Skillshot City Update Patch Notes – April 7, 2026

[GENERAL CHANGES]
– Clicking the settings icon above the play button now lets you prioritize servers based on joining Round 1, or with more players. “Balanced” will consider both factors.

– You can now earn trophies towards class and modifier progression in singleplayer bot games.

– Your class name is now shown up the top right next to your level.

– Added a search box in the skills tree to help find skills you type in.

– Fixed a few bugs.

– Random Skills mode now also gives +10% account XP, in addition to the +10% ingame xp.

– When you join a server mid way, you’ll now choose your first 4 skills. But then the game will auto-level the rest.

– The round number of the game you’re about to join is now shown on the loading screen

[GAMEPLAY CHANGES]
– Every skill has had it’s mutation values rescaled and buffed to a 2/3/4/5 pattern.

– Dying only loses you 100xp instead of 200xp.

– Killing gangsters now gives $300 and 30xp instead of $200 and 20xp.

– Gangster points now give $10000 in round 3 and $7500 in round 2 (and still $5000 in round 1).

– Gangster points are now guarded by 5 instead of 4 guards.

– Common skills are less likely to show up in the skill draft.

– Stacking Med Kits can now go up to +60 damage instead of +50 on your next shot.

– Shields now cap out at 50% instead of 60% of max health.

– Playes now leave a trail of blood drops whenever they are below 30% health, even when Invisible.

– Gangsters have slightly less attack range

– Cop Waves come slightly more frequently

– Toned down steering sensitivity in cars, but holding handbrake (spacebar) lets you turn faster.

– Fixed a bug where passive regen would heal you in the circle of death.

– Shields now regenerate 20% faster.

– Molotovs have a slightly bigger explosion radius.

– You can now make progress towards your 3 kills for the syringe from assists. As long as you do 50% damage it’ll add to your kill counter. This also applies for Syringe Gambit.

– Knife attacks no longer use or consume the bonus damage that you accumulate from things like med kits. The lets Assault actually build up a +50 damage blast by knifing civs.

– Players who join a game midway get slightly more XP than average.

– You’ll spawn closer to a vendor if you join the game late and have excess cash

– Buying vendor bullet speed upgrades will now increase the speed of seeking weapons to compensate

[SKILL CHANGES]
– Bouncing Bullets does a bit more damage after bouncing

– Automatic Armor’s explosion is slightly larger

– Shift Attack has duration of 0.7s instead of 1.0s

– Venom Shot cooldown is 2s faster

– Killer cooldowns mutation restores a bit more after a player kill (same vs npc kills though)

– Invis’s mutation charges up faster, but also fades off faster if you fall out of range

– Teleportation cooldown is now 4s faster

– Shrapnel’s explosion range bonus is doubled. Also, Shrapnel’s mutation cash reward is 2x larger in the final round

– Soul Drop mutation jumps slightly less high.

– Laser Scope now slightly buffs your view range when mutated.

– Vampirism now has 100% effectiveness against civs and cops, instead of 70%.

– Executioner does a bit more damage.

– Flying Dagger skill has been reworked to only throw the knife after you reload your gun. Using the knife key does a normal melee attack

– Flying dagger has a bit more damage, and the boomerang mutation even morso, to compensate for the above nerf