IAxiiYourMother;n7641570 said:
Other companies hired the top players on the ladder to help balance patches before they were implemented. They need to hire great players/deck builders like Dunkoro, GUMGUMFACEPUNCH, and Swim to break the patches and give feedback before they release them.
You actually do have a point, from a cybersport POV at least. Thing is, there is no sign of CD project being interested in in that. Actually, after the huge investments by Blizzard in making competetive HS a cybersport, outcome falls really short of miserable failure. Making the same mistake with Gwent would be surprising. Even without cybersport ambitions, it would be nice to avoid making cards that shut down entire archtypes, such as vicovarro medic. However, i do strongly suspect Nilfgaard initially will be overpowered on purpose, so that people will actually play and test it. Medics ability however cant be fixed with numbers alone, so it is indeed probably the most questionable Nilf card.
IAxiiYourMother;n7641900 said:
I'm sure you noticed that many of the decks they showcased in the stream were stolen from the players I highlighted in my post
Stealing is an act of taking ones property without his consent. Im sure you know who owns Gwent, and therefore every deck ever created for it. Id advise you to avoid such statements, they make it hard to take you seriously.
IAxiiYourMother;n7641570 said:
Nerfing Aeromancy when dual weather cards will be the way to go next patch, and after weather was significantly weakened with buffs being remembered. Why is the bronze weather card it spawned kept??? Chances are Aero would have been used on the same row anyway.
Another "I cant rely on weather anymore, even thou i have a whole bunch of one weather card in my deck" complaint. Dodging your own 2-rows weather is considerably harder, especially when stuff like neophytes spawn on random rows. Bronze card is kept so Aglais gets at least some value out of Aero. Were not pretending is about anything besides Aglais, right?
IAxiiYourMother;n7641570 said:
Bad Elven Merc fix decreasing synergy across the faction with BMC and cards that benefit from special cards being played.
Well, cards that synergise with specials are Isengrim (he saw basicly no play all even with old mercs) and hawker supports. The latter will still sit in a same deck with mercs, if such deck will be a thing. Sure, you will no longer be able to get +3 on your support, and remove any possible wouding, and escape weather, and thin your deck by one, and play a special card with a BMC on merc. Question is, why would you think that getting that much value of a bronze unit is OK? A relentless merc is a 3 power draw a random special and play it. Priscilla would be a good comparasion, she gives you a choice and can play a unit. At 2 power, shes basicly as weak. For her stronger ability she pays with silver rarity. Sounds pretty fair.
IAxiiYourMother;n7641570 said:
CDPR Needs More Highly Ranked Patch Testers
No they dont. They need a large player base, and monetisation to make a project profitable. Thats why they invited the streamers, youtubers. Guys who attract audience. Well, at least thats objectievely what CD project guys are doing, so we can assume that is what they need, right? And its understandable, investing men-hours into balancing a game that doesnt bring profit sounds like a bad idea. If, or i believe, after Gwent gets its share of CCG market CD project Red might give us a courtesy of shifting the focus on balance. They however arent obliged to do so in any way, and its unreasonable to expect that to be a priority now. Its like expecting a ship captain to send all hands cleaning the deck. Its nice to have a shiny deck, but that leak in machinery might be a bigger problem.