At last, one of our most loved minigames has gone through the highly requested revamp! We would like to thank everyone for their patience over these past few months as we have worked up to this stage. As of today, Skywars is officially out of beta and starting its brand new journey on our revamped backend! This changelog will detail all changes (big and small) which players can expect to see with this Skywars revamp. Spoiler: New Skywars Maps New Skywars Maps - Pharaoh's Tower - Dionysus - Pumpkin Farm - Nautical - Western Mines V2 - The Shire - Relica - Oeste - Noxious - Launch - Khione - Jungle Jam - Invasion V2 - Honey - Fantasy Island - Domos - Coral Reef - Camisados Bridge - Botany - Bosques - Aguamenti Quality Of Life Changes One of the goals for this Skywars revamp was to stick with the same feeling Skywars that all of our community know and love. Whilst we did not majorly change any gameplay aspects, we did however bring a boat load of QOL changes with this revamp such as: Reduced enderpearl cooldown, Removal of explosive arrows, Implementation of Map Voting, Removal of double damage ability, Much better balancing of Experience, Increased TNT limit, Removal of donator perks (balancing / eula purposes) and much more! Supply Drops One of the most notable changes with this revamp is the implementation of Supply Drops. These drops will occur randomly throughout the game, falling from the sky containing awesome loot to assist with speeding things up later on in the game! Make sure you keep an eye in the sky for these epic looking supply drops, drifting down to the islands below on a beautiful umbrella. They could make the difference between a win or a loss with their epic unique items. New Cosmetics Of course one of the best things about being on our new backend, is access to our new library of cosmetics! All of the revamped cosmetics are now available for use on Skywars including Guardian Angels, Projectile Trails, Player Tags and much more. Get playing so you can start unlocking from this massive collection! Quests & Achievements If you have been keeping up to date with this Minigames revamp, you should know all about Quests and Achievements! Skywars will bring forwards loads of new available quests which can be completed by players (either daily or weekly) to reward them with Experience and Tokens to spend at the Token Merchant. Achievements are fun objectives giving players a secondary task to work towards in Skywars (either challenges or long term goals over their entire career). Make sure to check out all available Skywars achievements inside our Minigame Lobby and see which ones you can achieve! Spectate Ongoing Games Another awesome advantage of Skywars making its way over to our new backend! Spectating ongoing games has many benefits. Not only is it a great tool for staff to properly moderate minigames (finally), it is also a great tool for new players or friends to simply watch games without the stress of playing! Spectating ongoing games can be done through the Join NPC inside the Minigame Lobby (this will display all ongoing games). Alternatively, if you would to spectate your friend on our new minigames revamp, you can simply type '/spectate <player>' to be instantly teleported to their ongoing minigame. 21 New Skywars Maps Maps are just as important as the plugin side of things. The Skywars community has been stuck with the same maps for many years now and it is time to give them more! This revamp has been released with 21 new maps (including some awesome remakes of disliked maps). We now have a whopping 55 maps in rotation for Skywars, which is sure to keep players busy for a long time coming! A huge thank you to the community for submitting these new maps, keep them coming! Conclusion As you can see, many positive changes have been brought forwards with this long awaited revamp. Behind the scenes, Skywars has been completely remade from the ground up. We have taken this opportunity to give everything a fresh new face (more in-theme with the rest of our network) alongside many balancing changes. A huge thank you to all of the community that helped make this possible by submitting their feedback and creating maps. This is definitely not the end of what is to come! Keep your feedback and ideas coming so we can keep these minigames moving forward! - Skywars Revamp Trailer - A huge thank you to our staff member 89p for putting together this awesome trailer for the Skywars revamp!
