Developer's Note - Live Clash 1st Major Update

This is Dev. Nom from the Baseball Superstars Team.

As mentioned previously from the most recent Dev. Notes,

We are excited to announce the 1st Major Update on Live Clash!

First and foremost, We want to express our sincere gratitude for providing us your honest opinions and feedback from the past [Live Clash] mode.

We have carefully reviewed and examined every suggestion and concern you provided.

We promise to continuously improve the in-game feature to give you fresh and new excitement, not overdoing homework.

We want to share the upcoming confirmed changes of the [Live Clash] mode coming soon.

## 1st Live Clash Major Update Details

* Please note that they are still under development, and the details are subject to change without prior notice.

### **1) Shorten Play Time**

We have confirmed that many players around the world felt fatigued and boringness through 3 innings of [Live Clash]

To provide you a sense of high tension and excitement at-bat,

We will reduce the game from 3 innings to 1 inning and keep the overtime at a maximum of 3 innings.

### **2) Happy Weekend 'Participation Reward' Revamp**

We sincerely apologize for the frustration you experienced from [Happy Weekend].

We will adjust the 'Participation Reward' from 1/4/7/12 games played, to 1/2/3/5 games played.

The amount of compensation will remain the same.

### **3) Super Skill usage Revamp**

As the innings per game are reduced to 1 inning, we wanted to make Super Skills the core strategy in every match.

We will adjust the number of Super Skill use per game to one time for both Batter and Pitcher.

However, the Super Skill usage for Scrimmage (Play All) will remain at 3 times each.

Regarding Super Skill animation skip function, we are unable to make changes to the function due to synchronization issue in real-time content.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused by this issue, and thank you for your understanding.

### **4) Intentional Harassment Prevention**

We confirm the exploiting/abuse of the intentional 'Base on Balls' (Walk), 'Hit by Pitch', or 'Pickoff' to distract and harass the opponent.

As a precautionary measure for this part, we will count as a 'Forfeit' for those who abuse it.

- If the accumulated number of 'Base on Balls (Walk)' reaches 8 times, a loss of 'Forfeit' will be processed.

- If the accumulated number of 'Hit by Pitch' reaches 5 times, a loss of 'Forfeit' will be processed.

- ~~If the accumulated number of 'Pickoff' reaches 12 times, a loss of 'Forfeit' will be processed~~ (12 Pickoffs are allowed per inning)

### **5) Batter Control Revamp**

We previously announced that we plan to remove the Advanced Batter Control in [Live Clash]

We received countless pieces of feedback stating it will take away the excitement of the game when the control is removed.

We re-discussed the issue and agreed that removing the Advanced Batter Control will only halve the fun for everyone.

Therefore, we will only remove the impact point of the swing.

### **6) Improved Matching System**

We will improve the matching system so that matching between players is based on similar OVR and tier rank.

We will continue to improve the matching system as the game progresses.

### **7) New Emoticons added**

We will add 2 new emoticons to improve communications between players.

- 'Nice' and 'Surprised' will be added to the emoticon list.

Along with a major update in [Live Clash], we plan to update in-game features and more events to double the excitement for everyone.

We will return with details through future updates and patch notes!

We hope to meet everyone in [Live Clash], and Thank you for your support and love for Baseball Superstars 2021!

-Dev. Nom-