Hey, Clashers! I’m Community Manager Darian.
And I am Game Designer Eino.
And we are here with part one of two dev update videos.
This one will cover some updates from the next content release.
- And our part two is going to be... - The Legend League rework.
Exactly. What we’ll be calling Operation Blue Skies.
Since that one needs to stand on its own,
we’ll cover its technical details in another video.
Now, let’s go over the Builder Hall 9 update,
and what players can expect to see in this content release.
Well, as you said, they can expect Builder Hall 9.
- What’s in Builder Hall 9? - A new troop and a new building
and a couple of unique twists.
If you remember two years ago, when we released the Builder Hall,
we had a cinematic of the troops jumping on the boat traveling across the sea.
Who was missing after all that concluded?
- The Barbarian ran into the ocean. - Not so smart.
- The Hog Rider didn’t return either. - Yes.
We were wondering what to do with him,
and we decided to make him into a new troop for Builder Hall 9.
INTRODUCING THE HOG GLIDER!
We don’t know where the glider came from. He’s a flying troop.
He’ll head for the defense and when he hits it,
the defense will get stunned for a while.
Then, he will jump and becomes a normal Hog Rider.
But if he takes damage before he reaches the defense,
he’ll automatically drop from the glider and act as a normal Hog Rider.
- It’s a kind of pun there: Hog Glider. - I think it’s obvious.
- Does he yell “Hog Glider”? - Let’s see. Leave that for the update.
- We also have a new defense. - Yes. It is called Lava Launcher.
It’s a very long range defense that hurls slabs of molten rock
and it sets some ground on fire.
So it’s a patch of damage, or damage over time,
and as troops run over it, they’ll take damage for a certain length of time.
That’s the new troop, and the new defense. But...
We’ve been thinking about what we can do with Builder Hall 9.
Something we want to talk about is
how the Master Builder has developed a sense of wanderlust.
He wants to travel the world, doesn’t he?
Yes, but there is an obvious problem. He is the only builder in the Base.
So, he’s actually working on something to alleviate the situation.
So we have a new building called the O.T.T.O Hut.
You unlock it in Builder Hall 9.
You have to level it up before you unlock O.T.T.O,
the Master Builder’s latest invention.
You do so by completing some requirements.
The upgrade system is a bit different from what we’ve seen before.
You don’t use resources, but you use prerequisites.
So a certain number of... I guess quests have to be fulfilled.
Sort of. It includes upgrading some things to the max level.
Once you unlock O.T.T.O, he’ll be the second builder in the Builder Base.
So you’ll have two.
The Master Builder can then travel to the Home Village.
And, if you want, you can move him there to become the sixth builder
if you have five builders already.
And if you later want to move him back, you can do that as well.
He is the laziest of them all:
he can be moved as long as you have one builder free.
So he’s the last builder to get to work.
Another thing that we’re adding to this update
is a brand new training mode for the main village.
How does that work?
We added a practice mode into the main attack menu.
Once you tap on the attack button, you see three options instead of two.
In addition to the multiplayer and Goblin map, you have a practice mode.
In it, there are levels for each Town Hall level
that will teach you how to do
different attack strategies and troop compositions.
The troops are premade, so you don’t need to spend resources to make them.
And there are two different modes to do the practice mode.
So we have a practice mode, which basically holds your hand,
walks you through an attack strategy
with the exact deployment timings, locations and all that jazz.
Then we have a free mode where you can take the army that we’ll give you
and do whatever you want.
The idea behind this is that
when you unlock a troop, when you upgrade the Town Hall
and you don’t know how to use it,
this is the perfect opportunity to practice new attack strategies,
even see how some of the heroes might respond under certain situations.
So the final topic that we want to mention in this update video
is some upcoming content for the main village.
We’ve got new Troop levels for Town Hall 12,
new Hero levels for Town Hall 12, new Building levels for Town Hall 12,
and new Spell levels for Town Hall 11 and 12 with a couple of Spell reworks.
Yes, the Spell reworks are Earthquake Spell.
Now when you level it up, you get a bigger radius.
And then the other rework is Skeleton Spell.
The skeletons spawned from it have armor. They are a bit more durable.
You have to remove the armor to kill the skeleton.
On top of that, we’re introducing a new Magic Item.
- Lab potion. - Exactly.
- It speeds up your lab by what? 10x? - Yes.
- For up to an hour? - Yes.
Something that the community has long been asking for.
We’re finally adding it to the game.
We have some new challenge types in the Season Challenges.
- And then finally... - This is a good one.
We are enabling layout sharing through a deep link.
So if you’re a content creator, if you want people to use your layouts,
you can now generate a link from a village layout
and then share it with anyone.
This is great for those who host websites showing base layouts.
Where before, it was such a manual process to do that.
We helped automate and streamline it to aid people to share their layouts.
This still applies to other use cases as well.
If you want to send your layout to your friend
and he’s not in the same clan, you can now just share a link
and they can download the layout.
All right, Clashers, that’s all we have
for this part one of two for the June Update Dev videos.
Stay tuned for the next one,
when we talk about the Legend League rework.
Until then. See you next time, guys!