[2021] 5.5 Update (Patch Notes)

5.5 UPDATE

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• We have introduced new kinds of Gems. Heroic Gems are Gems that have special abilities which activate when they are either matched, destroyed or a set condition is met.

• Heroic Gems will only appear as a random spawn in battle games for a limited time as part of Campaigns or Special Heroic Gem Events. However, there may be troops and weapons that will create these Gems as part of their spell.

  • They will appear in all battle game modes such as PvP, Explore, World Events, Raid Boss, and Guild Wars.

• We will be able to run multiple Special Heroic Gem Events at once too, so players may experience different combinations of Gems from time to time.

• When 5.5 releases we will only have 1 new Heroic Gem active for players to enjoy, the Uber Doomskull, a more powerful version of the Doomskull.

• The other Heroic Gems will be introduced and explained with the Campaign or event that they will be part of. We anticipate many new Heroic Gems releasing over time!

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We have made some changes to Campaign Tasks to reduce some of the friction in completing certain tasks.

• We have changed the ‘x’ button on a Task to be an arrow so it is easier for players to see.

• This new button will bring up a new popup menu where “Skip Task” and “Do Task” options will be available.

• A new Task option will also be available on this menu: Reroll Task.

• Reroll Task will allow players to reroll a Task to another task to complete instead.

• Each Campaign Task can be rerolled once.

• Once a task is rerolled, the player must complete or skip the new task. The new task cannot be rerolled.

  • E.g. Bob the Barbarian rerolls a Gold Task requiring him to use a Weapon Type, and gets a new task to Win Ranked PVP battles. He cannot reroll this new task, and must complete it or spend Gems to skip it.

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Doomed Weapons
The Doomed Blade, Doomed Crossbow, Doomed Club and Doomed Cauldron have all had their affixes that created a Gem changed to a new affix that debuffs the Enemy.

Legendary Traits Text Improvement
We have improved the text for all Legendary Traits that give Mana to Allies at the start of battle.

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• Dooooooom! – Match 50 Uber Doomskull Gems

• They See Me Re-Rollin’ – Reroll a Campaign Task

• Lycan Subscribe – Match 100 Lycanthropy Gems

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• We have improved the Elite+ Pass Campaign Rewards for over 1000+ Stars. This will appear in the next Campaign (starting May 24th).

• We’ve added visual feedback when clicking on tab buttons on our screens (the 4-6 white text buttons on the tab bar that runs across the top of the screen in many places). This is to give feedback that input has been received by the game to players who may be running on slow connections.

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• We have fixed an issue where the game would soft lock if Death Mark and Lycanthropy trigger at the same time. As part of this fix, Essence of Evil has been altered back to its original form where it inflicts Lycanthropy on the target.

• We have fixed an issue where some players were getting stuck on the Warband tutorial. It took them to the shop, but there was no Warband shop tab to access.

• We have also fixed an assortment of smaller issues.

This update will be available on Steam, iOS, Android, Xbox, PlayStation AND NINTENDO SWITCH.

If you are a Nintendo Switch player please be aware that you will be getting 5.5 + 5.4, and you can find the 5.4 patch notes here.

We’ve removed Lycanthropy from Essence of Evil again until we can release the hot fix for the Lycanthropy freeze bug that has reappeared on 5.5.

Jumping in to say a few things.

• This update will have more functionality down the line as we introduce more gems. We have the ability to add in a lot more now for special events, etc, and there will be more in future than just the Uber Doomskulls that are presently available.

• The ability to re-roll will give you a task that takes longer to complete, but is different. By longer I mean play time, not a task that is time gated. This is to offer players flexibility with their tasks and avoid instances where several competing tasks are time blocked, stopping progress.

• If you encounter bugs please post bug reports and I will pass them on every Monday and Friday as I have been doing for quite some time.

• I can’t speak further on the Lycanthropy bug at this time, as when I was testing on our staging servers it looked to be fixed. I’m not sure what has happened here and the team are investigating.

Also wanted to add as a further update, the team are currently making builds with a fix for Lycanthropy. However, it will need to go out with a bigger update, so we will do our best to get the builds approved across our platforms without needing to wait until 5.6.

I’m saying that the re-rolled tasks shouldn’t be tasks that are time gated the way Dungeons are, to clarify.

If that is not the case please let me know. We wanted to offer re-rolls to avoid the above issue, and to give players more flexibility.

Dungeons are reliant on days at times, as they are limited. Fighting 200 brown troops, or completing a number of explore runs, can be done immediately without a wait for another day or replenishing resource, like Dungeon attempts. While it may take more physical play time to do the new task, there shouldn’t be a gate that means you cannot complete it through normal play for a period of days or resets.

Once again, if that isn’t the case and some tasks that don’t adhere to this are found, please let me know.

@Magnusimus has the right of it, and @Snooj also broke it down further.

Thanks for helping team, I’m glad we could clarify further.

Thanks for your patience, I spoke to the devs to get a firmer answer on this.

Uber Doomskulls were turned off, and will be re-activated in future. (Can’t say when at this time, before you ask. :P)

In the future two Heroic Gems may run at the same time.