LoH/Patch Notes/September-October 2012

Patch Notes: October 25, 2012

Scheduled Maintenance

Weekly Sale

• The Pumpkin Bucket is here for Halloween.
  • Exciting new grab bag improved for Halloween.
  • New Hyper Energy Drink restores 50% instead of 25%.
  • 4 NEW EXCLUSIVE HALLOWEEN CARDS!!!
  • Here for one week only.
  • Receive one of these items:
    • 3 x Elite Pack
    • 1 x Tempus Pack
    • 3 x Tempus Pack
    • 50 x Fortune Pack
      1. 3gging (Epic)
    • Paper into Trees (Epic)
    • Cutting Edge (Epic)
    • Accelerated Decay (Legendary)
    • 1 x Cosmic Pack
    • 1 x Draft Pack
    • 3 x Draft Pack
    • 2 x Bust of Aloysius Zeroth
    • 8 x Hyper Energy Drink
    • 25 x Hyper Energy Drink
    • 25 x Legacy Coin
    • 50 x Legacy Coin
    • 1000 x Legacy Coin
    • 25 x Skill Point
    • 50 x Skill Point

Enhancements

• Drop rates for Medkits and Newspaper Clippings have been increased in Issues 1 - 6.
• Unique card drops have been increased in Issues 1 - 6.
• Glory Pack is now permanently 10 Legacy Coins.
• Halloween is here!
  • The Homeschool is wreaking havoc around the city and taken over Mad Confectionist's factory.
  • New Issue 9.1 along with a new brawl -- available for 1 week only!
  • 6 new attainable cards exclusive to this Halloween event .

Bug Fixes

• In draft effects that require badges will no longer proc if you don't have the badge .
• Grip of Fanatacism will now work regardless of the time you play it.
• Card effects that cause double damage will no longer stack together. Equipment and badge effects will stack with card effects.
• Over the Top will now only add shield to itself.
• Maser: Far From Home buff will now fade if two cards are played on the same turn.
• Fixed a bug that displayed some log messages out of order when "No-Animations" is on.
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to sometimes start a guild brawl without a full team .
• Fixed a bug that sometimes did not display player equipment in brawl / draft screens.
• Tooltips will no longer sometimes show reversed.
• Players should no longer show without clothes unless they don't have any equipped.
• Players with the title L'il will now properly show up on the leaderboard.

Known Issues

• Titles can cause small display issues with player's name being too long.
• Banish pile cards sometimes do not appear. Clicking on the pile will still show the popup.
• Equipment buffs lasting visually a turn longer than they are supposed to.
• The card "Up and At'em" is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• The card "Billy Stopless " is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• "Black Smoke" effect will sometimes not fade.
• "Do as I Do" buff will not visually show up in buff list.
• In draft avatars may sometimes show as blank .

Rev 1857

Tempus Drafting Event: October 19, 2012

Tempus Drafting Event

Weekly Sale

• Tempus Pack!
  • Tempus packs contain only Tempus set cards. These include Preview 1 and 2 cards, and brand new cards which haven't been released before.
  • 25% off for the first week only.
  • Tempus packs will have a single color crafting material that will drop 100% of the time from an opened pack.
  • 5 of these crafting pieces can be exchanged in the Forge for a new Tempus Legendary card.
  • Same drop format as the Prestige Packs.
  • This pack will be available for one month only.

• Tempus Pack Drafting
  • Draft with Tempus Packs for 3 hours on Friday!
  • 1:00 - 4:00 PM PST
  • 20:00-23:00 Server Time
  • You will still retain the crafts you would normally get for the packs.
  • Rewards will be as follows:
    • 1st - 2 x Tempus Pack
    • 2nd - 1 x Tempus Pack
    • 3rd - 1 x Tempus Pack
    • 4th - 1 x Hourglass

Bug Fixes

• Issue 9 story text has been adjusted to always match the right nodes.
• Dr. Tessera: Devolved will now correctly be unlocked from being defeated on either of the second nodes.

Rev 1811

Patch Notes: October 18, 2012

Scheduled Maintenance

Weekly Sale

• Two new items have been added. The Pyro Goggles (the final piece of the Pyro equipment set), and our fourth Limited Offer promo card: Pyrotechnique: Forget Me Not .
• New Tempus Pack!
  • Tempus packs contain only Tempus set cards. These include Preview 1 and 2 cards, and brand new cards which haven't been released before.
  • 25% off for the first week only.
  • Tempus packs will have a single color crafting material that will drop 100% of the time from an opened pack.
  • 5 of these crafting pieces can be exchanged in the Forge for a new Tempus Legendary card.
  • Same drop format as the Prestige Packs.
  • This pack will be available for one month only.

• Tempus Pack Drafting
  • Draft with Tempus Packs for 3 hours on Friday!
  • 1:00 - 4:00 PM PST
  • 20:00-23:00 Server Time
  • You will still retain the crafts you would normally get for the packs (everyone will still recieve a minimum of 3 Tempus coins when they draft).
  • Rewards will be as follows:
    • 1st - 2 x Tempus Pack
    • 2nd - 1 x Tempus Pack
    • 3rd - 1 x Tempus Pack
    • 4th - 1 x Hourglass

Enhancements

• Honor Packs have been permanently changed to 3 LC cost.
• Leaderboard rewards have been adjusted to better fit the scale of players.
• Issue 9: Absolute Reckoning is here!
  • The fight to save existence has been divided into two sides.
  • Find the truth in the fight between the Zeroths in the conclusion to Zeroth Hour.
  • More than 40 new cards to obtain.
  • With this set coming in Glory, Prestige, and Cosmic packs will go back to only the core set.
  • Draft packs will now have all of the core set and all volume 2 cards in them.
  • 2 New Brawls
    • Dr. Tessera: Devolved - 5 Person
    • Absolute Zeroth - 3 Person
  • Rules of Engagement
  • No Mementos
  • No Events
  • 30-40 cards

Bug Fixes

• Shadowplay now has the correct duration of next 2 threats .
• League Charters are now view able and do not crash the game.
• Duels should now correctly take energy.
• Welcome Wagon will now last the correct duration.
• Player names will now correctly display in card lore.
• Will Counters will now always show up in log for teammates.
• Can now reconnect to EFL without problems.

Known Issues

• Titles can cause small display issues with player's name being too long.
• Banish pile cards sometimes do not appear. Clicking on the pile will still show the popup.
• Equipment buffs lasting visually a turn longer than they are supposed to.
• The card "Up and At'em" is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• The card "Billy Stopless " is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• "Black Smoke" effect will sometimes not fade.
• If "Maser: Far From Home" is copied by the acolyte badge , the buff will show up twice but only actually be there once.
• "Do as I Do" buff will not visually show up in buff list.

Rev 1799

Patch Notes: October 11, 2012

Scheduled Maintenance

Weekly Sale

• Two new pieces of equipment have been added: Pyro Jacket and Pyro Flames.
• Shimmerstorm’s Junior Lunchbox!
• Get tons of rares at an amazing value along with a few other great prizes.
• Here is a list of the possible contents:
  • 3 x Rares
  • 5 x Rares
  • 10 x Rares
  • 100 x Rares
  • 1 x Night Music
  • 1 x Shimmerstorm: Warning
  • 12 x Skill Points
  • 25 x Skill Points

Prestige Packs are 40% off!

• Guaranteed green, blue, purple or orange pack crafting components.
• Last chance to get the pack crafts before they rotate out with Issue 9 next week.

Enhancements

• Rules of Engagement is now live for the EFL .
• EFL will now have a set of rules that only allows decks that follow these rules to enter.
• Rules for the EFL will be changing every week.
• The level entry requirement will still be 75.
• Tickets will now cost 2 Legacy Coins but you will be reset to 5 tickets every * day unless you already have more than that.
• If you have already bought EFL tickets through Legacy Coins you will be * * * refunded in the next couple days.
• The requirements for the EFL rewards have been multiplied by 10.
• Players with any EFL Prize Vouchers will have that amount multiplied by 10.

The rewards for the EFL will now be as follows:

• 1st – 4 EFL Prize Vouchers
• 2nd – 2 EFL Prize Vouchers
• 3rd – 2 EFL Prize Vouchers
• 4th – 1 EFL Prize Voucher

This week’s rules are:

• 20 – 40 card deck size
• Rares or below only

Bug Fixes

• Player in the 5000 to 5999 tier of the last Mega Brawl, where given the Prestige Pack they had not received earlier.
• Fixed a bug which causes the game to freeze in rare cases with Fire from Within .
• Backdraft will now correctly show a buff when depleted .
• Big Stick will now only show the correct amount of buffs.
• Cold Case will now only show buffs for yourself and not teammates.
• League image on player profiles will now correctly display the right clan icon.
• Scarlet Tiger brawl now correctly shows “Issue #7” in the brawl listings.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused buffs to become permanent.
• The Three Harmonies buff should now correctly fade after your next turn.
• Matter over Mind will now last the correct number of turns.

Known Issues

• Titles can cause small display issues with player’s name being too long.
• Banish pile cards sometimes do not appear. Clicking on the pile will still show * the popup.
• Equipment buffs lasting visually a turn longer than they are supposed to.
• The card “Up and At’em” is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• The card "Billy Stopless " is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• Black Smoke effect will sometimes not fade.
• Welcome Wagon buff is starting to early when combined with haste.
• Shadowplay buff is visually lasting a turn too long.

Patch Notes: October 8, 2012

Scheduled Maintenance

New Sale

• Bounty Pack available for 3 days only.
  • Contains 10-15 cards of rare or better!
  • Costs 25% less than a Prestige Pack.

October 4, 2012

Scheduled Maintenance

Weekly Sale

• Two new pieces of equipment have been added: Pyro Pants and Pyro Boots.
• Epic+ Bundle available for 4 days only.
• Contains five Epic+ Prestige Packs for 50% off!!!
• One of these will have a guaranteed legendary!

Enhancements

• Leaderboard Shop: Mall of Fame is here!!
• Only Culverton’s greatest Heroes can shop at the Mall of Fame.
• If you’ve earned Fame by placing at the top of a leaderboard, then come on by the the Mall of Fame to select your prize!
• Sleeves will change the back of your cards to an exciting new image.
• Titles will be added to the front of your name to show off the Fame you have achieved.

New Mega Brawl : Schism: Footfall

• Use your Dimensional Armor to fight this foe back to the dimension from which he came!
• There will be no cooldown timer for this mega brawl to help in defeating this enemy.
• Brawl points for Crisis has been increased from 25 to 30.
• Everyone who participated in the last Mega Brawl will receive 2 Energy Drinks for the problems we experienced with Go Daddy.
• We’ve added three new cards for this event , including the Legendary, Cover Fire.
• For a complete list of rewards follow this link: http://www.lohgame.com/images/footfall.jpg

Bug Fixes

• Two Tone Jacket will no longer crash the game when used.
• Message popup has been moved over slightly to the left out of the way of the friends list.

Known Issues

• Titles can cause small display issues with player’s name being too long.
• When Firerazer kills a player in a Brawl with “Fire from Within” and attempts to shuffle it into the dead player’s deck the game can freeze.
• Banish pile cards sometimes do not appear. Clicking on the pile will still show the popup.
• Equipment buffs lasting visually a turn longer than they are supposed to.
• The card “Up and At’em” is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• The card "Billy Stopless " is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• Black Smoke effect will sometimes not fade.

September 27, 2012

Scheduled Maintenance

Weekly Sale

• SUPER SUMMER STOCKPILE SALE!!!!
  • We're doing an end of summer Legacy Coin bonus that is extra special.
  • For this week only you will get a 75% bonus to your Legacy Coin purchase if buying at the highest tier.
  • This sale will be on kongregate.com, lohgame.com, and armorgames.com.
• Helios Lunchbox is here! Here's a list of the amazing prizes you could get inside:
  • 1 x Forgotten Promises
  • 1 x The Abyss: Genesis
  • 1 x Investigative Journalism
  • 1 x Professor Helios
  • 1 x Cosmic Pack
  • 1 x Draft Pack
  • 3 x Draft Pack
  • 250 x Draft Pack
  • 50 x Fortune Pack
  • 2 x Bust of Aloysius Zeroth
  • 8 x Energy Drink
  • 25 x Energy Drink
  • 25 x Legacy Coin
  • 50 x Legacy Coin
  • 1000 x Legacy Coin
  • 25 x Skill Point
  • 50 x Skill Point
  • 1 x Mysterious Compound
• Gear up for the fight against Schism: Footfall next week by forging the epic Dimensional Warrior Set from the Mysterious Compound.

Enhancements

• Monday Night Heroes will now have progressive draft rewards.
  • 1 Draft = 1 x Bust of Aloysius Zeroth
  • 3 Drafts = 1 x Draft Pack
  • 5 Drafts = 1 x Prestige Pack
• The Mall of Fame for the top ranks of the Leaderboards will be coming very soon!

Bug Fixes

• Scarlet Tiger: Enraged will now correctly fade at the end of turn.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes after a duel , you would not rank up when you should have.
• Add shield buff for equipment will now display correctly.

Known Issues

• When Firerazer kills a player in a Brawl with "Fire from Within" and attempts to shuffle it into the dead player's deck the game can freeze.
• Banish pile cards sometimes do not appear. Clicking on the pile will still show the popup.
• Equipment buffs lasting visually a turn longer than they are supposed to.
• The card "Up and At'em" is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• The card "Billy Stopless " is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• Black Smoke effect will sometimes not fade.

Rev 1632

September 20, 2012

Weekly Sale

• Two new items have been added. The Stalking Tiger Hood (the final piece of the Scarlet Tiger equipment set), and our third promo card: Scarlet Tiger: Enraged .
• Draft Sale! All Draft Packs are 20% off! One week only.
• Draft Rewards Week!
  • Every time you participate in a draft this week you will receive a Draft Badge .
  • Draft Badges can be crafted into "Elite" rewards.

Enhancements

• Drafts will now give 2 Energy Potions for 4th Place instead of 5 Legacy Coins.
• League Brawl : Abyss: Genesis.
  • Join or start a League to take part.
  • Drops pieces from the new Dimensional Armor Equipment Set -- a crucial weapon in the battle against The Schism!

Bug Fixes

• In Plain Sight will now give the next attack (not threat ) a chance at being unstoppable .
• Moxie: Genesis will now properly give you 2 Willpower Counters on deplete .
• The play additional threat effect on Zeroth: Genesis should now work correctly.
• Moxie will now have the correct length on the deplete double damage buff.
• Zeroth: Genesis's sculpting badge restricted effect will now only work if you have the sculpting badge .
• Fuel for the Fire no longer has an invisible badge restriction.

Known Issues

• When Firerazer kills a player in a Brawl with "Fire from Within" and attempts to shuffle it into the dead player's deck the game can freeze.
• Banish pile cards sometimes do not appear. Clicking on the pile will still show the popup.
• Equipment buffs lasting visually a turn longer than they are supposed to.
• The card "Up and At'em" is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• The card "Billy Stopless " is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• Black Smoke effect will sometimes not fade.

September 13, 2012

Weekly Sale

• Two new pieces of equipment have been added: Stalking Tiger Pants and Stalking Tiger Boots.
• Monday Night Heroes reward this week will be a Bust of Aloysius Zeroth. This will now be given to you once you’ve completed your first draft.
• Fortune Packs are here! Each Fortune Pack guarantees 5 rares or better. It also contains a random pack:
  • Draft Pack
  • Prestige Pack
  • Last week’s Preview 1 Epic+ Pack
  • Another Fortune Pack
  • Elite Pack

Enhancements

• Volume 2: Issue 8: “Emergent Behavior” has arrived!
• Experience the origin of the Genesis Squadron while fighting alongside them to stop the worlds end.
• This set is the second preview to the volume of cards, Tempus. With this set rotating, in the Preview 1 cards will be rotating out for one month.
• Over 20 brand new exciting cards added throughout the Issue.
• New Brawls to unlock: The Three Harmonies and Dr. Tessera.

Bug Fixes

• Subtypes for aliens, animals, and upstarts will now be displayed.

Card Fixes

• In Plain Sight will now last the proper length ie only for the next attack .
• Fire wall is now only lasting one turn regardless of damage.
• Key to the City will now properly deplete cards and not just show them as depleted .
• Help from Above’s shield will now work properly.
• Team Spirit’s crit buff is no longer permanent.

Known Issues

• When Firerazer kills a player in a Brawl with “Fire from Within” and attempts to shuffle it into the dead player’s deck the game can freeze.
• Banish pile cards sometimes do not appear. Clicking on the pile will still show the popup.
• Equipment buffs lasting visually a turn longer than they are supposed to.
• The card “Up and At’em” is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• The card "Billy Stopless " is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• Black Smoke effect will sometimes not fade.
• Self depleting cards with deplete effects will sometimes have the incorrect duration.

September 6, 2012

Weekly Sale

• Two new pieces of equipment have been added: Stalking Tiger Chest and Stalking Tiger Shuko.
• Epic+ Prestige Pack available for one week only. Each pack contains a guaranteed Epic of Legendary along with 4 rares or better.
• Monday Night Heroes reward this week will be the Abyss Lunchbox. One will be awarded if you draft between Noon and Midnight PST (19:00 and 7:00 server time).

Enhancements

• Brawl level restrictions have been changed to be more appropriate.
• Click to Close added to the settings. When option is checked it will cause anything with a mouse over to stay up until clicked on again.
• The Handhold has come, a new Mega Brawl with exciting new rewards!
• The Schism has torn its way into reality to get a handhold on this world.
• We need to fight together to stop the threat to this reality’s very existence!
• Fight to help every hero achieve their goals and attain their prizes. As the community rises to overcome this enemy so you will your rewards.
• For this Mega Brawl the community loot has been added to the looting at the end of the brawl .
• Mega Brawl turn timers have been restricted to 30 seconds and 1 minute.
• Mega Brawl speeds have been restricted to Fast and Ludicrous.
• We’ve added three new cards for this event , including the Legendary, Help From Above.
• For a complete list of rewards follow this link: http://www.lohgame.com/images/handhold.jpg

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with some AI races not displaying.

Known Issues

• When Firerazer kills a player in a Brawl with “Fire from Within” and attempts to shuffle it into the dead player’s deck the game can freeze.
• Banish pile cards sometimes do not appear. Clicking on the pile will still show the popup.
• Equipment buffs lasting visually a turn longer than they are supposed to.
• The card “Up and At’em” is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• The card "Billy Stopless " is not displaying its buff in the buff window.
• Animal subtypes not displaying on cards.
• Black Smoke effect will sometimes not fade.