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Increase to MCOC iOS Minimum Specs for 50.1
Greetings Summoners, With the release of our May Build, 50.1, MCOC will be upgraded to support iOS SDK 18. To incorporate this, we are going to have to update the minimum iOS version we support to iOS 15. This would make the iPhone 6s and 6s+ the new oldest device our game supports.
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Trello Board Weekly Update List: April 14-18
Greetings Summoners! Welcome to the first of our new weekly Trello Board update summaries. As mentioned in our Bugs, Tracking and Visibility Dev Diary last week, every Monday we will be posting a short summary providing a brief overview of what issues have been added to the Trello Board and/or which issues have had fixes…
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Dev Diary: Bugs, Tracking and Visibility
Greetings Summoners! Friendly Neighborhood Pinwheel here and now it’s MY turn for a Dev Diary! Today, I’m following up on the Release Cadence and Bug Fixes Dev Diary shared by Kabam Dork (found here), laying out the basics of our release process, the difference between client and server side issues, and the different kinds…
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Jane Foster (Lotan)
The imposing tower of a goddess that is Lotan hides a formidable secret - that Jane Foster is as much a victim of Lotan as the targets of their violence. This is because Jane Foster is not herself a corrupted avatar of the Chronoserpent, but is instead being controlled by a defiled Mjölnir that has renamed itself in…
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BALANCE UPDATE: Spiral and Dazzler
Hey all, Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Spiral and Dazzler!Spiral Armed with plenty of blades that allow her to deal consistent damage and control the opponent’s Power, Spiral has been performing well! While her target matchup of Serpent is a standout in terms of…
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MAINTENANCE FINALE & COMPENSATION
Greetings Summoners, As of now, all players impacted earlier by the temporary lock of their Accounts should have access and see their Accounts as expected. To accommodate for this downtime, we've compensated affected Summoners based on how long we needed to keep them out of their Accounts. Those who chose the Tier 7 Basics…
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IMMORTAL ABOMINATION - INEQUITY INTERACTION
Greetings Summoners! Immortal Abomination has made himself known as the Third Champion to join Apocalypse & Nick Fury in the Heart of Fire Crystal. Alongside this release, we'll also be making an adjustment to his interaction with the Inequity Mastery to encourage interaction with his intended gameplay of stacking personal…
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EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE - CONCLUDED
Greetings Summoners, The Team has identified a fix for the recent Catalyst Offer issue. Summoners who purchased this offer have been temporarily locked out of the Contest to Clawback any Catalysts bought/used while active, and ensure previously owned resources remain intact. They will be unlocked once this process is…
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Dev Diary: AI Deep Dive
AI is a hot topic in our community, and there are a lot of misconceptions around what it is and how it works, so we thought it would be a good time for us to pull back the curtain on how it functions, and talk about where it’s going in the future. Before we begin, it’s important to separate what exactly the AI controls…
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NIGHTMARE RAIDS ROUND 2 (FULL CHANGELOG)
Greetings Summoners! Before the next round of Raids kicks off, here’s the final itemized list of the tuning changes you can check out for the upcoming event! Some of this has already been outlined, but here’s the FULL changelog.Global Raids Changes: * Raids - Boost - Assault - Siphon Slider:* Now increases the Damage boost…
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Alliance War Season 47 Update
Foreword Welcome back to another season of Alliance War! We acknowledge issues in Season 46, and we have a sister post that will focus on the plan to help alleviate the pressures of this new direction for Alliance Wars. In this post, we will focus on what we plan to do for Season 47, and inform players on new Tactics…
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Alliance War Updates - A Message from the Gameteam
Forward We want to spend some time today talking about the current state and future of Alliance War. The recent unhappiness regarding the difficulty of the Defense Tactic this season has spurred a lot of conversation amongst our players, and the dev team has been listening. Thanks in part to feedback from many in the…
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Re: AI Throwing Fewer Specials + Re-Parrying Issue Situation
Greetings Summoners, We recently made an adjustment to the Defender AI that aimed to reduce the number of Re-Parries that the AI was carrying out, and while that was successful, it also made the Defenders less likely to throw their Special Attacks, which was not a good experience for Summoners. We have undone the Fix to…
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Alliance Quest Milestones Bug - Week of January 15 - Get your Extra Glory!
Greetings Summoners, There is currently a bug where Alliance Quest Peak Milestones are currently acting as regular Milestones, paying out lots of extra Glory. For this week only, we've reduced the number of Milestones available in Alliance Quests, but are going to let Summoners collect all of the Glory Milestones along the…
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Make Good Choices, Summoners - BG Season 13-15, Alliance War
Hello Summoners, As you prepare for your journey into Necropolis we know that a part of tackling big content like this is to get rank-ups and chase champions that help you in other aspects of the game. So to help everyone make the most informed decisions possible, here is an early look at the upcoming seasons of…
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Gladiator and Iron Man - Balance Update
Hey all, Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Gladiator and Iron Man!Gladiator As the summoners' choice champion, many people were excited to see Gladiator join the contest. He was geared towards being a fun and effective attacker with a couple defensive tricks if you block…
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AQ Raids: A Preliminary How-To
Welcome to Alliance Quest Raids! January 15th, 2024 is your first opportunity to experience Raids with your Alliance! Be sure to explore the enlistment options starting on January 8th, 2024! Map Costs - Raid Tickets To enter the raid map you will have to pay 180 Raid Tickets. Map costs for 7 & 8 have been removed but the…
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Photon and Vox - Balance Update
Hey all, Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Photon and Vox!Photon Photon has immediately made her impact felt on the Battlerealm. She was aimed at being one of the toughest Battlegrounds and War defenders that needed a hard counter. She did this by re-visiting the ability…
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Alliance War Season 46 Update
Foreword Welcome back to another season of Alliance War! There are some massive changes upcoming in Alliance War for the end of the year and we are excited to finally share what we’ve been cooking up behind the scenes. To start off with, we finally set some time aside to improve the player experience within Platinum and…
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Updating Rintrah (and info page) in December
Hello Summoners! Coming with the December update, there will be some minor changes to Rintrah, primarily consisting of a rework of his info page. We've rewritten the info page to make his kit much easier to understand and to accurately represent abilities that are currently present in his kit that we feel are not properly…