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Patch Notes 10/12/2023 - Version 0.88.1 - Promotional Community Set Release!



Major Feature
New Community Card Set
This patch marks the release of our second community card set, featuring promotional cards from those who have supported out previous Kickstarters as well as those who have provided outstanding community contribution.

Bemmie, Paragon of Community
4 Cost - 6 Morale - 8/8 Unique Character
Activate: Target non-Unique Character you control that costs 1 gains +4/+4 and becomes Unique. Activate this only once per turn.

Benionin, Mage Guild Archivist
4 Cost - 5 Morale - 4/8 Character
Exhaust: Draft an ability card from four random ability cards matching your deck's purities and put it on top of your Deck. This Activation can only be used once a turn and cannot be undone.

Blueleaf, The Scroll Keeper
8 Cost - 15 Morale - 15/15 Character
While Blueleaf, The Scroll Keeper is deployed, Abilities in your Graveyard have recall X, where X is its cost.

Doltan, The Blood Hunter
3 Cost - 4 Morale - 4/4 Character
Lifelink 4, Bloodthirst 4

Soul Reaper
5 Cost - 5 Morale - 8/15 Character
Soul Reaper has Deadly while in the Assault Zone.
When you deploy Soul Reaper, choose target enemy Character.
When the chosen Character dies, it is Raised under your control, it becomes a Spirit, set its stats to 3/3 and it gains Flying.

Bug Fixes

General:
- Added draft tooltip to Medi, Herald of the Unknown, Agent Coyle Singularity and Aleta Immortal Traveler.
- Fixed deck cards overlapping waiting for turn UI.
- Fixed Type filter deck builder tooltips.
- Fixed inventory faction filter failing to find cards with multiple factions
- Fixed white box rendering over selected profile in inventory

Cards:
- Fixed Death ray hitting cards outside the battlefield.
- Fixed Vigil unable to target commanders.
- Fixed Eaten by zombies effect persisting after reanimation.
- Fixed Liand, The Fearless incorrectly exhausting on overcharge.
- Fixed Gorgon Beam 9000 creating Mechanisms when not killing its target
- Fixed Agent Coyle Synergy removing unique tag from himself

Welcome Rift Runners, we've got another community set for you, this time being the Promo card community set, made up of cards designed by the community or for the community. These cards represent more than our continued expansion and content efforts - they're a symbolic gesture to our amazing community, that you are as much a part of this game as we are (and without having to write any of the code, lucky bastards).

Your last and only chance to get these cards in platinum is to pre-order in-game, or join the Patreon campaign before the end of the weekend, so consider joining if you're not already. Regardless, here's what we've got!


[h2]Doltan, the Blood Hunter[/h2]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=46SdYMVEZng

Spotlight: https://youtube.com/shorts/46SdYMVEZng

A rift runner from an unknown world, Doltan fell through a rift into an unknown forest, and with no idea where he is, he does the one thing that he’s known his whole life… he hunts. The wildlife provide decent sustenance to sustain his hunger, but how will he get home?

Doltan’s effects are simple, as he has Lifelink 4 and Bloodthirst 4.

As a factionless character with two pretty powerful keyword abilities, Doltan’s strength is less in what he himself can do, or rather what you can bring out of him, finding synergies in unique purities to make the most of his lifelink and bloodthirst.

[h2]Blueleaf, the Scroll Keeper[/h2]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=M0ViTyLk3q4

Spotlight: https://youtube.com/shorts/M0ViTyLk3q4

Blueleaf has had an impressive journey, from a Cultist thrall and slave, to a Genesis Industries asylum seeker and researcher, to a scroll keeper in the Library of Knowledge, they aim to study and preserve the arts, science, and magic of this world, and many others.

While Blueleaf is deployed, you are able to cast abilities from your graveyard as if they had recall X, with X being their original cost.

Getting to use each of your spells twice as much without worrying about recycle management and such is a really high potential ability, but with a cost of 8 and morale cost of 15, it’s not going to be easy or reliable, but the potential Blueleaf holds in the right hands, can be insane.

[h2]Bemmie, Paragon of Community[/h2]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ar80nleLUIY

Spotlight: https://youtube.com/shorts/ar80nleLUIY

From organising and running events, to supporting the little guy however they could, whether it was promotion, networking, or sign language interpretation, Bemmie was a legend behind the scenes, spreading love and positivity wherever they went.

Bemmie can target a non-unique character with a cost of 1 once every turn, and it gains a +4/+4 stat boost, becoming unique.

While this card has a lot of potential synergy with things like aspirants, thralls, militia or other one-cost cards, this card is an ode to a player and friend of Lightmare Studios, and despite only working with them for a year or so, they left an impact on all of us, that we felt we needed to honor. So, this one is for you Bemmie, I hope we’ve made you proud to be our friend, just as we were yours.

[h2]Soul Reaper[/h2]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NaaREoj8EP0

Spotlight: https://youtube.com/shorts/NaaREoj8EP0

A once powerful pilgrim of the DoD, the sleepers virus took hold and transformed them, but their spirit proved powerful enough to retain control of their infected, mechanical body. Soul reaper wanders Talich, looking to slay foes of the descendants.

Soul Reaper has Deadly in the assault zone, and on deployment you choose a target enemy character. When that character dies, it’s raised under your control as a flying 3/3 spirit.

As not only a fantasic way to apply pressure on defensively tall enemies, it also acts as a slow way to steal a character from your opponent, good for preventing opponent graveyard shenanigans, or to repurpose interesting effects for your own gain.

Infinity Wars, bringing death to Pay to Win in card games.

[h2]Benionin, Mage Guild Archivist[/h2]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UGK2OUA3SvY

Spotlight: https://youtube.com/shorts/UGK2OUA3SvY

The world was growing more and more complicated, convoluted, and the rifts risked knowledge being lost to time. Benionin founded the Library of Knowledge, looking to document and preserve knowledge on the people, systems, events, and battles of the Infinite Worlds.

Benionin can Exhaust himself to draft an ability card from 4 choices that match your deck’s purity mix, and place the chosen card on top of your deck.

As a commander, Benionin kind of hurts his own effect potential, but if he’s deployed later in the game, you can start to really dig for the hail mary card you might need, even if it isn’t a part of your current deck, as long as you have the purity to access it, you’ve got a chance to come up big.

We also have this weekend's event and Sanctuary Social (find the time on Discord) with Agent Coyle hosting, and a free stamped Coyle card (because it's about time he had one) and the Unending Growth game mode! You'll get the chance to find out more this weekend, so jump into the game and give it a play!

Thanks from everyone here at Lightmare for all your support, and of course consider joining the Patreon campaign to get platinum copies of the Promo Card Set, as well as a bunch of other extras and value!




Discord: discord.gg/y8KGxk4
Patreon: patreon.com/lightmarestudios

Patch Notes 1/12/2023 - Version 0.88 - Weather System & Promotional Community Set Preorders Live

Weather comes back to Infinity Wars!
Celebrate the festive season as the snow blankets Infinity Wars, just in time for December and the joyous spirit of Christmas, transitioning to refreshing rain after the New Year.
More weather types to come!

Promotional Community Set Preorders Live!

Next week the following cards will be released, preorder them now to get access to exclusive platinum versions of the following cards:
- Soul Reaper
- Benionin, Mage Guild Archivist
- Blueleaf, The Scroll Keeper
- Dalton, The Blood Hunter
- Bemmie, Paragon of Community

Sign-up to our Patreon to automatically preorder this and future community sets in platinum.

Changes:
- Enabled Christmas for those on the nice list. (Not you)
- The card Acid Rain now temporarily changes the weather to Acid Rain.

Fixes:
- Fixed Inevitable dead not triggering from hand if no other Inevitable dead are in deck
- Fixed the Burg, Root of Resurrection battlefield failing to load.
- Fixed various bugs & soft-locks present in Tutorial 3.
- Fixed incorrect pricing on the Patreon banner in the store

Other news: Blog Post #4 is out!
In this article Teremus talks about the state of Infinity Wars and the upcoming Community Set as we move closer to the end of the 2023.

We're coming up on this week's livestream, giving all Rift Runners the next rotation of the Event Mode rules. Want to find out all the shenanigans you can get up to during Sanctuary Social?

Check out the newest preview video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLMZoVZbby8

What would happen if everything was a Sleeper?
What would happen if everything was hyper-aggressive?
What would happen if everything that was killed.......came back?

Sanctuary Socials will be hosted this week by none other than Teremus! The Terror Moose will get into these Event Mode matches and be sure to make everyone look amazing as he tries his best to not get obliterated.

Logging in and playing a match during this timeframe will net you a God Pack and a SaSo Stamped Inevitable Dead just for being a part of the fun. Not to mention the lowest queue times you ever did see in all of Infinity Wars.



Patch Notes 18/11/2023 - Version 0.87.1 Hotfix

• Event game mode now available in quickplay during select times
  

Card Fixes

• Fixed Endless Legion gaining +2/+2 for cards in opponent graveyard
  
• Fixed eaten by zombies not granting the undead tag
  

General Fixes

• Fixed right click to activate ability
  
• Fixed card description typos
  
• Fixed inventory item display using incorrect context buttons when switching between item types
  
• Fixed card stamp scaling issue in main menu for sanctuary stamped cards
  
• Fixed sanctuary stamps not being counted profile total
  
• Fixed reversed A/D key hints inside deck builder focus card display
  
• Fixed community 23 set number incorrectly displaying out of 100
  
• Fixed card description tooltips displaying when description text is hidden
  

Sanctuary Socials are back for another week! 🎮

🎉 Last week, we unvailed the brand new mutator mode, featuring Sleeper Civil War. All attendees were also gifted a Sanctuary Stamped "Endless Horde"! 🎉



🃏 Join us this week, 5pm Saturday PST to get your hands on the next mysterious card, reduced queue times, and to connect with Rift Runners worldwide! 🚀

🌐 What are Sanctuary Socials?
Sanctuary Socials are our weekly community events in Infinity Wars, designed to make your gaming experience even more enjoyable. Our mission? To eliminate those pesky queue times while creating a fun and casual space for Rift Runners from around the world to connect and socialize.

🎉 What's in it for you?
Participating in Sanctuary Socials comes with a ton of exciting perks:

1. 🎁 Exclusive Rewards: Just for showing up, you'll score incredible gifts like God Packs. Yup, you read that right – freebies just for logging in!

2. 📈 2x XP Gains: Boost your progress with 2x XP gains. Whether you're looking to level up your Prestige Pass or increase your in-game level, this is the place to be!

3. ⏳ Drastically Reduced Queue Times: Say goodbye to those long wait times and jump right into the action.

4. 🌟 Community Rewards: Shape the game together with us! Your participation counts, and you'll be rewarded based on how the community plays the game. For example, if Flame Dawn Purity reigns supreme during Sanctuary Socials, expect Flame Dawn-related goodies in the following week!

5.🕹️Mutator gamemode: Only avalible during special events, this custom gamemode comes with unqiue rules that change up the standard gameplay mechanics. Dive into the deck builder and create decks to synergize with game altering modifications.

🤝 How to Join:
Participating in Sanctuary Socials is a breeze and open to everyone:

- 📣 Sanctuary Socials take place in our public Discord server, where you'll find a vibrant and welcoming community.

- 🎙️ Specialized Channels: Engage with like-minded players in channels dedicated to Deckbuilding, Theorycrafting, Lore discussions, and casual chat. Connect based on your interests and dive deep into the Infinity Wars universe.

- 💻 Not a Discord enthusiast? No problem! You can still join the event by simply logging into the game during Sanctuary Socials hours. Enjoy the rewards, reduced queue times, and the exciting atmosphere, even if you choose not to participate in the Discord discussions. We want everyone to feel included and have a fantastic time!

Don't miss out on the action – see you there! 🚀



This event, and many other things are bought to you by our amazing Patrons, as well as our most active players and backers. A Huge thanks to all of you who support us and what we do. If you want to join the campaign to bring death to Pay to Win in card games, consider joining the Patreon Campaign, where you get SO MANY DANG PACKS, well eclipsing the cost of signing up!