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[Burza46]

Hotfix 5.0.1 is now available on PC and iOS!

List of changes:

Balance:

- Crowmother power changed from 3 to 4

- Gedyneith provision cost changed from 14 to 13

- Elven Swordmaster power changed from 5 to 4

Fixes:

- Fix for Sacrificial Vanguard leader ability not dealing damage when discarding Morkvarg or Skirmishers with Mask of Uroboros or Birna Brann.

- Fix for players not receiving Geralt avatar after tutorial

- Re-added the cinematic intro as part of the tutorial

- Fixed the 3rd tutorial battle to be against the correct opponent

- Fixed the "From Radovid with Love" contract (20 point Shani)

- Fixed the display for premium stratagems during battle

- Fix for battles sometimes locking up during the VS screen

- Fix for leader images in deck list not setting properly when skin is changed

- Fixed an issue whereby Iron Border had the skin of Sheep Border

 

[Vattier]

Just wanted to express how happy i am about this newest expansion! Though not the biggest expansion we have gotten it is definitely the best one if you ask me.
Merchants of ofier, with only a few cards made a lot of the cards and leaders i, two days ago thought useless and so bad that they where unplayable viable! I love it!

The expansion also brought a lot more flavor and archetypes to gwent with the new scenario artifacts and the other tactical advantage cards. Gwent feels more balanced than ever and i am just enjoying myself with it like a little child. This is why i felt happy bying every single pack in the shop for this expansion!

Thank you so much for making this expansion happen cdpr!

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Thank you! <3

 

[Burza46]

To celebrate the launch of our latest expansion - Merchants of Ofir - we have two launch packs! The Ofiri Bargain Pack as well as the Caravan Raid Pack!

The Ofiri Bargain Pack contains:

- 10 Merchants of Ofir Premium Kegs.

- Premium Merchants of Ofir cardback.

- Wraith leader skin for Monsters faction

Caravan Raid Pack contains all 12 Stratagems:

- Magic Lamp Premium Card

- Crystal Skull Premium Card

- Enchanted Armor Premium Card

- Cursed Scroll Premium Card

- Basilisk Venom Premium Card

- Ceremonial Dagger Premium Card

- Collar Premium Card

- Engineering Solution Premium Card

- Mask of Uroboros Premium Card

- Urn of Shadows Premium Card

- Aen Seidhe Sabre Premium Card

- Tiger's Eye Premium Card

Details regarding the pack can be found here.

 

[Burza46]

A new season has begun with a brand new seasonal mode - this time whenever you play a unit, spawn a 1-power copy of it at the end of its row. As always, new avatars, borders and Wild Hunt cardback are now ready to be unlocked by completing quests from the Reward Book!

The season will last till January 9th 2020, 10am CET!

 

[Burza46]

Join us TODAY at 5PM CET at twitch.tv/cdprojektred for the Merchants of Ofir stream! Paweł Burza and Maciej "Ostry" Ostrowski will go over Stratagems, Scenario cards and some of the gameplay changes that came with the latest expansion.

See you there!

 

[Burza46]

Behold the wonders of Ofir! The new expansion is live on PC and iOS!

Meet the mysterious merchants from the exotic land of Ofir and behold their magnificent wares! Collect over 70 cards from the new expansion. Experiment with new combos. Reinforce your decks with powerful additions to all factions.

INTRODUCING STRATAGEMS

Stratagems — are the new card-type of cards created to level up your deckbuilding experience. Choose a stratagem when building an army to determine which unique bonus is gained for going first in the match. Let the best strategist win!

NEW MECHANIC: SCENARIOS

Read the developer notes

CLAIM YOUR FREE MERCHANTS OF OFIR KEG

Log in to the game before December 16th, 11:59 AM CET, to claim a free Merchants of Ofir keg, granting you 5 cards from the expansion, including a guaranteed rare or better card!

OFIRI BARGAIN PACK & CARAVAN RAID PACK

Celebrate the release of Merchants of Ofir with a new limited-time offer, now available from the in-game shop!

Full patchnotes for patch 5.0, which introduces Merchants of Ofir can be found below:

Changes

• The music on the Main Menu has been temporarily changed to celebrate the Merchants of Ofir expansion.
• Several audio improvements for voiceovers mastering, including leveling volume and improving leaders voiceovers on vs screen
• Reactable elements react on mouse down rather than mouse up now
• Leaders won't accidentally walk off the Shipboard during their end game animations
• Only traps with an Order can be manually reversed.
• The following cards can be milled for the full mill value for 3 days: Whispering Hillock,Drummond Warmonger, Pitfall Trap, Serpent Trap, Vrihedd Sappers.

New Features

• Introducing gameplay sounds spatialisation. Cards sound effects, voiceovers and ability sounds will now be panned in a way to allow players to track their position.
• New audio design for vanity pickers. Picking a card back, leader or board will be supported with sound effects.
• Selecting a deck to play will now be supported with this deck's ability sound effect
• Added a button to immediately open a keg that was just purchased/awarded
• Cause of Death propagates its VFX on cards (better visual variety of deaths now)
• Improve UI SFX in shop (keg opening) for revealing a choice of 3 cards

• New Stratagems are our take on making decks even more customizable. Tactical Advantage is the default Stratagem and it will stay this way, however if players feel like they want an additional inch of personalization, there are 12 new Stratagems to help. They add a bonus layer to deck building and on top of that make matches a little bit more unique.
• The second big addition to this update are Scenarios - Faction specific artifacts that will improve certain areas, that in our opinion, left factions feeling lacking. Albeit risky, they will bring great value to a player's decks.

Neutral

• Aguara power changed from 5 to 7.
• Germain's Piquant provision cost changed from 11 to 10.
• Iris' Companions provision cost changed from 9 to 8.
• Lambert: Swordmaster provision cost changed from 9 to 10.
• Operator provision cost changed from 10 to 8.
• Shupe's Day Off no longer has Doomed on it.

Monsters

• Dominance changed to: Trigger this ability if you control the highest power unit on the battlefield.
• Death's Shadow ability changed to: Order: Destroy an allied Monster unit, then Spawn and play a base copy of it.
• Death's Shadow provision bonus changed from 15 to 16.
• Endrega Queen Armor changed from 1 to 2.
• Garkain power changed from 4 to 3.
• Kayran power changed from 5 to 6.
• Vran Warrior provision changed from 4 to 5.
• Whispering Hillock ability changed to: Play a Deathwish unit from your deck.

Skellige

• Brokvar Hunter provision cost changed from 4 to 5.
• Drummond Warmonger ability changed to: Deploy: Damage 3 adjacent enemy units by 1. Bloodthirst 5: Damage all units on enemy row by 1 instead.
• Drummond Warmonger power changed from 5 to 3.
• Raging Bear ability changed to: Deploy: Damage an allied unit by 2.
• Svalblod Cultist power changed from 4 to 5.
• Svalblod Priest provision cost changed from 5 to 6.
• Tuirseach Bearmaster ability changed to: Deploy: Give an allied Beast Vitality for 3 turns. Bonded: Boost an allied Beast by 3 instead.
• Tuirseach Skirmisher power changed from 2 to 3.

Northern Realms

• Lyrian Arbalest provision cost changed from 4 to 5.
• Lyrian Cavalry provision cost changed from 4 to 5.
• Redanian Archer power changed from 3 to 2.
• Redanian Knight Armor changed from 1 to 2.
• Redanian Knight power changed from 2 to 1.
• Shani's Armor removed.
• Windhalm of Attre power changed from 2 to 3.

Scoia'tael

• Precision Strike ability changed to: Order: Damage a unit by 1. Charge 3. Once all Charges have been exhausted, Spawn and play Brokilon Sentinel.
• Precision Strike provision bonus changed from 18 to 16.
• Brokilon Sentinel ability changed to: Deploy: Damage an enemy unit by 2. Deathblow: Summon all copies of this unit from your deck to this row.
• Dwarven Berserker Armor changed from 5 to 4.
• Dwarven Mercenary provision cost changed from 4 to 5.
• Elven Swordmaster power and provision cost changed from 4 to 5.
• Pitfall Trap ability changed to: Ambush: After your opponent plays a card, split damage equal to its provision cost between all enemy units.
• Pitfall Trap provision cost changed from 8 to 7.
• Sage provision cost changed from 5 to 6.
• Serpent Trap ability changed to: Ambush: After your opponent plays a special card, destroy a highest power enemy unit."
• Serpent Trap provision cost changed from 6 to 7.
• Vrihedd Sappers ability changed to: Deploy: Purify an allied unit. If you control an Elf, Purify a unit instead.

Nilfgaard

• Aristocrat category added to following:
• Vattier de Rideaux
• Joachim de Wett
• Vivienne de Tabris
• Cahir Dyffryn
• Shilard Fitz-Oesterlen
• Ceallach Dyffryn
• Roderick of Dun Tynne"
• Fire Scorpion provision cost changed from 4 to 5.
• Master of Disguise power changed from 4 to 3.
• Nauzica Sergeant provision cost changed from 4 to 5.
• Slave Hunter "Soldier" category added.

Syndicate

• Azar Javed power changed from 3 to 5.
• Cutup Lackey provision cost changed from 4 to 5.
• Grand Inquisitor Helveed power changed from 4 to 5.
• Hvitr and Aelydia ability changed to: Order (Melee): Damage a unit by 1. Hoard 5: Damage a unit by 2 instead. Cooldown: 1.
• Hvitr and Aelydia provision cost changed from 9 to 8.
• Scarab Armor changed from 2 to 1.
• Scarab no longer has Deathwish
• Sly Seductress provision cost changed from 4 to 5.
• Witch Hunter Executioner provision cost changed from 5 to 6.

Game Fixes

• All cards will now correctly play their sound effects upon transformation.
• Cards that check for status changes now account for when a card is moved to the other row and toggles the spying status
• Clicking the board quickly now no longer cuts the sound off midway
• Fix for Detlaff Vampire sometimes not visually appearring on the board after being consumed
• Fix for round score failing to update sometimes
• Fix for some cards becoming invisible when killed
• Fix for tutorial not progressing if you complete a battle while offline
• Fixed an issue whereby Philippa: Blind Fury would trigger its ability despite having no valid targets on the board
• Fixed incorrect interaction between Trollololo's ability and Shield status
• Leader Ability SFX now no longer ignores opponent's tooltip flow.
• Svalblod Ravager is now properly counting his Bloodthirst.
• Tooltip fixes and improvements
• Various coin lock fixes

 

[Burza46]

The Roadmap was the highlight this week, but that's not all! Check out this weeks TWiG for more!

 

[ThorSerpent]

Explain to me, I have progress on both PS4 and PC.
What will happen to the progress on the PC when I transfer from PS4?
the same as with my levels, cards, cosmetics that was bought only on PS4?

You can't copy your console progress to GWENT account, which already contains progress - because merging 2 existing accounts isn't possible. It means that you'll have to create fresh GOG account in order to copy PS4 data on it.

 

[Burza46]

Dear GWENT players,

When we launched the console versions of GWENT back in 2017, our intention was to provide console players with the same level of support as their PC counterparts. However, having just launched GWENT on iOS, and with the Android version coming, the number of supported platforms would significantly increase. Looking to the future, we do not believe we can support a growing number of different versions of GWENT while improving feature parity between them.

Considering that PC and mobile are the most popular platforms among GWENT players, we have made a tough decision: to discontinue support of console versions of the game. All GWENT players on consoles will be offered an option to copy their account progress and purchases from their current platform to a GOG account, which is used by both PC and mobile versions of the game.

How exactly is this going to work?

Starting from December 9th, 2019, console players will be able to access a webpage where they can request to copy their progress from their console account to a new or existing GOG account. Since we do not support the “merging” of accounts, we will only be able to copy progress to existing GOG accounts that do not have any GWENT progression on them at the time the request is made.

This account-copying process will be available for a period of 6 months — from 09/12/2019 to 09/06/2020. On 09/12/2019 we will release an update which will essentially freeze GWENT in its current state. From this point onwards, both console versions will be operational up until 09/06/2020. Until that time, their functionality will be limited. For example:

- There will be no regular updates for console versions starting with the December 9th update

- Future expansions and additional content won’t be released on consoles

- We’re disabling all real-money purchases on consoles, starting today
- After the December 9th, 2019 update, matchmaking on consoles with other platforms will no longer be supported

What progress will be copied:

• All collected ornaments
• Meteorite Powder — Only applies to Xbox One players*
• All other currencies
• Cards
• Deck lists
• Account level
• Current Rank
• Thronebreaker rewards
• Contracts

*Unfortunately, transferring Meteorite Powder from PlayStation 4 to GOG.COM is not possible. PlayStation 4 Players will have to spend their Meteorite Powder before requesting the account-copying process to ensure that its equivalent value can carry over.

Website is live under this link: https://www.playgwent.com/en/account-copying

 

[Burza46]

Join us tomorrow at 6PM CET at twitch.tv/cdprojektred for the roadmap overview stream! Paweł Burza and Jason Slama will be recapping 2019 and talking about what's to come for GWENT: The Witcher Card Game in 2020!

See you there!

 

[Burza46]

Black Friday is here!

 

[Burza46]

The Seasonal Arena mode has started today and will last till December 10th at noon CET! The rules are the same as in the seasonal mode meaning: each played card will gain resilience!

Enjoy!

 

[Burza46]

Join us for a new episode of TWiG!

 

[Burza46]

Hello. Now that the game is out on iOS can we also expect a Mac OS port? I play on my iPad mini which is amazing for playing anywhere however it would be great if I can also play on my Mac when I’m at home. macOS Catalina added Mac Catalyst and now lots of devs are easily porting their iOS apps to Mac.

Mac is not planned right now.

 

[Burza46]

Hi Burza!
I wanted to ask if you guys have thought about having something like a "Statistics" page on the playgwent website similar to what gwentup used to have in beta? I think it would be a really cool way to see which leader abilities and card choices are seeing the most success/popularity at a given rank/MMR. It would also be a great way to generate discussion and ideas in the community around the meta. It was one of my favorite things to check in beta and I think it would be a very cool feature to see on the official website since I would assume you guys have easy access to that information. Thanks again for being a great community manager and being so interactive, being able to hear directly from CDPR regarding community questions always feels like you're striving for a good community-company relationship. Keep up the good work!

It's something we've been planning to have, we'll see when tho

 

[Burza46]

Are you going implant different ornament stuffs which can be earned by playing game and buying for game money, not for real money?
Frankly speaking, i’m playing gwent a little bit more than 2-3 weeks and i’m starting losing my interest to the game due to a lot of loot which need to buy for real money.

We try to do a bit of both for cosmetics

 

[Burza46]

Is there possibility to add Turkish language to the game or plans about it? Thanks.

Hi! Not planned right now - sorry!

 

[Alicja.]

Join us for a new episode of TWiG!

 

[Burza46]

Igni, Yrden, and Aard have unique VFX, but Axii doesn't have one, is there any plan to add one?

In the future, yes.

 

[Burza46]

What can we expect from the roadmap update? Will it be just information on future expansions and features, or also things like reworks/changes, special events and esports?

We'll talk about this year and focus on the future in terms of development and esports - hopefully