Game is Dumb/Easy?

[Alex]

So I've played a few runs and love the game but I've figured that I can just click on the enemies card and the A/I will just tell me the "best play" for that hand. I've tried turning this off...but I cant seem to find the setting or you cant. Can someone either point me to the setting or can a dev please take this on board as it takes ALL the strategy away if I can just click through the whole game.
Thanks

[Scruxx]

It doesnt show you the the "best play". It chooses the lowest or highest cards but sometimes the best option is to use the second lowest pair or fe opponent attacks with a pair and you cannot counter, then AI chooses your lowest cards for defense (fe 7/8) but maybe you need those two cards colourwise for a spell/skill in the next round, so youve to choose (9/10) by yourself.

[Alex]

I dont agree, it 9/10 times shows me the best play - Is there any way to disable it? as Id rather just play without

[Morthgarrow]

I don't think there is an option to disable the "best play" hand.

You can manually click on cards in your hand, which will put them over to the right side of the screen and then use what you've isolated to attack/defend/cast as desired. That is about as close to what you're looking for as the game will allow, I believe.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

Don't assume the AI will always show you the best play. The AI will break up pairs and poker sequences to recommend abilities that don't always need those combinations to be effective.

[Alex]

9/10 it shows the best play... its like playing chess with a constant chess-bot showing you the best move before you've had time to acess the board. Its kinda stupid and defeats the point

[Pickle Bath]

Try auto-clicking through combat on Winter difficulty with different characters and see how it goes for you. Otherwise no way to disable to auto-click. You can certainly play decks that don't rely on it though, whereas something like Warrior or even Rogue can use it well enough

[Ellye]

It's not the "best play", it's just the strongest hand you can do in attack, or the "just enough" defence for defence.

If you think that's 9/10 the "best play", than I wonder why you think anything would change simply by disabling that option. It's not like those are some super secret hands or anything, it would just increase the number of clicks.

[SpaceCat]

The strategy of the game doesn't come from you figuring out that a Q is higher than a 10 or that 2 9s beats 2 3s. What you call "best" play is certainly sub optimal in the aggregate--it's just the computer saying, hey, this works, and then you saying, yeah, I guess, but then I can't cast that debuff next turn cause I'll use up that spade/heart, etc. Or you saying, wait, what if I wild one of his pair of Js since I have no pair that can beat it but I have a single card that can. Or maybe it's better to take 2 dmg now and lose the combat on purpose, so I can more easily defeat this harder enemy next to him. At winter in particular, it's important not to just auto-click as many foes are completely resistant to certain suits, and you'll need the suits they aren't resistant to to make progress, especially for Mage and Enchantress.

I mean, I personally wouldn't care if they added an option to disable it, but it's really more a quality of life thing to me.

[Alex]

Originally posted by SpaceCat:

The strategy of the game doesn't come from you figuring out that a Q is higher than a 10 or that 2 9s beats 2 3s. What you call "best" play is certainly sub optimal in the aggregate--it's just the computer saying, hey, this works, and then you saying, yeah, I guess, but then I can't cast that debuff next turn cause I'll use up that spade/heart, etc. Or you saying, wait, what if I wild one of his pair of Js since I have no pair that can beat it but I have a single card that can. Or maybe it's better to take 2 dmg now and lose the combat on purpose, so I can more easily defeat this harder enemy next to him. At winter in particular, it's important not to just auto-click as many foes are completely resistant to certain suits, and you'll need the suits they aren't resistant to to make progress, especially for Mage and Enchantress.

I mean, I personally wouldn't care if they added an option to disable it, but it's really more a quality of life thing to me. [/quote
Fair enough - I get what youre saying I just find it distracting ... enough where I dont get that they dont just have the option to just toggle it

[Epicurus]

If you just do what the AI recommends every time, you will eventually start dying because of it. You need the skill to identify when the highest/lowest card is not the best choice, which happens a lot and for all kinds of reasons.

Don't think of the AI suggestion as "best". Think of it as "highest possible" or "lowest possible", which is what it is.

[Alex]

Epicurus - I appreciate your comment - "Don't think of the AI suggestion as "best". Think of it as "highest possible" or "lowest possible", which is what it is."
This is a great way to look at it

[Zeel Ara]

Originally posted by Alex:

Originally posted by SpaceCat:

The strategy of the game doesn't come from you figuring out that a Q is higher than a 10 or that 2 9s beats 2 3s. What you call "best" play is certainly sub optimal in the aggregate--it's just the computer saying, hey, this works, and then you saying, yeah, I guess, but then I can't cast that debuff next turn cause I'll use up that spade/heart, etc. Or you saying, wait, what if I wild one of his pair of Js since I have no pair that can beat it but I have a single card that can. Or maybe it's better to take 2 dmg now and lose the combat on purpose, so I can more easily defeat this harder enemy next to him. At winter in particular, it's important not to just auto-click as many foes are completely resistant to certain suits, and you'll need the suits they aren't resistant to to make progress, especially for Mage and Enchantress.

I mean, I personally wouldn't care if they added an option to disable it, but it's really more a quality of life thing to me.

Fair enough - I get what youre saying I just find it distracting ... enough where I dont get that they dont just have the option to just toggle it

That's you backpedaling. Your statement was that it made the game "dumb and easy". Your statement was demonstrated to be invalid. This is where an adult would go "Ah, good point. I guess I was wrong". Instead you're moving the goalpost. It's silly. Time to grow up.

[happyclan]

I like that this game is chill. I like deckbuilders and roguelites but this has such a chill vibe.

and the art/sound is top notch. AtO is slot machine quality, though the gameplay is solid.

[Kendiato]

dunno it's 9/10 sometimes yeah but in winter it's sometimes not worth just following what AI tells ya

[happyclan]

one thing that I've noticed is the AI will find a full house faster than I will because two pair isn't an allowed hand.