Harry Potter: Magic Awakened - July 11 Patch Notes & Update Details

Welcome to the first update with the global community of Harry Potter: Magic Awakened! We want to give a big thank you to our fans and the amazing growing community of players who have joined us for our launch celebration!

It has been an amazing couple of weeks already with the global launch of Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, so let’s jump into some of the top news you may have missed, before we go into the new updates and our patch notes for this week.

• Our Social channels are having fun in July! Check the Social Calendar, get up to speed on Deckbuilding, see our top 5 Tips & tricks, and more to come!
• Have you joined the official Discord? Come by and meet your fellow witches and wizards to talk strategy, check for Social Clubs, or share your feedback!  
• We introduced our Ambassadors, have you had the chance to meet them? Read their introduction and follow along for all manner of updates!

Harry Potter: Magic Awakened Livestream

The Harry Potter: Magic Awakened Social & Community team is kicking off a Livestream this week on Thursday, July 13 at 7 pm GMT on YouTube! 

Come by and meet Lark, Ash, and Jessi as they talk about game news, upcoming details, play some live duels, explore the forbidden forest, and even hear from some of the voice acting talent. We hope you can make it! 

ScreenShot Saturday

Captured a favorite moment in game and can’t wait to share? Send it our way and you could be featured in our Screenshot Saturday posts! Here’s a small sampling of some of our favorites: 

Lucas Reis caught this great image from the Ball!

Jay Parker arrives in the Great Hall 

Christian David welcomes you to the Social Club

We’ve seen so many amazing images and videos from in-game, share yours today. 

Patch Notes

The first update for Harry Potter: Magic Awakened is already here! Check out the changes arriving on July 11th after our server maintenance. 

Personal Space Updates

New Furniture Collection Rewards are now available! 

• – New Room: Players with a collection of 60 or more Furniture pieces can unlock a new Personal Space room.
• – Space Expansion: Players with a collection of 100 or more Furniture pieces can expand their Personal Space once.

Exam Week Adjustments

The unlock condition has been changed for Exam Week from completing 30 classes to 15, and the requirements for upgrade tasks have been reduced:

• Use Levitation Charm 3 times instead of 5 (Elementary Difficulty).
• Use Levitation Charm 4 times instead of 7 (Intermediate Difficulty).
• Capture 20 Pixies instead of 29 (Intermediate Difficulty).

Optimization

• Improved the visuals for opening Knapsacks.
• Improved the shopping list UI for Madam Malkin’s.
• Players can now use additional copies of max-level cards for Social Club Card Trade.
• Improved the visuals for Mystery Wheel. Players can now preview individual furniture pieces.
• Players can now refresh 3 daily tasks per theme, changing the task objective but not the reward.
• Daily task progress in the Forbidden Forest can now be shared among all group members. Forest tasks are also more easily completed.
• Players can now view their winning streak on the Duelling Club prepare screen.
• Players can now enable auto camera during Forest Exploration in Settings.
• Players can now view their bonuses from events or purchases on the Forest Exploration results screen.
• Improved the details page of Forest Exploration.
• Improved the visuals of rewards preview and enhancement selection in Forest Exploration.
• Players can now view the maximum exploration time for the Flying Ford Anglia on the rewards preview screen.
• Improved the score compensation and details page for lower-tier players when matched with Magic Awakened duellists.
• Players can now tap to teleport to the initiator of the Photo Album tasks when taking photos. The photo-taking task will complete for all participants once the initiator completes it.
• Improved the Forbidden Forest’s camera setting by allowing players to turn off the auto camera in settings. When the auto camera is turned off, players will need to manually adjust camera angles during Forbidden Forest combats.
• Improved the chat channel experience by adding a translation feature. Players can tap on the translate button to translate messages from other languages into the language that they are playing in.
• Improved the Forbidden Forest team exploration experience by adding an SOS feature. When players fail a stage for the first time, they may choose to call for rescue. If rescued, players can continue to clear the stage, but cannot advance to the next stage. The rescuer can obtain all stage rewards except for Echoes, along with Thank-you Notes.
• Improved the waiting UI display when finding matches in the Duelling Club. When players are matched against players from other regions, there will be a prominent alert icon.
• Players can now spectate currently in-combat friends by tapping on their portrait in the friend list.
• A stream feature has been added to the Knapsack, where one can observe combat between other players. Top-ranking duellists for Top Wizard/Best Partners will also receive requests to stream their duels. Accepting the request will cause some of your future duels to be visible to other players.
• Players now have to be Spellbook Lv. 45 to enter Stage 25 of Solo Exploration.
• Improved the Dance Club experience: When the Practice Room is closed, players will no longer linger in it. Instead, they will be reminded of when the Performance Room opens.
• Improved the Dance Club’s display and fixed the issues of screen blocking and clipping in some cases.
• Players can now end the effects of Hair-Raising Potions and Potions of Invisibility manually.
• Improved the Furniture album by adding the Back to School furniture pieces.
• Improved the display of yet to unlock furniture in the Album and the UI display when players sit down in the Personal Space. Also fixed an issue where the screen is blocked when using the New Look Mirror.
• Shop packs are now displayed by category.
• Improved how the Personal Space is unlocked. Players who have accepted the Personal Space task will instantly unlock the Personal Space feature.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where sound effects play incorrectly for the Flying Ford Anglia.
• Fixed an issue where visuals play incorrectly for the Pensieve Reflection portrait frame.
• Fixed an issue where non-members were showing up in the Social Club.
• Fixed an issue where daily tasks could not be completed and optimised the description for some tasks.
• Fixed an issue where skin colour was displayed incorrectly.
• Fixed an issue where the scope of invitation is incorrectly displayed when players above 8100 points invite friends for Best Partners matches.
• Fixed an issue where Standing Blackboard was missing from Season Task rewards. It can now be found in the Personal Space of eligible players.

Welcome to Hogwarts!  

In Harry Potter: Magic Awakened you can duel against a rival student, attend a celebratory fireworks display or help Hagrid round up some pesky Nifflers as new events and objectives big and small roll out on a regular basis. From spending time with your fellow classmates in your dorms, to shopping in Diagon Alley for a new wand skin, we can’t wait for you to join us at Hogwarts! 

Be sure to join the Harry Potter: Magic Awakened community on our official Discord, where you can discuss the latest Harry Potter: Magic Awakened news and strategies with other players around the world in real-time. Also, we’d love to hear what you’re excited about the most, drop by our other social channels and let us know!