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Welcome to the long awaited Badlion ArenaPvP Season 15! It has been a long and difficult road, but we have finally arrived at our final destination: The most kick ass Badlion ArenaPvP Season ever! The #BringBackELO #MakeBadlionGreatAgain and #Badlion2.0 are all here and now! Without further ado let's dive straight into the huge set of patch notes!

A lot of these features are new compared to season 13/14 but are old features remastered from season 12 or earlier.

Return of The ELO

The image says it all! ELO has returned to us! As previously discussed ELO is going to be the basis for the rating system in season 15. We have removed points/divisions but kept tiers. You gain and lose ELO like you did in Season 1-12 (minus Season 5). Hello +16 my old friend, we meet at again at last.

New Matchmaker!

The first time you play a ranked match on ArenaPvP in Season 15 it will prompt you to pick your matchmaking preference! You can either choose slow matchmaking or fast matchmaking.

Fast Matchmaking - Pairs you against the first player it can find for you to fight.
Slow Matchmaking - Tries to find nearby players (ELO) for you to fight against. Slowly expands to allow for a further match possibilities.

The choice is yours! You change this setting anytime in the setting item or by using the settings clock in your inventory!

A World United

All Chat is now shared between the servers in the same region! This is an even larger improvement compare to season 12 where the chat used to be across 4 different servers for each region.

See all chat across all of the Arena Lobbies in the same region

/list now properly encompasses all of the Arena Lobbies in the same region

See staff on the 1.8 Tab List who are available/online

We might also add the option to allow users to see lobby chat in game if they opt for it. By default we will keep the match chat the way it is right now though.

BAC Badge

Want to prove you are legit? Now is your chance! Play with the brand new Badlion Client with our state of the art client anticheat known as BAC. If you play enough matches with the Badlion Client you will earn the BAC badge on the leaderboards. No better way to prove you are the best than with the BAC badge. You can also earn 10 extra ranked matches every day you use the Badlion Client on ArenaPvP. How awesome is that?

Skywars from above!

The popular game mode Skywars is now once again features on ArenaPvP in Season 15! This feature/ladder was removed originally in season 13 as it was not popular enough in season 12. We have heard your cries from below. You wanted it back, so you, the players, shall get what you have requested! Bridge across the islands to your opponent and either slay them or throw them into the void.

LMS is back!

The first and original event from Badlion's ArenaPvP (back then called PotPvP) system, Last Man Standing. Spawn into a massive arena with a single life. Last man standing wins. It's the ultimate all out frenzy FFA match.

When you kill someone you get a free kit reload. You are not healed though, so make sure to keep an eye on your health at all times!

WAR is back!

Originally a fast hack job into the party system that I made back in Season 2 eventually became a very popular event on ArenaPvP. Two gigantic groups of players going out in all out war against each other. Last team standing wins. Countless hours of gameplay poured into this gamemode and it now returns!

Lion+ players (or legacy Donator+/Lion Lifetime) can once again trigger this event to kick off with a certain kit. There can only be a maximum of two WAR’s running at the same time per region. This should make it so players don’t get spread too thin.

Are you ready for the 50v50 action? Only time will tell.

Redrover Returns!

Redrover, originally a community made game mode on ArenaPvP now returns as an official game mode! The concept of Redrover is quite simple. Two teams of face off against each other. Each team nominates one player to fight. Winner fights the next player from the opposing team. The loser is eliminated. Each player can only be used one time. When all players are exhausted from one team they lose.

The major difference compared to how this worked in season 12 is that the winner keeps their health/hunger/existing kit at the end of the match. They do not get a fresh kit. They do not get a heal. This will make the games more interesting and less snowbally.

We can’t wait to see players enjoy this classic game mode once more on ArenaPvP.

Party FFA is FFA again!

What does FFA stand for? FFA stands for Free for all. Well you can’t have a free for all if EVERYONE SPAWNS ON THE SAME SPOTS! #BlameSmelly. We have fixed Party FFA in Season 15 to have multiple spawn points on the maps again like they did in season 12. Last man standing wins.

It’s super easy to use! Just create a party with your friends and then use the /party ffa command. As a reminder Youtube/Twitch/Famous/Famous+ players have access to larger Party FFA’s.

Party Browser!

The Party Browser is back and better than ever! It actually works now (something we never got fixed even back in season 12). You can view other parties when in a party to play against.

You can also now recruit players into your party by using the /party open [#] command. Recruit players to come play with you as you try to queue up for 2v2 or 3v3 gameplay or want to do a Party FFA. Other players can join your party when you open it up to the public!

Spleef!

SPEEEEEEF! I don’t know what else to say here. It’s just that awesome. Given a shovel and a bow try to make your opponent fall into the void while not falling yourself. A classic Minecraft game mode featured on Badlion in the past has now returned to us! Compatible with both duels and Party FFA’s. Knock some noobs into the void today!

Unranked Ladder Changes

We are revisiting a topic that we just have not been satisfied with yet, unranked matches. We made some changes when Kohi had merged into Badlion but the changes have since backfired and hurt our ranked player pool. We love having people come on and play on our systems but it makes for a worse experience if not enough players are playing on the games.

After discussing this topic in great lengths and trying out a few different systems we have decided to go just go back to 20 free unranked matches a day. There will be ways for players to earn more matches soon just by playing on Badlion :) Stay tuned for more information.

Other New Features

Random Kits for ranked matches.

Players are now properly frozen at the start of the match. No more rubber banding at the start of a match.

You can now choose a map with the /duel command. Use /duel [name] [map] to access this feature. Use /maps to find all available maps.

Stats of older seasons can now be viewed inside of the /stats command

Faster requeuing! Rejoin the queue now with party matches as well! You can even do a party event again with a simple click now!

Re-Duel someone again! Now you have the option to re-duel a player after your fight has finished.

When you upgrade a tier in ranked gameplay it now shares your glorious achievement with the rest of the server! Also compatible with 2v2 and 3v3 groups on the ranked ladders as well.

/maps - View all of the available maps that you can play on in ArenaPvP. Extremely useful for the new /duel command!

We track your highest win streak now! Want to brag about how many wins you got in a row? Now you can.

You can now hide your opponent’s rating! For those of you who want to try hard every game and leave it as a mystery you now can.

Lion+ Features in ArenaPvP Season 15

Unlimited Ranked/Unranked Matches

Save up to 5 kits per ladder

NEW: Start a War or LMS every 15 minutes

NEW: Choose your opponents maximum ping for 1v1 Ranked ArenaPvP

NEW: Pick which ladders you want to play in with the random ladder queue

NEW: Gift 50 ArenaPvP Matches Daily to a Friend with /giftmatches or giveaway with /giveaway

NEW: Access to /compare command on ArenaPvP to compare your stats with someone else

NEW: Larger party events on ArenaPvP (Up to 16 players)

Reworked hotbar/interface. We have reorganized the menus to be more like season 12 and easier to use.

Kit information is now more readily available on the inventory menus.

More detailed chat messages at the end of a match showing some quick stats from the match. Much prettier than the old systems.

Combo ladder now has infinite speed/strength.

UHC ladder now has infinity on the bow again.

End of rounds has been changed from 2 seconds to 8 seconds now.

/stats - Works on offline players now too.

Automatically get teleported to the next match for a player you are spectating in a best of X series game!

Tracking won and loss rounds in the tablist for best of X series games!

Fixed the lobby/in game counts to actually be correct now. No more negative players online!

Fixed the “already in a match” bug. With a lot of the redesigns this should not be an issue for us going forward.

The last hit on the end of a match now properly sends the sound to the attacker.

Timelines are fixed! A cool feature we added in season 13/14 has been redesigned to properly scale to 100s of millions of records. There are a lot of you guys and a lot of data. We needed to change how we store it to handle the sheer volume of data.

Super excited to share the final version of ArenaPvP Season 15 with the public. I feel that the long wait is worth the amount of time it took us to get these updates out.

If you want to help support our development team and the server overall help us by buying a rank or cases on our store: https://store.badlion.net/

See you all in game!

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