Raid Digest 10.12.2021

Hey, Raiders! It's time for a new Raid Digest and we'd like to focus on the recent big addition to the game - Hydra and how it will evolve in the future. So without further ado, let's head straight down the rabbit hole, or… well… more like the Hydra's lair.

The Evolution of the Hydra

Yes, you understood the title correctly: we will continue to develop the new battle mode to include a greater variety of challenges. Here's what we have in mind for Hydra in the future.

Keep in mind that the progression of Hydra phases is not directly tied to the overall sequence of game updates, so there may be other major game updates in between. releases of new Hydra features. (So it's not their number 1 priority and new content will be released in the meantime)

First, we'd like to improve Hydra's Battle Results UI – you'll be able to see all the teams your Clan members have used since the last reset, including post-battle stats for each Champion. In addition to these UI improvements, we will be introducing some Hydra Clan quests. However, since the Hydra is end-game content, these clan quests will more likely be Expert and Elite levels.

In the near future, we will add two new hydra heads and two new difficulty levels that will allow you to get additional valuable rewards. These expansions will most likely come in two separate batches.

Although the Hydra has only been around for 3 days, some players have already managed to impress us with their excellent results (you can find some statistics below). To support and showcase such feats in the future, we'll be introducing a new Hydra leaderboard where you can see the best results from your Clan and the entire Raid community. In addition, players whose performance in the fight against the Hydra is consistently high will be able to obtain special avatars as a reward.

We're also preparing a list of minor UI improvements, including those requested by the community, such as adding scrollbars in contextual tabs with Hydra skills during combat and swapping keys Demon Lord and Hydra in the top bar of the clan boss map screen. We're also going to make some AI changes to help you auto-fight Hydra. However, keep in mind that this content is specifically designed to be a much more complex challenge than other parts of the game, so careful manual control will still be the way to get the best results.

Some particular features might change a bit in the timeline, but that's the basic outline of Hydra's evolution in 2022. For more details, follow our official social media and our content creators – more info will appear in due course.

A few points on the current state of Hydra

Plans for the future are good, but we must fight the Hydra now, in the present. So let's take our focus back to what's already in the game. You've probably noticed that champions defeated by Hydra can't be sent to the training pit - that's not the game's intended behavior, and we We will fix this in one of the next updates. We also received a lot of questions about the transition between the different difficulty levels – so here's the conclusion: the next difficulty level unlocks immediately after your Clan defeats the Hydra of the lower difficulty level; there is no need to wait for the Hydra to reset. Once unlocked, the difficulty level will remain available for as long as your Clan exists, as proof of your teamwork and collective success.

And while we're on the subject of achievements, the Hydra has just come out of its lair, but according to our analysis, all of Teleria has turned into one gigantic battlefield where players are actively tackling the new Boss. Here are some numbers:

• The Raiders have severed 98,431 Hydra heads.
• 24,300 times, a different new hydra head sprouted to oppose a daring player who had sliced off one of its predecessors.
• The Hydra has eaten and digested 1,158,659 champions.

And those are just the stats collected on the first day of Hydra's release alone!

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Some players are currently experiencing a strange visual bug: as they progress towards obtaining the new champion Aleksandr the Sharpshooter, they may occasionally see a tab appear promising the epic champion Shaman after 7 days of visiting. This can be somewhat misleading, but don't worry, it's just a visual bug. This tab will not prevent you from obtaining Aleksander or interfere with your daily reward progress. We will fix this annoying bug in the future.

That's it for today's Raid Digest. Have a good weekend ! We can't wait to hear about your new feats in the fight against the Hydra!