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2 hours ago, Kapo said:
As expected, the fire tribes with their Sunstriders are the first who have valiantly entered the tournament!
PROPHECY! PROPHECY! PROPHECY!
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1 minute ago, DemonRJ said:
Amazing. Great job again
These updates always makes my day.Thats very kind, thank you so much 🙂
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On a personal note; it is hard to believe this is Community Update 30 already! Preparing and writing these always takes much more time than expected, but I hope its appreciated by the playerbase.
Community Updates started out as a way to keep the playerbase informed about all the work going on behind the scenes, as we are always working on more content, quality of life fixes or other ways to expand upon Skylords Reborn, even if it can take a while for a new patch to go live. All of this is done by a team of about 35 volunteers working in different departments on their evenings, weekends or holidays, alongside their job, studies and social responsibilities. It's always impressive to me to see how much we get done and are willing to invest into a fan project for no profit. Sometimes the workload can be a lot, but I am extremely grateful for the fact BattleForge was not only resurrected and I get to play it again, but I also get to work with a bunch of talented and passionate people in a great community.
Lets celebrate another year of Skylords together, and I hope to see you during the stream and in the Forge. 😄
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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!
• 2nd Anniversary Stream
The second anniversary of Skylords Reborn is coming up! Two years ago, on the 18th of December 2020, the world of Nyn opened its doors again, allowing more than 100.000 Skylords to re-experience this one-of-a-kind game. Since then, we have been hard at work to bring you even more content, bugfixes, new cards and other features. Skylords Reborn is truly by the fans, for the fans, and we are glad we can celebrate this second anniversary with you.
On Sunday the 18th of December at 20:00 CEST*, we will be hosting an anniversary stream on our official Twitch channel. We will look back on another year of Skylords Reborn, show off what will be included in our latest patch, and answer questions from the community.
We hope you will be joining us!
*Due to the busy December month, this time slot is pending, we will share the final streaming time closer to the anniversary.• Upcoming Content Patch
We are also hard at work to bring you a new content patch, aimed for release in December. It will include various balance changes, new cards, new achievements and a new feature.
Last year we focused on improving the economy and introduced Reforging; a way to make use of spare cards lying around and to adjust the prices of cards, giving even worthless cards a set minimum value and a creating a soft cap on card prices to prevent runaway inflation among the best ultra rares. We also added more achievements, increasing the number of boosters players can earn to help newer players get started on their collection.
Achievements are a great way to naturally introduce players to more cards, but also to keep players engaged with fun challenges. However, by rewarding items that interact with the economy (boosters, cards) we see some players get frustrated with achievements that provide challenges they don't enjoy or find too hard, yet feel forced to do because of the rewards.
So we started to work on an additional reward layer, and we are proud to reveal the new upcoming feature: Cosmetics.
With our new patch, we are introducing a bunch of new achievements focused on providing fun new challenges for players, while not having to worry about impacting the economy with their rewards. Instead, players will be able to earn special borders, banners and titles, allowing for more expression and fancy bling! Here is a little teaser:
Cosmetics will be part of our upcoming patch, and we will share more about it and their connected achievements in the anniversary stream.
• New Card Reveal: Sanctuary
In our Nature Deep Dive back in April, we already mentioned Sanctuary, a card that has been in development ever since. Sanctuary is a new tool for Pure Nature players that provides an effect similar to Mark of the Keeper to a select number of units.
Please note: We are still testing the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release.
Sanctuary is a new tier 4 spell for pure Nature decks, requiring four Nature orbs. The card will be Rare, and will come in two affinities. The effect of the non-upgraded version is as follows:
Blessed Spellbane
Up to 4 friendly units in a 25m radius will be wrapped in a countermagical aura. Affected units are surrounded by a spellblocking zone of 20m where enemies can neither use ranged attacks nor special abilities. Hostile players cannot play out cards within that zone. Additionally, affected units take 25% less damage. Lasts for 20 seconds. Reusable every 40 seconds.
Gifted Spellbane
Up to 4 friendly units in a 25m radius will be wrapped in a countermagical aura. Affected units are surrounded by a spellblocking zone of 20m where enemies can neither use ranged attacks nor special abilities. Hostile players cannot play out cards within that zone. Additionally, the duration of the immobilizing effects of Freeze and Paralyze is reduced by 75% on all affected targets. Lasts for 20 seconds. Reusable every 40 seconds.
Sanctuary continues our work on the Nature faction, alongside various balance changes coming to the faction in our upcoming patch. Sanctuary aims to provide Nature players with a reward for playing Pure Nature decks, instead of Enlightenment decks. It is a powerful effect that covers some weaknesses with which the faction struggles.Sanctuary is planned to release in our next patch.
• Art Spotlight
Work on Sanctuary started back in July, with SpiritAlpha coming up with a few sketches to explore directions. At this point, we weren't sure what the focus point would be of the spell. During design there were versions with non-nature units like the Overlord at the center of the spell. We thought it would be fun to show these very early concepts.
The art feedback channel was home to many a discussion during the progress, with as many as eight different takes up for discussion. We had versions with the focus on a village (1, 2), a focus on a single unit (Swamp Drake 3, Giant Wyrm 4, Abyssal Warder 6) to Twilight investation around the borders, being held back by the sanctuary (8).
After voting, the version with two dragons in the sky (5) was used to come to the final design. A big thanks to our artists SpiritAlpha and Tweeto for working on this piece and to our Art Critiques for providing feedback. As you can see, we always put a lot of thought and effort into our artworks, we hope it shows!
• Tournaments / Events
Since Community Updates are posted on a monthly schedule, events might come and go in between them. Be sure to keep a close eye on the ingame event-tab and the forum calendar to not miss any events!
• CLOSING SOON – Official PvE Contest #7: Harvest season – until 02.12.2022
For this challenge, we want to see you succeed in playing the map Bad Harvest, while accomplishing several goals of varying difficulty.
The more objectives your team accomplishes, the more points you get, which will lead to greater rewards! More information.
• NEW – CCC #9 – The Archer's Tournament – Until 10.12.2022
Once the official PvE contest is finished, a new CCC run by Kapo goes live the day. Click here for details.
• FINISHED – Official Halloween Event
While our Halloween event is now over, you can still play this new take on a familiar map. Instead of Encountering Twilight, Rogan Kayle finds himself in the face of new horrors. Click here for how to access the map.
• Host your own tournament / event
Want to host a tournament or event yourself? Please reach out to our Event Organizer, Metagross! 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
Sadly, Chibiterasu has decided to quit his role of balance developer. While sad to see him go, we respect his decision and would like to thank him for all his work.
• Contribute to the Project
As always, we hope you will consider helping out the project. Please take a look at all our open positions on how you can do so.
There are also a variety of contributor roles, like translator, that don't require you to join the staff, but still allow you to help out now and then. Please take a look.
• In Conclusion
And that's it for this Community Update, thanks for reading!
As is tradition, this community update comes with a scratch code.
The code will reward you with a General-booster: HAPP-YANN-IVER-SARY
The code is valid until January 1st, when we will bring you another Community Update.As always, we are open to feedback, so please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions, or comments!
Archive
• Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide)
• Overview Community Updates
• Community Update #29 -
Hey there, sorry to hear you are having troubles. Can you provide the log?
Unexpected or constant crash? If you haven’t restarted your game, send us your latest log in the report-a-bug or technical-support channel with a description of your problem. The log file we need is _log_proxy_latest.log. Restarted your game already? No worries, just send the previous log, which is _log_proxy_0.log. If your game closed without any error message, then please send us your crashdata.mdmp aswell. Not sure where to find the logs? Here's where:
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As you probably know, you can select your avatar to have the card art of every card in the game (including the new cards) already. The other artwork (for example, parts of the wallpapers) are mostly used on the small icons that go with Achievements, but are not actually profile avatars. This might be something to look into.
While experimenting with achievements in the last patch, we ran into issues that some people really like unique challenges, but if we lock ingame content behind them (for example, boosters), some players feel forced to do things they dont like doing just for the sake of the rewards. Rewarding non-economy rewards is indeed a solution, and something we plan to do more with in the near future.
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I should have voted Viridya to stay on brand, but I really want to see your take on Fallen Skyelf.
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8 hours ago, BoltyGER said:
ah okay, beside from having given away promo snapjaw with a code a few years back, there is no other way to get it then trade/buy it from someone i belive
That is correct 🙂 we made them tradeable after a year, but they are meant to be special.
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You can definitely expect new promo cards at some point 🙂 they just take quite a while to make
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Just a headsup: even though the Halloween event is over, the Map is still available if you missed it or want to play it once more. It supports all difficulties, though we made the event with Expert in mind.
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9 hours ago, kdc169 said:
I didn't go looking for a solution, because they gave me short and thick answers, yes I've been almost 2 years without playing, and that was the reason. And I got some letters from my wife, and I gave her some. as she used the "deck of lost spirit ships", and I used ice, there were many exchanges, but how could I be playing on 2 accounts at the same time? in the same match? with different actions?, now are you going to say that I use some kind of "BOT" to play in a group?, as I said before and I'll say it again, if you want a photo of my living room where I play with my wife, other games I command, I have nothing to hide, I don't want to harm anyone, I just want to play a game that I really like, well today if I go back to playing with my old account it will be alone, because my wife gave up the game thanks to your undue pounition, if any some way to recover my old account ok, if not, i don't even install the game again. thanks
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And let's be honest, if I were to take advantage of the game, I would use more than 1 account, don't you agree? could i use 10-20 beads? but like i said i was just playing with my wife. They banned me, I tried to argue, they told me to shove the argument up my ass and that was it. I did send requests via discord as requested, and once again, nothing. That's when I abandoned the reborn.
almost 2 years, and here I am again, to see if anyone can help me this time, as I said earlier, my wife left you, (the game), today she hates you, and BF. this is all due to a misunderstanding.
I'm not a moderator, but I asked around, and apparently you are currently not banned at all, just put in the wrong password 7 times in a row. Please contact our mod team on discord to solve this situation.
As for your wife, im sorry she has negative feelings towards the game/project. Please note you played before the game even fully released (which was december 2020) so a lot of things have changed since then, both ingame and on our team. You are both welcome to try the game again.
Please note however; ALL accounts were resetted when we released in 2020, as was communicated would happen. If you played before 2020, you wont have your old collection. -
2 hours ago, kdc169 said:
I just didn't understand, why the ban until today I try to play, but when I remember what they did I give up, my wife has already given up on the game, we played for many years for EA games. together, I always with one type of card and she with others, usually she makes the ghost boats. but that's ok, since it's wrong to trade cards, why is there a market? As I said before, I don't have to cheat in a game that's already been dropped once, and I don't want to see that happen again.
because, I can't receive or give cards to my wife, ok, but imagine a team with 4 players that play together, do you think they won't exchange or donate cards to each other? so will you ban all 4?
because, I can't receive or give cards to my wife, ok, but imagine a team with 4 players that play together, do you think they won't exchange or donate cards to each other? so will you ban all 4?
because, I can't receive or give cards to my wife, ok, but imagine a team with 4 players that play together, do you think they won't exchange or donate cards to each other? so will you ban all 4?
Your last message was from 1,5 years ago, and our mods replied that you need to make a ban appeal to look at your situation. From my understanding you never did this.
If the system (or a mod) notices certain behaviour (one sided trades) or donations on the same IP adress, the account sometimes get flagged as multi-accounting. A way to prevent this is to either let the mods know beforehand ''hey im playing with a partner/family member on this account'', or appeal your ban so they can look at your specific situation more.
Obviously you are allowed to trade or give away some cards, and play with your partner, friend, brother, sister, child, etc. The system just doesnt like it if you dump all the content from one account into the other.
So again, just make a ban appeal and our mods can look at your situation. If you played the game normally, and just gifted a card here or there, obviously you will get unbanned.
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Maybe obvious, but how is your internet connection? The game is pretty harsh on unstable connections, a small dip might already kick you out. There are no server wide issues known at this moment.
Things you could try:
- Play wired (if you are on wi-fi) if only to see if it solves the issue
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I should really use these commands more 😅 Good stuff
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If anyone else has something similair for sale, I would be interested 🙂
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These are awesome! Excited about your take on Snapjaws!
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4 hours ago, wanky said:
i do not think power costs matters on this card ^^
It made it even more broken AND was playable in pvp because of its low cost
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17 hours ago, Sacriefice said:
Enlightenment
I could see a change where it only reduces the cost by one orb, meaning if you have 2nature 1shadow you get 1wildcard orb so you could spawn an Overlord (2Shadow2neutral), but not a forest elder (4nature).Im sure it has already been suggested (since basicly everything under the sun will have been suggested regarding enlightenment now) but I didnt see this one before, and I think its a clever solution. Even makes enlightenemnt scale somewhat into tier 4, allowing more wildcard options.
However, while most people (myself included) dislike enlightenment, its also extremely loved by another part of the community, so I dont know if we will ever see changes to it.
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1 hour ago, Hrdina_Imperia said:
Seems to be intended. I mean, you are paying power for the extra charges anyways, so guess it is kinda balanced.
Yep, would have love to have it during the PvE league challenge, MOAR FIRESPHERES!
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11 hours ago, ManGa said:
However, Melee Pathfinding is a problem in just about any RTS.
I remember a documentary about Tiberian Sun where the developer said that their plan was basicly to have the unit take the least dumb path, cause any real logic did not work out.
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2 hours ago, entaure said:
Thank you so much, had much fun with this map) Could we request more lost-souls alterations in the future?) Sounds like fun!
Was not planned, but since people liked this so much, who knows!
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8 hours ago, BoltyGER said:
This is my last idea for today.
So far from what i seen we have Green, light green, blue and light blue. in PVP i seen White, Yellow orange and Red as additional colors, some of these are used in Campign aswell, Is there a possibility to choose any color you would like? Instead of having 4 limited colors, what if you were suddenly purple or yellow yourself, is that even psssible with this gaming system?
I also checked if anyone already made a topic about ingame color and so far none had.Those colors serve a purpose to very quickly see what is going on on the map, and use quite standard color scheme's from other RTS games. While customization is great, I don't think it would be a very good idea to start messing with the base "rules" like this.
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9 hours ago, Draconnor said:
while new Evil Eye is great... and works fine in multiple tested decks (mostly casual and fun decks)
i dont understand how - Conjuration works - it work as it should? It don't add charges to abomination or skycatcher...
Spell is critical here. While some games (like Magic the Gathering) count/name everything as a spell, in Skylords this means it does not effect your units or buildings, but only your spells. 🙂
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37 minutes ago, Deathseed said:
Great artwork !
PS: I love the Halloween event artwork also, is there some wallpaper for download ?
Jep!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qCb2UPSz7h3031L-8bLCbzSjxSFuy0HS
Fog of War Option for PVE/RPVE
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Fog of War is a tool used in PvP to reward scouting. Knowing what is coming to resposition your army, or seeing a build order to know if you should build anti air/stealth, etc. But since BattleForge can spawn an army in the blink of an eye, it would mostly add frustration.
The game is also not balanced around it, take for example firedancers: the moment you figure out where they are, your base is already under attack and probably lost. Or imagine a tier 1 situation, where you move out your unit/army, but go left, where you opponent goes right and heading straight for your base, and suddenly their whole army is in your base, while you were still scouting the map.
The discussion for Fog of War in PvP comes up every so often, but it just wouldn't work as well for this game.
As for PvE, with 3 difficulties, I dont think new players would need this, and if they really want to know a map's layout, they can always watch a replay 🙂