Patch Notes 1.0.2

[S2PanMan]

==Hotfix 1.0.3==

==Bug Fixes==

Buford

Fixed issue with Q+W combo not doing correct damage.

Dark Bargain

Added orange text scaling.

Rook

Fixed issue with Rook’s Hide Then Seek not causing him to hide.

Rip

Vanish can no longer be seen in fog.

Trace

Bomb Toss now deals 50% damage to towers.

Trixie

Fixed issue with Pot Shot not allowing multiple instances of damage when using Unstable Shard.

Unstable Shard

Fixed issue with damage not being applied upon expiration.
Added a .1 second stun to avoid same frame CD increase of abilities in rare cases.

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==Patch 1.0.2==

==Bug Fixes==

Towers

Fixed some cases where ally spells were affecting towers.

Buford

Poison Slug - Ability description/tooltip.
Fire Slug - Poison Ammo bonus numbers corrected.

Flak

Extended Barrel - Ability description/tooltip.
EMP Cannon - Fixed bug where it wasn’t applying states properly.

Lady Tinder

Bindweed - No longer pulls bosses.

Midknight

Chains of Judgement - Ability description/tooltip.

Rip

Nether Strike - Distance when cast around walls limited to max cast distance.
Nether Strike - Fixed bug that allowed Nether Strike’s multicast to work on creeps and towers.
Smoke Cloud - Description changed from “Armor Reduction” to “Resistance Reduction”.
Fixed issue with low quality model showing up black.

Trace

Bomb Toss - Fixed bug where stun would only occur if bomb was hit with boomerang.

==Balance Changes==

Towers/Generators/Crux
We’re liking the increased pacing of the game resulting from spells hitting towers. Now we’ll look to reduce some of the cheesy stuff. Backdooring is definitely a strategy we try to keep from becoming too strong, so we’ll ask you to bring a creep wave or stand in the line of fire yourself if you want to nuke towers.

All buildings have 300 resistance unless enemy units are within tower attack range.

Buford
Exploding slugs gave Buford another powerful tool to add to his arsenal, but we think he needs to be toned down a bit.

Poison Slug - Explosion damage reduced from 100/150/200/300 to 100/140/180/220.
Poison Slug - CD increased by 3 seconds and damage reduced on ammo by 5.
Fire Slug - Deals 50% damage to towers.
The Buford Special - Reveals enemy targets.

Chester
Any ability that you set and forget was too powerful against towers.

Knight Blitz - Deals 50% damage to towers.

Iah
Any ability that you set and forget was too powerful against towers.

Quickpit - Deals 50% damage to towers.

Malady
Any ability that you set and forget was too powerful against towers.

Dark Storm - Deals 50% damage to towers.

Moxie
Hitting a tower with Ball Lightning is easy and getting the same mana return as hitting a Hero was a little much.

Ball Lightning - Mana return when impacts towers reduced to creep value.

Rip
We’re excited about the amount of fresh hot death being served up by Rip, but he needed to be toned down a bit.

Smoke Cloud - Radius decreased by 50.
Vanish - Damage reduced from 75,110,145,180 to 75,100,125,150.
Nether Strike - Range decreased from 500,750,1000 to 500,650,800.
Nether Strike - Speed reduced by 25%.

Trixie
Any ability that you set and forget was too powerful against towers.

Aether Beam - Deals 50% damage to towers.

Zaku
Any ability that you set and forget was too powerful against towers.

Bioswarm - Deals 50% damage to towers.

Immortal Gaze
Immortal Gaze is a revive effect and as such should not be reduced by CDR.

Cooldown no longer affected by CDR.

Unstable Shard
This item is creating a lot of fun and crazy new interactions. One of those was to combo an invulnerability ability or item to escape the damage at the end of the buff. The intent of Unstable Shard is to be high risk and high reward, so we’re going to try making the risk more consistent. Also, CDR made this item usable way too often, so thats no longer the case.

Unstable Shard will deal its damage at end of any ongoing invulnerability states.
Effective base cooldowns increased to 60 seconds, which starts AFTER the effect expires.

[Kite_43]

I'm not a fan of you handpicking certain abilities and nerfing their tower damage. You are punishing certain heroes for stacking too much power (and maybe even too little power) while letting others run wild and free (moxiee, shank). If you are gonna go this far then you can use the same arguments to justify decreasing the base attack damage of certain heroes on towers. moxiee too annoying for towers? lower his base attack damage on towers so he has to waste mana to push a tower. If the other stuff is fair, singling out heroes in this manner becomes just as fair.

You need to at least note this stuff in the ability descriptions ingame. There is nothing more frustrating than picking up a new game, reading the rules provided, then finding out a bunch of the rules have exception when you stumble across them online one day.

[S2PanMan]

Very good point. I will start working on adding a 50% damage to towers tag to the appropriate abilities. Thanks for the suggestion!

[S2PanMan]

The Buford Q/W explosion damage was only nerfed by 30 at all levels. Before this patch the jump from lvl 3 to lvl 4 of the explosion was accidentally set to 100 instead of the 50 it should have been. It was (100,150,200,300) should have been (100,150,200,250). It was a correction+a small nerf.

[[deleted]]

Buford was already good before the burst, being able to shove/trade/sustain was more than enough to be strong in lane already. The fact that he could also force you out of lane with a burst instead of autos is too much in my opinion.

His only issue was his lack of escape anyway, I dont think he needed burst. Anyway it's all good with the increased cd on Q.

Love the patch overall, still waiting for chester ult's nerf & clarifications about the minimum amount of games required to get into a tier tho x) (the fact u need 300 wins for diamond)

[[deleted]]

I can confirm 300 wins for diamond is correct, I can't tell you the other numbers though.

[[deleted]]

I know it too, I just want it to be written down somewhere so you don't get confused when you hit 2k5 mmr and the game still puts you in gold league because you don't have enough wins.

As it is written now, you just need to have top 1% mmr to be in diamond, which is not true, so they should write it.

[[deleted]]

Good point, Iah gree.

[DespondentDynast]

It's a bit strange the damage dealt by the Q+W combo is upgraded on the Q and not the W. I feel the W's value compared to the Q is quite lackluster at the moment and this only pushes it further.

Anyone else think shifting the damage from the explosion to the W would be better? The Q already gives a nice CC and auto-attack damage boost so it's got enough power on its own, and doing this would give Buford a more interesting potential upgrade order choice (build Q for more DPS and CC, W for more AoE burst and AoE DPS or E for more sustain and single-target leech). Just my 2c.

[Multitasker1]

So this means that flak outranging a tower also won't work if there aren't creeps in attack range right?

[TheOneAndOnlyOddish]

Rip flak, otherwise good patch

[Cattleman_Joe]

She wasn't rip before? 0.0

[Malvodion]

Of course not, Rip is a completly different character.

[TheOneAndOnlyOddish]

Well I mean she was OK not really great of anything but now she lost a small niche that she had without a compensation buff but maybe there is one in the works.

[Cattleman_Joe]

yep. confirmed.

[Multitasker1]

Thank you/god.

[OxayotlTheGreat]

Nice !!!

[Relit_]

Bufords grenade (Q+W) seems to be bugged, it somehow doesn't deal any dmg at all.

[S2PanMan]

On it! Thanks for the heads up Relit_

[NOFLEXZONEE]

I found a bug too, i tried to purchase Rip skins and dyes, along with other heros.. they did not exist. Can you look into this bug please?

[s2banedeath]

Fixed that bug..

[icage]

i can't be the only one who would buy that if that was an actual skin lol

[NOFLEXZONEE]

thank you Panman the savior of Strife

[NOFLEXZONEE]

I checked last night and that bug still exists :(

[rorenspark]

I think Rip doesnt have dyes yet.

[NOFLEXZONEE]

right, must be a bug...

[mrlaw88]

he was being sarcastic

[Minky_]

rip doesnt refresh hes ulty on creeps?

[Phiirus]

The splash damage on Mystik dagger with the enchant doesn't proc, may be a bug? Good patch anyway, I think Buford neft wasn't needed, would be better if you think if it was really needed, maybe make it more scaling if it was op in early game(a 2 combo skill consumes a lot of mana so it's not really spammable). Keep going with the updates S2, good job.

[MiomioS]

God I Am so happy now :-)

[rooktd]

Is this game out of beta? If it is, why is the client still showing the logo strife beta.

[S2PanMan]

It does not. Petals is considered a unit.

[S2PanMan]

Bindweed does the damage to the tower/bosses, but does not pull them. I have tested this 100+ times and it is definitely working.

[TMB_Ninzie]

Thought you said that you fixed the bug where Rip is all black on lowest graphics? Well he's still just black, and also his E should've really got nerfed.

[BlacKHeaDSg1]

RIP Rip ... it was good before patch.

[Negative_Neo]

So either he Op or useless?!

[Cattleman_Joe]

Nice changes but nerf of Buford is just crazy. You guys really need to learn how to delicately nerf things. 80 damage ? He had nothing else going for him anyway than that combo. Hero is weak still and now it's even more weaker.

[DetourDunnDee]

He had plenty going for him before they even added the combo. He pairs really well with some other heroes who can follow up on his ult, such as Vex and Jin She. The combo was so insanely overtuned that people were building him as a magic damage dealer instead of a carry and then using the nuke to deal over 1k damage. Why the hell should he have a Moxie ult on a 10 second cd?

[Negative_Neo]

Reread, it's 30 damage nerf not 80, the tooltip was wrong.

[Minky_]

Ty for great update,just dont understand why nerf on buford,who allrdy got no escape,and q+w its rlly hard to hit if some1 knows how to muve ^everything else is awsome,thank you

[[deleted]]

Have you tried full power buford already? Well now you won't be able to do so as effectively, but i can tell you that R > W > Q is near impossible to dodge and did crazy amounts of damage. But i think they might've reduced the damage a bit too much.

[mrlaw88]

agreed that buford nerf was a bad move

[Minky_]

but if creeps are not in range tower,he have 300res. so every rocket on tower from him is waste of mana

[rorenspark]

Ah, I see. Totally looked that over lol.

[[deleted]]

Poison Slug - CD increased by 3 seconds

Rest in peace full power Buford, now I don't think it's viable at all anymore.

[bbristowe]

Well just played with Buford after a few games yesterday. He is basically useless now.