Hey there good people!
This update delivers primarily Global Ranking, but also takes care of intentional (and not) mid-game disconnections, beasts balance (everyone is OP now :P), and more. Let us jump straight into it:
New Stuff:
- Global Ranking: climb up through 6 leagues to become the champion, compare your rank with the best in the world as well as with your friends. You can access it from 'PLAYER INFO' section. Check the "Ranking Guide" in Community hub to see how does it work exactly.
- Handling disconnections: When a player leave the ongoing match, the match ends and it counts for him as a lost one. If it lasted long enough, remaining players will be rewarded with victory. If it ended shortly after the beginning, it will be unresolved and remaining players will not receive victory nor lose for it.
- Won and lost games counter was added to 'PLAYER INFO' section.
- Post-match screen upgrade: added the winner team color, description of what happened in case of prematurely ended matches, shows your ghost (instead of beast) if you won as a ghost, randomized victory texts,
- Level cap increased to 20.
- slightly increased performance during the match.
Beasts upgrades / balance:
Wolfling:
- new skill: VICIOUS BITE: Wolfling bites the closest enemy (cost 4),
- TRANSFORMATION skill cost increased to 7 (from 6), given health decreased to 2 (from3).
Pearbear:
- POTION MASTERY skill Aim gain per potion increased to 2, removed Speed bonus.
- DRUNK MASTER skill now grants shield on activation (in addition to normal effect).
- Speed increased to 16 (from 12).
Babowacky:
- ROOT FOOT skill cost increased to 4,
- IT'S A TRAP! skill cost reduced to 2, max traps limit set to 3 (it was infinite),
- Aim reduced to 8 (from 9).
Green:
- STOMP skill now makes the pushed enemies unable to hurt you until the next turn (in addition to normal effect),
- Aim increased to 9 (from 8).
She:
- FRIENDSHIP skill now protects you from neutral and friendly damage (before it was preventing you from dealing damage to teammate).
Darkling:
- MORE DAMAGE skill cost reduced to 4 (from 5).
Other changes:
- Experience after lost online match increased to 4 (from 3),
- Search-game timer now shows minutes and seconds,
- fixed some typos.
What's next:
- New Arena! (finally)
- more content to unlock (swag, anyone?),
- matchmaking improvements (as it seems to be quite an issue now).
And that's it. Big thanks to everyone taking part in steam community hub and discord channel. I may not respond to everyone, but I read everything and assure you that it is of great use to me.
Now, who will beat my ranking score?