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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! Another packed community update! This time, we will take a quick look at the newly unlocked seasonal challenges, changes to the relic shop prices and a new shadow card reveal. We are also looking for new voice actors, so if you have ever wanted to immortalize yourself in a game, now's your chance! Before we get to the meat and bones of this community update, allow me a quick introduction. • Something About Me Last month, we announced that our Community Updates have a new writer going forward. Let me properly introduce myself as your new Community Manager. I joined the Skylords Reborn team in 2021, after I read that without map developers, no new official maps would be made. I could not let that happen, and I joined as a Map Artist. That role slowly evolved into a Map Developer, and later also into an amateur Map Designer. I have worked to varying degrees on all released map content so far, and I actively work on new campaign maps and forge skins. I will keep my role in the map department in addition to this new title. So we can bring you new map content without any delays. Now, as a new community manager, it is my pleasure to celebrate this occasion by providing my first (mini)booster code for all of you! NEWS-HERI-FFIN-TOWN Trying to buy some goodwill right at the start, eh? The code is valid until the 1st of December. But enough about me, let's move on to more interesting things. • Changes to Seasonal Shop Prices Now that our second season has begun and the rewards from the previous season are now available in the relic shop, we have received some feedback about the relic costs. Some players only missed the Promo Sunderer, or other major rewards, by a few points, but they still need to pay full-cost for these cosmetics in the shop. This hardly seems fair, so we will be prorating the item prices in the shop. What this means is that every item in the shop connected to a season (including the Promo) will be discounted by a percentage proportional to the amount of progress a player made in the reward track of that season. This progress will be based on how close a particular player got to receiving the Promo reward. E.g. If you earned 60% of the points in the Fire Season that it would take to unlock the Promo Sunderer, all Fire Season cosmetics you missed will cost 60% less, forever. This discount caps at 70% for all cosmetics, except the final title and the top 100 border reward, which caps at a 50% discount. This change affects all the current and future items in the seasonal shop that were a part of the seasonal rewards - profile cosmetics, titles, forge skins and promos. Players who have already purchased items from the shop for full price will be reimbursed for the relic price difference. We will introduce these changes in a small patch in the coming days. • New Seasonal Challenges As the new month dawns, new seasonal challenges have been unlocked. Let's take a closer look at them now. 3.1 - Win different campaign maps or featured community maps on advanced difficulty or higher. No spell cards are allowed. All cards played must be Nature or Twilight cards. These restrictions apply to all team members. 3.2 - Win the 1-player featured community maps Nyxia and Aeglos Fortress on advanced difficulty or higher. All cards played must be Nature cards. 3.3 - Win the 1-player scenario The Treasure Fleet and the 4-player scenario The Guns of Lyr on advanced difficulty or higher. All enemy buildings in the map must be destroyed. All cards played must be Nature or Twilight cards. These restrictions apply to all team members. 3.4 - Win the 2-player scenarios Nightmare's Shard and Nightmare's End on standard difficulty or higher. Only cards of Tier 3 and below are allowed. All cards played must be Nature or Twilight cards. These restrictions apply to all team members. 3.5 - Win the 4-player scenarios Titans and Raven's End on standard difficulty or higher. No towers, fortresses, or shrines may be played. All cards played must be Nature, Twilight, or Neutral cards. These restrictions apply to all team members. 3.6 - Win the 1-player campaign scenario The Soultree on advanced difficulty or higher. No T2 cards may be used. All cards played must be Nature or Twilight cards. As usual, the challenges remain available until the end of the season. • How Does It Work - Root Network Since this season's theme is Nature and Twilight, we thought it best to remind the players of a video explaining the root network - the unique and complex ability of the Nature faction. It can be tricky to understand and setup, but the pay-off is oftentimes very much worth it. • Yearly Halloween Event The season of Halloween is upon us! That means the yearly time-exclusive achievements are back on the menu! Win the featured community PvE map Spooky Giants on expert difficulty to get Promo Jorne! The achievement is available until the 10th of November. Win the featured community PvE map Spooky Encounters on expert difficulty to get the Halloween Pumpkin profile picture and a Lost Souls booster pack! The achievement is available until the 4th of November. Please note, the rewards can be collected only once per account. • New Card Reveal: Devourer Since we started releasing new cards in December 2021, every existing faction in the game has received at least one new addition to its roster with the exception of Shadow. This occurred mostly because other factions were in more dire need of new cards than Shadow, which was one of the most viable factions when the game was rereleased and which also had plentiful fodder for reworks like Plague, Altar of Nihil, and Infernal Chain. With the upcoming release of Devourer, the Shadow famine is at its end. Behold, the Devourer! Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release. Consume Consume one enemy unit in range. Devourer teleports to the target enemy unit’s location, instantly killing it. The consumed enemy is then resurrected as an own unit but dies after 30 seconds. Needs to have gathered 6000 life points from corpses first. Reusable every 40 seconds. Corpse Gathering Harvests energy from nearby corpses equal to their former maximum life points to enable the devouring of enemies. A maximum of 6000 life points can be stored at once. Mincemeat Allied units in a 20m radius around Devourer will explode as soon as they die, dealing 400 damage to hostile entities in a 15m radius, up to 600 in total. Effect can apply to a unit multiple times. Design notes: Devourer is a T4 pure XL unit. Pure Shadow's T4 is currently one of the least compelling options in the game and perhaps the weakest color combination right now. Other pure factions have major pay-off units in Forest Elder, Dreadnought, and Batariel, but Pure Shadow's own Shadow Worm is not on par with these options, and given its core design, it is not a good option to build a faction around. Enter Devourer. Devourer has synergy with two of Shadow's core mechanics, corpses and swarms. Once it has gathered enough life points, a Devourer can burrow through the ground and consume any non-boss enemy within a 30m range. That enemy is then resurrected as an allied unit for 30 seconds. Additionally, Devourer has a second mechanic where any allied unit that dies within a 20m radius will explode and deal damage to enemies. This directly synergizes with Consume and key Shadow support cards like Infect, Undead Army, and even Grim Bahir. With Devourer, players can destroy camps with combos like Infect + Frenetic Assault, then warp to a second camp where Devourer's Mincemeat mechanic will cause all the dying summons to explode and wipe the place out. We hope players will enjoy discovering all the combinations this upcoming addition to Shadow's T4 will enable. Devourer will release in an upcoming content patch, date to be announced. • Art Spotlight: Devourer The Devourer artwork was created by our talented artist Spirit Alpha, with Elkondo coming in to do some finishing touches and color correction. Sketching As usual, we have started with a rough sketch of the Devourer's pose and design. That sketch was slowly improved upon with more details, a small pose adjustment and was finalised into a black and white image with a detailed background. Coloring During the coloring stage, we decided that the castle in the background was muddying the silhouette too much and removed it. We then adjusted the horns to better reflect the in-game model and via some texturing magic, made the shell appear more like a polished carapace. In the end, we increased the contrast of the entire image so that it better resembled the original card artworks. Finalizing In the final piece, we only made some small adjustments - like the smaller eye and added a thin fog effect to convey depth. The artwork sure evokes the feeling of the original game, and we hope you are as excited for the upcoming shadow card as we are! • Voice Actors Search #3 Over the years, we've made several searches for new voice actors. While we have a stable roster of voice actors, we are looking to bring new blood into our fold and expand our range. If you are interested, please fill out this application form. We will send out a trial script with instructions to all the applicants within 4 - 6 weeks (depending on the number of applications), after which, our audio department will go through the submitted takes and decide on fitting candidates. • Team Changes Majora left his post as the Community Manager, with me (R4bitF00t) being the successor. He will still retain his position as the Project Coordinator. We want to thank Majora for his years of Community Updates and dedication to the project and wish him the best in his new job! Rue has joined as a Trial Discord Moderator and quickly became an active member of the moderation team. Last month we released him from the role of Trial Discord Moderator and made him a full on Global Moderator. Congratulations, and good luck on your moderation journey! • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! [ Call for Help ] We are currently in need of more people to help us out with German translations. Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • Card Design Contest Winner Stream The popular Card Design Contest event has come to an end. We have had many great entries, and all that remains now is for the jury to review and rate all of the submissions. Be sure to join us on the 16th of November at 19:00 CET on Ultralord's Twitch Channel, where we will reveal the winning entries. • Events 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! Current events: • NEW - Happy Halloween! -> till 4.11.2025 Win the featured PvE community map Spooky Encounters on expert difficulty to get a themed profile picture and a Lost Souls booster pack! Reward is granted only once per account. • NEW - Frankenstein's Monster -> till 10.11.2025 Win the featured PvE community map Spooky Giants on expert difficulty to get the Promo Jorne card! Reward is granted only once per account. Upcoming events: • NEW - TEAM - Thrilling Epic Action Mission -> Start 14.11.2025 till 30.11.2025 Prepare yourself for an exciting 4 Player event - more information soon. • NEW - Autumn Cup 2025 -> Start 09.11.2025 An exciting evening filled with PvP action! Register until 09.11.2025 to compete in 1v1 PvP matches with double elimination. The event starts on 09.11. at 15:30 CET, and will be streamed on Ultralord's Twitch Channel. <Click here for more details.> Recent events: • FINISHED - Card Design Contest - Winner Reveal Stream on November 16th! For the second time, we have invited you to design your own cards and you sure delivered! Be sure to watch the event stream with the results on 16.11. at 19:00 CET on Ultralord's Twitch Channel. • FINISHED - Rookie Tournament - Ended 19.10.2025 You can check out the event recording here. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers @Metagross31 or @Ultralord. 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. • 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 Twilight booster: TWIL-IGHT-BOOS-TNOW This code is valid until December 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update October 2025

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! This Community Update is packed! We’re kicking off our second season, sharing all the rewards you can earn (including some nice surprises), and have a teaser for something the community has been asking about for a long time. It’s also the last Community Update I have personally written, but more on that later. First, let’s dive into the good stuff! • Season 1 - Primordial Fire - Completed Today marks the start of our second season, Natural Selection, and the end of our first season, Primordial Fire! Please note: Season 1 will end at 12 PM CET, after which Season 2 will start. Let's first go over what happens once the first season has concluded: • Seasonal Quests for Season 1 are deactivated and can no longer be completed. • Players can still view the quests and leaderboards of the previous season, including their progress. • Final leaderboard standings are updated and rewards have been distributed accordingly. • Completed but unclaimed challenges have automatically been claimed, and progressed rewards accordingly. • Scorchlings, Hellhound and Treasure Wagon now drop from boosters. • The promo Sunderer, if not yet earned, is now purchasable with Relics in the Relic-shop. • Unearned cosmetics (titles, borders, banners and the Forge-skin) are now purchasable with Relics in the Relic-shop. • You can continue to earn Relics by completing challenges of Season 2, or by beating the infected map of the week. • Unique for this season: players will receive 50 additional seasonal points, see below. Primordial Fire was our first attempt at a seasonal structure. After watching the season unfold, we came to the conclusion that seasonal points were too closely tied to repeatable and required more daily play and grinding than we intended. While we have incorporated what we have learned and made adjustments in season 2, we have decided to give players 50 seasonal points for Primordial Fire. We feel this brings the season rewards more in line with what we had originally in mind. If you log-in during October, you will have the points added to your account. With that out of the way, let's talk about Season 2: Natural Selection! • Season 2 - Natural Selection This season will be focusing on the Nature and Twilight factions, and will once again last 4 months, from October 1st to January 31st. For Season 2, we've made some changes to the challenges and reward structure based on player feedback. The reward track is more condensed in the beginning, with players now able to earn existing Nature and Twilight cards to help accelerate their deckbuilding. More challenges were added to all categories, giving players more opportunities to earn points by playing challenges they like and at lower difficulties. Standard challenges exist for players who are new or just returned and not yet ready to take on advanced. Repeatable challenges have been expanded and a maximum point cap of 400 points has been introduced. Overall, repeatable challenges will require both substantially less grinding and less daily play, and players should be able to earn the promo reward by completing all challenges at the advanced level. You can view all the challenges available at the start of the season in the patch notes, alongside balance changes that are part of the patch. • New Cards This season once again introduces three new and time-exclusive cards, meaning they are tied to the season rewards and will not drop from booster packs or reforging while Season 2 is active, but are instead granted as rewards for gathering seasonal points. After the season has concluded, the non-promo cards will drop from boosters as usual. Twilight Infestation This building can summon Twilight Devastators and Twilight Dancers to the field. Devastators are powerful front-line siege units, while Twilight Dancers can attack from long range. Additionally, this building can spread the Twilight Curse to your other troops and unlock their full potential. Whisperer This iconic enemy makes its appearance as a player card, with powerful skills to control the battlefield. Whisperers can heal allies and blind their enemies. If the unit is transformed, it creates an anti-magic zone where enemies can’t use ranged attacks or special abilities. Woodland Watch A unique tower which allows the player to change its attack based on the Elf-unit placed inside. Sunstriders and White Rangers increase the tower’s range, Windweavers and Twilight Slayers grant an additional multi-shot attack, and Darkelves and Spirit Hunters provide a poison effect. In our Q&A and previous Community Update, Woodland Watch still had work-in-progress artwork. We are very happy with the final artwork as shown above, beautifully drawn by our artist Elkondo. • Season 2 - Promo Reveal In addition to these three new cards, players can also collect a unique promo. Last month, we already revealed the new cards, and today we are excited to talk about the special promo card tied to the season. In our last yearly feedback survey, we asked players which card they would most like to see receive the promo treatment. One card was clearly favored over the rest and received the most votes, but we decided to keep it a secret and start work on its creation behind the scenes. After a lot of work from our artists, we have made it happen. Behold the highly anticipated Promo Forest Elder! • Season Overview and Patch Notes That is a lot to unpack, so we have also created an overview video for this season. Take a look! We have also prepared an infographic for you to quickly see what you can collect this season: Lastly, head over to our patch notes to see all the changes and additions that have been released. Season 2, will go live at 12:00 PM CET! • Promotion Alongside this season, we are also releasing two new twilight cards; "Skyscorcher" and "Molt". Skyscorcher is a new tier 3 Twilight tower that has a long-range anti-air attack in addition to its ground attack. Molt is a simple but versatile new Twilight spell, which triggers the transformation effect of Twilight units without actually transforming them. These cards will not be tied to the seasonal rewards, but instead drop from boosters as normal. However, to celebrate the release of our second season, every player who logs in during October will get a free copy of Molt! You can read more about Molt and how its design and artwork were created in our Community Update for December. While it took longer than expected to get the card into your hands, we are happy we made it in time for the season, where it will surely come in handy! • Community Update - Update On April 23rd, 2021, we released our first Community Update. Taken from its introduction: We are happy to bring you the first official community update, a biweekly update to give you an overview of what's 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. We ended up changing biweekly updates to a monthly edition, which allowed us to be consistent with its content. By always releasing the update on the first of the month, its also a lot easier to know when to expect news from the project, and we have heard from many of you that its a way to check-in with the project, even while taking a break from playing. What started as a way to improve communication between players and the dev team has become a fundamental part of Skylords Reborn. Community Updates aren't going anywhere, but today marks the 64th and final Community Update I have personally written. As I am about to start a full-time job as a Game Producer, it is time for me to pass the torch. Starting today, R4bitF00t will be your new Community Manager. As an active member of our team and author of the official Map Editor Guide, I am confident he will do an amazing job. Please check in November 1st for his first Community Update! I would like to thank everyone who has given constructive feedback and positive remarks on the Community Updates over the years. These updates have always been a team effort, and I am proud of all the cool things I got to announce and share with you on behalf of the team. Skylords Reborn has an amazing community, and I am grateful I was able to be your Community Manager for almost 5 years. It was a wonderful experience. Thank you, truly. Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! [ Call for Help ] We are currently in need of more people to help us out with German translations. Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • Card Design Contest Promo Forest Elder is not the only frequent request we are answering! The first installation of the Card Design Contest was a grand success, and many times Skylords asked us if there will be a follow-up. <Click here to view forum post with the rules and details of the contest>. • Events 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! Upcoming events: • NEW - Rookie Tournament - 19.10.2025 at 16:00 CET Interested in PvP, but intimidated by the veterans? We got you covered! Join this Rookie tournament, where only rookies can join, and there are prizes for all participants! The tournament will be hosted and livestreamed. Check out the rules and sign-up. • NEW - Card Design Contest For the second time, we invite you to design your own card(s) and present them to a jury of SR team designers. From the first installation of this contest, three suggestions made it into the game! <Click here for details>. Recent events: • FINISHED - Battle of Tactics #10: Friendly Fire Find out what Friendly Fire enabled looks like in the latest Battle of Tactics, in which Skylords had to ''team-up'' to beat the map Into the Jungle. You can now watch the YouTube recording. • FINISHED - Egg-Ball Tournament - 21.09.2025 18:00 CEST Back in July 2024, we introduced a Football/Soccer game-mode with The Seven Strategy Showdown #7. Last month, we hosted a PvP tournament of this game-mode. Check out the recording of the livestream. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers @Metagross31 or @Ultralord. 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. • 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 Twilight booster: PROM-OFOR-ESTE-LDER This code is valid until November 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 for our e-mail newsletter here. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update September 2025

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! • Q&A with Windhunter and Majora Last Friday we hosted a live Q&A on Twitch. With the introduction of seasons, modifiers, and a new campaign map, we figured it was a great time to sit down and go a bit more in depth about the creation of our latest content, and of course answer your questions! You can rewatch the Q&A below. It contains a lot of information about campaign maps, card design and our season structure. We also talk about our second season and which new cards you will be able to collect. • Season 1 - Primordial Fire: Month #4/4 Today marks the start of the final month of our first season: Primordial Fire. This month won't add any additional challenges. It is meant as a break and/or catch-up for players to complete any challenges they might have missed or failed to complete the past 3 months. Once September ends, so will the Primordial Fire season. This will lead to the following: - Seasonal Quests for Season 1 will be de-activated and can no longer be completed. - Players can still view the quests and leaderboards of the season, including their progress. - Final leaderboard standings will be updated and distribute rewards accordingly. - All completed but unclaimed challenges will automatically be claimed, and progress rewards accordingly. - Scorchlings, Hellhound and Treasure Wagon will drop from boosters. - The promo Sunderer, if not yet earned, will be purchasable with Relics in the Relic-shop. - Unearned cosmetics (titles, borders, banners and the Forge-skin) will be purchasable with Relics in the Relic-shop. - You can continue to earn Relics through Season 2, or by beating the infected map of the week. We hope players enjoyed the first Season, and were able to earn the rewards they were playing for. While we have already incorporated feedback from Season 1 for our future seasons, we will continue to monitor feedback and adjust to make the system as enjoyable as possible for everyone involved. But for now, good luck with your final challenges Skylord! • Season 2 - Natural Selection Meanwhile, we are preparing the start of our second season, which was announced during our Q&A: Natural Selection! This season will be focusing on the Nature and Twilight factions. It will once again last 4 months, and is currently scheduled to start October 1st. Players will be able to earn 3 new cards, and a unique promo card. Today, we are revealing which new cards players will be able to collect during the season, but we will keep the promo card a surprise until the season starts. With it being the most requested promo in our Feedback Survey last year, and great work done by our artists, we are sure players are going to love it! For Season 2, we've made changes to the challenges and reward track based on player feedback. Some of these adjustments were already discussed during the Q&A, and we’ll share more details in the next Community Update. For now, let’s talk about the new cards! • New Card Reveal: Twilight Whisperer There are already many Twilight cards in the game, but one of the most frequently requested has always been the Twilight Whisperer. First appearing as a powerful enemy on the very first map, Encounters with Twilight, the Whisperer has long been the bane of Skylords relying on ranged units. Its unique blind effect makes it a formidable foe, and soon you’ll be able to add it to your own line-up. After all this time, making its debut as a player card: Twilight Whisperer! Rejuvenate Every 5 seconds, unit triggers a heal chain that may affect up to 3 friendly units. The first one will be healed for 150 life points while each of the following targets will be healed for 40 life points less. Blind Every 10 seconds, unit casts a ball of light that blinds enemies in a 12m radius around the target for 10 seconds. Has a long range of 40m. Shhhh! If the unit is transformed, it will create an anti-magic zone of 20m where enemies can neither use ranged attacks nor special abilities. Lasts for 10 seconds. Transformation The unit is infected with the Twilight Curse, activate to start the mutation process and choose a Twilight unit from the current deck to be transformed into after 0.5 seconds. The current deck must contain at least one other Twilight unit whose orb requirements are met! Has a 10 seconds cool-down after the card was played out or previously transformed. Design notes: Twilight Whisperer is an iconic enemy we have long wanted to add to the game. The question was always where it might fit. Twilight's T2 cannot have a strong ranged attacker due to PvP concerns, and an M-sized support would likely be lackluster in T3 & T4. We finally solved the riddle by giving the unit its iconic blind effect but without it dealing any damage. This way the unit is a pure support unit. To facilitate its role as a backline healer who can also CC enemies, we have given it a 40m range for its Blind attack. This way Whisperer can sit safely behind its allies while still reaching enemies it wants to disable. Lastly we wanted to give it a fitting Transformation ability and we thought a temporary Mark of the Keeper effect fit the unit's overall identity well. Twilight Whisperer will release as a season reward for our second season. • New Card Reveal: Twilight Infestation Summon-buildings are quite popular among the player base. After the positive reception to Bandit Hut, we began exploring other potential candidates that could make a good fit. With the existing Twilight unit line-up already being quite large, and with no plans to release separate player cards for Twilight Dancers and Twilight Devastators, we saw this as the perfect opportunity to put them into players’ hands regardless. We’re excited to reveal: Twilight Infestation! Summon Devastator Activate to summon a Twilight Devastator. Will no longer summon units once a population of 150 would be exceeded. Reusable every 60 seconds. Summon Dancers Activate to summon 2 Twilight Dancers. Will no longer summon units once a population of 150 would be exceeded. Reusable every 60 seconds. Transformation Infects an own ground unit with the Twilight Curse. During the next 40 seconds the unit can transform at will into any other Twilight unit in the current deck whose orb requirements are met. Reusable every 3 seconds. Design notes: Bandit Hut proved to be a popular addition to the game and a fitting one, especially because most T3 Bandit units are lackluster. We think that a spawner also fits Twilight's identity but in a slightly different way. While Bandit Hut is a swarm building, Twilight Infestation is more designed to work as a supplement to Twilight's other T3 options. For this reason, Infestation's spawns are stronger but with longer cooldowns between usage. The new Twilight spawner also has the Twilight Infection ability from Skycatcher, which will allow players to transform their leftover T1 and T2 units into T3 or T4 Twilight units. In this way, the player no longer needs to kill off lower tier units to get access to their void power, but the player can instead decide to evolve them into ever more perfect forms, properly fitting the theme of Twilight. Twilight Infestation will release as a season reward for our second season. • New Card Reveal: Woodland Watch The Root Network mechanic from the Nature faction enables extremely powerful defensive setups. However, we felt there was still room to explore other defensive options that don't require players to commit to Root Network cards. Woodland Watch is a unique new tower that allows the player to send in a single Elf squad, adapting its attack based on the unit placed inside. Let’s talk a bit more about Woodland Watch! Please note: The card is still in development. Artwork is in progress, and stats or effects may change before release. Bow Shot Every 3 seconds, the tower launches arrows each dealing 102 damage to enemies within a 8m radius, up to 153 in total. It may attack two targets at once. Call the Elves! Activate to send the chosen friendly small elf unit within a 25m radius into Woodland Watch. The tower is strengthened and gains a different buff depending on which unit has entered. Only one elf unit can enter the tower at a time. • Range Increase The tower gets a 10m range increase if a Sunstrider or White Ranger squad is inside. • Multi-shot The tower can fire at an additional target if a Windweaver or Twilight Slayer squad is inside. • Poison Enemies damaged by Woodland Watch take 30 damage per second for 10 seconds if a Spirit Hunter or Darkelves squad is inside. Design notes: T2 Nature has a problem defending in T2 behind walls. While it has a strong defense unit in Spikeroot, the problem is that Spikeroot cannot attack through walls nor can it hit flying enemies. Players must therefore default to Living Tower, which often then necessitates other root network cards and even then, Living Tower is not a good option when used in mass due to how the support mechanic works. We therefore wanted to add a new T2 Nature tower which was not root network dependent. Woodland Watch is that tower. It has multi-shot and good stats, allowing it to fill a similar role to other T2 towers. At the same time, it can be empowered by absorbing an elf unit, thereby taking on new traits. The idea here is that the elves reinforce the tower and add new traits to it similar to their individual unit or faction traits. Sunstriders and White Rangers give +10m range, Windweavers and Twilight Slayers give an additional multi-shot attack, and Darkelves and Spirit Hunters provide a poison effect. Some of these elves are obviously not Nature cards, which allows Woodland Watch to provide unique splash options, something we are always trying to do more of. Additionally, Woodland Watch can absorb allied units, so you can work together with your Fire, Shadow, or Frost ally to bolster your Woodland Watch and make your defense well suited to the situation. Woodland Watch will release as a season reward for our second season. • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • Events 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! Current events: • NEW - Battle of Tactics #10: Friendly Fire -> STARTS: 05.09.2025 Have you ever wondered how Skylords Reborn would play with Friendly Fire enabled? Find out this month with the latest Battle of Tactics in which you and a fellow Skylords ''team-up'' to beat the map Into the Jungle. Starting on September 5th! • NEW - Egg-Ball Tournament - 21.09.2025 18:00 CEST Back in July 2024, we introduced a Football/Soccer game-mode with The Seven Strategy Showdown #7. We are excited to host a PvP tournament of this silly but interesting way to play the game. The tournament will be live-streamed. Please sign-up in advance. Recent events: • FINISHED - Q&A with Windhunter and Majora Our Q&A contains a lot of information about campaign maps, card design and our season structure. We also talk about our second season and what changes we are making. You can rewatch the Q&A on YouTube. • FINISHED - Dealing with Trouble To celebrate the release of our new campaign map "Heart of Trouble", players could send in their replay for a random draw of boosters. If you have done so, you should receive your booster soon. • FINISHED - The Skylords Reborn Summer Cup 2025 - 17-08-2025 The 3rd 1vs1 PvP tournament of the year was hosted and live-streamed by Ultralord and co-host Toggy. Most of the matches were recorded with commentary and can be rewatched on YouTube. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers @Metagross31 or @Ultralord. 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. • 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 Twilight booster: NATU-RALS-ELEC-TION This code is valid until October 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update August 2025

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! • A very special milestone Before we start this month's update, we'd like to take a moment to reflect on a major milestone: As of July 26, 2025, Skylords Reborn has been online longer than the original BattleForge was! Considering our team runs entirely on volunteers and has gone through multiple changes in project administrators, designers, and developers over the years, we are incredibly grateful to still be here, working on new content and updates for the dedicated BattleForge community. "By the players, for the players" may be a cliché, but our love for the original IP as fans has kept this project going for so long. We are extremely proud of what we’ve accomplished and want to thank everyone who has spent their free time contributing to the project over the years. And of course, a huge thank-you to our dedicated player base, who keep checking in for our new patches, events, and updates. Without you, we wouldn’t be here, approaching our 5th-year anniversary later this year! Thank you everyone. We’ll continue doing our best to be worthy successors to BattleForge's legacy. Use code 2009-2013-2020-2025 in the in-game store for a mini booster as a little celebration of this milestone! • New Campaign Map - Heart of Trouble And on that note, we have a very exciting announcement to share today! Back in September last year, we introduced our first new campaign maps to the game: Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle. Ever since, we have continued our work on more maps, and today we are ready to talk about a brand-new 1-player campaign map: Heart of Trouble! Story Introduction With the death of Shane Blight, the most serious threat to the fire tribes was extinguished. Yet the former pirate lord left behind him a reconstituted Raven corps terrorizing a stretch of land equal in size to the Lyrish kingdom. In the time since the pirate lord's death, a group of ambitious Raven lieutenants have torn apart the Southern Wastes in an ever escalating civil war as they attempted to become Blight’s successor. With Mo and the best warriors of the fire tribes having traveled north and the Ravens no longer distracted from their hunt for plunder by Blight’s mad quest, the remnants of the fire tribes were left defenseless, leaving the Skylords in a desperate search for some way to end the destruction. Gaeron wondered if perhaps they could put their thumb on the scale and anoint Blight’s successor themselves. Bren Morhold surveyed his surroundings and bit down his rage as he cursed his luck. First, he had lost the last of his walkers in an ambush against Blight’s former lieutenant Boggart, and now he was caught like a rodent in a trap, the noose slowly tightening around his neck as his rival warlord’s troops moved ever closer. Lesser men would have fallen to despair, but the self-proclaimed Ragged King was not a lesser man. His mind worked as untiringly as a kobold clock, weighing troop counts, ammo stocks, and potential terrain maneuvers. If he was to die, he would die a blustering bloodhorn, not some dawdling dryad. As he raged against his impending doom, Morhold felt the unnerving presence of an otherworldly force. He spun around in an attempt to gain sight of it, suddenly stopping when he heard a voice he nearly confused with his own thoughts. “Do you wish to live?” Yes. The words did not even need to be spoken. What will it cost me? About the Map The Ragged King is a character who briefly appears in Empire. We always felt his introduction was abrupt and thought he would make for an interesting backstory. In Heart of Trouble, Skylords team up with Bren Morhold, the self-proclaimed Ragged King, in a unique 1-player map that feels like a co-op scenario. You'll need to attack alongside him to defeat various Bandit Warlords, including Boggart, Blight's former lieutenant. This uneasy alliance can be played on Standard, Advanced, and Expert difficulty. The map is fully voice-acted in English, with voice actors Dreamlord and Vox delivering excellent performances as Gaeron, Boggart, the Ragged King, and the Loading Screen/Storybook narrations. Thank you so much for your help! We would also like to give a special thank-you to our map testers, who ensured the map will be an enjoyable experience for all skill levels. Release And now for the great news! You won't have to wait long to play Heart of Trouble, as it will be included in our next patch, releasing this Sunday, the 3rd of August! Have a look at the following trailer for a first sneak peek at the map. Design Notes Heart of Trouble is now our 3rd official campaign map after Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle. While we are proud of what we created in our first two maps, they were both subjected to a chaotic design process as we attempted to understand what went into creating a good campaign map. The fruits of this chaotic laboring can be found pinned in the Map section of the forum. Heart of Trouble, on the other hand, was able to be designed from the ground up with our new design principles in mind. Harnessing these principles and the lessons we learned from Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle, we think we were able to make Heart of Trouble our best map yet. Heart of Trouble takes place shortly after the conclusion of Raven's End. In the map, the Skylord attempts to save an ambitious Bandit Lord called the Ragged King who is being attacked by his rival warlords. Once the player links up with the Ragged King, the player fights alongside a force of allied Bandits who help the player to progress, kind of like an AI teammate. The map combines both attack and defense elements (make sure to bring some T2+ towers) with a stronger focus on offensive conquest. There are two initial warbands to fight. To the north is a strong anti-ground artillery-based Bandit group, while to the south is a strong anti-air flying-based Bandit group. The player can choose which group to attack first, and once one group dies, the other scales up. In this way, the map has an inherent dynamism and replayability as players decides which half of the map to attack first based on which deck they bring. Alongside the new Ragged King, players will also face 4 new Bandit enemies, Wasteland Wing, Bloodhorn, Sand Skate, and Bandit Cannoneer; 4 new mini-bosses; and a new final boss named Boggart. Additionally, the new map will release with a new achievement and a seasonal challenge. Creating Heart of Trouble has been a labor of love from our map designers Hrdina Imperia and R4bitFOOT as well as our many map testers, card implementers, voice actors, audio editors, artists, and translators. We hope you enjoy playing Heart of Trouble as much as we enjoyed making it! • New PvP Map - Taros The new patch also includes our first new PvP map! Taros is a 1vs1 map that can be selected in Sparring Matches and will be part of the ranked map pool. This map features a unique twist, allowing you to quickly reposition your forces using teleporter circles. We’re excited to see how players take advantage of these mechanics in their matches. This is our first official PvP map, so be sure to give it a try and let us know what you think! • Seasonal Challenges Batch #3 August 1st also marks the third month of the Primordial Fire season, and a new batch of additional challenges is now available! This final batch also introduces new Nightmare challenges. The following challenges are now active: Please note: 4.5 and 4.6 will come online alongside the new content patch. 10+20 1 4.1 - Win the 4p scenario The Dwarven Riddle on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members using only Fire cards of Tier 3 or below. Expert difficulty rewards more points. 10+20 1 4.2 - Win the 1p scenario Mo on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members playing only FIre, Twilight, Bandits or Neutral cards, with your ownly unit card being Brannoc. Expert difficulty rewards more points. 10+5 1 4.3 - Win the 1p featured community map Thirsty Journey Home on advanced difficulty or higher, with you playing only Fire cards and no unit cards. Expert difficulty rewards more points. 10+20 1 4.4 - Win the 2p scenario Nightmare's End and 4p scenario Guns of Lyr on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members using only cards with Fire orbs (Fire, Twilight, Bandits). Expert difficulty rewards more points. 10+20 1 4.5 - Complete different campaign scenarios or featured community maps on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members playing only Fire and Neutral cards, and all units being only beast, primordial and artifact units. 10+20 1 4.6 - Win the 1p scenario Heart of Trouble on standard difficulty or higher, with you playing only cards of the Bandits faction, except T1 cards. Higher difficulty rewards more points. And the following Nightmare challenges are now active: 10+40 6.1 - Be among the 100 fastest times on the 1p scenario Ocean on advanced difficulty using only Fire cards at the end of the season. Players who place higher in the rankings will receive more points. 10+40 0+3 6.2 - Win the 1p scenario Encounters with Twilight on expert difficulty in under 24/21/19/17/16/15/14/13 minutes using only Fire cards. Completing the challenge faster awards progressively more points. 15+25 1+2 6.3 - Win a 4p rPvE scenario that is the Infected Map of the Week on Advanced+ (5) difficulty or higher with all players using only Fire cards of Tier 3 or below. Higher difficulties awards progressively more points. These are the final challenges for this season. Players will have the entire month of September to complete any remaining challenges before we wrap up this first season. After the season concludes, players will be able to use the new Relic resource to purchase any missed seasonal cosmetics rewards, including the Promo Sunderer, through the Relic Shop. Relics can be earned by completing seasonal challenges and by beating the weekly map affected by a map modifier. Please note: Fire Boosters and the new cards will not be purchasable with Relics. These new cards will begin dropping from boosters once the season has ended. Our next season will also feature relics that can be used to purchase rewards from Season #1 – Primordial Fire. • Fire Wormlings Replacement Last month, we gave an update on the issues surrounding our new card, Fire Wormlings. If you're out of the loop, you can catch up by reading the July Community Update. After two months of extensive testing, we unfortunately came to the conclusion that the card is currently unsalvageable due to issues in the movement logic of the worm model. As a result, we prepared two alternative options and asked the community to vote for their preferred model to replace the Wormlings. When announcing the upcoming model swap, we faced frustration from some players who either didn’t understand or didn’t care about the issues the card was causing. Others disagreed with our alternative model choices or insisted that the replacement behave exactly like the original card. We’d like to once again stress that this is a situation we truly tried to avoid. Our team loved Fire Wormlings, and we even put them front and center in our marketing efforts. Doing a full model and artwork swap also costs us considerable time, valuable time that could have been spent on new content, preparing for Season 2, or even taking a well-deserved break after the crunch period from the last patch. However, every week that passed meant another week of the season where players couldn’t use the unit. Once testing confirmed that we wouldn’t be able to fix Fire Wormlings using the current model, we knew it was time for drastic measures and a model swap was the best available option. Because of the frustrating experience many players had with the unit over the past two months, we wanted to involve the community in the final decision. While we understand that some players would have preferred more models to choose from, we were limited by technical constraints and a tight timeline. The fact that we were able to create new artwork and a working model in time is a small miracle in itself. We wouldn’t be taking these steps if we didn’t believe they were absolutely necessary. And while we’ve done our very best to make the replacement behave as closely as possible to the original Wormlings design, the lack of source code and the unfortunate truth that the unique aspect of the Wormlings was also the source of their issues, meant we couldn’t fully replicate the unit in a different form. We ask players who are frustrated with this situation for a bit more understanding. One suggestion was to give players the Fire Wormlings profile picture as a reward. We thought this was a great idea, and everyone who has logged in since the start of the season (June 1st) will receive this cosmetic when the patch is released. • Introducing: Scorchlings The final vote results were quite close, but 53.13% of you voted for the Void Maw model to replace the Fire Wormlings. Our 3D artist, Titan, quickly went to work finalizing the model, while our 2D artist, Elkondo, began creating the artwork. Normally, a new card takes months to prepare, but we really wanted to get the replacement to players as soon as possible. That way, you can still play them for the second half of the season. Here is the replacement for Fire Wormlings: Scorchlings! Arson Spit Every 2.5 seconds, unit launches spittle at enemies that deal 67 damage to enemies in a 6m radius around its target, up to 100 in total. The affected area around the target will ignite for 8 seconds dealing 12 damage every second to enemy units. Primal Resonance Within a 30m radius of a Primordial unit, Scorchlings will deal 60% more damage. Does not trigger from other Scorchlings. Swift Moves at high speed. Steadfast Cannot be knocked back. A unique ability of the Wormlings model was their reduced damage while moving. Unfortunately, this was built into the model itself and could not be replicated for the Scorchlings. On the upside, Scorchlings don’t have the awkward stop-turn-shoot animation that the worm model had, allowing them to reposition more smoothly during combat. We might slightly adjust the attack speed/damage output of the model in the coming days leading up to the patch to be as close as possible to the Wormlings. Scorchlings will replace Fire Wormlings with our content patch on Sunday, the 3rd of August. Any Fire Wormlings in players' inventories will also be replaced with Scorchlings. One more thing While the Void Maw model won the vote, we don't want to ignore the fact that it was a pretty close call with the Snapjaw model. We will explore if we can find a fitting design for that model as well, and might release it in the future as a new card. The original design for Wormlings was a new kind of archers that could be placed on walls after all. Perhaps we can revisit this idea with this alternative model. To be continued! • Team Changes We’re happy to announce that two new members have joined our volunteer team! Moving forward, Bini Inibitor and Gam3over, both experienced testers on the project, will share the responsibility of Testing Coordination. We’re very grateful that they’re dedicating their time to improving our testing process and working closely with our testers to ensure content is balanced and bug-free. If you're interested in helping them out, please take a look at the Map Tester position. Thank you both, and welcome to the team! Meanwhile, aodpi has decided to leave the team. He joined us back in 2022 to work on the Entity Editor and Updater. We’d like to thank him for all the time and effort he contributed to the project during his time with us! • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • Events 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! Current events: • NEW - Dealing with Trouble To celebrate the release of our new campaign map "Heart of Trouble", you can send in your replay of finishing the map on a difficulty you feel comfortable with, for a chance to win some prizes! Click here for more information. • NEW - The Skylords Reborn Summer Cup 2025 - 17-08-2025 Join us for the 3rd 1vs1 PvP tournament of the year! The tournament will be hosted and live-streamed by Ultralord on Twitch. Please sign-up in advance if you want to join, or join us on Twitch on the day of the tournament! • FINISHED - Crystal Solid Defence - Winner Reveal Stream on August 1st! Find out who won in this unique PvE event! A livestream revealing the winners will take place on August 1st, at 19:00 CET. Find out more here. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers @Metagross31 or @Ultralord. 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. • 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 Fire booster: FIRE-WORM-LING-SWAP This code is valid until September 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update July 2025

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! • Season #1 - Primordial Fire - Month #2 Last month, we released a patch that kicked off our very first Season, and the reception has been largely positive! Player numbers have gone up, and Skylords are enjoying the fresh challenges the season brings. This season will last for four months: June, July, August, and September. Unfortunately, with so many moving parts, some bugs were inevitable. Our team has worked hard to fix as many of them as quickly as possible. We've addressed these issues through several hotfix patches, which you can find in the patch notes here. Some of these hotfixes include minor touch-ups related to the season, such as description clarifications and small UI improvements. The update from June 29th also included minor balance changes, so be sure to check out the patch notes. We'd like to take this opportunity to address a few topics that have come up frequently since the season's release: Connection Problems for Russian Players We've noticed that some Russian players are experiencing issues connecting to our server, which is located in Germany. Although these issues began around the time of our patch release, they are actually the result of sanctions outside of our control. We're currently exploring alternatives, such as hosting a VPS in another region to forward traffic. We expect to have more information within the next 1 to 3 months. In the meantime, we advise affected players to use a VPN to connect. Nightmare Challenges We’ve seen some players expressing frustration about not being able to complete certain challenges or finding them too difficult. We want to emphasize that Nightmare challenges are intended for the highest-level players and are not required to earn the top rewards. You will be able to unlock Promo Sunderer this season without completing any Nightmare missions. However, you will need to complete the second and third batches of challenges (along with most repeatables), which will be released today and in August. We highly advise players not to burn out on a specific challenge if you are not having fun. We’ve tried to include content for everyone this season. That means some challenges may feel too easy, while others may feel too difficult, depending on your playstyle. But remember: you don’t need to complete everything. We do encourage you to try strategies outside your comfort zone, but at the end of the day, it’s all about enjoying the game. And if you do want to conquer a particular challenge, the community is more than happy to help. Be sure to check out our Discord if you're looking for advice or teammates! Dwarfen Stronghold Challenge 2.5 requires players to complete two community maps. It reads: Win the 4-player featured community maps Dwarfen Stronghold Rework and Twisted Legends on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members using decks that contain 10 or more Fire, Twilight or Bandits cards. Some players experience a crash or error when trying to host the map Dwarfen Stonghold Rework. To fix this, close the game, go into your doc/BattleForge/map folder and delete all instances of Dwarfen. After restarting the game, you should now be able to download the correct map and host your match. Filtering for Twilight Edition Challenge 2.8 has caused some confusion among the player base. It reads: Complete 5 different campaign maps or featured community maps on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members using decks that contain only Fire, Twilight or Bandits cards, none of which are from the Twilight edition. Back when the original BattleForge came out, cards were released in expansions, with the base set being called the Twilight Edition, and cards were purchasable in boosters from specific expansions. When we overhauled the economy to free-to-play, we actually removed those edition-boosters, and replaced them for faction-boosters instead. While this was a great improvement, it also means that non-veteran players were never really exposed to the "Twilight Edition'' naming. This was an oversight on our part when we created this challenge. To clarify; cards from the Twilight Edition all have the Sunrise Icon, are only Nature, Shadow, Frost and Fire (so no hybrid/neutral), and have no affinities. Even though the name might imply it, the Twilight Edition contains no cards from the Twilight faction. For this specific challenge, there is actually a filter you can use to exclude every card from the Twilight Edition. If you write the following text into the search bar of your inventory, you are left with all cards that are not included in the Twilight edition: !(edition=twilight) Just remember that challenge 2.8 also restricts you to Fire, Bandits or Twilight (the faction, not the edition!) cards, though you can easily filter for those with the elemental buttons on the left. If you want to know more about filtering options, have a look at our Advanced Filtering document. It goes into detail what is possible with the search bar, and how it came to be. Fire Wormlings Fire Wormlings, unfortunately, hold the questionable honor of being the most problematic card in the history of this project. Initially intended as a new type of archer to be placed on walls, it had to be completely redesigned after model issues made that original concept impossible. Then, after finally being released, the card caused lag spikes when played for extended periods. Thankfully, we were able to fix those lag issues relatively quickly, but soon after, another problem surfaced: players began reporting widespread desync issues. Unfortunately, we have not yet been able to identify and fix the root cause of these desyncs. To better understand the complexity of the situation, consider the following: - Fire Wormlings is a resized version of an XL model. - It's a squad unit, based on a model that was never originally intended for use in a squad. - Its attack lays down a unique visual effect that deals damage over time. - It has a buff that checks for specific unit classes nearby, activating and deactivating accordingly. - It uses the worm model, which moves in a very unique way, basically teleporting across the map while appearing to burrow underground. - Desyncs are reported in most matches where Fire Wormlings are played. - In single-player matches, the desync warning does not appear, but replays are often out of sync with the actual match. - None of our tests so far have been able to pinpoint the issue with certainty. We’ve been testing a variety of solutions, including removing the passive ability, resizing the worm, or converting it to a single unit. While we still lack a definitive answer, current evidence suggests the desyncs are related to the movement behavior of the worm model. Similar reports have occurred for the original XL worms in the past, but those units are played less frequently, and later in matches, due to them being Tier 4. Additionally, those issues have been rare and hard to reproduce consistently. We suspect that the combination of smaller size and squad mechanics increases the likelihood of movement-based desyncs. For instance, if the squad moves over uneven terrain or is knocked around, parts of the squad can get separated or stuck, increasing instability. We considered temporarily restricting the card in multiplayer, until we discovered the same issue also affects single-player matches. Adding to the challenge is the open in-game market. While Fire Wormlings is part of the season rewards, some players have paid a significant amount of BFP to acquire it. Simply removing the card and refunding players isn't viable, since that also raises questions about how to handle those who sold the card. We obviously don't like players not being able to use their new cards. At the same time, players are currently asking each other to stop using the card, basically banning it from play anyway. We considered replacing the model entirely and reworking the card from scratch, but this would also require new artwork, effectively meaning we’d need to remove the Wormlings and create a completely new unit. This would be a months-long process and would seriously disrupt our planning. Fire Wormlings is also heavily featured in our marketing for the season, so removing it is something we hope to avoid. So, where does that leave us? We are currently testing a version of Fire Wormlings that removes the squad mechanic, and results so far have been promising. However, we still haven’t found a consistent fix for the desyncs, and we’re increasingly concerned that the worm model itself might be inherently problematic. Because of this, we’re also exploring the option to rework the burrow movement, potentially replacing it with a more generic movement style while maintaining a similar visual through existing animations. However, we are limited in our options here, considering we don't have the source code and can not create new models or animations yet. We hope this breakdown helps players understand why Fire Wormlings is still not fixed and why solving the issue has been so challenging. Due to our limited testing capacity, we are now considering deploying the most promising version of the card to the live server soon, to collect feedback and data from the broader player base. We would also like to expand our internal testing, so if you want to help out as a tester, consider reaching out. With your help, we hope to finally identify the exact cause and deliver a stable version of the card for everyone to enjoy. Changes mid-season Many of you have already shared what you like and dislike about various aspects of the season. From challenges and rewards to UI and descriptions, your feedback is incredibly valuable in helping us determine whether we’re on the right track. While we’ve already been able to implement some quality-of-life improvements based on your input, not all suggestions can be incorporated mid-season. That said, we are carefully observing what works and what doesn’t, and we will take this into account for future seasons. Common feedback includes the option to play Standard difficulty on certain challenges, less restrictive deck-building, and the concern that neutral/legendary cards are not playable in any future season with the current setup. We’ll definitely keep this feedback in mind as we prepare for Season 2. Non-seasonal content We’re also hard at work on a new patch unrelated to seasonal content. While we believe it’s important to offer exciting rewards through the seasonal track, you can still expect new cards and new map releases through content patches, just like we did before the introduction of seasons. While we don’t have anything concrete to share just yet, we expect to have more to announce soon! • Seasonal Challenges Batch #2 As we enter the second month of this season, a batch of additional challenges is now available! The following challenges are now active: 20+10 1 3.1 - Survive until the end on the survival community map, The Last Soultree on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members playing only Fire cards. 20+10 1 3.2 - Win the 1-player scenarios Behind Enemy Lines and Siege of Hope on advanced difficulty or higher, with you playing only Fire cards and no building cards. 20+10 1 3.3 - Win the 2-player scenario, Crusade and the 1-player featured community map Spooky Encounters on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members playing only Fire cards of Tier 2 or below. 20+10 1 3.4 - Win the 4-player scenarios Empire and Raven's End on advanced difficulty or higher, with all team members playing only Fire or Neutral cards, with units of Tier 2 and above being Neutral units. We hope you enjoy the current batch of challenges! The final set of challenges (including new Nightmare missions) will release in August. Players will then have the entire month of September to complete any remaining challenges before we wrap up this first season. After the season concludes, players will be able to use the new Relic resource to purchase any missed seasonal cosmetics rewards, including the Promo Sunderer, through the Relic Shop. Relics can be earned during the season by completing challenges and by beating the weekly map affected by a map modifier. The Fire Boosters and the cards Fire Wormlings, Hellhound and Treasure Wagon will not be purchasable with relics however. The new cards will drop from boosters after the season has concluded. Our next season will also feature relics that can be used to purchase rewards from Season #1 – Primordial Fire. • New Card Reveal - Amii Ashrider While players continue with the first season, we are constantly working on additional content and are once again able to give you a sneak peek into a future new card. We have already expanded the Amii unit roster with various new cards: Amii Paladins, Amii Sentinel, Skydancer and Energy Core. Now that Elkondo has settled into our art department, we are able to create a new tier 2 unit for the faction. Let's take a look at Amii Ashrider! Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release. Ride of the Amii When the unit is surrounded by 3 other friendly Ashriders in a 25m radius, it moves at high speed (8.0 m/s) and knocks back small and medium units dealing 25 damage, up to 100 in total. Elusive Units with Elusive have the duration of the immobilizing effects of Freeze and Paralyze reduced by 10%. Design notes: There are several cards in the game with movement knockback mechanics that deal damage. These are mostly confined to the higher tiers and besides the reworked Colossus are found on ranged units like the Worms or the hybrid melee-ranged unit Thunderwagon. When we were thinking of a new Amii T2 unit, we thought it was time to finally put the movement damage effect on a lower tier unit. Particularly, we thought it would fit with a horse-based Amii unit, therefore allowing players to simulate performing a cavalry charge. As can be seen with the new Treasure Wagon card, having a perpetual M-sized trample effect in T2 provides a substantial amount of crowd control. Ashrider is our first non-T4 Amii unit made specifically for PvE. Other Amii units, towers, and spells are on the way to flesh out the faction's T2 and T3 arsenal in PvE and allow players to enjoy a full Amii deck from T2 onwards. Amii Ashrider will release in an upcoming content patch, date to be announced. • Art Spotlight - Amii Ashrider Amii Ashrider was drawn by our artist Elkondo. Below, he will share what went into creating the new unit. Take it away Elkondo! "The first challenge was to come up with a clear and distinct pose for the unit. Since Skylords Reborn already features multiple horseback units, it was important to differentiate it with a unique silhouette as well as colors." "After some exploration, the pose was quickly decided, and with a quick paint-over, the general vision for the artwork became clear." "At this stage all that was left was cleanup. The 'Ride of the Amii' skill causes the unit to leave behind a trail of green smoke - this was something we wanted to show in the artwork." "As cool as it was, however, it looked too much like flames. At the same time, we wanted to simplify the background to make the unit stand out a bit more. It took a few attempts to finally find contrast that works best." "With the background done, it was time to polish the main subject a bit and add some much-needed details. We realized the attempted strong perspective on the rider didn't really work any more. The green flames were also removed to try a different look later." "Lastly, alongside additional polish and new smoke effect, the lance was simplified and moved, as the previous intricate design didn't really fit the Amii aesthetic." And that is how our latest Amii unit got its artwork! We hope you are looking forward to Amii Ashrider! • Team Changes We are happy to announce that two new members have joined our volunteer team! First off, VicRattlehead has joined our team as a Discord Moderator, while also showing interest in helping out with development in the future. Secondly, Arphox has already offered a lot of help in regards to improving our updater, and has now properly joined the team as a Tool developer with the goal of making more improvements. Thank you both, and welcome to the team! • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • Events 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! Current events: • STREAM - WINNER REVEAL: Battle of Tactics #9: The Great Mage Magician - 04.06.2025 Find out who is the greatest of the Great Mage Magicians and their mighty generals in the winner reveal stream of this 3-player event. Join Ultralord on July 4 at 7:00 PM on Twitch. • FINISHED - The Skylords Reborn Spring Cup 2025 The Spring Cup was our second PvP tournament of the year, and it included some great matches. The tournament was hosted and livestreamed by Ultralord, and you can watch the action here. • NEW - PvP Tome Tournament - 06.07.2025 15:00 CET Tome was a PvP game mode in the original BattleForge where players had to build their decks with cards from boosters. With everyone playing with random cards, there are bound to be some unconventional strategies! Please sign-up in advance. • COMING SOON - Crystal Solid Defence - PvE Event - Starting 11.07.2025 until 27.07.2025 While we arent ready to reveal this event just yet, be sure to check back in on the 11th for a new PvE Event! • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers @Metagross31 or @Ultralord. 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. • 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 Fire booster: HEAT-LAVA-FIRE-CARD This code is valid until August 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update June 2025

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 Release: Primordial Fire In our last Community Update we announced our first season, scheduled for a release in June. We are excited to share that our first season goes live today! This is one of our biggest patches yet, so we have a extra long Community Update diving into all its additions, alongside the patch notes. In this year's player survey the number one request was for more reasons to login and play the game. Once the initial rush of excitement and progressing through achievements wears off the game provides the player little reason to continue past the 45 minute mark when they get their daily booster discount. Additionally, while more achievements are good, the issue is that once we hit a critical number of achievements they no longer funneled players towards the same content to make matchmaking easier, especially for campaign achievements. Our solution to these problems is a season system focused around 1 or 2 factions at a time with time-based challenges. The seasons system is based around approximately 30 challenges that the player will complete over a 4-month time period (in this case June 1st to September 30th). Here are all the rewards you will be able to earn during our first season! These rewards are placed among our new season progression track. Completing challenges rewards points which are used for unlocking card, booster, and cosmetic rewards. Each challenge can be completed on either advanced or expert difficulty, with expert providing more points, allowing players of all skill levels to participate. Each season will have a few cards exclusive to the season (but which after the season ends will be available in boosters like normal) as well as a number of cosmetics. Here is the full progression track for Season 1: Nearly every challenge has deckbuilding restrictions based on the season theme, encouraging players to try out a new faction for the season duration. Completing challenges rewards points which are used for unlocking card, booster, and cosmetic rewards. Each challenge can be completed on either advanced or expert difficulty, with expert providing more points, allowing players of all skill levels to participate. Each season will have a few cards exclusive to the season (but which after the season ends will be available in boosters like normal) as well as a number of cosmetics. We put the card and booster rewards early in the season progress to ensure that players who might not be able to play as much, or who are lacking the correct faction cards to do harder challenges, will still get access to the gameplay rewards while cosmetic rewards, including the season promo, are farther in the season progress. We hope that this system will give new and old, highly active and semi-active players alike a reason to log in and keep playing. We intend seasons to be an ongoing feature with new content every 4 months. Given this is our first iteration, we expect that not everything will be perfect, and we are looking forward to hearing your feedback on how to improve the feature to make it a truly enjoyable experience for all types of players. To get started with Season 1, go to the new in-game icon shown above which opens the Seasons window. • Infected Map of the Week - Map Modifiers (BETA RELEASE) This patch also sees the anticipated (beta) release of Map Modifiers. Infected map modifiers was originally a player suggestion over 3 years ago which we loved but did not yet have the means to make happen. Since then, it has been one of our most anticipated internal features and we are glad to finally bring you the Beta release. Map modifiers are global effects which apply to the player or to the NPC enemies, often with significant gameplay changes. In the current Beta form, these modifiers infect one campaign map and each random PvE level with the same modifiers for a week. Similar to the existing Map of the Day this creates a new Infected Map of the Week feature. Infected maps are an opt-in feature, you will never be forced to play them. They are intended to provide endgame content for players whose skill level has outstripped the current expert experience while also providing twists on advanced maps for less skilled players. A player only needs to beat an infected map, either the chosen campaign map or its equivalent difficulty in random PvE, once per week to get the full reward. Modifiers provide season progress and Relics (see next section) when completed on either advanced or expert difficulty, with more rewards given when beating the infection on expert. As part of these changes we have remade the map codex in-game to provide information related to the Map of the Day, the Infected Map of the Week, and PvP Happy Hours. Eventually, we plan to add a large collection of modifiers, both positive and negative, which players can freely apply to any match and game mode to provide near endless gameplay possibilities. Please note this is a Beta release! While we tried our best to test each modifier, we expect individual modifiers as well as certain modifier combinations to be unbalanced and we ask for your aid in helping us rebalance them! Additionally, we would love to hear your suggestions for future modifiers, positive and negative, that you think would be good additions to the system. • Relics and the new Relic Shop We already talked a bit about Relics in our last community update. Today we dive deeper into the new shop where you can spend your hard earned Relics. As part of our new Seasons and Infected map features we are introducing a new in-game currency called Relics. Relics can be earned from completing season challenges and beating the Infected Map of the Week. Once earned, Relics can be used in our new Relic Shop, which can be found in the Season's window. In the Relic Shop players will be able to purchase exclusive cosmetics, NPC enemies, and cosmetic rewards from previous seasons. For now the only thing available in the Relic Shop are NPC bosses and buildings. Once purchased, these enemies can be found under a new "Enemies" tab in the deckbuilding menu. From there players can summon them freely in the Forge, allowing players to create epic battles or test specific strategies against the game's classic enemies. Eventually all NPC enemies will be available for purchase from the Relic shop. As already mentioned, cosmetic rewards - including the promo card from each season - will be available in the Relic Shop after that season concludes. This will allow players who miss a season to still purchase their favorite seasonal cosmetics. But be warned, it will be much easier to earn the cosmetics within a season than to purchase them all after a season concludes. Given that Relics are a new currency we expect to do some rebalancing as players start to earn and use them. Relics are intended as a currency which provides long-term progression to the game in a way that has currently been lacking. As part of this, we will be adding some expensive exclusive cosmetics to the Relic Shop which will act as a means for players to show off their veteran status. The first part of these exclusive rewards are a set of progressive borders which players will earn for every 50 Relics they spend. Each color has three levels marked by stars along the top and the colors directly correspond to the PvE and PvP rank progression in-game similar to our recent progressive banners which can be earned by speedrunning Unexpected Visitors. Some people might question why we are adding a new currency instead of repurposing Gold. The reason for this is because we do not think Gold is a salvageable as a currency at this point. When we first released the game, we made the mistake of not giving gold a proper gold sink. Additionally, gold is an uncapped currency in the sense that players can play all day and continue to earn the same amount with neither a soft nor hard cap like has been built into BFP. It has now been 4.5 years since our official release and some players have accrued tens of millions of Gold pieces. We simply cannot balance Gold when we would have to account for these veteran players as well as new players who have no gold reserves. If we were to create a deep enough gold sink to allow veteran players to use up all their gold we would end up gatekeeping new and less active players from those features for years if not permanently. Given these issues, we determined it was better to start from scratch. • How Does It Work: Deckbuilding In our YouTube series "How Does It Work" we dive into various topics that often raise questions. So far, we’ve released a video on Void Power, the Root Network, a guide on how to install the game, and the BFP & Reward System. Another topic that often comes up is deckbuilding. Skylords Reborn can be overwhelming with its content and many expansions. In our latest video, we aim to provide a framework players can use to start building their own decks. • Team Changes In July 2021, Dutchy joined our team as Discord Moderator, and got promoted to Global Moderator in September. In February 2022, he took over the role of lead moderator after Pascal left the team, a role he would continue to fill for years to come. Now with a full-time job and a fiancé, Dutchy leaves the moderator team in the capable hands of Vultagx, who will take over the mantle of lead moderator going forward. Dutchy will remain in the team in the role of HR Coordinator, handling applications and onboarding of new staff members. We want to give a heartfelt thank you to both Dutchy and Vultagx for making sure Skylords Reborn is a fair experience for everyone. • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • Events 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! Current events: • NEW - The Skylords Reborn Spring Cup 2025 - 22.06.2025 at 15:30 CEST Get ready for some PvP action! The Spring Cup is the second of four PvP tournaments happening this year. The tournament will be hosted and livestreamed by Ultralord. Everyone is welcome to join, please sign-up in advance. • NEW - Battle of Tactics 9 - 13.06.2025 We postponed some of the events so you all can enjoin and focus the first week on the new Content of the Patch. However, get ready for a new Battle of Tactics once the dust has settled! More info soon! • ENDED - A Fresh New Start - WINNER REVEAL This event will test your skill with the cards that we all start with! Beat the first single player campaign map “Encounters with Twilight” on advanced difficulty and win some great prizes! More information. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers @Metagross31 or @Ultralord. 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. • 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: FIRE-SEAS-ONIS-LIVE This code is valid until July 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update May 2024

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! • Development Update Since its release in 2020, Skylords Reborn has added a ton of new content and features to the original BattleForge. We overhauled the old micro-transaction economy, added quests and achievements, and implemented various balance changes and bugfixes. Being able to bring BattleForge back was our primary goal, and it was lovely to see players enjoying reliving nostalgia and being able to play their favorite game once more. However, part of BattleForge's DNA was the constant exploration and new experiences that come with a Trading Card Game / Multiplayer RTS. In June 2021, 6 months after the public release, we therefore announced we were starting development on completely new cards through our Rebirth edition, wanting to expand on the content the game was offering. Alongside balance changes and reworks, we started working on making sure each color combination was competitive and fun to play, with various options to choose from. We introduced a new enemy rPvE faction to play against, and the team introduced Reforging, as a way to keep the economy in check in the long run. The next step for Skylords Reborn was obvious but would not be easy; adding new campaign maps. The many moving parts proved a challenge, especially with the structure of a volunteer team. While work on the maps happened in the background, we explored other ways to keep players engaged throughout 2022 and 2023. We (and the community!) hosted a variety of events and tournaments for players to compete in. The team added new achievements, (promo) cards, and cosmetic rewards (banners, borders, Forges) to give players something to work towards. We also continued to take on quality-of-life feature requests like in-game drop locations that smoothened the play-experience, always carefully balancing our workload versus the enjoyment of the playerbase. 2024 finally saw the release of new campaign maps, and to great reception! Players old and new checked them out, and we saw an increase in player activity during the months surrounding their release. While we do our best to release patches on a regular basis, many players had clearly been waiting for concrete new content to explore, and this was definitely a marketable event. Work on more campaign maps is already in development, and while we feel confidant you wont have to wait another 2 years for their release, it will still be a while before we can share more. Which brings us to the point of this trip down memory lane. The team behind Skylords Reborn is constantly working on new content, but the player-base consumes it at a rapid pace. Releasing a few new cards that cost months to complete, often results in players spending just a weekend or two to check out a patch, and then either returning to their daily grind, or getting bored and moving on to other games while waiting for the next patch. With some features taking quite some time to get to release, we started looking at ways to keep the player-base engaged while we work on more content like new campaign maps. After a lot of preparation, we think we have come up with a exciting way to experience Skylords Reborn, and make sure the game continues to evolve and feel alive, even in the downtime between patches. Today we are excited to announce that Seasons are coming to Skylords Reborn! • Announcing Seasons Seasons combine everything we have learned during the years developing Skylords Reborn. They provide thematic challenges that players can tackle for cool rewards, which include cosmetics, Forges, boosters, and new cards! While season rewards will not contain only mono-colored cards, they will be tied to one or more of the various factions, which will also determine the special promo card that can be earned during the season. Our first season will be centered around the element of Fire, and we are excited to reveal its promo card: Sunderer! New timed exclusive cards Players will also be able to earn 3 new cards, including additional charges for those cards spread out over the progression track. For our first season, those cards will be Fire Wormlings, Hellhound and Treasure Wagon. Those cards will be exclusive to the season for its duration, but will be made available in boosters after the season has concluded. However, these cards will be trade-able from the beginning, should players decide to do so. Challenges for all skill-levels We have prepared a variety of challenges for players to explore, taking into account the differences in skill-level among our player-base. We have made sure players can pick and choose challenges without being locked into ones that aim to provide a challenge for our most experienced players. During the season, players will earn seasonal points by completing these challenges, which will unlock a variety of rewards in return. To prevent players from blasting through the season right away, these challenges will gradually be unlocked during the season. More challenges will automatically unlock throughout its four month duration, resulting in a new batch of fresh challenges. New currency: Relics With seasons, we are also introducing a new currency players can collect in addition to gold and BFP. Relics will be used to purchase certain rewards in a new Relic shop. Here, players can find special rewards, including seasonal content. They also act as a kind of insurance for players, covering past and future seasons. Let's say you don't participate in the first season but come back for Season 2. The relics mean you can purchase at least some of the Fire cosmetics you desire from the first season. Same for if you participate in Season 1 but not Season 2, the relics then allow you to grab some cosmetics you missed by not participating in that season. Relics will also be earnable outside of seasons, but more on that next month! We feel its very important to find a good balance between giving players something rewarding to play towards, while also respecting their time and not lean into the FOMO-approach many games take these days. We will monitor feedback during the first season, and take this into account for future seasons. F.A.Q. How long will seasons last? - Our current plans are for seasons to last 4 months. Our intention is for the next season to start soon after Season 1 has concluded. What is the difference between a Season and a large achievement like Force of Nature? - Seasons bundle together various thematic challenges that players can choose to pursue. With an achievement like Force of Nature, we are forced to make a choice regarding difficulty; if we make it too easy, our veteran players rush through the challenge, but if its too hard, we lock out a large amount of the player-base. Seasons allow for a lot of flexibility, allowing for different challenges. Additionally, its timed nature pushes the community as a whole to play together and face these challenges together. Why are the new cards exclusive to the season? - We feel its important for players to have exciting rewards to play towards. Many players have already accumulated an abundant amount of BFP, Gold, and boosters, making these lackluster rewards. We feel that by making the cards timed exclusives, that there is a nice balance between worthwhile rewards and general availability once the season is over. Additionally, similar to f.e. Promo Mana Wing, players can still decide to get the cards from other players, since the cards will not be trade-locked, if players decide to sell their rewards. Will seasons replace content patches? - While seasons create a returning patch window every four months or so, they are not intended to replace general patch content. We are still going to add new content, features, and cards to the game, which are not tied to seasons. Our goal for seasons is to always have something to do in Skylords Reborn. Why do the challenges unlock in four stages, instead of all at once? - We do not want players to blast through four months of content at the very start of the season. Players might have felt they needed to do so to keep up, and get the rewards as soon as possible. By spreading out the challenges, we give players something to return to every month, which is very important to keep the game exciting and fresh, even while we are between patches. Do I need to complete every challenge of the season to earn rewards? - No. Challenges provide season points which will unlock seasonal rewards. The more points you have, the more rewards you get, but even a few points will already get you some Fire boosters and the new card Fire Wormlings. Promo Sunderer is meant as a special reward, and will be in the high-end of seasonal points required. What will the challenges and reward structure look like? - We will share more about the seasonal rewards and challenges in the next community update. When will Season 1 start? - We expect Season 1 to start in June, exact date to be announced. We will share more information in the next Community Update. We hope you are as excited as we are about the new challenges Seasons will bring. Do you have any additional questions? Be sure to ask them in the comments below, and we'll make sure to update our F.A.Q. for the next Community Update. • New Card Reveal - Fire Wormlings In the Community Update from March 2023, we shared our struggles with adding Fire Wormlings, a potential new archer-type unit for the Fire faction. Turns out that adding worms on walls is not an issue easily fixed, as it has now been over 2 years since we last mentioned the unit. People did like the idea of these small worms, so we decided to completely rework the unit, letting go of the restriction of them being units to put on walls. Today, we'd like to share the new card design for Fire Wormlings. Let's break down the card! Worm Fire Every 2.5 seconds, unit launches spittle at enemies that deal 67 damage to enemies in a 8m radius around its target, up to 100 in total. The affected area around the target will ignite for 10 seconds dealing 10 damage every second to enemy units. Primal Resonance Within a 30m radius of a Primordial unit, Fire Wormlings will deal 60% more damage. Does not trigger from other Fire Wormlings. Earth Dive While moving around unit takes 50% less damage and deals 30 damage to enemy units in target area, up to 120 in total. Affects ground targets only. Design notes: Two major issues facing Pure Fire's T2 are a lack of scaling and a lack of sustain. Fire Force helps with the sustain option, but it lacks good targets in Pure Fire T2. Scythe Fiends and Enforcer are good PvP cards but struggle in PvE. On the ranged side, Gladiatrix and Skyfire are good, but ultimately too fragile, especially for maps which require a robust T2. The parts of Fire's T2 functioning well are therefore its siege units and its damage spells. Given the upcoming season will strongly encourage playing Pure Fire, we wanted to take the opportunity to introduce a new PvE focused T2 unit which still fits Fire's core identity without being overly fragile. Enter Fire Wormlings. Fire Wormlings are a 2-unit M-sized ranged squad. Their initial stats are mediocre at best, but each attack causes a damage over time area to be created, similar to Gemeye (). These burning areas stack, meaning that groups of Fire Wormlings can create highly destructive locations on the map similar to a Fire Emitter or a Mine. At the same time, the Wormlings move fairly quickly, allowing the player to use them for hit and run tactics. In addition to the burn effect and the normal worm earth dive, they have an effect which makes their damage scale around other Primordials. This makes for good synergy with Nature in T2, specifically Deep Ones, and allows for any leftover Wormlings to scale well into T3 when used alongside the new Hellhound card. Fire Wormlings will be part of the seasonal rewards of Season 1. • Skylords Mega Quiz Players who have participated in one of Ultralords many events, know he loves asking quiz questions on his live streams. Find out what happens if we give him access to a bunch of Prizes and the official Skylords Twitch channel! Join us on May 3rd for the Skylords Mega Quiz, live on Twitch! Test your knowledge of BattleForge and win prizes while doing so! There are a bunch of boosters and BFP up for grabs, so even if you don't win the whole thing, chances are you are walking away with a good time and something to show for it! We hope to see you there! • Team Changes Our video-editor Ultralord, responsible for our various trailers and card spotlights, is no stranger to events. Even before joining the team as video-editor he already hosted a variety of community events. After reassurance that he will be able to continue hosting wacky events, even in an official role, he has now formally joined the team as event manager. Nothing will change for the players, but we are glad to finally be able to credit him with the role! The marketeer role for Skylords Reborn has been infamously challenging to fill, and unfortunately RainZy did not beat the odds. Due to a long period of inactivity, we have decided to restart our search. RainZy has been removed from the team. • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • Events 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! Current events: • STARTING SOON - Skylords Reborn Mega Quiz - 03.05.2025 at 20:00 CEST Win prizes with your knowledge of BattleForge! Join the Mega Quiz live on Twitch for a chance to win BFP and boosters. Come hang out with us, win some prizes, and perhaps learn a new thing or two! More information. • NEW - A Fresh New Start - 02.05.2025 This event will test your skill with the cards that we all start with! Beat the first single player campaign map “Encounters with Twilight” on advanced difficulty and win some great prizes! More information. • NEW - Legacy Tournament - 11.05.2025 17:30 Travel back to 2013 in this Legacy PvP tournament! Played on our Legacy server, experience BattleForge before the Skylords Reborn team added any balance changes. The tournament will be streamed live on Twitch. Please sign-up in advance. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers @Metagross31 or @Ultralord. 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. • 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: JOIN-MEGA-QUIZ-MAY3 This 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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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! • Skylords ReBOOM Today, we have a very exciting announcement to share! After introducing new cards, campaign maps, features, and even new game modes, we feel it's time to branch out even further. Please check out the trailer below. That’s right—Skylords Reborn is entering the first-person shooter genre! Join Bandit Sniper Guy on his adventure as he faces familiar foes from the world of Nyn. While we will continue releasing new content for Skylords Reborn, the majority of our development focus will shift to Skylords ReBOOM. We hope you'll join us on the battlefield! Pre-orders are up now, so get your copy! • New Card Reveal - Hellhound Back in 2023 we held a card-creation contest, inviting the community to share their ideas for potential new cards, which were then judged anonymously by our designers. While many great designs were submitted—some of which have already made their way into the game, like Energy Core and Gate of Akylos—we might have saved the best for last. The highest-rated entry was Hellhound, an upcoming L-sized unit for Pure Fire. Let’s break down the card! Magma Armor Takes 25% less damage from ranged and magical attacks. After 5 seconds in combat, damage reduction increases to 40% less damage, and after 10 seconds in combat, the damage reduction increases to 60% less damage from ranged and magical attacks. Resets after 10 seconds out of combat. Pyroclastic Flow Cause Magma Armor to explode, dealing 660 damage to enemies in a 15m radius, up to 1980 damage in total. Magma Armor is reset to 25%. Requires Magma Armor to be fully charged. Reusable every 20 seconds. Design notes: Hellhound was the overall winner of our first ever Card Creation Contest, where we asked members of the community to submit ideas for new cards. The original design has seen little change since then. Hellhound is an L-sized T3 Pure Fire unit. Similar to Moloch, it has resistance to ranged and magical damage, though in Hellhound's case this resistance begins at 25% and scales up to 60% the longer the unit remains in combat. Once the armor fully scales, Hellhound can activate Pyroclastic Flow, exploding its Magma Armor to deal up to 1980 damage to nearby enemies. The general concept behind Hellhound is to have a Fire unit that slowly scales in durability as it fights, but which can then transform that durability into damage. This will allow Hellhound to quickly clean up camp remnants, including flying units, using Pyroclastic Flow when Magma Armor is no longer needed. Hellhound will be released in a future content patch—details to be announced! • Art Spotlight - Hellhound Hellhound started out as a trial task for Psyagita, who was interested in joining our art team. Unfortunately, they ended up being too busy to continue, but were kind enough to let us move forward with the work. We dove into our archives and found some early sketches from the art process! Psyagita first provided us with these three sketches. Our lead artist at the time, Tweeto, had this to say about the initial batch: "I think I prefer the 3/4 view of the face over the profile version and am interested in seeing a more dramatic and imposing angle of the creature itself. Could you try sketching it from a lower perspective to highlight its intimidating presence?" Psyagita came back with two new attempts. We preferred the second one, as it had more of an action pose—which tends to look better in a card frame. Work then began on finalizing the pose and adding color. At this point, Psyagita unfortunately became too busy, so our artist SpiritAlpha took over the task. Since we were working on the model simultaneously, we made a few adjustments that were reflected in the updated artwork—most notably, a new color for the flames and fur. The piece was coming along nicely, but we felt it stood out a bit from other Fire cards, particularly due to the grey background. We also wanted to make sure the card felt cohesive in the deck bar alongside other Fire cards, so we looked to other units in the faction for inspiration. By adding purple elements to the cave background, the artwork popped more and felt more in line with the rest of the Fire faction. After several rounds of feedback with our art group, we finalized the artwork for Hellhound. We’re very happy with the result and hope you’re excited to play the card yourself in the future! A big thank you to Psyagita for laying the groundwork for this unique piece, and to SpiritAlpha for bringing it across the finish line! • Team Changes We’re excited to announce a new addition to our art team—Elkondo has joined us as a 2D artist! We hope you'll get to see some of his card artwork in the near future. Welcome, Elkondo! We’re also happy to introduce Sabri as our new audio designer. Sabri has joined the team to support various audio-related tasks, including creating the sound effects for the recently released card Spirit Gate. We really appreciate the help! Meanwhile, Prof_Emezy has stepped down from the team. He contributed as a Discord Moderator, Proofreader, and supported some exploratory work in marketing. We'd like to thank him for his efforts and dedication during his time with the team. • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • Events 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! Current events: • NEW - Rookie Tournament - 12.04.2025 at 16:00 CET Interested in PvP, but intimidated by the veterans? We got you covered! Join this Rookie tournament, where only rookies can join and there are prizes for all participants! The tournament will be hosted and livestreamed by Ultralord, please sign-up in advance. • NEW - Battle of Tactics #8: Maximum Support - Until 13.04.2025 23:59 CEST Battle of Tactics returns in 2025 with another tricking and exciting challenge! Play a modified version of the map Oracle, including a special pre-game twist, allowing you to scale the difficulty up and down! More information. • COMING UP - Skylords Reborn Mega Quiz - 03-05-2025 at 20:00 CEST Win prizes with your knowledge of BattleForge! Join the Mega Quiz live on Twitch for a chance to win BFP and boosters. Come hang out with us, win some prizes, and perhaps learn a new thing or two! More information. • FINISHED - Skylords Reborn Winter Cup The first PvP tournament has been completed! You can rewatch the action with commentary by Ultralord and special guest Toggy, with this highlight video. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. 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. • 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: WARM-FIRE-CATS-PURR This code is valid until May 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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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 announcement Great news Skylords! We will release a new content patch this weekend, introducing some exciting new cards, QoL fixes and balance changes! This patch will contain 4 new cards, two of which have been revealed in previous Community Updates, while the other two are a surprise release. Get ready to collect the long-awaited "Gate of Akylos", the first Amii building "Power Shrine", a new teleport spell "Spirit Gate" and a spawn building for the bandit faction; "Bandit Hut". These new cards have been long in the making, and we hope you are looking forward to the new options they will bring. Besides new cards, this patch also includes major reworks to several cards that were underperforming in PvE, such as Ice Shield Tower, Mountaineer, Strikers, and Altar of Nihil. We have also included some map changes, most importantly a rework to the map Empire. We also made a lot of miscellaneous changes. These range from small things such as incorrect map outcries to larger, more game-breaking issues like Jorne's allies blocking his path and thus blocking the game from advancing. A rework of the magical devices and the ritual at the end should also streamline the experience. Lastly, this patch includes one of the most frequently requested features since release: easier distinction between affinities. Affinity differences are now highlighted in each card's description. Each card's specific affinity now has colored text whose color corresponds to its affinity element. These sections of highlighted text consist only of those words and abilities which are different than the ability of its alternative affinity card. Players who hover over cards with affinities in-game will immediately notice the changes. Head over to the patch notes for a full list of the changes and additions to the game. This patch will release on March 2nd. • New Featured Community Map: Thirsty Journey Home While work continues on more official campaign maps, the public map editor continues to deliver new content. The new community map "Thirsty Journey Home" is the latest addition to our featured community maps. Featured community maps are high quality maps that count toward your daily playtime/rewards. This latest addition was created by one of our members on the map team, R4bitF00t, as a personal side-project. Thirsty Journey Home introduces Bren, a knight from Lyr who got lost on his way home. He now finds himself in a desert populated by bandits, while the Stonekin are on his trail. Can you help him find his way home? You can find this new map in the Community Map section on the World Map. Look for the featured map Thirsty Journey Home, marked by a star. Please note: this map will release alongside the new patch on March 2nd. There will also be a release event to win one of the new cards! From the creator: I really liked Mo's story in the original game, and wanted to make another character that players could enjoy. I hope I succeeded, and Bren will become another small part of Skylords Reborn you will cherish ^^ This is not the end of his story though; I plan to share his story over a 3 map odyssey. I hope you will continue to help Bren in his journey when the time comes. - R4bitF00t • Marketing Questionnaire Skylords, we'd like to ask for your help. Skylords Reborn has a steady player base that consists of mostly original BattleForge players, as shown by our yearly feedback surveys. Most of you found out about the project due to some nostalgic Google search, or through friends. While the game is old (the original Battleforge released in 2009!), it stood the test of time quite well, and there is a lot to love for a RTS/TCG player. A recurring problem, even during the original EA times, is reaching those players. This has become even harder for us, considering we can not do any paid advertisement or marketing of the game. This is where you come in. We would like to reach potential players by approaching promising streamers/YouTubers who are active in the RTS or TCG scene. We would like to ask the community for help in our search for potential players that might enjoy this great game. Please take 2 minutes to fill in our short questionnaire. • New Card Reveal - Phantom Stampede While our next patch is releasing soon, we are already hard at work on future content. Lost Hulk was originally created as a fun unit for our Halloween Map Spooky Encounters, but ended up being embraced by the community. While we did not have the intention to add it as a player card originally, the interest from the community caused us to look at ways to include it somehow. Today, we are taking a look at the new spell card Phantom Stampede! Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, art, numbers and effects might still change before release. Ghost Train Creates a stampeding Hulk that moves along a defined path of 35m dealing 750 damage to each enemy unit the Hulk passes through. Allied units along the path are granted Ice Shields which absorb up to 880 damage for 30 seconds. Reusable every 25 seconds. Phantom Stampede does something we have never done before: spawning a unit that acts like a spell. Doing so was not without its challenges. Check out this early footage of its development while we were still figuring things out. Design notes: Phantom Stampede is a hybrid support and damage spell meant to give Lost Souls a faction specific damage spell that does not rely on revenants, as well as a sustain option beyond Blood Healing. The card was inspired by the widespread desire to see the Lost Hulk unit as a playable card. We thought extensively about ways to add Lost Hulk to Lost Souls in a way that would be interesting and in-line with the faction's identity, but we ultimately determined that a stampede unit would not fit into Lost Souls. Still, we wanted to give players some way to use Lost Hulk, causing us to develop this spell. Phantom Stampede will release in a future content patch, date to be announced. • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • Events 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! Current events: • NEW - Thirsty Journey Home - March 2nd until March 16th To celebrate the release of both the new patch and the new featured community map, we have a special release event. Simply play the map and upload a replay for a chance to win one of the new cards! More information. • NEW - Skylords Reborn Winter Cup Get ready for some PvP action! The Winter Cup is the first of four PvP tournaments happening this year. The tournament will be hosted and livestreamed by Ultralord. Everyone is welcome to join, please sign-up in advance. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. 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. • 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: VOID-GATE-WARP-HOME This code is valid until April 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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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! • Feedback Survey We'd like to start this community update with a big thank you for providing your feedback through our Yearly Feedback Survey. Over 1.400 Skylords took the time to share their thoughts with us, which is much appreciated! Just like last year, we have gathered all the responses and condensed them into a brief presentation. While this presentation mostly focused on graphs and general data, rest assured we read your personal comments and will take your feedback from open-questions into account as well. • An update on Gate of Akylos Exactly a year ago, we announced the exciting new Lost Souls card Gate of Akylos. Sadly, we ran into technical limitations and underestimated the amount of work this card would take to implement. The card was put aside in favor of focusing on other content. We recently picked the card up again, and figured out a way to make the card work as intended. We are currently testing out this iteration, and things are looking hopeful for its release sometime in the future. Gate of Akylos is a powerful tier 3 shrine, making use of our hybrid orb to allow deck diversity among Lost Soul decks looking to play it. You can check out the original card reveal here. We are excited to bring this new card to the faction, and want to thank you for your patience! • New Card Reveal - Treasure Wagon Today we have a very unique new card to reveal. Treasure Wagon gives you control of one of the wagons from the legendary Treasure Fleet. How will you use this card to your advantage? Let's break down the card! Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, art, numbers and effects might still change before release. Fool's Gold When the unit is destroyed, 2 Thugs will spawn out of its remains. Relentless Stomp Tramples small and medium units. Additionally, Treasure Wagon cannot be slowed by unit collision. Resilient This unit takes 50% less damage. Slow This unit has Slow movement. Avarice - Mode-Change 20p The lure of immense wealth attracts the attention of every hostile unit within a 20m radius around Treasure Wagon. Affected enemy units within this aura will then be forced to only attack the caster and cannot be controlled any more. Reusable every 3 seconds. Design notes: Treasure Wagons are an icon part of the campaign and we wanted to find a way to put them in the player's hands. While legendary cards are already hard to design, Treasure Wagon suffers from the additional issue that it has no attack. This required us to get creative to develop a viable unit design for a non-attacking XL-unit in T2. Taking inspiration from the lore, we gave it a taunt, Avarice, which allows Treasure Wagon to function as a tank unit, drawing fire away from the player's offensive units. Taking more inspiration from the lore, we made it spawn 2 Thugs on death, as the Wagons were used to hide Fire units during the Treasure Fleet campaign mission. Treasure Wagon will release in an upcoming content patch, date to be announced. • Team changes Our team is constantly evolving. As new Skylords join the team, old ones move on to other projects or life responsibilities. We would like to thank Hirooo (card implementation/faction designer), Runeseeker (marketing), Linkz (moderator) and Pierakor (tool development) for their contributions during their time with us. With our team spanning members across the globe, developments in the world, such as the war in Israel, have sadly also impacted our team. While we do not know if something has happened, or if he is simply focused on other priorities, after a year of radio silence we unfortunately have to accept that Tweeto has left the team. Tweeto has been with us since Community Update #1 and was responsible for the artwork of many Rebirth-edition cards, such as Coat of Protection, Burning Spears, and most cards from the Amii faction. He also inspired and supported our other artist SpiritAlpha, offering advice and encouragement. We are extremely grateful for his work on the game, and hope we will hear from him again. Thank you for everything Tweeto, we all hope you are safe. In happier news, we are happy to welcome RainZy as our new outreach coordinator / brand manager. He will focus on reaching new players to grow our playerbase. Meanwhile, Prof_Amezy will take over our social media, working together to inform our current playerbase and grow our channels. A warm welcome to both of you! • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • Events 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! Current events: • LAST DAY - Save Christmas - Until February 2nd While Christmas is over, our event is not. Complete the 3 Christmas-themed community maps to earn yourself a promo Frost Mage. Be sure to do so before the 2nd of February, or you will have to wait till the holidays of 2025 to have another shot. • FINISHED - PvP AI programming contest - Final Showdown We have a winner! Find out which Bot won in our most recent PVP tournament that featured community-made bots facing off for glory. You can rewatch the stream, which had co-host Toggy make a special guest appearance. More information. • Please fill in our short PvP-bots Feedback survey We would like to ask you all to answer a short feedback survey about the PvP-bots-contest. Please, also fill it out even if you did not submit a bot for the final showdown. We want to learn what we could have improved! Take the survey here. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. 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. • 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: LOOT-SHIP-GRAB-GOLD This code is valid until March 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update January 2024

Greetings Skylords! A new year; a new Community Update! It's time to bring you up to speed with everything going on in Skylords Reborn! • Happy New Year and Anniversary Happy New Year Skylords! We hope you had a lovely holiday, and wish you all the best for 2025. December 18th marked the 4th Anniversary of Skylords Reborn, and we released a patch to celebrate the occasion. Be sure to check it out, because you can earn yourself a promo Frost Mage until February 2nd. We would also like to remind you that our feedback survey will close on January 5th. Because Skylords Reborn is a community project, we want to understand what our players enjoy and what could be improved. Your input is vital to helping us refine the game and expand our player base. We hope you’ll take a moment to answer the survey questions, as your responses will directly shape our development priorities. As a thank-you, everyone who completes the survey will receive two boosters. Your feedback will be anonymous. In this Community Update, we are taking a look back at 2024, and share our plans for 2025. We have a lot to cover, so let's get started! • Looking back at 2024 2024 was a great year for Skylords Reborn, and saw the release of new campaign maps, something players have been asking for since the start of the revival. But a lot of other things happened this year, and we'd like to take a moment to reflect upon 2024, and go over our releases. January 27th - 2024 Our first content patch for 2024 introduced two new cards; Tectonic Shift and Lost Mana Beast. We also added a new rPvE difficulty and made changes to the existing difficulty system to align it better with the campaign map difficulties. We combined this change with our rework of the campaign reward system with individualized upgrades, gold rewards overtime, and gold rewards on-loss. We added tutorial missions, where players receive rewards for simple missions meant to explain some of the harder to understand mechanics of BattleForge. Lastly, the anticipated Lost Soul rework was released, containing a large number of buffs to well-designed but underperforming cards. We also released some quality-of-life features, like buttons in the Forge to pause, speed up and slowdown, made a change to the neutral unit exclusion rule, and improved responsiveness of the game. Looking back Tectonic Shift was a successful card release, with a healthy playrate in both PvP and PvE. It created its own archetypes and is a card which you can build a deck around. Lost Manabeast was a specific failure for two reasons, one, because it accidentally released with -25% less damage than intended, and, two, because the ability restriction was too high. We buffed the card to fix both these issues, but Lost Souls in general is in an odd spot. We changed it to function as desired, but it is too high-micro for the average player, so we likely need further changes to the faction. Our changes to the rPvE difficulty system were successful in our view, providing a meaningful bridge between the old level 9 and level 10 content. April 27th - 2024 In April, we released the highly anticipated new card Bedrock. This patch also saw the release of Map of the Day, and the introduction of the Rebirth Booster, containing only cards from the Skylords Reborn Rebirth edition, earnable through winning multiple Maps of the Day. We also made a few balance changes to underperforming Twilight cards, released some quality-of-life changes requested by the community, and fixed some bugs. Looking back Rebirth boosters have been a success both in terms of successfully speeding up the cost reduction of new cards and in driving player engagement with Map of the Day. Bedrock is a well-designed card, but we ran into major issues with the ability not showing up when you have multiple selected. The stone turtle is a cautionary tale about the real limits we have reverse engineering the game because we have not been able to fix the problem where the game thinks Bedrock's ability is a building ability, and it is not clear when we will be able to do so. June 29th - 2024 We knew that our new campaign maps would take the spotlight of our next patch, so we decided to release a patch in June to give the new cards Icespike and Swarm some time to shine. We also implemented a large amount of balance changes, mostly to tier 3 cards, in preparation for the release of the new campaign maps. Looking back Swarm and Icespike are both functioning as intended and are unlikely to see changes anytime soon. We would regard them as successful card releases filling important gaps in their respective factions. September 21st - 2024 Years in the making, September finally saw the release of two new campaign maps; Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle. There was a large focus on the Amii faction, and four new cards were released; Amii Sentinel, Energy Core, Skydancer and the long requested Umbabwe. Battle Arena, a PvP mode which had been in development for a long time, was also released into the Sparring Grounds with 2vs2 and 3vs3 modes. We also implemented new voice lines, both for the new campaign maps and some of the new cards. To round out the patch, we added new achievements (one awarding a new Lost Souls-themed Forge), and another batch of balance changes, including a rework to Amii Monument, the topic of many discussions and heated arguments over the years. We also released the Legacy server, where players can experience BattleForge without balance changes and new cards added by the Skylords Reborn team. Looking back This was arguably our biggest patch yet, and players noticed. Player numbers have gone up since its release, and reception to the maps has been very positive. While we purposefully made the new maps harder than some existing maps, we likely made UV's advanced difficulty too hard. We also noticed that some players would play UV over a dozen times and still not understand the mechanics, so it gave us a lot to think about in regards to designing new maps and how complex we are able to make them without causing issues among players, especially because we only have English voice lines. The new cards were mostly successful, with a few follow-up tweaks planned for Energy Core. October 27th - 2024 While writing this Community Update I had to double check if those dates are correct, but indeed; one month after our biggest patch yet, we released another patch containing 2 new cards and a new promo card. The new Amii card Simulacrum wasn't quite ready for release in our Echoes of the Amii patch, but we were able to release him shortly after. We also added Twilight Archers, a simple but effective addition to the Twilight faction. But the main focus for this patch was our Halloween event. Because of the positive response to our previous events, we decided to do something special this year, and introduced a Halloween-themed promo card: Jorne, earnable by playing a special Halloween version of King of the Giants map. If you missed out on this promo, rest assured that you will have another shot next Halloween. Looking back Twilight Archers are working as intended as a PvP card, and will not see PvE adjustments, though they may see some indirect buffs in PvE via other upcoming changes to the Twilight faction. Simulacrum is a bit underpowered right now and it will receive some mild buffs in the future. While we try to get things right from the start, balancing a kite-unit correctly on the first attempt is rather difficult. We as a team have enjoyed the Halloween event tradition that happened organically and were glad to offer a promo this year. December 22th - 2024 Closing out the year we had another holiday-themed event, covering not one, but three maps. On these Christmas-themed maps, players faced off against the Shadow faction to save the presents, elves and Santa himself. Doing so rewarded them with a promo Frost Mage. While not exactly new maps, player feedback has been very positive on our seasonal overhauls of familiar campaign maps. Looking back While players seem to enjoy the 2 and 4 player maps, we have received feedback that the map Christmas Fleet is too hard. While we feel a promo should warrant a challenge, especially in a community that knows the ins-and-outs of Skylords through the years, we will take this feedback into account to try and make sure future time-based rewards are available for all skill levels. The maps will also likely see minor tweaks before the event ends, as it was our first time using Shadow units and some of them were not fully complete or tested by the time we had to release the map. What else happened in 2024 Besides a steady stream of content releases, a lot of work went into other projects as well. • Our Map Designer R4bitf00t released a Map Editor tutorial, making it easier for players to get started creating their own maps. • We shared an interview with the map department regarding the creation of the new campaign maps. • We released a Deep Dive document for Twilight, sharing insight into the faction and its development going forward. • Players started working on developing PvP bots to face off against each other, and perhaps in the future against players as a sparring partner. • We had some major struggles with Anti-Virus programs flagging Skylords Reborn as unsafe. After a lot of hard work, most issues are now resolved. • We worked with volunteers outside of the staff who lend their voice to implement new voice-lines into the game. • We released our yearly Feedback survey to gather feedback about the state of the game, and what players enjoy or dislike about Skylords Reborn. • Ultralord hosted the Seven Strategy Showdown, the biggest event series to-date, with 7 great community events for players to enjoy. • We spend a lot of time on our official YouTube channel, releasing trailers, card spotlights, and the how-does-it-work series. Looking back 2024 was an exciting year for us, with the milestone of releasing our first campaign maps as the absolute highlight. It was lovely to see the buzz in the community, and see many old faces return to check out the new additions. Our card output was also higher than ever before, and there was always something to do or explore in the game, be it an event, a new card, or a new game mode. 2024 proved that Skylords Reborn is alive and well, and with 2025 marking the year where this revival project will outrun the original BattleForge, we are looking ahead to a bright future. • Looking ahead at 2025 We consider 2024 largely a success for Skylords Reborn. Many players managed to find the project again, either for the first time, or to check out the new campaign maps and content we released over the years. You have also shared constructive feedback and kind words with us through the survey, and we intend to continue upon the legacy of BattleForge in 2025. While we won't go into much detail yet, here are some things you can expect in 2025. New Campaign maps While players had to wait years to see Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle, the waiting time wont be as long for our next batch of new maps. We have multiple new maps in development, and hope to release two of them in the first half of 2025. We will take the feedback and lessons we learned to provide great content to enjoy for players from all skill levels. New Cards We have multiple new cards in various stages of development, and it won't be long before you get to experience them first hand. We currently expect the number of new card releases to be similar to 2024, and have some exciting cards on the way. Balance Changes In 2024 we made the controversial decision to change Amii monument. While we do not enjoy nerfing cards players like, we do so because we think it is the best choice for the game as a whole. As mentioned in our explanation of change, we think that the time of major nerfs is now at an end, and we as a team commit to no further nerfs on the scale of Amii Monument or the previous Batariel nerf from 2 years ago to existing cards going forward. Instead, we intend to continue our work on making lesser played cards viable, and we have our eyes set on the Twilight faction. With changes focused on making more interesting use of the faction "Transform" ability, we hope to give players more incentives to play faction cards, instead of merely combining the best cards Nature and Fire have to offer. Map Modifiers Originally intended for 2024 (to the point of even being mentioned in the looking ahead of that year), map modifiers are still in the works. Modifiers add unique twists and challenges for players to explore. We are currently finalizing a beta roll-out of the feature, intended on gathering important feedback from our players. For starters, random maps will get infected with an elemental modifier for a week. We see tremendous potential in map modifiers in regards to replayability of the game. And more! As always, we will use the monthly community update to keep you informed about our work behind the scenes, with some nice surprises along the way. Be sure to check in every 1st of the month for the latest news about Skylords Reborn, and we hope you will enjoy what we have in store for 2025! • New Card Reveal - Power Shrine Now for something more concrete! To start out the year we have an exciting card reveal for you. We will save you the technical details, but after a lot of trial and error, we have finally figured out how to make Amii buildings happen. For our first Amii building, we decided to create a new Shrine card. Lets take a look at Power Shrine! Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, art, numbers and effects might still change before release. Grasp the Void Activate to reverse the flow of power in the world temporarily. The next 3 cards each friendly player uses, and the next card each enemy player uses, will use void power to fulfill the card's power cost. Lasts for 30 seconds. Has a 60 seconds cool-down after the building was built. Reusable every 60 seconds. This ability prioritizes void power, but if there is not sufficient void power to meet the card's power cost it will take the remainder from the normal power pool. If there is not enough combined power in the void and normal power pools to fulfill the card's power cost, it will be unable to be used as normal. Design notes: Every since we nerfed Shrine of War to require 2 Fire orbs, we have been looking to add a new void return option for rainbow decks. With Amii buildings now possible, that option became available via an interesting discovery that we could let the player use void power as if it were normal power. Power Shrine is an interesting twist on the normal void shrine because it allows the player to play 3 cards from their void power every 60 seconds. This means that it scales as the player's tier increases because cards generally cost more the higher their tier. This built-in scaling also allowed us to move Power Shrine down into T2, as three T2 cards every 60 seconds is not necessarily efficient given the high bound power cost, but it could be in a focused enough deck where players carefully determine their next 3 card choices given the unique power stipulation Power Shrine offers, especially in a team environment. Power Shrine is scheduled to release alongside our next content patch, date to be announced. • Clarification and modifications to the Global Rules We have made some adjustments to our Global Rules, which apply both in-game and on our Discord and Forum. While it is commonly known that Skylords Reborn has a strict no-multiaccounting policy, there has been some confusion about our rules in regards to uneven trading and gifting. We have added some elaboration on these topics to the rules. We have also changed or removed some sections that were no longer relevant (for example, in regards to reputation on the Forum), and expanded upon communication and privacy-handling. You can read the full rules here. Should you have any questions regarding these rules, please don't hesitate to contact our moderators. • Team changes and Contribute to Skylords Reborn We had a bunch of lovely people joining as volunteers this year! The following Skylords joined in 2024: ElementG as Tech-artist Bergerb as Map Designer Vrizz as Testing Coordinator Chibiterasu as Card Implementor (rejoined) TwilightPrincess as Card Implementor Prof_Amezy as Discord Moderator (trial) But it would be unfair to not also give a shout-out to the members who left the team during 2024: Minashigo Hiko left as Event manager. Volin left as Map Tester Coordinator Vrizz Left as Testing Coordinator Noah left as Audio Editor Thank you all for your work for the project! Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • Events 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! Current events: • NEW - Save Christmas - Until February 2nd While Christmas is over, our event is not. Complete the 3 Christmas-themed community maps to earn yourself a promo Frost Mage. Be sure to do so before the 2nd of February, or you will have to wait till the holidays of 2025 to have another shot. • CLOSING SOON - PvP AI programming contest - Until January 5th Players have until Sunday, 5 January 2025 at 23:59 to work on their bots. By then, please send the version of your bot, which you want to participate with, to @Metagross31. either via DM in the forums or via Discord. More information. • NEW - PvP AI programming contest - Final Showdown Get ready for the AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! More information. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. 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. • 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: HAPP-YNEW-YEAR-2025 Please note: Filling out the feedback survey also rewards you with 2 boosters. The survey will close after January 5th. The code is valid until February 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update December 2024

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! • Yearly Feedback Survey Every year, Skylords Reborn has a Feedback Survey. While it is typically released in the summer, we decided to give players more time to explore our new Campaign Maps before inviting you to share your invaluable feedback. Because Skylords Reborn is a community project, we want to understand what our players enjoy and what could be improved. Your input is vital to helping us refine the game and expand our player base. We hope you’ll take a moment to answer the survey questions, as your responses will directly shape our development priorities. As a thank-you, everyone who completes the survey will receive two boosters. Your feedback will be anonymous. • Christmas Event & Anniversary This year, we have something very special planned to close out the holidays. Check back later this month for the official announcement of our Christmas celebration! We are hard at work finalizing the challenge, but the special reward is already prepared. Players who complete the achievement will receive a new Promo Frost Mage card! More information is coming soon, so stay tuned! The 4th anniversary of Skylords Reborn is also coming up. Traditionally, we celebrate this milestone with an announcement stream and a large content patch. But with a significant patch in September, the Halloween Event in October, and our plans for Christmas in December, it has been an incredibly busy period, and we are not sure if this will be feasible this year. Rest assured that we are still hard at work on the second batch of new campaign maps, new cards and other features we are sure you will enjoy, but we feel rushing ourselves to release a content patch just to fit the anniversary window this year, is not the right approach. We would still like to celebrate this milestone with you however, so we will explore our options and let you know. • New Card Spotlight - Molt We already talked a bit about Molt in our Twilight deep-dive last month, and are now ready to reveal the latest spell coming to the Twilight faction. Lets break down the card and share some of the thoughts behind its design. Shed Trigger a unit’s latent capacity for transformation. Target an own Twilight unit and trigger its transformation effect as if it had used Twilight Transformation. Reusable every 40 seconds. Design notes: Twilight Transformation has seen a number of improvements, such as reduced transformation time and a built-in cost reduction. At the same time, we have been steadily adding more transformation effects to the Twilight units to give the ability more strategic depth. Still, we are largely restricted by the fact that we cannot lower transformation costs without also lowering bound power costs in units. So as units scale in costs, our only choice is to make transformation effects scale in strength. We do not think this efficiency arms race is rightly achievable, so we are moving in a different direction through the introduction of Molt. For a low fixed cost, Molt will be able to trigger the transformation effect of any Twilight unit, meaning we can now design transformation effects with Molt in mind and not solely based on bound power costs. This also allows for more flexibility as players can now trigger transformation effects quickly and easily without having to make use of the often clunky Transformation process. Molt will release alongside our next content patch, date to be announced. • Art Spotlight - Molt The artwork for Molt (originally called Evolution during development) was created by SpiritAlpha. He envisioned Twilight creatures shedding their old skin, transforming into even greater monstrosities. SpiritAlpha quickly produced two early sketches: We liked the early concept, and work continued on the one involved the Mutating Maniac. To ensure the artwork fit well within the card frame and kept the focus on the main design, we removed the extra characters. At one point, we considered depicting old skin transforming into new body parts, but we quickly discarded the idea, as it didn’t enhance the artwork. We were pleased with how the artwork was progressing but concerned it wasn’t clear enough that this was a spell rather than a unit. We explored several options but weren’t satisfied with the results. The first attempt made the card feel like a binding spell, while the second clarified it was a spell but faced contrast issues when displayed in the deck bar. Wherever possible, we aim to ensure players can quickly identify cards at a glance. We spent some time tweaking the base artwork, experimenting with various intensities of the blue glow to emphasize the spell aspect of the card. We also ensured the toxic Twilight clouds, iconic to the faction, were present to highlight the transformation effect being triggered. Ultimately, we chose a strong blue contrast against the creature and mirrored the artwork to further distinguish the card from its creature counterpart when viewed in the deck bar. We are happy with how the artwork turned out and would like to once again thank SpiritAlpha for his incredible work and contributions to the game. Our art department is severely understaffed, and it’s almost entirely thanks to him that we’re still able to add new cards to the game. If you’re an artist or know someone who can create art in a style fitting for BattleForge, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us! You can apply directly here, or contact Majora or Dutchy on the Forum or on Discord. • "How Does It Work" series - BFP We recently launched a new video series on our YouTube channel, How Does It Work, where we dive into various topics that often raise questions. So far, we’ve released a video on Void Power, the Root Network and a guide on how to install the game. Another topic that often comes up is ''How do I earn BFP?", the topic of our latest video! We’d love to hear feedback from the community on this series. These videos take quite some time to create, but we’re more than happy to continue if they’re appreciated. Are the videos clear and interesting to watch? Are there any other topics you would like to see covered? Please let us know your thoughts in the comments below! • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Expanding on a game like BattleForge requires a lot of enthusiastic and skilled volunteers. While we are very happy with how the game shaped out to be, over the years we have struggled filling certain roles that are now truly becoming a problem for the health of the project. We would like to highlight a couple of positions that we could really use (more) people for. Critical: Artists Despite multiple calls for help, we have unfortunately not received any applications for the artist role. Due to the remote nature of our team and current global challenges, both of our artists have been heavily impacted, with one now completely inactive. This has significantly slowed the release of new cards and placed immense pressure on our sole remaining artist. We would like to stress our appeal: if you know any skilled artist who might be willing to contribute to Skylords Reborn, please forward them our way. Your support is vital to keeping the game alive and thriving! For more information, click here. Critical: Marketeer One of the most common pieces of feedback we receive from players is, “You should market the game more.” While we completely agree, this is easier said than done. Our options are greatly limited—paid marketing is off the table—and more importantly, we currently don’t have a dedicated marketer. Unfortunately, no one with the necessary skills or experience has applied for the role. If you’re motivated, have a strong network, and believe you can help us spread the word about Skylords Reborn, we’d love to hear from you! For more information, click here. Map Testers With our increased focus on map-related content, we are looking for more Map Testers to help identify bugs and ensure balance. As a Map Tester, you’ll gain early access to new maps and game modes, with the responsibility of playtesting and providing valuable feedback to the map development team. This includes evaluating the balance and fun factor of maps, identifying exploits, suggesting areas for visual improvements, and ensuring overall quality. The availability of dedicated Map Testers not only improves the game’s quality but also significantly speeds up the release of high-quality content. This is a non-staff contributor position. Tasks for these roles come and go, and they are a great way to help without receiving too much responsibility. For more information, click here. Other roles Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • Events 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! Current events: • FINISHED - Seven Strategy Showdown 7 - Egg ball The last SSS-event finished past Friday, and was one of the most unique events we have seen in Skylords Reborn. Find out the winners in the event stream, or play it yourself in a versus mode that is being developed in the future! More information. • COMING SOON - Christmas Challenge While not technically an event, be sure to check in for our Christmas challenge later this month! • SECOND PHASE - PvP AI programming contest Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! Players are still able to join this programming contest. More information. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. 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. • 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: GIVE-FEED-BACK-TIME Please note: Filling out the feedback survey also rewards you with 2 boosters. The code is valid until January 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update November 2024

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! • Halloween Patch Happy Halloween Skylords! Halloween has become a beloved tradition for Skylords Reborn, and this year, we have something truly special in store for our players. First, our recurring achievement, Happy Halloween, is active again. Completing the map Spooky Encounters during the Halloween season will earn you a Lost Souls booster and a special Pumpkin avatar if you haven't earned them already last year. Secondly, we have released a new Halloween-themed map this year: Spooky Giants! Help Rogan outrun a zombified Jorne in this unique twist on the King of the Giants map. Successfully completing this challenge rewards you with a brand-new Promo Jorne card! Please note, this Promo reward is available only between October 28th and November 11th. If you don’t unlock it within this timeframe, you’ll have to wait until 2025. Last but definitely not least, we have released a new content patch! Two new cards are now available: the Amii card Simulacrum, and a new addition to the Twilight faction, Twilight Archers. Click here for the full patch notes. • Twilight Deep Dive In our Deep Dive documents, we share our thoughts and plans for each faction, giving you insight into our balancing process. Previously, we explored the state of Pure Frost, Bandits, Stonekin, and Pure Nature. You can read them here. Today, we're excited to reveal our plans for the Twilight faction. After examining the faction's core characteristics, we take a closer look at its strengths, weaknesses, and play patterns. To further enhance the Twilight faction, we're also working on new cards and reworks. Be sure to check out the Deep Dive to learn more! Twilight Deep Dive.pdf • New Card Spotlight - Twilight Archers Twilight Archers are our latest addition to the Twilight faction, and are now available with the release of our Halloween patch! Lets break down the card and share some of the thoughts behind its design. Crossbow Attack Every 2 seconds, unit fires bolts at enemies that deal 8 damage. Transformation Like all Twilight units, Twilight Slayers will come with the faction's ability "Transformation". Infected Cure If the unit is transformed, it will trigger the regenerative abilities of every friendly Twilight unit in a 25m radius. They will regain 15 life points every second for the next 20 seconds. Cursed Birth When being transformed into or spawned, the unit receives 600 cursed fragments that improve the unit's performance. As long as the stored fragments last, the unit deals 100% more damage. Design notes: Twilight Archers will add a new tactical layer to their faction as a T2 ranged unit with frontloaded damage. Cursed Birth allows them to outperform most T2 units in early combat and low energy skirmishes, but also breaks with the traditional scaling concept of ranged armies. After using up their Cursed Fragments Twilight Archers will be weaker than most T2 units, so it's best to integrate them into the transformation chain or seek for specific synergies like the Twilight Minions (r) transformation buff. Infected Cure is designed to reward the transformation playstyle and compensate for the lack of scaling in extended combat with increasing unit counts. In PvP, Twilight Archers will be a valuable counter to Burning Spears and air units, while also synergizing with the Nature spells like Ensnaring Roots. In PvE, they can serve as a ranged alternative to splash options and also offer formidable anti-air damage. • "How Does It Work?" series - Root Network We recently launched a new video series on our YouTube channel, How Does It Work, where we dive into various topics that often raise questions. So far, we’ve released a video on Void Power and a guide on how to install the game. Our latest entry focuses on the Root Network. The Root Network is a popular yet often misunderstood mechanic of the Nature faction. When built correctly, the root network can be incredibly powerful; however, a lack of understanding can lead to underwhelming and confusing outcomes. Let’s dive into this unique ability and help take your gameplay to the next level! We’d love to hear feedback from the community on this series. These videos take quite some time to create, but we’re more than happy to continue if they’re appreciated. Are the videos clear and interesting to watch? Are there any other topics you would like to see covered? Please let us know your thoughts in the comments below! • Events 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! Current events: • NEW - Seven Strategy Showdown 6 - Stand Still! Can you imagine how annoying it must be for the AI if the player is micro-managing their units? Find out in this event! Please note, the event page goes live at 18:30 CET November 1st. More information. • FINISHED - Seven Strategy Showdown 5 - PC on Fire Is more always better? Players pushed their skills and hardware to the limit in this event where unit count is everything. Find out who won, and how they did it, here: More information. • IN PROGRESS - Seven Strategy Showdown Every two weeks there will be a new event in this series of seven events, each bringing a fun handcrafted challenge or mechanic! Be sure to check them out, as there are some great prizes to be won! More information. • SECOND PHASE - PvP AI programming contest Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! Players are still able to join this programming contest. More information. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. 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. • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • 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 Twilight booster: TWIL-IGHT-DEEP-DIVE The code is valid until December 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update October 2024

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! • Continue the Story Our new patch has released! With it comes two brand-new campaign maps, 15 years after the original story concluded. We are thrilled to continue the legacy of BattleForge, and we created a special video to celebrate to occasion. • Patch Overview Video Our latest patch has a lot to offer, so we also have a Patch Overview Video for you. Because we are extremely limited in what we can do on the marketing side of things, we would highly appreciate it if you can give it a like and share it with your friends! You can read the full patch notes here. We are very happy that the response from the community to these maps has been very positive, and we want to thank everyone who dropped in to share some kind words. We have spend a lot of hours on balance, map art, voice-overs and playtesting, but nothing can quite prepare you for the whole community exploring them. We are collecting all the feedback and will make sure to take it into account for our next maps as well. We have more maps in the works, but we will talk about them in another community update! • New Card Reveal - Simulacrum We hope you are all enjoying the new Amii units released in our last patch. Many of you are wondering where the character in the middle of the key-art is. Today we are ready to reveal Simulacrum. Let's break down the card. Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release. Elemental Wrath Every second unit unleashes a hail of primal energy that deal 70 damage to enemies in a 5m radius its target, up to 105 in total. Attack slows enemy units who may only move at walk speed. Lasts for 10 seconds. Relocation Unit relocates to another spot within a 50m range. Requires the target location to be within a 15m range of at least one other own ground entity. Reusable every 20 seconds. Elusive The duration of the immobilizing effects of Freeze and Paralyze are reduced by 20%. Design notes: When we decided upon adding some golem-like units to the Amii faction, we thought that the Tempest model was perfect alongside the models used in Amii Sentinel and Energy Core. The issue is that we did not want the Tempest playstyle where the player would need to walk Simulacrum forward, root, attack, unroot, move, then re-root, ad infinitum. This playstyle already exists with Stone Tempest and Tempest and neither see much play because of how tedious it is. So we decided to move in a different direction and give Simulacrum a teleport ability which is usable while it is rooted. This will make Simulacrum play similarly to a T3 Phase Tower, but easier to micro because units can be grouped unlike buildings and Simulacrum can benefit from spells affecting units. Alongside this teleport ability, we gave its auto-attack a slow effect, allowing both PvE and PvP players to use the slow and teleport in combination to kite their enemies with Simulacrum's long range of 40m. Simulacrum will release alongside our next content patch, date to be announced. • Interview Regarding New Campaign Maps We hope everyone has had a chance to try out the new campaign maps already. Now that they are finally released to the public, we thought it would be a nice moment to sit with WindHunter and R4bitfoot, two team members who were heavily involved in their creation, and ask them what the design process was like to create Into the Jungle (ItJ) and Unexpected Visitors (UV). Lets start with introductions, for those who do not know you, what is your role on the Skylords Reborn team? Hello! I am R4bitF00t and my official designation is Lead Map Artist, but in the end I do pretty much anything on new maps, starting from initial layout, scripting functionality, balance changes and ending with map art. Hello, I am WindHunter. I am Skylord Reborn’s lead designer, a role I have had since January 2022. Generally speaking, anything that affects how a person plays or experiences the game comes under my purview and needs my stamp of approval before it gets added to the game. That includes things like new card design, balancing, the economy, achievements, and map design. What is your favorite original campaign map? My favorite is absolutely Encounters with Twilight, the map just feels so alive and is split into several very clean, and well-thought out chunks, it is by far my most played map. Behind Enemy Lines. I enjoy the slow build out from the center that makes you feel like you are conquering the map, compared to many maps where you feel more like a saboteur than a conqueror. And what was your involvement with the new campaign maps specifically? I started work on Into the Jungle - the original concept and layout came from the community map made by Emmaerzeh, Lebovim and other contributors. When we turned it into a campaign map, we wanted to keep the original idea and improve upon it. To achieve that, we made changes to the map's layout and introduced some new mechanics. So my job was to implement all the layout and script changes, and make the map pretty. After that, I designed the map concept for Unexpected Visitors with Emmaerzeh and WindHunter, made the functional prototype of the map, and then came in later to do some finalizations and balance changes with WindHunter. Besides balancing the maps, I did a lot of writing. I am in charge of the lore, so I wrote the storybook entries and the map outcries, and I also wrote two design documents which have become the basis, or template, for how we design new campaign maps. When did work first start on a new campaign map? The idea for new campaign maps was here long before I joined the team. There were some attempts at official maps at that time, but since we didn't have proper guidelines, we ended up scrapping or repurposing them into community maps, like the Restoring Lyr map. Work on ItJ started shortly after I joined the team, so around two years ago. What were some of the challenges to overcome? As I mentioned before, we didn't have proper guidelines when we started work on ItJ, we fought with the most basic things, like designing enemy camps properly. We made some changes based on tester feedback, but once implemented, they were not happy with them, so we had to go back to the drawing board. We just had to try and try again to capture that old-school BattleForge feel, and there is a lot that goes into that. For anybody interested, I recommend WindHunter's design documents, which were a massive help: Spawn Design and Camp Design. These are not the first two PvE projects we have undertaken. Previously we had another “official” map called Restoring Lyr from a former team member RookieN which we have recently polished and released as a featured community map. We also were deep into developing a defensive random PvE mode, but we ran into major design issues we did not think we could easily fix, causing us to postpone further work on the project. The fact is that we really did not know what we were doing and we had significantly underestimated how much went into making something worthy to be called an official campaign map. These issues and the early work on ITJ, which we did not want to fail, forced us to step back and really examine what went into making a campaign map. I came into the map design department at around this point and the first thing I did was pause further map development. We were changing things so rapidly and reactively it was wearing out the map testers and designers alike. At that point, I went back through all 26 existing campaign maps and I started documenting what made BattleForge maps distinctive and what made the good maps good. This is similar to what we did with faction design when we started making new cards. Eventually, this study culminated in two large design documents, one on camp design and one on spawn design. With these in hand, we restarted map development in-line with our new design principles and made rapid progress. We also took this time to outline everything a new map needed and to develop the kind of workflow we needed to make continual map development possible. So, I would say the biggest challenges were systematic ones and with these under control it was amazing how fast new maps could develop. Both maps are two-player maps, was there a specific reason for this? Can we expect other player sizes in the future? Into the Jungle was originally a speedrun challenge map from one of our map designers Emmaerzeh that required two players. So we started with ITJ as a two player map. The issue is that ITJ is the second map in the story, so when we decided on UV’s design, we thought it was only right that it was also a two-player map. Players can definitely expect new 1p and 4p maps in the future, though probably not any new 12p maps. Campaign Maps always have some kind of twist, did you have hard time coming up with one for these two? The original ItJ design was a simple map - go from point A to B and destroy things along the way. While every map in BF does some variation of this, I felt it needed that "hook" or "twist" as you call it, and I thought that adding secret passages through the jungle would be nice, make the map more exploratory and open it up from the original linear design. Luckily, I was not the only one who liked the idea so we got to see it on the map. For UV, we knew we wanted to have a defensive portion on the map, but BattleForge's mechanics really struggle with having one static defensive location - there is no resource, worker or base management, so we decided we need to break up the defense by giving players an incentive to sally out and conquer extra parts of the map. But pushing through enemy attack waves is in most cases too annoying, so we added the day/night cycle to make it clear for players when to attack and when to defend. So this map "twist" came organically from the map's design. I would say no. In the case of both maps, the twist developed organically as we designed them. In ITJ, you have the secret passages and the Amii well-building mechanic. The first came from experimentation and the second flowed from the lore. In UV you have the portal and Amii Monument charging mechanics. These were part of the map’s original design, and then we ended up creating the day/night cycle as a response to the design issues caused by the player turtling around the portal shrine. We were conscious of the need to differentiate these maps from existing maps, and the story we wanted to tell with both maps led naturally to the different mechanics each map has that sets it apart. What is your favorite part about each map? After all this time working on the maps, I am pretty numb 😀 so I’ll leave this one to WindHunter. I enjoy the secret passages on ITJ a lot, especially because of how much they change how you approach the map’s early game. For UV, I like that we get to fight Frost units for the first time. I am very happy with their design, and I think they provide an interesting contrast to the factions the player usually encounters in campaign maps. What about the story? How did you decide on that? One of the major problems of making campaign maps is obviously the campaign aspect. While we could just release good maps disconnected from the existing lore, having a cohesive narrative adds to the enjoyment of the map by letting the player enter into the game’s universe. So we wanted to make sure the narrative fit the Skylords universe. In this case, we really wanted to fill in the Empire storyline. Skylords Reborn tells stories through action more than exposition. The exception to this is Empire, which skips over a ton of in-game events which would otherwise be standalone maps in an attempt to give the story a conclusion. This happened because the original devs knew they would not be able to add anymore maps. What we are doing with ITJ and UV is filling back in the Empire storyline in a way the original devs were unable to do, so that the players can be part of that story, and not just read about it. How long did you spend on each of the maps? Oh, that’s a tough one, I am pretty sure I spent well over a hundred hours on ItJ. It will be a bit less for UV, since Damo and Kayrie took over at some point and made most of the map art. Several dozen hours per map. Can you tell us something about balancing the maps? Well, it is not easy. It is easy to get feedback and then make a change and think you fixed the problem and move on. But it rarely works. It is harder to sit down, gather a lot of feedback and then try to figure out the root causes behind the issue before making a decision. I mean sometimes the camp is just too strong and you tone it down, but other times the solution is less obvious. As an example, on ITJ we did not have any patrolling units or attack waves beyond the event spawners at the beginning. Testers told us the map felt lifeless, so we added attack waves. Then next iteration they told us that the waves felt designed just to destroy them and that they felt unfair. We toned them down but the same feedback kept recurring, so we eventually removed them, only to return back to the first problem. The answer I think is that good balance comes from good design. While we want the maps to respond to the tools the players might bring, for example, we cannot add too many ground units at T1 because they just become Mine fodder, we also want the camps to feel like more than a video game. The goal then is that the map feels organic, like the enemies really live in the map, but while also tailoring each map to the player’s expected strength. We might add certain challenges to the camp, like a Mark of the Keeper or a Lost Dragon, but they should feel like they are meant to be there. On Into the Jungle in particular, you can look at a replay without fog of war enabled and just scroll over the camps. Each one is unique. One is a bug infested temple, another is a Ghostspear village, and yet another is a beast taming ground for Amazons. We came up with these ideas first, and then we asked ourselves how these units would position themselves and how they would respond to hostile threats nearby. Then we tuned from there. What about the visuals? Luckily, I got to practice map art on other maps before ItJ - namely the yet unreleased drPvE and both of the Battle Arenas that dropped with this patch. I learn a bit more with every map I create, but in the end I am happy with ItJ visuals, I feel they are unique in the game and I had fun coming up with different points of interest in the jungle and enemy camps. My favorite place on ItJ is the top-left camp, it features a giant stone statue, a nearby volcano and an Amazon temple. I just wish we could have added a waterfall coming out of the mouth of the statue. Damo and Kayrie worked on the art for UV so I cannot comment on that, but my favorite place from that map is definitely the Ami city. Damo did a great job with the layout and making it feel like a real city, but still fitting BattleForge. I also really like the Lost Souls siege camp in front of it. What took the longest time in the whole process? When talking about pure hours spent working on the map - that would be map art (I’d say ItJ art took me about 80 hours). But while map art can take a couple of weeks to finish, actually testing the map - balancing and improving upon mechanics is what drags on the most. Both maps have spent months in testing periods, where we took feedback from testers, discussed it and implemented it. Going back and forth and trying different versions of mechanics. Having so many people involved, it takes quite a while to chisel out the final vision for the map. In terms of total time, probably the testing phase. There is a lot of waiting for feedback, playing the maps yourself, and then watching replays. Then you need to figure out how to turn all that data into something which can change the map, and that is very difficult to do correctly when you want to change a lot of things at once. So instead we usually change 1-2 big things, and then we need to wait all over again to see if it worked. It is a draining process. What can players expect in the future? We want to keep expanding the story and making new maps. The team has several other map projects currently in-progress, not just of new campaign maps, and a few of them are nearing the point where we can almost start showing them off. Is there anything else you'd like to share with our players? Just to enjoy the game and the new campaign maps we have created. Shameless plug incoming: If you’re interested in creating maps of your own, check out our official map editor tutorial! We worked hard to make sure that each map had more than one way to complete it, and that different decks would have different strengths at different points. So, I would encourage players to view the maps as a kind of sandbox where they can try different strategies and different decks, instead of just viewing the map as a once and done experience. • We Want Your Feedback We want to hear what you think about the new maps Unexpected Visitors, Into the Jungle, and Battle Arena! Do you like them or not? What would you like you see more of in the future and what less? What would you leave the same and what would you improve? Let us know here: Unexpected Visitors - Discussion Thread Into the Jungle - Discussion Thread Battle Arena - Discussion Thread or on our Balance Discord September Patch Feedback New Maps Feedback • Get Ready For Halloween By now it has become tradition for Skylords Reborn to have a Halloween-themed event, and this year will be no different! Be sure to check in on the 31st of October for a spooky event with a very special reward! • Events 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! Current events: • NEW - Release Event To celebrate the release of the new campaign maps we have a special event. All you have to do is upload your replay of completing Unexpected Visitors and/or Into the Jungle for a chance to win some prizes! More information. • NEW - Seven Strategy Showdown 4 - Guardian Skylord Rogan is on the run again, and will need your help. Again.. Help Rogan to finish a round as fast as possible. Support him exclusively with spells and each spell can only be cast once. More information. • FINISHED - Seven Strategy Showdown 3 - Wrecking Time The 3rd event in the series has concluded! This time Skylords were the ones destroying buildings. Players had to destroy as many buildings as possible within the time limit for a chance to win some great prizes. More information. • IN PROGRESS - Seven Strategy Showdown Every two weeks there will be a new event in this series of seven events, each bringing a fun handcrafted challenge or mechanic! Be sure to check them out, as there are some great prizes to be won! More information. • SECOND PHASE - PvP AI programming contest Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! Players are still able to join this programming contest. More information. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. 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. • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • 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: AMII-AMII-AMII-AMII The code is valid until November 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update September 2024

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! • Echoes of the Amii Nearly 15 years have passed since the original BattleForge story concluded. When we revived the game through Skylords Reborn, two questions kept coming up: Will we get new Amii cards, and will we see new story or campaign maps? One of the final cards released for the original game was Amii Phantom, offering a glimpse of what might have been. Over the years, our team has carefully expanded the mysterious Amii faction with new cards like Amii Paladins, Tranquility, and Transcendence, gradually shaping a distinct faction identity. With our upcoming patch, we're accelerating this effort by introducing three late-game units: Amii Sentinel, Skydancer, and Energy Core. These new units provide players with exciting options for building a dedicated Amii deck. We are incredibly proud of how far this project has come, and we're grateful for the opportunity to expand the Amii faction with these new cards. Rest assured, we have more cards in development for the faction, some of which you can expect to see before the end of the year. In addition to new cards, our next patch marks a significant milestone by adding new campaign maps. And what better way to do so than by properly integrating the Amii into the story? These new maps take place during the original story's timeframe, filling in some of the gaps and answering lingering questions, while also introducing a new Skylord and bringing the ancient Amii into the present-day narrative. Our next patch will feature two new maps, with more in development. We've dedicated significant time and effort to these campaign maps, carefully refining the balance, map art, story, and gameplay. We hope players will appreciate the passion that went into their creation. After all this time, we want to ensure that these maps stand proudly alongside the original campaign. These maps are the product of hundreds of hours of our team's artists, designers, community map testers, translators, and voice actors. We hope you are looking forward to them! We are excited to announce Echoes of the Amii will release on September 21st. • New Card Reveal - Energy Core With the patch release imminent, we have another new card to show you that will be included. Crackling with energy, Energy Core is powerful, but unstable. By overloading the core, it can deal massive amounts of damage, but doing so comes at a heavy cost. Let's break down the card! Please note: We are still finalizing the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release. Pulse Activate to unleash an electric shock through enemies in a straight line that deals 1200 damage to enemies in a 20m radius, up to 3000 in total. The shock damages Energy Core by 1150 life points points. Must have at least 1000 life points to activate. Reusable every 15 seconds. Overcharge Activate to overload the unit, dealing 2000 damage to enemies in a 25m radius, up to 6000 in total. The overload damages Energy Core by 2300 life points. This self-inflicted damage ignores damage modification and cannot be warded off with the help of damage reducing abilities because it is able to circumvent every buff or protective shield. Must have at least 2000 life points to activate. Reusable every 30 seconds. Elusive Units with Elusive have the duration of the immobilizing effects of Freeze and Paralyze reduced by 30%. Sharp eyes might have noticed a change in the percentage of the Amii passive ability "Elusive". Starting with our next patch, the Elusive ability will be different depending on the tier of the unit. The current cards, Amii Phantom and Amii Palladin, and any future tier 2 Amii units will remain at 10%. Meanwhile, tier 3 will move the percentage up to 20%, and tier 4 units will have a 30% reduction to the duration of Freeze and Paralyze. Design notes: Energy Core's original design came from a player in the Community Card Contest we held over a year ago. At the time we were fleshing out the basic design of Amii's T4 and we thought that Energy Core was the perfect fit for what we envisioned regarding this faction's playstyle. The idea behind Energy Core is to create a unit which is more of a mobile spell than it is a traditional unit. It has no auto-attack, but it has two activatable abilities. Both abilities damage Energy Core, one more significantly than the other, requiring the player to pay close attention to the unit's health and weigh their options over what is possible for them and whether or not risking losing the unit is worthwhile. It synergizes directly with Skydancer, whose buff increases a unit's base health, allowing Overcharge to be used without directly killing Energy Core. The damage to enemies is modifiable by Shadow's buffs, allowing the card to work directly with Shadow's buffs and Nature's healing spells. Energy Core will release alongside our next content patch on the 21st. • Art Spotlight - Energy Core As the creators of Monuments and Powerwells in Nyn, the Amii seemed like the perfect faction for a unit embodying the essence of a monument's core. For the initial concept of the card, our artist, SpiritAlpha, took the model of Magma Spore, and incorporated faces in its design—a direction we've explored before with the spell Tranquility. From the start, we knew we wanted to move away from the iconic chains of the Magma Spore, aiming to make the design feel more distinctive. While we're limited to the models from the original game, it was important to us that this unit didn’t come across as just another simple reskin. We were drawn to this next concept art, evoking the feeling of soldiers stumbling upon an ancient construct in a temple-like setting. However, we were concerned that it resembled a spell too closely and weren’t entirely convinced by the facial design. To refine the concept, we revisited other Amii structures in the game for inspiration. We noticed that the Amii Shrines featured a unique eye in their design, which we felt was worth exploring further. We paused work on the card art to ensure this idea could be executed well in the model. Once the model was finalized, we resumed work on the card artwork. We were thrilled with the direction we took. The core not only looks powerful, but it also brings a distinct personality to what could have been a rather plain model. With its ominous eye watching over the battlefield and its rhythmic hum, the Energy Core is something truly unique in the lineup. We hope you love it as much as we do! • Amii Monument Changes One of the most anticipated—or depending on your perspective, feared—changes will be implemented in our next patch. After careful consideration and years of discussion, we have decided to change the card Amii Monument. We are fully aware of the controversy surrounding this topic, so we want to take the time to explain our reasoning and the thought process behind it. The following changes will be made to the card: 1. Power Cost: 250p ➜ 125p 2. Ability Cost: 140p ➜ 100p 3. Orbs granted by Amii Monument no longer increase a player’s tier. Players still gain access to cards within their current tier that require the orb granted by Amii Monument. For example, if a player has 3 Fire orbs via normal Monuments, and builds a Nature orb via Amii Monument, they will still be T3, but will be able to summon Juggernauts and heal them via Equilbrium. New Description - “Switch into this mode to gain one tierless Shadow Orb. This orb will not increase a player's tier, but will allow the player to play cards within their current tier that would require this Orb. The Orb will be ready and functional after 10 seconds. It cannot be switched back for 30 seconds.” 4. Once built, Amii orbs attack as if they were a normal orb. 5. Legendary buildings are now one-per-player, not one-per-team. Reasoning Amii Monument in its existing state is a cheat card. It breaks a map's design, allowing players unfettered access to T4 cards when the map is balanced around the player only having access to T3 cards and creating a persistent toxic effect on the normal game experience. Amii Monument removes an entire tier from the game. This has a disruption impact on the game experience by changing deckbuilding at its core. In decks without Amii Monument, the player needs to consider how many cards they can budget for each tier and choose accordingly. With Amii Monument in a deck, the player can simply remove all T3 cards from their deck besides Amii Monument itself (spells like Infect which scale well into T4 are the exception), opening up more deck slots for T1, T2, and T4 cards. Consider also that nearly all PvE maps are functionally finished before the player ever reaches T4. Combined with the fact that T4 cards are significantly stronger than T3 cards (the power difference between T4 and T3 cards is the single largest increase in card strength between tiers) means that the player requires fewer T3 and T4 cards in their deck, allowing the use of more card slots for T1 and T2. This heavily warps the game experience by making the player stronger than the map is designed to account for at all tiers, not just once the player reaches T3. There is also the psychological effect Amii Monument has upon players. Since we first started balancing cards in Skylords Reborn, players have asked us to nerf Amii Monument, not just because of the balance issues, but because they felt compelled to always include it in their deck regardless of the situation. This is unsurprising as many game studios have recognized that players in general will choose the most efficient option, even to the detriment of their own enjoyment. And who of us have not experienced this? How many of us have not used mind-numbingly boring methods to grind in games just because it is the fastest way to procure loot, even if it ends up making us hate the game? Who has not included Amii Monument as a default deck option at some point in their time playing Skylords Reborn? To briefly summarize, Amii Monument undermines map design, deckbuilding, and possesses a factor that makes players feel compelled to include it in their decks, even when they know it undermines their own enjoyment. While designing our new maps, including not just the two maps releasing with this patch but the multiple additional maps currently in development, we found ourselves face to face with these issues in a way that made the card's problems no longer ignorable. For all these reasons and more, we felt that the time had finally come to nerf Amii Monument. Yet we do not want to destroy the card. The new design is tailored towards enabling unique, previously impossible, deckbuilding possibilities, in direct opposition to its previous design. We also realized that many T3 cards were not generally strong enough to be satisfying to use, so we dedicated almost the entire last patch to adding new T3 options through buffs, reworks, and new cards, and we are dedicated to continuing this project next patch. Lastly, we understand that this change will upset many people, but we hope you will see that we did not make this choice lightly. We do not enjoy nerfing cards players like, but we do it because we think it is the best choice for the game. At the same time, we think that the time of major nerfs is now at an end with these changes to Amii Monument, and we as a team commit to no further nerfs on the scale of Amii Monument or the previous Batariel nerf from 2 years ago to existing cards going forward. • Battle Arena Next patch will also bring the release of a new PvP mode called Battle Arena. In this game mode, players do not use cards from their deck. Instead, they are given spell devices and progressively stronger creatures which they must use to overcome their enemies. The mode can be played 2v2 or 3v3 and will come with a new achievement to reward players for trying it out. • Events 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! Current events: • UPCOMING - Release Event Once the patch is out, we will have an event to celebrate the release of the new campaign maps. In this special event, you'll have a chance to win some of the new cards or boosters! More details will be shared on patch day. • NEW - Seven Strategy Showdown 3 - Wrecking Time The 3rd event in the series is now live! The tables have turned, and this time Skylords are the ones destroying buildings. Destroy as many buildings as possible within the time limit and win some great prizes. More information. • IN PROGRESS - Seven Strategy Showdown Every two weeks there will be a new event in this series of seven events, each bringing a fun handcrafted challenge or mechanic! Be sure to check them out, as there are some great prizes to be won! More information. • FINISHED - Seven Strategy Showdown 1 - The Salesman Problem For this event players had to kill all the units on the event-map as fast as possible. It wasn't long before people broke the one minute mark, but after that the real competition kicked off. You can now watch the winners on Twitch. More information. • FINISHED - Seven Strategy Showdown 2 - The Last Fortress One building is all that stood between players and the leaderboard. Watch how the fierce competition concluded in the winner reveal stream on Twitch! More information. • SECOND PHASE EXTENDED - PvP AI programming contest Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! Players are still able to join this programming contest. More information. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. 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 Two team members have concluded their roles; Piskr as Client Developer, and Xanatoss as Card implementer. We would like to thank them for their contributions to Skylord Reborn. Meanwhile, Titan has transitioned to help us with audio, alongside the role of 3D-artist. • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! If you have any experience with e-mail newsletters, we could especially use your help as we move towards the release of our latest patch. Please take a look at this new role. Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • 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 an Amii booster: ISPY-WITH-AMII-EYES The code is valid until October 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update August 2024

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! • Update regarding antivirus programs flagging Skylords Reborn as unsafe For the past two months, we have received multiple reports of antivirus programs flagging Skylord Reborn files. We have been working hard to resolve these issues and are pleased to share some promising developments. Our efforts to formally sign the DLL files and update our automation tools appears to have resolved several of these problems. Additionally, we have been collaborating with antivirus companies to whitelist the flagged files, and the initial results are promising. We are continuing to monitor the situation closely, and we would appreciate your feedback if you are still experiencing any issues. The easiest way is doing so directly through our technical support channel on discord, but you can also make a topic on the forum. • New Card Reveal - Umbabwe Today, we have a very exciting card reveal: Blight's infamous witch doctor will make its appearance as a playable legendary card! Players have been asking for this ever since it appeared during the boss battle on Oracle, and we are happy to announce that you won't have to wait much longer for this classic character. Let's break down the card. Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release. Skyfall Every 4 seconds, unit calls down a meteor that deals 400 damage to enemies in a 15m radius around its target, up to 1600 in total. Has a long range of 40m. Knocks back small and medium units. Storm Caller Activate to create a fiery tornado at a target location for 10 seconds, that deals 160 damage per second to enemies in a 10m radius, up to 480 in total per second. Additionally, affected hostile units are set on fire for 3 seconds, and take 280 damage per second. Reusable every 15 seconds. Oink Oink Activate to transform up to 10 hostile units at a target location of 20m radius into pigs for 15 seconds. Affected units may neither move nor attack. After 5 seconds they will be retransformed if being attacked. After the effect wears off, targets are immune against Oink for 10 seconds. Reusable every 20 seconds. Steadfast Cannot be knocked back. Design notes: Umbabwe is one of the more colorful characters in the Renegade campaign and the last of the Raven-based cards to become a player card. While we were designing Umbabwe we decided early on not to tie him into the existing Raven squad system but to make him a standalone entity. We wanted to design a spellcaster type unit which relied heavily on low cooldown abilities. This should allow Umbabwe to function as a good T4 starting unit which can then transition into a spell supporter for several decks. Umbabwe's auto-attack is unique because it is a meteor from Inferno. Its large splash radius and splash damage should allow him to stun-lock small and medium units. The Storm Caller ability provides a potent anti-unit tornado, which unlike other tornados, does not travel but remains in place. Additionally the tornado is capable of being buffed when cards like Unholy Hero are used on Umbabwe. Its low cooldown means it can potentially be used multiple times per camp. Finally, we had to give Blight's Witch Doctor an equivalent of Oink, as Umbabwe, or at least his tribe, seem to be the inventors of this iconic spell. Umbabwe will release alongside our next content patch, expected in September. • Art Spotlight We made a few changes to the original artwork of Umbabwe, now that he will become available as a player card. Our artist, Tweeto, started by changing the background to better reflect the fire magic Umbabwe is known for. He also adjusted the way Umbabwe holds his staff and ensured the staff better fits the in-game model. There are many other minor changes—can you spot them all? • New Campaign Maps - September Many players are eagerly looking forward to our new campaign maps. Expanding on the original campaign is an exciting moment for the project, and we can't wait for you all to experience them firsthand. Today, we are happy to announce that work has progressed nicely, and we currently expect the first two maps to be released next month, through a content patch sometime in September. While we have already done extensive testing, we are exploring new territories here, so we can't yet provide a concrete release date. However, we are confident we will be able to share more info in the next community update. We hope players will appreciate what we have put together, and we are excited for this new chapter of Skylords Reborn. • New Voice Lines It's been a while since we requested voice actors to apply for voicing both old and new characters, and we are happy to share that it won't be long until you can hear the results of everyone's hard work. With our next content patch, you can expect voice lines for the following cards: • Burning Spears • Amii Phantom • Amii Sentinel • Skydancer • Umbabwe (taken from the game) • Deep One (alteration to Sunderer) There will also be loading screen narration and voiced outcries for our new campaign maps, including our new Skylord; Gaeron. We are very excited to flesh out these characters and hope you will appreciate the work that went into creating them! • Critical: Artist Needed Skylords Reborn has a team of volunteers from all over the world. Unfortunately, this also means we can be greatly affected by real-world events, as is the case with our art team. Both of our artists are located in countries currently affected by war. While we have managed so far by working through our backlog, we have reached a critical point where we will soon face a bottleneck in producing new cards and characters. We will not be able to bring you new cards if we do not find additional artists soon. If you are a talented artist able to draw in the BattleForge art style, please contact me through the Forum or discord (majora5222), or apply directly. • Event Spotlight: Seven Strategy Showdown by Ultralord We have a very special community event to spotlight today: Ultralord took it upon himself to run not one, but seven events. Inspired by Kapo's ''Crappy Community Contest'', these small scale events are easily accessible and have fun twists, while also taking inspiration from Ducky's PvE league in regards to an overreaching ranking. Each event will have a fun handcrafted challenge or mechanic to explore. Every two weeks there will be a new event waiting for you all, with great prizes to be won! Be sure to check out the overview post for everything you need to know, and be on the look-out for each separate event in the event-calendar and in-game news-tab. • Events 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! Current events: • NEW - Seven Strategy Showdown Every two weeks there will be a new event in this series of seven events, each bringing a fun handcrafted challenge or mechanic! Be sure to check them out, as there are some great prizes to be won! More information. • SECOND PHASE IN PROGRESS - PvP AI programming contest Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! Players are still able to join this programming contest. More information. • FINISHED - 2p PvE Event - Save energy to restore Lyr For this event, players had to compete on the new featured community map "Restoring Lyr'', using as little power as possible. Check out the winner reveal stream here! • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. 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. • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • 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: HERE-TAKE-YOUR-CURE The code is valid until September 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update July 2024

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! • Update regarding antivirus programs flagging Skylords Reborn as unsafe Last month we informed our players of issues regarding Anti-Virus programs flagging Skylords Reborn files as unsafe, preventing the launcher and installer from working correctly. Because the issues are still ongoing, we'd like to take another moment to talk about the situation. Many players have been confused why the issues are now popping up, 3 years after release. While we can not confirm our theory due to AV-programs being vague about their reasons for flagging files, one theory we have is that experimental features regarding replays and SMJ export collection we rolled out a while ago triggered the AV response. This feature would allow players to directly go into their folder to find their replays. This might have triggered the AV response but, sadly, reverting the changes does not suddenly remove the unsafe flag. AV-programs also tend to share their databases, so even though we reverted the changes, the damage was already done and multiple AV-programs now continue to flag SR-files as unsafe. It is worth noting this situation is not unique to Skylords Reborn, as we have also seen reports of the popular game "Palworld" undergoing similar issues. While unrelated to our current issues, it goes to show Anti-Virus programs are very complicated and time consuming to deal with, even for bigger companies. We are currently trying to get our files marked as safe again by getting the right certification, but these steps take time. While we are still hard at work to fix the issues, the rest of our team continues their work on new content, like the new patch we have released this weekend. We had hoped to fix the AV issues before its release, but also don't want to hold back our content due to the uncertainty of the situation. This currently leaves players with two options to play Skylords Reborn; wait for the situation to resolve, or manually exclude the files from your AV-program. We have seen some confusion regarding the issue also happening to players without a dedicated Anti Virus program like Norton or McAfee. Please note that Windows automatically comes with the AV-program Microsoft Defender, which also blocks the installer/updater. While we continue to search for solutions for the current situation, here is a explanation on how to add an exception to Microsoft Defender. Excluding the Skylords Reborn folder (not just the file) should also prevent players from constantly having to manually exclude the file every time we patch the game. We have also updated the Forum-post to include this explanation on how to add an exception to Microsoft Defender, the default Anti-Virus program that comes with Windows. We know asking players to add an exception to their Anti Virus is a big ask, and we are still trying to solve the problem in a way that does not require this. We hope for your understanding and patience, this situation is affecting us all. • New Patch Release On to a brighter note! Our latest content patch released this weekend, bringing with it two new cards and a ton of balance changes. The majority of these changes are to tier 3 units, making sure the game is in a great place to explore our new campaign maps scheduled for later this year. Balance changes include long awaited ones like the Colossus rework. Other notable changes are found on Lost Dancer and Banditos, but with so many changes, we highly suggest you check out the patchnotes for the full list of adjustments. This patch also brings two exciting new cards for the Frost and Nature factions. The first new card is Icespike. Icespike can apply a weak 800-strength Ice Shield to up to 5 allied units. This shield can be strengthened up to 2000 total strength by Ice Age. This gives Frost T3 a new sustain option in addition to Ward of the North. Icespike will also freeze any unit it attacks on contact. This kind of auto-attack CC is common among NPC enemies, but as of yet it is not a feature of any player card. We thought this was thematically fitting, turn enemies to ice while using ice to protect allies, and it makes the unit a bit more interesting than being just a walking Ice Shield generator. We also have a short Card Spotlight video showcasing the card: Our second new card is Swarm. While Nature decks have a lot of flexibility, one of Nature's persistent weaknesses is buildings. None of Nature's damage spells affect buildings and the faction lacks long-range siege abilities that would allow players to target important buildings in the backline. While we have tried multiple solutions to this problem that were not just adding a Nature version of Earthshaker, we also recognized that Nature does need a specific anti-building spell. Still, we wanted to give this spell a unique twist that fits the Nature faction and so we settled on a spell which spawns burrowers unconditionally, allowing you to directly target buildings with siege bugs. We also have a short Card Spotlight video showcasing the card: There are also some nice quality of life changes in this patch. For example, you can now use the text search in the achievements window to look for missing maps and cards. For example, if you search ''Crusade'', it will return all achievements related to the PvE map Crusade that are still incomplete. We have also added more information to logs when getting errors or crashes, which should help us better diagnose the cause of game instabilities. If you run into any issues, the best way to reach us is through our discord. We hope you will enjoy the changes this patch brings, be sure to share your feedback! • PvP Maps While the majority of our map department is finalizing new campaign maps, we did not forget about the PvP players. The latest patch brings a long requested change to the map Uro: the removal of the fortification walls that led to many heated arguments. The Skylords Reborn team has been tweaking the official PvP maps since release, and doing so resulted in a good understanding of what makes a good PvP map. We are therefore excited to announce we have started work on our first brand-new PvP map! While terrain and minimaps are still subjected to change, we asked RadicalX to share design thoughts about the map: Hey everyone, I am very excited to share a few thoughts on our upcoming PvP map project. We want to create a unique theme, that isn't already covered by the existing map pool. Therefore, our new map will feature a teleporter, providing lots of unexplored possibilities to play out the game. It will cover a large diagonal and unlocks new possibilities to outmaneuver the enemy. That said, its importance is also affected by player choices. You can always choose to expand towards safer areas in the early game and avoid the fast paced teleporting area. Our main goal for map balancing is to create different viable approaches for each playstyle and faction, while providing a fun experience with room for a lot player interaction. Terrain and resource locations are supposed to be meaningful (balancing spell efficiency with choke points, map control relevance, late game economy) while preventing disruptive strategies, which proved to be troublesome on existing maps (T1 exploits, long range cliffing, aggressive walls). We will share more details once the core design is finished. • New Featured Community Map Some of you might be familiar with the map "Restoring Lyr". This map dates back all the way to 2021, and has seen numerous changes and tweaks by multiple map designers since then. We even set out to turn it into the first official new Campaign Map, going as far as sketching ideas for the loading screen, and do a test recording for the loading screen introduction. After a ton of hiccups in the design process, we ended up scrapping the map as an official campaign map candidate, and instead moved onto Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle as our new candidates, but many of us found it a waste to discard all the progress that went into designing and balancing the map. We are therefore happy to announce Restoring Lyr saw another batch of changes, including a visual rework and some balance tweaks, and can now be played as a new Featured Community Map. This map tasks two Skylords with a mix between Defense and Offense, and will be a fun and challenging experience for Skylords eager for new PvE content. A big thank you to everyone who worked on the map over the years. We hope players will give it a try, while we finalize our official campaign maps. We would like to remind you that you can also complete quests and earn gold + BFP by playing community maps. • Events We are currently understaffed in the Event Department, which has become clear by the lack of events the last few months. If you are interested in helping out, please consider applying for the Event Manager position. In the past, many non-staff players have also come up with fun events, so please note that you are not required to join the staff to host an event. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. 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. Current events • SECOND PHASE IN PROGRESS - PvP AI programming contest We are gathering players for a new type of event. Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! More information. • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! Sadly, both of our artists are located in countries that are effected by war, so our art output is currently heavily impacted. If you are a talented artist able to draw in the BattleForge art style, please contact us. Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • 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: ICES-PIKE-ANDS-WARM The code is valid until August 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update June 2024

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! • Statement about antivirus programs flagging Skylords Reborn as unsafe Lately we have been seeing an alarming rate of issues regarding the launcher of Skylords Reborn. We'd like to take some time to explain the situation, what you can do yourself, and how we are working to resolve these issues. Since our last patch, several antivirus programs have been flagging certain Skylords Reborn files, with pcre3.dll often being identified as the culprit, though we have also seen mentions of proxy-internal.dll, proxy-legacy.dll and proxy-test.dll. Unfortunately, reversing some of the changes in the patch did not resolve this issue. We are now considering alternatives, such as purchasing certificates to mark these files as safe. However, as a volunteer project, we need time to explore these options, ensure they will solve the problem, and make sure that server upkeep costs are not significantly impacted. In the meantime, players can make an exception for the Skylords Reborn folder in their antivirus programs. We understand players might be hesitant to do so, and while we do not know for certain what exactly makes antivirus programs consider these files unsafe (as their explanations are usually very vague) we’ll give an example why they might. The Skylords launcher functions in a way that triggers some antivirus programs, yet this functionality is necessary for the game to work and is harmless for the user. By default, the game is designed to send your login credentials to the EA server, just like every other always-online game communicates with its official server. However, EA shut down the official server, leaving nothing to communicate with. Without the EA server, the game cannot function. To make Skylords Reborn work, it uses a technique that "reroutes" the login credentials you enter to the Skylords Reborn server instead of the non-existent EA server. Because login credentials are being sent to a different server, it makes sense for antivirus programs to be alarmed. However, to be clear, what is being redirected is only the credentials you enter on the login screen. These are your Skylords Reborn account credentials, which the project already has from your registration. They are then sent to the Skylords Reborn server instead of the dead EA server. Otherwise, the game would fail to connect and not work. To allow the launcher to function correctly, you need to make an exception for the folder so the antivirus program leaves it alone. Otherwise, the launcher might get stuck trying to find a file that was quarantined by the antivirus program. Please note that this issue might resurface with future patches. How to make an exception varies for each antivirus program. If you need assistance, please head over to technical support, and we’ll try to help you. We understand these issues are causing frustration among our players, and we are working hard to find a solution that prevents users from having to take actions they might not feel comfortable with. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we search for solutions. • Feedback Survey - Community Updates Last month we put out a survey to gather feedback on our Community Updates. A big thank you to everyone who participated and shared their thoughts and kind words. Whether you have been with us since the beginning, or have recently started following us, we appreciate you taking the time to check in. The survey gave us some valuable insights, and we are happy to confirm many of you read the Community Updates even when you are not actively playing the game. The main goal of these updates has always been to ensure you know we are constantly working behind the scenes of Skylords Reborn to prepare new content for you, even if you can't play it immediately. We know many of you are excited about new campaign maps, and we can't wait for you to experience them. Because we expect many inactive players to return once we release them, we are dedicating significant time to testing and balancing them to ensure they are ready for release. Finding the right balance between making exciting announcements and delivering them within a reasonable timeframe has always been challenging. Due to the volunteer nature of the project, it remains difficult to estimate how long it will take to complete a task. One month, we may make great progress on a specific feature or card, only to have a critical team member needed for its implementation suddenly need to focus on their job or studies the next month, causing progress to halt. We are glad to see that you understand these challenges, but we will strive to manage expectations better regarding communicated release dates. Fortunately, our card reveal for this month is a card that has already been implemented on the internal test server, so we can guarantee its future release. But before we get to that reveal, let's talk about patches. • Upcoming Patches There are currently four new campaign maps in development; three 2-player maps, and one 1-player map. The first two maps you can expect will be Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle, which are part of the Key of Ashia story campaign, filling in some of the questions the original campaign failed to answer. In Unexpected Visitors, you will defend the last Amii tribe from the Lost Souls, while Into the Jungle tasks you with finding a new safe haven for them. We are currently in the final stages of testing and tweaking these two maps, which will be released together in the upcoming "Echoes of the Amii" patch in 2024. We aim to release the other two maps shortly after in a follow-up patch, depending on the progress made. Although we are not ready to announce a specific release month for the campaign maps, we are pleased to share that a new content and balance patch will release in June! This balance patch will include long-awaited changes, such as the rework of Colossus, along with two new cards: Icespike and Swarm. Stay tuned for the patch notes for more information. • New Card Reveal - Swarm Today's card reveal takes us back to April 2022. In our Nature Deep Dive, we introduced the concept of a tier 3 spell card called Green Tide, designed to help the faction counter enemy crowd control defenses like Willzappers. We also discussed planned changes to Grove Spirit and the addition of a new tier 4 Nature spell, which ultimately became Sanctuary. While technical limitations unfortunately prevented us from implementing the changes to Grove Spirit, we are excited to announce the release of the tier 3 spell we previously mentioned. Introducing the renamed Green Tide: Swarm! Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release. Swarm will be a new tier 3 Nature card, and will be an uncommon. Swarm will release in our next content patch in June. Let's break down the card. Beetle Infestation Summons a swarm of four Burrowers at the target location which die after 20 seconds. The Burrowers can be controlled by the player, but they do not provide ground presence. They will have the same upgrade level as the spell itself. Reusable every 25 seconds. Design notes: While Nature decks have a lot of flexibility, one of Nature's persistent weaknesses is buildings. None of Nature's damage spells affect buildings and the faction lacks long-range siege abilities that would allow players to target important buildings in the backline. While we have tried multiple solutions to this problem that were not just adding a Nature version of Earthshaker, we also recognized that Nature does need a specific anti-building spell. Still, we wanted to give this spell a unique twist that fits the Nature faction and so we settled on a spell which spawns burrowers unconditionally, allowing you to directly target buildings with siege bugs. • Art Spotlight - Swarm Since we knew Swarm would be spawning Burrowers, our obvious starting point for the card artwork was the original Burrower artwork. We wanted the card to clearly showcase the units being spawned were the familiar insect, yet keep the artwork distinct enough to convey that this is a spell, not a unit. Our artist, SpiritAlpha, began with four rough sketches to determine the best way to achieve this. Knowing we could use the original spawn animation of Burrowers crawling out of the ground, we kept this in mind while working on the artwork. We quickly settled on the final pose. We then spent a lot of time ensuring the creatures resembled the original Burrowers while being distinct enough to recognize each card separately in the deck. We experimented with various green color schemes, and a few iterations are shown below. We liked how the piece was coming along, but were concerned about the lack of contrast, given that the entire artwork consisted of various shades of green. We brightened up the background to make the Burrowers pop a bit more. During the process, we also placed the artwork within the card border to ensure it remained clear and readable in-game, and we explored various options for its zoom level. We finalized the piece by adding some flying grass and raising the grass on the ground to align with the card frame's cut-off point. Making the Burrowers' eyes glow also turned out to be a nice finishing touch. We are very happy with the end result, and hope players will appreciate the hard work of SpiritAlpha! • Events 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! • FINISHED - Official Event #13 - A Town in Need is a Town Indeed For this newly released community map, players had the choice of defending the town or overwhelming the Twilight attackers. You can watch the highlight video here, and be sure to check the map out if you haven't already. • SECOND PHASE IN PROGRESS - PvP AI programming contest We are gathering players for a new type of event. Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! More information. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. 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 We are happy to share Bergerb has joined the map department. He has been working on fixing some of the bugs of the campaign, and will help the team in streamlining various maps. We also have a new Testing Coordinator. After Volin retired his role, we are glad to have Vrizz take up the mantle. Thank you, and a warm welcome to the team. • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! We are especially looking for some more proofreaders (English), to read over stuff like the Community Update and Event posts before they go live. We are also looking for translators (French, Russian) to help with our new campaign maps and more. Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • In Conclusion That's all for this Community Update! We appreciate you taking the time to read through it. After player feedback in our latest survey showed that players dislike scratch codes, we have decided to remove them. 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update May 2024

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 Release Our latest patch is out! People are now able to collect a new Stonekin Ultra-rare card: Bedrock! To help players get their hands on the new cards created by the Skylords Reborn team, we have also introduced the Rebirth booster. This special booster contains 3 cards, all from the Rebirth edition, with a substantially increased chance of producing an Ultra-rare card. Players can earn Rebirth boosters by playing our new Map-of-the-Day. Each day, a different map is highlighted on the world map. Completing this map awards players with additional rewards, like increased gold, upgrades and/or bfp. For every 10 days you complete the Map of the Day, players are rewarded with a Rebirth booster. These boosters will also be available through certain events, so keep your eyes out for that! We have also added some balance changes to underperforming Twilight cards, as well as a bugfix to a longstanding bug with heal stacking. To round out the patch, we added a batch of quality of life changes requested by the community. Click here to read the full patch notes. • Where is Gate of Akylos Returning readers of the Community Update might wonder whatever happened to Gate of Akylos. In our last Community Update we mentioned the recent patch would contain both Bedrock and Gate of Akylos as two new Ultra-rare cards, but only the Turtle made it to the live server. Sadly, Gate of Akylos (GoA) could not make the deadline. GoA is a very labor-intensive card. While the effect might read easy on paper, the only way to make this effect work is making adjustments to all Lost Souls units. We underestimated the amount of work and time this would take, and with us all being volunteers, we had to make the call to delay the card or the whole patch. We opted for the later, and will continue working on getting GoA released in the future. We apologize for the premature announcement, we always strive to find a good balance between announcing upcoming content and making sure they get in your hands in a timely matter. We hope for your patience as we continue working on new content. • Feedback Survey - Community Updates For the past 3 years we have been providing you with a recurring Community Update, sharing upcoming features and behind the scenes information about the project. We are now at Community Update #47, and we are really curious about your opinion on them. What sections do you like? What would you like to see more off? Do you like to see things that we are currently working on, or prefer for us to only share information when a release date is near? We have decided not to put a booster behind the survey this time (though be sure to check the scratch code at the bottom of this Community Update for a special treat!) but we hope you will take a few minutes to answer these questions regardless. • New Card Reveal - Icespike We are taking a break from our new Amii card reveals (check out Skydancer and Amii Sentinel in case you missed them) to talk about an upcoming new Frost card. Scheduled for a release later this year, say hello to Icespike! Please note: We are still working on the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release. Icespike will be a new tier 3 Frost unit, and will be an uncommon. It will release in a future patch. Let's break down the card. Brrrrr! Enemy units attacked by Icespike are frozen for 15 seconds. After freeze wears off, targets are immune against Freeze for 10 seconds. Frozen Blanket - Cost: 50p Activate to bestow up to 5 friendly units in a 20m radius with an Ice Shield. Each Ice Shield absorbs up to 800 damage for 30 seconds and can be strengthened to absorb up to 2000 damage. Reusable every 30 / 20 / 20 / 20 seconds. Design notes: When we first started working on Frost way back in March 2021, we identified the lack of ways to create Ice Shields as one of the faction's biggest problems. At the time, the only ways to create more than one Ice Shield at once were Winter Witch and Area Ice Shield. Since then, we have added Coat of Protection to T4 and Soulstone to T1. Tier 3 Frost is still lacking a way to create Ice Shields, which is an even bigger issue because Ice Age exists in T3. Enter Icespike. We originally wanted to give a multi-target Ice Shield spell to Avatar of Frost, but we ran into animation issues which caused the card to moonwalk after using the ability. Additionally, we feel that Avatar is in a good spot already and we wanted to add a card which could fit into multiple different Frost decks. Icespike will apply a weak 800-strength Ice Shield to up to 5 allied units. This shield can be strengthened up to 2000 total strength by Ice Age. This will give Frost T3 a new sustain option in addition to Ward of the North. Icespike will also freeze any unit it attacks on contact. This kind of auto-attack CC is common among NPC enemies, but as of yet it is not a feature of any player card. We thought this was thematically fitting, turn enemies to ice while using ice to protect allies, and it makes the unit a bit more interesting than being just a walking Ice Shield generator. • Art Spotlight - Icespike The artwork for Icespike is based on an unused* artwork from BattleForge called ''Winter Demon''. We are always on the lookout for ways to increase the flow of new content, and we thought the artwork was very promising, but not very Frost looking. Our artist Tweeto ended up tuning the artwork to fit in better with other Frost cards, making changes to both the background and the color on the entity itself. We hope you like it! *Technically the original artwork appears in the game once: on the map Ascension for Viridya's Aspects of Winter We have also adjusted the model, as originally it was completely transparent and therefore hard to see. You will be able to get your hands on Icespike as a player card later this year. • New Community Map & Event: Town in Need While you are waiting for the new campaign maps, why not explore a brand new community map created by the map maker R4bitF00t! In this map, you choose whether to defend the Town, or launch an attack against the Twilight. Here is a special trailer for the occasion: The map is now available in the Community Map section. You can also win some prizes by competing in the event currently running. Click here for more information. • Events 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! • NEW - Official Event #13 - A Town in Need is a Town Indeed - until 14.05.2024 Play a newly released community map, where you have the choice of defending the town or overwhelming the Twilight attackers. Whichever way you choose you get a chance for amazing prices, including the newly released Bedrock card. More information. • NEW - Battle of Tactics #7: This isn't even my final form - on 11.05.2024 Ultralord is back with a new PvP Tome Tournament! As is common for the Battle of Tactics, there is a small twist to it. The tournament has a very large prize pool, so be sure to sign-up! More information. • SECOND PHASE STARTED - PvP AI programming contest We are gathering players for a new type of event. Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! More information. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. 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. • Map Testers needed With the latest patch behind us, our focus is now on the next patch, which includes highly anticipated new campaign maps. Progress is steady, but to ensure high-quality content, we're in urgent need of additional map testers. As a map tester, you'll gain exclusive early access to maps in various stages of development. Your tasks may vary from simply playing the map on specified difficulties and sharing feedback, to executing particular strategies or focusing on specific areas of the map. Since the majority of the content currently in the works requires at least 2 players, we're seeking players who can reliably commit their time to the testing process. For more information and to apply, please click here. Unexpected Visitors will be one of the new campaign maps coming in 2024. • Team changes Speaking of map testers, Volin has concluded his role of Map Tester Coordinator. We want to thank him for his contributions. If anyone is interested to take on the mantle, please consider to... • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! We are especially looking for some more proofreaders (English), to read over stuff like the Community Update and Event posts before they go live. We are also looking for translators (French, Russian) to help with our new campaign maps and more. Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • 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. Just this month, the code will reward you with one of the new Rebirth booster: JUST-AONE-TIME-GIFT 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update April 2024

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! Click below to view our April Fools joke for 2024. • Upcoming Patch - April While we continue working on our significant Summer patch (which will include our new campaign missions), we are nearly ready to release another patch to bridge the gap until you can get your hands on the Echoes of the Amii patch. In this smaller patch, planned for release in April, we will introduce two new cards, Map-of-the-Day, our new Rebirth booster, as well as some minor balance changes. Stay tuned for the full patch notes later this month. The two new cards included in this patch will be the long-awaited Stonekin turtle, Bedrock, and a new build-around tool for Lost Souls players in Gate of Akylos. As you can see, these cards will mark the introduction of the first new Ultra Rare cards to the game. If you're curious about the basis for our rarities, please check out our rarity design philosophy. While maintaining a consistent logic for rarities is important to us, we also want to ensure that players can actually experience our newly created content. These new cards will be obtainable in their respective boosters as usual, but introducing an Ultra Rare without additional measures would likely make them unattainable for the majority of the player base. We have received feedback from the community regarding the availability of the new cards in the Rebirth Edition in general, and set out to find a solution. Introducing: the Rebirth booster. This booster will differ from the other boosters currently in the game. It will not be available in the store and can only be obtained through special events and a new reoccurring achievement. This new achievement rewards you for interacting with our new Map-of-the-Day feature. Every day, a random multiplayer Campaign Map will be selected for the Map-of-the-Day. They will be easy to spot, with an effect around their icon on the world map similar to the PvP-happy hour. For every completed Map-of-the-Day on a different day, players will receive 50 BFP. Additionally, for every 10th map, they will receive a Rebirth booster. Each Rebirth booster contains 3 cards, all from the Rebirth Edition. Additionally, there will be an increased chance for cards of a higher rarity to drop. We hope that Map-of-the-Day will encourage players to play both fan-favorite and lesser-played campaign maps. This should also help in assisting new players who are seeking to complete the full campaign. We will be monitoring the prices of our new cards and the impact the Rebirth booster is having on the economy, and might adjust accordingly in the future. We are also planning to distribute some Rebirth boosters through various events. While we are unable to announce a specific release date yet, we feel quite comfortable announcing that this patch will go live in April. We hope you look forward to it! • New Card Reveal - Skydancer During our Anniversary Stream we announced there would be three new Amii units coming to Skylords Reborn in 2024. We will be revealing those cards in the upcoming Community Updates. Last month we revealed Amii Sentinel. Today we are ready to reveal Skydancer! Please note: We are still testing the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release. Spirit Blade Every 1.6 seconds, unit casts a lance of elemental power that deals 222 damage to enemies in a 5m radius around its target, up to 333 in total. Spirit of Anguish - Mode Change, Cost: 50p Activate to call forth an ancient Shadow spirit draining the enemy’s will to fight. While an enemy unit is within 40m of Sky Dancer, it deals 20% less damage. After being affected for 10 seconds, the debuff increases, causing enemies to deal 50% less damage. Effect lasts for 10 seconds after an enemy leaves range. Lasts until deactivated. Reusable every 30 seconds. Spirit of Hope - Mode Change, Cost: 50p Activate to call forth an ancient Nature spirit that bolsters the life of allies. While an allied unit is within 30m of Sky Dancer, its maximum life points are increased by 20% and it regenerates 1% of its life points every second. Effect lasts for 10 seconds after units leave the area of effect. Lasts until deactivated. Reusable every 30 seconds. Elusive Units with Elusive have the duration of the immobilizing effects of Freeze and Paralyze reduced by 10%. Design notes: Last month, we revealed Amii Sentinel. The card itself was well received and its design led to a lively discussion in our card balancing discord about potential synergizes and the types of strategies people thought it would create. The design of Amii Sentinel, while interesting in itself, becomes more so when considered alongside its intended support unit, Skydancer. Skydancer is an L-sized flying unit with two powerful support abilities. The first is Spirit of Anguish, a kind of anti-rage effect which scales in strength as the enemy remains in range. The other is Spirit of Hope, which introduces a new mechanic allowing for players to increase the maximum life points of their own units. This second ability is the one intended to directly synergize with Amii Sentinel. Amii Sentinel can turn health into damage through its reflect mechanic, and by adding more total life points to its pool of health, the total damage available through reflection also increases. Our goal for Skydancer goes beyond being a summon-once support for Amii Sentinel. In general, XL-sized melee units rule T4, particularly in random PvE, with there being a lot of structural reasons why this is true. While we love XL-units as much as everyone else, we as a team want to start diversifying the unit experience by bolstering other types of strategies. With a solid damage-to-power ratio, a large amount of survivability via both Spirit abilities, and a natural synergy with Transcendence, we hope to see flying armies of Skydancers become a viable strategy in T4, both with and without Amii Sentinel. Skydancer is currently planned to release alongside our next major content patch in the summer, including brand-new campaign maps. We are not yet able to announce an exact release date. Please stay tuned for more information, and check in next month for another Amii card reveal! • Input requested: Elemental Mastery Skylords Reborn can be a daunting game, given the large variety of cards and mechanics. With so many options to explore, there is always more to learn. We want players to get a sense of which faction they play the most, what kind of interactions they have with the faction, and to complete tasks that give them a sense of having achieved mastery with said faction. To support both the learning and mastering process for each faction, we would like to introduce a new category of mini-achievements known as Elemental Masteries. These achievements will be tailored to each faction and divided into two categories: Individual - these will track specific card actions, such as the number of spawns erupted to death. General - these will will track player progress with the overall faction, such as how many maps a player has completed with Pure Fire. Each category will reward minor rewards along the way, mostly in the form of faction-specific cosmetics. The goal is for each faction to track 5 interactions per tier, as well as 5-10 general faction progress trackers. We are interested in the community's ideas for what types of card actions they would like to track, with focus on things which are commonly repeatable. Focus can be either PvP or PvE, though the final choices will be a mix of both. Examples of Trackable Actions Due to recent advancements in our understanding of the game, we can track most internal and external card interactions. Below are a list of some of these trackable events, all of which have been taken from Fire cards. • Number of units charged by Enforcer • Enemy spawn buildings erupted to death • Buildings suppressed (Sunstriders + Suppression) • Enemies knocked back with Lava Field • Total time Batariel has spent in his stage 3 burning phase • Total damage dealt by Fire Dragons • Void returned with Shrine of War Join our brainstorm You can share your idea's in this thread on the Forum. Brainstorming is also taking place in our official discord dedicated to discussion of card balancing in Skylords Reborn. Please join us there if you would like to see more elemental mastery suggestions or if you would like to participate in discussions relating to proposed changes to the game before they happen. • Events 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! • NEW - Returning Easter Event Complete any match during the Easter season to collect a free Promo Easter Egg. Additionally, you can collect a special Easter-themed border by completing the community map "The Easter Tree". • SECOND PHASE STARTED - PvP AI programming contest We are gathering players for a new type of event. Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! More information. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizer @Metagross31. 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 We are happy to announce that both a new and a returning member have formally joined the Skylords Reborn team. ElementG is our new 3D artist, assisting the art team with model adjustments. His latest work, Skydancer, has turned out very nicely, so stay tuned for that. Additionally, Chibiterasu has re-joined the team as a Card Implementor. We are delighted to have him return, as his experience with the tools is a welcome addition to our work output. Minashigo Hiko has concluded his role as an Event Manager. We would like to thank him for his contributions over the years. As our team continues to grow, Dutchy has taken on the role of HR Coordinator alongside his Lead Moderator duties. Are you interested in helping out with the project but not sure how? Feel free to send him a message! • Contribute to Skylords Reborn Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! We are especially looking for some more proofreaders (English), to read over stuff like the Community Update and Event posts before they go live. We are also looking for translators (French, Russian) to help with our new campaign maps and more. Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • 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: SKYL-ORDS-REBO-RNVR The code is valid until May 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update March 2024

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! • February Hotfix Patches Over the course of February, we released several hotfix patches for our most recent major content update. If you are still experiencing any issues, please contact our technical support team and/or use the 'report a bug'-feature on our Discord. One of these hotfix patches also includes an often-requested feature: spawnable bosses in the Forge. We have added a new 'Leader' tab to the Forge Menu, allowing you to spawn bosses from randomly generated scenarios. • Upcoming Feature - Map of the Day In our last patch, we increased the rewards for playing campaign maps to bring them more in line with rPvE, which players could feel forced to play due to its better rewards. In our continued effort to allow players to enjoy each different game mode, we are working on multiple additional incentives to play the campaign; one being Map of the Day. Map of the Day is a feature that highlights a particular multi-player map each day and rewards players additional rewards for completing that map, similar to the PvP Happy Hour. This map is randomly selected each day, and picks from the pool of existing multi-player campaign maps. Our new campaign maps, once released, will also be added to the pool. Playing on the Map of the Day rewards players with an additional upgrade on all 2-player and 4-player maps. Players will also receive additional gold for completing the 12-player maps Passage to Darkness and Ascension on Advanced (1200g), and Expert (2400g) difficulties. Our goal for Map of the Day is to give players an incentive to get together and play one of the various campaign maps, including less popular ones. The Map of the Day will highlight in a similar way to Happy Hours on the World Map, so people know which map is active for additional rewards. We are currently working on finalizing the feature, and hope to release it in the near future. Disclaimer: text, layout and colors are subject to change. • Skylords Reborn Classic - Legacy Server BattleForge shut down its servers on October 31, 2013, following its release in March 2009. Our unofficial revival of the game opened its servers on December 18, 2020 as Skylords Reborn. Over the past 3 years since its release, we have added a ton of new content, quality of life changes and balance changes to the game. While we don't have a video covering the last year, our 2-year recap video should give you an idea of what we've added to the game. It is not uncommon for communities to provide mod support for older titles. However, those titles are typically still available for purchase or playable offline post-official support. This is not the case for BattleForge. If you want to play BattleForge in 2024, your only option is through Skylords Reborn. Our dedicated team, now comprising over 50 volunteers, has always taken this project very seriously, striving to make it the best it can possibly be. We're committed to continually introducing new content and delivering fresh experiences to keep our players engaged. Whether it's through new campaign maps, additional cards, new systems (such as Reforging), or balance adjustments (discussed on our balance discord), we feel a responsibility to keep the legacy of BattleForge in place, while also wanting to prevent the same fate of its downfall. However, we acknowledge that some of our past and future changes, while essential for the health of the game, may impact players' nostalgic sentiments. Considering that numerous cards have already undergone modifications compared to the original game, the differences between Skylords Reborn and BattleForge is increasing with each patch. Thus, the concept of a Legacy server has been a topic of discussion within our team over the years. Yet, implementing a Legacy server isn't as straightforward as reverting to the version of BattleForge at the time of its shutdown. The game simply wouldn't work. Significant overhauls to the game's economy, rectification of critical bugs, and resolution of other technical issues were needed. Now, as we enter the fourth year of Skylords Reborn, we felt it was time to revisit this idea and have devised a way to introduce a Legacy server without impeding Skylords Reborn's ongoing development. Here is what you can expect of the Legacy server: • Original cards, maps and balancing • All cards are available to the player right away • No progression system • No new cards • No balance patches • No additional rPvE factions (Fire, Nature) or campaign maps • No technical or moderation support We have to set up the server this way to prevent additional workload that would impact our actual patch releases for Skylords Reborn, which will continue to be our top priority. Additionally, there may be certain features on the Legacy server that deviate from a true "legacy" experience. For instance, Reforging will be available (though redundant given the complete card collection), and while Achievements and Quests may also be accessible, some may be unattainable due to outdated balance, game systems, or maps. The server will work similar to our current test server, you'll log into the Legacy server with a new account, and there will be no interaction between players on this server and the primary SR-server. The SR-server will remain the default server for both new players discovering the game and seasoned veterans seeking fresh content. All our major content patches will be releasing exclusively on the SR-server, including new campaign maps and new cards. Because of this, we don't expect a big split in our player base. Nevertheless, we anticipate that the Legacy server will offer a nostalgic journey for Skylords keen on revisiting the original BattleForge gameplay, as well as for players interested in witnessing the evolution of Skylords Reborn. While we're still finalizing certain details, and things might change before its release. The Legacy server is scheduled to launch alongside our next major content patch. • New Card Reveal - Amii Sentinel During our Anniversary Stream we announced there would be three new Amii units coming to Skylords Reborn in 2024. We will be revealing those cards in the upcoming Community Updates, the first being revealed today! Here is Amii Sentinel! Please note: We are still testing the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release. Grasp of the Earth - 60 power Activate to reach Amii Golem's fist into the ground, emerging within the target area of 15m and dealing 1800 damage to enemies, up to 5400 in total. Reusable every 20 seconds. Volatile Body 100% of all damage done to the unit will additionally also be distributed among all units within a 20m radius. This damage cannot be warded off with the help of damage reducing abilities because it is able to circumvent every buff or protective shield. Siege Deals 50% more damage against structures. Elusive Units with Elusive have the duration of the immobilizing effects of Freeze and Paralyze reduced by 10%. Design notes: Our goal for Amii's T4 is to create a micro-intensive deck where most of the damage is unit-based. With Amii Sentinel in particular, our goal is to create a frontline tank that functions as a perfect conduit for Shadow's single-target buff cards. Volatile Body's 100% reflect turns Sentinel's health into a damage resource, which synergizes perfectly with cards like Regrowth, Transcendence, and Lifeweaving. The active ability "Grasp of the Earth" is designed to one-shot problematic buildings when buffed, which is important because both Shadow and Nature lack fast acting anti-building tools. Amii Sentinel is currently planned to release alongside our next major content patch, including brand-new campaign maps. We are not yet able to announce a release date. Please stay tuned for more information, and check in next month for another Amii card reveal! • Art Spotlight - Amii Sentinel It has been a while since we have done an Art Spotlight; diving into the process of our artists coming up with a new card artwork. Amii Sentinel was always part of a combination of three Amii units, combined into a single landscape image. We asked our artist Tweeto to share some work-in-progress artwork and sketches, as well as his workflow. As always, a big thanks to our Art Critiques to offer valuable feedback during the process. Initial Sketch: I started off with a loose sketch to block in the basic stance and proportions of the character. Keeping the lines dynamic and rough, I focused on the silhouette to ensure a strong, impactful presence that conveys power and stability. Values Blocking: Next, I moved into grayscale, blocking my values to develop the form and give the character a sense of volume. This is a critical step in figuring how light interacts with the different materials and shapes of the character. To speed up this process, I employed AI generation tools, which allowed me to quickly iterate on different lighting scenarios and value compositions Color Blocking: After nailing down the values, I started laying in broad strokes of color. Using a muted palette, I began to block in the main hues, thinking about the overall temperature balance and how it will complement the character's environment. Detailing and Texture: With the base colors in place, I zoomed in to start rendering the finer details. Here, I focused on the texture of the stone, adding cracks and variations to make the surface look realistic. I also added golden ornate details to give it a more intricate look, and connect the character to the Amii aesthetics. Lighting and Atmosphere: Then, I intensified the lighting effects to emphasize the magical core and the dramatic ambient light of the scene. I worked on the specular highlights on the metal parts, as well as the soft glow emanating from the core, to suggest a powerful energy source within. Final Adjustments: In the final stage, I made subtle adjustments to the composition and the pose, fine-tuning the contrast and saturation to make certain elements pop. I also added a more pronounced rim light to enhance the character's form against the background, and adjusted the overall color balance for visual harmony. Polishing: To finish off, I polished the image by sharpening key areas to draw focus, such as the face, the core, and the hand. I also rendered the background elements, ensuring the character look integrated with the environment and reflect the character's influence on its surroundings. We are very happy with how the Amii faction is now finally coming together, and hope you appreciate all the thoughts and passion that went into creating them! • PvP Bots Right now, Skylords Reborn doesn't have a mode where players can practice against computer-controlled opponents before jumping into ranked matches. This missing feature can make it tough for new players to get into PvP (Player versus Player). To help players ease into PvP, we're looking to add bots to the game in the future, and we're asking the community for their support to make it happen. Below you can see a short video showcasing bots playing against each other: ai_contest_announcement.webm If you are interested in helping out, be sure to check the PvP AI programming contest below! • Events 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! • NEW - Battle of Tactics #6 - Rainbow Road - February 23rd until March 3rd Try to conquer a modified version of Dwarven Riddle in this crazy colorful contest hosted by Ultralord. In this one player map, you don't build orbs, but have a Rainbow crystal granting you different elements. More information. • FINISHED - Faction Fusion: Embrace the Shift Skylords were tasked to play the newly redesigned rPvE difficulties to have a chance at receiving one of the new cards, Lost Manabeast and Tectonic Shift. More information. • SECOND PHASE STARTED - PvP AI programming contest We are gathering players for a new type of event. Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! More information. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our other Event Organizers, @Metagross31or @Minashigo Hiko. 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. • Contribute Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! We are especially looking for some more proofreaders (English), to read over stuff like the Community Update and Event posts before they go live. We are also looking for translators (French, Russian) to help with our new campaign maps and more. Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • 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: AFTE-RALL-THIS-TIME The code is valid until April 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update February 2024

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! • New Patch Release Our latest patch, Revenant's Doom, has been released! This patch comes with two brand-new cards! The new Lost Manabeast (card spotlight), in combination with our Lost Soul rework, allows players to lean more into the revenant playstyle of the faction. Meanwhile, Tectonic Shifts (card spotlight) gives Stonekin players the unique ability to bring their very buildings to the frontlines. This patch also sees the introduction of a new difficulty for rPvE, alongside a naming adjustment for the difficulty scale to be in line with the campaign map logic of Standard, Advanced and Expert. We have created a video to explain the changes in more detail. While the popularity of rPvE encouraged us to implement more challenges for players to enjoy, we also have been working on improvements for playing campaign maps. We have replaced the old Need/Greed, Random and Assign system for a clearer post-game screen. Players now earn rewards on a per-player basis, allowing players to pick the upgrades they would like, without feeling guilty towards their fellow players if they want the same upgrade. Meanwhile, disenchanting an upgrade now rewards the same gold regardless of the rarity of the upgrade, while also providing the player with PvE experience, depending on the level of the upgrade. For more information, check out our patch notes. Alongside new cards, our loot rework and the addition of a new rPvE difficulty, we have also implemented multiple balance changes, quality-of-life-fixes, and a smoother new-player experience through tutorial missions. Full Patch Notes To celebrate the patch release, we have a small present for the community. Enter this scratch code in the marketplace to get a mini-booster: PLAY-SKYL-ORDS-RPVE, This code has expired. Please see the code at the bottom of this Community Update instead. • Where is Bedrock? We know a lot of Skylords are looking forward to our revealed Stonekin card Bedrock. Originally planned for the current patch cycle, we sadly had to either delay the whole patch, or delay Bedrock due to technical complications while implementing the card. We are still hard at work on solving these issues, and while we feel confident we can release the card as intended, we were not able to do so before the deadline. Our next big content patch of 2024, Echoes of the Amii, which will contain our new campaign maps, will not be released for quite a while. Because we do not want to delay Bedrock for so long, our current plan is to release a mini-patch in-between. Due to the uncertainty of the mentioned complications we are not able to share a release date yet. On the topic of Bedrock, many of you have voiced concerns about its card availability, noticing Bedrock will be the first Ultra Rare card released in Skylords Reborn. While the cards' rarity is decided by our rarity design philosophy, we also want to make sure enough players are able to enjoy this and other new additions from the Rebirth Edition. To do so, we are working on a new type of booster, focusing on the new Skylord Reborn cards from the Rebirth Edition. We are still fleshing out the details on how this booster will be obtainable, but rest assured that we will strive for a good balance between rarity and availability. We will share more information about this in the future. And with Stonekin getting a shiny new Ultra Rare, the Lost Souls couldn't stay behind. Now planned for a release alongside Bedrock, have a look at Gate of Akylos! • New Card Reveal - Gate of Akylos Today we have an exciting upcoming new card to reveal. At the end of 2022, we hosted a card creation contest where everyone from the community could submit a card design to our jury. Adding a new card to Skylords Reborn is a big undertaking, as has become apparent during the years (if you want to know more about everything that goes into it, be sure to check out episodes #2 and #9 from the interview series from Kapo). One of the winning designs of the contest was Lost Obelisk, a card aimed at supporting the Lost Souls faction's revenant gameplay. We have since been hard at work on balancing the original card design from Ult, and are happy to reveal its final iteration: Gate of Akylos! Please note: We are still testing the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers and effects might still change before release. Gate of Akylos is a powerful tier 3 shrine, making use of our hybrid orb to allow deck diversity among Lost Soul decks looking to play it. Let's break down the card! Soul Extraction Activate to extract a revenant from a friendly Tier 3 or Tier 4 Lost Souls unit. A revenant of that unit will appear nearby, and if active, the Revenant's Doom effect will be removed from the unit. The unit cannot activate Revenant's Doom again afterward. Only one revenant can be extracted from a Lost Souls unit in this way. Has a 60 seconds cool-down after the building was built. Usable every 60 seconds. Give up the Ghost Activate to sacrifice up to 6 friendly Tier 2 Lost Souls units in a 50m radius around Gate of Akylos to extract revenants from their remains. A revenant from all sacrificed units will appear nearby. Has a 60 seconds cool-down after the building was built. Usable every 60 seconds. Ethereal Anchor Every friendly revenant in the current game will have its duration extended by 25%. Design Notes: While we are happy with the recent changes to Lost Souls, the faction still lacks a global support card and all of its revenant effects (Lost Manabeast, Revenant's Blessing) are localized with a lot of micro and power required for upkeep. Gate of Akylos is intended to make revenants more efficient, both in terms of initial cost and overall longevity. "Soul Extraction" provides a way for Lost Souls units to generate revenants without having to die, and "Give up the Ghost" allows for faster and cheaper transitions of T2 units to revenants, which can combine with Banestone to act as defenders. This gives GoA both an offensive and defensive function. Additionally, all effects work on allies, meaning that players who choose to run Lost Souls together only need 1 GoA between them. Gate of Akylos will release alongside Bedrock in a mini-patch on a later to be announced date. Starting next month, we will also start revealing the card designs for the upcoming new Amii cards planned for the Echoes of the Amii patch. 2024 is going to be an exciting year for Skylords Reborn! • Skylords Reborn Resources Over the years we have released a lot of content, both in-game and on our Forum. From explaining our rarity system, to Deep Dives exploring various factions, there is a lot of behind the scenes information available. We have now placed all these resources into one place, so both new and current Skylords alike will have an easier time finding the information they need. Skylord Reborn Resources • New - Map Editor Tutorial Speaking of resources; our Map Designer r4bitf00t has been working on the official map editor tutorial! Every download of Skylords Reborn comes with the Map Editor, allowing Skylords to create their own maps and creative ideas. Split into several parts, this tutorial will guide you on how to work with the BattleForge Map Editor. By the end, you will be able to create your own maps, script them, and publish them to the Community Maps section of the game. If your map is enjoyed by fellow Skylords, it might even earn a place among the featured community maps! Want to work on more formal map content? Consider applying as Map Designer or Map Developer and help out the team! Map Editor Tutorial • Events To celebrate the patch release, we have a new event based around rPvE, with the chance to win the new cards! 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! • NEW - Faction Fusion: Embrace the Shift - February 1st until February 14th New cards for Stonekin and Lost Souls are here! Play the newly redesigned rPvE difficulties to have a chance at receiving one of the new cards, Lost Manabeast and Tectonic Shift. More information. • COMING UP - Battle of Tactics #6 - Rainbow Road - February 23rd until March 3rd Try to conquer a modified version of a well-known campaign map in this crazy colorful contest hosted by Ultralord. Stay tuned for more information! • FINISHED - Amii Training Camp While we eagerly wait for new Amii cards, let's find out if you fully master the existing ones! Play rPvE with only Amii Paladins and Amii Phantoms on Tier 2 and see how fast you can get! More information. • FIRST PHASE - PvP AI programming contest We are gathering players for a new type of event. Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! Phase 2 is starting soon! More information. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our other Event Organizers, @Metagross31or @Minashigo Hiko. 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. • Contribute Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! We are currently looking for some more proofreaders (English), to read over stuff like the Community Update and Event posts before they go live. Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • 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: LOST-SOUL-STON-EKIN The code is valid until March 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Resources (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update January 2024

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! • Skylord Reborn 3rd Anniversary Happy New Year, everyone! We hope 2024 will be a wonderful year for every one of you! December 2023 marked the 3rd Anniversary of Skylords Reborn, and we are happy you are here to celebrate it with us! In case you missed it, we hosted a special Anniversary Stream last Friday, which you can rewatch here. In this Community Update, we would like to take a look back at 2023, and share what 2024 has in store for Skylords Reborn. We have a lot to talk about, so let's get started! • Looking back at 2023 Can you believe it's already been a year since we added cosmetics? Here is a quick summary of every patch we released in 2023. January 14th, 2023 Early in 2023, we released our 2nd Anniversary Patch. The patch contained three new cards; Sanctuary, a Tier 4 Nature spell to go along with our ongoing Pure Nature rework, Raven Archwalker, our first Legendary card, and Worldbreaker Gun Promo, the first Promo building in the game. This patch also introduced cosmetics; unlockable ways for Skylords to personalize their banner and avatar border. We also added 32 new achievements, many balance changes, and a ton of Quality of Life features; like a longer Marketplace option, more advanced filtering options including a handy in-game guide, and an import/export deck function. February 27th, 2023 As with most major patches, our follow-up patch was a small one, containing some bugfixes, and the QoL option for players to re-roll the same quest multiple times. The minimum quest reward after re-rolls was changed to 50 BFP. April 8th, 2023 After our successful Halloween Event, we wanted to surprise Skylords with an Easter-themed event. While the map and general idea were received positively, we probably should not have attached a speedrun contest to it. Players expressed playing the map once was fun, but grinding the clunky Egg-push mechanic for the top time turned out to be a bit tedious. Regardless, completing the special map ''The Easter Tree" on any difficulty resulted in the completion of the newly added achievement "Bunny Brawler", which automatically rewarded Skylords with a new Easter-themed banner. We saw that banner equipped a lot around the holidays, so we are happy to see it being received so positively. This patch also contained some bugfixes, and a change to the friend list to display only online friends by default, a much requested change. May 19th - 2023 In May, we released another big content patch, called appropriately called Nature's Awakening. Alongside many Nature-themed changes, the patch also contained one new card: Sleetstorm. The spotlight for this patch, however, was on the addition of the Nature faction to rPvE, joining Fire as the second Skylords-Reborn exclusive addition to the game mode. Hodron spend a lot of time balancing the faction and making it fun to play against, which you can read more about in our interview. The patch also contained many balance changes, mostly focusing on our Pure Nature rework. The patch also included many Quality of Life changes, including a single-player pause feature, key-down vs key-up interaction, the ability to copy text or import a deck from the in-game chat, and gold chests being openable in combat. Lastly, the patch also included our first part of our Gold rework, a few campaign map changes, and a rework of the community map section. This rework allows Skylords to have an easier time finding great community-made maps, by showing more information, and having featured maps for maps that are especially good or unique. We also had an event on two of those great community maps: An Expedition South and Lyrish Uprising. We would once again like to stress that every Skylords Reborn installation comes with a Map Editor, so feel free to add your creations to the list! July 25th - 2023 Sadly, the major content patch came alongside some annoying bugs, the most infamous being the lag in the Forge after playing for a while. The issue should be solved, though we still sometimes receive reports of similar behavior. If this is the case for you, please report it to our team to investigate. We also used this occasion to fix some inconsistencies in card descriptions and enabled playback for outdated replays. However, because replays are playbacks (instead of being a video), if cards were used that have since been changed, it can still result in not accurately reflecting the original gameplay. Regardless, it solved a major headache for our Event Department and Community Events to still be able to access replays if the game had been patched in a way that only effected a few cards that were not present in their replays. October 28th - 2023 For our Halloween patch, we added a new Pumpkin avatar for Skylords to unlock by playing the custom map Spooky Encounters once more during the Halloween season. The patch also contained one new card: the long awaited Soulstone. This card saw the longest development cycle yet, but we are very proud of how it turned out. There was one more thing for Skylords to unlock: we released a special Fire-themed Forge, locked behind an achievement we noticed not many players were participating in due to the old lackluster reward. We are happy to see an increase in the completion rate after adding the special Forge. Lastly, we also released a bunch of balance changes, bugfixes, and a batch of Quality of Life changes, like a higher deck-limit (500), a warning notification for queuing up with a low deck level for ranked (pointing towards the free PvP decks), and some improvements to comparing profiles. The Fire-themed Forge can be unlocked by completing the achievement "Never Thought of Him" December - 2023 -> January 2024 Originally, our plan was to bring out a patch for our 3rd Anniversary in December. Sadly, we had to delay after crucial staff members became sick. Which brings us to... • Looking ahead at 2024 We are kicking off 2024 with our first content patch, and today we are happy to announce the patch date: January 26th - 2024 Our first content patch of 2024 will contain various previously announced features. You can expect to see the new card Lost Manabeast, our overhaul of the rPvE difficulty system, our Lost Souls Rework, balance changes, and quality of life features, like buttons in the Forge to pause, speed up and slowdown. While we are trying to include previously announced cards like Tectonic Shift and Bedrock, technical issues are plaguing their developments, so we can't make the promise they will be included yet. 2024 While we are not able to provide a concrete roadmap for 2024, we are able to share some general information about what we have planned for the new year. We have spent a lot of 2023 working on map-content, and we are very excited to share what we have been working on! The following content can be expected further along in 2024: New Campaign Maps 2024 will see the release of some brand-new campaign maps! There are currently four maps in development, three 2-player maps, and one 1-player map. The first two maps you can expect will be Unexpected Visitors and Into the Jungle, which are part of our new Key of Ashia story campaign, filling in some of the questions the original campaign failed to answer. In Unexpected Visitors, you will face the Lost Souls to protect the last Amii tribe, while Into the Jungle tasks you with finding a new safe haven for them. We did a short live-play of Into the Jungle during our stream. Unexpected Visitors will be the first new campaign map of Skylords Reborn. New Cards You can expect more new cards, including three for the Amii faction: Amii Golem, Amii Simulacrum and Amii Skydancer, bringing long-awaited higher tier units to the faction. We will reveal more about these new cards in the upcoming Community Updates. Besides new Amii cards, we also have a couple of other new cards in various stages of development. More voice-acting Alongside voicing our new campaign-maps, we are also working on providing voices for both new and old cards alike. A teaser of the Amii Golem was already heard in the Amii-teaser above, but we also have talented people working on Burning Spears and other cards that patched without voice-lines. To navigate the players through the new campaign, we have also worked on a Frost Skylord named Gaeron, artwork made by our artist Tweeto. Gaeron was an Imperial Captain defending a Lyrish town. He is shortly mentioned in the original lore book in the game, and we thought he would be a fitting candidate to expand upon. We have found a great voice-actor to voice him during our search back in June. Balance changes We are always tweaking cards and looking for opportunities to make underplayed but cards with potential viable, and 2024 will be no different. Be sure to join our balance discord if you want to join the discussion and/or provide suggestions! A lot of the changes in SR are community suggestions, after all! More Map Content 2024 will continue our vision of focusing on returning content. We are especially excited about Map Modifiers, special conditions that can be activated on campaign maps to provide new and exciting challenges. Modifiers that increase the defense of enemies, or cause them to explode once defeated, are simple examples that can already impact maps drastically. We plan to bundle these with a highlighted Map of the Day campaign map, resulting in additional rewards for Skylords facing the challenge. Example screenshot of Map Modifiers. Work in progress. With new campaign maps, expanding on rPvE and Map Modifiers freshening up the original Campaign Maps, 2024 should be a good year for replayable content! • Events Kicking off 2024 we also have a new event to enjoy! • NEW - Amii Training Camp While we eagerly wait for new Amii cards, let's find out if you fully master the excising ones! Play rPvE with only Amii Paladins and Amii Phantoms on Tier 2 and see how fast you can get! More information. • FIRST PHASE - PvP AI programming contest We are gathering players for a new type of event. Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! More information. 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? Please reach out to our other Event Organizers, @Metagross31or @Minashigo Hiko. 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. • Community Spotlight - Masters of the Forge In this podcast-like series, Kapo interviews various staff members to discuss the project and personal stories about their interaction with BattleForge and Skylords Reborn. There are currently 10 episodes to watch: • Episode 1: Dutchy, Lead Moderator - Watch now. • Episode 2: Majora, Project Coordinator - Watch now. • Episode 3: Volin, Testing Coordinator - Watch now. • Episode 4: RadicalX, Faction Designer - Watch now. • Episode 5: Ult, Server Developer - Watch now. • Episode 6: Ultralord, Video Editor - Watch now. • Episode 7: Zyna & Ladadoos, Admins - Watch now. • New: Episode 8: Maze, Web Developer - Watch now. In this episode, Maze and Kapo talk about the moderation tool, different APIs, and of course in great detail about Maze' wonderful website, the Skylords Marketplace Journal (www.smj.cards) • New: Episode 9: Windhunter, Lead Designer - Watch now. In this episode, Windhunter and Kapo talk all about design, the priorities of picking what to change next, the state of the economy and loads of submitted questions from Fire-Frost to Deepdives, and what's upcoming in the next months and years. • New: Episode 10: Emmaerzeh & Hodron - Watch now. This episode is all about the art of map-making, in all variations from campaign, rPvE and PvP-maps; with a highlight on how (community) mapmaking is done. • Contribute Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fueled by the passion and dedication of over 50 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 have a look at our open positions! We are especially looking for an active and passionate outreach coordinator, helping us reach new Skylords by contacting streamers, influencers, media, and other potential parties. This role can make a drastic impact for Skylords Reborn! More information. Please consider applying for this position; we would love to gather both new and old players alike in 2024 to check out our new campaign maps. We are also looking for someone who can help us with our newsletter. Don't have time to formally join the staff, but still would like to help out? Please check out this guide on how to support Skylords Reborn as a community member. • 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: LOOK-BACK-YEAR-2023 The code is valid until February 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update December 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! • General Update It's been a while since our last content patch, and we'd like to provide a brief update on the project. Skylords Reborn relies entirely on the free time of our dedicated volunteers. While we strive to address sudden spikes in inactivity as effectively as possible, there are occasions when unexpected delays are inevitable. Our aim is to strike a balance between revealing upcoming new content and features and getting them into your hands. Currently, this balance is a bit off, resulting in the announcement of some upcoming features a while ago, while they have not yet been implemented. We hope for your understanding in these matters and that you still appreciate us showing what we are working on. We'd also like to inform you that progress on our upcoming campaign maps is proceeding smoothly. Although we haven't disclosed specific details yet, this decision was made deliberately. The process of map creation can be complex, and even in the late stages of development, maps can undergo significant changes. We want to ensure that our new maps earn their place alongside the existing campaign, so we've invested substantial time in establishing the foundational elements to build upon. Our dedicated testers are currently working to ensure these maps provide an enjoyable playing experience, and we're confident that the end result will be something you'll greatly appreciate. Please stay tuned for more updates! • New Card Reveal - Bedrock In June, we unveiled the artwork for our highly anticipated tier 4 Stonekin turtle. Since then, people have been curious about the card and its associated effects. Today we are excited to show you the design for the upcoming Stonekin unit: Bedrock. Please note: We are still testing the card. While we are generally happy with it, numbers, effects, and its rarity might still change before release. Delving further into the building-focused Stonekin archetype, Bedrock offers Stonekin players an exciting and versatile tool for the endgame. If you want to learn more about this archetype, please check out the Stonekin Deep Dive! Bedrock stands as a formidable elemental destroyer, capable of both laying siege to enemy buildings and constructing new ones. Additionally, it possesses the ability to fortify friendly structures with an Ice Shield. This card has a ranged auto-attack, siege, two active abilities, and, naturally, the Stonekin passive ability. Bedrock will be available in two different affinities, each influencing its unique Sculptor ability. Once released, the card will drop from boosters and can be reforgable. Bedrock will be the first Ultra Rare card from the Rebirth Edition. To make sure enough players will be able to enjoy the card, we are considering hosting an event around the release where you can earn the card. Stay tuned for more information. Let's break down the card: Rock Throw (auto attack) Range: 30m Every 3 seconds, unit fires a molten stone dealing 633 damage, up to 950 in total. Knocks back small and medium units. Blessed/Tainted Sculptor Range: 30m Place a Stone Launcher with an affinity towards Frost/Shadow that deconstructs after 30 seconds at a target location within a 30m radius. Only one tower may be placed at a time. Can be placed nearby enemy units and structures. Reusable every 30 seconds. Living Rampart Cost: 50p - Range: 30m All friendly buildings in a 30m radius will be fortified, gaining an Ice Shield that absorbs 1800 damage for 15 seconds. The Ice Shield renews itself once after 15 seconds to absorb an additional 1800 damage. Reusable every 30 seconds. Siege Deals 100% more damage against structures. Adamant Skin (Stonekin faction passive ability) The unit takes 15% less damage Bedrock has been in the making for quite some time now, and we still need a little more time to work on some technical implications. Alongside the new Tectonic Shift card and some upcoming balance changes, we hope to improve and explore the playstyles of the Stonekin faction. We are currently not able to communicate a release date yet. • Look reveal - Bedrock And finally, here's a sneak peek at how Bedrock will appear in the game! We hope you are looking forward to our new favourite stone turtle! • Community Spotlight - Masters of the Forge Skylord of Honour and CCC-host Kapo started a new project this month: Masters of the Forge. In this podcast-like series, Kapo interviews various staff members to discuss the project and personal stories about their interaction with BattleForge and Skylords Reborn. In his own words: Masters of the Forge will shine a light on all those people working so tirelessly on Skylords Reborn - for the average Skylord, [Game Masters] are elite, mythical creatures too many know nothing about, and we will hopefully change that. So, in this dev-talk-like podcast series we will meet several Masters of the Forge in person, and hopefully I will be able to ask them questions that are interesting to you. And, you will also get the chance to ask them some questions! The series will be streamed on Twitch and afterwards uploaded on YouTube. Please note that while the content created is supported by the SR Team and will be all about Skylords Reborn, this is no official event or dev-talk. The focus will be around the guest, what their duties are, how they feel about the game and its development - we will not elaborate future changes in depth or announce anything fancy. But hopefully we will know more about the guest and how It's like to be part of the SR Team. There are currently 3 episodes to watch: • Episode 1: Dutchy, Lead Moderator In this episode, Kapo and Dutchy discuss various moderator-related topics. Find out about how our moderators keep Skylords Reborn a fair community. Watch now. • Episode 2: Majora, Project Coordinator In this episode, Kapo and yours truly talk about the Community Updates and Project Coordination. We also go over what goes into creating a new card for Skylords Reborn, and which departments are needed to make it happen. Watch now. • Episode 3: Volin, Testing Coordinator In this episode, Kapo and Volin dive into the topic of testing, a crucial part of the game. As a special treat, Volin showcases the new rPvE difficulty 9.5, as previously announced in our community update. Watch now. Episode 4 will be hosted live on the 7th of October and feature RadicalX, Game Designer and PvP expert. Tune in live on Twitch, or watch back on YouTube the day after. • Events 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! • NEW - PvP AI programming contest We are gathering players for a new type of event. Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! More information. • Host your own tournament / event Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our other Event Organizers, @Metagross31or @Minashigo Hiko. 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. • Contribute - Spotlight If you are interested in helping out with our upcoming new campaign maps, Map Tester might be of interest to you! • Open Position - Map Tester As a map tester, you get early access to new maps and game modes and are responsible to playtest them and provide feedback to the other map developers about possible issues or improvements. This includes checking how balanced the map is, how fun it is to play, if there are any exploits, if areas on the map need to be prettified etc. Map developers/designers/artists should be able to rely on you to make sure maps that are released or changed are done so properly. More information. But there are more roles available. Below, you can take a look at all our open positions. Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fuelled by the passion and dedication of over 45 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 Stonekin booster: DOYO-ULIK-ETUR-TLES The code is valid until November 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. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update September 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! • Skylord Reborn 3rd Anniversary The 3rd anniversary of Skylords Reborn is almost here! After returning to the world of Nyn on the 18th of December 2020, our volunteer team has worked tirelessly to expand upon the original BattleForge with new content, quality-of-life changes, and new features. Skylords Reborn has expanded upon the original game by adding quests, achievements, cosmetics, reforging, new enemy factions for rPvE, overhauls of the community map sections, UI improvements, brand-new cards, new voice-lines, many balance changes, and much more! We are grateful that we were not only successful in bringing the game back, and are now able to celebrate its 3rd anniversary with this lovely community. For this occasion, we would like to give you a sneak peek of an upcoming new campaign map, planned for release in 2024. To do so, we invite all of you to join us on Monday, the 18th of December, at 20:00 CET for a special anniversary stream on our official Twitch channel. Alongside some information about our upcoming content, there will also be giveaways and a Q&A. So come chill with us! Whether you have been with us all this time, or only recently stumbled upon the project, thank you! We hope you celebrate both the past and the future with us on the 18th! • Changes to the recommended system requirements BattleForge is an old game; it released all the way back in 2009. As Skylords Reborn continues its development, we are having a look at its system requirements. We have decided to remove our minimum system requirements, and increase our recommended requirements. Of course, removing a minimum system requirement does not automatically mean anything lower than the Recommended will not work. We are dropping the Minimum system requirements • CPU: Single Core 1.8Ghz • CPU Speed: Core 1.8Ghz • RAM: Windows XP - 512MB, Vista and Windows 7+ - 1GB • OS: Windows XP (with service pack 2) Vista, Windows 7 or higher. • Video Card: 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series+ / ATI Radeon 9500+ • Disk Space: At least 13GB. Instead, these are now the Recommended system requirements: • CPU: Core i3 7400T / Ryzen 3 1200 (X86 compatible) • RAM: at least 6GB • OS: Windows 10 or higher. • Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / ATI Radeon HD 7770 (Direct X 11 compatible) • Disk Space: 14GB of free space. Notes and reasoning While we don't want to exclude potential players, constantly keeping old and outdated systems in mind is increasing the chance for issues and delaying development. Even so, we'd like to take a moment to explain our reasoning for increasing each requirement. Skipping over 16 years of CPU might seem like too big of a jump. However, people will default to maximum details on 10+ years old game, and they will play it on significantly bigger resolutions. Back then, 1024x768 was considered big screen, while these days 1920x1080 is considered entry level resolutions, which have 2.64 times more pixels. The same reasoning applies for the GPU. A recommendation of 6GB of RAM might seem like an overkill, but we are adding features that consume RAM, and it shouldn't be a problem for most modern PC's to meet this requirement. Rest assured this will never increase again, because the game can't use more than 4GB of RAM (the remaining 2GB are for OS and other applications running alongside Skylords Reborn). We are also dropping support for Windows 7. Technically, Windows 7 should still work just fine, but due to the very low % of players running this operating system, we will not be rolling back major updates for it anymore. Lastly, the Disk Space increase. We are currently at 13.3 GB for game files, and community maps, logs, etc. can easily be in 100's of MB. Its likely this requirement will further increase in the future. • New Card Reveal - Lost Manabeast A while ago, we showcased some upcoming changes and reworks coming to the Lost Souls faction. We are happy to announce we are nearing completion on this faction rework. Alongside implementing those changes, we have also been working on a new card to add to the faction to further enhance its playstyle. Introducing: The Lost Manabeast as a player card! Design notes: Lost Souls has an odd T3 in that it has two ground XL-units and one flying L-unit with conditional siege range. Of these, only Lost Horror is widely used in PvE, Lost Grigori sees some PvP play, and Lost Vigil is mostly unused except in niche situations. Most factions have a wider variety of viable options in PvE at this point, and Lost Souls lacks a low-cost ground L-unit, forcing players to rely on cards like Ashbone Pyro to fill the gap. We therefore wanted to provide a Lost Souls unit to fit this role for those players who want to play a purely Lost Souls deck, while also adding something to synergize with Lost Souls's unique revenant mechanic. Our first thought was to add in Lost Manabeast, since it has an existing model and artwork. Because the unit was primarily designed for PvE usage, we decided to make it a ranged unit as a player card. From here, we thought about how to make it work with Revenant's Doom without directly stepping on the toes of Revenant's Blessing. Revenant's Blessing extends the lifespan of all revenant units, similar to how Ice Age works with Ice Shields, but once it ends, the timer continues to run down as it did previously. For Lost Manabeast, we decided to create an ability called Immortalize that would refresh the lifespan of a revenant back to 25 seconds. This should allow players to alternate between using Manabeast's free ability and Revenant's Blessing. Immortalize is also usable while Lost Manabeast is a revenant, which should enable players to maintain fully revenant armies more easily and efficiently. Let's break down the card: Ectoplasmic Shock Every 3 seconds, the unit launches deadly ectoplasm that deals 230 damage to enemies in a 10m radius around its target, up to 345 in total. The ectoplasm lingers for 5 seconds, absorbing the life essence of any enemy that dies in the area. Additionally, enemies in the area are slowed and may only move at normal walk speed. Immortalize Active to refresh the duration of every Revenant's lifetime in a 25m radius. Needs to have gathered the life essence of 7 enemy units first. Reusable every 15 seconds. Revenant's Doom Activate to bestow the unit with a curse that will make it resurrect in case it dies. The resurrected revenant will only be a shadow of its former self, but it will be endowed with the same abilities and equal in strength. After 25 seconds, the revenant will then die once and for all. May only be triggered once. For the artwork, our artist Tweeto made some adjustments to the NPC-artwork currently in the game, mostly adding that classic Lost Soul flame to the look. Lost Manabeast will be a rare, drop from boosters, and can be reforged into. It will not have different affinities. It is planned for a release in our next content patch. We hope you are looking forward to it! • How to Help - a Community Guide Kapo made a lovely overview of things a community member can do to help out the project. Ranging from something as simple as giving a like to our official trailer, all the way up to joining the team and helping out as staff. Due to the nature of this volunteer project, community members can make a huge difference for both new and current players. Hopefully some of these suggestions speak to you, and inspire you to take some action: find out more. HOW TO SUPPORT Skylords Reborn is truly by the fans for the fans, so we hope we can count on you to make this the best community it can be! • Events 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! • NEW - Battle of Tactics #5: Show Me What You Got - 10-12-2023 Battle of Tactics is trying something new: Time for a Tactical-Tome-Tournament! Every player gets a selection of boosters (how many depending on your ELO-rating!) and has to build a PvP deck to compete for prizes! More information. • FIRST PHASE - PvP AI programming contest We are gathering players for a new type of event. Get ready for an AI Programming Tournament, where the submitted programs will face off in an epic showdown to find the ultimate AI strategist! More information. • FINISHED - Official 1p rPvE Contest - Resurrection of the Lost Soul Our official PvE contest has concluded and prizes have been sent out, including the new Soulstone cards. Ultralord also showcased the winners in a video. 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? Please reach out to our other Event Organizers, @Metagross31or @Minashigo Hiko. 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. • Community Spotlight - Masters of the Forge In this podcast-like series, Kapo interviews various staff members to discuss the project and personal stories about their interaction with BattleForge and Skylords Reborn. There are currently 7 episodes to watch: • Episode 1: Dutchy, Lead Moderator - Watch now. • Episode 2: Majora, Project Coordinator - Watch now. • Episode 3: Volin, Testing Coordinator - Watch now. • Episode 4: RadicalX, Faction Designer - Watch now. • Episode 5: Ult, Server Developer - Watch now. • New: Episode 6: Ultralord, Video Editor - Watch now. In this episode, Kapo and Ultralord talk about his numerous videos he made for the Skylords Reborn Team, as well as his other projects like the Battle of Tactics or his streaming efforts. • New: Episode 7: Zyna & Ladadoos, Admins - Watch now. In this episode, Kapo is joined by both Ladadoos and Zyna, Developers and Project Leads who have been stuck around with Skylords Reborn since a very, very long time. They discuss what it's like to lead such a big volunteer team, old and new changes to the core systems of the game, and take a look what the future may bring in the upcoming months and years. Episode 8 will be hosted live on the 2nd of December and feature Maze, Web Developer. Tune in live on Twitch, or watch back on YouTube the day after. • Contribute Skylords Reborn is a community-driven project fuelled by the passion and dedication of over 45 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 have a look at our open positions! We are especially looking for an active and passionate outreach coordinator, helping us reach new Skylords by contacting streamers, influencers, media, and other potential parties. This role can make a drastic impact for Skylords Reborn, so please consider applying. • Marketeer / Outreach Coordinator As a Marketeer / Outreach Coordinator, you are responsible to spread the word and create awareness about Skylords Reborn, attracting veteran and new players alike. Your tasks will include actively researching and reaching out to potentially interested streamers, YouTubers, Discord channels, game magazines, among others. You will be responsible for the communication to and from interested parties and for any promotion deals (for example involving scratch codes). Please note that Skylords Reborn cannot do any paid promotions. More information. • 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: LOST-ANDF-OUND-MANA The code is valid until January 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. We are experiencing some issues with the sign-up link to our newsletter, apologies for the inconvenience, we will update this post when we have it solved. Archive • Skylords Reborn Documents (Deep Dives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide) • Overview Community Updates • Community Update November 2023