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boskee · Jun 15, 2016

Looks like Gwent is not going to be just a card game. It's going to feature a full blown single player campaign created by writers responsible for, among others, Bloody Baron questline. They emphasise that it will have choice-and-consequence system known from the Witcher games.

From an article posted by Kotaku:

It’s going to have a full-fledged single-player mode. There will be several campaigns—each 10+ hours, the developers say—with top-down maps and even optional areas to explore. Your main character, who will vary depending on the story, will make decisions ranging from menial to significant, in true Witcher style.

CD Projekt Red showed off an early section of this new campaign. The premise: Geralt is working as an escort for a group of mercenaries, and they find that one of their men has been slaughtered, apparently by a demon. After some dialogue, they go off into the world, which is a simple cel-shaded map with a top-down 2D perspective. In the demo, Geralt and crew decided to ignore the main path and instead explore a nearby ruin, where they’re rewarded with a card that they can use in future battles.

Combat encounters, as you might expect, play out via Gwent matches. Different enemies will have different gimmicks based on their characters, their abilities, or even the weather

Also working on the single-player campaign is narrative designer Karolina Stachyra, best known for writing The Witcher 3's infamous Bloody Baron quest.

Geralt won’t always be the main character, although he’ll make appearances, as will many of The Witcher’s other heroes and villains. In our interview, Tomaszkiewicz said he wants to offer players a top-down, strategic view of the universe. In Gwent, you’re more leader than mercenary. “It’s an extension of The Witcher’s universe,” he said.

http://kotaku.com/the-witchers-gwent-spinoff-has-a-beefy-single-player-mo-1781989529

Other features are being reported by journalists who got to play it:

- ten hour campaign (will be expanded as the time passes)
- voiced cutscenes
- open world

The game features a few campaigns based on four different decks, and each campaign will take up to 10 hours to complete. Campaigns include beautiful 2D cutscenes, along with a birds-eye view when you take traverse the world with Geralt (or the other characters you’ll get to play as). The art-style of this mode is completely different to the actual Witcher games and it’s stylized in a beautiful animated tone. Ultimately, it resembles a point and click adventure game with all battles in the game being represented by Gwent itself.

http://thekoalition.com/2016/gwent-will-expand-on-the-witcher-lore-with-its-story-mode

Diancecht · Jun 15, 2016

Amazing! BB quest line was sublime.

wesleyshark · Jun 15, 2016

I'm so ready for this game ahhhh

d9b · Jun 15, 2016

Release date?

Toki767 · Jun 15, 2016

Why does this make me think it'll be some Yu-Gi-Oh! levels of story?

WaterAstro · Jun 15, 2016

There's also the part where you don't acquire cards from a pack.

You find allies that join your army, and they become cards in your deck.

GinoFelino · Jun 15, 2016

I thought the Bloody Baron writer is at Guerrilla for Horizon now.

How many people wrote that quest?

Vulcano's assistant · Jun 15, 2016

Should have been the writers of the Vlodimir quest. I rather have the Gewt game be hilarious from beginning to end.

Bruno · Jun 15, 2016

I can't believe how excited I am for this game - GWENT!

d9b · Jun 15, 2016

Gwent me baby one more time..!

d00d3n · Jun 15, 2016

Will the full game be out this year?

Yautja_Warrior · Jun 15, 2016

I'm not normally into card games on a computer but I really enjoyed Gwent in Witcher 3, I might actually get this, it looks pretty good.

VexMythoclast · Jun 15, 2016

Wow i expected this to be a quick cash grab with the quality of most mobile releases. Shame on me for doubting CDPR.

Floody · Jun 15, 2016

GinoFelino said:
I thought the Bloody Baron writer is at Guerrilla for Horizon now.

How many people wrote that quest?

It was one of the designers who joined GG wasn't it? The writer was from New Vegas.

Yabberwocky · Jun 15, 2016

Bloody hell. Only you, CDPR. I'm looking forward to seeing the responses from the beta!

boskee · Jun 15, 2016

GinoFelino said:
I thought the Bloody Baron writer is at Guerrilla for Horizon now.

How many people wrote that quest?

He didnt write that storyline. He was a quest designer implementing what he was given inside the game world. The writing team still works at CDPR and that particular story was designed and written by Karolina Stachyra and Pawel Sasko. Here's more about it http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/10/the-personal-story-behind-the-witcher-3s-bloody-baron-quest/

Palette Swap · Jun 15, 2016

This game is going to be crazy.
At last we're done pretending there's more to do than Gwent !

boskee · Jun 15, 2016

Vulcano's assistant said:
Should have been the writers of the Vlodimir quest. I rather have the Gewt game be hilarious from beginning to end.

Karolina Stachyra (the one behind Bloody Baron) also wrote the wedding storyline (Vlodimir).

Hope that makes you happy

Dark_castle · Jun 15, 2016

the_batman · Jun 15, 2016

campaigns for gwent? this is getting out of control!

GinoFelino · Jun 15, 2016

Floody said:
It was one of the designers who joined GG wasn't it? The writer was from New Vegas.

boskee said:
He didnt write that storyline. He was a quest designer implementing what he was given inside the game world.

Righto!

Even so, it'd be no surprise if people want to be associated with the 'best quest' in the '2015 GOTY'.

Orthogonal · Jun 15, 2016

This game is way bigger than anticipated. Very welcome news. CDPR is on a roll.

boskee · Jun 15, 2016

Other features are being reported by journalists who got to play it:

- ten hour campaign (will be expanded as the time passes)
- voiced cutscenes
- open world

kAmui- · Jun 15, 2016

And I was only hoping there would be at least some sort of single player in the game. Then we hear that there will be a full single player campaign. And now this! I can't wait for this game.

Some Nobody · Jun 15, 2016

Not sure who thought this was a good idea...but I love them for it. Cannot wait to play this. (Basically sounds like YGO's Duelist Kingdom era though, lol.)

cripterion · Jun 15, 2016

I don't understand how they can do open world exploration in a card game.

UltraGunner · Jun 15, 2016

I'm hoping they make a stripped down version to play on mobile

prudislav · Jun 15, 2016

Open world exploration in a card game sounds amazing
but at the same time they say its gonna be F2P ... me confused. :-/

CloudWolf · Jun 15, 2016

Open world exploration in a card game? How the hell...

Vulcano's assistant · Jun 15, 2016

boskee said:
Karolina Stachyra (the one behind Bloody Baron) also wrote the wedding storyline (Vlodimir).

Hope that makes you happy

nice

CloudWolf · Jun 15, 2016

boskee said:
Other features are being reported by journalists who got to play it:

- ten hour campaign (will be expanded as the time passes)
- voiced cutscenes
- open world

This makes it sound like it's going to be like that Witcher 3 mod that turned every battle in a Gwent game. :lol

News Bot · Jun 15, 2016

I love CDPR's passion. I don't think any another company would attempt this.

Creaking · Jun 15, 2016

High stakes, card games,

EatChildren · Jun 15, 2016

The average developer/publisher would see that fans like Gwent, the requests for a standalone Gwent, and release a simple F2P build and be done with it.

CDPR instead take the suggestions and build an open world adventure with fully voiced dialogue and choice/consiquence questing off the back of an enhanced version of the card game.

People didn't even ask for this and they're doing it.

Alethebeer · Jun 15, 2016

CloudWolf said:
Open world exploration in a card game? How the hell...

I'm thinking about something similar to the Pokémon trading card game for the Game Boy.

HK-47 · Jun 15, 2016

Baten Kaitos me, plz.

Shahadan · Jun 15, 2016

cripterion said:
I don't understand how they can do open world exploration in a card game.

Waste your time walking everywhere to launch card battles.

Vex_ · Jun 15, 2016

Ugh. Going thtough THAT quest again... I really dont want to relive that experience. Such a sad tale.

Diancecht · Jun 15, 2016

CloudWolf said:
Open world exploration in a card game? How the hell...

It already exists

http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/953/?

Vex_ · Jun 15, 2016

Not many people can make blizzard sweat, but I imagine they are right now.

Haunted · Jun 15, 2016

I'm in.

Palette Swap · Jun 15, 2016

You know what would have been awkward? If they had decided to build a game around ingame cards after the first Witcher.

EatChildren said:
The average developer/publisher would see that fans like Gwent, the requests for a standalone Gwent, and release a simple F2P build and be done with it.

CDPR instead take the suggestions and build an open world adventure with fully voiced dialogue and choice/consiquence questing off the back of an enhanced version of the card game.

People didn't even ask for this and they're doing it.

Yeah, that's really their approach to design : exceeding expectations and not just following trends.

bombshell · Jun 15, 2016

Amazing.

However, this is confusing:

boskee said:
There will be several campaignseach 10+ hours

- ten hour campaign (will be expanded as the time passes)

I assume 1 campaign at launch then?

LonelyGreyWolf · Jun 15, 2016

This sounds incredible!

bombshell said:
I assume 1 campaign at launch then?

Yeah, I was just about to post the same thing. I think one of the sources is incorrect. Kotaku says multiple campaigns, each 10+ hours, while dude on Twitter says one campaign @ 10 hours.

boskee · Jun 15, 2016

bombshell said:
Amazing.

However, this is confusing:

I assume 1 campaign at launch then?

I guess that's what it means. They have stated that they will be releasing new content, cards etc periodically so I'm thinking there will be a 10hr campaign with just the basic deck included and new ones will be added later or sold seperately.

Lord Phol · Jun 15, 2016

Hm, now I'm intrigued!

boskee · Jun 15, 2016

Ok, re campaigns:

Contrary to what majority assumed during E3 2016 briefing, the game will not feature a single campaign, but four campaigns based on each deck. Each of these campaigns will take about 10 hours to complete, 2D rendered cut-scenes, animated art-style, and a birds-eye view of The Witcher world. By this calculation, the F2P game will offer over 40 hours of campaign-related content.

http://segmentnext.com/2016/06/15/g...-that-dives-deeper-into-the-witcher-universe/

That may also explain why we wont see Nilfgaardian deck at launch and why it will be added later.

Tenacious-D · Jun 15, 2016

Any idea who the main characters will be for each of the decks, besides Geralt?

I'm assuming Iorveth will be the one for the Scoia'tael deck. Might also be why Marcin Blacha told me that he's a great character, and definitely not forgotten. It's plausible, considering his inclusion in the promo art and what happened with him in TW3. Guess this means no EE with his cut content restored though. At least it's something. That character really deserve a proper ending considering the cliffhanger from TW2.

Card Boy · Jun 15, 2016

At least $100 is going into this game from me.

Elandyll · Jun 15, 2016

All sounding good to me (would like a version on Android too)

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