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  1. Volin liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in Old School Efficiency   
    Apologies for the confusion and thanks for pointing it out. 
  2. Metagross31 liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in Old School Efficiency   
    👀 
  3. Maze liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in Skylords Marketplace Journal (SMJ)   
    We do love ourselves some Latin 🙂 
  4. Dutchy liked a post in a topic by Maze in SMJ - Community Decks Database   
    Greetings fellow Skyfolk,
    Now that the Community Decks Database has reached a passable state with the most recent updates, I wanted to create a separate post specifically for this feature.
     
    You can find the Community Decks Database here:
    https://smj.cards/community/decks  
    It is currently possible to:
    Look up decks other users created (filter for different settings, like map and orbs order) Copy the deck code and import the deck directly ingame with the command " /importdeck [code] " Vote on decks that you liked or disliked (make it easier for new players to find enjoyable decks) See if the creator is a veteran or if veterans liked the deck Create your own decks directly on the website or import it from the code you got when using the " /exportdeck " command ingame Share your decks and set specific maps and other options that apply for the deck (even featured community maps can be selected) Set the complexity of the deck to show if they are beginner friendly or for veterans only, as well as other additional tags NEW: Add a short description of up to 500 characters (some characters are not allowed, to prevent abuse) Add a forum link to a post to explain in detail how the deck works, what to note when using the deck, or which cards can be swapped for others NEW: Edit your deck, change the maps it is intended for or update the tags Verify your account with your ingame name to show who created the decks Request to become a veteran player NEW: Veteran players are able to flag decks for inappropriate descriptions, this will cause the deck to not be able to be updated or deleted anymore until the issue has been reviewed and resolved with appropriate actions  
    Veteran Players are able to take some actions to flag a deck, the actions include:
    Flag a deck as "Outdated", for example when it's no longer playable due to orb requirement changes to the used cards.
    ("Outdated" tag is displayed if at least 3 veterans flagged the deck as such.) Remove the "Updated" tag from decks that were edited, if the deck still fits the rating, to prevent abusing the editing feature.
    ("Updated" tag is removed if at least 3 veterans flagged the tag for removal.) NEW: Flag a deck for "Inappropriate Description", this includes everything that is also not allowed on the forum. Once flagged this way, you are not able to remove your flag and the description will not be displayed for non-veterans anymore.
    ("Inappropriate Description" tag is added if at least 1 veteran flagged the deck as such.)  
    Please note:
    If you want to vote on decks or create and share your own decks, you will need to login with your discord account If you want to have your ingame name displayed for the decks you created, you can verify your account and your ingame name will be added If you want to become a veteran, the community and other veterans will need to agree, after which you will be added as a veteran  
    IMPORTANT: Deck descriptions have been a feature that has repeatedly been requested by multiple people, so please behave in what you write in the free text area or the feature will have to be rethought/removed again, if it is being abused too much. I am relying on your best behavior with this. 🙂
     
    You could also use this topic to reply with a comment to provide additional information for your deck, like YouTube links to videos that show your deck in action and don't want to create a separate topic just for your deck, to then add the link to your comment to the deck when adding it to the database. 🙂
     
    I hope you like it and I would like to hear your opinion and receive feedback, as it is still work in progress and there is room for improvements. 🙂
    Thanks and enjoy 😉
     

     
  5. Dutchy liked a post in a topic by TreyDog3 in Community Update - June 2023   
    Y'all killing it. This game is 10x better than it was before it was discontinued. 
  6. Metagross31 liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in Community Update - June 2023   
    We fired Rogan as he never listens, especially Encounters with Twilight. 
  7. Volin liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in Community Update - June 2023   
    We fired Rogan as he never listens, especially Encounters with Twilight. 
  8. Tiny Thor liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in Community Update - June 2023   
    We fired Rogan as he never listens, especially Encounters with Twilight. 
  9. JeanyJeans liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in Frost cards tier list (PvE)   
    How I would probably do it 🤔
    yes, that battleship is in the same tier as Juice Tank only because of Dallarian (❤️) 

  10. JeanyJeans liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in Shadow card tier list (PvE)   
    My take on it ^^ 
  11. Metagross31 liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in Patch #400042 - 19 May 2023   
    The achievement is considered a veteran achievement.
    By allowing Advanced, it wouldn't be considered veteran. Only allowing expert was a design choice mainly as some maps were only made on expert difficulty. 

     
  12. Dutchy liked a post in a topic by Damo in 2p PvE Contest - Through Ice and Flames   
    So, the event has now officially ended and the prizes are soon to be distributed to our participants.
    The total ranking looks as following:

    Thank you very much @Ultralord for the great stream yesterday and also thanks to all for participating!
    See you in the next contest!
  13. Dutchy liked a post in a topic by Ultralord in Crappy Card Drawing Collection   
    Your vote said Fallen Skyelf so here you go 🙂
    Checkout the first post.
    And dont forget to vote for the next card
  14. JeanyJeans liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in rPvE Deck Tierlists   
    This is how I would rate the decks from personal experience

  15. Metagross31 liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in 2p PvE Contest - Through Ice and Flames   
    Have you tried Mauler? 
  16. DefAnske liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in 2p PvE Contest - Through Ice and Flames   
    Have you tried Mauler? 
  17. Hrdina_Imperia liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in 2p PvE Contest - Through Ice and Flames   
    My solo runs are almost sub those times 👀 
  18. Damo liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in Community Update - May 2023   
    We gave it to the AI so we have a chance to beat it 😛 
  19. Dutchy liked a post in a topic by Damo in Community Update - May 2023   
    Yea, you guys should indeed check out the ongoing event 😉
  20. Dutchy liked a post in a topic by Majora in Community Update - May 2023   
    Greetings Skylords!
    A new month; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn!

    • Patch Date Announcement - 19th of May
    Exciting news! Our next content patch is almost ready for release. We are currently hard at work to finalize its content, and are ready to announce a patch date. Our spring patch is planned for a release on the 19th of May. 
    We have a lot of exciting things in the works in various stages of development, some of which you will see in later patches. While we highlighted some upcoming Lost Souls changes in last month's community update, we are still working to resolve some issues before we can confirm their inclusion in this patch. We appreciate your patience and want to assure you that if these changes are not ready for the spring patch, they will be included in a later one.
    As we get closer to the patch's release, we will provide more details about the content in the patch notes. In the meantime, we are pleased to share that the Nature faction will be introduced to the game as a new enemy for rPvE.
     
    • A look at Nature rPvE
    On December 18th, 2021, we introduced the Fire faction as a formidable new enemy to be faced in rPvE. We're thrilled to announce that the Nature faction is now ready to be added to the ranks, In celebration of this occasion, we sat down with Hodron to give us some insights into its development.

     
    Let's start with introductions, for those who do not know you, what is your role on the Skylords Reborn team?
    Hey, I am Hodron, I am part of the map department of the Skylords Reborn Team. I have mostly worked on the Fire rPvE set before Nature, which has been a quite monumental task in both cases.
     
    How long have you been working on Nature rPvE?
    In early 2022, after the release of the Fire rPvE faction, we had a poll to decide what the next faction would be; Nature or Frost. The overwhelming majority voted for Nature, and we started working on it around February 2022. If I had to estimate the time I was actively working on the faction, I would say about a year due to some pauses during development.
     
    How do you start designing a new rRvE faction?
    First of all, I think of all the Nature cards in the game and then imagine the AI using their abilities like the Fire units are already. Terrifying thought, am I right? Our very brave map testers can probably still remember the horrors of some early testing versions of Nature rPvE. The camps were stacked with healing and damage reduction while constantly paralyzing the player, almost like a horde of Twilight Willzappers. For the first few rounds of testing, we never actually won a match on difficulty 9, not even close. From there the process turns to cutting and / or improving the units, buildings, and camps until a good mix across all difficulties is found.
    What about units?
    Nature units were proving to be problematic in their original state because they are supposed to give the player a varied box of tools, but they cost energy to balance this. For example, Deep One: The ability to move player units into a camp and root them in place was immensely frustrating to play against, especially when multiple of these fellas were in one camp or attack wave. Swamp Drake also went through multiple iterations; first having the Sleep ability, then being like a Bandit Windhunter and lastly now only being a stat unit. 
     
    Are there more units that act completely different compared to their card counterparts?
    Of course, there are some units that differ quite a bit from their card version, either because of balance or because of how some card abilities would be wasted on the AI. Some examples include the Timeshifter Spirit which does not have his anti-magic field but can instead
     
    While adding the Fire faction, we had the challenge of a faction that does not really have access to CC, resulting in a more glass cannon approach for the faction. Did you have a specific theme in mind for the Nature faction?
    So I knew that the core of the nature faction would be healing and crowd control. But I also wanted to let the Root Network shine a bit. Then there were the more problematic things like Parasite Swarm, Mind Weaver and Mind Control, which we played around with for a while. However, it was simply not fun to play against enemies that took away too many of your units, even though it made for some hilarious scenarios, in which first timers got half of their army stolen, the other half eliminated and then after regaining control, also losing the other half.
     
    So a focus on mindcontrol did not work out, were you able to find alternatives?
    I think the mix of paralyze and root the faction now has, while also using the root network to some extent, will provide a unique experience.
     
    What about buildings, can you tell us something about those?
    Nature buildings were in a weird spot, some were completely overpowered against some frequent player strategies like early Strangleholds, while others were quite underwhelming like the Primal Defender. Because AI units only root while in combat, they are unable to provide support, and buildings that depend on the root network may fluctuate greatly in difficulty based on the amount of support a camp can generate. In the end, buildings are one thing that I did not want the focus to be on, so they are maybe even a little boring compared to the units.
     
    What would you say is unique about facing the Nature faction, compared to the other factions?
    Nature introduces a completly new mechanic which amps up their late game and can thus break the mold of later camps feeling all the same.
     
    You mentioned our brave map testers, can you tell us something about balancing?
    I think we almost exclusively had to nerf units after their initial inception, which were mostly just a carbon copy of the player card with their abilities set to automatically be used. Which really goes to show how strong crowd control and healing in a faction can be, even if they have only slightly above average damage. As mentioned before, we had to nerf quite a bit before we could actually win a match on difficulty 9 with quite experienced players and exclusive S-tier decks. Through playing a lot we found the parts that were annoying or outright destroying the flow, which we then tried to smooth out.
     
    How difficult do you think rPvE is compared to the other factions?
    I was aiming for this faction to be around the difficulty level of Twilight due to the depths of the mechanics that Nature uses. You will have to focus targets or their healing will overwhelm you while you are paralyzed, but there is room for outplaying that.
     
    What was the thing you enjoyed most about designing the faction?
    Designing the boss units was very enjoyable, as it had been the case for Fire. I also had a lot of fun just looking at camps and watching their mechanics interact with each other.
     
    What was the biggest challenge while developing the faction?
    A big challenge was to make units distinct, by which I mean to give each unit traits by which each player could gauge their threat level to their deck and playstyle. In the beginning, almost all units were tanky and had a lot of damage or had damage and some form of crowd control. We had to shift stats to make damage dealers less tanky, make crowd control units deal less damage and tanks have shorter range on their crowd control abilities.
     
    Fire rPvE introduced some fun and fan favourite bosses. Will we see new boss units for Nature as well?
    Yes, absolutely! The nature faction will ship with a set of nine new boss units. I really like how the low tier boss units based on the Burrower which is spitting acid all over the place and the Timeshifter Spirit which summons hordes of poisoned creepers turned out. But there are of course some threatening late game bosses.
     
    Will we see rPvE Frost or Shadow next?
    After working on rPvE for quite some time now, I really want to shift focus to campaign maps for a while, as that is also a huge part of the game that I and many others enjoy.
     
    Is there anything else you'd like to share with our players?
    Thank you for being so loyal to such an old game. I hope you enjoy this new faction once it is released and see you in the forge.
     


    A big thanks to Hodron and our map testers for pouring so much love and time into the development of this new rPvE faction. We hope you look forward to facing them! 
     
    • Easter Event Recap
    We are glad to share our Easter Event was a huge success, with nearly 700 of you unlocking the new special Easter banner. Although the banner is no longer obtainable, you can still find the map in the Community Map section by searching for "The Easter Tree" if you wish to play it.
    We hope you enjoyed all the effort that was put into the special map. While we always try to carefully balance our time investment into special events like this. We would love to hear some feedback. Would you like to see more events like the Easter and Halloween ones, where we modify a familiar map to suit the holiday theme?
    We noticed that not many of you participated in the speedrun competition for the map, and we would like to know why. Your feedback is very valuable to us, so please leave us a message below.
     
    • Event: Through Ice and Flames
    While you are waiting for our new patch, be sure to check out the community event Through Ice and Flames. This event takes place on two great community maps, created by @Damo and @Hrdina_Imperia. Check out the trailer below, and go here for more information.
    The event lasts till the 14th of May, though the maps will still be playable after. 

    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!

    • Host your own tournament / event
    Want to host a tournament or event yourself? Please reach out to our Event Organizers, @Metagross31, @Minashigo Hiko, or @nukie! 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.
     
    • Team Changes
    Katchau has recently departed from the team. We greatly appreciate his contributions, especially his development of the search card in market feature. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors.

    That being said, we are happy to announce three new community members formally joined our team last month!
    We have a new developer in Piskr, who will start out with a focus on Client Development. He is currently working on improving the player right click menu, including a way to improve importing decks. 

    Known in the community for his streams and beautiful artwork, Ultralord has joined the team as our first Video Editor.
    Another well known community member with terrible luck in opening promo's from boosters, Volin, has joined the team to help us out with coordinating Map Testing. 
    Volin and Ultralord also worked together to give us the Lost Souls overview video from last month.

    Welcome everyone, and we are looking forward to your contributions! 
     
    • Contribute
    Interested in joining the team yourself? Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fuelled by the passion and dedication of over 30 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 take a look at our open positions!
     

     
    • 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: 19TH-MAYN-EXTP-ATCH
    The 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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  21. Dutchy liked a post in a topic by Majora in Community Update - May 2023   
    We tried something new this month with the interview, let me know if you like to see more of this in the future! 
  22. nukie liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in New Achievement and Official Easter Event 2023   
    Since so many asked me, I might as well share the replay ^^ 
    It was a fastest run, but by no means my cleanest as I lost way too many Shadow Phoenix and the egg pushing could be a bit smoother. 

    A small explanation on how I did it:
     
     
    Enjoy 🙂 
    2023-04-15_11-19-31_CommunityMap1P_pve_the_easter_tree_diff3_s65287_GMDutchy_time_0_10_25.6_v260.pmv

    How to watch the replay?
     
  23. Metagross31 liked a post in a topic by Dutchy in New Achievement and Official Easter Event 2023   
    Message from nukie:
    "Apologies for the delay in getting rewards out, I currently have no internet since Sunday evening. I should have it back over the weekend and will get all rewards sent out as soon as possible"
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