Minion Masters News

Greetings Master,

Some of you participated in the first edition of our Month of Fun in November 2022. We’re now back with a new, reworked edition! This Month of Fun will be packed with Giveaways, Events, and Contests across all our games, where everyone can join and have fun!

CHECK THE SCHEDULE HERE

[h2]Epic Contest: Find the Card[/h2]

We’re starting off today with the second edition of the “Find the Card” contest. The rule is simple: for each question, you get 4 choices. Only 1 is correct. 1 point per correct answer.
There are 3 categories: emoji, meme, and pixel. Will you prevail? Click on the button below and test your knowledge!
The Winner will receive 2,500 Rubies! 2nd & 3rd places will get 500 rubies each.

The contest ends on April 8th, 3:59 pm CET.

CLICK HERE TO TEST YOUR MINION MASTERS' KNOWLEDGE

[h2]Next event: Project F4E Playtest[/h2]

Join us starting April 8th and grab a key to try our upcoming game, Project F4E, a Hardcore Fantasy Extraction ARPG game. Embark in a PvEvP experience where you and your team venture on missions to complete objectives and get loot before extracting.

Keep an eye on the Month of Fun website and our Social Media channel to not miss any giveaways!

Masters!

We just published a hotfix which is trying to address the mana bar issue that some people have been experiencing. We know that it's still possible for the mana bar to get into the bad state where it doesn't update correctly, but it should be significantly more rare now.

We're adding several Quality of Life features and improvements (you will now be able to change your username) as well as our usual balance pass and new content.

[h2]New Season: Commander's Blade[/h2]

• Two new cards: High Marshal Rystar (Legendary), Crossbow Club House (Supreme) and their Avatar icons
  
• High Marshal Rystar Emote
  
• The Legendary skin: “Volco The Purifying Flame”
  
• 35 power tokens
  
• 275 shards
  
• 7000 golds
  
• 3 Legendary cards
  
• 4 Supreme cards
  
• 5 rare cards
  
• And much more..!
  

[h2]NEW CARDS[/h2]
High Marshal Rystar


Crossbow Club House


[h2]BUFFS[/h2]
Arcane Barrage
Damage: 50 > 55

Armored Escort
Mana Freeze: 4 > 3

Blast Crystal
Damage: 100 > 120

Resonating Blast Crystal
Damage: 100 > 120

Frostberry Bearer
Affects Minions that are already below 50%

Ghost
Gives possessed target Spirit

Net Blaster
Attack Speed: 4.5 > 4

Nyrvir
Slumber damage: 100 > 120

Slithering Summons
Sacrifice: 2 > 3
Also grants Rage

Snap Freeze
Damage: 25 > 35

Spirit (Buff)
Minimum HP: 75 > 100

Stormtamer
Cyclone deals same damage as attack on impact

[h2]NERFS[/h2]
Bounceberry Flingers
Attack Speed: 1.9 > 2.3

Caber Tosser
Attack Speed: 2 > 2.1
Caber doesn't benefit from Rage buff

Fergus Flagon Fighter
Damage: 50 > 40

Lost Legionnaires
Now summons 1 Legionnaire with Shield
Gains Legion (1)

Morgrul's Mark
Spawn interval: 600 > 800
Duration: 3 > 4

Rabid Prowler
Berserker's Rage > Rage
Sacrifice: 2 > 1

Sapphire Pebble
Damage: 100 > 90

Shieldguard of Light
Attack Speed: 2 > 2.2

Snake Druid
Speed: 4 > 5

Woodsman
Attack Speed: 2 > 2.1

[h2]New[/h2]

• Allow players to change their username!
  
• Added Deck Search!
  
• Added “Everything” view to deckbuilding menu that allows you to see all cards.
  

[h2]Gameplay[/h2]

• Spirit Infusion no longer highlights buildings and masters.
  
• Removed/adjusted bad bot decks.
  
• Fixed Caber Tosser description.
  
• Fixed Armored Escort not highlighting appropriate target cards.
  
• Fixed Tranquil Shi-Hou’s attack animation desyncing.
  
• Fixed Ratbo’s Dakka indicator being barely visible.
  
• Fixed Gambler’s Ball not highlighting when sacrifice available.
  
• Seal of Korrrgoth tooltip added.
  
• Tronveir’s Runestones are now Master Buildings.
  
• Master damage shown on cards with reduced master damage.
  
• Fixed Tantrum Throwers and Slitherbound spawn indicator visuals being offset.
  
• Fixed restart button in replays not actually restarting the replay.
  

[h2]Audio and Visual[/h2]

• Made UI element animations play faster, hopefully making navigating the menus feel more snappy.
  
• Fixed missing audio for Veilstalker.
  
• Fixed broken avatars on leaderboard.
  
• Fixed broken guild banners on leaderboard.
  
• Fixed various skin issues.
  
• Fixed Streamer arena Puffs emoting.
  
• Added feedback when signing up to the newsletter.
  
• Fixed some missing materials in certain arenas.
  
• Arenas adjusted to be closer to 1.0. Colours and Lighting.
  
• Fixed mana bar visuals showing double mana consumption for card plays.
  
• Offer type shows in shop and season pass, i.e. card, emote, avatar etc.
  
• Added queue time to lobby screen.
  
• Cards in hand are replaced faster when played.
  
• Fixed cards becoming invisible if played while the match UI is disabled(while in the settings menu).
  

[h2]Performance/Optimization[/h2]

• Leaderboards load faster.
  
• Fixed lag on Master perks.
  
• Fixed Chain Lightning lag spike.
  
• Fixed Coax hypnotising Stormy breaking the game.
  
• Guild members now displayed properly.
  
• Fixed Main Scene and Ladder menu showing different rank progress.
  

During the update process today we encountered a critical issue that prevented the update from happening. We have rescheduled the patch for Monday morning instead.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused to anyone who tried to play this morning.

Masters!

We are pushing a hotfix tomorrow to address a number of issues while we are waiting for patch 2.2 to drop on March 7th! As usual, we'll disable servers from 9 am to 11 am CET.

Thanks again for your feedback and support. It has been invaluable in hunting down these issues. We have a lot more improvements coming in the months ahead!

Also remember to fill in the survey regarding whether you would like to see changes to Bridge Capping (Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8W0hL9KUz8CFmgDqrhf0mHaY-DrQKkxYXtc_JVIuxl03XYg/viewform)

Shop

- We are adding free Battle Pass Tiers in the shop daily for the rest of the season, as you have reported that the current values are too difficult to complete for a lot of players.

Rewards

- Jade Dragon Volco (profile reward) will be reimbursed for players missing this reward.

Draft

- Removed the Faction rules when drafting. Now, each Master has access to all factions. Let us know if you prefer this over the old one or if we should look at other options.

Gameplay

- Fixed a visual glitch where you sometimes appear to lose your mana when playing cards.

Xbox

- Fixed an issue where Xbox users could not log in without an Xbox account

Social UI

- Friends are now ordered by platform friends and alphabetized.
- Added better handling of when guests try to get ready before the host in lobbies.

General UI

- When a match is found while not active, Minion Masters application will become active. (only when playing in fullscreen)
- Fixed sizes of various buttons in the UI
- Fixed an issue where avatars would not update right away when selecting a new.
- Fixed an issue where

Replay

- Filenames now include player names.

Bots + Matchmaking

- Bot difficulty has been increased overall.
- Matchmaking has been tweaked so that players are more likely to meet other players more frequently.

Preview

- Fixed Resonating Construct facing the wrong way in preview.

Stability

- Fixed a few issues with players not being able to log in.