Aren't they overdoing it a bit with the countermeasures? ...Or maybe not. / ちょっと対策されすぎてるんじゃない？...そうでもないか。
[ENGLISH]
There was a long maintenance period from yesterday into today. I wondered what had happened, and it seems there was a security issue.
everyone Security Incident Update
According to Dave's explanation, approximately 39.5 million DEC was withdrawn in a hack. However, individual players were not affected, so apparently there's nothing we need to do. That's a relief!
Recently, there have been a huge number of hacking incidents and data leaks in Japan as well, and people have become increasingly worried. I had simply assumed that HIVE was safe.
My impression was that the HIVE network didn't really have problems with scams or unauthorized access. But of course, that doesn't mean it's 100% secure. We still need to be careful about clicking suspicious links and opening strange messages.
Everyone, please be careful!
That was a rather worrying topic to start with, but it's not actually what I wanted to talk about today. What I really wanted to cover is the Weekly Update.
I think there are roughly four main topics this time.
💰 Important Alterations Renewal presale for Visions of Verico collectors
I honestly had no idea what this was about. Since it mentions Visions of Verico, I wondered if it was something related to card packs for Land.
After looking into it, I discovered that there is actually a card ability called "Alteration." Apparently, cards with this ability are eligible for a monthly drawing on the 18th, and winners can receive a Skin or something along those lines.
But doesn't it seem strange to have a presale for a card ability? That's what I thought, anyway. However, when I read the details more carefully, the explanation was actually there.
It seems that the benefit is available for free for only one year, after which you have to purchase the right to continue using it. So this is a presale for the right to renew it for five years!
The price has been reduced from $15 to $10, so if you're someone who expects to keep using it for the next five years, it's a pretty good deal.
Personally, I don't own any Visions of Verico cards, and I'm not particularly focused on Land, so I'm not interested in this. I haven't researched it very thoroughly, and I'm not very knowledgeable about it, so please forgive me if I've misunderstood something.
If you're interested, give it a closer look yourself!
👉Visions of Verico: Bloodlines Are Coming to Land
⚔️ Three New Battle Rulesets!
They're announcing three new rulesets, but I can't find them in the ruleset list yet. I don't even know what their icons look like. I guess they'll start appearing in battles eventually?
💥 Chain Reaction
When a Unit is defeated, adjacent Units seem to take 2 damage.
This sounds familiar, so I looked it up and found this:
This ability was introduced with Escalation. It looks like they've taken just the negative effect of the ability and turned it into a ruleset. However, Chain Reaction has nothing to do with Bloodlines, so Units with low Health will become difficult to use.
Could this be a ruleset where Units capable of dealing Blast damage will really shine?
☠️ Live and Let Die
The following rules and abilities will not function:
Rebirth
Resurgence
Resurrect
Soul Siphon
What's the difference between this ruleset and giving every Unit Final Rest? Aren't they basically overlapping?
Oh, I see. Final Rest specifically says "Once Per Game." So there is a difference after all...
🦠 Plague Rot
Does this mean Life Leech and Scavenger will decrease Health instead of increasing it?
Nooooo! You can't do that! Leave my adorable CALAMITY alone! 😭
Oh, ARACNE WEAVER is affected too...
This is a problem because it shuts down my main combo. I guess people have realized just how strong Life Leech is. Well, cards like Ancient Lich have been wiping out entire enemy teams all by themselves since way back then, so maybe this was inevitable. 😭
But why introduce a ruleset like this now...? Then I saw this:
Looks like everyone is thinking the same thing. 🤣
DRAGONLORD MANCER must have been causing quite a lot of trouble. It looks incredibly strong, after all. I wanted to buy one when it was released, too, but I missed the timing. The price went up, and I could no longer afford it.
Even now, an RF copy costs over 110,000 DEC, and a GF copy is over 240,000 DEC. I really wanted one, but there's no way I can buy it at those prices now. I want a Dragon Summoner... Maybe I should just buy one of the Dragon Summoners from Starlight instead.
🏆 Gameplay Updates
These changes may look minor, but they could have a significant impact. Gameplay updates directly affect how we play, so I should at least understand what they're about.
🃏 Extra Edition cards are now exempt from minimum-level restrictions in Modern Brackets.
For example, NECRULENCIAN THIEF can now be used in Gold League even at Level 1.
This might be a little helpful when rulesets restrict the number of cards you can use. But then again, I don't think I'll get many opportunities to use it...
I wonder if Extra Edition cards are even used much in Modern in the first place?
🎲 The chance of low-mana battles has increased from 20% to 25%, while the chance of high-mana battles has decreased from 20% to 15%.
Compared to the past, I feel like there have been more high-mana battles lately. Maybe that's partly because the mana costs of cards have generally increased.
However, if almost every battle has high mana, it becomes a matter of simply putting in a huge Legendary Unit without thinking too much. Doesn't that make battles a little less interesting?
So personally, I'm happy about this change. But what exactly counts as low mana, and at what point does a battle become high mana? I don't know the details, so I can't tell how much of an impact this will actually have on gameplay yet.
🛡️ Fixed an issue where Survival cooldowns were incorrectly applied to Visions of Verico cards when a player surrendered.
I don't really understand the details, but it's good to see a bug fixed!
🪽 MISTWING now gains Snear at MAX level.
It's good that the card has become stronger, but I'd really like to see adjustments like this made before release.
I think there are other Units whose stats don't change even when they level up. I wonder what will happen to those cards. If they're going to make these adjustments, I'd prefer them to do everything at once. Otherwise, it feels unfair if some cards get updated while others don't.
🛍️ Improvements to the non-card market and general updates
There's a lot written here, but I'm getting tired. 🤣 I don't think most of it will have much impact on me. Oh, there's just one thing that caught my attention.
"Fixed an issue where Lite accounts could no longer use Starilght drops obtained before purchasing a Spellbook and selecting a name."
That's a serious problem! Imagine getting a token, getting all excited, and then purchasing a Spellbook only to discover that a bug prevents you from using it. I'd be devastated. Seriously.
There were lots of additions and fixes this time, but which one is the most important?
For me, it's definitely the new rulesets. One of them seems to be aimed at weakening DRAGONLORD MANCER, but it's CALAMITY who's taking the damage in my case. Please do something about that! 😭
There were also security-related fixes. Apparently, the team carried out emergency maintenance and worked quickly to resolve the issue, even though it was the middle of the night in their time zone.
To everyone who worked hard to fix this issue, thank you for your efforts. And thank you, as always, for making it possible for us to enjoy the game. Please get some well-deserved rest!
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[日本語]
昨日から今日にかけて長時間のメンテナンスがありましたね。何が起きたのかと思ったらセキュリティに関する問題があったようです。
everyone Security Incident Update
Daveさんの説明によればハッキングで 約3,950万 DECが引き出されたという事です。しかし、個々のプレイヤーに影響はないため何かをする必要はないようです。これは一安心。
最近は日本でもハッキングによる情報流出がものすごく大量に発生していて不安感が広がっていましたが、HIVE は大丈夫だと勝手に思い込んでいました。
私の印象では HIVE ネットワークは詐欺や不正アクセスは無いと思っていたんですよね。しかし、100%安全というわけではないし、変なリンクを踏んだり怪しいメッセージには十分注意が必要ですね。
皆さんも十分気を付けてくださいね。
最初からいきなり不安な話になりましたが、今回言いたいことはこれではなく。Weeklyアップデートについてなのです。
今回は大まかに分けて4つかな？
💰Visions of Vericoコレクター向けの重要なAlterations Renewal先行販売
これについては私は何のことなのかさっぱりわかりませんでした。Visions of Verico って言ってるからランド用のカードパックに関する何か？
そこで調べてみたところ、カードアビリティに "Alteration" って言うのがあるんですね。このアビリティを持っていると毎月18日に抽選があり、当選すれば Skin が手に入るとかなんとか。
でも、カードのアビリティなのに Pre-Sale ってどういうこと？って思いません？私は思いました。これもよくよく読めば書いてあって。
無料で手に入るのは1年間だけで、その後は権利を購入する必要があるようです。これの 5年更新の権利を 先行販売するよ！って事みたいですね。
金額は $15 から $10 に安くなっているので5年間期待ずっと期待できる人ならお安く買えるってことね。
私はそもそも Visions of Verico のカードを持っていないしランドには力を入れていないので興味が無いのです。よって、あんまり調査してないし詳しくないので間違っていたらごめんね。
興味がある人はがんばって調べてみてください。
👉Visions of Verico: Bloodlines Are Coming to Land
⚔️ Three New Battle Rulesets!
三つのルールが追加されました！って言ってるけど、ルールの一覧表を見ても追加されていないんだよね。どんなアイコンが分かんない。バトルしていれば出てくるんだろうか？
💥 Chain Reaction
ユニットが倒された場合に隣にいるユニットが2ダメージを受けるみたいですね。なんか見たことがあるなぁって思って調べてみたらこれだね。
このアビリティは エスカレーション で追加されたアビリティですが、デメリット部分だけを抜き出してルール化したような感じ。でも、 Chain Reaction には血統は関係ないので Health が低いユニットが使いずらくなるね。
Blast ダメージを与える事が出来るユニットが大活躍しそうなルール？
☠️ Live and Let Die
以下のルール、アビリティが機能しません。
Rebirth
Resurgence
Resurrect
Soul Siphon
このルールってさ、すべてのユニットに Final Rest を与えるルールと何が違うの？ルールが重複してない？
あ、そうか。 Final Rest には1回だけ/Once Per game って明記されているのか。一応違いはあるのね...
🦠 Plague Rot
Life Leech と Scavenger がHealthを増やすのではなく、へらすようになる？アカン！アカンでぇ！うちの可愛い CALAMITY ちゃんを虐めたらアカン！😭
あ、 ARACNE WEAVER も影響受けるやん...
私のメインコンボのが封じられるという問題。Life Leeach が強いのがばれているんだろうねぇ。まぁ、Ancient Lich の時代から一人で敵のチームを全てぶち転がすとかやってたからね。しょうがないかもね。😭
しかし、なんで今更こんなルールを...と思ったらやっぱり。
思う事はみんな一緒。🤣 よほど DRAGONMANCER が猛威を振るったんだろうねぇ。めちゃくちゃ強そうだもん。私もリリース時に買いたかったけど、タイミングをミスって値上がり、買えなくなりましたよ。
今でもRFで11万以上、GFなら24万を超えています。欲しかったけど、今更買えないよね。ドラゴンサモナー欲しいなぁ。Starlightのドラゴンサモナーでも買うかなぁ...
🏆ゲームプレイのアップデート
地味ですが影響が大きいのがこれ。ゲームアップデートは直接影響があるので一応理解しておかないとね。
🃏モダンブラケットでエクストラエディションのカードは最低レベル制限の対象外になった
例えば、 NECRULENCIAN THIEF がレベル1でもゴールドリーグで使えます。
ルールで使えるカードが減った場合にちょっとだけ嬉しいかも？いやでも、あんまり使うチャンスはなさそうだからなぁ...
エクストラエディションのカードってモダンではほぼ使うことない気がするんだけどどうなんだろう？
🎲低マナバトルの発生する確率は20%から25%に上昇し、高マナバトルの派生する確率は20%から15%に低下しました。
昔と比べると高マナのバトルが増えたように感じます。全体的にカードのマナコストが上がっているからというのもあるんでしょうけどね。しかし、高マナばかりになるとレジェンドのでかいユニットを何にも考えずにおけばいいやーってなるので雑になりません？
なので、個人的には嬉しい。でも、いくつまで低マナでいくつからが高マナなんだろう？そこらへんはちょっとわからないので実際のプレイへの影響がまだわかりませんね。
🛡️ プレイヤーが降伏した際、 Visions of Verico のカードに誤ってサバイバルのクールダウンが適用されてしまう問題を修正しました。
これはわかんないけどバグが直ってよかった！
**🪽 MISTWING が最大レベルに達した際、Snear を獲得するようになりました。
強くなっていいことですが、こういう調整はリリース前にして欲しいところ。他にもレベルを上げてもステータスが変わらないユニットがいると思うんですがどうなるんですかね。やるなら一度に変更して欲しいし、あっちは変更してこっちは変更しないとかなると不公平感がでちゃいます。
🛍️カード以外の市場および全般的な改善
なんかいろいろ書いてあるけど疲れた。あんまり影響なさそう。あ、一個だけ気になる。
"スペルブックを購入して名前を選択すると、Liteアカウントで獲得したStarilghtドロップを使用できなくなる問題を修正しました。"
これはアカン！トークンを手に入れてウキウキしてスペルブック買ったのにバグで使えないとか泣くわ。マジで。
沢山の追加、修正がありましたが、一番重要なのはなんでしょう？私に関してはやっぱりルールの追加ですね。DRAGONLORD MANCER の弱体を狙ったと思われるルールですがうちは CALAMITY ちゃんがダメージを受けています。何とかして。😭
また、セキュリティに関しての修正ですが、あちらでは深夜にも関わらずメンテナンスにして急いで修正を行ったという事です。頑張って修正してくれた方々お疲れさまでした。いつも楽しくゲームさせていただいてありがとうございます。ゆっくり寝てください。
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