JURASSIC WORLD™ ALIVE UPDATE

A MASSIVE new update is coming! See below to prepare!

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BATTLE

We’ve reworked the creature roster in order to create a globally balanced experience and to avoid power creep.

See BATTLE details

Hybrid Rebalancing

This update economically rebalances the metascore of the hybrids and superhybrids in the game according to the difficulty of obtaining their component elements. A Legendary that is created by performing a fusion between a Common and an Epic is not worth the same as a Legendary that is created by performing a fusion between two Epics. This is reflected in the changes to abilities and attributes as seen below.

Attribute Reallocation

The speed value of every creature has been better accounted for in the game’s balancing, which means we had to reallocate attributes for most if not all creatures for this update. Instead of being part of the creature’s pool of “attribute points,” the balancing of speed is done for a given creature’s every ability by factoring in each ability’s speed, including abilities that Act First.

Raptor Duelists

A few notable changes provide counters to the prevalent “raptor meta”. Some creatures have been redesigned or tweaked accordingly. Note that raptors are functionally unchanged: other creatures are now better counters against them.

The following Hadrosaur family creatures gained Superiority Strike: Edmontosaurus, Iguanodon, Ouranosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Tenontosaurus and Tragodistis. They had to lose a hefty amount of speed to compensate for this powerful ability. This brings them in line with their new functionality niche as Raptor Duelists. They achieve this by combining a self-cleanse (potentially removing Pounce’s damage reducing effect) while also reducing the opponent’s speed for one turn. Stegosauridae (Stegosaurus, Wuerhosaurus, Tuojiangosaurus, Kentrosaurus, Stegodeus) and the new Brachiosauridae (Brachiosaurus and Giraffatitan) also possess the same Superiority Strike.

Brachiosaurus and Giraffatitan also have a new ability: Surprise Bellow. See Ability Updates (below) for more information.

Last but not least, the following Sauropods replaced their Basic Attacks with Lockdown Strike: Apatosaurus, Amargasaurus, Argentinosaurus, Gigaspikasaur and Nodopatosaurus. This equips these creatures with a way to prevent the common tactic of Pounce-and-Swap.

New Counter Attackers

The following creatures gained special versions of Counter Attack (where the damage multiplier of the counter attack is less than 1x):

Amargocephalus (0.5)

Ankyntrosaurus (0.5)

Gigaspikasaur (0.5)

Kentrosaurus (0.5)

Nodopatosaurus (0.5)

Trykosaurus (0.25)

Decelerating Impact

This ability is now more in line with Thagomizer: the speed reduction is 50% for 2 turns. However, the cooldown is only 1 turn!

Remove Positive Effect

Removing Positive Effects now works on creatures that are Immune. Example: you can remove an Indominus Rex’s Cloak, but you still can’t stun her! We want players to have control and completely avoid the random 50% Dodge Chance if they simply decide to field creatures with Nullification effects.

Dodge

A dodge is a random chance that an attack’s direct damage is avoided entirely, similar to Cloak’s dodge chance. Note that other effects of the attack that was dodged (such as Stuns, Speed Reduction and Nullifications) still apply.

A dodge can be removed by Removing Positive Effects (example: Nullifying Strike).



Matchmaking Duration

In order to have the most chances to be matched with a level-appropriate opponent, we have increased the Opponent Search durations.

Since there are few players that have reached the end-game, this means that we have to search for a longer amount of time before having a chance to be matched. For an optimized experience, please refrain from canceling the match search.

Max search duration of 30s

Fallen Kingdom, Mt. Sibo, S. S. Arcadia, Nublar Jungle

Max search duration of 60s

Badlands, Lockdown

Max search duration of 120s

Sorna Marshes, Jurassic Ruins

Arena Battle Rewards

Exclusive creatures are unchanged. However, battle creature allocation has been updated per arena.

Fallen Kingdom: Velociraptor, Stegosaurus, Amargasaurus, Ankylosaurus Mt. Sibo: Ophiacodon, Utahraptor, Koolasuchus Gen 2, Secodontosaurus S.S. Arcadia: Ankylosaurus Gen 2, Dimetrodon, Delta, Kentrosaurus Nublar Jungle: Triceratops Gen 2, Triceratops , Charlie, Rajasaurus Badlands: Parasaurolophus, Postosuchus, Echo, Monolophosaurus Lockdown: Tanycolagreus, Megalosaurus, Pyroraptor Sorna Marshes: Allosaurus, Giraffatitan, Tyrannosaurus rex Jurassic Ruins [NEW]: Euoplocephalus, Tuojiangosaurus, Sinoceratops, Baryonyx

Note: Battle incubators now award Exclusive Creatures without replacing the regular incubator reward slots: this means a steadier income of Exclusive Creature DNA!

Small Incubator (15min) focus on Rare Exclusives

Standard incubator (3h) focus on Common Exclusives (starting at Arena 2)

Large incubator (8h) focus on Epic Exclusives (Starting at Arena 3)

ABILITIES UPDATE

The majority of creatures had their attributes updated.