We've been working hard on getting some better on-boarding features inside of AVARIAvs. This patch helps address some of those issues with a new playable tutorial as well as a local "Vs Bots" A.I. update that should provide for some more interesting practice matches for new players. There are also minor balance changes to the Mana Soldier class and bug fixes and improvements throughout the game. Patch notes below!
AVARIAvs v1.1.0 Patch Notes
GENERAL
Features: • Playable tutorial added to help teach new players the AVARIA Battlesystem. • A.I. update for local “Vs Bots” mode. Practice your strategies against smarter, more diverse CPU opponents. • Regional Leaderboards have been added. • There are now three custom party save slots.
Other: • Global screen effect for R.L. Debuffs has been reduced. • Some Focusburn mini-game mechanics have been fine-tuned. • Game “box” artwork has been updated with new in-engine 3d capture of the game.
Bug Fixes: • Fixed an issue with leaderboards on tournament end time. • Implemented matchmaking updates that addressed various connectivity issues. • Various party builder display bugs squashed. • VFX fixed on Overclock, Infinity and Inversion.
MANA SOLDIER
Shadow Scorch: • Increased damage scaling at level 2 and 3.
Shadow Transfusion: • Health sacrifice amount reduced at all levels. • Increased healing. • Reduced revive health amount.
Fury Transfusion: • Health sacrifice amount reduced at all levels. • Healing reduced at Level 1.
Cyrus: • Defensive stats adjusted to better suit Cyrus’ weakness.
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v1.0.2 Patch notes and May Invitational CHAMPION!
First off, grats to UpRisen for taking 1st place in the AVARIAvs May Invitational, he took home $3k USD for first place!!
Thanks to everyone who competed in the tournament, it was amazing to see gamers from all over the world competing in Ultrafast Turnbased Combat!
Below are the latest patch notes :)
v1.0.2 Patch Notes
GENERAL
Focusburn Minigames:
• Games have been rebalanced for more consistent difficulty.
• Visual improvements have been made to all games.
Bug Fixes:
• Reduced login errors, timeouts, boardcheck fails, and other networking related issues through numerous networking adjustments.
• Fixed Defile and Chakra to correctly include KO'd heroes as potential targets.
• Resolved an issue with The Judge on local split-screen which could cause the game to lock up.
SERVO
Repair:
• Grit heal scaling reduced.
ServoC:
• Mana stat reduced.
MAGE
Love:
• Level 3 wit now correctly applies 3-stacks of Regeneration.
Pity:
• Karma heal scaling reduced, and base heal reduced at level 3.
Optimism:
• Reduced HP restored when revived.
Veda:
• Speed reduced.
EONI
Harmony Rework:
• Level 1 increases strength.
• Level 2 karma increases strength and vitality.
• Level 3 karma increases strength, vitality, and spirit.
• Level 2 fury increases strength and mana.
• Level 3 fury increases strength and mana with party targeting.
Stone Mantra:
• Fixed an issue where Level 2 fury wasn’t dispelling.
Nirvana:
• Base heal reduced.
MANA SOLDIER
Injure Rework:
• Level 1 decreases spirit.
• Level 2 and 3 shadow decreases strength, mana, and spirit.
• Level 2 fury decreases vitality and spirit.
• Level 3 fury decreases vitality and spirit with party targeting.
• Base damage and scaling reduced at all levels.
Defile:
• Level 3 fury base damage and scaling reduced.
Transfusion:
• Shadow now continues to heal at level 2 & 3.
• Shadow increased HP restored when revived.
Shatter:
• Now deals self damage at all levels.
Sacrifice boost:
• Sacrifices less HP.
Betany:
• Fury Betany now equips a Mirror Nano.
NANOS
Revive Nano:
• Increased HP restored when revived, and reduced number of uses.
Mirror Nano:
• Added new item “Mirror Nano”, which decreases vitality and spirit by 5-stacks and applies a 200% Reflect shield to target.
Mana Nano:
• Number of uses reduced.
MISC: • Healing has been slightly reduced globally.
• Offensive stat scaling per focus level (strength & mana) slightly increased.
v1.0 is Live, AVARIAvs is launched!
The day has finally come for Ultrafast Turnbased Combat to be unleashed upon the world!
Here are your v1.0 patch notes:
GENERAL
Features:
• A new battle arena has been added with day/night variations.
• Rewards!! Customize your avatar and flair. Earn XP through online play to unlock more!
• Rank names and emblems now appear.
• Unique player name plate flair for our Kickstarter backers. THANKS GUYS!
• Minigame updates! We pay homage to the ones who paved the 8-bit road.
• The Battle Feed has been simplified, in an effort to make it cleaner and easier to read.
• Credits exist!
Graphic:
• All battle arenas have undergone visual improvements.
• Focusburns now take on a visual flavor for each class. Oooh shiny!
• A story and hero slideshow has been added during matchmaking.
Bug Fixes:
• XP gains are functioning properly for online matchmaking.
• Various online battle statistics are now tracking correctly.
• UI and controller improvements.
• Fixed an issue causing board de-syncs.
• Mirror Bot bug has been squashed. #GrapefruitPower
Known issue: Leaderboards are slow to refresh. Stats are being recorded but may not reflect for 15-20 minutes in some cases.
Audio:
• Mixing improvements.
• Updated a number of UI and battle sfx.
• Minigames gone retro.
• Two new songs: Structure Outlands and Scepter Of Focus.
UI:
• Online statistics tab has been redesigned.
• All language translations have been updated, now featuring 11 languages total!
• Bold lettering has returned to radial tooltips (English only).
• Stat descriptions now appear in battle, when you hold Y/triangle/tab.
Harmony:
• Reduced status effects stacks from 2 to 1 on Level 3 Karma.
Stone Mantra:
• Damage mitigation reduced at Level 2.
• Dispel added to Level 2 Fury.
• Revive added to Level 2 Karma.
Karma Chi:
• Base healing reduced.
Chakra:
• Base damage reduced on Level 2 and 3 for both archetypes.
MANA SOLDIER
Geoff:
• Mana increased.
Transfusion:
• Health sacrifice amounts have been reduced at Level 2 and 3.
Injure:
• Base damage increased at Level 1.
• Base damage increased at Level 2 Fury.
• Base damage decreased, and damage scaling increased at Level 2 and 3 Shadow.
Shatter:
• Now applies 1-stack of Degeneration to the caster.
AVARIAvs Launch Tournaments ($5k USD!)
AVARIAvs Ultrafast Turnbased Combat releases TOMORROW, MAY 9th!!
With the launch of AVARIAvs, we are hosting two tournaments.
Find more details here: https://avariavs.com/may-2019-5k-invitational/
Beta (v0.9.2) Patch Notes & Open Tournament
The 3rd Open Tournament begins today!!
A major Beta patch (v0.9.2) has also been published to Steam.
GENERAL
Gameplay:
• Bots mode has new enemy parties.
Graphics / VFX:
• Global Focusburn VFX added for all 4 classes.
• Announcer events now have dramatic camera angles.
• Terrify and Injure have new VFX.
• Omega Protocol has been updated to include Servo movement.
• Safe Mode animation updated.
UI:
• Controller map added to settings page.
• Menu UI mouseover issues resolved on main menu.
• Refresh button added to Online mode for Statistics and Leaderboard.
Bug Fixes:
• Voice emote fixes for a few characters.
Beta (v0.9.1d) Patch Notes & Open Tournament
The 2nd Open Tournament starts... now!
Oh, and v0.9.1.d is now live :)
GENERAL
Gameplay:
• The Judge update: now targets characters with the lowest health bar (aka lowest % of max HP).
• Focusburns can now be activated in the radial’s secondary menu.
UI:
• An emote icon has been added to speaking characters.
• Resized buff/debuff/HP info on party frames.
Bug Fixes:
• Certain ELO issues have been fixed.
• The Daze effect no longer freezes up enemies in bot mode.
• XP system has been updated.
• Double revive announcer now works correctly.
• Various menu navigation fixes and improvements.
• Fixed “”concede” causing prematurely ended matches in local splitscreen mode.
• Controller recognition icon fixes.
• Veda’s portrait now appears correctly in splitscreen mode.
Known Issue:
• On the statistics page, the current Open Tournament date is displayed incorrectly.
Beta (v0.9.1c) Patch Notes & Open Tournament
Today begins our first Open Tournament!
We wanted to push out an incremental patch before you guys took to the battlegrounds of AVARIA and the updates are listed below.
GENERAL
Bug Fixes:
• Settings menu navigation fixes.
• ELO is no longer incorrectly awarded in private matches.
• Player 2 controller can now view character stats in battle during split-screen.
• Fixed some keyboard and gamepad bindings.
• Some incorrect announcer events no longer trigger on betrayals.
• Some language fixes.
UI:
• Party target abilities now display correct colors for friendly/enemy targets.
• Showing character stats in battle now display correct colors for buffs/debuffs.
MAGE
Fervor:
• Healing slightly reduced.
Beta (v0.9.1b) is available!
Howdy AVARIANS!
We have an incremental game update for you tonight with the following changes live now:
Bug Fixes:
• Mirror Bot and Degeneration deaths now trigger death animations and announcer.
• Pause Menu functions properly in battle.
• Audio settings menu has been fixed.
• Removed a bug from the language settings that disabled selecting Traditional Chinese.
• Big ability names formatting fixes.
UI:
• Focus events now appears as purple.
• Blue and red color added to the targeting menu to indicate friendly or enemy targets.
• Custom party builder navigation and party saving has been improved.
• Character art has been added to various menu screens.
Technical:
• Various key and button mapping updates.
Beta (v0.9.1) is now live!
Greetings AVARIANS-
The newest patch is now live! Check out the patch notes below.
GENERAL
Features: • Private Match now has the ability to choose your party.
• Language support added for: Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Russian.
• Additional custom party slot added (now there are two total).
• Livescreen area in the online Dashboard now allows external linking to browser window.
• Ability to “concede” has been added to the in-game pause menu.
• Different camera angles added to main menu.
Bug Fixes: • Online Leaderboards are now populating correctly once again for Matchmaking.
• Various hero portraits have been fixed across multiple game modes.
Audio: • Music is mixed and mastered.
• Hero dialog mixed and updated.
• End of match hero dialog added.
• End of match “defeat” and “victory” music added.
UI: • Various menu and navigation fixes and improvements.
• Large ability text appears upon selecting ability.
SERVO
Spam (Grit): • Damage slightly increased.
Mirror Bot: • All Reflect shields now last until attacked.
• Grit archetype now upgrades to provide damage reduction.
• Wit archetype now upgrades to increase reflect amount (no longer reflects status effects).
Conversion: • Now provides damage reduction and increased reflect amount (no longer reflects status effects).
EONI
Kasper: • New Kasper model added, lookin’ fresh K-dawg!
• Karma Focusburn changed to Nirvana.
Ev: • Karma Focusburn changed to Third Eye.
• Karma Item changed to Sedative Nano.
Elder Waru: • Karma Item changed to Patience Nano.
Chi: • Healing increased.
Harmony: • Healing increased.
Stone Mantra: • Damage reduction increased at levels 1 & 2.
Nirvana: • Buffs reduced to 2 stacks (failed minigame).
• Buffs reduced to 3 stacks (successful minigame).
