A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

This one is filled to the brim with new things!

Whispers of the Void is reaching its final stretch, and as the final set of challenges unlock today. We will go over them in this Community Update.
Also, we worked on some quality of life changes as well and showed off one of our initial attempts at designing defensive rPvE.
And finally, as teased a few months ago, our new campaign map, The Shifting Temple, releases today with a challenge accompanying it! Read more to find out what you can broadly expect.

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

Several things to unpack here!

Our third season - Whispers of the Void is in full swing and today a new set of challenges unlocks. We will go over them in this Community Update.
Additionally, there has been a change in the Community Manager role and some critical developments in the audio department.
And of course, you will also get a glimpse of things to come!

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

Our third season - Whispers of the Void has arrived, and with it comes a fresh wave of content and challenges to tackle. In this community update, we will go over what you can expect in the newest season while also taking a closer look at the results of this year’s feedback survey — your thoughts, ideas, and honest opinions that continue to shape the future of the project.

Alongside the survey insights, we’ll be revealing the cards releasing with the season. There’s plenty to cover, so let’s jump right in and see what this new chapter has in store.

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

This month’s update is all about looking ahead. We have a reminder about the yearly feedback survey, along with an early look at some of the content we’re planning for 2026. On top of that, we’re excited to share what’s coming next in terms of seasonal content. Let’s take a look at what the future holds for Skylords Reborn!

How can I play this game?
You can find instructions for downloading and installing the game here.

How do I log in to the game?
First, you need to create an account on this forum, here. Afterwards you can simply login with the same account in the game. A game account will automatically be created and linked to your forum account. Do not make multiple accounts for yourself. You are allowed to play with your family/friends in the same house.

What is Skylords Reborn?
Skylords Reborn is a project which started off as a 2-man team working on allowing the community to play BattleForge again. BattleForge was a Real-Time Strategy Collectible Card PC game (not a MOBA) made by EA Phenomic in 2009 that got closed down on October 31 2013, disappointing many players. The ever-growing Skylords Reborn team has been working hard to make BattleForge playable and accessible for its still large community and new players once more! You can read more about our project on our wiki.

Can I upload content of Skylords Reborn?
Yes. You are allowed to make Youtube and Twitch videos and streams of Skylords Reborn.

Will I be able to use my old account?
No. As we are not EA we do not have access to your old accounts and never will, so you will have to create a new one and start from scratch. We know this is annoying but there is no way for us to retrieve account information. At least you can play the game again!

What is the difference between Skylords Reborn and old BattleForge?
Everything from the original game works but there has been a number of changes. (see list below)

Cards

• Balance changes and new cards

Economy

• Free to Play (no payments for game progression)
• Daily time based BFP rewards
• Daily PvP and PvE quests (Resets daily at 10:00 UTC)
• Seasonal & Lifetime Achievements
• Faction Boosters
• Removal of Tokens. Gold is now used instead and is untradable.
• Removal of Elements of Conversion/Creation.

PvP

• Free PvP deck rotations
• Official Tournaments (BFP rewards)
• Spectator versions for all 1vs1 maps

PvE

• All campaign maps available again (including 12 player maps)
• New high-quality community maps

And many other quality of life improvements.

Can I buy/sell BFP for real money?
Absolutely not! People who are noted to sell or attempt to buy BFP or any in-game content with real money may be banned from playing the game at all, or have their accounts reset. We take no responsibility whatsoever in any lost money or in-game content. We don't sell BFP for a very good reason as this project is allowed to exist due to the fact that we are making zero profit or income from the game, which would be using someone else's ideas and content for claiming money. If you buy or sell in-game content, you are essentially doing the same thing and this could put both you as well as the entire project at risk of being shut down.

How can I earn Gold and Upgrades?
Since tokens have been removed from the game entirely, you will earn gold instead through playing Randomly Generated PvE, Sparring PvP, and disenchanting upgrades found in Campaign PvE maps. The upgrade drops have been changed, and you can find the new loot list in this topic.

How can I obtain promos?
You can get promos as an extremely rare reward in boosters, or during special events that we will host.

I found a bug! What now? How do I report a bug?
Please refer to the "Report A Bug" forum, and particularly this topic.

I have seen someone cheat, flame, or severely break the rules. Where do I report this?
You can right-click on a player to report them in-game. You can also report this behaviour directly to the Moderation Team (Global Moderators) on the forums or discord. Please refer to the Ticket Tool thread here when reporting on discord.

Is the game only available in English?
The game can be played in all languages that were previously available. This includes English, German, French and Russian. However, we are mostly focusing our project and any announcements around the English language.

Have you asked EA for help with the project? Do you work for EA?
No, we do not work for EA and we sincerely doubt EA is interested in the funding of the project nor rebooting the game. We do not expect any help from EA. We have, however, been given permission to alter the existing client and make this project a reality until further notice is provided. Former BF staff are likely under NDA as well, disallowing them to help us in the first place.

If this project is completely non-profit, how will you keep the servers up?
We have created a patreon page here. Any donated money will be spent on server upkeep, development and a lot will be saved up for future server upkeep. No money whatsoever will go into our own pockets. You can make a one time payment and then unsubscribe from us or you can pick to pay every month. Please note all Patrons will not gain any benefits in game.

Where is the server located?
The server is located in Germany.

Will you distribute the server files for private hosting?
No. The project is closed source, which means that the files (code) are not public.

I have another question!
Alright, that's cool! Before you continue, however, please use the forum's search function to find any threads that may have your question in it. If your question really isn't answered yet, feel free to create a thread.

That's all! We hope you enjoy your time in the world of Nyn and help the game and its community grow together! As always, We're hugely grateful for all your support, and we wouldn't be here without you all. Keep up the good spirits, you're all fantastic beings. See you in the forge, and may the forge be with you!

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

Happy New Year, Skylords!
The yearly feedback survey is back, giving you the chance to share your thoughts on the current state of the game and help guide our development priorities. We’re also approaching the end of the Natural Selection season, after which we’ll be taking a short break between seasons to properly prepare for what comes next.

On top of that, we have a brand-new card reveal to share, along with an update on the ongoing voice actor search. Let’s dive in and take a closer look at what’s happening in Skylords Reborn this month.

Every year, Skylords Reborn invites the community to take part in our Feedback Survey. As a fully community-driven project, your opinions play a crucial role in shaping the future of the game. We want to better understand what you love, what could be improved, and where you’d like to see the project go next.

Taking a few minutes to fill out the survey helps us refine existing features, set development priorities, and make Skylords Reborn more welcoming to both current players and newcomers alike. Your feedback truly makes a difference.

As a small thank-you for your time, every player who completes the survey will receive two boosters. All responses are completely anonymous, so feel free to share your honest thoughts.

• New Card Reveal: Dark Mind

Dark Mind is a new Tier 2 Shadow flying unit that brings some additional crowd control options to the faction. With its confusion effect turning enemies against each other, it offers a powerful and faction-themed way to disrupt fights. The card has a very simplistic design, but helps fill some gaps in early-game Shadow decks.

Let’s take a closer look at the card.

Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release. 

Bewitching Blast
Every 5 seconds, the unit projects psychic energy at an enemy dealing 220 damage. Attacked units will be confused, which will make it impossible for them to distinguish between friend and foe. Lasts for 5 seconds.

Design notes:

Dark Mind is a new T2 Shadow flying unit. It uses the Parasite Swarm model, scaled up to M-sized, and applies a confusion effect on application. This makes it a powerful unit as confusion is one of the strongest CC effects in the game as it turns units against their allies. Shadow has not had a new card added to it since the game rereleased. Over the years, we have steadily eroded the strength of Pure Shadow in PvP while adding cards to every other faction. This has left Shadow's T2 in PvP in an increasingly bad place as it keeps the same old tools while other factions again more flexibility. In terms of PvE, Shadow also lacks a more traditional flying unit and a way to manipulate enemies outside of Nether Warp. Dark Mind will therefore fill a gap in the faction in a way properly fitting to Shadow's identity.

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

This month, we have reached another major milestone in the Skylords Reborn journey, we are celebrating 5 years since the release! Join us for our first community-wide challenge in the game to get some boosters and a celebratory profile border!
We wanted to do something different, it's been quite a while since we last gave you an insight into our map making efforts. As such, we have decided to give you a retrospective into the development process of our latest campaign map - Heart of Trouble.

• Five Year Anniversary

Happy Anniversary, Skylords! This December 18th marks the fifth year since the release of Skylords Reborn. It's been quite the journey these past five years, as we continued and built upon the legacy of the original BattleForge. We have introduced new features, like Reforging, profile cosmetics and free PvP decks. We released new campaign maps, cards and many balance changes, with even more yet to come. We also hosted a variety of tournaments and events, most of them with help from the amazing community. 

To celebrate this occasion, we are starting our first community-wide challenge in the game! Starting 1st of December 2025, there will be a counter on the world-map. 
Every win of a campaign map, featured community map, PvP or rPvE scenario will be added to the global counter and rewards will be unlocked at certain milestones for the whole community!

• At 10 000 wins, we will give away a General Booster
• At 20 000 wins, we will give away a Rebirth Booster
• At 30 000 wins, we will give away a unique profile border
• At 40 000 wins, we will give away 30 Seasonal Points

Anybody who participates by winning at least one scenario will receive all the rewards unlocked by the community.
Thank you for your support over the years, we couldn't have gone so far without you. 🎉

Now, go win some matches, Skylords!

• Heart of Trouble Retrospective

We wanted to try something new and give you some behind the scenes into campaign maps, both released, and in development.
We will start off slow with our latest campaign addition - Heart of Trouble.

The initial design came to life back in 2023 and was done by our map designer Hrdina Impéria. Here are his insights.

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The idea for the map came from an amalgamation of two thoughts: wanting a 1P map with an active NPC ally, and enjoying playing a small, fortified position, that is besieged on all sides. The latter came from playing Defending Hope and the community map King's Ridge. The first map concept was quite similar in layout to the final map, though it was smaller and Ragged King's base was to the west of the fort. The Player would start in the central fortress. This we later changed - the bandit base served little actual purpose, even though we had to protect the Ragged King in his camp, all the attacks came at the player's fort. The central start also felt a bit too sudden of a jump into the action. So, we moved the player start to the west, which is very similar to what we have today.

Another problem was the presence of the orbs within the walled central section. It is nothing new per-se, but it proves to be very hard to balance. On Defending Hope, the players can rush to T3 very fast, without much pressure, which skips whole two tiers. In this regard, we figured out that the Monuments should be unlocked in more traditional fashion and thus the idea with Inhibitor crystals was born. Players had to venture out and attack, if they wanted to gain the next tier, without losing the "defense" identity of the mission and the compact feeling of small, besieged Fort.

Lastly, a big hurdle was the final boss fight. These can be, to say it bluntly, not very interesting when it comes to old BattleForge maps. At first, I tried giving the boss some spells, but it still felt quite lackluster. So we decided to lean more into the defensive aspect of the map - thus was born the Challenger's horn. You could call the boss towards the fort and finish it in such style, if you so wanted. This is very similar how it works in Encounters with Twilight with the north-eastern Twilight area.

• Initial Designs
The initial design was made to be a very compact map, small in scope and short in playtime. The objective was to destroy all the spawners of all the enemy tribes while protecting the Ragged King. If the player took too long, Bandit Battleships would start spawning from the tribal areas, slowly advancing towards the fort.
To allow having all the monuments in one centralized area, we opted to lock them behind destroying crystals in the tribal areas, thus ensuring correct map progression.

However, since the Ragged King was not in any danger, the objective felt disjointed from what was actually happening on the map. You were protecting yourself, not the Ragged King. The spawning Bandit ships had a feeling of unfairness, as the player's run could be cut short at the last minute by the attacking Bandit Battleships.
With the objective being "destroy all spawners" the map lacked some deeper tactical decision making and it came down to a complete map clear as an objective. The map size also proved to be a problem when aggro issues started popping up - defenders from several positions aggroed to the player at once, which led to more frustration. 

We attempted to fix these issues in the following iterations.

• Early Stages
By the end of 2023, we greenlit the map design and started iterating on it further.
The first issue we needed to tackle was the small map size that prevented us from making any major changes. So we exported the map from 256x256 to a 512x512 map, which gave us much more room to work with.
We then moved the Ragged King to the actual fort, and put him inside a Bandit Shanty building. Having the Ragged King as a unit could lead to him getting pulled outside of the fort by the enemy attackers and would frustrate the players (think Rogan on Encounters with Twilight).
We also added the option to decide where the player wants to send the allied attack waves, giving him a feeling of control and a useful ally. But this ran into a problem with map progression. Since both tribes could be cleared with either T2 or T3, it meant that one of the tribes would be too easy once the player destroys one of the crystals. So we introduced a unique mechanic, where a tribe's defenders grow stronger as you clear more of the opposing tribe, leading to a more natural and balanced map progression.

To alleviate the feeling of unfairness, we removed the spawning Bandit Battleships and instead introduced scaling attack waves, that got harder over time. While the player could still fall behind on the difficulty curve, it fixed the sudden, unexpected loss condition appearing 20+ minutes into the map.
Now the most pressing issues were fixed, we needed to add some more tactical decision making into playing the map. This came in the form of changing the main objective, and adding some optional ones.

• Final Stage
Around the middle of 2024, we changed the main objective from destroying the spawners to killing the tribal leaders. And added the option to taunt the final boss to your fort, adding a risk vs. reward factor - you can meet the boss with the defenders advantage, but if you cannot kill him, you lose.
We added an optional objective in the form of the enemy artilleries. These introduced a minor RNG element into the map and intensified the feeling of being under pressure and constant threat. You could capture the artilleries, but they kept randomly bombarding the area surrounding the fort, rarely hitting the enemies. As such, capturing them felt like a very small reward to actually interact with the mechanic, so we gave them the ability you know today. Giving the players a powerful, targetable ability, that could help with defending, and attacking.
Up until this stage, the tribal attack waves came from a cave at the end of each tribal area. This however, was also disjointed from the events on the map. If the attacks are coming from those caves, why does destroying the spawners stop the attacks? It made little sense, so we made a custom spawning script, that allowed us to spawn parts of the wave from multiple locations and used the already existing spawners for spawning the attacks. Thus giving them another reason to exist, apart from being an obstacle in your way.

While testing, we ran into an issue that the Black and Yellow tribes were too similar. Since they were practically identical, the decision which side to push was pretty much inconsequential. After a brief discussion, it was clear we needed to differentiate them heavily. Thus the Black tribe was given a strong ground presence with artilleries, but weak AA. The Yellow tribe, on the other hand, was composed of a lot of flying units and heavy AA, but was weak to long range siege. This gave each tribe a unique identity and introduced new deck building strategies.
With the changed main objective, control of the allied waves, changes to the enemy wave spawning and tribal compositions, we introduced a lot of decision making into the map. The players could choose to use the allies to help them push the tribes, or help defend against the attacks from the other side. If the player is skilled enough, he can choose to leave the spawners alive and focus on killing the bosses quickly. Will he taunt the boss to fight on advantageous ground, or kill him in his own camp without risk.

As you can see, developing maps is lengthy work, we could not share all the trials and errors we had to go through to find the final version of the map. While we are getting closer to better understanding the fundamentals of map design, we are far from perfect. Each new map introduces new and unexpected challenges to overcome, but we are making every effort to deliver you the best experience possible.

This is all the information we could share in a community update; many more details and decisions happened, but writing about all of them would befit its own forum post. If you enjoyed this little dip into our map making efforts, and are interested in more behind the scenes of our maps, please let us know in the comments.
Maybe next time we will share something not shown before. *wink* *wink*

• New Seasonal Challenges

As the new month dawns, new seasonal challenges have been unlocked.
Let's take a closer look at them now.
 

4.1 - Win different campaign maps or featured community maps on advanced difficulty or higher. All units played must be S-units. All cards played must be Nature, Fire, or Twilight cards. These restrictions apply to all team members.

4.2 - Win the 1-player scenarios Oracle and Siege of Hope on standard difficulty or higher. All cards played must be Nature or Twilight cards. Additionally, all cards played T2 and above must be Twilight cards.

 

4.3 - Win the 4-player scenario Dwarven Riddle on advanced difficulty or higher. No Fire Altars may be activated. All cards played must be Nature, Twilight, or Neutral cards. These restrictions apply to all team members.

4.4 - Win the 2-player scenario Crusade and the 2-player featured community map Army of Darkness on advanced difficulty or higher. Only Nature, Twilight, and Neutral cards of uncommon rarity are allowed. These restrictions apply to all team members.

The following nightmare challenges have also been unlocked.

6.1 - Be among the 100 fastest times at the end of the season on the 1-player scenario Behind Enemy Lines on advanced difficulty. All cards played T2 and above must be Twilight cards.

6.2 - Win 3 different campaign maps on advanced difficulty or higher. All cards played must be Nature or Twilight cards. These restrictions apply to all team members. Completing the challenge with less cards in each team member's deck awards progressively more points.
 

6.3 - As a solo player, win the 4-player featured community map Spooky Giants on advanced difficulty or higher. No flying units are allowed. All cards played must be Nature or Twilight cards.

6.4 - Win a 4-player randomly generated PvE scenario Infected Map of the Week on Adv+ (5) difficulty or higher. Only cards of Tier 3 and below are allowed. All cards played must be Nature or Twilight cards. These restrictions apply to all team members. Completing the challenge on higher difficulties awards progressively more points.

As usual, the challenges remain available until the end of the season.

• Nature Faction Overview Video

We have been working tirelessly on new video content to help players explore the game. This month, our efforts came to fruition and we are proud to release our first faction deep dive video. We're starting with the Nature faction.
Learn about the strengths and weaknesses of the faction throughout the tiers and get some tips for building your Nature decks, both for PvE, and PvP.

Since our last patch, several antivirus programs have been flagging certain Skylords Reborn files, with pcre3.dll often being identified as the culprit, though we have also seen mentions of proxy-internal.dll, proxy-legacy.dll and proxy-test.dll. 

Unfortunately, reversing some of the changes in the patch did not resolve this issue. We are now considering alternatives, such as purchasing certificates to mark these files as safe. However, as a volunteer project, we need time to explore these options, ensure they will solve the problem, and make sure that server upkeep costs are not significantly impacted.

In the meantime, players can make an exception for the Skylords Reborn folder in their antivirus programs. We understand players might be hesitant to do so, and while we do not know for certain what exactly makes antivirus programs consider these files unsafe (as their explanations are usually very vague) we’ll give an example why they might. The Skylords launcher functions in a way that triggers some antivirus programs, yet this functionality is necessary for the game to work and is harmless for the user.

By default, the game is designed to send your login credentials to the EA server, just like every other always-online game communicates with its official server. However, EA shut down the official server, leaving nothing to communicate with. Without the EA server, the game cannot function. To make Skylords Reborn work, it uses a technique that "reroutes" the login credentials you enter to the Skylords Reborn server instead of the non-existent EA server.

Because login credentials are being sent to a different server, it makes sense for antivirus programs to be alarmed. However, to be clear, what is being redirected is only the credentials you enter on the login screen. These are your Skylords Reborn account credentials, which the project already has from your registration. They are then sent to the Skylords Reborn server instead of the dead EA server. Otherwise, the game would fail to connect and not work.

To allow the launcher to function correctly, you need to make an exception for the folder so the antivirus program leaves it alone. Otherwise, the launcher might get stuck trying to find a file that was quarantined by the antivirus program. Please note that this issue might resurface with future patches. How to make an exception varies for each antivirus program. If you need assistance, please head over to technical support, and we’ll try to help you.

We understand these issues are causing frustration among our players, and we are working hard to find a solution that prevents users from having to take actions they might not feel comfortable with. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we search for solutions.

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

Another packed community update!
This time, we will take a quick look at the newly unlocked seasonal challenges, changes to the relic shop prices and a new shadow card reveal. We are also looking for new voice actors, so if you have ever wanted to immortalize yourself in a game, now's your chance!

Before we get to the meat and bones of this community update, allow me a quick introduction.

• Something About Me

Last month, we announced that our Community Updates have a new writer going forward. Let me properly introduce myself as your new Community Manager.

I joined the Skylords Reborn team in 2021, after I read that without map developers, no new official maps would be made. I could not let that happen, and I joined as a Map Artist. That role slowly evolved into a Map Developer, and later also into an amateur Map Designer. I have worked to varying degrees on all released map content so far, and I actively work on new campaign maps and forge skins. I will keep my role in the map department in addition to this new title. So we can bring you new map content without any delays.

Now, as a new community manager, it is my pleasure to celebrate this occasion by providing my first (mini)booster code for all of you!
NEWS-HERI-FFIN-TOWN
Trying to buy some goodwill right at the start, eh?
The code is valid until the 1st of December.

But enough about me, let's move on to more interesting things.

• Changes to Seasonal Shop Prices

Now that our second season has begun and the rewards from the previous season are now available in the relic shop, we have received some feedback about the relic costs. Some players only missed the Promo Sunderer, or other major rewards, by a few points, but they still need to pay full-cost for these cosmetics in the shop. This hardly seems fair, so we will be prorating the item prices in the shop.

What this means is that every item in the shop connected to a season (including the Promo) will be discounted by a percentage proportional to the amount of progress a player made in the reward track of that season. This progress will be based on how close a particular player got to receiving the Promo reward.

E.g. If you earned 60% of the points in the Fire Season that it would take to unlock the Promo Sunderer, all Fire Season cosmetics you missed will cost 60% less, forever. This discount caps at 70% for all cosmetics, except the final title and the top 100 border reward, which caps at a 50% discount.

This change affects all the current and future items in the seasonal shop that were a part of the seasonal rewards - profile cosmetics, titles, forge skins and promos.

Players who have already purchased items from the shop for full price will be reimbursed for the relic price difference.

We will introduce these changes in a small patch in the coming days.

• New Seasonal Challenges

As the new month dawns, new seasonal challenges have been unlocked.
Let's take a closer look at them now.
 

3.1 - Win different campaign maps or featured community maps on advanced difficulty or higher. No spell cards are allowed. All cards played must be Nature or Twilight cards.  These restrictions apply to all team members.

3.2 - Win the 1-player featured community maps Nyxia and Aeglos Fortress on advanced difficulty or higher. All cards played must be Nature cards.

3.3 - Win the 1-player scenario The Treasure Fleet and the 4-player scenario The Guns of Lyr on advanced difficulty or higher. All enemy buildings in the map must be destroyed. All cards played must be Nature or Twilight cards. These restrictions apply to all team members.
 

3.4 - Win the 2-player scenarios Nightmare's Shard and Nightmare's End on standard difficulty or higher. Only cards of Tier 3 and below are allowed. All cards played must be Nature or Twilight cards. These restrictions apply to all team members.

 

3.5 - Win the 4-player scenarios Titans and Raven's End on standard difficulty or higher. No towers, fortresses, or shrines may be played. All cards played must be Nature, Twilight, or Neutral cards. These restrictions apply to all team members.


3.6 - Win the 1-player campaign scenario The Soultree on advanced difficulty or higher. No T2 cards may be used. All cards played must be Nature or Twilight cards.

As usual, the challenges remain available until the end of the season.

• How Does It Work - Root Network

Since this season's theme is Nature and Twilight, we thought it best to remind the players of a video explaining the root network - the unique and complex ability of the Nature faction. It can be tricky to understand and setup, but the pay-off is oftentimes very much worth it.

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

This Community Update is packed! We’re kicking off our second season, sharing all the rewards you can earn (including some nice surprises), and have a teaser for something the community has been asking about for a long time. It’s also the last Community Update I have personally written, but more on that later. First, let’s dive into the good stuff!
 

• Season 1 - Primordial Fire - Completed

Today marks the start of our second season, Natural Selection, and the end of our first season, Primordial Fire!
Please note: Season 1 will end at 12 PM CET, after which Season 2 will start. 

Let's first go over what happens once the first season has concluded:  

• Seasonal Quests for Season 1 are deactivated and can no longer be completed. 
• Players can still view the quests and leaderboards of the previous season, including their progress. 
• Final leaderboard standings are updated and rewards have been distributed accordingly. 
• Completed but unclaimed challenges have automatically been claimed, and progressed rewards accordingly. 
• Scorchlings, Hellhound and Treasure Wagon now drop from boosters.
• The promo Sunderer, if not yet earned, is now purchasable with Relics in the Relic-shop.
• Unearned cosmetics (titles, borders, banners and the Forge-skin) are now purchasable with Relics in the Relic-shop.
• You can continue to earn Relics by completing challenges of Season 2, or by beating the infected map of the week. 
• Unique for this season: players will receive 50 additional seasonal points, see below. 

Primordial Fire was our first attempt at a seasonal structure. After watching the season unfold, we came to the conclusion that seasonal points were too closely tied to repeatable and required more daily play and grinding than we intended. While we have incorporated what we have learned and made adjustments in season 2, we have decided to give players 50 seasonal points for Primordial Fire. We feel this brings the season rewards more in line with what we had originally in mind. If you log-in during October, you will have the points added to your account.

With that out of the way, let's talk about Season 2: Natural Selection!

• Season 2 - Natural Selection

This season will be focusing on the Nature and Twilight factions, and will once again last 4 months, from October 1st to January 31st.
For Season 2, we've made some changes to the challenges and reward structure based on player feedback.

The reward track is more condensed in the beginning, with players now able to earn existing Nature and Twilight cards to help accelerate their deckbuilding. More challenges were added to all categories, giving players more opportunities to earn points by playing challenges they like and at lower difficulties. Standard challenges exist for players who are new or just returned and not yet ready to take on advanced. Repeatable challenges have been expanded and a maximum point cap of 400 points has been introduced.

Overall, repeatable challenges will require both substantially less grinding and less daily play, and players should be able to earn the promo reward by completing all challenges at the advanced level.

You can view all the challenges available at the start of the season in the patch notes, alongside balance changes that are part of the patch. 

• New Cards

This season once again introduces three new and time-exclusive cards, meaning they are tied to the season rewards and will not drop from booster packs or reforging while Season 2 is active, but are instead granted as rewards for gathering seasonal points. After the season has concluded, the non-promo cards will drop from boosters as usual.

Twilight Infestation
This building can summon Twilight Devastators and Twilight Dancers to the field. Devastators are powerful front-line siege units, while Twilight Dancers can attack from long range. Additionally, this building can spread the Twilight Curse to your other troops and unlock their full potential.

Whisperer
This iconic enemy makes its appearance as a player card, with powerful skills to control the battlefield. Whisperers can heal allies and blind their enemies. If the unit is transformed, it creates an anti-magic zone where enemies can’t use ranged attacks or special abilities.

Woodland Watch
A unique tower which allows the player to change its attack based on the Elf-unit placed inside. Sunstriders and White Rangers increase the tower’s range, Windweavers and Twilight Slayers grant an additional multi-shot attack, and Darkelves and Spirit Hunters provide a poison effect.

In our Q&A and previous Community Update, Woodland Watch still had work-in-progress artwork. We are very happy with the final artwork as shown above, beautifully drawn by our artist Elkondo. 

• Season 2 - Promo Reveal

In addition to these three new cards, players can also collect a unique promo. Last month, we already revealed the new cards, and today we are excited to talk about the special promo card tied to the season. In our last yearly feedback survey, we asked players which card they would most like to see receive the promo treatment. One card was clearly favored over the rest and received the most votes, but we decided to keep it a secret and start work on its creation behind the scenes.

After a lot of work from our artists, we have made it happen. Behold the highly anticipated Promo Forest Elder!

• Season Overview and Patch Notes

That is a lot to unpack, so we have also created an overview video for this season. Take a look!

We have also prepared an infographic for you to quickly see what you can collect this season: 

Lastly, head over to our patch notes to see all the changes and additions that have been released.

Season 2, will go live at 12:00 PM CET!

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

• Q&A with Windhunter and Majora

Last Friday we hosted a live Q&A on Twitch. With the introduction of seasons, modifiers, and a new campaign map, we figured it was a great time to sit down and go a bit more in depth about the creation of our latest content, and of course answer your questions! 

You can rewatch the Q&A below. It contains a lot of information about campaign maps, card design and our season structure. We also talk about our second season and which new cards you will be able to collect. 

• Season 1 - Primordial Fire: Month #4/4

Today marks the start of the final month of our first season: Primordial Fire. 

This month won't add any additional challenges. It is meant as a break and/or catch-up for players to complete any challenges they might have missed or failed to complete the past 3 months. Once September ends, so will the Primordial Fire season. This will lead to the following:

- Seasonal Quests for Season 1 will be de-activated and can no longer be completed. 
- Players can still view the quests and leaderboards of the season, including their progress. 
- Final leaderboard standings will be updated and distribute rewards accordingly. 
- All completed but unclaimed challenges will automatically be claimed, and progress rewards accordingly. 
- Scorchlings, Hellhound and Treasure Wagon will drop from boosters.
- The promo Sunderer, if not yet earned, will be purchasable with Relics in the Relic-shop.
- Unearned cosmetics (titles, borders, banners and the Forge-skin) will be purchasable with Relics in the Relic-shop.
- You can continue to earn Relics through Season 2, or by beating the infected map of the week. 

We hope players enjoyed the first Season, and were able to earn the rewards they were playing for. While we have already incorporated feedback from Season 1 for our future seasons, we will continue to monitor feedback and adjust to make the system as enjoyable as possible for everyone involved. 

But for now, good luck with your final challenges Skylord!

 

• Season 2 - Natural Selection

Meanwhile, we are preparing the start of our second season, which was announced during our Q&A: Natural Selection!

This season will be focusing on the Nature and Twilight factions. It will once again last 4 months, and is currently scheduled to start October 1st. 

Players will be able to earn 3 new cards, and a unique promo card. Today, we are revealing which new cards players will be able to collect during the season, but we will keep the promo card a surprise until the season starts. With it being the most requested promo in our Feedback Survey last year, and great work done by our artists, we are sure players are going to love it! 

For Season 2, we've made changes to the challenges and reward track based on player feedback. Some of these adjustments were already discussed during the Q&A, and we’ll share more details in the next Community Update. For now, let’s talk about the new cards!

 

• New Card Reveal: Twilight Whisperer

There are already many Twilight cards in the game, but one of the most frequently requested has always been the Twilight Whisperer. First appearing as a powerful enemy on the very first map, Encounters with Twilight, the Whisperer has long been the bane of Skylords relying on ranged units. Its unique blind effect makes it a formidable foe, and soon you’ll be able to add it to your own line-up.

After all this time, making its debut as a player card: Twilight Whisperer!

 

Rejuvenate
Every 5 seconds, unit triggers a heal chain that may affect up to 3 friendly units. The first one will be healed for 150 life points while each of the following targets will be healed for 40 life points less.
 

Blind
 Every 10 seconds, unit casts a ball of light that blinds enemies in a 12m radius around the target for 10 seconds. Has a long range of 40m.
 

Shhhh!
If the unit is transformed, it will create an anti-magic zone of 20m where enemies can neither use ranged attacks nor special abilities. Lasts for 10 seconds.

 

Transformation
The unit is infected with the Twilight Curse, activate to start the mutation process and choose a Twilight unit from the current deck to be transformed into after 0.5 seconds. The current deck must contain at least one other Twilight unit whose orb requirements are met! Has a 10 seconds cool-down after the card was played out or previously transformed.

Design notes:

Twilight Whisperer is an iconic enemy we have long wanted to add to the game. The question was always where it might fit. Twilight's T2 cannot have a strong ranged attacker due to PvP concerns, and an M-sized support would likely be lackluster in T3 & T4. We finally solved the riddle by giving the unit its iconic blind effect but without it dealing any damage. This way the unit is a pure support unit. To facilitate its role as a backline healer who can also CC enemies, we have given it a 40m range for its Blind attack. This way Whisperer can sit safely behind its allies while still reaching enemies it wants to disable. Lastly we wanted to give it a fitting Transformation ability and we thought a temporary Mark of the Keeper effect fit the unit's overall identity well.

Twilight Whisperer will release as a season reward for our second season. 

 

• New Card Reveal: Twilight Infestation

Summon-buildings are quite popular among the player base. After the positive reception to Bandit Hut, we began exploring other potential candidates that could make a good fit. With the existing Twilight unit line-up already being quite large, and with no plans to release separate player cards for Twilight Dancers and Twilight Devastators, we saw this as the perfect opportunity to put them into players’ hands regardless.

We’re excited to reveal: Twilight Infestation!

 

Summon Devastator
Activate to summon a Twilight Devastator. Will no longer summon units once a population of 150 would be exceeded. Reusable every 60 seconds.
 

Summon Dancers
  Activate to summon 2 Twilight Dancers. Will no longer summon units once a population of 150 would be exceeded. Reusable every 60 seconds.
 

Transformation
Infects an own ground unit with the Twilight Curse. During the next 40 seconds the unit can transform at will into any other Twilight unit in the current deck whose orb requirements are met. Reusable every 3 seconds.

 

Design notes:

Bandit Hut proved to be a popular addition to the game and a fitting one, especially because most T3 Bandit units are lackluster. We think that a spawner also fits Twilight's identity but in a slightly different way. While Bandit Hut is a swarm building, Twilight Infestation is more designed to work as a supplement to Twilight's other T3 options. For this reason, Infestation's spawns are stronger but with longer cooldowns between usage. The new Twilight spawner also has the Twilight Infection ability from Skycatcher, which will allow players to transform their leftover T1 and T2 units into T3 or T4 Twilight units. In this way, the player no longer needs to kill off lower tier units to get access to their void power, but the player can instead decide to evolve them into ever more perfect forms, properly fitting the theme of Twilight.

Twilight Infestation will release as a season reward for our second season. 

 

• New Card Reveal: Woodland Watch

The Root Network mechanic from the Nature faction enables extremely powerful defensive setups. However, we felt there was still room to explore other defensive options that don't require players to commit to Root Network cards.

Woodland Watch is a unique new tower that allows the player to send in a single Elf squad, adapting its attack based on the unit placed inside. 

Let’s talk a bit more about Woodland Watch!
Please note: The card is still in development. Artwork is in progress, and stats or effects may change before release.

 

Bow Shot
Every 3 seconds, the tower launches arrows each dealing 102 damage to enemies within a 8m radius, up to 153 in total. It may attack two targets at once.

 

Call the Elves!
  Activate to send the chosen friendly small elf unit within a 25m radius into Woodland Watch. The tower is strengthened and gains a different buff depending on which unit has entered. Only one elf unit can enter the tower at a time.

 

• Range Increase
The tower gets a 10m range increase if a Sunstrider or White Ranger squad is inside. 

 

• Multi-shot
The tower can fire at an additional target if a Windweaver or Twilight Slayer squad is inside. 

 

• Poison
Enemies damaged by Woodland Watch take 30 damage per second for 10 seconds if a Spirit Hunter or Darkelves squad is inside. 

 

Design notes:

T2 Nature has a problem defending in T2 behind walls. While it has a strong defense unit in Spikeroot, the problem is that Spikeroot cannot attack through walls nor can it hit flying enemies. Players must therefore default to Living Tower, which often then necessitates other root network cards and even then, Living Tower is not a good option when used in mass due to how the support mechanic works. We therefore wanted to add a new T2 Nature tower which was not root network dependent. Woodland Watch is that tower. It has multi-shot and good stats, allowing it to fill a similar role to other T2 towers.

At the same time, it can be empowered by absorbing an elf unit, thereby taking on new traits. The idea here is that the elves reinforce the tower and add new traits to it similar to their individual unit or faction traits. Sunstriders and White Rangers give +10m range, Windweavers and Twilight Slayers give an additional multi-shot attack, and Darkelves and Spirit Hunters provide a poison effect. Some of these elves are obviously not Nature cards, which allows Woodland Watch to provide unique splash options, something we are always trying to do more of. Additionally, Woodland Watch can absorb allied units, so you can work together with your Fire, Shadow, or Frost ally to bolster your Woodland Watch and make your defense well suited to the situation.

Woodland Watch will release as a season reward for our second season. 

• Contribute to Skylords Reborn

Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 volunteers. We are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals. If you have a passion for gaming, programming, design, or marketing, we invite you to have a look at our open positions!
 

Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member.
 

• Events

In between our monthly Community Updates, we host various events and tournaments, so be sure to keep a close eye on the in-game event tab and the forum calendar to stay informed and not miss out on any exciting events!

Current events:

• NEW - Battle of Tactics #10: Friendly Fire -> STARTS: 05.09.2025
Have you ever wondered how Skylords Reborn would play with Friendly Fire enabled? Find out this month with the latest Battle of Tactics in which you and a fellow Skylords ''team-up'' to beat the map Into the Jungle. Starting on September 5th!

 

• NEW - Egg-Ball Tournament - 21.09.2025 18:00 CEST
Back in July 2024, we introduced a Football/Soccer game-mode with The Seven Strategy Showdown #7. We are excited to host a PvP tournament of this silly but interesting way to play the game. The tournament will be live-streamed. Please sign-up in advance.
 

Recent events:

• FINISHED - Q&A with Windhunter and Majora
Our Q&A contains a lot of information about campaign maps, card design and our season structure. We also talk about our second season and what changes we are making. You can rewatch the Q&A on YouTube.

 

• FINISHED - Dealing with Trouble
To celebrate the release of our new campaign map "Heart of Trouble", players could send in their replay for a random draw of boosters. If you have done so, you should receive your booster soon. 

 

• FINISHED  - The Skylords Reborn Summer Cup 2025 - 17-08-2025
The 3rd 1vs1 PvP tournament of the year was hosted and live-streamed by Ultralord and co-host Toggy. Most of the matches were recorded with commentary and can be rewatched on YouTube. 
 

• Host your own tournament / event
Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers @Metagross31 or @Ultralord. We can help you out with various topics and are glad to discuss potential ideas. We can also sponsor the prize pool for your event. If you have a cool idea for a PvE event, or want to host a PvP tournament, please don't hesitate to reach out to us; we will gladly assist you.

 

• In Conclusion

That's all for this Community Update! We appreciate you taking the time to read through it.

As is tradition, we're including a scratch code as a small token of our appreciation for your support.
The code will reward you with a Twilight booster: NATU-RALS-ELEC-TION

This code is valid until October 1st, when we will bring you another Community Update.

We're always looking for ways to improve and value your feedback. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to share them with us. We'll be back next month with more updates on our ongoing projects and upcoming features.

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• Community Update August 2025

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

• A very special milestone

Before we start this month's update, we'd like to take a moment to reflect on a major milestone:

As of July 26, 2025, Skylords Reborn has been online longer than the original BattleForge was!

Considering our team runs entirely on volunteers and has gone through multiple changes in project administrators, designers, and developers over the years, we are incredibly grateful to still be here, working on new content and updates for the dedicated BattleForge community. "By the players, for the players" may be a cliché, but our love for the original IP as fans has kept this project going for so long.

We are extremely proud of what we’ve accomplished and want to thank everyone who has spent their free time contributing to the project over the years. And of course, a huge thank-you to our dedicated player base, who keep checking in for our new patches, events, and updates. Without you, we wouldn’t be here, approaching our 5th-year anniversary later this year!

Thank you everyone. We’ll continue doing our best to be worthy successors to BattleForge's legacy.
Use code 2009-2013-2020-2025 in the in-game store for a mini booster as a little celebration of this milestone! 

• New Campaign Map - Heart of Trouble

And on that note, we have a very exciting announcement to share today!

Back in September last year, we introduced our first new campaign maps to the game: Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle. Ever since, we have continued our work on more maps, and today we are ready to talk about a brand-new 1-player campaign map: Heart of Trouble!
 

Story Introduction

With the death of Shane Blight, the most serious threat to the fire tribes was extinguished. Yet the former pirate lord left behind him a reconstituted Raven corps terrorizing a stretch of land equal in size to the Lyrish kingdom. In the time since the pirate lord's death, a group of ambitious Raven lieutenants have torn apart the Southern Wastes in an ever escalating civil war as they attempted to become Blight’s successor. With Mo and the best warriors of the fire tribes having traveled north and the Ravens no longer distracted from their hunt for plunder by Blight’s mad quest, the remnants of the fire tribes were left defenseless, leaving the Skylords in a desperate search for some way to end the destruction. Gaeron wondered if perhaps they could put their thumb on the scale and anoint Blight’s successor themselves. 

Bren Morhold surveyed his surroundings and bit down his rage as he cursed his luck. First, he had lost the last of his walkers in an ambush against Blight’s former lieutenant Boggart, and now he was caught like a rodent in a trap, the noose slowly tightening around his neck as his rival warlord’s troops moved ever closer. Lesser men would have fallen to despair, but the self-proclaimed Ragged King was not a lesser man. His mind worked as untiringly as a kobold clock, weighing troop counts, ammo stocks, and potential terrain maneuvers. If he was to die, he would die a blustering bloodhorn, not some dawdling dryad. 

As he raged against his impending doom, Morhold felt the unnerving presence of an otherworldly force. He spun around in an attempt to gain sight of it, suddenly stopping when he heard a voice he nearly confused with his own thoughts.

“Do you wish to live?” Yes. The words did not even need to be spoken. What will it cost me?

About the Map

The Ragged King is a character who briefly appears in Empire. We always felt his introduction was abrupt and thought he would make for an interesting backstory. In Heart of Trouble, Skylords team up with Bren Morhold, the self-proclaimed Ragged King, in a unique 1-player map that feels like a co-op scenario. You'll need to attack alongside him to defeat various Bandit Warlords, including Boggart, Blight's former lieutenant. This uneasy alliance can be played on Standard, Advanced, and Expert difficulty.

The map is fully voice-acted in English, with voice actors Dreamlord and Vox delivering excellent performances as Gaeron, Boggart, the Ragged King, and the Loading Screen/Storybook narrations. Thank you so much for your help!

We would also like to give a special thank-you to our map testers, who ensured the map will be an enjoyable experience for all skill levels.

Release

And now for the great news! You won't have to wait long to play Heart of Trouble, as it will be included in our next patch, releasing this Sunday, the 3rd of August! Have a look at the following trailer for a first sneak peek at the map.

Design Notes

Heart of Trouble is now our 3rd official campaign map after Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle. While we are proud of what we created in our first two maps, they were both subjected to a chaotic design process as we attempted to understand what went into creating a good campaign map. The fruits of this chaotic laboring can be found pinned in the Map section of the forum. Heart of Trouble, on the other hand, was able to be designed from the ground up with our new design principles in mind. Harnessing these principles and the lessons we learned from Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle, we think we were able to make Heart of Trouble our best map yet.

Heart of Trouble takes place shortly after the conclusion of Raven's End. In the map, the Skylord attempts to save an ambitious Bandit Lord called the Ragged King who is being attacked by his rival warlords. Once the player links up with the Ragged King, the player fights alongside a force of allied Bandits who help the player to progress, kind of like an AI teammate.

The map combines both attack and defense elements (make sure to bring some T2+ towers) with a stronger focus on offensive conquest. There are two initial warbands to fight. To the north is a strong anti-ground artillery-based Bandit group, while to the south is a strong anti-air flying-based Bandit group. The player can choose which group to attack first, and once one group dies, the other scales up. In this way, the map has an inherent dynamism and replayability as players decides which half of the map to attack first based on which deck they bring.

Alongside the new Ragged King, players will also face 4 new Bandit enemies, Wasteland Wing, Bloodhorn, Sand Skate, and Bandit Cannoneer; 4 new mini-bosses; and a new final boss named Boggart. Additionally, the new map will release with a new achievement and a seasonal challenge.

Creating Heart of Trouble has been a labor of love from our map designers Hrdina Imperia and R4bitFOOT as well as our many map testers, card implementers, voice actors, audio editors, artists, and translators. We hope you enjoy playing Heart of Trouble as much as we enjoyed making it!

• New PvP Map - Taros

The new patch also includes our first new PvP map! Taros is a 1vs1 map that can be selected in Sparring Matches and will be part of the ranked map pool.

This map features a unique twist, allowing you to quickly reposition your forces using teleporter circles. We’re excited to see how players take advantage of these mechanics in their matches. This is our first official PvP map, so be sure to give it a try and let us know what you think!

• Seasonal Challenges Batch #3

August 1st also marks the third month of the Primordial Fire season, and a new batch of additional challenges is now available! This final batch also introduces new Nightmare challenges.

The following challenges are now active:
Please note: 4.5 and 4.6 will come online alongside the new content patch. 
 

10+20 1	4.1 - Win the 4p scenario The Dwarven Riddle on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members using only Fire cards of Tier 3 or below. Expert difficulty rewards more points.
10+20 1	4.2 - Win the 1p scenario Mo on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members playing only FIre, Twilight, Bandits or Neutral cards, with your ownly unit card being Brannoc. Expert difficulty rewards more points.
10+5 1	4.3 - Win the 1p featured community map Thirsty Journey Home on advanced difficulty or higher, with you playing only Fire cards and no unit cards. Expert difficulty rewards more points.
10+20 1	4.4 - Win the 2p scenario Nightmare's End and 4p scenario Guns of Lyr on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members using only cards with Fire orbs (Fire, Twilight, Bandits). Expert difficulty rewards more points.
10+20 1	4.5 - Complete different campaign scenarios or featured community maps on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members playing only Fire and Neutral cards, and all units being only beast, primordial and artifact units.
10+20 1	4.6 - Win the 1p scenario Heart of Trouble on standard difficulty or higher, with you playing only cards of the Bandits faction, except T1 cards. Higher difficulty rewards more points.

And the following Nightmare challenges are now active: 
 

10+40	6.1 - Be among the 100 fastest times on the 1p scenario Ocean on advanced difficulty using only Fire cards at the end of the season. Players who place higher in the rankings will receive more points.
10+40 0+3	6.2 - Win the 1p scenario Encounters with Twilight on expert difficulty in under 24/21/19/17/16/15/14/13 minutes using only Fire cards. Completing the challenge faster awards progressively more points.
15+25 1+2	6.3 - Win a 4p rPvE scenario that is the Infected Map of the Week on Advanced+ (5) difficulty or higher with all players using only Fire cards of Tier 3 or below. Higher difficulties awards progressively more points.

These are the final challenges for this season. Players will have the entire month of September to complete any remaining challenges before we wrap up this first season.

After the season concludes, players will be able to use the new Relic resource to purchase any missed seasonal cosmetics rewards, including the Promo Sunderer, through the Relic Shop. Relics can be earned by completing seasonal challenges and by beating the weekly map affected by a map modifier. Please note: Fire Boosters and the new cards will not be purchasable with Relics. These new cards will begin dropping from boosters once the season has ended.

Our next season will also feature relics that can be used to purchase rewards from Season #1 – Primordial Fire.
 

• Fire Wormlings Replacement

Last month, we gave an update on the issues surrounding our new card, Fire Wormlings. If you're out of the loop, you can catch up by reading the July Community Update.

After two months of extensive testing, we unfortunately came to the conclusion that the card is currently unsalvageable due to issues in the movement logic of the worm model. As a result, we prepared two alternative options and asked the community to vote for their preferred model to replace the Wormlings. 
 

When announcing the upcoming model swap, we faced frustration from some players who either didn’t understand or didn’t care about the issues the card was causing. Others disagreed with our alternative model choices or insisted that the replacement behave exactly like the original card. We’d like to once again stress that this is a situation we truly tried to avoid. Our team loved Fire Wormlings, and we even put them front and center in our marketing efforts. Doing a full model and artwork swap also costs us considerable time, valuable time that could have been spent on new content, preparing for Season 2, or even taking a well-deserved break after the crunch period from the last patch.

However, every week that passed meant another week of the season where players couldn’t use the unit. Once testing confirmed that we wouldn’t be able to fix Fire Wormlings using the current model, we knew it was time for drastic measures and a model swap was the best available option. Because of the frustrating experience many players had with the unit over the past two months, we wanted to involve the community in the final decision. While we understand that some players would have preferred more models to choose from, we were limited by technical constraints and a tight timeline. The fact that we were able to create new artwork and a working model in time is a small miracle in itself.

We wouldn’t be taking these steps if we didn’t believe they were absolutely necessary. And while we’ve done our very best to make the replacement behave as closely as possible to the original Wormlings design, the lack of source code and the unfortunate truth that the unique aspect of the Wormlings was also the source of their issues, meant we couldn’t fully replicate the unit in a different form. 

We ask players who are frustrated with this situation for a bit more understanding.

One suggestion was to give players the Fire Wormlings profile picture as a reward. We thought this was a great idea, and everyone who has logged in since the start of the season (June 1st) will receive this cosmetic when the patch is released.

 

• Introducing: Scorchlings

The final vote results were quite close, but 53.13% of you voted for the Void Maw model to replace the Fire Wormlings. Our 3D artist, Titan, quickly went to work finalizing the model, while our 2D artist, Elkondo, began creating the artwork. Normally, a new card takes months to prepare, but we really wanted to get the replacement to players as soon as possible. That way, you can still play them for the second half of the season. 

Here is the replacement for Fire Wormlings: Scorchlings!

 

Arson Spit
Every 2.5 seconds, unit launches spittle at enemies that deal 67 damage to enemies in a 6m radius around its target, up to 100 in total. The affected area around the target will ignite for 8 seconds dealing 12 damage every second to enemy units.
 

Primal Resonance
Within a 30m radius of a Primordial unit, Scorchlings will deal 60% more damage. Does not trigger from other Scorchlings.

 

Swift
Moves at high speed.

 

Steadfast
Cannot be knocked back. 

 

A unique ability of the Wormlings model was their reduced damage while moving. Unfortunately, this was built into the model itself and could not be replicated for the Scorchlings. On the upside, Scorchlings don’t have the awkward stop-turn-shoot animation that the worm model had, allowing them to reposition more smoothly during combat. We might slightly adjust the attack speed/damage output of the model in the coming days leading up to the patch to be as close as possible to the Wormlings.  

Scorchlings will replace Fire Wormlings with our content patch on Sunday, the 3rd of August. Any Fire Wormlings in players' inventories will also be replaced with Scorchlings.

One more thing
While the Void Maw model won the vote, we don't want to ignore the fact that it was a pretty close call with the Snapjaw model. We will explore if we can find a fitting design for that model as well, and might release it in the future as a new card. The original design for Wormlings was a new kind of archers that could be placed on walls after all. Perhaps we can revisit this idea with this alternative model. To be continued!
 

• Team Changes

 

We’re happy to announce that two new members have joined our volunteer team!

Moving forward, Bini Inibitor and Gam3over, both experienced testers on the project, will share the responsibility of Testing Coordination. We’re very grateful that they’re dedicating their time to improving our testing process and working closely with our testers to ensure content is balanced and bug-free. If you're interested in helping them out, please take a look at the Map Tester position.

Thank you both, and welcome to the team!

Meanwhile, aodpi has decided to leave the team. He joined us back in 2022 to work on the Entity Editor and Updater. We’d like to thank him for all the time and effort he contributed to the project during his time with us!

 

• Contribute to Skylords Reborn

Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 volunteers. We are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals. If you have a passion for gaming, programming, design, or marketing, we invite you to have a look at our open positions!
 

Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member.
 

• Events

In between our monthly Community Updates, we host various events and tournaments, so be sure to keep a close eye on the in-game event tab and the forum calendar to stay informed and not miss out on any exciting events!

Current events:

• NEW - Dealing with Trouble
To celebrate the release of our new campaign map "Heart of Trouble", you can send in your replay of finishing the map on a difficulty you feel comfortable with, for a chance to win some prizes! Click here for more information. 

 

• NEW - The Skylords Reborn Summer Cup 2025 - 17-08-2025
Join us for the 3rd 1vs1 PvP tournament of the year! The tournament will be hosted and live-streamed by Ultralord on Twitch. Please sign-up in advance if you want to join, or join us on Twitch on the day of the tournament!

 

• FINISHED - Crystal Solid Defence - Winner Reveal Stream on August 1st!
Find out who won in this unique PvE event! A livestream revealing the winners will take place on August 1st, at 19:00 CET. Find out more here. 

 

• Host your own tournament / event
Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers @Metagross31 or @Ultralord. We can help you out with various topics and are glad to discuss potential ideas. We can also sponsor the prize pool for your event. If you have a cool idea for a PvE event, or want to host a PvP tournament, please don't hesitate to reach out to us; we will gladly assist you.

 

• In Conclusion

That's all for this Community Update! We appreciate you taking the time to read through it.

As is tradition, we're including a scratch code as a small token of our appreciation for your support.
The code will reward you with a Fire booster: FIRE-WORM-LING-SWAP

This code is valid until September 1st, when we will bring you another Community Update.

We're always looking for ways to improve and value your feedback. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to share them with us. We'll be back next month with more updates on our ongoing projects and upcoming features.

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• Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide)  
• Overview Community Updates
• Community Update July 2025

In our last Community Update, we discussed the desync issues with the Fire Wormlings card that are currently impacting the live server. Please read this for context if you haven't already. 

Ever since, we have been hard at work on trying to find the source of the issue, and a potential fix. Unfortunately, this has not resulted in a reliable fix. While we were able to reduce the issue somewhat by reducing the worms to a single unit instead of a squad, all signs currently point toward worm-movement being the culprit. 

This leaves us with only one option: swap the unit for a different model while keeping its design intact. We truly regret this situation, what was supposed to be a cool reward, has overshadowed two months of our first season. We saw many frustrated reports of desyncs from the community, and would therefore like to include all of you in the solution. 

We have prepared two potential candidates as a replacement for the worms, which will behave similarly to the current design. 

Please vote for your favorite replacement, as we'd like to move quickly. We will leave the poll open for just a few days, since we want to get the new card into your hands as fast as possible, and need time to finalize it (artwork, effects, implementation).

We have prepared the following options:

A: The Void Maw model. 

B: The Snapjaw model.

Both will come as a squad of two M-sized units, just like the Wormlings. 
Once implemented, every Fire Wormlings card will automatically be replaced for the new card.

Please vote in the poll which model replacement you prefer!
Below you can see the models alongside other fire units.  

We know players enjoyed the looks of the Wormlings, so we hope we are providing two decent alternatives. 
We will share more information regarding the outcome in our next Community Update. 

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

• Season #1 - Primordial Fire - Month #2

Last month, we released a patch that kicked off our very first Season, and the reception has been largely positive! Player numbers have gone up, and Skylords are enjoying the fresh challenges the season brings. This season will last for four months: June, July, August, and September.

Unfortunately, with so many moving parts, some bugs were inevitable. Our team has worked hard to fix as many of them as quickly as possible. We've addressed these issues through several hotfix patches, which you can find in the patch notes here. Some of these hotfixes include minor touch-ups related to the season, such as description clarifications and small UI improvements. The update from June 29th also included minor balance changes, so be sure to check out the patch notes.

We'd like to take this opportunity to address a few topics that have come up frequently since the season's release:

Connection Problems for Russian Players

We've noticed that some Russian players are experiencing issues connecting to our server, which is located in Germany. Although these issues began around the time of our patch release, they are actually the result of sanctions outside of our control.

We're currently exploring alternatives, such as hosting a VPS in another region to forward traffic. We expect to have more information within the next 1 to 3 months. In the meantime, we advise affected players to use a VPN to connect.

Nightmare Challenges

We’ve seen some players expressing frustration about not being able to complete certain challenges or finding them too difficult. We want to emphasize that Nightmare challenges are intended for the highest-level players and are not required to earn the top rewards. You will be able to unlock Promo Sunderer this season without completing any Nightmare missions. However, you will need to complete the second and third batches of challenges (along with most repeatables), which will be released today and in August.

We highly advise players not to burn out on a specific challenge if you are not having fun. We’ve tried to include content for everyone this season. That means some challenges may feel too easy, while others may feel too difficult, depending on your playstyle. But remember: you don’t need to complete everything. We do encourage you to try strategies outside your comfort zone, but at the end of the day, it’s all about enjoying the game. And if you do want to conquer a particular challenge, the community is more than happy to help. Be sure to check out our Discord if you're looking for advice or teammates!
 

Dwarfen Stronghold

Challenge 2.5 requires players to complete two community maps. It reads: 
Win the 4-player featured community maps Dwarfen Stronghold Rework and Twisted Legends on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members using decks that contain 10 or more Fire, Twilight or Bandits cards.

Some players experience a crash or error when trying to host the map Dwarfen Stonghold Rework.
To fix this, close the game, go into your doc/BattleForge/map folder and delete all instances of Dwarfen. After restarting the game, you should now be able to download the correct map and host your match.

Filtering for Twilight Edition

Challenge 2.8 has caused some confusion among the player base. It reads:
Complete 5 different campaign maps or featured community maps on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members using decks that contain only Fire, Twilight or Bandits cards, none of which are from the Twilight edition.

Back when the original BattleForge came out, cards were released in expansions, with the base set being called the Twilight Edition, and cards were purchasable in boosters from specific expansions. When we overhauled the economy to free-to-play, we actually removed those edition-boosters, and replaced them for faction-boosters instead. While this was a great improvement, it also means that non-veteran players were never really exposed to the "Twilight Edition'' naming. This was an oversight on our part when we created this challenge. 

To clarify; cards from the Twilight Edition all have the Sunrise Icon, are only Nature, Shadow, Frost and Fire (so no hybrid/neutral), and have no affinities. Even though the name might imply it, the Twilight Edition contains no cards from the Twilight faction.

For this specific challenge, there is actually a filter you can use to exclude every card from the Twilight Edition. If you write the following text into the search bar of your inventory, you are left with all cards that are not included in the Twilight edition:
!(edition=twilight)

Just remember that challenge 2.8 also restricts you to Fire, Bandits or Twilight (the faction, not the edition!) cards, though you can easily filter for those with the elemental buttons on the left. 

If you want to know more about filtering options, have a look at our Advanced Filtering document. It goes into detail what is possible with the search bar, and how it came to be. 

Fire Wormlings

Fire Wormlings, unfortunately, hold the questionable honor of being the most problematic card in the history of this project. Initially intended as a new type of archer to be placed on walls, it had to be completely redesigned after model issues made that original concept impossible. Then, after finally being released, the card caused lag spikes when played for extended periods. Thankfully, we were able to fix those lag issues relatively quickly, but soon after, another problem surfaced: players began reporting widespread desync issues.

Unfortunately, we have not yet been able to identify and fix the root cause of these desyncs.

To better understand the complexity of the situation, consider the following:
- Fire Wormlings is a resized version of an XL model.
- It's a squad unit, based on a model that was never originally intended for use in a squad.
- Its attack lays down a unique visual effect that deals damage over time.
- It has a buff that checks for specific unit classes nearby, activating and deactivating accordingly.
- It uses the worm model, which moves in a very unique way, basically teleporting across the map while appearing to burrow underground.
- Desyncs are reported in most matches where Fire Wormlings are played.
- In single-player matches, the desync warning does not appear, but replays are often out of sync with the actual match.
- None of our tests so far have been able to pinpoint the issue with certainty.

We’ve been testing a variety of solutions, including removing the passive ability, resizing the worm, or converting it to a single unit. While we still lack a definitive answer, current evidence suggests the desyncs are related to the movement behavior of the worm model. Similar reports have occurred for the original XL worms in the past, but those units are played less frequently, and later in matches, due to them being Tier 4. Additionally, those issues have been rare and hard to reproduce consistently. We suspect that the combination of smaller size and squad mechanics increases the likelihood of movement-based desyncs. For instance, if the squad moves over uneven terrain or is knocked around, parts of the squad can get separated or stuck, increasing instability.

We considered temporarily restricting the card in multiplayer, until we discovered the same issue also affects single-player matches. Adding to the challenge is the open in-game market. While Fire Wormlings is part of the season rewards, some players have paid a significant amount of BFP to acquire it. Simply removing the card and refunding players isn't viable, since that also raises questions about how to handle those who sold the card. We obviously don't like players not being able to use their new cards. At the same time, players are currently asking each other to stop using the card, basically banning it from play anyway. 

We considered replacing the model entirely and reworking the card from scratch, but this would also require new artwork, effectively meaning we’d need to remove the Wormlings and create a completely new unit. This would be a months-long process and would seriously disrupt our planning. Fire Wormlings is also heavily featured in our marketing for the season, so removing it is something we hope to avoid.

So, where does that leave us?

We are currently testing a version of Fire Wormlings that removes the squad mechanic, and results so far have been promising. However, we still haven’t found a consistent fix for the desyncs, and we’re increasingly concerned that the worm model itself might be inherently problematic. 

Because of this, we’re also exploring the option to rework the burrow movement, potentially replacing it with a more generic movement style while maintaining a similar visual through existing animations. However, we are limited in our options here, considering we don't have the source code and can not create new models or animations yet. 

We hope this breakdown helps players understand why Fire Wormlings is still not fixed and why solving the issue has been so challenging. Due to our limited testing capacity, we are now considering deploying the most promising version of the card to the live server soon, to collect feedback and data from the broader player base. We would also like to expand our internal testing, so if you want to help out as a tester, consider reaching out. 

With your help, we hope to finally identify the exact cause and deliver a stable version of the card for everyone to enjoy.

Changes mid-season

Many of you have already shared what you like and dislike about various aspects of the season. From challenges and rewards to UI and descriptions, your feedback is incredibly valuable in helping us determine whether we’re on the right track. While we’ve already been able to implement some quality-of-life improvements based on your input, not all suggestions can be incorporated mid-season. That said, we are carefully observing what works and what doesn’t, and we will take this into account for future seasons.

Common feedback includes the option to play Standard difficulty on certain challenges, less restrictive deck-building, and the concern that neutral/legendary cards are not playable in any future season with the current setup. We’ll definitely keep this feedback in mind as we prepare for Season 2. 

Non-seasonal content

We’re also hard at work on a new patch unrelated to seasonal content. While we believe it’s important to offer exciting rewards through the seasonal track, you can still expect new cards and new map releases through content patches, just like we did before the introduction of seasons.

While we don’t have anything concrete to share just yet, we expect to have more to announce soon!

• Seasonal Challenges Batch #2

As we enter the second month of this season, a batch of additional challenges is now available!
The following challenges are now active:

20+10 1	3.1 - Survive until the end on the survival community map, The Last Soultree on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members playing only Fire cards.
20+10 1	3.2 - Win the 1-player scenarios Behind Enemy Lines and Siege of Hope on advanced difficulty or higher, with you playing only Fire cards and no building cards.
20+10 1	3.3 - Win the 2-player scenario, Crusade and the 1-player featured community map Spooky Encounters on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members playing only Fire cards of Tier 2 or below.
20+10 1	3.4 - Win the 4-player scenarios Empire and Raven's End on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members playing only Fire or Neutral cards, with units of Tier 2 and above being Neutral units.

We hope you enjoy the current batch of challenges! The final set of challenges (including new Nightmare missions) will release in August. Players will then have the entire month of September to complete any remaining challenges before we wrap up this first season.

After the season concludes, players will be able to use the new Relic resource to purchase any missed seasonal cosmetics rewards, including the Promo Sunderer, through the Relic Shop. Relics can be earned during the season by completing challenges and by beating the weekly map affected by a map modifier. The Fire Boosters and the cards Fire Wormlings, Hellhound and Treasure Wagon will not be purchasable with relics however. The new cards will drop from boosters after the season has concluded. 

Our next season will also feature relics that can be used to purchase rewards from Season #1 – Primordial Fire.

• New Card Reveal - Amii Ashrider

While players continue with the first season, we are constantly working on additional content and are once again able to give you a sneak peek into a future new card. We have already expanded the Amii unit roster with various new cards: Amii Paladins, Amii Sentinel, Skydancer and Energy Core. Now that Elkondo has settled into our art department, we are able to create a new tier 2 unit for the faction.

Let's take a look at Amii Ashrider!

Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release.  

 

Ride of the Amii
When the unit is surrounded by 3 other friendly Ashriders in a 25m radius, it moves at high speed (8.0 m/s) and knocks back small and medium units dealing 25 damage, up to 100 in total.

 

Elusive
Units with Elusive have the duration of the immobilizing effects of Freeze and Paralyze reduced by 10%.

 

Design notes:

There are several cards in the game with movement knockback mechanics that deal damage. These are mostly confined to the higher tiers and besides the reworked Colossus are found on ranged units like the Worms or the hybrid melee-ranged unit Thunderwagon. When we were thinking of a new Amii T2 unit, we thought it was time to finally put the movement damage effect on a lower tier unit. Particularly, we thought it would fit with a horse-based Amii unit, therefore allowing players to simulate performing a cavalry charge. As can be seen with the new Treasure Wagon card, having a perpetual M-sized trample effect in T2 provides a substantial amount of crowd control.

Ashrider is our first non-T4 Amii unit made specifically for PvE. Other Amii units, towers, and spells are on the way to flesh out the faction's T2 and T3 arsenal in PvE and allow players to enjoy a full Amii deck from T2 onwards.

Amii Ashrider will release in an upcoming content patch, date to be announced. 

 

• Art Spotlight - Amii Ashrider

Amii Ashrider was drawn by our artist Elkondo. Below, he will share what went into creating the new unit. Take it away Elkondo!

 

"The first challenge was to come up with a clear and distinct pose for the unit. Since Skylords Reborn already features multiple horseback units, it was important to differentiate it with a unique silhouette as well as colors."

 

    

 

"After some exploration, the pose was quickly decided, and with a quick paint-over, the general vision for the artwork became clear."

 

 

"At this stage all that was left was cleanup. The 'Ride of the Amii' skill causes the unit to leave behind a trail of green smoke - this was something we wanted to show in the artwork."

 

"As cool as it was, however, it looked too much like flames. At the same time, we wanted to simplify the background to make the unit stand out a bit more. It took a few attempts to finally find contrast that works best."

 

    

 

"With the background done, it was time to polish the main subject a bit and add some much-needed details. We realized the attempted strong perspective on the rider didn't really work any more. The green flames were also removed to try a different look later."

 

 

"Lastly, alongside additional polish and new smoke effect, the lance was simplified and moved, as the previous intricate design didn't really fit the Amii aesthetic."

 

And that is how our latest Amii unit got its artwork! We hope you are looking forward to Amii Ashrider! 

 

• Team Changes

 

We are happy to announce that two new members have joined our volunteer team!

First off, VicRattlehead has joined our team as a Discord Moderator, while also showing interest in helping out with development in the future. 

Secondly, Arphox has already offered a lot of help in regards to improving our updater, and has now properly joined the team as a Tool developer with the goal of making more improvements. 


Thank you both, and welcome to the team!

 

• Contribute to Skylords Reborn

Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 volunteers. We are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals. If you have a passion for gaming, programming, design, or marketing, we invite you to have a look at our open positions!
 

Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member.
 

• Events

In between our monthly Community Updates, we host various events and tournaments, so be sure to keep a close eye on the in-game event tab and the forum calendar to stay informed and not miss out on any exciting events!

Current events:

• STREAM - WINNER REVEAL: Battle of Tactics #9: The Great Mage Magician - 04.06.2025
Find out who is the greatest of the Great Mage Magicians and their mighty generals in the winner reveal stream of this 3-player event. Join Ultralord on July 4 at 7:00 PM on Twitch.

 

• FINISHED - The Skylords Reborn Spring Cup 2025
The Spring Cup was our second PvP tournament of the year, and it included some great matches. The tournament was hosted and livestreamed by Ultralord, and you can watch the action here. 

 

• NEW - PvP Tome Tournament - 06.07.2025 15:00 CET
Tome was a PvP game mode in the original BattleForge where players had to build their decks with cards from boosters. With everyone playing with random cards, there are bound to be some unconventional strategies! Please sign-up in advance. 

 

• COMING SOON - Crystal Solid Defence - PvE Event - Starting 11.07.2025 until 27.07.2025
While we arent ready to reveal this event just yet, be sure to check back in on the 11th for a new PvE Event!

 

 

• Host your own tournament / event
Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers @Metagross31 or @Ultralord. We can help you out with various topics and are glad to discuss potential ideas. We can also sponsor the prize pool for your event. If you have a cool idea for a PvE event, or want to host a PvP tournament, please don't hesitate to reach out to us; we will gladly assist you.

 

• In Conclusion

That's all for this Community Update! We appreciate you taking the time to read through it.

As is tradition, we're including a scratch code as a small token of our appreciation for your support.
The code will reward you with a Fire booster: HEAT-LAVA-FIRE-CARD

This code is valid until August 1st, when we will bring you another Community Update.

We're always looking for ways to improve and value your feedback. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to share them with us. We'll be back next month with more updates on our ongoing projects and upcoming features.

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Archive
• Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide)  
• Overview Community Updates
• Community Update June 2025

The server-wide freezes that plagued the game during the first few days seem to be resolved. There was also an issue regarding Fire Wormlings causing extreme lag spikes, which has hopefully been fixed as well with our latest hotfix. While there are still reports coming in of crashes, lag spikes, desyncs and other issues, they seem to be mostly individual based at this point. 

We would like to ask for your help in further pinpointing these issues, so we can solve them as fast as possible.
To do so, please report bugs, freezes, crashes and weird interactions you come across. Let us know what you were doing when the issue happened, and please share your crash log data and replays. If you are experiencing a desync, please collect two different replays from players on the map, so we can investigate. The best way to do so, is through our Discord channels "report a bug" and "technical support". 

While we absolutely understand the frustration in regards to these issues, raging at the team is not productive, and highly demotivating during these stressful times. Please try to be a bit more understanding. We are all volunteers here, combining our work on Skylords Reborn with our other life responsibilities. We would love to hear your feedback and reports, but the way you phrase it matters a lot. Please keep that in mind. 

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

DOWNLOAD
You will also need to download:

Updater

Step by step:

1. Create a folder for the game
   Choose where you want the game to be installed (for example, inside Documents or Games).
   Create a new folder and name it SkylordsReborn.
2. Move the downloaded file
   Put the downloaded updater file into the SkylordsReborn folder you just created.
3. Install the game
   Double-click the updater to open it.
   The updater will automatically download and install everything needed—no extra steps required.
4. Start playing
   When the installation is finished, click Play in the updater to launch the game.

If you have any trouble, please leave a message on Discord: Technical Support or Forum: Technical Support

F.A.Q.
For general project questions please head over here.

• I have issues with installing/starting the game.

You are running into issues when installing or starting the game? We compiled a list of common technical issues people might face here. If none of that works, create a Technical Support Topic here (or find the solution in someone else's topic!). In your topic, please say what exactly doesn't work, and what you have tried so far. Please refrain from contacting staff members directly for your issues, and wait for a response to your support topic.

• Is this game also supported on Linux and MacOS?

We do not officially support both Linux and macOS yet. We will also not be able to add support for macOS in the future, as Apple has ended support for 32-bit applications (like BattleForge) since macOS Catalina. For Linux, we do plan to add better support in the future. Despite the lack of official support, some fans were already able to get the game running with Linux. You can find some tutorials from people who were able to get it running on our forums .

Please note that the installer will not function, and you will have to manually extract the client and the updater files to the same directory. If you want to give it a shot, please download the client above, and also download the updater by using the button below. 
 

Alternative Updater Script

For our Linux users who wish to install and update the game manually, we're grateful to one of our community members, @mx2, who has kindly provided an alternative installer and updater in the form of a bash script. To launch the game, you will need to add the "-online" argument, for example "wine Battleforge.exe -online".

Installer Script - Download
Updater Script - Download

• Recommended System Requirements

• CPU: Core i3 7400T / Ryzen 3 1200 (X86 compatible)
• RAM: at least 6GB
• OS: Windows 10 or higher.
• Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / ATI Radeon HD 7770 (Direct X 11 compatible)
• Disk Space: At least 14GB of free space.

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

• Patch Release: Primordial Fire

In our last Community Update we announced our first season, scheduled for a release in June. We are excited to share that our first season goes live today!

This is one of our biggest patches yet, so we have a extra long Community Update diving into all its additions, alongside the patch notes. 

In this year's player survey the number one request was for more reasons to login and play the game. Once the initial rush of excitement and progressing through achievements wears off the game provides the player little reason to continue past the 45 minute mark when they get their daily booster discount. Additionally, while more achievements are good, the issue is that once we hit a critical number of achievements they no longer funneled players towards the same content to make matchmaking easier, especially for campaign achievements. Our solution to these problems is a season system focused around 1 or 2 factions at a time with time-based challenges. 

The seasons system is based around approximately 30 challenges that the player will complete over a 4-month time period (in this case June 1st to September 30th). Here are all the rewards you will be able to earn during our first season!
 

These rewards are placed among our new season progression track. Completing challenges rewards points which are used for unlocking card, booster, and cosmetic rewards. Each challenge can be completed on either advanced or expert difficulty, with expert providing more points, allowing players of all skill levels to participate. Each season will have a few cards exclusive to the season (but which after the season ends will be available in boosters like normal) as well as a number of cosmetics. Here is the full progression track for Season 1:

Nearly every challenge has deckbuilding restrictions based on the season theme, encouraging players to try out a new faction for the season duration. Completing challenges rewards points which are used for unlocking card, booster, and cosmetic rewards. Each challenge can be completed on either advanced or expert difficulty, with expert providing more points, allowing players of all skill levels to participate. Each season will have a few cards exclusive to the season (but which after the season ends will be available in boosters like normal) as well as a number of cosmetics. We put the card and booster rewards early in the season progress to ensure that players who might not be able to play as much, or who are lacking the correct faction cards to do harder challenges, will still get access to the gameplay rewards while cosmetic rewards, including the season promo, are farther in the season progress.
 

We hope that this system will give new and old, highly active and semi-active players alike a reason to log in and keep playing. We intend seasons to be an ongoing feature with new content every 4 months. Given this is our first iteration, we expect that not everything will be perfect, and we are looking forward to hearing your feedback on how to improve the feature to make it a truly enjoyable experience for all types of players. 

To get started with Season 1, go to the new in-game icon shown above which opens the Seasons window.

• Infected Map of the Week - Map Modifiers (BETA RELEASE)

This patch also sees the anticipated (beta) release of Map Modifiers. 

Infected map modifiers was originally a player suggestion over 3 years ago which we loved but did not yet have the means to make happen. Since then, it has been one of our most anticipated internal features and we are glad to finally bring you the Beta release. Map modifiers are global effects which apply to the player or to the NPC enemies, often with significant gameplay changes. In the current Beta form, these modifiers infect one campaign map and each random PvE level with the same modifiers for a week. Similar to the existing Map of the Day this creates a new Infected Map of the Week feature. 

Infected maps are an opt-in feature, you will never be forced to play them. They are intended to provide endgame content for players whose skill level has outstripped the current expert experience while also providing twists on advanced maps for less skilled players. A player only needs to beat an infected map, either the chosen campaign map or its equivalent difficulty in random PvE, once per week to get the full reward. Modifiers provide season progress and Relics (see next section) when completed on either advanced or expert difficulty, with more rewards given when beating the infection on expert.

As part of these changes we have remade the map codex in-game to provide information related to the Map of the Day, the Infected Map of the Week, and PvP Happy Hours. Eventually, we plan to add a large collection of modifiers, both positive and negative, which players can freely apply to any match and game mode to provide near endless gameplay possibilities.

Please note this is a Beta release!
While we tried our best to test each modifier, we expect individual modifiers as well as certain modifier combinations to be unbalanced and we ask for your aid in helping us rebalance them! Additionally, we would love to hear your suggestions for future modifiers, positive and negative, that you think would be good additions to the system.

• Relics and the new Relic Shop

We already talked a bit about Relics in our last community update. Today we dive deeper into the new shop where you can spend your hard earned Relics. 

As part of our new Seasons and Infected map features we are introducing a new in-game currency called Relics. Relics can be earned from completing season challenges and beating the Infected Map of the Week. Once earned, Relics can be used in our new Relic Shop, which can be found in the Season's window.

In the Relic Shop players will be able to purchase exclusive cosmetics, NPC enemies, and cosmetic rewards from previous seasons. For now the only thing available in the Relic Shop are NPC bosses and buildings. Once purchased, these enemies can be found under a new "Enemies" tab in the deckbuilding menu. From there players can summon them freely in the Forge, allowing players to create epic battles or test specific strategies against the game's classic enemies. Eventually all NPC enemies will be available for purchase from the Relic shop. As already mentioned, cosmetic rewards - including the promo card from each season - will be available in the Relic Shop after that season concludes. This will allow players who miss a season to still purchase their favorite seasonal cosmetics. But be warned, it will be much easier to earn the cosmetics within a season than to purchase them all after a season concludes. Given that Relics are a new currency we expect to do some rebalancing as players start to earn and use them. 

Relics are intended as a currency which provides long-term progression to the game in a way that has currently been lacking. As part of this, we will be adding some expensive exclusive cosmetics to the Relic Shop which will act as a means for players to show off their veteran status. The first part of these exclusive rewards are a set of progressive borders which players will earn for every 50 Relics they spend. Each color has three levels marked by stars along the top and the colors directly correspond to the PvE and PvP rank progression in-game similar to our recent progressive banners which can be earned by speedrunning Unexpected Visitors.

Some people might question why we are adding a new currency instead of repurposing Gold. The reason for this is because we do not think Gold is a salvageable as a currency at this point. When we first released the game, we made the mistake of not giving gold a proper gold sink. Additionally, gold is an uncapped currency in the sense that players can play all day and continue to earn the same amount with neither a soft nor hard cap like has been built into BFP. It has now been 4.5 years since our official release and some players have accrued tens of millions of Gold pieces. We simply cannot balance Gold when we would have to account for these veteran players as well as new players who have no gold reserves. If we were to create a deep enough gold sink to allow veteran players to use up all their gold we would end up gatekeeping new and less active players from those features for years if not permanently. Given these issues, we determined it was better to start from scratch. 

• How Does It Work: Deckbuilding

In our YouTube series "How Does It Work" we dive into various topics that often raise questions.
So far, we’ve released a video on Void Power, the Root Network, a guide on how to install the game, and the BFP & Reward System. 
 

   

 

   

  

Another topic that often comes up is deckbuilding. Skylords Reborn can be overwhelming with its content and many expansions. In our latest video, we aim to provide a framework players can use to start building their own decks. 
 

 

• Team Changes

In July 2021, Dutchy joined our team as Discord Moderator, and got promoted to Global Moderator in September. In February 2022, he took over the role of lead moderator after Pascal left the team, a role he would continue to fill for years to come.

Now with a full-time job and a fiancé, Dutchy leaves the moderator team in the capable hands of Vultagx, who will take over the mantle of lead moderator going forward. Dutchy will remain in the team in the role of HR Coordinator, handling applications and onboarding of new staff members. 

We want to give a heartfelt thank you to both Dutchy and Vultagx for making sure Skylords Reborn is a fair experience for everyone. 

• Contribute to Skylords Reborn

Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 volunteers. We are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals. If you have a passion for gaming, programming, design, or marketing, we invite you to have a look at our open positions!
 

Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member.
 

• Events

In between our monthly Community Updates, we host various events and tournaments, so be sure to keep a close eye on the in-game event tab and the forum calendar to stay informed and not miss out on any exciting events!

Current events:
 

• NEW - The Skylords Reborn Spring Cup 2025 - 22.06.2025 at 15:30 CEST
Get ready for some PvP action! The Spring Cup is the second of four PvP tournaments happening this year. The tournament will be hosted and livestreamed by Ultralord. Everyone is welcome to join, please sign-up in advance.

 

• NEW - Battle of Tactics 9 - 13.06.2025
We postponed some of the events so you all can enjoin and focus the first week on the new Content of the Patch. However, get ready for a new Battle of Tactics once the dust has settled! More info soon!

 

• ENDED - A Fresh New Start - WINNER REVEAL 
This event will test your skill with the cards that we all start with! Beat the first single player campaign map “Encounters with Twilight” on advanced difficulty and win some great prizes! More information. 

 

• Host your own tournament / event
Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers @Metagross31 or @Ultralord. We can help you out with various topics and are glad to discuss potential ideas. We can also sponsor the prize pool for your event. If you have a cool idea for a PvE event, or want to host a PvP tournament, please don't hesitate to reach out to us, we will gladly assist you.

 

• In Conclusion

That's all for this Community Update! We appreciate you taking the time to read through it.

As is tradition, we're including a scratch code as a small token of our appreciation for your support.
The code will reward you with a general booster: FIRE-SEAS-ONIS-LIVE

This code is valid until July 1st, when we will bring you another Community Update.

We're always looking for ways to improve and value your feedback. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to share them with us. We'll be back next month with more updates on our ongoing projects and upcoming features.

You can also sign-up to our e-mail newsletter here.

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• Community Update May 2024

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

• Development Update

Since its release in 2020, Skylords Reborn has added a ton of new content and features to the original BattleForge. We overhauled the old micro-transaction economy, added quests and achievements, and implemented various balance changes and bugfixes. Being able to bring BattleForge back was our primary goal, and it was lovely to see players enjoying reliving nostalgia and being able to play their favorite game once more. 

However, part of BattleForge's DNA was the constant exploration and new experiences that come with a Trading Card Game / Multiplayer RTS. In June 2021, 6 months after the public release, we therefore announced we were starting development on completely new cards through our Rebirth edition, wanting to expand on the content the game was offering. Alongside balance changes and reworks, we started working on making sure each color combination was competitive and fun to play, with various options to choose from. We introduced a new enemy rPvE faction to play against, and the team introduced Reforging, as a way to keep the economy in check in the long run. 

The next step for Skylords Reborn was obvious but would not be easy; adding new campaign maps. The many moving parts proved a challenge, especially with the structure of a volunteer team. While work on the maps happened in the background, we explored other ways to keep players engaged throughout 2022 and 2023. We (and the community!) hosted a variety of events and tournaments for players to compete in. The team added new achievements, (promo) cards, and cosmetic rewards (banners, borders, Forges) to give players something to work towards. We also continued to take on quality-of-life feature requests like in-game drop locations that smoothened the play-experience, always carefully balancing our workload versus the enjoyment of the playerbase. 

2024 finally saw the release of new campaign maps, and to great reception! Players old and new checked them out, and we saw an increase in player activity during the months surrounding their release. While we do our best to release patches on a regular basis, many players had clearly been waiting for concrete new content to explore, and this was definitely a marketable event. Work on more campaign maps is already in development, and while we feel confidant you wont have to wait another 2 years for their release, it will still be a while before we can share more. 

Which brings us to the point of this trip down memory lane. The team behind Skylords Reborn is constantly working on new content, but the player-base consumes it at a rapid pace. Releasing a few new cards that cost months to complete, often results in players spending just a weekend or two to check out a patch, and then either returning to their daily grind, or getting bored and moving on to other games while waiting for the next patch. With some features taking quite some time to get to release, we started looking at ways to keep the player-base engaged while we work on more content like new campaign maps. After a lot of preparation, we think we have come up with a exciting way to experience Skylords Reborn, and make sure the game continues to evolve and feel alive, even in the downtime between patches.

Today we are excited to announce that Seasons are coming to Skylords Reborn!
 

Seasons combine everything we have learned during the years developing Skylords Reborn. They provide thematic challenges that players can tackle for cool rewards, which include cosmetics, Forges, boosters, and new cards! 

While season rewards will not contain only mono-colored cards, they will be tied to one or more of the various factions, which will also determine the special promo card that can be earned during the season. Our first season will be centered around the element of Fire, and we are excited to reveal its promo card: Sunderer! 

New timed exclusive cards
Players will also be able to earn 3 new cards, including additional charges for those cards spread out over the progression track. For our first season, those cards will be Fire Wormlings, Hellhound and Treasure Wagon. Those cards will be exclusive to the season for its duration, but will be made available in boosters after the season has concluded. However, these cards will be trade-able from the beginning, should players decide to do so. 
 

Challenges for all skill-levels
We have prepared a variety of challenges for players to explore, taking into account the differences in skill-level among our player-base. We have made sure players can pick and choose challenges without being locked into ones that aim to provide a challenge for our most experienced players. During the season, players will earn seasonal points by completing these challenges, which will unlock a variety of rewards in return. 

To prevent players from blasting through the season right away, these challenges will gradually be unlocked during the season. More challenges will automatically unlock throughout its four month duration, resulting in a new batch of fresh challenges.

New currency: Relics
With seasons, we are also introducing a new currency players can collect in addition to gold and BFP. Relics will be used to purchase certain rewards in a new Relic shop. Here, players can find special rewards, including seasonal content. They also act as a kind of insurance for players, covering past and future seasons. Let's say you don't participate in the first season but come back for Season 2. The relics mean you can purchase at least some of the Fire cosmetics you desire from the first season. Same for if you participate in Season 1 but not Season 2, the relics then allow you to grab some cosmetics you missed by not participating in that season. Relics will also be earnable outside of seasons, but more on that next month!

We feel its very important to find a good balance between giving players something rewarding to play towards, while also respecting their time and not lean into the FOMO-approach many games take these days. We will monitor feedback during the first season, and take this into account for future seasons.

F.A.Q.
How long will seasons last?
- Our current plans are for seasons to last 4 months. Our intention is for the next season to start soon after Season 1 has concluded. 

What is the difference between a Season and a large achievement like Force of Nature?
- Seasons bundle together various thematic challenges that players can choose to pursue. With an achievement like Force of Nature, we are forced to make a choice regarding difficulty; if we make it too easy, our veteran players rush through the challenge, but if its too hard, we lock out a large amount of the player-base. Seasons allow for a lot of flexibility, allowing for different challenges. Additionally, its timed nature pushes the community as a whole to play together and face these challenges together. 

Why are the new cards exclusive to the season?
- We feel its important for players to have exciting rewards to play towards. Many players have already accumulated an abundant amount of BFP, Gold, and boosters, making these lackluster rewards. We feel that by making the cards timed exclusives, that there is a nice balance between worthwhile rewards and general availability once the season is over. Additionally, similar to f.e. Promo Mana Wing, players can still decide to get the cards from other players, since the cards will not be trade-locked, if players decide to sell their rewards. 

Will seasons replace content patches?
- While seasons create a returning patch window every four months or so, they are not intended to replace general patch content. We are still going to add new content, features, and cards to the game, which are not tied to seasons. Our goal for seasons is to always have something to do in Skylords Reborn. 

Why do the challenges unlock in four stages, instead of all at once? 
- We do not want players to blast through four months of content at the very start of the season. Players might have felt they needed to do so to keep up, and get the rewards as soon as possible. By spreading out the challenges, we give players something to return to every month, which is very important to keep the game exciting and fresh, even while we are between patches.   

Do I need to complete every challenge of the season to earn rewards? 
- No. Challenges provide season points which will unlock seasonal rewards. The more points you have, the more rewards you get, but even a few points will already get you some Fire boosters and the new card Fire Wormlings. Promo Sunderer is meant as a special reward, and will be in the high-end of seasonal points required. 

What will the challenges and reward structure look like?
- We will share more about the seasonal rewards and challenges in the next community update. 

When will Season 1 start?
- We expect Season 1 to start in June, exact date to be announced. We will share more information in the next Community Update.

We hope you are as excited as we are about the new challenges Seasons will bring. Do you have any additional questions? Be sure to ask them in the comments below, and we'll make sure to update our F.A.Q. for the next Community Update. 

• New Card Reveal - Fire Wormlings

In the Community Update from March 2023, we shared our struggles with adding Fire Wormlings, a potential new archer-type unit for the Fire faction. Turns out that adding worms on walls is not an issue easily fixed, as it has now been over 2 years since we last mentioned the unit. 

People did like the idea of these small worms, so we decided to completely rework the unit, letting go of the restriction of them being units to put on walls. Today, we'd like to share the new card design for Fire Wormlings. Let's break down the card!

 

Worm Fire
Every 2.5 seconds, unit launches spittle at enemies that deal 67 damage to enemies in a 8m radius around its target, up to 100 in total. The affected area around the target will ignite for 10 seconds dealing 10 damage every second to enemy units.
 

Primal Resonance
Within a 30m radius of a Primordial unit, Fire Wormlings will deal 60% more damage. Does not trigger from other Fire Wormlings.

 

Earth Dive
While moving around unit takes 50% less damage and deals 30 damage to enemy units in target area, up to 120 in total. Affects ground targets only.

Design notes:

Two major issues facing Pure Fire's T2 are a lack of scaling and a lack of sustain. Fire Force helps with the sustain option, but it lacks good targets in Pure Fire T2. Scythe Fiends and Enforcer are good PvP cards but struggle in PvE. On the ranged side, Gladiatrix and Skyfire are good, but ultimately too fragile, especially for maps which require a robust T2. The parts of Fire's T2 functioning well are therefore its siege units and its damage spells. Given the upcoming season will strongly encourage playing Pure Fire, we wanted to take the opportunity to introduce a new PvE focused T2 unit which still fits Fire's core identity without being overly fragile. Enter Fire Wormlings.

Fire Wormlings are a 2-unit M-sized ranged squad. Their initial stats are mediocre at best, but each attack causes a damage over time area to be created, similar to Gemeye (). These burning areas stack, meaning that groups of Fire Wormlings can create highly destructive locations on the map similar to a Fire Emitter or a Mine. At the same time, the Wormlings move fairly quickly, allowing the player to use them for hit and run tactics. In addition to the burn effect and the normal worm earth dive, they have an effect which makes their damage scale around other Primordials. This makes for good synergy with Nature in T2, specifically Deep Ones, and allows for any leftover Wormlings to scale well into T3 when used alongside the new Hellhound card.

Fire Wormlings will be part of the seasonal rewards of Season 1. 
 

• Skylords Mega Quiz

Players who have participated in one of Ultralords many events, know he loves asking quiz questions on his live streams. Find out what happens if we give him access to a bunch of Prizes and the official Skylords Twitch channel! 

Join us on May 3rd for the Skylords Mega Quiz, live on Twitch! 

Test your knowledge of BattleForge and win prizes while doing so! There are a bunch of boosters and BFP up for grabs, so even if you don't win the whole thing, chances are you are walking away with a good time and something to show for it!

We hope to see you there!

 

• Team Changes

Our video-editor Ultralord, responsible for our various trailers and card spotlights, is no stranger to events. Even before joining the team as video-editor he already hosted a variety of community events. After reassurance that he will be able to continue hosting wacky events, even in an official role, he has now formally joined the team as event manager. Nothing will change for the players, but we are glad to finally be able to credit him with the role! 

The marketeer role for Skylords Reborn has been infamously challenging to fill, and unfortunately RainZy did not beat the odds. Due to a long period of inactivity, we have decided to restart our search. RainZy has been removed from the team. 

• Contribute to Skylords Reborn

Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 volunteers. We are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals. If you have a passion for gaming, programming, design, or marketing, we invite you to have a look at our open positions!
 

Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member.
 

• Events

In between our monthly Community Updates, we host various events and tournaments, so be sure to keep a close eye on the in-game event tab and the forum calendar to stay informed and not miss out on any exciting events!

Current events:

• STARTING SOON - Skylords Reborn Mega Quiz - 03.05.2025 at 20:00 CEST
Win prizes with your knowledge of BattleForge! Join the Mega Quiz live on Twitch for a chance to win BFP and boosters. Come hang out with us, win some prizes, and perhaps learn a new thing or two! More information. 

 

• NEW - A Fresh New Start - 02.05.2025 
This event will test your skill with the cards that we all start with! Beat the first single player campaign map “Encounters with Twilight” on advanced difficulty and win some great prizes! More information. 
 

• NEW - Legacy Tournament - 11.05.2025 17:30
Travel back to 2013 in this Legacy PvP tournament! Played on our Legacy server, experience BattleForge before the Skylords Reborn team added any balance changes. The tournament will be streamed live on Twitch. Please sign-up in advance. 

 

• Host your own tournament / event
Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers @Metagross31 or @Ultralord. We can help you out with various topics and are glad to discuss potential ideas. We can also sponsor the prize pool for your event. If you have a cool idea for a PvE event, or want to host a PvP tournament, please don't hesitate to reach out to us, we will gladly assist you.

 

• In Conclusion

That's all for this Community Update! We appreciate you taking the time to read through it.

As is tradition, we're including a scratch code as a small token of our appreciation for your support.
The code will reward you with a general booster: JOIN-MEGA-QUIZ-MAY3

This code is valid until June 1st, when we will bring you another Community Update.

We're always looking for ways to improve and value your feedback. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to share them with us. We'll be back next month with more updates on our ongoing projects and upcoming features.

You can also sign-up to our e-mail newsletter here.

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• Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide)  
• Overview Community Updates
• Community Update April 2024

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

• Skylords ReBOOM

Today, we have a very exciting announcement to share! After introducing new cards, campaign maps, features, and even new game modes, we feel it's time to branch out even further. Please check out the trailer below.

That’s right—Skylords Reborn is entering the first-person shooter genre! Join Bandit Sniper Guy on his adventure as he faces familiar foes from the world of Nyn. While we will continue releasing new content for Skylords Reborn, the majority of our development focus will shift to Skylords ReBOOM. We hope you'll join us on the battlefield!

Pre-orders are up now, so get your copy!  

• New Card Reveal - Hellhound

Back in 2023 we held a card-creation contest, inviting the community to share their ideas for potential new cards, which were then judged anonymously by our designers. While many great designs were submitted—some of which have already made their way into the game, like Energy Core and Gate of Akylos—we might have saved the best for last. The highest-rated entry was Hellhound, an upcoming L-sized unit for Pure Fire. Let’s break down the card!

 

Magma Armor
Takes 25% less damage from ranged and magical attacks. After 5 seconds in combat, damage reduction increases to 40% less damage, and after 10 seconds in combat, the damage reduction increases to 60% less damage from ranged and magical attacks. Resets after 10 seconds out of combat.
 

Pyroclastic Flow
Cause Magma Armor to explode, dealing 660 damage to enemies in a 15m radius, up to 1980 damage in total. Magma Armor is reset to 25%. Requires Magma Armor to be fully charged. Reusable every 20 seconds.

Design notes:
Hellhound was the overall winner of our first ever Card Creation Contest, where we asked members of the community to submit ideas for new cards. The original design has seen little change since then. Hellhound is an L-sized T3 Pure Fire unit. Similar to Moloch, it has resistance to ranged and magical damage, though in Hellhound's case this resistance begins at 25% and scales up to 60% the longer the unit remains in combat. Once the armor fully scales, Hellhound can activate Pyroclastic Flow, exploding its Magma Armor to deal up to 1980 damage to nearby enemies.

The general concept behind Hellhound is to have a Fire unit that slowly scales in durability as it fights, but which can then transform that durability into damage. This will allow Hellhound to quickly clean up camp remnants, including flying units, using Pyroclastic Flow when Magma Armor is no longer needed.

Hellhound will be released in a future content patch—details to be announced!

 

• Art Spotlight - Hellhound

Hellhound started out as a trial task for Psyagita, who was interested in joining our art team. Unfortunately, they ended up being too busy to continue, but were kind enough to let us move forward with the work. We dove into our archives and found some early sketches from the art process!

 

 

Psyagita first provided us with these three sketches. Our lead artist at the time, Tweeto, had this to say about the initial batch:

"I think I prefer the 3/4 view of the face over the profile version and am interested in seeing a more dramatic and imposing angle of the creature itself. Could you try sketching it from a lower perspective to highlight its intimidating presence?" 

 

Psyagita came back with two new attempts. We preferred the second one, as it had more of an action pose—which tends to look better in a card frame. Work then began on finalizing the pose and adding color.

  

 

At this point, Psyagita unfortunately became too busy, so our artist SpiritAlpha took over the task. Since we were working on the model simultaneously, we made a few adjustments that were reflected in the updated artwork—most notably, a new color for the flames and fur.

 

 

The piece was coming along nicely, but we felt it stood out a bit from other Fire cards, particularly due to the grey background. We also wanted to make sure the card felt cohesive in the deck bar alongside other Fire cards, so we looked to other units in the faction for inspiration.

 

 

By adding purple elements to the cave background, the artwork popped more and felt more in line with the rest of the Fire faction. After several rounds of feedback with our art group, we finalized the artwork for Hellhound.

 

 

We’re very happy with the result and hope you’re excited to play the card yourself in the future! A big thank you to Psyagita for laying the groundwork for this unique piece, and to SpiritAlpha for bringing it across the finish line!

 

• Team Changes

We’re excited to announce a new addition to our art team—Elkondo has joined us as a 2D artist! We hope you'll get to see some of his card artwork in the near future. Welcome, Elkondo!

We’re also happy to introduce Sabri as our new audio designer. Sabri has joined the team to support various audio-related tasks, including creating the sound effects for the recently released card Spirit Gate. We really appreciate the help!

Meanwhile, Prof_Emezy has stepped down from the team. He contributed as a Discord Moderator, Proofreader, and supported some exploratory work in marketing. We'd like to thank him for his efforts and dedication during his time with the team.

• Contribute to Skylords Reborn

Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 volunteers. We are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals. If you have a passion for gaming, programming, design, or marketing, we invite you to have a look at our open positions!
 

Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member.
 

• Events

In between our monthly Community Updates, we host various events and tournaments, so be sure to keep a close eye on the in-game event tab and the forum calendar to stay informed and not miss out on any exciting events!
 

Current events:

• NEW - Rookie Tournament - 12.04.2025 at 16:00 CET
Interested in PvP, but intimidated by the veterans? We got you covered! Join this Rookie tournament, where only rookies can join and there are prizes for all participants! The tournament will be hosted and livestreamed by Ultralord, please sign-up in advance. 

 

• NEW - Battle of Tactics #8: Maximum Support - Until 13.04.2025 23:59 CEST
Battle of Tactics returns in 2025 with another tricking and exciting challenge! Play a modified version of the map Oracle, including a special pre-game twist, allowing you to scale the difficulty up and down! More information. 

 

• COMING UP - Skylords Reborn Mega Quiz - 03-05-2025 at 20:00 CEST
Win prizes with your knowledge of BattleForge! Join the Mega Quiz live on Twitch for a chance to win BFP and boosters. Come hang out with us, win some prizes, and perhaps learn a new thing or two! More information. 

 

• FINISHED - Skylords Reborn Winter Cup
The first PvP tournament has been completed! You can rewatch the action with commentary by Ultralord and special guest Toggy, with this highlight video. 

 

• Host your own tournament / event
Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. We can help you out with various topics and are glad to discuss potential ideas. We can also sponsor the prize pool for your event. If you have a cool idea for a PvE event, or want to host a PvP tournament, please don't hesitate to reach out to us, we will gladly assist you.

 

• In Conclusion

That's all for this Community Update! We appreciate you taking the time to read through it.

As is tradition, we're including a scratch code as a small token of our appreciation for your support.
The code will reward you with a general booster: WARM-FIRE-CATS-PURR

This code is valid until May 1st, when we will bring you another Community Update.

We're always looking for ways to improve and value your feedback. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to share them with us. We'll be back next month with more updates on our ongoing projects and upcoming features.

You can also sign-up to our e-mail newsletter here.

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• Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide)  
• Overview Community Updates
• Community Update March 2024

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

• Patch announcement

Great news Skylords! We will release a new content patch this weekend, introducing some exciting new cards, QoL fixes and balance changes! 

This patch will contain 4 new cards, two of which have been revealed in previous Community Updates, while the other two are a surprise release. Get ready to collect the long-awaited "Gate of Akylos", the first Amii building "Power Shrine", a new teleport spell "Spirit Gate" and a spawn building for the bandit faction; "Bandit Hut". 

These new cards have been long in the making, and we hope you are looking forward to the new options they will bring. 

Besides new cards, this patch also includes major reworks to several cards that were underperforming in PvE, such as Ice Shield Tower, Mountaineer, Strikers, and Altar of Nihil. 

We have also included some map changes, most importantly a rework to the map Empire. We also made a lot of miscellaneous changes. These range from small things such as incorrect map outcries to larger, more game-breaking issues like Jorne's allies blocking his path and thus blocking the game from advancing. A rework of the magical devices and the ritual at the end should also streamline the experience.

Lastly, this patch includes one of the most frequently requested features since release: easier distinction between affinities. Affinity differences are now highlighted in each card's description. Each card's specific affinity now has colored text whose color corresponds to its affinity element. These sections of highlighted text consist only of those words and abilities which are different than the ability of its alternative affinity card. Players who hover over cards with affinities in-game will immediately notice the changes. 

Head over to the patch notes for a full list of the changes and additions to the game. 

This patch will release on March 2nd. 
 

• New Featured Community Map: Thirsty Journey Home

While work continues on more official campaign maps, the public map editor continues to deliver new content. The new community map "Thirsty Journey Home" is the latest addition to our featured community maps. Featured community maps are high quality maps that count toward your daily playtime/rewards. This latest addition was created by one of our members on the map team, R4bitF00t, as a personal side-project. 

Thirsty Journey Home introduces Bren, a knight from Lyr who got lost on his way home. He now finds himself in a desert populated by bandits, while the Stonekin are on his trail. Can you help him find his way home?

You can find this new map in the Community Map section on the World Map. Look for the featured map Thirsty Journey Home, marked by a star.
Please note: this map will release alongside the new patch on March 2nd. There will also be a release event to win one of the new cards!

From the creator:
I really liked Mo's story in the original game, and wanted to make another character that players could enjoy. I hope I succeeded, and Bren will become another small part of Skylords Reborn you will cherish ^^ This is not the end of his story though; I plan to share his story over a 3 map odyssey. I hope you will continue to help Bren in his journey when the time comes.

- R4bitF00t

• Marketing Questionnaire

• In Conclusion

That's all for this Community Update! We appreciate you taking the time to read through it.

As is tradition, we're including a scratch code as a small token of our appreciation for your support.
The code will reward you with a general booster: VOID-GATE-WARP-HOME

This code is valid until April 1st, when we will bring you another Community Update.

We're always looking for ways to improve and value your feedback. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to share them with us. We'll be back next month with more updates on our ongoing projects and upcoming features.

You can also sign-up to our e-mail newsletter here.

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• Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide)  
• Overview Community Updates
• Community Update February 2024

A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

• Feedback Survey

We'd like to start this community update with a big thank you for providing your feedback through our Yearly Feedback Survey. Over 1.400 Skylords took the time to share their thoughts with us, which is much appreciated! 

Just like last year, we have gathered all the responses and condensed them into a brief presentation. While this presentation mostly focused on graphs and general data, rest assured we read your personal comments and will take your feedback from open-questions into account as well. 

• An update on Gate of Akylos

Exactly a year ago, we announced the exciting new Lost Souls card Gate of Akylos. Sadly, we ran into technical limitations and underestimated the amount of work this card would take to implement. The card was put aside in favor of focusing on other content. We recently picked the card up again, and figured out a way to make the card work as intended. We are currently testing out this iteration, and things are looking hopeful for its release sometime in the future. 

 

Gate of Akylos is a powerful tier 3 shrine, making use of our hybrid orb to allow deck diversity among Lost Soul decks looking to play it. You can check out the original card reveal here. We are excited to bring this new card to the faction, and want to thank you for your patience!

 

 

 

• New Card Reveal - Treasure Wagon

Today we have a very unique new card to reveal. Treasure Wagon gives you control of one of the wagons from the legendary Treasure Fleet. How will you use this card to your advantage? Let's break down the card!

Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, art, numbers and effects might still change before release. 

 

Fool's Gold
When the unit is destroyed, 2 Thugs will spawn out of its remains.

Relentless Stomp
Tramples small and medium units. Additionally, Treasure Wagon cannot be slowed by unit collision.

Resilient
This unit takes 50% less damage.

Slow
This unit has Slow movement.

Avarice - Mode-Change 20p
The lure of immense wealth attracts the attention of every hostile unit within a 20m radius around Treasure Wagon. Affected enemy units within this aura will then be forced to only attack the caster and cannot be controlled any more. Reusable every 3 seconds.

Design notes:

Treasure Wagons are an icon part of the campaign and we wanted to find a way to put them in the player's hands. While legendary cards are already hard to design, Treasure Wagon suffers from the additional issue that it has no attack. This required us to get creative to develop a viable unit design for a non-attacking XL-unit in T2. Taking inspiration from the lore, we gave it a taunt, Avarice, which allows Treasure Wagon to function as a tank unit, drawing fire away from the player's offensive units. Taking more inspiration from the lore, we made it spawn 2 Thugs on death, as the Wagons were used to hide Fire units during the Treasure Fleet campaign mission.

Treasure Wagon will release in an upcoming content patch, date to be announced. 

 

• Team changes

Our team is constantly evolving. As new Skylords join the team, old ones move on to other projects or life responsibilities. We would like to thank Hirooo (card implementation/faction designer), Runeseeker (marketing), Linkz (moderator) and Pierakor (tool development) for their contributions during their time with us. 

With our team spanning members across the globe, developments in the world, such as the war in Israel, have sadly also impacted our team. While we do not know if something has happened, or if he is simply focused on other priorities, after a year of radio silence we unfortunately have to accept that Tweeto has left the team. Tweeto has been with us since Community Update #1 and was responsible for the artwork of many Rebirth-edition cards, such as Coat of Protection, Burning Spears, and most cards from the Amii faction. He also inspired and supported our other artist SpiritAlpha, offering advice and encouragement. We are extremely grateful for his work on the game, and hope we will hear from him again. Thank you for everything Tweeto, we all hope you are safe.  

In happier news, we are happy to welcome RainZy as our new outreach coordinator / brand manager. He will focus on reaching new players to grow our playerbase. Meanwhile, Prof_Amezy will take over our social media, working together to inform our current playerbase and grow our channels. 

A warm welcome to both of you! 

 

• Contribute to Skylords Reborn

Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 volunteers. We are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals. If you have a passion for gaming, programming, design, or marketing, we invite you to have a look at our open positions!
 

Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member.
 

• Events

In between our monthly Community Updates, we host various events and tournaments, so be sure to keep a close eye on the in-game event tab and the forum calendar to stay informed and not miss out on any exciting events!
 

Current events:

• LAST DAY - Save Christmas - Until February 2nd
While Christmas is over, our event is not. Complete the 3 Christmas-themed community maps to earn yourself a promo Frost Mage. Be sure to do so before the 2nd of February, or you will have to wait till the holidays of 2025 to have another shot.  

 

 • FINISHED - PvP AI programming contest - Final Showdown
We have a winner! Find out which Bot won in our most recent PVP tournament that featured community-made bots facing off for glory. You can rewatch the stream, which had co-host Toggy make a special guest appearance. More information.

 

• Please fill in our short PvP-bots Feedback survey
We would like to ask you all to answer a short feedback survey about the PvP-bots-contest. Please, also fill it out even if you did not submit a bot for the final showdown. We want to learn what we could have improved! Take the survey here. 
 

• Host your own tournament / event
Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. We can help you out with various topics and are glad to discuss potential ideas. We can also sponsor the prize pool for your event. If you have a cool idea for a PvE event, or want to host a PvP tournament, please don't hesitate to reach out to us, we will gladly assist you.

 

• In Conclusion

That's all for this Community Update! We appreciate you taking the time to read through it.

As is tradition, we're including a scratch code as a small token of our appreciation for your support.
The code will reward you with a general booster: LOOT-SHIP-GRAB-GOLD

This code is valid until March 1st, when we will bring you another Community Update.

We're always looking for ways to improve and value your feedback. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please don't hesitate to share them with us. We'll be back next month with more updates on our ongoing projects and upcoming features.

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• Community Update January 2024

A new year; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

• Happy New Year and Anniversary

Happy New Year Skylords! We hope you had a lovely holiday, and wish you all the best for 2025. 

December 18th marked the 4th Anniversary of Skylords Reborn, and we released a patch to celebrate the occasion. Be sure to check it out, because you can earn yourself a promo Frost Mage until February 2nd.  

We would also like to remind you that our feedback survey will close on January 5th. Because Skylords Reborn is a community project, we want to understand what our players enjoy and what could be improved. Your input is vital to helping us refine the game and expand our player base. 

We hope you’ll take a moment to answer the survey questions, as your responses will directly shape our development priorities. As a thank-you, everyone who completes the survey will receive two boosters. Your feedback will be anonymous.

In this Community Update, we are taking a look back at 2024, and share our plans for 2025. We have a lot to cover, so let's get started!

 

• Looking back at 2024

2024 was a great year for Skylords Reborn, and saw the release of new campaign maps, something players have been asking for since the start of the revival. But a lot of other things happened this year, and we'd like to take a moment to reflect upon 2024, and go over our releases. 

 

January 27th - 2024

 

Our first content patch for 2024 introduced two new cards; Tectonic Shift and Lost Mana Beast. We also added a new rPvE difficulty and made changes to the existing difficulty system to align it better with the campaign map difficulties. We combined this change with our rework of the campaign reward system with individualized upgrades, gold rewards overtime, and gold rewards on-loss. We added tutorial missions, where players receive rewards for simple missions meant to explain some of the harder to understand mechanics of BattleForge. Lastly, the anticipated Lost Soul rework was released, containing a large number of buffs to well-designed but underperforming cards.

We also released some quality-of-life features, like buttons in the Forge to pause, speed up and slowdown, made a change to the neutral unit exclusion rule, and improved responsiveness of the game. 

 

  

 

Looking back
Tectonic Shift was a successful card release, with a healthy playrate in both PvP and PvE. It created its own archetypes and is a card which you can build a deck around. Lost Manabeast was a specific failure for two reasons, one, because it accidentally released with -25% less damage than intended, and, two, because the ability restriction was too high. We buffed the card to fix both these issues, but Lost Souls in general is in an odd spot. We changed it to function as desired, but it is too high-micro for the average player, so we likely need further changes to the faction. Our changes to the rPvE difficulty system were successful in our view, providing a meaningful bridge between the old level 9 and level 10 content.

 

April 27th - 2024

 

In April, we released the highly anticipated new card Bedrock. This patch also saw the release of Map of the Day, and the introduction of the Rebirth Booster, containing only cards from the Skylords Reborn Rebirth edition, earnable through winning multiple Maps of the Day.  

We also made a few balance changes to underperforming Twilight cards, released some quality-of-life changes requested by the community, and fixed some bugs. 

  

 

Looking back
Rebirth boosters have been a success both in terms of successfully speeding up the cost reduction of new cards and in driving player engagement with Map of the Day. Bedrock is a well-designed card, but we ran into major issues with the ability not showing up when you have multiple selected. The stone turtle is a cautionary tale about the real limits we have reverse engineering the game because we have not been able to fix the problem where the game thinks Bedrock's ability is a building ability, and it is not clear when we will be able to do so. 

 

June 29th - 2024

 

We knew that our new campaign maps would take the spotlight of our next patch, so we decided to release a patch in June to give the new cards Icespike and Swarm some time to shine. We also implemented a large amount of balance changes, mostly to tier 3 cards, in preparation for the release of the new campaign maps. 

 

  

 

Looking back
Swarm and Icespike are both functioning as intended and are unlikely to see changes anytime soon. We would regard them as successful card releases filling important gaps in their respective factions. 

 

 

September 21st - 2024

 

Years in the making, September finally saw the release of two new campaign maps; Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle. There was a large focus on the Amii faction, and four new cards were released; Amii Sentinel, Energy Core, Skydancer and the long requested Umbabwe. Battle Arena, a PvP mode which had been in development for a long time, was also released into the Sparring Grounds with 2vs2 and 3vs3 modes.

 

We also implemented new voice lines, both for the new campaign maps and some of the new cards. To round out the patch, we added new achievements (one awarding a new Lost Souls-themed Forge), and another batch of balance changes, including a rework to Amii Monument, the topic of many discussions and heated arguments over the years. We also released the Legacy server, where players can experience BattleForge without balance changes and new cards added by the Skylords Reborn team.

 

    

 

 

Looking back
This was arguably our biggest patch yet, and players noticed. Player numbers have gone up since its release, and reception to the maps has been very positive. While we purposefully made the new maps harder than some existing maps, we likely made UV's advanced difficulty too hard. We also noticed that some players would play UV over a dozen times and still not understand the mechanics, so it gave us a lot to think about in regards to designing new maps and how complex we are able to make them without causing issues among players, especially because we only have English voice lines. The new cards were mostly successful, with a few follow-up tweaks planned for Energy Core. 

 

October 27th - 2024

While writing this Community Update I had to double check if those dates are correct, but indeed; one month after our biggest patch yet, we released another patch containing 2 new cards and a new promo card. The new Amii card Simulacrum wasn't quite ready for release in our Echoes of the Amii patch, but we were able to release him shortly after. We also added Twilight Archers, a simple but effective addition to the Twilight faction.

But the main focus for this patch was our Halloween event. Because of the positive response to our previous events, we decided to do something special this year, and introduced a Halloween-themed promo card: Jorne, earnable by playing a special Halloween version of King of the Giants map. If you missed out on this promo, rest assured that you will have another shot next Halloween.

      

 

Looking back
Twilight Archers are working as intended as a PvP card, and will not see PvE adjustments, though they may see some indirect buffs in PvE via other upcoming changes to the Twilight faction. Simulacrum is a bit underpowered right now and it will receive some mild buffs in the future. While we try to get things right from the start, balancing a kite-unit correctly on the first attempt is rather difficult. We as a team have enjoyed the Halloween event tradition that happened organically and were glad to offer a promo this year.

 

December 22th - 2024

Closing out the year we had another holiday-themed event, covering not one, but three maps. On these Christmas-themed maps, players faced off against the Shadow faction to save the presents, elves and Santa himself. Doing so rewarded them with a promo Frost Mage.

While not exactly new maps, player feedback has been very positive on our seasonal overhauls of familiar campaign maps. 

       

Looking back
While players seem to enjoy the 2 and 4 player maps, we have received feedback that the map Christmas Fleet is too hard. While we feel a promo should warrant a challenge, especially in a community that knows the ins-and-outs of Skylords through the years, we will take this feedback into account to try and make sure future time-based rewards are available for all skill levels. The maps will also likely see minor tweaks before the event ends, as it was our first time using Shadow units and some of them were not fully complete or tested by the time we had to release the map. 

 

What else happened in 2024

 

Besides a steady stream of content releases, a lot of work went into other projects as well. 

• Our Map Designer R4bitf00t released a Map Editor tutorial, making it easier for players to get started creating their own maps. 
• We shared an interview with the map department regarding the creation of the new campaign maps. 

• We released a Deep Dive document for Twilight, sharing insight into the faction and its development going forward.

• Players started working on developing PvP bots to face off against each other, and perhaps in the future against players as a sparring partner.

• We had some major struggles with Anti-Virus programs flagging Skylords Reborn as unsafe. After a lot of hard work, most issues are now resolved.

• We worked with volunteers outside of the staff who lend their voice to implement new voice-lines into the game.

• We released our yearly Feedback survey to gather feedback about the state of the game, and what players enjoy or dislike about Skylords Reborn.

• Ultralord hosted the Seven Strategy Showdown, the biggest event series to-date, with 7 great community events for players to enjoy. 

• We spend a lot of time on our official YouTube channel, releasing trailers, card spotlights, and the how-does-it-work series. 

 

Looking back
2024 was an exciting year for us, with the milestone of releasing our first campaign maps as the absolute highlight. It was lovely to see the buzz in the community, and see many old faces return to check out the new additions. Our card output was also higher than ever before, and there was always something to do or explore in the game, be it an event, a new card, or a new game mode. 2024 proved that Skylords Reborn is alive and well, and with 2025 marking the year where this revival project will outrun the original BattleForge, we are looking ahead to a bright future. 

 

• Looking ahead at 2025

We consider 2024 largely a success for Skylords Reborn. Many players managed to find the project again, either for the first time, or to check out the new campaign maps and content we released over the years. You have also shared constructive feedback and kind words with us through the survey, and we intend to continue upon the legacy of BattleForge in 2025. While we won't go into much detail yet, here are some things you can expect in 2025. 

 

New Campaign maps

While players had to wait years to see Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle, the waiting time wont be as long for our next batch of new maps. We have multiple new maps in development, and hope to release two of them in the first half of 2025. We will take the feedback and lessons we learned to provide great content to enjoy for players from all skill levels. 

 

 

New Cards

 

We have multiple new cards in various stages of development, and it won't be long before you get to experience them first hand. We currently expect the number of new card releases to be similar to 2024, and have some exciting cards on the way. 

 

 

 

Balance Changes

 

In 2024 we made the controversial decision to change Amii monument. While we do not enjoy nerfing cards players like, we do so because we think it is the best choice for the game as a whole. As mentioned in our explanation of change, we think that the time of major nerfs is now at an end, and we as a team commit to no further nerfs on the scale of Amii Monument or the previous Batariel nerf from 2 years ago to existing cards going forward.

Instead, we intend to continue our work on making lesser played cards viable, and we have our eyes set on the Twilight faction. With changes focused on making more interesting use of the faction "Transform" ability, we hope to give players more incentives to play faction cards, instead of merely combining the best cards Nature and Fire have to offer. 

 

 

Map Modifiers

 

Originally intended for 2024 (to the point of even being mentioned in the looking ahead of that year), map modifiers are still in the works. Modifiers add unique twists and challenges for players to explore. We are currently finalizing a beta roll-out of the feature, intended on gathering important feedback from our players. For starters, random maps will get infected with an elemental modifier for a week.

 

We see tremendous potential in map modifiers in regards to replayability of the game.

 

And more!

 

As always, we will use the monthly community update to keep you informed about our work behind the scenes, with some nice surprises along the way. Be sure to check in every 1st of the month for the latest news about Skylords Reborn, and we hope you will enjoy what we have in store for 2025!

 

 

• New Card Reveal - Power Shrine

Now for something more concrete! To start out the year we have an exciting card reveal for you. We will save you the technical details, but after a lot of trial and error, we have finally figured out how to make Amii buildings happen. For our first Amii building, we decided to create a new Shrine card. Lets take a look at Power Shrine!

Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, art, numbers and effects might still change before release. 

Grasp the Void
Activate to reverse the flow of power in the world temporarily. The next 3 cards each friendly player uses, and the next card each enemy player uses, will use void power to fulfill the card's power cost. Lasts for 30 seconds. Has a 60 seconds cool-down after the building was built. Reusable every 60 seconds.

This ability prioritizes void power, but if there is not sufficient void power to meet the card's power cost it will take the remainder from the normal power pool. If there is not enough combined power in the void and normal power pools to fulfill the card's power cost, it will be unable to be used as normal.

Design notes:
Every since we nerfed Shrine of War to require 2 Fire orbs, we have been looking to add a new void return option for rainbow decks. With Amii buildings now possible, that option became available via an interesting discovery that we could let the player use void power as if it were normal power. Power Shrine is an interesting twist on the normal void shrine because it allows the player to play 3 cards from their void power every 60 seconds. This means that it scales as the player's tier increases because cards generally cost more the higher their tier. This built-in scaling also allowed us to move Power Shrine down into T2, as three T2 cards every 60 seconds is not necessarily efficient given the high bound power cost, but it could be in a focused enough deck where players carefully determine their next 3 card choices given the unique power stipulation Power Shrine offers, especially in a team environment. 

Power Shrine is scheduled to release alongside our next content patch, date to be announced. 

 

• Clarification and modifications to the Global Rules

We have made some adjustments to our Global Rules, which apply both in-game and on our Discord and Forum. While it is commonly known that Skylords Reborn has a strict no-multiaccounting policy, there has been some confusion about our rules in regards to uneven trading and gifting. We have added some elaboration on these topics to the rules. We have also changed or removed some sections that were no longer relevant (for example, in regards to reputation on the Forum), and expanded upon communication and privacy-handling. You can read the full rules here. 

Should you have any questions regarding these rules, please don't hesitate to contact our moderators. 

 

• Team changes and Contribute to Skylords Reborn

We had a bunch of lovely people joining as volunteers this year! The following Skylords joined in 2024:

ElementG as Tech-artist
Bergerb as Map Designer
Vrizz as Testing Coordinator
Chibiterasu as Card Implementor (rejoined)
TwilightPrincess as Card Implementor
Prof_Amezy as Discord Moderator (trial)

But it would be unfair to not also give a shout-out to the members who left the team during 2024: 
Minashigo Hiko left as Event manager.
Volin left as Map Tester Coordinator
Vrizz Left as Testing Coordinator
Noah left as Audio Editor

Thank you all for your work for the project! 

Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 volunteers. We are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals. If you have a passion for gaming, programming, design, or marketing, we invite you to have a look at our open positions!

 

Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member.

 

• Events

In between our monthly Community Updates, we host various events and tournaments, so be sure to keep a close eye on the in-game event tab and the forum calendar to stay informed and not miss out on any exciting events!
 

Current events:

• NEW - Save Christmas - Until February 2nd
While Christmas is over, our event is not. Complete the 3 Christmas-themed community maps to earn yourself a promo Frost Mage. Be sure to do so before the 2nd of February, or you will have to wait till the holidays of 2025 to have another shot.  

 

 • CLOSING SOON - PvP AI programming contest - Until January 5th
Players have until Sunday, 5 January 2025 at 23:59 to work on their bots. By then, please send the version of your bot, which you want to participate with, to @Metagross31. either via DM in the forums or via Discord. More information.

 

 • NEW - PvP AI programming contest - Final Showdown
Get ready for the AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! More information.

 

• Host your own tournament / event
Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. We can help you out with various topics and are glad to discuss potential ideas. We can also sponsor the prize pool for your event. If you have a cool idea for a PvE event, or want to host a PvP tournament, please don't hesitate to reach out to us, we will gladly assist you.