Patches/Patch 400046

This patch went live on 27 April 2024 and is the twelfth patch that contains balancing changes.

Mid-Patch Updates

05 June 2024

General Fixes

• Disabled the command /exportcollection and the feature to open the directory of saved replays while some issues are investigated.

30 May 2024

General Fixes

• Re-enabled the command /exportcollection and the feature to open the directory of saved replays while some issues are investigated.
• Fixed a crash when attempting to watch replays without logging in.

23 May 2024

General Fixes

• Disabled the command /exportcollection and the feature to open the directory of saved replays while some issues are investigated.

11 May 2024

General Changes

• Added the option to move the selection of the current replay in the Replay window by pressing or holding the up and down arrow keys.
• Added information about the Mini Booster Pack and the Rebirth Booster Pack in the Store tab of the Marketplace.

General Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the achievement A New Sun not properly completing.
  • Progress will be corrected upon the next completion.
• Fixed UI errors caused by some replays.
• Improved replay sorting and filtering performance.

09 May 2024

General Fixes

• Fixed an issue where in-game emails would not be received after getting a new email notification.

05 May 2024

General Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the achievement Outsourced Content not progressing.

02 May 2024

General Fixes

• Fixed an occasional crash upon completion of 4-player scenarios.
• Fixed an error message when disenchanting rewards too quickly.
• Fixed an issue where non-human players appeared in the player list of the replay.

Card Fixes

• Burrow Ritual (Nature):
  •  Gifted Tunneling:
    • Fixed an issue that crashed the game.
• Phalanx:
  • Toggle ability  Defensive Formation:
    • Fixed an issue that crashed the game when using the mode change.

29 April 2024

General Changes

• Added an option in the replay window to search replays for played-out cards.

General Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the postgame window sometimes displaying defeat even if the game was won.
• Fixed an issue with the postgame window sometimes missing rewards.
• Fixed an error in the postgame gold tab.
• Fixed an error when pressing enter to clone free PvP decks.
• Fixed an issue with some replays crashing the game.
• Fixed an issue where players could end up unable to join lobbies.
• Fixed the crash upon opening the 12-player scenario rankings tab.
• Fixed wrong dates displayed in the rankings.
• Fixed an issue leading to empty 2-player scenario rankings.

General Changes

• Added the Speedrun boot as an indicator icon for Random PvE (Battlegrounds) lobbies set to be Map of the Month.
• The chat message that is displayed when changing the game speed in the forge has been improved to indicate that the minimum or maximum has been reached.
• The Marketplace no longer resets the active page on purchase.
  • This change should allow players to purchase multiple cards without repeatedly scrolling back to the same page.
• Booster Packs of the same type are now displayed stacked in the booster inventory screen.
• Overhauled the replays section:
  • Replays can now be searched by map name, player name, or file name.
    • The respective search can be toggled by pressing the button indicating the current search format.
  • Replays can now be sorted by map, amount of players, date, and duration in ascending or descending order.
    • The respective sorting can be toggled by pressing the button indicating the current sorting format.
  • Players can now individually view the played-out cards by each player in the replay.
  • Added a button Explore to open replay files' location in the operating system folder as well as a button Reload to refresh the view ingame if that folder's content has changed.
  • Outdated replays now display the required and current game version as a tooltip when hovering over the indicator gear icon.
  • Replays of the tutorial map  Introduction no longer show the indicator gear icon regardless of their game version.
  • Double-clicking on a replay no longer starts it immediately.
• Where applicable dates & times are now displayed in the player's time zone using their operating system format.
• Added dates to PvE leaderboard entries.
• Increased the deck name length from 16 to 30 characters.
  • The actual visible deck name depends on the player's resolution settings.
• Improved cloning of free PvP decks. Every fully upgraded and charged copy of a card will now be taken from the player's owned collection pool instead of the rented free collection.
• Players can now export their in-game collection to the external site Skylords Marketplace Journal (SMJ) by using the chat command /exportcollection in-game.
  • Once exported to SMJ, players can see their progress in terms of their total collection and check which of their cards are the most valuable to sell and which are now cheap to buy to complete their collection.
• Removed generated maps from PvP daily quests.
• The requirement of the quest Battle Tourism has been changed from Winning to only Playing some Sparring PvP matches in a specific PvP map.
• Added an unpurchasable Rebirth Booster Packs as a new type of Booster Pack that can only be obtained via milestone completion of the new achievement Feel the Burn.
  • It contains 3 cards of the Rebirth Edition (cards released by the Skylords Reborn team) of the following rarity distribution:
    • Card 1: 40% Ultra Rare, 60% Rare
    • Card 2: 40% Rare, 60% Uncommon
    • Card 3: 40% Uncommon, 60% Common

Achievement Changes

• The achievement Abandon all hope, ye who enter here has been removed.
• The following achievements were newly added:
  • Feel the Burn:
    • Type: General (Repeatable)
    • Description: Win the Map of the Day on different days on standard / advanced / expert difficulty or higher.
    • Reward: Endless: 50 BattleForge Points on each completion and additionally 1x Rebirth Booster Pack on every milestone of 10 completions.
  • Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire:
    • Type: Veteran
    • Description: Win 20 randomly generated PvE scenarios on Expert difficulty or higher.
    • Note: The achievement is locked until a player reaches PvE Rank 5 (Tactician), but progressing the achievement in the meantime is possible.
    • Reward: One Time: 6x General Booster Pack
  • Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here:
    • Type: Veteran
    • Description: Win 10 / 20 randomly generated PvE scenarios on Expert+ difficulty.
    • Note: The achievement is locked until a player reaches PvE Rank 10 (High Lord), but progressing the achievement in the meantime is possible.
    • Reward: One Time: Depending on the completed milestone:
      • 1. 1x Portrait Demon Skull
      • 2. 1x Portrait Hell Fire, 1x Title: Hell Diver

Addition of Map of the Day

• Added a new feature that chooses a different multiplayer campaign PvE scenario each day as the Map of the Day. This scenario is highlighted on the world map via a flame identical to the one used for PvP Happy Hours.
• Winning the Map of the Day, on any difficulty, grants an additional choice of an upgrade on the post-game reward screen and will also progress the newly added achievement Feel the Burn once per day.
  • If a 12-player scenario is selected, instead of the upgrade players will receive an additional 1200 gold for completing the map on advanced difficulty or 2400 gold for completion on expert difficulty.

General Fixes

• Fixed an error that sometimes occurred upon switching the player portrait (avatar) for a card.
• Ordered daily quests to show the most recently received quest at the top.
• Improved the description of the Tutorial Mission about importing and exporting decks.
• The text wrapping when displaying a lobby's rPvE difficulty has been fixed.
• Fixed spectating PvP matches counting for achievement progression.
• Fixed match statistics having an incorrect count for maps with spectators.
  • A script will correct the information in affected players' profiles.

New Cards

New Player Cards

The following 2 new collectible cards have been added to the game:

• Bedrock (Frost)
• Bedrock (Shadow)

New Non-Player Card Entities

The following new entities have been added for (community) map creation:

• Bandit Bloodhorn (30018)
• Bandit Wasteland Terror (30019)
• Demonjaws (39219)
• Lost Grigori (30013)
• Overlord (39216)
• Satanael (39218)
• Snapjaws (39217)

Card Changes

Systematic Changes

• Adjustment of healing stacking:

• Adjusted the remaining non-stackable healing over time effects using the AbilityLine RegenerationOld to be stackable with other forms of regeneration:
  • Amii Ritual (Nature):  Gifted Unbreakable
  • Architect's Call (Frost):  Blessed Construction
  • Bloodthirst:  Mania
  • Burrow Ritual (Nature):  Gifted Tunneling
  • Crystal Fiend (Frost) / Crystal Fiend (Nature):  Blessed Use it well /  Use it well
  • Dreadnought:  Thrall of Winter
  • Earthen Gift (Frost) / Earthen Gift (Nature):  Blessed Earth /  Gifted Earth
  • Fountain of Rebirth:  Ritual of Rebirth
  • Healing Gardens:  Aura of Recovery
  • Infernal Chain (Nature) / Infernal Chain (Shadow):  Gifted Bond /  Tainted Bond
  • Lost Banestone (Frost):  Blessed Underworld Gate
  • Lost Spirit Ship (Nature):  Gifted Crystal
  • Nether Warp:  Gifted Teleport
  • Oracle Mask (Nature):  Gifted Mysticism
  • Ravage:  Infusion
  • Revenant's Blessing (Nature):  Gifted Immortal
  • Rioter's Retreat (Nature):  Gifted Retreat
  • Root Nexus (Nature):  Gifted Support
  • Skyelf Templar:  Blessing of Light
  • Tranquility:  Soothing Whispers
  • Twilight Hag (Nature):  Gifted Enrapture
  • Unity (Nature):  Gifted Sharing
  • Viridya / Viridya (Promo):  Viridya's Blessing /  Viridya's Blessing
  • Wheel of Gifts:  Gift of Juvenescence
• These changes also affected a few non-player card entities:
  • Lost Dragon: Unnamed regeneration aura
  • Lost Manabeast: Unnamed regeneration triggered upon death

• Adjustment of attack-move command:

• Changed attack-move commands (Q shortcut) to no longer target corpses.
• Changed attack-move commands (Q shortcut) to be ignored by units while they are in combat or are using abilities.

Player Card Changes

• Lost Banestone (Shadow):

• Changed the affinity classification from Nature to Shadow.

• Twilight Brute (Fire):

• Active ability  Infused Burstout:
  • Increased the cast range from 15m to 25m.
  • Changed poison-affected targets from hostile and friendly units to only hostile units.
  • Increased damage from 400 (1600 in total) to 400 against units and 600 against structures (2800 in total).

• Twilight Brute (Nature):

• Active ability  Gifted Burstout:
  • Increased the cast range from 15m to 25m.
  • Changed poison-affected targets from hostile and friendly units to only hostile units.
  • Increased maximum number of affected targets from 4 to 7 units.

• Twilight Creeper (Fire):

• Increased the unit's life points from 1550 / 1700 / 1700 / 1700 to 1730 / 1880 / 1880 / 1880.
• Autocast ability  Infused Spit:
  • Increased the debuff strength from 40% to 50%.

• Twilight Creeper (Shadow):

• Increased the unit's life points from 1550 / 1700 / 1700 / 1700 to 1730 / 1880 / 1880 / 1880.
• Autocast ability  Tainted Spit:
  • Increased the debuff strength from 30% to 40%.

• Twilight Hag (Fire):

• Increased the unit's life points from 650 / 690 / 765 / 850 to 830 / 870 / 945 / 1030.
• Changed the unit's counter damage from bonus against L-sized to M-sized units.
• Autocast ability  Twilight Bolt:
  • Increased damage per attack from 75 (153 in total) to 124 (186 in total).
    • Increased displayed attack value of total damage dealt over 20 seconds from 850 to 1030.
• Removed the active ability Infused Femme Fatale:
  • Former activation cost: 50 power.
  • Former description: Activate to create a stunning delusion: Twilight Hag will bewitch every male hostile unit within a 30m radius in such a way as to make him believe she was the most beautiful creature in the world. Affected enemies are forced to stare at her and are no longer able to fight nor can they be controlled by the player. Friendly male units within the area also enjoy the show and deal 20% more damage. Lasts for 15 seconds or until interrupted. Reusable every 60 seconds.
• Added a new active ability  Infused Enrapture:
  • Activation cost: 50 power.
  • Activate to create a stunning delusion: Twilight Hag will bewitch every hostile unit within a 30m radius. Affected enemies are forced to stare at her and are stunned. Additionally, friendly units within the area deal 20% more damage. Lasts for 15 seconds or until interrupted. Reusable every 40 seconds.
    • Effectively, the ability's cooldown was reduced and the hostile debuff and friendly buff now affect units regardless of gender.

• Twilight Hag (Nature):

• Increased the unit's life points from 650 / 690 / 765 / 850 to 830 / 870 / 945 / 1030.
• Changed the unit's counter damage from bonus against L-sized to M-sized units.
• Autocast ability  Twilight Bolt:
  • Increased damage per attack from 75 (153 in total) to 124 (186 in total).
    • Increased displayed attack value of total damage dealt over 20 seconds from 850 to 1030.
• Removed the active ability Gifted Femme Fatale:
  • Former activation cost: 50 power.
  • Former description: Activate to create a stunning delusion: Twilight Hag will bewitch every male hostile unit within a 30m radius in such a way as to make him believe she was the most beautiful creature in the world. Affected enemies are forced to stare at her and are no longer able to fight nor can they be controlled by the player. Friendly male units within the area also enjoy the show and regenerate 30 life points per second. Lasts for 15 seconds or until interrupted. Reusable every 60 seconds.
• Added a new active ability  Gifted Enrapture:
  • Activation cost: 50 power.
  • Activate to create a stunning delusion: Twilight Hag will bewitch every hostile unit within a 30m radius. Affected enemies are forced to stare at her and are stunned. Additionally, friendly units within the area regenerate 30 life points per second. Lasts for 15 seconds or until interrupted. Reusable every 40 seconds.
    • Effectively, the ability's cooldown was reduced and the hostile debuff and friendly buff now affect units regardless of gender.

• Wheel of Gifts:

• Active ability  Gift of Strength /  Gift of Resilience /  Gift of Juvenescence:
  • Can no longer be activated while another instance of the same gift is already starting up.

Non-Player Card Entity Changes

• Lost Converter:

• Added proper names and descriptions for all abilities.
• Passive ability Toxic Aura:
  • Increased the poison application radius from 25m to 30m.
  • Increased the poison damage frequency from every 2 seconds to every second.
  • Increased the corpse cost per damage tick from 0 corpses to 30 corpses.
  • Added a preview of the effect radius displayed upon hovering over the building.
  • Added a proper name and detailed ability description:
    • Every second, hostile units within a 30m radius take 25 damage. Needs to consume for each target and second 50 gathered life points from corpses first.
• Passive ability Debilitating Aura:
  • Increased the strength of the damage debuff from 20% to 30%.
  • Decreased the corpse cost upon first application from 300 corpses to 50 corpses.
  • Added a proper name and detailed ability description:
    • Hostile units within a %14%m radius deal 30% less damage. Needs to consume 50 gathered life points from corpses per target first. Lasts on affected units for 10 seconds after they leave the aura.
• Passive ability Corpse Gathering:
  • Increased the radius of corpse collection from 25m to 40m.
  • Added a proper name and detailed ability description:
    • Harvests energy from corpses within a 40m radius equal to their former maximum life points to enable Debilitating Aura and Toxic Aura. Every second up to 600 life points can be collected. A maximum of 3000 life points can be stored in total.

• Lost Spirit Ship:

• Removed the unnamed passive ability that destroyed the ship if it had gathered 5000 life points from corpses but dealt 1000 damage (3000 in total) to enemies in a 25m radius.
• Autocast ability Torpedo Gun:
  • Added a proper name and detailed ability description:
    • Every 2.5 seconds, 8 turrets shoot independently, each dealing 100 damage to enemies in a 15m radius around its target, up to 150 in total.
• Added a new autocast ability Wicked Crystal:
  • Every 30 seconds, unit summons a wicked crystal for 10 seconds. The crystal is surrounded by a painful aura that deals 300 damage to hostile units, buildings and walls within a 30m radius, up 900 in total. Needs to consume 5000 gathered life points from corpses first.
• Passive ability Corpse Gathering:
  • Increased the radius of corpse collection from 25m to 30m.
  • Increased the amount of corpses collected per second from 600 to 1000.
  • Added a proper name and detailed ability description:
    • Harvests energy from corpses within a 30m radius equal to their former maximum life points to enable Wicked Crystal. Every second up to 1000 life points can be collected. A maximum of 5000 life points can be stored in total.
• Passive ability Fear of Dragons:
  • Added a proper name and detailed ability description:
    • Takes 25% more damage from dragonkin units.

• Terra:

• Passive ability Guardian's Blessing:
  • Improved the status bar tooltip description to be more consistent.