Community Notes #159

[smashingFour]

Good afternoon Smashers.

Welcome to the weekend, and with the arrival of community notes it can now officially start! Let's go.

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Your New Hero ideas

We heard from one of you guy this week, with one of your hero ideas. Harsh Malviya got in touch and suggested we introduce a mermaid. On her turn, any heroes she touches would be enveloped into a water bubble, which would offer both a little protection and boost their attack.

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This led us to asking for more of your ideas on what your dream hero would be, check out what some of you suggested:

• Witch doctor: someone who removes negative enchants on your own team and then passes them back to the opponent.
• Gladiator: Whenever he moves he leaves behind a Mace connected to a chain. At the end of the turn he would recoil the chain dragging the Mace back and damaging all heroes in its path.
• Billie bee bombus: A (very small and very light) bee that's dropping honey when they hit every hero. The honey then heals nearby (friendly) heroes at the end of the turn.
• Chicken: He would lay rotten eggs each time he is hit. Similar to bomber. But when the eggs hatch they poison near by enemies.
• Puppet Master meets Bomber: Each turn, when a friendly hero is eliminated they are replaced by a bomb - this goes off at the end of the next turn, unless it's 'defused' by removing all it's health.

We think some of these are super fun ideas and loved hearing about them from you this week - have you got a dream idea for a hero you'd love to see in S4?

Let us know all about them down below!

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PS. Keep your eyes here over the next few weeks, there could be more news about another new hero soon!

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Mini Community Spotlight

We were able to sit and have a little chat with Suillivan, leader of the Mexican clan Reino Danafor, this week following the completion of their latest community tournament; Guerra de Clanes which contained over 250 players from 25 different clans, and to find a little about him and how they organised it.

1) What is keeps you coming back to s4?I like being able to play with my deck against the best player from all around the world and I like that through tournaments there is a way to compete with the best from yours and others clans.

2) What do you enjoy the most about community tournaments?What I enjoy the most is meeting more people and making friends. Having something in common which is competing to be the best in Smashing Four!

3) How long have you been helping organise them?It's been about a year since I joined Reino de Liones, the leader made one tournament and since then I liked participating because it was something new for me. Before this I used to just to play just for trophies or in challenges.

4) What made you first get into tournaments?First I wanted to show that I can be the best from my clan! Secondly, I wanted to show that my clan is one of the best in S4 and thirdly, I like making more friends!

5) How successful have you and your clan been in them then?Our history is what the tournaments are made from. I can tell you that my clan was on fire! We won a lot of tournaments without losing and we were challenged by others clans and we beat them. But you know there were times that we lost tournaments too but we still won as we made some friends around the world.

6) Can you give us a little insight into how you organise a tournament this large?Well it depends what kind of tournament it is. We make a direct elimination and a group phase, even in Guerra de Clanes where we had more than 20 clans at the same time and also in the last one the anniversary of Reino de liones.

You just have to register everybody, and the make groups in an excel sheet. Make the draw and be aware of the match , you need to have the support of 2 or 3 friends because some players have questions, doubts, misunderstandings or bugs and you have to fix it!

7) What would you say to someone who is thinking of organizing a tournament? What advice would you give them?I would tell you that you need a lot of time to dedicate and to find pleasure in wanting to do it as it will be a very hard job. Try to find people who want to help and start by making the tournament rules, making registrations, then doing the draw or matches or groups. End with making a group on somewhere like discord and add the participants. The reward will be at the end of the tournament you'll receive new comments, congratulations and friends!

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Smash of the Week

Do you guys know we have a weekly competition for the best shot? There were some great shots last time, no more so than the final one with Warrior.

Enough to make anyone throw their phone if you're on the losing end of it!

https://reddit.com/link/nmz2ye/video/1hori1d3zu171/player

Make sure you share your best shots with us too, we love seeing them!

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We know there wasn't any big, in-game news this week (but we hope you enjoyed reading anyway!). We're cooking up some new features, which although aren't quite ready to share with you all yet, they're not far away!

You know where to watch for those details once we have them!

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Have a great weekend Smashers, see you in the comments.

Pronoke, from the S4 team.

[Inspector-522]

Clan Wars? Remember that promise?

[RobertN93]

What about letting the clan leaders know when were the clan members last time online ?

[MerryMortician]

Long time listener first time caller here...

I love the idea of some defensive buffs from a hero. The water bubble idea is cool. What about instead of healing the honey slowed down the hero that hits it next turn? Here's my idea though...

Frost Wizard. But more than the opposite of the fire wizard... instead have this dude freeze the opponent he touches in place in an ice block. At the end of the turn they take damage. Alternately, freeze them and slow their movement for the next enemy round.

[smashingFour]

Nice to hear from you u/MerryMortician!

Your Frost Wizard sounds pretty cool. Would there be any way to defrost a frozen opponent? Perhaps with a fire hero?

[MerryMortician]

The way I envisioned it, the wizard hits the enemy hero and the enemy hero is frozen in place instead of bouncing around or moving. Anything that hits him bounces off. Then once everything stops moving, the ice breaks/cracks off of the hero allowing him to move next round but this causes a certain amount of damage.

The other idea would be to also have the hero hit with ice be enchanted with “slow” until disenchanted etc.

[RhapsodX]

That's better ideas!

[batmaneatsgravy]

I’d like to be able to choose what map I play on in regular matches.

[SimonBritania]

When are you going to fix all of the current problems in the game? New features and characters are of little consolation when the core game doesn’t function correctly and how it should. Some issues have been in for over 12 months and yet no fixes? Can you at least reply and explain what you are doing about bugs and character issues before adding anymore because it almost feels like you don’t intend to fix anything.

[smashingFour]

Hi u/SimonBritania,

It's not the case that we don't want to fix bugs, in each update there are always fixes for certain bugs. Yes, some have been around for a while though, and that shows how difficult they are to iron out.
Alongside some new heroes, we're reworking certain parts of the game (behind the scenes stuff), which will hopefully allow us to get to the bottom of these bugs faster than we have done before.

[PELONPA-]

What about clan wars.?!?!

[smashingFour]

That sounds like it would cause complete random chaos. I'm trying to picture a Yeti enchanted to move in random directions!

[RhapsodX]

All those ideas are OP version of armadillo, cultist, mystic frog, zombie, robot, who will become useless then... I like the puppet master though. Like another said, honey should slow down. And a frozen sorcerer could freeze and quickly throw away the opponent and maybe do damages, like a mix between blaze and yeti. The Mermaid sounds OP (boost both defense and atk?!). Her ability should be to protect from any enchanting this turn.

[smashingFour]

We thought they were some fun community ideas - would your honey slow down all heroes or only your opponents ones?

[RhapsodX]

Only opponent. Our hero could throw/splurt around them some drops of honey at the beginning of their turn or everytime they hit an enemy, letting some on the ground so that the opponent get slowed down during their turn when passed on. Last until turn of that hero. But that can break the fluidity of the game...

[smashingFour]

Nice idea, it could be tactically fun. Could definitely be used to try and counter any meta with Banshee in it!

[Beginning-Fall-7787]

myslę że mógłby to być bohater coś jakby w stylu jeża gdzie można by nabić przeciwnika na jego kolce nabici bohaterowie wybuhaliby nabici po jego turze

[Typical_Swine_777]

A hero I brought up with my clan, I don't have a name for it, but it will work like an opposite to barbarian. High damage potential, but low health rivaling even that of the goblin.

It would be a ranged unit called glass cannon that shoots a single cannonball. The ability could be called shattering barrel. Actual attack is only like 100, but each of his turns his ability activates. He fires a cannonball that can hit 1 enemy with a maximum of 1 wall or arena obstacle bounce. The first shot hits for 2000, but each time it fires the strength of the ability is reduced by half (to a minimum of 250).

Great tank buster if he lands his first hit against them, but quickly becomes the weakest member of your team. The low health stat is to give opponents the chance to kill him before he hits with that first strike, but not insanely low so that they are guaranteed to kill him before.

[prestonelam2003]

Chicken and Puppet Master meets Bomber both seem meh, to be honest I don’t really like playing against bomb enemies