My heart wishes that they are going to add this feature for certain merc abilties too, but my mind says that it won't happen.

Mixtapes cardpool isn't random, so you should still be able to discover titans with it.

My bad then, must have misremembered it. Though the qoute does make it sound like they atleast want to roughly hit the season mark.

They actually stated they want to change the rules every season aka month. I highly doubt that they are going to make any balance changes that are specifically targeted towards this mode, because of it's ever changing nature. In the worst case (a tier 0 deck) they are probably going to ban a card there for a couple weeks, until the next set of twist changes arrive.

Previous Battle-ready decks they offered cost like 20$. So it's probably going to be something around 1.5k-2k gold if they stick to the price.

Took a while, but now we finally know what the "spell locked" part during phase 1 on the roadmap was.

I actually bought the Title, because it's litterely awesome. Well, mostly because it goes well with pretty much any deck or Avatar combination. Also because I like the Green Goblin skin and don't find many of the offers compelling enough.

I can also see how some people are going to buy the Avatar to show off that they were there and somewhat succesfull during this Season. It's also worth noting that this is one of the few ways for f2p players (outside of saving Gold) to get Avatars of card variants.

It's also worth noting that the boosts you get from the battlepass are bound to character levels. So you can unlock the boosts instantly with money, but you won't be able to use it until you grinded with a character to a certain level. Hopefully f2p who reach that level already unlocked the boost aswell by then.

This has nothing to do with manipulation. For 99.99% of cards you can play the next one without having to wait for the animation to finish, to make it a smooth gameplay experience. The opponent however doesn't get to see the cards you played in real time. For them it always looks like you are waiting for the animation to finish before playing the next card.

So everyone could play 10 cards in 10 seconds, however for your opponent these cards would be displayed throughout, let's say, 30 seconds. If this theoratical play would happen during the last 10 seconds of your turn, then it would look for your opponent as if the rope stops at the last second and that your are still playing cards.

It's also important to note that your turn time only starts once all animations are resolved on your side, and not when the enemy played all their cards.

It's still coming with the next update, probably 1-2 weeks from now. Seasons are scheduled and happen automatically without the need of an update.

It's worth noting that Hollow Hound has synergy with the already existing hand attack buffs DK has.

Previously the main selling point of handhelds were that you could play with them anywhere, however this doesn't really seem to be the case here, since you need to be in the same wifi as the playstation. Not sure how many people are willing to spend likely 100~200$ on top of the 450$ Playstation, just so they can play the games in their bed and on the toilet.

For Overwatch they already announced a bunch of pvp and some pve content aswell as new Systems for season 6, however that season should start around a month before the Blizzcon. So at the very least I expect a new cinematic and details about Season 7, hopefully also including the Sombra and Roadhog reworks. I also expect them to briefely tease the Story mission they have for that season (the announcement of seasonal pve content kinda went under the radar, because of the cancelation of the hero missions)

I would also expect some kind of announcement for Warcraft Arclight Rumble. It's been in closed beta for over a year now and was briefely seen in the Blizzcon trailer. It also just got a big update that included big changes to how the player progresses through the campaign.

I know that there were a lot of controversies around Blizzard since the last Blizzcon, but I'm just glad that it's back. I really missed having a single day that's full of cinematic and trailers for Blizzard games.

I guess that's true. Though while they delivered nothing yet does it not mean that they aren't going to deliver anything pve related at all in the near future. They "just" canceled the hero missions that were supposed to containt highly replayable pve missions and a huge skilltree for each hero. The Story missions in the veins of Archives are still coming.

I mean, Fortnite also abondend its pve main mode in favor of the live service for the pvp game.

Overwatch 2 and the pve mode started out extremely ambitious ("we want to redefine what a sequel is"), maybe even too ambitious as it turns out.

This highlights a harsh reality in game development: You can't plan fun. They clearly tried out a lot to make it happen, as seen during the Blizzconline 2021, but if you try to make something happen for 4 years, and you still have no clue how to do it, then maybe it's best to let it go. Especially when you wanted to maintain a live service game in addition to the pve development that has no end in sight.

This is actually kinda similar to the development of Hearthstone's Mercenaries if you think about it. This mode was also in development hell for a long time, got delayed almost an entire year (first teased on the darkmoon roadmap), while never being able to deliver a experience that was entertaining for the majority of the playerbase. The difference is that instead of deciding to scrap it, they instead tried to tie all the loose ends they had together and atleast decided to release something, even it was  dissapointing for a big part of the playerbase.

In the end I'm still somewhat optimistic about Overwatch's pve missions. Sounds like with Season 6 they finally begin to tell the Story they wanted to tell through regular, although smaller, pve mission releases. I remember how cool it was to play the retribution event for the first time, and to think about getting something like it every 9 weeks makes me excited enough.

I guess this whole thing is the peak of the development shift that happened early last year. No more are they holding everything they have back for years and years and years, to then finally release everything they have at all once in a huge bombastic release. Instead they release as it gets finished to ensure a constant stream of fresh content. The defintion of a live service game.

Turns out releasing a new hearthstone expansion and a new Overwatch season at the same time is too much for the shop servers to handle.

Normally I'm not the guy who shows off the stuff he made, however I belive that I'm not the only one that thinks a Mercenaries fangame would be cool, so I made one and am sharing it here.

I really missed these card reveal streams. When was the last time they did one, during the Barrens?