Heavy Metal Machines update for 25 September 2019

A new update has been released today bringing the season 6 contents and also balance for some machines.

General

• The main menu, Metal Pass and machine selection screen backgrounds have been updated with season 6 theme.
• The main menu music have been updated with season 6 theme.

  Balance

  Dirt Devil

  Weapon 1

• When enemies driver over mines, they’ll won’t be able to control the machine for 0,25 seconds
• The Global Cooldown has been reduced from 0,4 to 0,2 seconds
• The Special Weapon energy gain has been increased by 24%
  
  PS.: Global cooldown (or GCD) is a shared cooldown timer applied to all weapons after they're executed.

Weapon 2

• The cooldown has been reduced from 10 to 5 seconds
• The weapon duration has been increased from 5 to 7,5 seconds.
• The weapon can only be activated once at a time.
• The Global Cooldown has been reduced from 0,4 to 0,2 seconds.
• The Special Weapon energy gain has been increased by 34%
  
  PS.: Global cooldown (or GCD) is a shared cooldown timer applied to all weapons after they're executed.

Weapon 3

• The cooldown has been reduced from 6 to 4,5 seconds.
• The damage has been reduced from 200 to 140.
• The Special Weapon energy gain has been increased by 34%

  Stingray

  Weapon 1

• The Special Weapon energy gain has been increased by 14%
  
  Weapon 2
• The Special Weapon energy gain has been increased by 34%
  
  Weapon 3
• The Special Weapon energy gain has been increased by 14%

  Vulture

  Weapon 1

• The mark time has been reduced from 7 to 5 seconds.
  
  Weapon 2
• The Weapon 1 mark timers are no longer reset when pulling the blades back to Vulture.
  
  Special Weapon
• The maximum number of blades has been reduced from 30 to 25.

  Metal Pass Season 6 - Knights, Dragons & a Two-headed Ogre

  A new season has begun, bringing a total of 112 new rewards, including: 7 new models, 12 new visual effects, 10 emotes, 2 avatar portraits and 9 sprays.
  
  
  
  Here are some highlights - check out all the other rewards in the game!

  Models

  Heavy Metal Category

• Killer J. - The Mischievous Gadgeteer
  
  
• Peacemaker - The Ogrenaut Arbalister
  
  

Metal Legend Category

• Dirt Devil - Too Stubborn to Die (Shaman)
  
  
• Artificer - The Elvish Wreathcrafter
  
  

Rockstar Category

• Metal Herald - Angelic Chords (Royal)
  
  
• Black Lotus - The Morning Paladin
  
  
• Vulture - The Avenging Knight
  
  

  Emotes

  

  New items on the Shop

• Kill Effect - Critical Failure
• Bomb Score Effect - Critical Hit
• Emote - Fumble
• Emote - Natural 20
  
  

  Bugs Fixed

  General

• Fixed a bug where in certain cases, a bomb launched towards the score line didn’t follow the proper direction.
• Fixed a bug in the texts from the Tutorial loading screen.
• Fixed a bug with the colors of Icebringer’s model “Fafnir’s Treasure”.
  
  Metal League
• Entering the Metal League queue no longer adds the team to the ranking.

To share your feedback, please post in the General Discussion forum.

Heavy Metal Machines Team