Greeting Commanders,
There’s a winter season update coming to Red Tides tomorrow! We celebrate the Winterfest: there will be a new map – Snow town, upgradable Siege Tank skin and winter exclusive skins coming! We also introduce three new units to the battlefield, and a new season: 2017 Winter League.
The server maintenance will take about 5 hours and be held on:
00:50 December 15 PDT
08:50 December 15 GMT
14:50 December 15 GMT+8
1. Winter is coming! Be prepared for the Winterfest!
Event Period: December 15, 2017 – January 4, 2018
Snow Town
- During the Winterfest, Players have a great chance to enter the special map ‘Snow Town’ in the Quick Play and Ranked modes.
- Players may be rewarded with a Gift Chest after a battle on the special map.
- Players will not be rewarded with the Gift Chest in Versus A.I. mode or when they pass the Rested period.
Gift Chest
- Players have a great chance to get gingerbread men from the Gift Chest. Gingerbread men can be used to exchange items in the Winterfest Store.
- Players may get a Winterfest exclusive skin, rune or avatar from the Gift Chest.
Winterfest Store
- In the Winterfest Store, players can exchange Winterfest exclusive skins, avatars, runes and other items with gingerbread men.
- Items in the Winterfest Store will be automatically refreshed at 05:00am (GMT+8) every day.
- Players can also refresh them at the expense of some gingerbread men or gems.
- The Winterfest Store will be closed 1 week after the Winterfest ends.
Siege Tank Skin Upgrade
- Players can pay the Blacksmith gingerbread men to upgrade the Siege Tank’s skin.
- The "Winterfest Series Skins" cannot be downgraded once levelled up.
- Players will only own the Winterfest Tank Premium skin once they upgrade it to the highest level.
- The Siege Tank Skin Upgrade will be closed 1 week after the Winterfest ends.
Winterfest Daily Quests
- There will be 3 new daily quests everyday. Complete them to get gingerbread men.
- Daily quests will be automatically refreshed at 05:00am (GMT+8) everyday.
2. Winterfest exclusive skins
Added 5 Winterfest exclusive skins in the store, and they can be exchanged in the Winterfest Store. ‘Snowtown Arsonist’ the Regular Flamethrower skin, ‘Snow Arhat’ the Frost Arhat skin, ‘Uncle Tom’ the Bowcat skin, ‘Nightwatch’ the Siege Tank skin, ‘Snow Clearer’ the Javelineer Deer skin. Exclusive skins are only available from December 15, 2017 to January 11, 2018
3. New Units – Hailstorm, Tempest Dragon and Venom Deer arrive at the battlefield!
Hailstorm
The Hailstorm is able to launch missile barrage to a target area at a super long distance. It is very effective along with False Rally
Tempest Dragon
The Atlac gets another late-game CHAMP! Not only Tempest Dragon’s normal attack can deal AoE damage, its active ability can cast a tornado that deals massive damage!
Javelineer Deer
As a support unit, Javelineer Deer wants to be the carry of the team. Javelineer Deer can turn its javelin to a spiral blade that deals long range AoE damage when using active ability.
4. 2017 Winter League
Winter is coming! The long-awaited Winter League will start on December 14!
- Winter League will start after the weekly update on December 14 and end before the weekly update on January 11, 2018
- Player records/history relating to ranks and tiers in S1 will be cleared. Commanders need to start from scratch on a new Leaderboard.
- Commanders achieved at least Platinum will be awarded with special avatars representing the highest tier they achieved in the Winter League.
- Commanders achieved at least Gold will be awarded with Grand Duchess Zern, the limited edition skin for the Regular Paviser.
- Commanders will get one of the following rewards according to the highest tier they achieved in the Winter League:
- 300 gems for Bronze
- 500 gems for Silver
- 1000 gems and the limited edition skin ‘Grand Duchess Zern’ for Gold
- 1500 gems, the limited edition skin ‘Grand Duchess Zern’ and the honorable avatar Wolf for Platinum
- 2000 gems, the limited edition skin ‘Grand Duchess Zern’ and the honorable avatar Alpha Wolf for Diamond
- 3000 gems, the limited edition skin ‘Grand Duchess Zern’ and the honorable avatar Wolf King for Supreme Commander
5. Daily Quests redesigned!
We redesigned the daily quests system. The original daily quests system and Daily Sale Bundle have moved to Events system. Now there will be many rewards after finishing each daily quest, including coins, rune dust and gems.
6. Teammates position swap
After ban pick in each game, there will be 20-second preparation time for position swap. Commanders can swap with teammates for their most comfortable position.
The balance adjustment are based on tremendous match-up data. We’ve also analyzed the overall improvement according to players’ feedback. Balance adjustment is a long-term process, and sufficient amount of time is needed to make sure every adjustment is effective and reasonable. So please be patient and stay with us, our goal is to provide players with diverse strategies and better game experience.
Atlac
Units
Upgrade Adjustment:
Lv1. Fast Recharge time increased to 5s, recharge shield at 20/0.5s
Lv2. Invulnerable when recharging.
Lv3. Shield + 40%
Yaoguai
Units
Upgrade Adjustment:
Lv1. Units attacked by frost bolts will be slowed for 3 seconds. Cloaked units attacked by fire bolts will be visible
Lv2. Gains detect ability permanently
Lv3. When both fire and frost bolts hit the target, bolts will explode and deal AoE damage
- Optimized the match overview. Match results in ‘Economy’ tab changed to curve chart
- Continuously optimized the in-game Tips
- Fixed the problem that command academy level4 was unplayable
- Fixed the problem that caused the vision of enemy base appeared
- Fixed the problem that units affected by Shrink lost attack animation
- Fixed the problem that the Dreadclaw can be affected by stun