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Card Changes

Rankbreaker
Health reduced to 4, down from 5.
Queensguard
Melee transform reduced to +1/+2, down from +2/+3.
Outlaw Class Mech:
Base Health reduced to 3, down from 4.
Upgrade (1): Now also provides +1 Health to counteract the base Health reduction.
Static Discharge:
Cost increased to 6, up from 5.
Medframe Tech:
Health increased to 4, up from 3.
Storm Class Mech:
Base Health increased to 8, up from 5.
Ascension:
Cost reduced to 0, down from 2.
Absolver:
Health increased to 4, up from 2.
Ardent Inquisitor:
Cost increased to 5, up from 4.
Health increased to 6, up from 4.
Proc damage increased to 3, up from 2.
Reckoning:
Cost reduced to 5, down from 6.
Life Lash:
Cost increased to 6, up from 5.
Damage and Healing increased to 3, up from 2.
Kindle:
Stat gain increased to +2/+2, up from +2/+1.
Plainsguard:
Health increased to 6, up from 4.
Soultaker:
Health increased to 4, up from 3.
Ancient Caller:
Health increased to 3, up from 2.
Balos Ambusher:
Cost reduced to 3, down from 4.
Attack reduced to 3, down from 4.

HUD

The End Turn button’s underlying timer has been improved to measure the latency between the client and server, providing a more accurate timer with slower connections.

UI

The quantity text is now automatically selected when clicking the Change Quantity button in the store to make typing in a new number easier.

Bug Fixes

Fixed some fallout from last week’s uncontrollable change that caused an issue when uncontrollable units wouldn’t attack adjacent targets in some circumstances.
Fixed a bug where Crystal Queen wouldn’t transform targets she killed with her attack.
Boxes earned while in the Treasury (via achievements, for example) now update the UI.
Fixed a rare crash on startup when the client is unable to initialize the Steam SDK.

Card Changes

Crystal Queen’s transform effect will now occur simultaneously when attacking another Crystal Queen (both attackers are transformed).
All placeholder-model Primals will now have the Primal mark attached to them.

Map Changes

Mana crystals will no longer spawn on tiles that are within the default movement range of the enemy’s summoning region.
Mana crystals will no longer spawn within one or two tiles of the hero’s starting tile.
Overworld
Restored shadows in the Overworld level.

HUD

Turn History
Hungry Gnarbek’s deploy tooltip now shows the card that was discarded.
Stone Prison’s deploy tooltop now shows the target that was encased in stone.
Stellar Replica’s deploy tooltip now shows the target that was copied.
Requisitions Order’s deploy tooltip now shows the selection that was chosen.
When Vardan’s ability has the Disciple of Almast buff, the ability tooltip now shows the card that was chosen.
If Harbinger deals damage as a result of moving, a turn history element will appear for the movement that displays the damaged targets.
After collecting additional mana for the turn from a crystal, the UI will display the current mana value as greater than total mana (ie. 2/1 instead of 2/2).
Duplicate cards in the Graveyard UI will now be collapsed into one visual card with a count.

Core Tech

Steam SDK
Shardbound will now make multiple attempts to initialize the Steam SDK if it fails.
The error dialog that is displayed when the Steam SDK fails to initialize has been updated to point to the Shardbound.com/help page.

Steam Store

Errors reported from Steam when initiating a purchase are now presented to the user in a dialog box, instead of failing silently.
When a Steam purchase is in progress, the client will check to make sure the Steam overlay opens. If it does not, it will present the user with a dialog box explaining how to fix the problem.
Disallow the user from clicking the purchase button multiple times. This was resulting in the user getting rate limited by the Steam API, causing the purchase to fail.
In-Match Reconnect
The client will remain in-game attempting to reconnect for 220 seconds before abandoning the game. This replaces the previous behavior which would return you to the Overworld after 40 seconds and then relied on you to manually reconnect.
The amount of latency you need to be considered disconnected has been increased from 1.5 seconds to 2.

UI

When returning from being AFK, taking an action will now cancel out of extremely short turn-length and return the user back to their normal turn time.
If you have remaining actions when your turn time hits 0, you will now be given a very short window in which to complete those actions before your turn ends.

Bug Fixes

Removed the Primal keyword explanation from Osprey Soldier, Deadeye and Captain.
Uncontrollable cards now target cards based on route distance, not raw distance. Fixes a few rare cases where enemies blocked by walls were chosen instead of a closer choice.
Fixed draws not reporting rank changes to the client.
Fixed a rare null reference crash that could occur during the mulligan phase.

New Feature: Mana Crystals

We’re excited to add a new experimental gameplay change to the game this week. Players will now be able to collect Mana Crystals during the start of the match, as follows:
Player 1 will have a Mana Crystal spawn somewhere within their hero’s movement range.
If a friendly unit ends their movement on this tile, the crystal is consumed and the player receives an additional mana for that turn. Deploying a unit on the tile also consumes it.
The crystal can be used on Turn 1 or saved for a future turn.
If an enemy ends their movement on one of your Mana Crystals, it is destroyed!
Destroying an enemy Mana Crystal denies your opponent of bonus mana, but generates NO mana for you.
Player 2 receives TWO mana crystals on their first turn, one appearing within movement range of their hero, and a second crystal elsewhere in their deploy zone.
These three mana crystals are the only ones to spawn for the entire game, but have a dramatic impact on mana usage and positioning for the first few turns of the game. We’re looking forward to your feedback!

New Art

Duskblade now has art!

Hero Changes

Build Gizmo (Petra’s Ability)
Floating Gizmos (Flying) have been removed from the possible pool of Modular Gizmo upgrades.

Card Changes

Ascension
No longer draws a card.
Bless the Meek
No longer grants +1 Attack to the drawn cards.
Stellar Replicas
Now additionally draws a card.
Osprey Soldier, Osprey Deadeye and Osprey Captain
These cards may now be deployed to your normal deploy region AND next to your hero.
Brave Scryer
Attack increased to 3, up from 2.
Dancer
Attack reduced to 2, down from 3.
Duskblade
Attack reduced to 1, down from 2.
Efficiency Expert
Attack reduced to 2, down from 3.
Rebounder
Health increased to 5, up from 4.
Rift Trickster
Ability cost reduced to 1, down from 2.
Shade
Health reduced to 2, down from 3.
Skywatch Dragoon
Health reduced to 7, down from 8.
Venerated Champion
Stats increased to 6/5, up from 5/4.
Wraith
Health reduced to 3, down from 4.
Menagerie
Cost reduced to 5, down from 6.
Root now correctly prevents self-initiated movement effects (was true for some characters, not all. Namely Rift Trickster, Narciso, Personal Portal Device). Now has a unique warning message when attempting to use a card or ability blocked by Root.
Canal now resolves more quickly when Canaling units across longer distances.

Ranked

Developer’s Note: We are making some tweaks to the formulae used in Ranked play’s Valor calculations. The intention of these changes is to more accurately reflect the relative skill of the two players, while reducing how punishing it is to be matched with players significantly under your skill.
Valor adjustments are now based on a continuous function rather than having the 2x multiplier. The multiplier functionality has been removed.
Valor adjustment have been tuned to reduce the spread between the highest and lowest change to approximately 10-40, from approximately 10-60.
Win streaks have been added if you have won 3 games in a row. Points awarded will vary based on rank, phasing out after Gold rank.
Added a replacement string for “No Valor Change” instead of “+0 Valor”.

Map Changes

A number of lights have been updated to use static lighting which will result in a minor performance improvement for users at Medium and High settings.
Options Menu
Added a new graphics quality setting for Resolution Scaling. This was previously set automatically based on the Quality setting, and is now able to be set manually. Users on older hardware can see very significant framerate improvement by scaling this down, at the expense of visual quality.

Core Tech

In-match reconnect
The visual indicator for reconnect will now appear earlier.
Triggering a reconnect is now more aggressive when you are interacting with the game than when you are idle.
Telemetry has been added to collect reconnect information. This will be used to tune how aggressively the game will reconnect, with the goal being to balance reconnecting as fast as possible with minimizing disruptions.
Fixed an issue where you could get stuck on the “confirm mulligan” screen until the timeout if disconnected right when clicking that button.

UI

Recipients of a duel request can now see the selected map, turn time and start order.
The character limit for deck names has been increased to 26, up from 15.
The card bar item for decklists now has icons for artifact and spell cards.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a graphics device crash that occurred on some older video cards when loading into Reaver’s Mire or Embassy Gardens (the Prologue mission level). Specifically, this addressed a crash that occurred while using a Radeon HD 6450.
Fixed a bug causing a right-click when moused over the ability icon under a unit to commit the action instead of cancelling it when using drag controls.
Fix for orphaned UI elements and models when transitioning into Profile screen from other screens.
Fixed some cases of transparency popping in the overworld and Reaver’s Mire.

Patch Notes #44 - Reconnect improvements & Valor rank icons update

Ranked Play

Noble players will now have their Leaderboard rank displayed on the Overworld menu instead of their Valor value.
Player Profile
Added Right-Click context menu to access player profiles from the Match History and Leaderboards.

VO

Petra now has unique lines for Requisitions Order.
Trauma Guard now has unique voice lines when played on a full health or very low health hero.

Core Tech

In-match reconnect is now much more reliable!
Added a visual indicator when the client is attempting to reconnect.
If an action is primed when a disconnect occurs, that state is now maintained and the action is able to be completed upon reconnect.
In rare cases where an in-match reconnect is not possible, a full game reload and reconnect will trigger automatically.
Greatly improved the ability to collect and process match data to support ongoing tuning and balance efforts.

UI

Valor rank icons have been updated with more distinct colors.
Many bug fixes to text alignment and small visual polish items.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a rounding error that could cause your displayed Valor points to be off by one on the Profile and Shardfall screens.
Fixed a bug with Visefang Primal that would cause it to remain incorrectly unbuffed after injured enemies unburrow.
Vengeful Veteran’s rarity has been set to Basic to match the Novice Knight.
Fixed tile lighting in Reaver's Mire at Low quality to not have a strong yellow tint.
Fixed an issue where lighting in Embassy Gardens could be broken by switching the quality setting.
Fixed an issue where Bot games could impact your matchmaking rating.
Fixing an issue where it was too easy to set an incorrect value in the Max FPS option.
Fixed an issue where models and effects could be orphaned while leaving the Store.
Enabled a proper transition directly to the Player Profile from the vault opening screen.

Patch Notes #43 - Performance improvements, Quillblade art, and card changes!

Developer Note: This patch significantly improves performance for low-end machines running with the Potato quality setting. If you use that setting, please give us feedback on how well it is working!
We also have a new UI panel that displays recent Shardbound news. Our goal is to bring more visibility to what’s happening in the game and our community. Expect the content here to update on a regular basis.

New Art

Quillblade now has art!

Card Changes

Requisitions Order
Efficiency Focus cost reduction reduced to 1, down from 2.
Defensive Focus health increase reduced to 3, down from 4.
Rift Trickster
Stats changed to 4/5, from 5/4.
Gravity Surge
Damage dealt increased to 3, up from 2.
Lightspear Justicar
Health reduced to 4, down from 5.
Master of Faces
Cost increased to 6, up from 5.
Grave Lotus
Health reduced to 8, down from 9.
New Feature: News
The overworld now has a new panel on the left that will be updated with recent Shardbound related news. We expect to use this feature to share patch notes, developer streams, and other Shardbound special events.
The news panel will show a red emblem when there are new items to read.
Map Changes
All maps have updated lighting, post-process settings, and other tweaks to support the new Simple Forward Rendering. Players on high settings should not notice much change, but players on Potato will have environmental shadows and more balanced lighting.
Options Menu
A new Low graphics setting has been added. Players that previously used Potato, and were happy with the framerate, may want to consider switching to Low for improved quality.

Core Tech

As part of ongoing tuning, the math for Valor gains and losses has been updated to be more in line with expectations. This includes:
Double or Halved Valor changes can now scale instead of being fixed at 10/60.
A small number of bonus points can be awarded for players that are winning a lot at the lower ranks.
Wins and losses are more symmetrical, so you should no longer win 20 points but lose 22 points against the same player.
Both Low and Potato graphics settings use the new Simple Forward Rendering setting. This should result in improved frame rates and, in some cases, improved visuals.

UI

The player profile has been moved into the new Profile section. It now resides under the Statistics header.
The Statistics section has added widgets for your current Valor and faction usage. Note: Faction usage will begin tracking this patch, so all players will have 0 games played initially.
A search widget has been added to the Statistics section allowing you to look up other player’s stats without knowing their #number.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where scrolling in the Barracks could cause cards to be stuck on screen.
Fixed a bug where you’d get stuck in game if the Valor Update data could not be displayed.
Fixed a bug where the client would display a premature rank up if your rating would round up to the threshold for that rank.

Patch Notes #42 - Packrunner reworks and card tunings & Reaver's Mire improvements!
Packrunner Overhaul

Dev Note: Packrunner has been overhauled this week, with these goals in mind:
Introducing more interesting choices and deck variety through the Bond keyword
Making Primal minions more consistently themed (and less the focus of the entire faction)
Increase moment to moment choices both playing as and against Yellow
Increase overall effectiveness, while removing frustrating win conditions
This is the first (big) step towards setting up Yellow for long term success. Yellow cards will still need further adjustments and/or replacements as we get data back from live. Please continue to give feedback about your successes, failures and feelings playing as and against Packrunner going forward.
As many cards new cards have been added, many cards have likewise been removed. Here’s a cheat sheet on how card ownership is transferring:
Primal Vim → Strength of Bonds
Wolf Primal → Blood Brother
Rites Reader → Tracker Primal
Winged Primal → Kiza Skirmisher
Pack Mentality → Spearmaiden
Alpha Packmaster → Balos Ambusher
Roar: Strength → Nature’s Herald
Idol of Eternity → Lozar Tactician
Ghost Primal → Guerilla Raider
Hunting Scout → Toka Warrior
Pack Lord → Primeval Exalt
New Keyword: Bond. Bonds with a friendly minion when played, giving both this card and the target an effect until either is removed with the battlefield.

New Cards

Strength of Bonds
Spell for 1 mana.
Give an ally and any minions it’s bonded with +2 Attack this turn.
Spearmaiden
4/2 Melee minion for 2 mana.
Deathhowl: Add two Throwing Spears to your hand.
Throwing Spear (Spearmaiden token only)
Spell for 1 mana.
Deal 1 damage to an enemy in line of sight.
Blood Brother
3/4 Melee minion for 2 mana.
Can move to open tiles next to your hero.
Toka Warrior
3/4 Melee minion for 2 mana.
Warcry: Bond to a friendly minion, giving +2 Attack
Kiza Skirmisher
5/3 Melee minion for 3 mana.
Warcry: Bond to a friendly minion, giving +2 Movement.
Tracker Primal (Primal replacement for Rites Reader)
5/4 Melee Primal minion for 4 mana.
Warcry: Draw a card for each injured enemy minion.
Balos Ambusher
4/6 Melee minion for 4 mana.
Warcry: Bond to a friendly minion, giving Shroud
Guerilla Raider (Non-Primal replacement for Ghost Primal)
4/5 Melee minion for 4 mana.
Deep Strike. Warcry: Fear adjacent enemies.
Lozar Tactician
2/5 Ranged minion for 5 mana.
Warcry: Bond to a friendly minion, giving “After this minions deals ANY damage, draw a card.”
Primeval Exalt
5/5 Melee minion for 5 mana.
Warcry: Gain +1/+1 for each minion you control.
Nature’s Herald
6/9 Melee minion for 7 mana.
Warcry: Give all other allies +2 Attack this turn.

Reworks

Visefang Primal has been reworked.
2/4 Melee Primal minion for 1 mana.
Has +1 Attack for each injured enemy.
Idol of Kinship has been reworked.
0/4 Artifact minion for 2 mana.
After you summon a non Spirit Primal minion, lose 1 Health and summon a Spirit Primal next to it.
Tribe Warrior has been reworked.
3/6 Melee minion for 3.
After you summon a minion, gain +1 Attack this turn.
Viperfang Primal has been reworked.
1/6 Ranged Primal minion for 4 mana.
Has Poison when attacking injured enemies.
Grand Wyrm Primal has been reworked.
6/5 Melee Primal minion for 5 mana.
Can move to open tiles next to any injured enemy.

Tuning

Moya Primal
Cost increased to 4, up from 3.
Attack increased to 4, up from 3.
Health increased to 6, up from 5.
Tooltip clarified.
Splinterwing Primal
Health increased to 4, up from 3.
Ancient Caller
Attack increased to 3, up from 2.
Roar Earbust
Cost reduced to 3, down from 4.
Strict Packmaster
No longer grants +2 Attack, now only grants Uncounterable.

Map Changes

Reaver’s Mire has been given a lighting and texture facelift. For Potato quality, we have hidden a number of objects to improve the framerate.
Before P1
After P1
Before P2
After P2
Options Menu
Added “Vertical Sync” and “Max FPS” settings to the Graphics options tab. If Vertical Sync is checked, the frame rate will attempt to match your monitor’s refresh rate (or some fraction thereof). If unchecked, the game will attempt to run at the specified maximum FPS (default: 60).
Lowering this value is useful to conserve battery power or reduce heat generation.
Increasing the value may increase responsiveness (for those with machines capable of running faster than 60fps who want mega responsiveness).

Social

Error messaging when a friend request fails has been improved to let you know why the request failed.
Core Tech
Additional logging has been added to the client to support deck tracking.

UI

UI screens at the end of a game (Valor Update, Vault Progress, Achievement Award, and other reward screens) can now be clicked through to advance to the next screen more quickly.
The game window can now be dragged to whatever size your heart desires, now that it supports a wide variety of resolutions.
There is a known issue where card tooltips will temporarily appear offset if you resize the window while in a match.
[Missed in last week’s patch notes: First Vault of the Day has been added to the Profile with a reset timer.]

Bug Fixes

Fix a bug where units spawned as a result of thrall summons during Night of the Living Dead could interfere with subsequent thrall summons.
Fixed a bug that could have resulted in blurry textures on characters in some situations.
The Player 1 and Player 2 assignment is now randomized to avoid queue time from affecting which position a player gets.

New Art

Arcanum Steward now has art!

Gameplay Experiment

Developer Note: This is a test we’re running to be able to collect more accurate data around mana advantage. It may be switched off sometime during the week if we feel we’ve collected enough data.
Player 2 now starts with 2 mana.

New Feature: Ranked Play

Developer Note: Ranked will be coming in fully over several patches. Visuals, features, and tuning are all subject to change during the Pre-Season Testing Phase, the duration of which is TBD. Read More on Ranked Play Here
With Ranked Play, you’ll able able to queue up on your Shardfalls and gain and lose Valor
You can freeze your rank by toggling “Off Duty” and your rank will remain unchanged
Earning Valor will progress you through the following Ranks:
In the first 2 Ranks, you cannot lose Valor in matches.
Initiate Ranger (0-299 Valor)
Novice Ranger (300-599 Valor)
In the following Ranks, you can gain and lose Valor through matches, but never be demoted once you’ve attained a Rank:
Bronze Class Ranger (600-899 Valor)
Silver Class Ranger (900-1199 Valor)
Gold Class Ranger (1200-1499 Valor)
Platinum Class Ranger (1500-1799 Valor)
Diamond Class Ranger (1800-2099 Valor)
Master Ranger (2100-2399 Valor)
In the final Rank, your numerical world ranking is displayed. The top Noble Rangers will also be displayed to all players in a Leaderboard on the Profile screen.
Noble Ranger (2400+ Valor)

Card Changes

Census Master - Proc animation and projectile speeds have been increased.
Cards with conditional bonuses from hand (Hunting Scout, Luminator Initiate, etc) will now have a colored highlight when those conditions are met.

Shardfall Changes

The drop rate of Card Boxes has been increased relative to Chroma.

Core Tech

The client has been upgraded to use a new version of Unreal Engine (14.5). This comes with a host of minor improvements. A few of these improvements are reflected in these patch notes, and we expect to leverage the new features over the next few patches as well.
Matchmaking will attempt to avoid matching you with the last player you matched against, to reduce playing the same opponent when both of you immediately requeue.

UI

The UI has been restructured to scale between 4:3 and 20:9 (ultrawide) aspect ratios. There are minor tweaks in a large amount of the UI to compensate for this adjustment.
Fixed an issue that would cause the game to be unable to be fullscreen on a secondary monitor.
Fixed an issue that caused fullscreen to be offset if the Windows taskbar is on the left or top of the desktop.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where 2 Spirit Binder’s binding the same target could sometimes leave the target permanently bound.
Dancer and Shade can now correctly Charm/Fear a Lifelike Statue when it’s the only minion on the board.
Become Dust no longer takes any under-the-hood Attack buffs into account when dusting artifacts.
Thralls cloned by sources such as Puppeteer or Being of Light still count as Thralls.
Idol of Eternity no longer draws off its owner’s hero’s death.
Game camera will now reposition properly when the game window is resized so that you can see the entire playing field.
Improved messaging around having an invalid deck selected when attempting to matchmake.
Improved deck list sorting to avoid cases where decks could get stuck out of order.

Patch Notes - This patch has got a handful of card tunings, pylon adjustments, and spooky new Veil Shrieker art!

New Art

Veil Shrieker now has art!

Card Changes

Spirit Binder
Faction changed to Blue from Neutral.
Cost has been increased to 5, up from 4.

Mind Melter
Faction changed to Neutral from Blue.

Grand Defender has been reworked.
Faction: Neutral
Stats: 2/10 Melee minion for 5 Mana.
Card Text: Adjacent enemy minions are Rooted.

Weavebreaker
Cost has been increased to 5, up from 3.
Attack increased to 4, up from 3.
Health increased to 5, up from 4.

Shield of Durant
Attack reduced to 3, down from 4.

Perfected Specimen
Attack increased to 10, up from 8.
Health increased to 10, up from 8.

Temporal Technician
Health increased to 6, up from 4.

Brave Scryer
Deathhowl now adds 2 Precognition cards, up from 1.

Astral Champion
Attack reduced to 2, down from 3.
Health reduced to 2, down from 3.

Outlaw Class Mech Upgrade (1)
Attack reduced to 2, down from 3.
Health increased to 4, up from 2.
Outlaw Class Mech Upgrade (2)
Health reduced to 7, down from 8.
Strict Packmaster now also grants target Primal Uncounterable.

Card Rarity Changes

Dev Note: Minor rarity changes were made to account for Spirit Binder’s faction change.
Alternate Timeline is now Rare, down from Epic.
Fork Existence is now Common, down from Rare.
Temporal Drifter is now Basic, down from Common.
Grand Defender is now Epic, up from Common (and has been reworked).Shardfall Changes
The following pylon challenges no longer require winning the game to be completed:
Heavy Weapons
Small Arms
Conventional Weapon
Split The Arrow
The “Primal or Seedling Specialist” pylon has been updated to require a minimum number of cards of these types to exist in your deck and no longer requires you to play these minions in the game to get progress.

Achievements

The Recent Progress section of the UI has been changed to be Recent Achievements. This should reduce clutter as it no longer pulls in all achievements that track the same stat, such as wins.

Core Tech

If your opponent fails to connect to a game, you will now get an error message telling you that that’s what happened instead of just going back to the Overworld.

UI

Updated the achievement reward screen when unlocking cards to be more clear that you are getting two copies of the card.

Bug Fixes

Fix for player stats not displaying updated information after a game sometimes, including win count and rewards of Chroma, Boxes, and Cards.
Upgrade cards now display their rarity in game properly, instead of always appearing as basic cards.
The quest, “Tactical Genius” will now correctly count Charms, Fears, and Stuns on your own units.
Fixed a bug with Ghostblade’s tooltip in box opening.
The Pylon challenge requiring you to restore 10 or more Health to allies now correctly triggers even upon losing.

Patch Notes - This patch is smaller than the last due to the short cycle, but we have wonderful new Weavebreaker art, Shardfall changes, and fixes for Achievements!

New Art

Weavebreaker now has art!

Shardfall Changes

The winning player is now always eligible for Vault Progress and rewards, regardless of minimum game requirements.
Adjusted the minimum game requirements needed for the losing player to receive Vault Progress and rewards.
Vault rewards have been increased:
The first vault of the day now drops 5 items, up from 3.
The base vault now drops 3 items, up from 2.
The number of ranged minions required for the “Split The Arrow” pylon has been reduced to 6, down from 8.
The number of minions with Deep Strike required for “Blitz Tactics” has been reduced to 3, down from 4.
The number of minions with Flying required for “Death from Above” has been reduced to 3, down from 4.
The number of minions with Deathhowl required for “The Last Laugh” has been reduced to 3, down from 4.

Achievements

The number of Training Ground games required to complete The Botslayer achievement has been reduced to 250, down from 1000. NOTE: This achievement’s progress will update after completing one more bot game.
The set of achievements requiring in-game feats such as Lad Avenged require playing a PvP match, but the achievement text did not specify this. Those descriptions have been updated to state that they are PvP only.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug causing the First Vault of the Day to not be awarded correctly.
The icon for the First Win of the Day reward in the Rewards Screen now accurately reflects the reward of 25 Chroma.
Fix a bug with the quests that count minions (Artificer, Tribal Might) so that they trigger correctly when the exact amount of minions are played.
Players who queue into a game through a Twitch Event on a streamer’s Shardfall are now correctly eligible for

rewards and achievements.

After returning to the Overworld from a game where a Twitch Event was completed, a new Twitch Event will now immediately spawn.
Fixed a bug with Hadrien and Flesh Pile triggering on-damage effects (such as Fatelinker, Lightspear Justicar, etc) doubly when overkilled by a damage redirect.
Fixed a visual bug with Vengeful Veteran’s sword glint effect.

New Art

1. Splinterwing Primal (previously Eagle Primal) now has art!
2. Fixed bugs on Novice Knight and Rankbreaker, and they now display correctly in card Info page
3. New Lighting and updated materials on Broken Mesa map.

Card Renames

1. Eagle Primal -> Splinterwing Primal

Card Changes

1. Thundering Giant has been reworked.
   Neutral 6/9 Legendary Melee minion for 7.
   Warcry: Deal 2 damage to all enemies in adjacent lines.
2. Weavebreaker Attack reduced to 3 from 4.
3. Shockblade Smuggler Health reduced to 4 from 5.
4. Splinterwing Primal (previous Eagle Primal) has been reworked.
   Yellow 1/3 Ranged minion for 2.
   Deals double damage to injured minions.
5. Rites Reader now only draws based on injured enemy minions, not all injured enemies.
6. Rites Reader attack down to 2 from 3.
7. Growler Primal may now be cast on any injured enemy.
8. Roar: Strength cost increased to 3 from 2.

New Feature: Achievements

1. Various achievements have been added to the game. You can see the full list here: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/586030/achievements
2. Each achievement will grant in game rewards. Some will even grant additional rewards as you make progress. These rewards are listed in the Profile in game.
3. Players will not be granted retroactive progress on achievements to keep everyone on an even playing field, so you may be the first to claim one!
4. A portion of Basic cards are now unlocked by completing achievements. Players who started playing Shardbound before this patch are granted those cards automatically, so they do not need to be unlocked.
   For new players, Simple decks have been adjusted to not include these locked cards.
5. The achievement rewards are intended to quickly provide new players with cards, so they are replacing the 30 Core Set Box grant for new players. Existing players will get to keep the 30 boxes because we like you

New Feature: Login Bonuses

1. Each day you log in will now grant you a reward.
2. There are 24 rewards available each month. Each daily login will claim one reward, and a new set of 24 will be given at the end of each month.
   Note: We are combining April and May into a single set of 24 rewards so that April’s rewards are obtainable.
   New Feature: Weekly Wins Bonuses

1. Every three wins will grant an additional Core Set Box.
2. This reward may be redeemed up to three times each week, resetting Sunday night at 1 AM PDT.

Shardfall Changes

Shardfalls have undergone significant revisions based on player feedback:

1. Shardfalls are now unique for each player, and as such other members of your house can no longer contribute to your Shardfall’s Vault Progress.
   Note: The multiplayer component of Houses and the ability for House Members to help provide value to other members will be reintroduced in a new system in an upcoming patch.
2. Pylon Rarity no longer correlates to how much value they provide, but instead represents how difficult they are to complete.
3. Shardfalls now contain 3 Pylons, down from 5.
   Two of these Pylons are guaranteed on every Shardfall, and are as follows:
   "Play a game"
   "Win a game"
   The third Pylon on a Sharfall is random from a pool of different relatively difficult challenges.

1. Vaults are no longer opened based on a variable amount of power, and are instead opened by breaking 9 discrete seals.
2. Pylons no longer reward Vault power, and instead now will break 1 Vault seal when completed.
3. Base Vault rewards have been lowered to account for them being completable in a much lower number of games on average with the new system.
4. There is now a First Vault of the Day bonus, which will provide an additional reward for the first Vault you open that day.

Audio

1. The volume of the sound effect for opening a Vault has been reduced.

Core Tech

1. Installer: Windows prerequisites to run Shardbound (Visual Studio redistributables, universal CRT DLLs) are now distributed directly with the Shardbound client instead of relying on separate installers from Microsoft. This should help some users with older systems who previously ran into system “missing DLL” errors when launching the game (especially on Windows 7 or 8.1 systems that don’t run Windows Update regularly).

Bug Fixes

1. Fixed an issue where the client would freeze if a card was played from a full hand that bounced a minion back to the hand (e.g. playing Tease Fate with 10 cards in hand).
2. Fixed a bug where making an exact copy of a Lightspear Justicar would cause the new clone to gain 2 Lightspears after each attack.
3. Fixed a bug that could cause word wrapping to incorrectly move a word to the next line for certain fonts.
4. Pressing enter after typing your display name at new account creation now properly submits that name.
5. Fixed a bug where the wrong player name would appear on the Victory Screen when spectating a game from Player 2’s perspective.
6. The option to Spectate a friend is now disabled while you are an active player in a game.
7. Fixed a bug that would cause players to disconnect at the end of a match, missing the Victory/Defeat screen

New Art

Quartermaster now has art!

Card Changes

Developer Note: This week will be the first of a few that see changes to Packrunner (Yellow) cards. Our goal with these changes are to help differentiate playstyles of Yellow from other factions and from themselves, as well as increase Yellow’s effectiveness across the board. Expect that multiple cards per week will be tuned, reworked or simply replaced before these changes are complete. As with all aspects of Shardbound, feedback on these changes is very useful to the process.

Idol of Reckoning has been reworked into a new card: Idol of Kinship
Yellow 0/4 Artifact minion for 2.
After you summon a non-Primal minion, lose 1 health and summon a Spirit Primal next to it.

Beloved Trainer has been replaced by Rites Reader
Yellow 3/3 Melee minion for 2.
Warcry: Draw a card for each injured enemy.

Tribe Warrior has been reworked.
Yellow 3/6 Melee minion for 3.
After you summon a minion, deal 1 damage to a random adjacent enemy.

Ancient Caller has been reworked.
Yellow 2/2 Melee minion for 3.
Deathhowl: Summon 2 Spirit Primals next to this minion.

To Me! has been reworked.
Yellow Spell for 2.
Charm all friendly minions.

Thundering Giant has been reworked.
Neutral Legendary 6/9 Melee minion for 7.
Warcry: Destroy all enemy minions within 2 tiles that cost 2 or less.

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Stonecall Seedling’s Angry Stones are now Uncontrollable.

Swift Strike cost increased to 3 from 2. Spirit Primals summoned increased to 2 from 1.

Pack Lord health increased to 5 from 4.

Menagerie cost reduced to 6 from 7.

Wolf Primal cost increased to 2 from 1. Stats increased to 4/3 from 3/2.

Shade Health reduced to 3 from 4.

Dancer Attack reduced to 3 from 4.

Dark Traveler will now display its gained stats as base stats (white values) instead of buffed stats (green values) to better communicate its gameplay.

Options Menu

The default graphics quality level no longer defaults to “High” for all players. New players with lower-end graphics cards should now have it set to a more appropriate lower setting by default.

Spectator

You will now always spectate games from the perspective of the player you are spectating, instead of always spectating the player who went first in the game.
Core Tech

Developer Note: We are continuing work improving performance on lower end machines, and are particularly interested in crashes due to graphics drivers hanging. The changes below may help alleviate these crashes, so we would love to hear how the patch affects you.
GPU performance for Embassy Gardens, where the Prologue takes place, has been improved by ~25% on low end graphics hardware.
GPU performance for Broken Mesa, has been improved by ~10% on low end graphics hardware.
Loading into levels is now significantly less hitchy.

UI

Server status notifications can now be pushed to the client and will show up as a ticker in the upper right of the client. This will be used to provide updates during the patching process.

API

Third party API now supports Steam login.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug with Lifespark’s tooltip when used on Lifelike Statue.
Fixed a bug with Fear where non-adjacent fears were slightly undervalued (resulted in occasional 1 tile fears where a longer fear would be expected).
Fixed a bug where Skywatch Dragoon would not destroy a Skyborne Crusader under rare circumstances.
Units with 0 or less health can no longer be healed (prevents zombie-Sabine).
Fix for Stormbell Adept’s death sound playing when the game is muted.
Fixed a bug where Warcrys would not play the full animation in the Card Details screen.
Fixed a bug where Flyers would move 1 tile too far in some cases when Charmed.
Shutting off the servers for maintenance will now log all players out, so certain hooligans should not be able to keep their client connected for the duration.
Fixed a bug that could cause corrupted tile and rock geometry on Broken Mesa on low end graphics hardware.

Developer Note: Shardbound’s launch on Steam has surfaced a number of technical issues that we’ve been hard at work resolving. This patch primarily consists of those fixes, and we will continue to roll out improvements over the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, our design team has been hard at work collecting feedback about the new player experience and our progression systems. Expect to start seeing changes from that feedback in upcoming weeks as well.

New Art

•Stormbell Adept (formerly Bellowing Giant) now has art!

Card Renames

•Bellowing Giant -> Stormbell Adept

Card Changes

•Phalanx Leader health reduced to 5 from 6.

•High Shepherd Katell cost increased to 8 from 7.

Steam

•Force Shardbound to re-launch in Steam if run from a shortcut while Steam is not running.

•If Shardbound can still not detect Steam, it will now display an error message to that effect and exit, rather than prompting the user to log in with email and password.

•Disable voice services to avoid any performance impact, since we are not using it.

Patcher

•The patcher used to distribute the game pre-Steam will no longer be available to use. If you have not yet, please download the game from Steam at

Core Tech

•Fixed a threading issue that could cause the game to run substantially slower while in a match. This should improve FPS for many players while in game.

•Improved a number of backend reports and fixed some bugs with telemetry collection.

UI

•Barracks can now be scrolled via the page up / page down keys.

•Barracks ‘show unowned’ cards option no longer resets back to default.

•Fix for UI bits occasionally getting orphaned when mousing over Hero cards in the Barracks.

Bug Fixes

•Windowed mode client window position and size no longer reset when alt-tabbing in & out of the game.

•Fix for the “Add Friend” context menu item on house roster members not sending an invite.

•Improved rate limiting for login process to avoid client hanging.

•Hotfix 4/6: Removed a legacy versioning feature that could cause the client to lose track of unlocked cards.

•Hotfix 4/6: Fixed a bottleneck that could cause slow server responses when interacting with the Twitch API.

Developer Note: Thank you everyone who helped test the progression systems we rolled out last week. We received a lot of great feedback and have some changes coming to start improving it. Here’s some of the consistent things that we heard:
•“Higher rarities in card boxes felt like they dropped too rarely. Similarly, commons felt like they dropped too often.”
•“Crafting costs felt too expensive and prohibitive.”
•“The value for selling cards felt too low.”
• “Duplicate cards being automatically converted into currency felt bad. This was exasperated by both the very high drop rate for commons and their low sell value.”
•“The initial rate of earning boxes and Chroma from Vaults is too slow for new players. Similarly, new players should have ways to construct at least one competitively viable deck more quickly than they can currently.”

Here’s the changes we’re making to the system in this week’s patch to try to address some of these concerns:

Relative Box Drop Rate Changes:
•Common drop rate reduced by ~25%.
•Rare drop rate increased by ~49%.
•Epic drop rate increased by ~61%.
•Legendary drop rate increased by ~65%.

Bad luck Prevention Changes:

Developer Note: To help prevent against unlucky streaks, every time you open a box that isn’t Epic or Legendary, the drop rate for these rarities is increased until it eventually reaches 100%, guaranteeing you one. These values are being massively increased.
•The speed at which Epic bad luck prevention builds has been doubled.
•The speed at which the Legendary bad luck prevention builds has been tripled.

Currency Changes:

Developer Note: We’re moving from a one-currency system (just Chroma), to a traditional two-currency system (Chroma and Royal Marks). This change lets us adjust costs to make crafting more accessible.
•Chroma is now just used to purchase card boxes, and will be used in the future as an alternative way to unlock any feature or item that could also be purchased with real money.
•Royal Marks are used for anything that doesn’t have a direct real money purchasing option. Currently, this is just the crafting and selling of cards.

Crafting Changes:
•The cost to craft a Rare has been reduced to 100, down from 125.
•The cost to craft an Epic has been reduced to 400, down from 500.
•The cost to craft a Legendary has been reduced to 1200, down from 2000.
•The currency returned when selling a Common has been doubled to 20% of its crafting price, up from 10%.
•The currency returned when selling a Legendary has been increased to 33% of its crafting price, up from 25%.

Changes to duplicates from boxes automatically converting to currency:
•Cards that you already own the max deckable amount of will no longer automatically convert into currency. Additionally, you can now own above the maximum deckable amount for a given card. This is in preparation of a new upcoming system which will allow you to convert a certain amount of duplicate instances of a card into something else of value, as an alternative to simply selling them.

New Art
•Quantum Turnkey now has art!

Hero Changes
•Petra •Deadly Gizmo (Poison) and Speedy Gizmo (Charge) have been removed from the Gizmo Pool.
•Weaponized Gizmo (+2 Attack) has been added.
•Sturdy Gizmo (+2 Health) has been added.
•Sneaky Gizmo (Shroud) has been added.

Card Renames
•Timebender -> Quantum Turnkey

Card Changes
•Ghost Blade health reduced to 3 from 6.
•Phantom Betrayer stats down to 6/4 from 7/7.

Bot Changes
•Bots will go slightly easier on the player when they have board advantage.

Map Changes
•A tile on Broken Mesa has been updated to not have a crack so that it does not match the tile next to it. Are you happy now Tehkjel??

Steam
•Steam notifications have been moved to the upper right corner so they don’t overlap with the end turn button.
•When a client is disconnected while using Steam, it now displays a “Disconnected” screen instead of immediately logging back in.
•Fixed some error cases that would result in a user being prompted to create a new account when they already had one.

Options Menu
•Entering custom resolutions will not prompt you to confirm the resolution until after you’ve entered both the height and width.

Treasury
•The option to reselect the last box is now cleared when another box is opened.
•The unselected cards now fade out when a card is selected from a box.

Tutorial
•Basic cards are now unlocked by playing through the tutorial. A new screen has been added to the end of each tutorial mission displaying the cards that are unlocked. If you have already completed the tutorial will not need to play it again to unlock these cards.
•Finishing the Prologue will now award you with 30 Core Set boxes. If you have already completed the tutorial, 30 Core Set boxes will be granted to your account automatically.

Core Tech
•Matchmaking is now skill based and will attempt to not match new players with veteran players, resulting in slightly longer queue times.

UI
•Twitch events now tell you that rewards are coming soon™.
•Red “Pre-Alpha Content” labels have been removed because we’re now in Alpha, yay!
•The tooltip information on mouseover of a card is now left aligned instead of centered.
•Entering the Duel screen now dismisses the Barracks if it is opened.
•The button for closing the deck list has been updated to work consistently for Shardfalls, Duels, and Bot Matches.
•Rarity can be used as a search term in the barracks. Requires a full match (ie. “legendary”) to avoid awkward partial matches.
•Added Spiritwalk Games intro movie clip while the client is loading. This can be clicked through if the client finishes loading before the clip finishes.

Bug Fixes
•Rook’s threat range previews have been fixed.
•Growler Primal will no longer deal damage to the enemy hero when summoned in a position not adjacent to them (through giftable summons).
•Fixed a bug that was causing the Summon Primals and Summon Seedlings pylon objectives to award less power than intended.
•Fixed a bug that prevented selling a card if you could not afford to buy it.
•Fixed a bug that prevented playing with Twitch event decks if you did not own the cards contained in the deck.
•Fixed a bug that would cause the deck UI to refresh repeatedly if you had no decks.
•Fixed a bug that could cause the dragged card in the barracks to get stuck on screen.
•The cancel button on the “Change Quantity” dialog in the box purchase screen now actually cancels the changes.
•Fixed an issue that could cause your Shardfall to get sorted behind Twitch Shardfalls in rare cases.
•Dialog popups now sort below the Options menu.
•Fix bug preventing Escape from bringing up the Options menu during Cinematics.
•Clicking outside the Friends List now dismisses Friend List context menus.
•Tactical camera controls are now disabled during Cinematics.
•The random map selection in duels and bot matches is now actually random, instead of using the last selected map.
•Attacks that deal no damage to their target (such as a ranged attack against Shield of Durant) will now still display the target in Turn History.
•The line of sight tile preview information no longer overrides the valid attack tile preview information on a tile.
•Fix for the mouse cursor getting locked into the game client on game startup.
•Changing your preferences for matching against bots will now take effect immediately, instead of requiring matchmaking to be restarted.

This week, we’re very excited to be putting some of the final pieces of player progression into place. Please take note of some important changes to Shardbound:

You will no longer have access to every card in the game. Instead, you will need to obtain cards by opening Boxes or crafting them with Chroma.

Players will have access to all of the Boxes and Chroma they’ve obtained since Vaults went into the game.

All players will also receive a temporary grant of 100 Boxes to ensure they can thoroughly help test all of the new features going into the game this week.

These Features are new to the game this week:

The Treasury: Opening Boxes - You can open any boxes you earn in the Treasury. When you open a box, you will receive a choice of 3 cards of a randomly designated rarity. If you already have two of a card, you will have the choice of receiving a payout of Chroma instead.

The Treasury: Store - In the Treasury, you can enter the store to purchase boxes with Chroma. In a future patch, you will be able to buy Boxes or our Welcome Bundle for real currency.

The Barracks: Crafting Cards - You can now use your Chroma to craft specific cards. In the barracks, choose the card you’d like to craft and Right-Click it to view that card’s details. From the details page, simply choose to Recruit the unit or Learn the spell.

After this week of testing, we will be resetting card unlocks and refunding all boxes and chroma used during this test. The only exception will be the 100 Boxes granted this week.

Thus, with our patch next week, your collection will enter a clean state and you’ll be able to start building your collection using all of the Boxes and Chroma you’ve ever received out of Vaults.

Thanks in advance for all your help testing. Don’t sweat your unlocks too much (they’re not permanent this time) and keep earning loot out of Vaults (it IS permanent)!

Please be sure to give feedback on your experiences this week on our official Discord server, the Reddit, or our Steam Forums.

New Feature: The Treasury
•You can now open Core Set Boxes to unlock cards.
•You can now purchase Boxes with Chroma.
•When playing with Steam integration, you can now purchase Boxes and a Welcome Bundle from the Steam Store.

New Feature: Steam Integration
•Shardbound now integrates with Steam! These features are enabled in the Steam version of our game, and will be available to all players when we launch to Steam Early Access on April 6th.
•New users will be able to choose a display name, and will have a Shardbound account made automatically.
•Existing users may link their Shardbound account in Steam by entering their username and password.

New Art
•Wynn now has his Archon.

New Cards
•Grand Defender •Neutral 2/10 melee for 5.
•During your opponent's turn, gain +4 Attack.

•Venerated Champion •Neutral 5/4 melee for 6.
•Deathhowl: Summon three Adoring Fans next to this minion.
•Adoring Fan: 2/1 melee.

Card Changes
•Bloodguard has been remade. •Purple 4/5 melee for 3.
•Has +1 Attack for every five Health your hero is missing.

•Eagle Primal now gains +1 Attack if Juro is a Primal, instead of when next to a Primal.
•Timebender now increases the cost of the bounced card by 2.
•Back Alley Bruiser now deals 4 damage instead of stunning.
•Medframe Tech Ability cost down to 1 from 2.
•Soultaker is now a 3/3, from 2/4.
•Swarm Spore now summons a Thrall at the end of your turn, instead of on Ability usage.
•Stellar Replicas now replicates 3 instead of 2.
•Transform keyword has been removed.

Card Removal
•The Eternity Prism
•Reducto

Shardfall Changes
•“Win games with hero at perfect Health” has been changed to “Win games while your hero has 20 or more Health”.

Option Menu
•A new Account section has been added to the Options Menu. It contains: •Redeem Code: Used to redeem a one-use code that will grant your account with items. This is where you will redeem your Kickstarter rewards when they are sent out.
•Link Twitch Account: This button has been moved from the top-level escape menu. It now displays the currently linked account.
•Reset Steam Account: Will delete the Shardbound account that is linked to your Steam account. Only available in Steam builds.

Barracks
•You can now craft cards using Chroma in the card’s details page.
•Simple decks have been rebuilt to match the new set of basic cards.
•Simple decks are now added to your Barracks as normal decks. You are free to modify, rename or delete them as you desire.
•Cards will now display an indicator of how many of them you own.
•Cards now have more robust UI states for communicating why you can’t add more of one to a deck (for reasons such as you don’t own any more, or you’ve already put in the deck limit).

UI
•Card rarities now have the following unique colors: •White = Basic (Uncraftable)
•Green = Common
•Blue = Rare
•Purple = Epic
•Orange = Legendary

•Card and unit mouseover UI bits will more reliably stay on screen.
•Match history in your profile is now limited to the last 100 games in order to make the list manageable. The ability to browse older games will come in a later patch.

Audio
•Overall max game volume has been increased
•Default audio slider position has been set to 70% (this default setting is the same loudness as the previous default)
•If you have previously adjusted your audio sliders, those settings will remain the same, so your game may be louder after patching.

Bug Fixes
•Fix for Weave Eater effect still being in play if Weave Eater is in a Stone Prison.
•Fixed a bug where some AoE effects could hit targets that were burrowed (Splash, Baffling Presence)
•Fixed a bug where Hadrien dying to splash would cause his adjacent allies to take increased damage.
•Fixed a bug where a 1-tile fear was never possible.
•Fixed a typo in Evangelist’s buff tooltip.
•Fixed Tinker/Perfected Specimen mana-cost errors when Artifacts or Thralls change teams.
•Death animations in card details view will no longer pop at lower framerates.
•Fixed a bug preventing custom hero banter from playing.

New Art
•Visefang Primal now has art!

Hero Changes
•Petra’s Gizmos health reduced to 1 from 2.

New Cards
•The Lifespark •Legendary
•Green 5/8 for 5
•Choose a friendly artifact. Exile it, then summon this in its place and gain its card text.

•Rook •Neutral 2/6 for 3
•Can move any distance in a line. Gain +1 Attack this turn for each tile moved.

Card Renames
•Bear Primal -> Visefang Primal
•Totem Whisperer -> Seedsinger (wasn’t actually in Week 31’s patch)

Card Changes
•Cards now have Rarities - Note that this rarity is first pass and is subject to change before Progression is live.
•Runebound Valet has been remade. •Neutral 3/6 for 3
•After you a cast a spell, deal 1 damage and knock back all adjacent enemies.

•Petrify may no longer target friendly minions.
•Bellowing Giant health reduced to 4 from 5.
•Soul Shifter health reduced to 4 from 5.
•Voice of the Squall now a 4/6, down from 5/7.
•Quality of Life - Rift Trickster will now draw LoS lines to allies as well as enemies while moving.

Card Removal
•General’s Horn
•Sparktreader

Gameplay System Changes
•Fear - Fear has been reworked to reduce randomness. Feared targets will now try to flee directly away from the Fearer’s location. Flying units and units with increased/reduced movement will now take those factors into account when being Feared.
•Fatigue - Fatigue damage now happens simultaneously to all units on a team, instead of one at a time. This fixes some strange visuals and inconsistent On-Death procs.

Shardfall Changes
•All Shardfalls will now have 5 pylons consistently, instead of between 4 to 5 at random.
•The chance a Shardfall will have an epic or legendary pylon has been increased slightly.
•The amount of power generated by common pylons has been increased by 33%.
•The amount of power generated by rare pylons has been increased by 33%.
•The amount of power generated by epic pylons has been increased by 7%.
•The guaranteed pylon that every Shard contains has been changed to be “Deal damage to enemies” instead of “Win with any army”. •Note: This is to guarantee you’ll make progress even on a loss, and it will naturally scale with longer games, appropriately awarding you more power for them than shorter ones (as you’ll deal more total damage in longer duration games on average).**

•“Deal damage to enemies” is now rare, up from common.
•“Win with your hero scoring the killing blow” has been removed. •Note: People conceding was negatively impacting the ability to do this objective, so we’ve opted to remove it.**

•“Win with NO spells” has been changed to “Win with 2 spells or less”.
•“Win with <faction> or <faction>” is now rare, up from common.
•“Win with <faction> is now epic, up from rare.
•“Win with your hero at full Health” is now legendary, up from epic.
•The chance to get Card Boxes instead of just Chroma from a Vault has been increased.

Options Menu
•Added an option to mute audio when the game window is in the background.

Social
•Houses are now limited to a maximum of 150 players.

Barracks
•You may now add more than 30 cards to a deck (up to 99) in the Barracks. Decks are invalid until the number of cards is reduced back to 30.
•Heroes now have more VO lines exposed for playback in the card details view.
•Deck editor now recognizes and saves deck name capitalization changes.
•Fixed a bug where mana amounts of 10 and above would have their text clipped on the card bar inside of a decklist.
•Fixed a bug that was sometimes preventing the Barracks Mana buttons from properly scrolling to the correct mana card section.

UI
•Vault progress notifications and individual contributor percent now both display one digit of precision (from 3 and 0).
•The tooltips for Exile and Upgrade have been updated to hopefully be more clear.
•There is now a period of additional delay after replacing cards during Mulligan to give the player time to evaluate what new cards were drawn before transitioning them into the Hand.

Bug Fixes
•Vault contribution rating may now increase due to other players completing games, if the new number of contributors pushes the existing contribution percent over the required amount for the new rating.
•Fixed a bug that would cause players to stop receiving Shardfall and other other updates after reconnecting to the social servers.
•Fixed a bug that would cause Spectators to skip the Victory or Defeat screen at the end of the game.
•Fixed a bug that would cause the client to believe a Shardfall Vault was complete when the percent completion was very close to 100%.
•The Pylon “Play 3 cards in one turn” may now be triggered multiple times in one game.
•Fixed a bug where Spirit Binder’s bind could be broken by certains effects on other units.
•Fixed a bug where Tinker Master, Perfected Specimen and Temporal Drifter couldn’t be affected by some cost buffs or debuffs.
•Fixed a bug where cost increase (such as Weavebreaker) couldn’t affect Upgrade cards.
•Auras based on adjacency (such as Groveguard) will now fall off correctly if that unit has been Stone Prison’ed.
•Fixed a missing word in Juro’s ability tooltip.
•Shanker now plays the correct animations in the Card Details screen.
•Skyborne Crusader no longer gets his wing effects stuck on if attacking as the turn ends.
•Zephyr Monk can now correctly target Lifelike Statue.
•Splash no longer hits burrowed targets.
•Fixed a bug where the “Win with an army that has an average mana cost of 4.0 or higher” pylon quest was only giving 50% as much power as it should.