It's Hearthstone Twitter Q&A time again, and since designer Iksar has kids, Twitter Q&A has changed from once a week to once every two weeks, but it's better than no communication. The focus of this Twitter Q&A focused on the classic model and the arena, and the Team5 members launched a contest in terms of arena wins, but the style of the painting was once tilted to discuss "tomatoes are fruits or vegetables", and even talked about Iksar's family business...
"Giant" design
Some players asked the new version of the giant creature what was not adopted, and John, the lead designer who searched for the Sunken City, said that they originally planned to make each appendage of the giant creature different, such as the mage's giant creature used to be an element, one hand was strong, one hand fee reduction, the main body war roar spell (it seems that it may be the original design of the Radiance of Isara), but doing so requires a huge cost of understanding, and the Hearthstone UI can only display one additional card, In the end, only the results of the effect of the appendages as they are now can be made.
Some players have said that the giant creature is still a minions card, is there a really new card type that we have never seen before? Iksar says there's already a card type developed, so stay tuned. Incidentally, Iksar also mentioned that they once made a weapon, the effect of the war roar is to destroy the retinue in the middle of the field, and divide the battle situation in two, the left and right retinues can not interact with each other, the effect of this weapon sounds very much like the biblical story of Moses dividing the sea, this weapon will not be called Moses cane, right?
Card design
Speaking of card design, some players asked about the design ideas for cards specially designed for the wild, such as the gray-haired wizard and the wounded marauder, the former can be targeted at The Eight Mu, and the latter can be pulled out by oak summons. But Iksar says they almost never design cards specifically for the wild, just that some cards happen to shine better in the wild, which is not their way of dealing with the wild, at least not now. However, Iksar also mentioned in the previous Twitter Q&A that he plans to select some wild cold card sets and design some wild special cards to support these card sets, but this is only an idea at present.
Regarding the future card design, some players asked whether they planned to launch a "physical" spell faction in the future, Iksar said that he had considered it, but in the end he felt that it was not done that way, as for the existing spell faction, each class may be used, maybe one day we will play Frost Thief, Fire War... And someone asked if there will be a twin spell in the future, Iksar said that the design space of the twin is not large, even in the version at that time, there were not too many twin cards, so it is impossible to come out in the future, and there is one less candidate for the evergreen keyword.
arena
A player asked Iksar if he had fun with Hearthstone recently, and Iksar said that he had recently focused on the arena (shocked, Hearthstone designer was beaten into the arena by the Druids x), he said that he had a good time, but also very good, after Iksar posted his 0-3 record of thieves on Twitter. Incidentally, Iksar said that he would discuss the topic of arena fine-tuning next week, and there would be a fine-tuning plan for the arena in the next hot repair, and Iksar said that he had played dozens of rounds of the arena and had been a little annoyed by the druids, and it seemed that the druids were at least going to eat well in the arena mode.
Then a player asked Iksar how many wins there were in the arena, Iksar said that he had 3000+ wins, he felt that the designer Cora must be better than his own, and then Cora posted his own arena wins, a total of 7752 wins, but he said that the wargame designer Sage should be much more than her.
Sage then also showed his record, a total of 11521 wins, and it was indeed the liver emperor.
Team5's press officer, DeckTech, and designer Paul then showed off their own record, seemingly players who were not good at the arena. Incidentally, players ask Iksar how many coins he has hoarded, Iksar says that he usually only keeps 1,000 gold coins, the rest are used to open the package, and the hamster in the Team5 team is Paul, who may have saved 100,000+ gold coins, is this to buy Blizzard? Sol Jun was ashamed of himself.
The ancient gods return
Some players asked, although I know that the ancient gods have just left the standard, but do not know whether there are plans to let the ancient gods return again, "They too cool to be without.", Iksar said that they recently discussed the latest version of the theme, there is an ancient god's voice is very high. Breeze guessed from the tone of the subject that he should have wanted to ask Enzos if it was possible to appear in the mini series, but Iksar replied to the recent theme, according to the progress of Hearthstone's development, it must be at least next year.
However, in the reply below, many people feel that the possibility of Enzos appearing in the mini series is still very large, and some players have listed the themes that the four ancient gods may return: Cthun: Angela/Hylisus; Eugsaron: Odur; Yassur: Pandaria; Enzos: Naschatal, but wait, we are already in Nashtar now... Reach The bottom city of Azeroth, Nashatar, is so beautiful, Nashtar. Oh this is not Enzo, or look at the giant creatures in the distance.
Classic mode or new build mode
In many times of Twitter Q&A, Iksar said to promote the progress of the classic mode, but until now there is no movement, some players asked if they do not plan to promote the classic mode, Iksar said that the current consideration of joining Naxxamas, or change to a new model of card pool rotation, but it is still the concept of the content, the design team has a lot of ideas, recently in the discussion of whether to jump directly from the classic to the Garkisson version, in a word: the idea has not been finalized, all are satellites.
As for Hearthstone's new construction model, Iksar said that there have been discussions recently, and there are currently three options:
One: The rotation pool mechanism mentioned above may jump directly from the classic package to Garkissen to replace the classic mode.
Two: a new mode to replace the leisure mode, this mode can only play AI, but the more up AI is more difficult, Qingfeng's understanding is a model similar to climbing a tower.
Three: shallow environment mode, in this mode can only use hearthstone year of cards, for example, this year is the year of the multi-headed snake, the card pool is only the year of the multi-headed snake card, so that every year will have a fresh experience, the disadvantage is that the card pool is too shallow.
But at the moment these are all ideas under discussion, just when Iksar is drawing a pie, after all, the function of random skin has been done for a long time.
Game size
At the end of the previous question, Iksar lamented that Hearthstone's current gameplay is already very rich, and it can even be said that it is too much. And too many modes lead to the problem is that the Hearthstone game volume is too large, 6G on the computer may not be nothing, but the phone is also 5-6G is very scary, Iksar also said that every day people because the game is too big and retreat pit, which makes them also very distressed, do not know everyone envisioned the method of sub-mode download, Hearthstone team programmers have not tried.
Original painting with skin
Someone asked the book of mercenaries in The skin of Walden Morning Embrace is too good-looking, but there is currently no set of skins to buy, whether it is possible to launch this skin in the future, designer Matt said that the original paintings of the mercenaries who appeared on the scene will be made into skin shelves, the year of the griffin was not launched in the end, mainly because the mercenary content is too much, and the future will find the right opportunity to be on the shelves.
Speaking of original paintings, some people asked whether more original paintings of World of Warcraft TCG cards would be used now, and Iksar and Celestalon said that Hearthstone has used almost all the high-quality original paintings in the World of Warcraft TCG cards, but now there are still occasional uses of a few old illustrations, such as next year's version will have several. Kibler The Dragon King asks when his design of Elendril will enter Hearthstone, and Celestalon jokes that when you win the championship next time, the Dragon King replies with an angry expression from Pikachu, laughing to death.
Diamond card
Some players asked what the current criteria for choosing a diamond card are, Iksar said that he would try to choose the most representative character in that version, (Aisala expressed a question), and for the old card diamond card fork, it will also consider which card pose will be very cool after becoming dynamic, and for the new card, they do not have to consider these, because they can first set the diamond card and then give the artist a request, such as this Time Sir Finley, which should be designed according to this original painting with an upside-down posture.
Speaking of diamond cards, it is necessary to mention Draketal, this card also often appears in today's environment, the intensity is very high, some players asked, in the future, if Draketal balance is weakened, then the player who bought the diamond card will have what compensation, Iksar said that it is not sure at present, and said that it will feel that it will be a problem for the business team, it seems that before the business team anticipates the compensation plan, Draketal will most likely not be able to move the knife.
Invincible dipping sauce
A player asked Iksar if he had statistics on the number of heroes who had achieved invincible dipping sauce in the tavern wargames, and Iksar said that he did not know, but it was most likely those heroes who were strong in the early stages. Speaking of HSReplay website, the HSReplay website once counted the hero data that obtained invincible dipping sauce during that time, but at that time, the partners of the Lich Demon and the Dog-Headed Man Queen were not weakened, so this statistical result now has no reference value, perhaps after watching the Twitter Q&A, HSReplay will re-conduct a round of statistics.
IP linkage
IP linkage is an old problem, some players asked if there are plans to link with StarCraft 2, maybe some people like the Blade Queen version of the Demon Hunter skin, but Iksar said that he still plans to implement IP linkage in the tavern wargame, just like the original big pineapple linkage, there have been a lot of discussions about exploring new IP solutions, but there is still a period of time before the launch (provincial: release satellite).
Other issues
Some inconsequential questions followed, some time ago Iksar released his own ranking of fruit grades, and from this table, it can be seen that Iksar does not like to eat sweets. Therefore, many people in this Twitter Q&A asked him questions about fruits, such as someone asked whether tomatoes are fruits or vegetables, why they did not appear in the list, Iksar replied that tomatoes must be fruits, but tomatoes belong to the SSSS crushing level for other fruits, so they are not listed in the list. Incidentally, Iksar said he once bought more than 100 bags of tomatoes for high-end Italian meals.
Some players asked Iksar what the family business "pizza consultant" does, and Iksar said that it is mainly to teach pizza restaurants how to buy, how to buy, how to price, as well as storefronts, recruitment, menus and even cooking. Speaking of which, this is the first time I know that Iksar used to do this before, as we all know, former Hearthstone chief designer Ben Brode also did pizza delivery before joining Blizzard, is it possible that they met at this time?
Finally, the second dimension link, Iksar gave the final boss of the Eldon Ring 6 points, indicating that the boss was beautiful, but he was a little disappointed in the gameplay, and in the Eldon Ring, Iksar felt that the most handy weapon was the Night and the Sword of Fire. As for the recently recommended drama, Iksar said that "Spy Over home" is very good, and the next thing you want to see is the third season of Miss Hui Ye. There is a saying, although the performance of "Spy Over the Family" dilutes the comedic elements, too stable to bring more surprises to everyone, but it is still a drama worth watching in the near future, as for Miss Hui Ye, cherish the third season!