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[Primethius]

Decoy's been my favorite card so far, though I don't have many considering I'm only up to Velen at the moment.

Allows you to easily get a hand advantage over the AI and gives you a lot of flexibility in the first one or two rounds.

 

[jacksepticeye]

I'm terrible at it the few times I tried. But it was mainly down to me not knowing that I could run out of cards by the end and trying to overdo the first rounds.

It's a neat game though, I like it. I could totally see this becoming a fully fledged spinoff later on with online MP and everything

 

[Chariot]

Decoy's been my favorite card so far, though I don't have many considering I'm only up to Velen at the moment.

Allows you to easily get a hand advantage over the AI and gives you a lot of flexibility in the first one or two rounds.

I love that one too. Uae it on medics and spies. Especially with a medic you can just sacrify poweful cards in the first round and bring them back.

 

[eFKac]

Gonna have a fucking problem with the Gwent related trophies :-/

 

[Anfang]

gwent is hard.

Just need a few cards. Ive managed a decent northern deck just doing the velen quest and making sure to hit up all the townspeople there. Still have several towns I havent visited as well. Spies and medics are youre friend

 

[boskee]

This guy in Velen is absolutely rubbish. Easy win and a free card.

https://youtu.be/yheKlYJi6B4

 

[Ghost23]

Wait, so I'm screwed on the achievement because I didn't buy the Foltest card? I'm not starting over, but I hate permanently missing things like this, especially when they don't mention that you can't buy it again.

 

[whatsinaname]

Are only the blue cards unique to a merchant or all of them?

 

[BokehKing]

My experience with this game is always like

'I think I'm going to win, I got higher #''s all around'

Then I lose everytime, enough times for me to never play gwent again

 

[Raven Prime]

I just can't win a game of Gwent.

Spoiler

Thanks to PS4 crashes.

 

[Lashley]

Wait, so I'm screwed on the achievement because I didn't buy the Foltest card? I'm not starting over, but I hate permanently missing things like this, especially when they don't mention that you can't buy it again.

what, someone explain?

 

[Sephiroth_GR_]

nvm

 

[diablos991]

Yep. The guy in the courtyard at *location spoilers, I guess*

Spoiler

Nilfgaard

is my arch nemesis now. That son of a gun has an insane deck.

I beat this guy last night and got a new leader card!

 

[Veritigo_X]

I just can't win a game of Gwent.

Spoiler

Thanks to PS4 crashes.

I've seen a lot of people complain about crashes but I haven't gotten one. Is it the different versions of the game that are out there? I'm still on 1.01 in the US (latest version here).

 

[Chariot]

Wait, so I'm screwed on the achievement because I didn't buy the Foltest card? I'm not starting over, but I hate permanently missing things like this, especially when they don't mention that you can't buy it again.

I think there is a possiblity that you can get the card anyways. Not sure how, but somebody said that the card may appear again.

what, someone explain?

Inn keep at the beginning in White Orchad is selling cards. Most are just lame commons, but one is a Foltest leader card. After a certain something she leaves and never comes back, making it impossible to buy the card from her. However I think somebody said that you can buy it somewhere again.

 

[diablos991]

Buy cards first all the time. I buy them every time I see them.

 

[knitoe]

I love Gwent. All I do spend all my money on cards and going around towns / villages / cities trying to find merchants / smiths to play. At this point, it's almost impossible for me to lose with the cards I have.

 

[Peff]

What does the Foltest card do? Because if it's the one that doubles the artillery value you can get it from winning against the tutorial guy.

 

[Chariot]

What does the Foltest card do? Because if it's the one that doubles the artillery value you can get it from winning against the tutorial guy.

It's the weather clearing one.

Found this on PS3trophies.org. Thought it may help for this thread:

The witcher 3 Gwent Cards List and Locations

Neat, going to put that in the OP.

 

[TMC]

Found this on PlaystationTrophies.org. Thought it may help for this thread:

Gwent Cards List and Locations

 

[Peff]

It's the weather clearing one.Neat, going to put that in the OP.

Welp, I missed that :-/ Oh, well, if it does end up being impossible to get elsewhere I'm sure they'll end up patching it into another vendor.

 

[Ultimadrago]

Fuck that Acid card bullshit. Has killed so many of my wins.

Seriously though, I'm enjoying Gwent quite a bit.

 

[mephixto]

I think it's amazing especially the way it makes you straregize for the next rounds.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

please change OT title to "screw Watchdogs, this is the true PS4 melter"

 

[boskee]

Does anyone know where can I find the guy who's got Roche in Midcopse? I swear I searched everywhere :|

 

[Malreyn]

Been playing a bit of gwent and encountered some monster cards that persist through matches, which is a problem when you are forced to burn most of your cards first round

 

[Lashley]

Been playing a bit of gwent and encountered some monster cards that persist through matches, which is a problem when you are forced to burn most of your cards first round

Yeah its fucking hard

they always seem to be able to draw more cards from their deck too

 

[Ghost23]

I'm sure it's just a matter of time before someone discovers a deck that is straight up OP since the game most likely isn't balanced. Any consensus on the best faction to play as?

 

[bombshell]

It's just a strategy. There's no actual restriction.

Yeah, but then I just find it weird that the OP says: "Every deck has to have at least 30 cards". The only restriction is 22 unit cards minimum.

 

[carlsojo]

I feel like if your opponent has a spy card and you don't, or don't have a healer to resurrect the spy they use, you're pretty unlikely to win from just plain not having enough cards.

 

[JJD]

CDPR biggest crime isn't the downgrade. Is not making a matchmaking system for Gwent so when can play against people online. This is as good as the old FF card game, if not better.

 

[diablos991]

CDPR biggest crime isn't the downgrade. Is not making a matchmaking system for Gwent so when can play against people online. This is as good as the old FF card game, if not better.

I would never finish the story if this was implemented. Holy crap

 

[Lashley]

(not me)

 

[Bytes]

(not me)

Hang in there.

 

[carlsojo]

(not me)

The best part is, even if you used a frost card, the front row would still have 24.

 

[Slair]

(not me)

 

[frontovik]

It's pretty fun! Kudos to CDPR for designing it and not releasing it as a standalone game. It's certainly more entertaining than dice poker.

I'm more focused on collecting Gwent cards than doing quests right now

edit: In regards to the screenshot with the stacked monster deck, I finally won against the fellow after several tries.

Spoiler

You'd have to know when to pass and let him waste most of his cards in one round.

 

[Damaniel]

I still cant figure this game out. I try to pass and it will not let me, so I put all cards down, then to end round I have to use leader card, but that leaves me no cards for the next rounds so I lose.

I think you have to hold down the pass button until the timer completes in order to pass. On my controller, that button is Y - I just hold it down for like 2-3 seconds and that works fine.

 

[diablos991]

(not me)

The only gamewinning strategy here is to flip the table.

 

[Chariot]

Yeah, but then I just find it weird that the OP says: "Every deck has to have at least 30 cards". The only restriction is 22 unit cards minimum.

Oh yeah, my bad. Need to change that.

I feel like if your opponent has a spy card and you don't, or don't have a healer to resurrect the spy they use, you're pretty unlikely to win from just plain not having enough cards.

Not necessary. You can counter with the right cards, like weather or acid and such. A lot of cards don't mean instant win.

CDPR biggest crime isn't the downgrade. Is not making a matchmaking system for Gwent so when can play against people online. This is as good as the old FF card game, if not better.

Maybe the matchmaking was... DOWNGRADED?!

 

[Skyzard]

Is the crashing with the card game limited to PS4? I avoided playing it on PC as I was reading tonnes of reports about it.

 

[Ikuu]

My strategy is usually spam shitty cards in first round, or try and take it if you can, then win the second easily and go all out on the third. The biggest issue with the game is the starting deck is terrible and makes the game so much harder.

 

[Chariot]

Happened to me. Still won.

 

[knitoe]

Is the crashing with the card game limited to PS4? I avoided playing it on PC as I was reading tonnes of reports about it.

No issues playing Gwent on the PC. Although, I never had a game crashing either.

 

[BGMNTS]

Its still weird having a mini game in a video game sharing a name with my county.

 

[The Wizard]

Tried it out on a whim in between quests. Thought it wasn't half bad so decided to give hearthstone a shot as I had never any interest in card games before. Haven't touched Witcher 3 since. God dammit.

 

[Skyzard]

Its still weird having a mini game in a video game sharing a name with my county.

Imagine if it takes over on google search results

No issues playing Gwent on the PC. Although, I never had a game crashing either.

Awesome thanks, I haven't had the actual game crash either. Nvidia's drivers and chrome on the other hand...

 

[Palette Swap]

quote this if you never win

Quoted expecting the secret to winning in email tag.

 

[bombshell]

How can you tell who wants to play Gwent? So far I've only found the tutorial guy in the first inn and the guy in Vizima (because there was an exclamation mark).

 

[Chariot]

How can you tell who wants to play Gwent? So far I've only found the tutorial guy in the first inn and the guy in Vizima (because there was an exclamation mark).

Ask them. Usually merchants, inn keeps and blacksmiths are a pretty good bet. Every other gwent player has a unique name, so just talk to people with a name. Since the ordinary pleb don't talk to you anways, jsut run around pushin talk to everyone until you hit

I say: talk to the Bloody Baron and defeat him, then he will reveal a few of the local gwent masters.