Patch 0.7.26 Notes: New Arena Mode, New Units and More

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1. New 2v2 Arena Mode: Cursed Planet

Push yourself to survive on and dominate this cursed planet! 1) Opening Time July 26 after patch - 09:00 September 27 GMT 2) Rules

• The Cursed Planet is only available in 2v2 mode. Players are not allowed to use runes.

• Each team can only ban 1 commander skill and 1 unit respectively.

• AdjustedIn the Cursed Planet, all units are affected by the battlefield since spawnedmaximum HP is reduced by 10%, armor is reduced by 2, and cloaked units are visible to non-detectors.

• Each turret of both sides will generate a healing field, which grants allies within 6% HP regeneration per second and prevent their maximum HP and armor from being affected by the battlefield. Note that units in the healing field of the opposite side will not get such buff.

• AdjustedIf one team loses any turret, this team's next wave of troops will get infuriatedattack speed is increased by 50%, attack damage is increased by 15, and the effects last until these troops are killed.

• In the final stage, all turrets, if there is any, will start to move and fight, and continue to generate healing field.

1. Rewards

• 3 consecutive victories reward a small supply drop, and 5 consecutive victories reward a large one. Players can acquire one of the following items from a supply drop: runes (Mind Control-Range, Lightning Tower-Duration, Full Alert-Cost or Giant Catapult-Repair), the exclusive avatar Medal of Honor, or the skin Felfire Crow for the Firecrow.

• Players can also exchange the above items with arena coins in the Arena Store.

• Opening a certain amount of victories in the Cursed Planet can unlock the achievement “Planet Intruder” and some rewards. Three-star Planet Intruder grants its exclusive avatar.

• Opening a certain amount of large supply drops in the Cursed Planet can unlock the achievement “Planet Colonizer” and some rewards. Three-star Planet Colonizer grants its exclusive avatar.

2. New Units: The Aggressive Strikers

1. Dragon Breath Compared with those units under the same type, the Dragon Breath has higher HP and attack, but also higher research cost. Once activated, his flame can damage more enemies.

• Unit Info: Ground Biological, Anti-Ground, Active, AoE

• Unit Ability：Combustion Improver, Flame Burst, Fire Ball

1. Blademaster As an advanced unit among the blade slave type, the Blademaster costs higher than the other 3 blade slaves. Permanently cloaked, Blademasters charge toward enemies and deal large damage to them.

• Unit Info: Ground Biological, Anti-Ground, Cloaked, Active, AoE

• Unit Ability：Blade Tempest, Wide Slash, Blade Dash

1. Garuda The Garuda is an advanced unit of Yaoguai. It can only move on the ground and attack ground units at first. But after activating its active ability, it will ascend to the air and inflict area damage at the same time. Then it becomes an air-to-air unit and each of its attacks can damage multiple units at a time.

• Unit Info: Ground Biological, Anti-Ground, Active

• Unit Ability：Ordeal, Ascend to the Sky, Skyshatter

1. From July 26 to August 09, themed bundles that respectively contains 1 new unit, some coins boosts and rune dust will be at 25% discount. Don’t miss out the limited time sale!

3. Honor System

Honor either teammates or opponents to make more friends! 1) Rules

• The Honor system is available in Quick Play, Ranked and Arena. Versus A.I. and Custom Game modes are excluded.

• After the game ends, in the overview screen, players can honor more than 1 teammate and opponent, but cannot honor themselves.

• Times being honored can be found in the Player Information screen.

1. Achievement

• Great Teammate: honored by teammates 50/100/200 times

• Honorable Opponent: honored by opponents 50/100/200 times

• Achieving three-star of both can unlock the relevant avatars.

1. Removed the Waves Cleared and K/D on the top of the battle screen.

2. Optimized the scrolling notification in the battle screen.

3. Added stats icons and the tech point icon to the unit production box in the battle screen.

4. Added “More Gems”, the guide on how to acquire gems in GUIDES.

5. Optimized the tabs and race trait description in ARMY SETUP.

1. Fixed the bug that after equipping the rune Ability Cooldown Reduction, Javelin Deer could not move while activated.