🧪 Early Information on New Monster Island Event [Part of The Beta Beat v51]

[PlayForFun]

NOTE: Please do not, under any circumstances, share IMAGES OR VIDEOS from Beta in this or any public Forum thread. Violations can cause players to lose their Beta accounts, or threads to be closed down.

This thread is to provide early insights and discussion on the new Monster Island event.

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Don’t get too attached

Details from Beta, especially brand-new Beta content, don’t tend to be very reliable for actual release.

It’s incredibly common that features are changed during Beta testing, or sometimes even after testing but before release. That is, after all, the purpose of Beta testing.

So I wouldn’t get too attached to any of this — it’s not unheard of for entire portions of features to be removed or reworked, or for radical changes to functionality to be made.

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Monster Island Event

This brand new game inside the Empires & Puzzles.

Event Info

The goal of Monster Island is to earn points for your Alliance. This is done by exploring the Island, defeating enemies and opening Chests. When the event timer runs out, the Alliance will receive rewards based on the amount of Chests opened and the Alliance Score rank on the leaderboard.

Alliances are assigned an event difficulty based on their Titan performance. Each difficulty has a difference leaderboard, and the valie of the rewards increase with higher difficulties.

You Begin you advanture from the Campsite Area. You can edit your Team, and Items only in the Campsite Area. Items consumed in the battle are refilled when returning to Campsite.

Moving and attacking enemies consumes Monster Island Enemy. Attacking the same enemy has an increase Energy cost. Energy fully replenished after a cetain amout of time.

On Monster Island you can encounter two type of Monsters:

• Apex Monsters: They are powerful and have a large amount of Health. Damage done by them persist between attacks.
• Monster Hordes: Defeat a certain amount of monsters to completely defeat a Horde. Several attacks are need to defeat all monsters. After a Horde is defeated, another one will take its place after a certain period of time.

Damage received by your Heroes in the event persist between the attacks. 20% of the damage received by a hero is permanent damage, and can not be healed back during the event. I addition each time a Hero is revived their max health is further reducted by 50%.

There are many secret treasures to be found on Monster Island. Find Chests on the map to boost your Heroes and unlock rewards.

There are tow type of Chests:

• Treasure Chests contain loot that will be randomly distributed to all members of your Alliance at the end of the event.
• Relic Chests contain Relics that buff all your Alliance memebers’ Heroes.

Chests are unlocked with Chest Keys. All Apex Monsters and some Monster Hordes drop Chest Keys when defeated. The same keys are used to unlock both Chests. Collected Keys are shared with the whole Alliance and anyone can use them to unlock the chests. Remember when deciding which Chests to open !

Exploring the island wiely defeating enemies and having large roster of powerful Heroes is the key to succes on the Monster Island.

Event effect (New in second round of testing.

The battle takes place on the Monster Island !

Minion owner Heroes receive +100% more dmaage.

Heroes belonging the Monster Hunter family receive the following perks in Monster Island:

• +20% attack, +20% defens, +20% health.
• 50% less permanent damage take.
• Special Skill casts apply -3% defense to all enemies (Max. Stack: 10)
• When this character cast, their Special Skill, they apply -3% defense to all enemies (Max. Stack: 10)

Event difficulty

Alliances are assigned an event difficulty based on their Titan performance
Each difficulty has a different leaderboard
Value of rewards increase with higher difficulties

Note: Difficulty set to Hard for all players for the duration of this beta.

Monster Island Screen

The Monster Island can be accessed from the left pane of Quest screen with an icon similarly to the Mythic titan or the Tower events.

When you first log in to the Island, then game notifies you about which difficulty you are assigned by the Titan rarity, and afterwards you need to setup an exploration team and items.

Screen layout

The screen has the following layout:

• The map itself in the middle, which is divided to sectors.
• Top bar, when you can see you energies, keys, chest and score. You can read more bellow.
• On the top right you can see which sector are you seeing in the screen.
• Bellow that you can see the Event History. (Keys found, Horde is found, etc…), which you can enlarge if you click on it.
• You can directly access the alliance chat from the bottom of the screen, when you can see the last few messages similarly how you can see them in War or in Base view.
• On the left there is a menu bar.

Top bar

In the top bar you see:

• Your available Monster Island energy and the maximum too.
• You can see how many Chest keys do you have.

Chest Keys description

Number of Chest Keys your alliance has collected.
Use them to open the Trasure Chests and Relic Chests hidden in the Island. Apex Monsters and some Hordes in the Island will drop Chest Keys when defeated.

All keys you collect can be used by the whole Alliance, so remembering to communicate with your Alliance Members.

• Collected Tresure Chest count

Treasure Chest description

Treasure Chests collected by you and your Alliance members.

• Alliance Score. If you click on it, then you open up the leaderboard.

Menu bar

You can access these options from the Menu bar.

• Gearbox icon with these Sub menu items:
  • Toggle Chat: You turn on / off the alliance chat view.
  • Event Info: You can read the Event Information what I have quoted in the Event Info above.
  • Leaderboard: You can open up the Leaderboard from here.
  • Rewards: You can check the Rewards from here.
  • Alliance info: You can open the Alliance Information screen from here. (See bellow).
  • Hero Rooster: You can open up your exploration team and items, but you can Edit them unless you are the Campsite. (See Bellow.)
• Map icon: You can view the full Map, where you can see the explored area, and active monsters.
• Relic icon: You can see the collected and active relics.
• Maginifer Icon: You can switch to examine mode, where you can avoid moving accidenly, and the special map cells are highlighed, while all other will be turn dark.

Rewards will be given at the end of the event based on the number of chests collected.

Alliance Info

It can be opened up from the Menu bar or if you click on the Event History.
There are two tabs:

• Event History, where you can see the events occured during the event and in wihich sector such as:
  • Someone has discovered a Horde
  • Someone has defeated a Horde
  • Someone has discovered an Apex Monster
  • Someone has defeated an Apex Monster
  • Someone has discovered a Treasure chest
  • Someone has discovered a Relic chest
  • Someone has discovered a Chest Key
  • Someone get a new Relic for all allaince members.
  • Horde respawned
• Top Players: You can see the Alliance members scores, and if you click on a member you see their current Monster Island team, and remaining Monster Island Energy.

Map

The Map consist of sectors, which are marked from A to I and from 1 to 9.
Each sector consist of Map cells (about 1200 in total), which can be any of these:

• Campsite:
  You can change your team, and items here,
• Forest, Desert…
  You can visit it, but there is no action to do there.
• Sea
  You can not visit this cell.
• Reef
  You can visit it, and it connect lands
• Chest (Relic or Trasure)
  You can open it if you have keys
• Enemy Horde
  You can attack the Enemy Horde, which can drop Chest Keys if defeated.
  If defeated, then it changes to a counter, until the Horde is revived.
• Apex Monsters
  You can attack it, which will always drop Chest Keys if defeated.
• Danger
  The cells around a Monster Horde / Apex Monster are blocked until the enemy is defeated.

Monster Island Energy

You are given 500 Monster Island energy at the start.
Energy is fully replenished after 8 hours and 50 mimutes.
Your unused energies are lost.

#	Day	Replenish time
0	1	2022-08-26T06:30:00Z
1	1	2022-08-26T15:20:00Z
2	1	2022-08-27T00:10:00Z
3	2	2022-08-27T09:00:00Z
4	2	2022-08-27T17:50:00Z
5	2	2022-08-28T02:40:00Z

Event’s end: 2022-08-28T11:30:00Z

Monster Island Energy Consumption:

• Take 1 step on the discovered cell on the Map: 1 Monster Island Energy
• Discovering an unexplored cell: 25 Monster Island Energy
• Defeating Monster Horde need at least 4 attacks in total as there are 4 groups, which need to be defeated, and each attack has different energy consumption.
  • First attack: 10 Monster Island Energy
  • Second attack: 25 Monster Island Energy
  • Third attack: 40 Monster Island Energy
  • Forth attack: 55 Monster Island Energy
  • If needed. then every further attack is increasing with 15
    Monster Island Energy.
• Attacking the Apex Monster is like a titan fight, which consumes similar energy as attacking a Horde.
  • First attack: 10 Monster Island Energy
  • Second attack: 25 Monster Island Energy
  • Third attack: 40 Monster Island Energy
  • Forth attack: 55 Monster Island Energy
  • If needed. then every further attack is increasing with 15 Monster Island Energy.
• These attacking energies starting at 10 for each player. So if a player already attack a Horde or Apex Monster, then you can still attack it for 10.
• Once a Horde is defeated, then the energy needed to attack is will be 10 after the Horde revived.

Opening a Chest does not consumes Monster Island Energy.

Campsite

Your team is shows up at a special area of the map called Campsite.
You can only change your heroes, and fill up your items.
If you move away from the Campsite, then you can edit your team or fill up your items.
If you used some items, then when you arrive back to Campsite, then those are refilled.
You can take the usual amount of items with you.

Enemies

Apex Monsters

• These are looks like a Titan fight, which also take 1.5 minutes as usual titan fight.
• The Apex Monster has a Weak Point, and if you attack it with tiles, then it is stunned similarly to Titans.
• At Hard difficulty the Apex Monster all had 996K 1596K health. So their HP is like a 5</del< 7 star titan.
• There are various Apex Monsters with different elements and special skills.
• In the latest Beta now the monster element is visible before you enter the battle.
• In the latest Beta these monsters normal attack takes about 700 damage to a non event legendary hero without minion, and 1400 if there is a minion on the hero.

Here is the list of the Apex Monsters we have seen so far:

Name	Element	Special Skill
Carapace Kaiju	Holy	Blade Tail Swipe -Deals 100% damage to all enemies. - All enemies get -20% attack for 4 turns. - The caster get +40% defense against Specil Skills for 4 turns.
Megalocroco	Nature	Monstrous Bite - Deals 100% damage to all enemies. - All enemies get -10% mana generation for 4 turns. - The caster gets +19% mana generation for 4 turns.
Bat Dragon	Dark	Dragon Claws - Deals 100% damage to all enemies. - All enemies get -26% accuracy fo 4 turns. - The caster resists new negative mana effects for 4 turns.
Behemoth Frog	Ice	Venom Slash - Deals 100% damage to all enemies. - All enemies receive 584 Poision damage over 4 turns. - The caster get +26% defense for 4 turns.
Brimstone Brut	Fire	Vockfall Bash - Deals 100% damage to all enemies. - All enemies get -20% defense for 4 turns. - The caster is immune to new status ailments for 4 turns.

• Your alliance is getting 25% of damage in points. So in total 399K point can be received by defeating an Apex Monster.
• Defeating an Apex Monster always give you a Chest Key.

Monster Hordes

• You will defeat Monster Hordes if you defeat all 80 of them.
• You are facing against 20 of them in one attack.
• Each group has different Energy consumption see above.
• When you start the attacking them only 3 of the are shown in the middle, and more are appearing in each turn.
• In total you can only see and attack 8 of them on the screen.
• Each of the Monster have random element.
• If you defeat some of them, then more Monsters will appear on the screen until all non-defeated monster are visible.
• The battle has a 10 minute timeout. You need to finish killing the opponents during this time.
• You can see the remaining Monster count on the screen.
• Each monster have this stat on Hard difficulty:
  • Attack: 1131 2270
  • Defense: 603 756
  • Health: 1885 2365
• Once a Monster Horde is defeated it will revived in 13 hours and 15 minutes.
• If you can not finish a Horde group, then the killed monsters are stays as killed. So you need to kill less later.
• If you can defeat a whole Horde, then your alliance get 9780 points.
• Defeating an Monster Horde may give you a Chest Key.
• In the latest Beta these monsters normal attack takes about 350 damage to a non event hero legendary without minion, and 700 if there is a minion on the hero.

Permanent damage

• Damage received by Heroes in the event persists between attacks
• 20% of the damage received by a Hero is permanent and can’t be healed back during the event
• Overheal and Minions can prevent your heroes for receiving permanent damage.
• Overheal no longer can revert permanent damage reduction, but it can be prevent the applying of them.
• Minions can also prevent it, but you can +100% damage/
• Killed Enemies remain killed, and can not be used in the event any more until you revive them, but if you revive you heroes, then remaining maximum HP is reduced with 50%.

Chests and Keys

Treasure Chests

• Contain loot that will be randomly distributed to all Alliance members at the end of the event

Relic Chests

• Contain Relics that buff all your Alliance members’ Heroes
• Relic types after the balance update / new relics/
  • Stack (Max. 10): All Heroes get +5% attack each turn
  • +25% power to Special Skill attacks
  • +50% additional Troop damage against the weaker element
  • -20% reduction of all incoming damage
  • 20% chance to dodge Special Skills and normal attacks
  • +5% mana each turn to Heroes whose current HP is lower than 50% of their initial max health
  • +5% mana to all Heroes each time a Special Skill is cast
  • 5% health recovered for all Heroes each time a Special Skill is cast
  • All Heroes counterattack with 30% of received damage
  • +25% attack
  • +25% defense
  • +25% critical chance
  • +50% healing from Special Skills, +100% healing from Battle Items
  • +20% mana generation

Summary

• Old Relic types:
  • Defense: +5% Defense
  • Attack: +5% Attack
  • Critical Chance: +5% Critical chance ?
  • Heal over time: ??? healing every 5 turns ?
  • Healing: +5% Healing to all heroes ?
  • Health: +5% Health to all heroes ?
  • Mana over time: +5% every 5 turns
  • Mana generation: +5% Mana generation
  • Minion: Minion with 5% HP and 5% attack in every 5 turns ?

? = unconfirmed. They are just guesses.

Chest Keys

• Used to open Treasure and Relic Chests
• All Apex Monsters and some Monster Hordes drop Chest Keys when defeated
• Collected Keys are shared with the whole Alliance and anyone can use them to unlock the Chests

Rewards

It is different for each difficulty, and rank based.

Easy

Rank	Tokens	Emblems	Ascension Materials	Battle Items	Avatar
1	10x Legends Coin 10x Three Kingdom Coins 10x Tower Coins 3x Summon Token	5x Barbarian 5x Cleric	4x Advanturer’s Kit 4x Practice Sword 4x Rugged Clothes 1x Arcane Scripts	5x Bear Banner 5x Arrow Attack	Meadow, Maheegan
2 - 10	6x Legends Coin 6x Three Kingdom Coins 6x Tower Coins 3x Summon Token	3x Barbarian 3x Cleric	4x Advanturer’s Kit 4x Practice Sword 1x Arcane Scripts	5x Bear Banner 5x Arrow Attack	Meadow
11 - 50	6x Legends Coin 6x Three Kingdom Coins 6x Tower Coins 3x Summon Token	2x Barbarian 2x Cleric	4x Advanturer’s Kit 4x Practice Sword 1x Arcane Scripts	4x Bear Banner 4x Arrow Attack
51 - 100	6x Legends Coin 6x Three Kingdom Coins 6x Tower Coins 2x Summon Token	2x Barbarian 2x Cleric	4x Advanturer’s Kit 4x Practice Sword	4x Bear Banner 4x Arrow Attack
101 - 300	5x Legends Coin 5x Three Kingdom Coins 5x Tower Coins 2x Summon Token	1x Barbarian 1x Cleric	4x Advanturer’s Kit 4x Practice Sword	3x Bear Banner 3x Arrow Attack
301 - 500	4x Legends Coin 4x Three Kingdom Coins 4x Tower Coins 2x Summon Token	-	4x Advanturer’s Kit	3x Bear Banner 3x Arrow Attack
501 - 1000	4x Legends Coin 4x Three Kingdom Coins 4x Tower Coins 1x Summon Token	-	4x Advanturer’s Kit	2x Bear Banner 2x Arrow Attack
1001 - 1500	3x Legends Coin 3x Three Kingdom Coins 3x Tower Coins 1x Summon Token	-	-	2x Bear Banner 2x Arrow Attack
1501 - 2000	3x Legends Coin 3x Three Kingdom Coins 3x Tower Coins 1x Summon Token	-	-	1x Bear Banner 1x Arrow Attack
2001 - 2500	1x Summon Token	-	-	1x Bear Banner
2501 or lower	1x Summon Token	-	-	-

Medium

Rank	Tokens	Trainer	Emblems	Ascension Materials	Battle Items	Avatar
1	3x Fire	20x Legends Coin 20x Three Kingdom Coins 20x Tower Coins 4x Summon Token	15x Barbarian 15x Cleric	1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger 1x Leather Armor 1x Sharpening Stone	15x Bear Banner 15x Arrow Attack 5x Super Antidotes	Dawn, Fianna
2 - 10	2x Fire	12x Legends Coin 12x Three Kingdom Coins 12x Tower Coins 4x Summon Token	10x Barbarian 10x Cleric	1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger 1x Leather Armor 1x Sharpening Stone	15x Bear Banner 15x Arrow Attack 5x Super Antidotes	Dawn
11 - 50	2x Fire	12x Legends Coin 12x Three Kingdom Coins 12x Tower Coins 4x Summon Token	8x Barbarian 8x Cleric	1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger 1x Leather Armor 1x Sharpening Stone	13x Bear Banner 13x Arrow Attack 4x Super Antidotes
51 - 100	1x Fire	10x Legends Coin 10x Three Kingdom Coins 10x Tower Coins 4x Summon Token	8x Barbarian 8x Cleric	1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger 1x Leather Armor	13x Bear Banner 13x Arrow Attack 4x Super Antidotes
101- 200	1x Fire	10x Legends Coin 10x Three Kingdom Coins 10x Tower Coins 4x Summon Token	8x Barbarian 8x Cleric	1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger 1x Leather Armor	11x Bear Banner 11x Arrow Attack 3x Super Antidotes
201 - 300	1x Fire	10x Legends Coin 10x Three Kingdom Coins 10x Tower Coins 3x Summon Token	8x Barbarian 8x Cleric	1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger	11x Bear Banner 11x Arrow Attack 3x Super Antidotes
301 - 400	-	8x Legends Coin 8x Three Kingdom Coins 8x Tower Coins 3x Summon Token	8x Barbarian 8x Cleric	1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger	9x Bear Banner 9x Arrow Attack 2x Super Antidotes
401 - 500	-	8x Legends Coin 8x Three Kingdom Coins 8x Tower Coins 3x Summon Token	7x Barbarian 7x Cleric	1x Arcane Scripts	9x Bear Banner 9x Arrow Attack 2x Super Antidotes
501 - 600	-	8x Legends Coin 8x Three Kingdom Coins 8x Tower Coins 3x Summon Token	7x Barbarian 7x Cleric	1x Arcane Scripts	7x Bear Banner 7x Arrow Attack 1x Super Antidotes
601 - 700	-	6x Legends Coin 6x Three Kingdom Coins 6x Tower Coins 3x Summon Token	5x Barbarian 5x Cleric	1x Arcane Scripts	7x Bear Banner 7x Arrow Attack 1x Super Antidotes
701 or lower	-	6x Legends Coin 6x Three Kingdom Coins 6x Tower Coins 3x Summon Token	5x Barbarian 5x Cleric	1x Arcane Scripts	5x Bear Banner 5x Arrow Attack

Hard

Rank	Tokens	Trainer	Emblems	Ascension Materials	Battle Items	Avatar
1	1x Fire 3x Fire 3x Fire	100x Legends Coin 100x Three Kingdom Coins 100x Tower Coins 5x Summon Token 3x EHT 3x ETT	75x Barbarian 75x Cleric	1x Battle Manual 1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger 1x Leather Armor 1x Strong Rope 1x Chainmail Shirt	30x Bear Banner 25x Arrow Attack 10x Super Antidotes 5x Timestop	Adalinda, Cleaver
2 - 10	3x Fire 3x Fire	70x Legends Coin 70x Three Kingdom Coins 70x Tower Coins 5x Summon Token 2x EHT 2x ETT	50x Barbarian 50x Cleric	1x Battle Manual 1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger 1x Leather Armor 1x Strong Rope	30x Bear Banner 25x Arrow Attack 10x Super Antidotes 5x Timestop	Adalinda
11 - 50	2x Fire 3x Fire	70x Legends Coin 70x Three Kingdom Coins 70x Tower Coins 5x Summon Token 1x EHT 1x ETT	45x Barbarian 45x Cleric	1x Battle Manual 1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger 1x Leather Armor	26x Bear Banner 24x Arrow Attack 10x Super Antidotes 4x Timestop
51 - 100	2x Fire 3x Fire	50x Legends Coin 50x Three Kingdom Coins 50x Tower Coins 5x Summon Token	40x Barbarian 40x Cleric	1x Battle Manual 1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger 1x Leather Armor	26x Bear Banner 24x Arrow Attack 9x Super Antidotes 4x Timestop
101 - 150	2x Fire 3x Fire	40x Legends Coin 40x Three Kingdom Coins 40x Tower Coins 5x Summon Token	35x Barbarian 35x Cleric	1x Battle Manual 1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger 1x Leather Armor	23x Bear Banner 22x Arrow Attack 8x Super Antidotes 3x Timestop
151 - 200	1x Fire 3x Fire	35x Legends Coin 35x Three Kingdom Coins 35x Tower Coins 5x Summon Token	25x Barbarian 25x Cleric	1x Battle Manual 1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger	23x Bear Banner 22x Arrow Attack 8x Super Antidotes 3x Timestop
201 - 250	1x Fire 3x Fire	30x Legends Coin 30x Three Kingdom Coins 30x Tower Coins 4x Summon Token	25x Barbarian 25x Cleric	1x Battle Manual 1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger	21x Bear Banner 21x Arrow Attack 7x Super Antidotes 2x Timestop
251 - 300	1x Fire 3x Fire	25x Legends Coin 25x Three Kingdom Coins 25x Tower Coins 4x Summon Token	20x Barbarian 20x Cleric	1x Battle Manual 1x Arcane Scripts 1x Dagger	21x Bear Banner 21x Arrow Attack 7x Super Antidotes 2x Timestop
301 - 350	3x Fire	20x Legends Coin 20x Three Kingdom Coins 20x Tower Coins 4x Summon Token	20x Barbarian 20x Cleric	1x Battle Manual 1x Arcane Scripts	18x Bear Banner 18x Arrow Attack 6x Super Antidotes 1x Timestop
351 - 400	3x Fire	15x Legends Coin 15x Three Kingdom Coins 15x Tower Coins 4x Summon Token	15x Barbarian 15x Cleric	1x Battle Manual 1x Arcane Scripts	18x Bear Banner 18x Arrow Attack 6x Super Antidotes 1x Timestop
401 or lower	3x Fire	15x Legends Coin 15x Three Kingdom Coins 15x Tower Coins 4x Summon Token	15x Barbarian 15x Cleric	1x Battle Manual 1x Arcane Scripts	15x Bear Banner

Rewards for each collected Treasure Chest

You will get these for each collected Treasure Chest:

• 5 Three Kingdom Coins
• 5 Tower Coins
• 5 Legends Coins
• 2 emblems from random class
• 1 random 3 star ascension material
• 1-2 random 1-4 star crafing items and battle items

Schedule

• Signup phase: 1 day
• Exploration phase: 2 days + 5 hours
• Rewards: 1 day

Tips

• HP booster can revert permanent damage, but they can still prevent applying them at the first place.
• Reviver heores and items can revive heroes died in previous battles, but they reduce the remain max HP with 50%.
• If you can not score 39120 damage on an Apex Monster, then defeating a Monster Horde gives more points on Hard difficulty so maybe those players who can not score that much should focus on Hordes as they are easy to defeat.
• Energy costs increasing for each attack / player so it is adviced to not do more than 1-2 flags / Apex Monster or Monster Horde and let others to finish the job.
• Try to find Treasure chests as they increase the final rewards.

Monster Island in Puzzle Combat:

@BlackZed shared a video about how it looks like in Puzzle Combat, and this is similar to how it is in Beta.

Puzzle Combat: New Monster Island event!

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For a full list of items currently in Beta testing, as well as their related threads, please see:

• 🧪 The Beta Beat (V51) – Contest of Elements, Monster Island, new Season 5 heroes, November HoTM, Superior Talents -- Sharing the Big Picture on What's Going on in Beta

[Sorvina]

It sounds nice, I will wait for more details.
Please, could you add beta-beat tag?

I like the idea of permanent damage. We will have to be sure that our heroes are healed at the end of each fight and don’t let our heroes die.

[PlayForFun]

@Sorvina

Please, could you add beta-beat tag?

Sorry, I have accidently added the Beta-bugs instead earlier

[Cassiel]

If this is an event only, and no summon portal, I will be very very pleased with this. The event looks awesome, but if it is accompanied by a portal, than I know SG will focus on portal first, and event will be an afterthought. We are all so sick of new heroes.

[u2371]

I don’t understand. It is like map stage or attacking titan or map stage with titan in the last wave.

[PlayForFun]

@u2371 we will see.

At the moment we just see a fancy new icon on the left at the Quest tab, about Monster Island event approaching (like what we see before Tower of Mystic titan events).

So I will be able to add more information about it only tomorrow.

[BlackZed]

Finally, a new concept for EP. Played something like this before. Fun quotient high with active game mates.

Guessing the summon portal will be 400 gems.

[PlayForFun]

@BlackZed

Guessing the summon portal will be 400 gems.

We have received 0 new heroes to testing, but of course Staff can add a portal any time later

[BlindMuse]

The Monster Hunters heroes (partly) released today in the Covenant Portal will be tied to this event.

That’s why you’re not seeing new heroes in beta, they’ve already been released into the wild! But there will no doubt be a portal with the Monster Heroes when the Monster Island event takes place.

[Photon]

we have too many heroes being released way too fast. I would like more events, but not heroes. Not every event needs to have a set of heroes to go with it.

[BlackZed]

Having a portal is the main reason for the event these days. Not the other way around.

[PlayForFun]

Yes, the event brings 0 revenue, while the portal brings all of it.

Staff stated this is very early state for the event.
So it might comes only on V52 or later.

So there can be new heroes later. (I am personally expecting them for almost sure)

War of the Three Kingdoms has no new heroes in the first Beta either.

[maryij]

Can’t wait for it, it sound like a treasure hunt, a fun adventure for the whole team, let’s hope we don’t get dissapointed, for now i am excited!

[Lomnen]

I’m not playing with an alliance anymore, as it has become too demanding. I will have to skip this.

[Cassiel]

@PlayForFun

Yes, the event brings 0 revenue, while the portal brings all of it.

This isn’t exactly accurate. The events might not bring in money themselves, but fun events will help keep players. New portal after new portal may bring in money from the whales, but the rate they have been releasing new heroes, along with the power creep, while neglecting other QOL aspects, have pushed so many players to quit, Not saying we shouldn’t have new heroes ever, but we have seen the results of SG’s greed, and it is not sustainable. The recent buffs, and the Soul exchange were a couple recent additions that didn’t bring in money, but that the players really liked. Happy players keep playing. Players who keep playing, will likely spend at least some money, and some will spend a lot. I spent some money recently because I was happy with some of their non money making changes. If you focus on just making money and not the quality of the product (in this case the game), it will ultimately fail.

[BlackZed]

Agree. I play other games by developers that are not money obsessed.

Being ultimately under publicly listed TT umbrella, there are revenue and profit calls to meet.

The release of the 1st quarter consolidated numbers aren’t exciting. Drew some “unkind” comments.

My guess is the search for revenue, and more of it, is of primary importance now. Even more than before.

If they had made players happier much earlier, it may not be that desperate now.

[PlayForFun]

@Cassiel

The events might not bring in money themselves, but fun events will help keep players.

Yes, this is true, but it is hard to analyze that X players stayed in the game because of an event, while they can watch real time how many income is generated through offers.

[Cassiel]

Agreed. And them increasing the cost of summon portals, definitely will not help them. A few players will still spend a lot like they would have anyways (maybe SG makes more from them due to the increase) but many others will just not spend on the portal at all, on principle as well as due to the cost. I still barely get 4* mats, and because of that I don’t summon as much. If they weren’t so greedy, they would actually be making more money in the long run. I said all this like 3 years ago, and it has slowly been playing out just like I said.

[Cassiel]

I mean I agree with that, but we all see the number of players going down, and the public opinion as well as the rating of the game going down. We might not know the exact number of players that leave for a specific reason, but we know that the greed in general and focus on summon portals and barely any in the other aspects of the game, have caused many players to leave. They focused on making money immediately, and didn’t care about the future. They need to change the players opinion of the game and of them as a company. And more summon portals wont do it.

[sleepyhead]

I am curious about the exploration concept - is it like an open world/world map thing? or maybe there are fixed nodes that one can travel to

I also like that the event difficulty will be scaled based on Alliance Titan score, should help - won’t be fun if weaker/smaller alliances need to take on too-challenging enemies!