The next patch for Battlegrounds is going to be awesome! Chris Sierra filled us in on some of the details in the recent patch notes.
- More heroes and minions are coming!
- Advanced stats including your top 5 heroes by wins, most played heroes, and first-place finishes are coming.
- The leaderboard UI will show what synergies your opponents have.
- Early next year they'd like to allow you to sell minions from your hand.
Quote From Chris Sierra Overall, we’ve been thrilled by the response players have had to Battlegrounds, and we’ve been closely watching the feedback coming in. We’re continuing to work on a variety of things coming in the future, but I’d like to call out to a few of them. Please note all of this is future-looking – none of this is getting added quite yet.
New Heroes and Minions!
We’ve been cooking up some new heroes and minions, and we’ll be making them live within the game with our next update. We don’t want to say too much right now, but a couple of very familiar faces will be included.
Stats!
We know the amount of gameplay information that informs how players are performing is limited right now, and we are already hard at work on an advanced stats screen that will be available in the next update. We’ll have much more detail soon, but expect things like your top 5 heroes by wins, most played heroes, how many first place finishes you’ve completed, and more.
Leaderboard Updates
We want to give players more useful information about their opponents so they can make more informed gameplay decisions and build more complex strategies. On the left-hand leaderboard we’re going to be adding some addition information on the minion types that your opponents have. For example, you’ll be able to see that one of your opponents currently holds three murlocs and two demons.
The Selling Experience
We want to make some improvements to how minions are sold, allowing minions to be sold from your hand. We think this will make it into the game some time early next year, and we’ll have more updates on how that is progressing, especially if we think it will come later than January.
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Comments
Next update may actually be the one with Descent of Dragons cards (so within 3 weeks)
Battlegrounds feels very limited and poorly balanced right now. I think it has lots of room to expand and become a much more enjoyable play mode, and these changes will be a great start in that direction. I'm really excited to see how it gets better over time!
When will open access start today (on mobile)?
I only request one thing from hs. Keep battlegrounds free forever.
Just thought about an optional gold mode. Every player pays 10 gold to enter. Winner gets 80 gold. Or like 50-60 cause Blizzard will take it's share ;)
It'll always be free to play, but I expect them to rotate the paywall extra hero and emotes every expansion. That means you'll want 2000-3000 gold to buy packs of new sets to retain full benefits.
Purely speculatory though.
I do hope they switch up the order of bonuses, moving the "pick from 3 heroes" to the first tier. It's a bonus that has actual impact on your performance, so having it come first would be better; it would also serve to introduce new players to more heroes at a time so they can see the hero powers in the context of what other players might have.
Yeah, but at least that's an ammount of gold that you will spend anyway, so it's not too bad.
Great! All of this is really needed, and it's actually neat to hear such good response to feedback so fast. Let's hope we get to see something more soon TM