Brawl Stars us an online multiplayer battle arena game where players battle each other in various game modes. The game is available on mobile devices and it is a home of millions of active players. Recently, developing studios Supercell announced a new update for the game. The update is dubbed as “The summer of monsters” and it is set to hit app stores on July 6. We have a lot of grounds to cover in terms of what this update has to offer so let’s get into the details.
New Chromatic Brawler : Surge
- Main Attack – Attack that splits horizontally after hitting an enemy Brawler
- Super Ability – Using the Super upgrades Surge. Upgrades are lost upon respawn.
- 1st Upgrade: Movement Speed
- 2nd Upgrade: Main Attack Range
- 3rd Upgrade: Main Attack projectile now splits into 6 projectiles upon hitting an enemy
- Gadget – Teleports a short distance
- Star Power – Main Attack projectile splits after reaching max distance or when hitting a wall
Brawl Pass Season 2: Summer of Monsters
- Starting July 6 and lasting 10 weeks!
- Mecha Paladin Surge – Brawl Pass
- Super Ranger Brock – Brawl Pass
- Chromatic Names available for Brawl Pass players!
- Brawl Pass rewards can now be collected in any order
New Skins
- Crow Remodel
- Mega Beetle Bea – 150 Gems
- Ultra Driller Jacky – 150 Gems
- King Crab Tick – 80 Gems
- Street Wear Max – 80 Gems
- White Crow – 80 Gems
- Retro Nani – 30 Gems
- True Silver & True Gold skins
- Players can purchase the Silver skin for the Brawler after they have upgraded to Power Level 9 on the Brawler.The Gold version becomes available after purchasing the Silver version.
- Silver costs 10 000 Coins. Gold costs 25 000 Coins.
- Skins will be offered as part of the normal Shop skin offer rotation.
- Gold and Silver will be available for Emz, El Primo, Shelly, Piper, and Leon.
- Pirate Gene has a new visual effect for his Super
- New face animations for Shelly, Colt, and Crow
Game Modes / Economy / Event Rotation Changes
- Trophy Road Rewards have been extended until 50 000 Trophies
- Hot Zone has been added into the permanent event rotation
- New Mode: Super City Rampage!
- Players fight together to protect the city from a Monster who tries to destroy it. The Monster wins if it destroys all of the city blocks, or defeat all the Brawlers.
- The monster unlocks new abilities at higher difficulty levels
- 5 Quests for 5 difficulty levels for this event similarly to Raid Boss and Robo Rumble
- Big Game
- Big Game has been re-balanced – Big Brawlers were winning too often compared to the Hunters
- Big Brawler pets damage and health has been reduced
- Big Brawler self-healing has been reduced
- Big Brawler health has been adjusted so that it now depends more on the Brawler’s base health
- Robo Rumble
- Hard, Expert and Insane difficulty levels are now slightly easier
- The enrage mechanic has been changed from the 90 second enrage to:
- Robots now enrage after 25 seconds and gain a speed boost
- Robots now enrage more after 40 seconds and attack the Safe directly
Pins Battle Support
- Emotes are visible for both teams
- Using an emote will set a cooldown for 10 seconds
- Emotes can be muted during battle from the emote button
- Emote button placement can be configured in the Edit Controls screen
- Players have 4 different emotes to use in Battle: Happy, Sad, Angry and Special
- Special category emote can be configured for each of the Brawlers individually. Players need to collect the Pins for each of the Brawlers in order to use that Brawler’s emotes If the player does not own Pins for the currently selected Brawler then a default emote will be displayed instead
New Gadgets
- Crow: All currently poisoned enemies are slowed
- Penny: Fire a barrage of shots at Penny’s location
- Bo: Instantly explode mines
- Mortis: Faster reload speed for a while
- El Primo: Summon a small meteor at closest enemy
- Jessie: Supercharge turret to shoot twice as fast
- Barley: Throw healing potion to every friendly player in range that leaves a healing puddle on the ground (Healing over time, doesn’t stack)
- Shelly: Next basic attack has a narrower cone and longer range
- Piper: Next basic attack is a seeking bullet
- Dynamike: Next basic attack stuns
With that, the list of all the major features coming to Brawl Stars with The Summer of Monster update is concluded. There are certain other changed coming with the update which will focus on balancing the brawlers. Click here to read the full patch notes of the latest Brawl Stars update.
