[MERCS/PARTY] Fixed guide variable so guides will appear on detail pages [MERCS/PARTY] Added merc crop images to party detail pages [MERCS] Added Crop Images for Mercenaries to API and Party Builder [MERCS/PARTY] Added portrait images to party listing [MERCS] Added portrait images to homepage widget [MERCS/PARTY] Delete button now references Party instead of Deck as intended [MERCS/BBCODE] Added mercimg mercenaryimg [MERCS] Fixed issue with role filtering icons being vertical [MERCS/PARTY] Added listing filters for contains, guide, added in patch [MERCS] Added Merc and MercImg to TinyMCE
When you look at the expansion that came out before it, Whispers of the Old Gods, and then the one after, Journey to Un'Goro, yeah, Gadgetzan was relatively low power. It was an incredibly iconic set though (Jade Archetypes, Kazakus, Solia, Patches...) and it'll be very interesting if Classic Hearthstone ever makes it back to the era.
There's a bunch that would go into a major change like that. Without talking too much about a couple of upcoming plans though, Mercenaries, at least to start, is going to be getting a bit more of a "in your face" aspect on the site. The goal is to also do the same with Battlegrounds, though only once we commit to producing more regular content for it.
If I was playing Mercs and then went to bed or was logging off for the day, I'd 100% have Mercenaries hanging out in the Training Hall. No reason to not gain free progress on them!
I am too. Almost the entire team at Second Dinner has card game backgrounds which makes me believe it has to be in that genre. My expectations is that they're going to do something wild to shake things up since it is realistically the only way they're going to break into the market. Using Marvel IP certainly helps push things along, but if your card game doesn't bring new and exciting stuff to the table, it might be dead on arrival.
Ben Brode is running his own company and is no longer at Blizzard. Most of the high-profile leaves from the Hearthstone team over the past few years are no longer with the company.
Blizzard has devs move off games to work on new projects all the time. Sometimes they don't make it out of a concept phase though.
Yeah, not a big fan of only giving people a bundle that they think we'll buy. If they only want us to be able to buy one of the three, they should figure out how to do that in the store since this seems to be a common thing that they do now.
Looking at the abilities of those two, I'm convinced there's something not quite right with the data that was mined. Same with Guff.
I guess it's possible that they wanted to open up fire synergies to other roles so you could have a more balanced fire team, but if that's the case, I'd expect them also to rework their abilities to be more in line with what a protector is supposed to do.
Yeah, its really strange at how some of the mercenaries are situated. I think this is purely an "unreleased oddities" thing, if not large changes that happened later down the line, and we'll see correct data once the data goes live. What we got to see through datamining, without a doubt, is not final.
I can say for certain though that I manually confirmed a lot of the weird stuff we were seeing and they are indeed flagged the way they are.
Hearthstone really needs a music box. I've thought about this exact thing for years.
Let people complete an achievement to unlock the ability to play different music in the box. It could be as simple as go and complete the ONIK adventure and you could play its theme in the box. It would take very little development time to make this a reality (compared to other features) - I could easily hack this into the game in an afternoon - and it would be an amazing thing for players.
I do think that Mercenaries is going to be good for F2P folks. I really don't see why Blizzard would go completely south of where Hearthstone is at. Yeah, at the end of the day you're going to always have an even better experience if you buy into a game, but Hearthstone's core as a F2P player still remains solid.
I'd love to be proven wrong though. If Mercenaries is as bad as people seem to think its going to be from a monetization point of view, I'll have no issues not playing it and even discussing how poor of a job they did. We'll ultimately have to wait and see, and I may be foolish for trusting Blizzard knows what they're doing with Mercenaries, but I don't have a reason to believe it'll be drastically different from Hearthstone.
There's only so much I am willing to say right now, but as far as I'm aware, there is no early access period that we should expect. Might talk more about it in the coming days, but I'm not ready yet.
Yeah, I don't understand why Blizzard didn't publish pricing information on normal packs alongside the pre-orders. They really dropped the ball on the announcement for this.
I do not understand why they are so bad at doing announcements. You would think one could learn from past mistakes. I really hope Mercenaries opened their eyes.
Raw changelog for an update that just went out.
[MERCS/PARTY] Fixed guide variable so guides will appear on detail pages
[MERCS/PARTY] Added merc crop images to party detail pages
[MERCS] Added Crop Images for Mercenaries to API and Party Builder
[MERCS/PARTY] Added portrait images to party listing
[MERCS] Added portrait images to homepage widget
[MERCS/PARTY] Delete button now references Party instead of Deck as intended
[MERCS/BBCODE] Added mercimg mercenaryimg
[MERCS] Fixed issue with role filtering icons being vertical
[MERCS/PARTY] Added listing filters for contains, guide, added in patch
[MERCS] Added Merc and MercImg to TinyMCE
When you look at the expansion that came out before it, Whispers of the Old Gods, and then the one after, Journey to Un'Goro, yeah, Gadgetzan was relatively low power. It was an incredibly iconic set though (Jade Archetypes, Kazakus, Solia, Patches...) and it'll be very interesting if Classic Hearthstone ever makes it back to the era.
Yeah this must be a case of the video was made so far in advance.
Are you certain your accounts are connected properly? If they look like they are, I'd disconnect and reconnect them if you haven't tried that.
Haha!
There's a bunch that would go into a major change like that. Without talking too much about a couple of upcoming plans though, Mercenaries, at least to start, is going to be getting a bit more of a "in your face" aspect on the site. The goal is to also do the same with Battlegrounds, though only once we commit to producing more regular content for it.
This might happen in the future but there are no immediate plans to do so.
If I was playing Mercs and then went to bed or was logging off for the day, I'd 100% have Mercenaries hanging out in the Training Hall. No reason to not gain free progress on them!
I've never given Raid SL any attention, so that's not a comparison I was able to make.
I like to believe Pokemon Daycare is something more people would identify with, and it makes for a hell of a headline to boot!
I am too. Almost the entire team at Second Dinner has card game backgrounds which makes me believe it has to be in that genre. My expectations is that they're going to do something wild to shake things up since it is realistically the only way they're going to break into the market. Using Marvel IP certainly helps push things along, but if your card game doesn't bring new and exciting stuff to the table, it might be dead on arrival.
Ben Brode is running his own company and is no longer at Blizzard. Most of the high-profile leaves from the Hearthstone team over the past few years are no longer with the company.
Blizzard has devs move off games to work on new projects all the time. Sometimes they don't make it out of a concept phase though.
Ben said on Twitter earlier this year that they were hoping to make some kind of an announcement in the next 12-ish months, so 7-ish months to go! https://outof.cards/second-dinner/3062-ben-brodes-second-dinner-is-hoping-to-announce-their-new-game-in-the-next-12-ish-months
Unable to replicate on my end - the layering appears to be correct with the menu for account stuff having a higher z-index than the nav bar.
Is your Chrome browser up to date? I'm on Chrome 93 FWIW.
Yeah, not a big fan of only giving people a bundle that they think we'll buy. If they only want us to be able to buy one of the three, they should figure out how to do that in the store since this seems to be a common thing that they do now.
Yup! Thanks for the correction, I've updated the article.
Its been datamined as being Deadmines.
Thanks!
Yeah, its really strange at how some of the mercenaries are situated. I think this is purely an "unreleased oddities" thing, if not large changes that happened later down the line, and we'll see correct data once the data goes live. What we got to see through datamining, without a doubt, is not final.
I can say for certain though that I manually confirmed a lot of the weird stuff we were seeing and they are indeed flagged the way they are.
Hearthstone really needs a music box. I've thought about this exact thing for years.
Let people complete an achievement to unlock the ability to play different music in the box. It could be as simple as go and complete the ONIK adventure and you could play its theme in the box. It would take very little development time to make this a reality (compared to other features) - I could easily hack this into the game in an afternoon - and it would be an amazing thing for players.
I do think that Mercenaries is going to be good for F2P folks. I really don't see why Blizzard would go completely south of where Hearthstone is at. Yeah, at the end of the day you're going to always have an even better experience if you buy into a game, but Hearthstone's core as a F2P player still remains solid.
I'd love to be proven wrong though. If Mercenaries is as bad as people seem to think its going to be from a monetization point of view, I'll have no issues not playing it and even discussing how poor of a job they did. We'll ultimately have to wait and see, and I may be foolish for trusting Blizzard knows what they're doing with Mercenaries, but I don't have a reason to believe it'll be drastically different from Hearthstone.
There's only so much I am willing to say right now, but as far as I'm aware, there is no early access period that we should expect. Might talk more about it in the coming days, but I'm not ready yet.
Yeah, I don't understand why Blizzard didn't publish pricing information on normal packs alongside the pre-orders. They really dropped the ball on the announcement for this.
I do not understand why they are so bad at doing announcements. You would think one could learn from past mistakes. I really hope Mercenaries opened their eyes.