Chocolate for the Sweet Gods event is back for the final rerun, alongside other updates!

The event runs for a month, and has been updated with new rewards - get your fill of sweets this Valentine!

In addition, the free version 3.28.2 update adds many other new features!

To complement the 3 Million Celebration Costume update in December, 3 new costumes have been added!

• Mio (Festive) - available in the Shop (Because she was the one supposed to get one originally from the contest, not Mio)
  
• Suguri (Winter) - automatically available alongside the Suguri costume for owners of the Winter Suguri skin.
  
• Pirate Minion - automatically available alongside the Mescal costume.

We're very excited to launch this long awaited feature! Various keywords on cards can now have explanations displayed when highlighting the card with the mouse. Alongside this change, BANNER, TRIGGER and REPEAT explanations have been removed from the cards themselves.

A new option is available in the settings, letting players set the level of explanations given:

• All (default): Displays all explanations, including basic info like card type explanations.
  
• Advanced: Display keywords for more advanced keywords like Repeat and Trigger, as well as newly added keywords.
  
• New Only: Temporarily display keywords that have been flagged as newly added (such as if a new keyword like Trigger is added to the game.)
  
• None: Don't show any explanations.

This feature is planned to be expanded with a more comprehensive list of keyword explanations.

Rejoice! Taunt customization is now available directly from the Lobby screen! Put that downtime to use to set up funny taunts to use!

Modified taunts are now automatically saved once a change is detected. In addition, taunt slots have been increased from 10 to 16 per unit, and taunt selection was made easier by displaying all the taunts at the same time.

To help you find open lobbies, and also to help during congested hours when there are more than 50 lobbies in a game mode (which is a hard limit that can be retrieved in lobby search), a new toggle has been added on the lobby screen, which lets you show only public lobbies (Friend lobbies will be displayed regardless).

If you missed unlocking Schoolyard from the Clubroom Challengers event, the field is now available to unlock in the Shop.

Version 3.28.2 also comes with a number of misc fixes and improvements, make sure to read the full patch notes on the Steam forums!

Always felt like there's a card niche that's not being met by current cards? Want to be the person responsible for the next My Wild Friends? Now's your chance - we're happy to announce the card contest for Community Card Pack 5!

The contest will have 2 phases:

Active: Until 23:59 on March 4 (PST).

With the addition of a new card type, BANNER, and new keywords including Trigger and Repeat, we feel it's a good time to start from scratch, with new card concepts.

How many thousands of submissions of Hot Potato cards will we have to sift through this time? You'll be the judge!

The card pack will contain a minimum of 1 Boost, Battle, Event, Trap, Gift and Banner card. Head on over to this thread to submit your ideas.

After we have finished processing the submissions and selected winning card entries, and discussed their concept with Orange Juice, we will run a new Art Contest for them! More detail will be released on this when it's time.

In more specific detail, the Community Card Pack will be produced as follows:

1. Suggestions may be submitted in this thread until the end of March 4 (PST). Suggestions can include card type, name, effect and cost/level, but general suggestions and discussion on other suggestions are also welcome. Flavor texts are not necessary. Suggestions don't need to be unique, so don't worry about reading every single other idea in the thread. You may include several ideas in the same post if you wish.

2. Fruitbat Factory will select an appropriate mix of concepts from the thread and modify them as we see fit. Fruitbat Factory may add other cards to the mix as well, if some niche turns out to not be met.

3. Fruitbat Factory and Orange Juice will decide themes for the card selected card concepts.

4. An art contest will be launched to create community art for the new cards based on those themes.

5. Fruitbat Factory and Orange Juice will prepare flavor texts based on the final art that wins the contest.

6. The new cards will be added as a free new card pack into the game.

7. The community is, as always, solely responsible for any and all bugs the new cards introduce.

By submitting a suggestion in the designated thread, you agree to waive any demand to credit or compensation regarding any text and concepts you propose with the full understanding that that the only reward you receive is the happiness from helping add new content to the game (Suggestions may overlap and it may be impossible to accurately credit or reward them afterwards). Fruitbat Factory reserves the right to modify the suggestions and to not use any of them at their discretion.

May Poppo have mercy on us!