KARDS Early Access Patch - Build 0.9.5

KARDS Early Access Patch (Build 0.9.5)

This patch is to prepare the rewards for Season 1 and to be ready for Season 2 starting May 1st.

• Gold versions of existing cards are now available! Gold cards can be received as rewards and in packs. More about Gold cards.
  
• Packs opened until now will be retroactively checked for gold versions, and if applicable, the normal version in players collections will be swapped for the corresponding gold version.
  
• Tweaks to collection and deck builder to support gold cards.
  
• Added backend support for the end of Season 1 and start of Season 2: More about rewards for Season 1.
  
• An Officer Club leaderboard history has been added for previously completed seasons.
  
• After analyzing our data and feedback from the player community, we’ve implemented several changes to our matchmaking system that should pair players more appropriately and thus improve the experience for new players and veterans alike. Note that this may result in slightly longer queue times for some players as a better match is found.
  
• Feedback indicates that showing the national rank titles and icons when playing, is causing confusion instead of being helpful. As the national ranks is basically a part a progression system that doesn’t dictate matchmaking, we have decided to remove the ranks from being displayed in Battle to avoid confusion.
  

• The Officer Club leaderboard showed a mismatch between top 100 position and points and player information below line. Fixed.
  
• The 85mm D-44 FIELD GUN pinned attacking bombers and artillery units. Fixed.
  

• We slightly changed the animation for cards being played from the hand.
  
• We changed / swapped a pictures on a few cards.
  
• Preparations to change the main menu background image with the start of Season 2 on May 1st.