Patch Notes – Zoltog

HEX PATCH NOTES – v0.9.2.004 (Zoltog) – 6/24/14

New Features

• Auction House – You can now buy/sell cards and packs!

• Starter Trials – You can now challenge the AI to a series of games with your starter decks, and improve them along the way by earning new cards!

• Scheduled Tournaments – Scheduled, large-scale tournaments are now ready for play. Read this for details: https://hextcg.com/scheduled-tournaments-and-swiss-pairings/

Tournaments

• Large, scheduled tournaments are now live. We will broadcast in-game and on Twitter the time when that first tournament will begin.

• Swiss tournaments now award prizes based on your record, not your standing

• Joining a tournament will no longer sometimes fail

• Swiss pairings have been cleaned up; there should be less corner cases now. Read this for more information on Swiss pairings: https://hextcg.com/scheduled-tournaments-and-swiss-pairings/

• You can no longer incorrectly change champions between rounds of a tournament

• You can now properly save your deck again after the first time in Deckbuilding

• Joining back-to-back tournaments should no longer put you in an empty lobby

• You can now join a Limited tournament with a mix of platinum and boosters

• Cleaned up text in the Rules tab of tournaments

• You can no longer cause a graphical duplication glitch with the ‘bin’ while drafting

• The ‘bin’ icon is easier to use while drafting

• Tournaments should now always properly send a mail upon completion

• Resolved a few issues with sockets saving/not saving gems properly in tournaments

• You can now load/delete/edit decks created in Limited tournaments in Card Manager

• Sealed 8-player tournaments have had an entry fee increase of 100 platinum

• Sealed 8-player tournaments have had their prizes doubled

General

• Resolved a number of layering issues with the UI

• Players should no longer ‘lose’ whispers

• Attack/targeting lines should no longer go off the screen

• Mail text is no longer limited to 14 lines

• The notification icon for the Social tab will no longer have layering issues in some resolutions

• The chat box should no longer prevent you from clicking on things above it when expanded

• Disabled chat encoding for players

• Players should no longer ‘lose’ the priority bar

• Players should no longer be asked to reconnect again after conceding from a game they have reconnected to

• Removing friends now functions correctly

• Games should no longer get stuck in the ‘infinite mulligan’ loop

• You can now redeem Gen Con 2013 codes

Gameplay

• The game will no longer hang when a Guard Dog blocks a troop affected by Pheromones

• Prime Sapphire of Subterfuge will no longer instantly bury all cards in the opponent’s deck if the troop it’s socketed in is 0/0

• Games should no longer hang if a ‘Choose from reveal’ effect reveals no potential choices

• Swiftstrike should no longer ever cause a troop to deal damage twice or no times at all

• Cosmic Transmogrifier now appropriately looks at the current, modified cost of cards

• Corrupt Harvester no longer keeps the ‘Can’t be blocked…’ ability through transformation

• Starting the game with two Princess Victoria cards in hand will properly modify them both

• Voiding an attacking troop now properly removes it from combat

• The damage prevention effect of Shellsafe Sure Shot’s Turtle Pet will now properly interact with crush damage

• Spellshield will no longer remove effects added to the card before Spellshield was applied

• Troops transformed by Polymorph: Dingler will no longer retain gems

• The triggered effect of Xarlox, Blood Lord will no longer gate the game if it tries to bury more cards than are left in the deck

• Cavern Commando is no longer incorrectly referred to as ‘Militia’ in some cases

• Phoenix Guard Aeronaut no longer has the text ‘Socketable Minor’ twice

Known Issues

• If you disconnect during a Starter Trials game, you may not have your progress saved.

• Searching for card text in ‘My Bids’ in the Auction House does not currently work

• The clickable area in the inventory stash is too small in 1920×1080 resolution, but it is still there

• The scroll wheel does not always work in mail, and you sometimes have to click the arrows to be able to scroll through the mail window

• Alternate Art cards will currently show up in the Auction House by using the filters only for them and not both kinds of cards

• PvE cards currently only show up in the ‘Stash’ items filter in the Auction House

• Cards that are granted rage will improperly display ‘Rage 0’ instead of the correct value

• Blood Orb of Deception does not activate correctly

• Searches in the Auction House currently only return 15 results, which is not intended