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There are quite a few cards, that dominate the meta game and completely prevent variety in the PvP environment. Only Fire and Shadow T1 are viable once people reached a decent level and that is quite unpleasant. We are in a turret T1 meta, where Frost and Nature can't compete. Turrets do have insane damage and tankiness, higher range and don't reward micro management at all. 
 
Phasetower 
-> 900 damage for 60 power is way more than any T1 unit could offer. Due to the splash you can take center wells vs Frost and Nature without any advantage. 
-> Even after the teleport 900/600 stats remain insane especially since there are no Siege units in T1.
-> 40m range can force you to engage into the turrets as they can be placed at the edge to attack your power wells while your units can't reach them. 
-> Even Fire T1 can't beat Phasetower without stationary turrets itself, which is a disaster as Fire should be the faction, that can deal with turrets. The most reliable counter to Phasetower ... is Phasetower. 
-> 50m teleport range every 30s is faster than some Frost units (you can kite activated Imperials with Phasetower ...)
-> Archers are sometimes bugged against Phasetowers. Their damage rotations apply about 2 seconds later (probably as the projectiles travel to the initial position of the tower). This makes it much harder to burst down aggressively placed turrets with your ranged units. 
-> While other turrets are risky and require initial map control and safetly to be built, Phasetower can be constructed at a much more safe spot and Teleport into the important areas or just jump over cliffs to remove some natural safety provided by the map. 
 
Mortar 
-> 1575/700 stats for 50 power is still viable in some T3 scenarios (this may be slightly exaggerated as it requires all shots to hit) 
-> if splash is included, the tower has a 55m range, which gives huge zoning potential, strong siege potential for close well situations and can be abused over cliffs.
-> Center Well + Mortar is gg against Frost on map control based maps and forces nature to play more aggressive unit compositions, that are weaker in combat
 
The Frost nerfs
-> After Ice Guardin and Homesoil got nerfed Frost requires at least 8 T1 slots in order to stay relevant. 
-> Map Control issues still may kill the faction as you can't rush against Mortar
-> Frostmagespam outperforms IGs on big maps in mirror matches and against nature. That results in stationary gameplay that is quite boring to play
 
I personally would like to see harsh nerfs to Phasetower & Mortar in the future & maybe a revert of the IG nerf as it is more micro rewarding than a homesoil revert. Feel free to discuss! 

As you might have known, BattleForge used to be available on Steam both as a demo and a full game. Even now that the game has been removed from Steam, you can still download the demo (the original version that comes with the retail DVD). This is a short guide on how to play SkylordsReborn on Steam using that demo.
1. Download and extract SkylordsReborn to your PC, say D:\BattleForge.
 
2. Run Steam in background. Open up your browser (Firefox, Chrome, etc.) and type this into the address bar: steam://install/24770
A popup menu will ask if you want to open that URL with a specific application, select Steam Client Bootstrapper.

Steam should start downloading BattleForge demo (~2.2GB).
3. Run the demo from Steam once to start the installation process. Once the launcher shows up, close it.
4. Copy everything inside the folder from step (1) to the demo installation location, replacing any duplicated files.
e.g. from D:\BattleForge
to D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Battleforge
5. Delete any extra files that are in the demo installation folder but not in the SkylordsReborn folder (from step 1) except these 3 files:
steam_appid.txt
settings.ini
Bootstrapper.exe
6. Rename Bootstrapper.exe to Bootstrapper.exe.org (think of it as a way of backing up).
7. Open a command prompt (as admin if you installed the demo in drive C:\), type this and press Enter:
mklink "D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Battleforge\Bootstrapper.exe" SkylordsRebornUpdater.exe

This should create a new symbolic link called Bootstrapper.exe that will run SkylordsRebornUpdater.exe.

8. Done. You can now launch SkylordsRebornUpdater by launching BattleForge demo from Steam (just click Play). Steam will try to run Bootstrapper.exe which will just run SkylordsRebornUpdater.exe.
Steam chat should display your profile as "Playing BattleForge Demo" (not playing non-Steam game) and will continue to do so until you exit BattleForge (exact behavior as any other Steam games).

Your playtime will also be recorded in your Steam profile.

NAME: "Errorcode -1" when trying to login
SEVERITY: 2
LOCATION: Login screen
REPRODUCIBILITY: Always
DESCRIPTION: Error appears, if you happen to enter your password or login wrongly (typo or just improper, whatever). So: steps to reproduce it are
>Enter wrong password/e-mail
>get the "...wait 10 seconds..." message
>wait and enter proper password/e-mail
>Forever "Logging in", then the Error appears with following "Disconnected" window.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Enter your password on the first try, either restart your client, if you happen to enter wrong one.
SCREENSHOT: 
 

Hi guys,
I have launched the game and after I'm log in there is the loading screen but after 2 seconds there is this error message : Battleforge has stopped working
Who knows that how to solve this problem?
Thanks :P
     

I am currently working on a brand new logo for the community channel.
For that I want to incorporate symbols of every (playable) faction. While I would've thought that there are existing symbols I can't find any.
So in short now I need new symbols for every faction and I am asking everyone in the community for ideas, advice or even sketches. If you have any suggestions please let me know and I will see if I can use them.
The symbols should be simple, intuitive and representative of the faction. Ideally anyone would be able to draw a symbol in a couple of seconds. And even without color someone else could recognize the faction it represents.
For example a 7-pointed start enclosed in a circle would probably be recognized as and is easy to draw.
But a spiral might not be recognized as even though it is a common motive in many nature cards.
Thanks for any and all input!

have you disabled your antivirus or added to exceptions the BF folder.
make a screen shot of your BF folder contents.

cause some users having difficulty combine game and launcher downloads to make them work.
below are 2 downloads of the game without need to download anything else.
you have to download one of the files below
extract the files hit SkylordsRebornUpdate.exe and play.
HD version of the game
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ydjj03t5w2xfyxl/BattleForge.rar/
4.94GB Download
11.9GB Extracted
Low detail textures version of the game (if you want to save some space,or you have a very old pc)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/bkb3qkl0f91rrby/BattleForge.rar/
1.7GB Download
3.41GB Extracted

While on one hand I agree with @ImperatorSK and the fact that it will probably affect the pvp-playerbase after a while on the very high end, but i think it is much more important what @MrXLink wrote in order to keep the newcomers we shouldn't be able to have other accounts. Just think about it, if you were a platinum colored pvp ranker and you tried out other decks, you still would beat the sh*t out of everyone who were even on the low-gold ranks as well, not to mention the lower ranked players. What do you think they would feel after they're facing and getting crushed by an acc that has bronze ranks?! Most likely they ragequit, and maybe they stop playing forever - yeah, this would be a huge overreaction, but it can definitely happen.
And to @DuellLord and every other players who think about it: ffs, if once you could get to a high rank with one type of deck, you can climb with that back anytime, this way you have the opportunity to try the new decks on higher level. Does it take time? Yes. Does it take away some of your rating? Yes. But on the other hand if you are a high-level player your microing and macroing will be much crisper than those who are not on the same level, regardless of what type of deck you're using. You can outmicro anyone who's lower level with pure nature even if you played lost souls on your main account, doesn't matter, your knowledge of the game is so much higher compared to your opponents that you can beat them easily.
And why am I saying these things? I myself tested everything on my main account - true, had a small acc while i could have 2 accs on 1 profile, only used that for trading. First I played fire-nature, then tried pure nature, after that tried pure shadow, in the end settled down with shadow-nature, inside it first did the Embalmer-FoF-Soul Splicer combo and then refined my deck to my taste with trying out at least 10 different cards in it - even tried out the snapjaws in ranked games, so don't blame me, but I cannot understand your nonsense.
Just think about this part as in any moba: what happens when they ban your main champion, or you do not get the role you prefer? Will you just leave the ranked, or deal with it and play with another one even if you know your skills are not on the same level with the different characters?
 
Other thing, what @RadicalX and @Eirias mentioned: wait a minute, don't tell me you were annoyed during the battleforge was live because of messages. While you're only a high ranked player you can always put those who bothers you to your ignore-list. As a moderator IMO you have the right to tell them to not bother you. Also, as far as I know only those can see if you are online who added you as friends, and those who actually check the list on the top right, which shows who are standing in the same chat-server as you are.
 
Also, there are other parts of using multi accounts - mainly because of the daily quest system is the only way to get bfp, and this could make too big of a discrepancy. While on the same profile having multiple accounts can solve these bfp-problems, but it generates even more bugs that came out while the game was in it's prime time, and that was one of the reasons the EA shut it down previously.
 
All in all: I totally agree with the decision that was made to disable the multi-accounting, because it disrupts the game.

this time will be f2p only ,it wont be so easy someone to make multiple accounts without effort

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I want easy opponents,
i want not loose ranking points when loosing,
i want everyone to know my name

HAHAHAHAHA cmon guys...seriously? and its battleforge fault your friends not understand the terms of a "training match"?

i have a wish too, i want all cards from beginning because its unfair in pvp if other players pick good cards RNG before i get them
also i should be able to destroy everyone with a single deck because otherwise its not fun for me to play

multiple accounts used mostly to annoy new players or boost a main account through trading or pvp queue

so a big NO , bann them all on all accounts

Just throwing an idea in here: How about a matchmaking option for sparring grounds where the server would match you against a fitting enemy (like with ranked)? Of course we would also keep the current sparring grounds game selection so you can play against friends.

each time i log in it types success and then after loading screen it says :
you client has lost connection to the server
why is that ? 
how i fix it ?

I'm going through this too, I'm going to do exactly as Odin, kills me on a gallows                                                                                                                                                                   My error is different, disconnected from the server # connection failed (it's mine, it no longer enters the game) 


I created a post about it but it '' disappeared ''