v5.05: Golden Buckler, Royal Guard

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NEW! Divine Tier 2

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Golden Buckler
- Cost: 50 gold
- Health: 570 (Natural)
- Damage: 21 (Impact)
- Attack speed: 0.79
- Range: Melee

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Deflection
Takes 15% reduced damage from ranged autoattacks


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Royal Guard
- Upgrade cost: 135 gold
- Health: 2080 (Natural)
- Damage: 67 (Impact)
- Attack speed: 0.91
- Range: Melee

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Deflection
Takes 15% reduced damage from ranged autoattacks


Golden Buckler and Royal Guard are both intended to be simple and versatile natural tanks

New Features

- You can now mouseover tower icons in tab to see unit stats, kill count, and buffs
- You can now right-click a player’s name in Global Chat to interact with them

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Game Improvements

Stability
- Lobby stability improvements (Smarter Global Chat/profile caching and sharing lookups, throttler optimizations)
- Improved monitoring for Telekom bugs

Gameplay Fixes
- Fixed a bug with Pawn Shop when playing Hybrid where it wouldn’t add Pawn to currently-built towers
- Fixed a bug where Dark Mage would accidentally buff Soul Gate/Hell Gate

Pathing & Targeting
- Fixed a case where units would target an enemy before higher priority targets (most commonly noticed when targeting a full-life Brute on wave 3 while Hoppers were still alive and in range)
- Revived Units (Guardian Angel, Hydra, and Eternal Wanderer/Samurai Soul) on ranged waves: Tanks are now targeted slightly sooner, while DPS units are targeted slightly later
- Sea Serpents/Deepcoilers are now targeted slightly later on ranged waves

Matchmaking & Ratings
- Duo rating penalty increased when the higher-rated player is 2200+ if the two players are different ratings. It is now impossible to smurf boost past 2200. If the two players are <2200 or if they are the same or very similar rating (e.g. 2300 and 2315), there is no change.

In an ideal world, we could have perfectly fair duo penalties; however, it’s impossible to reliably differentiate between a real player and a smurf. To prevent smurf boosting to the top of the ladder, we have to ramp up duo penalties or disable duoing past 2200. We’ve opted for the former.

Friends List
- Fixed some cases where Friends List wouldn’t show up (more common for players with larger friends lists)
- Added a “Refresh Friends” button (should generally be not needed, but might help fix rare cases where it still doesn’t load)

Interface
- Mercenaries Received: Streamlined messages to combine mythium received from mercenaries and king upgrades. Also, cave icons show King Upgrades and total mythium received.
- Fixed a bug where the Ready button status didn’t update properly if another player readied up before you picked your rolls

Quality of Life
- When a team agrees to -ff, it now shows a message that “Enemy team agreed to surrender!” or “Your team agreed to surrender!” in chat
- Shift+U now trains a worker (can configure in Options > Controls)
- Ctrl+U now cancels a worker (can configure in Options > Controls)
- Post-game Builds tab now shows income & net worth

Chat
- Fixed a bug in post-game Chat where the “left the room” message was displayed extra times
- Fixed a cosmetic bug where -ratings would show ratings of 1200 for open/closed slots
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Profiles**
- Fixed a bug where Fighter Stats weren’t properly sorted in some cases

Options
- Graphics - Fixed a bug where Windowed mode setting wasn’t loading properly after you restarted your game
- Controls - Now shows a tooltip to hint that you can right-click a binding to unbind it

FairPlay
- Fixed a minor bug where [R] wasn’t showing up in some disconnection cases where it should have (but they were, in fact, being evaluated the whole time)

Custom Game Modes
- Fixed a bug where Prophet mode wasn’t allowing you to Reroll
- Fixed a bug where All Mastermind mode wouldn’t allow you to choose rolls

Spectator Mode
- Can now see Mercenaries Received messages (with icons), in addition to the usual “Received 20/20/20/20” style messages
- Disabled scoreboard icons changing colors when low health
- Fixed a bug where “Your team gained from enemy leaks” gold was showing up as 0

New Players
- Hybrid and Chaos legion selection buttons are now grayed out for players level 3-4 rather than hidden (so those players can see they can be unlocked)

Graphics
- Fog of War that covers workers/mercenary holding area is more transparent

Music & Sound Effects
- New Victory theme (starts off a bit quieter)
- Improved formula that decides whether to play the “King In Danger” theme
- Mouseover sound volume lowered a bit
- Regular UI button click volume raised a bit
- Now plays hover/click sounds for the Mastermind Rolls window buttons
- Higher-value units now have slightly higher audio prioritization compared to lower-value units
- Fixed Pollywog accidentally muting other sounds too much (its Attack sound had too much padding)

Discord
- Fixed a bug where games were being posted to #rooms at the end of the game instead of at the start
- Improved monitoring dashboards

Game Balance

This patch is nerf-heavy to fighters to compensate for power creep and has some minor wave buffs to slightly reduce average game time (which has increased over the past few months)

4v4
- New mechanic: the Equalizer
-- Only in 4v4, when your team receives gold due to the enemy team leaking, the gold now goes to the poorest player on your team, rather than split among the whole team. The poorest player is calculated at the start of each wave and determined through a combination of net worth, mythium, and income. All other forms of gold gain, including pillage from damaging the enemy king, are unchanged

The goal of this mechanic is to help players that get behind. It is a catchup mechanic for individual players on a team, not a catchup mechanic for a losing team. Especially in Classic, which has significant skill discrepancies and many new players, we often see one player on each team hard-leaking most mid and late game waves with no hope to recover. The goal is not to make everyone the exact same power level, but to slightly even the playing field. Good players who clear waves and push workers efficiently will still be rewarded and stronger than their teammates.

Hybrid
- Tier 6: Cost: 252 -> 257

To start with a tier 6 on wave 1, you must now roll and sell at least one of the following combinations:
- 1 Nekomata/Ranger and 1 Peewee/Masked Spirit
- 2 Nekomatas/Rangers
- 3 Peewees/Masked Spirits

Mastermind
- Aqua Spirit no longer satisfies the arcane tank guarantee
- Berserker no longer satisfies the pierce or magic guarantee
- Soul Gate no longer satisfies the magic guarantee

This means fewer rolls where you only have 1 “bad” unit of a certain attack/defense type

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- Health: 150 -> 170
- Damage: 10 -> 9

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- Health: 850 -> 900
- Damage: 54 -> 50
- Paraphylaxis: Damage: 180 -> 300

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- Health: 250 -> 230
- Damage: 8 -> 7
- Unchained Rage: Attack speed: 125% -> 130%

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- Unchained Rage: Attack speed: 125% -> 130%

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- Booster: Range: 300 -> 500

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- Stimpack: Range: 300 -> 500

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- Health: 760 -> 740
- Attack speed: 1.05 -> 1.03

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- Lightning Strike: Damage: 120 + 1% (0.5% to bosses) max health -> 120 + 0.6% (0.3% to bosses) max health

Violet remains one of the best units in the game with both a high win rate and pick rate. This change nerfs its late game, while allowing it to remain as a viable opening

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- Resonance: 4% missing health -> 2.5% max health

Ocean Templar was only good with Canopie or Desert Pilgrim stacking. This change increases its versatility.

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- Health: 1350 -> 1320

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- Health: 3200 -> 3100

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- Health: 3400 -> 3300
- Attack speed: 1.96 -> 1.92

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- Invigorate: Mana cost: 11 -> 10

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- Attack speed: 1.03 -> 1.05

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- Health: 4050 -> 4100

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- Amplify Magic: Mana regeneration: 35% -> 33%

Waves

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- Health: 3120 -> 3160

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- Health: 1960 -> 1990

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- Health: 3200 -> 3220

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- Health: 4000 -> 4030

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- Attack speed: 0.87 -> 2.56
- Split Shot: removed

Split Shot was causing melee DPS and backline units to die before tanks

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