New Features
Stadium Leaderboards
Two new leaderboards are now visible within the Stadium: one Global Ranked Leaderboard, and one session-based leaderboard that tracks your current match.
Overtime
The cube-shaped storm no longer closes on the center of the room. It now closes on a different endpoint each round, anywhere within the room, mirroring how the Storm behaves in Battle Royale and Reload. In our first iteration, the center was always the endpoint, and the feature only ran in a limited set of Combat Rooms. Now we’ve re-enabled all of the Combat Rooms.
With this change, the same Combat Room now plays differently every time you fight in it.
Tournaments: Matchmaking & Cash Cups
We’ll begin testing points-based matchmaking for Arenas in the next set of tournaments. This weekend’s Test Cup will be the first tournament to use the new system. Cash Cup tournaments are quickly approaching! Be on the lookout!
🔄 Arenas Loot Pool Updates
Assault Rifles
Hammer Assault Rifle
Striker Assault Rifle
Nemesis Assault Rifle
Shotguns
Pump Shotgun
Sentinel Shotgun
Iron Pump Shotgun
Gatekeeper Shotgun
Submachine Guns and Pistols
Combat Submachine Gun
Tactical Pistol
Pistol
Combat Pistol
Consumables
Small Shield Potion
Shield Fish
Chug Splash
Apple Stack
Vaulted
Jellyfish
Slapperoni Pizza
O.X.R. Rifle
Suppressed Assault Rifle
Flex SMG
Ranger Pistol
Suppressed Pistol
Arenas Bug Fixes & Quality of Life Improvements
Addressing Performance
Ranked Solos now runs at 12 players, down from 16. Ranked Duos now runs at 8 players (4 Duos), down from 16. This is a temporary measure while we work on deeper optimizations.
We’ve also refactored the in-game scoreboards to be significantly lighter, as they were previously affecting server performance.
Performance is our focus for Arenas right now. We’ve already identified the next round of optimizations and will ship them as they’re ready (currently targeting Mid-November).
Named Combat Rooms
We’ve named each combat room to improve recognition and strategic approach.
For other fixes, improvements and known issues in v42.40, check out this post.
See you in the new game update!
The Arenas Dev Team
