Blood Bowl 3 debuts seasonal 'blood pass', gives away Lizardmen team for free
Despite multiple delays, Blood Bowl 3 launched in a rough state. Like more than one recent live-service game, it went on sale with basic features missing and significant bugs, yet the cosmetics shop was working and well-stocked. Cyanide Studio is giving away the first season pass free to make up for it, which means if you log in now you can claim the «blood pass» and unlock the Lizardmen team. Future season passes will cost 1,000 warpstone, and players on the free track will only be able to unlock each season's team by making it to maximum level.
Fortunately, you can earn experience points toward those levels in singleplayer as well as multiplayer matches. The amount of points earned is affected by how many turns a match lasts as a way of encouraging players to keep going rather than conceding early. A match that ends in the first few turns can earn less than 100 xp, while ones that last the full 16 turns seem to be worth around 800 or 900 points. It costs 1,000 xp to make it to level 2, and each level-up comes with a reward, either a cosmetic unlock or a free bundle of warpstone currency.
Like Blood Bowl 3 itself, this first season had to be delayed, and was released a month later than planned. An accompanying blog post says, «We understand that some of the content you expect in Blood Bowl 3 is not yet available. Season 1 is a first step in adding those important elements, and we will keep working on delivering features and exciting novelties over the next weeks, months, and seasons.»
According to that announcement, the much-requested ability to reconnect if you suffer a mid-match dropout is now active for players on PC, and admin tools for running custom leagues are being tested by «selected league administrators»
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