🧪 The Beta Beat (V55) – New S5 Hero, Mighty Pets Heroes, Jungle Hunters, Journey heroes, Season of Love, New S1 secondary costumes, Match HotM -- Sharing the Big Picture on What's Going on in Beta

[PlayForFun]

V55 Beta 1 Feedback summary is just published.

@Petri

Version 55 Beta 1 - General Feedback & Discussion

Players were disappointed with the lack of 3-star and 4-star Heroes. They really liked the special animations for the new Heroes. Players expressed that they were bored with repetitive gameplay.

Version 55 Beta 1 - Mighty Pets Event Balance Changes Feedback

The player said the previous version of the event was great and well-liked by the player base. They questioned making changes to the event and recommended focusing on other events.

Version 55 Beta 1 - Jungle Hunter Passive Skill Feedback

Players saw no value in the passive and recommended scrapping it altogether. Players doubted the necessity of the passive as the Heroes are strong and recommended adjusting other Heroes who need reworking.

Version 55 Beta 1 - New Challenge Event Hero Feedback: Cinnamon

Players said the Hero was very good and balanced but noted the imbalance amongst Heroes by using Klaern as an example. A request was made to make adjustments to Klaern, etc. to have greater balance. Players expressed frustration with another elemental defense down Hero in Ice noting the release of Costume Perseus recently. A suggestion was made to replace the EDD skill with a reflect skill.

Version 55 Beta 1 - New Challenge Event Hero Feedback: Snowball

Players said he was very overpowered. Players expressed their frustration with fast one-hit, auto-win Heroes. They also mentioned frustration with Fiend Heroes and Heroes that block healing. They would like more counters for Fiends.

Recommendations:

• Reduce speed to very slow or reduce his numbers
• Reduce stating damage to 250% or reduce damage bonus to +30%
• Remove the Fiends and reduce his speed to average
• Place a timer on Fiends similar to Howenwerf
• Gradually increase the fiend damage as more are added for example, 15% damage increase for 1 fiend; 30% damage increase for 2 Fiends, etc.

Version 55 Beta 1 - New Challenge Event Hero Feedback: Barkley

Players said he was very weak. A suggestion was made to change his speed to very fast, reduce the direct damage to 100% and increase the damage dealt by Fiend explosion to 500. It was noted that his random hits was only effective if there were many enemies and with one opponent he only dealt 150% damage. It was recommended that his direct damage be increased to 300% and have the random hits occur in spite of the number of enemies remaining.

Version 55 Beta 1 - New Challenge Event Hero Feedback: Luna

Most players said she was strong but not overpowered. Some players said she needed to be reduced to average speed as she dealt a lot of damage and was a strong mana controller. It was noted that there needed to be more mana reduction counters as at present Seshat was one of the only Heroes who could effectively counter the Hero. They said the Hero was very strong on defense as a tank. A couple of players noted that the animation needed to be sped up, especially the Moon Beams.

Version 55 Beta 1 - New Jungle Hunter Hero Feedback: Bonecrusher

Most players thought the Hero was ok. A couple of players said he was too powerful. Players said there were too many red snipers being released.

Version 55 Beta 1 - New Jungle Hunter Hero Feedback: Mistweaver

Players would like the resist healing effect reduced to 2 turns. It was said that this shouldn’t be a skill for a fast Hero. An alternative suggestion was given to have healing decreased by -50% instead of resisting healing. It was noted that healing is one of the only effective ways to counter overpowered Heroes. Players noted a concern with effects that resist and damage when healing is attempted and their overall impact on the game.

[Gwniver]

So much work from the unpaid players going into the beta.

I apologize if I have missed it, but is there somewhere, where Beta feedback from the game developers are posted as well? Do they get back to the beta testers with a summary similar to the one you make for them?

Seeing all that constructive feedback without a response from the developers makes it feel like talking to a wall. I hope that is not the case.

[sleepyhead]

@Petri

Version 55 Beta 1 - General Feedback & Discussion

Players were disappointed with the lack of 3-star and 4-star Heroes. They really liked the special animations for the new Heroes. Players expressed that they were bored with repetitive gameplay.

wholeheartedly agree. the odds of getting a 5* are so low, at least throw some more 4s that more of the player base can get especially as 4 tend to be viable in most tiers/events geared toward 5*.

[PlayForFun]

Beta build 3 is now here:

• New War of The 3 Kingdoms War Rule: Rising Fury

• New Journey Heroes:

  • Legendary
    • Xiong Shanjun
    • Queen Guowang
  • Epic
    • Heifeng Guai
  • Rare
    • General Yin

• New Season I Legendary Costumes:

  • Lianna
  • Marjana
  • Kadilen
  • Azlar

• Hero of the Month for March

  • Gilligan

• Museum fixes and improvements

  • Museum now includes the opening stories of each Season
  • Hero card view made consistent

• Pre-release balance changes for Cupido

[IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES]

Improvements

• Auto-select button in Level Up view now selects lower-rarity Heroes first (and thus no longer “wastes” Food)
• Edited for clarity the following description texts:
  • Goseck’s Special Skill
  • Guardian Hippo’s Special Skill
  • Horus’s Special Skill
  • Special Skills that summon Minions or Fiends with a status effect
  • Superior Jinx
• Modified the art for non-boss enemies in Mighty Pets stages to prevent confusion

Fixes

• Addressed the following visual issues:
  • Hero Power values sometimes being displayed as zero when inspecting an Alliance member’s team in Monster Island
• “Close to level up!” indicator text no longer missing in certain languages
• Costume Guardian Gazelle’s status effect icon now has the right color again
• Cristobal’s Special Skill (at x1 Mana Charge) now properly deals extra damage even when the enemy’s HP is below 50% by a value smaller than 1
• Fixed a corner case bug with the Level Up view auto-select button
• Furdinand’s reflect status ailments buff now properly reflects ailments cast by Bera’s Minions to their respective owners (instead of reflecting them all to Bera)
• Shifting Mindless Attack no longer fails to activate when it has already shifted once and its remaining duration is 1 turn
• Shuffling enemies in a Horde battle no longer causes extra Monsters to appear
• Stage Property tutorial dialog in Tower Events no longer can block players from proceeding
• Switching Costumes at the Monster Island Campsite now works properly

[Yarthan]

And still no fix for this poor Erebus ?

[Quiet]

@PlayForFun

• New War of The 3 Kingdoms War Rule: Rising Fury

Finally some updates for W3K. Now being a regular raid it was so boring. This atleast gives something unique to it.

[PlayForFun]

I have asked an update about it from Petri.
I will let you know when he answers back.

[BlackZed]

@PlayForFun

Shifting Mindless Attack no longer fails to activate when it has already shifted once and its remaining duration is 1 turn

So there really was a bug! Hope the fix works.

[Sabrar]

@PlayForFun

Cristobal’s Special Skill (at x1 Mana Charge) now properly deals extra damage even when the enemy’s HP is below 50% by a value smaller than 1

Only had to report this twice and document it to make them fix it. Wonder what their QA team is doing…

[Elioty33]

Hey, at least they listened to you and it got fixed in the end

[BlackZed]

Yup. Response is more prompt these days.
Ursena needed more than 1 year to get fixed.

[PlayForFun]

New HoTm topic is here:

• 🧪 Early information on the March 2023 HOTM -- Gilligan [Part of The Beta Beat V55]

New Journey Heroes’ topic:

• 🧪 Early Information on Round 2 of Journey Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v55]

Season 1 Secondary Costumes:

• 🧪 Early Information on Round 4 of Secondary Season 1 Hero Costumes [Part of The Beta Beat v55]

Preliminary information on new War of the Three Kingdoms War Rule : Rising Fury

• Heroes in your attack team receive a stats bonus of +5% attack and +5% defense
• Each attack you conduct in this War adds an additional +5% attack and +5% defense

I will create a topic for it once the W3K is started in Beta.

[nonareeves]

@PlayForFun

Furdinand’s reflect status ailments buff now properly reflects ailments cast by Bera’s Minions to their respective owners (instead of reflecting them all to Bera)

Thank you for your dedication.
Btw, regarding Furdinand’s ailments reflect, only “Bera’s minion” is listed.
This bug has also been observed in Waterpipe’s minion and Sun Quan’s minion.
The fix for this bug includes ailments from all minions right?

[PlayForFun]

Balance updates for the March Hotm:

• 🧪 Early information on the March 2023 HOTM -- Gilligan [Part of The Beta Beat V55] - #75

[LatiyFundiy]

@PlayForFun , can you please post a bug on Beta about Cupido’s Russian translation.

Current: “Кьюпидо”
Should be: “Купидон”

Not sure if devs will see my post in this topic.
Thank you!

[PlayForFun]

Ok, I have created a Beta bug for this.

[PlayForFun]

Version 55 Beta testing is ended.

This version will be released next week.

[Frans3000]

How about other hero from valentine event, looks there are no beta for them