Oh no, the thread that I get to reflect on the past month briefly and set myself up for failure by not accomplishing anything I'd love.
Looking back at last month quick, I finished all the Timewalking dungeons each week to get my achievement in Dragonflight, so that was great. I finally installed and played Forza Motorsport and have had a few peaceful hours of cruising Spa, Silverstone, and Suzuka. No F1 2023, but we're at the end of the season now with Brazil, Las Vegas, and Abu Dhabi left, so I know the itch will need to be solved by going back to the game. No Payday 3 at all. RIP.
This month I'm hoping to close out my Oracle of Seasons run and start Oracle of Ages. I may or may not have gotten stuck at one point, requiring me to experience an old school zelda title's feeling of exploration, which was something I hadn't felt in a long time. Apparently, I don't remember the games perfectly :D
Warcraft Rumble will also be touched every night for 10-15 minutes to build experience with the game - plus it's just a bunch of fun. I've been playing Rumble now for a little over a month and it has been exactly what I wanted from Clash Royale. Plus, Warcraft stuff so that's awesome.
Dragonflight will be played. I'm not really sure what I want to do in it, but everything has been fun to do so dabble I shall!
ARK: Survival Ascended came out and I've already got the boat built so my friend and I went on our first expedition this week to the Northern peaks. On our return trip, we caught a couple of Argentavis which are going to be great for transporting metal around, a resource we so desperately need. ARK is probably going to be the main game for me for November. We've also got half a dozen Trikes, an endless number of Dilos, and only a few deaths to the Alpha dinosaurs that keep interrupting us at our base.
November 30, World of Warcraft Season of Discovery begins and... yup I'll be playing. I might start a guild for it too, it would be nice to have at least a group of 10 to play the new Blackfathom Deeps raid.
It sounds like I have a lot to play this month, but I don't even know how much I'll end up being able to play games. There is just so much stuff to do- new staff to onboard, site updates to deploy, the Hearthstone expansion launch, the never-ending daily news to cover. I've always joked about wanting to clone myself, and I think I might need to seriously figure this out.
Oh, I'm going to be playing. Level 25 will be a joke to get to and it sounds like a ton of broken fun. Feels very ARPG to break classes like that and so it gives me quite high hopes for its success.
The catch-up pack sure looks like a great freebie though! Not as great for folks who have a large collection, but what a great way to get people back into Hearthstone.
After sounds like the correct thing to do. Gives you the most possible cards for the catch-up pack and then the regular packs, most of the commons and maybe even rares would end up being dupes anyway, so any epics or legendaries you get from the catch-up won't really harm the fun openings from the 50 packs.
Yeah, that final dump was absolute chaos. I had been asking Blizzard for some time to just starting doing stuff with the "throwaway" cards and they finally did. It's also so much better to do them by class and more importantly, multiple at a time. Being around for every single individual card reveal was tough and it destroyed sleeping schedules.
I would regularly get sick for 2-4 days after a card reveal period ended because I would torture myself with being around for every reveal. That three times a year was not fun.
Oh there are definitely plenty of good Batman as the main character games, it's just nothing is from the past few years. The closest we got to something new mainline was... them remastering Asylum and City in 2016.
Knowing how much better tech is out there in games now means they could put out some pretty cool stuff for Batman. Though if it's going to be bogged down by DRM, maybe I don't want it lol!
This article reminded me that I still haven't played Luigi's Mansion 3 and I don't appreciate it!
Arkham Asylum was such an incredible game and had such a wonderful atmosphere. Nothing that I've played in more recent times has come close to games around that era - maybe it's too much collectathon loot box nonsense that all the single player experiences drive down your throat now instead of just being in a world. I wonder if Batman will end up getting a similar treatment to Spiderman with an actually good set of modern games. One can dream!
I have collection pages fixed on our dev site, but I can't deploy the updated code atm due to some larger changes that have to be pushed as well but they are currently blocked. I understand how important the collection system on the site is, we never would have built it if it had no value, and I know we can do better at pushing out updates to fix problems.
I've been dealing with 6 different primary timezones for the past 15 years on a regular basis. I can't give these sites any sort of break for it. Blizzard in the past gave me times in their timezone and in UTC which eliminates timezone issues if they can think ahead a few days. Poor planning by publishers.
Let's gooooo!
That is a very good question. They are seemingly flagged as Year of the Wolf cards but they definitely are not. I'll check our data, thanks.
Oh no, the thread that I get to reflect on the past month briefly and set myself up for failure by not accomplishing anything I'd love.
Looking back at last month quick, I finished all the Timewalking dungeons each week to get my achievement in Dragonflight, so that was great. I finally installed and played Forza Motorsport and have had a few peaceful hours of cruising Spa, Silverstone, and Suzuka. No F1 2023, but we're at the end of the season now with Brazil, Las Vegas, and Abu Dhabi left, so I know the itch will need to be solved by going back to the game. No Payday 3 at all. RIP.
This month I'm hoping to close out my Oracle of Seasons run and start Oracle of Ages. I may or may not have gotten stuck at one point, requiring me to experience an old school zelda title's feeling of exploration, which was something I hadn't felt in a long time. Apparently, I don't remember the games perfectly :D
Warcraft Rumble will also be touched every night for 10-15 minutes to build experience with the game - plus it's just a bunch of fun. I've been playing Rumble now for a little over a month and it has been exactly what I wanted from Clash Royale. Plus, Warcraft stuff so that's awesome.
Dragonflight will be played. I'm not really sure what I want to do in it, but everything has been fun to do so dabble I shall!
ARK: Survival Ascended came out and I've already got the boat built so my friend and I went on our first expedition this week to the Northern peaks. On our return trip, we caught a couple of Argentavis which are going to be great for transporting metal around, a resource we so desperately need. ARK is probably going to be the main game for me for November. We've also got half a dozen Trikes, an endless number of Dilos, and only a few deaths to the Alpha dinosaurs that keep interrupting us at our base.
November 30, World of Warcraft Season of Discovery begins and... yup I'll be playing. I might start a guild for it too, it would be nice to have at least a group of 10 to play the new Blackfathom Deeps raid.
It sounds like I have a lot to play this month, but I don't even know how much I'll end up being able to play games. There is just so much stuff to do- new staff to onboard, site updates to deploy, the Hearthstone expansion launch, the never-ending daily news to cover. I've always joked about wanting to clone myself, and I think I might need to seriously figure this out.
Some decent Battlegrounds Duos info, and card reveals, but other than that, not much else.
This needs to happen!
Oh, I'm going to be playing. Level 25 will be a joke to get to and it sounds like a ton of broken fun. Feels very ARPG to break classes like that and so it gives me quite high hopes for its success.
The catch-up pack sure looks like a great freebie though! Not as great for folks who have a large collection, but what a great way to get people back into Hearthstone.
Alright, that opening ceremony CRUSHED the bingo card.
I'm assuming it's after each pack is opened it'll recalc.
And yeah, these are primarily a way to get people back into Hearthstone easily, which is great value.
After sounds like the correct thing to do. Gives you the most possible cards for the catch-up pack and then the regular packs, most of the commons and maybe even rares would end up being dupes anyway, so any epics or legendaries you get from the catch-up won't really harm the fun openings from the 50 packs.
The catch-up packs are attached to specific expansions so when those sets rotate out, you will still get those cards from them.
I'm assuming catch-up packs will start to be added for each year's last expansion. This one is Badlands specific, so the last 5 sets are within it.
Hyped!
Yeah, that final dump was absolute chaos. I had been asking Blizzard for some time to just starting doing stuff with the "throwaway" cards and they finally did. It's also so much better to do them by class and more importantly, multiple at a time. Being around for every single individual card reveal was tough and it destroyed sleeping schedules.
I would regularly get sick for 2-4 days after a card reveal period ended because I would torture myself with being around for every reveal. That three times a year was not fun.
Oh there are definitely plenty of good Batman as the main character games, it's just nothing is from the past few years. The closest we got to something new mainline was... them remastering Asylum and City in 2016.
Knowing how much better tech is out there in games now means they could put out some pretty cool stuff for Batman. Though if it's going to be bogged down by DRM, maybe I don't want it lol!
This article reminded me that I still haven't played Luigi's Mansion 3 and I don't appreciate it!
Arkham Asylum was such an incredible game and had such a wonderful atmosphere. Nothing that I've played in more recent times has come close to games around that era - maybe it's too much collectathon loot box nonsense that all the single player experiences drive down your throat now instead of just being in a world. I wonder if Batman will end up getting a similar treatment to Spiderman with an actually good set of modern games. One can dream!
"Digital card game means we don't need to flip coins or do dice rolls"
I don't remember who said it, but someone early on from the Hearthstone Team definitely said something pretty close to that. We've regressed!
Thematic is certainly cool though and I think it should be used again.
I have collection pages fixed on our dev site, but I can't deploy the updated code atm due to some larger changes that have to be pushed as well but they are currently blocked. I understand how important the collection system on the site is, we never would have built it if it had no value, and I know we can do better at pushing out updates to fix problems.
I've been dealing with 6 different primary timezones for the past 15 years on a regular basis. I can't give these sites any sort of break for it. Blizzard in the past gave me times in their timezone and in UTC which eliminates timezone issues if they can think ahead a few days. Poor planning by publishers.
All the sport sites that get card reveals are like a Turn 1 Checo into Leclerc at your home circuit.
You had so much potential, but you've failed at the most basic of tasks.
Okay now PCGamer has gone ahead and posted their cards, 30 minutes late. I'm so confused.