Volin

Hey,
I got ~25 replays, keep them coming! Pretty cool to see how many people want to participate :-) .
The winners will be shown this Sunday evening on a stream, so on the 02.05. ~7pm. See you there!
 
Greetings,
Toggy

I just came up with the idea of adding titles to a match. I looked through all the suggestions and and could not find the same idea.
With titles you can tell what you are up to with your game. For example on bad harvest you could tell like i want to speedrun this or with rpve construction meme decks. This way it would be easier to find like minded people and mess around or find people who know the same strategy in game.
Looking forward to what you guys think
 

I think the statitics for PtD and Ascension are a bit flawed here. If any of the 12 players have decomposer in their deck, it will count as a "Decomposer match". The numbers may also be somewhat flawed in general since they just mean that decomposer was in a deck. Here is a similar table which also has the condition that decomposer needs to be played at least once. Here the numbers are somewhat skewed in the other direction though, because matches which just end after e.g. 30 seconds count towards the total match count.

Campaign maps - Standard
 
name used_percentage PassageToDarkness 24.4094 Ascension 18.0651 BadHarvest 9.0022 Empire 8.9844 RavensEnd 8.9600 KingOfTheGiants 8.1039 Blight 8.0798 Titans 6.1930 Convoy 3.9597 SlaveMaster 3.5615 NightmaresEnd 3.0911 Crusade 3.0114 Sunbridge 2.6276 NightmareShard 2.4569 PvECommunity2P 1.7619 PvECommunity4P 1.4420  
Campaign maps - Advanced
 
name used_percentage PassageToDarkness 29.5522 KingOfTheGiants 13.5343 Empire 11.8093 Ascension 11.1253 RavensEnd 11.1189 TheGunsOfLyr 11.1071 BadHarvest 10.1430 Titans 9.9856 Blight 9.8344 PvECommunity4P 7.2848 TheDwarvenRiddle 6.2045 Convoy 5.5627 Sunbridge 4.7130 Crusade 4.5852 NightmaresEnd 4.3546 SlaveMaster 3.9979 NightmareShard 3.2905 TheInsaneGod 3.0109 PvECommunity2P 2.5000  
Campaign maps - Expert
 
name used_percentage BadHarvest 90.4072 PassageToDarkness 58.4894 TheGunsOfLyr 47.9506 TheDwarvenRiddle 26.1229 Empire 19.4461 KingOfTheGiants 18.3970 Ascension 16.4360 RavensEnd 13.3122 SlaveMaster 12.5455 TheInsaneGod 11.2327 Convoy 10.4208 Titans 7.6923 Sunbridge 7.1506 NightmaresEnd 6.8105 PvECommunity4P 6.6830 Crusade 5.1586 Blight 4.6988 PvECommunity2P 2.0384 NightmareShard 1.7138  
Random maps - Level 9
 
name used_percentage rPvEFourPlayers 30.1400 rPvETwoPlayers 6.8872  
Random maps - Level 10
name used_percentage rPvEFourPlayers 10.8617 rPvETwoPlayers 1.2810

Yeah, thats why I said "ofc we are not speaking of feeding here at all." I mean, I did less random groups lately then I did in open Beta, but still from my feelings the number of seen Decomposers is alot lower. This is one of the reasons why I love such overall statistics, because they help you to get away from the often very extreme personal point of view.
 
Me too! That means that almost 1 out of 10 matches is played normal. Given that 9 farmruns are maybe around the same amount of time then doing the map the normal way, this is indeed surprising to me. And this is a nice prove, that people who want to do the map normal, still find mates to do so.
This is not to argue for or against, I'm out of it and continue to think all arguments have been exchanged. I have confidence here in our balancing team that they will make the right decisions (because I personally can no longer say whether I would like to see a nerf or not)

Wow, what a revelation.  Some of the numbers are really hard for me to explain, like the quite high values for PtD. I can see that on PtD the Decomposer would make for good farming, but I've never seen it before in any random group. It's already hard enough to do a proper round of PtD with 3 unfeeded runners on each map.
Even harder to understand is the 41% value for rpve9, though ofc we are not speaking of feeding here at all.
Love such statistics, happy to see more of them. @Zyna@Majora
 

@PonniSince you asked, here are some stats, For each map, the amount of matches where any of the players has decomposer in their deck are divided by the total amount of matches on that map.

Campaign maps - Standard
name used_percentage PassageToDarkness 35.9955 Ascension 32.6199 Empire 15.1042 BadHarvest 13.5707 RavensEnd 13.1328 Blight 12.5150 Titans 11.2018 KingOfTheGiants 10.9950 Convoy 6.8841 PvECommunity4P 6.4888 SlaveMaster 5.8498 Crusade 5.3855 NightmaresEnd 4.7486 NightmareShard 4.5319 Sunbridge 4.2641 PvECommunity2P 4.2381  
Campaign maps - Advanced
name used_percentage PassageToDarkness 40.2985 Ascension 37.1483 TheGunsOfLyr 21.6562 PvECommunity4P 21.0884 KingOfTheGiants 19.2003 Empire 18.3099 RavensEnd 17.9451 BadHarvest 17.7158 Titans 16.4844 Blight 16.2293 TheDwarvenRiddle 13.9569 Convoy 9.8866 SlaveMaster 8.0141 Crusade 7.8074 PvECommunity2P 7.3077 Sunbridge 7.0674 NightmaresEnd 7.0041 NightmareShard 6.8242 TheInsaneGod 6.4232  
Campaign maps - Expert
name used_percentage BadHarvest 91.7773 PassageToDarkness 68.0524 TheGunsOfLyr 61.4198 TheDwarvenRiddle 43.1285 Ascension 42.9437 Empire 28.3441 KingOfTheGiants 28.3294 PvECommunity4P 26.7319 Convoy 22.1411 RavensEnd 21.5033 Titans 17.4075 SlaveMaster 17.3196 TheInsaneGod 16.5959 Blight 14.5030 Sunbridge 13.2432 NightmaresEnd 11.3855 Crusade 9.9595 PvECommunity2P 7.9137 NightmareShard 6.9473  
Random maps - Level 9
name used_percentage rPvEFourPlayers 41.5978 rPvETwoPlayers 12.2017  
Random maps - Level 10
name used_percentage rPvEFourPlayers 29.1335 rPvETwoPlayers 6.1983

I got my copy, but I'm feeling you. My full support for solution 2.  

I got my copy, but I'm feeling you. My full support for solution 2.  

Greetings Skylords!
We are happy to bring you the first official community update, a biweekly update to give you an overview of whats happening (and going to happen) in Skylords Reborn. We have heard your desire for communication loud and clear, and as your fresh Community Manager, I will do my best to deliver. 
The goal of these updates is to give you an idea of the things going on behind the scenes and cool stuff that you might have missed. Not every update will have the same content, but we hope to provide you with some cool details and insights. 
Without further ado, lets get to it!
Balance Patch #2
What better way to start than with a new patch announcement! Balance Patch #2 is hitting the live servers soon, bringing with it a lot of PvP balance changes and map updates. We have decided to wait with the release until Toggy's PvE contest is finished to not cause issues for the contenders. You can expect the patch to go live at the beginning of May. The patch notes will be posted soon. 
In-game Tournament tab
Once logged in, you will now be greeted with a tab showing upcoming tournaments and events in Skylords Reborn. Full event details will still be posted on the forums, but we hope this will help tournament organisers with spotlighting their events. 

We would like to take this moment to point out we are still looking for an Event Manager. If you are up for the task, please apply! Check our Open Staff Positions for more information.
Upcoming Community Tournaments
There is a 1v1 tournament hosted by Toggy this saturday. Because we had to delay the patch, it will be played on the test-server.  

Toggy is also giving PvE players a challenge with his speedrunning contest of the map Ocean. 

Both tournaments will reward booster prices. 
PvE
Don't worry PvE players, you are not forgotten. We are not ready to bring you a PvE patch just yet, but rest assured that a lot of work is put into improving the PvE experience. 
There have been a lot of heated arguments in the forum and the discord about what the ideal PvE scene should look like. We will release a philosophy document in the near future explaining our stance on certain topics and what you can expect from the balance team going forward. We cant share any details yet, but WindHunter will soon be in touch with you with more information. 
Balance Discord
Most of you might be aware, but alongside the regular discord we have a discord specifically focused on balancing PvE and PvP. You are encouraged to discuss potential changes and ideas with us here. 
Card Description Project
You might have noticed that cards in Battleforge aren't always very consistent or clear. A group of volunteers has started the huge undertaking to fix this. Not only are they clearing up sentences and details for every single card, they are also adding relevant hidden information like gender (girl-power anyone?), abilities, movement speed, a better reflection of a cards true damage output and much much more. Here is an example:

  *please note this is a mockup and not final yet
With hundreds of cards this might take a while before you see this in game, but I wanted to mention it already. I'm truly baffled by all the hours people put into this project behind the scene. If you want to help out with this project, they are currently in need of a French translator. If you know anyone, please reach out to them via the Description Changes Discord.
Map Testers
Some new map testers are helping us out with the project as well. They have already been a great help and we are grateful for their time. Thank you cswordmaster, LEBOVIM, LegitNacho, Liorans, Mister_Mv, Perthos and Wanky [CH][Ger]. 
New Team Members
To those who missed the announcements, we added two new members to the team in the past weeks. 
Going forward I will be your community manager and will be in charge of keeping the community updated on the latest information, while also making sure suggestions and concerns from the community reach the developers.
Tweeto has also joined the team as a 2D artist. He has already created two beautiful artworks for Amii Phantom and a possible new Amii card. We will have a staff meeting soon to get him underway to create even more awesome artwork. If you are interested in seeing how his artwork comes to live, we can also share that kind of information in the future. 
  
 
We still have some open positions on our team to help with the project. We are looking for map artists, designers, discord moderators and more. Please have a look at the Open Staff Positions for more open positions and information on how to apply!
Twitter and Facebook 
Are you following us on Twitter and Facebook already? They have been inactive for a while, but I have heard from a very reliable source that going over there might be.. rewarding for you. Expect us to use those channels to keep you updated from now on as well. 
In conclusion
And that's it for your very first Community Update! Just to set expectations: we definitely wont be releasing a new patch with every update and some weeks will have more news than others. 
In future updates, we would also like to take a moment to give some information on what we can and can't do in the game, and what a realistic flow of content will be. As you might have noticed, we have added quite a few members to the team lately and in the past week I have been absolutely blown away by all the work that is being done behind the scenes. I look forward to sharing more with you in the future.  
What do you guys think of this first biweekly status update? Is there something you would want to see covered more? We are open to feedback so please let us know. 
 

Patch #400027
Greetings Skylords, Skyladies, and Skyfolks!

Today we're rolling out a small patch to better promote ongoing tournaments.
In addition to that, we are happy to announce the next big patch for Skylords Reborn. We are working on some final things, but the patch after this one will include the next round of balancing changes for PvP! We plan to release the patch after the currently running PvE challenge ends. Be sure to check it out aswell, maybe you can earn yourself a couple of boosters:

Here are the short patch notes for today. As always, thank you so much for your support. We hope we will see each other in the forge soon!

General Changes
Replaced the ingame news with an "Events" tab. You can see all active and upcoming challenges and tournaments in there. This will be the default tab when you start the game.

The title pretty much says it.
I think the PvE record leaderboards should also include a section for community maps. This might spark some competition for best times and thus increase the attentention they get and their popularity.

“What do you mean, an African or European Swallow?”

The airspeed velocity of a (European) unladen swallow is about 24 miles per hour or 11 meters per second.

“What do you mean, an African or European Swallow?”

What is the average air speed velocity of a laden swallow?

Agree in all points, and even more: Many have this "frame" but still have troubles to encounter several situations as hard BG10 camps, several bosses like Nyxia, Hellhound, Fallen Eve, Infester or have troubles encountering willzappers, or have troubles with orbswitching which prolly needs some practice to feel safe with it. All not that easy as many people say
Batariel alone is far from beeing OP, and finding nice synergys that is what card games are about in my opinion. But hey, back to topic: Decomposer
 

Agree and like your comments, just a slight off topic "correction" that a lot of people seem to forget. Bata in himself is rather useless, at least in tough end camps in rpve. Reason he is being "op" is a combination of his own features and the supporting cards, like Life Weaving, Unholy Power + Hero, Frenetic, Infect, Nether Warp, Regrowth, Disenchant, Earthshaker,  Curse of Oink, etc, etc, etc. Without these cards Bata is mediocre at best...
Edit: Sorry, forgot to mention the enablers here, eg. the "horrific" void manipulation features, FoF + Cultist Master or SoW...they are a big reason to Bata being so called "op".
// Ponni

Hello everyone,
I am excited to announce that I will join the Skylords Reborn team as Community Manager!
As Community Manager I will be responsible for the communications between the Skylords Reborn team and the community. This will allow the team to focus more on their own positions, bringing you content and balancing patches faster, where I will be keeping you up to date about everything Skylords Reborn. This also includes on our social media channels, such as Twitter and Facebook.
One of the ways you can expect this to work is with biweekly status updates, highlighting things you might have missed and giving you sneak previews on what is being worked on.
I will also be making notes on frequently asked questions and the hot topics that are being discussed in the forums, discord or in-game. If you have any questions or ideas, feel free to post them in the forum or discord page, just as you are doing now. I will make sure to forward your ideas and questions to the team.
I'm happy and honored to join the team, being a Battleforge fan from the very first hour and I look forward in helping the project. If you also want to help, please take a look at the open staff positions here.
For now, please give me a bit of time to get up to date with the things happening behind the scenes. After that you can expect the very first biweekly status update, which I hope will result in a positive tradition.
I hope you are as excited as I am about the future of Skylords Reborn, and I look forward to working (and playing!) alongside all of you!

Both Enlightenment and Amii Mon couldn't be more far from the pvp meta - ergo they can't be OP there at all.
On the other hand, both cards dominate the complete PvE, with a few isolated exceptions. And this on all levels: BG speedruns are currently unthinkable without enlightenment, you can usually even tell the break even to "normal" strategies from the rankings. Solo, the Amii Mon is then added as a more or less set. Does this only affect the speedrunners?Not at all, I regularly see casuals in random BGs using both cards, be it for orbswitches, for supposedly "early" T4s, to cast other colors cards - to make life easy for themselves (even if this plan may not always succeed). And then we come to the advanced and expert maps which are completely trivialized by Amii Mon and Enlightenment was already very popular for this purpose.
So still: You can have another opinion, but mine is a strong "PLEASE not another "cheating" card"

Funny, on the one hand most people want to nerf the current meta - but on the other we have suggestions like this.

Long story short: Please No
Amii & Enlightenment are already too OP

Heya Skyfolk!

There have been increasing concerns lately about people selling and buying in-game content for real-life currency. We'd like to clarify that we do not and will never sell any BattleForge content for real-life money. This is due to the project being non-profit and a revival passion project in which we do not own any of the rights required to sell anything that's part of the game. Also, we like giving you a free experience of this amazing game without you ever having to worry about it being pay-to-win!
ANY kind of activity in the games, the forums, or our official discord server that involves trading in-game content for non-in-game content, be it real-life currency, accounts, games, literally anything that's not a part of the game, is strictly forbidden and not condoned by the Skylords Reborn Team. We do not and will never tolerate any kind of transactions that go beyond the game, such as account sales or trading BFP for real-life money, even if it was meant as a joke.
These kinds of malpractices put the entire game at risk for everyone involved; they could and will shut down the project entirely, never making Skylords Reborn available to the people again.  We don't want that to happen, and hopefully neither do any of you. We're very proud and happy to provide the BF experience to you and we intend to keep doing so!
For the safety of the community as well as the entire project's future, please consider the following:
If you see anyone attempting to sell or buy in-game content for out-of-game content on any platform report this to SR staff as soon as you can! We will do what we can to crack down on these cases as soon as possible. You can report someone by right clicking their name in the game and then clicking the report button, using the report function on the forums, or sending a DM to the SR Staff Mail bot on our Discord server. We will never sell you in-game content for real money. If someone does, report it. Attempting to sell in-game content like this is considered a threat to the entire project and its community, and will result in a permanent ban. This ban is NOT negotiable; you will never be able to access the game again. Period. We take these kinds of issues very seriously and we will always do what we can to keep Skylords Reborn a safe and enjoyable place for you all, and that means we try to keep it free from black market practices. By reporting, you can help keep Nyn safe and keep the game alive for all of us!
Thanks for keeping the game safe and enjoyable with us! Stay cool, stay safe, and enjoy the forge!

To save a replay, simply rename the "autosave" in the replayfolder. Or enable to save all replays in the options. If it stays your fastest run, just send this replay before the end of April.
 
Greetings,
Toggy

I am aware of the "imbalance" between the different decks. On the last PvE challenge we had ~10 participants, I am not sure if splitting those up by 4 would do any good. Should the reception be overwhelingly big I might split it up by coolours. It is also planned to have a real challenge (expert maps with extra rules) and a silver challenge (advanced map with some rules) in the future to give the pros a challenge while motivating the newer players to participate. It all depends on how many people participate/enjoy stuff like this. I am not a PvE player and cant really predict that.
 
Greetings,
DasToggy

omg why I sold all pure cards for speedrun cards?