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Minion Masters!
So much is happening this October, so we hope you’ll bear with the massive wall of text.
We’ve got 3 cool announcements, as well as critical fixes and balance changes in this update.
The Search For The Sensitive Savage.
Rumors abound that a unique Minion is travelling through the Eternal Woods!
A fierce brawler, Masters must explore the lands to acquire his strength with naught but a mysterious clue; “Only those with a good shoulder will convince the savage to join them”.
Gather supplies through daily quests or watching streams for special Watch & Win rewards and play the new Expeditions feature!
If you already have an Expedition, you’ll need to start a new one to find him. You’ve received 10 relics for that :)
Kripparrian - Forced to Stream
Two days ago, we announced a big name to you: Kripparrian. Popular Hearthstone streamer, former top player of World of Warcraft, Diablo III and Path of Exile, as well as Hearthstone. Kripparrian is one of those names, you will definitely come across when you watch streams at Twitch often. Even on YouTube, he’s hard to not find. With close to 950,000 subscribers one can state that he’s successful with what he’s doing.
Kripparrian will stream Minion Masters at the following dates (note that exact timing might vary):
October 5th at 1:30am EDT / 7:30am CEST
October 7th at 1:30am EDT / 7:30am CEST
October 9th at 1:30am EDT / 7:30am CEST
There will also be YouTube content planned to be available on October 10th at 3pm EDT / 9pm CEST. We’re just as excited as you are!
But let’s talk about something, most people want to know already. What’s the ‘big event’ we were talking about since late September? Here you go:
BetaDwarf presents: The Master’s Challenge
We’re proud to present to you The Master’s Challenge in cooperation with Dipshit & FFA, as well as their respective staff from the well known King Puff Cup Series. This is our first tournament presented by BetaDwarf and guess what! Even non dwarves are allowed to participate. But there’s another restriction: Only Grandmasters can participate and fight for honor, glory and a prize pool of $1,000 total! Not needed to say that this prize pool is the highest in the history of Minion Masters to date. The Master’s Challenge is expected to start on October 28th and participants need to be Grandmaster in Minion Masters 1vs1 Ranked Mode, October Season (2vs2 Solo or Premade does not count).
We will announce everything you need to know about The Master’s Challenge in the next few days.
Changelog for Update 46
NEW Event: The Search for the Sensitive Savage
- A unique Legendary Minion can be found in the Eternal Woods Expedition - start a new expedition for a chance to find him
- You’ll have to convince the Savage to join you, but the more times you try, the greater your chances
- Once you convince him to join you he will no longer appear in Expeditions but you can craft additional copies!
- Get supplies from Daily Quests or by playing matches
- Watch & Win has been changed; watch streams and get shareable coupons that give Supplies
Changelog
Balance
- Scrat Tank Health up from 500 to 600
- Scrat Tank Attack Speed from 2.2 to 2 sec --- Developer comments --- The Scrat tank was rather underwhelming on release, probably because the special ability of the card didn’t come into play quite as often as other cards of the same caliber. In addition, we’re looking into making a shift towards larger units posing more of a threat and this was the obvious first step.
- Defenso Chopper Health up from 400 to 450
- Defenso Chopper Attack Speed from 3 to 2.8 sec --- Developer comments --- With roughly the same reasoning as the Scrat tank, but a slightly smaller buff because the mechanic is much more impactful, we decided the Chopper could also use a little love.
- Illusory Cleaver explosion now counts as Special rather than Melee --- Developer comments --- More of a bug fix, but it affects interactions with things such as the Succubus and Musketeer and wasn’t really clear before.
Quality of Life
- The controller cursor should be clearer in the Snow skybox now
- You can no longer use /lose to lose an online match and cause the opponent to get reported for reporting an incorrect match result by anti-cheat.
- Expeditions: Scrat Turret from the Scrat perks now has stats in the tooltip.
- Expeditions: Might indicator for enemies that are far away is now hidden.
- Expeditions: Introduced some tooltips to help new players with the Expeditions feature.
- Expeditions: You can now rotate the camera using the scroll wheel or right-click.
- Expeditions: The Map now starts a little further zoomed out
- Expeditions: The cursor now changes based on what you’re hovering, showing swords for fights etc.
- Expeditions: Did an optimization pass that should help many computers run it smoother. We’re still aware of some issues that need more work and we’d appreciate more feedback.
- Expeditions: Polished the initial selection menu to show Relic prices will differ on Expeditions.
- Expeditions: Resources picked up and bought now fly to the status bars - juicy!
- Expeditions: Added a treasure tracker on the left that tells you how much treasure is left in the current Expedition
- Expeditions: Added a message to tell you when you’re done collecting everything in an Expedition.
- Expeditions: The Map now takes quality settings into account.
- Expeditions: Implemented Frustum culling for decals
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a Major bug where Rare and above chests would drop common cards instead of their intended rarities.
- Fixed a memory leak in Expeditions with certain environment objects not being cleaned up from fights.
- Fixed Lance the Armstrong not animating in Expeditions
- Fixed a bug where Hank the Tank from Expeditions would not close up his tank when no more melee ground enemies were near
- Fixed a visual issue with Stormbringer’s bowstring not being handled correctly
- Fixed a UI bug where salvaging cards would make shards fly to the wrong place in your tray - thanks markljunggren!
- Fixed a bug where Stormbringer’s units would not get the Marksmanship indicator when an opponent Stormbringer reached perk 2 after him.
- Fixed an issue where you could click back during a screen transition and be stuck in Expeditions
- Fixed a number of (handled) errors for Expeditions - fog of war, entering battles and more.
- Fixed another bug where the camera angle would be wrong when exiting Expeditions
- Fixed a number of lights in Expeditions not scaling correctly.
- Fixed some UI lines placed wrongly on the match summary screen.
- Fixed a bug where turning off Extra Lights would disable directional lights in Expeditions
- Fixed Might not increasing Spirit Infusions added health
- Fixed Curse not accounting for Might properly.
- Fixed a bug where revealed cards in Expeditions would lose their picture when you used the Map
- Fixed a visual issue where Shields on flying Minions would display at ground level
- Fixed the timer missing on Supply Trading window for when the Gold prices reset.
- Fixed Settsu becoming invisible during Expeditions after returning from Blast Entry.
Cheers from Betadwarf!