Announcing Hypixel at MINECON 2016!
MINECON 2016 kicks off later this month, and we are excited to announce the Hypixel team will be there all weekend in the Tournament Zone!
MINECON 2016 is the official Minecraft convention, taking place in Anaheim, California, from September 24th - 25th. During the event, members of the Hypixel team will be staffing and providing content for the Tournament Zone, a dedicated area full of PCs where you can play minigames like SkyWars, Walls, Build Battle and special Parkour maps against other attendees.
We will also be participating in a live main stage show "Creeper Carts" on Sunday 3:30pm - check the full content schedule here
If you're attending the event, make sure to check out the Tournament Zone! Last year's MINECON 2015 in London was an absolute blast, so we look forward to meeting and chatting to even more players live in person once again.
Thanks for reading, and if you're not attending don't worry! We'll have lots of photos to share after the event
German Language Support!
KLICKE HIER UM DIESEN BEITRAG AUF DEUTSCH ZU LESEN
Dutch, French, and German translations are now available for:
- SkyWars
- Speed UHC
- Guilds
- Parties
- Main Lobby
How to change your languageIf you have selected "French", "Dutch", or "German" as your language in the Minecraft Settings, you will be asked on login if you'd like to change your language. However, if you want to switch to another language at a later date, all you need to do is:
From this menu, you can also opt-in for Hypixel to auto-select your language when you login to the server. If we support your language in the future, it will switch over automatically when we go live!
Even more languages - We need your help!
We've created a way for any player to help us translate in-game text into any language. With your help, we hope to support even more languages and make Hypixel a better experience for the non-English speaking players in our community.
If you would like to help us translate text into a new language, OR improve an existing translation that you don't think is quite right, please check out our Crowdin translation project thread where you can get more details:
Finally, we want to give a huge thanks to the hard working translators/proofreaders who have helped us. We wouldn't have been able to support these languages without you!
Skywars Map Update
Greetings! Today we're introducing 8 brand new maps, that is 5 Skywars and 3 Mega Skywars maps!!
You can play on the new maps by going to the Skywars lobby.
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You can play on the new maps by going to the Skywars lobby.
Skywars
Mega Skywars
That's it for this map update guys. Be sure to check the forums regularly for the latest updates on Skywars and other gamemodes!
Mega Skywars
That's it for this map update guys. Be sure to check the forums regularly for the latest updates on Skywars and other gamemodes!
Smash Heroes - 6 New Maps and Balancing
Good news for Smash heroes fans - we just added 6 new maps, and made lots of important balance changes and bug fixes following community feedback on the previous update.
We have also re-added the Announcer! Find out more below, including instructions on how to disable him if you prefer less Announce-y games
You can check out these new maps right now in the Smash Heroes lobby. For a full Changelog with all of the balance changes and bug fixes, scroll to the bottom of this post!
New Maps
Announcer is back!
The Announcer found his voice again! But just in case you didn't want to hear what he had to say, you can still disable him in the new Settings menu:
Changelog:
You can find a nice long list of changes below:
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We have also re-added the Announcer! Find out more below, including instructions on how to disable him if you prefer less Announce-y games
You can check out these new maps right now in the Smash Heroes lobby. For a full Changelog with all of the balance changes and bug fixes, scroll to the bottom of this post!
New Maps
Announcer is back!
The Announcer found his voice again! But just in case you didn't want to hear what he had to say, you can still disable him in the new Settings menu:
Changelog:
You can find a nice long list of changes below:
Bug Fixes / General Changes:
Sanic:
Sgt. Shield:
Green Hood:
Skullfire:
Bulk:
Marauder:
Shoop:
Tinman:
Void Crawler:
Botmon:
Cryomancer:
Cake Monster:
Spooderman:
- Added back Announcer
- 2v2 and 2v2v2 will no longer start unless all teams are full
- Fix some LOS issues for Tinman's ultimate
- Shadow Fury should now teleport you back to your original location as of using it, not where an enemy hero was
- Fix hitbox issues when entities stood on stairs
- Fix hitbox issues when entities stood on half slabs
- Fix line-of-sight issues with those blocks as well
- Improved hit detection for many projectiles, including Cluck's rocket and Cryomancer's Frostbolt
- Fixed rocket jump for General Cluck
- Fixed some punctuation in some Heroes' descriptions
Sanic:
- Damage from ultimate will no longer drop onion rings
- Changed pitch of the Ring pickup noise
- Increase cooldown of Spin Dash by .5 seconds
- Reduce range of Onion Cannon by 20%
Sgt. Shield:
- Damage mitigation from holding shield reduced to 15% (down from 25%)
- Unreflectable projectiles will be blocked with a 15% damage reduction (stacks with passive damage mitigation, roughly 26% mitigated for unreflectable skills)
- Slightly increased the energy consumption of Reflection
- Each time Ricochet hits an enemy hero, the cooldown is reduced by .5 seconds
Green Hood:
- Reduce knockback of direct arrow collisions to .7 (was 1.0)
- Increase Tripmine arrow's explosion radius by 1 block
- Increase Tripmine arrow's detection radius by .5 blocks
- The "Ready! (Right Click)" prompt will now show your active arrow
- Flying punch now uses 65 energy
Skullfire:
- Decrease explosion radius of Flaming Deagle to 4.25 (was 5)
Bulk:
- Bulk Slam (Passive) no longer damages enemy heroes who are in the air
Marauder:
- Grip range reduced 2 blocks
- Marauder's ultimate no longer halves the costs of skills, instead it will provide a 2.77x energy regeneration rate
- This is a slight nerf and reduces the spammability of the skills, so they are more distributed throughout the ultimate
Shoop:
- Lightning Bolt loses .1 damage per 10 blocks travelled
- Knockback is slightly reduced if Charge Lazor is not fully charged
- Fir Ma Lazor cooldown increased to 100 seconds
Tinman:
- Slightly reduced Overload knockback
- Increased Explosion radius of Rocket Punch by 1
Void Crawler:
- Increase teleboom cooldown to 7s
- Fixed bug where a player would potentially no longer return to the location they activated the skill at
Botmon:
- Reduce botmobile damage to 8
- Significantly reduce the amount of particles from Bat Glide
Cryomancer:
- Reduce smash cooldown to 90 seconds
- Remove halved ability cooldowns from smash
- A successful skill hit on an enemy, during the smash, has a 5% chance to reset the cooldown of the skill used
Cake Monster:
- Defecake will once again reset Swing Pin's cooldown
- Reduced Swing Pin damage to 7
Spooderman:
- Slightly reduced downwards knockback of Spooder Kick
- If Spooderman's energy is exhausted from wallclimbing, it will not recharge for 1.25 seconds (Cannot infinitely climb)
Community Spotlight - Black Plasma Studios Animations
Hey guys,
Today we want to spotlight a very awesome team in our community - Black Plasma Studios. Whether you know them in-game or from their YouTube channel Black Plasma Studios, they've been making awesome animations featuring Hypixel minigames for a long time now! You may have seen some clips featured in our recent trailer.
You can watch Parts 1 and 2 of their latest video above, inspired by original Hypixel minigame The Blocking Dead. Undead, undead errywhere!
If you enjoyed that animation, you can watch more on their YouTube channel (link). Some of our favs include videos inspired by MEGA SkyWars, Survival Games, and VampireZ.
The Black Plasma Team includes Arbiter 617, RoA Nitrox, Eagle Empire, Sam Small and LittleThomasKid.
If you enjoyed the vids, let the Black Plasma Studios team know in the comments
The Hypixel Zone returns at Insomnia58! (26th-29th AUG in the UK)
The Hypixel Zone is back! We are excited to announce we will once again be attending the Insomnia Gaming Festival, a huge live gaming event in the UK!As you may remember, we attended Insomnia57 earlier this year as well as the Insomnia Scotland and Ireland regional events and had a blast of a time. This weekend (26th-29th August) members of our team are returning to the NEC Birmingham to run the Hypixel Zone, an area stocked full of PCs where you can compete with friends across classic Hypixel minigames.
If you're attending the event and spot a Hypixel staff member, feel free to come and say hello - and make sure to share any photos or videos you take at the event
Visit the official Insomnia website to find out more.