[Oct. 6, 2021] v4.0.0 Update Notes
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Hey there, Sluggers!
v4.0.0 Update notes have arrived.

▶ “Artifact” added
- An additional equipable card called an “Artifact” is added.
- There are five new Artifacts, each with the following base skill.
1) Magic Gear: Critical Score Increase
2) Grizzly: Cycling Homerun Score Increase
3) Soul Light Combo Score Increase
4) Stone Guard: Announced Homerun Score Increase
5) Angry Shark: Object Score Increase (All OBJ Hit scores in the stadium are increased)
: Leveling up an Artifact randomly increases the add-on stats within a certain range.

- Artifacts can only be leveled up with Artifact EXP.
: Artifact EXP can be obtained by dismantling unused cards.
※ Obtaining duplicates of an already max-leveled card are now kept instead of being automatically refunded in gold.
You can now obtain Artifact EXP by dismantling them.
: You can now dismantle Batter, Equipment, Skill, and Artifact cards.
: Dismantling higher grade cards gives you more EXP.
: Gold is required to dismantle cards.

- Upgrade Artifacts to make them stronger.
: Upgrading Artifacts will randomly grant you one of these skills.
● Ball Defense Breaker / Batter Defense Breaker / Announced Homerun Gauge / Critical Hit Score / Perfect Score / Symbol Score / Challenge Mode Score / Clan Conquest Score
: Upgrading the Artifact to a certain level will either add a new additional skill or improve the stats of an already existing skill.

▶ Reinforced Batter Promotion
- 2nd promotions are now available for Legendary batters.
: Batter available for 2nd promotion - Annie McLane
: Batters must have finished the 1st promotion and reached lv. 4 to be eligible for the 2nd promotion.
: The Batter Skills will be upgraded as below after the second promotion.
● ANNIE MCLANE : RIGHT FIELD CYCLING HR SCORE

▶ New Batter!
- Allstar Batter “Wild Billy” is now available.
: Can be acquired after WILD WEST PARK opens

▶ Clan Conquest Improvements
- Batters will take the mound as pitchers in Clan Conquest.
- Pitcher’s skill Ball Speed Up is tweaked as follows.
: The Debuff Decrease Flight Distance has been nerfed.

▶ Title and Collection System added
- You can now obtain Titles by achieving certain conditions.
: The acquired Titles can be found on the profile's “TITLE" page.
: You can equip 1 Title at a time and it will be shown on the left side of your nickname.
- Your tournament records are kept in the form of Collections.
: View your collections on the profile’s “COLLECTION” page.

▶ Ranking Rewards Increased
- Global Ranking rewards are increased as follows.
: RANK 1 - SHINING RARE CHEST4 -> SHINING EPIC CHEST4
: RANK 2 - SHINING RARE CHEST3 -> SHINING EPIC CHEST3
: RANK 3 - SHINING RARE CHEST2 -> SHINING EPIC CHEST2
: RANK 4~10 - SHINING GOLD CHEST2 -> SHINING UNIQUE CHEST2
: RANK 11~50 - SHINING SILVER CHEST2 -> SHINING RARE CHEST2
: RANK 51~100 - SHINING NORMAL CHEST2 -> SHINING GOLD CHEST2

- Clan Ranking rewards are increased as follows.
: RANK 1 - EPIC CHEST1 -> HUGE EPIC CHEST3
: RANK 2 - SHINING UNIQUE CHESTx1 ->HUGE EPIC CHEST2
: RANK 3 - UNIQUE CHEST1 -> HUGE EPIC CHEST1
: RANK 4~10 - SHINING RARE CHEST1 -> HUGE UNIQUE CHEST1
: RANK 11~30 -RARE CHEST1 -> SHINING UNIQUE CHEST1
: RANK 31~50 - SHINING GOLD CHEST1 -> SHINING RARE CHEST1
: RANK 51~100 - GOLD CHEST1 -> RARE CHEST1

▶ System Improvements
- You can now skip the animation of opening cards and chests by tapping the Skip button.
- Improved animations for Firefighter Percival’s Announced Homerun.
- UI layout overhauled

▶ Shop Improvement
- New package item's added
- Products Improvements

We will do our best make Homerun Clash more exciting and more challenging than ever.
Thank you