I stopped playing shortly after demon hunter was released some years ago, but I want to come back because of the new highlander cards and the catch-up packs. Should I wait until the new expansion drops to login? Or is it better to return now (and maybe avoid doing some things, like opening packs from those 5 sets)?
My percentages are similar. I assume we'll get 2, maybe 3, cards from each expansion. 10-15 cards per pack, at least 2 packs, probably mostly duplicate commons/rares, but hey, that's at least 160 dust that I wasn't expecting.
You and I aren't the target audience for Catch-up.
Yeah I'm pumped about that dropping at the end of the month. 10 player dungeon/raid in BFD sounds like it'll be a lot of fun to figure out and more importantly, the world is going to have lots to discover. The gated leveling experience also makes it easy to not fall behind which I appreciate as my time isn't as open as it once was lol.
I expect it at this point though. Classic, in what I feel is a lot of folks eyes is Vanilla -> Wrath. I'm pumped about Cataclysm though because that means Mists of Pandaria should be coming and oh boy, I would LOVE to experience that again.
Mes'Adune is a card that will probably enable some really broken combo years (or maybe even months) from now. Until then though, I quite like this design. In fact, I just really like how creative Team 5 have gotten over the years.
Let's unpack this for a moment, knowing that the bingo card's conditionals were thought up before any mention of the sword of Sargeras being at the convention surfaced!
SC2 is there because there was a chance for it to receive something - either an announcement that's coming to game pass, or news about that whole Starcraft AI thing they talked about a looooong time ago then never mentioned.
BlizzCon Collection - well sure, they can't all be 1% chance cards, right?
Mauga was there due to the comment from the linked article! Overwatch 2, for just releasing this year, seemed to lack a lot of possible predictions. It only has 2 squares on the bingo card. The less non-WoW things on the bingo card, the more this card would basically be a "WoW Bingo Card", not a "BlizzCon Bingo Card".
The center box, expectations subverted, is there for a good reason. Bingo cards always give the center space for free. Expectations Subverted was as close a condition you could get to being free, without being truly free. The condition was met when they announced not one, but three expansions.
I love that games are embracing their pasts. In the ever-evolving nature of the online service games, so much content is lost to time. I'm looking forward to getting some tilted drops in this week to relive some of chapter 1.
Yeah, but is that confirmed anywhere? I understand, that they were referred to as "Badlands catch-up packs".
But if they took the effort, to actually make amount of cards from packs "dynamic" (depending on collection), it would be natural, that expansions included are made "dynamic" as well (as in - packs are from expansions currently in Standard).
Otherwise they would need to adjust catch-up packs by hand - either every expansion or every year in November-December expansion. Seems like unnecessary waste of time for programmers if you ask me
This last two weeks I actually played a LOT of games. I continued playing Payday 3 and Roller Coaster Tycoon as well as resumed Two Point Hospital but I also got a lot of work done on my backlog, it had more than 100 games and it is now down to 88 so I got happy about having the time to start clearing it. These were
Liked and Finished
"Shadow of the Tomb Raider"
"Ducktales Remastered"
"Wargroove" (PC, already finished on switch)
"Firegirl, Hack and Splash Rescue DX"
"Ghostrunner" (Actually just finished it some hours ago. It was amazing)
Liked and not Finished
"Stacking"
"Disney Afternoon Collection"
"Disney's Hercules"
"Black Mesa"
Not my cup of tea
"Duke Nukem Forever"
"Serious Sam HD First and Second Encounter"
"Strange Brigade"
"Gotham Knights"
"Hatred"
Nostalgia, too old now
Finding Nemo
More of a "Play with friends" and replayable
Demonologist
I will probably keep up with my backlog (Thinking about starting 911 operator, sleeping dogs or Yakuza Zero next) and check Hearthstone's expansion as soon as it launches.
Double post time, get in quick so we can get Sylvanas as a guild, thanks. We're 13% of the way there and there's a new surge coming... tomorrow? So plenty of easy progression towards her.
The start of this month had a lot of games I was exciting for dropping.
I've already gotten my grubby little mitts on Thirsty Suitors and For The King 2 which have both been pretty fun. I'd highly recommend Thirsty Suitors. I know what the game sounds like, but it is filled to the brim with style and charm, on top of being absurdly funny. I don't know how Annapurna Interactive finds games to help publish but my god are they great at finding them given that they've also published Sayonara Wildhearts, Outer Wilds, Neon White, and Solar Ash which are all games that I've loved playing. As for For The King 2, singleplayer has been pretty fun but unfortunately the multiplayer has been pretty broken so far, but the developers have been pretty fast to hotfix a lot of the issues so hoping I'll be able to jump in and complain about whiffing 80-90% hits with my friends sometime later in the month.
Risk of Rain Returns is dropping on the 8th which I'm so stoked for. The original is up there for my favorite multiplayer games of all time but having to use LogMeIn Hamachi made it such a pain to get other people interested in giving it a shot so I'm hoping this. Already made plans with my brothers to play it when it comes out so looking forward to that. Also helps that I finally get to go back to boar beach which is always pretty nice.
I've also been very slowly going through my 3rd Baldur's Gate 3 with some friends. My character was an Owlbear cursed into being a druid halfling, resulting in her either A, spending all the time as an Owlbear or B, throwing and breaking things in the background of my friend's cutscenes because she doesn't know how to speak. It has been without a doubt both the most scuffed and cursed playthrough I've ever had, with us somehow despawning important characters, saving the Tieflings only to have them suddenly cease to exist and appear dead later on, having the corpse of Lae'zel just appear at random points in time, and accidentally abusing the AI and circumventing some difficult battles in act 2 by accident. It's the type of thing where if it was our first playthrough, it'd be upsetting but since all of us have finished the game at least once, it's just funny at this point. I've also discovered my favorite detail in the game, that being if you are wild shaped into something and sit in a chair, it looks incredibly goofy.
New Hearthstone expansion also looks pretty cool, don't know what I'm going to play yet but it'll probably just be whatever I open up thats cool. Probably leaning more towards Coin Rogue or Naga DH because I love playing 400 cards on my turn, but highlander DH, highlander Paladin, and Sludge Warlock all seem pretty fun as well.
Last things I'm probably going to be playing is just a bunch of random 4-5 dollar indie games that I've slowly accumulated a backlog for. Probably also going to reinstall the Echo Point Nova demo or Severed Steel and play through them again because they are just such endless adrenaline rushes and I want to do kickflips on people.
Edit: Told myself constantly that I'd play through Thirsty Suitors slowly to be able to enjoy it and that did NOT happen. Besides somethings being a bit clunky here and there, game was incredibly good. Pretty much exactly what I was expecting for a game all based around generational trauma and over-the-top psychodrama therapy. Highly recommend it, albeit its a bit short.
I'm still playing Elden Ring: spear + board is a very different experience from using a katana, sorceries, and having no defense beyond dodging. My "paladin" build is very stat-hungry, though, so I'm spread a little thin and thus my damage suffers.
As of yesterday I am playing Warcraft Rumble, and made our official Out of Games guild :D The game is very fun. If anyone wants to join up, let me know: I switched us out of Public to Invite Only because it filled with random people stupidly fast. 15 slots is not a lot of room.
Also waiting for Showdown in the Badlands: I'm most interested in Excavate Death Knight, Dragon Druid, Excavate Warlock, and Taunt Warrior this expansion.
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.
My RCT1 playthrough is still present and I'm extremely close to finishing it, but it's taken a back seat because I've taken up playing Enderal again.
I am excited for Showdown in the Badlands. Might actually end up playing in this set this time. Once my PS5 gets set up in my new place again, I'm hoping to check out the update for GT7. I'm really excited to see the new snow track and the Master License.
Sword was pretty much confirmed before the ceremony because there was a mini statue of "what sword" meme.
No starcraft 2 is obvious, it's more dead than hots.
Blizzard collection - seriously? Of course they'll promote the shit out of their product specifically tied to this event.
Mauga was heavily hinted before the event, it just needed to be said.
And of course the center piece, expectations subverted, the most subjective thing that you can always check and find the audience that will agree. Wow has me super hyped, so expectations are fully met.
Hearthstone's New Badlands Catch-Up Packs Contain Up to 50 Cards, Everyone Gets One For Free
I stopped playing shortly after demon hunter was released some years ago, but I want to come back because of the new highlander cards and the catch-up packs. Should I wait until the new expansion drops to login? Or is it better to return now (and maybe avoid doing some things, like opening packs from those 5 sets)?
Hearthstone's New Badlands Catch-Up Packs Contain Up to 50 Cards, Everyone Gets One For Free
My percentages are similar. I assume we'll get 2, maybe 3, cards from each expansion. 10-15 cards per pack, at least 2 packs, probably mostly duplicate commons/rares, but hey, that's at least 160 dust that I wasn't expecting.
You and I aren't the target audience for Catch-up.
WoW Classic What's Next Panel Live Recap - BlizzCon 2023
Yeah I'm pumped about that dropping at the end of the month. 10 player dungeon/raid in BFD sounds like it'll be a lot of fun to figure out and more importantly, the world is going to have lots to discover. The gated leveling experience also makes it easy to not fall behind which I appreciate as my time isn't as open as it once was lol.
WoW Classic What's Next Panel Live Recap - BlizzCon 2023
No one really knows tbh.
I expect it at this point though. Classic, in what I feel is a lot of folks eyes is Vanilla -> Wrath. I'm pumped about Cataclysm though because that means Mists of Pandaria should be coming and oh boy, I would LOVE to experience that again.
Hearthstone What's Next Panel Live Recap - BlizzCon 2023: Plus New Card Reveals!
Mes'Adune is a card that will probably enable some really broken combo years (or maybe even months) from now. Until then though, I quite like this design. In fact, I just really like how creative Team 5 have gotten over the years.
Join Us in Our BlizzCon 2023 Community Bingo!
Let's unpack this for a moment, knowing that the bingo card's conditionals were thought up before any mention of the sword of Sargeras being at the convention surfaced!
SC2 is there because there was a chance for it to receive something - either an announcement that's coming to game pass, or news about that whole Starcraft AI thing they talked about a looooong time ago then never mentioned.
BlizzCon Collection - well sure, they can't all be 1% chance cards, right?
Mauga was there due to the comment from the linked article! Overwatch 2, for just releasing this year, seemed to lack a lot of possible predictions. It only has 2 squares on the bingo card. The less non-WoW things on the bingo card, the more this card would basically be a "WoW Bingo Card", not a "BlizzCon Bingo Card".
The center box, expectations subverted, is there for a good reason. Bingo cards always give the center space for free. Expectations Subverted was as close a condition you could get to being free, without being truly free. The condition was met when they announced not one, but three expansions.
Fortnite Reaches 6 Million Online Players With the Release of the Old Map
That's great :D
I love that games are embracing their pasts. In the ever-evolving nature of the online service games, so much content is lost to time. I'm looking forward to getting some tilted drops in this week to relive some of chapter 1.
Hearthstone's New Badlands Catch-Up Packs Contain Up to 50 Cards, Everyone Gets One For Free
Yeah, but is that confirmed anywhere? I understand, that they were referred to as "Badlands catch-up packs".
But if they took the effort, to actually make amount of cards from packs "dynamic" (depending on collection), it would be natural, that expansions included are made "dynamic" as well (as in - packs are from expansions currently in Standard).
Otherwise they would need to adjust catch-up packs by hand - either every expansion or every year in November-December expansion. Seems like unnecessary waste of time for programmers if you ask me
Hearthstone What's Next Panel Live Recap - BlizzCon 2023: Plus New Card Reveals!
It should, yes. That's how it's worked for previous dormant minions, like the Imprisoned Antaen.
Hearthstone What's Next Panel Live Recap - BlizzCon 2023: Plus New Card Reveals!
If you recruit or somehow indirectly put Slagmaw on the board, will he still go dormant?
What Are You Playing? November 2023
This last two weeks I actually played a LOT of games. I continued playing Payday 3 and Roller Coaster Tycoon as well as resumed Two Point Hospital but I also got a lot of work done on my backlog, it had more than 100 games and it is now down to 88 so I got happy about having the time to start clearing it. These were
Liked and Finished
"Shadow of the Tomb Raider"
"Ducktales Remastered"
"Wargroove" (PC, already finished on switch)
"Firegirl, Hack and Splash Rescue DX"
"Ghostrunner" (Actually just finished it some hours ago. It was amazing)
Liked and not Finished
"Stacking"
"Disney Afternoon Collection"
"Disney's Hercules"
"Black Mesa"
Not my cup of tea
"Duke Nukem Forever"
"Serious Sam HD First and Second Encounter"
"Strange Brigade"
"Gotham Knights"
"Hatred"
Nostalgia, too old now
Finding Nemo
More of a "Play with friends" and replayable
Demonologist
I will probably keep up with my backlog (Thinking about starting 911 operator, sleeping dogs or Yakuza Zero next) and check Hearthstone's expansion as soon as it launches.
World of Warcraft's Worldsoul Saga - Next Three Expansions Revealed
Rather have this as a serious game/cinematic than some stupid cartoon for kids. Just look at hearthstone.
Fortnite Reaches 6 Million Online Players With the Release of the Old Map
Pretty Happy with that moved. Played a lot with friends and right now I do not suck as much anymore as I use these old weapons better xD
Join the Out of Games Warcraft Rumble Guild!
Double post time, get in quick so we can get Sylvanas as a guild, thanks. We're 13% of the way there and there's a new surge coming... tomorrow? So plenty of easy progression towards her.
Join the Out of Games Warcraft Rumble Guild!
Let's gooooo!
Join the Out of Games Warcraft Rumble Guild!
There're only 15 slots, so it might fill up before ya know it! We're set to Invite Only, so we need your in-game username to know who to accept.
The guild's name is, of course, Out of Games. Hope to see ya there!
Edit: And if you have any questions, feel free to ask! We can help you learn about the game and get you starting off on the right track :)
What Are You Playing? November 2023
The start of this month had a lot of games I was exciting for dropping.
I've already gotten my grubby little mitts on Thirsty Suitors and For The King 2 which have both been pretty fun. I'd highly recommend Thirsty Suitors. I know what the game sounds like, but it is filled to the brim with style and charm, on top of being absurdly funny. I don't know how Annapurna Interactive finds games to help publish but my god are they great at finding them given that they've also published Sayonara Wildhearts, Outer Wilds, Neon White, and Solar Ash which are all games that I've loved playing. As for For The King 2, singleplayer has been pretty fun but unfortunately the multiplayer has been pretty broken so far, but the developers have been pretty fast to hotfix a lot of the issues so hoping I'll be able to jump in and complain about whiffing 80-90% hits with my friends sometime later in the month.
Risk of Rain Returns is dropping on the 8th which I'm so stoked for. The original is up there for my favorite multiplayer games of all time but having to use LogMeIn Hamachi made it such a pain to get other people interested in giving it a shot so I'm hoping this. Already made plans with my brothers to play it when it comes out so looking forward to that. Also helps that I finally get to go back to boar beach which is always pretty nice.
I've also been very slowly going through my 3rd Baldur's Gate 3 with some friends. My character was an Owlbear cursed into being a druid halfling, resulting in her either A, spending all the time as an Owlbear or B, throwing and breaking things in the background of my friend's cutscenes because she doesn't know how to speak. It has been without a doubt both the most scuffed and cursed playthrough I've ever had, with us somehow despawning important characters, saving the Tieflings only to have them suddenly cease to exist and appear dead later on, having the corpse of Lae'zel just appear at random points in time, and accidentally abusing the AI and circumventing some difficult battles in act 2 by accident. It's the type of thing where if it was our first playthrough, it'd be upsetting but since all of us have finished the game at least once, it's just funny at this point. I've also discovered my favorite detail in the game, that being if you are wild shaped into something and sit in a chair, it looks incredibly goofy.
New Hearthstone expansion also looks pretty cool, don't know what I'm going to play yet but it'll probably just be whatever I open up thats cool. Probably leaning more towards Coin Rogue or Naga DH because I love playing 400 cards on my turn, but highlander DH, highlander Paladin, and Sludge Warlock all seem pretty fun as well.
Last things I'm probably going to be playing is just a bunch of random 4-5 dollar indie games that I've slowly accumulated a backlog for. Probably also going to reinstall the Echo Point Nova demo or Severed Steel and play through them again because they are just such endless adrenaline rushes and I want to do kickflips on people.
Edit: Told myself constantly that I'd play through Thirsty Suitors slowly to be able to enjoy it and that did NOT happen. Besides somethings being a bit clunky here and there, game was incredibly good. Pretty much exactly what I was expecting for a game all based around generational trauma and over-the-top psychodrama therapy. Highly recommend it, albeit its a bit short.
What Are You Playing? November 2023
I'm still playing Elden Ring: spear + board is a very different experience from using a katana, sorceries, and having no defense beyond dodging. My "paladin" build is very stat-hungry, though, so I'm spread a little thin and thus my damage suffers.
As of yesterday I am playing Warcraft Rumble, and made our official Out of Games guild :D The game is very fun. If anyone wants to join up, let me know: I switched us out of Public to Invite Only because it filled with random people stupidly fast. 15 slots is not a lot of room.
Also waiting for Showdown in the Badlands: I'm most interested in Excavate Death Knight, Dragon Druid, Excavate Warlock, and Taunt Warrior this expansion.
Hearthstone What's Next Panel Live Recap - BlizzCon 2023: Plus New Card Reveals!
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.
What Are You Playing? November 2023
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.
What Are You Playing? November 2023
Gotta make sure we keep this train up.
My RCT1 playthrough is still present and I'm extremely close to finishing it, but it's taken a back seat because I've taken up playing Enderal again.
I am excited for Showdown in the Badlands. Might actually end up playing in this set this time. Once my PS5 gets set up in my new place again, I'm hoping to check out the update for GT7. I'm really excited to see the new snow track and the Master License.
Join Us in Our BlizzCon 2023 Community Bingo!
That bingo row was a coward's bet.
Sword was pretty much confirmed before the ceremony because there was a mini statue of "what sword" meme.
No starcraft 2 is obvious, it's more dead than hots.
Blizzard collection - seriously? Of course they'll promote the shit out of their product specifically tied to this event.
Mauga was heavily hinted before the event, it just needed to be said.
And of course the center piece, expectations subverted, the most subjective thing that you can always check and find the audience that will agree. Wow has me super hyped, so expectations are fully met.
Hearthstone What's Next Panel Live Recap - BlizzCon 2023: Plus New Card Reveals!
Thanks for the info!
Slagmaw the Slumbering
:D
World of Warcraft's Worldsoul Saga - Next Three Expansions Revealed
Cinematics getting more weepy walking and talking soap opera instead of Fun Adventures.
Peak Uncanny Valley has been reached with Anduin. The ridiculous photorealism heralds more Super Serious navel-gazing instead of...a game.