Patch Notes #50

New Art

• Cannoneer now has art!

Card Changes

Astral Champion

• Attack reduced to 1, down from 2.

Duskblade

• Card effect changed to “Has Poison against enemies that are at full Health”.

Guerilla Raider

• Health reduced to 3, down from 4.

Nature’s Herald

• Health reduced to 8, down from 9.

Tracker Primal

• Attack reduced to 4, down from 5.

Primeval Exalt

• Attack reduced to 2, down from 6.
• Health reduced to 2, down from 6.
• Now gains +2/+2 per friendly minion, up from +1/+1.

Quantum Turnkey

• Cost reduced to 3, down from 4.

Zephyr Monk

• Card effect changed to “Warcry: Give adjacent allies +3 Movement this turn”.

Achievements

• Astral Pattern: Domination has been updated to require an 8 Attack Astral Champion.

Tutorial

• All four tutorial missions have had the narrative cutscenes removed to make them significantly shorter. The storytelling components are planned to be reintroduced in a campaign mode further into development.

HUD

• On enemy card overdraw, the card is now revealed and animates flipping over and burning.
• On enemy card discard, the card is now revealed and animates flipping over and leaving the hand.
• Cards added to the deck from a target will now animate from the target to the deck. For example, cards generated by Stellar Replicas will animate from the target to the deck.
• Cards that are bounced to a full hand are now exiled and the card animates burning instead of returning to the hand.

Core Tech

• We’ve upgraded Unreal engine to version 4.16. In general you shouldn’t notice this, but a lot of things have changed so if you see any unusual bugs, especially with graphics or performance, please let us know.

UI

Time Bank

• Critical time now begins at 30 seconds, up from 25.
• Ending your turn any time before critical time now banks a flat +5 seconds instead of a dynamic range based on remaining turn time.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Viperfang Primal’s poison would interact incorrectly with Splash.
• Fixed a bug where Crystal Queen killing enemy minions would incorrectly send them to the Graveyard.
• Fixed a bug where Warp Specialist killing enemy Deathhowl minions would incorrectly allow their Deathhowl to trigger.
• Fix for a common animation pop when Buccaneer kills an enemy with his ability.
• Made the word “of” lowercase in card names to make it consistent.
• Disabled a network feature that may have been causing reconnect issues for some players.
• Fixed the time bank showing an incorrect value upon reconnect.
• Fixed a number of non-Nvidia cards complaining about no cooked SM4 shaders. They should now properly load the SM5 shaders, and allow the game to run.