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NEW Battlefleet Gothic Armada Gets RANKED!

By Zeb Barrett | July 30th, 2016 | Categories: Tabletop Gaming News, video game, Warhammer 40k

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A new ranked matches update for Battlefleet Gothic: Armada went live today! Make sure you check out the update and all of the patch notes here!

Today a huge update for Battlefleet Gothic Armada went live. Some major fixes and changes were added along with Ranked Matches becoming available!

Source: Steam Community

battlefleet gothic armada patch notes update

As announced in our development roadmap update last week, we’re excited to roll out a new major patch today!

This latest patch brings the Ranked Matches and Leaderboard, as well as a lot of bug fixes and tweaks.

battlefleet gothic armada patch notes update

Features
  • Ranked Matches are now available.
  • Integration of the Selection/Creation of ranked profiles flow.
  • Leaderboard now available.
  • New achievements for Space Marine faction and Elite Mode.
  • Cruiser Clash can now be played with increased fleet point limit in Custom Matches (1v1 & 2v2) and in Multiplayer 2v2, allowing you to take 800 point fleets to your games.

 

battlefleet gothic armada patch notes update
Gameplay
  • Ranked
    • In ranked mode, refund grants 100% of the cost back.
    • In Ranked Mode, Admirals and ships start at max level.
    • In Ranked Mode, Reconditioning is free.
  • Chaos
    • Tzeentch “Wind of Change” now hides all allied ships, regardless of the faction.
    • The Desolator Battleship has been modified.
      • Its speed is now 188 instead of 150.
      • Its cost is now 235 instead of 233.
  • Ork Pirates
    • Zzaps Damages divided by 2 and cost reduced accordingly.

 

battlefleet gothic armada patch notes update
Bug fixes
  • Fixed a bug allowing skills to be launched twice in a row, once with Auto-launch and once manually.
  • Fixed a bug allowing the same part to be critically damaged multiple times, with its penalties stacked.
  • Fixed a bug on the “Fear the Darkness” Space Marine skill causing the indicated chances not to be modified by the Chief Librarian crew member’s level.
  • Fixed a bug on the “Fear the Darkness” Space Marine skill allowing the guest to use it without setting it on cooldown.
  • Fixed a bug allowing a player to click on “return to main menu” then on “quit” while still in the escape menu, causing the game to load the Main menu then close immediately afterwards.
  • Fixed a bug allowing a player to use the “Void Energy Transfer” skill on an Eldar ship, which had no effect.
  • The Critically damaged parts feedback in Advanced Info mode sometimes did not refresh.

This is just a small portion of the changes that come with this most recent patch! Make sure you head over to the Steam Community to see all of the changes that have been made.

About the Author: Zeb Barrett

I am a huge gamer from miniature war gaming, to board games, to video games. When I'm not hanging out with my son, I try to spend all of my free time gaming in some sort of way and broadcasting on Twitch with my wife. I also like to do some video editing and throw up videos on our YouTube. Come check us out live! Twitch.tv/ChaoticCouplesGaming YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmffaTgT__t0Uu2WFkfQjsA