I'm wrong, it looks like it is possible currently if you use an emulator.
You need to change the model number of your emulator to a huawei device id, like "RTE-AL00", which is the recently launched Huawei nova 9 Pro. If you need to enter a manufacturer and brand, then HUAWEI is the correct field for both.
Outside of Korea it won't be possible to obtain the pre-reg card back as it'll require a Korean ID and a sign-up on the One Store site. I think you have to make a purchase too.
Huawei doesn't appear to be active yet even though its in the client. Unless this ends up being a China only card back.
My expectation is that if they aren't obtainable outside of those countries, given some time, they'll be available for gold.
Yeah I can't stand everyone that keeps bringing up Gacha with Mercenaries.
Maybe if card games are a Gacha too (they aren't anywhere near it). Gacha is predatory practices, not some RNG. I still laugh at the people who were trying to call Overwatch a Gacha game when it was purely cosmetics in loot boxes.
Hey, I've made an update to the article since according to our research, we were wrong on how things worked.
This is the actual logic for the first deal, Random Legendary Mercenary:
If you are missing a Legendary Mercenary (no base or skins) you will receive one of those at random.
If you own all the Mercenaries, a random Mercenary is rolled.
If you own the base skin for that Mercenary, you will receive coins for that Mercenary.
If you do not own the base skin for that Mercenary, you will receive that instead.
I still think this is a good deal, but only in a couple of circumstances. If you are missing any base mercs though but have all the mercenaries as far as them all being playable, this "deal" really doesn't feel like a deal since now its only a chance of coins.
This is so poorly communicated in the deal. I really don't think this was the best the team could have done with how mercenaries are implemented. I love the idea of the game. I think its incredible fair for the most part and more than accessible to F2P folks. This sucks though.
I really cannot comprehend how Blizzard managed to make Mercenaries so complicated, and not for a gameplay reason. They really should have ditched the idea of a base skin when they saw how lengthy their communications on it were going to be. Maybe it was too late in the development process to do so, but that's hardly an excuse. Small indie this and that, this is something that really needed to be considered more. Kinda sad when you consider they worked on this mode for like 3 years.
As one of the Out of Cards staff put it on Discord - "dogshit".
Mercenaries are also just regular cards as far as Hearthstone is concerned. When a new patch drops, we check for all the new cards (and changes cards) and then kick off a render with all those card ids together without needing to know anything about them. Due to the thousands of cards that were in the Mercenaries patch, I definitely never saw them during the initial datamining - I was actually a little confused initially when I saw CampfireStone's images since they looked like our card images, until I went into the database and saw them.
There's no Mercenaries pages for them because although they exist as cards in the client, they have no proper mercenaries data associated with them so we don't have their level stats. I took a quick look at client data and it looks like The Black Knight and Nemsy don't have any abilities or equipment either. So it does seem like their inclusion in data was a mistake and one that Blizzard probably regrets lol.
Fun fact, and I might regret saying this more publicly. We actually have filters in our database that categorize all the cards by the patch they were added in. Now, we don't have this data going back too far, though I'd love to get that working one day it just takes a long time to fetch all my old data and write scripts against it, but from the time Out of Cards came online, all cards are categorized by the patch they were added to the game. So, whenever we do a data import, you can easily see any new cards that get added.
So, its really easy to see the new stuff coming for modes like Tavern Brawl (since they flag those under a specific expansion, though the brawl set isn't exclusively brawl anymore so that's fun) or Mercenaries.
And, it is leaked, though only having the hero names isn't as interesting as having abilities and stats. Maybe Blizzard will slip up again in the future!
Anything we've ever made public has not been removed. There was a point where they asked if I'd stop and I asked them if they wanted to work together on something and then they ghosted me until I started posting again. At that point I got ghosted once more and I'm officially done with them.
We don't need them to survive.
Fuck Blizzard. They still have cool people that work there and they make great products but their community team leaves something to be desired - a fact that has remained true for the entire existence of Hearthstone. Just when you think they're getting better and you talk about how they're doing better, they shit the bed. I'm so done wasting any amount of energy on them.
If something was previously showing up on the site and it isn't now, if anyone knows exactly what it was, let me know and I can dig into it. All our Mercenaries stuff uses a different importer and its possible that something broke and unflagged some stuff, though it shouldn't be possible I wouldn't rule it out. (Sending me a private message is probably your best bet since I'll 100% see the notification for it)
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Even worse about the Alliance and Horde thing is that they don't even have the references setup in data in the client to begin with, even though the cards do have faction flagging. That flagging is all just set to Neutral though =/
This kind of stuff would have been avoided if they had of talked more about the mode well in advance of the release. Instead, let's do a bad presentation and follow it up with nothing until the very last minute.
Blizzard needs to seriously give their head a shake.
Also we have datamined strings that further confirm Legendary mode is a thing. Its a placeholder in the client for now.
I can't wait to see what they end up doing with it. I think Legendary is going to be the true endgame. Though, I do wonder if we'll get a level cap boost on all the mercs before we go up to Legendary. Then another boost when they inevitably go up to Mythic lol.
I really wonder if this commercial was concepted almost a year ago. They did originally think Mercenaries was going to launch way before it actually did. It was last year's overview lol.
Did you watch the Esports event and not receive packs at any point? I saw something in passing about that being an issue potentially and it was being looked into.
Oh yes please! Its such a great price point, you can put anything there that's even the tiniest bit of a deal and it'll get swooped up. I'm so surprised they don't use it alongside a regular expansion launch.
I can only assume that it'll make a reappearance after they better showcase how it works since their original description was bad.
I'm wrong, it looks like it is possible currently if you use an emulator.
You need to change the model number of your emulator to a huawei device id, like "RTE-AL00", which is the recently launched Huawei nova 9 Pro. If you need to enter a manufacturer and brand, then HUAWEI is the correct field for both.
Outside of Korea it won't be possible to obtain the pre-reg card back as it'll require a Korean ID and a sign-up on the One Store site. I think you have to make a purchase too.
Huawei doesn't appear to be active yet even though its in the client. Unless this ends up being a China only card back.
My expectation is that if they aren't obtainable outside of those countries, given some time, they'll be available for gold.
Yeah I can't stand everyone that keeps bringing up Gacha with Mercenaries.
Maybe if card games are a Gacha too (they aren't anywhere near it). Gacha is predatory practices, not some RNG. I still laugh at the people who were trying to call Overwatch a Gacha game when it was purely cosmetics in loot boxes.
Hey, I've made an update to the article since according to our research, we were wrong on how things worked.
This is the actual logic for the first deal, Random Legendary Mercenary:
I still think this is a good deal, but only in a couple of circumstances. If you are missing any base mercs though but have all the mercenaries as far as them all being playable, this "deal" really doesn't feel like a deal since now its only a chance of coins.
This is so poorly communicated in the deal. I really don't think this was the best the team could have done with how mercenaries are implemented. I love the idea of the game. I think its incredible fair for the most part and more than accessible to F2P folks. This sucks though.
I really cannot comprehend how Blizzard managed to make Mercenaries so complicated, and not for a gameplay reason. They really should have ditched the idea of a base skin when they saw how lengthy their communications on it were going to be. Maybe it was too late in the development process to do so, but that's hardly an excuse. Small indie this and that, this is something that really needed to be considered more. Kinda sad when you consider they worked on this mode for like 3 years.
As one of the Out of Cards staff put it on Discord - "dogshit".
Ah, they appear in the card database but not the Mercenary one.
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/cards/?card_set=66
Mercenaries are also just regular cards as far as Hearthstone is concerned. When a new patch drops, we check for all the new cards (and changes cards) and then kick off a render with all those card ids together without needing to know anything about them. Due to the thousands of cards that were in the Mercenaries patch, I definitely never saw them during the initial datamining - I was actually a little confused initially when I saw CampfireStone's images since they looked like our card images, until I went into the database and saw them.
There's no Mercenaries pages for them because although they exist as cards in the client, they have no proper mercenaries data associated with them so we don't have their level stats. I took a quick look at client data and it looks like The Black Knight and Nemsy don't have any abilities or equipment either. So it does seem like their inclusion in data was a mistake and one that Blizzard probably regrets lol.
Fun fact, and I might regret saying this more publicly. We actually have filters in our database that categorize all the cards by the patch they were added in. Now, we don't have this data going back too far, though I'd love to get that working one day it just takes a long time to fetch all my old data and write scripts against it, but from the time Out of Cards came online, all cards are categorized by the patch they were added to the game. So, whenever we do a data import, you can easily see any new cards that get added.
So, its really easy to see the new stuff coming for modes like Tavern Brawl (since they flag those under a specific expansion, though the brawl set isn't exclusively brawl anymore so that's fun) or Mercenaries.
The "first public build" of Mercenaries was added to the site and that's where all the Mercs data is that folks are calling "leaked".
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/cards/?card_set=66&added_in_patch=179
And, it is leaked, though only having the hero names isn't as interesting as having abilities and stats. Maybe Blizzard will slip up again in the future!
I haven't removed anything.
Anything we've ever made public has not been removed. There was a point where they asked if I'd stop and I asked them if they wanted to work together on something and then they ghosted me until I started posting again. At that point I got ghosted once more and I'm officially done with them.
We don't need them to survive.
Fuck Blizzard. They still have cool people that work there and they make great products but their community team leaves something to be desired - a fact that has remained true for the entire existence of Hearthstone. Just when you think they're getting better and you talk about how they're doing better, they shit the bed. I'm so done wasting any amount of energy on them.
If something was previously showing up on the site and it isn't now, if anyone knows exactly what it was, let me know and I can dig into it. All our Mercenaries stuff uses a different importer and its possible that something broke and unflagged some stuff, though it shouldn't be possible I wouldn't rule it out. (Sending me a private message is probably your best bet since I'll 100% see the notification for it)
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We have a party builder
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/mercenaries/party-builder/
And community created parties database
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/mercenaries/parties/
There is no ability to import or export parties in Hearthstone Mercenaries, so we don't have this functionality.
If this doesn't help, could you please be more specific about your question? Thanks!
Even worse about the Alliance and Horde thing is that they don't even have the references setup in data in the client to begin with, even though the cards do have faction flagging. That flagging is all just set to Neutral though =/
This kind of stuff would have been avoided if they had of talked more about the mode well in advance of the release. Instead, let's do a bad presentation and follow it up with nothing until the very last minute.
Blizzard needs to seriously give their head a shake.
Thank you!
Also we have datamined strings that further confirm Legendary mode is a thing. Its a placeholder in the client for now.
I can't wait to see what they end up doing with it. I think Legendary is going to be the true endgame. Though, I do wonder if we'll get a level cap boost on all the mercs before we go up to Legendary. Then another boost when they inevitably go up to Mythic lol.
I really wonder if this commercial was concepted almost a year ago. They did originally think Mercenaries was going to launch way before it actually did. It was last year's overview lol.
At least Guacboi was half the run time, so it didn't feel like it was dragging on.
Blizzard really sucks at making commercials for Hearthstone.
This will be a thing, we just need some time to get it working across the site =)
Did you watch the Esports event and not receive packs at any point? I saw something in passing about that being an issue potentially and it was being looked into.
Its a requirement so that you can craft mercenary characters instead of only opening them in packs.
Oh yes please! Its such a great price point, you can put anything there that's even the tiniest bit of a deal and it'll get swooped up. I'm so surprised they don't use it alongside a regular expansion launch.
Whoa, that's an interesting client error. Thanks, I'll get those fixed since it looks like a relaunch fixed it.
As stated in the article :P