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Brawl Stars' first balancing update tweaks characters, maps, and more

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Brawl Stars' first balancing update tweaks characters, maps, and more
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The game hasn't even released worldwide yet but Brawl Stars is already getting quite a big balancing update.

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Soft launched in Canada at the moment, Brawl Stars certainly made itself know when Supercell announced it last week. Of course, as it's still in the baby stages we get to watch the game blossom and evolve to become a more well-rounded experience, though the opinions and reviews of it so far are pretty promising.

Today's balance patch include character and map balances, miscellaneous changes, and bug fixes. See the full patch note below:

CHARACTER BALANCE:
  • Nita - Decreased Bear hp from 1200 to 1000, and removed bear health decay.
  • Jessie - Removed health decay from the turret.
  • Ricochet - Shoots one additional bullet with the main attack.
  • Dynamike - Increased main attack damage from 140 to 160
  • Poco - Attack range reduced by 15%, and Super goes over walls now. Can heal allies behind walls.
MAPS:
  • Heist maps balance fixes, terrain changes. (some maps favored the attacker too much)
  • Showdown map (Stormy Plains) has a reduction in bushes
OTHER CHANGES/IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Event gold distribution changes - Overall max coin rewards lowered to give smoother progression to new players
  • Event 1 max coin reward changed from 80 to 60 gold.
  • New event coin reward changed from 12 to 8. (First win changed from 12 to 8)
  • Event 2 not changed, still 40 gold.
  • New event coin reward changed from 12 to 8. (First win changed from 12 to 8)
  • Event 3 max coin reward changed from 12 to 16.
  • Event 4 max coin reward from 20 to 16
  • Brawler rank up gold reward changed from 20 to 10 gold.
  • Early game matchmaking improved

BUG FIXES:

  • Adjusted Star Player calculation
  • Fixed Heist matchmaking issue that caused players to end up on Defense too often
  • Fixed a matchmaking issue causing more than the maximum amount of players to appear
  • Fixed local Band leaderboard to display correct local data
  • Bands can no longer have more than 50 members
  • If a Band has more than 50 members, the leaderboard will only include the lowest 50 ranked members
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Emily Sowden
Emily Sowden
Emily is Pocket Gamer's News Editor and writes about all kinds of game-related things. She needs coffee to function and begrudgingly loves her Switch more than she lets on.