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So this is the game from the Witcher 3 except it isn't. It's being rethought and a lot of you tube content is saying it's the best card game ever. It's windows 10 only (on pc) and I am running windows7 although I have 3 ish copy's of windows 10 here. So catch some you tube vids and see what you think. It is a simple to learn impossible to master kinda thing. I just thought a thread should be made on it. Beta does not seem to be hard to get into. But again until I upgrade my operating system I am just watching from the outside. It is making me think about what I want to do just because it looks to be that fun. And the devs are the witcher devs and they have a track record of doing good work.

Youtube is typically one word.

I think this has been discussed in other threads. Its own thread can't hurt.

Thanks but the damn spell checker only excepts the way I spelled it. I have been getting riped for spelling on this message board for decades on my spelling. So I try to use the spell checker. I thought it deserved it's own thread as I am considering buying upgrading or just changing operating systems just to try to play this.

Uh, actually, it's "YouTube" with a capital T.

Also, "Its".

Well played.

Jerk.  :awesome_for_real:

Its is a contraction for it is so it gets a ' (i don't even know what to call it but it gets one). So it's not its.

No, in that situation it wasn't a contraction; it was possessive. "It is own thread can't hurt" is not what he was trying to say.

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Ok. I've been owned. It is would make no sense in the context being discussed so I should have chose better words. Can we use this thread to discuss Gwent? Like please? 

It's ripped :D

Poor guy's going to straight up stab one of you someday, and I'm not testifying at the trial   :why_so_serious:

As for Gwent, meh.  I know a lot of people who love it, but I have a really hard time caring about it more than the hundreds of other card games on Steam or mobile.  Not sure what makes it better than Magic or Hearthstone or whatever.  A lot of the affection seems to be from people who like The Witcher, which is fine, but I have no idea how appealing it is to people outside that circle.  It's like Star Trek nerds playing 3D chess: I'm sure it's a neat game, but I'm also pretty sure that if it wasn't for Spock nobody would be looking twice at it.

Also when the nerds sat down and wrote up the rules for 3d chess they realised that Kirk won by cheating, every time.  :grin:

Decades?

0.3 decades plus his previous nick... so technically correct.

It has been a long time. Plus I am a pacifist so there is no danger.

I like Gwent, but for some reason I find it incredibly annoying that it took me five minutes of searching to find any reference at all to the game it was "based" on (mechanically, its a straight up rip-off)


"Condottiere" - great little card game my group often plays at the end of a night where there isn't time to start something big.

Yeah Gwent is fine for what it was Witcher 3.  I suspect I would have to be making a very long list for 'best card games ever' before I wrote Gwent down though.  Hopefully the standalone version adds some more interesting mechanics otherwise I can't see the longevity.

What are they going to name the new cards if every single on in Witcher 3 was based on someone Geralt knew personally or a monster he's fought?

If I had one nitpick about Witcher 3, it was probably that.

You know, Hal, you have the option of adding all your typos to the dictionary so they don't get marked like "riped" up there.  That's what I do.  You also have the option not to care what these crazy people think.  I mostly very nearly always do that, too.  Never forget... they're crazy.  All of them.  Even Nebu.

Also, I like Gwent, too.

Signe your understanding is like a cool breeze just blew through my window. But that's just  you are who you are here. About Gwent I have upgraded my operating system to windows 10 and signed up for the beta. And that's as far as that's gone. It isn't a trading card game or at least not yet. But there is a lot of youtube content that is a lot of fun and the game seems easy to learn but still interesting. I just thought it deserved a thread.

Not sure if they're doing big waves or letting them trickle out, but my beta key just showed up in my email. Will report back soon (have not played any of the Witcher games, though).

So Hyustrider returns yet again?

So watching the trabucket strat. you buff and then gold them and then stick them to next hand. It can be beaten but you gotta try to beat this strat or you are hoseed.  It is beta and everything is able to change but for the moment. If want uber levels. Again I am not in the game yet but I have beeen following  You tube vids and this dominates.

Okay, put quite a few hours in and here are my impressions. If you're not familiar with the game, it works like this: both players draw a hand of 10 cards. Players take turns playing cards onto the board until nobody wants to play cards anymore. There is no resource mechanic; you can play any card on any turn (assuming it has valid targets). Whomever played the coolest cards wins the round. Then you draw a couple more cards, clear off the whole board, and repeat until somebody wins two rounds.

The good: Every round is a mindgame. Since you have a fixed amount of card draw that has to last you the whole game, most of the time you're trying to stay just ahead of your opponent without overcommitting. Frequently you'll do this even after you know that you can or can't win the round, in an attempt to bait out your opponent's stronger cards. Reading your opponent is very important so that you can cut your losses as soon as is prudent; wasting a single card will frequently cost you the game. Some cards will interact with your opponent's board, but there's no real creature combat and the game never ends without you getting a chance to play out your cards, so if you hate giving up free losses to aggro or combo decks in other games Gwent might appeal to you.

The bad: There's some swinginess which could stand to be designed out. The most obvious offender is the Monster faction ability that lets them hang on to a random unit at the end of each round, which can be negligible or crushing depending on which unit the RNG picks. Cards are categorized as Bronze, Silver, or Gold, and have corresponding power levels; unlike MtG or Hearthstone legendaries, there's usually no cost or tradeoff to playing a Gold card - they're just the best cards in the game. There's a hard limit on how many Gold and Silver cards you can have in a deck, but no guarantee that you'll ever draw them. This exacerbates the natural randomness of card draws in a frustrating way, since now you can quantify how much luckier your opponent was than you in terms of how many Gold cards they drew. In the long run it's not that big a deal, but it's a psychological pain point that I wish wasn't included.

There doesn't seem to be a ton of deck diversity right now and the intended card synergies seem kind of obvious. As far as I can tell the only decks are:
- Northern Realms decks that buff up huge troops and glue them to the board
- Monster decks that ruin your shit with weather
- Monster decks that clone a billion dudes
- Skellige decks that fill up their graveyard with cards and then lose
- Elfy Dwarfy decks that cast tons of spells and then lose

That said, there may be more diversity that I'm just not seeing, because...

The ugly:
While they will probably add new sources of game rewards before release, building up your card library is currently a pretty slow process, and the starter decks are awful. Remember those super powerful Gold cards? Your collection only starts with one and a deck can have up to four, so you're completely gimped until you grind out a ton of resources. There also doesn't appear to be any matchmaking yet, so you'll get stomped for most of this period. Also the UI is clunky, inconsistent, and painfully console-centric. It's not that bad once you get the hang of it, but it's never comfortable either.

I basically like the game and most of the rough edges can be smoothed out. My biggest concern is whether they can keep the meta interesting in the long term. Individual games are fun but get kind of samey and there aren't a lot of standout moments. Still, I appreciate that every game has hard decision points and there's not a lot of auto-piloting. If you're into card games it's worth the download.

Today's patch introduces the Nilfgaard faction:

https://playgwent.com/en/news

Also, judging from the news post on Febraury 3rd, Open Beta is coming very soon (end of this week, beginning of the next).

I really enjoyed playing GWENT. This closed beta is closed only by its name cos actually they're sending invites to everybody now. I had a break from playing so I haven't seen new fraction yet, but I put big hope in this game - I believe it can actuallly a big competition for Hearthstone  :pedobear:

I heard there's like 30 hours of Witcher story built into the game. Is this the case? Much as I like Gwent in small bursts, it doesn't seem worth the cost without more Geralt whore banging.

So, It is a free to play game. It is not a trading card game. But It is a collectible card game. So, it is still in closed beta. They just had there first tournament. I signed up for beta Nov 4. As I posted. I got in yesterday. I made a deck with the cards I had (and I dropped 20 dollars to get 15 kegs,  5 cards each). I got crushed. I was totally crushed. It is the first to win two and I lost the first and second round. I googled a net deck. I could not make it but I got as close as I could. It is a starter monster deck. I have now won 5 games. At 6 I will get lvl 2. The matchmaker seems fair as the highest lvl I have come up on was level 3 and I toasted him. So the open beta is soon. The guess is Monday but next week for sure. This is Cd project red (the witcher people. And they make good stuff). So soon anyone can enter for free and a really good game awaits. You need to know about this.

So, I typed that and then I logged in. I am now level 2. So you guys need to look at this if not play it. Ya it can be grind y and you do not get much for a loss. But a win does advance you. It is a fun game and the most strategic game I have played in recent history.

So I typed that and logged in again. And I crafted my second card in the game. So I can see how this is going. Winning at low levels is not that hard. I am a long ways from getting my newbie monster list. But as I do that I will approach an other level where monsters are not that hard to counter. It just is looking like a fun game to play.

Open beta is coming. Gwent will shut down may 22 and relaunch May 24 in open beta. Gwent is free to acquire and free to play. Just go to gog.com and make an account which is also free.

C-C-C-C-C-C-OMBO BREAKER!

Did hal1 have a stroke?

So reading the patch notes (witch are not final). It is a different game than the closed beta. It is a rock, paper, scissors kinda game. As  are all these card games  are. But its gonna be a lot closer than it was. Witch I am thinking is a good thing.

For anyone that's still interested in this, it's a free download from GOG.  If you use GOG Galaxy, you get some bonus in game stuff AND a free copy of the Witcher 1.

ya patch incoming. meta will be scrambled. Don't see big changes but enough small changes. Well patch notes are not published yet but this is cd project red and I expect good things.

Last month, after two years in beta, Gwent was officially released, and by "released" I of course mean "redesigned from the ground up, preserving nothing about the game except for basic concepts and some assets". The core idea is the same, but... 100% of cards have been rebalanced if not redesigned entirely, the board only has two rows per side, the deckbuilding rules are different, the UI is redone, and none of the archetypes survive unscathed. I had an entire deck built around a mechanic that isn't even in the game anymore (card-swapping elves).

I haven't been following development - I just happened to load up the game a couple days ago and was surprised to find everything different - so I don't know why CDPR decided to scrap everything, but I guess they were trying to widen the design space. The biggest core change, aside from removing a row, is that cards now have abilities that can be used from the board. This is good in theory since the old game suffered from low interactivity, but in practice it feels a little one-dimensional. Most card abilities are some flavor of "damage an enemy for X" or "buff an ally by X" which for the game's math is not that different from the card just having X additional power in the first place.

Because of the changes they auto-milled everyone's cards for full value. Everyone who put any time into the beta should now have enough scraps to build any deck you could dream of several times over. While I haven't yet figured out if the new game is any good, I'm at least having fun with that.

Fair warning: the tutorial is cringe-inducing and unskippable. Also, Sihil is OP.