Tune up and get ready for the Phobie-wrangling event of the summer, Rockin’ Horrors!
Our newest release will have you battling to the beat and mastering new abilities to amplify your strategies. Here’s a look at the lineup for this fearsome festival:
Additions
Phobies
- 8 new Phobies hit the stage:
- Skinwalker hides an unstoppable alternate form when you unleash its immortal fury!
- Skinwalker will be available exclusively through a special offer until July 24th. Players can obtain this new monster in card packs after that date.
- Benny is a weird and wonderful addition to the band - a new key of 3 ranged attacker with resurrect!
- Good luck stayin’ alive against Tri-Volta, with its electrical damage and ability to remove an action from all surrounding dancers!
- Drum roll, please - Whiskers detects traps and absorbs any that are present on the tile it stands upon!
- Ride high with Sabian and watch it slice and dice the opposition with AOE damage!
- Ace wants to rock and roll all night and clobber every day, with its hard hitting electrical fists!
- Omega brings chaos to the battlefield with a ranged attack buff that affects all friends and foes!
- Ash can pull friendly Phobies out of harm’s way or into position for a well-timed attack!
- Skinwalker hides an unstoppable alternate form when you unleash its immortal fury!
Portraits
- 4 new portraits have been added to the game:
- For the first time, portraits can be earned as awards in our upcoming event!
- Glam Rock Vendy , Omega, and Ace are up for grabs as event rewards.
- Skinwalker can be purchased in Vendy’s shop.
Maps
- 5 new maps will enter the rotation:
- Watch your step on Another One Bites the Dust, a large map featuring plenty of pits to avoid.
- Chapeltown is a large map, with plenty of Tainted Ground. Gather those Mechanical Phobies!
- Muso Meia features Diseased Ground on a large map.
- Toys in the Attic is a small map, focusing on Conveyors and Tainted Ground.
- Conveyors also feature on Dark Sarcasm, a small map.
Home Screen
- Testing, 1-2-3: Vendy is ready to rock with a special look to celebrate the new release!
Event: Heavy Metal
- Enjoy an all-new 4-week event centered around your favorite Mechanical Phobies.
- For the first time, users in the normal and VIP track will have the opportunity to earn new, exclusive portraits as rewards!
- Look for the event to launch on June 27th.
Balancing Updates
- In our continued commitment to create fair and interesting matches across the entire Phobies roster, we’ve made some balance changes to some of the existing Phobies.
- Attractor
- Increased ability cooldown from 1 to 2.
- Bad Sushi
- Removed ability cooldown.
- Blondie
- Increased health from 2,500 to 2,800.
- Blue
- Increased damage debuff from 300 to 325.
- Bluelien
- Decreased health from 1,800 to 1,600.
- Brutewurst
- Increased disease effect from 350 to 400.
- The Collector
- Increased movement from 1 to 2.
- CottonTale
- Increased pack attack bonus from 125 to 150.
- Increased health from 500 to 600.
- Fantome
- Decreased ability range from 3 to 2.
- Fleshcrawler
- Increased health from 2,000 to 2,300.
- Increased damage from 450 to 500.
- Flopsy
- Increased pack attack bonus from 125 to 150.
- Increased health from 500 to 600.
- Hoovey
- Increased attack from 500 to 600.
- Jackalope King
- Increased pack attack bonus from 125 to 200.
- Increased health from 800 to 1,000.
- Mike Roscopic
- Increased health from 900 to 950.
- Minotaur
- Increased health from 1,400 to 1,500.
- Mopsy
- Increased pack attack bonus from 125 to 150.
- Increased health from 500 to 600.
- Ogre
- Increased health from 1,700 to 2,000.
- Russell
- Increased health from 1,600 to 1,700.
- Increased damage from 500 to 600.
- Tiny Tim
- Increased damage from 500 to 525.
- Zappy
- Increased electricity effect from 300 to 350.
- Attractor
Fixes
Audio
- Performed an overall mix pass of in-game sound effects to better balance volume against one another.
Phobies
- Fixed an issue that could cause the damage modifier text on Ogre’s card to break during an upgrade.
- Fixed a potential crash that could be caused by moving Glob onto an enemy Glob that was occupying a panic point.
Stability
- Fixed some potential causes of game crashes and desyncs.
When this epic show is over, what will we do for an encore?
Happy battling,
The Phobies Team