The free battle pass had some of the items people want most, which are variants and more gold to buy variants. There are now no more variants in the free track, so while the article and of course Twitter are making it more of a big deal than it needs to be, the concern is about the slippery slope here. First it’s…

Early access to 1 card per season. Nakia was just an exclusive variant which can probably be rolled later for F2P players anyway.

Just 1 new card per pass, which becomes available to everyone later.

I thought it was a really good foundation for a series that could be truly great. Will EA capitalize and lean into the good parts while making improvements elsewhere? Historical data says no, but I’m still invested.

Anyone else have experience with the higher ranked matches? Is this just how they are?

Yup, consistent widespread reports of stuttering on launch are almost always Denuvo related (or that DX12 issue that I’m having trouble recalling the precise description of).

2022, least interesting?...in decades? Man, I hope you’ve at least tried a bunch of the games that have come out this year because it’s been loaded with awesome games for me.

The introduction of the card shop has alleviated any real issue I would have with this. There’s nothing mandatory or even all that helpful there as you pointed out, so if they wanna go whale hunting I guess let them.

Depending on how old you are, you might remember the concept of “The Weekend Game,” as in the title you rented or borrowed from a friend and beat in like 2 or 3 sittings between Friday and Sunday.

I mean the majority of games released probably make sense to aggregate out to a 7 provided there’s no review-bombing/fluffing. The floor for game quality on most releases is pretty high. Also in this article there’s mentions of multiple high profile games with high-8 user scores, including the one supposedly getting…

The League thing is pretty funny because he turned the toxicity onto the toxic users and was immediately banned. You can employ the same tactic in any toxic online game and quickly realize it’s only okay to be toxic in certain ways, usually punching down.

Vulture is still great as a Kraven trigger. You don’t even have to Heimdall it, just move it with Iron Fist or Cloak. What are they going to do? If they move cards with you via Cloak they’re just helping out your Kraven. Sure they know you have a movement deck at that point, but as established you don’t even have to…

It’s not a 100% win-rate but when I see someone has spotted my move deck and is playing against it, I’ll typically just not play Heimdall. Or, stack my locations so that Heimdall doesn’t actually move any cards but adds 8 to his location. I keep 1-2 cards that wouldn’t otherwise fit in a movement deck, like Sunspot,…

aw man, I’m a heavy Miles user as a move deck and find it very good as a cheap 5-power card (10 power if you get it on the new location). Don’t disagree about Black Panther though.

They give you cards earlier, they’re still available in pool 3. 

I’ve been in pool 2 for the bulk of my playtime and almost never see Cosmo or Enchantress. Cosmo was hot for a while due to the location rotation but I never see him now. I would say destruction decks, moondino decks and movement decks are the three biggest meta decks I see now.

In either case yeah it’s just a bit much, I can’t really explain why. This game will probably give me $10 of value this month but I just have such an aversion to mobile gaming that it’s hard for me to dive in. Funny thing is if they made a physical version of this I would probably spend a gross amount of money on card…

I think it’s every 4 weeks? Last season was 5 weeks but there’s 4 weekly brackets showing for this season which I assume will be the standard going forward.

$10/month is a bit too steep for me for this type of game. Luckily it’s cosmetic but after my $10 last month which was basically just me hopping on the hype train, I don’t know if I’ll keep buying in.

There were moments where I saw glimpses of genius in this bizarre hodgepodge of activities. Sections called Cyber Space levels smartly break up the open world by teleporting you into bite-sized, traditionally linear Sonic levels where you’re racing the clock and collecting rings as you make a mad dash for the goal…