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TONIGHT Weekly Event: Defeat the Devs Playtest August 18th @ 10PM EST Details

Hanako: Honor & Blade · published 18 Aug 2021, 15:02 UTC

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Event Details

We'll be starting at 10pm EST / 2a UTC on the US-Mid Official Server and voice chat on http://discord.gg/playhanako

See the testing initiatives below for what we'll be testing tonight. We'll be recording b-roll for GIF and trailer creation so we'll need players to help coordinate!

Testing Initiatives/Test Patch Notes

- Bug fixes to verify
-- Knockdown/Knockback/Stun animations properly follow priority (KD > Stun > Knockback)
-- Myriad of camera popping issues, especially with other characters, should be fixed
-- Fixes for stun priority.
-- Fix for objective getting destroyed at timer hits 0:00 granting points to both teams and breaking the match.
-- Improvements to stun-priority
-- Laundry list of fixes/improvements to Duel mode.
- Gameplay Changes
-- FX updates to many class abilities.
-- Audio polish/updates
- Item Store
-- Added some new skins to test.
- Duel
-- Test changes to duel mode, matchmaking and more.

We do development streams of our dev and preparation for our weekly events usually Sun-Tues around 11pm EST on http://twitch.tv/hanakogame

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