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What’s this all about?
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Often players on the Forum wonder about what’s going on in Beta.
If you’re a regular reader of the Forum, then you’ll find that there’s actually abundant conversation about what’s going on in Beta at any given time.
And that’s actually allowed!
What’s restricted is images and videos — but discussion is ok:
The challenge is that information is often scattered around the Forum. I’ve created The Beta Beat to help centralize it for those who are interested.
The Beta Beat is a series of threads which are evolving as I get feedback on what’s helpful to players.
My main focus is giving some high-level guidance of what’s going on in current testing, so players outside of Beta can be better informed.
Like Beta itself, this thread is experimental and will evolve based on your feedback.
Information from Beta is frankly often mostly useless, so 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 heroes and 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 information from Beta — it’s not unheard of for entire portions of hero skills to be removed or reworked, or for radical changes to hero stats to be made, or for large chunks of new functionality to be completely changed.
Often Incomplete Information Circulates
Many of us have seen screenshots and other information shared on LINE, Discord, Facebook, and other groups — often without context or explanation.
These can lead to confusion and misunderstanding.
Often, early Beta information — the least reliable or useful — is circulated…and then updated information is missed.
I’m hoping centralizing some high-level information on the Forum may help to reduce this as well.
What’s Going on in Beta Right Now
IMPORTANT: I wouldn’t get too attached to any information from Beta — it’s not unheard of for entire portions of heroes or functionality to be removed, reworked, or radically changed beyond recognition.
Tower of Magic + Heroes
New event staff have stated that will be “similar” to the Ninja tower in gameplay and mechanics. It has NOT been added to beta yet for testing, only the heroes.
For more information see:
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Magic Heroes: 🧪 Early Information on New Tower of Magic Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v39, v41]
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Magic Tower Event: 🧪 Early Information on New Tower of Magic Event [Part of The Beta Beat v41]
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Tower Summon Portal: 🧪 Early Information on Tower Summon Portal [Part of The Beta Beat V41]
New Season 4 Heroes:
Haloween Hero Costumes
2021 October HoTM: Russell
Other Beta Content
(These were tested in earlier Beta versions. These might come back to testing or not…)
Upcoming HotMs
- September 2021: 🧪 Early information on the September 2021 HOTM -- Alexandrine
Additional Season 4 Heroes
As was the case with Season 3, it appears that S4 legendary heroes are being “trickled” into the summon pool. V37 sees the testing of some additional S4 5* heroes.
🧪 Early Information on ROUND 2 of Season 4 Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v37]
Beta Feature Tracking/ Forecasted Content
Staff have not yet released any insight into the future V41 Beta testing content.
Feedback?
I’d love to hear thoughts on whether this information and format is useful, and how you’d like to see information presented in the future. Any thoughts or ideas?
Please try to limit discussion in this thread mostly to the information sharing process and feedback on the thread, so we don’t end up with a jumbled discussion of a bunch of different heroes — use the threads linked above for each individual hero to discuss more.
Thanks!
Beta Updates
This section will be updated over time as there are updates to the V40 Beta Testing Cycle
August 25, 2021
New Haloween costumes added: Francine, Vanda, Victor, Frank
2021 October HotM is added: Russell
New Season 4 Heroes are added: Octros, Lugaidh, Passepartout
Balance changes to Tower of Magic
Several bug fixes.
August 11, 2021
Beta is opened for testing for the new Tower of Magic event.
There are some balance changes for heroes since version 39.