The developers of GWENT presented the next big patch yesterday in a live stream.
We have put together the highlights for you:
GWENT - First Open Beta Patch
- The number of scraps you get from grinding common and rare cards is doubled.
- Cards that have been nerfed (i.e. deteriorated to make them fairer) can be ground for full value 5 days after the patch. So you get the manufacturing costs back in full in this case.
- Players who bought barrels get extra scraps to compensate for the patch
- From now on, leader / leader cards will only be available via challenges. So you don't get any more doubles from barrels or rewards.
- Challenges have been revised and the decks of the AI opponents have been adjusted. A statement from the developers is that all challenges can be defeated with the starter deck, it only requires a little practice and you have to switch between the starter decks.
- Fixed some of the bugs that could interrupt the connection to the server.
Map Changes - All Factions:
The damage Ragh Nar Roog and drought is reduced from 3 to 2.
The from Yennefer generated unicorn and Chironex are now also golden.
Gaunter O'Dim : in case of a tie, both players now draw a card.
The GWENT Reddit Community has summarized the remaining changes, these are all adjustments mentioned in the stream and not yet an official list. We only get the official patch notes when the patch is uploaded to the live server, which should happen "soon".
If you want to watch the complete stream of the GWENT developers, you will find the VoD on the official Twitch Channel from CD Projekt Red.
Monsters:
- Nekker up to 3 from 2
- Unseen Elder up to 5 from 4
- Aracha's Behemoth up to 6 from 5
- Vran Warrior up to 5 from 4
- Katakan up to 5 from 4
- Kayran down to 8 from 10
- Fiend up to 7 from 5
- Shadow up to 7 from 6
- Water Hag up to 4 from 3
- Nithral only boosts frost effect on opponent rows to 2 (does not increase damage on own rows)
- Frightener targest unit that will be pulled to his row
- Foglet will be destroyed when the last fog is destroyed (not the row on the opposing row)
- Woodland Spirit up to 7 from 5
Skellige:
- Clan Brokvar Hunter Veteran tag removed; Regressing added
- Clan an Craite Warcrier loses 1 for each affected unit instead of 2
- Berserker Marauder up to 6 from 5
- Clan an craite Warrior up to 9 from 8
- Jutta to Dimun up to 12 from 11
- Savage Bear will happen after all other skill are executed (Deploy effects will happend first); from 4 to 5
- Queensguard veteran tag removed
Northern Realms:
- Kaedweni Sergeant only boost loyal units; so got crewman
- John Natalis down to 8 from 10; removed effort costs
- Foltest up to 5 from 4; only boost loyal units
- Reinforced Ballista up to 6 from 4
- Redanian Kinght up to 6 from 5
- Siege Tower up to 6 from 5
- Ves up to 7 from 6
- Bloody Baron up to 6 from 4
- Dijkstra down to 3 from 4
- Dethmold up to 4 from 3
- Blue Stripes Scout added Crewman tag
- Priscilla now shuffled in the deck instead of put at the bottom
Scoia'tael:
- Dol Blathanna Protecter down to 2 from 4; not affected by gold effects
- Vrihedd Officer up from 5 to 6
- Vrihedd Sapper from 6 to 7
- Ele'yas from 8 to 9
- Saesenthessis 7 up from 6
- Ithlinne up tp 4 from 2 (nerfed as it is a spy)
- Francesca up to 5 from 4
- Vrihedd Dragoon won't buff disloyal units
- Dwarven Mercenary also allows to target enemy units (enemies won't get buffed, just moved)
- Commander Neophyte armor removed
- Mahakam defender boost ally by 3 dwarf by 4 down from 5
Nilfgaard:
- John Calveit down to 3 from 4
- Vicovaro Novice downt to 1 from 3
- Vicovaro Medic added doom tag
- Imperial Golem down to 2 from 3
- Ambassador bugfix: when target by Vicovaro Novice gave 12 strengths, now always 10
- Daerlan Foot Soldiers bugfix: when immediately killed when revealed the abilltiy wouldn't trigger (draw)
- Peter Saar Gwynleve down to 4 from 6
- Vanhemar up to 4 from 3
- Fringilla Vigo changed to 1 when spying
- Assies van Anahid bugfix: now can't put gold cards back
- Rainfain up to 7 from 6
- Ribo eg brought down to 8 from 10
