New Troop, Town Hall 19 and More - Update Info! — Transcript

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1. 0:00new update information about Town Hall
2. 0:0219, guardians, equipment, the ore
3. 0:04economy, builder base, clan capital, you
4. 0:06name it, we have information about it.
5. 0:08So, I'm going to summarize everything
6. 0:10for you in this video. Starting with
7. 0:12Town Hall 19, the Clash of Clans team
8. 0:15gave a teaser that they want to make,
9. 0:17and I quote, old troops interesting
10. 0:21again, more part of player strategy.
11. 0:24Perhaps that means the barbarian,
12. 0:26wizard, giant, maybe hog riders. We also
13. 0:30know that guardians will move out of the
14. 0:33town hall. So, the town hall weapon at
15. 0:36town hall 19 will be something totally
16. 0:39different. Guardians will not be locked
17. 0:41to the town hall. They don't know if
18. 0:42they're going to give them their own
19. 0:44separate building or maybe it'll be some
20. 0:46sort of hero flag, but the guardians
21. 0:49will no longer be attached to the town
22. 0:51hall. You will still have access to your
23. 0:53guardians, so your progress is not lost.
24. 0:55They said they will likely add more
25. 0:57Guardians or more levels to Guardians,
26. 0:59but they are also not a requirement for
27. 1:03Town Hall 19. So, whilst they are not
28. 1:05temporary content, your progress is not
29. 1:07lost. You don't have to level them up.
30. 1:10You could leave the guardians at level
31. 1:11one. Probably don't want to because
32. 1:13they're very strong. You can still
33. 1:14upgrade to Town Hall 19 when it is
34. 1:16released. But they did say that moving
35. 1:18into the future, they do have to look at
36. 1:21long-term issues that might arise as
37. 1:24well, such as with merged defenses.
38. 1:28We're getting to the point where there's
39. 1:29so many merged defenses around the base
40. 1:31that signature defenses are everywhere.
41. 1:34And they said that their solution is to
42. 1:37hopefully try and make sure that the
43. 1:40ricochet cannons and the multi archer
44. 1:41towers that were initially merged to
45. 1:43town hall 16, they would over time
46. 1:46become more like a regular defense and
47. 1:48then the newer mergers would take over
48. 1:51and be the more powerful ones. And they
49. 1:54also said that in the future they would
50. 1:56likely continue to merge defenses away a
51. 2:00little bit like what they did with the
52. 2:01eagle artillery with the town hall. Now,
53. 2:03I said that I think they should take a
54. 2:05lot of learnings from that. We got a
55. 2:07decoration in the end for it, but also I
56. 2:09don't think the eagle was very well
57. 2:12shown in the town hall. It didn't keep
58. 2:13its signature move, and that is
59. 2:15something they acknowledged they would
60. 2:16try and do better in the future. Back to
61. 2:19a few more things that are relevant now,
62. 2:20though. We know that the elephant rider
63. 2:22will be coming later this month, but
64. 2:24that we are unlikely to see Supercell
65. 2:27Mate campaigns at least in the near
66. 2:29future because they had such a hard time
67. 2:32actually bringing the elephant rider to
68. 2:34life from when they released that
69. 2:36campaign years ago. Now, they are
70. 2:38however continuing to convert troops
71. 2:40from 2D to 3D. Troop skins is something
72. 2:43they are considering, but they need to
73. 2:45do this remodeling first. The CWL Minion
74. 2:49Prince skin though that has been
75. 2:51finished and will be releasing soon, but
76. 2:54like I said to Ferry, like where's the
77. 2:56dragon juke skin? Because are we going
78. 2:58to have to wait 2 years for that? I'd
79. 3:00like to see that they actually keep on
80. 3:02top of these. However, he did clarify
81. 3:04that whilst previously they have said
82. 3:07older hero skin sets would be caught up
83. 3:11with new heroes, that is unlikely to be
84. 3:14the case since they are adding more
85. 3:16heroes and they have a cadence of hero
86. 3:18skins getting released each month as it
87. 3:20is. Whilst we're on the topic of
88. 3:22cosmetics, actually in interview 4 with
89. 3:24David Burke, I asked him about the
90. 3:26legendary sceneries because we haven't
91. 3:29seen any more. He actually said that
92. 3:30they will be bringing more. It's just
93. 3:32that the artists think that so far the
94. 3:35ones they've been designing aren't
95. 3:37legendary enough. So, they are trying to
96. 3:40make them even better and they will be
97. 3:42continuing with XL sceneries, but likely
98. 3:44bringing back regular ones as well. The
99. 3:47exclusive Shadow Samurai skin did
100. 3:49incredibly well. And they are looking to
101. 3:51lean into exclusivity when it comes to
102. 3:54cosmetics, so we can expect some more
103. 3:56hero skins along that line as well. One
104. 3:59of the biggest concerns from the
105. 4:00community because I was asking questions
106. 4:02from the community in these interviews
107. 4:05is the laboratory and how much of a
108. 4:07bottleneck it is. Ferry said they are
109. 4:09actually looking to bring the pets into
110. 4:13the laboratory and give you a second
111. 4:15researcher. That would help so that you
112. 4:17could upgrade two troops if you want.
113. 4:19You could stick to the usual format of a
114. 4:21troop and a pet, but whatever. It would
115. 4:23give us more flexibility and I really
116. 4:25like that option. Oh, and for the
117. 4:27builder base and clan capital, there is
118. 4:29no plan for either of them right now.
119. 4:31They will continue to make small tweaks
120. 4:33like they have been doing the third
121. 4:35builder in the builder base, the speed
122. 4:37up feature, the treasury in the clan
123. 4:39capital, but there's not going to be any
124. 4:41major content for either of them. With
125. 4:43regards to a clan name change, it does
126. 4:46sound like we will get that in the
127. 4:47future. But they want to make sure that
128. 4:49you can search for your clan under the
129. 4:52old name as well so that any previous
130. 4:54members could find you and also there
131. 4:56would be a time limit before you could
132. 4:59change the name again. Another
133. 5:01interesting stat is that there have been
134. 5:034 bill58,794,653
135. 5:10ranked battles at the time of the
136. 5:12interview since ranked was introduced.
137. 5:14That is a lot of battles and it might be
138. 5:16because ranked isn't as optional as they
139. 5:19wanted since the star bonus is attached
140. 5:21to it. I'm a big advocate of having the
141. 5:23star bonus in battle mode so you can
142. 5:26actually improve the star bonus in
143. 5:27battle mode as well. And they did say
144. 5:29they are working on something that would
145. 5:32enable that. It would also give more
146. 5:34purpose to battle mode which I think is
147. 5:37fantastic. It is much needed so that
148. 5:39ranked can be more optional. One thing I
149. 5:41said back is that maybe you have
150. 5:43cosmetics in there. Even though they're
151. 5:44tied to the leaderboard, you could still
152. 5:46have cosmetic rewards for taking part in
153. 5:49ranked and your achievements in ranked.
154. 5:51So, I think it will be great when
155. 5:52players can grind battle mode to improve
156. 5:55their star bonus and the amount of ore
157. 5:57that they're getting because the ore
158. 5:58economy was something I spoke about in
159. 6:01episode 1 with Rafa regarding the hero
160. 6:04journey. They said they added this
161. 6:05because new and returning players were
162. 6:07so far behind when it comes to
163. 6:09equipment. For example, 30% of all
164. 6:12players didn't even have a single epic
165. 6:15equipment, which to us active players is
166. 6:17like, what are you doing? But clearly,
167. 6:19there are a lot of different people that
168. 6:21play Clash of Clans. So, the hero's
169. 6:23journey was meant as a catch-up
170. 6:26mechanic. I gave a lot of feedback in
171. 6:28that interview that I think
172. 6:30communication could have been a lot
173. 6:31better. I think the fallback star or
174. 6:33should have been given. But in terms of
175. 6:35moving forward, we can know that the ore
176. 6:38economy is something separate that
177. 6:41they're going to be working on. For
178. 6:42example, creating more ways to get ore
179. 6:45through events. So, I asked about ore
180. 6:48chests. Can we see those outside of the
181. 6:50hero journey now as well? And that is
182. 6:52something that they will be looking as
183. 6:55to where they can place them. And we can
184. 6:57expect them in other areas as well, but
185. 7:00they will not just like regular chests,
186. 7:02they will not sell them. Another thing I
187. 7:04gave feedback in, and this is now in
188. 7:06interview three, was update bugs that
189. 7:09the testing process needs to improve
190. 7:12because some bugs shouldn't really be
191. 7:16there. Some are understandable, but
192. 7:18others, I'm not sure how they slip past
193. 7:20the team. CWL mismatches were discussed
194. 7:24and whilst he said that at the top level
195. 7:26it's not really that big of a deal
196. 7:28because town hall 18s versus 18s it's
197. 7:30more of a skill thing there can be some
198. 7:32horrendous mismatches as you go through
199. 7:34because you're only matched in the clan
200. 7:36war league when you first sign up. I
201. 7:38guess what he said did make sense though
202. 7:40that let's say there's Town Hall 14s
203. 7:42versus Town Hall 18s but the reason this
204. 7:45Town Hall 18 clan might be in that
205. 7:46league is because like half of the clan
206. 7:49is inactive which actually then when you
207. 7:51look at stars at the end it might be an
208. 7:54even match but that's not fun. It's not
209. 7:57fun for Town Hall 14s to be like
210. 7:59scraping one stars or perhaps the two
211. 8:01star against Town Hall 18s. So he did
212. 8:03acknowledge that they are looking at
213. 8:05different options. Maybe it's some sort
214. 8:07of receding that could be optional if
215. 8:11you know clans want to drop they're not
216. 8:12putting out like a terrible roster but
217. 8:14equally should you recruit more players
218. 8:17and now you have a bunch of town hall
219. 8:1818s maybe the game would say you're so
220. 8:21much stronger would you like to go up to
221. 8:23this league you'll get more rewards and
222. 8:25then you know clans can do that and it's
223. 8:27not spoiling the fun lower down so no
224. 8:29concrete answers but at least they are
225. 8:32looking at solving the problem which I
226. 8:34do think it needs addressed. test. But
227. 8:36back to my interview with David Burke,
228. 8:38he said that the five versus five may
229. 8:41come back. The reason it was removed is
230. 8:43because there was a significant drop in
231. 8:46the amount of players that got to
232. 8:48[music] participate in clan war leagues.
233. 8:50The reason they added it was because
234. 8:51they thought that there's a lot of clans
235. 8:54that don't have 15 players. This will
236. 8:56enable them to take part. But what
237. 8:58actually happened was a lot of clans
238. 8:59that would have done 15 versus 15, well,
239. 9:01they just dropped [music] 10 people and
240. 9:03took their five strongest. And what
241. 9:05they're looking before they reactivate
242. 9:06the five versus five. So it sounds like
243. 9:08it will be back in the future. They're
244. 9:10looking to have better ways of
245. 9:12encouraging people to have 15 members.
246. 9:16So maybe you get better rewards if you
247. 9:17have a larger clan size. Maybe the five
248. 9:19versus 5 is introduced initially when
249. 9:21you first sign up for like new [music]
250. 9:23clans or re-engaging clans. So they're
251. 9:26looking at bringing it in a bit more
252. 9:27strategically and then maybe maybe
253. 9:30opening up the doors once they have a
254. 9:31[music] better solution in place. Magic
255. 9:34Snacks added to the CWL shop or I
256. 9:36actually asked about the Raid Metal Shop
257. 9:38or elsewhere. And he said they will
258. 9:40probably look to do that, but it's not
259. 9:42supported on the back end, which I can't
260. 9:45believe that that's the case. Like like
261. 9:47technically they can't even put magic
262. 9:48snacks [music] in there. But it sounds
263. 9:49like we will expect magic snacks to be
264. 9:53available with raid medals. But they
265. 9:55will just have to look at the numbers
266. 9:56and things because he did say, [music]
267. 9:58for example, the clan castle cake was
268. 10:00designed before Clash Anytime. So right
269. 10:03now it's probably a bit more powerful
270. 10:05[music] than they expected. They're
271. 10:06looking to bring like a more granular
272. 10:08version as well. So like a clan castle
273. 10:11slice, which they could offer more in an
274. 10:14abundance, but it wouldn't be able to be
275. 10:16used to like blast all of your ranked
276. 10:17attacks. I don't think it's that big of
277. 10:19a deal. Like if people are having fun,
278. 10:21then just like let them get the clan
279. 10:23castle cake. [music] But I do understand
280. 10:24where it like lowers clan activity or
281. 10:26the need for a clan a bit. And I know
282. 10:28that global chat is something I
283. 10:30discussed with him [music] as well. And
284. 10:31he said that they are looking to add
285. 10:33that functionality to global chat. I
286. 10:35think requesting and donating troops
287. 10:36would be really helpful because there
288. 10:38are some players that they're not in a
289. 10:40super active clan and if they're waiting
290. 10:42to do their clan war attacks or their
291. 10:43ranked attacks and no one else is
292. 10:44online, they're stuck. That's not fun at
293. 10:46all. whereas if you could donate troops
294. 10:49from different groups be way more
295. 10:51accessible for them. So I do think that
296. 10:53is something they should press as a
297. 10:55priority and it sounds [music] like that
298. 10:56is going to be the case. When it comes
299. 10:59to global chat they are looking at
300. 11:00improving the moderation and the
301. 11:02spaminess of global chat. That's
302. 11:04something they've been on top of. The
303. 11:06discoverability so they might look to
304. 11:09add like auto groups. If you're in a
305. 11:11CWL, it might pull all of the clans
306. 11:13together in one group. [laughter]
307. 11:15But I mean, that could definitely get
308. 11:18hectic when you're going up against
309. 11:20these clans, but I guess it would be fun
310. 11:21all being pulled together in a group
311. 11:23chat. Maybe when you sign up to ranked,
312. 11:25it'll just autopool you in with everyone
313. 11:27in ranked for that week and then the
314. 11:29group dispands. But they want people to
315. 11:31be able to find other like-minded
316. 11:33players and have nice discussions, which
317. 11:35actually sounds [music] pretty exciting
318. 11:37if they can get it right. For the emotes
319. 11:38and stickers, they are looking to make
320. 11:40them more eventful. So, they will rotate
321. 11:43the ones available just so that [music]
322. 11:45the chat continues to feel fresh, but
323. 11:48they will look to add emotes to other
324. 11:51areas of the game. And naturally, when
325. 11:52they do that, he did say that like
326. 11:54selling emotes is something they would
327. 11:56look to do cuz they are looking to
328. 11:58monetize through cosmetics. We did talk
329. 12:00a lot about AB testing in that interview
330. 12:03and the summary of this is more that in
331. 12:05the future there will be AB testing. It
332. 12:07will be less of the onoff style testing
333. 12:10where let's say the troop injection
334. 12:12events where we had the mass golden
335. 12:14dragons and then a small percentage of
336. 12:16players got that the month after they
337. 12:18were just missing it. But they will do
338. 12:20more of
339. 12:21varants. So for example the metal events
340. 12:24they don't even know what the cadence
341. 12:26is. Some people like it to be more
342. 12:28grindy some people don't. And they will
343. 12:31be [music] trying to test what is the
344. 12:32progression of events the rewards. For
345. 12:34example, I asked about the depleting
346. 12:37bonus medals in the medal events because
347. 12:39they've been going down over. What's the
348. 12:41deal with that? He did say they have
349. 12:42been testing it. They will be giving the
350. 12:44bonus medals like back. They just need
351. 12:46to figure out how because they were
352. 12:48testing giving them out on the Supercell
353. 12:50store, but then it's a small amount of
354. 12:51people that get them. They gave them out
355. 12:53in the trader shop. Some people got them
356. 12:55in the trader shop, some people didn't.
357. 12:56They just need to try and figure out how
358. 12:58best to do that, but they will be
359. 12:59looking to give the bonus medals back.
360. 13:01The treasure hunt was another example he
361. 13:03gave. Right now it's 5 days. You get
362. 13:06three chests per day. Maybe some players
363. 13:09might have the event for 3 days and get
364. 13:11five chests per day. Like which one is
365. 13:13best? They don't know. That's the type
366. 13:14of stuff they would test. I said that I
367. 13:16think communication shock communication
368. 13:19needs to improve with this as well
369. 13:22because they can't advertise events and
370. 13:24then just not give them at a certain
371. 13:25time. I think they need to utilize the
372. 13:27in-game event calendar better if they're
373. 13:29doing that sort [music] of thing. But it
374. 13:30sounds like the AB testing will be more
375. 13:31variance moving forward. Before I get to
376. 13:34the final interview, I was just checking
377. 13:35my list to make sure I hadn't forgot
378. 13:36anything. But actually, the interview
379. 13:38with Petri, it was an interesting
380. 13:40community question that I asked where on
381. 13:43mobile it can get a bit difficult
382. 13:46scrolling through all the troops. Maybe
383. 13:48having icons drop off the screen as
384. 13:50you've used them. He wasn't keen on that
385. 13:52because [music] if something drops and
386. 13:54you're just about to press a certain
387. 13:55area, it could mean you select the wrong
388. 13:57thing. But he did say, "Why don't we
389. 13:59just give double deployment to
390. 14:02everybody?" even if it's on phone. And I
391. 14:04really hope that is the case. I also
392. 14:06asked about replays because it would be
393. 14:08great to be able to scrub back to
394. 14:10certain points of the replay. And he
395. 14:11said it is something that was on their
396. 14:13list but has kind of dropped off with
397. 14:15priorities, but it's probably going to
398. 14:17come at some point. It's more a question
399. 14:19of when, not if. The controllable heroes
400. 14:22as well. Gosh, I missed a couple of
401. 14:24things here. He actually said that they
402. 14:25had a grand design with controllable
403. 14:27heroes where it was going to be multiple
404. 14:30players [music] playing at the same time
405. 14:32controlling a hero, but it just didn't
406. 14:35quite work out like that and they they
407. 14:36didn't go any further with it. Which to
408. 14:38be honest, I've brought a video for
409. 14:41years now about the updates I would like
410. 14:43to see that year. I think it was maybe 2
411. 14:45or 3 years ago now when I discussed the
412. 14:47two versus two mode that I would love. I
413. 14:50think it would be amazing how it is
414. 14:51incurrated into the core loop. That's
415. 14:53for designers to figure out, but I do
416. 14:55think it would be absolutely amazing.
417. 14:57One more that just came into my head,
418. 14:59though. I don't know why I didn't write
419. 15:00this down. He did say that they would be
420. 15:03looking in the future to allow two pets
421. 15:05per hero. They just don't have the
422. 15:07diversity of pets at the moment that
423. 15:10[music] if you had one of them upgrading
424. 15:12essentially, you'd be like left out. And
425. 15:14also like synergies might not work out
426. 15:15very well either. But in the future when
427. 15:17there's more pets, we could expect to
428. 15:19perhaps have two per hero. Anyways, the
429. 15:21interview with Alex, that is where we
430. 15:23discussed Guardians and got that Town
431. 15:25Hall 19 bit of information, but we also
432. 15:27got some exclusive prototype footage in
433. 15:30that interview because we discussed a
434. 15:32lot about how does he come up with troop
435. 15:35designs and how do they make the game
436. 15:40accessible without being too complex,
437. 15:42but complex enough for like, you know,
438. 15:44[music] players to get deep into the
439. 15:46strategy. To me, it was a really
440. 15:47interesting discussion and he shared a
441. 15:49lot of this footage and explained some
442. 15:51of the things as to like why these
443. 15:54troops didn't work. One of them he
444. 15:55wasn't able to share footage was an
445. 15:57eagle pet that was his favorite, but it
446. 15:59was just too broken. It would basically
447. 16:01allow you to drop your hero anywhere in
448. 16:03the base, bit like a spell. Clearly, you
449. 16:04could then just turn the queen invisible
450. 16:06like with the monolith arrow, especially
451. 16:08now. And yeah, way too broken. When I
452. 16:11asked him about maybe utilizing the
453. 16:13current content in the game, not just
454. 16:15adding new stuff all of the time, he's
455. 16:17actually a big fan of that. And one
456. 16:19thing that he would love to figure out
457. 16:21in terms of a game mode is actually
458. 16:23restricting. So, you wouldn't be able to
459. 16:25take all of your troops. Likewise, the
460. 16:27bases you were going up against wouldn't
461. 16:29have all of the defenses. But he said a
462. 16:31lot of the way they think about new game
463. 16:32modes at the moment is more like events.
464. 16:36So they're not just constantly adding
465. 16:38more to do because that's a mistake they
466. 16:40made with builder base and clan capital
467. 16:41where they were adding more for the
468. 16:43player to do. Having them as events
469. 16:45where you can kind of complete them as
470. 16:47you're doing your regular gameplay is
471. 16:48more the angle they're going at least
472. 16:50for the moment. If you are interested in
473. 16:52the rationale behind these decisions
474. 16:54from the team like why they are doing
475. 16:56these things then I would recommend the
476. 16:58interviews especially the one with
477. 17:00Petri. I didn't really go over the AI of
478. 17:02troops in this because wasn't really
479. 17:05update stuff, but he broke down exactly
480. 17:08how troops work, how they target certain
481. 17:10buildings, how the queen is always
482. 17:12breaking walls, like what triggers that
483. 17:14within the AI, which interestingly the
484. 17:17level of wall is not taken into account
485. 17:20for the pathfinder. I will actually link
486. 17:23Petri's interview and then you'll easily
487. 17:25find the others if you are interested
488. 17:27because I do think that one for a lot of
489. 17:29active players will be really
490. 17:31interesting so you can understand how
491. 17:33the game works a little bit more. But
492. 17:34this is all of the update information
493. 17:36we've received across the interviews.
494. 17:38Thank you again for the support. I love
495. 17:40doing the Judo Sloth talks interviews.
496. 17:42I'm glad that people enjoy them as well
497. 17:44and enjoy the rest of your