Patch 0.30.0

Patch 0.30.0 was a major patch, which introduced the second part of the Winter 2025 event, as well as Ranked Season 1 of Battle Box Arena.

Queue Changes

With the start of the ranked season we have made some changes to the matchmaking queue system to address problems brought up by the community since Battle Box Arena’s release:

• For Battle Box: Arena you now have to accept the match whenever one is found. A pop-up will show up on screen with an accept and decline button. The match is only confirmed once all participants have accepted within a time limit shown with a progress bar.
  • Leaving the queue at all after accepting a game is not allowed and will result in a doubled loss of rank points.
• You will now once again receive a queue penalty for leaving games.
  • Dodging (only in Battle Box: Arena) will result in an immediate penalty.
  • Leaving a game twice or for more than 40 seconds will result in an immediate penalty in BBA.
  • Being offline for less than 40 seconds in Battle Box: Arena or for any amount of time in Battle Box (Quads) will result in a warning. Repeatedly receiving such warnings will turn into a queue penalty.
• Queue penalties now only prevent you from queueing, you can play Parkour Warrior: Dojo or fish while you have a penalty.
• Queue penalties will now increase in duration based on the quantity of previous penalties received. The first penalty received can no longer be maximum length.
• You can now /abandonduring games to leave and go back to the hub.
  • You cannot use /abandon until another player has been offline for 40s in Battle Box: Arena games.
  • You cannot abandon Battle Box (Quads) matches at all.
  • Abandoning a game through this command never causes any punishments but does count as a loss.
• You now receive priority queue if your previous game was cancelled before it started, getting you into your next game quicker.
• You no longer receive any Island XP for games unless you are online when you finish the game. You don’t have to stay around until rewards are announced.

Battle Box Changes

• Improved Arena Alice and Kit Selector information to help explain the strategies of the game, better explain strength of kits/classes and show where classes lack in power.
• A sound is now always played when a player is eliminated, even when a custom elimination effect is used.
• Added new plobby setting for both Battle Box Quads and Arena to disable elimination effects and/or weapon skins. These can be used in plobbies where competitive integrity is a concern without forcing players to manually change their cosmetics.
• Simplified the core kit selection menu.

Other Changes

• Suspicious Stu & Co. has expanded their “illegal” inventory of cosmetic blueprints to now include all Standard Rare, Exclusive Rare, and Exclusive Epic cosmetics. Additionally, the prices for all cosmetic blueprints in these shops have been changed to cosmetic cores instead of crates.
• Added bulk pulls to Weapon Forges, the Seasonal Machine and event machines. This lets you perform 10 pulls at once for 10x the cost, similar to the Cosmetic Machine.
• Bulk pulls on machines now give you items sorted by rarity (i.e., you will get the items from the machine in common → mythic order).
• Added five new star emojis for MCC+ users.
• TNT placed by allies now has a more faded texture so it is easier to distinguish.
• Removed even more mud from the fishing islands, mainly in the barren grottos. If you find more mud that disrupts your casting, please do let us know!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Elimination Effects still displaying when players are disguised.
• Fixed Elimination Effects not facing the killer.
• Fixed rejuvenation type receptacles clearing all effects on self and enemies instead of only some types. Cleansing still removes all effects on self and enemies.
• Fixed a bug where cleansing was removing buffs from teammates.
• Fixed issue where /bugreport stopped working in lobbies with long uptime.
• Fixed AFK players not always being sent to the limbo server properly. You now get an AFK warning in lobby servers as well.
• Fixed Dojo not being in the wall set setting for HITW.
• Fixed a backend issue that would cause all players to get disconnected from a game at the start of the game.
• Fixed revivification and transformation effects not working on elimination markers that fell down from where the player died.
• Fixed boots color of the Gadgeteer kit being wrong.
• Fixed healer pings continuing when you start spectating after dying.
• Fixed daggers/shortbows used by disguised players not showing the correct model.
• Fixed weapon skins showing in chat kill messages for disguised players.
• Fixed weapon skins showing up in chat kill messages despite not being of a high enough tier.
• Fixed issue where message claimed you could not queue up while in-game when already finished if your party was still playing.
• Fixed re-queue not working round 3 of Battle Box: Quads after being eliminated.
• Fixed weapon skins in games not showing star amounts.
• Fixed RSR map generation stopping on Pyromancy.