Season IV: Glory awaits!
The next season is creeping up fast and soon it will be hitting the live servers!
We thought it would be a great time to drop a summary of what to expect in the new season.
This has been discussed and talked about in bits and pieces on our Pawedcast, that we host every week on Sunday at 10 pm local Riga time on our Twitch channel (it is also restreamed to our DLive channel).
Overview
So let’s go through all the new features you can expect to see added with the next season and how the season itself will be progressing as time passes.
Here’s the feature list for the season:
- Season Pass progression
- Seasonal Adventure with Multiple Enemies
- Seasonal Raid bosses (first at the beginning of the season, and additional in a week)
- Brand new tournament system
- Reworked battle mechanics (aka HP battles)
- Updates to the crafting system
A lot of these systems have been in the works for months and introduce more depth to the game. Additionally, these changes are aligned with the previous updates in between the seasons that have been introduced. Like level requirements and item rarity ratings.
The season will be running for 90 days. but unlike the previous seasons, during this time the team is planning to release more content. There will be two more releases. 30 days and 60 days into the season. Keep on reading to find out what to look forward to.
The Standard
As you see in the list above, the first 3 points are the same as we had in the last 2 seasons. Yes, they are the same. These mechanics are here to stay and will be developed more and more around the new features that the team is adding to the game with each update and with all the game’s core developments.
Similar to the previous seasons, players will be able to get a Season Pass and gather rewards for their activity in the game! There will be two lanes for the pass: a Free lane, with some seasonal prizes scattered across the whole leveling lane, and a Premium lane, with many more prizes for the players to get!
The adventure will be in 4 tiers this time. Yes, FOUR enemy types in ONE adventure. Those will be working on the same system. Depending on the Cutie’s level and stats it will have a higher potential to get into a higher tier fight within the adventure and therefore will be able to get better rewards.
There will be 2 types of raids in the season. At launch, raids will be available for everyone, utilizing only the Raid Energy. A bit after the launch of the season the team will release a special Epic Raid boss for those who purchased the Season Pass. Players with the season pass will be able to participate in the Epic Raid and get exclusive prizes for their armies.
So in short, as per usual, you should expect the standard experience for the Season Pass, with more polish and new content!
Road to glory
Next up on the list is the Tournament System.
As we teased many times, this season will be revolving around players sending their best into battle to destroy their opponents — the other players!
We did a little bit of foreshadowing of this on the Pawedcast with the Signup tourneys that we played out manually during the stream. Now, it will be a nice solid system that will be running through the tournaments itself, where players will be able to follow the brackets and will be able to check out all of the Battle Reports themselves, to see player strategies as well as most clutch moments!
In the beginning, the Tournaments will be starting on the new HP battle mechanic. With this change, the rules of fights will be a little different, but overall we feel that everyone will enjoy the capabilities and interactivity of these new battles much more!
One important feature of these new battle reports is the replay! Yes, you read this right! Players will be able to watch through the fight from start to finish or have some controls available to skip rounds or play those replays a bit faster, or skip them completely!
The magic in this is that players will be able to strategize vs their opponents in the tournaments by reviewing the replays and analyzing their fights as well, and it’s all animated!
Note: Like always, the features will be developed further for more polish and better experience. The initial release is not the final, be all end all, version.
The Tournament system will be running on the new HP battles system and tournaments will occur at a specified time that is listed in the tournament rules. Signups for tournaments at the start of the season will be open 48 hours before the start of the event. Upon the tournament’s conclusion, players will be able to review the brackets, all of the battle results, and their replays, and get prizes they have won in the tournament.
The Paradigm Change
With all the content that is being released at the start of the season, the team is planning to release the long-teased new HP battles. Here, players will be able to build different kinds of fighters and compete in a much more rewarding way.
Currently, as we all know, the fight outcome and the Cutie’s victory are not as dependent on the choices players make in terms of Cutie gear and the Cuties themselves. The dice can make or break the battle. Now that will change in a much more meaningful way.
With the introduction of the HP mechanic, the attacks will be rolled differently and impact the battle in a slightly different way. This will allow players to explore the items and Cutie variations to build their ultimate Champion in the arena and later in the Adventures and Raids!
First, the system will be applied to the tournaments to get all the small details ironed out, afterward adventures and Raid Bosses will follow suit and convert to the new battle mechanic. As the season rolls in we will make an article for everyone to explain it in finer detail.
Note: A short beta test for that is expected before launch.
Tinkerer’s Delight
The new season will also introduce a more in-depth crafting system that will become a basis for WoC Crafting. With this introduction, we are planning to move into a new way of item acquisition by the players.
Every player will be able to craft items from recipes that they have and experiment with different crafting materials to find hidden recipes that can be unlocked.
At the start of the season, more than 40 recipes will be added for players to explore and find through the crafting page. But with this amount of recipes, you might ask, how is that going to be done, do players just try different items in crafting? No, not that simple. With the new crafting system, we are introducing ingredients.
There are multiple tiers of ingredients.
Tier 1: Pine, Marble, Wine Copper Cloth, Dye.
Tier 2: Oak, Ebony, Alabaster, Granite, Beer, Honey, Bronze, Iron, Linen, Leather, Jewelry, Jade.
Tier 3: Wood Carvings, Papyrus, Limestone, Basalt, Dried Herbs, Healing Salve, Steel, Damascus Steel, Tapestry, Silk, Ruby, Sapphire.
But that’s not all!
There will be also unique ingredients:
Tier 1: Mercury
Tier 2: Philosopher’s Stone, Celestial Bronze
Tier 3: Mead of Poetry, Aether, Adamant
With all these items, you will be able to craft many different new items.
But where will you get those materials? That’s the best part! During the season pass progression, players will be able to get them as rewards. The premium lane will have higher tier materials, also players will be able to get the materials for crafting in loot boxes which will also be acquirable through the season pass and through the in-game storefront.
In conclusion
All these features and content, how will the price change for the season pass? Last season pass was 0.1 ETH, this time the Pass will be priced at 0.08 ETH or other currency equivalents in value.
The team has been working hard on bringing all these (and more) new things to the players with the release of this Season. There will be more posts that will go into detail on individual features. Keep an eye out!
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