guys arthas is a super cool and unique character with a never before seen arc please respect the warcraft
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Seems the new meta (or at least new against me) is waiting out the opponent until you can afford Vesture of the Tyrant, and then "One For Me" it onto as many heroes as possible.
Which is just crappy. I've won against decks that do it (Coup de Grace works wonders against it), but it just turns the game into a war of attrition, because Vesture gives 3 Armor, 3 Tower Armor and Rapid Deployment, so it's just taking ages to whittle the Tower down by 3 or 4 per turn, or hope you can Coup De Grace your way to winning quickly enough. I've surrendered multiple games where it's turned out the deck is based around Vesture, simply because it's so boring.
I really think it's an OP card, considering the superficially-better-but-actually-worse Horn of the Alpha costs 6 more.
Edit: Vesture is also a self-fulfilling prophecy of cheese. People play with it, and the opponents they beat realise how good it is, so they add it to their decks, and the opponents they play and beat realise how good it is and add it to their decks... Like, must be 8 of the past 10 decks I've played against have had at least one in. I think I may have to stop playing for awhile, since playing against decks with Vesture isn't fun, and I don't find it a fun card to play. It's not like Annihilation, where you have to time its use, it's just "Here's this card that prevents damage to the hero, the tower, and, oh, yeah, if you kill the hero it returns next round". There's no... nuance, no skill.
Which is just crappy. I've won against decks that do it (Coup de Grace works wonders against it), but it just turns the game into a war of attrition, because Vesture gives 3 Armor, 3 Tower Armor and Rapid Deployment, so it's just taking ages to whittle the Tower down by 3 or 4 per turn, or hope you can Coup De Grace your way to winning quickly enough. I've surrendered multiple games where it's turned out the deck is based around Vesture, simply because it's so boring.
I really think it's an OP card, considering the superficially-better-but-actually-worse Horn of the Alpha costs 6 more.
Edit: Vesture is also a self-fulfilling prophecy of cheese. People play with it, and the opponents they beat realise how good it is, so they add it to their decks, and the opponents they play and beat realise how good it is and add it to their decks... Like, must be 8 of the past 10 decks I've played against have had at least one in. I think I may have to stop playing for awhile, since playing against decks with Vesture isn't fun, and I don't find it a fun card to play. It's not like Annihilation, where you have to time its use, it's just "Here's this card that prevents damage to the hero, the tower, and, oh, yeah, if you kill the hero it returns next round". There's no... nuance, no skill.
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Hmmm... Fair enough. I am running 3 colours right now, so maybe it's just a weakness of my deck. Still seems like it's a bit OP, but *shrugs* not like complaining is going to do anything soon.
Also, idle thought: Given the low player base and Valve reworking the game, what are the odds some of the players out there are Valve employees? Or would they be running games against each-other purely on the internal test build?
I've got a Green/Black Payday deck that just throws down a bunch of Horn of the Alphas early game and ramps into Emissaries and Thunderhide Packs. I think it'd do well against the list you mentioned.
Artifact on mobile! (oops, here comes the ban. :p )
Steam Link for iOS is out, and the new Steam client Beta has this as part of the update:
I'm actually wondering how Artifact will play streamed. My iPhone 7 screen may be too small, but my older model iPad Pro is probably perfect, so I'll try it out later. :)
Steam Link for iOS is out, and the new Steam client Beta has this as part of the update:
I'm actually wondering how Artifact will play streamed. My iPhone 7 screen may be too small, but my older model iPad Pro is probably perfect, so I'll try it out later. :)
I dunno I'll think they'll give you some stupid golden thing that will end up being stupid expensive on the market and then you just have a free Max's head. 60 bucks for your card buying!
I don't think think Valve owes early adopters that much, I feel like I got more than enough value for money, but they should probably be generous if they want to lure people back. Like $20 worth of credit on whatever new Artifact is is fine.
e: also I tried it on Steam Link on iPad and it seems to work really well except for some weird drift where my cursor was always floating down to the bottom right. Don't know how to fix that. I don't know why it even has gyro mouse controls. I fucking hate big picture too
e: also I tried it on Steam Link on iPad and it seems to work really well except for some weird drift where my cursor was always floating down to the bottom right. Don't know how to fix that. I don't know why it even has gyro mouse controls. I fucking hate big picture too
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I mean, tongue in cheek or not, surely we can agree there's a difference between 'stylistically similar' like Warcraft and Warhammer were at the outset and "Literally a game based on using 100% another companies assets"
Like, Warcraft diverged from Warhammer pretty quickly, aside from the general look of the orcs themselves in those early games. DOTA literally went from using exact blizzard art to using valve art that looked like budget blizzard art and took years to start genuinely shaking that. So, it's not hard to see why a game that is literally a hodge podge of blizzard designed characters (generic ones, at that, rather than actual heroes like league of legends) fighting over a river is not exactly a setting ripe for lore.
Doesn't mean they can't do it, but it does mean that they'd probably have been better served simply not using Dota as a setting since nobody that played dota cared about the setting to begin with.
tbh I wouldn't really describe Dota's art style as "budget Blizzard", if anything it feels like the opposite
Yeah it was indeed tongue in cheek :) That having been said reducing the dota art to budget Blizzard feels to reductive to me.
Dota diverged from warcraft even quicker...
What an odd argument.
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I mean, when you're literally just ripping the designs wholesale and changing them about as much as those third party cash in "ALADDIN" direct to video movies when I was a kid, I call it budget.
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Slight update to my previously posted Black/Blue/Green: https://www.playartifact.com/d/ADCJ...haW4gNCAtIEJsYWNrL0JsdWUvR3JlZW4gNDIgQ2FyZA__
The Ravenhook's are in there as a means to deal with Vesture of the Tyrant, though their activated ability has been useful on more than one occasion against non-Vesture items. :D
The Ravenhook's are in there as a means to deal with Vesture of the Tyrant, though their activated ability has been useful on more than one occasion against non-Vesture items. :D
That's what they've said in the past. But I assume there's some mandate about how there has to be a team working on X game if it's a currently supported title, so there will always be a team on TF2 until they retire it, CS:GO until they retire it, etc.
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I believe this is still correct, the caveat iirc is that your "results" give a bonus multiplier to your salary.
So you can make $200k or whatever the base Valve salary is, but to get internal stock and bonus multipliers you have to be on profit making team/projects.
From Reddit.
They're different teams.....but are they still working on artifact?
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Artifact team is working on Artifact
Auto Chess team is working on Auto Chess
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.....it was a joke?
He asked if the artifact team was still working on artifact and just got an answer of it being two different teams. It kind of avoids the part about still working on artifact. But obviously the answer is just sticking to the crux of the question of if the artifact team is working on auto chess.
My joke radar was faulty. I have a team of people on the way to fix it though.
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Me too. I've mostly got a deck I'll stick to, now. It still fails hard sometimes, but that's a split between bad choices from me (which I can live with), and the RNG on Hero Deployment screwing me over (which is frustrating, but nothing can be done). I don't have any tickets to see how it runs in Prize Play, but since you can only buy them in blocks of 5, and for the cost of that in Malaysia I can buy a game, I won't be doing Prize until there's news on how they're rebooting it.
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