Gwent is so fun once u understand card advantage or at least read the cards. Also loved how u got scared of his ship but it was on the wrong row so u actually turned it on by moving it
Yeah, little did he know opponent was a fool trying to bait another newbie... 🤣 Thing is though, some of the explanations at the start of the game are kind of lacking I wil admit as a long time player.. 😅
HAHA I saw your comment first and was like "wtf do you mean" and then I saw the boat played on ranged row and he immediately leader charged it into the melee row lmao
2 min into a new game and hes already not reading cards. Lost it when you slammed down Geralt against the 8 power enemy. Haha. Love the video as always.
No wonder, dude. Each card description is like a whole novel, and a lot of CCGs are guilty of this sin. In Hearthstone card descriptions are way better organized.
Just in case chat didn't clear this up already, but Speartip: Asleep was reworked like half a year ago, before he was just a vanilla with 9 (I think) power. It seems like they didn't go back and changed the starter decks to include Old Speartip as well. I am glad to see you tried out Gwent and sad that you didn't seem to like it, but enjoyed the video anyways :D
this would be a really interesting game to try to get you to guess how good cards are. Somebody like shinmiri is an awesome ambassador/caster for gwent and would likely collab for it im sure
Hope you give gwent another try. Once you get the hang of it, its like playing chess with cool cards, outsmarting the other side, setting up and pulling off smart plays. You learn how to lose 1 battle(round), so you can win the war
The starter decks are a bit out of date, the problem is that Old Speartip was changed not long ago, but they didn't change the starter deck to reflect his new ability. There are many things that don't make sense these days and for everything there is an explanation, about a problem from months or years ago. Anyway, it's fun to see a newbe playing it, wish i could unlearn everything aswell cause this is the most fun part of the game.
6:20 when he moved that ship from ranged to melee I was "nooooo", as we, in Gwent, put so much effort to actually move it from melee to ranged (it works only in melee raw:)
This game was awesome and simple in The Witcher 3, when Gwent became a standalone game, I really enjoyed it for a while, I wanted to go back a couple of months ago and things kinda overwhelmed me but it's still a fun game
Yeah, the White Frost starter is an old starter, still based on the previous version of Speartip I believe, so yeah it doesnt have the bigger version.. 😅 Btw Melee row is the front row and Ranged row the backrow.. also you never used Nithral's order ability, it can be used every turn, just so you know. Funny to see you struggle as a 'new' Gwent player.. at higher ranks its a struggle to climb, ropers and salty people are unfortunately many as wel.. though if you are interested there are many helpfull and kind players and streamers out there as wel. Hope you have fun if you do decide to give Gwent some more time.. its a very ftp friendly game resource wise if compared to games like HS.. ✌️
I'm playing Gwent with Hs since 2017 I presume, when they released the game open beta, I've started the game. The first thing you might notice about Gwent is, Hearthstone is way expensive then Gwent. I only paid the starter pack on each game for card collection and I have full Golden Set on Gwent. Also the thing which is good on Gwent is, it has RNG but not gamechanger like Hearthstone. Hs gets crazy and if you're lucky enough, you can win against your opponent. On Gwent, if you're not skilled enough, you can't win. RNG changes the game on same luck level. It's fun and freshing but Gwent doesn't have extra game modes. Especially like me, if you're playing too much, you might get bored.
Awkward time to play NG got a buff recently like a week or so ago and its a bit much with some complaints on reddit about the buff being too big - the game is amazing outside of that, ques arent long either, sometimes faster than HS too
Love gwent, been playing since Open Beta. Definitely preferred it then but in its current state its still one of the best. Tonnes of resources for free to play players as well. The reward book is a fantastic addition to the game. I wish Hearthstone didnt demand so much of my time so I could play both regularly.
I haven't played gwent in a long time. When i first played it was almost identical to the witcher 3. I liked playing skellliga because they had a bonus that made their cards stronger in rounds 2 and 3. They also had a bunch of discard, resurrection, and cards that boosted damaged units. round 1 you just played cards that discarded cards from your deck this got your units ready for round 2 and 3 while your opponent waist cards on a round you were planning on losing anyway. round 2 and three you play all your resurrection cards to pull your now much stronger cards from the grave. Nilfgaurd has a lot of spies. Spies are cards you play on your opponents side (often giving them points) for a really strong benefit such as drawing extra cards. Simular to skelliga Nilfgaurd will throw round one for a stronger round 2 and 3. monsters (except wild hunt) are all about spamming large amounts of week units. Wild hunt has a heavy focus on using frost to buff your units and damage the enemy. Northern kingdoms have a lot of cards that get buffed by other cards. The PFI originally had it's strength doubled for every PFI in it's row and Dandelion doubled the strength of all units in his row. If you had 4 PF and dandelion then each PFI had 16 strength giving you 64 points off of just 5 cards. The blue stripes commando had the same effect but had 4 base strength. Scoatel had cards that could make a card stay on the field after the end of the round and had a lot of cards to buff their units. They pretty much auto won or lost whether or not their opponent had enough hard removal to destroy their big units.
I played this game back in it's launch and it changed a lot by the looks of things. It used to have 3 rows in the beta, i guess. I'll download to see how bad things got powercrept..
They changed a bunch of things and now it’s actually a lot more balanced than before. People used to easily get anywhere from 100-200+ in each round before. Now it’s rare to see a 100+ in a round. A lot better if you ask me
@@narutoman93 Not that you are wrong about the balance, but taking the mere point value as an indicator doesnt really make sense. They simply made a hard reset on points when homecoming was released. Back in beta a bronze card had usually a floor value of 11 points but they didnt have any cost attached to them like provisions do now. CDPR cut down the base value to 3-4 (for 4 provision) at homecoming launch while most good low provision cost bronze cards nowadays are considered bad or situational when they dont give you at least 7 points. So there is definetely powercreep, but I wouldnt say that it damages the game because CDPR uses their patch schedule really well to rework and buff cards.
Powercrept, yes many old cards are definitely weaker or reworked a few times. The 2 rows was a decision made I think alongside the provision rework..I think its more streamlined now and deckbuilding is in a sense more complex. The game can be a lot of fun, though where I am at.. rank 3 to pro rank it can be very tedious till you hit pro.. cause everyone plays basically the same few decks.. 😅
I'm surprised that your first opponent was playing cards on the wrong row. The game shows you hints if you use card on the wrong row and he still ignored that.
I remember trying gwent years ago. I played this broken deck had these 3 strength dudes that made all others the same number as him 1 strength more and these beast tamer dudes for the late game. After almost 2 weeks of playing I got top 200 in leaderboards!
@@Monjijii yup, I’m not saying I’m amazing or anything, I’m often a high legend player in hearthstone and pretty good at strategy games which helps but it’s more just the deck was broken and from what I remember it got nerfed hard pretty quickly.
I really like Gwent but I barely play it reguarly, either very excessively for an amount of time or weeks to months without a single game. I feel like the base rules are what make it unique but also why I have this difficult relationship with it and why it has so few players. It lacks the interaction of MTG or LoR since you can only play on your turn, most control decks are defined by having cards that interact with the opponents board but you dont have a stack like in the other mentioned games. In comparison to HS it feels really restrictive to only play one card a turn, you could never have a concept like miracle rogue or other combo decks in the game. So in the end it is a war of bait and attrition, you play as much cards as you need to get an advantage in ressources to take over the game. That makes it weirdly similar to games like bridge where you have to get tricks, handreading and the order of how you play your cards become the most important skills you need to learn. Imho, the base mechanics of the game are the culprit of most unhealthy metagames that the game has seen. In other games, most overpowered decks were due to the powerlevel of the deck while Gwent doesnt allow you to outmaneuver strong decks like other card games can. You are too limited in how you can approach bad matchups or stronger decks because you can only play one card a turn. Draws also dictate the game too much. You usually have at least one wincon per round that you need to win (so at least 2). Since you cant draw your entire deck unless you thin it (like discard Skellige or Nilfgaard), if you dont draw your wincon for the specific rounds you can only hope that you either 1. have bled the opponent out of ressources beforehand (aka playing the game right), 2. he already missplayed by playing his wincon in a lost round or 3. he doesnt draw it himself. So games can be decided by bad draws more than any other cardgame (that I have experience in) because ressources are so limited. That being said CDPR has done some really cool stuff with the game that I admire them for. They have real graveyard interactions unlike HS or LoR and I really miss them in those games. The patches are really good, they tend to rework underperforming archetypes every month so the cardpool isnt as artificially limited as in other games. It's really cool to see unplayable cards being either reworked to they can actually work with their respective archetype or form an entire new archetype from old unwanted cards like they did with Nilfgaard this patch or with the grace mechanic this expansion. The game rewards you for playing it (in form of unlockables) and you have enough incentive to play it if you are reliant on external factors like quests and so on. So if anyone actually took the time to read all this junk to see a justification to try it out, just do it. My biggest problem with the game stems from the basics so if you dont see a problem or even find it intriguing you will have your fun. Basically everything on top of the basics is done really well and CDPR puts a lot of work into it.
@@SteelBalla If my reasoning is so flawed then adressing my points with counterarguments is more productive that assuming my rank in hope of invalidating my opinion. Even if I was low rank my takes arent automatically invalid. But to satisfy your curiosity, the last time I queued into ranked instead of unranked I finished around rank 3 before pro ladder because playing against the same 2-3 decks every game isnt fun. I didnt even know that there are any ranks below 15 so I have to trust you on that one. Edit: I dont even know why you set the bar with rank 18 so low, most players dont understand fundamental game concepts like card advantage and bleeding before rank 10. When I started playing ranked again after decaying for years I have seen players that go -3 in card advantage to win a single round or simply missing row effects.
let me expain the Old Speartip: Asleep. For a long time, this card is a 6 provision card with 9 power, 9 power is a cheap but strong card in starter deck. But someday this card changed to cooperate with Old Speartip，but CDPR didn't fix their starter deck, that is truly a lazy mistake.
the last time i played this i think im using monster faction where i can just put eradin pass and usually i got card advantage cause monster had passive to put 1 random card on the field on stay i think so eradin stay which is 1 card advantage with 15 power i think
you weren't getting roped. the person was new and reading just like you were new, its why they kept misplaying so badly, they were reading and not quite keeping up because it was likely one of their first games.
@@Rarran Too bad you won't return to Gwent again, this game has some crazy decks and combos. There's a faction called Nilfgaard, and their play style is pretty much playing the opponent's cards
You are right, old aoe setup asleep should not be in the starter deck. It’s a shame that it is and is. A massive trap. It used to be a completely different card though. It used to have 9base power, no armor, and the veil status effect, which prevents the card from gaining other status effects like bleeding. It was still bad but wasn’t dogshit, which is why it was included in the deck.
Gwent is a fun game but... 1) Power Creep Incarnate - maybe less than Yu-Gi-Oh, but still a lot of power creep. 2) Base decks suck, and to maintain a deck you have to get all new expansion cards - where the power creep comes in check. As a result if you stop playing for a bit and come back - your decks will be basically useless, and you won't be able to win much...
I agree with #2 but not so much with #1. Game is balanced every month and because of how provisions work, everything can be balanced. There are abusive interaction in game, yes, but you can always find a good counter for the meta decks. Like playing Unicorn>She Who Knows vs Renfri. Game is very well maintained over all.
@@MrWiented But all that requires a lot of playtime. I basically play(ed) 2 factions because I can't keep up the collection with how little I played (1-2h every several days). If you're not able to keep up, it's a struggle to win and complete quests.
@@RedRamDRA Yeah but that's what you should expect out of a card game no? It is meant to last you for literally thousands of hours. If you want to just play a little maybe 2 or 3 hours every few days then go and play Runemage or Thronebreaker. You have to "keep up" in any multiplayer game and Gwent is actually pretty good at it since you get A LOT stuff for free.
@@RedRamDRA Also, your "old" cards are not being powercrept. I am literally playing the same Wild Hunt deck for the last 2 years with very slight rotations. Maybe 5-6 cards are in a variable spot. Everything else is just as powerful as a year ago.
As I remember, we lost Lifecoach to Blizzard's insufferable business practices. He posted a video explaining his departure from Hearthstone back in the day, and Gwent just provided him with a convenient opportunity to finally stop doing something he wasn't enjoying.
I don't usually get mad about games changing or dying, I enjoyed my time move on find new fun things, but Gwent makes me really upset. They had a fantastic game and just kept changing things for no reason over and over and over again. The game needed slight adjustments with a sewing needle and instead they took a sledgehammer to it 50 fucking times, and now, I can never play the game that I loved playing because this new piece of garbage game replaced it.
So as a Gwent player myself (and a pretty good one I'd say) who quit and returned two times now, I have to say that it really pains me that you had a bad time with the game and worst of all is that I can easily understand why. Gwent in my opinion has enourmous potential but every player and dev of cdpr should take a good look at your video as it shows some painfully brutal problems with the game, the first just being how terrible the tutorial is. And as Game is entirely dependant on netdecking, just throwing players in without explanation what the plan of their deck is, is about the worst thing you can do. You played many cards incorrectly and while yes you are not the biggest fan o reading card descriptions the game didn't do you any favors and that is on us. Also it showed a big problem regarding the community which definetly is in need of getting a little boost by a known streamer such as you... this sadly wasn't it. We really should look into games such as yu-gi-oh and MTGT for better tutorials and how to explain mechanics/factions in a more comprehensible way to tackle the biggest issue our community has next to a lack of tournaments and esport recognition, a semi active playerbase without any new blood in form of beginning players and watching your video made it painfully clear why this was the case. It is painful as the game is the easiest to get into if you understand the mechanics because of it's low entry fee (unlike heartstone you can get every single card and deck without paying) and has a lot to offer such as the darker thematic and unique playstyle even though the latter one comes with issues itself. I hope you one day will give gwent another shot and will come to enjoy it after working yourself into the basic mechanics.
@@MrWiented Have you watched the video? Rarran is bored to hell, this is the first time he stops playing after a single pvp match. He was not smiling nor enjoying the game, which is understandable as the game looks very boring
@@murat4831 yea but why? He literally plays the most basic deck there is and not even with proper player. How can you judge a game after 1 match against someone who just started as well?
@@MrWiented This is my point. I am not judging the game, I only have the first impression after watching a single game and by the looks of it, the game looks boring as hell. Telling how it feels is not judging the game, I dont know if it is fun or not. But anyone that watches this video would agree that it looks terrible as a first impression and Rarran didnt like it at all, which is also the point of the comment.
@@murat4831 Yeah, not giving a game chance because of "first impression" from 30 minutes of gameplay seems like a silly way of doing that but w/e. You do you.
Man i really miss Gwent, it had so much potential! Also it is without a doubt the game with the best card art and a really friendly module for f2p players! The problem is that with the homecoming update, it became very oversimplified und uninteractive, and after a while (propably a month) it gets really repetitive, and that comes from a guy who has almost 500 hours in Gwent and hasnt logged in in over 2 years!
I love gwent, I remember when it first came out there was a mini game called The Witcher 3 that launched with it.
yeah was very surprised when I found out there was a 100hr mini game
imagine how much bigger and better Gwent could of been, If they didn't waste their time and money on making that witcher game
Honestly the mini game is pretty good too
Its just very distracting
How the f do you get scraps in this game im stuck at starter decks with no kegs
@@deimosok2003 I'm also a lor player getting into gwent
Gwent is so fun once u understand card advantage or at least read the cards. Also loved how u got scared of his ship but it was on the wrong row so u actually turned it on by moving it
Yeah Gwent is my favourite card game, it's a shame it's going to shut down
@@KaelumKrisprit’s not lol
@@allieboy181 sounds like someone has a skill issue with it 🤔
@@KaelumKrispr no not really. You’re just dead wrong about it shutting down. Dopey
@@allieboy181 yeah I heard and I'm sad about it :/ I want more Gwent
opponent *plays boat on ranged row*
rarran: don't worry I got you
I absolutely roflmaod that one
Yeah, little did he know opponent was a fool trying to bait another newbie... 🤣
Thing is though, some of the explanations at the start of the game are kind of lacking I wil admit as a long time player.. 😅
That’s possibility the funniest noob on noob interaction I’ve seen in my life 😂😂
HAHA I saw your comment first and was like "wtf do you mean" and then I saw the boat played on ranged row and he immediately leader charged it into the melee row lmao
2 min into a new game and hes already not reading cards. Lost it when you slammed down Geralt against the 8 power enemy. Haha. Love the video as always.
@@Max-l3z ...when they don't do.🤣
No I lost it when he moved the longship TO the melee row 😂
No wonder, dude. Each card description is like a whole novel, and a lot of CCGs are guilty of this sin. In Hearthstone card descriptions are way better organized.
@@alexr6068 way better? They describe so little in hs.
@@p.a.r.c1694 they are to the point and describe exaclty what they do
Nothing says you are in the dark and gritty world of the Witcher like swear words in the first 3 mins of the game🤣
OMG waited so long for you to try Gwent!!! Hope u will do some Gwent card guessing videos!
Just in case chat didn't clear this up already, but Speartip: Asleep was reworked like half a year ago, before he was just a vanilla with 9 (I think) power. It seems like they didn't go back and changed the starter decks to include Old Speartip as well. I am glad to see you tried out Gwent and sad that you didn't seem to like it, but enjoyed the video anyways :D
"Old Speartip is a deep sleeper, wake him up, and you'll sleep deeper"
0:47 I thought you edited the text in for a second until you started reading it and I died.
this would be a really interesting game to try to get you to guess how good cards are. Somebody like shinmiri is an awesome ambassador/caster for gwent and would likely collab for it im sure
Hope you give gwent another try. Once you get the hang of it, its like playing chess with cool cards, outsmarting the other side, setting up and pulling off smart plays. You learn how to lose 1 battle(round), so you can win the war
Then the enemy slams down Tibor and you throw a tantrum
What I like about gwent is that decisions actually feel impactful.
The starter decks are a bit out of date, the problem is that Old Speartip was changed not long ago, but they didn't change the starter deck to reflect his new ability.
There are many things that don't make sense these days and for everything there is an explanation, about a problem from months or years ago.
Anyway, it's fun to see a newbe playing it, wish i could unlearn everything aswell cause this is the most fun part of the game.
Speartip was once a 9 Point unit with Veil and no ability.
They forgot,that they buffed the card and slept on the starter decks.
The animated cards are the best in this game.
6:20 when he moved that ship from ranged to melee I was "nooooo", as we, in Gwent, put so much effort to actually move it from melee to ranged (it works only in melee raw:)
This game was awesome and simple in The Witcher 3, when Gwent became a standalone game, I really enjoyed it for a while, I wanted to go back a couple of months ago and things kinda overwhelmed me but it's still a fun game
Yeah, the White Frost starter is an old starter, still based on the previous version of Speartip I believe, so yeah it doesnt have the bigger version.. 😅
Btw Melee row is the front row and Ranged row the backrow.. also you never used Nithral's order ability, it can be used every turn, just so you know.
Funny to see you struggle as a 'new' Gwent player.. at higher ranks its a struggle to climb, ropers and salty people are unfortunately many as wel.. though if you are interested there are many helpfull and kind players and streamers out there as wel.
Hope you have fun if you do decide to give Gwent some more time.. its a very ftp friendly game resource wise if compared to games like HS.. ✌️
Yo, finally gwent. I hope you will stay here for a while. Easy f2p full collection with amazing animations. Check in collection, crafting, golden
+1
We don't want a guy who doesnt read his cards descriptions and doing this video just to get views.
this vid got me to try gwent ... now i have 197 hours and have hit rank 0 on my 130~ hour, it's really such a fun and unique card game
You should try all factions, maybe a 100 games challenge to prorank? Nice vid bro
I'm playing Gwent with Hs since 2017 I presume, when they released the game open beta, I've started the game.
The first thing you might notice about Gwent is, Hearthstone is way expensive then Gwent. I only paid the starter pack on each game for card collection and I have full Golden Set on Gwent.
Also the thing which is good on Gwent is, it has RNG but not gamechanger like Hearthstone. Hs gets crazy and if you're lucky enough, you can win against your opponent. On Gwent, if you're not skilled enough, you can't win. RNG changes the game on same luck level.
It's fun and freshing but Gwent doesn't have extra game modes. Especially like me, if you're playing too much, you might get bored.
Awkward time to play NG got a buff recently like a week or so ago and its a bit much with some complaints on reddit about the buff being too big - the game is amazing outside of that, ques arent long either, sometimes faster than HS too
Hey man I've been watching a whole lot of your content recently and basically Gwent is sick plz play more
I love those kind of videos so much.
That card with the swear words at the beginning killed me
One of the most beautiful thing about this card game is seeing blood,curse and Animated cards
Video title "Hearthstone player tries Gwent for the first time".
First words out of his mouth "I've played Gwent before"
I love gwent music... and that reminds me i have to end my platinum in witcher 3 and I miss only gwent missions
I’ve been looking forward to this.
Love gwent, been playing since Open Beta. Definitely preferred it then but in its current state its still one of the best. Tonnes of resources for free to play players as well. The reward book is a fantastic addition to the game. I wish Hearthstone didnt demand so much of my time so I could play both regularly.
Gwent = best card game right now
I haven't played gwent in a long time. When i first played it was almost identical to the witcher 3. I liked playing skellliga because they had a bonus that made their cards stronger in rounds 2 and 3. They also had a bunch of discard, resurrection, and cards that boosted damaged units. round 1 you just played cards that discarded cards from your deck this got your units ready for round 2 and 3 while your opponent waist cards on a round you were planning on losing anyway. round 2 and three you play all your resurrection cards to pull your now much stronger cards from the grave.
Nilfgaurd has a lot of spies. Spies are cards you play on your opponents side (often giving them points) for a really strong benefit such as drawing extra cards. Simular to skelliga Nilfgaurd will throw round one for a stronger round 2 and 3.
monsters (except wild hunt) are all about spamming large amounts of week units. Wild hunt has a heavy focus on using frost to buff your units and damage the enemy.
Northern kingdoms have a lot of cards that get buffed by other cards. The PFI originally had it's strength doubled for every PFI in it's row and Dandelion doubled the strength of all units in his row. If you had 4 PF and dandelion then each PFI had 16 strength giving you 64 points off of just 5 cards. The blue stripes commando had the same effect but had 4 base strength.
Scoatel had cards that could make a card stay on the field after the end of the round and had a lot of cards to buff their units. They pretty much auto won or lost whether or not their opponent had enough hard removal to destroy their big units.
I played this game back in it's launch and it changed a lot by the looks of things. It used to have 3 rows in the beta, i guess. I'll download to see how bad things got powercrept..
True I don’t know why they changed it from 3 rows
They changed a bunch of things and now it’s actually a lot more balanced than before. People used to easily get anywhere from 100-200+ in each round before. Now it’s rare to see a 100+ in a round. A lot better if you ask me
@@narutoman93 Not that you are wrong about the balance, but taking the mere point value as an indicator doesnt really make sense. They simply made a hard reset on points when homecoming was released. Back in beta a bronze card had usually a floor value of 11 points but they didnt have any cost attached to them like provisions do now. CDPR cut down the base value to 3-4 (for 4 provision) at homecoming launch while most good low provision cost bronze cards nowadays are considered bad or situational when they dont give you at least 7 points. So there is definetely powercreep, but I wouldnt say that it damages the game because CDPR uses their patch schedule really well to rework and buff cards.
@@peschionator7873 Yep. You put it a lot better than I did lol.
Powercrept, yes many old cards are definitely weaker or reworked a few times.
The 2 rows was a decision made I think alongside the provision rework..I think its more streamlined now and deckbuilding is in a sense more complex.
The game can be a lot of fun, though where I am at.. rank 3 to pro rank it can be very tedious till you hit pro.. cause everyone plays basically the same few decks.. 😅
Gwent! Gwent? Gwent.... Wouldn't mind a round of cards
Gwent is life. Yeh the speartip not being included in the starter deck is a big f.
I'm surprised that your first opponent was playing cards on the wrong row. The game shows you hints if you use card on the wrong row and he still ignored that.
Finally, the true sigma Card game
I remember trying gwent years ago. I played this broken deck had these 3 strength dudes that made all others the same number as him 1 strength more and these beast tamer dudes for the late game. After almost 2 weeks of playing I got top 200 in leaderboards!
no shot
@@Monjijii yup, I’m not saying I’m amazing or anything, I’m often a high legend player in hearthstone and pretty good at strategy games which helps but it’s more just the deck was broken and from what I remember it got nerfed hard pretty quickly.
I personally run a vampire and bleed deck. I just have lots of fun with it
I really like Gwent but I barely play it reguarly, either very excessively for an amount of time or weeks to months without a single game. I feel like the base rules are what make it unique but also why I have this difficult relationship with it and why it has so few players. It lacks the interaction of MTG or LoR since you can only play on your turn, most control decks are defined by having cards that interact with the opponents board but you dont have a stack like in the other mentioned games. In comparison to HS it feels really restrictive to only play one card a turn, you could never have a concept like miracle rogue or other combo decks in the game. So in the end it is a war of bait and attrition, you play as much cards as you need to get an advantage in ressources to take over the game. That makes it weirdly similar to games like bridge where you have to get tricks, handreading and the order of how you play your cards become the most important skills you need to learn. Imho, the base mechanics of the game are the culprit of most unhealthy metagames that the game has seen. In other games, most overpowered decks were due to the powerlevel of the deck while Gwent doesnt allow you to outmaneuver strong decks like other card games can. You are too limited in how you can approach bad matchups or stronger decks because you can only play one card a turn. Draws also dictate the game too much. You usually have at least one wincon per round that you need to win (so at least 2). Since you cant draw your entire deck unless you thin it (like discard Skellige or Nilfgaard), if you dont draw your wincon for the specific rounds you can only hope that you either 1. have bled the opponent out of ressources beforehand (aka playing the game right), 2. he already missplayed by playing his wincon in a lost round or 3. he doesnt draw it himself. So games can be decided by bad draws more than any other cardgame (that I have experience in) because ressources are so limited.
That being said CDPR has done some really cool stuff with the game that I admire them for. They have real graveyard interactions unlike HS or LoR and I really miss them in those games. The patches are really good, they tend to rework underperforming archetypes every month so the cardpool isnt as artificially limited as in other games. It's really cool to see unplayable cards being either reworked to they can actually work with their respective archetype or form an entire new archetype from old unwanted cards like they did with Nilfgaard this patch or with the grace mechanic this expansion. The game rewards you for playing it (in form of unlockables) and you have enough incentive to play it if you are reliant on external factors like quests and so on.
So if anyone actually took the time to read all this junk to see a justification to try it out, just do it. My biggest problem with the game stems from the basics so if you dont see a problem or even find it intriguing you will have your fun. Basically everything on top of the basics is done really well and CDPR puts a lot of work into it.
Tldr
i guess you never got pass rank 18 then.
@@SteelBalla If my reasoning is so flawed then adressing my points with counterarguments is more productive that assuming my rank in hope of invalidating my opinion. Even if I was low rank my takes arent automatically invalid. But to satisfy your curiosity, the last time I queued into ranked instead of unranked I finished around rank 3 before pro ladder because playing against the same 2-3 decks every game isnt fun. I didnt even know that there are any ranks below 15 so I have to trust you on that one.
Edit: I dont even know why you set the bar with rank 18 so low, most players dont understand fundamental game concepts like card advantage and bleeding before rank 10. When I started playing ranked again after decaying for years I have seen players that go -3 in card advantage to win a single round or simply missing row effects.
@@peschionator7873 relax we get it. you're not good at the game chill
LOL THIS GAME HAS IMPROVED. there used to be 3 zones instead of 2 per person in the W3
Next time take somebody to explain the game and you gonna love it
let me expain the Old Speartip: Asleep. For a long time, this card is a 6 provision card with 9 power, 9 power is a cheap but strong card in starter deck. But someday this card changed to cooperate with Old Speartip，but CDPR didn't fix their starter deck, that is truly a lazy mistake.
I used to play a ton of Gwent. There's been like 5 expansions since then though.
the last time i played this i think im using monster faction where i can just put eradin pass and usually i got card advantage cause monster had passive to put 1 random card on the field on stay i think so eradin stay which is 1 card advantage with 15 power i think
*never played Gwent or seen it*
“Sees POOR FUCKING INFANTRY”
I love these videos where u try other card games. Makes me want to try them too and it's fun
The dude that roped waiting for you to pass was simply the most toxic thing I say in a card game ever, how is this allowed
dang i was hoping you could rekindle my attempting to get into this game. guess we had very similar experiences
you weren't getting roped. the person was new and reading just like you were new, its why they kept misplaying so badly, they were reading and not quite keeping up because it was likely one of their first games.
I love taht they aninate each card. Thats sick
It sucks when your videos exploring other games aren't performing as well. May the algo show you mercy.
Will you be coming back? It's a great game, monthly patches keep it fresh - you do need to read the cards though!
Watching your no text stream, deleting game files from the computer fkin hilarious
This should be fun 5yr old hearthstone stan tries gwent
I'd love to see you stick to this game. The more you learn about the game the more interesting the videos will get
Unfortunately will not, but hopefully you enjoyed the video
@@Rarran Too bad you won't return to Gwent again, this game has some crazy decks and combos. There's a faction called Nilfgaard, and their play style is pretty much playing the opponent's cards
@@Rarran i very much did, unfortunate
God I spent hours just playing Gwent in The Witcher 3😅
You are right, old aoe setup asleep should not be in the starter deck. It’s a shame that it is and is. A massive trap. It used to be a completely different card though. It used to have 9base power, no armor, and the veil status effect, which prevents the card from gaining other status effects like bleeding. It was still bad but wasn’t dogshit, which is why it was included in the deck.
ah gwent, 1000 hours in this amazing game yet i hate playing it these days, still will come back from time to time i guess..
Gwent is a fun game but...
1) Power Creep Incarnate - maybe less than Yu-Gi-Oh, but still a lot of power creep.
2) Base decks suck, and to maintain a deck you have to get all new expansion cards - where the power creep comes in check.
As a result if you stop playing for a bit and come back - your decks will be basically useless, and you won't be able to win much...
I agree with #2 but not so much with #1. Game is balanced every month and because of how provisions work, everything can be balanced. There are abusive interaction in game, yes, but you can always find a good counter for the meta decks. Like playing Unicorn>She Who Knows vs Renfri. Game is very well maintained over all.
@@MrWiented But all that requires a lot of playtime. I basically play(ed) 2 factions because I can't keep up the collection with how little I played (1-2h every several days).
If you're not able to keep up, it's a struggle to win and complete quests.
@@RedRamDRA Yeah but that's what you should expect out of a card game no? It is meant to last you for literally thousands of hours. If you want to just play a little maybe 2 or 3 hours every few days then go and play Runemage or Thronebreaker. You have to "keep up" in any multiplayer game and Gwent is actually pretty good at it since you get A LOT stuff for free.
@@RedRamDRA Also, your "old" cards are not being powercrept. I am literally playing the same Wild Hunt deck for the last 2 years with very slight rotations. Maybe 5-6 cards are in a variable spot. Everything else is just as powerful as a year ago.
0:28 Hemet actually good? Pog
Only in a tutorial scenario
Alright Zach-YEP-Clocks
Wondering what he did with that banana
Getting roped is the worst in any card game, I hate those people
Rarran have you heard it’s your fault that runestones failed? Crazy stuff man how could you do it
We lost lifecoach to this game :( and almost superjj aswell
As I remember, we lost Lifecoach to Blizzard's insufferable business practices. He posted a video explaining his departure from Hearthstone back in the day, and Gwent just provided him with a convenient opportunity to finally stop doing something he wasn't enjoying.
gwent>heartstone and those are straight facts
I have very little experience with the Witcher 3, but this barely resembles Gwent in that game. I remember 3 lanes and 0 card draw.
Wonder what card game is next
Finally a game witch I now something about:)
Just as the new cyberpunk show came out
I mean he didnt use Nithriel once, right?
Kurtis Connor shirt!
I wait for more
NICE!
Oy this game is best. Check the animations on card that's different level
They should be paying you to make these videos
Let's Go!
How was ur day?
Working on a great video, so pretty good
@@Rarran How about inviting Gwent pros to guess Hearthstone cards?
What the hell kind of card game is this lol what. No draw phase, attack phase, this is weird lol. Also "Poor fucking infantry" lmaoooooooo
That was great
is gwent more f2p friendly nowadays?
Great was always f2p friendly
It's very f2p friendly. You can get all the cards by just playing and most of cosmetics too.
@@zamaskowany12 it didnt feel f2p friendly first time I played. Tbf that was a long time ago when it just came out
@@MrWiented nice
@@Kvh47 I played from closed beta and it never felt not F2P friendly
hey i installed hartstone and i really like it thanks♥️
I don't usually get mad about games changing or dying, I enjoyed my time move on find new fun things, but Gwent makes me really upset. They had a fantastic game and just kept changing things for no reason over and over and over again. The game needed slight adjustments with a sewing needle and instead they took a sledgehammer to it 50 fucking times, and now, I can never play the game that I loved playing because this new piece of garbage game replaced it.
It's so much funny to see you trying out all card game to realise that Hearthstone is fine actualy x)
So as a Gwent player myself (and a pretty good one I'd say) who quit and returned two times now, I have to say that it really pains me that you had a bad time with the game and worst of all is that I can easily understand why.
Gwent in my opinion has enourmous potential but every player and dev of cdpr should take a good look at your video as it shows some painfully brutal problems with the game, the first just being how terrible the tutorial is. And as Game is entirely dependant on netdecking, just throwing players in without explanation what the plan of their deck is, is about the worst thing you can do. You played many cards incorrectly and while yes you are not the biggest fan o reading card descriptions the game didn't do you any favors and that is on us. Also it showed a big problem regarding the community which definetly is in need of getting a little boost by a known streamer such as you... this sadly wasn't it.
We really should look into games such as yu-gi-oh and MTGT for better tutorials and how to explain mechanics/factions in a more comprehensible way to tackle the biggest issue our community has next to a lack of tournaments and esport recognition, a semi active playerbase without any new blood in form of beginning players and watching your video made it painfully clear why this was the case.
It is painful as the game is the easiest to get into if you understand the mechanics because of it's low entry fee (unlike heartstone you can get every single card and deck without paying) and has a lot to offer such as the darker thematic and unique playstyle even though the latter one comes with issues itself.
I hope you one day will give gwent another shot and will come to enjoy it after working yourself into the basic mechanics.
gwent is best girl
Any fellow nilfguard gamers
Assimilate 4 life
daj czadu w Gwincie :)
Yo I love your vids but always give the gg sadness
Finally
Alright how to you play this 😂 this looks the least fun of all the cars games
Hello . Can you make a video of our game please ?
Rarran should play caravan from fnv
That was such a bad first impression
Why?
@@MrWiented Have you watched the video? Rarran is bored to hell, this is the first time he stops playing after a single pvp match. He was not smiling nor enjoying the game, which is understandable as the game looks very boring
@@murat4831 yea but why? He literally plays the most basic deck there is and not even with proper player. How can you judge a game after 1 match against someone who just started as well?
@@MrWiented This is my point. I am not judging the game, I only have the first impression after watching a single game and by the looks of it, the game looks boring as hell. Telling how it feels is not judging the game, I dont know if it is fun or not. But anyone that watches this video would agree that it looks terrible as a first impression and Rarran didnt like it at all, which is also the point of the comment.
@@murat4831 Yeah, not giving a game chance because of "first impression" from 30 minutes of gameplay seems like a silly way of doing that but w/e. You do you.
I was hopping not all hearthstone players mentally chalenged.
I Prefer you marvel duel. You can Play it in emulator.or Mobile Phone. Pretty cool, in my ooiniin better than gwent
I loved old gwent then they changed the game from 3 lanes to two and didnt compensate me for all the time i put in and I quit lol
Man i really miss Gwent, it had so much potential! Also it is without a doubt the game with the best card art and a really friendly module for f2p players! The problem is that with the homecoming update, it became very oversimplified und uninteractive, and after a while (propably a month) it gets really repetitive, and that comes from a guy who has almost 500 hours in Gwent and hasnt logged in in over 2 years!
I miss beta Gwent myself a lot, but how did homecoming oversimplify the game and made it less interactive?
Play gwent
I prefer the one from Witcher 3 lmao 😂
Why lol it's a solved game