Pardon the very short notice, but here are the season 2 launch and live dev stream time in a few timezones:
- Feb 23 12am GMT
- Feb 23 11am AEST
- Feb 22 4pm PST
We're preparing our sacrifices to the code gods to ensure a timely launch and live stream tomorrow, so prepare your alibis to avoid work and join in the fun as season 2 of the FrankenStorm Prologue begins with a fresh leaderboard.
What do you mean, Season 2?
Highscores for the v1.0 leaderboard will be locked permanently, including for any in-progress saved games, and will only be viewable for history.
A new v1.1 leaderboard will be available, and the all time leaderboard continues to be available both for viewing and setting new highscores.
For a highscore to be eligible for the v1.1 leaderboard, you must not have any salvaged doodads from past seasons equipped. That means you must use a salvage set consisting entirely of new doodads, although you can use salvage points earned in the past to help salvage these new doodads.
That may sound inconvenient, but we have more changes coming to improve the experience around...
Salvage Set Management
A new feature included in the v1.1 seasonal update is the ability to create and manage multiple salvage sets. They all share the same pool of available salvaged doodads, and allow you to switch quickly between different equipment sets.
Click on a salvage set to activate it, and then click again to edit it.
On the edit screen you now have a stat list too, showing all the stats active from equipped doodads and allowing you to filter the salvaged doodad list to help you more quickly find what you're looking for. There's also a button to toggle display of all stats (as in, even stats with 0% active) if you're looking for doodads that haven't yet been equipped yet.
Pro-tip: On filter-able stat lists, you can right-click a stat to exclude any doodads that have that stat!
You may notice that both individual doodads and whole salvage sets have a "version" associated to them, on the right of their name. This represents the season that the doodad was found and salvaged in, or the season of the oldest doodad equipped to a salvage set. If you equip any doodads from an old season to a salvage set, then any highscores earned with that salvage set active will be ineligible from appearing on the seasonal leaderboard.
That means if you want to show up on the v1.1 leaderboards, you must use a v1.1 salvage set (e.g. a salvage set that only contains v1.1 doodads).
However, you can still compete for the all time leaderboards with salvage sets of any version, if you'd like to.
Salvage Point Refunds
In the new version you will be able to trash salvaged doodads to be refunded 50% of the Salvage Points spent on them.
This includes doodads from previous seasons, or doodads from the current season, so it'll hopefully not feel as bad if you salvage "sub-optimal" doodads to speed up your effectiveness in the new season 🙂
So, Game On!
We hope you like the sound of this, and are as eager as we are to jump into the new season tomorrow 😀 I already see those imbeciles charging in with renewed vigour, so we best prepare our defences.
Full patch notes describing all balance changes will be made available alongside the launch tomorrow.
See you then ⚡