Call of Heroes Event 2023

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## New Cats

Call of Heroes 2023 was a full *Castle Cats* event added in app version 3.13. It began on April 24, received a mid-event update on May 17, and ran through June 10.

The event introduced six new heroes: Charlotte, Splatter and Brego, who could be purchased with real money, and three more who could be crafted in Alchemy. All 21 of the previous Call of Heroes cats were also available in various ways.

New guild leader customization options were available in the Event Shop, as were one new and eight returning hero outfits. Items from past Call of Heroes events were available in the prize pool of the Event Box. The Event Badge and Event Pass offered progressive rewards as players meet objectives based on event activities.

## Event Quest

The event included an 18-quest campaign that featured the following characters (in order of appearance): Atomic Flash (Catniss), Francis, Conan, Purrcis, Edward, Mewton, Logan, Justicecat, Metal Claw, Curio, Bob, Leonard (Dragoncaller), and Kai. A transcript of the dialog is now available.

## Event Content

### Event Materials

While the event was live, rewards for event-specific, regular and battle quests at quest level 4 and above could include superhero capes, toxic spiders and chemical bottles. Call of Heroes event materials could be used to craft hero eggs and plushies and acquire new guild leader items. These materials could also be purchased as microtransactions in the Event Shop.

 1000 of each Call of Heroes material
 500 of each Call of Heroes material

The quest selection screen included a materials boost button offering the option to watch an ad and get double event materials from quest rewards for 30 minutes. Alternatively, purchasing a new premium hero for real money will double event materials from quest rewards and purchasing two or more microtransaction cats will triple them. These boosts lasted for the duration of the event and replaced the ad boost option.

### Premium Heroes

The Event Shop offered three new Call of Heroes cats as microtransaction purchases and eleven returning heroes available for gems.

 +250VIP XP

### Alchemy

#### Hero Eggs

Three new Call of Heroes cats could be crafted in Alchemy, from the Peace Biscuit, Melon Helmet, and Sleep Cloud Eggs. Ten crafting heroes from previous Call of Heroes events were also available.

#### Plushies

*Note: Plushies can only be unlocked in guilds that have reached level 50.*

The Super Sweeper mini-game returned for a third consecutive year. Players who had already unlocked any of the previous years' plushies found them ready for crafting in the Alchemy station or, if already crafted, with a green checkmark.

The mini-game was a Minesweeper clone accessed by tapping the bomb icon in the lower left of the guild hall screen. The "How to play" button provided instructions. Players got five lives a day and could get three additional lives by watching an ad as often as desired. Six plushie recipes could be earned by playing, winning and losing the mini-game in various ways, as described below. There were no *new* plushies for this event.

### Guild Leader Items

The following new guild leader customizations were available in the Event Shop.

 Moon Cleaver
 Alien Pet
 Cloud Fur
 Tech Pack
 Totals

The Event and Gold Pass exclusive outfits from the previous Call of Heroes event were also available for gems.

### Hero Outfits

A new Call of Heroes costume for Francis and eight returning hero outfits were available for purchase in the Event Shop.

### Event Box

The Event Box was shown in the final tab of the Event Shop window. It could be purchased for 50,000 coins every two days or for 60 gems otherwise at any time. Players got a free box at the start of the event as well and can also earn free box tickets by completing certain stages of the Event Pass. For each box purchased, a player received one of the nine prizes shown in the window, chosen at random. Note that the animation that played upon purchase is strictly cosmetic; each of the nine items had an equal chance of being selected.

The prize pool refreshed automatically every day at midnight (00:00) local time. It could also be reset by watching an ad and then by using Refresh tickets, also earned as Event Pass rewards, or if no tickets are available, for successively higher gem prices starting at 5 gems. The overall prize pool, which could be reviewed by tapping the question mark icon at the top left of the box, featured collectibles and resources with varying odds of appearing in the box, as described below.

* The following collectibles each had a Mythic (2%) chance of appearing as one of the nine potential prizes in the box.
	+ All eleven previous Call of Heroes premium heroes: Justicecat, Metal Claw, Iko.N, Red Robin, Mequa, Callum, Lucious, DJ Retr-0, Strix, Jackson and Huan.
	+ All eight previous Call of Heroes hero outfits for Conan, Catniss, Francis, Leonard, Mewton, Purrcilla, Edward and Courage.
	+ Twelve guild leader extras from the Call of Heroes events of 2018, 2020 and 2021.
* The following items each had a Rare (14%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ Eighty different guild leader items from the Call of Heroes events in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
	+ Gems in fixed amounts of 50, 30 and 20
	+ Reputation tokens in fixed amounts of 12, 9, 6 and 3
* These resources each had a Common (84%) chance of appearing in the box.
	+ Event materials in fixed amounts of 300, 200, 100 and 50
	+ Rare embers in fixed amounts of 5 and 3.
	+ Common embers in fixed amounts of 10 and 5.

### Event Badges

Players could earn up to ten event badges by acquiring new event content and completing event quests. Prizes were awarded for obtaining 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10 badges. Progress was tracked and prizes could be claimed in the Event Badges window accessed by tapping the superhero cape icon at the bottom of the guild hall screen.

#### Requirements

*Note: Real-money purchases were required to earn the Recruiter badge, which is fitting given that the reward for earning all badges, a 14-day VIP ticket, was useful only to players who have made at least $10 USD in real-money purchases.*

### Event Pass

The Event Pass awarded prizes as players collected event materials; additional rewards were available to players who purchased the Gold Pass for 450 gems. Materials requirements increased as players advance through ten stages and acted only as criteria, not costs; that is, no materials were taken from inventory as prizes were claimed. The Event Pass window could be found by tapping the superhero cape icon at the bottom of the guild hall screen and then opening the third tab on the right.

#### Requirements and Rewards

Rewards included tickets that can be used to open the Event Box (pink with gold star) and to refresh the prize pool of the box (blue with circular arrow) after the "Refresh" ad has been watched. So far, unused tickets earned in one event remain available for use in the next, although the *Castle Cats* developaws have considered imposing an expiration on unused tickets. The Gold Pass could be purchased at any time to receive rewards retroactively from stages already cleared; the "Claim" button needed to be tapped for each stage missed.

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