Welcome to BATTLECON ONLINE version 0.16.0
Released on September 19th, 2018
Updates
This patch is all about visuals and code upgrades! We've looked at a lot of feedback from our players, and we've made a number of major changes. Evil Hikaru should be coming up soon, so hold tight and enjoy the upgrades until then!
- Login should be a lot easier! If you want to register an account it's similar, but you can jump in and play even without it. This should make things a lot more user-friendly when trying to register initially.
- Unique Ability (UA) cards are updated! People wanted more information about how UAs work in detail, so we've added illustrated cards in-game that should help explain!
- Pop-ups and visuals added on a number of cards. These should clarify situations where you need to see what a token does, or otherwise interact with things that were hard to find!
- Flip Viewer and Help Overlay! Press the ? button in-game to see a summary of what everything is on the screen, or click the flip arrow on Kallistar and Seven's cards to see what both sides of the card do.
Balance Changes
Luc:
Memento token cost increased from 2 to 3.
Memento is Luc's best punish, and the ability to swing for 6 on Memento Shot or Memento Drive is a huge threat that represents his most efficient cash-out on Time. This should tax his resources a touch more, while better normalizing the value of Time at 1 effective Power.
Kallistar:
Elemental Ignition's life cost reduced from 3 to 2.
Elemental Ignition is pretty risky, in general. This makes both powered-up cards cost a total of 3 life and slightly reduces the risk.
Visual Changes and Upgrades
- Kallistar: Life loss now occurs before pairs are set, for consistency with Finisher costing.
- Karin: Full Moon's passive "+2 Power if Jager behind opponent" refactored into a Hit effect for clarity.
- Eligor, Alexian, Seven, Cesar: "Ignore push or pull" effects (Vengeful, Gestalt, Terrified) now have a Reveal trigger popping up the effect, for clarity purposes.
- Khadath: Snare now pops up a Reveal: trigger stating "your trap cannot be moved" if you used it with Teleport, Blight, or Evacuation.
- Hikaru: Added reminder text to token regains to clarify what regained tokens do. Fixed some voice lines.
- Rukyuk:Added reminder text to Ammo spends to clarify what spent tokens do.
- Hikaru, Riflam, Rukyuk: Effects interacting with a single custom token (Geomantic, Substantial, Crossfire, etc.) now use the art of that token instead of the card's art.
- Sarafina, Khadath, Kimbhe: Standardized wording between X-range marker-based Unique Bases.
- Cesar: Cesar's UA better explains Threat Level bonuses at the start of each beat.
- Magdelina: Fixed bug where Solar Soul could not spend Trance for buffs.
- Mikhail: Switch now clarifies that Mikhail does not need to spend a Seal.Fixed some voice lines.
- Sarafina: Fixed a bug where Field could sometimes hit opponents on Space 1.
- Anath: Fixed bug with Dark Revulsion crashing while negating range. Fixed bug with Dark Revulsion using up Cesar's extra life.
Client Changes/Updates
- FIXED: Tutorial is now skippable.
- CHANGED: Removed lock image from unlocked fighters.
- FIXED: Cursor was being displayed underneath dialog boxes in some situations.
- CHANGED: Friends status timer updated.
- ADDED: Added access to DEV Server.
- FIXED: Tutorial not working on mac and linux.
- ADDED: Added all new UA frames/descriptions to fighters.
- ADDED: Bundles to the store.
- ADDED: Unlock Icon added back in.
- ADDED: Staggered reconnection attempts.
- FIXED: Mac - Force particle effects never disapear.
- FIXED: Mac - Dust clouds lasting a long time on movement and attack.
- FIXED: Mac - EXP and Levels Displaying incorrectly.
- ADDED: A redeem code button in the shop.
- ADDED: A Help overlay in game.
- CHANGED: Abilities tab to show UA Frame.
- FIXED: Packet 2022 Error crash.
- ADDED: A Stun Guard cap to 99.
- ADDED: The letters "SI" for when your pair has Stun Immunity.
- ADDED: Clicking on the small arrow on a card (on a card that can transform) in-game will show what it will transform into.
- FIXED: Failed to send packet stalling some games. Packet failures should now resolve more cleanly.