Once again I will add my seemingly controversial opinion: Mini-Sets are adding too much synergy in standard.
Aggro doesn't run out of fuel before killing you three times over. Control doesn't run out of removal until they're at the bottom of their deck. Questlines are being completed by turn 5. Druid... ramps to Kazakusan on turn 3.
I haven't looked into what exactly they do, so you can fill me in on the specifics, but from what I can tell they are either bypassing the animations involved in shuffling Ignite and drawing a card, or skipping the finite turn timer itself. Without doing one of those they cannot queue enough actions regardless of how many actions the game allows you to queue.
I feel like I must be misunderstanding your question here... You can queue cards while other cards are animating as long as the card is in your hand, and every animation may get desynced by default by the simple difference between the person playing the card and the person watching the card get played.
Example off the top of my head, unless I'm incorrect, Fireball plays the start of the animation with the fire over your head while you hold the card out, and finishes the next part of the animation immediately after the target is chosen, while only then does the opponent see the card get played, fireball pops out, fireball heads towards target, and by the time it hits the target, the current turn player is already half a second into the next cards animation :/
Although I could be wrong about all of that, and every cards animations are different. That being said, animations being able to be sped up due to an exploit, yeah, sounds like it's a problem, but you don't necessarily need to exploit the game to already notice the game never tried to sync up animations to begin with.
To those of you who arecheating... Grow up... Your big number you "earned" matters to nobody...
So the animations in hearthstone have always had a bit of an issue where they can get desynced between the two clients, in fact, they aren't actually forced to be kept in sync at all, they just happen to be the same animations for both players... most of the time...
What you can do to seemingly "cheat" the rope is actually play your cards while other cards are animating, and they will sorta be "queued up". If you successfully drag your fireball onto the opponents face hitbox, the spell will play, waiting until after your current animations are done to animate itself.
In this way, it can be better to draw first if you plan on drawing this turn. Ignoring the already big strategic value of drawing first if you plan on drawing, it also gives you this animation queueing advantage. Basically, if you draw last, your draw spell will have to wait for the rest of your spells animations to actually put the cards in your hand.
And as Avalon has said as well, there's some exploits, most of which are against TOS.
Wait, so the welcome bundle isn't going to stick around for any new player who happens to join later? What's the difference between it and the launch bundle then? I thought the point was that it was a bundle for new players, that's what the main Hearthstone one as for...
Did the main Hearthstone "welcome bundle" also get retired and I just didn't notice?
I'm sure it didn't keep you from buying Hearthstone packs before they added that feature.
It's probably on their to-do list. It's certainly not worth getting huffy.
As far as I'm aware, on PC, being able to be buy multiple packs with gold was always a feature, or at least was added really early on. Mobile lagged behind on this, until the shop redesign, and that did actually stop me from wanting to buy packs through the mobile client.
However.
With Mercenaries seemingly having so much reused code and assets, why are basic features missing like being able to buy multiple packs or reordering my parties? The menus are almost 100% identical in pretty much every way aside from a different background and mercenaries themselves having their own menu to upgrade them.
Yeah I often forget the properties of my own party as well, since the only 2 times you get to check what any merc does is a) in the collection manager if you own the merc, and b) when selecting the merc's attack/ability in combat. The only tribe buff I remember more than others is the human buff, and even then, is Scabbs a human, or?...
Gnome, okay, noted.
But Alliance vs Horde is absolutely the worst when there is zero indication of it, apparently according to some sources it's tied to the race (Human, Elf, etc.), but at the same time not always because Lich King or something...? There should be an icon on the corner, there's a perfectly empty spot on the top right of the card, or at least a hint dialog when hovering over the card.
The game is incredibly unpolished in terms of giving the player information.
Imagine... Raid Shadow Legends... Without any of the effort of 3d character modelling or animations...
Also I'm still not a big fan of not being able to tell what powers each merc has before owning the merc.
Also the game literally bugged for me and refused to show me the "Tutorial" tasks (or any tasks) at first and it took me restarting the app to realize buying heroic mode or completing the barrens was neither part of the tutorial nor what was gating me from opening my packs... (Although completing some of the barrens technically is, through the tutorial tasks)
The client seems... really... really buggy right now in my experience
I've seen the golden bundles appear and disappear, I've seen the tavern special's reappear and disappear, I've seen my achievement completion reappear and disappear, I've seen my quest at one point in time pretend like I completed them all and I had none left when I knew I had all 6 slots filled, until I relogged in...
Once again I will add my seemingly controversial opinion: Mini-Sets are adding too much synergy in standard.
Aggro doesn't run out of fuel before killing you three times over.
Control doesn't run out of removal until they're at the bottom of their deck.
Questlines are being completed by turn 5.
Druid... ramps to Kazakusan on turn 3.
All packs pull cards based on when they are opened, not received
So Standard Packs are able to contain new expansion cards even if they were received before the expansion
Expansion Packs are able to contain their mini-set cards as soon as the mini-set is released
etc.
This card is not talked about enough...
I feel like people aren't talking about Battleground Battlemaster enough, this card is literally always 6 mana 8 - 16 damage every time I've seen it
I think the big issue is that the people in charge and the developers are more often than not two different people.
And the people in charge tend not to care about giving devs extra time to fix bugs when setting deadlines :T
The fact that animation runtime seems to be tied to framerate (from what I'm hearing) is a sign the devs don't know what they're doing...
I feel like I must be misunderstanding your question here... You can queue cards while other cards are animating as long as the card is in your hand, and every animation may get desynced by default by the simple difference between the person playing the card and the person watching the card get played.
Example off the top of my head, unless I'm incorrect, Fireball plays the start of the animation with the fire over your head while you hold the card out, and finishes the next part of the animation immediately after the target is chosen, while only then does the opponent see the card get played, fireball pops out, fireball heads towards target, and by the time it hits the target, the current turn player is already half a second into the next cards animation :/
Although I could be wrong about all of that, and every cards animations are different. That being said, animations being able to be sped up due to an exploit, yeah, sounds like it's a problem, but you don't necessarily need to exploit the game to already notice the game never tried to sync up animations to begin with.
To those of you who are cheating... Grow up... Your big number you "earned" matters to nobody...
So the animations in hearthstone have always had a bit of an issue where they can get desynced between the two clients, in fact, they aren't actually forced to be kept in sync at all, they just happen to be the same animations for both players... most of the time...
What you can do to seemingly "cheat" the rope is actually play your cards while other cards are animating, and they will sorta be "queued up". If you successfully drag your fireball onto the opponents face hitbox, the spell will play, waiting until after your current animations are done to animate itself.
In this way, it can be better to draw first if you plan on drawing this turn. Ignoring the already big strategic value of drawing first if you plan on drawing, it also gives you this animation queueing advantage. Basically, if you draw last, your draw spell will have to wait for the rest of your spells animations to actually put the cards in your hand.
And as Avalon has said as well, there's some exploits, most of which are against TOS.
Could it be that they're reading your card?...
What is... the valid complaint here?...
Wait, so the welcome bundle isn't going to stick around for any new player who happens to join later? What's the difference between it and the launch bundle then? I thought the point was that it was a bundle for new players, that's what the main Hearthstone one as for...
Did the main Hearthstone "welcome bundle" also get retired and I just didn't notice?
Why does does the Warrior AI completely ignore the quest in its hand if it can play something else?...
Can confirm this is not currently an issue, Standard Packs are only giving me the Stormwind miniset cards
"Surprise mechanics"
I'm not surprised actually, I saw this coming a mile away
As far as I'm aware, on PC, being able to be buy multiple packs with gold was always a feature, or at least was added really early on. Mobile lagged behind on this, until the shop redesign, and that did actually stop me from wanting to buy packs through the mobile client.
However.
With Mercenaries seemingly having so much reused code and assets, why are basic features missing like being able to buy multiple packs or reordering my parties? The menus are almost 100% identical in pretty much every way aside from a different background and mercenaries themselves having their own menu to upgrade them.
Yeah I often forget the properties of my own party as well, since the only 2 times you get to check what any merc does is a) in the collection manager if you own the merc, and b) when selecting the merc's attack/ability in combat. The only tribe buff I remember more than others is the human buff, and even then, is Scabbs a human, or?...
Gnome, okay, noted.
But Alliance vs Horde is absolutely the worst when there is zero indication of it, apparently according to some sources it's tied to the race (Human, Elf, etc.), but at the same time not always because Lich King or something...? There should be an icon on the corner, there's a perfectly empty spot on the top right of the card, or at least a hint dialog when hovering over the card.
The game is incredibly unpolished in terms of giving the player information.
Imagine paying over a hundred dollars for the preorders and getting a complete collection 2.5 times instead of 2.5 times more content
Imagine... Raid Shadow Legends... Without any of the effort of 3d character modelling or animations...
Also I'm still not a big fan of not being able to tell what powers each merc has before owning the merc.
Also the game literally bugged for me and refused to show me the "Tutorial" tasks (or any tasks) at first and it took me restarting the app to realize buying heroic mode or completing the barrens was neither part of the tutorial nor what was gating me from opening my packs... (Although completing some of the barrens technically is, through the tutorial tasks)
The client seems... really... really buggy right now in my experience
I've seen the golden bundles appear and disappear, I've seen the tavern special's reappear and disappear, I've seen my achievement completion reappear and disappear, I've seen my quest at one point in time pretend like I completed them all and I had none left when I knew I had all 6 slots filled, until I relogged in...
It's supposed to, however a quick glance on google reveals that you're not the only one to have had problems at launch.
Whether or not it's been fixed by now, I cannot personally test until the next miniset comes out.
So, this is in no way good... but I think its hilarious
### Brawl Deck
# Class: Warrior
# Format: Wild
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# 4x (2) Armorsmith
# 4x (3) Charge
# 4x (3) Frothing Berserker
# 2x (4) Blood Razor
# 1x (6) Emperor Thaurissan
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