4.3 Changes

[leroy]

New Heroes:
- Atalanta: multi-shot fast-shooting fast-running ranged archer
- Perseus: petrifies nearby units and targets gods
- Theseus: boosts all friendly units around him!

Hero Academy Changes:
- 2nd hero academy opens at level 90
- 3rd hero academy opens at level 130
- Tappable locator icon for each hero in bottom-right corner

Balance Changes:
- Added 10 more levels for ultimate powers
- Apollo Sunstrike +25% strength and +50% burn strength on highest levels

Patron Changes:
- Athena patron shield boost from 50 to 75
- Athena patron summon units from 50/50 to 100/100
- Poseidon patron tidal wave boosted from 50/50 to 100/100
- Aphrodite patron splash charm boosted from 50/50 to 100/100
- Aphrodite patron charm building boosted from 33/34 to 100/100
- Apollo patron fire arrows boosted from 50/50/50 to 75/75/75
- Apollo patron sunstrike boosted strength/range +100%
- Ares patron whirlwind strength +50% to +100%
- Ares patron charge 50/50 to 100/100
- Hades patron rot from 50/50 to 100/100
- Hades patron reanimate from 50/50 to 100/100
- Hermes patron dash from 50/50 to 100/100
- Hermes patron haste from 50/50/50 to 100/100/100
- Zeus patron chain lightning from 50/50 to 100/100
- Zeus patron lightning storm from 50/50 to 100/100

Hero changes:
- All heroes -10% health
- Achilles +13% shield duration at top end
- Achilles +25% strength
- Adonis +11% health
- Adonis +7% power and +300 charm range
- Paris additional -14% health

Account Recovery:
- Added email address to be able to recover your account

Android Changes:
- Keyboard improvements
- Notification fixes
- Fully supports notch devices now
- Less downloading on first-time install
- Now uses circular app icon where appropriate

iOS Changes:
- Keyboard improvements
- Better notch support

Daily Challenge Changes:
- Challenge levels now potentially roll back more in future upon user attack failure
- Fixed Hermes challenge popup text bug

UI Changes:
- Hero academy info page shows more information and currently selected hero
- Tappable temple icon in bottom-right corner cycles camera through remaining temples
- Adjusted Hecate statue color in pantheon
- God button tappable areas are larger
- Fixed upgrade UI slider to work better for arrow towers and cyclops tower
- Adjusted skeleton/hoplite mini-icons in several places

Other:
- Fixed issue where sometimes assist archer kills were not counted towards quests
- Fixed issue where sometimes Hermes/Poseidon water not showing correctly
- Hercules no longer casts Smash targeted at Aphrodite while Aphrodite under awe
- Not starting world music until intro music has completed
- Fixed cyclops rock particle effects
- Hecate assist bug fixed

[leroy]

Realistically we still have some time before 4.3 actually ships. We have not yet submitted to Android/Apple, and usually that process takes some time, even when they don't complain about anything.

[leroy]

Important note about 4.3:

Internally, this is probably the biggest release we've ever had, which is why it has taken so long. Historically we used a middleware layer that handled device-specific things like the app store, notifications, keyboard input, device notches, etc. Unfortunately, that middleware company closed their doors several years ago, and due to constantly evolving iOS/Android requirements, we were no longer able to ship the game any longer with the middleware as part of the game. So we had to rewrite all this code from scratch. So you'll see changes to how the keyboard works on your device, and how we react to rotating your device and how we deal with the notches is a bit different also. I believe most of the historical notification problems will be fixed. Hopefully there will be no visible store changes. All this said, I expect there to be some glitches here and there with specific devices, simply because there are such a crazy number of different devices that we simply can't test them all, and all this new code is very device-specific. On the positive side of things, this will allow us to take advantage of new device features more quickly than we've been able to do in the past, and it should help speed up development time going forward.

leroy

[Unspeakable1]

Thank you for the upcoming bug fixes!!! I know myself and folks in my alliance will be stoked.

[Kane2]

As the only one who can even afford to max ultimates I find them pretty underwhelming for the cost. 10% increase for 5 bln gold each is a bit too much. 3 bln would have been enough. Get rid of the loot penalty at least to make farming a bit less tedious.

[Seaweed]

As the only one who can even afford to max ultimates I find them pretty underwhelming for the cost. 10% increase for 5 bln gold each is a bit too much. 3 bln would have been enough. Get rid of the loot penalty at least to make farming a bit less tedious.

isn't the entire point of the extra level is to make people farm for a while before next time they increase max level?

[Seaweed]

I am excited for Theseus. Think it will work very well with my Aphro environment base. Also thanks for the patron balance cuz I really wanted to see that.

[Seaweed]

Wait what's up with so many hero academy

[Mario]

Are we able to have 2 hero academies at lv90 and 3 hero academies at lv130 on our base? or do I read that wrong?

[Seaweed]

Are we able to have 2 hero academies at lv90 and 3 hero academies at lv130 on our base? or do I read that wrong?

I thought my computer was glitching but I guess not

[leroy]

Are we able to have 2 hero academies at lv90 and 3 hero academies at lv130 on our base? or do I read that wrong?

Correct!

leroy

[Crazy Uncle Oceanus]

Correct!

leroy

You guys are making my soul tired, and here i thought i just got done buying and upgrading heroes. Just finished dropping another half billion in upgrades on my hero. Thought “whew would hate to do all that again lol”

With that said, yaaay more heroes. AND NOW WE GET THREE, WHERE ARE YOUR GODS NAO!?!

My poor lvl 13 towers will just have to wait.

[Seaweed]

My Hercules can already 1v5 the gods and win. If I had Theseus to boost him I wonder what will happen?

[Seaweed]

Does Theseus boost base stat or the state after calculating the boost?

[Crazy Uncle Oceanus]

Oh quick question when you have time Leroy. will we need to repurchase heroes for the new academies or will they draw from the same pool?