Minion Masters News

Minion Masters!

This patch we’re bringing some frequently requested features to the game by means of a streamlined Bug Reporter and 2v2 Report option as well as a tonne of balance changes to shake things up in the meta.

Please note that for the time being Xbox will not have the Bug Report feature. The Unity feature we use for reporting does not currently support Xbox, but we’ll be investigating how to make it work for Xbox in the future.

Also note that the In-Game timer for the next Battle Pass has increased. We’re doing this to align the Battle Pass release with something as yet unannounced.
We’ve added another weekly quest for you during this time, so you can get even further in the Battle Pass and claim those rewards!

With all that away - Let’s dive right in!


The Tri-Team Tourney has returned! Collect 15 keys for the house of your choice and vote for which card you’d like to see in the game next! You can only vote for one house, so choose wisely, and earn yourself a Random Legendary Card!

• House Valor - Stormbringer, Volco, Ratbo - Ghost Storm
  
• House Triumph - Apep, Morellia, Mordar - Mal’Shar
  
• House Glory - Milloween, Ravager, King Puff - Taurus
  

The event will last until the release of Version 1.4 - Good luck!


Help us help Minion Masters without even closing the game! With the new Bug Reporter tool found in the Settings Menu, you’ll be able to attach a screenshot of the game, add Replays and Crash reports, and give detailed descriptions on the issues encountered. Thanks in advance for our awesome community’s commitment to helping us catch bugs!


Also coming in this update is the ability to report your teammates at the Results screen for Leaving matches or Griefing. Simply click the Report button and choose between the options provided (You won’t be able to report someone for leaving unless they disconnected from the game) and your replay will be submitted to us for future review. Note that no action will be taken against players before the replays are viewed by a dwarf, and simply being bad at the game doesn’t count as Griefing ;)


We’re including a huge number of changes in this patch - quite possibly too many to write full Developer Comments for. Check out our Developer Stream VOD for the initial reveals of these changes and insights on them!

• Apep
  
  • First and Third Perk now only selects Minions
    

• Armored Scrats
  
  • Health 90 > 60
    
  • Unit Count 3 > 4
    

• AtG Drone x8
  
  • Health 250 > 275
    

• Bridge Buddies
  
  • Now always spawns Armored Scrats
    
  • Armored Scrats gain Frenzy if you already control the bridge
    

• Crakgul Doomcleaver
  
  • Mana Cost 9 > 8
    

• Divine Warrior
  
  • Health 350 > 400
    
  • Mana Cost 4 > 5
    

• Dragon Nest
  
  • Now spawns a Flying Dragon instead if the spell cost 5+ Mana (After any mana cost discounts)
    

• Empowered Soul Stealer
  
  • No longer has Marksmanship
    
  • Starts with 2 Souls
    
  • Gains an additional 2 when summoned if you control a minion with Rage
    

• Grasping Thorns
  
  • Mana Cost 2 > 3
    
  • Health 50 > 75
    

• Harbinger
  
  • Speed 3 > 4
    

• Jungle Jumble
  
  • Mana Cost 8 > 7
    

• Laser Turret
  
  • Health 350 > 300
    
  • Attack Speed 1.4 > 1.2
    
  • Cooldown decrease per attack 0.3 > 0.2
    
  • Minimum Attack Cooldown 0.1 > 0.2
    

• Lone Wolf
  
  • Health 350 > 400
    
  • Mana Cost 4 > 5
    

• Morellia
  
  • Range 12 > 10
    
  • Perk 2 Spirits 3 > 2
    
  • Queen’s Dragon Mana Cost 6 > 8
    

• Rock Rivals
  
  • Living Statue no longer has Rage
    

• Screaming Scrat
  
  • Health 90 > 60
    
  • Damage 100 > 60
    

• Scrat Pack
  
  • Mana Cost 1 > 2
    
  • Unit Count 2 > 5
    

• Spawn of Fury
  
  • No longer has Voidborne Wound
    
  • Mana Cost 4 > 3
    

• Spirit (Mechanic)
  
  • Flying Minions now only receive 100 extra health
    

• Troubadour
  
  • Attack Speed 5 > 4.5
    

• Warrior
  
  • Health 350 > 400
    

• Wizard Puff
  
  • Attack Speed 1.8 > 1.6
    

• A new Conquest Season has started! Earn your guild a Tombstone Avatar, Admiral Mordar the Mad skin and a new Guild Banner this season!
  
• You can now restart your Conquest after its completion for a Ruby fee. The highest score of your Conquest attempts will be your contribution at the end of the Cycle.
  
• Adjusted the priority of Shields again. The new order is Constant Abilities (i.e. Scrat Tank/Divine Shield) > Cooldown Abilities (Musketeer Parry) > Consumable Damage Prevention (Shields) > HP Guards ( Guardian) > HP
  
• Re-enabled the /syncachievements code for chat.
  
• A message is now displayed when the game is waiting for a response from the Server.
  
• Recently changed cards will now be marked stating as such. The notification can be removed by hovering over the card in Deckbuilding. A link to the patch notes is also available in the card details for changed cards.
  
• Tri-Team Tourney now removes the Claim buttons for each house once the reward has been claimed to clear up confusion about only being able to claim the reward once.
  

Fixed issues with Diona spawning traps when Buildings were in play - Thanks MiKe!
Fixed two Walking Blind Dates colliding not killing both units - Thanks the_red_soul!
Fixed a visual bug when Haunting Hugger possessed a Magma Turret - Thanks the_red_soul!
Fixed a scenario where a Crossbow Dude could be stuck outside of the map - Thanks Kriszace!
Fixed matches found during Queue Master requiring you to “Click to Continue” - Thanks GReY WolF!
Fixed Blank card slots displaying 200 Glory when posted in chat - Thanks DX2!
Fixed a bug where Defenso Chopper killed Haunting Huggers - Thanks Siskodemon!
Fixed Magma Storm actually firing 11 balls - Thanks Siskodemon!
Fixed all Guild Applicants saying they haven’t been online for a month - Thanks BadAsAFish80!
Fixed an issue where Re-Boomer could get stuck in one place and never move for the rest of the match - Thanks Maldiga!
Fixed an inconsistency with Morellia’s Auto Attack causing it to sometimes not slow Minions - Thanks Jules!
Fixed an issue where Bridge Swap could swap a unit without it capturing the bridge - Thanks Naethure!
Fixed an issue where Guardian transforming while stunned could cause immortal units.
Fixed Morellia’s Auto Attack preventing units from Charging/Jumping.
Fixed an issue where Armored Escort would not work after Morellia uses Book of the Dead.
Fixed the tooltip for Recruit Friends saying “Invite this player to a battle”.
Fixed Conquest Cards not counting as an extra copy of the card for Wild Carding.
Fixed an issue with Crakgul’s description formatting.
Fixed an issue where Ragdolls kept being enabled after changing Screenshake or Camera Movement options.
Fixed Cursebearer’s Aura VFX jittering when it took damage.
Fixed a rare bug where Cleaver would not be stunned by Chain Lightning.
Fixed an issue where Conquest Cards would not apply a Season Gold Star correctly for the purposes of calculating glory for Conquest if they were the lowest Glory card in your deck.
Fixed Lone Wolf not having Rage in the unit preview.


Cheers from BetaDwarf!

Minion Masters!

We've got more of a look at the upcoming features in Version 1.3 as well as the new Tri-Team Tourney that lets you vote for a card we'll be making in a future update.





The return of our card voting format is here! Similarly to the way our Card-House Contests have worked, the Tri-Team Tourney has you collecting keys for your favoured house and receiving a Legendary card from the first team you open the chest for. We've got Mal'Shar and Taurus making their return appearances from the previous tournaments, and with a new contender Ghost Storm picking up the flag for House Valor. Here's the teams and their respective cards:

• House Valor: Stormbringer, Volco, Ratbo - Ghost Storm
• House Triumph: Apep, Morellia, Mordar - Mal'Shar
• House Glory: Milloween, Ravager, King Puff - Taurus

Your prize for voting for your card of choice will be a random Legendary card. Remember, you can only vote for one of the three teams! Look forward to the contest in Version 1.3.



We've decided to mix things up a little and give a full overview of what can be expected in Version 1.3 - These are the features we're aiming to include, though note that some of these may end up being delayed. Here's what we're planning for the next update:

• Conquest Season 4
  
• Tri-Team Tourney
  
• Conquest Retry & general Improvements
  
• Balance Changes
  
• Player Reporting System
  
• Bug Report System
  

Most of these are fairly self explanatory, but expect to hear more about them in the coming weeks!



The Fifth King Puff Cup Season is just around the corner, with King Puff Cup 34 just recently being announced with a date of July 6th, 2019! We can expect to see the familiar faces that ran a fantastic circuit in the fourth season reprise their roles with the new Sideboard format tested in the Prince Puff Cup series! The sideboard format allows players to submit 8 additional cards that can be swapped into their decks as they wish to adapt to strategies or pull surprises out of the bag, and has already proven to be quite popular with the high-level Minion Masters players. The prize pool hasn't been announced yet, but there is a promise from Julaiwnl that it'll be coming "really soon", so keep your eyes peeled for that.

Interested in signing up? Check out the Toornament page for KPC 34 here, and follow the KPC Twitch channel!

Cheers from BetaDwarf!

Minion Masters!

We're so excited about this patch we don't want to delay any further, let's get into it:

Morellia the Lich Queen, Ruler of the Cursed lands, Queen of Souls, and Dragon Binder. Her magical power is rivaled only by her sister Milloween, but unlike her sister, Morellia uses her powers mercilessly in pursuit of her own ambitions. Wielding the Book of the Dead, she can call upon a host of powerful Death Magic to decimate her foes. However, the ancient soul trapped within the book is forever plotting its release.

In the end all will serve the Lich Queen.

Morellia will be available for 1500 Shards, or 775 Rubies.

Learn more about Morellia here, or check her out in-game!

• Commander Azali
  
  • No longer affects Flying Minions
    
• Developer Comments
• Azali’s ability to protect flying swarm minions, in particular Nether Bats produced by Bats Bats Bats, was a frustrating mechanic to play against due to their unpredictability and “backstabbing” of units played to counter the combination.
  
  One of the things Azali does well is providing a dream scenario you can build your deck around, but when you combine the shield mechanic with flying swarms, you get distinctly frustrating decks to play against. We wanted to maintain the dream, but make sure the opponent had a greater chance of being able to deal with the strategy without requiring an extremely specific deck counter.
  

• Guardian
  
  • Now only shields Crystal Elves
    
  • Mana Cost 6 > 5
    
  • Damage 60 > 80
    
  • Damage change also affects Crystal Construct
    
• Developer Comments
• Guardian is a card that has proven particularly problematic as the card collection developed due to its high potential to protect otherwise vulnerable, but powerful Minion combos from removal effects or general damage, creating strategies that often felt unfair to play against. We opted to have Guardian fit more of a faction-based niche to fit thematically with the theme of the Crystal Elf Constructs. Like the Azali change, this greatly reduces the potential for abusive combinations with the card, but still retains its core identity.
  

• Nyrvir the Fallen
  
  • Nyrvir Slumbers now does 80 damage over 4 seconds via 20 damage ticks once per second.
    
  • Health 1800 > 2200
    
  • Bug Fix: Fixed an issue where Nyrvir’s damage was significantly lower than intended during her first attack.
    
• Developer Comments
• Nyrvir Slumbers was a bit harder to pull off than we’d have liked, with effects such as Shield providing a hard counter to your ability to collect Spectral Essence from the card, as well as the small damage range not being effective enough to kill some desirable targets. Additionally, Nyrvir herself felt too easy to remove once you had managed to play her, so we felt a health boost was in order.
  

• Ratbo
  
  • Damage 5 > 6
    
• Developer Comments
• One of Ratbo’s weaknesses was his basic attack, with its total DPS being among the lowest in the game, often leaving him defenseless against medium or larger sized units if he wasn’t able to flood the board with his scrats.
  

• Snake Druid
  
  • Health 60 > 80
    
  • Root Duration 2 > 6 seconds
    
• Developer Comments
• Snake Druid, while a much beloved card of a small audience, suffered from how easily it could be picked off from small units, meaning that it often failed to get much value after its initial play. By increasing the HP he remains a bit more survivable, though easy to deal with on his own. More significant, however, is the increase of the Root Duration that will primarily apply once Snake Druid has been removed or forced to stop attacking, ensuring that the card will gain value.
  

• Stormy
  
  • No longer stuns himself
    
  • Range 8 > 6
    
  • Speed 3 > 5
    
• Developer Comments
• Stormy was particularly safe for how frustrating it could be to play against. By removing the self-stun (but not the self damage) it will no longer continuously retarget to the closest minion, while the range and speed nerfs aim to put him in harm’s way faster and make him easier to deal with by reducing the effective time he can stay in the radius of cards such as Priestess and Healing Shrine.
  

• Undying Skeleton/Cursebearer
  
  • Damage 50 > 60
    
• Developer Comments
• This change is mainly directed towards Undying Skeleton as we felt it has been underperforming, particularly in the new Toll of the Dead. Hopefully a small buff in damage will help give it the impact it needs.
  

• Xiao Long
  
  • Damage 25 > 20
    
• Developer Comments
• Xiao was a bit too effective at his job - Being an annoying ranged minion that could discourage the usage of spells and support a push effectively. This damage nerf aims to retain that discouragement while making him less effective in more general cases.
  

[h1Misc Made resummoning minions more consistent. Minions with buffs, such as Shielded Crossbow Dudes or Divine warrior, do not resurrect with their buff effects anymore. Additionally, on play effects such as Lord-Sentinel Thelec or Empowered Souls Stealers rage-trigger are no longer triggered when the Minion is resummoned.
Changed the name of “Recruit” to “Craft”.
Added a tip to the “Trophy Up” tutorial quest to indicate where achievements can be claimed.
Added highlights to buttons in the tutorial when a player is asked to click on them.
Claimable Quests will now show up first in the Quest Carousel.
Reworded the Season Crafting Discount to prevent confusion.
Clarified that the +2 from Stormbringer’s second perk is from Marksmanship.

• Fixed Lycanthropy transformations triggering Mordar’s Tombstones - Thanks TomatoMato!
  
• Fixed Haunting Hugger being killed when possessing Defenso Chopper - Thanks SoSiskodemon!
  
• Fixed Jolo the Hero Scrat blocking healing and HP increases - Thanks Goatfan146!
  
• Fixed Jolo the Hero Scrat not having any indication that his condition was fulfilled.
  
• Fixed some range issues with Nyrvir regarding units that were close to her.
  
• Fixed a bug where Succubus’ ability would be activated by Stun Lancers.
  
• Fixed a visual bug where Re-Boomer would not revert to Egg form if killed by Stormy.
  
• Fixed an issue where some Discord Users sent empty tokens to the server, causing their DLCs to not active correctly.
  
• Fixed the tutorial Power Token referring to itself as “spin token”.
  
• Fixed ragdolls freezing mid-air.
  
• Fixed an alignment issue with Treasure Vault’s flames.
  
• Fixed unusual text formatting on Gambler’s Ball.
  
• Fixed the Season Gold Star flashing constantly.
  
• Fixed multiple copies of Spawn of Fury causing the VFX to not end until the second clone died.
  

• Fixed some lag issues while idling on the main menu.
  
• Fixed an issue where Rubies bought from the Microsoft store were not visually claimed when opening the game.
  
• Further fixes to DLC issues on Xbox.
  

Cheers from BetaDwarf!

Minion Masters!

It’s been a hectic week since the release of Minion Masters, and our servers certainly took a hammering from all of you! We’ve been steadily patching things on our end as we go along, but there’s a number of client side changes and fixes we want to make today with this update.
Rest assured that we’re working on more fixes for the next patches, they just take time to solve.
In the meantime, keep reporting all the issues you encounter, it’s most helpful!


New in this update is the community-voted Spawn of Fury!
This Legendary Spell offers pain and duplication, splitting your strongest minions in half to wreak havoc on the battlefield. Spawn of Fury is available to Recruit for 2000 shards, and is obtainable from regular Power Token spins.

• Added the KPI4 skin, a celebration of katt’s victory at the 4th King Puff Invitational - It will be available for purchase when the next circuit of the KPC begins.
  
• Twitch Drops reward increased from 10 to 50 Gold.
  
• Twitch Drops now have a cooldown of 5 minutes before you can receive another one.
  
• Twitch Drop rewards will now tell you what Key you earned when claiming them.
  
• Guild Conquest has been added to the Quest Carousel.
  
• Improvements to the way your preferences are saved to reduce decks and other account details being wiped.
  
• Adjusted how Season Resets kick players off the server. Players will no longer be removed in the middle of a match.
  
• Added tooltips to Shards, Power Tokens, and Season Tokens in the Shop.
  
• Adjusted the order in which Shields are ordered. The priority is now Divine Shield > Guardian Shield > Shield > Minion Abilities.
  

• Fixed an issue where the server would incorrectly claim you had unowned cards.
  
• Fixed Nyrvir the Fallen mysteriously disappearing if she was Netherstepped.
  
• Fixed a bug where a “Requesting Spin” message would persist into a match.
  
• Fixed Leaderboard card frames displaying Glory levels.
  
• Fixed an instance where Player 1’s Stun Lancers would stun those belonging to Player 2 if they attacked each other at the same time, instead of both units being stunned.
  
• Fixed Musketeer losing Shield if he parries an attack. Now, Musketeer will not activate Parry if he has a shield available - Thanks Caspar!
  
• Fixed an instance where a unit transforming into a Werewolf was invulnerable - Thanks Khazlariko!
  
• Fixed a case where Lycanthropy did not activate properly when sun burned - Thanks Jackeea!
  
• Fixed a case where Grasping Thorns’ debuff was not properly removed from a unit after being hypnotised.
  
• Fixed a bug where Haunting Hugger would generate more Spectral Essence than expected.
  
• Fixed a bug where Haunting Hugger would not return if it possessed the Settsu minion, and she left the battlefield.
  
• Fixed Nyrvir’s Breath not turning Blood Imps into Skeletons - Thanks Wildcard!
  
• Fixed Bonus Shards from spinning a Max Glory card not being claimed visually - Thanks Leto!
  
• Fixed Member Count not being considered for Guild Searches - Thanks sera!
  
• Fixed Armor of Light visual effect being larger than its effective radius - Thanks GReyWolF!
  
• Fixed Expedition AI replays not working correctly - Thanks MacStabby!
  

• Fixed in-game Ruby purchasing issues
  
• Fixed an issue where Rubies and DLC were not being claimed correctly.
  
• Fixed Mixer Streamers on Xbox being stuck at the post-match screen.
  
• Fixed some Main Menu lag spikes.
  

Cheers from BetaDwarf!

We just can’t help ourselves today, Masters!

Here at Betadwarf, we’re celebrating v1.0 and 9 years of making games with a -100% off Accursed Army Pack DLC and giving away 99,999 copies of our games!
Yep.

How do we make money when we keep giving away gifts, DLC and our games?
We don’t care, it’s the release of Minion Masters!

We’ve compiled this handy list of Acquisition for you:

1. Hurry and read Chapter 3 of our crazy story to claim a free key for our games!
   
2. Head to the Steam store and grab your -100% off Accursed DLC
3. Join our Discord Server for more giveaways in the following days!
   

Phew, so much giving wears you out, but there’s no rest at the BetaDwarf fortress. We’ll be active on all the channels today, answering questions and collecting information, and you might even find us on the ladder. Strictly testing, of course.

But first, we celebrate, and we want you to send your best toast our way!