Askherserenity
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The Scoia'tael starter deck is built around that mechanic actually.
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Gwent - Open Beta Thread: Not bad, not bad at all
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The Scoia'tael starter deck is built around that mechanic actually.
Resilient is the word you want to use. I only correct you because lock is a different mechanic, that's the one where you shut down a card's ability.
What rank did everybody place at? Lifecoach started at 7 Swim is 8 now I think. So placing at 6 and 1 win away from 7 feels p good for me. Guess it will take a while for the leaderboard to sooth itself over and get the ranks right. I want to get top 1000 again for the avatar so I'll have them all. Think it will be harder this time since way more competition.
Monster and dwarves have resilient units. Monster especially can be played with the objective to carry over value when you add nekkers. And there is the neutral card Adrenaline Rush.
How are you supposed to get past King Brant with Skillage? It seems like I can win the first round, barely get through the second (losing by like 2) and then all of a sudden the fucking AI turns on cheat-mode and spawns like 5 enemies to my 1-2 cards left in deck.
WTF?
WTF?
DorkLord54
Member
Question: if you hate the game as it is in TW3, will you hate the standalone version?
I you win round 1, you can keep your cards for round 3 rather than fighting for round 2. In this scenario, only play cards in round 2 if you think they will have little value in round 3.
If even with that you are at a card deficit in round 3, it means you are over committing in round 1.
Shadow Broker
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What's a good monster deck to try and build? How many cards in a ideal deck? I just started off and I'm experimenting but I still want to win. Lol.. I'm getting my ass kicked by the CPU even. I deleted all the premed decks and still not sure why I did that.
Perhaps you should explain exactly what you hate about the game as it is in TW3.
poppedcollar69
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aagh im so stingy with scraps... crafted kiera, hope i don't regret it
DorkLord54
Member
Honestly, mostly just Nilfgaard's house advantage.
Still only level 7, this was like the worst week for this to release Zzzzz
Are you ok with monsters having the house advantage instead?
In all seriousness though, the game is balanced completely differently. Witcher 3 gwent was very much a single player game, it was meant to make the player feel bad ass, this is much more balanced and nearly anything you can think of is viable.
TheSadRanger
Banned
Dandelion is like the Anduin of emotes
If the server goes out of sync, the victory/defeat screen doesn't matter, both parties are just awarded the rounds that already finished and the rest is a wash. It's also supposed to be no change in ranked but I haven't seen that personally.
Except the AI won't play any cards (outside of maybe 2-3) in round 2. So I'm at a "card deficit" if I win round 1.
For the life of me, I can't figure out this one because the stupid spawns is what is killing my numbers.
Finally found a deck fun and working for me. The displacement monster deck, where O move units all over the place with Old Spear doing work.
I had a bad experience with wifi, the tolerance is way too low. No problem when wired.
I had a bad experience with wifi, the tolerance is way too low. No problem when wired.
Askherserenity
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The monster starter deck is a good starting off point. Why would you delete them? lol Just look for the set online maybe. You can build up on that deck with just a few more cards.
The AI should be no problem at all with most of the starter decks and then you'll get a few kegs from the AI which you can use to strengthen that starter monster deck.
If you want, I'll make the monster starter deck list for you.
What card deficit?
I'll be down in matching their hand size by 1-2, generally. No matter the round I pick because "lol I can spawn two creatures and then draw 2 for the next round start!" in this battle.
Bran doesn't have any special drawing mechanics, I see no reason why he has more cards than you other than you not playing keep up right.
I seem to never see any Sociatal except me. Are they that weak that no one uses them? The most I see is monsters and nilfgaard.
Also in causal I mostly won and placed rank 3 once I hit level 10 and now I am almost at a losing streak also the challenges seemed pretty easy. Most of them I finished on first try.
I didn't buy any cards (except the ones I the game keeps giving me) but I noticed that the people I face in ranked have serious combo cards, while I don't have that many combo cards. Also opened at least 20 kegs and got very little Sociatal cards but a lot of northern realms and nilfgaard cards
Also the UI is great to look at, but horrible for gameplay (some special cards being played I have no idea what happened and they disappear from the screen and you can't press square to see what they used). Also text can be hard to see sometimes.
And I agree with others here that on PS4 I got quite a few errors and kicked out of the game. Sometimes the game even freezes after I win and I have to restart the game :\
And isn't the title Pioneer given to people in the closed beta? How come there are people on PS4 with that title? There was no closed beta on PS4 and accounts are not shared.
Also will they patch in to play with friends before the final release?
Also in causal I mostly won and placed rank 3 once I hit level 10 and now I am almost at a losing streak
also the challenges seemed pretty easy. Most of them I finished on first try.I didn't buy any cards (except the ones I the game keeps giving me) but I noticed that the people I face in ranked have serious combo cards, while I don't have that many combo cards. Also opened at least 20 kegs and got very little Sociatal cards but a lot of northern realms and nilfgaard cards
Also the UI is great to look at, but horrible for gameplay (some special cards being played I have no idea what happened and they disappear from the screen and you can't press square to see what they used). Also text can be hard to see sometimes.
And I agree with others here that on PS4 I got quite a few errors and kicked out of the game. Sometimes the game even freezes after I win and I have to restart the game :\
And isn't the title Pioneer given to people in the closed beta? How come there are people on PS4 with that title? There was no closed beta on PS4 and accounts are not shared.
Also will they patch in to play with friends before the final release?
I haven't been bothered by those guys at all. This is the son of a ***** I hate right now:
Boost by 15? Really!? In Round 3 it's just an "I win" card: let's see you deal with a 25 point gold with that one bronze card you were allowed to draw. Needs to be heavily nerfed.
All they need to do is include special text to make him and other unbalanced golds targetable.
Askherserenity
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I seem to never see any Sociatal except me. Are they that weak that no one uses them? The most I see is monsters and nilfgaard.
Also in causal I mostly won and placed rank 3 once I hit level 10 and now I am almost at a losing streak
I didn't buy any cards (except the ones I the game keeps giving me) but I noticed that the people I face in ranked have serious combo cards, while I don't have that many combo cards.
Also the UI is great to look at, but horrible for gameplay (some special cards being played I have no idea what happened and they disappear from the screen and you can't press square to see what they used). Also text can be hard to see sometimes.
And I agree with others here that on PS4 I got quite a few errors and kicked out of the game. Sometimes the game even freezes after I win and I have to restart the game :
And isn't the title Pioneer given to people in the closed beta? How come there are people on PS4 with that title? There was no closed beta on PS4 and accounts are not shared.
Also will they patch in to play with friends before the final release?
That's crazy to me that you haven't seen any dwarf decks. I've seen a lot of Scoia and Nilfgaard in my play.
There was a closed beta on the PS4. I forgot how long that lasted though..
If you win the first round, just automatically pass the 2nd round and don't use anything. That way in round 3 you have enough cards again
Complistic
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I seem to never see any Sociatal except me. Are they that weak that no one uses them? The most I see is monsters and nilfgaard.
Also in causal I mostly won and placed rank 3 once I hit level 10 and now I am almost at a losing streak
I didn't buy any cards (except the ones I the game keeps giving me) but I noticed that the people I face in ranked have serious combo cards, while I don't have that many combo cards. Also opened at least 20 kegs and got very little Sociatal cards but a lot of northern realms and nilfgaard cards
Also the UI is great to look at, but horrible for gameplay (some special cards being played I have no idea what happened and they disappear from the screen and you can't press square to see what they used). Also text can be hard to see sometimes.
And I agree with others here that on PS4 I got quite a few errors and kicked out of the game. Sometimes the game even freezes after I win and I have to restart the game :
And isn't the title Pioneer given to people in the closed beta? How come there are people on PS4 with that title? There was no closed beta on PS4 and accounts are not shared.
Also will they patch in to play with friends before the final release?
You can check on those special cards by looking in their graveyard. But I agree they disappear to quickly.
Oh really? there was a beta on PS4 too? Weird they only advertised Xbox and PC :\ I love this game so much haha. It is my favorite thing from the witcher 3!
Also I do have a good number of dwarf cards, but I don't have multiples of those cards. At most I have 2 of each of the ones I have currently.I think the deck I currently have is good enough to get me through for now. I am at level 5 rank atm
It's just that I have to be more careful the higher I go, because I have played against some seriously powerful players with crazy decks!
Although hearing you guys talk about Drought and Rag Nah Roog had me a bit scared since I didn't encounter anyone with those cards yet, and then a few hours ago I played against someone who had both cards and I was able to win and felt proud of myself
I can see how OP those cards are, but I think a good counter is using the quen shield and high hp (that's what got me through)
How? I tried to look at their graveyard but I just see a generic card cover (the players faction) I tried pressing X and doing other things and I couldn't get it to show.
So how do you view the other players graveyard?
I think it is right trigger with a controller.
Got a loss in ranked, also lost points. So it's not working as intended.
The problem is, I'm wired and the connection is pretty stable...or should be, at least.
Morkvarg (5 STR)-"When this unit is DISCARDED or DESTROYED, RESSURECT it and WEAKEN it by 3."
Olgierd (5 STR)-"VETERAN: RESSURECT this unit and WEAKEN it by 2."
These keep coming back (along with like 1-2 other cards in the battle and give him a card advantage. It's either draw or coming back from the graveyard or both. Whatever it is, it's an auto-lose for me.
Oh? R2 is used for seeing the board when you mulligan, but I will check again! Thanks!
Win first round, pass 2nd round IMMEDIATELY, win 3rd
Those cards will be 2 points by the time the 3rd round hits anyways
New question, did it say server out of sync or did it say you lost connection? The second is your fault, the first is the dev's server, I'm talking the second example.
Lock morkvarg like the tutorial before the fight tells you to do, every single starter deck has a unit that can lock.
Lock is actually useful? I just mulligan that because it doesn't weaken their unit strength and seems pointless.
It stops whatever effect the card has. You could cleaver mork then decoy cleaver and lock olgierd if you really want to.
Askherserenity
Member
What
The challenge actually tells you to use it.
It completely kills his cards.
Lock is super important in the game. You can destroy peoples game plan with just one lock.
Game never explains it in the tutorial and the effect is just "lol chain them up" with no decrease in STR. So I just mulligan it because it's pointless to the "lol big numbers" gameplan.
It did say server out of sync.
/edit: By the way, Auckes is generally preferable to Cleaver (gwentdb still lists the old version apparently), right?
Yes. All factions have a silver "locker" and they're all preferable to Cleaver.
Thanks, we clearly need these general tips in this thread.
I hope I have enough scraps to craft this one.
Askherserenity
Member
Your gameplan is bad.
The challenge tells you to lock and if you hover over the card it says:
Lock: Disable a card's abilities. Disables and reveals Ambushes.
I'm on mobile so I'll just post a link. I'd highly recommend we get this added to the OP.
Gwent Glossary
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The rare neutral card Dimeritium Shackles does the job too if you are short on scraps. It adds 0 value, but has the huge advantage to work on gold units too.
Auckes would work better as I have Emhyr var Emreis, Cahir and Decoy. That would crush those resilient teams even harder.
btw: Currently have the Treason in my deck for fun. What is annoying, when you activate it and you activate some neutral effect card which opens your deck, you have no clue what card you activated...unless I'm missing something. I just don't understand why I can't check a graveyard or anything when I'm "hiding cards".