There is no single small doubt that there will be a Clash of Clans Update in December 2017, like every year we’ll be getting at least a snow theme, a seasonal Christmas Tree and when looking at last year very likely also a Clashmas Event with seasonal troops and Gem Boosts.
I think most of us will agree that 2017 wasn’t a great year for Clash of Clans in terms of new content (and I’m saying this although I’m enjoying Builder Base a lot personally!) and Darian already has been getting the excitement high with his announcement that there will be something good coming. Well, they are working on it since May 🙂
In this update article, I will put up all important things (rumors, my opinion and of course official statements) together to give you guys a good overview what’s coming – especially those of you who don’t spend hours in the official forum and Reddit.
Happy Birthday Finland (December 5th, 2017)
This morning we had another Maintenance Break for server upkeep, but the “downloading data” right after made a lot of people hype again. In fact, there was something that only a few people recognized when opening up their game after the Maintenance Break in the News section and that was a “HAPPY BIRTHDAY FINLAND!” entry which disappeared after just a few moments.
Tomorrow, on December 6th, Finland celebrated their 100 years indipendence from Russia and many companies do celebration events in Finland for this occasion as far as I heard. To celebrate that, Supercell had added the Finnish Language Suomi to the game but maybe we might see something more tomorrow (maybe a Value Pack or special event or something else) – however, this has nothing to do with the upcoming update as far as I can tell.
Goblin Changes (December 3rd, 2017)
Since the last update there has been a small change to the Goblin Map that some might not have notices – there are some names on the map that have not been there before, see yourself:
So the most interesting question is: why does Supercell secretly update a very old and outdated game feature? I assume this was part of the “laying the foundation of future changes” part in the past update and the “Goblin King’s Hideout” at the very bottom makes me think about a new way how the Goblin Map will work, like daily changing tasks there that you and your clan mates will be able to unlock and in the end get a high reward when doing this – I absolutely want to point out that this is my personal belief and it can be also something completely different or maybe even something that will get introduced to a later point.
What I don’t believe is, and that’s what I have seen in a lot of non-sense videos in the past days, that there will be a new Hero coming to the game for us like the Goblin King (also there can’t be 2 kings and we already have one). I rather think about something similar to an evil enemy like they have in Boom Beach and maybe also something like the Operationsavailable there.
UPDATE! Apparently, these new names have been in the game files since 2013! (Here’s the proof) So still the important question: why did Supercell activate them recently when it was in the game files for 4 years?!
Sneak Peeks Soon (November 30th, 2017)
According to Darian we will see Sneak Peeks for the Update very soon.
He also made clear one more time that there won’t be TH12 or BH8 coming:
I’m really looking forward to see some real stuff instead of hints, but with the update cycle if the past years I believe we will see the Sneak Peeks within the next 2 weeks as it would be hard to believe that Supercell would not release the update before Christmas…
Let’s Talk Quests (November 28th, 2017)
I think many of you have heard the info that Darian told the hint for the next update feature will start with the letter “Q” (see below in the Clash Talk Interview #2). He also stated that it’s something that many of us have been waiting for for a long time so it’s quite obvious that many have been thinking about Quests.
I want to slow down expectations here a little bit since too high expectations in the past year have been leaving many of us disappointed and there’s no real evidence that it’s really about Quests! The letter “Q” can also have something to do with “Quality of Life Changes (Clouds, Matchmaking…)” or something different.
MasterMind did create a mockup in the feature request forum back in 2013 with several pictures how he hopes that Quests could look like, so the picture below that many of you have been seeing as a “leak” is actually a 3-year-old fan mockup, nothing else.
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