Blood Bowl 3 News

Hi Coaches,

Since the game's release there’s been a lot of discussion around the Customization system. As something our players care about, we wanted to address this topic individually. Our aim has been to provide a transparent and rewarding system for players, but we must acknowledge that the delay of the planned reward features not only presented the system in an unintended way but also revealed its weaknesses, which is something we’d like to change.

Listening to your feedback is important to us, and one of the main criticisms the system has faced is the fact that buying an item unlocks only one copy instead of unlocking it for unlimited use. Add to that the issues we faced with the game’s launch, and it becomes understandable why players assumed monetization was one of our main goals with this game.

As a result of this we decided to make some drastic changes to the customization system and how cosmetic items work in the game.

[h3]COMMON RARE AND EPIC ITEMS[/h3]

All the Common, Rare and Epic pieces of equipment bought will now unlock for unlimited use among your teams, on players that share the same position. You will not have to buy multiple copies of the same helmet or shoulder pad anymore.
We also want to clarify that this rule will apply both to items bought and items obtained as a reward.

[h3]LEGENDARY ITEMS[/h3]

Unlocking a Legendary item through the shop or as a reward will be less frequent than other rarity, and we want those customizations to remain an exceptional way to make your key players stand out. This is why Legendary items will not be unlocked for unlimited use. We will still change one constraint that we believe should be removed: equipping an item on a player in one of your teams will not prevent you from equipping it in parallel on another one of your teams anymore.

We are currently evaluating ways to prevent the proliferation of Legendary items, to back-up this vision through the store and customization system.

We hope you understand that changing this system will require time including refunding the players who already spent their Warpstone on items that will be unlimited after the patch. We will come back with an exact date for these changes once we’ve got all the technical confirmations we need.

[h3]FIRST SEASON BLOOD PASS FOR ALL[/h3]

It remains our plan to launch the Season 1 in May 2023. A new Faction will be released and seasonal features like the Official Ladder and the Blood Pass will be implemented.
We appreciate that the launch hasn’t gone as well as it could and with that in mind, we want to start the new season right.

The Season 1 Blood Pass, including the first new faction, will be free to unlock for everyone.

We believe these changes and announcements will contribute to make Blood Bowl 3 a more fair and enjoyable experience for all our players. We know that there is still a lot of work to implement features and fix elements of the game, and we remain committed to that as our main priority.

The Blood Bowl 3 team.

Hi Coaches,

Here is the list of changes applied with our 3rd Patch Note.

Update :

In line with last friday announcement, we've credited:

- 1,000 Warpstone to all Brutal Edition players
- An additional 250 Warpstone to Early Unlock players for their troubles
Note: This is still under verification. If you were eligible to the compensation but did not receive it. Give it some time. We will post an update today.


[h3]Patch 3 PC 41302 02/03/2023[/h3]

-Fixed several rare crashes related to camera rotations
-Fixed a crash related to Throw Team-mate action and specific skills interactions
-Fixed a crash that could occur during a re-roll skill usage before an interception
-Fixed an issue that could lead to an unresponsive game in case of concede from the opponent at specific timings
-Fixed an issue that could lead to an unresponsive game when using the Pass skill
-Fixed an issue that could lead to an unresponsive game when using the Pro skill
-Fixed minor navigation issue with a controller on Prayers to Nuffle pop-ups
-Fixed player sheets disappearing when using inspect mode with a controller
-Improved the Intensive Training pop-up UI
-Several minor fixes in inducement phase UI

-Fixed PickUp probability showing with a No Hands player
-Fixed "infinite" fouls with Sneaky Git (Will still be displayed in dice logs but not effective)
-Fixed Throwing a Team-Mate with the ball exactly in the End Zone not requiring a Land Roll to score
-Fixed parts of the UI disapearing after a Fireball usage
-Fixed Chainsaw not applying its +3 to ArmourRolls on blocks and fouls
-Fixed Biased referee not succeeding on a result of 7+ (after modifiers)
-Fixed Chaos Chosen not being able to buy Wandering Apothecaries during inducements
-Fixed MightyBlow and Claws interaction during Armour Rolls
-Fixed Frenzy and Stand Firm skills interactions
-Fixed an issue when using Chainsaw skill against another Chainsaw player

-Fixed standard edition having incorrect access to Deluxe edition content
-Fixed an issue preventing to progress through the campaign in offline mode
-Fixed an issue in the Team Manager that could lead to players not being displayed after being swapped
-Fixed an issue allowing to display the password of a private league
-Minor matchmaking changes
-Minor localization fixes

[h3]Known issues:[/h3]

When re-launching the game for the first time after the patch, player with the standard edition will be stuck in an infinite loading due to the removal of Brutal Edition items. Simply re-launch the game.

[Update: The maintenance is over. ]

Hi Coaches,

Our servers will be under maintenance tomorrow, Thursday, March 2nd, at 1pm GMT.

The maintenance is estimated to last until 3PM GMT.

Starting 12:00 (noon) you will not be able to start a match.


See you on the pitch!

Hi everyone,

Today we would like to address all the members of the different leagues, and through them, the entire Blood Bowl community.

We have heard your concern about the current absence of advanced admin tools in Blood Bowl 3.

We know how important these tools are to the community, to the players who can enjoy the different competitions and to all the leagues and their admins, passionate about Blood Bowl, who enjoy creating such competitions.

Jumping from Blood Bowl 2 to Blood Bowl 3 without mentioning it was a mistake we want to correct today.

Having the advanced admin tools ready is one of our short terms objective. We didn’t mentioned it on the roadmap to focus on element understandable by everyone, so we will take this opportunity to tell you now. We are aiming at having them ready during pre-season before the start of season 1.

Our current plan is to progressively add administration features to the Blood Bowl 3 webapp, starting during the next couple of weeks by:

• Add additional admins/commissioners onto league boards.
  
• Add and remove teams to ongoing competitions.
  
• Seed knockout competitions.
  

Followed by

• Advance each round manually.
  
• Aeset a match so it can be replayed if a crash occurs.
  
• Admin specific match results, including spp and gold.
  
• Ticket teams for competitions without them needing to be on an admin’s friends list.
  

A dedicated part of the team is currently working on those features, and we will update you as soon as there are more information to share.

As for concerns regarding readability and reconnexion to ongoing matches, we would like to reiterate that their presence at certain steps of the roadmap doesn’t mean that we’re waiting in the meantime. These issues are very high on our priority list, and the team is hard at work to fix them as much as other critical ones. We dearly hope to be able to implement them sooner that what is stated on the current roadmap. We will continue to deploy fixes and features as they get ready, at the earliest convenience.

We wish to continue offering the community the right environment to create even more content than in the previous game, and for the many years to come.

Thank you,
The Blood Bowl Team.

fter multiple delays and an early unlock period that was marred by game-breaking bugs, Blood Bowl 3 launched on February 23. In spite of fixes for the most egregious issues, like the servers straight-up not working, it's currently sitting at a user rating of Mostly Negative on Steam. Only 27% of user reviews are positive...
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