Nov 12, 2020

Brawlhalla - whitesheepie

Brawlhalla is celebrating its Five Year Anniversary with a new seasonal event complete with exclusive items and new in-game features! The Anniversary event includes a new Bödvar Skin, an exclusive Color Scheme, celebratory Emote, and more.

We’re also introducing Titles, a new reward that players can earn by accomplishing various milestones, like becoming a BCX World Champion. During this Brawlhalla Anniversary event, players can earn a free “Reveler” Title by logging in!

There are also new visual effect Test Features for Gravity Cancel, Dodge, high damage knockback, and so much more. These changes are part of a continuing effort to improve the art and competitive clarity of Brawlhalla. Alongside this, we’ve added new and updated illustrations for the base Podium, Sentinel’s base design, and Thatch’s base design.

Additionally, we’re reducing the Gold prices for several Legends in Mallhalla, featuring a more frequent rotation of the Brawl of the Week during the Anniversary event, adding new Doodle Avatars, and many more in this momentous patch!

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Bring out the party hat and cake - it’s time to celebrate Brawlhalla’s Five Year Anniversary! This new event features exclusive cosmetic items, like a new Skin for Bödvar, Colors, and much more. Players can also claim a free “Reveler” Title during the event by logging in to Brawlhalla!

See the list below for all the exclusive treats:

Skin

Ritzy Bödvar

“I can bear-ly contain my excitement.”
Adorned with his Hammer Decorum and Gilded Glory, Bödvar is ready to celebrate in his new attire!

Colors

Gala Colors

Dress to impress with these white, black, and gold colors.
Available for every Legend!

Emote

5th Cake-aversary

“Cassidy baked this in her spare time.”
Party with your opponents with some cake!

Podium

Gilded Deco

“I can see my reflection!”
Featuring animations and sound effects, dazzle your opponents on this lavish Podium.

The Anniversary event also includes:

A free “Reveler” Title by logging on to Brawlhalla during the Anniversary event!
More frequent Brawl of the Week rotations featuring popular game modes. Check back every other day to see what we highlight.
New main menu, character select, and victory theme music.
Daily login bonus of 250 Gold to celebrate this event.
A new Anniversary UI Takeover! Follow the top hats in Mallhalla to find all the goodies.

We are excited to introduce a new feature - Titles! Titles are rewards players earn by achieving unique milestones like becoming a BCX ‘20 LCQ finalist or the anniversary of the creation of a player’s Brawlhalla account.

Titles can be seen above a player’s name within the in-game lobby.
Players can claim a free “Reveler” Title for playing Brawlhalla during our Anniversary event!
With this update, players will receive an upgrading Title each year on their Brawlhalla account’s anniversary.
We’ll be continuing to slowly add more Titles! If you have any suggestions, let us know what you would like to see on Twitter and Discord.

This update includes new visual effect Test Features! We are testing new effects for Smoke Trails, last aerial Jump cloud, out of Recovery options, Dodge, Wall Touch cloud, and Gravity Cancel. These options are available to try out in the Experimental queue and in Custom Lobbies with Test Features enabled.

New Smoke Trails that are relative to the Legend’s velocity. This Test Feature effect does not cover up Weapon Throws.
Updated Jump cloud effects for the player's last air Jump.
Brand new effect for when a player is completely out of recovering options.
Visual updates to Dodge, Wall Touch cloud, and Gravity Cancel effects.
These visual effect Test Features are a continuing effort to improve the art and competitive clarity of Brawlhalla!

Please let us know your experience with these Test Features on Twitter and Discord! Check out https://www.brawlhalla.com/test-features/ for more information.

This update brings new updated illustrations to our base Podium, Sentinel’s base design, and Thatch’s base design.

The base Podium has received a visual update with more detail in its overall design and knotwork.
Sentinel’s and Thatch’s base designs have also received visual updates to bring their designs more in line with their archetypes. They also feature extra details like Sentinel’s lightning bolt symbol on his attire and Thatch’s new facial expressions.
We’ve also updated a few of Thatch’s Skins and all of Sentinel’s Skins to match their updated features.
This will be a continuous effort to bring fresh updates to the art of Brawlhalla!

The Gold costs for several Legends have been reduced to be more accessible for players. These reductions are based primarily on their Legend and Weapon release dates.

Bödvar, Brynn, and Ember are now 900 Gold.
Lord Vraxx, Gnash, Lucien, Hattori, Sentinel, and Sir Roland are now 2300 Gold.
Scarlet, Asuri, Barraza, Kor, Mirage, and Sidra are now 3900 Gold.
These Legends are purchasable in Mallhalla!

Pick your best 5 Legends and face off against your opponents best 5 Legends in this intense 300% damage battle! When you lose a stock the next Legend in your list spawns in ready to fight. Damage KO your opponent 5 times to win!

1v1 Strikeout
5 Stocks
300% Damage
Legend changes after each stock!

During the Anniversary event, the Brawl of the Week will rotate more frequently to feature the various game modes in Brawlhalla! Check back every other day to see what’s being highlighted.

Brawlhalla’s 5th World Championship is currently underway! This weekend our Australia, Southeast Asia, and South American regions will be battling in the 1v1 Finals. The Finals are double-elimination brackets where every competitor has qualified for their spot through either Power Rankings or Last Chance Qualifiers.

Tune in to watch the action live on https://twitch.tv/brawlhalla.

Saturday, November 14, 2020 - Australia and Southeast Asia Finals
Sunday, November 15, 2020 - South America Finals

For times in your local time zone, see https://www.brawlhalla.com/schedule/

By tuning in to the Brawlhalla Twitch stream, players can earn exclusive Esports Viewership Rewards. This weekend's free Rewards are:

Metadev Ember- Fight your opponents in this rare and unique Ember Skin!
Stream Exclusive: Esports Colors - Show off your love of our Twitch streams with this rare black, silver, blue, and gold color scheme, applicable for all legends!
Mammoth Superfan Sidekick - Making their triumphant return from BCX 2017, this blue wooly mammoth is ready to shout and cheer.

To learn more about BCX 2020, visit https://www.brawlhalla.com/esports/.

Brawlhalla’s second Battle Pass features 85 tiers of new exclusive rewards unlockable by playing Brawlhalla and completing missions. This season is only available for a limited time, so play now!
Including:

A new feature to allow players to select which level of the Progression Skin and Podium to equip!
Daily, Weekly, and General missions throughout the season.
A newly themed Synthwave Kung Foot!
A new Free-for-All map called Sun Drive City.

Players can unlock over 100 rewards during the Battle Pass season, so grab your favorite Legend and start brawling. For more information, check out https://www.brawlhalla.com/battlepass.

For a limited time, we are introducing the Solidarity Emote for Charity. All proceeds from this Emote will be donated to Campaign Zero. To find out more information about this non-profit organization, check out https://www.joincampaignzero.org/.

Follow the fancy top hats to locate all the Anniversary items!
Reduced Gold cost for multiple Legends.
New Doodle Avatars for Thor, Petra, Vector, Volkov, Onyx, Jaeyun, and Mako.
Solidarity Emote
Looking for a certain chest? We’re rapidly rotating through chests, so check out the in-game timer to know when the next chest will rotate.
Find the new Sales items!

User Experience

Walker Attack now appears next to Horde in the game mode list in the game settings.

Training Mode

Reorganized Crossovers in Training Mode. Removed Crossovers from the list of Legends in the Bot Settings for the Training Settings menu. Crossovers are still listed under Skins for the corresponding base Legends.

Power Rankings

Updated Power Rankings for Autumn, data includes everything up to and including Mammoth Cup.

Animation

Adjusted Thatch's character select animation to look better with his updated art.

User Experience

Fixed an issue on the replay screen where the cursor could be beyond the last replay when paging.
Fixed a bug with Monster Gnash's Weapon Skins were not always showing up in the list of available Weapon Skins to use.
Fixed a bug where progress toward certain Weekly Battle Pass Missions would not show up in the post-match screen until after playing another online game or restarting the client.

Training Mode

Fixed a bug where unowned Crossovers were not showing up as options for their base Legends in Training Mode.

The new free-to-play Legend rotation for this week includes: Gnash, Jiro, Ragnir, Ulgrim, Isaiah, Val, Ember, Scarlet, and Kaya.

Gnash – In the darkness, before the dawn of history, this Legend was raised by the harsh jungle itself. This Super Hunter uses Grappling Hammer and Spear in battle.
Jiro – Trained as a child by a powerful and secret shinobi family, Jiro comes into the arena with not only Scythe and Sword but shadow clones as well!
Ragnir – This apex predator, whose home is in the Fangwild, now ventures outward using his Katars and Axe to take on the rest of the Legends in Valhalla!
Ulgrim – Equipped with flawless Ivaldi creations, his Axe and Rocket Lance, the legendary blacksmith forges his way into battle!
Isaiah – Major Isaiah Marshall, OEL’s special forces commander is at your service. He utilizes Cannon and Blasters with the help of his drone, equipped with a cloaking device and rockets at its disposal!
Val – An android assassin with terrifying strength and quicker-than-light cognition, Val is a force to be reckoned with when utilizing her Sword and Gauntlets.
Ember – This quick and dexterous elf does battle in Valhalla with Bow, Katars and her two companions: a wolf named Ash and her raven named Yarra.
Scarlet – A former female boxing champion of England and head of the Royal Airship Navy, this Legend uses her ingenuity and steam power to build her own Rocket Lance and Grappling Hammer to take into battle.
Kaya – Using her bow, spear and spirit animals, she is ready to try her luck in the Grand Tournament!

Nov 12, 2020

TIAMARANTA’S EYE

Community Announcements - [CM] Drestam

A rift in space and time has opened up in Atreia: Asmodians and Elyos are using the opportunity to advance into Tiamaranta’s Eye once more. Courageous Daevas are setting out to hunt monsters there, looting valuable chests and careering fearlessly into brutal skirmishes! As rewards for the bravest of them, the [Rune] Box of Triniel’s Apostle Transformation Fragments, the [Event] Greater Rune Selection Box and the [Rune] Vision Weapons Selection Box await.

Running: 11/11 to 9/12

How the Event Works

Tiamaranta’s Eye awaits you: Pit yourself against other players in PvP, seize victory for your faction in RvR, go monster hunting or scour the region for exquisite chests.

Face off against powerful opponents every day: Defeat Governor Sunayaka and Berserker Sunayaka, and premium rewards will drop for you!

Entering Via the Rift

You can reach Tiamaranta’s Eye via a rift in Gelkmaros or Inggison. Players from any server can join in the fight – the Dimension Hourglass isn’t required to enter.

Inside Tiamaranta’s Eye

Sunayaka will appear as governor or as Berserker Sunayaka in the Commander’s Room in the centre of the area at the following times:

At 8 PM every day from Monday to Friday
At 12 PM and 10 PM on Saturdays and Sundays

Potential rewards are: Enchantment Stones and Manastones, Minionite, minion contracts, Rune and Odian Fragments, as well as the [Rune] Vision Weapons Selection Box.

Other Rewards

Bundle of Protectorate Gold Coins
You’ll receive the Bundle of Protectorate Gold Coins as a reward for completing quests and for hunting monsters in Tiamaranta’s Eye. You can trade in your bundle for high-quality items with the NPCs Arseus and Lechi.

Treasure Chests
You’ll need keys to open the treasure chests that you will find throughout Tiamaranta’s Eye. You can obtain these from Keymasters, quests or as a drop from monsters.

You’ll receive Lodas’ Silver Star, minion contracts or Rune and Odian Fragments from the treasure chests. As soon as you’ve opened a chest, it will disappear for a time and then reappear later.

Note: The following items will be removed from the game at the end of the event: [Rune] Selection Box of Ultimate Enchantment Potions, [Rune] Ascension Jam (PvP Attack), [Rune] Ascension Jam (PvP Defence), Tiamaranta’s Eye Treasure Box Key, Tiamaranta’s Eye Treasure Chest Key, Bundle of Protectorate Gold Coins and Protectorate Gold Coins.

Nov 12, 2020

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - v1.7.0 Update

Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War - Edmon

“Ask not the Aeldari a question, for they will give you three answers, all of which are true and terrifying to know.”
— Inquisitor Czevak

This update will add the Craftworld Aeldari to the world of Gladius Prime -- a new fully-featured faction with their very own unique playstyle and storyline once the DLC has launched at 5PM GMT. To bring the existing factions more in line with each other and improve gameplay, it also contains a wide array of balance changes as well as a new neutral unit, new items, new colors, UI improvements, improved post-game stats, bug fixes, new Steam achievements and optional Epic Games Account social integration.

New Faction (Craftworld Aeldari DLC)
* Children of Asuryan
* Initial Challenge: Medium
* Webway Gate: Exploit your knowledge of webway gates to activate them and move swiftly across the battlefield.
* Webway Redoubt: Found a city on top of an activated webway gate to fortify Craftworld Aeldari’s presence on Gladius.
* Remnants of the Fall: Reduced city growth rate. The last remnants of a people whose mere dreams once overturned worlds and quenched suns.
* Asuryani Arrivals: Call upon offworld Asuryani to join you and temporarily boost your growth rate.
* Transcendent Bliss: Focus the Aeldari’s spiritual consciousness to experience a period of increased loyalty towards your cause.
* Spirit Preservation: Gain energy for every fallen Aeldari unit.
* Battle Focus: Many Craftworld Aeldari units can move after using their actions.
* Ancient Doom: The Aeldari loathe and fear She Who Thirsts above all else, increasing their accuracy, but also the damage taken when fighting the forces of Chaos.

New
* Added a new neutral unit: Umbra (terrifying flying monstrous creature that is vulnerable to light).
* Added 3 new items: Entropic Locum [Common] (increases the armour penetration), Laurels of Command [Uncommon] (restores the morale of adjacent allied units), Faolchu's Wing [Artefact] (consumes action to increase movement).
* Added a new Ork research: Kraklin Gubbinz [Tier 8] (Increases the energy output of Ork cities).
* Added 32 new Steam achievements.
* Transports can now carry allied units.
* Units in transports can now be selected to inspect their status such as ability cooldowns. Disembarking is done by right-clicking on the destination tile.
* Added details tab to the stats panel, listing the resources accumulated, units created, units lost, units killed, damage dealt, damage taken and buildings constructed for each player.
* Improved stats economy graph to more accurately reflect total resource income.
* Added mark tile button to the world hud.
* Added stats button to the world hud on game over and for spectators.
* The selected unit's armour, hitpoints and morale hints now show additional details: the unit's damage reductions, exact hitpoints and morale decimal values, total group size, and healing and morale regeneration rates.
* A building's production hint now says how much production has been accumulated.
* Added 7 new colors.
* Added the ability to connect an Epic Games Account with Gladius to invite Epic Games friends to multiplayer games. Cross-play and cross-invite support with Steam and standalone versions is fully supported.

General
* Victorious players now get the map revealed.
* Once all non-AI players have been defeated, only the host has to end the turn.
* Improved building hints to say "total" and "limit" instead of "per turn" for loyalty and population limit.
* Improved performance.
* Improved Dakkagun, Reaper Autocannon and Vespid Stingwings jump pack sounds.
* Lowered the volume of some excessively loud sound effects.
* Malanthropes can now consume tiles that have an Artefact.
* Changing the overall difficulty setting now changes non-AI player difficulties to medium to reduce the confusion about achievements that are tied to difficulties.
* Updated some icons to be more distinguishable.
* Updated localizations.

Balance
* Moved Apothecaries research from tier 6 to 5.
* Moved Thunderfire Cannon research from tier 5 to 6.
* Moved Bolster Defences research from tier 6 to 8.
* Moved Space Marines Multi-Melta weapon research from tier 8 to 7.
* Moved Space Marines Dozer Blade research from tier 7 to 6.
* Added Assault Vehicle trait to Battlewagon and Tidewall Gunrig (all open-topped transports are assault vehicles).
* Increased Tidewall Gunrig cost by 33%.
* Moved Tidewall Gunrig research from tier 4 to 5.
* Icon of Despair now works against units with And They Shall Know No Fear.
* Increased Tomb Blades cost by 33%.
* Increased morale regeneration rate from 10% to 20%.
* It is no longer possible to use Stomp on fortifications.
* Changed Rapid Fire from adding +1 attacks to doubling the attacks. This primarily fixes Chimera's Lasgun Arrays, but also affects attack buffs on Rapid Fire weapons, such as Skull Altar's Blood Blessing.
* The first use of Deploy Fortress of Redemption is now free.
* Markerlight now requires line of sight.
* Jink is no longer usable if the unit has attacked this turn, even if it attacked with free action weapons.
* Skyfire no longer has reduced accuracy against jetbike and jet pack units.
* Moved Sky Ray Gunship research from tier 5 to 6.
* Moved Hammerhead Gunship research from tier 6 to 5.
* Master of Possession can no longer heal himself.
* Builder Drones can now heal themselves.
* Painboy can now use his abilities on himself.
* Reduced Tervigon's Catalyst range from 2 to 1.
* Tervigon's Catalyst now only works on Tyranids units.
* Space Marines Orbital Deployment can now only be done from Space Marines cities.
* Tyranids outposts now grant Instinctive Behaviour Override.
* Reduced Birthing Canals influence upkeep reduction from -50% to -25%.
* Reduced Spore Mines group size from 6 to 5.
* Increased Spore Mines cooldown from 3 to 5.
* Reclaim Unit's production returned now increases by 2.5% with each unit level.
* Deffkoptas now have ore upkeep.
* Land Speeders now have requisitions upkeep.
* Mek Gunz no longer cost energy and now have ore upkeep.
* Apothecaries now have requisitions upkeep.
* Thunderfire Cannon now has requisitions upkeep.
* Venomcrawler now has ore upkeep.
* Warpsmith now has ore upkeep.
* Chaos Spawns now have food upkeep.
* Techpriest Enginseers how have ore upkeep.
* Meks now cost food and ore and have ore upkeep.
* Builder Drones now have ore upkeep.
* Increased Daemon Prince hitpoints from 16 to 20.
* Reduced Grey Matter Dispersion from +2 to +1 loyalty from amount of cities.
* Possession now has a cooldown of 3, Chaos Spawn level scales from level 1 to 7.
* Proselytise cost now scales with game pace.
* Increased Adaptive Biology feel no pain damage reduction from +20%...+60% to +25%...+75%.
* Chaos Space Marines heroes can no longer transform.
* Reduced Daemon Prince influence cost and upkeep by 25%.
* Increased Chaos Rising city found cost reduction from -33% to -50%.
* Changed Stabilising Anchors to work if the unit has not moved instead of having movement remaining. Using melee weapons such as Stomp counts as having moved.
* Increased Destroyer Lord Jet Charge invulnerable damage reduction from +10%...+30% to +15%...+45%.
* Changed Heavy, Salvo and High Power weapons to reduce accuracy if the unit has actually moved this turn rather than having 0 movement.
* Increased all Chaos Rite bonuses from +25% to +33%.
* Increased all Ork and Necron economic upgrade bonuses from +10% to +17%.
* Reduced Necron population limit upgrade from +2 to +1 per housing building.
* Changed Objuration Mechanicum damage from 8...16 to 6...18.
* Changed Veterans of the Long War from +2 morale to -33% morale loss.
* Mark, Icon and Install Support System influence cost now scales with unit strength (death experience value * 3).
* Changed Targeting Relay to cause a debuff on attack that increases the ranged accuracy of Necron units against the target unit by 2 for 1 turn.
* Markerlight Target Acquired now increase the accuracy against the unit marked by 1 instead of increasing damage taken by 10%.
* Markerlight Target Acquired now only works for Tau.
* Networked Markerlight now increases the accuracy against the target unit by 1 instead of increasing damage taken by 10%.
* Increased Vaul Sentry movement from 1 to 2.
* Reduced Stomp damage by 3.

Bug Fixes
* Fixed a pathing issue for units not moving around artefacts in explored but unsighted tiles.
* Fixed a crash that could occur after playing with a mod that increases the amount of difficulty options.
* Fixed a crash that could occur while dragging a unit in cargo.
* Fixed spectators having to end the first turn.
* Fixed resource hints having a blank line for total if the total is 0.
* Fixed an issue that could cause the camera to permanently continue to scroll in a direction if the camera was being scrolled with the keyboard when mouse scrolling began.
* Fixed an issue that could cause the camera to permanently continue to scroll in a direction if the display mode was changed while scrolling.
* Fixed Lord Commissar's Summary Execution affecting enemy units.
* Fixed an issue with units being incorrectly positioned when coming out of transports.
* Fixed The Sound of Unsilence achievement not working correctly.
* Fixed Cluster Mines not preventing movement on outposts.
* Fixed a threading crash that could in a variety of circumstances.
* Fixed item hints not showing the effects of the unit's modifiers.
* Fixed Super-Brolly 2000 getting unlocked when other players use the Big Mek's shield.
* Fixed city trait description saying movement cost is reduced only for allied units instead of all units.
* Fixed rapid rise cost scaling twice with game pace.
* Fixed actions that require line of sight not working correctly.
* Fixed unit hitpoints being clamped too soon, resulting in very rare order-dependence when an individual action had multiple effects or weapons that both increased hitpoints past max hitpoints and also decreased hitpoints at the same time.
* Fixed explosion sound not playing when Kastelan Robot dies.
* Fixed items hints not showing "On cooldown.".
* Fixed Override Instinctive Behaviour cost scaling with unit level.
* Fixed some font glyphs rendering as boxes.
* Fixed an battle estimate error that could occur for weapon actions after the unit has moved.
* Fixed Pulse Driver Cannon and Twin-Linked Pulse Carbine using Brachyuran Assemblies instead of Mor'tonium Accelerators.
* Fixed language mods having to include English language files.
* Fixed faction DLC units not spawning as neutrals when specified in Wildlife.xml.
* Fixed units losing movement in special circumstances when a new turn starts, e.g. Pinned + 'Ere We Go.
* Fixed tile hint with Orkoid Fungus showing incorrect food % when Mushling Bloom has not been researched.
* Fixed being able to have units selected that are on unsighted tiles.
* Fixed if you click found city and click a valid unexplored tile, the settler will settle right where he is currently at immediately.
* Fixed being able to use found city to check where units are under the fog of war.
* Fixed chat button in the lobby sometimes being incorrectly laid out.
* Fixed debug panel position when visibility is toggled.
* Fixed VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST due to erroneous TwitchNativeOverlay64.dll by force-disabling Twitch Studio's Vulkan layer (DISABLE_TWITCH_VULKAN_OVERLAY=1).

Modding
* Added `<groupSize>` unit effect to change current group member count.
* `<summaryExecution>` action is no longer hardcoded and as such no longer supports moraleMin and moraleMax attributes. It's now implemented with generic conditions and effects.
* `<deployFortress>` action now supports `unit` attribute.
* Added `<aiControlled>` and `<notAIControlled>` player conditions.
* Costs and upkeeps can now be modified by traits and upgrade.
* Fixed opponent attacking condition not working.