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A Prestige Warning!

Just wanted to make sure to put this on everyone's radar.

The first step to New Prestige(tm) is coming out this week, but with it is going to be a bit of a shocking change that I wanted to warn about. Because we're going to be changing how you unlock a new prestige difficulty (so you can't just jump STRAIGHT to the final difficulty for your first time), we're going to have to reset everyone's prestige progress.

What this means is when the update comes out all of your islands will be reset to Normal and you're going to have to unlock the next difficulty.

  • You won't lose any money (BUT if you want to maximize your offline progress you're going to want to log into the game before the next update and collect your offline progress on higher difficulties).
  • You won't lose any islands. They're all still unlocked.
  • You won't lose any XP or levels (but see the money point above).
  • You won't lose any achievements (but we will rename the Mighty 2 ones).

    This does mean your overall progress is getting reset a bit as you try to work your way through the difficulties again, but if you're an existing user you should be getting back up to speed without much trouble (just waiting). We're going to try to get a feature out that will automatically reset all your boss timers when we launch so you at least won't get stuck waiting to reach Stalwart for the first time.

    What we're doing with this redone prestige system is trying to make things more rewarding and challenging. Give more goals to reach and things to unlock, which is something a lot of you were missing with the current system.

    And even though you can't do anything with it at launch, you will be earning a fancy new currency when you complete a difficulty on an island....

    (Updating with a preview!)