It’s the first Community Weekly of Free to Play!
Welcome to all new players, this is where we compile all of the interesting things that have happened this week and are planned to happen next week that you can take part of. Because we have a lot of new players here, we’re going to include a bunch of useful links as well.
Dev Blog
Our last weekly Dev Blog was posted on Tuesday, written by Stunlock Studios CEO, Gedan. It the last of our regularly scheduled Dev Blogs, but communication similar to this will continue in the future. To read his post (which touched the hearts of a lot of the Deveopers),
click here.
Free to Play Launch Patch
Our Free to Play Patch includes a rundown on Thorn, the Twisted Terror, as well as balance changes and quality of life updates. Read more about it here
Server Problems
We have been experiencing server problems today and yesterday. Our server provider in France experienced two major critical problems, including power issues. Given that the servers were down, the game was unplayable, getting stuck on the loading screen around 70%. Once we were able to bring users back online, problems that this crash caused included longer queue times, a delay in receiving rewards and experience, and long loading times.
Some players were unable to complete the tutorial, as this was linked to the delay in receiving rewards. We have since removed the necessity to finish the tutorial in order to queue, verify the integrity of your game times to ensure you have downloaded this hotfix.
We will continue to work on improving the game experience for everyone, thank you all for your patience and support.
Battlecrank this week has the patch notes covered, and you can check them out here. Insightful comments will earn you a chance at winning a Legendary or Champion Chest at the end of the month!
Battlemanly
Published weekly, BattleManly puts up videos highlighting different cool or humorous plays that have happened in Battlerite each week. This one is another “Best of Battlerite,” check it out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JrF1KiFkEg
New Player Links
And now for stuff for new players!
First of all, over at the Battlerite subreddit we have this post written by members of the community from Early Access, welcoming all of our new Free to Play friends. Here you can find links to Battlerite communities, guides for choosing Champions and how to play them, tournaments, how to maximize your FPS, and where to go if you’re running into bugs.
If you’re looking for a video, we have 2 Lainz and his quick start guide to Battlerite that you can check out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUdwaBh1rek
And if you haven’t followed us on twitter and Facebook then we’d highly recommend it to stay up to date on everything going on in Battlerite.
You should also check out Topplerite, former YouTube content creators who have branched out into a website with guides, news, and videos. If you haven’t already checked it out, they made our awesome Thorn Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ycRdJtBafs
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Tournaments
You can keep an eye on http://battleritewiki.com/ for a schedule of some of the upcoming tournaments.
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Region: North America
Pro Rivalry League has their weekly 3v3 tournaments up and running still, with the next tournament on Sunday, November 12th, at 5:00 PM EST.
Fight or your share of $300; sign up and find more information here.
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Battlerite has partnered with Battlefy to bring you the Battlerite Community Series. Here you can take part in or create your own tournaments, and you can apply to have in-game items as rewards! Check it out at battlefy.com. You can find your specific regions here:
Europe: https://battlefy.com/discovery/battlerite?region=Europe
United States: https://battlefy.com/discovery/battlerite?region=US
South America: https://battlefy.com/discovery/battlerite?region=South%20America
Asia: https://battlefy.com/discovery/battlerite?region=Asia
Oceania: https://battlefy.com/discovery/battlerite?region=Oceania
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Region(s): French-speaking
Introducing BattleFrance Brawl, a weekly 2v2 tournament held every Friday at 9PM CEST! Participate and you can win in-game prizes and a fancy black color for your name in the BattleFrance Discord channel.
Find out more information and register here: http://www.battlefrancebrawl.fr/
Tune in to the BattleFrance Twitch Channel to watch the action!
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If you have a useful community related tool or website, or are hosting a tournament and would like to be featured in this section, please write an email to community[at]battlerite[dot]com with information about it!