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Patch 1.1.5 - Balance Changes and Damage Numbers

Berserker

Berserker became a bit overshadowed by the other classes in the last update with the removal of his map invisibility while sprinting. In this update, we’re also removing his extra speed trait, but in return, we’re adding a new trait.

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

Until now, it was almost impossible to land a perfect shot with Grenade Launchers. We want GLs to be rewarding. With a slightly lower damage decay, it should be a bit easier to land great shots. To compensate, GLs max damage was reduced slightly.

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

Tank

Tank just arrived in the last patch and, while we feel he’s mostly in a good spot, his LMGs have been underperforming. We made a few changes to improve diversity and effectiveness.

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

Shadow is overall in a pretty good spot. However, we feel that, outside of the great movement speed and backstabs, Swords are not that much of a threat. To fix that, the damage of all Swords was increased as well as the damage bonus from Swiftblade.

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 ]

Ballistic Overkill

Aquiris Game Studio Developer

Aquiris Game Studio Publisher

2017-03-28 Release

Action Indie Casual Tags

Game News Posts: 78

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Mostly Positive (7077 reviews)

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The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Ballistic Overkill Linux [1.75 G]

Available DLCs:

Ballistic Overkill - Berserker: Veteran
Ballistic Overkill - Grenadier: Zombie
Ballistic Overkill - Marksman: Zombie
Ballistic Overkill - Vanguard: Crusader
Ballistic Overkill - Shadow: Ninja
Ballistic Overkill - Tank: Elite
Ballistic Overkill - Vanguard: Elite
Ballistic Overkill - Vanguard: SpecOps
Ballistic Overkill - Wraith: Elite
Ballistic Overkill - Marksman: Secret Agent
Ballistic Overkill - Shadow: Red Leader
Ballistic Overkill - Grenadier: Mad Bomber
Ballistic Overkill - Shadow: Guerrilha
Ballistic Overkill - Wraith: La Muerte

Ballistic Overkill is a fast paced PvP shooter. Easy pick up and play, no complicated setups or rules: it’s kill or be killed!

A new form of energy was discovered 15 years ago. Clean, safe and abundant, it changed the course of civilization. It’s 2035 and a secret war surfaces for the first time as megacorporations fight for the control of the energy, hiring armies of highly skilled mercenary soldiers!

Game features

Select a role from one of the unique game characters, each with their own skill tree and weapon arsenal. On the full game you’ll be able to level up to unlock additional loadouts and weapon skins to show off your experience with it. Mercenaries are designed to compliment each other’s skills, but each is fully capable of delivering insane frags on the battlefield: no wimpy support classes, in Ballistic everyone is a killer!

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

Starting with an arsenal of 24 unique weapons on our Early Access, we’ll quickly expand ranging from state of the art modern assault rifles, light machine guns, sub-machine guns, machine-pistols, shotguns, sniper rifles and sidearms to more specialized ones like grenade launchers and ninja swords. There is ever a new way to kill your enemies in Ballistic.

Tactical skills

Each character has two unique skill-trees designed to allow you great strategic and tactical advantages over your opponents: each has many options so make sure to try and come up with a build that fits your playstyle: Do you prefer to run and gun with extra damage for sprinting? Or take a more strategic approach and reveal enemies on the minimap for you and your friends?

Unique locations

Each level is crafted to deliver a unique atmosphere and allowing four gameplay modes. Starting from the 3 maps available at the start of the Early Access, we already have 9 maps to be released.

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

A new form of energy was discovered 15 years ago. Clean, safe and abundant, it changed the course of civilization. It’s 2035 and a secret war surfaces for the first time...

It happened faster than anyone could have predicted. Scientists found a bacterial moss living in the most extreme and remote places of the world that could do a strange form of photosynthesis, releasing Hydrogen in gaseous form as a byproduct. By means of artificial cultivation in large scale, H2 burning would fuel the world into a new era of clean energy with pure water as a byproduct. Seeing how their grasp on power would soon end, oil mega-corporations seized what control they had on global politics and made sure that this breakthrough be maintained under tight control.

The MFA has claimed a monopoly on this technology, regulating distribution, production and further research, claiming that this is the best way to provide everyone with access to it. Many other private parties do not agree with the terms of this monopoly, their opinion that only the free market can truly defend people's interest without the rampant corruption that runs in political organizations.

The war begun when mysterious mercenary strikes were launched on several MFA facilities across the globe, all related with MFA governmental activities. The MFA itself doesn’t want much information about their actions being divulged, so decided to fight back hiring their own mercenary forces who could neutralize the threat as soon as possible. These mercenaries are highly trained mysterious fighters from across the globe. They have no loyalty but to their current contract, no interests but to accomplish their missions as both sides are fighting this war in secrecy from the public attention.

Long term development

Ballistic has been in the making for a few years. What started out as a purely F2P browser game developed for a publisher has evolved to be our passionate self-published game. After bringing it to the market with a publishing partner, we are now assuming full control of the product, and we feel there is an audience that will enjoy the game with no microtransactions and a complete overhaul. We have worked hard on the foundation of Ballistic Overkill and will start as an Early Access game so our player community can give us feedback from the very start, helping us shape what this new Ballistic will be.

The game will receive constant updates and extra content. You can expect new weapon packs, characters, game modes and levels that are already in the works as well as weapon and character skin vanity DLC to show-off on the battlefield. You can check our plans and track our development on our forums and public task board, voting on what features you want in the game first. We hope you like it and take your time to participate in the game’s development, it is being made by us for you, so help us make it even better! We are committed to bringing this vision to reality and your support is very much appreciated. See you in-game!

About us

AQUIRIS is an independent game studio based in the city of Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. We started 7 years ago doing casual games and work for hire, we did everything from web games, to mobile, to PC. In 2010 we started the development of Ballistic, our most ambitious game to date. Now we bring you the best version of Ballistic ever, filled with the experience we had so far, the game we want to play!

Join our active players community and take part in the development while we complete and evolve the game:

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Linux Ubuntu 12.04 or newer
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHZ or betterMemory: 2 GB RAM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or betterNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 4 GB available space
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: Linux Ubuntu 12.04 or newer
Processor: Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz or betterMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 200 Series or betterNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 8 GB available space

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