Next week – Release 76. As promised before, the next huge Expedition update is almost here. What wasn’t exactly promised but was hinted at is the introduction of the Ranked PvP to Shatterline. We surprised ourselves a bit with how awesome our team is, as everyone came together and gave their extra time and energy to deliver competitive mode in this update.
Ranked PvP, guys! The time to test your skill has come. Truly test, you know. Finally! No mercy! Let the bloodbath… Well, you get the point.
Thanks to our competitive community and their restless leaders, regularly organizing Shatterline tournaments, we were able to gather much-needed data and feedback on how ranked games should feel and play. It helped us a lot in development, we are very grateful to all of you competitive enthusiasts out there!
We are rolling out our test run of Ranked games, to properly assess the feature and collect your feedback. It will last for one month, but the acquired badges will be permanent, as well as the 20% match rewards boost in Ranked compared to the regular Versus matches. So get out there and wreak some havoc.
The competitive arena's size is 5 versus 5.
We’ll be playing Escort, with the 3 maps available: Escort, March, and Barracuda.
Five leagues: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond, each one consisting of four levels.
And we give out shiny badges for your efforts in climbing the ladder.
Our PvP scientists are racking their brains, doing the math behind the Ranked matches. We start simple.
The current rank points scheme is 200 points for winning, minus 90 points for losing, and 50 points for ending a match with a draw. This is a testing ground for the ranked matches and will be adjusted in the future.
A player starts with 300 ranked points and needs 1,000 points to progress to the following level.
Expedition keeps getting new content and features. In this upcoming release, we are introducing hero progression as a part of the PvE experience, available in both Expedition and story missions, Episodes.
All Shatterline operatives are getting PvE progression paths, acquiring new perks and abilities throughout their journey. The more you play one hero, the more new resources you haul from Expedition – the more diverse their gameplay becomes.
Each operative receives 5 branches of progression. Let’s have a look at what our favorite girl with magic hands, Malva, will look like.
Malvas around the world will be giving more focus on healing their teammates, as it’s becoming more beneficial to both parties with a part of the healing applied to allies now also coming back to Malva herself.
Healing applied also benefits our loyal Pinscher Drone, which stands on guard with a progression path of its own and becomes stronger further down the path. Don’t forget to take care of the Drone too, as Malva can now support her companion, healing it and making sure it grows healthy and deadly.
We are experimenting with more fun stuff to add to the game, and here’s just a tiny sneak peek into one little thing currently tested behind the scenes.
Twitch Drops are coming with this update! Look out for the Shatterline streams on Twitch with enabled drops, as we’ve finished the preparations and are ready to roll out rewards for your support of Shatterline creators.
Just last month we implemented a Support-a-Creator system into the game store. We’ve done this in collaboration with our partner Nexus.gg. Support your favorite ones!
And while we are all here – here is an XP boost for you.
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- Copy this code, head over to Shatterline in-game store, and click Redeem Code button in the bottom right corner.
- Paste the code in the pop-up window and click Apply.
- Now you have a 100% XP boost for the following 2 days.
Have fun!