Draft Mode - Feedback

[Thomas]

With the release of patch 0.9.21 on July 4th, the long-awaited Draft Mode is available in KARDS now.

Draft Mode allows you to conduct a row of matches (up to 9) with a deck built from a random set of cards. You get increasingly more rewards the more matches you win, guaranteed is 1 pack plus a bonus.

Read more about the Draft mode in this announcement and the patch notes.

We welcome you to use this thread for feedback on the new Draft Mode!

[Citrons]

Garbage! Two Leopolds in one game - complete utter ♥♥♥♥!!

[pauljwright1]

I really enjoy drafts and the one i had was fun.Unlike Citrons i didnt play against a broken card selection.I only had 1 elite and the decks i faced seemed about the same quality.

[deiboier]

First run seemed pretty fun.
Got 2 packs 18 gold and a golden Special, nice rewards ;)

[Ben]

First run 5 wins.
11 Gold + 1 Pack

Since Entry = 15G
And since you get 1G/3wins in normal games
It looks like 5 wins = Buying a pack for 6G
= 4G value over playing ranked

So if I can average 5/7 wins I get 4G in value over playing ranked.
I dunno how exciting that is for other people, but not very exciting to me.

[DjohDjeen]

Thanks to the devs for not allowing British decks to be made.

This said I hope the USA will soon receive some love, they are really under powered.

Good job so far, I wish we could pay 3 Card Packs for 2 Draft Tickets, that's my only thing so far.

Drafting interface is nice and clear. Might throw a few bucks your way once you balance the USA. ;)

[deiboier]

Originally posted by Ben:

First run 5 wins.
11 Gold + 1 Pack

Since Entry = 15G
And since you get 1G/3wins in normal games
It looks like 5 wins = Buying a pack for 6G
= 4G value over playing ranked

So if I can average 5/7 wins I get 4G in value over playing ranked.
I dunno how exciting that is for other people, but not very exciting to me.

Don't underestimate the Bonus reward(s) you get.
Just got an Elite (Panzerzug) and 19 resources as bonus reward.

[DjohDjeen]

Seems I was wrong about the British not being included in the draft as a main nation. I guess it's a random thing, you get 3 of the 5 nations to pick from randomly...

So far I saw mostly Russians and Germans but did get to fight the British in my last match...

Am at 5 wins and 2 loses so far...

[DjohDjeen]

Well, sadly, but not surprisingly, with already 2 loses, I ran into a hacker (one on my list already) who is of course in the top 5 players in all seasons, constantly using ESP and auto picking any card he wants, so my first draft ended in a bitter defeat.

In the regular game I would just insta quit against this cheater and all the other ones like him, but in a draft am forced to see it thru, hoping for a big time miracle, I knew as soon as I saw his name there was no way I would beat him, sure enough he got every single perfect card he needed in every turn to beat me...

Sadly, even in a small game with a low player base count, there is always cheaters... Nothing anyone can do about that.

[KAMJAH]

Awesome mode, i just played some wonderfull macht ( one in particular was unbelivable ).
very good mod for me.

[TwilightYojimbo]

First run: Soviet main, Germany support = 1 win (1 pack and random card reward)
Second run: USA main, USA support = 4 wins (1 pack, 5 gold and 11 resource reward)

Unless you hit that fourth win it doesn't seem to be worth it. Yes yes, git gud m8 and all that lol

I did enjoy it. Random Power pick makes you think about what the best combo would be. It's good that they allow you a few choices in your main to get a better idea of what would be best in terms of support. Remember, once you hit that 12 support unit limit, there is no going back. Thinking about it now, it might behoove one to keep one slot open for your main and support to possibly get an Elite choice from either power (not sure if this would work?).

The hidden hand bug is still in effect for the first game of the day once opening the application. I thought they addressed this, but it may have snuck into the draft code (where your cards in hand are barely visible above the bottom of the screen). Didn't really notice any other bugs, but card draw on some games was terrible (no units, all orders)! I guess I should have played more Yugioh when I was a kid lol
Edit: I also noticed that after each game of draft, the missions would tally and then reset at the next game. Pretty sure that's not supposed to happen. Didn't notice if it was doing the same thing to the achievements as well.

All in all, a fun format. I definitely love drafting and Kards doesn't disappoint. I would like to see an uptick in rewards or lower entry cost. This being the base game and not an exorbitant amount of cards to choose from, I get it. Maybe further down the line.

[Billy_Brightside]

Addicting as chocolate crack. Unfortunately, I played six games and lost them all. And I thought I had pretty decent setups. Certainly not very encouraging, but the game is still a lot of fun.

[Hisendam]

I really like the draft format from what I have seen so far - the only thing I don't like about it, is that daily achievements only work in the first game of a draft run. E.g. I had 3 wins in my Germany run, but only got 1 win for the german daily wins count. Please fix it ;-).

[Thomas]

Thank you for all the feedback here on Steam and at other places so far. Great to see that you like Draft even more than we had hoped you would :)

There are a couple things we need to fix, the biggest is the following that Daily Achievements are not working correctly together with Draft Mode at the moment:

Originally posted by Hisendam:

... the only thing I don't like about it, is that daily achievements only work in the first game of a draft run. E.g. I had 3 wins in my Germany run, but only got 1 win for the german daily wins count. Please fix it ;-).

Yes, we are going to fix as soon as possible!

[Citrons]

Originally posted by Joejean (Qc):

Well, sadly, but not surprisingly, with already 2 loses, I ran into a hacker (one on my list already) who is of course in the top 5 players in all seasons, constantly using ESP and auto picking any card he wants, so my first draft ended in a bitter defeat.

In the regular game I would just insta quit against this cheater and all the other ones like him, but in a draft am forced to see it thru, hoping for a big time miracle, I knew as soon as I saw his name there was no way I would beat him, sure enough he got every single perfect card he needed in every turn to beat me...

Sadly, even in a small game with a low player base count, there is always cheaters... Nothing anyone can do about that.

So true - this game is full of such ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!!

[GECKO]

Very good game mode, just got 7 wins x2 with the 2 free tickets, thanks devs for the free cards : panzerzug which i already had and grey kv1 (i wonder if it's the same for everybody, or if bonus cards are picked from a determined pool and not from the entire game's collection). It's fun and makes you think about good deck building on the spot, it's nice to see different decks in the opponents hands too, it was tiring to see always the same "premade" decks like commonwealth, ♥♥♥ rush etc...

I was just wondering one thing : will there be other ways to get draft tickets ? Like with harder daily missions, or making X number of wins in a row in MM ? 15 Gold seems like a reasonable price considering the rewards though.

Also one suggestion : please add something to make draft prizes "special" like a new card visual effect for bonus cards earned in draft : i was thinking about something among the lines of bad condition looking cards, or holo/foil cards. It would make these cards a bit more exclusive and it would be a fun way to keep track of big draft wins.

To conclude : good new game mode, it breaks the habits.

Have a nice day.