🧪 The Beta Beat (V59) – Kalevala hero and costumes, HotMs, Untold Tales, S1 secondary costume -- Sharing the Big Picture on What's Going on in Beta

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:thinking: 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.

Untold Tales

Kalevala costumes

Kalevala hero

Kalevala booster

2023 August Hotm

2023 September Hotm

S1 Secondary Costume

Carnival of Gods

Construct Heroes

Super Elemental Heroes

Grimforest costumes and new hero

Other Beta Content

(These were tested in earlier Beta versions. These might come back to testing or not…)

Earlier Beta contents

New Jungle Hunter heroes

Styx heroes

Bard Heroes

Season 1 Secondary Costumes

Tower of Magic

New Ninja heroes:

2023 July HoTM:

Season 4 costumes

Hotm costumes

Journey heroes

Season 1 costume

Construct heroes

Untold Tales

Beta Feature Tracking/ Forecasted Content

Staff have not yet released any further insight into the future V59 Beta testing content.

:left_speech_bubble: 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! :slight_smile:

:calendar: Beta Schedule

Beta Name Status Open Closed
Beta 1 Testing Ended WED 7.6 MON 12.6
Beta 2 Testing Started WED/THU 14/15.6 MON 19.6
Final Beta Testing Planned MON 19.6 FRI 23.6

:exclamation: Beta Updates

This section will be updated over time as there are updates to the V59 Beta Testing Cycle

June 7, 2023

  • Kalevale hero, costumes
  • Hotms
  • Untold tales heroes
  • Thorne costume

June 15, 2023

  • Carnival of Gods
  • Grimforest costumes and new hero
  • Construct Heroes
  • Masked God heroes
  • Super Elemental heroes
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First V59 Beta is here

  • New Kalevala hero: Ukkonen
  • New Kalevala costumes for Kullervo, Aino, Mielikki
  • Kalevala Booster
  • 2023 August and September HoTMs
  • New Untold Tales heroes (2 legendary, 1 rare).
  • New Secondary costume for Thorne.
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Wow of 20 characters

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Kalevala Seasonal costumes already? Yeah Wow is all that comes to mind

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Divas. Inspired by the Met Gala; can’t just wear what they wore last year. Someone might see them!

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Costumes for Kalevala heroes!?
Are they ignoring season 3, Hotm, and past event heroes who don’t have costume yet?

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Oh no.

As if I don’t have enough problems with him without the costume.

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2023 August Hotm topic is here:

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Spoiler Alert :exclamation:

no big change in any costume

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thanks as always for your hard work, PFF!

and wait what? like with others, I’m super confused… Kalevala costumes ALREADY? didn’t they just create kalevala last year??

this pace of hero/costume releases is insane lol

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2023 September HotM topic is here:

Thorne secondary costume topic;

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Thanks for all you do @PlayForFun :heart: :shark:

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Topic for the New Kalevala hero is here:

Kalevala costumes topic:

Untold Tales hero topic:

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Does the Kalevala Booster have less items than the previous seasonal event booster?

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Once data is collected, then you will see in a new Beta Beat topic for it.

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Shouldn’t September HotM be purple?

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Yes, it should be. I have already asked Staff about it.

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i have a feeling that the staff are doing a soft V59, since summer break is around the corner. and V60, is when the bigger stuff may happen.

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We have not tested Untold Tales - Chapter 2, and that will be needed in 28 days. Maybe that can be the reason for shorter V59 Beta.

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Sorry. Again I’m not sure I got it right. Clarify for me, please. That is, there is no mistake and Areax is really September HOTM and the color alternation will be broken this time? Right?

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