🧪 Early Information on Costumes (Formerly Skins) [Part of The Beta Beat v23, v24 & v25]

[Merry_me]

@zephyr1

@zephyr1 So, does this mean you get the full power of the costume if your underlying hero is not fully ascended, but is at, say, 4-1?

Yes, it appears that way, as long as you don’t care about Emblems, and don’t plan to use the Hero without their Costume

I’m wondering now if this is true? Because I was planning on leaving heroes at 4-1 in case I don’t want to put emblems on them and just max the costume. But in the release notes they say it must have the same level. Can someone confirm this in the beta version or else in the life game on Monday?

And somehow my gut feeling says that they will sell costumes for real money later in the game. Cause chances for pulling your desired costume suck

[zephyr1]

@Merry_me

Can someone confirm this in the beta version or else in the life game on Monday?

I just tried it in Beta again, and it still works the same way as before — the Costume can be leveled higher than the Hero, but the Costume’s Ascension can’t be higher than the Hero’s Ascension.

[Merry_me]

Thanks Zephyr, your awesome

[Ozy1]

@zephyr1

I just tried it in Beta again, and it still works the same way as before — the Costume can be leveled higher than the Hero, but the Costume’s Ascension can’t be higher than the Hero’s Ascension.

Having said that I think it must be said (unless i misunderstood it) that you wouldn’t be able to add emblems on a maxed costumed hero unless the base hero is also maxed, CORRECT? @zephyr1 because emblems are added from the base hero only.

[zephyr1]

@Ozy1

you would be able to add emblems on a maxed costumed hero unless the base hero is also maxed, CORRECT? @zephyr1 because emblems are added from the base hero only.

You would not be able to add Emblems onto a Costume unless the Hero was maxed, since Emblems must be added to the base Hero, yes.

That’s what I meant here about not caring about Emblems:

@zephyr1

Yes, it appears that way, as long as you don’t care about Emblems, and don’t plan to use the Hero without their Costume.

[Ozy1]

@Sid1207

Apparently it’s once a month event

I feel pretty much the same way … I was all excited to see the new game upgrades being added and more I read about it and get to know how it works the more disappointed I get and thus the less interesting it sounds.

Honestly other than for those willing to spend money on these costumes I don’t see more than about 5 to 10% of players having any interest in these new upgrades and the more SG create new upgrades for the minority the majority will eventually only either give up or just accept the free game style of play not caring whether they obtain great heights or not. Real Shame Really.

[Ozy1]

Auto correct got me with that “would” should of been "WOULDN’T " LOL.

I corrected it.

[markpessan]

Will the portal always be available? Or will it be like ATlantis 01 time a month

[koziar993]

Introducing Hero Costumes!:

Introducing Hero Costumes!

EDIT 2019-11-18T09:10:00Z (UTC): Hero Costumes are live now! EDIT 2019-11-18T08:26:00Z (UTC): Due to the update rollout, we had to sightly delay the Hero Costume Event start. We are expecting to start the first Hero Costume Event at 2019-11-18T09:00:00Z (UTC). Our apologies for the inconvenience! [image] Prepare for the first-ever Hero Costumes event - starting on November 18, 2019 Please read below more information and details on this brand new feature! Costumes Over…

• Costume Chamber opens at 07:00 UTC on the 3rd Monday of each month and is open for 48 hours

[Sid1207]

In current form it isn’t even alluring for spenders IMO. I’d rather chase new HOTMs than repair old toys. Even after costuming many of old heroes aren’t appealing enough, their specials are still meh but have improved stats vs some of new heroes have specials that require scrolling. New heroes have family bonuses or elemental links, old heroes lose edge there too.

Only reason I’d be likely to spend is if I don’t have enough darts, and I want a yellow def down hero. Either try and summon rabbit or costume Viv. Then too it’s a toss up because rabbit is fast vs Viv is slow.

[Deathgaze01]

I guess they could add families to costumes… it would make them more interesting tbh

[Frozen]

And this will be again another disappointing.

[TomSnow]

For most casual players the mechanics are already complicated enough

To make costumes interesting they should either give us more opportunities to earn chamber keys or provide a way to produce costumes in a building–maybe directly in the training camps as alternative to training heroes, levels 14-18 are useless anyway, maybe via a new building called Taylor’s Lodge.

This does not mean that everyone should get all the epic and legendary costumes too easily, the vast majority of us, I guess, just want a decent chance to get at least some epics and maybe a few lucky legendary ones without having to spend gems again.

[solipsism]

I have to disagree- If you’re a “spender” then summoning has probably become pretty boring when you pull 10 dupes almost every time, all 3-4 stars and even most 5 stars are nothing to get excited about. With the costume summons, spenders will now get something of value with every pull (for the short run at least).

[Aunty_Krauser]

Is there a list of all the different specials all the costumes provide?

[Guvnor]

All listed in the original post by Zephyr

[FrenziedEye]

Starts in less than two hrs right?

[ThePirateKing]

Yup, it should go Live at:

America/Los_Angeles: 1:00 am
America/Phoenix: 2:00 am
America/Chicago: 3:00 am
America/New_York: 4:00 am
Europe/Berlin: 10:00 am
Africa/Johannesburg: 11:00 am
Europe/Sofia: 11:00 am
Asia/Tokyo: 6:00 pm
Australia/Adelaide: 7:30 pm

[Nexus1254]

Yeah… That happens when the creators of the game are lazy and don’t mention the time zone on their announcements. It’s 9 AM and I couldn’t know why the event is not here yet…

[zephyr1]

@Nexus1254

That happens when the creators of the game are lazy and don’t mention the time zone on their announcements.

They kind of did, though

@EmpiresPuzzles

Costume Chamber opens at 07:00 UTC on the 3rd Monday of each month and is open for 48 hours

So the bigger issue is that it’s apparently the wrong time listed.