Here's some good news for all the witches and wizards out there. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite new lets you send and receive gifts with friends. This feature arrives with Update 2.7.0, which also makes improvements to the Photo Mode and adds a social media feature.
Sending and receiving gifts is now available and this is done through the Friend List or Ministry ID Page. Gifts are promptly delivered by Owl Post. Here's what you can expect with this new feature:
- Gift Boxes collected from different types of locations contain different rewards and are visually different to indicate what the Gift contains. In addition, all Gift Boxes grant Wizarding XP and may have the chance of containing additional special items.
- Gift Spell Energy: Blue Gift Boxes collected from Inns reward players with Spell Energy.
- Gift Runestones: Yellow Gift Boxes collected from Fortresses reward players with Runestones.
- Gift Ingredients: Green Gift Boxes collected from Greenhouses reward players with Potion ingredients.
- Gift Boxes collected at sponsored locations reward Gifts that contain greater base rewards.
- Gifts are meant for giving, so while you can’t open the Gifts you collect yourself, share them with your friends and they’ll gladly return the favor. The boxes collected is going to be stored in a new Gift inventory page and can only be sent to other players that have added to the Friend List.
- Only one Gift can be sent to the same friend every 24 hours, and you can’t send another Gift if the first is unopened. As gifting never goes out of style, all Gifts never expire.
- You can store a maximum of 100 Gifts in your inventory and can open a maximum of 10 Gifts per day.
- Share your holiday travels by stocking up on Gifts and sending them to your friends. Both you and your receiving friend are going to see the Point of Interest from where your Gift was collected.
Update 2.7.0
Update 2.7.0 isn't all just about gifting, as there are other new features introduced along with updates. These include:
- Photo Mode
- Players can now take AR Photos with the Self-Playing Harp. It’s perfect for those Harry Potter themed dance parties.
- General
- Players can link their Harry Potter: Wizards Unite account to Facebook and add Facebook friends who have also linked their accounts.
- Purchase confirmation popups have been added to: Rental Cauldrons, Out of Spell Energy, Out of Runestones (when at a Fortress), Vault Expansion
The new update also brings bug fixes such as:
- Potions
- Fixed an issue where players did not see a Potion added to their Queue when they start brewing from the Recipes screen.
- This is for Android only.
- Fixed an issue where players did not see a Potion added to their Queue when they start brewing from the Recipes screen.
- Wizarding Challenges
- Fixed an issue where players were not able to re-enter a Wizarding Challenge if they are kicked out due to a connection issue.
- General
- Fixed an issue with Download All Assets in the Settings section not giving a notification (red badge) when there are new assets to download. This is only be available to users Level 4 and up.
