The Darkness and Dragons Battle Pass will become unpurchasable with the release of Patch 4 – Radiant Stars. The Radiant Stars Battle Pass will be available for purchase with the release of patch 4.

Receive instant rewards for purchasing, and unlock over 100 more goodies just by playing and leveling up your Battle Pass. All players start earning Radiant Stars Battle Pass experience as soon as the update is live. Battle Pass purchasers unlock premium rewards every level, along with the free track rewards.

The Radiant Stars Battle Pass costs 600 Crystals, and rewards you just for playing. You can now unlock up to 450 Crystals through the Battle Pass Free Track, and an additional 150 through the Premium Track, making the Battle Pass FREE once completed. Explore our expanded content for each Champion featured in this Battle Pass. Level up with newly-reworked challenges, daily quests, and unlock up to 32 Epic Champion skins! Each Champion now has a base skin and 7 additional variants able to be unlocked by progressing through the Battle Pass!

Dive in to this awesome Battle Pass with the Battle Passport, a one-time purchase that not only unlocks the new Battle Pass itself but the next 30 Battle Pass Levels so you can start playing with the Stellar Guardian Io, Stellar Sentinel Inara, and Stellar Sorceress Imani right away!

The Battle Passport costs 1500 Crystals, saving you over 1000 Crystals!

For the full Radiant Stars Update Notes please go to the Official Paladins News Blog.

It’s time for our next Update Show, Champions!

To get you prepared, we have a list of everything in store for you as we enter the month of July! You may have already seen a few teasers, and you can definitely expect more, let’s just say we can bet a shooting star on it.

Here’s some of the highlights for this coming week

More Teasers

• You love them and we have more! Check out our next one around 12 PM ET today and maybe tomorrow if you wish upon a star.

Update Show

• As you probably guessed, Wednesday is going to be the next Update Show where we’ll coverall the new content coming to Paladins! Make sure you tune in and follow along with us using the update notes https://www.paladins.com/news

Esports

• With the Paladins Summer Finals concluded, Phase 1 relegations are just over the horizon - giving prospective players a chance to join the Paladins Pro Circuit. Stay tuned to https://esports.paladins.com/ later this week for instructions on how to participate, and who knows, your squad could even earn a spot for Phase 2!

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• Tiberius
  
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Champions!

This Week in the Realm is back today and filling you in one what’s coming your way. We hope you have been enjoying yourselves in game playing through your Darkness & Dragons Battle Pass. We definitely have some good news for those who haven’t finished it yet also!

Here’s what’s going down:

Pride Content

• Looking for some in-game flare to rep your Pride? Check out our social today at noon to see what we’re bringing!

Play of the Week

• Don’t forget to post your clips to Twitter or Reddit when you’re doing some awesome work in-game. You may just end up featured on our channel! Who will make it this week?

Pride Month

• For the rest of the month there will be some bonus XP chances in Paladins to our players. Get the full schedule of when this is happening in our blog coming out Thursday.

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• Makoa
  
• Tyra
  
• Talus
  
• Mal’Damba

“Listen up my flag-waving, freedom-loving friends - the 4th of July is about a lot more than just chili dogs, apple pie, and a breathtaking display of patriotic pyrotechnics. It’s also about...wait, go back - the 4th of July is DEFINITELY about excessive expressions of explosive capability! Which is why you can join me - Freegle Drogoz - and my trusty ‘Merican Mustang Mount this holiday for a true red, white, and blue Paladins experience! Your enemies are definitely going to be seeing the rockets’ red glare when we face them together, and it’s a self-evident truth if there ever was one that the ‘Merican Mustang is the hottest ride since the first American muscle rolled off the assembly lines.” - Freegle Drogoz



This content is available starting on June 24th, 2020.
This content will ONLY be available in the World-Wide Chest for 400 Crystals.

Champion Specific:

Corvus

• Fixed an issue where Corvus would not be able to Mark Players who had disconnected from the match.
  
• Fixed an issue where Corvus would not be able to mark Imani after she used her Ultimate for the first time in a match.
  
• Fixed an issue where using Projection could allow Players to teleport out of the Spawn Room early on certain maps or get into “out-of-bounds” areas of several maps in certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed an issue where Corvus’ Ultimate ability could lose its VFX targeter under certain circumstances.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Advanced description of Projection incorrectly stated the range of the ability was 150 units instead of 120 units.
  
• Fixed an issue where enemy outlines would not change color when Corvus was in effective range for his Weapon.
  
• Fixed an issue where Pyre Lord Magnus’ Arbiter displays “muzzle flash” VFX through terrain for all Players.
  
• Fixed an issue where Pyre Lord Magnus’ Arbiter did not have reload VFX.
  
• Fixed an issue where Corvus’ model would be off-center when displayed on the Main Menu.
  
• Fixed an issue where the name of the “Unexpected Complications” card did not properly fit in the Card frame.

Khan

• Fixed an issue where Khan would be improperly rotated on the Speeder mounts.

Koga

• Fixed an issue where the Shore Patrol and Beach Bash Splash Blasters would play the weapon tail audio globally.

Raum

• Fixed an issue where the Corrosive Gatling and the Pyre-Forged Gatling weapons were missing textures.

Strix

• Fixed an issue where the Dragonsbane and Scalebane Strix skins did not play voice lines for “Awesome”, “Woohoo”, “You Rock”, and “I’m the Greatest” VGS commands.

Torvald

• Fixed an issue where the Vital Grasp card would not function.

General:

• Fixed an issue where players were able to avoid the Deserter Penalty in certain circumstances. (Fixed prior to client patch)
  
• Fixed an issue where emotes were not equipping properly for Players.
  
• Fixed an issue where the REKT Weapon custom sound effects were way too quiet for all REKT weapons.
  
• Updated the following Challenges:
  
• “Kill Viktor 50 times as Strix” has been changed to “Play 50 matches as Support”
  
• “Kill Furia 50 times as Khan” has been changed to “Play 50 matches as Frontline”
  
• Fixed an issue where the Street Pop Music Pack would not trigger at all the proper times in every game mode.
  
• Fixed an issue where attempting to equip skins that had associated sprays would open the Spray Wheel to equip the sprays.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Death Recap screen would not always update consistently or would display incomplete data.
  
• Fixed an issue where the “Created By” text field of the list of Custom Match Lobbies would be blank for all Players.
  
• Fixed several issues where lines of text would be truncated improperly in several locations in the UI in languages other than English.
  
• Fixed an issue where certain Default items in the Accessories tab of the Profile screen could incorrectly display with Tags and a Price
  
• Fixed an issue where certain Default items in the Accessories tab of the Profile screen improperly displayed with flashing tags and a price point.

June is finally upon us in Paladins and shows the year has really flown by quickly!

This week we have a lot in store for you with some new exciting info coming to the game as well as the chance to win some skins on social media coming back!

Here’s what we’re looking at:

Trivia Tuesdays

• Come test your Paladins knowledge by figuring out what Champion and Skin we are teasing for a chance to win 1 out of 3 codes for this! Think you got what it takes?

Darkness & Dragons Mid-Patch

• Yes a mid-patch with bug fixes is coming! The notes for this will be released on Thursday. So make sure you check social for the details!

Fan Art Friday

• This Fan Art Friday is going to be themed around your favorite flanks! So if you want to possibly be chosen for this make sure to post these on twitter using #PaladinsArt so we can find them!

We’ll see you in the Realm!

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• Strix
  
• Maeve
  
• Ying

With May almost over and June on the horizon, Paladins is just about halfway through this year! So far we’ve seen two new Champions, Tiberius and Corvus, but it makes you wonder what could be next, doesn’t it?

We can’t share what’s coming just yet, but we can let you know about this week:

2X Everything

• Monday (Today) is the final day of our extended weekend of 2X Battle Pass XP, Champion XP, Account XP, and Gold. Don’t miss out. This will end at 4AM ET on Tuesday 5/26/20.

Esports

• We’re ending Phase 1 of the Paladins Pro Circuit this week, so be sure to join us for the final set of broadcasts this Thursday through Saturday! Don’t forget to follow PaladinsPro for match reminders and highlights, and we’ll see you in the Realm!

Fan Art Friday

• One of our favorite posts we do sharing the talented artists returns. This time Darkness & Dragons themed! Make sure to #PaladinsArt on your posts so we may choose yours!

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• Strix
  
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Champions! The fireworks are going off in Paladins this coming weekend!

Even though Memorial Day is only celebrated in the United States, We wanted to internationally give all of our players a 4 day weekend of 2X everything!

• 2X Battle Pass XP
  
• 2X Gold
  
• 2X Champion XP
  
• 2X Account XP

Bonus XP will go live on Friday, May 22nd at 4AM ET and ends Tuesday, May 26th at 4AM ET.

This bonus is also a great time to get the Darkness & Dragons Battle Pass if you haven’t already. With XP like this you’ll get to the Dragonslayer Furia skin even more quickly!

We’ll see you in the Realm!

Hey there all you cool Tigrons and Ska’drins -

This week might not be as jam packed as some others but we know you’re going to want to stick around for it all, especially this extra long weekend! As we continue even more chest sales you might want to snag this week you’ll find there’s probably some content you enjoy! Here’s what you can expect:

Hi-Rez Art Show

• Haven’t checked this show out yet? Normally more Smite oriented, this past episode features some very exciting Paladins fan art and one of your 3 Paladins Community Managers! Look out for the full episode this week.

Esports

• Week 9 is kicking off in the Realm, our second to last! As Phase 1 comes to a close, our Pro Circuit teams are more hungry than ever to climb to the top. Make sure to join us on Thursday for our broadcast on Twitch and Mixer starting at 1:00pm ET to catch the latest matches. Plus, don’t forget to watch our community broadcasts on Friday & Saturday for more games!

Memorial Day Weekend

• Even if you aren’t in the United States, you can still benefit from it being a holiday weekend there! There will be a weekend in-game bonus from Friday until Monday due to this! Check out the blog coming Thursday for more details.

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• Fernando
  
• Sha Lin
  
• Moji
  
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Yet again we start another week in Paladins! We hope all of our Champions are at home staying safe. The team has some goodies in store for you to get you through until the weekend!

Here’s what you can expect:

Mixer Mondays

• Come see one of our Mixer streamers play some Paladins and maybe jump in some games with them also!

Evil Mojo Podcast

• Watch our Community team and other developers chat about Corvus in Episode one of this brand new show.

Esports

• We’re closing in on the final few weeks of Phase 1 for the Paladins Pro Circuit, and tensions are rising in the Realm! Be sure to join us on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday to catch our weekly scheduled Pro Circuit broadcasts. Plus, don’t forget to catch up on the latest news about our previously scheduled Summer LAN becoming an online event.

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With our newest Champion Corvus in the Realm, the team at Evil Mojo wanted to share a behind the scenes look at what went into our latest visual overhaul for Magistrate’s Archives map!

You may recall back after Hi-Rez Expo 2019, our recap blog showed some of our map updates coming in 2020. And if you were fortunate enough to attend the Art of Paladins panel or watch the vod for it, you would have seen some early work-in-progress shots of Magistrate’s Archives.

Today, we’re going to be diving into some developer insights from our Environment Artists while walking you through work-in-progress shots leading to the final product you'll see playing our Darkness & Dragons Update!



When making the updates to this map, Alex M. and Rick R. took ownership of making this map really stand out. Alex did the Kharne and Valera statues, the giant Series orb in the middle, while Rick worked on much of the exterior and interior architecture as well as additional propping. We also had Sidney on the team who did an over-the-top job with a lighting pass.

"With this map update we really wanted to explore the idea of what the Magistrate aesthetic, and more specifically Corvus’ aesthetic, looks like with regards to the environment. Starting with Stone Keep and propagated throughout the game, the castle art set has never really felt like it lined up with the Magistrate’s sensibilities. The most obvious disconnect is the cool, blue green palette of the castle set which contrasts with the established palette for the Magistrate, mostly reds, golds and dark browns/grays. So we started from the idea that the stonework should shift darker and more warmly tinted, we added some metal accents to help catch the light, and we added Magistrate themed stained glass windows, to really drive the allegiance of this building home.

For the statues on either end we wanted to try and remind players that the Magistrate had roots in the original Paladins, that once both Kharne and Valera were equally respected and treated as heroes, worthy of memorial. Over time, as Kharne led the Magistrate to glory and the new Paladins of the Resistance rose up, Valera’s statue was neglected and fell into disrepair while Kharne’s remains well cared for to this day.

Once we settled on the idea of this place becoming Corvus’ personal study that’s when we began to explore the purple accents and abyss paraphernalia. The orb in the center of the map is obviously inspired by Seris’ weapon, though it’s large size probably makes it a bit unstable as the stone columns nearby have begun to play host to the souls of the abyss, warping and twisting as the souls try to pull free. We’ve scattered some pages of lost or forbidden manuscripts around some of the tables in the spawn rooms, if you look closely you can see renderings of things you may recognize from Rise of Furia or the Abyss map.

Overall we wanted to try and inject a lot of current and past lore into an older well-loved map and brighten it up to our current quality standards. We hope you have fun delving into the new and improved Magistrate’s Archives!"

- Alex M., Environment Artist

"Building the architecture for Magistrate’s Archives, I wanted to convey a sinister tone. The original version had used a more neutral style taken from the Stone Keep map. With the help of Jeff on concepts, we were to transform Magistrate’s Archives into something that looked like it had been corrupted by the forces of the Abyss. Alex did the texture work and gave the buildings darker, warmer tones with updated trims and stone work. I took the building models and added more aggressive elements throughout, such as spikes and finials through the archways and roof lines. For the props, I built them with the same concepts in mind so they fit into the updated environment. I created the banners and rugs to have the Magistrate’s logo and accompanying iconography.

The updated lighting conveys a more foreboding tone with more reds and oranges, with splashes of purple throughout around the Abyssal elements in the map. For the lighting outside I took the sunny blue-sky afternoon and made it as if a sunset could be a bit sinister with an oddly orange sky. Sidney, our lighting artist, was able to take what I had started and push the lighting and the mood further.

In all, our goal was to make this map tie into our latest Champion, Corvus and make the Magistrate’s Archives his own. We are excited to have this map updated and hope you all enjoy the new Magistrate’s Archives!"

- Rick R., Senior Environment Artist.

When you’re playing through the map, you’ll now begin to notice little bits the team have left around such as the abyss pages left on the table in the image below - helping make Corvus’ home base feel more alive.



Additionally you’ll see the creation of the statues of Valera and Karne on either side. The development of these step-by-step looked like the following:


Early mock up of statue ideas.


Valera conceptual look for Statue.


Final render of Valera from Alex M. on Art Station

Additionally there was an overall sense of polish you may notice with the textures and quality, so we prepared some before and after shots for you all to get a sense of the work that went into these.







We hope you have been enjoying the map upgrades coming out this year so far! Our environment art team has been working hard to polish these maps to better the quality over time. The next on their list is Frozen Guard, and the team can’t wait to show you that when it is complete!