Hey everyone, lemmingllama here. This week’s DevUpdate will be a bit shorter, but let’s get through the other big changes coming in the 6.5 update.
First off, we are doing some largescale tournament algorithm changes to help improve matchmaking by making changes to more heavily weigh a player’s farming and pushing potential. As a result of these changes, there may be a bit of weird-looking matchmaking initially as the matchmaking algorithm adapts to this change. Players who “camp” stages and do not actively progress as far as they otherwise could will be more likely to experience weird-looking matchmaking, as they will have a large amount of unrealized potential that the algorithm changes will be more heavily accounting for. Any feedback related to this change for matchmaking will be very beneficial to help us improve the matchmaking algorithm further, so any feedback you can give on your matchmaking after the 6.5 update is released would be very useful, either posting it on our social media such as Reddit and Discord, or through GameHive support. We will be continuing to tweak and improve the matchmaking to help ensure that players are matching up correctly.
Additionally, we are making some various calculation changes to help remove unnecessary information from the main user interface. As part of this, Lightning Strike will no longer display damage values in the Current DPS, which will help players more accurately assess how much damage they are doing from all their various sources of damage.
Lastly, we are going to be adding three new Unique equipment to the game. These were originally announced in a previous DevUpdate, but were delayed from releasing in the 6.4.0 update. Now they’ll be added fully to the game!
Maple Brush is a Unique sword equipment that boosts your All Damage for each Clan Scroll you own. The more clan scrolls you have, the stronger it is! Additionally, it has Gold Gun Damage as a guaranteed equipment secondary bonus.
Pharaoh’s Staff is a Unique sword equipment that boosts your All Damage for each point of Mana Capacity you have. Leveling up your Intimidating Presence talent will be a good way to boost this further. Additionally, it has Forbidden Contract Damage as a guaranteed equipment secondary bonus.
Rosabella’s Uniform is a Unique armor equipment that boosts your Royal Contract Gold. It has Prize Gold as a guaranteed equipment secondary bonus, boosting both your All Gold and Jackpot Gold.
Thank you for reading! Next week we’ll get into the swathe of bug fixes coming with the 6.5 update.
Happy Tapping!
lemmingllama
