Patch Notes: October 10, 2024
Happy Spooky Season @everyone!
It’s been a great month for Once Upon a Galaxy and we have a lot of amazing changes coming down the pipeline, including our first look at our planned economy including a Battle Pass coming in November. Let’s dive right in!
Planned Economy
In the coming months, we will begin to roll out the implementation of our in-game economy. This economic plan will have two major components:
- In-game Store
- Battle Pass
In-game Store
It is our goal to make Once Upon a Galaxy to be as player friendly as possible while also making a sustainable model that allows us to keep making this game we love for many years to come. To do this, our in game store will sell the following:
- Gems
- 500 Gems ($4.99)
- 2,000 + 300 Bonus Gems ($19.99)
- 5,000 + 1000 Bonus Gems ($49.99)
- 10,000 + 4,000 Bonus Gems ($99.99)
- New Player Bundle ($4.99)
- 500 Gems + 1,500 Bonus Gems.
- One-time purchase per account
Gems will be our in-game currency that can be purchased with real world money and used to buy premium items and booster cards in the shop. What are these premium items?
- Boosters
- 1 Booster - 50 gems
- 20 Boosters - 1,000 gems
- 100 Boosters - 5,000 gems
- 200 Boosters - 10,000 gems
Each Booster will contain a single random card that you haven’t collected already.
- Captain Bundles
- 500 gems
- 3 available in the shop each day
- One time purchase
- 20 Captain Specific Boosters
These are bundles that rotate daily at 12pm PST that spotlight a specific captain. These are a great way to fill out the collection of the Captains that you like most!
- Cosmetics
We want to provide amazing ways for our players to customize their Galaxy experience. These cosmetics will include Alternate Art Captains, Special Card Frames and more! The specifics of these items are still being determined. Stay tuned for more details once we have more information to share.
Battle Pass
We plan to implement a free and premium Battle Pass when our in-game store goes live in November. Our Battle Passes will contain the following:
Battle Pass (Free)
- New Captain
- Boosters for that specific Captain
- Alternate Arts for Captains
- And lots of Booster Cards!
Premium Battle Pass ($9.99)
- Premium Battle Pass Captain
- Boosters for the Premium Battle Pass Captain
- Alternate Arts for Captains (includes an alternate art for the Premium Battle Pass Captain)
- And lots of Booster Cards!
As we implement the new battle pass, some of the captains that our wonderful beta testers (That’s you!) have been helping us test will be removed from the game so that they can be used as rewards on our initial testing of the first three battle passes.
These Captains are:
- Jack Sparrow
- Trash Panda
- Loki
- Thing in the Ice
- Jason of the Argonauts
For the First Battle Pass coming in November,
Free Battle Pass Captain - Jack Sparrow
Premium Battle Pass Captain - Trash Panda
Captains that appear on the Premium Battle Pass will become the Free Battle Pass Captain after 2 months. A replacement reward will be given to anyone who already owns that captain.
Collection Reset
With Once Upon a Galaxy moving into the next stage of development, we will also be initiating a collection reset when the in-game store goes live in November. In this next month, we will be increasing Booster Collection rates to match the rates players can expect to see on the coming Premium Battle Pass.
Minor Changes
With the big move out of the way, let’s bust out our pick axes and look at some of the more specific Minor Changes coming with this patch.
Updated Progression System
- New post-game reward notification
- Players will start with 0 cards in their personal pool for each captain.
- Card unlocks now happen automatically.
- End of game rewards will now always find a card regardless of which captains already have a full collection. (Unless your entire collection on all Captains are complete at which point 👍)
UI changes
- Duplicate treasures now stack and will automatically sort by rarity.
- New rarity gems, card backs and card frames!
- Dragging a crewmember now shows their stats without support buffs (this already worked this way for slot buffs but should now work for supports as well)
- Dynamic textboxes implemented for Don Quixote, Combustible Dragon, Wizard of Oz, and Weird Beard.
- Opponents' hearts now display correctly in battle.
- King Midas now shows 2.5 hearts during Captain select.
- Magnificent now triggers when you upgrade her to Silver and Gold (much like Robin Hood buffs himself when upgraded)
Bug Fixes and Other Changes
Many other small bug fixes, UX polishes and minor wording updates have been implemented for this patch.
Card Changes
- Frog Prince - lvl 2 - When you golden me, transform me into a random Epic character and turn me Bronze.
- Mortakon - When you summon a character, give it and me +1/+1. Quest -- Summon characters with 50 total stats. (Attack and Health combined)
- Boon Willow - Recruit -- Give both your back slots +1/+1. Support-- Give my slot buff to the characters in front of me.
- Tin Man - Quest -- Have a Heart. (Exactly one full heart.)
- Sorcerer's Mop - When you summon another character, give it double my attack and health. (meaning doesn't affect SELF)
- Ace of Hearts - lvl 2 - When one of your hearts is emptied, get a bonus shop.
- Hephaestus now doesn't require an Epic treasure (just C/U/R)
- Daedalus adds +5/+5 now (previously +3/+3)
- 'Nameless One' is now a Pirate instead of a Mage
- 'Spoiled Prince' is no longer a "Royal"
- 'Mirror Mage' is no longer a "Villain"
- 'Tiamat' has accurate golden text (2 treasures)
Name Changes
- "Angel of Mercy" -> "Na'vi"
- 'Lance-a-Little' -> 'The Seeker'
- 'Morticia' -> 'Sabrina'
- 'Fiver' -> 'Pied Piper'
- 'Archdragon' -> 'Thunder of Dragons'
- 'Super Pan' -> 'Pisces' (and add Celestial tag)
- 'Link' -> 'Wink'
- 'Mysteria' -> 'Fae Familiar'
- 'Sea Student' -> 'Zhang Yi Zhao'
- 'Storm Nebula' -> 'Rudolph the Red'
- 'Mysteria' -> 'Fae Familiar'
- ‘Trog’ -> ‘The Burninator’
New Cards
- Bogo Coupon
- Faerie Queen's Wand
- Goldilocks
- Loki's Scepter
- Nanny McFae
- Rainbow Bridge
- The Fates
- Timeline Duplicator
- Trident of the Tides
- Faerie Godfather
- Monstro
- Pirate King
- Pirate Prince
- Prospero
- Ravenous Fae
- Smug
- Snapping Hydra
- The Grey One
- The Rat King
- Tiamats Offspring
- Trix
- Weird Beard
- Wormscale Tinkerer
Removed
- Spirit Dragon
Feedback Focus
Lastly, with all the new changes coming this patch and next, we are interested in your feedback on the changes to collection and end game rewards, the collection tracker and bars under the Captains in Captain select and the new flow of play these changes have.
We’ve really appreciated all the feedback and love you all have shared with us this open beta and are planning a very special reward for our Beta testers in conjunction with the launch of the in-game store next month, so stay tuned!
We hope everyone has a wonderful October! Let us know what you think of all the new cards and art over on our Facebook Page, Twitter or on our Discord.
