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Perhaps it will be an "exotic" faction like Zerrekania or Ofir. The only other faction I can think of from Witcher 3 is Novigrad, which was independent.

They did say the new faction would be "different". Who knows. Hopefully they don't just add it to add new things to the game, but have a real purpose and intent behind it.
 
My first thought when hearing "new faction" was "oh, no". When the ones existing are balanced out, I wouldn't mind looking at a new one. But in the current situation I really don't like a whole new faction introduced.
 
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Redania doesn't make sense since it is one of the core Northern Realms – that would feel like making two separate factions out of Nilfgaard core and its provinces. Not to mention that Redanians are basically the same folk as Kaedwenis, Temerians etc.

After the comics and HoS, Ofier has more characters than Zerrikania so it's more likely that it will appear. One the other hand, Zerrikanian faction would be really cool due to possible synergies with dragons.

E: they could eventually join Ofier with Zerrikania tho. Won't make much sense geographically, but could be explained that they joined forces for some reason blah blah blah. Then they could be also joined with the Haaks, Zangvebarians, Barsamen and other "exotic" nations.
 
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While we are at the topic of QOL improvements: I would be extremely happy to see a relative score like in old GWENT+. Especially with the order mechanic figuring out the score oftentimes keeps me from making the best play in time. It's also annoying that the mulligan timer starts when the coinflip screen is shown so by the time you can actually mulligan you only have 2/3 of the timer left.
 
It's also annoying that the mulligan timer starts when the coinflip screen is shown so by the time you can actually mulligan you only have 2/3 of the timer left.
Agreed. This is a bit of a disadvantage. Not sure about other platforms, but this happens maybe one in five games on PS4. Would also love to see leader animations sped up a bit. Playing last month's seasonal mode with Demavend Charges, it was so frustrating waiting for him to finish his gesture while the timer was running down. Not a huge issue in general, but it would certainly make games feel snappier.

That said, I really like this update - it looks great and runs much better. Premium animations are sooo much nicer when they aren't starting and stopping and stuttering constantly. Much more stable overall. Keep it coming!
 
Agreed, the update looks really good. Played a few games and the mulligan timer was fine so maybe they fixed it. But what I would reeeeaaaally like to see is an ordered hand and/or the ability to reorder it manually. As far as I can see the only issue with this is Kambi, which could easily changed to "discard a random card". I really see no reason why the cards in you hands are randomized, this is nothing but confusing.
 
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Redania doesn't make sense since it is one of the core Northern Realms – that would feel like making two separate factions out of Nilfgaard core and its provinces. Not to mention that Redanians are basically the same folk as Kaedwenis, Temerians etc.

After the comics and HoS, Ofier has more characters than Zerrikania so it's more likely that it will appear. One the other hand, Zerrikanian faction would be really cool due to possible synergies with dragons.

E: they could eventually join Ofier with Zerrikania tho. Won't make much sense geographically, but could be explained that they joined forces for some reason blah blah blah. Then they could be also joined with the Haaks, Zangvebarians, Barsamen and other "exotic" nations.

They already revealed that the new faction will not be Zerrikania or Witchers.

So Ofir sounds legit. My bet would be on The Order of the Flaming Rose. They have even more noteable persons then Olfir.
 
Zerrikania incoming

As P3rsephone already said: NO Zerrikania will be coming.

https://forums.cdprojektred.com/ind...-08-10-02-geschlossen.10998121/#post-11380168

Frage 3: wird es irgendwann eine weitere Fraktion geben, Hexer als Beispiel oder gar Serrikanien?

I asked if there will be other factions like a witcher faction or Zerrikania.

Pawel said this:

Zu Frage 3: Nicht die von dir genannten, aber wir wollen auf jeden Fall eine neue Fraktion einführen. Welche dies sein wird, müssen wir noch entscheiden, aber wir haben bereits einige coole Designs!

There will be a new faction (this they now confirmed with the roadmap) but it will not be one of the 2 i mentioned.
 
So Ofir sounds legit. My bet would be on The Order of the Flaming Rose. They have even more noteable persons then Olfir.

Order of the flaming rose? That would be part of Novigrad, no? Novigrad is also known to have their own independent "force" in Witcher 3. Mostly as I understood it, naval forces, and then guards. Probably the books will tell people more details. I've only played Witcher 3, so I don't know that much.
 
Yet Novigrad is the most "Nordling" city possible. It was their first settlement, the very "capital" of Northern Realms.
 
If they were going to readd Redania to NR, they would already have done that. But instead they added Cintra in Crimson curse.

Furthermore, most other factions have already run out of lore characters, while we haven't even seen Verden, Cidaris, Caingorn or Hengfors yet.
 

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They still havent added the Rats - a group of criminals Ciri joins in the books - as far as i know, they're the biggest characters that still arent in Gwent (excluding Radovid and company, which will return, supposedly...)
 
Love the direction Gwent is going. I fell in love with the game all over again recently.

Wasn't sure where to put this, but one small change I'd like to request: for console users, when opening kegs, can we have the "cursor" automatically on the middle card so all we have to do is hit A/X to open all cards instead of having to scroll over twice each time?
It does get a teensy tedious if you have more than just a couple kegs to smash. Thank you! :)
 
I pray to the Great Sun and all the Nordling Gods that the next faction is going to be Ofier or similar distinct group, not Redania cut from NR.

I truly hope that the new faction is going to be Zerrikania. Exiled Isengrim and Dijkstra, Borch (Villen) and his two female warrior lovers, exotic beasts and dragons and the badass sorcerer Azar Javed from Witcher 1. IMO you can't go wrong with this.
 
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For the new faction, looks like it'll have to be Zerrikania? We have barely seen any Zerr in the games, but perhaps they could create a Thronebreaker version to introduce us to the area better?
 
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