Erik Johnson

EA has announced the release of a new update for its free-to-play title BattleForge, and while unfortunately it does not bring the Lost Souls expansion which is set to arrive later this month, it still brings plenty of new tweaks and improvements to the game.

The file is available via in the in-game auto updater, change log follows.

BattleForge Update

General

Cards

* Balancing Change: Firedancer – The unit’s siege bonus has been reduced from 150% to 125% on upgrade level 2 and from 200% to 150% on upgrade level 3.
* Balancing Change: Gladiatrix – The unit does not inflict area damage anymore. Instead it deals all damage to the targeted enemy. Its spear will now hit the enemy more reliably.
* Balancing Change: Fountain of Rebirth – The building’s production costs have been reduced from 100 to 60. Instead of regenerating friendly units every 2 it will now heal them every 3 seconds but the abilities overall duration has been increased from 10 to 30 seconds. It will restore 15 life points per tick (18/21/25 life points on the upgrade level 1/2/3).
* Update: As the Christmas Season is over Santa Claus will no longer be able to use his special abilities.
* Bug fix: Swamp Drake: The unit’s attack failed to trigger a visible effect at the position of the attacked target. The missing hit impact has now been reinstalled and will be visible again.
* Bugfix Parasite Swarm: As indicated on its card the unit is specialized against M creatures. The damage calculation against opponents of this size did not work correctly, though. This has now been fixed and the unit will now deal the correct amount of damage.