Here's what New Gwent will be and why it's exciting

Great things are on the horizon for Gwent, the trading card game based on Witcher series that is playable for two years but only officially released in the coming months. Anyone who has been confused about the long beta, variable release dates or the location of all single player modes has been justified. Today, we can finally clarify some things.

Gwent is directed by CD Projekt Red, the studio behind The witcher 3 and the long-awaited science fiction RPG, Cyberpunk 2077. The beta version is playable, but the official release date is longer. Its launch is scheduled for October 23 on PC (only via GOG, the competitor of CD Projekt on Steam) and December 4 on PS4 and Xbox One.

The beta that people were able to play is a much improved version of the card game. The witcher 3. In the big role play, Gwent consists of the player, as Geralt, and a computer-controlled enemy who places cards in lines that simulate a battlefield, each subsequent placement of a card increases a player's score. Once all cards are played, the player with the highest score wins. In the beta version, players clashed in a version of Gwent who has many more cards and involves several rows of cards on his virtual battlefield. Even if it's not over yet, the game has already established itself as one of the most interesting alternatives of Blizzard. home and Bethesda The Elder Scrolls: Legends.

Throughout its free beta Gwent was only playable as a multiplayer card game. When it is available later this year, it will include a paid mode called Thronebreaker which is a single player story campaign. Let's talk about it for a moment.

A big part of why The witcher 3 is on KotakuThe list of "best games" for each console on which it appears is a story filled with interesting themes and complex and charming characters. Thronebreaker is CD Projekt's attempt to bring these things to GwentThat's why the studio is quick to point out that both are written by a lot of people. Instead of focusing on Geralt and co., Thronebreaker, which CD Projekt says is a 30-hour campaign, focuses on Meve. It takes place just before the events of Witcher trilogy of video games. Meve is a warrior queen of two northern kingdoms called Lyria and Rivia, who are caught in a war with an imperial power known as the Nilfgaardian Empire. She's the one who knighted Geralt, which is not important to know but still very cool.

The campaign is based on card fights and puzzles, but will run on a large map of the world with additional side quests and a system of collecting resources. Although we do not know much about it at the moment, the way this has been described throughout the development looks like a hybrid of the existing card game and Dragon Age: Inquisition, with animated cinematics and fully vocal dialogues sewn. Although Gwent is a free game, Thronebreaker will have a fixed cost (which has not yet been revealed) and its own separate multiplayer card games.

Speaking of multiplayer, it will also see a ton of changes on October 23 (or December 4 for those of us who play on console). An update called Homecoming will be released at the same time as Thronebreaker which modifies the interface and the presentation of the game, according to the last revealing video of the development. Various card schemes will also be revised, enough to allow existing players to remove their libraries. to make materials to start rebuilding from scratch. Did I mention that CD Projekt also gets rid of an entire line of the game? Currently, Gwent's matches take place on a battlefield consisting of six lines split evenly between two players. When the game comes out, there will only be four.

Gwent is going to be a fundamentally different game when it comes out of the beta. Whether you have plunged into this period of access that has lasted for more than a year or that you have never heard of it, the rules of the game will be much more numerous on October 23, when everyone will be obliged to adapt. to the changes made by Homecoming.

It's been a while. Gwent entered its first closed beta period on October 25, 2016. At the time, it played more like the mini-game in The witcher 3 it has been adapted from. Although it was originally scheduled to be launched last December, the extra year in limbo will not have been a failure, since Thronebreaker has apparently doubled in size from initial estimates and, for the better or for the worse, make it seem more polite and accessible.

Now, if only the game were to switch and get a cross game.