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SpaceElephant: Hello everyone this is SpaceElephant from the Might & Magic - Duel of Champions team at Ubisoft Quebec City
You know that our Base Set 2 is coming really soon and it will include a new list of specific cards for this collection
But we also have a lot of new features coming for this release such as new solo campaigns,
new deckbuilder functionalities, new achievements, daily quests and even more
so I met with the Dev Team here to know more about it
Simon : We are introducing new creature types and new schools of magic on the creatures
What is gonna change is creatures like the Banshee is now a Dark creature so it now interacts with Dark Ward
For now creature types will not be usefull for B02 because there's no gameplay interacting with it, but it's going to open a lot of doors for us.
For B02 now we have 5 campaigns and each campaign contains 5 missions.
Each of those can be completed with the 6 factions and once you complete a campaign you get a puzzle that's unlocked, and you have to complete it under 1 turn.
Guillaume : The new formats are something that defines what you can put in your deck. We'll have 2 regular formats at this time,
The 1st one will be the Open format, that allows you play with every existing card.
The other format will be the Standard format, that will allow the player to play with the cards from the last Base set.
The Weekly format will define a special format for the tournaments on this week. The Daily Quest is like, basically, achievements,
but they are repeatable achievements, every day the players log in to the game, they will have some quests to achieve
and once those quests are accomplished they will get some rewards.
Yanick : As the players progress they will get promoted from Recruit to Squire to Knight to Commander and finally Lord Commander
The higher Tier the players have, the more rewards they will get from the Daily Quests. Later on, players will reach competitive tiers
named the Champions tiers. In order to keep their place at the top, players will have to keep fighting.
Every month, the ladder will be reset so that current player's progression inside their current tier will be set back to 0.
This will make it challenging for the players to reach the next tier before the next reset triggers.
Finally, the matchmaking system has been tweaked to give more accurate results at all time.
Jason : With B02 coming we really wanted to take the Deckbuilder to the next level! One of the 1st things we wanted to do to do that was
to take the filters that were on the side, and only available in the Deckbuilder, and put them into a more manageable area on the top bar
so we can bring them in the Infernal Pit and the Altar of Wishes, which, let me tell ya, makes things really more awesome.
At the same time we wanted to use all this extra space and space management improvements that we did and add the ability to filter/sort your cards
and be able to find what you're looking for so much faster than before.
The new search tool we added in is this nice little text box where you can pretty much type anything, and what it will do
is that it will search throughout your entire collection. For the Deckbuilder we really watered it to make using formats as intuitive as possible
so what we did is you can select whichever format you're interested in at the moment and, within your deck list see which decks fit within the format
and also it explains to you really simply why your deck doesn't follow the rules of that specific format.
Dan : We're bringing in a lot of new features in this upcoming release and we wanted to be able to bring more features, in other words, be more scalable.
we can add all the different game modes and features that the players really want.
We wanted to make it easier for both new players and old players to navigate the menus quickly and efficiently
one thing you're gonna notice is everything is a bit cleaner, again it's because we wanted to make those scalable
one of the other things we wanted to do as well is to leverage a lot of the cool illustrations that we have and the cards and,
this is to help really bringing that epic high fantasy lore of the world of Might & Magic!