Update 0.15.0 includes big game changes and visual updates:
FEATURES
CHEST SYSTEM
- The system for unlocking chests has been dramatically changed.
- Players now have a pre-set pool of Crowns that can be earned. The current cap is 16 Crowns.
- For each KO earned during battles, players will earn Crowns which reduce this pool. For example, a player who KOs their opponent twice will earn 2 Crowns, regardless of whether the battle is won or lost. If their pre-battle pool was 15 Crowns, it would be reduced to 13 Crowns.
- Victories will earn players Chests that can be unlocked.
- Each Chest will require a specific number of Crowns to unlock. If a player has multiple Chests in their inventory, Crowns will deduct from the unlock total of all Chests simultaneously.
- Once a player’s Crown pool reaches zero, they can no longer earn Crowns to unlock Chests via battle until their Crown pool recharges.
- Players will currently regain one crown to their pool every ten minutes.
FRIEND BATTLES
- Players can now challenge other players to battles from their Friends List.
- Friend Battles ignore normal matchmaking flow.
- Players will not gain or lose Trophies, Chests or currency during Friend Battles.
CONTENT
NEW CARDS
- Six new cards will be available in the Season 2 reward track.
- These new cards will be added to the regular chest rotation as listed below.
CRASHAKIN
- Rare Troop Card, 4 Mana Cost.
- The Crashakin spawns a Minikin-filled ball that begins to roll across the Arena towards the unit that is furthest away.
- As it rolls, Crashakin applies damage and knockback to any enemy units that it collides with.
- When it reaches its target, Crashakin inflicts damage and breaks apart into Minikin, which attack enemy targets as normal.
BULWARK
- Legendary Troop Card, 6 Mana Cost.
- Bulwark is a heavily armored unit that stops periodically and performs a shield slam.
- This shield slam increases the defense of nearby allies for a brief period of time.
- Bulwark will perform a shield slam while moving or engaging enemy targets.
MEK FACTORY
- Legendary Spell Card, 6 Mana Cost.
- This spell spawns a stationary Factory.
- While active, the Factory will produce a Droid unit every 4 seconds. These Droids will attack the nearest enemy unit.
ELDERKIN
- Epic Troop Card, 4 Mana Cost.
- This elderly Manakin soldier generates 1 additional unit of Mana every 3 seconds that he remains in play.
- Elderkin will also melee attack nearby enemies with his cane.
MANA MINE
- Common Spell Card, 2 Mana Cost.
- This spell creates a mine on the player Hero’s location.
- When an enemy enters the mine’s trigger radius, the mine explodes, dealing area-of-effect damage.
- Enemies closer to the center of the explosion will be dealt more damage than those nearer to the outside of the radius.
GATLING SQUAD
- Legendary Troop Card, 7 Mana Cost.
- Gatling Squad spawns as a large Gatling gun operated by a Noble Troop.
- After spawning, Gatling Squad will move within range of enemy units, wind up and begin firing.
- While firing, multiple units can potentially be hit and damaged.
- After a few seconds of firing, the gun will overheat and needs to cool down.
IMPROVEMENTS
MAIN MENU
- Updated the appearance and flow of the hub menu to provide players with greater clarity in terms of their progression.
BATTLE
- Updated the battle UI to better reflect the game concept of KOs.
- Heroes can now recover HP if they remain undamaged for more than 2 seconds; when a Hero is damaged, their permanent health (represented in a “shadow HP bar”) is reduced. If no damage is taken for 2 seconds, HP will slowly begin to recover to this permanent marker.
BALANCE
- Heroes now deal 25% more damage against regular Troops.
- Heroes now take 25% less damage from regular Troops.
- Mana rates and growth curves have been adjusted throughout the game.
- Missile damage now scales on level up.
BUGS
- Fixed a bug that occasionally kept Leaderboards from loading when opened.
- Fixed an issue preventing proper connection of Facebook accounts and use of Facebook profile pictures.
- Fixed a soft lock caused when trying to play on older game versions.
- Fixed an issue preventing notifications from being sent on some devices.
- Fixed a soft lock caused by New Content popups appearing during the tutorial.
- Fixed a visual issue with “Your Rank” leaderboard text being overlapped by Leaderboard entries and player names.
- Fixed spacing of Leaderboard row offsets on certain resolutions.
- Fixed issue with Season Challenge UI not updating after receiving card rewards from Mega Crown Quest Chests.
- Fixed issue with Knightingale’s Joust ability and Mekkan’s Barrage ability being usable while the opponent Hero is KO’d.
- Fixed issue with Automaton Minis not exploding and remaining onscreen when stunned.
- Fixed visual issue with state of spells that cannot be cast when the opponent Hero is KO’d; these spells will no longer appear to be usable in these situations.
- Fixed an issue preventing some units from turning around if an enemy unit was too close to them.
- Fixed an issue preventing ranged units from turning around to face targets if they were physically too close to the screen boundary.
- Fixed a rare issue in which friendly Brute Troops could be targeted.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Emote menu to remain onscreen if it was open when a match ended.
Our new season begins next week and begins the introduction of our new cards and other rewards!
The Arena Stars Team