New Features
Added new club/team: The Static Storm with their leader Coopy Darkstorm (Thunderclaw boss)
Added hub info for major events: MidCup, Champions Cup, Chaos Thunder Cup, and the Allstar Match.
Event news now appear only once per event/week and are saved properly.
Improved bye-week text so it is clearer when cups begin after advancing.
Chaos Thunder Cup now has better visual integration as a special competition.
Allstar and Chaos Thunder Cup
Added a Spectate option for the Allstar Match. (thanks Piotr)
Added a Spectate option for Chaos Thunder Cup after selecting your 3. (thanks Piotr)
Spectator mode now carries correctly between special events.
Allstar now lets you choose whether to play or watch when one of your mercs qualifies.
Tutorial
Fixed cases where the tutorial could stay active after skipping or starting the season early. (thanks Pochus)
Resetting the tutorial from the menu now also brings back the tutorial log panel. (thanks Nacho)
Fixed random team not showing the correct mercenaries in the hub due to not enough renown.
UI and Visual Polish
MidCup and FriendlyMatches teams should now have proper team logos. (thanks deadsoulrising)
Improved mercenary details panel with cleaner layout, more readable combat stats, better trait tags, and no horizontal scrolling.
In the market, hidden traits now show as ??? instead of disappearing entirely.
Improved the team details panel with a wider layout, cleaner/bigger logo presentation, and removed the horizontal scrolling.
Improved the club stats popup, it was duplicated.
Improved standings/top players with dedicated combat stat icons and better sizing.
Mercenary detail popups are opened now on max front layer to avoid issues appearing behind other panels.
Removed top right click on teamlogo sending you to club snapshot.
Combat Performance
Optimized frequent AI mercenary lookups by using cached unit lists where available.
Reduced per-frame global queries in idle/group-up states and ability selection.
Cached large-battle unit counts so they are not recalculated constantly. (may fix stuttering with big battles, but more fixes are coming)
Balance
Improved defense scaling in Choose your stat panels.
Improved attack scaling for DPS classes.
Several Mage abilities rebalanced.
Lowered HP scaling for Tank classes.
Spellblade skills greatly improved.
Barriers and shields absorb amount is now being correctly affected by the caster DEF stat.