As someone coming into the beta at this late time

[roachitup]

As someone coming into the beta at this late time

I want gwent. I fucking need gwent. I played the shit out of the Witcher 3 gwent and instantly signed up when I heard there was going to be a stand alone version.

After 4 hours of playing since I got my key today, I don't feel I've been able to play. Every single game I've played with a starter deck, I get matched with someone with either
a)enough copies of the base cards to make strategies functional
b)have cards that completely warp the game and make strats function

I literally can't even mill a deck or two and make a properly functioning deck yet. There is no reason I should have to put a starter deck against anyone not also using a starter deck.

 

[Yourfacetm]

Unfortunately until their is a reset or a massive key release, there may be a lot of matchmaking problems. I've heard it takes time to get your matchmaking rank and after however long that takes, you will be put with players equal to you.

​Hopefully it gets better, this is definitely a good game.

 

[Cybershot]

Did you mill your other decks? I found I had to focus on one deck to be competitive. Milling the other leaders should give you enough scrap to build out a functioning deck.

 

[eogard]

Did you mill your other decks? I found I had to focus on one deck to be competitive. Milling the other leaders should give you enough scrap to build out a functioning deck.

Maybe he isn't level 3 yet

 

[ajajaman]

DON'T MILL OTHER DECKS
Stick to it, you have no Idea how many times my favorite deck changes. one card, one game, those things can make you want to try something different, and you can't do that if you don't have enough cards ready to play. Again, be patient

 

[Gersen]

Did you mill your other decks? I found I had to focus on one deck to be competitive. Milling the other leaders should give you enough scrap to build out a functioning deck.

Leader are Epic now so they give a lot less scrap than before; also personally I don't consider it to be a good idea to mill your other deck, yes it gives you some scrap but it also prevent you from playing other factions.

 

[bloodcount]

You have played only 4 hours mate, come on. Most likely your mmr hasn't balanced deck.

Still, this is an issue. I think that if CPR's standard decks are prebuilt with cards you don't own, but are synergetic (and can't delete or change them) you will stand a chance against any paid deck.

 

[gnarbrag]

The problem isn't paid decks. People who have been playing for a little longer have gotten time to get better cards. Just keep trying and hope people will GG you for a few scraps or ore. Those will help you improve your deck

 

[gnarbrag]

The problem isn't paid decks. People who have been playing for a little longer have gotten time to get better cards. Just keep trying and hope people will GG you for a few scraps or ore. Those will help you improve your deck

 

[pl91]

not that it will help a lot,but in case any of you missed it,you get a free keg and a free copy of witcher 1 in gog galaxy as part of a promotion for trying the beta.

hope this helps a bit

 

[werasdwer]

Its true that you get crushed right now with basic decks because the majority of people are already using gold cards on the limit.
There is a limit on these cards for a reason, because they can basically decide 1 turn by just being played at the start.
I imagine this problem will disappear once the game is released but for this beta you need to be VEEERY patient until the game starts to be fun at all.

 

[Strollin]

Just play with weather monster decks and craft some golds there. It does wonders if you know what to do And once you can farm kegs with that deck to get more cards you can try out other factions as well

 

[flindo]

DON'T MILL OTHER DECKS
Stick to it, you have no Idea how many times my favorite deck changes. one card, one game, those things can make you want to try something different, and you can't do that if you don't have enough cards ready to play. Again, be patient

I for one think this advice is a bit ill advised, since "toughing through it" is a lot more stressful than just being able to make a deck that works for you.

 

[SarahGabriella]

I dont get the constant complaint in Match Making from new players about people paying for better cards. I doubt many people throw money at the screen when a game is in a beta. They just mill and craft more and got kegs from ore.

 

[Valvatti87]

It must really suck to jump in to beta this late. CDPR should give 20KEGS to all new testers. Hell i played first time today after the patch and im gettin my ass handed to me.. Im lvl 17, played 5 games won the last one barely against scoitael..

 

[jaakkeli]

I for one think this advice is a bit ill advised, since "toughing through it" is a lot more stressful than just being able to make a deck that works for you.

I started playing last week. I haven't milled decks and by now I'm winning more than losing. If I had followed the advice to mill decks I wouldn't have gotten there that fast as I started focusing on a deck only once I got a few strong cards from kegs and started building towards a direction (for me that was Skellige discard after getting Birna Bran). The odds are the first kegs you open are likely to have some key cards for some deck but you can't predict which one.

One uncommon advice for a newbie I'd say is DON'T go for a meta deck, instead go for a deck that hard counters at least one meta deck. Trying the monster weather that people recommended for beginners was TERRIBLE as I kept meeting other monster weather decks by players who had more cards than I had for it so by playing the most common deck I was automatically at a disadvantage against the most common deck.

My Skellige deck on the other hand worked great against monster weather from the beginning as my pirates are immune to weather so a fully decked out monster player with gold cards like Woodland Spirit, Caranthir etc that completely commit them to weather is actually even weaker against me than a starter monster deck. I'm weak against opponents that remove my pirate captains before my buff/discard train begins but monster weather decks tend not to run removal as they rely on weather to suppress enemy units.

My advice from playing these kind of games in the past is that beginners are better off not playing a meta deck, they're better off playing a counter-meta deck. If you specialize on beating a common deck type you have something to consistently provide you with wins and that way you get off the ground much faster.

 

[roachitup]

Just wanted to come back to this for a second. Having some more time in has made all the difference. I got super lucky on a couple packs and now have all I need to compete. I still feel the 1st few levels are extremely rough from a new player perspective and if I hadn't been lucky drawing a few legendary cards I still would'nt be much better off.