Splinterlands New Update Explained | Winterfest Ending, New Ruleset & UI Improvements !!
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Splinterlands Lovers !!
A new update of Splinterlands has come in which there were many problems like bug issue, avatar issue, these problems have been solved. Some of the updates here are really nice, like the post-battle animations. Which I will tell you through the post.

Winterfest Update
The Winterfest event is now ending, so some things related to the event are being removed. In which the Holiday Shop tab will no longer be visible meaning that earlier there was a separate Holiday Shop tab in the shop from where special items for Winterfest were available. That option has been removed from there.
Holiday Avatar items were removed from the shop. Meaning Winterfest's special avatars are no longer available for purchase. Whatever you have earned or purchased in the game will be visible to you and will remain with you. You can not buy new ones anymore.
Gift boxes can still be opened. If you won or earned Gift Boxes at Winterfest and have not opened them yet They can open it by going to Inventory. Your gift boxes are safe. It is said here that you check the inventory to make sure that there are no boxes left. Therefore it has been asked to check the inventory.
New Ruleset Update
Brute Force Ruleset - This is a new ruleset. In this rule, speed and position are not considered, only which unit has the higher attack number. The unit with the highest individual attack will attack first.

Here the card with the highest attack power will attack first. Suppose there are two cards in the battle.
The attack power of the first card is 3.
The attack power of the second card is 4.
So the card with attack power 4 will attack first.
Here melee attack or ranged, magic is called attack power. Now the card which has more will attack first. The card with higher attack power will attack first. No matter what situation he is in.
The format of the ruleset has been revised
Rulesets will now differ according to the format. Now only necessary rulesets will be visible in every game format like Frontier-Modern-Wild. Difficult rulesets will not appear in Frontier mode. That is so that new players do not get confused.
A new Campaign Prologue chapter has been added covering Avatar creation.
Stampede Death Has No Power will not come along. These two rulesets will no longer be found in the same battle. There will be only one rule in any one battle. The reason for doing this is that the battles will be more fair. There will be less confusion. Gameplay will be more balanced.
Bug Issue Fixed
Bug Fix - Spite Ability
There used to be a problem with this rule. The Spite ability would sometimes be activated twice by the blast of the execute attack.
Example:
Suppose in battle you have a card which has Spite ability.
What normally happens is that the Spite ability will activate once in the Execute attack blast. But due to a bug, sometimes the Spite ability was activated twice. Meaning damage or effect was applied twice which was not correct. This issue has been completely fixed. Now the Spite ability will always activate only once. Now this problem will not happen.
Spite ability will now always run correctly, the problem with double activation is gone.
General Updates In Game
1 - Here you will find backgrounds and frames for your avatar. You can buy any frame or background you like from the shop. Here you can customize your avatar according to your preferences. This update is great for us we can design our avatars however we want.

2- A new chapter has been added in Campaign mode named -Prologue.This chapter introduces the campaign.
3 - New players will now choose their Bloodline as soon as they start the game. The selection of bloodline will decide what type and abilities your character will have, which will affect your gameplay style and strategy.
4 - Earlier there were typing or display issues in the names of some avatars. Meaning the names did not look correct or letters were missing or the name itself looked wrong due to missing letters. There has been improvement here. Developers fixed the Avatar naming system. Now all the names will appear correctly and completely. This means that the typing problem and the display problem will not occur now. The avatar's name will now display correctly.
5 - Here a new feature has been added to the game. In which the intro scene of avatars has been added before the match starts. This feature is activated before the match starts. Now the intro scene of the avatars will appear. Intro scene means that before the match some visual sequence or animation comes, which introduces the avatar.
6 - A new feature has been added here. Here immediately after the match ends, a visual screen called Outro display will appear. Where you will see the animation after the player loses. I liked these features very much. With this, players get clear feedback at the end of the match and the look looks very good. The visual experience after the match is better and attractive.
Example Battle Finished Screen

UI And Quality Issue Fixed
Red dot indicator has been added on the Updates tab - I liked this update very much. What's good here is that - whenever new content comes in the Updates tab like rewards, announcements, then a red dot will appear on the tab. This is so that users know about the update.
Previously, there was no option to go to the reward shop after the weekly draw. You could not access the shop directly. However this issue has now been fixed. A button to go directly to the reward shop has been added after the weekly draw. This makes the process much smoother and provides quicker access.
Avatars of past weekly draw winners were not displaying correctly at first. This problem has been rectified here, now the avatars of the winners will show you correctly. This update is good.
On mobile or small screens, it seemed very difficult to go back to the top after the page went down too much. Mobile players used to face a lot of problems. This problem has been fixed. Now up-arrow button has been given which scrolls to the top immediately. Meaning, the problem of mobile and people of that time has been solved here.
Previously, when you traded land resources, there was no confirmation screen. This update will clarify which regions are involved in the swap. This means you won't make a mistake, as a confirmation option will now appear.


Earlier when you open the worksheet, the bloodline of cards was not immediately visible. But now the bloodline is shown on the original Manage Worksite screen. Here the system has been further smoothed.
Tournament filter that shows only Exemplar playable tournaments - This means there is now a filter option in the tournaments list that shows only those tournaments in which the user can use playable Exemplar cards.
In Splinterlands land plots are NFTs. You can lock these plots or transfer them to someone else. The problem was that sometimes the plot transfer or locking function wasn't working correctly, and the status wasn't displaying properly on the screen. This issue has now been fixed. Locked land plots now appear as locked, and transferred plots appear as transferred.
In Splinterlands game battles, duplicate buffs were previously displayed on units, causing confusion. Although only one buff was actually applied, it appeared twice, leading to this issue. This has now been fixed, and duplicate buffs will no longer be displayed. This means there will be no more confusion during battles.
It was very difficult for new players that the Gladius Cases shop wasn't directly visible. Now, the Gladius Cases All Packs have been added to the shop. If needed, you will be redirected to the Guild Shop. This update is perfect for new players, as it will reduce confusion.

Previously the "Choose Your Path" prompt didn't display correctly on smaller screens like mobile phones or tablets. But now, the prompt has been fixed for small displays.
Minor visual and text issues in many parts of the game have been fixed. Earlier, minor visual or text issues related to UI were seen at some places. The problem has been fixed here, now after the update the UI looks more clean, readable and stable.
Can skip avatar animations between matches - This means that there is an option in Ab user settings to skip avatar intro animations. This is especially useful for those users who want to start the match quickly. If you want to start the game quickly then you can select this option I will tell you about it in the screen post.

Conclusion
Whatever new updates have come to the game are very good. I really liked the battle result animation after the game ends. The Splinterlands update here was great. Some rules have been changed for new players. The game has been made smoother and there is also an update for those who play on small screens. Meaning Splinterlands is bringing some good updates for its players every day so that the players find the game smooth.
This post is written by me based on the official Splinterlands update announcement.
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