• After reading your feedback and looking at all available data since the patch, we’re seeing positive results (will explain in more detail), so we’re keeping all changes at least until our next patch on Jan 8. This is inclusive of: resurgence rules, ascending armor, audio pulses, and ranked point changes.

CONTEXT: Since the patch note is pretty much ‘keep the things on,’ let’s talk about the why.

First: engagement is obviously the most important thing we’re tracking (are players playing and sticking with the game), and that number has gone up, which is exciting. We also called a shot here in that we feel combat is SUPERVIVE’s best feature, so we spiked a set of changes that would get new and learning players more combat reps, which would theoretically help them see the magic of the game faster. To that point: we are seeing combat stats going up across the board for all teams which, when combined with engagement going up, seems to prove out the hypothesis. Very cool.

Second: we know these changes aren’t perfect, and there are deliberate tradeoffs we’re making to make the game much better for new and solo players (our current priority). We have plans for further iteration based on your feedback, but because we’re so close to the holidays (and candidly: very crispy), in choosing between “leave on to learn more” vs. “turn off,” we choose to leave on!

Third: speaking of, we know there’s a lot of conversation around our audio pulse changes. This is definitely the sharpest tradeoff we’re making, but philosophically we think it’s doing a lot of work for solo and newer players. Specifically: audio pulses give constant, ongoing strategic input to the whole team where before they were hidden behind UAV usage. Also, players are becoming a lot more aware of how their actions show up to enemy teams, which lets them get on that golden path to mastery faster. While we know this information is rather heavy-handed, in the same line of thinking as above, we think it’s better for the game holistically to leave on than turn off. We will iterate in the future!

Fourth and finally: we’ve heard feedback about those ranked point changes leading to stompier games at high level, as organized veteran squads teams are prioritizing team wipes faster. Honestly we’re okay with it because it means the incentives to win the game are… to clean out the lobby. Which it should be. Previously we were seeing/hearing that optimal play was to farm kills to hit the contribution cap (20 kills) before fully wiping teams, thereby creating trapped games until the lead team had farmed up. That’s weird behavior and likely speaks to large skill discrepancies between these teams in the first place.

Also, if games at the very high level are giga-stompy, we do see it as a tradeoff for walking back our team size restrictions at Master+ tier (and even then it didn’t make that much of a difference - we’d likely need to try pure solo at Master+ to make a dent, and that has other tradeoffs). Just to say it again: in a team-based game it gets very hard to find a fair match if the top 0.1% players all queue together in a single squad against a disorganized lobby. It’s why we’re giving custom game access to our top players—so they can at least try to run more balanced, organized games. This is just a larger problem to solve in the future, so for now we choose social play.

Thank you for reading this enormous wall of text - we hope even if you don’t agree with the changes, you at least understand our intent. Happy holidays everyone!

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Welcome to PART 2 of the Cosmic Winter Jubilee patch notes. We've been listening to your feedback and share your feelings, so please read these patch notes with the belief that we hear you and are moving fast to improve SUPERVIVE. That is all. Thank you for staying with us, and we hope you enjoy all the new PROGRESSION updates!

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This is a change aimed at solo and new players, as automating early-game revival rules will alleviate early death frustrations (also known as “does my teammate know what a resurrection beacon is?”) while ensuring everyone gets more combat reps (a proven delighter).
We also acknowledge this is a bit of a stopgap solution and we’re making tradeoffs for it. It’s why we’re running it as a limited-time experiment rather than just yeeting it in with no brakes. I won’t color your feedback too much, but we’ve already made some pacing changes based on our veteran group playtest to ensure combat clarity stays clean in the mid to late game, and are excited to see how this pans out.

These new revival rules will run as an experiment from December 18th to the 20th - we will communicate via our official Discord[discord.gg] and update this patch note page to let you know if the rules are turned off, partially turned off, or kept on due to overwhelmingly positive feedback :)

• For the first Day and Night, you will respawn in the air above a living ally after a delay
  
• You will respawn over the ally you’re currently spectating
  
• Respawn timer increases per respawn (increases individually)
  
• At the end of the first night, any player waiting to respawn will automatically respawn
  
• Regular respawn beacons begin ruined when these rules are active, and become regular beacons again when respawns end
  
• There’s a timer next to the minimap that indicates automatic respawn time remaining

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When you introduce early game brawling, you’d better include some incentives!!! While the intrinsic reward of stomping your enemies is good enough for some, we felt we could pair the above change with more chase, so: introducing Ascending Armor. This is an explicit, always-on reward for those who choose violence.

• Dealing damage to enemy hunters will always progress your current armor towards upgrading to the next tier. Actions that improve your armor include:

• Dealing damage to enemy hunters
  
• Knocking enemy hunters
  
• Assisting knocks on enemy hunters

• Damage thresholds ramp heavily the higher tier the armor becomes:

• 2000 points to hit Green
  
• 5000 points to hit Blue
  
• 15000 points to hit Gold
  
• 20000 points to hit Red

• You do not gain any durability when you level armor up

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We’re pulling up a change we were originally planning for our ranked update in January—both in anticipation of the new revival rules, but also because we want to reduce the ranked inflation that comes from especially bloody games.

• Previously: in addition to earning ranked points (RP) for placement, you also earn ranked points for all kills scored during the game
  
  
• Now: in addition to gaining points for placement, you will earn ranked points for “final kills” or “team eliminations”
  
• Final Kills: If you were the last team to kill a player before their team was eliminated, you will gain +3 RP (squads) or +4 RP (duos)
  
• Team Elimination: If you kill the last player on a team and knock that team out of the game permanently (thereby eliminating them), you will gain a bonus +2 RP on top of the final kill score
  
• To earn final kill points, your team has to outlast the other (ie. if your team kills 3 enemies on a team, your team gets eliminated, and then the enemy team is eliminated, you will not get final kill points)

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We made an easy reference guide over here so you know what’s up for earning over the holiday season. We’ll document the changes here for visibility:

Hunter Mastery Pass

• Running until January 8, 2025, every level of Hunter Mastery you have or earn over this time will contribute that amount of points toward the Hunter Mastery Pass (so if you have Hunter Mastery 1 for Celeste, you’ll have 1 point—if you progress to Hunter Mastery 2 for Celeste, you’ll gain 2 points, totalling 3 points)
  
• Get enough Hunter Mastery levels spread across any number of hunters, and you’ll unlock enough VIVE Points to unlock any legendary variant (or a bunch of goodies in the shop), as well as an exclusive Santa (?) wisp and titles!

Mastery Level 6

• We’ve added another reward to Hunter Mastery level 6, which grants 150 VP - enough to buy a rare skin! This change is permanent so don’t feel like you gotta hit 6 right now - we’re just letting you know.

Expanded Holiday Store and VIVE Points for Cosmetics

• In case you were wondering what to do with those points, we’re expanding the shop to include rare skins, gliders, wisps, and emotes that can all be purchased with your earnable VIVE Points

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The goal here is to bring a few Hunters who were a bit out of the meta, back in. Welcome back, friends.

Void
Gravity Orb (LMB)

• Bloom resets faster
  
• Unempowered shots no longer pierce terrain but now go 35% further (700 >>> 950)

Swap (SHIFT)

• Cooldown has been reduced from 12/9/9 >>> 10/7/7 seconds

Unstable Anomaly (Q)

• Bomb initial damage increased 10%

Ghost
MK7 Glyph Rifle (LMB)

• Unempowered damage increased 20%

Spike Grenade (RMB)

• Damage increased 20%

Arcane Railgun (Q)

• Beam now deals explosive damage (blast Oath shields with it!)

Myth
Greenwood Bow (LMB)

• Green LMB perfect shot damage increased 5%
  
• All Blue LMB damage increased 10%

Shiv

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Continuing our work to add more exciting level 3 options.

Chain Bolas (RMB)

• Level 3 now combines Malice stacks on all targets hit

Farstep Dagger (Q)

• Level 3 now refreshes Quickflip’s cooldown on enemy impact

Felix & Brall

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We’re removing some ‘boops’ on abilities that add a lot of ‘movement corrections’ where - if you have a mid-to-high ping - you’d get hit by the ability and then micro-teleported because your client predicted you’d be in one place while the server knows you’re about 2cm off the mark (and then forcibly ‘corrects’ you to that spot). I won’t go further except to say: the magical spirit of online netcode dislikes fast, tiny movement disagreements between two clients and a server, so we are remediating.

• Felix - Embry Bolt (RMB) no longer knocks back targets on hit
  
• Brall - Caldera, Molten Greatsword (LMB) no longers knocks back targets on hit

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It’s time to start improving the playing-against side of Stealth. While using Stealth can feel deceptive and fun, we’re seeing (and hearing) that Stealth warnings are too subtle. By the time you realize someone’s un-stealthed, it can feel within the range of - “you’re already dead!”

Stealth Nerfs (nerfs to Stealth, not secret nerfs)

• Increased inner and outer ring detection ranges for Stealth
  
• Volume brought up for Enemy Stealth SFX
  
• More changes coming in a future patch—this is just the first step

Map Pulses for Audio

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Audio scouting is obviously much harder in a top-down game than a full 3D shooter, so we’re trying to make that skill a little more accessible and equitable for all.

• Enemy combat actions and loud sounds now show up as pulses on your minimap and megamap. Footsteps do not
  
• These pulses get less accurate the further they are from your location

Evil Keys

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These have already felt too plentiful, and more PVP will likely drive the count higher. We’re nerfing the drop rate of Evil Keys so these feel more appropriately special and rare

• Reduced the spawn rate and maximum number of chests that can spawn each match

Wisps

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We like that there's some conversational play when someone is down as a Wisp (I like to whisper to my teammates as I wiggle toward them), but we also want to increase urgency and tension for teammates who are considering rescuing you.

• Wisp bleedout time reduced from 30 >>> 15 seconds

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Santa’s brought some new Powers to the Breach. Good luck out there.

• Jelly Cube
  
• Twister Blast
  
• Pocket Geyser

Welcome… to the SUPERVIVE Cosmic Winter Jubilee! We’ve been cooking up a STORM for the holiday season, with delightfully themed powers, treats, environments, and more. And while you’re out there murdering in the breach (as one does), make sure to say hi to the lil’ gift giver roaming the land.

Let’s get started:

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The holidays wouldn’t be the holidays without the homies :)

• You now get double the points [5 >>> 10] when your referred friend plays a game of SUPERVIVE and plays a game with you
  
• We have also reset referral tracking, meaning you can play with all of your referred friends again for even more points! Your total points will roll over with this reset

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What better way to learn Hunters than if... everyone plays the same one >:)

• From Thursday, December 12 @ 6AM PST to to Sunday, December 15 @ 9PM PST, we will be opening up a new event mode: Clone Squads where everyone on your squad will play the same hunter. We will also unlock all Hunters for everyone during this time!
  
• The game will randomly select a Hunter for the whole squad based on what everyone has selected

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We made these changes last week (and announced them on X[x.com]) but I wanted to put it into the patch notes for posterity's sake. A summary of the context is... last patch we put in squad size party restrictions for Masters+ players to try to balance out giga-stompy squads comprised of the literal top 4 players of SUPERVIVE. On checking through the data, it seems that the change just didn't do what we wanted, so we're reverting. We also acknowledge there's a real hard trade at the highest levels of play between competitive integrity and playing with friends. If your friends happen to be great at SUPERVIVE, your sum of parts becomes... basically unbeatable. We know this, you know this, and we're going to let it ride for now.

In January we already have some ranked upgrades cooking, but in the meantime let's just slam games with our friends and see how much RP there is to be harvested in the world.

• We have reverted the Masters+ Squad restrictions on both Duo and Squad queue, so you can queue up with 4 teammates at all ranks
  
• We have also tightened up matchmaking at the top-end. This will mean if you’re in the top 1% of players and queue as a 4-stack, you’ll be subject to longer queue times than before
  
• Any player who is ranked Legend every Monday at 12pm PST will still gain access to custom games for that week (this will run until January 15th)

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We’re jumping backwards and forward through time right now, but wanted to give you a heads up of some progression & store changes we have planned for our December 18th patch. A big theme we've been hearing is that there isn't enough progression content to unlock in the game. We are cooking up our battlepass for Season 0 but didn't want to wait that long. So here are some changes going live on December 18th.

• We are adding Hunter Mastery level 6 for all Hunters, with a 150 VIVE Point reward (if you are Hunter Mastery level 6 on any Hunter already, you can claim this immediately)
  
• We are also adding a ‘Hunter mastery pass’ that will grant limited-time rewards for how many Hunter mastery levels you have in total
  
• We are adding the option to purchase rare-level skins, some wisps, gliders, and emotes for VIVE Points in the store

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We've also heard your feedback that waiting to buy a skin for your hunter is annoying. We'd like to have enough content that we can rotate the shop and have something to always buy, but we just won’t be there for some time. So for now, we're going to put all the skins we have ready in the store through at least January 15. This should give us some time to make more - our ideal is to have at least one purchasable skin option for your Hunter at any point in time, so we’ll slowly move toward that reality.

• The store now has all currently available skins for purchase (including ones that already rotated through). This rotation will partially update with our early January patch.

• A new, gift-giving NPC now roams around on the map. Maybe you can give them something in return!

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Oath has been dominant in the competitive scene for some time now, establishing himself as a “must pick” character in most comps. We’re looking to create more opportunities for enemies to take advantage of his broken shield, and also removing some of his chain CC potential.

Valiant Strength (Passive)

• Reduced wall stun duration from 1 >>> 0.5 seconds

Regen Field (Q)

• Healing reduced by 20% at all levels
  
• No longer repairs broken shield
  
• Only heals shield if shield is active

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Speaking of dominant competitive picks, Zeph has also stood out as the meta Protector pick for some time now. We’ve also heard a lot of feedback about how strong his burst healing feels compared to Elluna, so we’re hitting that.

• Mending Breeze (RMB)
  
• Heal reduced by 15%
  
• Minimum time between heals increased from 0.5 >>> 1.5 seconds

Amplifier

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I know seeing two sets of Amplifier nerfs sounds like a lot, but Amplifier’s cooldown reduction interacts with equipment cooldown reduction in stronger than anticipated ways, and we’ve been getting ongoing feedback from our veteran players that Amplifier is still extremely strong. We’ll share some math:

• Bonus CDR per stack reduced from 5% >>> 2.5%
  
• For comparison:
  
• Pre-nerf: two haste items without Amplifier gave 32% cooldown reduction
  
• Pre-nerf: two haste items with a fully-stacked Amplifier gave ~60% cooldown reduction on the amplified ability
  
• Post-nerf: two haste items with a fully-stacked Amplifier will give ~50% cooldown reduction on the amplified ability
  
• [Bugfix] fixed some cases where a single ability case would stack Amplifier multiple times (Brall tether)

Snowball Fight

• Everyone spawns with a soulbound snowball power!

Snow Bombers

• Bombing runs pepper the land, turning everyone into snowpeople

Gifts from Above

• Does what it says! Use your deductive reasoning!

• Snowball
  
• Snowball Launcher
  
• Present
  
• Express Delivery
  
• Avalanche
  
• Mega Avalanche
  
• Little Helper
  
• Emergency Penguin

• There’s a new Holiday Lobby!
  
• Breakable ice has creeped down from the northern biomes and into the rest of the map
  
• There are new holiday map additions everywhere: trees, cliffside tinsel and decals, a winter train, snowpeople, presents to be found, and new winter vaults

Drop Leader can pick a starter quest during drop phase

• This change will show the quest shop to the drop leader until an initial quest has been selected, or until they interact with the questgiver.

Quest Changes

• Added a second PvP quest: Team Wipe. This quest only shows up if you've already completed Brawlers
  
• Vault Hunters no longer spawns books, just instantly-grants 150 xp to all teammates
  
• Farm Creeps number of creeps required reduced from 16 >>> 12
  
• Farm Creeps reward changed from 4 Vive Brew, 1 Hyperscrap >>> 3 Vive Brew, 1 Hypervive, 1 Hyperscrap
  
• [BUGFIX] Rewards show up next to whoever got the last creep kill (used to pick a random teammate)

• Gift Exchange - Interact with the Gift Giver
  
• The Power of Winter - Use Winter Powers
  
• Presenting… - As a team, open 15 presents
  
• Build a Snowman - Turn others into Snowmen or become one yourself
  
• Wintery Weather - Play Winter Storm Shifts

Trapped Players can now leave early

• After a player has been dead for 3 minutes without being revived, they're allowed to leave the game
  
• The ‘early exit’ button appears after 90 seconds of being dead, along with a timer showing how long until you can leave
  
• Your ally's status has a progress bar and countdown that'll appear with 90 seconds remaining

• Fixed the bug that would cause discord and other applications to quit working if SUPERVIVE was left running for a long time. - Special thanks to AidanBY, Zendrex for helping us tracking this down

New Cosmetic Rotation!
New Twitch Drops

• Two holiday Vive Pup emotes for DEC 11 to JAN 1
  
• Two Korean-themed Shrike emotes from our NEXON partners for JAN 1 to JAN 20

• After this patch, we'll be rolling out networking changes that should improve latency for a number of players that have been experience worse than expected latency to our Ohio and Hong Kong servers - HUGE THANKS to all of the players who went through a pile of troubleshooting steps with us to figure this out
  
• Leaderboards, stat screens, and anywhere else that displays damage dealt will no longer calculate Overkill damage
  
• Increased XP gained from playing Arena matches to be more similar to BR
  
• You can now progress Hunter Mastery Missions in Arena games
  
• Improved AFK detection in Arena
  
• You may now preview skins, their variants, and finishers in-store
  
• Fixed an issue causing Oath’s abilities to be much louder than they should be
  
• Fixed a bug causing Creep Cloner to reset Hunter Abilities (Creep Cloner is now back as an available Power)
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Elluna to sometimes be permanently grounded by Hudson’s Barbed Wire
  
• Fixed a bug causing Oath’s Brightshield to sometimes be invisible to enemies
  
• Fixed a bug causing Jin to sometimes be locked out of abilities when using Flip Slash
  
• Removed collision from Biome chests
  
• Trees created from Tree Costume should now match the trees of the Biome you are in
  
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused enemies to be permanently stunned by Void’s Singularity (thank you NetFoley for the report!)