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November 25th, 2020
Idle Champions: Descent into Avernus, Part 8 
Posted in Idle Champions.

Bel has one final task for us as we attempt to get our plan to save Elturel in order. Along the way, we encounter Zariel for the first time...

Note: you will need to have completed the previous two Descent into Avernus Adventures, Questlines and Bel's Forge, in order to access these new Adventures.


Dungeons & Dragons Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

The Sibriex

Follow Bel's instructions and find the Sibriex before it's too late for Elturel.
  • Variant: The Archduke's Blessing — Follow Bel's instructions while a cultist of Zariel preaches to your enemies.
    • A Cultist of Zariel arrives in each area to celebrate Zariel. The cultist has 4 armored hit points and deals 300% additional damage.
    • While the Cultist of Zariel is on screen, bosses cannot be damaged.
    • Reach area 500.

Wrecked Flying Fortress

Explore the flying fortress to find the adamantine rods for Bel.
  • Variant: Relentless Peril — Explore the flying fortress while ghouls from Elturel haunt your thoughts. The Champions worry about Elturel as their quest drags on. Elturel Ghouls now attack in each area. They have twice as much health as normal and, when they take a killing blow, they are stunned for 10 seconds before coming back to life.
    Reach area 525.

See the in-game Change Log for more information, including a full list of changes and fixes included in this update.
November 19th, 2020
COTLI: Kaines' Dinner of Doom 6 

    Seasons leaves, wilting and falling,
    now's the time: Momma Kaine's calling!
    Cold, gray, dark, wet, and gloom,
    The perfect time, for dinner of doom!

Kaine's Dinner of Doom 6 runs until Tuesday, December 1st at 12:00 PM Pacific Time, introducing Momma’s Monster and bringing back Gemthel, the Gourmet, RoboTurkey, Momma Kaine, Paul the Pilgrim, Petra the Pilgrim, Chef Casey, and 43G1S!

New Tier 6 Crusader: Momma’s Monster

Tags: event, DPS, Orc, Orc, undead, male, male, good


Here to join Momma Kaine, Momma's Monster is a dual entity orc DPS Crusader. Double the trouble, double the fun, double the DPS.

Once you've recruited Momma’s Monster you'll find the two of them buffing all even things. You'll find Momma’s Monster in seat 33.

New Tier 6 Objectives

  • Recruit Momma’s Monster |Momma’s Monster takes up a slot in the formation. RoboTurkey and Momma Kaine take up spots in formation and can't be moved. Momma's Monster deals constant damage to all Crusaders. Note: This will require having cleared the objective To Infinity and Beyond on Ghostbeard's Greed to complete. Reach area 600.

  • Social Feasting | Paul the Pilgrim and Petra the Pilgrim take up spots in formation and can't be moved. The formation has been changed. Note: This will require having cleared the objective To Infinity and Beyond on Ghostbeard's Greed to complete. Reach area 650.

  • Food Rush | Chef Casey takes up a spot in formation and can't be moved. Depending on what ingredients are currently in Casey's stew, special monsters spawn at random. Casey's upgrades can't be disabled for this objective. Note: This will require having cleared the objective To Infinity and Beyond on Ghostbeard's Greed to complete. Reach area 675.

  • Tasty Machinations | 43G1S takes up a spot in formation and can't be moved. Monsters spawn in waves of 20. Area requirements are quadrupled. Note: This will require having cleared the objective Bullet Hell on Ready Player Two to complete. Reach area 700.

  • Festive Gourmand | Gemthel the Gourmet takes up a spot in formation and can't be moved. Only Dwarf, Leprechauns and Orc Crusaders can be used. Note: This will require having cleared the objective Bullet Hell on Ready Player Two to complete. Reach area 725.

More info

You'll have until Tuesday, December 1st at 12:00 PM Pacific Time to complete Kaine's Dinner of Doom 6!

For more info on previous Kaine's Dinner of Doom Crusaders and objectives check out the Kaine's Dinner of Doom 5 blog post.

Equipment for event Crusaders can be found in Silver and Jeweled Thanksgiving Chests, which you can earn from objectives and the free play or buy in the shop. Each non-recruitment objective will drop a chest for its given tier of Crusaders, and free play will drop All Tier chests. Gear for Tier 2, Tier 3, Tier 4, Tier 5, and Tier 6 Crusaders will only appear in All Tier chests once you've unlocked the respective Crusaders. You can select the tier of chest you buy in the shop when you go to purchase chests with real money or event currency.

November 13th, 2020
BW2: Thankful Thanksgiving Event 2020 
Posted in Bush Whacker 2.

Thanksgiving Time!

The residents of The Commons are preparing for a massive feast to celebrate the end of harvest season, and of course they need your expertise at finding things in bushes!

First and foremost, it's all about helping the chefs fill their food stations to the brim - and beyond. There's three of them for three types of meals, so you'll be collecting Meat, Veggies and of course Desserts to feed the hungry masses of Bushwhackia! Can you make all the Pristine Food? Keep doing turn-ins to achieve it!

On the subject of food - four of the guests have promised they would bring a dish to share, but they've forgotten ingredients.

And then, there's the problem of the Turkeys. Apparently, they need to be rescued in some fashion, so you'll need to get on that. You have the whole event to complete it.

Once again we're celebrating other harvest festivals around the world and hosting an inflatable surprise. They'll unlock as the event goes on. And tune later in the event for a parade!

Of course, it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without the Black Friday questline introduced in a previous year, and a fridge to store all those leftovers!

If you can complete the event with 100%, you'll earn the Thanksgiving Pet Piece! Collect all 2020 holiday pet pieces to craft a unique pet!



Event Achievements - POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!

Achievements Returning in 2020:
  • Special Order - You helped all of the people prepare their special dishes.
  • Master of the Ways - You have helped cook each dish excellently for the pristine table.
  • Short Order Cook - You've helped prepare one of each dish.
  • Turkey Lover - You saved enough turkeys to guarantee survival. This year.
  • Historical Detective - You helped Bob the Historian investigate the Pilgrims.
  • Family Matters - You brought all of Brock's family together for Thanksgiving.
  • Parade Enthusiast - You watched the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
  • Fridge Fix-Up - You helped Fatima fix an old fridge and move it your ranch.
  • Thorough Taste Testing - You helped out Miss Mei enough to try all the different daily side dish samples.
  • Fattened Feathered Friend - Help Nate fatten up his turkey.
Added/Changed for 2020:
  • Harvest Haul - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2020 items.*
We have 7 achievements from previous years' events, which may be earned by spending some Bush Bucks if a player was not present during the original years:
  • Thankful Decorator - You bought all the house items from the 2012 Thanksgiving Event.
  • Thankful Dresser - You bought all the player items from the 2012 Thanksgiving Event.
  • Thankful Shopper - You bought all the 2013 Turkey Day items.
  • Black Friday - You bought all the 2014 Thanksgiving items.
  • Thanks For The Stuff - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2015 items.
  • Grateful Expenditure - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2016 items.
  • Feastful Frittering - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2017 items.
  • Banquet Blowout - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2018 items.
  • Stuffed Shopper - You purchased all the Thanksgiving 2019 items.
* The Mini Golf piece is NOT included in the Harvest Haul achievement, and therefore it is not required to purchase it.

Grab a new harvest companion!

New 2020 Mounts!




To kick off the event, we're having a sale! Get 30% more on purchase of 50 Bush Bucks or more! Plus, all new mounts are available this weekend, from November 13th to 16th!

The Winged Tiger mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!

The Waning Winged Tiger and Rising Winged Tiger are in packs containing 100 Bush Bucks, 10 Pristine Feed Vouchers, and a VIP Voucher! These two mounts produce their own unique sparkly particles when you ride them!

Pet Packs: 2020 Pets -- Available in Packs! COMING SOON!



The event will run until Friday November 27th at Noon PST!

Give thanks and feedback here!
November 11th, 2020
Idle Champions: Feast of the Moon 4 
Posted in Idle Champions.

During Feast of the Moon, residents of the Sword Coast pay homage to the deeds of legendary heroes by visiting their crypts and graves.

When the Champions arrive at The Crypt of Legends, they find hordes of undead crawling up from the depths. Something is making the dead heroes rise, and the answer will require a descent into the depths to discover the cause...

Feast of the Moon 4 introduces Penelope "Half-Pint", Circle of the Moon Druid and Warlock from D&D Beyond's Silver & Steel & Beyond Heroes, and brings back Sentry, the Warforged Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) from High Rollers: Aerois and Vlahnya Um'vairar, the Eladrin Bard/Wizard. Players have until Monday, November 23rd at 12PM Pacific to complete their Feast of the Moon 4 unlocks and objectives.

For more information about Year 4 Events and how they work, please check out our Year 4 Events Dev Blog.

New Champion: Penelope "Half-Pint"



Penelope's Bio

    Penelope "Half-Pint" is a halfling who just wants to be everyone's best friend, even if they are evil, or a plant, or a rock. With friends that already include a treant named Neverember and a clan of chwinga that have adopted her, Penelope is ready for anything! She has the heart of a true hero and will always stand by her friends until she goes into shrub mode of course.

II. Penelope's Stats

Race: Halfling Alignment: Chaotic Good
Class: Druid (Circle of the Moon)/ Warlock Gender: Female
Age: 33 Affiliation: none

STR: 10 DEX: 16 CON: 14
INT: 8 WIS: 17 CHA: 14

Role: Support, Gold Find, Healing

Eligible for Patrons: Mirt the Moneylender, Vajra Safahr

Slot: 12, (Arkhan)


Penelope's Abilities

Penelope is a naive, young, happy go lucky halfling who just wants to be your friend. She is a Support, Gold Find, and Healing Champion who buffs Champions based on their role(s) and alignment, and she does it all with a skip in her step!

With Have You Met My Friends, Penelope tags enemies she can't kill so her friends can finish the job. Chwinga Mask allows her to call chwingas to her aid. While enemies are attacking, Penelope panics and dons the mask. A Chwinga friend appears on her shoulder and grants charms to adjacent Champions based on their tags. Tanks will heal a percentage of health every second. Support, Healer, and Gold Find champions will buff Global Damage. Story Time augments Chwinga Mask, based on how efficiently her friends are killing enemies.

Her specializations focus on her ability to make friends with everyone, buffing Have You Met My Friends by increasing the damage of the formation based on the alignment on the Good-Evil axis. Her second specialization augments her basic attack to include an additional terrain changing effect. Minor Eruption adds a small radius of area of effect damage, leaving difficult terrain underneath her enemies. Hey Batter Batter increases her knockback by four times against non-boss enemies and her damage is increased by 200%. Her ultimate has her casting Erupting Earth, creating difficult terrain to slow and wound enemies.

For more information on Penelope and her abilities, check out her Champion Spotlight!


Year Four Variants


  • Half-Empty Crypts — Half of the crypts are empty! We've interrupted some grave robbing! A collection of Grave Robbers appear in each area. They don't drop gold, nor do they count towards quest progress. While one or more Grave Robber is alive, Undead Creatures move 100% faster and deal 200% additional damage.
    Reach Area 75.

  • Half-Full Outlook — If we're going to make such a mess, let's clean up as we go! In each wave, Awakened Cleaning Supplies spawn. Awakened Cleaning Supplies deal 200% additional damage and spawn with 4 hits-based health chunks. However, Penelope and her positive outlook can destroy each of these enemies with one hit. Penelope starts in the formation. She can be moved. Reach Area 125.

  • Half-Pint Friends — Penelope starts in the formation and can't be moved. Penelope's base attack cooldown is reduced by 2 seconds. Only Good champions can be used.
    Reach Area 175.

For information on previous years' variants, check out the Feast of the Moon 3 blog.

New DLC


The Artificer Avren Skin & Feat Pack unlocks the Artificer Avren Skin, the ‘Two-Headed Coin’ Epic Feat - increases the effect of Avren's Mirror Image ability by 80%, and 7 Gold Avren Chests with 1 guaranteed shiny. It will also unlock the Avren Champion if you don't already have him.



We're super excited to launch our 2020 Extra Life charity drive! We've added a new Pirate Parrot Familiar Pack to the store. Codename Entertainment will be donating the net proceeds of the first two weeks of sales of the Pirate Parrot Familiar Pack on all platforms to Extra Life! The Pirate Parrot Familiar Pack contains Pirate Parrot Familiar, 4 Epic Potions of Speed, 4 Epic Potions of Giant's Strength, 4 Epic Potions of Clairvoyance, & 1 Potion of Polish!


Don't forget to tune into our 24-hour stream from the studio starting on Friday November 20th at 9AM at twitch.tv/cnegames. We'll have more details on this coming soon!