🧪 The Beta Beat (V68) - Gargoyles, Construct Heroes, Super elemental heroes -- 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.

Gargoyle heroes

Construct heroes

Super Elemental hero

Legends of Kalevala

Slime heroes

Plain Hunter

Opera

Secret heroes:

Clash of knight heroes:

Solstice Summon related Beta beat topic:

Wilderness Summon Portal

2024 September HotM:

Ascension summon update

VIP Combinations:

Other Beta Content

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

Earlier Beta contents

Dragonspire

Clash of Knight heroes

Construct Heroes

Underwild Costumes

Toon Costume

Hero academy update

New Opera heroes

New Astral Elf heroes

New Super Elemental heroes

Treasure Quest

Owl Tower heroes

Challenge Event Costumes

Garrison Guard heroes

Secret Heroes + Secret Summon + Shadow heroes

Knights of Avalon hero

Master Emblems, Master Talent, Superior Master Talent, Master Class Trial

Beach Party:

Plain hunter heroes topic

Monster Island Summon:

Return to Sanctuary event

Gargoyle heroes

New hero of the months

Kingdom costumes:

Beta Feature Tracking/ Forecasted Content

Staff have not yet released any further insight into the future V68 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 8.5 MON 13.5
Beta 2 Testing Ended WED 22.5 MON 27.5
Beta 3 Testing Planned WED 29.5/ THU 30.5 MON 3.6
Final Beta Testing Planned MON 3.6/ TUE 4.6 FRI 7.6

:exclamation: Beta Updates

This section will be updated over time as there are updates to the V68 Beta Testing Cycle

May 8, 2024

  • Gargoyles
  • Construct heroes
  • Super Elemental hero

May 22, 2024

  • New Kalevala hero + costumes
  • Updated Kalevala Quest (boss changes)
  • New Slime hero
  • New Plain Hunter heroes
  • New Opera heroes
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Above the items listed in the OP the following has arrived to Beta:

Ad Skip

  • Introducing the ability to skip watching ads if players have Premium Timesaver Vip.
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Without watching ads,by skipping, can we get rewarda of MV and summon gate?

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Vander (new dark elemental hero) is Roz with slightly less damage but silences the same enemies that are damaged.

Skarn (blue construct) does stacks to the enemy at very fast speed. Looks very good.

Vonriene (epic red gargoyle) is Maheegan + a little mana steal from the fiends

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Glad there is something besides new heroes :wink: :stuck_out_tongue: thanks for all your hard work

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Staff has just enabled this for us to test.

Once you have purchased this Premium Timesaver Vip, then when you click on Watch the advertisment, then you instanly get the rewards instead of wathcing a video.

So Watching an advertisment is no longer possible.

Mystic Vision and Mystic Summon are both affected by this feature.

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Seems really weird.
So they shouldn’t get paid their cut for the people who don’t get to view the ad !
Are they doing something which will reduce their income ? (Obviously not.)
Will they claim their commission on “triggered” ads not “watched” ads ?
Sounds dodgy to me.

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I see two possibilities.
1 premium wasn’t adding enough value so it wasn’t selling so they’re making a better product at the premium price point
2 too many ads and ad issues may either irritate whales or take up too much of their time that could be spent playing

But it does look like it’s a gift to those players. Unless price changes.

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I vote for this possibility :grin:

Guess their numbers could show the gain in revenue from extra sales of the pass could outweigh the losses from advert revenue.

(They could, of course, raise the ad count from 3 to 4 for the rest of us to balance the loss… :rofl: )

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Here is the first topic for the new Super elemental hero:

Construct heroes topic:

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If the price is unchanged, I will definitely get the premium time saver now. Already hesitated when it first came out but now it gives a real time saving QoL feature. The x2 speed mode is not that useful to me because when I auto play things, it means I’m usually doing something else so having to click again two time faster would be just annoying.

I guess the sales of the premium time saver didn’t hit the target and even without the ads revenues from this feature, they probably expect to get more income anyway. An ad view is usually paid back around .5 or 1 cent US$/€ (the advertising entity obviously pays more as the advertisement provider takes some margin on that).

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I saw that one before in another game. The game was losing too many players to other similar games which players found through ads, so they just cut ads entirely and gave the previous ad rewards for free as a login bonus. In E&P fashion, this only applies to vip.

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Which probably explains why the vast majority of my ads these days are Temu. :rofl:

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Do you then have to wait the 30 or so seconds for the Vision to refresh before clicking to skip the next ? Or is that immediate too ?

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When I tested that in beta, I don’t recall having to wait for the game to load another ads. I will check again in 2 hours. You might have to wait initially when you open the game and it has to load an ad but then, since it wasn’t watched, it’s still available so you can proceed immediately and skip it again. Will check and report the behavior in details.

EDIT: I actually reimported my account to beta so didn’t have to wait for MV to cool down. I enabled the premium time saver. I forced closed the app. I opened it again. There was no ad loading, I could proceed immediately to the purple MV, and then no loading either, I could proceed immediately with the next one :+1:

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in my case it was immediate to click on next and get add rewards without watching it or waiting to be loaded again

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I can confirm what Eliotty said.
So you can collect MV rewards without any wait.

Other topic.

Here is the topic for the 3 new Gargoyle hero:

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This week’s Beta build has just been cancelled.
The next build will arrive next week only.

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Any reason given for this sudden and late cancellation ?

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Nope, they just said that there is no Beta build this week.
So we will have 1 build less for V68 as it can be seen in the update Beta Schedule in the OP.

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