Clash Royale Dev Tracker

Hey everyone,

If you see similar behavior in your clans, please don't hesitate to report it in-game. It will get the disruptive player banned.

got it - thanks for the feedback!

we aren't dodging anything... this post was about the current balance/meta, not 2v2 matchmaking.

RE: 2v2 matchmaking

continuing in the spirit of not rushing through things, we are waiting for more data before making an informed decision about the new 2v2 matchmaking. i'm actually on your side with this one - i was a vocal advocate of reverting it after the change was made, as i felt like a distinct change in difficulty/more grindy 2v2 matches had happened after our update.

however, with no concrete data to back it up, and after discussing it with the rest of the team i came to the understanding that this needs some time to settle.

introducing the party button with other game modes at the same time as the 2v2 matchmaking change also had some effects that we need to further understand before making an informed decision.

the listed cards aren't all of the balance changes for november, we just wanted to get the info out about the main 'problem' cards

Hey everyone,

We thought we’d post some feedback & information with regards to the current meta, Season 4 balance changes and what will be taking place in Season 5.

This post will go through why we are not doing mid-season balance changes and the choices behind this decision.

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Season 3 & Our Learnings

When we initially reworked Executioner, we reacted to pre-release comments about the Executioner’s strength and did an emergency nerf with much less playtesting than usual (no time for a formal playtest cycle) before the start of Season 3. The result was a weak Executioner and most existing Exe players feeling let down. This also invalidated videos made by our Content Creators and made our own balance videos inaccurate, which was not good for anyone who wanted accurate information about Season 3 balance.

We opted to do a one-time 'Pre-CRL maintenance' to adjust Fisherman and Executioner and not affect...

since the app store introduced the 'arcade' tab in iOS 13 there's a new way to update your apps! tap your profile in the top right of the home page and scroll down to see your updates.

there's also an issue where instead of saying 'update' the app page says 'open'.

both of the above are unfortunately out of our control, but i hope this helps you to update!

full patch notes are here!

FWIW I read every balance update idea list! Keep up the goblin-tier content!

Nope, always the closest target just like any other Troop. If you deploy something after she has picked a target though, she won't change to them.

This is LITERALLY the Arrows re-work we have in prototype right now. To be honest, I really like it! It provides a nice counter to Guards (2 shots take off shield, 3rd kills the Guards). The challenge with this rework at this point is purely visual - Arrows was the first spell introduced to the game so it's very weird in the effects code. When I switch to 3 Arrow projectiles, it becomes 3 single arrows (instead of the batch of arrows you normally see). We have been trying to fiddle with this so we can deploy it in a maintenance break, but it might require a client update with new visual effects to get working.

thanks for posting such a great guide that reproduces the issue - it's invaluable to tracking bugs like this down and nailing a fix! this is one of the best examples of a bug report on this sub so just wanted to say thanks from the team as well.

we're working on fixing this in an optional update that is due to drop tomorrow - we are just finishing up testing to make sure that the fix works

this issue should have already been fixed in the maintenance we had a couple of hours ago! let me know if it's still happening or if this was an older report

thanks for the compilation vid. there is a text patch that should be going live today to address this as well as some other issues that we were waiting on translations for!

Yup! We had an updated text but it didn't go out with the maintenance (doh!). It may go out later this week along with a few other server tweaks

We actually have a rework to Barb Hut that has tested well. The big problem is that Barb Hut leads to a lot of stalling/draws so we aren't sure if it would be good for the game overall to have a powerful Barb Hut. We are considering other reworks in the meantime, but maybe we will end up releasing it after we can determine if Tiebreakers would lead to a defensive Barb Hut meta.

good idea - i've added to our Quality of Life changes list

Posted this on another thread too:

The 100 gems are still there! We split up the 100 gems:

5450 -> 100 Gems

to

5225 -> 40 Gems

6150 -> 60 Gems

We did this as part of a re-balance to the Trophy Road rewards, bringing more rewards to lower tiers. Moving the gems down will ensure far more players will get some gems (the peak of players is around 5300, there's a big drop-off after that mark). We also moved lots of Gold lower - all the Gold nodes are 5000 now instead of 2000, 3000, etc at lower trophy ranks. We have re-introduced the choose-your-reward tiers with seasonal themed cards after fixing bugs and listening to player feedback on how the choices should work. Finally, chests have been moved lower including an Epic Chest at the first set of rewards.

Overall, Trophy Road is slightly more valuable - about 3-4% than before - but the rewards have shifted downwards so the players in the 4000-5300 range should feel much more reward...

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Hey SamEsq,

I'm very sorry that your experience with our support has been this poor! I'd love to dig a little deeper here, perhaps you could send me your user id or player tag as a DM?

Thanks for the feedback!