2025 Hotfix Patch Notes

In between patches, often minor corrections and changes are made. This is a list of those changes.

Last Updated: 1:32pm PST September 10, 2025

July 2025

• (7/11) Fixed a number of campaigns that were failing to add certain abilities to some units.
• (7/11) Fixed an issue in which bots would still deploy Collection of Souls in Skirmishes in cases where it would immediately destroy the champion.
• (7/11) Fixed an issue that could cause a game crash that would make the match end with "cancelled" related to the ability Body Jumper.
• (7/11) Fixed an issue in which the ability Violent could potentially not trigger if multiple units with Violent are in range of each other.
• (7/11) Fixed an issue in which the ability Mind Lock could copy the ability Sunder. NOTE: this may be happening to other abilities due to a data issue, if you find any other instances of Mind Lock copying a non-activated ability, please report them in the ⁠bugs channel of the community discord or the bugs forum.
• (7/11) Fixed an issue in which the ability Pace could trigger off of damage from non-basic attacks
• (7/12) Changed the ability Sword Breaker so it only shows that it triggered (combat log, animation, etc) when it hits a champion that was actually equipped.

August 2025

• (8/1) The relic Bridge to Nowhere now correctly has Font Ignorance
• (8/1) Fixed an issue that caused matches to immediately end with a "canceled" error if the map selected was Tundra Lake
• (8/3) The ability Toss Equipment given by the equipment Bag of Boulders now begins on cooldown.
• (8/3) The ability Toss Equipment given by the equipment Oaken Mace now begins on cooldown.
• (8/13) Fixed an issue in which the Shores of Maljara (ranked) map had an incorrect position for the Player 2 shrine.
• (8/13) The nora cost for the relic Bridge to Nowhere has been changed from 20 to 25.
• (8/16) Damage from the condition Branded is now flagged as being from the attacking unit. As such, when a champion is killed by the additional damage from Branded it will now correctly trigger on-damage and on-kill effects (e.g., Quest: Kill Enemy)
• (8/17) The ability Decapitating Blow now correctly triggers on-kill effects (e.g., Battle Leader)

September

• (9/1) Fixed an issue in which the ability Stun did not correctly give the target champion the Stunned condition.
• (9/2) Fixed an issue in which the ability Extinguish Matter could target champions or relics that have an ability or effect that should make them untargetable by abilities (e.g., Impenetrable)
• (9/9) Fixed an issue in which the spell Banish would move the affected unit to the wrong deployment zone.
• (9/9) Fixed an issue in which the champion equipped with equipment Cyclops Eye Belt would retain the ability Precision if the equipment was removed through some means (e.g., Shatter, etc).
• (9/9) Fixed an issue in which the spell Open the Earth was affecting AOE2 instead of AOE3.
• (9/10) Fixed an issue in which the ability Equalize would trigger its refund effect when both players had the same number of deployed champions before deploying the champion with Equalize (including if both players had 0 champions in play).