4.4 Update Stream
IMPORTANT
– This update does NOT address old weapons.
– This update does NOT address delve difficulty.
– Please direct issues about these to the dev Q&A next week.
– There are a number of potentially controversial issues in this update. Please create and/or redirect discussion of these topics into their own thread to keep discussions streamlined and to minimize chaos in this thread.
Daily Login Screen Refresh
– All daily login calendars and bonuses are now condensed on one screen.
– Rewards are categorized by Calendar, PvP, Guild, Faction, and PvP rewards for easy viewing.
– Rewards shown on the screen, are sent to the mailbox for collection, as usual.
Adventure Board
– The adventure board REPLACES both Daily Tasks and Weekly Events.
– There are four tasks per day, similar to Daily Tasks. One task is static, until completed, the other three Adventure Tasks recycle daily at daily reset.
– Adventure Tasks are random per player with rewards.
– Each Adventure Task has 3-4 battles, of increasing difficulty.
– Rarer Adventure Tasks offer better rewards, but have more difficult teams to face.
– Pet Rescues are roughly in-line in difficulty with the harder Adventure Tasks.
– Even with the harder Adventure Tasks, new accounts can clear the early tasks to obtain some rewards.
– New players will receive a chain of static tasks that can be completed in succession as a form of a tutorial. Once completed (or for veteran accounts), kill tasks will be given.
Team Management
– On the team selection screen, the “Rename Team” button has been replaced with the “Manage Team” button.
– The game can now suggest an entire team for the player to use.
– Teams are generated by algorithm to suit various team styles. (These are basic team suggestions and not veteran/meta teams).
– The algorithm tends not to create teams with hero(ine) weapons. A current workaround is manually place the desired weapon into a blank team and then have the algorithm create a team around that weapon.
– Suggested teams can be copied and pasted into chat for sharing.
– Similarly, posted teams in chat can be copied and pasted into a team.
– The coding for a team is in text, and can be copied from the clipboard into external locations, such as Discord for sharing with others.
– Filters can be used to refine team suggestions.
– On stream, the suggest-a-team feature was shown to pick teams that meet color restrictions for a game mode, such as delves.
– Classes/Talents can be copied to chat/clipboard.
Troop Roles
– Troop roles are shown on the bottom of each troop’s card as pictures.
– Troop roles reflect that troop’s most likely use in a team.
– Each troop only has one role, even if it has multiple purposes.
– Troops may be filtered by a role.
– Roles:
Defender: tank
Warrior: Off-tank, with damage
Warmaster: Buffs allies, creates skulls
Striker: High damage, single target
Assassin: One shot kill troops
Mage: AOE damage
Generator: Generates mana / gem colors
Support: Defense buffers
Warlock: Debuffers
Boost Ratios
– In battle, damage adds based on a resource collected, are shown in a tooltip on the unit’s card. On stream, Bonnie Rose’s damage increasing with gold collected was shown.
– Damage outcomes that are based on a user selection (ex: selected color’s gems destroyed) cannot be shown because the AI can’t tell the player about a choice they haven’t made yet.
Epic, Legendary, Mythical Battles
– Designed to assist players (primarily newer players) who are stuck in sigil-based events (Invasion, Raid Boss, Tower of Doom).
– Does not apply to daily delves of daily delves.
– Does not apply to Guild Wars.
– Players may consume additional sigils to temporarily boost their stats to clear a stage in which they are stuck. Costs are PER BATTLE.
– Epic Battle: +1 additional sigil, +50% to all stats for player
– Legendary Battle: +3 additional sigils, +100% to all stats for player
– Mythic Battle: +5 additional sigils, +200% to all stats for player.
– First-time use of this system for players is free, costs sigils afterwards.
Drop Rates Shown In-Game
– Clicking/Tapping the “?” button on the a chest’s screen will now bring up the chest’s current odds per rarity.
– Odds shown on-screen are relevent to the chest selected at the time.
– Odds shown are by category of rarity (ex: Legendary, Traitstones, etc.), and NOT by individual troop/reward.
Flash Offer Calendar
– A new calendar type will offer various daily offers, for a specific day.
– Offers are the same for everyone, and change daily.
– Offers expires at the end of each day.
– Some offers require money, others require gems, some are free.
Bug Fixes
– Various UI bug fixes.
– Double first turn bug with potion of explosion was fixed.
– Android notification bug was fixed.
– Bugs with several weapons were fixed.
– Bugs with one-shot troops and their spells were fixed.
Stream has ended.