🧪 The Beta Beat (V71) - Woodland Faun and Garrison heroes, November Hotm -- 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 0interested.

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.

Fox heroes

Garrison Guard heroes

2024 November Hotm

  • Topic will be added.

Other Beta Content

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

Earlier Beta contents

Toon Costume

Hero academy update

New Astral Elf heroes

Treasure Quest

Owl Tower heroes

Challenge Event Costumes

Secret Heroes + Secret Summon + Shadow heroes

Knights of Avalon hero

Gargoyle heroes

Opera

2024 October HotM:

Guarison Guard heroes

Ninja heroes

Slime heroes

Plain Hunter heroes

Woodland Faun heroes

Shadow Quest

Fox heroes

Dragonspire

I will mark the topics which have change in V70 compared to V69

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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 Started WED 11.9
Beta 2 Testing Planned WED 18.9/ THU 19.9 MON 23.9
Beta 3 Testing Planned WED 25.9/ THU 26.9 MON 30.9
Beta 4 Testing Planned WED 2.10/ THU 3.10 MON 7.10
Final Beta Testing Planned TUE 8.10 FRI 11.10

:exclamation: Beta Updates

This section will be updated over time as there are updates to the V71 Beta Testing Cycle

September 11, 2024

  • Fox heroes
  • Garrison Guard heroes
  • 2024 November Hotm.
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Here is the topic for the new Fox heroes:

New Garrison Guard heroes:

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Meanwhile all I wonder is when will the guardian family (Kong) get a passive? :stuck_out_tongue:

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And finally the topic is here for the new Hotm:

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Now that the Dragonspire stuff is going to be out, I guess they could do quite a lot else for V71.

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They need patches at this point, for under-the-hood stuff like scheduling. The heros and whatnot are secondary to that. They wont be able to patch problems with dragons until they see what damage we can do.

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The second beta is here.

  • 1 New Garrison Guard hero
  • 3 New Plains Hunter heroes
  • 3 New Slime heroes
  • 3 New Alliance War modes:
    • Bloody War: Healing, revival, and similar effects have no effect
    • Clover Field: When casting any Special Skill, there is a chance the Hero will get “Lucky!” and cast twice
    • Ancient Terror: when activated, inflicts Insanity on all Heroes

Some other improvement:

  • War:

    • Tiebreaker is now available in war battles! After a certain number of turns, heroes receive a damage bonus. The bonus is increased by 10% per turn.

  • Summon view improvement:

    • More info now available in the summon preview.
    • View key hero attributes without needing to open the hero card
    • Includes now: hero stats, special info, family info, class info and passives all by tapping the icons

  • Auto-select improvement:

    • The auto-select feature for hero leveling can now be toggled to automatically choose 1* and 2* heroes of either the matching element (the existing behavior) or 1* and 2* heroes of all elements (new option). This choice persists until it is changed.
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7 posts were merged into an existing topic: :test_tube: Early Information on Alliance War Improvment and new War Rules [Part of The Beta Beat v71]

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Sorry for the delay,

I am starting to create the new Beta beat topics.

Here is the first one for Garrison Guard hero:

Plain Hunter heroes:

Slime heroes:

War imrpovement + new rules:

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Ooh better chance at killing those toon Viv’s in war!

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The second Beta is here.

Some adjustments to Woodland Faun heroes.

  • This sentence is adjusted to even released heroes:
  • Example: Saskia
    • OLD: “This effect lasts until the ally succesfully dodges 1 time.”
    • NEW: “This effect cannot be reallocated, and it lasts until the ally succesfully dodges 1 time.”.
    • So these Enchanced Efffects are no longer reallocable.

New Raid related event: Raid Brawl.

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Topic for Raid Brawl:

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What does this mean? Someone please explain it to me, thanks

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when I had Peregrine activated with Enhanced dodge, C. Diao Chan would steal the enhanced dodge for herself. Think this change makes so the ability is more useful now, as it can’t be stolen! finally I can put him on Def!

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So it will be a buff for the woodland faun family
But when Peregrine uses his special skill for the 2nd time, does he get the 70% attack bonus?

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Does it mean, cannot be stolen and/or be dispelled ?

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can be dispelled as normal, but cannot be reallocated
and is mentioned that can’t be even copied

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Beta Schedule Update

Staff has just announced that they will add an extra Beta Build.
So we will NOT have the Final Beta this week, but it will arrive only next week after current week’s build.
Here is the schedule for the remaining Beta builds for V71:

Beta Name Status Open Closed
Beta 4 Testing Planned WED 2.10/ THU 3.10 MON 7.10
Final Beta Testing Planned TUE 8.10 FRI 11.10
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Oh so v71 is actually expected to be released from the 14th then and forced on the 21st. Gotta wait longer to get to update the last part of the month in my predictions.

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Is it not supposed to be a preview of beta 4 today?