Gwent Experiences
During my first playthrough, I completely ignored Gwent. Didn't really think I'd missed out on much, but after a speedy run, I deleted my save file and started up again. The second playthrough I decided to go ahead and give it a try, and ever since, the first thing I did whenever I got into a new area is go ahead and challenge every new Gwent opponent I could find =).. I.. LOVE.. GWENT.
Now already on my third playthrough, post patch 1.10, higher difficulty and also hardest level on he Gwent difficulty option. And my, my... it has really shaken things up quite a bit! Whilst previously I basically destroyed every player first try, perhaps some of the Playing Gwent or High Stakes opponents excluded, now that's not true anymore. Some Merchants, Blacksmiths, etc have more Hero Cards than even I do at this particular point, and they're dropping them incessantly
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Especially the Blacksmith in Oxenfurt and more so the Blacksmith in Larvik... They gave me a run for the money. The latter, I think I might've had to play him 8 times before I finally beat him. His Niflgaardian deck was an absolute challenge because of the high amount of Spy-Dummy-Revival cards.
Being my most memorable match up to this day, I went Nilfgaard VS Nilfgaard. I'll try and upload a screenshot from my final winning game at the inception of the match, after the initial part where all of the Spy and Dummy Cards were played, and thus the real match could begin. Given all of the Revival cards (Yennefer, Coehoorn, Archers,..) it was quite the lengthy match, but I finally prevailed, I think just by a hair. I loved it.
Anyway, I really like the option of making Gwent harder, I needed that challenge, and now every encounter is a new experience.
Have you ever experienced a particularly engaging or gruesome Gwent match? Share it here! (Because I didn't find a similar thread anywhere else ^^)
During my first playthrough, I completely ignored Gwent. Didn't really think I'd missed out on much, but after a speedy run, I deleted my save file and started up again. The second playthrough I decided to go ahead and give it a try, and ever since, the first thing I did whenever I got into a new area is go ahead and challenge every new Gwent opponent I could find =).. I.. LOVE.. GWENT.
Now already on my third playthrough, post patch 1.10, higher difficulty and also hardest level on he Gwent difficulty option. And my, my... it has really shaken things up quite a bit! Whilst previously I basically destroyed every player first try, perhaps some of the Playing Gwent or High Stakes opponents excluded, now that's not true anymore. Some Merchants, Blacksmiths, etc have more Hero Cards than even I do at this particular point, and they're dropping them incessantly
..Especially the Blacksmith in Oxenfurt and more so the Blacksmith in Larvik... They gave me a run for the money. The latter, I think I might've had to play him 8 times before I finally beat him. His Niflgaardian deck was an absolute challenge because of the high amount of Spy-Dummy-Revival cards.
Being my most memorable match up to this day, I went Nilfgaard VS Nilfgaard. I'll try and upload a screenshot from my final winning game at the inception of the match, after the initial part where all of the Spy and Dummy Cards were played, and thus the real match could begin. Given all of the Revival cards (Yennefer, Coehoorn, Archers,..) it was quite the lengthy match, but I finally prevailed, I think just by a hair. I loved it.
Anyway, I really like the option of making Gwent harder, I needed that challenge, and now every encounter is a new experience.
Have you ever experienced a particularly engaging or gruesome Gwent match? Share it here! (Because I didn't find a similar thread anywhere else ^^)
