@Devs... How is Nilfgaard in an acceptable state right now?
I’ve played Gwent since day one, and I’ve never been more triggered by anything with the game than I am with Nilfgaard right now. And now a new patch is about to hit and there have been no changes after this triggering last month I'm just angry.
I really want to know more about your thoughts of Nilfgaard so I can either reevaluate them and stop this anger I have facing this god-forsaken pile of a faction, or, bring this up to maybe make you guys take a look from a different angle.
I don’t understand how it’s acceptable to play against a faction where their first four cards are nearly always Tourney-Joust x2 and Assassination x2? This is way worse than the first Homecoming patches where people just dropped Artifacts. But it’s not those cards that are my main gripe, it’s them together with Bribery, Yennefer: Invocation, Damien’s double Enslave, etc. NG’s create, removal, thinning, and yoinking all together is overkill. I get that NG uses your cards against you, fine, flavorful yum yum, but removal, thinning, and create too? Come on now, behave.
I’m not even angry because I’m losing against them every game, because I’m not - I’ve managed to get an ok enough win-rate against NG with Skellige this past season. I’m angry because this is not fun. This is not Gwent. This isn’t showcasing the tagline “where skill, not luck, is your greatest weapon.” In fact, NG right now is “where luck, not skill, is your greatest weapon.” NG are high-rolling — and with the recent big buff to bronzes, it’s made even their low-cost high-rolling actually very, very good.
How is this Gwent? There’s no skill involved here. NG should be able to use your cards against you, but they should not be able to remove, create, and thin so consistently as well. They’re meant to be the un-fun faction, I get that, but I think they’re getting a huge pass right now because they’re meant to be the bad guys. But they are killing the element which everyone plays a game for: fun.
I can lose or win and have fun. I lose or win against NG and I want to close the game.