Minion Masters!

The holidays are upon us, and with it begins the Frostival - the end of year celebration of snow and winter.
A time of jolly joy and gleeful giving, Masters place gifts all around the Expeditions for their friends (and enemies) to find.

Upcoming event - Frostival

• The Frostival starts on December 1st at 10 am CET
• It has 4 phases
  1. Starts December 1st, 10 am - You can find the Magma Cannon in Expeditions - and warm yourselves by its fire.
  2. Starts December 8th, 10 am - A special limited someone visits.
  3. Starts December 15th, 10 am - To be revealed!
  4. Starts December 22nd, 10 am - To be revealed!
• The Frostival ends on January 3rd 2018
• During each phase, you can still find gifts from the previous phases.
• In fact, you must find the previous gifts to get the ones from later phases.
• For example, on December 18th, if you have found the Magma Cannon, you must find the gift from phase 2 before you start finding phase 3.
• Cards from the event will become craftable when reaching the next phase and stay in the game
• Limited gifts will not be available outside the event but can be purchased.

Changelog for Update 54

Demon warrior visual overhaul

• The Demon Warrior now starts bigger and doesn’t scale quite as much.
• She has received a new set of animations that change depending on her level.
• Updated texture.
• Added emissions that change depending on level.

Ranked rewards have been reworked to include shards, rubies and gold once again.

Note: Already attained leagues are unaffected until the season reset.

Quality of Life

• Added some highlighting to Masters in the night skybox.
• The Dragon Whelp has received a new flight animation.
• In expeditions, when starting a matchmaking search the challenge you’re searching from now has a mark.
• You get a proper error message when trying to start another challenge while searching with a challenge active.
• Clicking a challenge in Expeditions while searching a ranked match will now switch to that challenge being marked as active.
• New users are now returned to the main menu upon reaching level 7 while in Expeditions.
• Polished the Expedition buttons to be more responsive when loading in.
• You can now see the duration of the match on the Match Summary screen at the top.
• Toned down particle VFX in crafting in the collection view.
• Shortened the time it takes for the guaranteed rare token to drop onto the tower upon attaining it.
• Increased the speed of bars that count up in both XP and rank on match summary and season reset screens.
• Introduced an option to remove the “double-tap to play card”.
• Polished the animations for switching decks in deckbuilding.
• Pressing the new cards tooltip in main menu now opens the deckbuilding view on the page where the first new card is.
• Skin selection is now saved with the deck when you link a Master.
• The Blue Golem now has emission on its crystals, differentiating it from the Red golem more when both are Raged.
• AtG Drone x8 now has an indicator for its attack area.
• The Global chat will now announce when somebody reached Grand Master in a mode.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where multiple Master’s would appear in the Main menu when switching selections.
• Fixed a bug where Settsu would sometimes become invisible when returning to the Master Tower - Thanks everyone for the reports.
• Fixed an error where you could not complete a challenge if you moved away from it in Expeditions while searching.
• Fixed a bug where your Draft Master would be displayed in Match summary when you played a challenge in Expeditions.
• Fixed a bug where new players could bypass the initial spin flow.
• Fixed an issue with the splatmap shaders that were displaying wrongly when applied to metal.
• Fixed an issue where everyone would get the Click Here message intended for new users.
• Fixed a bug where clicking no when changing languages did not remove the modal window.
• Fixed a bug where all slots in your deck would display as red after drafting a new deck.
• Fixed a bug where red teams names were not always visible in replays.
• Fixed an issue where cards did not become uncraftable when you crafted the third copy, until you reopened the window.
• Fixed a bug where Settsu would not return to the Master Tower when the game ended.
• Fixed the Boomer VFX to be more in line with actual radius.
• Fixed an issue where Settsu’s skins would have louder voices than the normal outfit - Thanks StevenEven.
• Fixed a visual glitch where spells with bridge indicators would not display full circles but rather be cut off by terrain.
• Fixed a UI issue where the challenge card would display the wrong rarity.
• Fixed the camera having strange movement when inspecting a card from Expeditions.
• Fixed a bug where the Tranquil Estate arena was missing a number of features on lower settings - Thanks StevenEven
• Fixed a bug where the Master would not load quickly on the central platform if you switched multiple times in the deckbuilder.
• Fixed a bug where you could retire your draft when trying to click the chat - thanks Friedrich Psitalon.
• Fixed a bug where ragdolls would fly the wrong way compared to the enemy who hit them - thanks King Puff Cup!
• Fixed an issue where some Minions could attack a Master without the Master returning fire - thanks Khazlariko & Grey Wolf.
• Fixed a bug where players would display rating as rank in Team Battle match summary - Thanks Potato.
• Fixed a bug where the some Minions would not switch back to their original team when multiple hypnotizes were used - thanks laggin_helgi.
• Fixed an issue where you would get an error upon completing a challenge in Expeditions while having moved away - Thanks Khazlariko
• Fixed an issue where completing an achievement or rerolling a daily quest would delay your timer for receiving the next quest - thanks Hotair10.
• Fixed an issue where hackers could induce anti-cheat and cause the opponent to lose - thanks That Just Happened and IcyTroll.

Cheers from Betadwarf!