Finally, over a year since I started working on it, the
Draft System is available for everyone to try. For those who don't know, drafting is an alternative way to play Versus mode in which each player starts with the same partial custom pack and then takes turns picking pets and food to fill the empty slots. When all players have a completed pack it's time to face off! Of course, you could also use it to create a pack for Arena if you want to - maybe race head to head with a friend to see who can get a win with their drafted pack first or take on a solo random draft! With this being the first publicly available version, I'm sure there will be teething problems so do be aware that
it may be taken offline at any time if something serious needs fixed.
We've been putting out draft videos as a group for a while now, and you can follow them or catch up via the
Draft Video Series page. Find videos from previous rounds or study the Average Draft Positions of all the pets.
As part of the draft update the
Pack Randomiser now allows you to leave empty pet slots. Although this was intended for draft you could also challenge yourself to start with a partial random pack and fill it with the 'correct' pets you need to get a win. Also the pets being selected or excluded on the
Pack Designer and
Pack Randomiser are highlighted now for better legibility.
To make it easier to use your own existing custom packs, I've also added an
Import Pack screen.
A long standing bug on the
Team Randomiser page has finally been fixed. Previously all the token pets would disappear if you didn't include all packs in the randomisation. The 'special' token pets have also been added alongside the other tiered pets, such as dolphin in Puppy Pack or monkey in Golden Pack.
Since I was curious about it myself, I've added Weekly Most and Least Common to
Computed Packs. This section has also been changed so that the food is included in the ranking if possible, but can still be randomised if the ranking only makes sense for pets.
Meanwhile the
Challenge Videos page has now passed 1000 entries. That's a whole lot of challenging - great work everyone!