Community Happenings - First on Discord?

Minion Masters!

The new Battle Pass Season 3 is around the corner, as we will end the current season one week early. Reason for that decision is the fast approaching Discord launch, where Minion Masters will be "First on Discord" for the fair price of free.

Guardians of the Crystal Spire

While we are still in the process of revealing the upcoming Battle Pass Season 3 - Guardians of the Crystal Spire, the Battle Pass Hype website is already showing first card art & new emotes! We can't go into any more details at this very moment, but we can tell you that we have exciting changes in the pipeline for the upcoming Battle Pass Season 3. 

Stay tuned and watch out for announcements on Discord, Reddit, Steam & the Battle Pass Hype website.

First on Discord for the fair price of FREE

The next indicator of the Discord launch approaching fast is a blog post by Discord, published yesterday. The blog post features games that are part of the "First on Discord" program and Minion Masters is part of it! If we spotted that right, there's even a new trailer ;)

Please note that the Discord launch is not a release for Minion Masters! The game will stay in Early Access until its official release early 2019 on PC & Xbox One.

Exciting weeks ahead!

2018 will be truly legendary and - as it seems - we can safely rename October to Legendober. With the Discord launch approaching, the new Battle Pass Season 3 around the corner (we scheduled the new season to start on October 8th), and lots of exciting new features in the pipeline, we are just as hyped as you are!

Today's blog post was not intended to be very long, but it was intended to contain how grateful we are to get to work with such an amazingly dedicated & engaged community. All that's coming wouldn't be possible without you. Thanks from all the Dwarves for all your support, engagement, dedication and - especially - your patience!

Cheers from BetaDwarf

Update 77

Minion Masters!

Recent updates focused on bringing bigger changes and even new content in form of a new game mode to the game. We also overhauled player lobbies and the in-game shop. Today, we want to focus on Quality of Life features such as deck naming, more deck slots, an emote selector, reworked skyboxes, and lighting while we prepare for the Discord launch.

We also want to let you know that the server downtime will be a bit longer than usual, as we have to run, update & upgrade quite a few things to prepare for a stress test on Sunday, September 30th starting at 16:00 UTC, as well as the Discord launch later on. Unfortunately, we do not have any estimated downtime at this moment. For more information about the stress test, please see our latest blog post.

Deck naming
Deck naming is here! You can now give your decks a name of up to 16 characters, and get organized. Try new tactics, have a deck for each day, you do you! It is now more convenient than ever to take advantage of all the deck slots you have.
Note: Only you can see your deck name.

Emote selection

• New Emote Selection tool! Select up to 8 emotes to have on hand at any time in a game. This should help with the issue of our towering emote box. 
• To select your emotes, go to the Master select screen under the “emotes” tab to edit your new emote wheel. 
• We’ve also enabled a Hotkey for this new system you can use in-game - Just press Y and try it out!

Better skyboxes

• Improved skyboxes and lighting! We’ve touched up the existing effects you see in-game to make them that much nicer.

Misc

• We’ve added deck slots to the shop rotation. You can buy 6 slots (one page) for 1.200 Rubies, but you can expect juicy discounts! While you can only buy a single offer once, you can buy deck slot offers repeatedly as they occur. There is no limitation to how many deck slots you can have.
• The notification icon has been redone to be more visible and make more sense. Also, you will now get notifications when there’s a new Mayhem available.
• Arenas now have rarities.

Bugs

• Fixed a bug where 2v2 queues in a lobby could not be cancelled.
• Fixed an error in the description text for the Guardian.
• Fixed an error in the Soul Steal animation and its projectile.
• Fixed a bug where the Daily Quest reward would not be given.
• Fixed a bug when managing avatar whilst queuing for 2v2 - thanks Memfisto!
• Fixed a bug that would keep avatars from updating on the menu while queuing until a match starts - thanks Memfisto!
• Fixed an issue where the illustration and frame for next card in the deck would not align.
• Fixed a bug that would keep skin selection from updating while queuing.
• Fixed an issue with Settsu’s take-off animation.
• Fixed an issue with the Avatar window resizing when it should not.
• Fixed an issue where the shop menu was impossible to exit - thanks Vango!
• Fixed Avatars in the Level Reward screen that were displayed as square when they should be round.
• Fixed a bug where Ravenous Swarmers could be split by the Master Tower when summoned with the cursor on the Tower - thanks Daddy Dip!
• Fixed a bug where Re-Boomer wouldn’t die properly from Gor’Rakk Sacrifice.
• Fixed a bug where stunning attacks would not reveal Assassin - thanks Truteo!
• Fixed a bug where the notification that a new Expedition is available would stay visible even after the expedition panel has been opened.
• Fixed a bug where Re-Boomer would resurrect right before it takes damage repeatedly - thanks miqdevil!
• Fixed a bug where the summoning animations for minions of the other team would not be displayed - thanks Daddy Dip!
• Fixed a bug that would display the “Incorrect Data” error after a 2v2 match.
• Fixed a bug where Assassin would not be revealed when attacking, and would deal critical damage on every attack - thanks Khazlariko!
• Fixed some issues with the newsletter rewards.

Cheers from BetaDwarf

Somebody asked for news on the Discord launch?

Minion Masters!

Blog post on a Wednesday? Has to be important, right? Well, we had a great Dwarf stream yesterday, thanks for watching everyone. We also had an important message to spread and since we know that not all of you can make it to the stream and/or watch the VOD in time, we decided to repeat the message here on our blog.

It's getting serious, Masters!

We’re happy to announce huge progress regarding the Discord store! The Discord launch is fast approaching and we need to get the servers ready for loads of new players. Unfortunately, we cannot talk about specifics such as exact dates and times at this moment, but we can share with you that we will make a massive stress test starting Sunday, September 30th at 16:00 UTC. This stress test will run until 21:00 UTC on the same day. The aim is to test our servers and we'd love every single one of you to join.

There will be a little incentive for those of you who are willing to dedicate a bit of time on a Sunday. The stress test comes with two special quests exclusive to this time period:

1. Win 3 games for 3000 Gold
2. Win 6 Games for a special emote

We will also invite a massive amount of new players to the test and it is likely that these people continue to play after the test is done. Give them a nice and warm welcome ;)

Update: we might want to decide to let the stress test run for a longer time period than intended. We will keep you updated on that subject as soon as we have a final decision from all involved parties.

Battle Pass Season 2 ends early!

On another front, we're trying to make the new experience fit as well as possible for new players on Discord launch. Aligning the Battle Pass Seasons is an obvious step towards that goal. It'd just feel bad for new players to join the game and find a Battle Pass with - probably - only a few days left to progress through. To that end, we're ending the current Battle Pass Season about a week early on October 8th. 

Of course, this means you have less time to grind that sweet Battle Pass XP and you need to reach the end right? We thought about that and decided to start a special quest that gives you 12 Battle Pass tiers for just winning 12 times! This quest will start with Update 77 and runs until the end of the season.

The new Battle Pass Season 3 is scheduled to start on October 8th. Remember to check the teaser website for details, lots will be revealed tomorrow!

Speaking of Update 77

With the Discord launch fast approaching and us needing to prepare, Update 77 took more work than originally planned. We need to test server infrastructure and a few other things came up, so we are unsure if we can release today as planned or if we need to delay the update until tomorrow. Please watch out for announcements on Discord, Reddit & Steam regarding that.

On a sidenote: the server downtime will be longer than usual due to various updates & upgrades on our side. Thanks for your understanding in advance!

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That's all for today, Masters! We're looking forward to seeing you on Sunday to make our servers crash and the Dwarves in the office sweat. Thanks for being awesome!

Cheers from BetaDwarf

Minion Master's Monday - Quality of Life changes with Update 77

Minion Masters!
Last Friday, we already talked about upcoming 'Quality of Life' features in Update 77 such as deck naming & more deck slots. Today, we want to take a closer look at the features coming to Minion Masters on Wednesday, September 26th!

Choose your emotes, Masters!

With more and emotes coming into the game, the emote box takes more and more space. To prevent the box from covering essential parts of the screen at some point, we think it is time to implement a system that lets you choose the emotes you really want to use in matches. We call it the "Emote Selector" internally.

This Wednesday, we will implement this selector. The functionality is quite simple: you click on your Master on the main screen, select the tab "Emotes" via the user interface and start selecting your emotes. A simple click on the emote you want, followed by a click on a slot in the selector is all it takes. For now, we limit the number of possible emotes in a match to 8, but you can change the selected emotes anytime you want!

Yes, that's all there is to it! Now, the way is clear for tons of new emotes, right?

New skyboxes!

We already mentioned this a week ago: we're working on new skyboxes! Today's update on that subject is that said skyboxes will get implemented with Update 77! While this might not be a potential hype message, it'll make the game even more beautiful. What's a skybox anyway? Well, a skybox is a panoramic texture shown behind all other objects, often used to represent the sky. Anyway, you know it's coming and as you can see on the screenshot above, That Sprite is already collecting screenshots, possibly for the patch breakdown video and/or before/after comparisons.

Deck naming & more deck slots!

Let's talk about deck slots first: we will start offering deck slots via the in-game shop with Update 77. These offers will be part of the shop offer rotation so there might be times without any deck slots available. If they become available though, you'll have the chance to grab 6 slots for 1.200 Rubies - offered with juicy discounts ;)

Now, deck naming was already our topic last Friday. To make it short, you'll be able to name your decks after Update 77, as you can see in the screenshot above. There will be a character limit of 16 including spaces! This will make organizing your various decks easier and also adds to the level of QoL, overall. 

Don't miss out on the Dwarves!

Finally, two weeks passed by and we can start our next Dwarf stream on Tuesday, September 25th at 18:00 UTC on our official Twitch channel! Of course, you do follow the channel already, don't you?

Professional Bug Buster That Sprite & Community Manager Erythais will welcome you on stream, talk about Update 77, competitive news, internal news & other important stuff you should know. Speaking of important stuff: UncleOwnage leaked quite a lot during our last Dwarf stream. That Sprite & Erythais got inspired and will try to follow this up ;)

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That's all for today, Masters! We're looking forward to seeing you tomorrow live on stream and wish every single one of you a great start to the week.

Cheers from BetaDwarf

Community Happenings - We heard something about Quality of Life?

Minion Masters!

We had a rather quiet week, where we focused on hotfixing some nasty issues prior to next week's Update 77. We had some crazy updates lately, which brought a lot of balance changes, feature reworks, and even a new game mode. With that being said, let's take a brief look at a special feature of the upcoming update for Minion Masters!

User feedback on https://www.stomt.com/minionmasters

#TripleWizardsFTW ft. Prowler <3

What's that headline? Is it about PakoMANIAC? Will he host a tournament that only allows Triple Wizard Puff decks that also contain a Prowler? While this would make sense, it isn't. It's more about deck building and QoL while doing so.

Deck slots are always wanted. While some players have problems to fill up the existing 18 deck slots, others cannot wait to get more, finally. Another issue is that with up to 18 slots at the moment, organizing these decks isn't very easy. Currently, decks are only indicated by a single picture of the highest card. Having five decks with Living Statue as the highest card, for instance, doesn't make remembering the exact decklist any easier. Clicking them through to see the complete decklist isn't really the definition of 'Quality of Life', either. Would be sweet to name them, wouldn't it?

We think so, too! And that's why we decided to implement a feature to make it possible to name your decks with Update 77! While this is not the biggest feature ever implemented, it is certainly a huge QoL boost.

Now, with all that being said, there are still no additional deck slots in the game, right? Twelve by default and an additional six in the Premium Upgrade. Need more deck slots? There you go, Masters! We will also implement more deck slots for you next Wednesday. Want to know all the dirty details? Watch out for our Monday blog post ;)

Can't wait until Monday to get details? Here are two facts about deck naming: your deck needs to be full in order to name it, however, removing a card will not erase the name of the deck. Also, deck names can be 16 characters long including spaces.

This week on Reddit

Do you remember the last time we featured content from raqyee on our blog? Yea, it was back when he published a Volco deck guide on Steam. After that, we mentioned him related to the Drone Force One becoming the Harbinger with Update 72. This week on Reddit, however, we spotted a post from him. At first, it seemed like a simple balance suggestion regarding the Harbinger. Turns out: there is far more to it. We enjoyed the post so much, we wanted to share it with all of you.

When reading the post and comparing the proposed stat changes with the former Drone Force One, we can see how much raqyee still misses the old spaceship.

Thank you for the entertaining post @raqyee & we hope to see more exciting content on Reddit from you, Masters!

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That's all for today. On Monday, we will have a more detailed look at Update 77 in preparation for the Dwarf stream next Tuesday at 18:00 UTC live on Twitch!

Have a nice weekend everyone & cheers from BetaDwarf

Minion Master's Monday - What are you doing, Dwarves?

Minion Masters!

Now that Update 76 is live since last Wednesday and we fixed a few nasty bugs in recent hotfixes, we are looking forward to Update 77, which is scheduled for Wednesday, September 26th if everything goes to plan. The content included in Update 77 is not set in stone yet, that's why we want to have a brief look at features we are currently working on, in general.

Cause some Mayhem with your friends

We do not have any release date at the very moment, but we are indeed working on Mayhem 2vs2! Many players do like the game mode a lot & naturally, the requests for a 2vs2 mode in Mayhem have arisen. We can't share any details or even previews yet, but we will make sure to show you what we have once the feature is closer to completion.

Select the Emotes you really want to use

With more and more emotes getting added to Minion Masters, the box to select your emotes from during matches gets quite big. Just imagine what would happen if we decide to add 20 new emotes at once. Anyway, to prevent the box covering large areas of the screen at some point, we are working on a simple feature called 'Emote Selector'. This little feature will make it so that you can select a number of emotes (not set in stone yet) to use during matches, adjustable at any time via the Masters/Arenas/Avatars selection menu.

Referral System

We teased that a long time ago, but priorities changed often and a lot during this year! We finally found the time to work on a feature to reward you for bringing in your friends & we are looking forward to finishing it soon™-ish. Maybe even as soon as Update 77?

Better skyboxes

Last but not least, we are working on better skyboxes! This is indeed not the biggest feature or change, but a cooler skybox is needed if you ask us. What's a skybox anyway? Well, a skybox is a panoramic texture shown behind all other objects, often used to represent the sky. 

Edelweiss' Free For All tournament

Edelweiss hosted his very first tournament last Saturday. In a little talk with him after the tournament, he said "It was very fun and amazing", which might indicate that we see more tournaments presented by Edelweiss in the future. Better to ask himself for any confirmation, though ;)

13 participants were fighting in Best of 3 matches, single elimination. We saw a lot of rather unknown names in the tournament scene, but also some veterans such as Dirion, ecke, and Grey Wolf. We don't want to give the show away and instead recommend you to watch the VOD right over here!

Congratulations to all participants and thanks for participating! Special thanks to Edelweiss for hosting the tournament, That Sprite for co-casting it & all the viewers for watching.

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That's all for today, Masters! We wish every one of you a good start to the week, as well as the best of luck on the flying arenas.

Cheers from BetaDwarf

Minion Master's Monday - Scott's crying again...

Minion Masters!

A new week, a new blog post, and... a new update waiting to be deployed on Wednesday, September 12th if everything goes to plan. The update will contain - amongst other exciting stuff - Player Avatars and balance changes.

Who needs buffs, when there are nerfs?

Scott, our sensitive savage, is crying again. As you can see on the picture above, a sheer horde of Crossbow Dudes is shooting at him. He has no time to think about the fact that his damage has been reduced because he needs healing. Normally, he would have been looking for a Healing Shrine, because even if he is in enemy territory already, the range of these buildings was large enough, often. But things change as it seems, and all Scott can spot is a Healing Shrine out of range on the other side of the bridge he just crossed.

Now, you might think that things cannot get any worse for Scott, but you're mistaken, unfortunately. While he can see a Guardian coming his way, he also recognizes daggers raining from the sky. The Guardian is already damaged, but Scott estimates that he is very soon close enough to the Healing Shrine, which will heal the Guardian, protected from any harm by the Guardian's shield. Scott has no chance but watching in disbelieve how the Healing Shrine got destroyed by the daggers, while the Guardian only received little restoration.

Scott looks up in the sky, thinking about how much damage he could have caused to the enemy tower. Reduced or not, he knows that he is still capable of causing serious harm. The Guardian is still alive, maybe he can reach still reach him in time, and prevent his otherwise certain death. "Please no..." is all Scott can think as he hears a little noise right in front of him. He realizes quickly what that means: the Assassin arrived on the battlefield. You can't see them and they hurt a lot when attacking you out of nowhere. Scott heard rumors that they recently got new weapons.

C-SAR would have been said that "AoE is the best". Scott is unsure if he did or not, as he was unable to hear anything else than the Guardian stomping behind him and a cracking sound near him. The Crossbow Dudes got electrocuted and the Assassin revealed by a Chain Lightning. But wait? Is the Assassin unable to move? He was unsure, as the Assassin was moving towards him in the blink of an eye later. Scott was finally protected by the Guardian and stopped crying. Out of nowhere, a sragon flew past them and Scott was asking himself how fast these little dragon can get.

A few moments later, Scott, protected by the Guardian and supported by a lightning-fast Xiao Long, got rid of the Assassin. On the other side of the arena, a Harbinger was tearing apart a Defenso Chopper, but Scott estimated that the Bounty Sniper would kill the Harbinger and get to work to shoot at the enemy tower Scott just arrived at...

While Minions have no idea about XP, the Bounty Sniper will trigger his Bounty with every shot at the enemy tower. The Chain Lightning stunned the Assassin for a short duration, indeed. And Xiao Long was much faster. Seems like Scott can see quite a lot while crying like a little baby. We hope that this short story pleased you while discovering the new, planned balance changes.

Without further talks, here are all the mentioned balance changes in an overview:

• Scott, The Sensitive Savage
• Damage down from 75 to 65
• Healing Shrine
• Range reduced from 10 to 8
• Healing per second reduced from 75 to 50
• Guardian
• No longer capable of protecting buildings other than the Master tower
• Xiao Long
• Movement speed up from 4 to 7
• Harbinger
• Radius reduced from 1800 to 1400
• Assassin
• Damage up from 60 to 70
• Chain Lightning
• Added a mini-stun so that 'Lightning' always stuns
• Duration = 0.5 seconds
• Bounty Sniper
• Additionally triggers bounty now when hitting Master towers

Now, we have one more change, we want to talk separately. It's a change we cannot test in-house only and want to test it with you, therefore.

A while ago we told you that we will look more into 2vs2 and thus several changes can be expected. While we are working "behind the scenes" on several aspects regarding 2vs2, we want to do a little experiment.

• Master health points in 2vs2
• Reduced from 4000 to 3000

This change will bring 2vs2 on the same level HP-wise as 1vs1. While this might sound counter-intuitive at first sight, it opens up far better balance decisions and speeds up the duo matches. Most 2vs2 games tend to go to Perk 3 or even Mana Frenzy, according to our data. That hinders aggressive playstyles drastically, and also affects certain Masters more than others. Additionally, it prevents certain cards from being played at all. The change to the total health is not set in stone, meaning that we are open to adjusting/reverting it if the data gathered on the live server points towards it. Take it as an Early Access experiment and give us constructive feedback on the known channels plus STOMT.

Dwarf stream incoming!

Puh, this blog post is getting quite lengthy, isn't it? Fortunately, we have a far better way to answer all of your questions regarding Update 76, Player Avatars, and more than just reading a blog post! Tomorrow, September 11th at 18:00 UTC, That Sprite & Erythais will be live on Twitch streaming for you again & this time the special guest is nobody else than Mr. African Safari UncleOwnage. He will be assisting us in providing you with all the information about Update 76 and we cannot stress enough how ready he is to leak upcoming features regarding Battle Pass Season 3, as well as improvements such as the changes to Player Lobbies. Sorry Uncle, but I needed to leak that myself :P

And while at it, improvements to the Player Lobbies will make it so that you can browse menus while in a lobby, change your decks without leaving the lobby and much more! Came to our ears that some of you asked for that...

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That's all for today, Masters! We're looking forward to seeing you tomorrow live on stream and maybe even meeting you on the flying arenas. Have a nice start to the week and use that Healing Shrine while it lasts :P

Cheers from Betadwarf

Community Happenings - Avatars for you, Masters!

Minion Masters!

On Monday, we talked about several bullet points. We mentioned upcoming features, mainly - but not exclusively - planned for September. Update 76 is scheduled for Wednesday, September 12th and one feature is something we want to talk specifically about.

Player Avatars are coming to Minion Masters!

Player avatars will be new, collectible vanity items, replacing the Steam avatars in-game. There is a lot of reasoning behind that decision, but let us first talk about how these avatars will be available in-game.

Basically, new players will start out with 14 default avatars. More avatars will be available through leveling up, as rewards from the Battle Pass, via the in-game shop, and more! Avatars available via level-up rewards will come on top of existing rewards, so nothing gets removed or changed. Now, for our existing players, 14 avatars is too little. Even with the level-up rewards you likely already have, we wanted something more for you.

To have some variety in player avatars as soon as Update 76 hits, every existing player of Minion Masters will receive 14 avatars! These avatars will be available in the shop in the future, but you get them earlier and for free! All avatars will be of common and rare rarity and this will be the only two tiers for now. You will be able to choose freely which avatar to use via the Master selection menu. Now, we still didn't talk about the reasons. Let's look at some of them:

• The Steam policies for avatars are not where we want them to be. While everyone can report other Steam users for their avatars to the Steam support, the actions taken are sometimes not pleasant enough. We have no influence about which visual material is allowed to enter the game or not. And we will just not allow racialistic, pornographic or other offensive material.
• The visual coherency is a focus of ours, as you already know. Having avatars that fit into this coherent picture we have about Minion Masters is just a next, logical step.
• Making cross-platform avatars work on multiple platforms is just not fun and quite resource intense. Simplifying that under our own banner makes sense. Player avatars are thus a needed change for the Discord and Steam version but will come in handy once the Xbox One version is ready to be released.

While there are more reasons behind it we wanted to highlight these to you, and of course, if you have any questions just ask us!

Get ready for the reveals!

We set up a website specifically for Battle Pass reveals. Periodically (indicated by the timer), you'll find reveals about the Battle Pass seasons right over here!

It's gonna get magical and the periodic reveals will help you slowly understand what's going on with Battle Pass Season 3 and as a special goodie, there will also be lore ;) So stay tuned and bookmark that website to not miss out on a single detail!

How does 'Free For All' sound?

While the King Puff Cup takes a break and prepares everything for the new season, some Masters do not want to wait for new competitive events. One of these Masters, Edelweiss, therefore chose to host his first own tournament called "Free For All". The name of the tournament describes quite accurately what you can expect: no sticking to pre-submitted decks, no banned Wild cards, no bannings in general... everything's allowed and you can bring whatever deck you like to play.

Besides easy rules, no participant will go home with empty hands! Here's what the prize pool will be looking like:

• Winner rewards: Dynasty Milloween Skin, Mega Dwarf Pack (25 Tokens + 500 Rubies + 5000 Gold)
• 2nd place: Big Dwarf Pack + 2x Dwarf Pack (21 Power Tokens + 300 Rubies + 3000 Gold)
• 3rd place: Big Dwarf Pack (15 Power Tokens + 300 Rubies)
• 4th place: Double Dwarf Pack (6 Power Tokens + 3000 Gold)
• All other participants: Dwarf Pack (3 Power Tokens + 1500 Gold)

The Free For All tournament will take place on September 15th at 13:00 UTC! Edelweiss will stream the tournament live on Twitch and is still looking for some helping hands. His contact information, the rules, and the sign-up information can be found in the official announcement over here. 

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That's all for today, Masters! Next week, we will look into Update 76 in more detail. On Monday we'll have the blog post prior to Update 76 with lots of information, followed by Tuesday's Dwarf stream with UncleOwnage being in the best mood to leak whatever comes to his mind. Have a nice weekend, Masters!

Cheers from BetaDwarf

Minion Master's Monday - Invitational Winners & a busy September

Minion Masters!

With September starting out, we have a lot of things in the pipeline. We're currently working towards a potential Discord store launch at any point in the September/October area, but that doesn't stop us from bringing new features, content, and 'Quality of Life' improvements to Minion Masters. But first...

The old champion is the new champion!

Yes, he did it again! Memfisto won the 3rd King Puff Invitational and is thus the only player so far winning two season finals in a row. Congratulations on that outstanding performance from BetaDwarf Entertainment! In a little talk a while after the KPI #3 live stream, Memfisto wanted to make sure that his coach gets mentioned, as well. Neo alias smncub is coaching and supporting Memfisto and thus one of the people behind the scenes helping to make the success possible.

But we do not want to forget everyone else after rank one, right? boxes lost in the grand finals, after a full Best of 5 set, to Memfisto with 2:3. Being 2nd in such a high-level tournament is an outstanding performance, as well! The grand finals turned out to be pretty close games and the end result further underlines that. Congratulations boxes!

Videogamer77 managed to beat Zgriptor 3-0 in the match for rank three. Interestingly, Zgriptor managed to beat Videogamer77 back in the group stage. Maybe Videogamer77 was still a bit sleepy back then? Or he just found a way to deal with little Dragons, finally. Congrats to both of them!

Before we send you over to watch the official VOD, here's the 3rd King Puff Invitational's Top 8:

1. Memfisto
2. boxes
3. Videogamer77
4. Zgriptor
5. ICN_RushSecond
6. NuclearGoo
7. TerraReveene
8. Julaiwnl

As we said, here's the official VOD of the 3rd King Puff Invitational! We can only recommend watching the whole show, as the matches are amazing no matter if it was still the group stage or the final stage.

Before we change topics, we want to shout-out special thanks to RushSecond. He officially announced his retirement from competitive Minion Masters shortly after the 3rd King Puff Invitational finished. Thanks RushSecond for a great time, watching you play, watching you win the 1st King Puff Invitational and just having you around! We wish you nothing but the very best for whatever you're looking forward to in your life.

New stuff on the horizon!

Dwarves are known for working tirelessly. If we look into some fantasy movies, for instance, we can safely assume that things like the Mines of Moria were surely not built in a day nor with a modern 8h working day schedule, free weekends included. While game development is not exactly building the Mines of Moria, a bit of "working tirelessly" doesn't hurt. Today's gaming industry is more fast-paced than ever and gamers want to be entertained with ever-new content, features, and improvements.

Where shall we start? We have multiple cards on the balance radar, including - but not exclusively -  Xiao Long, Healing Shrine, and Guardian.

We are working on more stuff to do in the game, such as collecting vanity items & gathering login bonuses. Rewarding you for referring friends does sound alright, doesn't it? Social features were teased a while ago, but we did not forget about it ;)

Shop 2.0 launched with Update 75 and we received a lot of feedback from you guys. That's why you will see further improvements based on said feedback in September's future updates. Mayhem is also on the radar, as we received a lot of feedback here, as well. Do you still want to jump right into the Mayhem with a friend?

Emotes are another story we are looking into. With more and more Emotes being added to Minion Masters, the Emote box in matches gets kinda crowded. Selecting Emotes you really want would be a sweet thing, right? Several other QoL improvements are in the pipeline also.

While this is only a vague overview lacking in-depth details, we will provide further insights over the course of the nest weeks. A first start will be made live on Twitch next Tuesday when That Sprite & Erythais will be having UncleOwnage as a guest on the Dwarf stream! You can safely look forward to a lot of answered questions from the chat, insights on bullet points we mentioned here, and leaks!

Update: UncleOwnage wants to make sure to start leaking prior to him being live on stream next week! He mentioned that Player Avatars are coming to Minion Masters.

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That's all for today, Masters! We do not want to take more time away from Erythais' birthday today, do we? Have a great start to the week everyone, as well as all the fun in the world on the flying arenas.

Cheers from BetaDwarf