Patch 16.0: The Invasion Begins

Ranking/Rating Changes

• We are making several adjustments to the current ranking system with the following goals:

• Make it harder to achieve Legendary Rating
• Decrease the time to climb to your expected Rating range once you reach Legendary
• Reduce the punishment for not hitting 10 wins at high rating values

Legendary players now start at 800 Rating

Rating losses have been significantly reduced, more so at the lower wins end

Reduced the ranking point changes for Gold and Diamond tier, requiring a higher average wins to achieve the next tier

Economy Changes

• Starting Income 5 (from 7)
• We are trying to shift some stuff around in the economy, so we are lowering the base Income but improving a variety of economy nodes

Tournament Mode Testing

• Tournament Mode has arrived for Public Testing
• As this is a testing environment, please be aware that there may be bugs, interruptions and unannounced downtime/maintenance of this branch
• In order to play Tournament Mode, you must manually switch to the Public Test Realm branch on Steam

• You can do this by right-clicking on the Bazaar in your Steam Library, selecting Properties and finding Game Versions and Betas
• Enter the following Steam Access Code under Private Versions to unlock the Branch: 17IR8wb70MJOxCCh
• Once the version is unlocked, you can select PTR in the list
• This will initiate a download
• Note that you will need to use this same menu to return back to the normal version of the game

After the game updates, you will need to create a new account

• This account will only be usable on this branch and does not interact with your normal Bazaar account

If the game doesn't load properly, try using Verify Game Files as switching branches like this can often cause issues

Tournament Mode can be freely shared/streamed by all

Season 16 Updates

Leaderboard Rewards for Season 15

• Arsonist Champion (Rank 10 and up)
• Arsonist Paragon (Rank 100 and up)
• Arsonist Elite (Rank 1000 and up)

Prize Pass updates

• The Dunes (Carpet)
• Gnash Stash (Stash)

Chests additions

• Daughter Day Jules (Jules Skin)
• Alchemical Rigor Mak (Mak Skin)
• Item Skins for Dooley and Jules

Encounters

Annexed Army (Monster)

• Day 10
• Diamond-tier

Aurora Dome (Encounter)

• Diamond-tier
• Days 8+
• Improve your items without a CD

Capital Punisher

• Day 7
• Gold-tier

Farmer's Market (Encounter)

• Diamond-tier
• Jules Only
• Days 8+
• Improve your Food items

Launch Tower (Encounter)

• Diamond-tier
• Stelle Only
• Days 8+
• Improve your Flying items

Private Pitchfork

• Gold-tier
• Days 6+
• Sells neutral items

Robotics Factory (Encounter)

• Diamond-tier
• Stelle and Dooley
• Days 8+
• Improve your Tech items

Salvage Yard (Encounter)

• Diamond-tier
• Days 4+
• Transform your Stash items into Loot items based on their tags

Stickybeans

• Gold-tier
• Days 6+
• Sells items from other Heroes

Tomb of the Ancients (Encounter)

• Diamond-tier
• Mak Only
• Days 8+
• Improve your Relics

Wishing Fountain (Encounter)

• Gold-tier
• All Days
• Make a wish for random items

Encounter Changes

Free Item Encounters (Right Side Options)

• These now have rarity and give items of that rarity
• These will generally offer, on average, higher rarity than you can get in shops or other nodes on the same day

Apothecary (Encounter)

• Double node now costs 5 gold (from 10)

Borrow

• Days 1-2 only

Byg

• He is champion, why is he Silver-tier?
• Now Legendary-tier

Cache of Riches

• Gold 5/7/10 (from 3/4/5)

Farai

• Gold-tier again
• This returns Farai back to normal after the Event
• Corrected an issue where the options Farai spawns if you have a package appears in a random order

Futura

• Upgrade items 1 Tier (instead of to Gold)

Invest in Yourself

• Income 1/2/3 (Days 1/2, Days 3/4, Days 5/6)

Library

• Day 3+

Look for Spare Change

• Now spawns 4 Spare Change

Mod Squad (Monster)

• Gained an interesting new item
• Beautiful Friendship is now Silver-tier

Mountain Pass

• Reduced some of the Gold rewards from this Encounter

Strange Mushroom

• Trade it for something now gives a Medium item

The Tester

• Dooley and Stelle
• Day 1+
• Hero items only

Truffle Farming

• Now spawns 2 Truffles

Wink

• Now gives 10 Prestige

Common

• Corrected a number of tag and hidden tag inconsistencies with Skills

Creeping Chill, Frostfire, Initial Chill, Paralytic Poison and Stunning Strike (Skills)

• Standardized these to 2/3/4 second(s)

Finesse Shield

• Added to Jules, Stelle and Karnok (from Dooley only)
• The first 4/8 times you Haste, charge a Shield item 1 second

The following items now start at Silver-tier:

• Gorgon Spore, Icicle, Lag-bolt, Magma Core, Spark Plug

Candy Mail

• At the end of a fight with this, adjacent items permanently gain \[20/40/60/80] Shield and permanently Destroy this

Dragon Wing

• CD 6 (from 7)

Epicurean Chocolate

• At the end of a fight with this, adjacent items permanently gain \[20/40/60/80] Damage and permanently Destroy this

Junkyard Club

• When you sell this, get 2 Loot items (from +Damage)

Junkyard Repairbot

• When you sell this, get 2 Loot items (from +Heal)

Raffle Ticket

• When you Level Up, set this item's value to a number between 0 and \[5/10/20/40]

Reroll Token

• Shiny now spawns another Reroll token

Super Syrup

• At the end of a fight with this, adjacent items permanently gain \[10/20/30/40]% Crit Chance and permanently Destroy this

Temporary Shelter

• CD 6
• Shield \[60/120/240/480]
• When you sell this, get 2 Scrap
• No longer scales Shield

Dooley

Ancient Technology (Skill)

• Your leftmost Relic has +1 Multicast

Data Transfer (Skill)

• When you use a tech item, your items gain +\[2/4/6] (from adjacent items gain \[3/6/9])

Liquid Cooled (Skill)

• \[2/4] triggers (from \[5/10])
• No longer has a size restriction

Primal Energy (Skill)

• Damage buff to \[5/10/20/40]

Well-oiled Machine (Skill)

• When you use a Core, reduce an item's CD by 8% (from 5%)

3D Printer

• starts at Diamond-tier

Angry Balloon Bot

• CD 5 (from \[7/6])
• Damage \[25/50] (from 10)

Armored Core