Soon

The patented “soon” announcement has been made for the next release. Just curious, are going to be any variants in the release as well?

I know Jean-Marc's had the music done for a while (it's on one of the first three soundtrack CDs), but I'm guessing Trickster Kismet is on the way due to the digital release of that track. That's the only speculation I can muster, though.

Interesting question. As already mentioned, we will see "soon" what happens.

This was said at kickstarter in the newest update: 

I thought Handelabra would maybe wait with the remaining variant for Kismet, Chrono Ranger and Argent Adept as filler for the OblivAeon content.

EDIT: If you have a look at the latest twitch episode with Jeremy and John (time: 9:54), you will see there is no variant implemented vor Kismet right now. I think they are only missing the opening lines and challenge modes.

I hope we will get the 3 variants along with the challenge modes for the new villains at a later point. Christopher said he still has to create the challenge modes.

The Trickster Kismet music was on the  Volume 3 sound track CD for Shattered Timelines/Wrath of the Cosmos so it's been done for nearly for a year.   So I'm not sure if it will be seen with this release or not.  

Mm, good points. I wasn't watching for variant banners in the last couple streams. Just spitballing. :) There's tons of new content, I'd be perfectly content to just play that for a while before doing a new variant hunt.

No doubt there will be plenty of content. I am a fan of team mode, but there is a serious lack of villian variation currently. This is about to be cured in a major way.

I feel with you. I can't get enough of SotM. 

Maybe todays twitch episode will give us a hint when the new update will arrive, at least what still has to be done. I follow twitch since 2 months and it's super interesting to see those episodes and all the sneak peeks of the new content. On the other hand it seems that they are almost done (since weeks) and the tension is beginning to kill me ;D

Patience is a virtue^^

Soon = June 22nd!!!

EDIT: I would like to add that the twitch episode was very interesting yesterday. 

2 special guests, listening all the new music and viewing all the new art of VotM. 

Beside that, there was a game vs. Trickster Kismet in the end. 

PS. VotM will be released without challenge modes at first, it will be added later. 

Thank you for the very great overview! Quick, easy, and has everything somone on the go needs to hear! 

I'm not crazy after all!

Handelabra always has an ace up the sleeve, lesson learned. 

Sure you are, that just wasn't a symptom.

We're all crazy here.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rxii8nRv3ao

I would assume that Best of Times Chrono-Ranger would come out at around the same time, because La Capitan.

Other than that, and MAYBE Dark Dynamics Argent Adept, the rest are all ObliVAeon-themed. So unless they don’t care about that, those are the only ones I could​ see them adding until ObliVAeon.

I think the Freedom Five promo variants are also possibilities.

No, the FV promos are tied to the OblivAeon storyline as well.

The Xtreme Prime Wardens are part of the pre-OblivAeon material (like Progeny), so they'd be an appropriate addition ahead of its release.  I'm not sure about the timing of Requital Captain Cosmic and Unleashed Visionary.

Captain Cosmic - Requital’s Incap power references OblivAeon mechanics and Extremist Sky-Scraper’s story is directly tied to the Luminary, so we probably won’t see either of those for a while.

I’m guessing that The X-treme PW set is likely to drop as it’s own mini-release between Mini-Pack 4 and Void Guard. Freedom Five will probably be it’s own mini-release too, but I’m guessing they won’t drop until the end (story coming full circle and all). Completionist Guise would also be a final var, for obvious reasons.

So that leaves:
Kismet (in the works according to above posts)
Chrono-Ranger - Best of Times (hopefully soon as he still doesn’t have a var)
Parse - Fugue State (ditto , even if she’s related to Obv)
Visionary - Unleashed
Argent Adept - Dark Dynamics/Kvothe
Ra - Setting Sun (related to pre-Obv ARG content)
And the heroes not yet in the game, of course.

It does?  I took "move a construct to a new play area" to mean the various hero, villain, and environment play areas that exist in regular play.

I'm sure that's what it means.  They wouldn't create a hero-specific mechanic that would only work in one game mode.

However, reviewing Requital's backstory, it seems Infinitor died directly at OblivAeon's hand, and then passed his power on to CC.  So that's definitely part of the main OblivAeon arc.  Unleashed Visionary still seems to be possible, though.

My bad. I forgot that each hero counts as a separate play area for those purposes.  I agree that this var will probably wait until Obv for story purposes though.

With only one deck really to make in mini deck 4, I am curious what is next for handelabra to program? Maybe all hands on deck to finish bottom of the 9th while waiting for the rest of the content to come out? Maybe they will start sentinel tactics the video game? Maybe even start one of gtg other great properties (spirit island the video game anyone?) 

or they may take a vacation for a month and play some PS4 all month

Given that things like Void Guard are at the printer and a lot of mechanics for OblivAeon are done, I'd say they have plenty of SOTM stuff to work on. John has indicated that we might be surprised how quickly they can get a digital version of OblivAeon out - I'm sure they have access to more information than is publicly available (say, via kickstarter updates. That aside, there's also the visual design of an oblivaeon match to work out.

They probably have at least a preview version of the rules to work with so they can work on the major mechanical elements and look of the OblivAeon game.  And of course they can be implementing and beta-testing the new characters, of which 6 are at the printer's, and I'll bet several of the heroes and environments in the OblivAeon box are 100% done at this point.  Plus they have Bottom of the Ninth to work on.  And I bet they're researching ways to create cross-app compatibility between SotM and SoEP on all the various supported platforms.  Plenty to keep them busy without thinking about unannounced products.

Mini Pack 4 will have four decks.  Stuntman, Benchmark, Celestial Tribunal, and Chokepoint so they have three decks to implement and two which Guise Shenanigans have to be validated against as well. 

True on the fact they can start work on the characters that are at the printer, but they also have never come out and said what order the final 3 expansions would be, ideally for me I would love to see them release void guard next. My arguement for it is the villains expansion has no heroes, while this expansion is nothing but heroes. So it would be nice to fill that no hero void that villains has. Then while working on it, they do oblivaeon on the side. 

Guise shenanigans will also need to work on Representative of Earth, though granted the two hero decks will be vastly more complicated in that regard.  Although now that I think of it–can you use Representive of Earth on a variant of a hero in play?  Even normal Guise could get a little wacky in that case, and Completionist will be another problem altogether.

Completionist Guise I could see being it's own thing after everything else is released.  

It was over a year ago, but we did.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/handelabra/sentinels-of-the-multiverse-the-video-game-season

We expect to begin delivering Season 2 content in Fall 2016 in the following order: 

• Sentinels of the Multiverse: Vengeance 
• Villains of the Multiverse 
• Mini-Pack 4 
• Void Guard (Mini-Pack 5) 
• OblivAeon

4 expansions are missing but if you click on get expansions there will be displayed 5 times "Coming soon". I think there will be also a foil villain pack with new art or am I wrong?

That's correct.

Is it also safe to assume that you won’t release the other heroes until they’re out in the main game?

We don't generally announce details of future release plans, since they tend to be subject to change. I'm not sure why you would need to assume one thing or another.

opps forgot about that

Soon is tomorrow!

Hopefully that also means soon for Apple!

Hahaha, I also almost posted this today...

I hope Apple makes a mistake and releases it sooner^^

Yesterday John said "noon eastern time".

so apple will have it up around 10 pm central time. Gotcha

In 1 hour it will be thursday (in my country). 

I can wait as long as it won't be several days: https://mobile.twitter.com/handelabra/status/877538215271559172

It is ready!

Yes, I downloaded it several minutes ago but it won't restore/redownload both season passes right now...

Waiting for confirmation is displayed. 

My iPad is stuck on "Downloading…" not sure if it's wi-fi or something else. 
 

If you're on iOS don't download the update yet https://twitter.com/handelabra/status/877912586087407616

Update. Ios players should not update. Got a facebook post on the matter!

Too late for me. I downloaded it and clicked on the message box to redownload all the content which appeared right away. The game crashed twice and now I just have the content of the base game. 

Sorry. I did the same thing. I  only got the warning after. 

We have Tachyon-like speed and downloaded it too fast ;P

I blame the funhouse mirrors...... DARN YOU NIGHTMARE CARNIVAL!

I blame Handelabra, before the update it was a great, phenomenal, fantastic and awesome company for me. 

This update has consequences, I have to withdraw the awesome now. 

There is an Apple server problem that started happening 2 days ago preventing downloading of DLC. It affects Sentinels as well as many other apps. We weren't aware of the scope of the problem until very recently. The timing could not be much worse, unfortunately.

We are in contact with Apple about the problem and hope they will resolve it quickly.

2 days ago... I hope it won't take some more days... tomorrow is already friday/almost weekend.

Here is the official statement:

http://handelabra.com/blog/2017/6/22/ios-players-avoid-updating-to-25-turn-off-auto-update

PS. MigrantP could you write in the patch notes that Focusing Conduit-Blade was changed, otherwise nobody will notice it. 

Unfortunately this issue is completely out of our control.

The update notes only include major changes. It will be listed in the Fireside Chats when those are updated.

The update will bring us the new variant for Kismet AND Parse FYI. 

The variants will be made available for unlocking once the Apple server issue has been resolved.

Saw the iOS post after I hit update. apple cant do anything right. Sigh. So do we start placing bets on how long apple takes to fix it. My guess is knowing them, a week?

Funny, the Amazon App Store said I had no new updates available, then went ahead and updated SotM anyway.

Aww man, the phone app is how I play the game like 99% of the time :(

ALERT!  At least for me, the Amazon App Store version is also broken.  I can't run the game at all now, I just get the Handelabra logo and then it crashes.  I know not many people use Amazon for this, but in case you do, don't update yet.

Edit: Apparently it's not an App Store issue but an issue with "certain Samsung phones."  Mine's a Galaxy S5.

The Amazon App Store version is not broken. We are aware of an issue in Unity that can cause crashes with certain Samsung phones, but there is no resolution yet. If you get crashes, please get in touch with us at http://handelabra.com/contact and include as much information about your device as possible.

My Sony phone crashed twice, then I restarted and have had no problems.  (with the running of the App.  Bugbear and Sgt Steel are giving me plenty of problems in-game)

Is the IOS version the one on google play?

No.

iOS is Apple's operating system.

Google is Android.

Edit: accursed Shinobi Assassins!

No.

Handelabra is saying they've gotten reports of people being able to successfully download the expansions https://twitter.com/handelabra/status/878433000836538371

It appears Apple has fixed the problem on their servers, and downloads are working again!

We have confirmed it at Handelabra HQ along with several vigilant players online. Please go ahead and update your iOS version of Sentinels to 2.5 and re-download the expansion packs to play Villains of the Multiverse!

If you were stuck on "waiting for confirmation" just re-open the game and it should begin downloading. If it doesn't, you may need to wait a bit longer as the fix may still be propagating through Apple's system. 

The Variant Hunt for Trickster Kismet and Fugue State Parse will begin at 10 AM Eastern on Saturday, to give iOS players a chance to hear the news and get ready.

Hooray for IOS players! :D

Still doesn't work on Galaxy S4 and S5, though. <sigh> Was hoping that was going to be a quick fix.

Was also kind of a slap in the face when I got an email from Handelabra support, and I opened it excidedly hoping it was a notice that the bug had been fixed, but no, it was for an old bug report I submitted, saying they'd fixed it in 2.5 which I can't play.

As iOS-user I kind of know the way you feel. *Hugs MindWanderer*