New loot to hack, new Sprites to befriend, Power Hours this weekend, and another round of quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes - details below!
Loot Pool and Override Updates
New Loot Hacks
A new batch of loot is up for hacks, including Finger Guns. Pew pew! 👉👉
Thorne’s Vampiric Blade
Finger Guns
Gatekeeper Shotgun
Hunting Rifle
Slap Splash
All Sprite Variants
Vaulted
Midas' Masterpiece (Rift Anomaly)
Witch Broom (Pocket Item)
Super Shot, Big Boom, Action Hero, Healing Overdrive (Overrides)
Balance Adjustments
Sweeper Shotgun: Slightly increased fire rate.
New Sprites & Rewards
Honey Sprite (Design A Sprite Winner!): Chance to spawn bees at the hit location upon dealing damage with a ranged weapon.
One Wish Willow Sprite: Extract enemies’ equipped Sprites upon elimination and push nearby enemies away when damaged. You’ll be marked on the map if you remove it, so be careful!
The final page of Sprite Mastery rewards is now available, including new Quack Sprites and a new Style for the Pixel Polli Outfit! Quack Sprite boosts every Sprite you’re carrying with an extra Sprite XP whenever it gains XP.
Power Hours: Trick or Treat Sprites | October 17
The hunt is on this Saturday, October 17 - everyone’s dropping in with an enhanced Freddy’s Nightmare in hand. Don’t doze off.
🕑 Starts at 2 PM ET | 6 PM UTC
🕘 Second round starts at 9 PM ET | Sunday, 1 AM UTC
🧤 Freddy’s Nightmare is yours from the jump - move faster while equipped and slash through the unwary
🍬 Trick or Treat Sprite variant appears more often
🪙 1-Up Tokens and Portable Extractors may drop from Chests
✅ Bug Fixes, Improvements & Adjustments
General
Weak Points once again appear when hitting a destructible object on Nintendo Switch 2.
Fixed an issue where the Lock Input Method as Mouse setting prevented controller and mouse inputs from working together properly.
The Shield Potion's slurp glow effect no longer incorrectly lingers on your character until the end of the match.
Cosmetics
Added new Locker sorting options - sort your items by Most Used, Last Used and Least Used.
Fixed an issue where randomized Locker presets and loadouts didn’t shuffle correctly when queuing into the next match with “Play Again”.
The Randomize option in the Locker now consistently randomizes the equipped item.
Fixed an issue where the hair on both Madison Beer Outfits displayed white highlights.
Both Madison Beer Outfits now correctly animate facial expressions while emoting on Mobile.
The Air Pilot Style now correctly displays on The Guardian Outfit.
The Ironmouse Worm Back Bling is no longer hidden by Decora Ironmouse’s hair.
Skillet’s head fur no longer disappears on high graphics while using certain Emotes.
Added the missing Porsche 911 Turbo name and description in the Locker.
The FNCS Scythe Pickaxe is now correctly listed as part of the FNCS set.
Gold Punk's glow no longer appears sharp-edged around the mouth and right eye socket.
Characters’ faces no longer appear distorted at the end of the Test Your Might Emote.
The contrail on the Peely Heelys Kicks no longer appears dimmer on the right foot.
The Sugar on My Tongue Emote now appears when filtering the Locker by Emotes.
The 2D’s Mic Pickaxe and Back Bling now note “Selectable Styles” in their item descriptions.
Discover
Discover got a new look! With today’s update, you may notice a refreshed Discover - this is rolling out gradually, coming to more players over time. Expect more expressive tiles and modules, videos that play as you browse, a cleaner logo treatment, new tile shapes and more. Let us know what you think!
Gameplay & Environment
Like-for-Like Weapon Upgrades
Walk over a higher-rarity version of a weapon you’re carrying and you’ll automatically swap up!
To try it out, go to Settings > Game > Combat and make sure your Auto Pick Up Weapons setting is toggled on.
Holding the Sprint button while strafing and then moving forward once again triggers sprint as intended.
Fixed an issue where setting the Forward Diagonal Angle to 77 or higher slowed sideways movement.
The Mega Buster’s charged shot once again deals its intended area damage.
You'll no longer get stuck after defeating and possessing one of Freddy’s Animatronics.
Fixed an issue where the Prop Hunt Override didn’t visually transform you into a prop the first time you used it.
Fixed an issue where the Hunter Scavenger Override caused the enemy-marking sound to play on repeat while you were in the Storm.
Fixed a bug where you could get stuck rolling after deploying your Glider just before hitting the terrain at Stone Sanctum.
Fixed an issue where custom keyboard bindings for certain Vehicles didn’t apply in-game and reverted to default.
Slightly reduced head sizes on certain Outfits (e.g. Bugs Bunny, Sonic the Hedgehog, Decora Ironmouse) so they don’t block your view while aiming down sights in Big Head Mode.
Fixed overlapping Cheat Codes in Wonkeeland that couldn’t be interacted with.
Moved a Cheat Code at Golden Grove that couldn’t be reached in Zero Build.
The Guardian no longer spawns under the terrain as a Hired Follower.
Fixed an issue in Horde Rush where the Surgefire SMG didn’t appear fully when found as floor loot.
UI
The Gizmo Wheel no longer overlaps or stops working when visiting Geno’s Machine.
PC
Made additional stability improvements.
Improved issue reporting on Intel video cards when GPU Crash Debugging is enabled in video settings.
Fixed launch crashes that could occur on certain AMD video cards.
Fixed an issue where some players would receive hotfixes with a delay.
Mobile
Auto Fire will no longer mistrigger when the Loot Hack menu is open.
Fixed an issue where the push notification telling you a download was complete never arrived.
Sprite and Override effects UI can now be repositioned in the HUD Layout Tool to prevent overlaps with custom layouts.
Fixed an issue where Reboot Vans couldn’t be activated by tapping their on-screen icon.
For other fixes, improvements and known issues in v42.40, check out this post.
See you in the new update! 🎃
The BR Dev Team
