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Duelyst Patch 1.79 – Boss Battles are arriving! – Duelyst

#38

I´m absolutely excited! :slight_smile:
I especially like that most of those changes will assure players at a long-time hiatus to faster catch up with the pace the game evolves, enabling them being competitive sooner again.

Devs, please let me have my time and find attached my own thoughts and suggestions for future considerations as follows:

Boss Battles

I´m happy my former albeit a bit different suggestion for a game mode using a unique, defined deck for AI controlled opponent did hit the spot. Great decision to try something completely new. There are many options for a nice boss battle challenge, I´m very happy to see ´em coming! :slight_smile:

##Boss Crates
I embrace the idea. 5 USD per player is a fair charge for your work in comparison for the contents therein. Also keeping you motivated to serve us new game contents in the future to keep Duelyst fresh.

##Free Card of The Day instead of Daily Challenge
A bit pity, but a fair decision as for players on a hiatus to catch up faster (or for new f2p players to quicker build up a competetive card collection). Personally I´d love to see this game mode again.

##Monthly Cards, bigger Expansions and Seasonal Special Events
Rarity creep is a thing. You simply can´t increase the percentage of Core-Orb rarities without skewing the game in a totally different direction when there are too many of epic or legendary cards.
Bigger Expansions are just bigger expansions. We will see what you have in store for us. This implies, please be careful as you will have to rotate out expansions after some time to still being able to reduce or enhance card strengths for those special culprits.
Seasonal Special Events sound interesting. If able, please elaborate further. Nonetheless, great that you let the standard Season Reward Crate untouched.

##Match History Maintenance Note
As I´m a relatively new player, I don´t care too much. However, if you´re in touch with the guy who´s creating those widely and highly accepted helper tools for Duelyst, please consider to build-in those codes natively into your application. So one can chose which one to use, checkboxing within the options.

##Sneak Peak: Continuous Draft Mode
This looks especially exciting! I´m wondering what´s it all about and am happy to learn more upon further disclosure. If the card drafting will be based upon own card collection, this would be somewhat more exciting and a great more meaningful alternative to simply just grind the ladder. We will see.
The only bad feeling is about some too crazy power horses due to wild cross-faction card combinations. You however will know what you do.

##2017 Roadmap
Great and thanks for the hints!

##Free Keys
Personally I´m not interested to care for a youtube or a twitter channel. But it´s a great token of gratitude towards many of those players who otherwise won´t (or can´t, for some reasons) pay for your service.
But when we´re talking about keys, please consider to reduce the average costs for all keys. It just doesn´t feel feasibile to invest mainly into cosmetics for these price layers.

That´s all for now, thanks for reading! :slight_smile:

#39

So, my previous reply was very positive, but after getting some sleep I also want to comment on a couple of things that made me unhappy.

Monthly new cards were one of the things that made this game great for me. It was a great way to keep the meta from getting stale and a big incentive for me to come back every month and rank up as much as possible. You might say the rewards are still there, but for a long time player there’s a difference between getting some spirit (because that’s what’s going to happen now) and getting some new tools as soon as they come out.

I see the reasons behind this choice, but I think most of it could be worked around. I only hope this means more new card events in the future, like the Seven Sisters one, because putting out new expansions at a faster rate than you are already doing could actually mean too much content in too little time.

The second thing I wanted to comment on is boss battles. I’m still excited about them, but I kinda… missed the part where it says that you must pay for the crate. It’s fine, I’ll just ignore them as long as I stay f2p. What I want to say is that the reward itself feels lackluster. A free spirit orb is basically 100 gold, and at that point the boss battle is gonna feel just like a “weekly quest” for f2p grinders. I think the rewards could be something more unique; for instance, cut down the reward to 50 gold and unlock the boss sprite as an alternative general (or unlock an option to craft it).

Not much else to say, for now. Except that I want Continuous Draft. Now.

#40

We have a whole series of Prompt translation memes in Russia which is regretably impossible to explain to anybody who doesn’t speak the language. They are from the era when most of the games in Russia were on pirate CDs and people who made those copies didn’t even give a single flying shit about the quality, so they simply used machine translation… ah… brings back memories.

Unfortunately, the situation is only so much better these days, hence my post.

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#41

The hype is huge :slight_smile: I’m getting tired of the ladder

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#42

My wording there was pretty bad, but what I was trying to say is that the crate gives too much. A gauntlet ticket, 3 shimzar orbs, a crate key and a legendary, for the price of a crate key and 2 orbs.

#43

well its supposed to be a limited time reward for completing a challenge so it makes sense it would be more generous than usual

#44

I hope these boss battles are very very very hard :slight_smile:

And thus take a lot of time and creative thoughts

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#45

I really like boss battle idea. It would be cool to see an ability to replay boss battle in any time of the year as a boss crate reward. That would make Boss crates feel more like a unique type of reward instead of epic crate.

Also, will new Bosses have some lore attached to it? Maybe after beating the boss you might get acces to some piece of lore. But these all are suggestions. Looking forward to see these fights myself.


Althouh im quite disappointed that there are now balance tweaks.

#46

Maybe we get better computer ai opponents???

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#47

the new strongest removal in the game
blindscorch+polarity

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#48

Don’t get me started imagine Kara get to thraex buffing walls. Or a three or four creature play with Rae, slo, 2 2 mana minions or one three mana minion

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#49

OR KELVIN SUNRISER OTK NEW META!

Bob went to the store, he said to the store manager, "Yes this is a complete F**king sentence ya illegitimate child of an automatic detecter of pointless posts!

#50

Just to jump in real quick, it’s NOT mostly cosmetics. You get a crate key, a gauntlet ticket, 3 shimzar orbs, and a random legendary.

#51

Wait, a PC gamer article said that the boss battles are coming next week. Do we really have to wait until then to try out the bosses D:

#52

It’s Thursday the weeks done you can’t wait three days.

#53

…no

15 characters ruins comedy

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#54

Why do you add this in exams period? WHY!!! I managed to stay clean for 2 weeks, dont do htis to me… Just one more week. Must. Resist…

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#55

they need to make a living, as long as the changes doesn’t negatively affect your gameplay why is anything ever a problem?

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#56

Nice changes, good to know I have a lot to look forward to when I get enough for a new laptop!

I do however have a few questions regarding the new continuous draft mode;

How will the deck upgrades in continuous draft mode function?

Will you be replacing cards from the premade deck that you were handed at the begining of the draft or will you just add onto a collection of cards and make decks from there?

What happens when we recieve cards from the orb opening screen displayed in the last sneak peek for continuous draft mode?

Will there be a time frame within weeks like the old gauntlet or will it be available 24/7 like the current gauntlet system?

What rewards are there, if any, for playing this game mode?

Will standard gauntlet draft still be available while this is out?

How is the art book coming along?

Will there be new music pieces to go along with the expanded expansions set for the future?

If an expansion follows a specific theme, is it possible that there will be special, limited edition skins available for expansions?

Will divine spark ever be rebalanced according to the power behind the other faction specific card draw mechanics (I.e. Trinity oath and tectonic spikes)

Any road maps available as of right now?

How has your day been so far?

All of these questions demand answers, even the unanswerable ones! HERE’S TO ANOTHER EXCITING YEAR OF DUELYST! :confetti_ball: :thumbsup: :laughing:

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#57

Does anyone know if there is going to be a balance patch with this?