Hearthstone Patch 7835
A patch has appeared on the Blizzard CDN. It has not yet been pushed to clients but should be soon.
We will update this post when official patch notes come out.
Lunar New Year Card Back
This patch has added the Lunar New Year card back and data structures to the client. This is the ranked participation reward for February.
"Lunar New Year"
Season 11 (Feb 2015)
Spectator Mode Changes
It looks like spectator mode is getting some changes! From what we can see in the client, it appears you'll be able to spectate the next game of the person you are spectating without having to re-spectate. This should be great for tournaments!
There also appears to be something called "Spectator Parties".
Quote from HearthPwn
- GLOBAL_SPECTATOR_WAITING_FOR_NEXT_GAME_HEADER - Spectator Mode
- GLOBAL_SPECTATOR_WAITING_FOR_NEXT_GAME_TEXT - Waiting for next game to start.
- GLOBAL_SPECTATOR_WAITING_FOR_NEXT_GAME_TEXT_ENTERING - Waiting for next game to start
- "Jane Doe is entering Naxxramas"
- GLOBAL_SPECTATOR_WAITING_FOR_NEXT_GAME_TEXT_BATTLING - Waiting for next game to start.
- "Jane Doe is Battling Heroic Gothik the Harvester"
- GLOBAL_SPECTATOR_WAITING_FOR_NEXT_GAME_TEXT_PLAYING - Waiting for next game to start.
- "Jane Doe is playing Naxxramas Paladin Challenge"
- GLOBAL_SPECTATOR_WAITING_FOR_NEXT_GAME_TEXT_OFFLINE - Waiting for next game to start.
- GLOBAL_SPECTATOR_WAITING_FOR_NEXT_GAME_TIMEOUT - The player you are spectating took too long to start the next game. Spectator Mode has been canceled.
- GLOBAL_SPECTATOR_ERROR_CREATE_PARTY_TEXT - An error occurred attempting to create Spectator party.
- GLOBAL_SPECTATOR_ERROR_LEAVE_FOR_SPECTATE_PLAYER_TEXT - An error occurred attempting to leave a previous party to spectate {0}
Other
- There were a few other changes to localizations across many files. Korean, Russian, Spanish, and German all received small adjustments to wordings.
- There's now a string which lets you know when the shop is down in your region and that you should try again later.
Yea but.. you know...
The TRUE hipster card back will always be only one.
(But I must admit this one is pretty sexy too)
Great news :3 good job !
Hmm card packs seem less and less creative (not bad looking, just not creative). Hope it'll get better
Hopefully Warsong Commander gets a bug fix, but i'm keeping my optimism in check.
Awesome stuff! I wonder what the spectator parties will bring to the table.
That bug has been in the game for over a year so... don't get your hopes up.
I only noticed it since around GVG release, never seen it before.
Hope this patch will fix "rainbow" graphic bug.
what is with the Luna Greetings thingy? I thought they add them?
If I recall, it was just for Asia servers. I was hoping to see them too. Don't quote me on this, it's just from memory
This is correct. Sad, but correct.
Ah thanks for the information. Did not know and was looking for it. In WoW we have a Lunar event as well, therefore i am a bit suprised.
Unfortunately, we can't datamine majority of bug fixes. There could be some.
The spec changes look awesome! I especially like the auto-respec feature. I wonder what the parties'll do...
Most likely will be you can group up with some friends and all join the same games which the party leader is spectating. Should make tournaments very easy to deal with when you have multiple casters. In theory, only the party leader would need to have everyone on their friendslist.
prehaps a party chat in addition.?
They could add a new party tab to the friends UI, or maybe move spectating somewhere else entirely, to keep those features together, but who knows? Maybe invite only/public parties as well, possibly public ones joinable while spectating someone with another party. I may be getting a little ahead of myself, but a little speculation never hurt anyone ;)