Last edited on 03 November 2017 - 09:00 AM by MasterGberry

Hey everyone.

Yesterday (very early in the morning in Europe) we finally released the first weekly patch for Badlion. First off I offer the community our sincerest apologies for how long the maintenance period was yesterday. Normally patches will not take this long, but this particular patch affected every single server on the network and therefore was a huge undertaking. We ran into some unforeseen problems when deploying it…specifically an error that we have never seen in our almost 5 years of running Badlion that made the lobby servers not responding.

I would also like to share that today a bunch of hot fixes were just released that fixed various bugs with the initial patch such as:

Global Level being wrong

Not receiving cases when leveling up

Missing cosmetics from before the Badlion 2.1 patch went live

Unlimited Unranked Ladders not working.

I would like to take some time to explain what was released in this patch, and then explain how we are going to improve upon our deployment processes going forward to ensure less downtime and a smoother release cycle.



Leveling System

Today we have introduced a brand new system into Badlion that rewards players for their dedication to playing on our server in between seasons. We have added a new leveling system where you can level up your account in each game mode and also slowly earn free goodies by gaining global levels (explained later).

For every game level you earn you will earn a global level. So if you are level 3 in ArenaPvP and level 4 in SG, this means you will have a global level of 7.

Cosmetics



Cosmetics 2.0 at long last is here. This is just the first iteration over many more improvements we will strive to make in the near future to our Cosmetics system. Since Badlion is such a heavy PvP server we wanted to try and work towards making cosmetics that can be used in game while you are playing! With this in mind we have added several new categories such as:

Kill Effects

Death Effects

Emotes

We have also added more cosmetics that can be used in the lobbies such as:

Suits

Records

Balloons

Mounts

Hats

We feel that this is a good start to the direction we want to have cosmetics become more of an integral part of the Badlion experience. We will be focussing on adding more Kill Effects, Death Effects, Emotes, and Taunts in the next update to the system to ensure that more cosmetics can be used while you are playing on Badlion.

Cases

We have redone the case system from the ground up. The first thing we did was remove the restriction of only getting cases from the store. Now EVERYONE can earn cases for FREE just by playing on Badlion! Every time you level up on a game mode on Badlion you will earn a free case. Each case you get will appear in your available cases to open. Every time you open a case you have the awesome chance of winning:

Cosmetics

Arena Matches

UHC Whitelists

Community UHCs

Extra Votes for Minigames

Extra Rerolls for Minigames

Spectator Access for Minigames/UHC

and more

You can see an example of opening a case below:



You also get special cases just by leveling up! Here is a breakdown:

Every 100 levels you get a Legendary Case with a guaranteed Legendary Drop inside

Every 25 levels you get an Epic Case with a guaranteed Epic Drop inside

Every 5 levels you get a Rare Case with a guaranteed Rare Drop inside

Every other level up you get a Normal Case

Please note you can get legendaries and other drops in just a normal case. There is a random chance of getting anything in any case except some special cosmetics such as Holiday Cosmetics or the special Owner Trail that can only be unlocked by meeting @Archybot or myself.

Cases are also available for purchase on our store with slightly higher chances of getting better drops in the cases: https://store.badlion.net/category/cases

Coins & Duplicate Drops

So what happens if you already own a cosmetic item you get in a case? You get a refund in coins! You can then save up your coins and use them to buy cosmetics in the Cosmetics menu in game. An example is below:



You also can get a refund in coins if you already bonus features because you already have a Lion+ rank for instance. So if you got a drop of Arena Matches from the case you just opened up and have a Lion+ rank or equivalent we would give you back some coins for your Arena Matches drop since you already have unlimited.

The more cases you open the faster you can earn coins to buy specific cosmetics that you are interested in owning.

XP Boosters

We have introduced a new concept along with the leveling system to help you level up faster! XP Boosters! You can get XP Boosters as a drop from a case, by using the Badlion Client, or by buying a rank on our store. The breakdown of possibilities are below:

Legendary Drop - 20% Booster for 2 hours
Epic Drop - 10% Booster for 2 hours
Rare Drop - 10% Booster for 1 hour
Common Drop - 5% Booster for 1 hour

Badlion Client Bonus - 10%
Plus Rank Bonus - 10%
Lion+ Rank Bonus - 30%

We will eventually integrate network wide or game mode wide boosters also that will be available for purchase on our store at a later date. This will allow you to play with your friends and all level up faster.

New Profile Pages



The new profile pages are here at long last! Featured in the new profile pages is:

A new and easy way to navigate match history for every game mode

A brand new stats page which shows all of your stats for every season on Badlion in existance

A new side bar navigation to help get useful information about someone's recent activity without having to switch pages!

This has been a long time in the making and is completely PC and mobile compatible. We will be adjusting a few small things based on feedback here and there, but for the most part this page is relatively complete.

UHC SG

We have release a new game mode with this huge first patch for Badlion as well! We are proud to share UHC Survival Games with the Minecraft community. If you are familiar with Survival Games on Badlion already than it should be very easy to pick up UHC SG. UHC SG features new twists to the classic game mode Survival Games such as:

UHC Styled Gear (aka diff Tier Lists)

Game modes built in such as Time Bomb, No Clean, etc

No normal health regeneration from running around, you must eat Golden Apples or Golden Heads

Golden Head given when you kill someone

Blocks can be placed but they disappear after 5 seconds

Changed the NPCs around in the Lobby

Changed the text on the right side to advertise the newer features

Redid the cosmetics inventory to match the newer options better

Reverted Ranked/Unranked Limits to how season 12 behaved. You now get 10 matches a day (+10 for being registered and +10 for using Badlion Client).

Added back 2 unlimited unranked ladders that change once a week (like how it used to be in Season 12).

Removed 5 unranked win restriction to play ranked. We have seen too much of a decrease in the ranked player pool and feel that new users are discouraged from playing ranked. We want the majority of people to help contribute to a single large matchmaking pool and therefore have removed this feature and reverted it back to Season 12 also.

Fixed issue where you were disguised to yourself on 1.8

I hope everyone is excited about the changes in this first weekly patch for Badlion. Normally patches will not take this long to deploy and should result in little to no down time at all. Since this patch affected every single server on the network, it was easier to take it down and do a complete wipe of the servers. We are going to do a better job at preparing patches earlier in the week so that when it comes to patch time we don't have to waste as much time preparing things and we can simply flip a switch and deploy the changes without much effort.

Share your feedback below and let us know how you think we can improve/balance the systems better!

Please note everything above in relation to values it takes to buy something, drops from cases, etc are all subject to change as we continue to balance things over the next few weeks.

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 09:02 AM

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Posted on 03 November 2017 - 09:07 AM

Yay!

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 09:23 AM

hype

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 09:25 AM

Profile pages look really clean and great patch overall.

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 09:38 AM

Love this update

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 09:38 AM

HYPE

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 10:35 AM

I just got a legendary drop (orange) in my first normal case lol
But it's "7 Free Days of Lion+" but I'm lifetime Lion+ so ?

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 10:36 AM

You get coins in return

Last edited on 03 November 2017 - 10:44 AM by WavexJunior

I didn't get anything

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 10:45 AM

Nice

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 10:53 AM

Make a bug report

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 11:24 AM

Having this looked into already. Thanks for reporting.

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 11:29 AM

Got another rare drop ( 1 Free Day Lion+ ) and got nothing too

Last edited on 03 November 2017 - 11:49 AM by DELPHIN999

GG hype for this update but I dont find the case system really user friendly

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 11:53 AM

How so?

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 12:12 PM

Nice work!

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 12:25 PM

I don't like the further limited matches… ranked is too hard and stressful lol.

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 01:33 PM

I like it!

Posted on 03 November 2017 - 02:15 PM

Looks great!