Oct 27, 2017

Weekly: The Pre-Launch Patch and Updates

Battlerite - sls_Liz

It’s time for the Community Weekly!

Pre-Launch Patch

Our Pre-Launch Patch went live on Tuesday, with a whole host of changes - a new UI, a new game mode, and a new Battlerite system. Read about all of the changes here. Additionally we deployed a hotfix and an additional patch containing balance changes and bug fixes.

Battlerite Concept Art Contest Ends tonight!

Today is the last day to send in your art, you have until Midnight CEST. You must send your entry in to contest[at]battlerite[dot]com along with your in-game name and the name of your outfit. All other outfits will not be considered. The winning entry will be made into an in-game outfit and free for all players. Read more about it here.

Halloween Event

Our Halloween Event is ending soon! Make sure you play your ten games and earn your final Creepy Chest for the week!

Battlecrank has an article on the good and the bad of the Pre-Launch Patch, and wants you to take part in the discussion as well! Join the conversation and read the article here. Insightful comments will earn you a chance at winning a Legendary or Champion Chest at the end of the month!

Battlemanly
Published weekly, BattleManly puts up videos highlighting different cool or humorous plays that have happened in Battlerite each week. This one is another “Best of Battlerite,” check it out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaYe2ZLADrc
Fanart
I think we have time for a little art this week, why not?

Koncwy is back with their lovely pixel art again, this time featuring images of all the Battlerite Lite Champions.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1168934423

Nurff went the extra mile, carving a pumpkin to look like Ashka’s mask! It looks amazing!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=786223962

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Tournaments

You can keep an eye on http://battleritewiki.com/ for a schedule of some of the upcoming tournaments.

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We're proud to partner with Battlefy to bring you the Battlefy Community Series. Participate in cash tournaments organized by members of the community and for the community. Check out all available tournaments here.

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Region: North America

Pro Rivalry League has their weekly 3v3 tournaments up and running still, with the next tournament on Sunday, October 29th, at 4:30 PM EDT.

Fight or your share of $300; sign up and find more information here.

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Region: Europe

ESL Play will be hosting the ESL 2v2 Open is held on Saturday, October 28th at 18:00 CEST. The first placing team will win Emperor Scorpions. You can find more information here.

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Region(s): French-speaking

Introducing BattleFrance Brawl, a weekly 2v2 tournament held every Friday at 9PM CEST! Participate and you can win in-game prizes and a fancy black color for your name in the BattleFrance Discord channel.

Find out more information and register here: http://www.battlefrancebrawl.fr/

Tune in to the BattleFrance Twitch Channel to watch the action!
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If you have a useful community related tool or website, or are hosting a tournament and would like to be featured in this section, please write an email to community[at]battlerite[dot]com with information about it!

Oct 27, 2017

Weekly: The Pre-Launch Patch and Updates

Battlerite - sls_Liz

It’s time for the Community Weekly!

Pre-Launch Patch

Our Halloween Event is ending soon! Make sure you play your ten games and earn your final Creepy Chest for the week!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1168934423

Nurff went the extra mile, carving a pumpkin to look like Ashka’s mask! It looks amazing!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=786223962

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Tournaments

Oct 26, 2017

Update and Patch 0.14.0.2

Battlerite - sls_Liz

Upcoming Changes

We’ve heard your feedback on Patch 0.14.0. We knew this was going to be a risky patch with several updates coming at once and at the same time we saw this as a last opportunity to try out some big changes in Early Access.

As we communicated in an earlier devblog on queues and games modes, we would be keeping a close eye on the reaction to the removal of Casual and be quick to act. We have decided to reintroduce the Casual Arena queue without further delay.

With Battlegrounds we tried mixing the solid combat of Battlerite with the strategic element of objective-based combat. As always with new game modes, there’s a lot of experimenting and a lot of testing. Some people love it but some people don’t, and for us that’s not good enough. Battlegrounds will be labeled “Beta” as we continue to gather feedback. The intention with Battlegrounds was not to create a mode that would compete with Arena, but a mode that would be easy to jump into for some quick action, acting more like a playground.

Battlegrounds will be active in beta mode for a few weeks for additional testing and we will later run it on weekends similar to Brawls. We’ve already received a lot of good feedback - both positive and negative - and the team has a good understanding of how we can make this formula work better in the future but for now we will focus primarily on Arena, Champions, and the new Battlerite System.

We are feeling positive about the new Battlerite system, obviously there will be a lot of balancing similar to when we released big changes to primary attacks (“mouse 1” attacks) earlier this year. In the long run the new system allows us to better tailor Champions while allowing players to be more creative about their builds and their playstyle. You can expect a constant stream of tweaks and updates across all Champions as we continue to push the quality bar for each and every character.

Changing up a UI always creates confusion as you move away from something you’re used to. The UI team is carefully listening to all feedback and are doing lots of improvements as we speak. As been mentioned earlier, one of the main reasons to why we needed to remake the UI was to enable us to implement new features in a scalable manner. The new UI has room for several new planned features and allows us to more efficiently get these out to our players. It will receive regular updates to improve user experience over an extended period of time. At the same time we’re allocating resources for new features such as the long awaited pre-lobby.

With big updates comes additional technical issues and some people are experiencing worse performance now than before the patch. This is a top-priority and we will be rolling out improvements this week and the next to ensure that the game runs smoother than before the update./Ilves

General Updates

Casual Queue has been returned to the game
In-game chat now clears between matches
Forfeit timer lowered in Battlegrounds when match starts
Added an "equip all" button to Mounts in Customization

Bugfixes

Fixed an issue where players were not gaining experience when playing in Battlegrounds
MVP screen now displays player usernames instead of Champion names

Balance Changes

Blossom

Dance of the Dryads (F)
- Now ignores Global Cooldown and post cast
- Interrupts Blossom's own abilities when used (like escape abilities)

Ezmo

Battlerites

Exhaust
- Fading Snare duration reduced from 0.8s to 0.4s
Imp Rush
- Haste factor reduced from 50% to 40%
Grimoire of Death
- Pull force bonus reduced from 50% to 40%

Freya

Storm Mace (M2)
- Damage reduced from 12 to 10

Battlerites

Hammer Time
- Now reduces the cooldown of Thunderclap by 2.5s for each hit blocked instead of resetting cooldown of Thunderclap
Torrent
- Shield value per target hit reduced from 13 to 10
Positive Charge
- Damage bonus reduced from 15% to 10%

Jade

Revolver Shot (M1)
- Range increased from 7.2 to 7.4
Stealth (Q)
- Cooldown reduced from 9s to 8s

Lucie

Toxic Bolt (M1)
- Range increased from 7.2 to 7.6
- Projectile speed increased from 16 to 18
Panic Flask (E)
- Movement speed bonus during panic increased from 25% to 30%

Pearl

Battlerites

Soaking Wet
- Increased Silence duration reduced from 1.5s to 1.4s
Ocean Tide
- Bubble Barrier is now consumed when Dive ends instead of when Pearl emerges
  - Pearl can be hit by any remaining projectiles in Bubble Barrier

Poloma

Spirit Rift (Q) and Soul Drain (EX Q)
- Movement speed bonus during Panic increased from 15% to 20%

Raigon

Slicing Winds (EX M1)
- Healing reduced from 14 to 12

Ruh Kaan

Defiled Blade (M1)
- Charged Defiled Blade Silence duration reduced from 0.5s to 0.3s
Consume (Q)
- Cooldown increased from 8s to 9s
Claw of the Wicked (E)
- Cast time increased from 0.4s to 0.5s
- Range reduced from 8 to 7.5

Shifu

Kunju (Q)
- Travel time reduced from 0.6s to 0.5s

Battlerites

Spear Lunge
- Travel distance increased from 50% to 75%