Hail and Well Met!
As you continue to enjoy the new Campaign The Shadow's Fall and new Encounter A Feast For Trolls we wanted to focus on additional changes coming with our upcoming major First Time User Experience release that will be updating the UI, add new features and cosmetic controls.
If you missed the previous updates about this release, you can catch up by reading the updates from previous weeks including:
Decks Menu
This week, we want to give you previews of changes we are making to the Decks Menu and how you build decks in the new update. Let's start with what you will see when you go to the Decks menu in the new system.
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You will note a few things here-
The Gallery- We've gathered the cards you own into a Gallery, with tabs inside the Gallery for displaying both your Heroes and other cards.
The Search Bar- In all sections of the gallery, you will see a side search bar that you can use for sorting your cards. Each of the search criteria can be toggled on and off so that you can combine them. The side bar will be context sensitive so that search criteria will be added or subtracted depending on where within the Decks menu you are. (Note the new icon for the Neutral Sphere.)
New Tabs- You'll note that in addition to the Gallery, there are tabs for:
- The Deck Builder- Build your Decks here
- Hero Packs- Check out Available and owned Hero Packs here
- Sauron Gallery- Check out Sauron's cards here
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Card Gallery
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Here you will see the contextual differences between the Hero tab and the Cards tab, showing the criteria for searching, as well as changes to how cards are represented in the game. You'll now see physically if you have 1 or 2 cards, and whether those cards are locked or unlocked at a glance.
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Deck Building
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When you go to actually make a new deck, these changes carry over as well...
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However, when you go to examine your existing decks, you'll note that there are now two tabs—one for pre-built decks and the other for player custom decks. Our intention is that with our new update, we will be providing a few additional decks of differing types so that new players can try them out before making their own decks. In this way, if you have no intention to use pre-built decks, they won't clutter up your own custom deck list.
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Card Detail
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In the card detail view, you will see a modification of the existing format that gives clearer information about the sphere and set information. Additionally, if you don't own or haven't unlocked a current card, you'll be able to do so right there.
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Additionally, for heroes, you'll be able to select the card art within that screen as well.
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You can also learn more details about Sauron's cards.
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Summary
By combining unlocking, deckbuilding, card exploration and modifications all in one menu, we hope to make for a clearer game experience and hope that they will allow you to enjoy the game more fully.
Hotfix Updates
We made a few hotfix updates over the last week. You can check out the quick patch note update here. Of particular note are the network updates that should improve network stability and disconnect/reconnect behavior markedly.
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Glorfindel Update
In addition, our Dwarven miners got a little overzealous and pushed forward a change to Glorfindel that we had originally intended to push forward at a later date, but we decided to make live now for playtesting feedback. We will be gauging this change to see how it affects game play. You will note that Glorfindel's power is now the opposite from what it was originally- if he takes damage, you lose a threat, and if you don't take damage, you gain fate.
Twitch Stream
Don't forget that you can check out our Twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/ffigames every two weeks at 1pm Central US time / 6:00pm UTC.
Our next stream will be Wednesday, April 24th.
Next Update
Next week, we'll continue our series on the changes coming in our upcoming major update. When will these changes be coming? We have not yet announced the date these changes are coming, but will do so in the coming weeks.
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That's it for this week. Until we meet again, may the stars shine ever on your adventures!