Paladins Open Beta patch 41 Notes – New map Stone Keep added

The open beta for Hi-Rez Studios’ team shooter Paladins is being updated to patch 41 which includes champion changes and more.

The update adds numerous general changes such as Siege and Playload mode rewards and other general fixes. The new Siege mode map Stone Keep is being added following its recent reveal, and performance improvements have been added for Jaguar Falls and Serpent beach among other things. The full notes are as follows:

Paladins Open Beta patch 41 Notes

General

• The Legendary and Epic Founder’s Packs are no longer available.
• Weekly Quests are now available to complete each week.
• Siege Mode
  • Teams now gain 300 credits for capturing an objective.
  • Teams now no longer gain credits for defending a payload push.
• Payload Mode
  • Starting credits increased from 400 to 1000.
  • Increased credit spooling in Payload from 1 to 2 credits every 1s.
• Fixed an issue where Weapon Skin, Emote, and Spray selections would reset to default.
• Using a Spray will no longer put you in-combat.
• Deployables and pets now show an outline like players.
• Added improvements to the display conditions for Player Names and Health Bars.
• Fixed an issue where players were not getting placed on a mount upon respawn when activating an ability right as the respawn timer ends.
• Fixed issue with UI elements overlapping at Social Menu.
• Fixed an issue where the HRX Bundle Poses would sometimes not show the Invitational trophy.
• Fixed crash condition when spectating on Fernando in first person.
• Fixed an issue where animations could get stuck (Evie Soar, Getting Pulled, Androxus Ult)
• Fixed rounding issues when showing current health numbers.

SKINS/WEAPONS/EMOTES

• Ying Genie Collection available in the Genie Chest
  • Heads
    • Genie’s Feather
    • Genie’s Diadem
    • Genie’s Eye
    • Genie’s Turban
  • Body
    • Genie
  • Weapons
    • Genie’s Winged prism
    • Genie’s Cloud Prism
  • MVP Poses
    • 3 Wishes
  • Emote
    • Wish Granted

MAPS

• New Siege Map: Stone Keep
• Performance optimizations have been made to Jaguar Falls and Serpent beach.
• New Queue: Test Queue (available at level 15)
  • The Test Queue is a place to feature maps that are unfinished, allowing players to give active feedback on maps that are in progress. The Test Queue is available from the Casual Queue select.
  • Maps available in OB41:
    • Atrium – Siege
    • District – Siege
    • Undercity – Siege

ITEMS

• Cauterize
  • Reduced duration from 2 to 1.5s.
  • Cauterize of different ranks no longer stack on each other. The strongest reduction will be the only reduction applied to a single target.

CHAMPIONS – BALANCE/UPDATES/FIXES

• General
  • Support champions now gain ultimate charge from effective healing done to teammates. Self healing or healing done to teammates that heals for 0 do not provide ultimate charge.

  

• Barik
  • General
    • Increased Health from 2900 to 3400.

  

• Fernando
  • General
    • Fixed Invitational MVP pose not showing trophy on first view.

  

• Grohk
  • Healing Totem
    • Increased healing from 340 to 520 per second.

  

• Sha Lin
  • Impaler Arrow
    • Fixed issue with immediately being able to draw another Impaler arrow after initial activation.

  

• Skye
  • Wrist Crossbow
    • Increased ammo count from 15 to 20.

  

• Tyra
  • General
    • Increased Health from 2200 to 2400.
  • Nade Launcher
    • Changed various text instances of Grenade Launcher to Nade Launcher
  • Cards
    • Salamander Hide
      • Fixed a tooltip error.

  

• Viktor
  • General
    • Fixed Invitational MVP pose not showing trophy on first view.

  

• Ying
  • General
    • Fixed Convention 2017 skin not showing the correct arm bands in first person view.