Hearthstone Patch 11.4 - Boomsday Pre-Order, Midsummer 2.0, Card Consistency
A new Hearthstone patch has hit the live servers including the Boomsday expansion pre-order, a new take on the Midsummer Festival and more!
Quote from BlizzardBehold, our latest invention: The Boomsday Project! Update 11.4 introduces two different bundles to prepare you for Hearthstone’s next expansion, a spicy-new Fire Festival event, and more improvements to card consistency. YOU ALSO FACE MECHA-JARAXXUS, EREDAR LORD AND NEW WARLOCK HERO.
Ahem. Read on for details!
- Two new bundles are now available for Hearthstone’s upcoming expansion, The Boomsday Project that arrives August 7!
- Pre-purchase contains 50 The Boomsday Project card packs at a discounted price, the “Mecha-Jaraxxus” card back, and a random Golden Legendary card from The Boomsday Project!
- Introducing The Mega Bundle, which includes 80 The Boomsday Project card packs at a discounted price, the “Mecha-Jaraxxus” card back, a random Golden Legendary card from The Boomsday Project, and the Mecha-Jaraxxus Warlock Hero!
- Players can purchase one bundle, or both!
- Purchased card packs and accompanying Legendary card can be opened when The Boomsday Project launches.
- The Mecha-Jaraxxus Warlock Hero and card back can be used right away.
- The Midsummer Fire Festival returns soon for another scorching hot season of fun!
- Ragnaros' Fire Festival Tavern Brawl is back! Destroy minions to upgrade your "Wow" emote with fabulous fireworks!
- Following it up is an all-new challenging PvE Tavern Brawl with a few surprises!
- Basic daily Quests completed during the Fire Festival event reward double gold!
- Enjoy the Fire Festival-themed "Greetings" emote and sizzling box dressing!
- The initial download size of the Hearthstone client for mobile is now smaller.
- Performance of the Collection manager has been improved.
- Support for modern phones, such as the iPhone X and the Samsung Galaxy S8 & S9, has been added to utilize more available screen space.
- The following minions have had their minion types adjusted:
- Mountain Giant is now an Elemental
- Molten Giant is now an Elemental
- Witchwood Piper is now a Demon
- North Sea Kraken is now a Beast
- Jungle Moonkin is no longer a Beast
- Art for Witchwood Grizzly has been adjusted.
- New card backs have been added:
- Lemonade – August 2018 Ranked Play Reward
- Mecha-Jaraxxus – Available in The Boomsday Project pre-purchase and The Boomsday Project Mega Bundle for a limited time
Bug Fixes and Gameplay Improvements
- Resolved an issue where Echoed spells converted by Lilian Voss would remain “ghostly” and were discarded at the end of turn.
- Resolved an issue where Choose One choices would persist on the board if a player used King Togwaggle to swap decks with the opponent.
- Resolved an issue where Genn Greymane would not trigger in an even deck if Clockwork Giant was in the opening hand.
- Resolved an issue where freezing a Rush minion the turn it was played would cause it to skip two attacks.
- Resolved an issue where the UI would become unresponsive in certain cases when the Windows Game Bar was enabled.
- Resolved an issue where games that ended in a Draw while Rewind is active would create strange behavior.
- Resolved an issue where Skelemancers killed by an end of turn effect would crash iOS devices.
- Resolved an issue with the display of Primordial Glyph and cards that are Discovered.
- [Monster Hunt] Resolved an issue where Vampiric Fangs would heal Heroes based on the printed health of minions instead of remaining health.
- Resolved an issue with Lorewalker Cho’s interaction with Unstable Evolution and cards with Echo.
- Resolved an issue where Weasel Tunneller would cause a deck display issue while in Fatigue.
I'd rather pay for that lemonade cardback rather than that jaraxxus one.
Double gold is great for us f2p people. We are guaranteed at least 100g. Essentially, for each quest you complete, you get one pack. Don't know when this is starting, but gonna stockpile quests and do them only when I have to so I don't miss gold.
Does anyone else still not have iphone X support? I downloaded the patch but it looks worse than before. Top and bottom margins got significantly smaller.
Are you talking like someone playing 6 hours a day hearthstone or like 1 hour? (That means for casual players who got work, maybe family, study, school and whatever more). Most AAA games catch you for over 60 hours usually AND you won‘t ever get bored by it. You play and see something fresh and new everytime (and I‘m not even including bonus dlc content or like the special stuff at the end of a game). Whereas hearthstone is that kind of game where you get excited for a week and then...stale...giving the casual player access to each card wouldn‘t generate way more core gamers but rather more casual players playing for a larger amount of time during the period of an expansion. That‘s marketing and I know that some marketing tactics are just weird (Nintendo as an example)
Blizzard has been using this model "excuse" for the last 4-6 expansions. Great game. Just tired of "beta testing" this for blizzard on their "free to play" game as i/we spend hundreds every 3 months.
The big difference is for $60 you get a NEW GAME. This is like paying $50-80 for a DLC and it’s arguably less content than that. I am done giving Blizz money for these greedy cash grabs, especially with such lazy balancing. $30 for a hero skin. Get out of here! I am glad for the extra gold events and I’ve already given them more money than I’d care to admit. I think $20-30 preorders would be less greedy and more people would be willing to pay. Vote with your wallet.
How about a new "pay-to-win" model Blizzard? Charge me ten bucks a month, how about we call it an "event pass" >.< , and let me complete missions to earn packs/cards. Then when your done add a storm that shrinks, and its last man standing!? This game is old and needs a new life!! Stop milking us and breaking the game to milk us some more by adding broken cards and mechanics!! Can I get a grammar troll to come in and correct me? People, please stop dumping money into a game that was once engaging, but truly has turned into a pile of our heaping money!!
Kinda agree here,
Ive been saving gold for the next expansion since the Toki event and I care not for pretty looking Heroes or Golden cards, so the bundles don't really offer much for the price they are asking.
The Solo Adventures was a great addition, but the game needs more.
Mountain Giants are earth elementals. Sea Giants are humanoids that are a race from Azeroth. Arcane Giant is a magic based construct. It's not mechanical in nature in game, it's something from Karazhan. Core hounds would honestly be an elemental before a demon, comes from the same raid as the Molten Giants and are from the fire plane.
And Bonemere a beast etc etc. Blizz started a long long jorney:D
How is ARCANE giant a MECH??
Someone must really like the Magnetic keyword.
In what world is sea giant an elemental? Mountain giant is literally made of rock, sea giants is a humanoid fish thing, exactly what element is he made of buddy?
Mountain giant is made out of an elemental, but sea giant is simply a giant. There is no reason to give him the tag too.
HOW IS CORE HOUND A DEMON.
Yuppie, Midsummer Fire Festival is back.
Also, that lemonade card back looks really nice.
Yeah, that's a nice mojito card back!
+1 for sarcasm. -1 if you actually mean that $hit!
They normally come a few hours later or the next day.
Mega bundle of cause