CommunityDeveloper
Hey everyone, Steve from RedLynx here. We’ve been working hard to triage and fix the most critical issues introduced with our latest update, and we are well on the way to fixing many of them. Today, an asset bundle will be released that should offer a temporary solution to the issues being experienced with cards with a Hyperdrive effect. The final resolution of this issue is more complicated than previously thought, so it may take some time to bring this back to the original function, but this temporary fix will adjust the effects back to roughly the same level as pre-BFU Hypderdrive.
Several other critical issues will be fixed this week, but will require a client update. That build is currently being worked on as we speak. These fixes will also be bundled together with an all- new Report Player function, which will allow you to report a player/match if some odd behavior was noticed. Many players have requested this feature, and its completion has coincided well with the timing of this hotfix, so they will be released together. The Report Player function will be found in the “Settings” tab of the New Kid’s Phone Menu, and should help us to further root out any oddities or sources of player frustration.
Hyperdrive Hotfix
As many of you may know, Hyperdrive, Astronaut Butters, and Warboy Tweek have been bugged. Or rather, their interactions with our new animation system improvements haven’t been working as intended. This means that the fix is a little more complicated than previously thought.
Today, we will be releasing an asset bundle update that will modify how Hyperdrive (and related effects) function in order to bring it as close to the previous function as we can with the new animation system improvements. Previously, the balance of this card depended on a very specific “idle delay”, and with the new improvements, this doesn’t actually exist. Due to this, we were seeing units have a much faster attack rate when under the effects of Hyperdrive-related cards. In order to offset this, we are decreasing the attack speed boost to put it back on par with how it was before the update.
An example may make this easier to understand. Currently, if you Hyperdrive Sheriff Cartman at the enemy New Kid, he will hit the New Kid 9 times during the duration of a level 1 Hyperdrive. Previously, he would hit the New Kid 7 times during the same duration. After the asset bundle is released, he will hit the New Kid 8 times during this duration, but will walk slightly slower. This is only a short term fix in order to stabilize the card. We will be implementing a permanent fix as quickly as we can.
Legendary Season End
As you all know, this Legendary Season will be ending on March 8th. This will happen at approximately 9 AM UTC, and will be accompanied by a brief service outage. As Phone Destroyer is quite new, we are still working out the best way to conduct season resets, and in the future, we will be able to end a season more seamlessly. We are also experimenting with new approaches to the Legendary Season Reset. One such experiment we will be conducting this season should shake up the higher Legendary Ranks. This season, only the bottom 50% of Legendary Players will be ejected to Rank 50. The top 50% will have their world rank adjusted to be even, and remain in Legendary. This will also gradually phase out inactive players from the Legendary System.
Legendary Season Rewards
This season, the rewards for Legendary Rank players will be as follows:
WORLD RANK LEGENDARY CARDS EPIC CARDS RARE CARDS COMMON CARDS GOLD UPGRADE ITEMS SILVER UPGRADE ITEMS BRONZE UPGRADE ITEMS PVP TICKETS #1-10 1, with a 50% chance for a second 9, with a 50% chance for a 10th 35 54 30 40 50 4500 #11-100 1, with a 20% chance for a second 8, with an 80% chance for a 9th 35 45 27 36 47 4000 #101-500 80% chance 7, with a 20% chance for an 8th 30 37 24 31 40 3500 #501-1,000 60% chance 6, with a 40% chance for a 7th 25 28 21 28 36 2500 #1,001-2,000 40% chance 5, with a 60% chance for a 6th 20 24 18 25 32 2000 #2,001-4,000 30% chance 4, with a 70% chance for a 5th 15 20 15 20 25 1500 #4,001+ 20% chance 3, with an 80% chance for a 4th 10 16 10 10 20 1000
Race to Legendary Reward Pack & Legendary Locker Improvements
In order to reward competitive play, every player who enters Legendary Rank during the first week of Season 3 will receive a Race to Legendary Reward Pack. This season, the rewarded pack will contain assorted alien goodies, as well as a 50% chance to receive the Visitors. In the future, there may be additional cards released to Legendary Rank players first as rewards, or other exclusive gifts given to the most competitive among you. Legendary players should also keep their eyes open for more surprise rewards throughout the season. During the beginning part of Season 3, we will also be improving the rewards to be received from PvP lockers for Legendary players. More details on this will be available soon.
That's all the info I have at this time, but more info will be posted here on the forums about the next hotfix and related topics as it becomes available. Until then, I'll see you all on the streets of South Park!
Love,
Steve🚀
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CommunityDeveloper
Hi Geerti,
I appreciate the question. There are a variety of reasons players may choose to report others, outside of some potential cheating. This may include poor network connection during matches/lag, inappropriate usernames or team names, griefing, win-trading, or a number of other issues.
While we are working to eliminate cheating, this is akin to an arms race, where cheaters will constantly attempt to find new ways to ruin the player experience. We are committed to nullifying their attempts, and making South Park: Phone Destroyer a fair and fun experience for all of our players.
Junior Member
Hey Steve,
First of all thanks for this update, this is looking great as an incentive players to get to Legendary and stay there.
My question is regarding those reports and some friendly matches that many of us experience:
With the now PvP pack system, a lot of players are trying to let their opponent destroy an extra phone or two while still winning the match. Is this considered a bannable offense? If someone reports such friendly behavior is there a potential repercussion to the friendly player?
Thanks!
IGN: JamminTee
Senior Member
The new animation improvements seem to have a detrimental effect on lower end devices too (like mine), decreasing the frame rate while deploying units causing unfair input of added delay, but it's nice to see an effort to fix the frenzy effect, and that's a creative way to sweep static legendary dwellers.
Junior Member
Steve,
Are you going to do anything to address the fact that you nerfed several high rank players (mystic for the most part) out of rewards and now potentially out of legendary after the reset? The nerf followed by a "bug" that excessively favored sci fi players shifted the meta harder than a reasonable adjustment would. I had stuff in adventure mystic and fantasy. I get that you want to make more money so you need broad shifts to incentivise huge purchases but is this the standard you as a company or the developers want to set for the user experience. In two weeks I dropped from 600 to 2500. I do feel wronged and you arent doing anything other than saying whoops next season will be better. I'm trying to be reasoned and polite. I apologize for feeling slighted but I honestly ask how you would feel in my situation and what you expect me as a user to do in response to your responses and what you're doing? It was bad enough last season to be kicked out of the top 1000 by energy cheaters in the last few days but you were going to fix it so I felt like what the hell I'll give it another season. It just feels like you're going to find a way to make me have to spend money to feel like I achieved something at the end of every season now because you're going to yank the football out from underneath me. I normally dont get a response from you and I am praying that trying to give you productive points and asking honest and politely worded questions will change that. I really respect how hard your job is but I love this game and I am losing hope.
Thank you for your time in reading this.
Concerned and lost former mystic player
Member
Thank you very much for trying hard to fix this hyperdrive bug !!
I hope you will find a way to resolve this as soon as possible.
I really like this game but since the BFU it was horrible, I’m rank legendary between 1500 and 2500 , and Most of players are using hyperdrive, so the game wasn’t funny anymore ...
Junior Member
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Hey, Geerti. If you check out the feature section of the update above, you'll notice that we have implemented a stronger anti-cheat that should stop people from "energy hacking". It's the first feature I mentioned.
"Improved Anti-cheat: this feature has been drastically improved, and the first phase of moving critical components of PvP server-side has now gone live."
We are taking strong strides toward increasing PvP stability and curbing any attempts to cheat. Players who are found to be cheating have their accounts permanently banned. We have decided to make the significant time and resource investment required to move all critical elements of PvP serverside, and that process will continue over the coming months.
Do you want me to start naming cheaters steve..?
Oh wait you would rather let them roam free and ban me for shaming those poor poor cheaters.
It would show some reall bolls if you actually showed some respect for people that reported 100s of cheaters instead of keeping up the constant bashing on people daring to name hackers or do something about it.
It seems you rather keep bashing on us and give your mecha timmy cards away to random plebles on your streams..
That will teach those hackers... ban all those people reporting them.
All my 1000s of screenshots.. all the other reporters with videos... with legit pictures... all fake steve.
Once again, that's why your most used word on redit is "banned".
Stop justifying cheating.
They are out there.
tons of level 11s in legendary rank and people spamming fireballs and lightning bolts.
I think by now everyone knows they are out there, if not it will get way worse because all big reporters gave up.
Keep bashing on legit reporters steve.
The usual reply you always give:
It's your connection..
It's a bug..
It's your phone...
YOU YOU YOU YOU
Sure Steve, that's why this never happens to me or anyone else, sure.
I don't have a button that makes my zap go 10 times faster.
I don't have a button that makes it so I never have to wait and can keep spamming out troops.
I don't have a button that makes my ike kill a level 4 pirate ship timmy in one hit at level 4.
Neither do I have a button to make cyborg kenny a 2 energy cost unit.
Where can I find those Steve, is that part of the glitch you are talking about?
That's usch a coincidence that i always disconnect just after I defeated a push or the enemy took one bar down and tons of units start to show up?!
Stop the lies.
Show some bolls, speak the truth.
40-46 is full of them.
