Is this good for solo play?

[Archer017]

Been wanting to try a new TCG and this popped in my recommended list. How long is this game and is there a post-game content?

Additionally, how is the DLC? Are there notable ones I can purchase to lengthen my play?

As mentioned, I'm not really into online PvP so if the game's CPU is good and the game's long enough I'm willing to try it out.

[dareka2019]

The first 30-ish hours where you are running the main story and building up you collection is some solid solo experience you can have. The starter deck is good enough and you can quickly improve it into good meta decks if you know what cards you are looking for. D skill unlocks are also well thought out imo. It gives you the draw trigger and front trigger boost early, as well as some key card related ones (order search, persona search, etc.) that helps weaker decks flow better, yet hides the over trigger and crit trigger boosts which makes the game too easy until later on. No matter if you have played the game before or not you should be able to enjoy solo for a while.

My only yet largest complain about the solo is a lack in endgame. Once you finished the stories, there is basically nothing new to do besides either rerun the stories or just do single CPU fights. Talking about CPU fight mode, this is where I think the game can improve the most. You know exactly which deck you are fighting and they are completely the same opponent you run into during story mode (minus the D skills), so it really feels very repetitive. On top of that, since D skills (including the ones that boosts your VP gain) are disabled during CPU fights, you turn out to be always better off to do story reruns VP wise.

I am working towards 100% card collection (4 copies of everything including SP and holo) and omg rerunning Rasen's story mode with a DOTE decks twice a day is boring ah.

Previous Vanguard games have something like a shop tournament where you fix in a deck and play multiple NPC in a knockout stage, which I find more interesting and challenging compared to the current design of you basically know which deck you are running into. I don't expect any new modes to be added (I'm guessing that the dlc cards are already made, and the devs probably have already been disbanded/repurposed), but if they can eventually add something more random to solo, it would really make the game more replayable.

[DragonNoz]

So, any particular decks that would be better to start with? Like Stoechia or Dragon Empire?

[mimizukari]

Publicado originalmente por DragonNoz:

So, any particular decks that would be better to start with? Like Stoechia or Dragon Empire?

the arms or lyrical deck are good to start with and build upon.

[dareka2019]

Publicado originalmente por DragonNoz:

So, any particular decks that would be better to start with? Like Stoechia or Dragon Empire?

Bavsargra is probably the easiest to build upon because unlike other starter decks you don't need to upgrade you main Vanguard to G4. Craft or pull the overtrigger first, then go for BT04 and look for the Spear, Trickmoon, Adarla, and any other Arms related cards. I'd say with 4 Spears and 3~4 Trickmoon alone you are pretty good, that is 3~4x RRR and 4x RR. You will eventually want to craft 4 Aaushniya (or pull from SS02, which I don't recommend because it's expensive).

Going Lyrical Monasterio has the benefit of you only need to pull from 2 packs (LBT01 and LBT02) and will eventually have cards ready to build many different decks. To update your starter, start off by getting the OT, then keep opening LBT02 for G4 Kairi, Melty, Eileen, and Laplume. That's 8x RRR and 6~7x RR.

Sentinel updates aren't super high priority imo, but do update your draw triggers to the one with 10k shield. Those come in handy.

[DragonNoz]

So, buy Bavsrgra deck at the shop, then build from there? though I could make other decks, but still

[NightHatter]

Publicado originalmente por DragonNoz:

So, buy Bavsrgra deck at the shop, then build from there? though I could make other decks, but still

Just pick whatever deck you like the most. Heck you get VP p quickly so just buy them all and test them against an easy mode CPU in fight mode and then build whichever one you vibed the most with.
There will also be decks that are unrelated to the starter decks that you can build down the line like Zorga or Orfist or Greedon.

[dareka2019]

Of course you can make other decks, it's just that building a deck from scratch takes more resources and requires you to know what deck is good.
You asked for a deck to start with, so I gave you some ideas of how to build solid decks cheap and early. All starter decks in this game can be upgraded into decks you can use to beat the game, so it's just unnecessary to dip that and go for something else on the get go, especially if you don't know what deck to build.

[MyDinglehopper]

Publicado originalmente por deneb altair vega:

It's alright for solo play, and there's 27 AI you can fight against in free battle when you've finished all the story things (as well as just going through the story again on the different characters and trying out different D-skill & deck combinations and what not), however I think most of the gameplay from this will be the online ranked matches, you can only do so much solo and the AI won't be learning from its mistakes to become more of a challenge later on, the online rank play is very good in this game compared to other games with virtually zero lag from my experience.

and yes the character pack AI will add 3 new free battle challenges, and the additional card pack content will add 4 new packs to pull from which will all extend your gameplay considerably if you enjoy vanguard.

While I sort of agree with this, the AI will absolutely whoop your a$$ on other characters story modes or later on in Yuki's story if you aren't careful. The AI in this game is very unfair. You want a challenge, play through the characters story a few times without any beneficial D-Skills and come back to me. While they are all the same deck with the same build you can see from the recipes screen, you can go in as prepared as you want and a lot of times, you'll walk away with an L. Like I said, the AI is very unfair. They will check triggers and have everything in hand required to guard you at almost all times. Again, this is later in Yuki's story or the other characters stories. So yes, you will still get somewhat of a challenge from the AI opponents. But online definitely has more variety. So it's really up to you.

[Wicca-san]

Do any of the additional card packs or character packs actually add anything to STORY mode, or just AI fights?

[mimizukari]

Publicado originalmente por Wicca-san:

Do any of the additional card packs or character packs actually add anything to STORY mode, or just AI fights?

additional characters just add the ability to select them as your fighter, the sleeve, and the CPU fight, nothing adds new story content.

[Wicca-san]

So just the base game if story is all Im in for, got it, thanks!

[Argroh]

The story itself is set between the events of Vanguard OverDress and Vanguard Will+Dress, so at least the character stories of Yu-yu, Danji, and Tohya will explain their motivations leading up to the following season.

Another thing to add is that the fighter skin DLCs also add additional CPU opponents for you to fight against. And with the the update at the end of September, three more opponents will be available for you to face off against.