Celebrate Lunar Festival 2017!
We’re ringing in the new year with a new Lunar Festival event, which includes new and returning skins and bundles, as well as new Special Event quests and rewards! Be sure to complete your quests and pick up a few skins before our 2017 Lunar Festival event concludes on Tuesday, February 14.
- Lunar Festival Quests and Rewards:
- Quest: Complete the Rooster Race once.
- Quest: Complete the Rooster Race 25 times during the 2017 Lunar Festival event.
- Rewards: Lunar Rooster Portrait and the Lunar Rooster Mount.
- Lunar Festival Quest Details
- Each day during Lunar Festival, players will receive a new event quest to complete the Rooster Race.
- If any players on a team have not yet finished that day’s quest, there’s a chance that the Lunar Rooster, and many festive items, will appear in the team’s starting area.
- Collect the required items and return them to the Rooster to advance his position. Return 4 items before time runs out to complete the Rooster Race!
- PTR Note: While elements of the Lunar Festival event may appear on the Test Realm, players will not be able to make progress toward quests or rewards until the patch is released to the live version of Heroes of the Storm next week.
Sandbox Custom Games Now Available
- A new version of Cursed Hollow has been added to Custom Games that will allow up to 10 players at once to use a wide variety of “cheats” to test the absolute limits of their Heroes in multiplayer, sandbox-style gameplay.
- A cheat menu will appear along the left side of the screen in-game.
- By default, only Player 1 will have access to the cheat menu.
- However, Player 1 can check the “Share Cheats” box at the top of the menu to give access to all other players.
- Players may close the cheat menu by clicking the “X” in the top-right corner of the panel. The menu can be restored by clicking the “Show Controls” button.
- All players will receive an in-game chat notification whenever a cheat is used.
- The cheat menu features a wide variety of different options:
- Set Game Speed: Change game speed among Slower, Slow, Normal, Fast, and Faster.
- Toggle Minions: Enable or disable Minion spawns for each team.
- Reset Structures: Restore all Structures to full Health. If a Structure was destroyed, it is rebuilt.
- Toggle Tribute Spawning: Enable or disable Raven Lord Tribute spawns. This button is only enabled before the first Tribute event begins.
- Move Here: Instantly moves the player's Hero to the camera location.
- Reset Talents: Reset all players’ Talent selections.
- If “Share Cheats” is enabled, this button will only reset Talents for the player that pressed it.
- Reset Cooldowns: Reset all players’ Ability cooldowns. Can be used once every 5 seconds.
- If “Share Cheats” is enabled, this button will only reset cooldowns for the player that pressed it.
- Set Team Level: Adjust each team's level from 1 up to 30. This will also affect the strength of Minions and neutral Mercenary Camps.
- Toggle Infinite Mana: Enable or disable Ability costs for each team.
- Set Damage Dealt: Adjust each team’s damage output from 0 up to 300% of normal damage.
- Set Damage Taken: Adjust the amount of damage received by each team from 0 up to 300% of normal damage.
Performance Improvements
- Improved the performance of a rendering system that is used across most Hero Abilities and environment effects. This should improve framerates during team fights on many systems.
