Spotlight Events
hpwulola
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Witches and Wizards,
We are experimenting with some new ways to improve the gameplay experience, so we are excited to announce two events we’re testing this week, a Tonic for Trace Detection Spotlight Event and a Knight Bus Spotlight Event!
Tonic for Trace Detection Spotlight Event
Wednesday, November 25 from 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. local time
During this time, Tonic for Trace Detection will be more likely to reveal the following Foundables:
- Portrait of Albus Dumbledore
- Monster Book of Monsters
- Niffler
- Omnioculars
Knight Bus Spotlight Event
Thursday, November 26 from 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. local time
During this time, specific Fortress chambers in the Knight Bus will guarantee the following Foundable fragment from successfully won Wizarding Challenges:
- Thunderbird from Tower Chamber V
- Puffskein from Forest Chamber V
- Portrait of the Wild Boar from Dark Chamber V
Don’t forget to join the social conversation with #WizardsUnite, make sure to follow along on our official Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram channels for the latest updates, and head over to the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite community to discuss the game with fellow players!
-The Harry Potter: Wizards Unite team
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dont see anything new other than a ttd giving (low lvl silly stuff) and forts giving specific guaranteed stuff...all happened and done before...and whats the point of participating in any event w/o any kind of (DADA / rsb) rewards?...."new" ways though follows the "fixed" bug (nerfed) stuff.
I love it, especially the Knight Bus Spotlight. Only problem... Thursday is a U.S. holiday and I don't want to bury my face in my phone during family time.
Quick question about the Knight Bus Spotlight.....do you need to use that family's runestone at that level of fortress to get that foundable? If I use Oddities 2 runestone in Dark V during the spotlight event, will it reward the portrait of the wild boar?
I can only join in for an hour each day as I am at work! If you do these again, could you think about moving the time or doing one on a Saturday and one on a Sunday? Thanks.
Also, I have a few ideas for the game...where do I send them?
Err most people around the world will be working surely making it the whole day would be a better test?
I wish these events lasted until later in the day. I know it's a holiday week but still have to work.
The spotlight events sound interesting. It’s a good concept and I do look forward to it. However, I also agree with @NuttyNat2000 ’s comment that it would have been better if the events lasted the whole day, particularly since they are on weekdays rather than the weekend. Although it’s a fairly big time slot and is based on local time, it’s still likely to clash with people’s work time, which limits the number of people who can get involved. If it was the whole day, it would make it easier for a person to schedule a small slot if they can’t play during the full event.
@ManateeMomma oddities rune will be reward normal fragment. If you use hogward school rune, you get gruanted wild boar fragment.
This is problem knight bus fortress, we need removed knight bus because too much idle people, so this is now new era normal and go outside for hunting fortress normal.
@ManateeMomma You can use any Runestone in the listed chambers to get the guaranteed fragment during this event!
I have a few ideas for the game...where do I send them?
@SilverElm Thanks for your interest. Please use the Feature Requests section to post them. Also, searching with the keywords to find similar posts before making a new one is a good practice to avoid duplicates. Cheers!
I think of this as 'support event' for upcoming wizarding weekend. Family xp is back is it? 🤔
And this spotlight offer several CoMC family to boost image collection.
Why does it make me so scared, when anyone from the @HPWUTeam says, "We are experimenting..." Haven't they been experimenting since day one?
Thanks so much for trying out new features in the game to keep us engaged!
I hope both events are successful and bring back positive views. There are currently alot of comments based on the timing as many players won't be able toengage during the work week plus having Thanksgiving on a Thursday.
I hope that the timing is due to making the testing process easier.
Other than that, thank you for taking our feedback into consideration, I cant wait to share the upcoming thoughts from the community with you . 😊 @hpwulola
@hpwulola, the push notification said "in the next 4 hours the TTD...". If the time span in the announcement is correct, it should be "in the next 7 hours". Just letting you know. :)
Are there no in game information about this?
@Twothird there it is. In the news section of the app there is an announcement with the same information as in the first post of this topic.
@ElisaWilson There are no such information in my game. There are only news about Dumbledores army and Wizarding weekend. I ask, since there are no information about this event for me. I don't think I should have to read posts on messageboards on the internet to be informed of this.
@Twothird I don't find any ingame information in my game either.
Ok... So most people are at work or in school. Not the most ideal hours to host an event...
You might want to adapt those hours.
It seems that many players do not have the information about these Spotlight events in their SOS News! I got it, and looked for Orange Wizard's infographic, but when I shared those to my country's game group, many other players were surprised and told that it's not visible in their game accounts. Why is that? SOS news should always be up to date to everyone, as there can certainly be players who do not follow social media actively! (The problem can't be assets, as I did get the event info in my SOS news despite not having noticed that there were about 100 new assets waiting for downloading.)
All in all the information about these events came quite late, and I have read comments about people in for example Asia getting the information too late.
The 7 hours time-window is not very optimal either (even if it's much better than the old Community "day" schedule 11am-2pm!). 24hour events would be much more useful for most players.
But all in all, it's nice that these Spotlight events give a chance to possibly fill up 2 different Care of Magical Creature items (Monster book and Puffskein) before the Wizarding weekend. Also the other items are quite rare and nice to get, so the idea of these extra events is a nice!
why can’t you do this at afternoon? In Pokémon go the spotlight hour is in the afternoon/evening. Not when everyone is at work!
Pffff.... totally missed today's experiment. No notification/news from the app?
@Twothird the announcement is in game for me as well. It's odd that you don't have it.
@ElisaWilson This is how my newssection looks like.
Nice idea @hpwulola and @HPWUblue , I'm in. Unfortunately the notification in the app for today's event arrived ..... just now, around 7 pm. So I hope it was a great event.
Next chance tomorrow!
Thanks everyone for your feedback! See you in the Knight Bus tomorrow :)
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Can’t take part in either of these events as they fall fully into work hours.
Didn’t receive any notification until after today’s event was over...
Thanks for today's event, seems like the TTD worked well with the amped up traces. Only really needed the Omnioculars but nearly got it starred so was a success in my book!
Hi, I've played Tower V about 4 times now, 2 times I got the Thunderbird fragment, 2 times I did not. I thought it was guaranteed?
@HPWUblue Spotlight event on 26th has been started here in Japan. But, many players reported that sometimes the dropped fragment is not the guaranteed one but the family of Runestones. Please check.