Super excited about the boss battle, but I’m not too happy about the whole paying to unlock the boss crate thing. Also, no monthly previews?!
Duelyst Patch 1.79 – Boss Battles are arriving! – Duelyst
There are no monthlies anymore
About match history data: does that mean, if I have 99 wins in a faction and I don’t get another win before the patch hits, that I will lose those wins and be 100 wins away from a ribbon again? And I might get those wins added back later? Maybe!? Am I understanding that right?
What data are we talking about, EXACTLY?
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The data is your match history tab essentially, your ribbons etc will not be affected.
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Serious analysis time
Boss Battles:
Awesome! Due to the nature of the board, I can see so many amazing things that can be done with boss battles. What about a boss with very high health that you have to fight on a giant board, mimicking a full-scale war instead of a skirmish? What about a frail, ranged boss at the end of a long corridor? What about an unbeatable boss that you have to run away from while avoiding enemies blocking your path? What about an immobile, turret-like boss? So many possibilities, can’t wait to test them out.
As for the rewards, I think that players who send little on this game should go for the division rewards, new player deals, and ROTB before looking at these. Then again, they do give a little taste of everything, so I guess they can be fun. The amount of rewards makes me feel that these bosses will not be easy. However, I will attempt each with my 39 legendary deck!
A more subtle use for boss battles other than just being fun features is field-testing new cards. I can see Counterplay using these to field-test new expansions and gain feedback in the future.
No Monthly Cards:##
While I do agree with the reasoning that Counterplay provides, I can’t help but feel a little heart-broken. These cards were keeping the game fresh, and motivating me to come back every month. They are perhaps the only reason I still play the ladder during months where the meta is dull, like this month. Loosing these will hurt, but I can’t wait to see what new events Counterplay has in store. If the Seven Sisters mini-expansion is anything to go by, these events will be a blast well worth loosing monthly cards!
Match History:##
Whatever, I already recorded and stored my most important match (Beating Wickedflux’s Songhai with 39 legendaries) in a place where it will be eternally safe.
##Continuous Draft Mode:##
Why is it called “Continuous draft mode?” All that was revealed so far was that it has access to cross-faction cards, and that you continue to improve your deck as you play. However, there still remains a ton of questions.
Why is there a progress bar with a “level up (2)” button under it? Why is everything red? Did you intentionally pick Zir’an over Faie, Vaath, and Lilith, some of the best Gauntlet generals, to send some message?
As for cross-faction decks, I predict that a Songhai-Lyonar combo deck with Ironcliff Guardian, Azurite Lion, and Second sun will pop up. Imagine! Azurite Lion = 2 mana old lantern fox! Inner focus + Second Sun to deal 8 damage for 5 mana and 2 cards, with a 8/6 left behind!
##Solo Challenges vs Free Cards:##
This change will probably negatively affect me, since my collection is large enough that 5 gold in more valuable than a random common, but I can see the reasoning behind this. Some newer players would probably enjoy this change a lot. While a random common for many is objectively worse than 5 gold, it is undeniably a more fun and exciting reward. As for challenges, I miss some of the old, Expert challlenges, especially the one with the Frosthorn Rhyno and the Zen’rui. None of the current challenges match that, but some of the dailies are up there, including the Provoke Golem one and that last one with the Nightwatcher.
In conclusion, we have entered a new stage in Duelyst’s life. This calls for a profile picture change!
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gonna get a new profile pic for this new era as soon as someone makes duelyst versions of this face (couldnt find one that wasnt pokemon)
i.e. what a passenger on the hype train looks like
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Wait how is 10 spirit less than 5 gold for you in any possible way?
5 gold is 1/20 of a pack and I forgot the average of a core pack but I don’t think it was anywhere above 200 spirit
I like to save gold for new expansions, such as ROTB, and Spirit far less uesful than gold for them.
So a quick recap boss battles awesome, having to buy to open boss crates not awesome. Monthly cards are gone right now understandable. Really we should be getting crate keys of varying rarity from our monthly climbs gold being the highest and above getting random extra keys. Free card of the day cool which it could be a random rarity.
Now on to the good stuff a mode where you can draft cards from other factions. This is some crazy stuff. You mean I can spell immune or force field my lantern fox… Are to u telling me I could build a entire deck of f your board hit ur face deck of nothing but spell cards… ARE YOU TELLING ME I CAN HAVE CONCEALING SHROUD, FALCIUS and archite regalia in the same deck.
ARE YOU TELLING ME I CAN HAVE inner focus for all factions bringing out a snow dasher inner focus bound less courage for a board wipe. That I could inner focus a Nimbus force field it and attack. That I can inner focus a frostivia… WHAT ABOUT HOLY IMMOLATION FOR EVERYONE…
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gimme an hour and check the meme thread
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This looks like it could be enjoyable. I like the idea of Boss matches - could that mean we’ll be seeing the grand return of Calibero!?
All the hype aside, this could be a nice little breath of fresh air that we could use.
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I am rather disappointed with the Boss Chest decision. The boss fights will be a nice change. Keeping the majority of the rewards behind a paywall is not.
Hyped for the new game modes, but kid of disappointed with the boss crates being paid, as they do give a lot of stuff. Worst part is they can’t even be held. I’d much prefer the option to just hold on to them, as, assuming the player already earned the crate, there shouldn’t be issues with players abusing it.
The concept of paid-for boss crates seems absolutely reasonable and fair to me - it’s still free content, and mostly cosmetics behind the paywall. However, I think that the price is a bit too high as usual. Not judging from a normative standpoint, but rather from a business perspective - I think lower prices for crate keys would be better to get you hooked.
Also excited to see some new singleplayer content, although I’m utterly heartbroken about the discontinuination of the daily challenge - I absolutely adored it, and didn’t miss a single one in quite a few months actually.
What I am a bit disconcerted about is the lack of balance changes. While I do agree some more observation might be right, and I don’t have access to the statistics that CPG might have, I still feel that some band-aid fixes would’ve been nice for the worst offenders - like, a stat-decrease for Variax and decreasing entropic gaze to two to three damage.
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If you need a translator for spanish (america latina), I’ll love to help 
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Since somebody else metioned it, I will take this opportunity to remind the devs that I’m right here to do the Russian translation.
I’m a qualified translator, ladi-da, if you want my credetials - I have them. Just for the love of God don’t let the game fall into the hands of translation agencies or however usually does the Russian translations - they do an embarrasingly awful job of it.
P.S. I know I made similar posts several times, but I really don’t want to see one of my favorite games butchered.
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I feel you, the same happens in italy.
When you are playing and your charachter decide to introduce himself with :“i were goed to”.
It’s probably the main reason i had to learn english :’)
School? Pffft.
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I´m absolutely excited!
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!
##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!
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.
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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