GREAT QUACKS! ITS FEBRUARY ALREADY!

Well January 2026 went by fast! Last month, we had an excellent editorial on the Snowball Throwing Event, with real insights and excellent tips to maximise snowball throws.

These types of editorials are very useful for the game, and we've had many excellent ones in the past, but as the game evolves, we need more player guides like these especially on all the new features introduced. But not just players guides. Reviews, players PoVs, and role-play tied in to game lore, etc, are much encouraged. Feel free to share your thoughts and options by submitting them to the Sentinel Facebook page.

The usual editorial bonus for reviews, commentaries, game guides, gear talk, fan-fiction, and origin stories applies to all submissions that are published.

REWARDS:

PLATINUM: 7 Strange Fiction cards (only reserved for EXCEPTIONAL submissions)

GOLD: 5 Strange Fiction cards

SILVER: 3 to 4 Strange Fiction cards

BRONZE: 1 to 2 Strange Fiction cards

These rewards go out after the end of each month and are IN ADDITION to the usual Sentinel rewards from Daniel Andrade for published entries.

Here are the categories/prompts:

Category One:
REVIEWS/COMMENTARIES of ad hoc and regular events, including fan-fiction role play, etc.

Category Two:
GAME GUIDES, GEAR TALK, and other editorials about game mechanics.

Category OPEN:
What is your origin story? How did you end up in the Heroes Rising universe?
(And any other Fan-Fiction.)

REMINDER:

Post your submissions to the Sentinel page as usual for Categories One and Two. To enter the OPEN CATEGORY post your entries to the with the following in the title: "FEBRUARY CONTEST" and the title of your entry. Please also add a link to your entry in the Sentinel page so that we can monitor all entries.

Yours Quackily,
SQ

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Player Guide: A review of Frostuary's Snowball Throwing Event

Frostuary has come and gone. Next year... be prepared! Here is how I set out to throw Snowballs and find Chocolates! Set up for success.

To begin, put on your Snow Thrower arm and Chocolate Detector goggles! If you have multiple pieces of gear - wear them! You can also go to the Arctic Cafe and purchase Ice Scoopers with Ice Crystals once you get going. While you are there get ALL the Cones & the Hot Chocolate. What do these do?

The blueberry snowcone -
+10 Throw Snowball
Consumed Immediately - Lasts 4 hours

The cherry snowcone -
50% chance to regain 1 energy every time you throw a snowball
Consumed Immediately - Lasts 4 hours

The lime snow cone - (OPTIONAL for this exercise.)
+1% to ATK, DEF, MOV, and LIFE
Consumed Immediately - Lasts 4 hours

The hot chocolate -
Chance to refill 1 battle each time you throw a snowball
Consumed Immediately - Lasts 4 hours

Ideally, you want every arena fight to throw snowballs, return free Battles and free Energy. You can fight in the arena until your Battles are exhausted, then move over the Missions and Patrols to use your Energy, find Chocolate and restore Battles. It is possible to restore your Battles FREE, so you can move back over to the arena. Rinse & repeat.

Now set up your equipment. Your goal is to increase the number of fight rounds, which increases your chances to throw snowballs. Reduce your damage, poison, auras, etc. and increase your life, resistance and disruption. You want the fight round to last as long as possible - even losing. I have thrown 7 snow balls in a fight round that I have lost. Here is an example:

Movement + 3120
Life + 2780
Life Bonus % 63
Attack + % 4
Defense + % 172
Movement + % 154
Regeneration 5
Disrupt Auras 164
Prevent Poison (44) 42%
Elemental Damage 1
Throw Snowball (207) 78%
Find Chocolate (78) 55.5%
Stun Resist (148) 85%
Resist Physical (342) 98%
Resist Mental (345) 98%
Resist Magic (342) 98%
Resist Supernatural (373) 98%
Resist Tech (572) 98%
Resist Elemental (558) 98%
Morph Damage 30
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Attack: 12,042,784
Defense: 31,684,995
Movement: 171,733,555
Health: 4,094

Your suit doesn’t need to perfectly match this. It could be a goal.

Finally, go find a “SNOWBALL PARTNER” in the arena. This could be any player up or down from you based upon your level-strength. Ideally, what you are looking for will seem counterintuitive. You are looking for a player who matches up well to have long fight rounds and you LOSE. This is actually important. If you win, you can only get two wins per day until reset. If you LOSE, you can fight repeatedly with a player that can deliver long fight rounds (50+) and throw snow balls, over and over and over again. Be careful because sometimes this opponent may change their suit and change the outcome. You may need to adjust your gear and it takes a little tinkering. I have enclosed a screenshot of a great example and unlikely “SNOWBALL PARTNER”.



Good luck and happy throwing snowballs and finding Chocolate... next year of course. ?

ID: 10847

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HAPPY QUACKY 2026

Welcome to a new year of HVR! 2025 is over and a lot has happened and changed. We'd like to invite you to share your views on recent developments and new changes to the game. What did you like or didn't like? Which were your favourite, or least favourite, events? Do you have any suggestions for future events?

Feel free to share your thoughts and options by submitting them to the Sentinel Facebook page.

The usual editorial bonus for reviews, commentaries, game guides, gear talk, fan-fiction, and origin stories applies to all submissions that are published.

REWARDS:

PLATINUM: 7 Strange Fiction cards (only reserved for EXCEPTIONAL submissions)

GOLD: 5 Strange Fiction cards

SILVER: 3 to 4 Strange Fiction cards

BRONZE: 1 to 2 Strange Fiction cards

These rewards go out after the end of each month and are IN ADDITION to the usual Sentinel rewards from Daniel Andrade for published entries.

Here are the categories/prompts:

Category One:
REVIEWS/COMMENTARIES of ad hoc and regular events, including fan-fiction role play, etc.

Category Two:
GAME GUIDES, GEAR TALK, and other editorials about game mechanics.

Category OPEN:
What is your origin story? How did you end up in the Heroes Rising universe?
(And any other Fan-Fiction.)

REMINDER:

Post your submissions to the Sentinel page as usual for Categories One and Two. To enter the OPEN CATEGORY post your entries to the Fan-Fiction forum with the following in the title: "JANUARY CONTEST" and the title of your entry. Please also add a link to your entry in the Sentinel page so that we can monitor all entries.

Yours Quackily,
SQ

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PoV: Heads Will Roll Tournament

By Aflima
ID 10898



Some time back, the inaugural Faction Wars tournament took place and for those who were around at that time, they'd have noticed similarities with the Heads Will Roll. Expanded rosters primarily filled with superleagues, going at it. Like the Faction Wars, this tournament got mixed reviews but more importantly good feedback. Here's my observations:

Having two divisions was absolutely the correct call, despite fears from players at the lower rung being concerned about their ability to amass wins individually. Could the division mark off point be varied in a future iteration? Probably, but when you consider there are powerhouse players at the L100 range for example who can destroy those at say L400, maybe the option should be there for players between L100 and L400 to choose which division to register under.

On the recruit then draft setup, we observed scenarios where some squads didn't need to draft as they recruited a full roster beforehand. I think in the interest of variances of roster building as well as introducing more strategy, something similar to how the Indian Premier League in cricket operates should be considered... leaders can select (retain) a maximum of X number of squad mates per level tier, then unselected players go to the standard draft. You could possibly expand on this where leaders could TRADE(!) out of their draft pick slot if they desperately want an extra squad mate in that same tier. The mechanics and mathematics of such would need to be trialled, but there's a lot of potential to be explored.

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SQUAD WARS: CALL FOR EDITORIALS plus Sentinel End-of-Year Bonus

As we are approaching the final round of Rob Ragan's Heads Will Roll Tournament, players are encouraged to submit editorials and reviews of the event. How did you like the new format? What did you like/not like about it? Do you have any suggestions for future events?

Feel free to share your thoughts and options by submitting them to the Sentinel Facebook page.

As this is the final month for 2025, all entries to the Sentinel will be entered into the 2025 Sentinel Awards for Best Editorials. The top 3 editorials submitted in 2025 (as selected by Yours Quackily) will receive 10 Strange Fiction cards each!

Of course, the usual editorial bonus for reviews, commentaries, game guides, gear talk, fan-fiction, and origin stories still applies.

Post your entries to the Sentinel page as per usual.

REWARDS:

PLATINUM: 7 Strange Fiction cards (only reserved for EXCEPTIONAL submissions)

GOLD: 5 Strange Fiction cards

SILVER: 3 to 4 Strange Fiction cards

BRONZE: 1 to 2 Strange Fiction cards

These rewards go out after the end of each month and are IN ADDITION to the usual Sentinel rewards from Daniel Andrade for published entries.

Here are the categories/prompts:

Category One:
REVIEWS/COMMENTARIES of ad hoc and regular events, including fan-fiction role play, etc.

Category Two:
GAME GUIDES, GEAR TALK, and other editorials about game mechanics.

Category OPEN:
What is your origin story? How did you end up in the Heroes Rising universe?
(And any other Fan-Fiction.)

REMINDER:

Post your submissions to the Sentinel page as usual for Categories One and Two. To enter the OPEN CATEGORY post your entries to the with the following in the title: "DECEMBER CONTEST" and the title of your entry. Please also add a link to your entry in the Sentinel page so that we can monitor all entries.

Yours Quackily,
SQ

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COLONY & WMD get tribute power cards

BREAKING NEWS:

Two leagues in the HVR universe have been honored with their very own power cards!





Colony 5¹ and WMD both get special MORPH power cards, which can be switched from Attack to Defense to Movement at any time. Plus these cards are currently in STAT BOOST MODE, which means that until a predetermined time (after 2000 are sold or Saturday Nov 22nd at 12:00 AM, whichever comes first.)

Both cards can potentially reach 350/350/350 (attack/defense/movement) if fully boosted, meaning that the top stat if set as a movement card, for example, will be 250/250/550. Bear in mind that these can then be tiered up to a whopping 500/500/1100!

Will these cards reach their maximum potential? If so, they would be the most powerful cards in the game!

During the stat boost event, you may purchase these cards at a reduced cost commensurate with the level of boost, so hurry if you want to get them cheaper.

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SENTINEL BONUS FOR NOVEMBER & CALL FOR AVATAR IDEAS

Now that we have established Heroes, Villains and Renegades as our new name, we need to create new avatar items for the "Villains" and "Renegades" factions.

We see a lot of art submitted and thought it would be a great idea to throw this out there.

It's not a race or contest, but players that submit useable things will be granted mps for doing so. The first 3 approved submissions will receive 100 mps for each, then an additional 50 for every additional approved submission.

NO PROFANITY, NO ADULT CONTENT! This game has younger players, so please folks, be respectful to that, and your fellow player's children too.

(Weird and funny ideas like Super Ducks and Supervillain Quackheads are most welcome.)

Please use the Sentinel Facebook page to submit your ideas

Of course, the usual editorial bonus for reviews, commentaries, game guides, gear talk, fan-fiction, and origin stories still applies.

Post your entries to the Sentinel page as per usual.

REWARDS:

PLATINUM: 7 Strange Fiction cards (only reserved for EXCEPTIONAL submissions)

GOLD: 5 Strange Fiction cards

SILVER: 3 to 4 Strange Fiction cards

BRONZE: 1 to 2 Strange Fiction cards

These rewards go out after the end of each month and are IN ADDITION to the usual Sentinel rewards from Daniel Andrade for published entries.

Here are the categories/prompts:

Category One:
REVIEWS/COMMENTARIES of ad hoc and regular events, including fan-fiction role play, etc.

Category Two:
GAME GUIDES, GEAR TALK, and other editorials about game mechanics.

Category OPEN:
What is your origin story? How did you end up in the Heroes Rising universe?
(And any other Fan-Fiction.)

REMINDER:

Post your submissions to the Sentinel page as usual for Categories One and Two. To enter the OPEN CATEGORY post your entries to the with the following in the title: "NOVEMBER CONTEST" and the title of your entry. Please also add a link to your entry in the Sentinel page so that we can monitor all entries.

Yours Quackily,
SQ

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