Welcome in the Arena against the hardest Bosses in the universe!

PvB2 Inventory Port:

Your PvB2 items will now be ported when joining PvBE.
Every weapon below Mythical, will be turned into Tokens to prevent inventory flooding.

- Increased inventory size from 75 to 250 for each quality

- Readded Gems reward when leveling (Level 4-9: 100 Gems, Level 10+: 150 Gems, Level 20: 1000 Gems)
- (Every player receives Gems based on their PvBE level)

- Removed Metal, every piece of metal has been converted into 50k points

- Removed skins for not-ported weapon have been turned into tokens of their corresponding quality, exceptions:
• Bug Hunter Death Inbound -> Phaser
• Bug Hunter Project Zero -> Kalash
• SuperShot Vaporshot -> Vindicator
• Dual Pistols Omega Alpha -> Twin Nightmares
• All 2-Burst-SMG Skins -> Antipyrine
• All Rail-Cannon Skins -> Shrapnel
• All AR-55 Skins -> Pulse
• Teclon Sniper F24 Scrapper was converted into tokens
(Big thanks to Tombi and Shü for helping me with the inventory icons!)

- Removed gloves that are no longer compatible and turned them into tokens:
• Finger Gloves (Common)
• Egghand (Mythical)
• Destroying Wraps (Mythical)
• Hand Wraps (Common)
• Supreme Gloves (Uncommon)

- Renamed Skins:
• Fat Hammer -> Smasher

(Every item should be ported just fine, if you're experiencing any issues, please tell me on discord)


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Skill System Rework:
- Reworked code for skills, they are now stored on the database, rather than on your local machine, making it easier for players using multiple machines
- Added Skill loadouts

- Reworked the skill tree and added a lot of new skills
• Theres now paths for Melee, Guns, Projectiles, Medic, Mobility and Tanks
• Each path has 3 seperate paths, each with a special skill at the end
• You can only either choose Mobility or Tank
(Credits to Lolkat for skill ideas / Maize and me for coding / Shü, Lolkat and Dogmoticon for designing icons)


Shop Changes:
- Added 6 Skin Cases, 4 of which are for Weapon Skins (skins from old cases have been mixed to even out qualities as much as possible)
- Weapon Skin Cases cost 175 Gems (in PvB2 they either costed 150 or 225 Gems)
- The (Old) Glove Case now only costs 250 instead of 300, new Glove Cases will be added soon
- The Melee Skin Case remains the same as in PvB2


Player Changes:
- Readded HECU as default model (optimized)
- GIGN model can now be purchased from the Pointshop


New Weapon:
Cryovulkan:
(Credits to Lolkat)
- A specialist burst-rifle, coming with Cryonades
- These are quickly recharging impact grenades and can store up to 4 simultaneously
- (UF-70 rework)


Weapon Changes:
Shredder:
(Credits to Lolkat)
- Renamed to Ares
- Features a new model
- Now gains charge when dealing damage
- When fully charged, allows to unleash a hex blast, dealing damage and knocking yourself back


New Bosses:
(Credits to Maize)

Chef Coach:
- Chef Coach and his chef gang arrive.
- Ingredients get scattered around the map for them to collect so Chef Coach can make good (or bad) food.
- The more ingredients they collect, the higher the chance to make good food which will give players a disadvantage.
- Bad foods give the players an advantage.
- Chef Coach will initially throw pizzas.
- After cooking, whatever food they end up making, they throw those instead.
- Chef Coach's chef gang are equipped with meat cleavers, which they can attack with or also throw.
- Help Chef Coach out by collecting ingredients with him!

Shock Jock Lua:
- Shock Jock Lua is a DJ who loves his music, but also is a secret Lua hacker.
- He can hijack player's and their weapons, the airdrop helicopter, and airdrop containers.
- He's so confident in his skills, he can intentionally call in the player team's airdrop helicopter so he can hijack airdrops.
- His hijacking tool also has a medium range scan attack.
- He'll cause all this trouble while dancing to the music playing in his headphones, he doesn't care.

Slime Girl:
- Slime Girl can spray large pools of slime around the map floors by using her secondary.
- She can also spread slime around by hitting players (which spawn a small slime pool below them) and simply walking around.
- She can swim in her own slime pools for increased movement speed and being not visible to players.
- Slime Girl can still be hurt by players while in slime.


Boss Changes:
- Now reintroducing Multi Bosses!
- Damage reduction has been reduced from 5% to 4%, the maximum reduction has been reduced from 75% to 60%
- Boss health regeneration is now split among the amount of bosses

Mothica:
- Decreased confusion duration from 10 secs to 7 secs

(Boss changes below by Maize)
Neptune:
- Nepgear now spawns as a multi boss
- HDD is now using ability charge

Soldier:
- Rocket Jump push force now accounts for where the explosion is, old methods of rocket jumping still work roughly the same.
- (Backwards rocket jumping and wall bouncing is now possible, while also meaning you can be pushed to the side if your surface is uneven)
- Reduced rocket jump push force
- Can no longer double/triple jump during a rocket jump.

Garfield:
- Boomerang no longer spins by default.
- Boomerang can no longer instantly turn to face targets. Instead, it has to steer itself towards the targets.
- Boomerang base damage reduced from 45 to 40
- Boomerang can hit players regardless if they were highlighted by Garfield or not.
- If Garfield's boomerang is thrown without any players highlighted, it will target one player that is close enough to it.

Gordon Freeman:
- Removed turret spawns
- Increased manhack spawn count by 1

Snoop Dogg:
- Fixed utility drain roll

Health Bar (Rare Boss):
- Reduced health regen rate


Map Changes:
- Added pvb_hightower (Credits to Tombi5)
- Updated pvb_decoy (Credits to Tombi5)
- Updated pvb_dogbox (Credits to Dogmoticon and Lolkat)
- Updated pvb_deserttemple (Credits to omi)


Legacy Skins:
- Added Original AR2 legacy skin for Pulse
- Added AK-675 and Old AK-675 legacy skin for Kalash
- Added Old CgMG-235 for Omega (couldn't add the new CgMG model because it was too long)
- Added Dual Pistols for Hailstorm
- Fixed out of place pump sound both Teclon S14 skins


Other Changes:
- When leveling up, EXP no longer resets to 0, instead reduces the amount of EXP that was required
- Adjusted several attack speed and fire rate calculations, please tell me if you notice any issues (this also affects bosses)
- Melee is no longer affected by fire rate (oversight)
- Fixed Warp Device showing wrong Post-warp recharge time
- Recolored default menu color to be more bluish
- Fixed level up not showing on F1 menu
- Added Mega Kill on a 4 kill combo
- Added fancy chat messages when receiving items
- Optimization


VR Changes:
- HUD refresh rate has been slowed down to improve performance
- Fixed Temblor firing issues


Bugs:
- Some items in your inventory display the wrong name or info, that will require me to do some rework which i didnt have time for yet
- Search bar in Cosmetics tab is broken
- Old Kalash skins dont have a vodka drink animation yet
- Old Ares skins dont have a hex animation yet
- Everything might be potentially broken due to me adjusting stuff without testing it


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