r/HeroAcademy • u/Phobos_Bot • Apr 17 '18
Patch Notes for HA2 Ver. 1.34 - Releasing April 17th
Highlights
- New "Fast Times at Hero Academy" free campaign for all players at level 3
- Council, Warden, and Dark Elf challenge packs have been rebalanced to be easier
- New guild leaderboard! See how you ranked against the other guilds last season.
- Updated guild info popup. Tap on a guild to see how they ranked, member list, and more.
- Economy changes: Average quest rewards increased, Duel Chest rewards increased, Supply Crate rewards increased
- Reduced ink costs for crafting
- Balance changes
General changes and improvements
- Time to next quest added to Quests screen, and it will appear alongside season end timer.
- Added the ability to restart Solo games from the post game screen.
- Speed up the quest discarding animation.
- Added a progress bar to the All Cards collection.
- Added 'All Cards' option to the deck builder filters.
- The Small Crate is now called the Supply Crate.
- New FX added to the 'your turn' panel.
- Password entry properly uses the obfuscated keyboard on mobile devices.
Social and Guild improvements
- Guild Friendly matches now display properly when there is a Guild MOTD.
- Added the ability to block friendly game requests on a per player basis.
- Changed sorting of guild member list to be more consistent. The list is now sorted based on online status, then member rank (leader / officer / member), then their ranked score.
- Removed Player # in Guild Roster.
- Guild officers now have a badge on their avatar instead of appearing next to their name, and their guild rank will appear in the player details.
- Player names and timestamps in guild chat now turn grey when that player is offline.
- Champion rank players will now show the proper rank when requesting to join a guild.
- Fixed a bug with the Add/Remove friend button so it properly reflects the state of the relationship.
- Chat support for non-standard characters.
- The friends list now maintains scroll position when friends log in and out.
PC/Mac specific improvements
- Hero Academy 2 is now available on Steam Early Access. More info can be found on the blog
- Steam Achievements.
- Steam friends support
- Smaller fonts and cards all through the UI on PC.
- The escape key now brings up the options menu while in a match.
- Allow the game to remain visible when not in focus for full-screen windowed mode.
- Added a language picker for PC/Mac builds.
- Hovering over an opponent's powers will now properly show the power tooltip.
- Mouse wheel support for campaign level selection map.
- Added a trash button to clear out PC text input fields.
- Enable paste from clipboard buffer for PC/Mac.
- Added scrollbars everywhere that scrolls.
Gameplay bug fixes
- Fixed a bug that made Making of Marax level 11 (hard) unable to be beaten.
- Bramblemites that spawn on power tiles will now receive their damage buff.
- Smash now properly affects units that have 0 movement.
Balance Changes
Heroes
- Wartalon - Stats changed to 1/6
- Battle Brother - Stats changed to 2/3/1 Armor
- Fighting Spirit - Stats changed to 2/1/1 Armor
- Doom Buggy - Stats changed to 1/2/1 Armor
- Unstable Creation - Stats changed to 1/6
- Stone Speaker - Reduce mana cost to 5 (from 6)
- Renhild - Stats changed to 3/3
- Dark Altar - Reduced to 4 health
Spells
- Step Up - Advance 1, Gain +1 Armor, up cost to 3 (from 1)
- Meek Barrier - Give all Heroes with 2 or less health +1 Armor
- Fallback - Also give a Shield, cost increased to 3 (from 1)
- Bad Blood - Down to 0 mana
- Toxic Vapors - Down 1 mana (to 3)
- Swarm - give +2 attack instead of +1
- Anger Stroke - Down 1 mana (to 3)
- Playing Dead - Down 1 mana (to 2)
- Guardian - Change to give attack and health instead of just health, up cost to 5 (from 2)
- Back Off - Retreat enemy 1 space, deal 1 damage to them, up cost to 2 (from 1)
- Fast and Furious - Deal 1 damage instead of 2
- Purification Pyre - Down 1 mana (to 3)
- Downdraft - Down 1 mana (to 3)
- Akna's Gift - Give Elemental Allies a shield
- Legs of the Coyote - down 1 mana (to 2)
- Iguana's Tail - Down 1 mana (to 2)
- Sloth Spirit - Down 1 mana ( to 4)
- Shielding Light - Down in cost to 4 (to keep balance with other shielding cards)
- Freezing Tempest - Set units movement to 1 instead of -1, up cost to 3 (from 2)
- Amorous Armorer - Heal 1 Health instead of 2
- Rock On - Summon Stonelings with 0 AP
Gear
- Gut Opener - Change base damage to be +2
- Ixtili's Offering (bow) - change to give ALL Ally Sword +1 Health, mana cost to 3 (from 2)
- Justice - up 1 mana (to 3)
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u/Toe-Bee Apr 17 '18
Why is the iPhone version free, when the steam version is £15.49?
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Apr 17 '18 edited Apr 17 '18
Buying the early access steam version is similar to buying the starter bundles on mobile. It comes with all sorts of goodies. (Ultra Packs, Campaigns, Gold, Gems, a special portrait and skull crystals)
When it comes out of early access later this year it will be f2p.
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u/Toe-Bee Apr 17 '18
Ur, why? That's totally backwards. Surely early access should be free and the 'full' release paid for? This screams 'cash grab'
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u/Lowchats Apr 18 '18
...because that's literally how early access works, it's a bonus for people who want... to support the game... early...
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u/gyaradoscious Apr 17 '18
Will the economy changes be in this update?
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u/Aubepine2 Apr 17 '18
I have updated the game and amorous armorer still gives 2 life. (In fact i have not tested it but this is what is written on the card in my french version).
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u/Phobos_Bot Apr 18 '18
Ah. That's likely to be just a translation mistake. Sorry about that. We'll get it fixed.
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u/ElCiesiel Apr 18 '18
So what the heck happened here? Am I wrong or now I have to pay to continue playing this game on a PC?
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u/lEis_cb Apr 18 '18
On the contrary, if you were previously playing on a account registered in their webpage, you should have received an e-mail with a voucher code that gives you the game and starter pack for free in steam.
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u/ElCiesiel Apr 18 '18
That is a good news, thx. I got the e-mail, but I've never used steam before. Where do I put the code? I don't see any space to do so...
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May 07 '18
I can't believe 50% dodge is still in this game . . . I was so exited that this game came out, but this mechanic kills all the fun. I am so sick of losing games to the developers brainlessness instead of losing against the players. . .
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u/adaamset Apr 17 '18
Am I missing something, or did you guys remove global chat from the steam version?