Greetings Commanders, FriendlyFixer here!

In March we released our Starfall update and we were genuinely excited to bring some new things to War Commander.

One of those changes was Base Weaknesses and last month we requested your feedback on how you felt while using it. A few things stood out to us:

• It was confusing what units received bonuses

• The best unit(s) to use were not always clear

• The bonus values were too strong and made normal combat worse

We heard your feedback and have been making changes. First is a name change from Base Weaknesses to Field Bonuses to better reflect that these are bonuses to your units, as well as what units are best to use for the target. We also changed some of the ways that the bonuses are granted to units:

• Bonuses granted for matching tags have been changed to be in addition to the unit bonuses

• Tag bonuses have been modified to be more thematic and not simply additional damage

• Exception Units has been changed to Best Unit Bonus

  • A bonus for using the Unit best fit for that target.

• Secondary Unit Bonus has been added to allow for a greater breadth of units that can be used, but do not function quite as well as the Best Unit

• Hero Units now will gain the same bonuses as the base unit, if that unit is one of either Best or Secondary unit

One of the additional pieces of feedback was how the 20x bonus made normal combat worse. This was because the target units had been scaled up in health by roughly 15x without significantly increasing their other abilities. The intent was actually to make a softer ‘fail’ case when using the wrong unit as it would be obvious that your units were not doing enough damage BUT they wouldn’t take catastrophic damage in return. As it turns out, this wasn’t nearly as obvious as we had thought and the larger damage multipliers caused other issues. As such, we’ve reduced the bonus values that you will receive. This should make the system easier to understand and not make normal combat feel worse.

Lastly, we updated the UI to better reflect all of these changes. It now looks something like this:

We’d like to try this bonus system for another 2 events to see how things improve for you, and to help ease the transition a Repair sale will run for the next event. On Discord there is a dedicated channel for event feedback, please use that to continue offering your thoughts and ideas! Constructive feedback is very important so we can continue to improve the game. Thank you!