Hey all! We've got a great update on the site that is LIVE that brings support to our deckbuilder for Hearthstone's newest game mode, Duels.
Hearthstone Duels on Out of Cards
Our first iteration of Duels support on the site is here!
- You can now visit the Hearthstone Deckbuilder and choose "Duels" as your mode before choosing a class.
- Duels decks created in the deckbuilder can be saved as a normal deck
- You'll see some new stuff on deck pages that highlights your unique choices.
- You can still write guides for Duels decks, so teach people how to play your masterpiece!
- You can search for Duels decks in our deck listing - just change the deck type to "Duels"!
The New Deckbuilder Intro
You'll now have the ability to choose which mode you want to build a deck for when you enter the deckbuilder intro page.
- Select the mode before clicking on a class.
- If you don't select a mode, don't worry, we'll assume you mean to create a constructed (Standard/Wild) deck.
Duels is the chosen mode which will tell the Deckbuilder to set it up with special features.
This new mode selection will allow us to do more fun stuff in the future with the Deckbuilder should new deckbuilding challenges be created.
- If you are creating a Tavern Brawl or Adventure deck, don't worry, we still support that! For now, it is "Standard & Wild" (or don't make a selection).
- If you don't select a mode and want to switch to Duels later, don't worry, you can do that in the Deckbuilder itself.
Deckbuilder Changes
We've got some changes to the deckbuilder to support the new game mode!
- Select "Duels" as your Game Format to enable special Duels functionality.
- You'll get new tabs for Hero, Hero Power, and Treasure selection.
- You can see your currently selected duel-specific cards above the decklist.
- There is a new addition to deckbuilder URLs so you can share a Duels deck without saving it to the site.
Not many choices now, but Duels is only in Early Access!
Additionally, a few quality of life features have been added to the Deckbuilder.
- If you have too many cards in your deck, we'll highlight that above the mana curve.
- Having too many cards also will not let you save your deck anymore.
- If you have too few cards, we'll warn you about it before you save your deck, but it isn't necessary to fill all the slots.
- We can now load cards faster due to backend changes. Woot!
Deck Page Changes
It wouldn't be right to not have some special functionality on deck pages themselves for Duels! Although this is very basic to start, you can now see the chosen Hero, Hero Power, and Treasure very easily at the top of the guide area.
This should be helpful to get a quick look at the core choices for the deck you're looking at. Anyone that has written a guide to go alongside their deck, which is something you should definitely do, that guide will display right under these choices.
That's it for the first iteration of Duels on Out of Cards! We're looking forward to supporting the new format even further, so let us know what you would like to see on the site for it. If you've had any great runs in Duels, you should head on over to our Deckbuilder and share that list!
Things are going to get spooky on Out of Cards this weekend. The exact timing is not set in stone yet but we'll make sure there is a full week to enjoy the festivities... Stay tuned!
Comments
Right now when looking at duels decks in the front page, it has duel decks. But when doing wild decks, some of the same duel decks appear. I think that duel decks should only appear when duels are selected and only wild decks for the wild format should appear when wild is selected. Right now actual wild decks are being diluted.
Awesome, thanks for your hard work!
Given that we have this useful feature, are we ever going to see a card collection manager for this site like there use to be one back when things were being run on Hearthpwn?
The card collection thing is the only reason why I still visit Heathpwn at all as I much prefer the news here.
Would be handy to know what you can build/what cards you're short for these duel decks.
Just to make sure, you know that there is:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElMNAn8XYAEn6So?format=jpg&name=medium
Then a plug in for it (With full instructions):
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decktracker-plugin/
I personally really like HSDT. I always thought it was the better option. Also, AFAIK all of the other deck trackers were broken a while ago with and update from Blizz. They were not blocking Deck Trackers, just adjusted how they did things. In fact, GM allows the use of Deck Trackers.
Had no doubt OoC would have this up and running in half of a week. Nice!
Played this mode for a few hours - I don`t think I will come back to it.
High roll, high roll, high roll... no thanks!
Very nice addition.
thanks a lot!
Looking good so far!
I'm looking forward to the upcoming spookiness! (And the deck builder looks pretty cool :D)
At this point, we're definitely delayed until tomorrow on the Spooks. This week has kicked my ass and was meant to be most of our final implementations of stuff. Since I focused hard on getting the duels deckbuilder feature out, we're behind =( I've also slept for 4 hours over the last 32 hours and should probably take another couple hour nap.
All worth it though. I think people will like what we've got in store. It's a big jump from previous site events and will also be the basis for our Holiday fun in December, so I'm excited about that! Speaking of, work on our Holiday event is going to take place while the Halloween one takes place because November is going to be absolutely nuts. Oh, I'm so excited!
Thanks for your reply, I'm even more excited than I was before! And make sure you get enough sleep! 😀
You must have built the Deckbuilder system on a very thoughtfully-constructed back-end to be able to turn this around so quickly. Your hard work is much appreciated. Kudos!
There was some decent thought that went into the initial deckbuilder design, because we'd have to support things like adventures and tavern brawls, but this actually required a lot more work than originally anticipated.
The original goal was to have this out on Thursday night after we learned of the changes. Most of the work went into rebuilding our API that serves cards to the deckbuilder (and other site features) to get more control over how we can filter and cache results.
Even then, with the front-end part being easier, I still want to fully rebuild our deckbuilder to make it even better. I'd like to solidify our deckbuilder tech between all the builders we support (Runeterra one has some better code over the Hearthstone since it was built later) to also make it much easier to build out a new, basic deckbuilders given very few pieces of data so we can support more card databases easily. That isn't in the cards yet though.
Glad you like it though!
That was pretty fast :)