Known Issues: Oath Of The Gatewatch Event

David [Hi-Fi] Moore

Hi everyone,

We know you have some questions regarding the upcoming Oath of the Gatewatch event. The First Strike event starts at 4:00 PM UTC (9 AM PDT) on Friday, July 1st. Apologies for any confusion. Here's word from Hibernum about two known issues you may notice in the first run:

"Hey folks, We are aware of two issues regarding the upcoming Oath of the Gatewatch event that is coming on Friday. Unfortunately these issues were caught at the very last second, after we had submitted the new version of the game, and therefore are present in the game right now. Rest assured that the issues will be fixed shortly, but due to timing issues we cannot fix them before the event starts. They will be fixed for the next wave of the event, which will begin next week. We apologize about these issues and we are doing our best to fix them in a very timely manner.

Event Timing
The first of these issues regards the display of the timing of the event. Currently, if you join the event, it should say “Starts in X days” instead of just “X days”. When the event is live, this will display the time left for the event, such as “Ends in X days”. This does not impact gameplay but does impact comprehension of the timing of the event. The event will go live on Friday, July 1st.

Planeswalker Life Display
The second issue affects the Planeswalker life display and count after encounters in the event. If you used healing, the life display will be wrong (it counts total damage taken rather than life total at the end of the encounter). If you do not use healing, the life display will be accurate. This issue will be fixed in a hotfix soon, but again, due to timing issues we are unable to push it before this event starts.

We apologize for these issues, and once again we want to stress that we are working hard to make sure they are fully resolved for when the 2nd wave of the event starts next week."

Thank you!