Patch 0.25.0: Nothing Unnamed

WARPATH points were being credited correctly and then never mentioned again. You finished a match, the pass ticked up somewhere off screen, and the only way to confirm it was to go and stare at the strip on /play.
The battle results screen now carries the points you earned from that match, and every row in your match history on /play carries the same figure. Both read the recorded ledger for that specific match, so an old match shows what it actually paid at the time rather than a recalculated guess.

The picker could filter by mana range, which is fine when you are browsing and useless when you have exactly four mana left and need to know what fits. There is now a direct input for an exact mana cost, so you can ask the question you actually have.

Pick your sort once and the picker keeps it. It is stored in your browser, so it follows you between drafts on that device without needing an account setting. Everything else about the filter rail is unchanged.

Four separate gaps are closed here, and they all had the same shape: something changed a number and the log did not say what.
Per-turn effects that tick each round, like poison and regeneration, were logged as bare damage and healing with no ability named. They are named now.
A ruleset that fires on a group of Fighters used to log that it fired without saying who it hit. The affected Fighters are listed.
A miss caused by an evade ability, and damage reduced by a damage-modifying ability or ruleset, both used to render as a plain miss or a smaller number. The responsible ability is now named in the line.
The armor number in the log is also now taken from the armor the engine actually absorbed, rather than a value read after rulesets had already adjusted it, so what you read matches what happened.

When you had locked your team and your opponent had not, the waiting screen said your battle was being prepared and showed no clock. It read as though something was stuck on our side.
It now says plainly that your opponent is still assembling their team, and shows exactly how long they have left before the pick window closes. Nothing about the pick window itself changed, you just get to see it.

A long pass on what the browser has to download before it can paint anything. The landing page was pulling down the sign-in machinery and the full ability catalog whether or not you were signed in, so that work is now deferred or skipped entirely for a visitor who is just reading the page. Two dozen component stylesheets that only signed-in surfaces use were moved out of the render-blocking bundle, and the interior pages got a bundle of their own.
Alongside that: the four landing animations now run on the compositor rather than forcing layout on every frame, the promo card and the league badges ship at the size they are actually displayed at, device fingerprint collection moved off the critical path, and static assets now carry long-lived immutable cache headers so a returning visit re-fetches almost nothing.

A behaviour-identical performance pass across the replay player: less work at boot, less work per frame while a battle is running, less repainting, and a smaller image payload for banners and league crests. The simulation is untouched. A replay still resolves byte-identically from its seed, the same one you watched last week is the same one you watch today.

Opening a conversation used to fetch the things needed to draw each message one at a time as it went. Those are now loaded together up front, so a busy conversation appears in one go instead of filling in.

Percentages and file sizes were rendering with English separators and English unit labels even with the interface set to German. They now follow German conventions like everything else on the page.

The live balance updates pushed to your wallet chips are now rendered in your own language and are strictly read-only on the way out. If your interface is in German, so are the numbers that arrive without a page reload.

This is the one worth reading. The combat engine keeps the card catalog in memory for speed, and that copy was never given a reason to expire. So a catalog change applied on the server outside the running process, which is exactly how a balance patch lands, was picked up by some parts of the site and not by the engine. Last patch's Prime Coherence fix was live on the card page and still not live in combat.
The engine's copy now expires on a timer and re-reads the catalog. A balance change applied to the live database takes effect in battles without waiting for anything to be restarted.

Reinforce grants your Fighters one maximum health and one current health. When it expired, both were removed, including from Fighters that had since been damaged down below the granted amount. A Fighter could effectively be charged health it no longer had. Expiry now removes the maximum health it granted without taking current health the Fighter earned back through healing.

Phalanx keyed off a Fighter's starting slot rather than where it stood at that moment, so after deaths shifted the line it could apply to the wrong Fighter. It now uses effective position, which is what every other position-sensitive rule already used.

When damage was applied on a delay and a heal landed in the same window, the replay could show the heal against the pre-damage health and then snap. The health values shown now settle in the order the engine resolved them.

A player who dropped below the rating floor of their tier was not being demoted out of it, which left the tier holding people its rating band said should be one step down. Demotion now passes through the floor correctly.

An invite could be accepted and then leave both players sitting in a lobby that never became a match. Those lobbies are now recovered and carried through to a live game instead of stalling.

The KRED purchase screen was quoting from a value baked in at load rather than the live configured rate, so a rate change could leave a stale price on screen. It now reads the live setting, and it refuses outright to quote against a zero or negative rate instead of producing a nonsense price.

The host page's battle log toggle could report a state it was not actually in. Separately, the Backfire rule had lost its return bolt in the replay, so the damage happened with nothing shown. Both are back to matching what the engine did.

Five labels on the replay overlays were never being translated and rendered in English regardless of your language setting. They now use the same translations as the rest of the page.

Damage and heal numbers are positioned over the Fighter they belong to. Where the board was being scaled to fit, that position was calculated before the scale was applied, so the numbers drifted away from their card. The calculation now accounts for the scale it is rendered into.

On the public card catalog, filtering by ability or attack type ignored the league level cap you were browsing at, so a card could match on an ability it does not have until a level above your league. The filter now respects the league axis you have selected.

The Lab was rendering each card at its baked art level rather than the level the engine actually fought the re-simulation at. The displayed level now matches what was simulated.

A re-run of the GO loyalty grant could hand out a reward a second time. Grants are now deduplicated against a durable record of what was already given, so a re-run is a no-op instead of a double payout.

The blog thumbnails pulled from Hive were being blocked by the site's content policy and rendering as gaps. They are now served through our own domain and appear. The landing page also stopped opening a live connection for visitors who are not signed in and have nothing to receive on it.

Bronze caps your Fighters at level 2, silver at level 4, gold at level 6. A card that carries its defining ability at level 1 therefore brings that ability into every league, including the one with the tightest mana and the least counterplay available.
Four Water rares and one epic were doing exactly that, and the Water cluster was the strongest thing in bronze because of it. None of them lose anything at max level: the top of each card is byte-identical to before, same stats, same kit, same mana. What changes is the level at which the engine ability switches on.