January Report 2023

Summary

We would like to greet and welcome the new members in our community since the begining of the year. We are excited for the oportunities 2023 holds and looking forward to build on our 2022 successes in providing a well-rounded fun game with robust tokenomics! We have been working on Echoes Pt.1 Launch, bringing new Deviants to the list with new mechanichs aimed to balance the game and to break pre-existing meta. We have also been working on new ways to encourage players to play more tournaments by improving the prize pool for all of them. And also working on many minor fixes and optimizations.

Echoes Launch

Echoes Pt.1 is here, composed of 4 cards per Faction and only 2 cards from Undeviants for a total of 18. This launch brought a lot of fixes to in game mechanichs, as follows:

- [Attack], [Struck] and [Kill] triggers

We have corrected the abilities that these triggers have so that they work as standard.

- Dealing damage out of combat and [Struck] trigger

We have corrected the way cards interact when they do damage through an ability or an attack. From now on not only Characters and Technologies can trigger abilities with the [Struck] trigger, but also HQs can do it.

- Healthy not Wounded

From now on, both the “most wounded” criteria and the Heal effects will only take into account characters that are damaged.

- Swap Criteria

When a Character tries to Swap with a Character that meets certain characteristics, it will do so taking into account the rest of the characters without counting itself.

- [Pick up] on [Arrive]

From now on when a Character triggers his [Arrive] trigger, if he is assigned to a Technology, he will also trigger his [Pick up] trigger.

- Characters next to each other

From now on, when a Character refers to whoever is to his right or left, if he does not have someone adjacent, his effect will take into account the next slot until he finds someone to affect.

Bug Fixes

Changes to effects order that affects many cards

WPD Comms incorrect bonus fix

WPDC was giving its bonus to the leftmost Character regardless of their Faction. This has been corrected so that only Owner Characters receive this bonus.

Lancelott Larue incorrect name

Lancelott Larue, Arthur's brother, was listed under his brother's name. It was also corrected

Alia Oz attack direction

Alia was giving her bonus to the right, she was corrected so that her bonus is given, accordingly, to her left.

D4nt3 incorrect effect

D4nt3's bug is the most serious of this batch, it was healing the whole table instead of one character at a time. It was fixed and now only heals 1 character at a time when participating in a Riot.

Tournaments

We are aware since the minimun human player limit in tournaments was stablished, there are fewer tournament being played, so we are working our way around it. As the first and most important measure we've imrpoved prizes in every tournament. We've optimized tournaments load, to make it go faster. And we are also working in new challenges to involve more people in tournaments

Simultaneously we've created a new channel in discord "💥│tournament-hype" so you can hype up the tournaments and get togheter for a more interesting, complete and challenging tournament. The real way they are meant to played.

We appreciate the support of all community members, especially our dedicated tutors who have always been there. We have received a lot of invaluable feedback from the community.

We are looking for an organic growth of the community around a solid game that keeps evolving and we plan to continue bringing great cards, new and improved mechanichs and much more!

Thanks for your support!

The Deviants Factions Team