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Weekly #20
Posted: 2012-05-16 - Category: News - Permalink - Forum Post
Now spring has even reached Sweden!
We’re working hard on the DreamHack preparations and hope you guys are as psyched as we are! You can find a information thread over in the tournament section of the forums. During last weekend’s qualifier which was run by the GDStudio we had the favorites MrDandiktory and 4kings go through to join us at the DreamHack tournament where they will compete for the prize pool of $10.000. If you want a chance to get in on the action as well, don’t miss last qualifier that will run in the in-game tournament system this Sunday, May 20th, at 17:00 UTC!
On top of that we’ll run a 50% Blood Coin gain weekend the coming weekend!
It’s the regular times of Friday 12:00 UTC to Monday 12:00 UTC!
Today only, you can get the Stormcaller at a 50% discount! Also, this week you can also find the Officer Outfits available in the shop, at a 20% discount too!
We’ve had a “Ask the Devs a question” thread going since the previous weekly, and we got a lot of good questions. We didn’t have the chance to answer them all in this weekly but we’ve picked out a bunch that seemed important to you. Some of the answers might not be what you like, but we’re just trying to be honest with you and answer your questions.
Questions:
New Contest!
We’ve had a short pause in our contests but now we’re back with a new contest to keep you guys using your creative gifts! We’re running a BLC Wallpaper contest! So get to it and turn in for the chance on some cool loot! More information in this thread.
We’re working hard on the DreamHack preparations and hope you guys are as psyched as we are! You can find a information thread over in the tournament section of the forums. During last weekend’s qualifier which was run by the GDStudio we had the favorites MrDandiktory and 4kings go through to join us at the DreamHack tournament where they will compete for the prize pool of $10.000. If you want a chance to get in on the action as well, don’t miss last qualifier that will run in the in-game tournament system this Sunday, May 20th, at 17:00 UTC!
On top of that we’ll run a 50% Blood Coin gain weekend the coming weekend!
It’s the regular times of Friday 12:00 UTC to Monday 12:00 UTC!
Today only, you can get the Stormcaller at a 50% discount! Also, this week you can also find the Officer Outfits available in the shop, at a 20% discount too!
We’ve had a “Ask the Devs a question” thread going since the previous weekly, and we got a lot of good questions. We didn’t have the chance to answer them all in this weekly but we’ve picked out a bunch that seemed important to you. Some of the answers might not be what you like, but we’re just trying to be honest with you and answer your questions.
Questions:
Spoiler: show
Will BLC get a new publisher?
It is highly unlikely that BLC will ever change publisher in EU/US and we are not working toward getting a
change. We have good communication and cooperation with Funcom, even though you might not believe me in that.
Why have you not moved the servers back?
The biggest problems we have with the connections to the servers are lag spikes and packet loss, these problems are not at all guaranteed to go away just because we’d move the servers to a more central location in Europe. We also experience packet loss issues before the move. A while back we had multi homing implemented to the current servers, this gave a good result and a lot less people experiences issues to the same extent as before. Some people still have big issues and that’s why we implemented the Connection Feedback option at the end of a match, unfortunately it did not behave as intended on the live servers. We’re working on getting it fixed and live as soon as possible. We hope a lot of player with issues will use this to send us their connection feedback so that we can see where the issues occur so we can work on sorting those out. A lot of players who experience high latency do so because of bad routing and not the location of the servers. The connection feedback will help us sort issues like those. If we moved the servers we’d have to spend a lot of weeks to just get things to hopefully work at the same conditions as they are now, with implementation of multi homing and such, but with no guarantee that anything would actually perform better.
Why don’t you advertise BLC?
We do advertise but no it’s not an insane amount, there are a couple of reasons for this. The biggest one is that standard advertising do not work well for BLC in this state, the player who do stick to BLC is usually the pretty hardcore players and they are unlikely the people you recruit from standard ads. We have run a lot of ad campaigns and evaluated the results of these and decided to cut back a bit. BLC is a game that is pretty hard to get into as a new player, we’re currently looking at what can be done to improve the new user experience to make it easier for new players to get into the game and enjoy themselves.
Can you combine RU and EU?
Russia and EU servers will not be combined. Innova handles publishing of BLC in the Russian territory and Funcom in EU/US. All three parties are in close contact to work together to make BLC as good as it can be on all levels.
When will Astronomer finally get looked at?
I can’t promise that we’ll do changes in the manner you’re looking for, but I’ll make sure to poke Kae about having Astronomer looked over for the next patch.
Do you read the suggestion forums?
We read the forum suggestions more than we reply. When we read the suggestion forum we’re most likely to view well discussed threads since they have attracted more players which indicates that it’s something that matters and are worth looking at. Also when we’re planning to improve features we go over the suggestion forum to see if you guys have an idea around the same subject, but it is very rare that we can take a suggestion straight from the forums to implement. When it comes to Bloodline suggestions they are rarely used, even though we enjoy reading them. Our designers love making bloodlines so when it’s time to design a new Bloodline it’s not unusual that they already have a bunch of ideas of their own that they want to try out and since they know all limitations and restrictions in the codebase it makes the process smoother than to try and adapt a bloodline that is not made with these things in mind.
Have you considered making 2v2 unrated in order to increase the activity in rated 3v3?
We have a lot of queue discussions at the office, not having 2v2 might increase the amount of players in 3v3, but since 2v2 is so popular we do not want to remove this option for the players. We are looking into some other changes to the queues, hopefully we have come to some conclusions soon that we can share.
Will you release a LAN System?
There is no plan to implement LAN support for Bloodline Champions, with today’s technology it’s better for us to keep it all on our own controlled servers.
Will you even consider adding additional bonus daily coins to scenarios?
We do not have a plan to add daily bonus to scenarios, we are however planning a bonus coin scenario weekend in the near future to motivate people to play some scenario.
It is highly unlikely that BLC will ever change publisher in EU/US and we are not working toward getting a
change. We have good communication and cooperation with Funcom, even though you might not believe me in that.
Why have you not moved the servers back?
The biggest problems we have with the connections to the servers are lag spikes and packet loss, these problems are not at all guaranteed to go away just because we’d move the servers to a more central location in Europe. We also experience packet loss issues before the move. A while back we had multi homing implemented to the current servers, this gave a good result and a lot less people experiences issues to the same extent as before. Some people still have big issues and that’s why we implemented the Connection Feedback option at the end of a match, unfortunately it did not behave as intended on the live servers. We’re working on getting it fixed and live as soon as possible. We hope a lot of player with issues will use this to send us their connection feedback so that we can see where the issues occur so we can work on sorting those out. A lot of players who experience high latency do so because of bad routing and not the location of the servers. The connection feedback will help us sort issues like those. If we moved the servers we’d have to spend a lot of weeks to just get things to hopefully work at the same conditions as they are now, with implementation of multi homing and such, but with no guarantee that anything would actually perform better.
Why don’t you advertise BLC?
We do advertise but no it’s not an insane amount, there are a couple of reasons for this. The biggest one is that standard advertising do not work well for BLC in this state, the player who do stick to BLC is usually the pretty hardcore players and they are unlikely the people you recruit from standard ads. We have run a lot of ad campaigns and evaluated the results of these and decided to cut back a bit. BLC is a game that is pretty hard to get into as a new player, we’re currently looking at what can be done to improve the new user experience to make it easier for new players to get into the game and enjoy themselves.
Can you combine RU and EU?
Russia and EU servers will not be combined. Innova handles publishing of BLC in the Russian territory and Funcom in EU/US. All three parties are in close contact to work together to make BLC as good as it can be on all levels.
When will Astronomer finally get looked at?
I can’t promise that we’ll do changes in the manner you’re looking for, but I’ll make sure to poke Kae about having Astronomer looked over for the next patch.
Do you read the suggestion forums?
We read the forum suggestions more than we reply. When we read the suggestion forum we’re most likely to view well discussed threads since they have attracted more players which indicates that it’s something that matters and are worth looking at. Also when we’re planning to improve features we go over the suggestion forum to see if you guys have an idea around the same subject, but it is very rare that we can take a suggestion straight from the forums to implement. When it comes to Bloodline suggestions they are rarely used, even though we enjoy reading them. Our designers love making bloodlines so when it’s time to design a new Bloodline it’s not unusual that they already have a bunch of ideas of their own that they want to try out and since they know all limitations and restrictions in the codebase it makes the process smoother than to try and adapt a bloodline that is not made with these things in mind.
Have you considered making 2v2 unrated in order to increase the activity in rated 3v3?
We have a lot of queue discussions at the office, not having 2v2 might increase the amount of players in 3v3, but since 2v2 is so popular we do not want to remove this option for the players. We are looking into some other changes to the queues, hopefully we have come to some conclusions soon that we can share.
Will you release a LAN System?
There is no plan to implement LAN support for Bloodline Champions, with today’s technology it’s better for us to keep it all on our own controlled servers.
Will you even consider adding additional bonus daily coins to scenarios?
We do not have a plan to add daily bonus to scenarios, we are however planning a bonus coin scenario weekend in the near future to motivate people to play some scenario.
New Contest!
We’ve had a short pause in our contests but now we’re back with a new contest to keep you guys using your creative gifts! We’re running a BLC Wallpaper contest! So get to it and turn in for the chance on some cool loot! More information in this thread.
BLC Wallpaper contest!
Posted: 2012-05-16 - Category: Community News - Permalink - Forum Post
It’s not any trickier than the topic says! Make a BLC themed desktop wallpaper and you have the chance to win some cool loot!
What you need to do to participate:
Create a wallpaper with BLC theme in an image editing program of your choice
The wallpaper should be in 16:9 ratio and be at least 1920x1080 pixels.
(You may use any BLC art asset made by Stunlock Studios, if you wish.)
Prizes:
1st Prize: 1 Gold Outfit of your choice and a 3 day Blood Coin Boost
2nd Prize: 1 Gender Outfit of your choice and a 1 day Blood Coin Boost
3rd Prize: 1 Officer Outfit of your choice and a 24 games Blood Coin Boost
Rules:
One entry each.
Submissions are to be done as a post in this thread.
The entry must reference Bloodline Champions!
You may use any art owned by Stunlock Studios and/or any art you created yourself.
Entries must be submitted before 22:00 UTC June 3rd
What you need to do to participate:
Create a wallpaper with BLC theme in an image editing program of your choice
The wallpaper should be in 16:9 ratio and be at least 1920x1080 pixels.
(You may use any BLC art asset made by Stunlock Studios, if you wish.)
Prizes:
1st Prize: 1 Gold Outfit of your choice and a 3 day Blood Coin Boost
2nd Prize: 1 Gender Outfit of your choice and a 1 day Blood Coin Boost
3rd Prize: 1 Officer Outfit of your choice and a 24 games Blood Coin Boost
Rules:
One entry each.
Submissions are to be done as a post in this thread.
The entry must reference Bloodline Champions!
You may use any art owned by Stunlock Studios and/or any art you created yourself.
Entries must be submitted before 22:00 UTC June 3rd
Dreamhack Qualifier by the GDStudio
Posted: 2012-05-13 - Category: News - Permalink - Forum Post
Don't miss the Arena show over at the GDStudio tonight!
Top teams and exciting BLC action casted by SemmlerTheRiot and Skrff!
Click here to watch the stream
Top teams and exciting BLC action casted by SemmlerTheRiot and Skrff!
Click here to watch the stream
Weekly #19! A week sure goes fast
Posted: 2012-05-09 - Category: News - Permalink - Forum Post
Dryad released
Our little forest girl has now been released into the rated games, tournaments and single player.
She can now be bought with both Funcom Points and Blood Coins in the marketplace, and additional weapons, outfits and emotes are also available! Her armoured Outfit is super cute!
DreamHack
The open in-game qualifier this weekend is cancelled and instead there will be an invite only Qualifier hosted by the GDStudio this Sunday!
The Arena Qualifier hosted by the GDStudio will run at 17:00 UTC and streamed over at their channel on twitch.tv.
It will be an eight (8) team, invite only, single elimination tournament with the best teams that have not yet qualified. There’s also a cash prize pool for the winning team and the top two (2) teams will qualify for the $10,000 DreamHack Summer Tournament!
This means there will only be one other open In-game Qualifier running on the 20th of May, so if you want a chance at getting a part of the $10,000 prize pool in the DreamHack Summer Tournament make sure to practice hard until then!
The invited teams and all other information regarding Sunday's qualifier tournament will be announced soon, keep an eye out at the GDStudios communication channels.
https://www.facebook.com/TheGDStudio
https://twitter.com/#!/TheGDStudio
More DreamHack news! The awesome Haridean will be our main commentator at the event this summer! He’ll be joined by other familiar faces during the event as well, of course! If you want to see the best BLC action available streamed and casted, make sure to keep an eye on his stream over at twitch! http://twitch.tv/haridean
Patch
Today we got a small patch up. The focus of the patch has been some fixes we felt had to be made and support for sending us Connection Feedback. Unfortunately the Connection Feedback feature did not behave completely as expected on the live servers so not to cause performance issues it has been disabled for now while we’re looking into getting it to behave as we want.
Full patch notes can be found here.
Stats reset
With today's patch and downtime, we’ve done the much wanted stats reset. The stats that have been reset are the ones that were affected by the x10 change that was made in 2.0, which would be the following stats: Damage, Protection, Control, Energy and Tanked for each Bloodline. With this reset however, the Combat - Average number of “Kills” and “Deaths” are now not correct. We’ve decided to keep these stats since they affect certain achievements.
Ask the developers a question
Since the forum is so active, a lot of threads are being made, some people are very active compared to others and thus get less attention, we’re having a tricky time figuring out what you guys really want answers to, we’ve done an “Ask the devs” - thread. This thread will be highly moderated and have a bunch of rules. So make sure to read the instructions well before asking! We’ll pick a couple of questions for the next Weekly to answer.
You can find the thread here
Hope you'll enjoy dryad! <3
Our little forest girl has now been released into the rated games, tournaments and single player.
She can now be bought with both Funcom Points and Blood Coins in the marketplace, and additional weapons, outfits and emotes are also available! Her armoured Outfit is super cute!
DreamHack
The open in-game qualifier this weekend is cancelled and instead there will be an invite only Qualifier hosted by the GDStudio this Sunday!
The Arena Qualifier hosted by the GDStudio will run at 17:00 UTC and streamed over at their channel on twitch.tv.
It will be an eight (8) team, invite only, single elimination tournament with the best teams that have not yet qualified. There’s also a cash prize pool for the winning team and the top two (2) teams will qualify for the $10,000 DreamHack Summer Tournament!
This means there will only be one other open In-game Qualifier running on the 20th of May, so if you want a chance at getting a part of the $10,000 prize pool in the DreamHack Summer Tournament make sure to practice hard until then!
The invited teams and all other information regarding Sunday's qualifier tournament will be announced soon, keep an eye out at the GDStudios communication channels.
https://www.facebook.com/TheGDStudio
https://twitter.com/#!/TheGDStudio
More DreamHack news! The awesome Haridean will be our main commentator at the event this summer! He’ll be joined by other familiar faces during the event as well, of course! If you want to see the best BLC action available streamed and casted, make sure to keep an eye on his stream over at twitch! http://twitch.tv/haridean
Patch
Today we got a small patch up. The focus of the patch has been some fixes we felt had to be made and support for sending us Connection Feedback. Unfortunately the Connection Feedback feature did not behave completely as expected on the live servers so not to cause performance issues it has been disabled for now while we’re looking into getting it to behave as we want.
Full patch notes can be found here.
Stats reset
With today's patch and downtime, we’ve done the much wanted stats reset. The stats that have been reset are the ones that were affected by the x10 change that was made in 2.0, which would be the following stats: Damage, Protection, Control, Energy and Tanked for each Bloodline. With this reset however, the Combat - Average number of “Kills” and “Deaths” are now not correct. We’ve decided to keep these stats since they affect certain achievements.
Ask the developers a question
Since the forum is so active, a lot of threads are being made, some people are very active compared to others and thus get less attention, we’re having a tricky time figuring out what you guys really want answers to, we’ve done an “Ask the devs” - thread. This thread will be highly moderated and have a bunch of rules. So make sure to read the instructions well before asking! We’ll pick a couple of questions for the next Weekly to answer.
You can find the thread here
Hope you'll enjoy dryad! <3
Patch 2.4.1
Posted: 2012-05-08 - Category: Patch Notes - Permalink - Forum Post
This is not a balance patch but a minor bug and improvements patch.
Connection Feedback
In this patch we added support for sending Connection Feedback after a match. This will analyze the network connection between your game client and the game server. You will also be able to provide the name of your ISP as additional data. The goal with this feature is to provide better experience for you and all other players in Bloodline Champions.
Bug fixes and improvements
• Fixed a bug with Shrink Device that made the player's hitbox smaller than intended.
• Fixed a possible game crash at end of a match if particles where missing.
• Fixed a possible game crash when starting up the game with VOIP enabled.
• Fixed a possible game crash when loading content at start of game.
• Fixed a possible game crash when displaying reward window after a match.
• Fixed so that the tournament start date/time will display the time as well and not just the date.
• Fixed so that you can't use Russian names on US/EU servers.
• Modified win chance GUI in the lobby.
• Added support for a chat filter on the game client.
• Added support to send Connection Feedback after a match.
• The "Win X games as Dryad"-achievements should now work correctly.
• Fixed a bug with the match history displaying a loss when you actually won the match.
Connection Feedback
In this patch we added support for sending Connection Feedback after a match. This will analyze the network connection between your game client and the game server. You will also be able to provide the name of your ISP as additional data. The goal with this feature is to provide better experience for you and all other players in Bloodline Champions.
Bug fixes and improvements
• Fixed a bug with Shrink Device that made the player's hitbox smaller than intended.
• Fixed a possible game crash at end of a match if particles where missing.
• Fixed a possible game crash when starting up the game with VOIP enabled.
• Fixed a possible game crash when loading content at start of game.
• Fixed a possible game crash when displaying reward window after a match.
• Fixed so that the tournament start date/time will display the time as well and not just the date.
• Fixed so that you can't use Russian names on US/EU servers.
• Modified win chance GUI in the lobby.
• Added support for a chat filter on the game client.
• Added support to send Connection Feedback after a match.
• The "Win X games as Dryad"-achievements should now work correctly.
• Fixed a bug with the match history displaying a loss when you actually won the match.
Winners of the Dryad "Be creative" contest!
Posted: 2012-05-08 - Category: Community News - Permalink - Forum Post
We’ve seen some great effort in the entries for the Dryad “Be creative” contest!
Deciding winners sure wasn‘t easy, but here they are:
1st prize: khelby
With the 3 versions of his Dryad song.
Version 1
Version 2
Version 3
2nd prize: Ikos
With his male dryad cosplay.
3rd - 5th place goes to:
NiceBaby
Kugeki
support
Winners will receive redeem codes via forum PM.
Awesome work guys! <3
Deciding winners sure wasn‘t easy, but here they are:
1st prize: khelby
With the 3 versions of his Dryad song.
Version 1
Version 2
Version 3
2nd prize: Ikos
With his male dryad cosplay.
3rd - 5th place goes to:
NiceBaby
Kugeki
support
Winners will receive redeem codes via forum PM.
Awesome work guys! <3
Weekly #18!
Posted: 2012-05-02 - Category: News - Permalink - Forum Post
Our new little forest child ^^
There’s still one week until the official release of Dryad into ranked games, but she seems to be enjoyed in the non-ranked games for now and we hope she’ll show some fierce competition when she joins the real battles in the ladder and tournaments!
Marketplace
We’re running a 30% sale on the Blood Coin price for the 16 original Bloodlines until next wednesday! So make sure to seize the opportunity to unlock some bloodlines for a cheap Blood Coin prize!
Other than that we’re also running a 50% sale on the cursed weapons!
And just today you can get the Psychopomp Carnival Outfit at 70% off!
Stats reset
A discussion has been flourishing on the forums for a while: the need for a stats reset, since the statistics are no longer accurate from the change where we multiplied all damage, healing, health points and such by 10. We will do a stats reset on the statistics that are affected by the change, I can’t give you a date but it will happen as soon as we get a good chance to do it.
DreamHack
The first Qualifier Tournament has run and the qualifying teams are:
Hotell
Muhle
ALTAAR
soho1
Chanthundi
thunderr
Diablo
Chanzui
Next qualifier will run this sunday at 17:00 UTC and will be streamed by the awesome Haridean at: http://www.twitch.tv/haridean
So don’t miss out on tuning in to keep track of our pros - and of course there’ll be some free loot keys floating around! ^^
I’m soo looking forward to DreamHack! I hope we’ll meet a lot of you guys there, even if you don’t qualify for the tournament! We’ll have the booth open for playing and some free loot when the tournament isn’t running!
Lots of love <3
There’s still one week until the official release of Dryad into ranked games, but she seems to be enjoyed in the non-ranked games for now and we hope she’ll show some fierce competition when she joins the real battles in the ladder and tournaments!
Marketplace
We’re running a 30% sale on the Blood Coin price for the 16 original Bloodlines until next wednesday! So make sure to seize the opportunity to unlock some bloodlines for a cheap Blood Coin prize!
Other than that we’re also running a 50% sale on the cursed weapons!
And just today you can get the Psychopomp Carnival Outfit at 70% off!
Stats reset
A discussion has been flourishing on the forums for a while: the need for a stats reset, since the statistics are no longer accurate from the change where we multiplied all damage, healing, health points and such by 10. We will do a stats reset on the statistics that are affected by the change, I can’t give you a date but it will happen as soon as we get a good chance to do it.
DreamHack
The first Qualifier Tournament has run and the qualifying teams are:
Hotell
Muhle
ALTAAR
soho1
Chanthundi
thunderr
Diablo
Chanzui
Next qualifier will run this sunday at 17:00 UTC and will be streamed by the awesome Haridean at: http://www.twitch.tv/haridean
So don’t miss out on tuning in to keep track of our pros - and of course there’ll be some free loot keys floating around! ^^
I’m soo looking forward to DreamHack! I hope we’ll meet a lot of you guys there, even if you don’t qualify for the tournament! We’ll have the booth open for playing and some free loot when the tournament isn’t running!
Lots of love <3
Exciting Weekend Activities!
Posted: 2012-04-27 - Category: Community News - Permalink - Forum Post
DreamHack Summer Qualification Tournament!
This weekend we will host the first DreamHack Summer Qualification Tournament!
The tournament runs in the in-game system at 17:00 UTC on Sunday.
So make sure to be in-game and ready with your team at 17:00 UTC on Sunday to have the chance to qualify for the $10,000 DreamHack Summer Tournament!
To follow the fun, make sure to tune in at the awesome Harideans stream as he has offered to cast the tournament! You can find the stream at: http://twitch.tv/haridean
More information about DreamHack Summer and Bloodline Champions can be found here.
Blood Coin Boost Weekend!
On top of that we’re also running a Blood Coin Boost Weekend!
You will gain an extra 50% Blood Coins all weekend running from
Friday 27th of April 12:00 UTC to Monday 30th of April 12:00 UTC!
EDIT: There is a GUI issue regarding the Weekend Blood Coin Bonus. Read the the details below.
This weekend we will host the first DreamHack Summer Qualification Tournament!
The tournament runs in the in-game system at 17:00 UTC on Sunday.
So make sure to be in-game and ready with your team at 17:00 UTC on Sunday to have the chance to qualify for the $10,000 DreamHack Summer Tournament!
To follow the fun, make sure to tune in at the awesome Harideans stream as he has offered to cast the tournament! You can find the stream at: http://twitch.tv/haridean
More information about DreamHack Summer and Bloodline Champions can be found here.
Blood Coin Boost Weekend!
On top of that we’re also running a Blood Coin Boost Weekend!
You will gain an extra 50% Blood Coins all weekend running from
Friday 27th of April 12:00 UTC to Monday 30th of April 12:00 UTC!
EDIT: There is a GUI issue regarding the Weekend Blood Coin Bonus. Read the the details below.
khct wrote:Turns out there is a GUI error in the post game Popup. -_-
The Base amount in the Blood Coin Bar actually contains both the Base amount and the Weekend Bonus amount, then the Bonus part of the bar adds the Bonus part again, meaning that the total shown in the bar is one Bonus Part too much in total, and the Bonus Part looks like it is one third of the Base Part.
That is also why the total amount in the post game popup differs from the amount in the game transaction list in your profile.
Sorry for the mess. You actually do get the correct amount of Bonus Coins, but due to the error it is confusing to say the least.
Edit: Example.
Real base: 10
Real bonus: 5
Real total: 15
GUI base = 10 + 5 = 15 (This has the bonus added incorrectly.)
GUI bonus = 5
GUI total = 20
Transaction entry: 15
Weekly #17! Yeeaaay!
Posted: 2012-04-25 - Category: News - Permalink - Forum Post
A lot of stuff going on at the moment! Exciting times!
To begin with: Early access available for the new awesome, super cute healer Bloodline; Dryad!
The Dryad is now available for pre-order!
By pre-ordering you get early access to test the Bloodline at once in single player, unrated and private games prior to its official full release! Pre-ordering also gets you a discount and some exclusive goodies!
Check out the Game play introduction here!
To celebrate the beginning of early access for Dryad, we’re running a contest!
It’s a totally open “Be creative!” contest with a Dryad theme and you have the chance to win the Ultimate Pre-order pack, the regular pre-order pack or just the Bloodline!
More information can be found here
Today was patch day, and you can now see and test all the new changes in the game! Missed what we’ve done? Read the patch notes we released last week!
Grade reset
With the patch today we also performed the grade reset the community voted for. Though, there have been some confusion regarding it, and if it works as intended.
The first thing people were confused about was that while they were at Grade 1 when they started the game after the patch, they jumped several grades directly after the first game they played. The reason for this is that while the grade reset was done now, mid season, it still works pretty much like if it had been done at the start of the season. Therefore you still have (or will get) the grade that you have earned during this season. It is just not updated until after you have played a game. So, if you had earned Grade 16 during this season, you would jump directly from Grade 1 to Grade 16 after the first game.
Likewise, if you for example have an old team that granted you Grade 30 last season you will not be at Grade 30 directly now. You must have played and gained rating during this season for you to get the corresponding grade. Therefore the grades that you get now are completely based on the new rating system that was introduced at the start of the season.
The grade reset is meant to be done when a new season starts and when all ratings/scores are reset for teams and solo ladders. The grade jump behavior would not happen if we did the grade reset at the start of the season.
Marketplace
Just today you can get Herald of Insight at a 75% discount!
For the whole week the rookie outfits are 50% off, Team slots are available for Blood Coins and you can get a pack of 3 team slots with 33% discount!
Small note, buying team slots for Blood Coins doesn’t seem to work for titan users, we’ll look into this first thing tomorrow morning when the right people are back at work! Sorry for the inconvenience!
Tournaments
Last weekend we ran the finals of the SteelSeries Sensei Winter tournament!
Big congratulations to Razer.MiF for taking home the grand prize of a Steelseries Sensei each! On top of that they also get a cool printed BLC canvas signed by the devs!
The second place goes to MrDandictory who put up an excellent fight! They’ll all get a printed BLC poster signed by the devs! For the people who won in the lottery, you’ll get a reward in-game either with your prize or with information on how to supply your information to receive your prize!
Other than that we have the ProWuju clan who’ve been planning a tournament for a while and now the date and details are set! The tournament will run 4-5th of May and there’s prize money! Make sure to sign up at: http://www.z33k.com/games/bloodlinechampions/tournaments/6661-prowuju-tournament
Last but definitely not least! Bloodline champions $10k Tournament at Dreamhack Summer 2012! It’s too big news to fit here, so make sure to read the full announcement here!
To begin with: Early access available for the new awesome, super cute healer Bloodline; Dryad!
The Dryad is now available for pre-order!
By pre-ordering you get early access to test the Bloodline at once in single player, unrated and private games prior to its official full release! Pre-ordering also gets you a discount and some exclusive goodies!
Check out the Game play introduction here!
To celebrate the beginning of early access for Dryad, we’re running a contest!
It’s a totally open “Be creative!” contest with a Dryad theme and you have the chance to win the Ultimate Pre-order pack, the regular pre-order pack or just the Bloodline!
More information can be found here
Today was patch day, and you can now see and test all the new changes in the game! Missed what we’ve done? Read the patch notes we released last week!
Grade reset
With the patch today we also performed the grade reset the community voted for. Though, there have been some confusion regarding it, and if it works as intended.
The first thing people were confused about was that while they were at Grade 1 when they started the game after the patch, they jumped several grades directly after the first game they played. The reason for this is that while the grade reset was done now, mid season, it still works pretty much like if it had been done at the start of the season. Therefore you still have (or will get) the grade that you have earned during this season. It is just not updated until after you have played a game. So, if you had earned Grade 16 during this season, you would jump directly from Grade 1 to Grade 16 after the first game.
Likewise, if you for example have an old team that granted you Grade 30 last season you will not be at Grade 30 directly now. You must have played and gained rating during this season for you to get the corresponding grade. Therefore the grades that you get now are completely based on the new rating system that was introduced at the start of the season.
The grade reset is meant to be done when a new season starts and when all ratings/scores are reset for teams and solo ladders. The grade jump behavior would not happen if we did the grade reset at the start of the season.
Marketplace
Just today you can get Herald of Insight at a 75% discount!
For the whole week the rookie outfits are 50% off, Team slots are available for Blood Coins and you can get a pack of 3 team slots with 33% discount!
Small note, buying team slots for Blood Coins doesn’t seem to work for titan users, we’ll look into this first thing tomorrow morning when the right people are back at work! Sorry for the inconvenience!
Tournaments
Last weekend we ran the finals of the SteelSeries Sensei Winter tournament!
Big congratulations to Razer.MiF for taking home the grand prize of a Steelseries Sensei each! On top of that they also get a cool printed BLC canvas signed by the devs!
The second place goes to MrDandictory who put up an excellent fight! They’ll all get a printed BLC poster signed by the devs! For the people who won in the lottery, you’ll get a reward in-game either with your prize or with information on how to supply your information to receive your prize!
Other than that we have the ProWuju clan who’ve been planning a tournament for a while and now the date and details are set! The tournament will run 4-5th of May and there’s prize money! Make sure to sign up at: http://www.z33k.com/games/bloodlinechampions/tournaments/6661-prowuju-tournament
Last but definitely not least! Bloodline champions $10k Tournament at Dreamhack Summer 2012! It’s too big news to fit here, so make sure to read the full announcement here!
BLC DreamHack Summer 2012 Tournament announcement!
Posted: 2012-04-25 - Category: News - Permalink - Forum Post
Funcom and Stunlock Studios are proud to announce the presence of Bloodline Champions at DreamHack Summer 2012! During the event there will be a tournament with a $10,000 prize pool!
Today we’re proud to present details about our upcoming e-Sports tournament in Bloodline Champions. The $10,000 tournament will be a 12-team Double Elimination tournament, 8 Teams will qualify via in-game tournament qualifiers and an additional 4 teams will qualify from the DreamHack BYOC. The BYOC teams will start in the loser bracket and have to fight their way up from there to get a chance to reach the finals.
All matches will of course be broadcasted live at http://www.twitch.tv. More information and details about the on-site coverage will be presented later.
Tournament Details
Dates: DreamHack Summer 16-19 June 2012
Format: 3v3 Arena
Teams: 12 (8 Qualified, 4 BYOC)
BYOC Tournament format: Single Elimination
Main Tournament format: Double Elimination where the BYOC teams start in Loser bracket
Tournament set-up: All matches to be played in the Tournament Area
Prize Pool: 10 000 USD
1. 6000 USD
2. 3000 USD
3. 1000 USD
Qualifier tournaments:
The qualifier tournaments will run in the in-game system each Sunday between 29th of April until the 20th of May. This gives us a total of 4 tournaments where the top two (2) teams qualify to attend the tournament at DreamHack.
The specific dates and times for qualifiers:
Sunday 29/4 17:00 UTC - Finished! Hotell (Muhle, ALTAAR, soho1), Chanthundi (thunderr, Diablo, Chanzui)
Sunday 6/5 17:00 UTC
Sunday 13/5 17:00 UTC
Sunday 20/5 17:00 UTC
We wish all teams best of luck in the qualifiers!
• Players wishing to participate via the BYOC tournament must register and buy a computer seat ticket at : http://bokning.dreamhack.se/
-The BYOC will be run in the in-game tournament system and only players from within Dreamhack will be able
to join. The BYOC is scheduled to start 18:30 (local time)
• The eight qualifying teams will receive a tournament pass which will allow free entry to the BLC tournament worth 550SEK per player.
Today we’re proud to present details about our upcoming e-Sports tournament in Bloodline Champions. The $10,000 tournament will be a 12-team Double Elimination tournament, 8 Teams will qualify via in-game tournament qualifiers and an additional 4 teams will qualify from the DreamHack BYOC. The BYOC teams will start in the loser bracket and have to fight their way up from there to get a chance to reach the finals.
All matches will of course be broadcasted live at http://www.twitch.tv. More information and details about the on-site coverage will be presented later.
Tournament Details
Dates: DreamHack Summer 16-19 June 2012
Format: 3v3 Arena
Teams: 12 (8 Qualified, 4 BYOC)
BYOC Tournament format: Single Elimination
Main Tournament format: Double Elimination where the BYOC teams start in Loser bracket
Tournament set-up: All matches to be played in the Tournament Area
Prize Pool: 10 000 USD
1. 6000 USD
2. 3000 USD
3. 1000 USD
Qualifier tournaments:
The qualifier tournaments will run in the in-game system each Sunday between 29th of April until the 20th of May. This gives us a total of 4 tournaments where the top two (2) teams qualify to attend the tournament at DreamHack.
The specific dates and times for qualifiers:
Sunday 29/4 17:00 UTC - Finished! Hotell (Muhle, ALTAAR, soho1), Chanthundi (thunderr, Diablo, Chanzui)
Sunday 6/5 17:00 UTC
Sunday 13/5 17:00 UTC
Sunday 20/5 17:00 UTC
We wish all teams best of luck in the qualifiers!
• Players wishing to participate via the BYOC tournament must register and buy a computer seat ticket at : http://bokning.dreamhack.se/
-The BYOC will be run in the in-game tournament system and only players from within Dreamhack will be able
to join. The BYOC is scheduled to start 18:30 (local time)
• The eight qualifying teams will receive a tournament pass which will allow free entry to the BLC tournament worth 550SEK per player.
Egg contest winners!
Posted: 2012-04-25 - Category: Community News - Permalink - Forum Post
The winners of the easter egg painting contest!
1st prize goes to: OldRoot
2nd prize goes to: AdmiralAckbar
3rd prize goes to: All other participants!
Awesome job everybody!
You'll receive key codes to redeem in-game via forum PM!
1st prize goes to: OldRoot
2nd prize goes to: AdmiralAckbar
3rd prize goes to: All other participants!
Awesome job everybody!
You'll receive key codes to redeem in-game via forum PM!
Dryad "Be creative" contest!
Posted: 2012-04-25 - Category: Community News - Permalink - Forum Post
This is an open concept contest! Do whatever you want; be creative and think outside the box!
Give us something that is inspired by: The Dryad
Example: Cosplay, wallpaper, cake, play a tune...
The way to win is to impress the Stunlock team.
Submissions need to be in before 00:01 UTC Monday 7th of May.
Prizes!
1st: Dryad Ultimate pre-order pack
2nd: Dryad pre-order pack
3rd to 5th: The Dryad bloodline
Go nuts! ^^
Give us something that is inspired by: The Dryad
Example: Cosplay, wallpaper, cake, play a tune...
The way to win is to impress the Stunlock team.
Submissions need to be in before 00:01 UTC Monday 7th of May.
Prizes!
1st: Dryad Ultimate pre-order pack
2nd: Dryad pre-order pack
3rd to 5th: The Dryad bloodline
Go nuts! ^^
Steelseries Sensei Winter Tournament finals starting!
Posted: 2012-04-22 - Category: News - Permalink - Forum Post
The steelseries Sensei Winter Tournamnet finals are about to begin!
8 teams will fight in a double elimination tournament for the fancy prizes!
The show starts at 17:00 UTC!
You can follow the fight at: http://www.twitch.tv/haridean
And for loser bracket fights: http://www.twitch.tv/programmerarn
Brackets can be found at: http://challonge.com/blcsteelseries
For you who have been participating in the qualifiers, we've been running a lottery and some of the winners will be announce during the stream.
Every one who've won something will be contacted via a reward in-game during the few upcoming days.
If you don't win, better luck next time!
The teams that are playing:
8 teams will fight in a double elimination tournament for the fancy prizes!
The show starts at 17:00 UTC!
You can follow the fight at: http://www.twitch.tv/haridean
And for loser bracket fights: http://www.twitch.tv/programmerarn
Brackets can be found at: http://challonge.com/blcsteelseries
For you who have been participating in the qualifiers, we've been running a lottery and some of the winners will be announce during the stream.
Every one who've won something will be contacted via a reward in-game during the few upcoming days.
If you don't win, better luck next time!
The teams that are playing:
Spoiler: show
ZEPH NO DISBAND TEAM (21/12)
Sapador
Obbeluff
Zheant
MrDandiktory (28/12)
Mr2
Dandido
Viktory
The Unlikely Trio (4/1) Previously known as "iShareMyBrewnArrows"
Noxo
Tipper
Wauro
Razer.MiF (18/4)
Entarion
jouho
Gazhag
4Kings (14/1)
Pandrum
Zab
Kippacat
Godzilla Goes Sweden (19/1)
Malakor
choperius
HybriD
myspatrullen (18/4)
Vuze
Bubba
grimgorn
Pompelipuu (18/4)
Firzenizer
mulkmulkmulk
KieZuZ
Sapador
Obbeluff
Zheant
MrDandiktory (28/12)
Mr2
Dandido
Viktory
The Unlikely Trio (4/1) Previously known as "iShareMyBrewnArrows"
Noxo
Tipper
Wauro
Razer.MiF (18/4)
Entarion
jouho
Gazhag
4Kings (14/1)
Pandrum
Zab
Kippacat
Godzilla Goes Sweden (19/1)
Malakor
choperius
HybriD
myspatrullen (18/4)
Vuze
Bubba
grimgorn
Pompelipuu (18/4)
Firzenizer
mulkmulkmulk
KieZuZ
Weekly #16!
Posted: 2012-04-18 - Category: News - Permalink - Forum Post
So the roundtable that was planned to run along with the Dryad sneak peek got postponed until today!
She’s cute, she’s musically talented and she heals like a boss! Want to know more?
Make sure to tune in at http://www.twitch.tv/semmlertheriot around 19:30 UTC for a sneak peek and to hear what the pros have to say about her!
US server issue
We had problems with the US servers a few nights ago and we’re terribly sorry for the inconvenience and the time it took to fix, as well as the lack of communication regarding it.
What seem to have happened was that the bloodgate and the game servers had communication issues. This did not show as an error which resulted in the servers not alerting the operations team.
We’ll keep a closer look at the servers to prevent this from happening again and try to find out what caused this.
Upcoming patch!
We have a patch planned to be released next wednesday!
This patch will contain, as you might expect, Dryad the recently revealed bloodline! Other than that we’ve also worked on the following:
- Solo/party queues will use Grade instead of a hidden matchmaking rating for matchmaking
- Combat log will now display your damage and healing done as well as received
- We’ve added a new Player Statistics Window so observers can easily bring up a window displaying the average combat statistics a player has had during his career for his current bloodline and compare those statistics with his performance throughout the current match.
For the full patch notes visit this post
Marketplace
We’ve added a bunch of new Totemic Weapons in the marketplace and there are some Accessory pack available until next Wednesday!
Just today you can also get the Astronomer Dance Emote at 75% off!
Grade reset poll
If you haven’t voted yet, make sure to do it before 10:00 UTC on the 20th of April! We’ll close the poll at that time and the result it shows at that time is the result that counts.
Vote here!
Tournaments
The SteelSeries Sensei Winter tournament finals are on! Tomorrow we’ll run an in-game qualifier for the 2 open slots that appeared as a couple of the old teams that qualified decided not to take part this time around. The qualifier runs at 16:00 UTC Thursday the 19/4.
The Finals will run on Sunday 17:00 UTC and will be casted by Haridean over at twitch.tv/haridean
(we've delayed it an hour to make sure all teams can play)
For more information visit this post
And last but not least!
We’re running an XP boost weekend this weekend! Don’t miss it!
Cheers! \o/ <3
She’s cute, she’s musically talented and she heals like a boss! Want to know more?
Make sure to tune in at http://www.twitch.tv/semmlertheriot around 19:30 UTC for a sneak peek and to hear what the pros have to say about her!
US server issue
We had problems with the US servers a few nights ago and we’re terribly sorry for the inconvenience and the time it took to fix, as well as the lack of communication regarding it.
What seem to have happened was that the bloodgate and the game servers had communication issues. This did not show as an error which resulted in the servers not alerting the operations team.
We’ll keep a closer look at the servers to prevent this from happening again and try to find out what caused this.
Upcoming patch!
We have a patch planned to be released next wednesday!
This patch will contain, as you might expect, Dryad the recently revealed bloodline! Other than that we’ve also worked on the following:
- Solo/party queues will use Grade instead of a hidden matchmaking rating for matchmaking
- Combat log will now display your damage and healing done as well as received
- We’ve added a new Player Statistics Window so observers can easily bring up a window displaying the average combat statistics a player has had during his career for his current bloodline and compare those statistics with his performance throughout the current match.
For the full patch notes visit this post
Marketplace
We’ve added a bunch of new Totemic Weapons in the marketplace and there are some Accessory pack available until next Wednesday!
Just today you can also get the Astronomer Dance Emote at 75% off!
Grade reset poll
If you haven’t voted yet, make sure to do it before 10:00 UTC on the 20th of April! We’ll close the poll at that time and the result it shows at that time is the result that counts.
Vote here!
Tournaments
The SteelSeries Sensei Winter tournament finals are on! Tomorrow we’ll run an in-game qualifier for the 2 open slots that appeared as a couple of the old teams that qualified decided not to take part this time around. The qualifier runs at 16:00 UTC Thursday the 19/4.
The Finals will run on Sunday 17:00 UTC and will be casted by Haridean over at twitch.tv/haridean
(we've delayed it an hour to make sure all teams can play)
For more information visit this post
And last but not least!
We’re running an XP boost weekend this weekend! Don’t miss it!
Cheers! \o/ <3
Patch 2.4
Posted: 2012-04-18 - Category: Patch Notes - Permalink - Forum Post
New Healer Bloodline - Dryad
Song of Despair (MB1)
Sends off magical tones that do moderate damage and inspires Confidence in yourself, increasing movement speed.
Soothing Melody (MB2)
Sends off magical tones that heal an ally for a moderate amount of health.
Nature's Aegis (Space)
Move the mouse cursor over yourself or an ally when casting to shield them from damage. The shield rotates toward their cursor position and negates projectiles and melee attacks that are blocked by the shield.
Nature's Wonder (Q)
Grows a magical grove at the cursor position that slightly slows enemies in the area.
Does moderate damage, amplifies damage and slows enemies within the grove when a nearby enemy is hit by Song of Despair.
When Soothing Melody is cast near the grove, it pulses with energy and heals nearby allies for a small amount of health.
Suggestive Tune (E)
Fires suggestive tones that allow you to control an enemy's movement. Pressing the button again will cancel the effect and paralyze the enemy.
Nature's Companion(R)
Sends a forest wisp towards the cursor position that heals nearby allies and damages nearby enemies. When the wisp disappears, it immobilizes nearby enemies.
Pressing the button again after casting will pull you towards the wisp, destroying it.
Wild's Vengeance(F)
Calls upon the destructive powers of the earth spirits to transport you in the direction of the cursor position, doing massive damage to enemies and throwing them away from you, paralyzing them as they land.
Leaf Blower (EX Space)
Creates a shield around you that rotates towards your cursor position, reflects projectiles that are blocked by the shield and knocks back enemies.
Purify (EX R)
Fires a raging earth spirit that removes positive effects and does moderate damage to enemies near the impact. Removes negative effects from allies near the impact and heals them for a moderate amount of health.
New Player Statistics Window
Observers can now easily bring up a window displaying the average bloodline statistics a player has had during his career for his current bloodline, and compare those stats with his current performance throughout the game. To display this window, observers can right click the player frames in the top right and left corners in the Observer HUD, alternatively press and hold CTRL for warm team or SHIFT for cold team, and press Numpad 1-5 depending on which player you want in that team.
Bug fixes and improvements
• Fixed a bug causing the Scrolling Combat Text to display incorrect values
• Killing blow/over kill texts and over kill particle system should now work properly again
• Stone Form, Nurturing Roots and similar spells now negate debuffs instead of dispelling them after they have been applied
• The correct particle system and ability names should now be visible when casting an EX-ability
• Fixed a Favorite Bloodline bug that would set the last played bloodline as favorite bloodline after disconnecting from a game
• Fixed a bug that caused auto-AFK to not work properly
• Fixed a crash that could occur during a match
• Changed solo/party queues to use Grade instead of a hidden matchmaking rating
• Fixed a bug that caused weapons to disappear if alt-tabbing during load time while in full-screen
• Fixed an issue that caused the screen to turn purple after alt-tabbing/dragging the game to another screen
• Fixed an issue what would cause the game to freeze/crash after alt-tabbing/dragging the game to another screen
• Fixed particle issues for Seeker M1, Stalker M1 and some other abilities.
• Combat log now displays both your damage and healing done as well as received.
Bloodlines & Abilities
Harbinger
Blood Grip (M2)
• Silence duration is now 0.5s-0.8s depending on distance travelled
Inhibitor
Runic Beam
• Reduced width by 40%~
• Delay increased to 0.7s from 0.6s
• Immobilize duration reduced to 1.2 from 2 seconds
• Immobilize now breaks on damage
Storm Caller
Emperors Wrath (F)
• Damage increased to 340 from 280
Lightning Shield (R)
• Duration up to 2.6s from 2.5s
• No longer fires the projectiles when the shield duration ends
• Now explodes when the duration runs out and shocks nearby enemies for the shields remaining health and heals self for the same amount
Headhunter
Slayers Rush (Space)
• The effect is now only removed when using Menacing Slash
Harvest Blood (Q)
• Now always does the same amount of damage even when consuming Open Wound
• Damage and Healing increased to 130 from 110
• Maximum Healing when hitting multiple enemies up to 200 from 180
Enrage (R)
• Fixed a bug where Enrage didn't properly negate Black Dagger
Debilitating Strike (EX M2)
• Fixed a bug where Debilitating Strike sometimes did more damage than intended
Engineer
Enlarge (EX R)
• Fixed a bug causing Enlarge to grant energy when dealing damage and knockbacking nearby enemies
Metal Warden
Iron Claw (R)
• Now reduces energy gained from hitting a shielded target by 75%
• Energy gained from projectile attacks up to 3 from 2
• Bolt Velocity increased to 380 from 350
• Velocity and range of bolts is now displayed in the tooltip
Metal Blast (M1)
• Velocity up to 230 from 220
Energy Leash (E)
• Now has a 0.3s delay before it activates. Upon activation all enemies inside the area are affected by Magnetize; Reduces Projectile speed by 40% for 3.2s
• Duration up to 2.3s from 2s
Gunner
Rocket Jump (Space)
• Area down to 28 from 35
• Damage down to 120 from 150
Seeker
Fire Arrow (M2)
• No longer triggers Immolation area effect when negated
Song of Despair (MB1)
Sends off magical tones that do moderate damage and inspires Confidence in yourself, increasing movement speed.
Soothing Melody (MB2)
Sends off magical tones that heal an ally for a moderate amount of health.
Nature's Aegis (Space)
Move the mouse cursor over yourself or an ally when casting to shield them from damage. The shield rotates toward their cursor position and negates projectiles and melee attacks that are blocked by the shield.
Nature's Wonder (Q)
Grows a magical grove at the cursor position that slightly slows enemies in the area.
Does moderate damage, amplifies damage and slows enemies within the grove when a nearby enemy is hit by Song of Despair.
When Soothing Melody is cast near the grove, it pulses with energy and heals nearby allies for a small amount of health.
Suggestive Tune (E)
Fires suggestive tones that allow you to control an enemy's movement. Pressing the button again will cancel the effect and paralyze the enemy.
Nature's Companion(R)
Sends a forest wisp towards the cursor position that heals nearby allies and damages nearby enemies. When the wisp disappears, it immobilizes nearby enemies.
Pressing the button again after casting will pull you towards the wisp, destroying it.
Wild's Vengeance(F)
Calls upon the destructive powers of the earth spirits to transport you in the direction of the cursor position, doing massive damage to enemies and throwing them away from you, paralyzing them as they land.
Leaf Blower (EX Space)
Creates a shield around you that rotates towards your cursor position, reflects projectiles that are blocked by the shield and knocks back enemies.
Purify (EX R)
Fires a raging earth spirit that removes positive effects and does moderate damage to enemies near the impact. Removes negative effects from allies near the impact and heals them for a moderate amount of health.
New Player Statistics Window
Observers can now easily bring up a window displaying the average bloodline statistics a player has had during his career for his current bloodline, and compare those stats with his current performance throughout the game. To display this window, observers can right click the player frames in the top right and left corners in the Observer HUD, alternatively press and hold CTRL for warm team or SHIFT for cold team, and press Numpad 1-5 depending on which player you want in that team.
Bug fixes and improvements
• Fixed a bug causing the Scrolling Combat Text to display incorrect values
• Killing blow/over kill texts and over kill particle system should now work properly again
• Stone Form, Nurturing Roots and similar spells now negate debuffs instead of dispelling them after they have been applied
• The correct particle system and ability names should now be visible when casting an EX-ability
• Fixed a Favorite Bloodline bug that would set the last played bloodline as favorite bloodline after disconnecting from a game
• Fixed a bug that caused auto-AFK to not work properly
• Fixed a crash that could occur during a match
• Changed solo/party queues to use Grade instead of a hidden matchmaking rating
• Fixed a bug that caused weapons to disappear if alt-tabbing during load time while in full-screen
• Fixed an issue that caused the screen to turn purple after alt-tabbing/dragging the game to another screen
• Fixed an issue what would cause the game to freeze/crash after alt-tabbing/dragging the game to another screen
• Fixed particle issues for Seeker M1, Stalker M1 and some other abilities.
• Combat log now displays both your damage and healing done as well as received.
Bloodlines & Abilities
Harbinger
Blood Grip (M2)
• Silence duration is now 0.5s-0.8s depending on distance travelled
Inhibitor
Runic Beam
• Reduced width by 40%~
• Delay increased to 0.7s from 0.6s
• Immobilize duration reduced to 1.2 from 2 seconds
• Immobilize now breaks on damage
Storm Caller
Emperors Wrath (F)
• Damage increased to 340 from 280
Lightning Shield (R)
• Duration up to 2.6s from 2.5s
• No longer fires the projectiles when the shield duration ends
• Now explodes when the duration runs out and shocks nearby enemies for the shields remaining health and heals self for the same amount
Headhunter
Slayers Rush (Space)
• The effect is now only removed when using Menacing Slash
Harvest Blood (Q)
• Now always does the same amount of damage even when consuming Open Wound
• Damage and Healing increased to 130 from 110
• Maximum Healing when hitting multiple enemies up to 200 from 180
Enrage (R)
• Fixed a bug where Enrage didn't properly negate Black Dagger
Debilitating Strike (EX M2)
• Fixed a bug where Debilitating Strike sometimes did more damage than intended
Engineer
Enlarge (EX R)
• Fixed a bug causing Enlarge to grant energy when dealing damage and knockbacking nearby enemies
Metal Warden
Iron Claw (R)
• Now reduces energy gained from hitting a shielded target by 75%
• Energy gained from projectile attacks up to 3 from 2
• Bolt Velocity increased to 380 from 350
• Velocity and range of bolts is now displayed in the tooltip
Metal Blast (M1)
• Velocity up to 230 from 220
Energy Leash (E)
• Now has a 0.3s delay before it activates. Upon activation all enemies inside the area are affected by Magnetize; Reduces Projectile speed by 40% for 3.2s
• Duration up to 2.3s from 2s
Gunner
Rocket Jump (Space)
• Area down to 28 from 35
• Damage down to 120 from 150
Seeker
Fire Arrow (M2)
• No longer triggers Immolation area effect when negated
Dryad sneak peek postponed until tomorrow!
Posted: 2012-04-17 - Category: Community News - Permalink - Forum Post
Tomorrow Semmler The Riot will show you a sneak peek of the upcoming bloodline Dryad before the roundtable!
During the roundtable the pros who have tried her out will discuss their experience and opinion of her!
Don't miss it!
During the roundtable the pros who have tried her out will discuss their experience and opinion of her!
Don't miss it!
Steelseries Sensei Winter Tournament Finals! (22/4)
Posted: 2012-04-17 - Category: News - Permalink - Forum Post
The time have finally come! The Finals of the SteelSeries Sensei Winter Tournament!
We had snow falling today here in Skövde, Sweden, so it’s still winter!
The finals will run at 17:00 UTC on Sunday (22/4) and will be streamed and casted by Haridean with guest appearances from some of the professional BLC players!
You will be able to find the stream at: http://www.twitch.tv/haridean
(Finals have been delayed an hour to make sure all teams are able to play)
Additional Qualifier
Unfortunately, we’ve had 3 drop outs from previous qualifiers. This means we have 3 open team slots and will run a new qualifier to fill them the remaining slots.
This Thursday (19/4) at 16:00 UTC there will be an in-game qualifier running with the top 2 teams advancing to the finals this Sunday, so don’t miss your chance at some cool loot!
Teams that have already qualified are not allowed to participate.
Qualified teams
The finals will be done in double elimination and the qualified teams are:
ZEPH NO DISBAND TEAM (21/12)
Sapador
Obbeluff
Zheant
MrDandiktory (28/12)
Mr2
Dandido
Viktory
The Unlikely Trio(4/1) Previously known as "iShareMyBrewnArrows"
Noxo
Tipper
Wauro
Team 4
TBA
4Kings (14/1)
Pandrum
Zab
Kippacat
Godzilla Goes Sweden (19/1)
Malakor
choperius
HybriD
Team 7
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Team 8
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SteelSeries Lottery
During the stream we'll also announce the winners of the SteelSeries lottery for people who have participated in the in-game qualifiers! All people who have played in the qualifiers have a chance to win. There will also be some free loot keys handed out during the stream!
The lottery will contain some of the following prizes: SteelSeries Siberia V2 White, SteelSeries 9HD, SteelSeries QcK Heavy, Gold outfits, Troll Medallions, Lightning Weapons and much more!
We had snow falling today here in Skövde, Sweden, so it’s still winter!
The finals will run at 17:00 UTC on Sunday (22/4) and will be streamed and casted by Haridean with guest appearances from some of the professional BLC players!
You will be able to find the stream at: http://www.twitch.tv/haridean
(Finals have been delayed an hour to make sure all teams are able to play)
Additional Qualifier
Unfortunately, we’ve had 3 drop outs from previous qualifiers. This means we have 3 open team slots and will run a new qualifier to fill them the remaining slots.
This Thursday (19/4) at 16:00 UTC there will be an in-game qualifier running with the top 2 teams advancing to the finals this Sunday, so don’t miss your chance at some cool loot!
Teams that have already qualified are not allowed to participate.
Qualified teams
The finals will be done in double elimination and the qualified teams are:
ZEPH NO DISBAND TEAM (21/12)
Sapador
Obbeluff
Zheant
MrDandiktory (28/12)
Mr2
Dandido
Viktory
The Unlikely Trio(4/1) Previously known as "iShareMyBrewnArrows"
Noxo
Tipper
Wauro
Team 4
TBA
4Kings (14/1)
Pandrum
Zab
Kippacat
Godzilla Goes Sweden (19/1)
Malakor
choperius
HybriD
Team 7
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Team 8
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SteelSeries Lottery
During the stream we'll also announce the winners of the SteelSeries lottery for people who have participated in the in-game qualifiers! All people who have played in the qualifiers have a chance to win. There will also be some free loot keys handed out during the stream!
The lottery will contain some of the following prizes: SteelSeries Siberia V2 White, SteelSeries 9HD, SteelSeries QcK Heavy, Gold outfits, Troll Medallions, Lightning Weapons and much more!
Weekly #15!
Posted: 2012-04-11 - Category: News - Permalink - Forum Post
Don’t miss the stream sneak peek with Semmler the Riot before the upcoming roundtable next Tuesday evening at 19:00 UTC where he’ll discuss her with the pros who’ve tried her out!
Gold and Diamond emotes 40% off this week!
Don’t miss, just today! Reaver 50% off!
Balance
Inhibitor's Runic Beam has been quite the topic since the launch of 2.3.1. We are,
as always, extremely conscious of the balance in BLC and realize that Runic Beam
turned out to be a severe threat to the stability of the BLC Meta game.
Releasing it in its current state was of course unacceptable and in the
future we will work more closely with the top players to try to pick their
brains regarding risky bloodline changes like this. Some changes we
aim to make are a greatly lowered width, immobilize breaking on
damage and a reduction on the duration of immobilize.
In other balance-related news, we are looking into a few tweaks to
Harbinger as well as taking a closer look at our recently released bloodlines,
Stormcaller, Headhunter and Metal Warden.
Grade Reset?
The grade reset poll is still up and running and will be up until the 20th of April. Make sure to vote to get
your voice heard!
Vote here!
Some other polls
ProgrammeraN, our moderator/intern has also put up some polls to get some input from you guys on some questions
and suggestions that have been floating around the forums for a while.
Which are your favorite bloodlines?
Should a Multiple Bloodline ban be implemented in BLC?
Should a Bloodline banning feature be added to BLC?
Still some easter spirit left!
Since we love the Easter bunny and candy we’re keeping the Easter spirit until next week with the egg painting
contest! Just get an egg and paint it BLC themed and you get a chance to win
some loot!
Check this link out for more information
Tournaments and community stuff!
If you’re interested in some community tournaments make sure to swing by Pro Wuju and sign your team up to get their tournament going!
Visit Pro Wuju
Lots of love! <3
Should we reset grades with next patch? Vote here!
Posted: 2012-04-05 - Category: Community News - Permalink - Forum Post
Do you want a Grade reset right now or not? Vote here!
By "right now" we mean during the current season, when the next patch is released.
If you are reading this from the website news section, you can find the forum poll here.
From Weekly Update #14:
Key Part:
By "right now" we mean during the current season, when the next patch is released.
If you are reading this from the website news section, you can find the forum poll here.
From Weekly Update #14:
Key Part:
Tau wrote:If, on the 20th of April, 75% of you guys have voted for us to do a grade reset already for the next coming patch, we will reset then. This would be during the season though, so you need to consider that.
Tau wrote:Grade Reset Discussion
There’s been quite a lot of reaction on our decision to not reset grades when the new season started. There’s of course pros and cons to doing a grade reset at season endings. We thought we’d share how our thoughts went when we decided to not do a grade reset this time around. To start with it’s not a standard routine in BLC to do a grade reset at the end of a season. When we made this decision we felt it was too close to the season ending to tell people who worked hard at their grades that they would be reset and have to start over. With or without grade reset some people will get mad, this time we felt it was fairer to not punish people who’ve worked hard and were not anticipating this. With the reactions we’ve read on the forums we’ll look into adding a reset as a standard routine at the end of a season so that everyone would be prepared for this to happen. We’re also looking into adding a little extra bragging right to people who did well in a season so they feel their hard work was worth it. At the moment you get your title and reward, but we think you guys deserve even more after doing so well. We will see what we can add for next season!
Since it seem like a lot of people would like a grade reset, especially since we did some changes to the matchmaking, we will put up a poll tomorrow that’ll run until the 20th of April. If, on the 20th of April, 75% of you guys have voted for us to do a grade reset already for the next coming patch, we will reset then. This would be during the season though, so you need to consider that.
Weekly #14! Happy Easter! \o/
Posted: 2012-04-04 - Category: News - Permalink - Forum Post
We’re working on an upcoming Bloodline, here’s a little sneak peek, we’re not ready to let you know more just yet!
Grade Reset Discussion
There’s been quite a lot of reaction on our decision to not reset grades when the new season started. There’s of course pros and cons to doing a grade reset at season endings. We thought we’d share how our thoughts went when we decided to not do a grade reset this time around. To start with it’s not a standard routine in BLC to do a grade reset at the end of a season. When we made this decision we felt it was too close to the season ending to tell people who worked hard at their grades that they would be reset and have to start over. With or without grade reset some people will get mad, this time we felt it was fairer to not punish people who’ve worked hard and were not anticipating this. With the reactions we’ve read on the forums we’ll look into adding a reset as a standard routine at the end of a season so that everyone would be prepared for this to happen. We’re also looking into adding a little extra bragging right to people who did well in a season so they feel their hard work was worth it. At the moment you get your title and reward, but we think you guys deserve even more after doing so well. We will see what we can add for next season!
Since it seem like a lot of people would like a grade reset, especially since we did some changes to the matchmaking, we will put up a poll tomorrow that’ll run until the 20th of April. If, on the 20th of April, 75% of you guys have voted for us to do a grade reset already for the next coming patch, we will reset then. This would be during the season though, so you need to consider that.
Unrated Matchmaking Changes
For next patch we are looking into changing how matchmaking is handled for unranked matchmaking. Currently a hidden matchmaking rating connected only to unranked matchmaking is used, which result into players that have high grade from ranked get incorrectly matched.
What we want to do is to remove this hidden matchmaking rating and instead use the actual grade when doing matchmaking for unranked games. This will result in equal grade differences in both teams and hopefully give a lot better matchmaking for unranked games.
A bunch of stuff is happening in the marketplace atm! To start with:
One day sale! Just today! Imposter suit is at 75% off! Get it before midnight UTC!
The New Community Avatars have been released!
We have some great work from the community and we hope you’ll enjoy them!
Easter Reward
Happy Easter everybody! Don’t forget to log into the game to get your little Easter gift!
Egg contest!
Due to the holidays we’ll run a theme contest! All you need to do to have a chance on some fancy prizes is to paint a BLC themed egg! More information can be found in this post.
Happy Easter and I hope you’ll eat loads of candy and meet the Easter bunny! <3
I’ll be focusing on lollipops and chocolate for holiday treats! ;)
Easter egg contest!
Posted: 2012-04-04 - Category: Community News - Permalink - Forum Post
Easter is here and we love candy and chickens and bunnies with eggs! Why does the bunny have eggs? We don't care, it's super cute and we love it!
So we're running a contest as a tribute to candy and the easter bunny!
(In Sweden we also have easter witches, they go from door to door and collect candy so they won't eat your children then they fly on their broom to a giant witch party! I'd love to go to that party, witches and candy!)
What you need to do to participate:
Get an egg, we suggest an egg from a grocery store.
Paint your egg with something BLC themed.
Take a picture of it
Post it in this thread
Prizes:
1st Prize: 1 Gold Outfit of your choice, all eggniter outfits, the easter troll medallion
2nd Prize: 1 Armoured Outfit of your choice, the easter troll medallion
3rd Prize: 1 Bronze outfit of your choice, the easter troll medallion
One entry each.
Submissions are to be done as a post in this thread.
The entry must reference Bloodline Champions!
Entries must be submitted before 22:00 UTC April 18th
Submit your entries in this forum thread.
So we're running a contest as a tribute to candy and the easter bunny!
(In Sweden we also have easter witches, they go from door to door and collect candy so they won't eat your children then they fly on their broom to a giant witch party! I'd love to go to that party, witches and candy!)
What you need to do to participate:
Get an egg, we suggest an egg from a grocery store.
Paint your egg with something BLC themed.
Take a picture of it
Post it in this thread
Prizes:
1st Prize: 1 Gold Outfit of your choice, all eggniter outfits, the easter troll medallion
2nd Prize: 1 Armoured Outfit of your choice, the easter troll medallion
3rd Prize: 1 Bronze outfit of your choice, the easter troll medallion
One entry each.
Submissions are to be done as a post in this thread.
The entry must reference Bloodline Champions!
Entries must be submitted before 22:00 UTC April 18th
Submit your entries in this forum thread.
Limerick Contest Winners! \o/
Posted: 2012-04-04 - Category: Community News - Permalink - Forum Post
Tons of awesome submissions!
While we've chosen 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, they are extremely close to each other with many more being top three candidates, one of the hardest picks yet!
1st Place – Vheos777
2nd Place – List
3rd Place - Loyalar
And before a refined gentleman mentions it; yes there's fart humour in there. Fart humour is still humour I say! *cussing*
While we've chosen 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, they are extremely close to each other with many more being top three candidates, one of the hardest picks yet!
1st Place – Vheos777
For power, for glory and fame -
For mankind to blare your name;
___To reach the peak of your skill,
___To feel the thrill of the kill
Or leave this world with shame...
2nd Place – List
One Ranid Assassin thought himself so smart,
Sneaking on his prey with a poisonous dart;
___But while in stealth mode,
___Disguised as a green toad,
He was discovered after a noisy fart.
3rd Place - Loyalar
I am Thorn, often called "the cc cheese."
My enemies make me sigh: "oh please."
___They make me cackle.
___They fear my tentacle.
It's a good thing that they ain't Japanese.
And before a refined gentleman mentions it; yes there's fart humour in there. Fart humour is still humour I say! *cussing*
New approach and focus for BLC
Posted: 2012-04-01 - Category: News - Permalink - Forum Post
With the worrying announcement about WCG no longer supporting PC titles and with the great success with parts of the Manly Bacon tournament last weekend we’ve decided to take some new approaches to the development of Bloodline Champions.
New Game Mode
We’ll develop a new game mode around the “Catch the Ranid“ concept. The way the game mode plays is that one player gets put into the warm team and five others into the cold team. The player in the one man team is to choose a Bloodline and then try to get as many checkpoints on a map as possible. The “target” will have a buff to increase his survivability and to ensure a more balanced experience as well as match time not being too short. The check points light up to show the player where he needs to go, when he reached the checkpoint a new checkpoint lights up on a different location of the map. The other players’ directive is to kill the target; the player who gets the kill gets a reward. The target gets points for each checkpoint he reaches, and after the match the points are converted to a Blood Coin reward. Each game runs for 6 rounds and each player gets to play target once. The player who reaches the highest score during his round as “target” is the winner.
As you might suspect some bloodlines might need to be a bit rebalanced when this game mode has been implemented, we can expect changes to Alchemist for example.
New Platform
On top of this new exciting game mode we will also start working on a BLC Catch the Ranid client for Windows Phone 7, this decision has been made due to WCGs announcement about them dropping PC titles and focusing more on mobile platforms. So mobile is where the eSport scene is headed and at Stunlock we do not plan to fall behind. Since Bloodline Champions is developed in XNA, Windows Phone 7 is the natural selection for our development on a mobile platform. We hope to be able to implement cross platform so that the mobile players can join the same queue and play with the PC players in Catch the Ranid.
We expect the “Catch the Ranid” game mode to be finished in time for an early summer release and it will include matchmaking and full implementation in the tournament system.
New Tournament Sponsor!
For the upcoming tournaments we’ve gotten sponsorship from a world-wide fast food chain!
So are you a poor student? Have a hard time scraping together dinner? Only like burgers? Look no further!
Bloodline Champions is the game for you!
For the first tournament on the 7th of April we’ll have prize pool of
1st place: 1 double cheeseburger, big fries and a large drink for each team member
2nd place: 1 regular hamburger, medium fries and a medium drink for each team member
3rd place: 1 regular hamburger, small fries and a small drink for each team member
The prizes will be given out in coupons that you can use to collect at your local fast food place in the given chain.
(What chain we’re talking about is soon to be announced, we just need to finalize some papers and assets)
New Game Mode
We’ll develop a new game mode around the “Catch the Ranid“ concept. The way the game mode plays is that one player gets put into the warm team and five others into the cold team. The player in the one man team is to choose a Bloodline and then try to get as many checkpoints on a map as possible. The “target” will have a buff to increase his survivability and to ensure a more balanced experience as well as match time not being too short. The check points light up to show the player where he needs to go, when he reached the checkpoint a new checkpoint lights up on a different location of the map. The other players’ directive is to kill the target; the player who gets the kill gets a reward. The target gets points for each checkpoint he reaches, and after the match the points are converted to a Blood Coin reward. Each game runs for 6 rounds and each player gets to play target once. The player who reaches the highest score during his round as “target” is the winner.
As you might suspect some bloodlines might need to be a bit rebalanced when this game mode has been implemented, we can expect changes to Alchemist for example.
New Platform
On top of this new exciting game mode we will also start working on a BLC Catch the Ranid client for Windows Phone 7, this decision has been made due to WCGs announcement about them dropping PC titles and focusing more on mobile platforms. So mobile is where the eSport scene is headed and at Stunlock we do not plan to fall behind. Since Bloodline Champions is developed in XNA, Windows Phone 7 is the natural selection for our development on a mobile platform. We hope to be able to implement cross platform so that the mobile players can join the same queue and play with the PC players in Catch the Ranid.
We expect the “Catch the Ranid” game mode to be finished in time for an early summer release and it will include matchmaking and full implementation in the tournament system.
New Tournament Sponsor!
For the upcoming tournaments we’ve gotten sponsorship from a world-wide fast food chain!
So are you a poor student? Have a hard time scraping together dinner? Only like burgers? Look no further!
Bloodline Champions is the game for you!
For the first tournament on the 7th of April we’ll have prize pool of
1st place: 1 double cheeseburger, big fries and a large drink for each team member
2nd place: 1 regular hamburger, medium fries and a medium drink for each team member
3rd place: 1 regular hamburger, small fries and a small drink for each team member
The prizes will be given out in coupons that you can use to collect at your local fast food place in the given chain.
(What chain we’re talking about is soon to be announced, we just need to finalize some papers and assets)
Weekly #13!
Posted: 2012-03-28 - Category: News - Permalink - Forum Post
This week has not gone exactly as planned, but we’re just as happy anyways!
We had a patched planned today, but due to minor issues it’s been rescheduled for tomorrow. So the season will be extended until then. On top of that just thought I’d let you guys know there will be no grade reset with the new season starting. We have as you might have read also a long (8h) down time today for some backend maintenance work, it’s not fun but needed sometimes.
To the more fun parts! Patch tomorrow!
So yeah, patch going live tomorrow and we’ve released the patch notes <here>. If you can’t be bothered about the details, here’s some of the stuff you’ll find in the upcoming patch.
Read patch notes for details!
This weekend the first manly Bacon Community Tournament was held!
We hope you enjoyed the event and big congratulations to Meanwhile In Finland for taking home first place with a prize of $300! All other teams fought well and gave some really exciting matches! VoDs can be found at Semmler the Riots channel on twitchtv if you missed it!
I had a blast hosting our good friends Semmler the Riot, mr2 and Skrff in our home over the weekend. The place still stands and most stuff are not broken. Most stuff...
The next upcoming event we’re planning is to get done with the finals for the Steelseries Winter Sensei tournament! more information soon, I promise.
Sales this week will be focused around avatars!
We’re adding new season 5 avatars! Giving you a good deal on the soon to be gone Season 4 avatars! Sale on enmi, gender and community avatars from round 1! You’ll aslo see the old Chibi avatars back in the shop for the week at regular cost for both Funcom points and Bloodcoins! On top of that we also of course throw in the amazing 80% off pack for the Chibi avatars that have shown quite popular!
Limerick contest ends!
This Sunday is the last day to submit to the limerick contest! We’ve got some great submissions, don’t miss to read them over in the contest thread!
Starting in the beginning of next week there’s an event called Spektrum in Lund! They’ll host a local BLC tournament and hand out some keys to participants! So if you’re near by we hope you’ll try to attend or pop in!
<3
We had a patched planned today, but due to minor issues it’s been rescheduled for tomorrow. So the season will be extended until then. On top of that just thought I’d let you guys know there will be no grade reset with the new season starting. We have as you might have read also a long (8h) down time today for some backend maintenance work, it’s not fun but needed sometimes.
To the more fun parts! Patch tomorrow!
So yeah, patch going live tomorrow and we’ve released the patch notes <here>. If you can’t be bothered about the details, here’s some of the stuff you’ll find in the upcoming patch.
- Some reworks in the matchmaking system
- Ability to buy funcom points from in-game
- Alt-tab/ screen change in the loading - bug should be fixed, alt-tab away!
- Matchmaking penalty for parties to get more even matches
- Balance changes
- Other fixed bugs
- Other stuff!
Read patch notes for details!
This weekend the first manly Bacon Community Tournament was held!
We hope you enjoyed the event and big congratulations to Meanwhile In Finland for taking home first place with a prize of $300! All other teams fought well and gave some really exciting matches! VoDs can be found at Semmler the Riots channel on twitchtv if you missed it!
I had a blast hosting our good friends Semmler the Riot, mr2 and Skrff in our home over the weekend. The place still stands and most stuff are not broken. Most stuff...
The next upcoming event we’re planning is to get done with the finals for the Steelseries Winter Sensei tournament! more information soon, I promise.
Sales this week will be focused around avatars!
We’re adding new season 5 avatars! Giving you a good deal on the soon to be gone Season 4 avatars! Sale on enmi, gender and community avatars from round 1! You’ll aslo see the old Chibi avatars back in the shop for the week at regular cost for both Funcom points and Bloodcoins! On top of that we also of course throw in the amazing 80% off pack for the Chibi avatars that have shown quite popular!
Limerick contest ends!
This Sunday is the last day to submit to the limerick contest! We’ve got some great submissions, don’t miss to read them over in the contest thread!
Starting in the beginning of next week there’s an event called Spektrum in Lund! They’ll host a local BLC tournament and hand out some keys to participants! So if you’re near by we hope you’ll try to attend or pop in!
<3
Patch 2.3.1
Posted: 2012-03-28 - Category: Patch Notes - Permalink - Forum Post
Play With the Same
Players now have the option to form a party and continuing to play with the same players after a game in unrated matchmaking is finished (Arena, Conquest & CTA).
Rating System Changes
• The matchmaking system has been slightly reworked.
• Players will now experience more stable changes in rating after winning or losing, once you reach your expected score there won't be any big leaps in points up or down.
• It is now possible to gain 0 Score from a victory if the rating difference between two teams is too big.
Tournament System Rating Changes
• The tournament rating system has been reworked to reduce the possibility that teams that does not play any qualification games advance to brackets.
• Teams will acquire points depending on match result:
• 3 - 0 = 20p
• 3 - 1 = 15p
• 3 - 2 = 12p
• 2 - 3 = 8p
• 1 - 3 = 5p
• 0 - 3 = 0p
General
• Added support to purchase Funcom Points in-game for non-Steam users.
• Changed sorting for Tournament History. Most recent Tournaments are now listed on the first page.
• You are now able to leave a party by closing the party chat tab.
Bug Fixes
• Fixed a lot of issues that could occur due to alt-tabbing, minimizing, or dragging the game window to another screen. This should fix issues like invisible weapons, invisible spell effects, invisible Bloodgate GUI, purple screen and game crashes.
• Fixed a bug with party matchmaking/auto-balance. A party will now correctly get a "matchmaking penalty" and will thus face more skilled opponents.
• Added a proper error message when the shop is unresponsive instead of displaying funds as 0 in the shop.
• Fixed a bug where the header was offset in the shop item popup for Titles.
• The issue where players would have the old level 100 Achievement but not the level 75 Achievement should now be fixed (again).
• Fixed a bug that caused Replays to not become viewable directly after download through the Tournament bracket menu.
• Fixed a bug where naming a Replay with an invalid character would make it impossible to view.
• Trying to view a Replay that is not yet uploaded to the Replay Server will now give a correct error message.
Bloodlines & Abilities
• Leech abilities no longer give health to the attacker when negated by trances.
• AoE abilities now grants energy correctly when cast on trance-ing players.
• Fixed a bug where a player would remain transparent and grey after being dispelled from Other Side.
• Absorbing damage will now give tanked value in the scoreboard.
• Added scrolling combat text for when a player negates a spell.
• Fixed a bug where a player would get silenced for the rest of the game if he used possession on a player that was casting BubbleHearth.
• Fixed a bug where the player would rotate incorrectly when in Stoneform and the player would aim in another direction.
• Fixed a bug where shields such as barrier absorbed damage even when the player was using a trance/protection ability such as kunju, wuju and parry.
Inhibitor
Sol Bolt (M1)
• Consuming Ohm stacks now heal for 65 per stack, down from 70 per stack
Ohm Bolt (M2)
• Consuming Sol stacks now deal 55 damage per stack, down from 60 per stack
Runic Beam (EX Q)
• Now applies Spell Block in addition to Immobilize.
• Spell block interrupts next ability cast and disables it for 2.5 seconds. This lasts for 0.6s.
• Changed from a channelling ability to short cast time (0.4s) with delayed effect (0.6s).
Harbinger
Shadow Slash (M1)
• Healing from Haemorrhage down to 35% of damage dealt from 45% of damage dealt
Shadow Bolt (E)
• Minimum damage changed from 260 to 280
• Maximum damage changed from 380 to 360
Metal Warden
Charged Bolt (M2)
• Changed visuals to differentiate it more from Metal Blast
Iron Claw (R)
• This ability should now correctly absorb Meteor Medallion damage.
Seeker
Fire Arrow (M2)
• Lowered area to 18, from 24
Gunner
Execute (M2)
• Damage down to 385 from 395
• Damage reduction from piercing player down to 35% from 40%
Guardian
Counter Attack (E)
• Damage down to 140 from 160
• Area down to 18 from 20
Blood Priest
Blood Shield (R)
• Damage absorb up to 45% from 33%
• Removed self-healing
Head Hunter
Debilitating Strike (EX MB2)
• Fixed a bug where Debilitating Strike could one-shot players after being reflected.
Storm Caller
Lightning Shield (R)
• Lightning Shield can now be dispelled
Players now have the option to form a party and continuing to play with the same players after a game in unrated matchmaking is finished (Arena, Conquest & CTA).
Rating System Changes
• The matchmaking system has been slightly reworked.
• Players will now experience more stable changes in rating after winning or losing, once you reach your expected score there won't be any big leaps in points up or down.
• It is now possible to gain 0 Score from a victory if the rating difference between two teams is too big.
Tournament System Rating Changes
• The tournament rating system has been reworked to reduce the possibility that teams that does not play any qualification games advance to brackets.
• Teams will acquire points depending on match result:
• 3 - 0 = 20p
• 3 - 1 = 15p
• 3 - 2 = 12p
• 2 - 3 = 8p
• 1 - 3 = 5p
• 0 - 3 = 0p
General
• Added support to purchase Funcom Points in-game for non-Steam users.
• Changed sorting for Tournament History. Most recent Tournaments are now listed on the first page.
• You are now able to leave a party by closing the party chat tab.
Bug Fixes
• Fixed a lot of issues that could occur due to alt-tabbing, minimizing, or dragging the game window to another screen. This should fix issues like invisible weapons, invisible spell effects, invisible Bloodgate GUI, purple screen and game crashes.
• Fixed a bug with party matchmaking/auto-balance. A party will now correctly get a "matchmaking penalty" and will thus face more skilled opponents.
• Added a proper error message when the shop is unresponsive instead of displaying funds as 0 in the shop.
• Fixed a bug where the header was offset in the shop item popup for Titles.
• The issue where players would have the old level 100 Achievement but not the level 75 Achievement should now be fixed (again).
• Fixed a bug that caused Replays to not become viewable directly after download through the Tournament bracket menu.
• Fixed a bug where naming a Replay with an invalid character would make it impossible to view.
• Trying to view a Replay that is not yet uploaded to the Replay Server will now give a correct error message.
Bloodlines & Abilities
• Leech abilities no longer give health to the attacker when negated by trances.
• AoE abilities now grants energy correctly when cast on trance-ing players.
• Fixed a bug where a player would remain transparent and grey after being dispelled from Other Side.
• Absorbing damage will now give tanked value in the scoreboard.
• Added scrolling combat text for when a player negates a spell.
• Fixed a bug where a player would get silenced for the rest of the game if he used possession on a player that was casting BubbleHearth.
• Fixed a bug where the player would rotate incorrectly when in Stoneform and the player would aim in another direction.
• Fixed a bug where shields such as barrier absorbed damage even when the player was using a trance/protection ability such as kunju, wuju and parry.
Inhibitor
Sol Bolt (M1)
• Consuming Ohm stacks now heal for 65 per stack, down from 70 per stack
Ohm Bolt (M2)
• Consuming Sol stacks now deal 55 damage per stack, down from 60 per stack
Runic Beam (EX Q)
• Now applies Spell Block in addition to Immobilize.
• Spell block interrupts next ability cast and disables it for 2.5 seconds. This lasts for 0.6s.
• Changed from a channelling ability to short cast time (0.4s) with delayed effect (0.6s).
Harbinger
Shadow Slash (M1)
• Healing from Haemorrhage down to 35% of damage dealt from 45% of damage dealt
Shadow Bolt (E)
• Minimum damage changed from 260 to 280
• Maximum damage changed from 380 to 360
Metal Warden
Charged Bolt (M2)
• Changed visuals to differentiate it more from Metal Blast
Iron Claw (R)
• This ability should now correctly absorb Meteor Medallion damage.
Seeker
Fire Arrow (M2)
• Lowered area to 18, from 24
Gunner
Execute (M2)
• Damage down to 385 from 395
• Damage reduction from piercing player down to 35% from 40%
Guardian
Counter Attack (E)
• Damage down to 140 from 160
• Area down to 18 from 20
Blood Priest
Blood Shield (R)
• Damage absorb up to 45% from 33%
• Removed self-healing
Head Hunter
Debilitating Strike (EX MB2)
• Fixed a bug where Debilitating Strike could one-shot players after being reflected.
Storm Caller
Lightning Shield (R)
• Lightning Shield can now be dispelled
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