Heralds of Chaos now open! (Updated: dailyish)

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Latest news @ 2:00am:

- Game will be down until tomorrow morning.
- Inventories have been cleared.
- Everyone has been granted 1000 essence + 10% of whatever they had currently.
- You will now be able to buy heralds and silver packs in the store

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9:00am:

- game is back up. You'll have to go through the new user flow again.
- you'll be granted a Gaia item after you complete your first game.
- inventories cleared
- essence grants, per previous message
- store is now available
- many performance improvements to the client

Card changes:

- heralds have had flight removed until we change the flight mechanism -- it was lending itself to Zerg rushes
- tweaked Raykl's special to be a bit better
- fixed Aether Wizard's special

More card changes coming soon.

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1:00pm:

Per suggestion, using reportbug now works even if the game is over -- it records the last game you played.

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New client:

- optimize some assets
- fix red spot bugs
- fix tutorial loop
- fix "share a link" popping up in PvP

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Pushed today @ 3:30pm:

- adjusted essence grants a bit
- silver packs may go in price soon -- be warned
- fixed edit army, view army for IE7 / IE8

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New client @ 5:20pm:

- fix retreat bug that was causing client to hang

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Tweaked front end @ 5:46:

- deck editor now preserves the order that you set.

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Tweaked back end:

- Corwin's special is fixed
- Alchemist post-battle heal now works
- Fixed duplicate card glitch in deck editor
- Fixed some causes of black screens

Update: Whoops, forgot, also fixed some causes of the dreaded measles bug (i.e., "red dots" wink

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New client and backend.

- faster client
- fixed some retreat issues
- fixes some desynch isssues in PvP
- many UI tweaks and updates (i.e., spells cutaways, win / lose animation, handling of recurring spells)
- updated assets
- small enhancements to deck editor
- added button to permanently convert essence into gold

Known issues:

- there are some issues with the client dying that we are tracking down
- many cards need to be fixed -- will do a push for that shortly

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October 12, 2012

Silver packs are going to go up in price soon. Fair warning!

Also: the essence to gold conversion ratio is currently 30. This rate will vary (and will probably go down).

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10/17 @ 4:30pm:

New client, backend released.

- fixes black screen
- client speedups
- some card fixes
- reduce database load on the backend (so we can invite more people)
- you can drag the battle indicators (if they overlap)
- increased deck limit to 60

Still some occasional problems with battle freezes / lockups, which we are looking at. As always, please use reportbug when you hit such an issue; as an example, user reports of the black screens helped us find the problem.

User bugs fixed:

Title: Black Battle Screen
Reported By: Magus @ 2012-10-13 07:09

Title: Black battlefield
Reported By: gataka @ 2012-10-13 10:41

Title: Royal Alchemist Power
Reported By: KugBau @ 2012-10-13 11:23

Title: Battle black screen
Reported By: gataka @ 2012-10-13 18:04

Title: battle will not load
Reported By: kremzeek @ 2012-10-14 13:00

Title: Black Screen
Reported By: Mirai Maku @ 2012-10-15 17:06

Title: black screen
Reported By: Viceroy Kier Zedd @ 2012-10-15 17:06

Title: black screen
Reported By: Miss Augusta @ 2012-10-15 19:11

Title: Cannot retreat from simultaneous battles
Reported By: Magus @ 2012-10-16 08:55

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New backend @ 4:30pm:

Some card tweaks.

- fixed Lightning Demon power & targeting
- fixed Keljana power & targeting
- fixed Wyrmtail Sage power & targeting
- fixed Krylyr the Eye
- fixed What Must Be Done

Lobby:
- fixed "Essence to Gold" button for IE and Windows 7

Many more card fixes tomorrow.

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New backend @ 12:30pm:

- fear now properly affects damage
- removed flight from some descriptions
- fixed mulligan (was removing the mulligan cards from the deck for that game)
- defender property works. defender now boosts armor, as well.
- armor was changed to be straight deduction (instead of percentage)
- damage aura now works
- fixed Hellhound special
- fixed Huntsman special, now retreats
- fixed Thunder Lizard targeting
- fixed Chain Beserker targeting
- fixed Lightning Demon targeting
- fixed Keljana targeting
- fixed Wyrmtail Sage targeting
- fixed error with IE
- new maps

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Game disabled @ 12:49pm:

- some problems with battles and retreat on production; give us a bit while we track this down

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Game re-enabled @ 1:02pm:

- but buggy. We're still looking at the retreat issues.