11/21 Beta Update

Features

• You can now recycle cards into event tickets at a rate of 20 cards to 1 ticket. There is a "Recycle Cards" tab accessible from the collection. Note that each card will currently show "N/A" where the market price would be until the market is open. Sort by market price will sort by mana cost until the market is open.
• You can now play bot matches and Call to Arms without claiming your starting package. This lets you try more of the game before you reach the point-of-no-return on refunds.
• Added an AI difficulty selector.
• Added some premade decks to the bot's deck selection options to make it easy to quickly practice against various opponent color combinations.
• Added a new cursor and cursor size settings control.

Deck Editor Fixes

• Leaving the deck editor by pressing the Artifact logo will now prompt to save changes.
• Fixed an issue where dragging an unowned hero into a deck that already contains that hero would remove the hero that was in the destination slot and then fail to add or arrange the new hero.
• Fixed a Card Collection crash on MacOS 10.14.1.

Draft Fixes

• Fixed some issues related to losing connection to the Artifact Network while drafting.
• Fixed an issue where closing the draft screen wouldn't always take you back to the correct dashboard page.
• You can now abandon a draft gauntlet before you register a deck.
• Added additional sounds and effects to the draft screen.

In-Game Fixes

• Fixed some issues and improved performance when summoning >300 units at a time.
• Improved the effects for Crippling Blow, Trebuchets, and Lucent Beam.
• Improved the voice-over quality for Jolixia, Meepo, and Kanna.
• Fixed an issue that would cause debris to persist in strange places when improvements are destroyed.
• Fixed Pick Off panning back to the previous lane too quickly after the spell's damage resolved.
• Fixed some display issues when inspecting cards in a 16x10 aspect ratio.
• Fixed a missing sound during board destruction.
• Fixed a crash that would happen when you disconnect from a game while hovering a card.
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes result in visual corruption of card and tower stats when in wide lanes in non-standard resolutions.
• Brightened the visibility of the heroes in the fountain display on the HUD.
• Updated the textures for pathing cards.

UI Fixes

• Significant improvements to general UI performance and responsiveness.
• Fixed some crashes and bad behavior that would happen when mashing the keyboard in various parts of the UI.
• Fixed a crash that would happen while in the settings menu or the credits.
• Fixed the Global Matchmaking deck loader not showing the most recently-used deck on game launch.
• Fixed an issue where some players with lots and lots of Steam friends would experience massive performance degradation.
• Added new high-resolution menu backgrounds for players in 4K.
• Added new effects to claiming rewards from an event.
• Added a display for the number of unopened packs remaining to the pack opening screen.
• Pushing Find Next Match after a Gauntlet game will now take you to the correct Gauntlet page instead of the main menu.
• Improved visibility of the matchmaking cancel button.
• You can no longer restart the tutorial while opening a pack, or while matchmaking, or while in a private lobby, all of which caused crazy things to happen.
• Shared decks are now shown at the top of a deck loader's listings.
• Updated the localization files.

Hotfix

Hotfix for game input bug after leaving ESC Menu