Even though the low-poly smash-hit on Steam, BattleBit: Remastered, is made by a super-tiny development team, they are constantly listening to player feedback and adjusting and tweaking the game when necessary. The July 17 update is no different, with a variety of new things coming to the game.
The biggest changes in this patch include a new Party Code system players can use to team up without friending someone on Steam. In addition, capture zone sizes have been reduced, hopefully encouraging more firefights and less camping, and gadgets are now restricted, so players can spam and litter the map for kills. See below for all of the updates.
BattleBit Patch Notes July 17, 2023
The BattleBit patch notes for July 17, 2023, include:
- Party Codes: Enables players to join parties without adding each other as Steam Friends
- Report Player Shortcut: Left Shift + F1/2/3/4, etc, will bring up the report menu for the respective player, without having to go to the scoreboard.
- Stat-Sync Protection: A rare case has been fixed where a player’s progress would reset if they joined a game server while the player stats servers were being updated.
- Objective Capture Zones: Sizes have been reduced to 50%/75% of their original size in some areas.
- Placed Gadget Persistence: Players will now be limited in the amount of C4s, mines, claymores, ammo kits, etc. that they can place at the same time.
- C4s will be destroyed when a player dies. A maximum of 6 can be placed. If a player tries to place a 7th C4, the first one will be destroyed to maintain a total of 6.
- Claymores and mines will not be destroyed when a player dies. However, only 4 can be placed at a time. If a player tries to place a 5th claymore or mine, the first one will be destroyed to ensure that there are only 4 at a time.
- Domination: Reviving players will no longer return tickets.
- The number of players in enemy vehicles will no longer be shown on the map when they are spotted.
- When placing walls, there will be a half-player-size space margin requirement to avoid clipping. This means that there must be at least half the size of a player between the wall and any other object, such as another wall or a player.
Map Changes
- Eduardovo: CONQ 32v32 received a unique layout that is separate from the 127v127 playable area.
- Salhan: RU Border has been extended on the west side (Cav exit) to make spawn camping more difficult.
- Frugis: The last stage of Rush received changes allowing the attacking team to exit from a subway near the enemy spawn.
- Wakistan: Domination 32v32 layout will now feature an east coast line layout. The old layout will be moved to 16v16
Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where players would not switch to their primary weapon when placing a claymore while throwing a grenade
- Fixed an issue where the friend list would not load until the party menu was hovered over
- Fixed an issue where players were unable to pass the main menu due to avatar images
- Fixed the broken Progress Bar at the bottom of the screen
- A bug where players could sometimes walk during the countdown on Frontline has been fixed.
- Fixed an issue causing players to lag while using the Rappelling Rope
- Spectator camera improved.
There you have it! That was everything in the BattleBit July 17, 2023 patch. For the full patch notes, see the official BattleBit Steam post.
