Patch Notes - November 12th, 2024
PLEASE NOTE: If you haven’t updated your game yet, get the latest in the App Store![h2]PATCH HIGHLIGHTS[/h2]Are you hungry? Well, you better be because Deadpool’s Diner Returns November 21! It’s time to dust off your bubs, because Deadpool’s Diner is back with more high “steaks” action! Make your way all the way up to the (biggest plate) and you’ll unlock the newest Card, King Eitri, and an exclusive Jane Foster - Andrea Guardino Variant!
GENERAL UPDATES
[h2]Album Quick Preview[/h2]- Wishing you could see which Album(s) a new Variant in your shop is for? Well, now you can!
- Preview Albums from the Daily Offer Shop, Medal Shop, Token Shop, and the Collector’s Vault!
- Simply touch or click the album icon to preview the Album and see how much progress you’ve made and which rewards you can unlock.
ART, VISUAL EFFECTS, & AUDIO
- Maximus now has VFX and audio.
CARD AND LOCATION TEXT UPDATES
The final stage of our development process includes reviewing and improving card and location text before we lock the season. Usually, we do that a full month ahead of time, meaning that even an older version of the game won't have outdated text for upcoming cards. However, for the Nine Realms season that handoff wasn't implemented to our most recent patch–only this new one. For that reason, you may see a few instances of text changes, namely on the following cards and locations.To be clear: These updates are text only. No element of the function is changing. - Surtur
- [Old]3/5 - After you play a card with 10+ Power, this gains +3 Power.
- [New]3/5 - After you play a card with 10 or more Power, this gains +3 Power.
- Malekith
- [Old]4/6 - On Reveal: Add a 1, 2, or 3-Cost card from your deck here. It reveals at the end of the game.
- [New]4/6 - On Reveal: Add a 1, 2, or 3-Cost card from your deck here, but don't reveal it until the game ends.
- Valhalla
- [Old]After turn 4, repeat the On Reveal abilities of cards here.
- [New]After turn 4, cards here repeat their On Reveal abilities.
Bug Fixes
[h2]Card and Location Art Fixes in 34.x[/h2]- Addressed some layering issues in-game with the Activate text overlapping awkwardly with other card assets
- Silver Sable should no longer occasionally disappear when playing her VFX
- Addressed issues with the volume for MODOK and Aero VO being inconsistent between languages
- Fixed an issue with how the transparency effect of various merge VFX (ex: Blob) would display
- Fixed an issue with Zabu’s VFX not playing correctly
- Diner - Bub wager text should no longer be occasionally obscured by player names and avatar UI
- Resolved an issue where some SFX weren’t properly tied to the correct audio sliders in Settings
- Cleaned up some UI issues related to the locked Custom Card slot for unowned and unseen cards in your collection
- Fixed a visual issue with the avatar for Silk’s Wooh Na-Young variant
- Attempting to purchase variants from the Daily Offer Shop while disconnected from the internet should no longer result in those Variants incorrectly appearing as purchased when you’ve reconnected
- The blur effect in the background of some UI elements should no longer inadvertently disappear
- Fixed an issue that was preventing player names from displaying correctly in some languages on the Point Contributors board
- The three-dot button in the top-right corner of a member’s profile display from within the Alliance UI should now function
- Continued broad improvements to the filters and search functions of Alliances
- [PC] Hoverstate glow effect should no longer extend beyond the buttons or tabs being hovered over
- Free Seasonal Series 3 card should no longer temporarily show as claimed if the same card is earned through other means before the next refresh
- During the custom card tutorial players can click on a deck in the background through other UI elements and this can cause a soft lock
After you play a card with 10 or more Power, this gains +3 Power.
[h3]SERIE 5[/h3]
Activate: Resurrect your opponent's highest-Power discarded or destroyed card on your side of this location.
Ongoing: +2 Power for EACH On Reveal card in play.
Activate: Draw a card from your deck that didn't start there.
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It’s time to dust off your bubs, because Deadpool’s Diner is back with more high “steaks” action!If you’re new to Diner don’t worry, there’s always an open seat at the table and everyone will get the same amount of Bubs to start playing immediately. Here at Deadpool’s Diner, each table requires a set amount of Bubs to bet before you play. Win at each table, and you’ll keep moving up to bigger plates with more risk and bigger rewards. Make your way all the way up to the (biggest plate) and you’ll unlock the newest Card, King Eitri, and an exclusive Jane Foster - Andrea Guardino Variant!The games inside Deadpool’s Diner will be outside of the typical ladder games, so there’s no risk to your ranking, just to your stack of Bubs, and maybe the risk of your pie exploding… maybe don’t eat the pie.This mode is all about taking big risks, so play it cool and go get your FREE REWARDS! [h3]
Grab all of your favorite Thor Variants to fill this thunderous Album and secure a Ragnarok’ing Reaction Set! Album releases on November 5th.
Get ready to make a statement, the trippy new Vincenzo Riccardi Album is dropping November 12th.
Even Heroes get hungry! Keep them well fed with these amazing new food variants from Wild Blue launching on November 26th.
What better way to capture Vincenzo Riccardi’s epic art style than filling the shop with all of their art at once? Don’t get all tripped up racing to get these, you’ll have two days from Nov 12-13th to find the right Variants for you.
What better time to fill your plate than the end of November? Show your friends and family the foods you’re thankful for with a Wild Blue Food Variant takeover from November 26-27th. [h3]
There’s a lot of great content coming this month with all new cards and Deadpool’s Diner making a return, so make sure you watch your favorite MARVEL SNAP Twitch streamers to earn Boosters, Credits, and a Mystery Variant! Drops will be available from November 19-25th. Don’t miss out!
High Voltage takes the core rules of Snap and condenses them into three action-packed turns. Each turn gives you more Max Energy, more cards, and huge combos that you previously only dreamt about.There are no cubes or points to lose in High Voltage, so you should always feel encouraged to try and win! There’s no downside to trying out new decks or fun new strategies, so you can build a deck, jump in, and play immediately. Win matches and complete missions to earn Volts, then redeem those Volts for a TOTALLY FREE card. How great is that?!?!? [h2]How do you play?[/h2]You start the game with two cards in hand, and draw an additional 2 cards at the beginning of each turn.In place of the Cube where you would normally Snap, you'll have an Arc Reactor. Before each turn, the Arc Reactor will generate between 2-5 Max Energy to add to your total which can then be used to play out your master plan. Your opponent will always receive the same amount of Max Energy that you do, so there’s no guessing how much they have.On turn 1, the Arc Reactor will randomly give you and your opponent between 2-5 Max Energy to use on your first turn.On turn 2, you get the 2-5 Energy from the first turn PLUS an extra 2-5 Max Energy from the Reactor, which means you'll have 4-10 total Energy to use this turn.On turn 3, you get the 4-10 Energy from the 2nd turn PLUS an extra 2-5 Max Energy from the Reactor, which means you'll have 6-15 total Energy to use this turn. Shuri + Infinaut + Arnim Zola? It’s possible!At the end of turn 3, whoever controls 2 out of the 3 locations will win!
“Wait, you’re saying I can play Galactus on turn two?” Ok, you got me there. Not all of your dastardly plans will be available. To keep the game fun and competitive, we have three cards that will not be allowed inside of High Voltage: Galactus, Black Widow, and Magik. We've also updated the location pool a bit, so don’t be surprised if you never see certain locations like Asgard. [h2]How long will High Voltage be here? [/h2]
This limited time mode is playable now, and will be here until October 24th at 12:00 PM PST. And don’t forget, playing High Voltage during the event is the ONLY way to unlock our newest card, Agony, for FREE! Miss out and you’ll need to find Agony in the token shop as a Series 4 card, available on October 31st. [h2]Turning it up to 11. Inside look at designing High Voltage![/h2]We’ve been working on ideas for alternate game modes for a long time now, but only a couple have seen the light of day. We always want to make sure that anything we are going to release is going to add to the fun of Snap while staying true to the core of the game, so we started by mostly changing the systems surrounding the gameplay. Now we're entering a new phase where we'll be bending the core rules further. You all play SNAP for a multitude of reasons, and we want to shine the spotlight on different parts of the game to serve different players.In that spirit, where Battle Mode explored longer matches with lots of information about your opponent’s plays, and Deadpool’s Diner explored making snapping and retreating even more central to the gameplay, High Voltage explores the other ends of each spectrum. You’ll be playing fast-paced games with lots of hidden information, and the focus will be on surprising combinations of cards. And where the first two modes made you reevaluate what it meant to win and lose with the cards playing out the same way, we wanted this game mode to be about different card interactions from normal. [h2]Danger! Danger![/h2]In High Voltage you can make plays you’ve never seen in Marvel SNAP before: Double Giganto’s Power with Shuri and then Taskmaster him! Nerf practically every enemy card by dropping both Scorpion and Cassandra Nova on turn 1! Make a giant Blob, hit it with Arnim Zola, and use Grandmaster to copy it again all on the last turn!
Mind you, we didn’t want every play to be completely absurd. That’s awesome the first time, but if your opponents kept dropping the same wild combo it’d get old fast. That’s why the amount of Maximum Energy that both players gain varies unpredictably.When we first started experimenting with this game mode, we tried a 4 turn game, drawing two cards and getting +2 Max Energy per turn. It was immediately obvious there was something fun here, but it wasn’t as high-octane as we’d hoped it would be. We soon condensed down to 3 turns, trying lots of different schemes for gaining predictable amounts of Energy each turn. But no matter the numbers, strong decks ended up with really weird Cost distributions trying to perfect curves as often as they could. The exhilarating feeling we were chasing needed unpredictability.With that switch flipped, combo-y cards like Shuri and Odin needed to pair with different cards game-to-game and the big plays were much more fun to battle against. We can’t wait to see all the awesome plays you find! [h2]No Missed Stakes[/h2]So why no Cube and no snapping? For one thing, this is players’ first opportunity to build decks under a pretty different set of rules. That’s going to involve a lot of trial and error and we didn’t want to penalize that; it’s okay to lose while you figure out how to make your decks shine in this mode. It would be a shame to have your opponent Snap and feel the need to retreat instead of playing all the way through to try and maximize your combos. While some love nothing more than weighing the odds and making smart decisions about when to call it quits, others are more excited about making swingy plays and seeing what happens. No one thing can be everyone’s ideal at once, so instead we want to shift the spotlight from time to time to emphasize some players’ favorite parts and deemphasize others. [h2]Frequently Asked Questions[/h2]