Purposefully Broken Game For Free Players!?

[76561198054607401]

I've clawed my way to campaign level 21 and seemed to have hit a brick-wall...I can go no further as a FREE PLAYER! The two level 21 campaigns available to play are both unbeatable with any stack I can build on free mode. I'm out numbered, out leveled and out classed by my enemies. I'm sure I'll get the typical shill response of, "Build a better deck, Bro!" However, this game is 90% luck and 10% skill with the unbalanced card deck shuffle..real players know what I'm talking about. Where you can have a great deck build to exploit your enemies weaknesses and your party only pulls movement cards or defensive cards and NO ATTACK CARDS for several rounds...while your enemies ALWAYS pull the same attack, defense and movement cards each and every round!? This game "could be" fixed easily by making a mandatory one card pull from each category: attack, defense and movement for the entire party not just enemy bots. However, the developers seem to be either incompetent, not care or worse willfully damaging progression in the hopes of FORCING you to pay real money to advance; regardless this game is BROKEN!!!

[battlezoby]

It is not intended to be unplayable, nor is it that much harder as F2P than it is as paid.

But you need to either not card about the Level 21 campaigns or take a different approach.

First, let me say that you really don't 'need" the level 21's... I think it's intended to be optional; either you branch out to PvP or start redoing the campaign for fun and/or more gear now, or you do it after you finish the Level 21's. Not really that big of a difference.

With Level 21 pretty much at the end, there really isn't an "progression" to damage; allowing you to finish the final mission just kind of ends the game; although it can fustrating to be able to finish them with relative ease, again, there isn't really much "progression" to finisihing the last adventure; either you get stuck before them and hope you can finish them someday, or you finish them and that's that.

Let me put it this way, let's say the essentially finished publishing the last maps. What's next?

Honestly, I really think the dev's kind of did that, and then gave us some things to try to grind afterward.

Generally speaking, (Although after years of steady plan I've finish been away from the game long enough to have forgotten specifically what Level 21 was.. I'll maybe update if I check) there were some adventures that were so hard pretty much nobody copy be expected to finish it reliable, so yea, there was finally a element of luck you couldn't get past.

Again, making one or more adventures at the end just kind of introduced something else you do after you finished everything else. They could have not made them that hard, but if they didn't, it really wouldn't be much different from not making them at all, I'd just slide through the last adventures and pretty much not notice them.

So, honestly, I don't think there would be any real point in making the last adventures easy enough to not require some luck, or at least to require considerable luck if not played perfectly, and I really don't expect anyone to play perfectly.

BTW... one tactic is one that I'm generally too impatient to deal with, but which might help. If and when, and every-time-that you can sit without them attack you, you can and should cycle through your entire deck until get exactly the card you need. And if you can't quite figure out what the perfect hand from your deck is, try to take more time to figure it out and/or modify your deck. (If this is too obvious to be worth mentioning it to you, just assume I'm posting it for 'weaker' players who might be ready this.)

Don't remember the Level of Caverns of Chaos, but that, of course is truly random and very hard. It most certainly isn't intended to be won easily and not without a large number of retries and a lot of luck. I certainly don't think they pretend otherwise, which is why you do in fact get prizes for partial completion.

If you're not referring to Caverns of Chaos, keep in mind that it is clearly a random adventure that was added in and help support the above theory / suggestion / interpretation.

So repeating in summary, if it's too hard, you don't have to play it.

If they made it easier, people would just win and there wouldn't be much point to them, or at least they would have far less potential play value if they were something that could be completed in far less time than they take now.

Update: Hey, I think the Level 21's were made much easier than they used to be, but they were the ones I was referring to. With a good build and little patience, you really should be able to get through them. (Unless they weren't made easier, in which case, it takes a lot of patience still.)

[76561198054607401]

The two 21 level campaigns are necessary for game progression and since the last several updates the campaigns are significantly harder, not easier! In the past, if you became stuck on a certain level you could just redo a campaign over and over for experience and gear and it didn't matter the level. Now, you can replay a previous beaten campaign for gear only and NO additional experience points, so no leveling-up prematurely. Also, if you're playing a lower level campaign over again at a higher level (Example: redoing level 19 campaigns at level 21) any equipment used must be of that level or lower...so this makes the game-play significantly harder. Again, I wouldn't have a problem with "any or all" of these updates to raise the difficultly level IF each and every character in my party pulled at least ONE card from each category (defense, movement and attack) each and every round. This would balance the broken randomization card pulls for players. Again, playing several rounds in a campaign and not pulling one attack card for three party members in a fight is ridiculous...that's NOT strategy that's poor game mechanics. Regardless, it's a mood-point since I've deleted and removed this game for my account and have no intentions of returning.

[battlezoby]

Hey... why does the post above read as being by "76561198055607401", but say "Last edited by ฬเɭɭץ ฬ๏ภкค" at the end? Does Steam only show the non-ASCII characters in names some of the time? I previously had no idea Steam was doing this despite "10 years of service."

[Mantha]

What is this level 21 campaign? I've completed the game but I never saw anything about a new campaign at level 21