Good morning, afternoon, or evening! Welcome to an all new Developer Update for South Park: Phone Destroyer! We’ve got the usual events to cover as well as the latest balance changes to come! Let’s get started!
Here is the Weekly Timetable
WEEKLY EVENTS
Our Halloween Cheesy Poof Shop is still open for business this week, so if you’ve been eyeing up possible purchases in the shop, you’ve still got plenty of time to pick those up! Cheesy Poofs can be found in all the usual spots all week! All poofs will be removed on Monday of next week, so be sure to collect all that you've earned and open your packs before then!
The week’s first chance to collect these tasty treats will be today’s Mission Event! There will be plenty of solo packs to pick up, so dig in if you’re interested! It’s only a 24-hour event before we switch over to the first of two Card Usage Events for this week. It’s a busy one!
Sorceress Liane will be the first to take to the skies this week! Her Card Use Event will run over Tuesday and Wednesday and the following cards will be featured:
- Sorceress Liane
- The Amazingly Randy
- Castle Defender
- Shieldmaiden Wendy
- Underpants Gnomes
- Nymph Nichole
- Stan the Great
- Robin Tweek
- Inuit Kenny
- Mary Jane Randy
- Ice Sniper Wendy
- Towelie
- Angel Wendy
Wednesday will also be the start of our new Halloween Chaos Mode! All cards that have Deathwish abilities will cost 1 less energy point to play than usual!
Thursday will continue the Chaos fun, but will also bring us to another 24-hour event, this time with Tokens to collect! Just like our previous 24-hour, this event will be packed with, well, packs!
Then we’ll dig into our second Card Usage event! This time the baton will be passed from Liane to Grand Wizard Cartman, who will be the star of our Weekend Event! There will be a copy of him up for grabs at the end of the solo path! This three-day event will feature the following cards for use:
- Grand Wizard Cartman
- Mr Slave Executioner
- Chicken Coop
- Elven King Bradley
- Dwarf King Clyde
- Catapult Timmy
- Dark Mage Craig
- Blood Elf Bebe
- Witch Doctor Token
- Bounty Hunter Kyle
- Fastpass
- Sharpshooter Shelly
- Marcus
Last but not least, here are all the point totals for this week’s events:
UPCOMING BALANCE CHANGES
Next Tuesday will be our usual Season Reset and this time the Balance Changes will be going out alongside it. If you’re curious as to who is changing and how, you’re in the perfect place!
Robin Tweek
“We took a closer look at Robin Tweek and felt that strategies you can have with him were limited, so we decided to open new possibilities for him! We also adjusted the targeting logic to target right as Robin is spawned or right before the arrow shot, whichever finds a target within the cone first.”
Warcry now selects the furthest unit within a cone. Range 4.5.
Now heals by 100 on top of the max HP boost.
Attack: 20 to 30 (50%)
Cow Stampede
“We are happy with the reception to Cow Stampede! However, the card has been a nuisance in lower arenas. We are taking this opportunity to emphasize the stampede power while adjusting the strength of the Headhunting."
Power Damage: 6 to 25 (317 %)
Health: 170 to 164 (-4%)
Attack: 17 to 25 (47%)
Time Between Attacks: 2.1 to 3.5 (67%)
DPS: 8.095 to 7.143 (-12%)
Movement Speed: 0.60 to 0.55 (-8%)
Starvin’ Marvin
“Marvin has been Starvin’ for attention! With these updated stats, there should be more meaningful decisions to make around headhunters.”
Health: 120 to 145 (21%)
Attack: 48 to 52 (8%)
Energy Cost: 4 to 3 (-25%)
Hunter Jimbo
“We adjusted the power length for Hunter Jimbo a while back and after seeing the results live, we determined that we should push that change further.”
Health: 600 to 575 (-4%)
Power Duration: 15 to 10 (-33%)
Incan Craig
“The new stats from the previous changes have proven to be extremely helpful for Incan Craig. The goal with this change is to ensure that his fantasy is still intact while toning down his overall strength.”
Power Damage: 160 to 150 (-6%)
Time Between Attacks: 2.10 to 2.45 (17%)
DPS: 28.571 to 24.490 (-14%)
Satan
“Satan has already been played almost like a tank, so this change makes it clearer for new players acquiring the card. Additionally, the power range has been able to clear out big pushes, and we hope that the reduced size makes it harder while also making it easier to avoid hitting friendlies with it.”
Satan is now categorized as a tank instead of a ranged unit. He will still use ranged attacks.
Power Range: 3 to 2.5 (-17%)
Pope Timmy
“We forgot to remove a tag from Pope Timmy that prevents him from being spawned by Dark Angel Red. It is now possible to try out interesting chain combos.”
DAR can now target Pope Timmy.
We’ll also be adding two of our newer cards into general circulation with this update! Changeling Red will be released to shops and lockers as long as you’ve reached Arena 11, and Member Berries will be available if you’ve reached Arena 10.
Member Berries are also getting two pesky bugs squashed: We’ve solved the problem of them not spreading out to more than one target and we’ve also fixed an issue where stepping on Member Berries would damage more than one unit. Please note that when it happens with The Chomper trap, that is intentional and not a bug, but that is the only card that should happen with.
DISCORD
Looking for other Phone Destroyers to talk about these changes with, as well as other topics? Check out our official Discord Channel! Please feel free to head on over and join the conversations. Just click HERE
HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST
Back again for the fourth year running, the Halloween Costume Contest will be opened up for entries later today! It will be a part of our Discord, as is tradition, so if you’re not already a member, this is the perfect time to join the fun! All rules will be posted in the Discord, so please head on over there for the full scoop! I’ll be opening up the Costume Contest Channels before the day's end, so keep an eye out! Edit: THEY ARE LIVE! I have also made a forum post with all the details right here!
Of course, you can always ask me questions here if you like, I’m happy to help.
Remember, those questions don’t have to just be about the Costume Contest either, you can feel free to ask about anything that’s on your mind, or leave a comment if you’ve got something to share. You know I’ll take it all back to the team if it isn’t something I can answer right away.
May your battle be victorious and your week be wonderful!
Haunts and Hugs,
-Toller!
Satan got a little nerf but overall you buffed every card except you nerfed adventure. Plus Somm was already nerfed. What's going on? Is the plan to have no one use adventure cards anymore? And boosting fantasy while they are already the theme with the only true 100% kill spell? Wow. Seems very interesting.
Why don't they put limits so that the player doesn't get off the sand? those of level 25 k that do not fall below 8.5 k, those of level 24 that do not fall below 8 k, those of level 23 that do not fall below 7.5 k, those of level 22 that do not fall below 7k and so on, is the easiest and most effective solution to end the DERANKERS once and for all
@ubiTeam Do you make use of the theme/card usage percentage stats? In Rainbow six siege, this is how the dev team knows what is OP and what is not and balances accordingly. Maybe some of these stats could help understand which themes/cards need buffs/nerfs? Cards I see most in legendary arena are Medusa Bebe, Sizzler Stuart and Scout Ike...