About this patch

We are very happy that we came to an agreement with Jagex so we now have control over the game. We look forward to working with the games awesome community to ensure that the servers are up, and matches can be found.

One of the things we want to do, is to try out things (sometimes quite radical stuff). Some of these you will hate, and sometimes for good reason. We will be listening to you, and looking at the data, and when it turns out that some things do not work we will try to be quick remove or resolve it.

Our key focus for this update was trying to reduce the time needed to search for matches. We have also added some new blocks that we hope will shake up how the matches are played. We have also done a much needed balancing pass, and some tweaks and fixes that we know you have been waiting for. We look forward to hearing what you guys think. Building is awesome.

Toadman Crate

A little welcome from us for all existing players.
The crate will either contain a random new character, or if you have all characters, a random new skin. If you have all characters and skins, your crate will contain 3000g
(This crate does not include special exclusive skins)

New Blocks

Cloud: The Cloud block has to be built next to another block, but will remain up in the air if the blocks around it are destroyed, giving a new perspective for the sky bridges
Cannon: Fire a bullet at a fixed time, which does damage on explosion
Piggy Bank: The Piggy Bank device block gathers bricks over time. When destroyed, the contents of the piggy bank are shared among the team.

Characters max level

The character max level has been increased to 200. At level 125 and 150, you will receive 1500 Gold. At level 150 and 200, you will received bounty crates (Gold at 150 and Diamond at 200)

Character Balancing

Reduced Sweet Sciences Gravity Well duration by 30%
Reduced Sweet Sciences active ability cooldown from 60 to 55 seconds
Reduced Sweet Sciences Gravity Block lifetime from 10 to 8
Reduced Sweet Sciences build range from 4 to 3
Reduced Sweet Sciences Gravitron Stance Arc by 33%
Increased OP Juan Shinobis teleport cooldown by 50%
Reduced OP Juan Shinobis teleport pool by 15%
Increased Vanders Static Gloves damage by 20%
Reduced Vanders Ball Lightning attack time by 20%
Removed Astarellas Rocket Boots knockback effect
Reduced Astarellas Saucer Launcher clip from 5 to 4
Reduced Astarellas Saucer Launcher world damage by 20%
Increased Astarellas Saucer ammo pool from 36 to 40
Reduced Trondsons active ability cooldown from 60 to 50 seconds
Increased Trondsons active ability duration from 10 to 12 seconds
Increased Trondsons Kobold Lamp ammo pool by one
Increased Cogwheels speed by 10%
Increased Cogwheels Cannon ammo pool by 25%
Increased Yuris snowball critical damage by 15%
Reduced Dream Genies build time by 20%
Reduced Dream Genies active ability cooldown from 60 to 50 seconds
Reduced Dream Genies Ifrit Grudge reload time by 25%
Increased Roly Poly Booster Rocket distance from 4.5 to 5

Blocks

Reduced Cost Build of Forcegate
Reduced Cost Time of Forcegate
Reduced Durability of Forcegate

Perks

Scaled all negative effects with tier levels
Buffed some positive effects (Toe, Ball, Heel, Knee; Breadwinner; Dig That Ammo; Health Scavenger; Quick Fingers, Fatmobile, Fire Lamps...)
Toe, Ball, Heel, Knee negative effect switched from Movement Speed Reduction to Health Pool Reduction
Removed movement speed reduction from Roly Polys Fatmobile

Economy

Increased general Gold rewards by 300%, including challenges, daily connections and matches
Increased Dust rewards by 300%, including bounty crates and challenges
Increased the free bounty crate rate from 1 per day to 1 every 5 hours
Increased probability for bounty crate drop after a match
Remove Foam block, Bush Thorn block and Nuke block from the Bounty Crates
Increased block skins drop rate in Bounty Crates

Match

Reduced the build time to 90 seconds
Changed the matchmaking from 5v5 to 4v4. Primarily to make sure that the matchmaker works better for lower playerbase, but also to mix things up to give a new take on the game. Custom matches will still support 5v5.
4 new maps. Smaller maps with only one objective. The maps will be easier to navigate and get an overview of.
Only maps with 1 cube will be the available maps for matchmaking. Custom games will still be able to select from any map
Squad size has been increased to 4 from three
Reduced the AFK timer to 2 minutes warning, and 3 minutes to remove from the match
Reduced the lobby timer to 60 seconds from 120 seconds

Mode

Removed Time Assault

UI and HUD

In the shop, unified how the button acts for Heros, Skins and Blocks

Bug Fixes

Thorn bush, if a player is inside they can still shoot out, BUT, now if you shoot back, you will deal damage to both block and player inside. This fix also applies to Mud and Forcegate blocks.
Re-added the missing buy Hero button in the shop
In the shop menu each block of the selected hero didnt have stat icons. Also, those stats are now shown correctly.
While browsing a heros profile from the Heroes tab, tab becomes unselected while viewing
Fixed daily Challenges for Spawn block and Large Bomb quantity
OP Juan Shinobi Katana reload time back to 1s.

Other

To comply with GDPR regulations there will be an information box for you to accept for us to be able to collect and save your data. This will show only once on your first login after this patch.

[ 2019-03-21 15:53:03 CET ] [Original Post]