Our biggest Lightseekers update EVER has arrived! The Shadow League have emerged from the darkness and have changed the foundations of Tantos forever,
In addition to 186 new cards, over 500 old cards have been rebalanced, we have new game mechanics, new ways to determine which cards you’re allowed to use in Ranked, and a lot more!
New Card Expansion – Shadow League
A faction led by a splinter group of noxin and the evil umbron has been uncovered by a small group of heroes. This faction is known as the Shadow League. In secrecy, they use the umbron as a destructive tool to search the world of Tantos for the remnants of the ancient colossi and their relics. What exactly it is they want with these artifacts of a distant past is unknown, but they are leaving a trail of destruction in their wake as settlements throughout Tantos are being ravaged for spoils and clues.
The Shadow League marks the fourth major expansion to Lightseekers. 24 of its cards have already been seen in the Battle Packs we released over the summer, but there are now an additional 186 to collect! These 186 cards are split up accordingly:
Along with this expansion comes a few new features and mechanics…
New Family: Artifacts This new family of cards represent relics of the past, typically associated with the ancient colossi. Each Order has been given a number of Artifact cards, and there are several Unaligned cards that interact with them in different ways.
Square Corners A number of Buffs will be seen with a new corner shape: squares! These corners never rotate on their own; once a Buff gets to a square corner, they simply stop rotating. Note, however, that they can still be rotated by card effects.
Quest Corners You will now see new icons occasionally appearing on cards with clunky corners. A clunky corner with an icon in it represents a Quest corner. If you play the type of card displayed in a corner, it causes that Buff to rotate one step forward. The text of a Buff is not in effect while on a Quest corner.
Advanced Game Modes and Sets We have completely reworked which cards are allowed in which game modes, and created a brand new Set Rotation schedule to create more deck variety for competitive play!
With this update, all cards from the previous Waves have been completely redistributed into nine different Sets: one Core set and eight numbered Sets. For Casual, Draft, and PvE, this has no impact at all. However, in our Advanced Game Modes (‘Ranked’ and ‘Casual (Advanced)’) you will only be able to use cards from the current Advanced Sets.
At any given time, Advanced will consist of the Core Set and five of the eight numbered Sets. Every two months, three of the numbered Sets will rotate out and be replaced by the three that weren’t allowed in the previous rotation. Every time these changes happen, to make sure that you have an Advanced deck to play with, you will be able to claim one from a selection of decks for FREE!
Kicking off, the Advanced Sets will consist of Core, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. When the Sets next rotate, Advanced will consist of Core, 1, 2, 3, 7, and 8.
In-game, you will be able to see which Sets are currently allowed in Advanced play, and any cards belonging to those Sets will have an ‘A’ symbol next to their Set icon.
New Booster Packs
With cards no longer being strictly tied to Waves, we have changed what booster packs are available in the store. One is a regular ‘Booster Pack’ which can contain any card from the entire game (excluding cards obtained in Battle Packs). Another is the ‘Advanced Pack’ which only contains cards that are currently allowed in Advanced game modes (excluding Battle Pack cards).
There are also four new limited Booster Packs available in the ‘More Booster Packs’ section of the store. Each one contains cards from only two Sets of cards (1 & 2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6, and 7 & 8). They can be bought with Gems only, to a limit of 3 per week (they restock every week).
Finally, for a limited amount of time, you will be able to purchase a bundle of 25 Shadow League-only Booster Packs, for the price of 20, along with an exclusive Shadow League card back! The Great Rebalancing With this update, we have changed almost 500 existing cards! Some have been made better, some have been taken down a notch, and some have just completely changed. For more insight into why these changes have occurred, you can read our Developer Insight articles about them.
We can't wait to see all the new playstyles from this update! Be sure to let us know your thoughts and feedback over on our Discord channel here.
- The PlayFusion Team
It's Update Time!
Today we have a bumper update for Lightseekers; simply put, we’ve put together a bunch of new ways to get you more stuff, as well as new stuff for you to get! Read on to learn more!
Firstly, we’re bringing alternative art hero variants to your deck. These cards can be earned through Ranked Play or through our new Weekly Challenges.
Weekly Challenges
What are Weekly Challenges? Well, every starting every Wednesday, 3 objectives will be given to every player. These Weekly Challenges will be the same for all players, and will take the form of a variety of gameplay related objectives; from playing certain cards to winning games to levelling up. Completing these tasks will earn you points towards your total Weekly Challenge score, and if you manage to score high enough, you’ll get exclusive rewards!
There are five milestones of rewards for you to earn. Everyone will have a chance to earn the first two milestones, while the best players of the week will get their hands on the top three!
Login Calendar
We have also added a brand new login calendar to the game. With 28 rewards to collect each month; all you need to do to earn the next reward in the calendar is to log in. If you miss a day, the same reward will be waiting for you the day after. The calendar only advances to the next reward after you have claimed the previous one. There is a special 7-day calendar for brand new players. However, if you are an existing player, you get these 7 days worth of rewards for free! So the next time you log in, you should find them waiting for you in your inbox!
You can find the login calendar by tapping on the ‘Loot’ button on the top bar. Here you can view all of the month’s upcoming rewards.
Ranked Rewards
You can now earn up to 5 monochrome Hero cards alongside your normal rewards. How many you get from a season depends on the highest League you managed to reach.
We have also added a number of achievements related to Ranked play, so for all of you achievement hunters out there - you're in luck!
We really hope you enjoy, as always please let us know your thoughts!
- The PlayFusion Team
MORE CARDS? Yes please!
It’s time for Mountain, Nature and Dread to get some Battlepack attention; the second of our exclusive Battlepacks have arrived, and are now live in-store!
In each Battlepack, you’ll find guaranteed and exclusive cards to boost each of your decks; read on to see what the latest cards can bring to your tactics!
The latest 3 Battlepacks include:
– An Exclusive Hero card!
– 6 New Buff cards!
– 3 New Defend cards!
We have reduced the price of each of the Battlepacks from 500 gems to 250 gems, while removing the booster packs from each bundle. We’ve done this due to feedback that the packs were too expensive for all players, and that you all just wanted to get your hands on the new cards!
We hope you enjoy the new cards, let us know what you think!
- Jade and the PlayFusion Team
BATTLEPACKS ARE HERE!
NEW CARDS!
You’ve heard the news and you’ve seen the preview, now you must be wondering, what exactly IS a Battlepack?! Wonder no longer, we’re here to tell you all about our Battlepack release this Monday 8th July.
We will be release 3 new Battlepacks; one for Astral, one for Storm and one for Tech. Don’t worry; Mountain, Nature and Dread will get their Battlepacks at the end of the month, and we will be sharing what the contain very soon.
But right now we can tell you more about what you can get in a Battlepack:
Each Battlepack is guaranteed to contain the following:
– One New Hero Card
– 3 copies of 3 New Action Cards
– 1 Uprising Booster Pack
– 2 Kindred Booster Packs
Each pack will cost 500 gems, and are great ways to augment your existing decks with guaranteed new and powerful cards.
We hope you enjoy the new Battlepacks and as always please let us know your thoughts!
INDEPENDENCE – A BRAND NEW CAMPAIGN!
Get your fireworks ready and get ready to take on a new adventure!
Our brand new campaign features major bosses starting off with Liberty Blossom.
Miss Blossom will be playing lots of buffs to keep her in high spirits! Next off is Uncle Vandil; you will want to watch out for his combos as he just wants to get the party started. And finally, you get to play as Talia Fireborn, try and keep the party going by setting up the best firework display Tantos has EVER seen!
For each boss you beat, you will receive a new Independence chest (which you will also be able to buy in the store). Each chest contains an amazing 3 rewards, with a chance for EXCLUSIVE rewards which include:
ALTERNATE HERO ART cards. There are 6 to collect!
Playmats and Card Backs (3 Playmats, 1 Card Back to collect)
10 Avatars (5 common, 3 uncommon, 2 rare)
There will additionally be an Independence Bundle available:
1x Bundle of 10 Independence chests for the price of 7 (3 free!) and 1 guaranteed ALTERNATE HERO ART card!
The campaign will be active until the 20th of July, all Premium Loot Chests in the store during this time will be replaced with Independence Chests. That’s not all! Over the weekend (July 4th until July 8th, 12:00:00 UTC), you will earn 50% bonus XP in all Orders.
Good luck Lightseekers, from wherever you are, we wish you a great weekend and hope you enjoy our Independence campaign!
BATTLEPACKS INCOMING? JULY THE 4TH AND MORE - Patch Notes 3rd July
Upcoming Content
Battlepacks From Monday, July 8th, Battlepacks will be available to purchase in the store!
To kick it off, we will have the Astral, Storm, and Tech Battlepacks, each one including full playsets of 4 brand new Wave 5 cards--3 Action Cards and 1 Hero--along with 2 Kindred booster packs and 1 Uprising booster pack. More news on this over the weekend!
Independence Campaign From the 4th of July until end of day July 19th (UTC), we’ll be running a special holiday event - More news on this later today!
Main New Live Features Copy Opponent’s Deck - You can now copy the deck of your opponent at the end of a match. If you do not wish for your deck to be copied, you can turn off deck sharing in Settings.
Achievement Leaderboards - A new leaderboard has been created where players are ranked by Achievement Points.
Inbox - You now have a personalised inbox where you can receive game messages. Access it from the top bar.
Adventures Adventure Leaderboards - All Adventure bosses now have individual leaderboards based on the highscores against that particular boss.
Zone 7 for ‘A Colossal Find’ is now available; Ferrus escapes Steadfast Peaks and meets up with some strange noxin.
You now require level 10 or higher to access ‘A Colossal Find’.
Heroes in Adventure now have an icon at the top of their portrait to show how many Lightstones they have equipped.
The ‘end of game’ screen for Adventure bosses has been sped up.
You no longer see the score and objective screen if you lose to an Adventure boss.
Weekly Campaigns You now require level 20 or higher to access the weekly campaign.
5 new weekly campaigns have been created and added to the weekly rotation.
The weekly campaigns now run from Wednesday morning to Monday morning.
Deck Builder You can now filter the deck builder by Wave number. The filter bar is now scrollable (scroll to the right to get to these!).
You can now hide Legacy cards in the deck builder.
A graphic has been added to the deck builder to show which button to add cards with when in controller mode.
You can now filter your decks by Order on the deck selection screen.
11 new Challengers have been added. (These are the AI opponents that challenge you every few days.)
The ‘X’ button has been mapped to ‘Play’ on deck select menus, to let you get into the game faster when in controller mode.
Bug Fixes Some broken animations on the Adventure map have been fixed.
You will no longer be notified of a campaign ending if you have already finished it.
The deck summary of Draft decks should now be correct.
How many power cards you have should now be visible in-game on all resolutions.
The ‘+’ and ‘-’ button shortcuts in controller mode will now properly work if you try to leave a PvP queue.
Vibrant Plumetail will now work properly if your discard pile is empty.
Colax in ‘A Colossal Find’ should no longer lock up your game if you have no Action Buffs among your top 4 cards.
UPRISING HAS ARRIVED!
Our latest Uprising update is here, and it’s our biggest one yet!
Today we bring 202 cards to the digital version of Lightseekers with UPRISING, available all versions of Lightseekers: Nintendo Switch, Mobile and Steam.
In addition, the brand new single player ADVENTURE MODE is now available.
With 200 stages of story-driven content, this is a major new mode that will bring dozens of hours of new content to Lightseekers. You can find out more about Adventure Mode, our previous news post has you covered.
Not only that, but we are also bringing DRAFT MODE to Lightseekers. This new competitive mode will allow for completely random deck builds with huge prizes for those who manage to run the gauntlet undefeated.
All of these new features make this the biggest Lightseekers update we’ve ever done. We really hope you enjoy the new content in Uprising!
There are some additional smaller gameplay updates and rule changes that are included in this release:
You can now silence emotes from other players
The front page of Lightseekers has been updated to include news and other useful information
Once-per-game abilities can no longer be triggered by other cards' effects. For example, Dusktalon Assassin cannot trigger Star Tamer Calak's ability.
Cards that trigger abilities' effects no longer count as 'using' that ability. For example, if Dusktalon Assassin triggers an ability, that won't trigger cards like Abyss Tentacle.
A Burn card can no longer be Restarted or Rotated backwards by other cards.
Hammerdown Enforcer is replacing the Crazed Bomber card, more details on this change and it's reasoning can be found here.
As I am sure you already know: We’re bringing a brand new single-player mode to Lightseekers, the aptly-named Adventure Mode!
This new mode alongside our brand new Uprising Digital Release AND Draft Mode will be available on May 8th. This is comfortably the biggest update we’ve EVER done for Lightseekers, and it’s right around the corner!
Adventure Mode will be bringing over 200 stages to Lightseekers, and along the way, you’ll meet the creatures of the world; from the stalwart Everok to the playful Mari to the tempestuous Kreebal as you uncover the true secrets of Tantos.
Don’t forget that this update comes with 202 extra cards in Uprising, meaning that not only will there be new features and content, but there will also be a brand-new set of cards to play with too!
So with that in mind…here’s a sneak peek at what Adventure Mode will bring to Lightseekers on May 8th! Who’s excited?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4aJPAhWpyk
We hope you’re ready because huge changes are coming to Lightseekers next week.
Uprising Release Date - Early May
Our latest expansion, Uprising will be releasing both Physically and Digitally. The digital release of Lightseekers will release Early May, and this is going to include all of the new Uprising cards AND 2 massive new modes.
We’re proud to announce that we are bringing a brand new single-player Adventure to Lightseekers. This massive, completely free story-driven mode will launch alongside the Uprising digital release, bringing a mammoth set of content to you when Uprising launches in May.
And that isn’t all, we’re also bringing Draft Mode to Lightseekers in the same release. Pick your Hero, draft your decks from random cards and challenge opponents all over the world!
We’ll spotlight each of those new features of Lightseekers digital soon.
Uprising now includes Rift Pack 2 and the Core Box. Some of you eagle-eyed players will have noticed that our Uprising reveals initially listed 130 cards, and now are listing 202 cards, this is because we have merged our Core Box and our Rift Pack 2 releases into Uprising, meaning that there are now 202 cards in the Uprising set.
We can't wait for all of you to join us when Lightseekers Uprising is released in early May.
Don't forget to check out our official social media platforms and watch our influencers reveal cards from the upcoming set.
Lightseekers Available Now - PC / Mac
Hi Everyone!
Leigh and Jade back here on Steam once again just to advise, that Lightseekers has now Officially Released on Steam across PC and Mac.
All of our team here at PlayFusion are ecstatic we are kicking off 2019 with a bang, plus that now our community can battle, create and utilise their PC's to dive deeper into the land of Tantos.
If we're both honest as well, all of our team here behind the scenes are already in the action, currently online battling one another and most importantly linking their existing account with the Steam version (more information can be found here - https://www.lightseekers.cards/link-your-account.html)
For all other future news, updates and content, don't forget to follow our official social media channels including Discord.
Well, that's enough talking from both of us; time that we now jumped into a game of Lightseekers on Steam!
