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.
That's a nice card back, I may actually switch to this for a while
The most beautiful card back so far (besides the pirate-themed one)!
I want the card back now!
The only change I want to spectator mode is to not have to spectate Dr Balanced come down on turn 7 like clockwork
i wish spectators of a game can chat with each other on a group chat or something.. would really feel like you're watching from the sidelines.
I'm guessing that's what a "Spectator Party" is supposed to be?
Not really, since you have to be friends with the player to espectate,and the friends list is limited to 100.
Very excited for the chain spectator mode! I bet the streamers who do draft coaching and etc. will love that as well.
I Love the lunar back. I'd be sad not to have this one.
Never used the spectator mode, but changes seem nice.
Did we ever get that 'Happy new year!' greeting applied? Mayhaps I missed it?
I think it was only for asian servers.
How about arena draft spectating?
Nice spectator mode upgrade! I hope we will soon be able to invite friends to spectate other friends!
What about a save replay option? That would be so great! I've been waiting for it since closed beta :/
What about [random thing I want here]?
HearthStone Decktracker does it!
Actually, ´´save replay´´ would be pretty f*cking useful. To be honest, it suprised me when spectator mod was annouced and this function was not included. But hey, too many buttons for tablet/phone versions or some BS like that.
What about you let people suggest what ever they want? His seems like a popular suggestion.
Yes please! I want to learn from my misplays :)
Can't wait to get that card back! Now I won't be so jealous of people rocking the S1 back.