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I haven't been getting the Hex updates in my email, which is odd since it's not like I used a different kickstarter account and I double checked I actually have my DC tier. Has me a little concerned I might miss my invite when it finally comes time. Is there a good email to ask through about it? edit: After more searching, I paypal'd for my DC tier instead of going through the kickstarter which would explain why I'm not getting the KS updates I guess. Though odd they're forgetting to keep the paypal sponsors updated. thiswayliesmadness fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Oct 23, 2013 |
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I'd make sure they're not going to your spam folder. At one point, GMail just decided that all the e-mails I was getting from Twitch were spam, and I didn't realize for a while. Also, go to your Kickstarter settings and make sure you're set to recieve e-mail updates from them. As for the actual alpha invite, it will be from Cryptozoic themselves rather than Kickstarter, so it shouldn't be an issue, unless it also gets intercepted by your spam filter. Just keep an eye on news. I'm certain there'll be a fair bit of activity in this thread once the second invite wave goes out.
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Oct 23, 2013 15:20
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 BIG NEWS http://hextcg.com/big-news-for-hex/Actually not all that big? tl;dr they're partnering with a couple online publishing/distribution houses to help deal w/ the backend infrastructure & going global. Unclear if this means one of the two will handle the US distribution/hosting, or if Crypto is still doing that but just doesn't have to handle all the overseas traffic now. (I may also just have skimmed it too fast.) Oh, I guess "we're letting in the $250 tier people starting today" is kinda big if you're in that bracket v  vit's ok, I have Hearthstone to tide me over until Kings get in...
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Oct 24, 2013 19:04
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^--also, the regions will be kind of seperated. quote:Some markets will have different pricing and offer some region specific PVE content to appeal to local tastes or adhere to local standards.
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Oct 24, 2013 19:12
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Interesting stuff, here. Not HOLY poo poo NEWS as we were lead to believe, but this has good implications for stability. Maybe I'll try out for that Hex apprentice thing. I'm sure my job will be safe for the 3 months I'll be gone if I get in.  That said, time to
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Adar posted:They were thinking they'd get 300K as a last ditch funding bridge and got 2M+, then had to adjust their business requirements to match the stretch goals, hire more people, and plan for a rollout to tens of thousands instead of dozens, all of which pushed back the timeframes. Check my old posts ITT - I'm honestly impressed they made October with anything and would've bet December before it came out. I'm not angry or anything. What I'm saying is they speculated a BETA would start in Sept. We got a REALLY rough Alpha in October. My only point is it's not even close to Beta quality yet and their estimates were significantly off, not just a little bit. In any case, I'm glad they have committed to taking a longer time to move to the beta stage, and I'm confident that they can get the game into a state where it is fun to play. 4 of my last 5 games couldn't complete, due to I'm not sure what, but probably pass priority bugs? Once my opponent [AI] got stuck at his discard phase with 8 cards in hand. Anyways, what I am surprised at is that they ever thought that would be at beta quality as early as September. Seems that was a serious misjudgment of the actual amount of work they had left to accomplish.
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Oct 24, 2013 19:53
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bitprophet posted:
Getting Alan Comer on board is pretty big. He worked on MODO for four years, and he was responsible for several tier 1 constructed decks back in the day.
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Oct 24, 2013 20:30
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Got my invite to the Alpha as a $250 backer, so check your emails if you haven't seen it yet.
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Oct 24, 2013 20:36
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And with perfect timing:Hex Twitter posted:Servers will be coming down in 10 minutes (12:30 Pacific) for a hardware upgrade. The servers should be down for no longer than 1 hr.
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Oct 24, 2013 20:40
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HiggsBoson81 posted:Got my invite to the Alpha as a $250 backer, so check your emails if you haven't seen it yet. Just got mine 2 minutes ago, also as a 250. Dammit I'm supposed to work on my Halloween costume tonight!
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Oct 24, 2013 20:42
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Is this the part where we old-timers get to haze all the new entrants? Use the "Construction Plans: War Hulk" card and the "Crash of Beasts" together in the same deck to unlock the Secret Combo!
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Yea, I know some people have suggested that extra invites for people who multi-pledged will still be able to be rolled together when we hit Beta but I'm paranoid not to believe it - I'll just keep these extra 3 invites in the back pocket for now... "All in-game elements are non-transferable between these regional servers" gently caress though, that's not something I'm looking forward to - if I wanna trade with the cool kids then I have to lock myself into wacky tournament timezones? Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, other than the pro-player tournament it'll probably never come up again anyway due to me being a bad player!
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Just got my invite, but the region locking has pretty much killed my excitement for the game.
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It sounds like at least part of the reason for the different regional servers is that the Chinese government (for example) starts dribbling and frothing at the mouth at the depiction of bones, so different regions will sometimes need different card art. Since each card is its own object, this could cause legitimate issues with trading things between territories. Tournament timezones shouldn't be too much of an issue, though:quote:The Global tournaments are available to everyone in every territory and will have tournaments day-and-night. Global tournaments will offer a robust set of formats, everything you would see on the regional tournaments servers, and those global tournaments offering the same prizing globally, including our premier eSports events. So, yes, you will be able to play with your friend in Vietnam and your cousin in Germany on the tournament server.
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Oct 24, 2013 22:23
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Nion posted:Just got my invite, but the region locking has pretty much killed my excitement for the game. .. Why? All international games do this to some extent or another. Only one I can thnk of that doesn't is Eve.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:.. Why? All international games do this to some extent or another. Only one I can thnk of that doesn't is Eve. Most games I can just join the same server as my friends and deal with a bit of lag. Different pricing in different regions generally signals that they won't allow people to play on other servers.
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Oct 24, 2013 22:43
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Got my invite, made my deck I had designed already and immediately got challenged by a streamer (Casterly Rock). I beat him.  I am choppy if anyone wants to play.
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Oct 24, 2013 22:52
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I'm in, and got my first priority bug in my second and third games. Alphas. Name is Disappointment in game.
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Jedit posted:Getting Alan Comer on board is pretty big. He worked on MODO for four years, and he was responsible for several tier 1 constructed decks back in the day. As long as he had absolutely nothing to do with the MODO UI... Got my Pro Player invite, but am stuck at work for another couple of hours. Sigh.
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Got my invite (Dungeon Crawler tier). Downloader seems pretty snappy - I was worried after the initial horror stories that it would be an all night sort of download.
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Got my invite, stuck at the Create Champion screen e: figured out this meant my brilliant keep name of "Hogwarts" was taken. Now in as xxx of Unseen University. Adar fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Oct 24, 2013 |
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So yeah this deck is fun: Raptor Party 4x Pack Raptor 4x High Tomb Lord 4x Moon'ariu Sensei 4x Necessary Sacrifice 4x Pact of Pain 4x Murder 4x Extintion 4x Life Siphon 2x Pact of Life 2x Demented Demolisher 12x Wild Shard 12x Blood Shard 60 cards Basically you are trying to draw out as many raptors as possible and stay at a high number of cards in hand so you can discard excess mana or other redundant cards (pacts) to pump up number of cards in the graveyard. If they extinct your raptors, it just makes your high tomb lords better. Necessary Sacrifice on a moon'ariu sensei owns, but I will use it on a raptor after attack round as well.
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Tried playing against the AI for a bit, but the priority bug hit every game. the UI is great - my only real complaint is that setting a timer on my stops also applies to main phases. If I could turn the timer on/off for a given phase, it would be perfect.
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pumpinglemma posted:It sounds like at least part of the reason for the different regional servers is that the Chinese government (for example) starts dribbling and frothing at the mouth at the depiction of bones, so different regions will sometimes need different card art. Since each card is its own object, this could cause legitimate issues with trading things between territories. Tournament timezones shouldn't be too much of an issue, though: I live in Taiwan. They're ok with bones  Please don't make me see lovely art because of the mainland Hopefully it'll be possible just to play on the US server (I note Australia was not mentioned anywhere in the graphic).
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Yea I imagine that we will get to CHOOSE which server we connect to and then we will be stuck there, I mean at least I hope so Edit: even if that's not the case I can always VPN that poo poo so whatev
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tijag posted:I'm not angry or anything. I think their optimism was not atypical of a company that had not previously done software getting into software. The most encouraging thing I've seen was that when faced with reality in the first alpha wave they slowed things down instead of just trying to rush ahead into wave 2. Hopefully they will continue to adjust their process. I wish they'd use some kind of real bug database / issue tracker instead of frickin' forums. The bug button in the client just loading the alpha bug report forum instead of offering to send a logfile somewhere was a little underwhelming...
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Oct 25, 2013 03:17
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Huh. I didn't think to check my email until now.
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I managed to play two games with the AI before the vs AI died. I'm not sure why. I was never able to play a custom deck vs the AI, the only time I got it to work was with pregens. The times I got to play though were super fun. It helped me realize how incredibly bad I am at this game. I didn't even know you could kill an attacking troop with a blocking troop. For reference, how does it decide whether your troop kills an attacking troop? Does it match the blocking troop's attack with the attacking troop's defense?
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Got everything set up, in as A Blazing Zero. I doubt I'll be playing a whole lot until we see all of set one in the game. I will play a few games this weekend for sure though. 
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Afgad posted:I managed to play two games with the AI before the vs AI died. I'm not sure why. I was never able to play a custom deck vs the AI, the only time I got it to work was with pregens. The two troops deal damage equal to their power to the other. If the damage meets or exceeds the creature's toughness, it dies. You might want to go look up a M:tG tutorial or something. 95% of the information will be applicable to Hex.
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Afgad posted:For reference, how does it decide whether your troop kills an attacking troop? Does it match the blocking troop's attack with the attacking troop's defense?
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Thanks guys. Yeah... I'll go look for a tutorial somewhere. I also have trouble with all the jargon. I had no idea swiftstrike meant that until you just said it. The list I saw on the Hex website is also incomplete (unless they updated it).
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This page has a bunch of maybe useful information about the different Keywords: http://hextcg.gamepedia.com/Category:Keywords
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Afgad posted:Thanks guys. If you zoom in on the card in an actual game (mousewheel with the pointer over the card) there'll be a tooltip on the right side of the zoomed-in card that explains all the keywords the card has.
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Great, looks like I'll be stuck playing on the Philippines server. Wonderful. Now I can look forward to no support, excessive down time and all the other fun stuff that comes with regional servers over here. But hey, at least they got my pledge before they announced this. 
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Cynic Jester posted:Great, looks like I'll be stuck playing on the Philippines server. Wonderful. Now I can look forward to no support, excessive down time and all the other fun stuff that comes with regional servers over here. China is one thing seeing as it's the government that forces crap like this but wow. What a terrible idea. edit: first post of this thread page is Cory saying he will refund this guy who's been burnt by gameforge previously. Jester, see if you can request a refund and come back after the game has been live for a while. Glad to see Cory's willing to do that, though. Blazing Zero fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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Corey has said there won't be anything stopping a person from joining the US/EU server even if you're not in those locations. Of course that will mean any events happening might be at odd times of the day for you so there is that downside. I'm really not sure how it will all play out. For anyone trying to play it looks like a game server is down right now. I couldn't start any games against the AI or other players.
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Protip posted:Corey has said there won't be anything stopping a person from joining the US/EU server even if you're not in those locations. Of course that will mean any events happening might be at odd times of the day for you so there is that downside. I'm really not sure how it will all play out. If I can play on the US server, great. I don't see that happening though, because part of the reason they're setting up regional servers is to balance load. If people can play on the US server, they will, as it'll generally get patches first, have better support and in many cases be flat out cheaper than playing on your regional server(Dollar to Euro 1 to 1 conversion as an example).
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Cynic Jester posted:If I can play on the US server, great. I don't see that happening though, because part of the reason they're setting up regional servers is to balance load. If people can play on the US server, they will, as it'll generally get patches first, have better support and in many cases be flat out cheaper than playing on your regional server(Dollar to Euro 1 to 1 conversion as an example). Right. I was about to post just this. Why would they bother to pay for other companies to host regional servers if you can just join the US one which will get better service. (player perception) It would be fantastic if it worked out like that, but it doesn't add up.
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Blazing Zero posted:Right. I was about to post just this. Why would they bother to pay for other companies to host regional servers if you can just join the US one which will get better service. (player perception) It would be fantastic if it worked out like that, but it doesn't add up. Plenty of people will still play on their local servers. Better ping (which admittedly isn't as important in this kind of game, but with as many pass priority buttons as you have to hit, a 500 ms ping could add up really fast over a 3-game match), events timed for when they can actually play, support that speaks their language, other people who speak their language, etc etc etc.
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