Update 43 - B-b-b-Bonus!

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Contestants,

It’s been a little while since I updated the show, but fear not, my dwarves have been hard at work with improvements!

This time I’ve got an exciting, wacky, crazy, silly and ludicrous feature for you - Bonus Arenas!

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In the meantime the April Season of the dailies ended, a big thank you to our previous sponsors Razer and Xsplit, and a welcoming hand to our new sponsor SpeedLink who will provide the prizes for the May Season. Check out the prizes here!

Here’s the full changelog for update 43:

Features

• Bonus battles!

• Squire of Light visual update Squire of light has been given a visual upgrade. The goal was to bring him up to par with the other characters when looked at up close, but not change the overall look especially from a distance. He still needed to look and feel like the old Squire of Light. Here is the new model.

• Steam Controller native support

• New card made by the community: Smoke Bomb Consumable, 4 mana, 2 charges. Cloak you and allies for 4 sec. Attacking reveals you and deals +100% damage, healing you and allies for 50% of the hit.

Balance

• Programs:

  • Prevented Copy machine Battle Rule from applying to Chamber Keeper battles

• Contestants:

  • Volco Lava Strike damage up 20% (used to be going 17 to 45 now it's 20 to 54)

  • Volco Flamenado movement speed reduction down 1.5 -> 0.75

  • Ravager Leap base damage up from 10 to 20

  • Ravager Leap cast speed up 25%

  • Ravager Strafe cast speed up 18%

  • Ravager Claw Strikes base attack speed up 16%

  • Ravager Claw Strikes movement speed reduction down from 3 to 2

  • Ravager Enrage now grants 1 movespeed per default, in addition to eliminating the Claw Strikes reduction

• Cards:

  • Elbow room detection range increased from 3 to 7

  • Hammer Time damage bonus down 50% -> 40%

  • Anti-Barrel boots rebalanced: Costs 1 mana, makes barrels explode for damage by default

  • The Nuke reworked: Has a cast time of 25 seconds before it destroys all minions. Aggros all enemies when cast. Mana cost down from 6 to 5.

Quality of Life

• Updated visuals of the Proximity Rats, to make a clearer distinction between level 1 and level 2 versions

• Renamed the BugTracker to FORCED SHOWDOWN BugTracker

• The Twitch ID is now clickable in the leaderboards

• Reduced delay of portal spawning in the tutorial before the Jahun arena

• Updated Emblem GUI for better overview

• Made it clearer when quests can only be completed in certain Programs

• Colour-coded cards in deck editor, to clearly display type and Contestant type while editing

• Shortened Short Battle description

• Changed lighting on Normal and Summoned enemies’ healthbars to give a greater distinction for colour-blind players

Fixes

• Fixed a number of issues with daily connections, they should be more stable when switching now

• Optimized score fetching for daily leaderboards

• Updated engine version, which should provide lots of smaller fixes and optimizations

• Fixed an issue with pressing back from dailies returning you to campaign menu

• Fixed an issue with the Phoenix Boomers spawning too many eggs, especially when on different teams

• Fixed an issue where C-SAR said you got a boon when you didn’t

• Fixed Flow Surge tooltip to be up to date with the recent change

• Fixed an issue with some Garden World 2 destroyables not deleting properly

• Updated Flash of anger Card description to reflect 100% chance to proc

• Fixed an issue where Mordar could resurrect the Snake Priestesses armor piece

• Fixed an issue where having more than 20.000 gold gave overlapping text in the fortune menu

• Fixed an issue with the companion not choosing targets properly after switching teams

• Fixed an issue where Recurring Hero would resurrect you with less than 30 health if you had lost max health

• Fixed an issue where Stormbringer couldn’t hit Sniper Rats if enraged

• Fixed an issue with performance loss in loading screens

• Fixed an issue where you could make the Equality daily pick your own deck

• Fixed an issue with strange formatting in the fortune menu in 16:10 aspect ratio

• Fixed an issue where using Leap or Strafe with the Ravager in a new arena used the old arenas Frenzy counter

• Fixed an issue with some maps now spawning the correct low walls in a 3x4 setup

Hotfixes for 42

• Fixed the campaign screen displaying the wrong gold gained when you were defeated

• Fixed an issue with Demonic Spawner Shrines causing the game to crash.

• Fixed an issue where resuming a campaign with an emblem did not unlock new emblem slots.

Remember to keep giving me feedback on the forums, I keep an eye on everything :)

<3 C-SAR