Update 8.5 Patch Notes

Note from Jeto: I am currently chasing up if there are other bug fixes that have not been mentioned (I don’t write the patch notes)

Also, for now if you don’t see a fix listed, please assume it is a known issue and is on the radar. Gman is still working on updating the known issues article on the help centre and I suggested listing at least the top known issues in the patch notes, in future

opening tutorial

We have made several improvements to the opening 3 battles of the game, to improve how the
Puzzle game basics are introduced to new players.

  • The opening 3 battles (The Stranger, The Knight, and The Dragon) now have short interactive tutorials that will walk players through the key parts of the puzzle game.
  • We have also given the hub for the opening 3 battles a visual update.
  • When a player starts a battle, it will run through the conversation and then it will load new players directly into the battle.
  • The load menu for each battle, will display what will be taught in that battle.
    • (Similar to the previous Pre-Battle menus).
  • We have changed what parts of the puzzle game are taught in each battle:
    • The Stranger: Matching Skulls, and Dealing Skull damage
    • The Knight: Matching Mana, Casting Spells, Enemy Turns
    • The Dragon: Matching 4-Of-A-Kind, Revisiting Spell Casting
  • At the end of the Stranger battle, New Players will now get the troop - Eleanor At the end of the Knight battle, New Players will now get the new troop - Prisoner Luther
  • We have also given the Hero Creation menu a visual update.
  • We have updated Eleanor’s spell so it is more useful in general gameplay
    • Her spell now lets players choose a Colored Gem, and will destroy several Gems of that Color.

Please Note: Prisoner Luther will be going into chests for all Players with Weekly Reset

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We have now implemented a pop-up for XBOX players when they experience an issue making a purchase.

You will now be directed to go into the in-game Settings > Account, where you will now find a ‘Check Purchases’ option.

Pressing this will resubmit any failed purchase data. Should you press this and still fail to receive your purchase, please contact support with your purchase receipt and your invite code.

gw-general

We have changed the Landing Menu of the game when players load the game after a fresh install.

  • Updated the buttons for New Players and Returning Players
    • You should now not be able to accidentally tap into a new game on Steam after a fresh install, when you are trying to recover your account
  • Improved clarity of Settings button in the bottom right corner of the menu.
    • Feedback has already been shared that the full Settings menu should be available in this tutorial phase of the game, if you miss it on this launch screen.
  • New Background splash image

gw-achievements

Enchantée: Destroy 100 Enchanted Gems.

gw-bug-fixes

  • An Immortal would be removed from the team if they didn’t match the Region restriction (even though the Immortal is from that Region).
    • This is the team resetting issue.
  • We have made some improvements to XBOX behaviour with how it interacts with the Shop to address the performance issues that some players were seeing. Explained above.
  • Bonus morale from Leaderboard was not being included in the Morale Bonus section (Blue text) on the Guild Wars Reward menu.
  • Monoliths were incorrectly applying to some Guild War Battles
  • Guild Keep Defense Bonus was not applying to Troops that were transformed or summoned on the defending team.
  • Guild Wars where a Guild could face the same Enemy Guild more than once during a single event.
  • We have made some improvements to Guild Wars to optimize performance.

I’ll edit this if anything further is added, just wanted to share this in advance while I had some time, even if there is a chance it would be updated.

I am also waiting to get a confirmation on broken achievements, and which update they have been fixed in as we have sent off requests to XBOX to get them adjusted! They will be resolved in 8.6/8.7

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Seems to be a short update focusing on bug fixes which is a first in recent years. You should keep more of these updates coming in the future too!

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Finally! Hopefully one day Immortal splash damage bug gets fixed at some point to go along with this..

The update seems generally *positive (assuming no crazy change got added without notice). so uh.. cool!

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Do you have a list of which achievements are being fixed/adjusted for 8.6/8.7?

Doesn’t really matter to me, but someone is eventually going to bring up/ask that X achievement is broken despite patch notes stating achievements are being worked on. That person can be redirected to “the list”.

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There is a known issues article of the current broken achievements, and then when the updates are released they will be listed in the patch notes.

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The sped up animations for a Genie encounter is very nice, but now my game hard crashes/no cliffy every time I’ve accept one (2 for 2) and Demon (1 for 1). Skipping them seems to be fine.

I also get that new Microsoft purchase error (two instances of the error) every time I boot up the game, even though I’m not trying to buy anything.

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Achievement Taken To Task
Fully complete 2 Campaign Tasks in a single Campaign

why is there no information about this achievement? will it be unattainable for a long time?

although a bit of a surprise, campaign tasks aren’t new.. we’re on week 6 of 10 for the current campaign, so not too much longer.

Did you fix the offers that show like 500 to 1,000 dollars on Xbox? So scared to hit something by mistake.

@Beg As I have mentioned around, this is a visual issue only. But I do think there are some different XBOX fixes still to come.
Please let me know if once you update to 8.5 you are still having this issue though

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Ive been on 8.5 for 2 hours now

@Jeto was notification fixed in this update or it will be in a future update?

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I’m having the same message pop up twice back to back, whenever I start the game.

^ as I mentioned ^

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Have you since gone into the settings and clicked Check Purchases? If not, can you do so between battles and let me know if it keeps appearing.

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When I do that I get thee error popping up again. https://youtu.be/GgGLJgq0tT4

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I get this error after login and also when I do what is says, Go to settings, account, Check Purchases. I never had this before. This is on Xbox.

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“The sped up animations for a Genie encounter is very nice, but now my game hard crashes/no cliffy every time I’ve accept one (2 for 2) and Demon (1 for 1). Skipping them seems to be fine.“

At least on iOS, i’ve bought all genie, daemon, merchant and angel offers (to try and replicate the crashes) but have had no issues. Perhaps only an issue on Xbox?

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What happens after you select Check Purchases?

Basically that in its entirety (though not my video) and when I reboot the game, it still comes up again.

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