Today we release the Winter Season Update for Gremlins, Inc. which includes new cards with a never-before-seen game mechanics, quality-of-life changes, and bug fixes. With this update we also begin the new Winter Season, resetting the rating of all players to the default value of 100.00 (the award ceremony for the top players of the Autumn Season will happen a bit later). The Winter season should last until February 1, 2019, and then we are switching to the monthly system details of which will be announced later.
As for this update, below is the list of changes:
A. NEW FEATURES
- Stats are now separated between different playing fields. When you check any player profile (yours or someone else’s) you can see not only the combined statistics for both playing fields, but also individual data of how many sessions of each type have been played by the player on the first or the second playing field. The only exclusion is the "quit stats" that only counts as a total for both fields. Please notice that the "Early access" row has been removed from profiles as obsolete – all sessions from that period are now included in the overall pool of sessions according to their types.
B. NEW CONTENT
- NEW CARDS: Two different cards (4 cards total) are added to the game. :cards: "Ancient Detail" After gathering all 3 Ancient Details as active permanent cards, they will be replaced with an extremely powerful "Ancient Mechanism". It won't be that easy though as the activated Details can be taken away from you through Conflicts. :cards: "Ancient Mechanism" A game-winning permanent card that gives to its owner :score:1 at the beginning of each round. When a session begins, this card doesn't exist in the deck but it can be added to the game by gathering all 3 Ancient Details.
C. BALANCING CHANGES
- CHARACTERS: a :steampunk: Pauper: both 'Apathy' and 'No Place for Beggars' now trigger when the Pauper has less than $200 (instead of when the Pauper has less than $100).
D. OTHER CHANGES
- The 1360x768 screen resolution has been added to the game.
- If a player is banned for breaching the Fair Play Rules, their "Ranked session" button now will be replaced with the "Fair Play Rules" button to make it less confusing why the player can't join the queue.
- After finishing a ranked or a tournament session, players can now open the protest forum directly from the game.
- The "My notes" button is added next to the "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" buttons on the screen with the post-session statistics. [:notebook: Flibustier-USSR]
- The screen with the post-session statistics now shows not only the avatars of the players but also their lobby icons. [:notebook: Flibustier-USSR]
- The sound when a ranked session is found has been replaced with a different one.
E. FIXES
- Fixed the issue with the "Wind of change" misfortune, where in some very rare circumstances it could duplicate cards. [:notebook: Standard of Ur]
- Partially fixed the issue with the "always flashing" indicator of the active permanent cards. It can now be turned off by opening and closing the window with the active permanent cards.
F. KNOWN ISSUES
Information about all currently known issues, their status, as well as the suggestions from the community can be found at our public page on Trello: https://trello.com/b/HjOStDAS You can use our forums to report new issues or make suggestions about the game – they will be added to the Trello list.
Have you noticed that quite a few of the fixes and improvements in this post have the names of the players who reported/suggested them? This is because when a certain suggestion is implemented or a significant reported bug is fixed, the players who reported those first, are rewarded with in-game chests. Please keep those reports and suggestions coming!
Finally, as always, we invite you to join the community of Gremlins, Inc. on Discord – where we already have nearly 2.000 players, communicating in English, Russian, Japanese and Chinese – use this link to join.
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