Greetings Citizens, and welcome to another Developer Update. Version 27.0 is now available and includes a number of improvements and new features. I’d like to talk about these along with recent developments on connection, so let’s dive in!
What’s New
Account Linking – You can now link your progress to either Game Center or Google Play, allowing you to recover your account in the event of the game being uninstalled, getting a new phone, or even sharing your game between two devices. All you need to do is select the correct account when presented with the account alert in-game and you can carry on crushing your enemies.
Language Select – Our game uses your device’s native language to localise the game (where available) but some people have requested the option to choose a different language to play the game in, so now you can! The Language button can be found in the Settings menu.
KTPlay – Our tired old News Feed has been replaced with a new social platform within the game. This is a great place for the community to gather and share tactics, content, and questions while providing the development team with a great way to share news and announcements, so stay tuned.
Calming the Machine Spirit
Many of you will have noticed that sometimes the connection to the game can be somewhat unreliable, particularly around the start of Campaigns. The massive rush of people eager to start earning points leads to a big strain on the servers, resulting in people being unable to find battles or their battles freezing. I wanted to give an update on why this is happening, and what we are doing to combat this.
The issue occurs because of a fault in the system which handles battles. Unfortunately the instances that contain those battles sometimes shut down unexpectedly, leading to those ‘battle not found’ messages you may have seen recently. Previously this behaviour would have led to you choosing an attack but nothing happening and the game appearing to freeze. Instead now the game recognises that the battle no longer exists and will close the battle.
Losing connection can be a bad experience, but losing Campaign energy is even worse! That’s why we will very soon be implementing a fix that will grant you your energy back if you encounter this problem. It may take a little time to arrive, but it should mean you no longer have to request energy back from Customer Services.
So now that we’ve fixed up the problem with the battle freezing and energy being lost, there is still the issue with losing connection. To combat this, we are currently hard at work making a more robust battle system. Not only will this help to eliminate these connection issues, but will allow to add more game modes, cool traits, and some very interesting special rules. More on this in the future…
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with localised Keywords not displaying correctly
- Fixed an issue with bodyguard skulls incorrectly moving to the Kill Pack bar when the bar is on cooldown
- Fixed an issue allowing players to create invalid decks
- Fixed numerous minor text and art issues
Known Issues
- Campaign energy is lost when the user encounters errors during battles
- Disparity between timers shown in game compared to server. If your timers seem to not be what you’d expect we recommend restarting the game until this issue is resolved
- The ‘Ready’ animation doesn’t always play correctly when Commissar Yarrick’s Special Rule is triggered
- Cards sometimes hover incorrectly during battles
- The ‘deploy’ graphical effect sometimes hangs around longer than it should
- Users sometimes get campaign objectives when campaigns are inactive. We addressed part of this issue but there are still some problems
- Some of the battlefield terrain pokes through cards on certain battlefields
What’s Next
We know you are all very eager to hear about what’s next for Warhammer Combat Cards, and we’re looking forward to sharing our ideas for the next few months. We will be sharing these plans with you all in a separate upcoming post very soon, so keep your eye on the blog, and as always head over to KTPlay, our Facebook page, r/WarhammerCombatCards, and Discord for discussion and let us know what you’d like to see.
You can get in touch via our Facebook page, leaving a comment here, or mailing [email protected].
See you on the battlefield!
My game crash
With iCloud
Can save or load
Hi, sorry to hear about the issue. We just put out an update to the game so check your App Store to make sure you have the latest version. If that doesn’t help then please contact our customer support team (using the help option in the game’s options menu or this link: https://support.flaregames.com/hc/requests/new). Hopefully they’ll be able to sort out what’s gone wrong.
Thank you ! You guys are on the right track ! It looks like you’re addressing all the main issues and as far as I’m concerned this is really showing ! The games doesn’t need me to restart it four times to get the timers right anymore and this is already a big step up ! I’m really excited to see what will be coming up next but I have a feeling it’s going to be good.
Keep up the good work and congrats on making such a fun and more importantly fast paced card game, the Warhammer 40K franchise deserved as much
All the best to all the team
I’ve noticed the taunt damage reduction has not been happening.
-From a veteran who loves 40k.
Unfortunately there are indeed a couple of issues with the traits and Warlord special rules, which are part of the reason that we’re reworking the behind the scenes systems that run the battles. This will fix these issues and allow us to add new traits and Warlords to the game much more easily.
Thanks for keeping us updated. Still loving the gaming and reviewing on devils brush gaming.
Glad you’re enjoying it. Send me a link to your review and I’ll check it out!
I’ve been having a strange graphical and mechanical issue where if I let my game idle mid combat and my screen goes dark when I reactivate andgo to place a card for one that had been destroyed the turn previous the card I place doesn’t appear on that turns battle stats (concerning damage) and the card isn’t visible. Yet it still attacks as normal. Minor, but it has lost me a game.
Hmm, that does sound odd. Thanks for letting me know, I’ll pass it on to our QA team (though there are some behind the scenes fixes happening to the battle system, which may help with weird issues like that).
The app keeps crashing I updated the app with the new link account update and now the app won’t open on my phone or my iPad. I have an iPhonex and an iPad air2
Hi, sorry to hear about the issue. We just put out an update to the game so check your App Store to make sure you have the latest version. If that doesn’t help then please contact our customer support team (using the help option in the game’s options menu or this link: https://support.flaregames.com/hc/requests/new). Hopefully they’ll be able to sort out what’s gone wrong.
Any ideas on clans? The idea of a PvP would be pretty cool considering counter tactics are prevalent. I sadly also understand the strain on servers. Here’s to wishing. Love the game so far and the customer support on a uninstalled problem
What about not cards killed by a trait attack not being re-deployable until the next round?
I actually really like this update, along with the visual updates that came with it
Hi,
My GooglePlay Account isn’t linked to the game, so when i install the game on a new device, i start from the beginning losing all progression. The update implements this feature ? Thanks for reply.
Hi there, thanks for getting in touch.
We had implemented cloud saving for Android and iOS but had to temporarily disable it as it was causing an issue for a few users. We hope to have it back in the game shortly.
In the meantime, please contact our customer support team (using the help option in the game’s options menu or this link:https://support.flaregames.com/hc/requests/new) and they’ll be able to transfer your profile so you’ll get your old progress and any purchases back.
It has taken a lot of losing to finally catch on to the game mechanics but I watered at the mouth for this game for months and months and so playing without paying thus far has still been highly enjoyable but I’m about to dump a wad of cash into it soon because it’s so worth it! Thanks for the very best card game ever!
Wow, thanks for your patience and comments. Now that you’re finally able to play it (sorry about the long delay) please do share your feedback and ideas – we’re always looking for ways to improve the game.
I’ve lost all my progress on my account on Ios, is there anyway to get it back i was close to level 25 i think
Absolutely. If you submit a ticket from within the game (Settings > Help and Game Guide > Create New Ticket…) then Customer Support will be able to assist you in retrieving your old account.