MORDHAU – #18 Patch Notes & HOTFIXES

Coming with this update is a variety of content and gameplay additions - starting off, we hope you'll enjoy our newest weapon, the Polehammer. This weapon features high damage coupled with considerable reach, although it's definitely not the most agile - make sure to keep a backup for close quarters!

A new weapon - the Polehammer That's not all, however, as Viking-lovers haven't been forgotten - make sure to give the new Round Shield a go for some serious defensive capabilities.

All new Round Shield + skins for the Heater and Targe Aside from weapons, we've added quite a bit more in terms of new cosmetics to the game, improved server stability and optimization, some minor horde improvements, and of course a host of balance and gameplay improvements. Also, 80-player Invasion/Frontline servers will be making a return for select regions as well.

Swiss Saber - Messer Set

Assortment of some of the new cosmetics While there aren't a ton of major changes this update, there are quite a few minor improvements that we believe you'll enjoy! Make sure to check out the full changelog below. Have fun!

We have also added some new emotes! Gameplay

Servers are now split into 48 and 80 player servers in Europe and North America. Players can now select their desired playercount via checkboxes in the matchmaker
Added new weapon: Polehammer
Added new shield: Round Shield
Added German sallet & variations
Added Swiss saber skin set for the messer
Added Archer’s sallet
Added Archer’s bracer with variations
Added Italian armet with 7 variations
Added Short poleaxe skin for heavy handaxe
Added Knightly coat of plates
Added two new maille over gambeson skirts
Added Hauberk
Added Reinforced greathelm & winged variant
Added Italian rapier & Decorated Italian rapier skins
Added Savoyard helmet & variations
Added Cuirassier arms, pauldrons & gauntlets
Added Joined hosen & variations
Added Clad veteran chest
Added heater shield skin
Added targe shield skin
Added short maille sleeves over cloth
Added hood under helmet as head and/or coif slots
Readjusted Elizabethan Legs
Allowed for some missing combinations with the existing armory
Duel mode no longer allows bandages, medkit and flesh wound. Disabled health regen in duel mode. From now on certain perks will be banned in ranked play and we recommend competitive players to copy these rules.
You can now select loadouts with banned equipment/perks, those will be removed/disabled on spawn instead.
Updated mod.io plugin
Many fixes to mod downloads, should fix problems with joining modded servers
Server admins of modded servers no longer need to specify ServerModAuthToken and subscribe to mods, instead mods are installed by adding a Mods= line for each mod under the [/Script/Mordhau.MordhauGameSession] ini section
Improvements to backend, improving the gold/xp situation and community server stability
Bots can now use ladders
Bots can now climb surfaces

Combat

Added new Miss detector 5000 - this is a new mechanic that will detect misses of enemies while the player is in the parry window and reduce the parry recovery by a huge amount, sending the player to idle much quicker. Plays a sound and faster animation when it triggers. Heavily nerfs missing on purpose in 1vX scenarios and fixes unparryable miss combos in 1v1.
Added new glancing blow calculation based on who players parried - this will remove spinning with ripostes from duels and make those spins glance now, without affecting teamplay or target switching.
Maximum lunge reduced by 15cm (15ms) - this makes 120cm the new maximum and means that every weapon shorter than 120cm had its lunge reduced very slightly
Maximum strike release reduced 25ms, making 500ms the new max. This means weapons with 525ms strike release now have 500ms strike release. Only affects 525ms release weapons. Reduces float.
Parry window reduced 15ms (recovery increased with 10ms ontop, total parry time now 950ms up from 940ms - also nerfs double parries very slightly)
Strike chamber window reduced 15ms
Stab chamber window reduced 10ms
Strike riposte early release increased 1% (Makes riposte accels hit very slightly slower)
Reduced knockback across the board
Chase mechanic activation time increased 100ms (0.4 -> 0.5)
Undercut glance reduced 5%
Kicks now ignore hand hitboxes again, fixing “hand kicks” for good
Slow kick timer is no longer bound to feint lockout and now uses a global 450ms timer instead across all weapons. This should fix very fast kicks right after a feint on slower weapons.
Jump kick slowed down 75ms
Jump kick can no longer be feinted
Morph to kick slowed down 25ms
Kicks now have bonus damage on headshots again (5)
Disarms now force slow kick for a short time
Third person camera changed to a centered view
Better spawn invulnerability, fixes dying to trebuchets etc.
Updated CombatTest - now has experimental buckler rework and two new prototype weapons, fix for backparries, experimental new chase mechanic & more
Added second combat test map (CombatTest_Casual) with new, more fluid experimental combat based around timed parry with a very short recovery. Full description on the map.

Weapons & Equipment

Heater, Kite and Round shield now have a significantly bigger parry window compared to regular parry (115ms bigger), making them much stronger against drags etc. Stamina negation has been reduced.
Shield wall turncap is now less strict, shield wall movement speed now faster
Shields now cover less of the screen in first person
Firepot fire now slightly bigger, covers a round area
Firepot direct hit damage buffed to 10 (from 5)
Firepot wood damage increased 35% (one pot will now fully destroy toolbox walls that are not being repaired instead of leaving them standing at low health)
Firepot now starts damage 150ms faster (1.5s -> 1.35s)
Maul raw damage to armored torsos (T2,T3) reduced by 10
Maul miss recovery on strike and stab increased 100ms
Halberd main mode combos 25ms faster
Halberd alt mode strike damage increased by 2 across the board
Halberd now cheaper
Battle Axe main mode strike damage against plate torso increased to 45
Longsword main mode strike windup slowed down 10ms
Estoc chamber stamina cost raised to 15 (from 10)
Estoc stab turncap now slightly more strict
Arming sword stamina drain reduced slightly
Rapier strike release reduced 25ms
Shortspear range reduced 5cm
Shortspear stab windup slowed down 25ms
Shortspear stab stamina drain reduced by 1
Reduced sledgehammer stamina drain slightly
Smith perk repair bonus reduced to 33% from 50%
Friendly perk reduced to 1 point cost
Tenacious perk reduced to 1 point cost
Wrecker perk cost reduced to 2 points
Scavenger point cost increased to 2 points
Flesh wound buffed, no longer sets stamina to 0
Fixed shovel leg damage
Toolbox can no longer build directly around players/vehicles

Visuals & Misc

Added 4 emotes, Point, Wave, Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down.
Fixed server-side constrain aspect ratio setting messing with FOV
Fixed exploit relating to 1p/3p camera switch spam
Fixed some cases of camera mode being remembered wrong on deaths
Several collision fixes on maps
Smoothed out failed parry animation slightly
Improved shield riposte blending
Fixed lute ragdoll physics appearing jittery on clients
Reworked how equipment physics are replicated to clients, ensuring better behavior and less oddities like teleporting on death in some instances
Bots now turn smoother and jitter less
Bots now face movement during attacks if out of range, prevents awkward strafing when not close enough
Lowered bot turd spam in Horde
Fixed bots super-slowly sliding off of edges when trying to drop down
Fixed Elizabethan legs proportions, making them less skinny
Fixed Horde bug/exploit with keeping armor
Fixed jump on head causing crazy knockback
Fixed mouse smoothing affecting bots in certain cases
Feitoria - Placed out of bounds volumes on top of the bunk beds, so VIPs don't camp there. Placed ~20 new random weapons and utility items on the map. Added a ladder behind the big house near the port, so there are more ways to get inside. Pushed the last stage INV blue spawns back a bit (right side). On FL pushed the blue castle spawns so they are now behind/inside the town hall. FL red team spawns a bit closer (2nd point). Fixed a dozen stuck spots and adjusted some volumes.
Several changes to Castello to improve gameplay
Added slightly more hit freeze effect at end of attack hits

Performance

Lots of server CPU optimizations
Lots of client CPU optimizations
Added experimental new anim/code LOD bucketing system m.CharLODAnimNew 1 in console to enable, handles characters that are further away better by rescaling the buckets
Added experimental character lod occlusion system m.characterLODOcclusion 1 to enable, reduces quality of heavily occluded characters, best combined with new anim LOD above
Added several map optimizations

Sounds

Increased volume of enemy footsteps slightly

New skins will now appear with an exclamation icon in the armory until the user views them
Added HUD button prompts to equipment, vehicles, etc (can be disabled by toggling tips in game settings)
Added server mute duration indicator to chat box (appears only when server muted by an admin)
Updated post match screen, allowing chat and scoreboard use in the end screen
Added warning icon to banned loadouts - banned loadouts can now be selected and edited, spawning with one removes banned items
Removed green health bar from allies
Menu scoreboard mute/kick/ban dialogs now show selected player's name as hint text

General

Potential fix for suicidal horde bots on Feitoria docks
Moved a Horde spawn point on Camp
Adjusted first objective spawn protection on INV_Camp_1
Tweaked spawn protection of 2nd and 3rd objective on INV_Castello_0
Added dinner table to INV_Crossroads_0, food is locked to the noble and is accessible about halfway through the level
Fixed lift hole on Grad
Added a missing collision to Castello keep middle floor, as well as some pillars outside
Adjusted SKM_Castello blocking volume
MountainPeak fix for stuck icicles and missing interior doorway collision
Admin mute is now available in the chat context menu when logged in
Potential fix for scoreboard admin actions bug
Tweaked gamemode tiles
Fixed overlapping button prompts
Updated friendly marker
Fixed a condition where rewards could get discarded prematurely
Fixed fire pit being placeable inside vehicles causing them to be bumped
Fixed default mesh for polehammer showing up in some cases
Fixed shields being allowed to feint the shieldwall raise (which led to other exploits) -- can still parry while it's coming up
Fixed received knockback for some nobles being wrong
Fixed halberd and polehammer alt clash boxes being offset and trail direction being incorrect
Fixed spawn screen not updating when new capture point is secured
Can no longer kick if either leg is disabled (fleshwound)
Fix for replays having broken focusing on players
Added purchaseable Polehammers and Round Shields to all Horde maps
Added Polehammer and Round Shield to Horde chest drop tables
Added Polehammer and Round Shield to BR chest drop tables