Winter Update Final Sneak Peek: New Levels to Heroes and Defenses + Quality of Life Changes + Release Date

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Hello Clashers, today the last Sneak Peek for the 2019 Winter Update was released by Supercell.

As expected, we are getting new levels to the Heroes, Spells and most troops and buildings on Town Hall 13. Bug fixes and "Quality of Life" changes were also anounced. Here are all details:

Auto Ability

listHeroes will now automatically try and save themselves and use their Ability if they take damage that would kill them and the ability is available to be used. Advanced players can disable this feature in More Settings. /list

Army Camp Resize

listResize Army Camps and Siege Workshop to 4x4 and Laboratory to 3x3 to free some space in the Village.

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Decorations

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listDecorations can now be placed on the outer edges of the map.

It is no longer necessary to place decorations in every layout. For example it's possible to have a decoration only in the Home Village layout but not in the War Base layout.

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Clan Perks

listReaching clan level 8 now enables clan members to donate 2 spells instead of 1

All existing troop donation limits have been increased by 1/list

Balancing

Buildings and Traps

listIncreased storage capacity of level 13 Gold Storages and Elixir Storages by 500000

Increased Multi Mortar damage by 10% across the board in Home Village

Reduced Spring Trap ejected housing space

sublistLevel 1: 15 → 10

Level 2: 16 → 12

Level 3: 17 → 14

Level 4: 18 → 16

Level 5: 19 → 18/sublist/list

Troops and Heroes

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Increase Giant level 8/9 HP from 1480/1660 to 1500/1850

Increase Miner level 6 HP from 870 to 900

Decrease Lava Hound explode radius from 5 tiles to 3.5 tiles

Add death damage of 1000/1200/1400 for level 1/2/3 Battle Blimp

Increase Valkyrie level 7 HP from 1400 to 1450

Make Grand Warden a bit less likely to follow Lava Hounds

Decrease troop healing of Level 5 Healer from 80 to 72

Increase hero healing of Level 5 Healer from 44 to 48/list

Loot

listIncreased the maximum amount of Elixir/Gold that can be looted from TH12 player storages by 50 000

Increased the maximum amount of Dark Elixir that can be looted from TH12 player storages by 500/list

Spells

listChange Skeleton spawning frequency to 1 skeleton per second after the initial spawns for all Skeleton spell levels

Increase cost of Haste spell level 2-5 from 85/90/95/100 to 100/120/140/160/list

New Hero Levels

We already knew about the new Royal Champion, but the other Heroes are also getting new levels on Town Hall 13:

listArcher Queen: 5 new levels

Barbarian King: 5 new levels

Grand Warden: 10 new levels/list

New Defense Levels

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The following defenses are getting an extra level on Town Hall 13:

listEagle Artillery Level 4

Inferno Tower Level 7

Wizard Tower Level 12

X-Bow Level 7

Air Defense Level 11

Hidden Tesla Level 11

Cannon Level 18

Walls Level 14 (100x pieces can be upgraded to Level 14)/list

New Building Levels

The following buildings are getting an extra level on Town Hall 13:

listSiege Workshop Level 4

Barracks Level 14

Dark Elixir Storage Level 8

Gold Storage Level 14

Elixir Storage Level 14

Clan Castle Level 9

Laboratory Level 11/list

New Troops and Spell Levels

The following troops are getting new levels on the Laboratory:

listWall Breaker

Balloon

Dragon

Miner

Electro Dragon

Hog Rider

Bowler/list

And here are the spells:

listHeal Level 8

Jump Level 4

Skeleton Level 7/list

New Trap Levels

Traps are not only getting new levels, but also new units. On Town Hall 13 you can build an extra Seeking Air Mine and Bomb.

Here are the new levels:

listSeeking Air Mine Level 4

Giant Bomb Level 6

Air Bomb Level 7

Bomb Level 9/list

Bug Fixes

listFix bug which adds wrong tag (HV instead of WB) to the layout link when sharing layout from purchased war layout slot.

Affects at least the text of clan chat entry

Fix for a crash caused by broken deep links for layout sharing

Fix bug in the case where if any wall is destroyed all units who are attacking wall will retarget immediately. Now they will retarget only after finishing their hit

Fixes issues with Battle Machine and PEKKA attacking walls and doing no damage in Builder Base

Force retarget for Grand Warden if he's attacking a wall and his group has died

Improve attack position evaluation by checking if the target is reachable before reaching the path end.

Should improve AI of many ground troops, but especially Battle Machine./list

Release Date

With the Sneak Peeks officially over, we can speculate that the update is right around the corner and should be released this Monday or Tuesday.