys! Patch 1.2 is finally here! Yay! As you know, this update is mainly focused on the new UI and the Marksman, but there were also a lot of balance changes in all classes. With so many core changes, issues and glitches are expected. So please, make sure to properly report them to us! We hope you enjoy this new ingame look. You can check details below. See you ingame!

Main Improvements

• New UI
  • Better crosshairs
  • Much improved TAB screen
  • All resolutions support
  • Settings ingame
  • And much more!
• Marksman Added
  • Assault and sniper rifles specialist
  • Skills focused on survivability and enemy detection

Hello, everyone! As we mentioned in the last patch notes, we're now implementing the new in-game UI into Ballistic and also working on Marksman class for the next update. The 1.2.0 update will still take a while to arrive, so today we'd like to share further information about this update and future plans. You can check the new UI Flow Chart here. *Please keep in mind that these are mock-ups This is an initial version of how the game's UI flow should look like. As you can see, a lot of screens are already in-game, but there are a lot of new ones coming soon, such as the respawn, settings, scoreboard and specially progression! This flowchart already gives you an idea of how things gonna work. You have a character progression bar that will unlock skills, weapons and loadouts (all of which are currently pre unlocked in-game). Skins will be droppable items, in a similar fashion to TF2, Dota2 and CS:GO. The progression and skin systems will come in later patches and will not be part of the 1.2.0 update. Thanks everyone for your patience and support. We hope this little development update left you excited for our next steps in Ballistic Overkill!

Hello, guys! Today’s update is about improvements to game modes, a few class balance changes and some cool new weapons! We hope you enjoy it! We’d also like to share with that we’ve started to implement the new in-game UI! This means our dev build will be a little unstable for a while and the next update (if it includes the new UI) will take some time to arrive. We’d appreciate your feedback on this update. Have fun!

Main Improvements

Health Pick-ups position changes in:
• Hakim Library
• Hollow
• Overhead
• Sunnsquare Mall
Secondary Weapon System reworked
• Now every class has only one list of weapons instead of one list for primaries and one for secondaries
• Any weapon can be equipped either as a primary or as a secondary
• The same weapon can’t be equipped in both slots
Smart Server for Free for All
• Maps are separated in sizes (small, standard and large)
• The server now analyses the amount of players in a match and only picks maps of the allowed sizes
• This system is only valid for Free for All and doesn’t affect any other game modes
Chat system reworked
• Press Enter to open chat
• Press TAB or Insert to change between channels (all and team)
• Press Enter again to send message

Berserker

Class Traits and Skills
• Skill - Hit and Run
  • Berserker gains +30% +35% accuracy while moving and +10%+5% movement speed at all times.
Weapon Balance
• Cobra and Mohawk added
• Blister removed
• Anakonda, Thumper and Tormentor reload time decreased
• Tormentor range increased slightly

Vanguard

Weapon Balance
• Switchblade and Agent added
• Switchblade
  • Damage reduced
  • Recoil increased slightly
  • Clip size reduced from 16 to 10
  • Headshot damage reduced from 200% to 175%

Wraith

Weapon Balance
• Curator, Firebrand and Persuader added
• Persuader
  • Damage increased
  • Recoil and reload time reduced
• Twister recoil reduced

Shadow

Overall Changes
• All speed modifiers from Shadow skills removed. Skills affected have been modified.
• Shadow invisible sounds volume reduced
• Teammate Shadows don’t make any sound when sprinting. If you hear a Shadow, you can be sure it’s an enemy!
• Shadow can switch weapons without breaking invisibility
Class Traits and Skills
• Skill - Ninja reworked
  • Shadow invisibility sounds volume reduced by 75%.
• Skill - Fast as Lightning
  • Speed bonus removed
  • Rate of Fire increased from 16% to 18%
Weapon Balance
• Ghost, Constrictor, Blister and Tornado added
• Persuader and Switchblade removed

Grenadier

Class Traits and Skills
• Skill - Last Laugh
  • Speed bonus decreased from 35% to 25%
  • Speed bonus duration increased from 3 to 4s

Tank

Class Traits and Skills
• Skill - Last Stand
  • Tank now always equips Blackhawk when in last stand
Weapon Balance
• Demon, Ranger, Violator and Rampart added
• Rhino and Agent removed
• Bruiser and Brute recoil reduced

Fixes

• Small Health Pick-up cooldown increased from 6 to 8
• Large Health Pick-up cooldown increased from 15 to 16
• Pick-ups cooldown being reset when a player joins the match fixed
• Large Health being picked up randomly in Blackfield fixed
• If Shadow has a Katana equipped, its melee attack will always use the Katana
• Secondary functions time to shoot reduced
  • The time for secondary functions to activate has been drastically reduced, being as close to instant as possible.
• Head hitbox increased for all characters
• Shadow ragdoll remaining invisible while dead fixed
• Weapon comparison improved
  
  [ 2016-08-04 21:21:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey guys! Firstly I'd like to thank you for all the feedback we've been receiving on this patch. It's really appreciated. This was a huge one for us and we're glad to see things are (mostly) working as intended. We'll keep working on it and fix problems as fast as we can. Thank you! First a couple of fixes that we already made:

• Team Deathmatch score system was broken in the first minutes of the patch. This is now fixed and should work as intended.
• Capture point was ending REALLY fast for the first few hours of the patch. We also fixed that and it should be a better experience. *In both cases, if you are still having problems, try closing the game and letting Steam update the game (it's a really small one, so it should be almost instant).

• Grenades now regenerates automaticaly every 30 seconds, except for Grenadier, which regenerates every 8 seconds. This will be shown in the new UI when it hits.
• Chat changing and mute
  • The option to mute chat is now working
  • When in game, you can press Esc to open the in-game menu. In the top left corner, there's a speech bubble that represents your chat mute options.
  • If the chat below is not showing, it means that you have chat muted and won't be able to see and/or post on chat.
  • To change your chat settings simple click on the speech bubble.
  • Once you see the chat in the in-game menu, you should be able to go back to the game and chat normally

• Some Vanguard weapons are available as both primary and secondary because of the default loadouts
• The weapon stats UI is not updated for a few weapons

Hey guys! Firstly, we’re sorry about the delays on this update. We changed several things internally that could potentially break the game, so we had to take some extra time to test things out. Even with our efforts, though, you guys will most likely find bugs that slip through. If that’s the case, you can report bugs either here on steam or in our community forums. With that said, let's get to the good part.

Main Improvements

• Health Packs
  • Health stations are gone. Instead, we now have health packs scattered around the stages. When you pass through a health pack (if you’re not full health) you’ll pick it up and heal yourself instantly. The amount healed depends on the kind of health pack (big or small). After being pick-up, there will be a 10 seconds cooldown until the next pack appears in that station.
• Infinite Reserve Ammo
  • You’ll still need to reload your gun constantly, but your reserve ammo will never end. That change was made for two reasons. The first is that we believe that most players didn’t need to worry about ammo anyway. There was plenty of reserve ammo and you recovered ammo when healing yourself in the health station. Only in very specific cases players would be without ammo. The second reason is that without healing stations, there’s no way to recover ammo anymore. We didn’t like the idea of ammo packs because we already have health packs. Having this extra kind of pack could cause clutter in small stages.
• Weapon secondary function reworked
  • Weapon secondary functions are now called weapon skills. Pressing the weapon skill button now changes the weapon, shoots and then changes back to the original weapon. In addition, weapon skills don’t spend any ammo. To compensate for that, weapon skills have a cooldown of 6 seconds. In the current version, there’s no UI to inform if the skill is on cooldown or not, but that will certainly be featured in the new UI.
  • The default button for weapon skills was changed to E (was V)
• Map Voting System Changed
  • Now players can choose between 4 random maps, with each map representing a different game mode.
• Some shotguns right button is now a melee attack shortcut
  • We feel that leaving the right mouse button with a “less than ideal” function is not the way to go. Aiming with shotguns added no extra precision, so it was mostly useless. A melee strike is more fitting to the close quarters, run and gun style of most shotguns. We intend to make more of this kind of changes in the future, reinforcing the playstyle and differences of each gun.
  • Shotguns included in the change: Anakonda, Thumper, Bonebreaker, Terminator, Mammoth and Rhino.
  • The other shotguns now receive a small precision boost while aiming.
• Shotguns rebalance
  • All Shotguns rate of fire and damage decreased. Range and recoil increased.
  • The idea here is to make each shotgun shot more effective, while also not making shotguns overpowered.

Berserker

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skill - Hide in Plain Sight
    • While selected, Berserker loses his damage resistance trait.
  • Skill - Reliable Firearms
    • Renamed to Shotgun Expert
      • Berserker gains +2 [strike]+4[/strike] meters to the range of all weapons and +25% [strike]15%[/strike] reload speed.
• Weapon Balance
  • Gremlin removed
  • Thumper added
  • Anakonda reload time decreased
  • Anakonda reload can’t be interrupted by shooting anymore

Vanguard

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skill - Scavenger
    • Ammo recovery removed because it isn’t necessary anymore. To compensate, the damage resistance was buffed to 12% [strike]10%[/strike]
• Weapon Balance
  • Piledriver and Jackhammer are now primary weapons
  • Coyote and Stalker are now secondary weapons
  • Stalker accuracy while aiming increased slightly
  • Gremlin added as a secondary weapon
    • Damage, clip size and rate of fire reduced
    • Gremlin is now automatic
  • Heavy Metal clip size reduced and damage reduced slightly
  • Bonebreaker is now automatic

Wraith

• Weapon Balance
  • Magistrate ([strike]220[/strike] to 200) damage reduced
  • Interdiction rate of fire decreased slightly
  • Judge damage increased ([strike]100[/strike] to 120)
  • Deadeye, Magistrate and Interdiction accuracy while hip-firing reduced
  • Judge and Warden accuracy while hip-firing increased
  • Agitator accuracy reduced slightly and recoil increased slightly
  • Twister recoil reduced slightly
  • Machete clip size reduced and damage reduced slightly

Shadow

• Weapon Balance
  • Switchblade clip size reduced and damage reduced slightly
  • Persuader clip size reduced and damage reduced slightly
  • All swords strike angle reduced slightly

Grenadier

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skill - Launcher Specialist
    • Grenadier gains +25% reload speed and +10% explosive range.
  • Skill - Pyromaniac
    Grenadier gains +15% explosive damage and +10% damage resistance.
• Weapon Balance
  • Decimator clip size and reload time reduced. Damage increased slightly.
  • One Shot and Terminator are now automatic
  • Viper recoil reduced

Tank

• Weapon Balance
  • All LMGs clip size reduced
  • Agent damage reduced
  • Rhino and Mammoth range increased, but damage decreased
  • Rhino is now automatic
  • Rhino reload time increased

Fixes

• Settings not saving bug fixed
• Several shortcuts added to the Soldiers Screen
  • You can now quickly select a class and loadout by pressing W, S, Up Arrow, Down Arrow, 1, 2 and 3. The numbers change the loadout, while the other shortcuts change the current class.
  • You can now quickly join the selected Server by pressing “Enter” in the Server Browser Menu.
• Mouse wheel now changes weapons
• Pressing the sprint button will immediately end crouch when using crouch on toggle
• Damage numbers from shotgun shots now add up into one number
• Tank’s Last Stand kill being stolen or denied by other players fixed
• Grenade throw animation time decreased
• Grenade explosion volume decay increased

Hello everyone! Ballistic Overkill is getting a new update today. The highlights are new skills for every class, capture the point game mode and performance upgrades that should make the game more stable and have less hiccups. As always, thank you for your support and feedback. If you have any issues regarding this new update, please share with us via e-mail (support@aquiris.com.br) or forum (http://forum.aquiris.com.br/index.php?board=6.0). Enjoy the update and take a read at the release notes below!

Main Improvements

• Performance upgrade
  • The game should be more stable now and have less or even no hiccups during a match. Please let us know in the forums if you have any problems running Ballistic Overkill in a machine that reaches (or exceeds) the minimum requirements.
• Resupply stations repositioning
  • This is a test and isn’t final. We’re analysing the changes in the flow of the game with this new resupply distribution on the map. Are players camping? Are players feeling afraid of leaving the spawn point? This is the kind of things the we want to know. Further changes in this mechanics will happen in the future.
• New Mode - Capture Point

Berserker

• Class Traits and Skills
  • New Skill - Hide in Plain Sight
    • While sprinting, Berserker is invisible on the map.
  • Skill - Bloodlust
    • Damage amount stack increased from 3% to 4%

Vanguard

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Trait - Scavenger removed
  • New Skill - Scavenger
    • When walking over a dead body, Vanguard recovers +50% of his max ammo and +1 grenade. Additionally, Vanguard gains +10% damage resistance.
  • Skill - Carelessness removed
  • New Skill - Modified DNA
    • Vanguard gains +15% max health.
  • Trait - Regeneration
    • Life per second nerfed from 2.5% to 2.0%.
  • Skill - Weapons Expert
    • +5% damage resistance added
  • Skill - Action Hero
    • Accuracy while moving increased to 40% and damage resistance against explosions reduced to 30%.
• Weapon Balance
  • Heavy Metal rate of fire and damage reduced slightly

Wraith

• Class Traits and Skills
  • New Skill - Combat Wraith
    • Wraith gains +15% damage resistance, +10 meters to the range of all weapons and 5% sprinting speed.
  • Skill - Lethal
    • +10 meters to range of all weapons removed
  • Skill - Elite Shooter
    • Reload speed and rate of fire per kill increased to 10% (was 9%) and 5% (was 4%).

Shadow

• Class Traits and Skills
  • New Skill - Vampire
    • Shadow recovers +10% health with each melee strike. Additionally, backstabs recover 100% health.
• Weapon Balance
  • Switchblade rate of fire reduced slightly

Grenadier

Class Traits and Skills
• Trait - Trait - +2 Grenades removed
• Trait - Grenade Regeneration added
  • When out of grenades, Grenadier recovers +1 grenade after 8 seconds. (Grenadier can never have more than 1 grenade at a time)
• New Skill - Restraint
  • Grenadier gains +50% explosive damage, but loses -75% explosive range with grenades and grenade launchers.
• Weapon Balance
  • Grenade launchers max damage reduced slightly, min damage increased and range decreased
    • The max damage being reduced is not as bad as it sounds because of the direct hit fix (you can read more about that under Fixes). Overall, direct hits and close hits will be better than before, while medium range hits are drastically nerfed.

Tank

Hey guys! Today we're launching a new update to Ballistic Overkill. This one is mostly focused on Linux support. The importance of this, and the reason why we choose to make this a priority, is that most dedicated servers run on linux. As far as we tested, linux players can play with mac and windows users without issues (yay!). This is an important step forward for betters servers in the future. In addition, we've also solved a few issues and made some small balance changes. You can check all of the changes below.

Main Improvements

• Linux compatibility added in both client and server side
  • Ballistic Overkill is now 100% compatible with Linux. You can play normally and even create dedicated servers. Welcome Linux users!
  • Having Linux support will make the creation of dedicated servers significantly easier in the future, be it via official or third party servers.
• Recoil System Overhaul
  • In order to fix a very old bug in the recoil of automatic weapons, the recoil system was reworked. The bug in question made so automatic weapons would swing down when you stopped firing. While good for burst fire, that kind of mechanic was unintuitive and annoying for regular automatic fire. This is now fixed
  • Recoil reduction skills were also fixed, and now work as intended. Until now, Recoil reduction was working only for regular recoil, ignoring up recoil (which is the most relevant part of our recoil system).

Fixes

• Aiming Sensitivity Slider now affects only scoped weapons
• Shotguns FOV change when returning from aiming smoothed out

Balance Changes

• All shotguns range increased
• Switchblade damage reduced slightly

Berserker

• Class Traits and Skills
  • [strike]Trait - Extra Sprinting Speed[/strike] removed
  • New Trait - Endurance
    • 30% damage reduction while sprinting
• Weapon Distribution
  • Tormentor added as a secondary weapon
    • A fast shotgun, similar to Terminator and Bonebreaker
• Weapon Balance
  • Anakonda and Gremlin recoil reduced

Grenadier

• Weapon Balance
  • Grenade Launchers max damage and damage decay decreased
  • Destructor projectiles now explode on any hit
  • Terminator recoil increased

Tank

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skills - Blitzkrieg and Unstoppable Force
    • Fixed bugs related to both of this skills. They now work as intended and are much more effective.

• Weapon Balance
  • All LMGs headshot damage increased
  • Brute accuracy and damage increased, but rate of fire decreased
  • Chainsaw accuracy increased slightly
  • Bruiser rate of fire and accuracy increased, but damage decreased

Shadow

• Class Traits and Skills
  • Skill - Swiftblade
    • Melee damage bonus increased from [strike]15%[/strike] to 20%
• Weapon Balance
  • All Swords damage increased

Fixes and Changes

• Performance stats added to the Home Screen
  • From now on, you look at some stats and check your performance at the Home Screen in the Main Menu. This screen is not final, so let us know what stats you’d like to see in the future.
• Damage Numbers added
  • While definitely not in it’s final form yet, damage numbers are back! Keeping track of damage dealt will be way easier.
• All weapons (except Sniper Rifles and Pistols) headshot damage increased
• All shotguns range increased slightly
• In-game chat messages not deleting fixed
  • Sometimes, if players talk non-stop or spam the in-game chat, the game would slow down and cause frame drops. That was due to a bug in which messages weren’t being deleted as they should. This is now fixed and shouldn’t happen anymore.
• Weapon icons on kill width to height ratio fixed
• In-game settings menu removed temporarily
  • This menu became bugged in the last update with the addition of new features to the outside game settings. This menu will return with the new HUD in the future, but for now, you can only change your settings outside of a match.
  
  [ 2016-05-10 20:37:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

New Class - Tank

• Class Traits and Skills

  
  
  • Trait - Regeneration and resistance
    • Huge health
    • Recovers 1% of max health per second
  • Skill - Well prepared
    • Tank receives +10% damage resistance, +15% headshot damage resistance and +20% explosive damage resistance.
  • Skill - Toughness
    • Tank gains +10% max health and +20% reload speed.
  • Skill - Provoke
    • When hit by enemy fire or grenades, Tank gains +15% damage and +30% accuracy for 5 seconds. Being hit while under the effect of Provoke refreshes the duration.
  • Skill - Blitzkrieg
    • While shooting, Tank gains +15% damage resistance and -10% movement speed. While not shooting, Tank gains +10% movement speed. This skill only works while using primary weapons.
  • Skill - Unstoppable Force
    • Tank gains +4% damage and +4% damage resistance. Additionally, Tank gains another stack of these buffs per kill. Caps at 3 kills (max 16% reload speed and 16% rate of fire).

• Available Weapons

  
  
  • Primary
    • Commando (Assault Rifle)
    • Bruiser (LMG)
    • Brute (LMG)
    • Prybar (LMG)
    • Chainsaw (LMG)
    • Mongoose (Shotgun)
  • Secondary
    • Blackhawk (Pistol)
    • Mammoth (Shotgun Pistol)
    • Rhino (Shotgun Pistol)
    • Agent (Pistol)

Berserker

Class Changes
• Trait - Map invisibility when running removed
• Weapon Distribution
  • Felon added as a primary weapon
    • Assault Rifle with higher DPS and movement speed, but lower range compared to other ARs
  • Whirlwind added as a secondary weapon
• Weapon Balance
  • Anakonda recoil reduced
  • Supernova hip-fire accuracy drastically increased and damage reduced
  • Whirlwind and Quickfix movement speed reduced
  • Whirlwind and Quickfix clip size and reserve ammo increased

Vanguard

Class Changes
• Trait - Health Regeneration on Kill
  • Vanguard doesn’t recover 10% health instantly on kill anymore. Instead, every time you kill an enemy, Vanguard recovers 2.5% health per second for 4 seconds. Killing another enemy while this effect is active adds 4 more seconds to the duration
• Skill - Regeneration
  • Makes Vanguard’s health regeneration trait become always active
• Weapon Distribution
  • Executioner as a primary weapon
    • Average AR with good hip fire accuracy
  • Stalker as a primary weapon
    • Good accuracy + grenade launcher secondary function
  • Heavy Metal as a secondary weapon
    • Substituting the other pistols he’s losing. Very similar to Switchblade in terms of balance.
  • Commando, Blackhawk and Switchblade removed
• Weapon Balance
  • Bonebreaker recoil reduced
  • Widower recoil when aiming reduced slightly

Wraith

Class Changes
• HP reduced to 150
• Weapon Balance
  • All Sniper Rifles aiming sensitivity increased slightly
  • Twister and Agitator damage reduced slightly
  • Twister and Agitator movement speed while aiming reduce slightly
  • Hydra damage and range increased
  • Hydra recoil decreased
  • Deadeye and Judge rate of fire increased
  • Judge hip-fire accuracy increased

Shadow

Class Changes
• HP increased to 160
• Weapon Distribution
  • Switchblade added as a primary weapon
  • Whirlwind removed
• Weapon Balance
  • Cyclone and Hurricane clip size and reserve ammo increased
  • Typhoon damage increased slightly
  • Scorpion damage decreased slightly
  • Switchblade and Persuader max ammo increased

Grenadier

Class Changes
• Trait - Explosion Resistance added
  • +50% explosions resistance
• Skill - Firearms Expert reworked
  • +10% damage, +10% rate of fire and +5 meters to range of all weapons
• Weapon Balance
  • All Grenade Launchers reload time decreased
  • All Grenade Launchers reload time decreased
  • Destructor explosion range and projectile force increased slightly
  • One Shot damage on direct hits reduced
  • Terminator recoil increased
  • Sawblade hip-fire accuracy increased

Fixes and Changes

• FOV and Aiming Sensitivity Sliders added to the Options Menu
• Reset Loadouts button added to the Options Menu
  • Restarting the game is necessary for changes to take place
• Aiming improved in both Toggle and Hold mode
  • Toggle now works instantly with semi-automatic rifles, even if the shooting animation is still running
• Hold received several upgrades and is much more responsive.
• All pistols crosshair changed
• Reload blend animation fixed
  • With some weapons, the sprinting and reloading animations didn’t blend well into each other.
• Voting for the same map that was last played disabled
  • We intend to test more with map drafts in the future, but, for now, this should encourage more map diversity.

Patch 1.1.3 - Release Notes Weapon Distribution Changes:

• Persuader changed to Shadow’s primary
• Blackhawk and Switchblade changed to Vanguard’s secondary
• Hydra changed to Wraith’s secondary

• Vanguard gained +10 health points and 5% movement speed
• Regeneration skill movement speed removed (8% -> 0%)
• Carelessness skill extra health reduced to 10% and damage reduction reduced to 12%.

• Arms and hands damage increased to 100%
• Legs damage reduced to 75%
• Shin damage reduced to 60%

• Health sometimes showing 1 more point than actual value fixed
• Damage Feedback Crosshair “staying active after dying” bug fixed
• Grenade Launcher explosion effects reduced in size and duration
• Fixed Snipers scope going invisible for a second
• Scorpion reserve ammo and clip size on UI fixed
• Quickfix reserve ammo and clip size on UI fixed

• Weapons now have a visible particle to represent bullets in 1st person

• Most weapons had Field of View changes to improve their look in 1st person.

• One shot projectiles now explode instantly on any hit
• Destructor projectiles now explode when hitting an enemy
• One shot and Destructor rate of fire reduced
• One shot and Destructor grenades AoE reduced.

• Piledriver and Jackhammer range reduced.

• Throw animation time increased.

Hello everyone! It is with imense joy that our team presents you our latest update, and biggest so far! In it you'll find: two new classes, a revamped and improved skill system, new weapons, new weapon distribution system, several balance changes and a lot of under the hood stuff to make the game look and run better. Once again, thank you for all your support and feedback. We're making this with you and for you. Read the full release notes clicking on the following link (the full notes were too big to post here!): http://steamcommunity.com/app/296300/discussions/1/412449508296124488/

Hello everyone! It is with imense joy that our team presents you our latest update, and biggest so far! In it you'll find: two new classes, a revamped and improved skill system, new weapons, new weapon distribution system, several balance changes and a lot of under the hood stuff to make the game look and run better. Once again, thank you for all your support and feedback. We're making this with you and for you. Read the full release notes clicking on the following link (the full notes were too big to post here!): http://steamcommunity.com/app/296300/discussions/1/412449508296124488/

Hello, guys! How’s everyone new year? Hope you’re all doing well! As you can see, we’re back from holidays and ready to roll! This year, however, we’re focusing on bigger updates, like the new UI update from December. To be more specific, right now we’re working on a brand new skill tree system that will replace the current one. This new system should simplify things both for new players and veterans, giving them more clear and substantial skills options. This also means we’re working to bring the other classes back to the game! You can read more about this new system on our forums: http://forum.aquiris.com.br/index.php?topic=856.0 So, you’ll probably no longer see one update every week, but rest assured we’re still working very hard to make Ballistic Overkill the best game for you! Also, we’re still very active around both Aquiris, Steam forums and social media, so keep sending us bug reports, suggestions and general feedback, it helps a lot! Thanks everyone for your support and have a wonderful year!

Hello, guys! As we bring you this last update of 2015, we’d like to go back and think about how exciting this year has been for all of us here at Aquiris Game Studio. We’re really happy with how things are coming along with Ballistic Overkill and we want to thank you all for your support, enthusiasm and feedback during these first 3 months of Early Access development. We accomplished our main goals for this year, having implemented the Dedicated Servers feature and part of the New UI in the game, but we still have a lot of ground to cover in 2016. Our plans are to tackle classes, skill tree rework and a new HUD early next year, so stay tuned to our Trello boards and forums! And now for the release notes!

Fixes
• Fixed Steam invites
• Fixed Server Browser map images
• Fixed Server Browser ping information (and ping sorting)
• Fixed glass particles
• Fixed Piledriver’s animation
• Fixed Hidra’s reload SFX

Weapon Balance
• Reduced AR and SMG headshot damage
• Reduced Shotguns headshot damage considerably Again, thank you all for the amazing support! Our team wishes you happy holidays and a wonderful new year, see you again in 2016!
  
  [ 2015-12-22 18:40:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thank you for all the quick feedback we received after this major update. We made some extra effort this weekend to make the game stable again and fix serious issues in the last build. Everyone should be able to play without so many crashes: - Improved overall stability. Play several matches in a row should not be a problem anymore. - Fixed resolution problems. If you had performance issues in the last build, you can now decrease your fullscreen resolution and the interface will remain in place. - MacOS version is also a lot more stable. Mac users can join the fight once again! We will keep testing to make sure everything run smoothly this time. Thank you for the support!

Hello everyone! We're super excited to release this massive update for you guys. As of today, you'll be tasting a little more of the Ballistic Overkill we're building with you for the future. Packed with the awesome new UI, we're giving you a all new soundtrack. If you love it as we do, rest assured that there's more coming! Note that this release is only affecting the UI outside the game. We're working on a really awesome new HUD and in-game screens for you guys. I'll share more on that soon! Alongside the new UI, we're also releasing two new maps: Hakim Library and Blackfield Hospital. Both are super cool to play in and full of new grounds for you to discover. If that wasn't good enough for a holiday gift, we're also implementing some performance optimization changes we did in the game! Overkill should run as smoothly as ever on your gaming machines. Remember to keep us informed and keep the feedback coming! Last, but certanly not least, some balance tweaks! Check them out: Sidearms

• All Sidearms rate of fire decreased and damage increased (except Bonebreaker and Hydra)
• Persuader damage increased slightly
• Hydra clip size and reserve ammo increased

• Damage and range increased

Hello everyone! Our team is glad to announce that as of today we are implementing dedicated servers in the game! You'll be able to create and host your own servers, with customizable settings. Such as Server Name and Maximum Player Capacity. Also, you can upload a custom banner to your server that will be displayed in the loading screen. That way the community will know your server or even your clan's server :) We'll be posting a tutorial on the forums on how to setup your dedicated server. If you should have any questions, please ask us in the thread. Tutorial: http://steamcommunity.com/app/296300/discussions/1/494631873668631430/ Note that we're still working on the new UI and we'll have more to say about that soon! Besides the dedicated server, we've also tweaked the balance of some of the weapons in game. Game Update & Improvements

Shotguns
• Anakonda reload time increased and accuracy reduced
• Anakonda recoil increased
• Gremlin accuracy reduced
• Bonebreaker accuracy reduced and reload time increased
• Jackhammer and Piledriver recoil increased
• Jackhammer and Piledriver accuracy reduced
• Jackhammer and Piledriver accuracy increased while aiming
• Jackhammer and Piledriver reload time reduced
• Jackhammer range increased
• Jackhammer fire rate increased
• Piledriver range decreased
• Piledriver damage increased and fire rate decreased

Assault Rifles
• Damage of all ARs decreased slightly
• ARs Headshot damage multiplier reduced slightly
• Widower and Strife accuracy while aiming reduced slightly
• Coyote fire rate increased
• Coyote secondary function damage increased
• Coyote secondary function recoil increased
• Blackguard fire rate increased and damage reduced

Other Fixes
• Judge and Interdiction mouse sensitivity reduced when aiming
• Judge and Interdiction zoom when aiming reduced
• Judge changed from semi-auto to auto

Hello Everyone! From now on, you'll be able to play with your friends in the Citadel map! The map has been fully ported to Unity 5 and looks better than ever! We've also fixed some issues regarding the altering of .dat files. We want to thank everyone for their patience, enthusiasm and trust in our team. Game Update & Improvements

• Play on Citadel! New map updated to Unity 5 looking better than ever!

• Fixed issue that allowed users to alter .dat files.

Hello Everyone! We’ve done a major revision on the Spawn Points of both teams in the map Overhead! This was long asked by our community and a major complaint regarding that particular map. Hope you guys like the changes as much as we do! Looking foward to hearing from you! Also, in this update, there is something very special happening outside the spotlight. We’ve included in the build a base-code layer to allow us to launch the dedicated servers system in the future! So be assured that we’re working hard on it and we’ll have more info to share on that soon! As always, we want to thank everyone for their patience, enthusiasm and trust in our team. Game Update & Improvements

• Overhead Spawn Point Revision. Those campers won’t get you now!
• Basic layer of code included in the build to allow us to implement the dedicated servers feature.

• Fixed a bug that altered Berserker’s True Grit skill behaviour.

Hey, Soldiers! We’ve been reading your feedback and the team really appreciates it! The biggest request that we have as of today is the dedicated servers feature, so we’re working on it! As of today, we’ve already started testing this system internally and we’ll be able to share more news about it in the upcoming weeks. Besides that, we are working on implementing the new UI, which will add a lot to your overall gameplay experience. So, as we’re working on such big features, we didn’t manage to release a small update this week. I hope you understand and rest assured that we are still working on major fixes. Stay tuned to our Trello Board and Forums for more news! Trello: https://trello.com/b/Sw21AFJx Forums: http://forum.aquiris.com.br/ Stick around and thank you so much for supporting us by playing and giving feedback!

Hello Everyone! Shortly, you'll be able to play with your friends in the Hollow map! The map has been fully ported to Unity 5 and looks better than ever! We want to thank everyone for their patience, enthusiasm and trust in our team. Game Update & Improvements

• Play on Hollow! New map updated to Unity 5 looking better than ever!

• Fixed “ghost” players appearing on radar.
• Revised collider’s geometry in the Nox Museum map.

Hello Everyone! With this update we aimed to improve your general experience while playing Ballistic Overkill. We added some new feedbacks, both in-game and while navigating the UI, fixed some issues related to the game’s resolution and much more. Please check the list below for the full description of this version. Also, as we keep working on the major game issues, we won't stop releasing quick fixes for the game. We want to thank everyone for their patience, enthusiasm and trust in our team. Game Update & Improvements

• Added Safe Area/Enemy Area UI Feedback
• A Pop-Up message is displayed when the host quits the match.
• Updated Loading Screen Tips!
• Added Portuguese localization to skill’s decriptions

• Fixed Fullscreen strange behaviour
• Revised collider’s geometry in the Nox Museum map
• Revised collider’s geometry in the Sunnsquare Mall map
• Crosshair hit-confirmation bug fixed. In previous versions, from time to time, the hit-confirmation feedback didn't work properly.

Hello Everyone! We're releasing today a substantial update! From now on, you'll be able to play with your friends in the Nox Museum! The map has been fully ported to Unity 5 and looks better than ever! Also, as we keep working on the major game issues, we won't stop releasing quick fixes for the game. We want to thank everyone for their patience, enthusiasm and trust in our team and we are happy to bring these extra changes on such short time. Game Update & Improvements

• Nox Museum Game Map now available for everyone!
• Health Stations now have HUD feedback!
• Server regions now color coded to indicate lower latency regions related to yours.
• Quick Match now prioritizing servers by regions!

Hello Everyone! We're releasing today a substantial update! From now on, you'll be able to play with your friends in the Nox Museum! The map has been fully ported to Unity 5 and looks better than ever! Also, as we keep working on the major game issues, we won't stop releasing quick fixes for the game. We want to thank everyone for their patience, enthusiasm and trust in our team and we are happy to bring these extra changes on such short time. Game Update & Improvements

• Nox Museum Game Map now available for everyone!
• Health Stations now have HUD feedback!
• Server regions now color coded to indicate lower latency regions related to yours.
• Quick Match now prioritizing servers by regions!

Hello Everyone! We keep working on the major game issues, but that doesn’t stop us from releasing a quick fix for the game. We want to thank everyone for their patience, enthusiasm and trust in our team and we are happy to bring these extra changes on such short time. Gameplay improvements

• A pop-up has been added to allow players to choose between creating a Private or Public match before

• Fixed a bug that caused players to appear as Vanguards despite their class on the Killcam.
• Fixed a bug that caused snipers to have a crosshair. Time to make a pen dot at the center of your monitor again no-scopers!

Game features

Early Access Classes

• The Vanguard– a master of field survival, capable of sustaining himself from for long killing sprees without ever returning to base.
  
• The Berserker – a deadly close combat specialist with vicious skills that enable him to engage his prey on his own terms.
  
• The Wraith – a master infiltrator that rarely misses their mark with the deadliest sniper rifles that can turn invisible with limited mobility.

Future Classes

• The Tank – a towering machine-gun totting bulwark of a mercenary, draw all the attention to you and live through it to tell your story.
  
• The Grenadier – the bane of the campers and master of ordnance, carrying enough grenades to gib out entire teams.
  
• The Shadow – master of speed and stealth, the silent blade can easily dodge bullets and make your enemies cry in frustration whenever you get them from behind.
  
• The Engineer – with his powerful exoskeleton, the engineer can carry the heaviest weaponry and a drone that can deploy as a guardian turret.
  
• The Medic – with his next-gen field medical gauntlet, the medic can boost nearby teammates and quickly revive them amidst a firefight.
  
• The Huntress – the master of stealth and silent kills, the huntress utilizes a custom-fitted arsenal of bows and arrows to stalk and take down their prey undetected.

Fully loaded arsenal

Tactical skills

Unique locations

Early Access maps

• Corporate park: a large map set in between two corporate towers that enables very strategic gameplay routes.
  
• Sunnsquare Mall: a multi-layered level where firefights can occur from every direction set in a luxurious downtown mall.
  
• Overhead: a compact warehouse filled with containers and moving platforms sets the tone for intense close-combat firefights.
  
• Hollow: a close-quarters focused map set in the bowels of a secret facility under construction.
  
• Nox Museum: a mix of long and multi-layered corridors and close quarters adjacent rooms makes this contemporary art museum an exciting battleground.

Future maps

• Hakim Library: a large arena with long-range fire lines surrounded by corridors and stairs set in a stylish library atop a skyscraper.
  
• Wonderdome: a sniper-friendly map set in the “outdoors” of a research facility greenhouse.
  
• Citadel: an underground data center that offers many different interconnected areas with many horizontal action battlefields.
  
• Blackfield Hospital: a harrowing abandoned mental hospital in the heart of a metropolis that hides secrets that could change everything.

Game Universe

Long term development

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