v4.9.7 Release Notes

New Features

• Added friends button and navigation arrows to jump to the next and previous friend base when visiting a friend

• Additional backend optimizations to fix long load times for social features

• Added a friend counter in the friends list

• Added a red bubble counter on the friend invites button to indicate how many pending requests you have

• Localized social feature messages

Changes

To help mitigate the issues we saw during the friends rollout, the following limits have been added:

• Implemented a 100 friend limit. Any friends over 100 have been automatically unfriended for you

• Implemented a global assist limit of 50 assists. Each day, you’ll be able to make 50 assist actions, which recharge every 22 hours based on when you assisted your friends

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the issue that would prevent building buildings that only allowed one instance after visiting a friend base

• Fixed the issue that would show an upgrade icon on a friend's base

• Fixed the issue that would prevent doing an expansion after visiting a friend’s base

• Fixed the issue that would prevent doing an upgrade after visiting a friend’s base

• Fixed the issue that would show your friend’s resource limits instead of your own after visiting a friend’s base

• Ensure the gold/nanopod blade appears when visiting a friend’s base

• Fixed the issue that would prevent active animations from playing on a friend's base for buildings with active jobs

• Fixed the friends menu silently failing and not allowing it to be opened

• Fixed the issue that prevented exact username matches from appearing at the top of the search results

• Fixed issue with building assist limits not being reset after the refresh interval

• Fixed issue with hospital assists not working

• Fixed issue where profile pictures in the incoming assistance window weren’t displaying the correct picture

• Fixed issue where battle background texture would pop in after the loading screen came down

• Fixed the assist sound not playing when assisting at a friend's base

• Fixed mission button not appearing when at NPC/world map locations

• Fixed missing button click sounds on the friends menu and mission window

• Fixed issue preventing Silver Wolves from spawning in Bernmonth/Recoil Ridge