Paladins Open Beta Patch 35 is Live

I was eager to play Paladins today when I saw an update was scheduled. Guess what, Paladins did manage to release a new update with a new champion inside. Let’s take a look at the patch notes.

Paladins Patch Notes:

New Champion: Mal’Damba, Wekono’s Chosen

Weapon [LMB] – Spitting Cobra:

Fires as glob of venom every .55s dealing 450 damage to a single target. Bonus Damage: Reloading throws the cobra dealing up to 550 based on how much ammo is missing and stunning enemies for 1s.

Secondary Fire [RMB] – Mending Spirits

Summon a spirit to enchant an ally healing 280 Health every second for 5 seconds.

Ability [Q] – Gourd

Toss a gourd full of venom that heals allies for 200 Health every second and damages enemies for 100 Damage every second.

Ability [F] – Slither

Quickly slither forward, becoming untargetable for the duration.

Ultimate [E] – Dread Serpent

Fire a dark vessel that explodes when it lands, fearing all enemy Champions for 2s and causing them to take 20% additional damage from all sources for the duration.

Cards Update

Incorporeal

Gain 50/100/150/200 Health.

Feed the Spirits

Reduce all active cooldowns by 10/20/30/40% when getting an elimination.

Snake Pit

Gain 5/10/15/20% Reload Speed.

Sustenance

Receive 5/10/15/20% more healing when below 50% Health.

Eerie Presence

Reduce the cooldown of Mending Spirits by .5/1/1.5/2s if you miss.

Ritual Magic

Heal for 15/30/45/60 Health every second Mending Spirits is active on an ally.

Swift Spirits

Mending Spirits grants 7/14/21/28% Movement Speed to allies.

Possession

Gain 4/8/12/16% Damage Reduction every second Mending Spirits is active on an ally.

Many Gourds

Reduce the Cooldown of Gourd by .5/1/1.5/2s.

Venomous Gourd

Gourd generates 1/2/3/4 ammo.

Lighter Gourd

Gourd gains 10/20/30/40% projectile speed.

Pungent Gourd

Gain vision on enemies for .5/1/1.5/2s after hitting them with Gourd.

Liminal Passage

Increase the distance Slither travels by 10/20/30/40%.

Fleeting

Reduce the Cooldown of Slither by .5/1/1.5/2s.

Spirit’s Touch

Activating Slither heals you for 50/100/150/200

Otherworldly

Gain 10/20/30/40% Movement Speed for 2s after Slither ends.

General

We are going to bold the best and most important things repaired:

Added a Tutorial for new players to learn the game.

Improved Custom match support.

Players can now purchase cards for gold during the Loadout import process.

Improved jitters near payload.

Net code improvements (smoother movement corrections).

Fixed an issue where champions’ voices would react to getting healed when they were already at full health.

Players can now copy decks from the leaderboard.

Fixed a bug where longer chat messages would get cut off.

Addressed an issue where the overtime bar would get stuck on.

Extend Payload round begin phase for attackers from 30s to 50s (Defenders can still leave their base at 10s).

Fixed a bug with round 2 of Payload where both teams lose 5 seconds from their preparation time due to the slow motion effect at the end of round 1.

Party members have a slightly different tint in-game.

Sources of healing, such as Ying illusions, now have a + icon above them.

Added crystal icons to the loading screen to signify that players are still loading.

Added an audio notification during overtime.

Added Cyrillic font to the game.

Fixed a number of crash conditions.

Additional VFX performance updates for low end machines.

New emotes are now available.

Players may now only play mastered champions in the Competitive queue.

UI

Locked champions now are desaturated and have a lock frame.

Champions that are not able to be selected now have a strikethrough presentation.

Updated champion mastery frame art.

Emotes

Barik

Celebration
Kalinka Dance

Bomb King

Goal

Buck

Intimidate

Cassie

Cheer
Showboat

Drogoz

Rocketeer

Evie

Butterfly Dance
Carefree

Fernando

Salsa Dance

Grohk

Hype
Insult

Grover

Interpretive Dance
Tree Pose

Kinessa

Present Arms

Makoa

Fireworks

Mal’Damba

Magic Trick

Pip

Air Guitar
Moonwalk

Ruckus

Antagonize

Skye

Flirting

Viktor

Cossack Dance

Ying

Joyride

New Skins and Cosmetics

Common Quality Weapon Skins price reduced to 50 crystals and 4750 gold
Rare quality weapons skins price reduced to 125 Crystals
Epic quality weapon skins price reduced to 200 crystals
Epic quality voice packs reduced to 50 crystals
Skin sets have had their gold price added to their set price

Skye

Aqua Set
Aqua Body
Aqua Guise (Head)
Aqua Wrist Crossbow (Weapon)
Canary Set
Canary Body
Canary Guise (Head)
Canary Wrist Crossbow (Weapon)
Blush Set
Blush Body
Blush Guise (Head)
Blush Wrist Crossbow (Weapon)

Ying

Haunt renamed to Snapdragon’s Mirror
Lazuli Renamed to Mystic’s Mirror
Mystic Set
Mystic Body
Mystic’s Veil (Head)
Mystic Mirror (Weapon)
Seer Set
Seer Body
Seer’s Veil (Head)
Seer’s Mirror (Weapon)
Soothsayer Set
Soothsayer Body
Soothsayer’s Veil (Head)
Soothsayer’s Mirror (Weapon)

Mal’Damba

Hexer Set
Hexer Body
Hexer’s Mask (Head)
Hexer’s Spitting Cobra (Weapon)
Juju Set
Juju Body
Juju Mask (Head)
Juju Spitting Cobra (Weapon)
Cursed Set
Cursed Body
Cursed Mask (Head)
Cursed Spitting Cobra (Weapon)

MAPS

Fixed end of mission cinematics on the payload maps
Various minor collision improvements

CHAMPIONS – BALANCE/UPDATES/FIXES

General

Addressed an issue where small knockbacks applied by some champions could interrupt other abilities.

Barik

Turret

Fixed bug where turret projectiles were spawning on top of the turret’s head.

Bomb King

Addressed an issue where Sticky Bombs were sometimes not dealing damage when stuck to enemies.
Fixed a case where bomb king would continuously try to detonate a poppy bomb that doesn’t exist, instead of throwing a new one

Drogoz

Booster

Improved performance on high ping.

Evie

Ice Block

Fixed a typo in the tooltip description that listed a duration of 2s instead of the correct 3s.

Fernando

General

Reduced Health from 6000 to 5700.

Fireball

Reduced bonus damage for each additional target hit from 100% to 50%.

Kinessa

Fixed issue where Kinessa’s mine (and other projectiles) could be placed at the end of round 1 and persist to round 2

Makoa

Reduced characters sliding when getting hooked by Makoa.

Ruckus

Fixed an issue where Ruckus’s Emitter and Repulsor Field cards were in the wrong places in the loadouts screen.

Repulsor Field

No longer interrupts fire when activating.

Skye

Time Bomb

Better HUD indicator warning for skye ult.

Damage now falls off the further you are away from the Time Bomb’s center.

“Time Bomb is an ability intended to create area control and spread out groups, but it was too effectively punishing players who were correctly reacting to the bomb and spreading out. The goal of these changes is to make sure Time Bomb is still a powerful tool for splitting up groups, but it’s not as good at picking up kills on players who are moving away from it.”