BoxIngJester

HHHHHHYYYYYPPPPPEEEEEE

Wish I knew how to PvP 😅 Also will be probably away on 20th, so anyways, will here supporting on the sidelines.

Fuckin awesome - HYPE / HYPE / HYPEEEEE !!!!! Lets roll and find out who is the king of the Forge ! 

Hello fellow Skyladies and Skylords!
It has been a very long time, but we are finally back with a new PvP tournament!

Tournament Date
On Sunday 20.08.23 starting at 2:00 p.m. CEST (Berlin time).


Format
The tournament will be played as a 1on1, Best of 3, double elimination tournament, meaning if you lose a set, you move to the lower bracket and can still make the finals! Grand finals will have a bracket reset, meaning the player coming from the lower bracket has to win two sets against the finalist to win the tournament.


Prize Pool
Participation Reward
Playing at least two rounds in the tournaments will earn you 1 General Booster, even if you lost both rounds!
Ranking Rewards
• 1st place                          8 General Booster packs + 1500 BFP
• 2nd place                         7 General Booster packs
• 3rd place                          6 General Booster packs
• 4th place                          5 General Booster packs
• 5th place                          4 General Booster packs
• 6th-8th place                   3 General Booster packs
Winning Rewards
For each set you win, you will get 1 additional General Booster (limited to up to 3 per person).
Random rewards    
Additionally, there will be a pool consisting of all PvP cards from the Rebirth edition, which will be randomly distributed between all participants!

 

Organization and sign-up
The tournament brackets will be on Challonge, so register and join the tournament there using the button below. Please sign up in advance!

Please use your in game account name to make communication and finding your enemy easier.
In case of problems, contact @4esan4o95 (ingame name: BoxIngJester) or one of the mods via Discord or ingame.


Stream
A live stream covering the tournament will take place on Eirias' channel on YouTube. Streaming will start around 13:45 p.m. CEST (Berlin time). We will use the stream to communicate with the players, so be sure to join the stream to be notified of last minute updates. Everyone is welcome to hang out and watch the action as well!


Rules (read this!)
• Disconnection during a game results in a default loss. If both sides agree, it is possible to have a remake.
• Not showing up to your match after 15 minutes results in a default loss. The plan is to play a round of matches every ~30 mins.
• After your match, go to Challonge and insert the result. That is done by clicking on your match and selecting the winner/stats. The brackets will be updated automatically.
• The Map Pool is: Haladur, Simai, Elyon, Lajesh, Uro and Yrmia (same pool as in ranked duel).
• The first map to play on will be decided by the players banning maps. The first player to ban is decided at random.
• After that it is loser's choice, but you can't pick a map you have already won a game on in the same set.
• The winning player (who won the previous match in the bo3) also has to lock in his deck first.
• The brackets for the tournament will be shuffled before the tournament starts!
• Use your BattleForge name for the tournament. If your Challonge account differs from your BattleForge account name, use the "Sign up with an alternate name" feature or change your name for the tournament in the settings. Finding your opponent will be a LOT easier this way.
• Playing at least two rounds in the tournaments will earn you 1 General Booster, even if you lost both rounds. This is meant to encourage players to give PvP a try, immediately surrendering or not showing up for a match will disqualify you for this reward.
Special Thanks
Special thanks to @4esan4o95 who will be in charge of organizing the tournament on the event day and hyping this tournament already in advance.
Also, big thanks to @Eirias for agreeing to stream the tournament.
Thanks also to everyone, who sponsored something to the prize pool:
@eltorro: 3 General Boosters @triggz: 8 General Boosters  @4esan4o95: 7 General Boosters  @Yuah: 7 General Boosters @Metagross31: Set of Rebirth Edition PvP cards The Skylords Reborn Team: The remaining General Boosters and 1500 BFP
Questions
Reply in this thread if you have questions, we will answer them as soon as possible.
Best regards,
The Skylords Reborn Team and 4esan4o95

Enjoy^^
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I truly hope Toggy is among those voice actors. We need some Warlock voice acting.

Hello brother - BoxIngJester (in-game name) here (you for sure dont remember me) - im still watchin your videos after so many years , goin to sleep with your replays - i swear for sure im your biggest fan out there , literally im hyped out as fuck hearing youll come back !!!!! as only PvP player - there are no better news than this one - we will wait for you sir - i even thought sir Eirias , who is keeping your legacy up to date that actually is you , but i was wrong ofc hahah - that post made my night ! Tho MaranV was the dude who brought me into pvp basics back in the day , sadly he is not around anymore , tho i have his original deck built up , keeping his legacy alive ! :D 

OMG! He is alive!
Did you check out the 2 year anniversary video yet? It recaps the time since release very well 🙂

Hi old friends!
I run a tech startup now and I was telling my team how EA allowed you guys to work on this codebase and how you actually pulled it off. They were blown away. We're impressed!
Sadly, I don't have a minute to work on this game but I'm VERY tempted to come back and start playing every now and again.
As I was looking through this site I noticed WindHunter & Wolven my old buddies from WAAAAY back on here. And RadicalX is still here? Very cool!
 
Trivia! Do you know the xNTx from my username can from Wolven? Tell them bud! My original account was just FarRock. He convinced me to join his PVE clan.
 
Anyhow, life updates:
Four kids, bought a house Run a career coaching business Have a YouTube channel for career coaching Wrote a book for entry level professionals in finance Run a tech startup. We're going live in a month and then will be raising for our first public round, so that's super exciting!  
How have you all been? Excited to catch up! Any other old buddies of mine here? MaranV still around?
 
EDIT: Just checked out that video I posted 4 years ago. Wow so many of you really wanted me to come back. Makes me nostalgic. I'm gonna download!

Love y'all,
Mark
 

🔔 Hear, hear! 🔔
It's time for a reveal - the following Discord emoticons are the choices for the winner of the contest:
                      
Special thanks to @Titan for creating these, and may the winner chose wisely!

Patch #400040
We're excited to bring you a new update that addresses some recent issues. Specifically, we've tackled some bugs related to our leaderboard achievements, which now properly use the current month's data. Any rewards you may not have received were rolled out retroactively. Additionally, we've fixed the forge lags that were causing performance issues for some players. Thank you for your patience, and we hope you enjoy this update!

General Changes
Added an option for players to re-roll the same quest multiple times. The minimum quest reward after re-rolls is now 50 BFP. If a player has excess quests, the quest with the most re-rolls will be reset to zero. The achievements "A Need For Speed" and "Gotta Go Fast" now display the seconds for best time in their tooltips. A new type filter for achievements has been added, with options "All", "One Time", and "Endless". The "Endless" checkbox has been replaced with this new filter.
 
General Fixes
Leaderboard achievements now use the current month's data, rather than last month's. Last month's rewards will be granted retroactively on March 1st. The leaderboard reward period now starts at 00:00 UTC on the 1st of each month, instead of the 31st of each month. The achievement for completing rPvE quickly now completes correctly after reaching the last milestone. The context menu now appears when right-clicking on all areas of a player banner. The name tooltip for players in the leaderboard now updates correctly when changing pages. The achievement "Too Heavy to Carry" now has a description in Russian. Fixed lag in the Forge that was causing performance issues.
 
Post-Patch Fixes - 31 March 2023
The promo version of Worldbreaker Gun now also counts for the "The Tools of Ultimate Destruction" achievement.

*Blessing in disguise: If you end up being matched with one of the 2 highest rated (base elo) players in round 1, just playing all of your games will also make you eligible for the 3 Boosters.
 
poor guy who is matched against Bird in first round and didnt get this reward

Hello fellow Skyladies and Skylords!
It is time to get another PvP tournament rolling! Who are the strongest players out there? Who prepared some fancy tricks on the new patch? We will find out! Any player is very welcome to join, regardless of your skill level! 


Tournament Date and Stream
On Sunday 5th March starting at 14:00 p.m. CEST (Berlin time). 
A live stream covering the tournament will take place on my twitch.tv channel https://www.twitch.tv/radicalx5. Streaming will start around 13:30 p.m. CEST (Berlin time). I will use the stream to communicate with the players, so be sure to join the stream to be notified of last minute updates. Everyone is welcome to hang out and watch the action as well!
 
Sign up 
The tournament brackets will be on challonge, so register and join the tournament there using the button below. Deadline will be the start of the tournament, but please sign-up in advance if possible! Reply in this thread if you have questions, I will answer them as soon as possible.

Use your Battleforge name for the tournament. If your Challonge account differs from your Battleforge account name, use the "Sign up with an alternate name" feature or change your name for the tournament in the settings. Finding your opponent will be a LOT easier this way.
 
Format
The tournament will be played as a 1on1, Best of 3, double elimination tournament, meaning if you lose a set, you move to the lower bracket and can still make the finals! Grand finals will be bo5, no bracket reset, but game 1 map choice for the player coming from the winnerbracket.
 
Prize Pool
I tried to place rewards so that almost every series matters, regardless whether you are playing losers bracket R1 or grand finals! The total price pool will roughly range from 40.000 bfp up to 75.000 bfp. The more players join, the more prices will be headed out. Big shoutouts to MadDoggo and MrDanilov, who helped making this possible with massive donations. 
1) Every participant will win one random card, which is at least rare! With some luck you might even catch something bigger! 
2) Every player, who wins at least a single bo3, will earn 3 boosters!* 
3) Furthermore there will be random draws for a Promo Fallen Skyelf on top of that. Even if you lose in both rounds you will be eligible for the reward as long as you played your matches. 
4) The following winner prizes will be added on top of the previously listed ones. 
Rank 1 - 7 Boosters + Promo Construct
Rank 2  - 6 Boosters + Infect
Rank 3 - 5 Boosters 
Rank 4 (Locked until we hit 8 players) - 4 Boosters
Rank 5-8  (Locked until we hit 16 players) - 3 Boosters
Rank 9-12 (Locked until we hit 24 players) - 2 Booster
Rank 13-16 (Locked until we hit 32 players) - 1 Booster
5) The audience reward: You can join some competition even without actively playing. There will be some quizzes during the stream and you can earn some big prices there from a 10.000 bfp pool. 
*Blessing in disguise: If you end up being matched with one of the 2 highest rated (base elo) players in round 1, just playing all of your games will also make you eligible for the 3 Boosters. 
 
Rules (read this if you want to participate!)
• Disconnection during a game results in a default loss. If both sides agree, it is possible to have a remake.
• Not showing up to your match after 15 minutes results in a default loss. The plan is to play a round of matches every ~30 mins.
• After your match, go to Challonge and insert the result. That is done by clicking on your match and selecting the winner/stats. The brackets will be updated automatically.
• The Map Pool is: Haladur, Simai, Elyon, Lajesh, Uro, Yrmia and Wazhai (beware as this not the same pool as in ranked duel!).
• The first map to play on will be decided by the players alternately banning maps (grand finals are an exception with G1 mapchoice for the winnerbracket player). The first player to ban is decided at random (use the /roll function).
• After that it is the loser's choice
• The winning player (who won the previous match in the bo3) also has to lock in his deck first.
• The brackets for the tournament will be shuffled before the tournament starts!
 
Looking forward to a lot of sign ups and an awesome tournament!
 
Best regards,
RadicalX

Well, I hope that it gets resolved soon, thank you for your efforts. If there is anything that we can help with like logs and stuff please tell us. I'll be more than happy to help.

Just to clarify, we moved away from the old rotate-every-seven-days, to rotate-every-24 hours since this original post. This should offer a lot more flexability into finding your deck, especially considering you can combine pools and add your own cards. For example, picking the two decks that contain the most cards you want out of Pure Nature / Pure Fire / Twilight N-start / Twilight F-start and adding your own cards to the result should give you great flexibility to make your own decks. Especially considering the most expensive PvP cards are almost all found in the free PvP decks. 
An example; say I want to play Pure Fire, but I prefer Disenchant Purple over Disenchant Green. Then I can select Pure Fire for the bulk of my cards, and Fire Nature, which contains disenchant purple. I can then swap those cards around. 
The biggest roadblock I have found ever since I started playing PvP, was not having the other affinity Netherwarp, but that should be a big exception and not the rule of the average PvP deckbuilding experience.
On a more broader note; back when SR got revived, there was a lot of discussion about the availability of PvP cards. Some people complained that giving out free PvP decks would completely ruin the collecting part of the game, and they wanted the experience of slowly building their decks over time. Others opted to have every single card available, which (beside other reasons) would result in choice paralyzis and overwhelming new players without a guideline or framework. In the end we settled on our current system: free competitive PvP decks for every color, with the option to swap between them and add your own cards. This will put everyone on equal footing* from the start, but still allow for experimentation (like me putting Viridya in almost every single deck 😛 ). 
*While its common in games these days to have the starter decks be just that; starter decks, the decks provided by SR are very competitive and used by most of the player base. Its more rare to see exceptions then you might think. 
Having the rotate system was also another way to allow dedicated PvP players to have a ''point'' in collecting cards and interacting with the market. If you want 3 fully upgraded decks, you would need to collect the cards for one of them. But you should not have to play PvE for months before you can dive into PvP. The old 7-days rotation system was removed however, due to it needleslly block players from trying out decks in their first week(s). 
 

IT WORKS ! ofc its lil bad after every single game to press K or whatever , but it works finally something that will keep good feelings up !

Just read on discord that pausing the forge ("K") may probably works as a workaround here to reduce lags

I was the one who suggested pve rank 10 minimum to Windhunter but now having played with many ember and platinum ranks who are ill equipped, rank is not a good deteminant. 
I wish everyone had the same attitude towards 10s instead of diving in blindly and praying for the best. If u ever want to learn 10s contact me ingame, I can show u the basics
This is considered gatekeeping and promotes elitism,  both of which I do not want. Volin and I are not talking about winning or losing, I was just saying to Volin a few days ago saying how funny it was that i used to have  a 25% win rate with 3 other guys all playing meta decks aka bloodhorn or bata. We learnt from our mistakes and relished in the occasional victory, we never once had any regrets losing because we gave it our all. Players now, particularly the ill prepared ones who join for the boosters almost pre-emptively expect a win and will quit the moment they see anything harder than an easy bandit. Yes we now have quantity but super low quality sorry if this sounds harsh. Volin and I used to run rPvE workshops for beginners, they almost never filled because people "knew everything" when in reality that is far from the truth

This may or may not work but try playing the game in windowed mode, i have been lagging for the past 2 hours non stop, switched to windowed mode thanks to Afro's suggestion and i seem to be perfectly fine, tho i must say that the issue i am experiencing is not really in the forge but ingame itself which switching to windowed mode seems to have resolved. Granted should this even work is not an ideal solution but at least it's something until they implement a fix.

There are a lot of people who are currently experiencing massive lags after some time in forge, but I guess Kubik said we are lying so must be it.

Not sure but i think the lag gets worse the longer you stay in the Forge not in game.
So if you spend 1 min in the Forge and then spend 30 min in a match its fine but when you stay in the Forge lag starts and gets progressively worse.

Fixes -  23 January 2023

General Changes
Play PvE and play ranked PvP achievement will now grant their rewards after 20 matches. Cosmetic borders will be handed out retroactively. Include card affinity and promo tag on error while cloning and importing decks. Added tooltip when hovering on players rank icons and name. Added endless checkbox to achievements filter, to include or exclude them. Removed endless category from achievements, now endless / repeatable achievements have a explicit tag besides the name, in addition to a proper category. Added the ability to view unlocked cosmetics original achievement by hovering on the new question mark on cosmetics page preview look. Changes on achievements, including descriptions (more will come in the future): A New Sun: From all player to only you. Codebreaker: Added repair to the restriction. Cheapskate: From all player to only you. Teleportation Anxiety: From only you to all players. Never Thought of Him: From all players to only you. The Long Journey Home: From all players to only you (description not yet updated). General Fixes
Fixed PvE and PvP rank up achievement not progressing when the player ranks up. Fixed leaderboard achievements tips not updating daily. Fixed achievements play PvE and play ranked PvP with faction not granting any rewards after 25 matches were played. Fixed error message on achievements window when players reached the last milestone of `Gotta Go Fast` and `A Need For Speed`. Adjusted leaderboard visual positions, sizes and alignments to be more consistent. Fixed various issues with the achievement `Dragon's Hoard`. If any rewards were not granted, they will be granted retroactively. Increased performance while switching to cosmetic tab.  

The forge works mostly fine for me, however the same can not be said about ingame. I've experienced freeze from couple seconds up to 2 mins and it keeps happening every 10-15 seconds.

Just wanna add that I'm also experiencing the same issue not just since this mornings update but since the recent patch. And seems to worsen over time you spend sticking around and playing. On fresh run of the game everything is quite smooth for a while before it become extremely laggy over time.

Good day everyone. 
 
I'd like to start a balance discussion around lyrish knight, i could find a recent topic related to my favourite unit in this game. A little while before the game got shut down the card got pretty heavily nerfed since it was too well rounded in pvp especially in shadow frost decks. Sadly it never really got rebalanced to a viable state as far as i can tell, except for being a niche counter to xl units in t2 pvp in combination with frostbite. I think thats a shame, since the card perfectly embodies some aspects of the spirit of the frost faction with its traits (basically the ones that arent covered by dreadnought after its amazing rework) and has an terific design base overall. 
 
As far as i can tell its not useable in pve at all, atleast it always has better alternatives. I readily admit im not perfectly up to speed to the current pvp meta since the skyborn launch, but from what i saw its not even used there anymore either, not even as counter to xl units. 
 
I really would love some changes to the cards, since its so iconic for the game and especially the frost faction so that i dont have to feel bad about using it even in casual rpve 9 runs. In pvp my most fond memories of the game were last stand kind of scenarios, where i got behind in the energy trades but managed to catch an overconfident ofguard opponent with lyrish knight defense against a harvester or t3 units that didnt get much value, so i could creep back in the game. Would love to relive that a little someday.
 
 
In terms of actual changes, i know its not that easy since the card has a few conditions that have to be considered. Mainly that the XL Attack modifier on t2 is in many cases not that valueable and that there always has to be a building around to make the cards really good. Simply buffing its damage back up again could make it potentially too valueable, especially in pvp even against non XL units since it double scales with its protector buff and homesoil/northern keep red. Maybe a power bumb could be better managed by making it pure frost exclusive and balance it around frost only. Another idea would be to make it a t3 unit, but i really wouldnt like that since there are already lots of great cards for frost with northland drake, avatar of frost or reduced cost amii monument as well as even splashable great cards like core dredger. Changing it to t1 or t4 seems also a little weird imo.
 
If i missed some changes in the recent years to it please enlighten me to them, but even as of now i dont think the card has much favor neither in pve nor pvp, so i would like to here some thoughts of you guys and girls. 
 
See you in the forge