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.
Technically — yeah, its f2t, but if you don't play a lot, you just cant really play the game. You can make 1-2 deck, but if you want more, you have to pay. Or play a lot and well.
Real f2p game, that comes at my mind — is dota2. There no advantages in paying, only cosmetic. Period (at least it was so few years ago, can't say for sure now).
You able to never spend any cent into HS, but you will never be as free in deck crafting as a guy, who just buys 1-2 expansions each few year
So because it has a price at all, that makes it OVERpriced? I'm aware of the free-to-play struggle, but it's VERY possible to play entirely for free, and they give out a ton of free content. Calling any free-to-play game overpriced is insane to me.
No, high price makes it OVERpriced, isn't it logical? Entire Overwatch costs $30 (and sometimes $15), when in HS for $20 you can have 15packs. It is maybe 1 legendary. Maybe non. Most likely you wont get anything from it really. Just about 1500 dust, which is, again, 1 legendary. That's what I call OVERpriced. No, i'm not complaining, if you read my comment more carefully, you would notice. I'm ok with that price, I bought 2 expansions, OldGods and Witchwood, now I have some dust for next 1-2 years. But it is still OVERpriced. Coz two expansions is already $100. Is it ok price for free-to-play?
Comparing a CCG to a shooter is asinine. That's like saying scuba diving is overpriced because snorkeling costs way less.
Compare it to Magic: The Gathering, which gives you ZERO free packs, and then tell me again how overpriced Hearthstone is.
Sure the game is pricey. They used to give you the Hero skin for free, by winning ten games (quest). But for me a part of the gameplay will always be collecting the cards, cardbacks and new hero skins. So I will definitly pre order again. Altough I hope they will have some cool new quests to collect more card packs.
> They used to give you the Hero skin for free. by winning ten games (quest
They still do. It's in the beginning of a new hearthstone year. Not after each expansion.
Behinde the scene
To the folks, who are upset due to the costs. It's economy: offering and demand. If the price is too high, don't buy it...
But the difference is, that your individual usage not only depends on the product. You are in competition to other buyers, cause you need the cards in competition with other cards - at least at rank 10 and below. So you buy not only a product, but you are in disadvantage, if you are NOT buy the product. So, you need pay more money to remain in the same spot, because the opportunity exist to preorder more.
So the average collection quality gets higher, but maybe more player leave the game, cause they cannot afford the opportunity and are in disadvantage. So hearthstone is in a new product life cycle phase, milk the whales.
What do you think?
That Lemonade cardback :O
Hang on a minute..
1. There are not 3-4 expansions per year. There are exactly 3 expansions each year. Not 3-4.
2. Nothing ever rotates out of Wild. Choosing to play Standard is a choice, not a very smart one but a choice. Playing Standard is expensive because most of ‘your’ collection will become useless after 2 years so you will have to spend again and again and again.
Have you never receieved a free card pack? You poor thing :(
Next time remember to vote for your champion. In that way you will also receive free card packs like the rest of the player base.
That’s not a bug :) Nice try ;)
How many body parts do I have to sell to purchase this expansion?
Depends whether you are a man or woman.
that was funny :D
ThErE aRe MoRe ThAn TwO gEnDeRs!
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Lol just because some people wish to identify as the opposite gender or some made up gender doesn't mean there's more. I totally support the whole lgbt-community, but biologically speaking there are 2 genders. No more, no less.
The war has begun. Who will win? Feelings or facts?
Facts
Your opponent bug still not fixed?
I think that happens when your opponent is playing as disconnected (hidden) to not reveal his name.