CTF Winter Update 2021

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Hiya!

We're back with another update, with class tweaks and reworks from our previous testing, as well as quality-of-life (QoL) updates. Many of these changes come from the community (you guys!), so we hope there's something in here for everyone!

☰ Weekly Class Rotation
Press F for Free Friday, we're scrapping it and replacing it with a weekly class rotation that works as follows:
Every player gets set to one of 5 groups (randomized), which determines where they are in the class rotation, and every week the premium classes they can play change.

• Group A: Assassin, Necro
• Group B: Scout, Mage
• Group C: Engineer, Pyro
• Group D: Ninja, Chemist
• Group E: Dwarf, Elf

You can see what your week's classes are in the /class menu. However, we elected to keep the old system intact around Christmas (12/22-12/25), so you can play all classes then.

☰ CTF Map Stats
Turns out, we've been silently collecting even more of your data like the NSA for the past 2 weeks. There is now a dashboard showing the stats of various maps in casual and competitive CTF. You can access a particular map's stats with /map in-game, or you can visit the page here. Map data is logged for 8v8s and higher. Go have a look!

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☰ Class Changes

Archer
Minor QoL stuff

• Sniping a flag carrier now alerts the enemy team, as well as spectators

Chemist
Making space in the hotbar

• Merge Fire Resistance & Speed pots (x5) with 3:00 time
  • Buff pot doesn't take any mana

Elf
Minor QoL stuff

• Elf Arrows can now be moved in the hotbar and saved with /saveinv
• Not sure why it was disabled, so if it starts producing glitches, we will lock them again

Engineer
Major rework from testing (just like /engineer2)

• Heal Aura
  • Click-activated, no passive holding ability (5s cooldown)
  • Gives 1 steak/heal pot to teammates in radius
  • Applies Regen III to teammates for 5s
  • Global per-player cooldown on receiving steak to prevent Engineer teaming
• Speed Beacon
  • Throwable, deploying structure
  • Gives Speed II for 5 seconds to teammates
  • Self-destructs after 10s
  • Obeys standard structure restrictions
• Miscellaneous
  • TNT destroys enemy webs
  • Change pickaxe for equivalent sword
  • Reduce TNT cooldown 6.5s >> 5.5s
  • Buff leather armor Prot I >> Prot II
  • Can see steak/instant heal pot count of everyone

Mage
Minor QoL stuff

• Freeze Spell
  • Cooldown on Mage freeze spell reduced 8s >> 6.5s
• Heal Spell
  • Left click: Mage health potion instantly breaks inside the mage
  • Right click: Regen spell is thrown like normal

Necro
Minor buff to Revive Tag

• Revive tagging a player gives them Resistance I for the duration of the tag
• Rotten flesh heals 4 hearts like steak

Ninja
Try to remove Regen IV Ninjas and 414

• Egg Mana
  • Egg mana does not refill while the ninja is invisible
• Medic Healing
  • Medic healing a ninja stops the regen once ninja is at max health
  • Pearl damage negated for 4s during the regen

Scout
Should be better at helping end stalemates

• Swap Mana
  • Swap mana with 1.5s refill time
  • Hit targets (including those on cooldown) restore mana
  • Scout can see swap cooldown above heads of players
• Death Tag
  • Death tag effect can no longer be removed
  • Decrease effect duration 15s >> 8s
  • Everyone receives an announcement when a flag carrier is tagged
  • Amplifier on flag carrier increases from 1.2x -> 1.75x over 5 minutes of the scout's flag being gone
    • 1.2x for non-carriers
    • Enemy team receives an announcement after 5 minutes

• Automatically switches to your sword after Death Tagging someone
• Holding the Death Tag shows the current damage amplifier for flag carriers

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• Miscellaneous
  • Removed Thorns from armor

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☰ Support Credits
Now you can get more credits for helping your friends out!

• Captures give 75 credits
• Necro gets 10 credits for a successful revive
• You get 4 credits for a kill around your flag carrier
• /gl also gives sportsmanship credits like /gg does

☰ Quick Commands
More credits means more things to spend credits on.

Essential (500 Credits)

• /ib I'm Buffing!
• /gota Get on the Archer!
• /ba Block, Assassin!
• /otm Off the map!
• /cdt Carrier death tagged!
• /rr Respawn, recov!

Fun (1000 Credits)

• /mb My bad!
• /brb Be right back!
• /ygt You got this!

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☰ Match Server

Class Switch Notifications
Now you can tell when your teammates switch classes

• Toggle receiving them with /classnotifs
• If you don't like getting them, there's also a button to stop getting them. Can't do anything about broadcasting, so your teammates will still be able to know when you throw

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Overtime Mode
Due to its popularity, overtime is now a thing.

• JMod+ can execute /overtime, which then activates overtime on all maps
• If caps are tied, the timer will go into negative numbers forever until one team captures the flag (and we do mean forever)
• Strategically placed alerts make it practically impossible to not know what's going on

Ninja Caps
Everyone receives an alert when a team uses a Ninja cap.

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☰ Bug Fixes

Stats
Ninja pearls no longer count towards damage taken/damage received stats

Spectators
Some of you thought you were clever and could invade PPMs by going in the void. Not anymore.

LabyMod
LabyMod users should no longer be able to see invisible Ninjas.

... annnddd yeah, I think that's it.

Happy capping (or recovering)!
- The CTF Staff Team