I have been playing SNAP for 2 years after GWENT official support finished and progressively have been feeling more and more miserable and frustrated. Fired up GWENT and remembered what a solid pretty, joyful and inteligent card game it is. I have to re-learn the meta but it is a nice adventure. I hope CDPR return to this game, it has so much more potential and people love it. Just bought the Ciri journey, will continue to support GWENT.
That's great to hear! I'm really sad that Gwent support was ended so close to Witcher 4. It feels like such a missed opportunity but it'll always be here and fun for us! Enjoy Ciri's Journey! The story brought a tear to my eye when I first read it!
I've been around the whole Gwentfinnity and leaving apart the frustration of some balance council results, I've to say I've been having fun. I do miss the support and I do miss some content creators that I enjoyed watching, you included. It would be great if you could, from time to time, give us some content. Lionhart's joy and positivity are much missed!
just got into gwent a couple weeks back for the first time, and found this channel. have been loving it all! thrilled to see this vid in my recommended!!
I missed the community too bro, like you said early on here. I'm thankful that some like Shinmiri post Gwent on RUclips, and that Shin and Lerio started the English voting coalition where they make suggestions based on a community poll they post, meaning English folk have a say in what gets changed. It's meant that for me, I feel that the community aspect hasn't entirely disappeared. I've been okay with no new cards, because when you think about it, a card getting buffed to playable levels by the community can make it feel like a new card, if it was never played during the time CDPR made changes.
I had the urge to play it, made four rank ups in two days. Making my own deck relearning the game. My old decks sure do confuse the ones only familiar with new metas So many old builds are super valuable Best card game ever, long live, til next week at least
@LionHartCards for sure. I ran about fifteen games yesterday, about 60% win rate With my poison self syndicate , but My old northeren realms siege deck using mobility is nasty again! About 80% with it... I'm rank 19 now lol, I went all the way back to 25 when I began
@doctorsatan4260 sounds like fun! My first climb back to pro when I came back was probably my favourite one ever. So many fun lists to play with and against!
Your experience with meta net decks control in pro rank is similar to mine. I actually play in 2500-2550 and it is a lot of same decks. However, it is totally winnable if you can pilot your decks well. The experience is not entirely awful and there is more deck diversity before Balance Council.
I’m coming back to Gwent for the first time in a few years. What a time to join huh? I’m familiar with the core mechanics therefore, but I have no idea about cards, decks or the meta whatsoever. I was hoping to find a channel to help as a guide, but it’s been tough to find people still engaged who don’t assume existing knowledge. It’s quite overwhelming to learn the game on your own from scratch at this stage in 2024. I saw your videos just yesterday from 2 years ago and wished you were still around. And bizarrely here’s a video today discussing the general state of the game. Glad to see you’re still enjoying Gwent. I agree with you, there is nothing quite like Gwent.
Gwent content is definitely aimed at people with a presumed amount of knowledge these days because of it's stage of life but there are still some really helpful communities out there! Feel free to ask anything in our discord or live streams :) Welcome back to Gwent!
This is so good to see - I just came back after being away for 1.5-2 years and have been really enjoying it! I really miss watching competitive Gwent weekends though =(
i also started playing again yesterday after about a year, was rank 18 myself. i suspected what you encountered in pro would happen so i have unaccepted the regulations ahead of time haha - about rank 5 currently not sure if ill stick with it but was fun getting this far
The last I opened Gwent was end of December 2023. Maintenance mode really broke my heart as I had a long term goal of wanting to enter a tourney! Nevertheless, got a short of your recent gameplay and....Dammit! I want back in!😅 I've missed this feeling of seeing someone play a combo i dont yet understand but WANTING it. Sigh. Guess its Gwent time.
Glad to see you back. I’ve been itching to get back to Gwent for a couple weeks with all the Witcher announcements happening like W4, the new book by Sapkowski, new comics, physical Gwent etc. How crazy would it be if in Witcher 4 they had some sort of built in multiplayer lobbies to play against other players?
That was always my hope for Gwent honestly. Integrate multiplayer real Gwent into Witcher 4 but it wasn't to be sadly. 😢 Looks like mini game Gwent might make an appearance at least
I think the excitement of getting new cards is an essential part of any tcg, even if it means power creep. The balance council can make great stuff (giving a chance for unplayed/barely played cards), but as you said it's mostly a nerf cycle. I personnaly left gwent about 7 months after gwenfinity started, and not that much because of the council but I actually felt bored playing against the same decks over and over (some nerfs also went after meme cards for whatever reason)
I truely wish a studio would pick up gwent get some support in and new cards or cdpr announce new support for gwent while alot of ppl left i stayed and still to this day play gwent and loving it sure the council doesnt always make the best decsions for eg nilfgaard buffs but im hoping and praying gwent wil go back to its former glory
It'll never happen I'm afraid Cdpr know Gwent is integral to the Witcher world and wouldn't let anyone have any access to that IP externally but I don't think they view standalone Gwent as anything but a failure. Running a live service game isn't something they knew how to do and I don't think they'll ever do it again. I really hope I'm wrong though! 🤞🤞
Gwent looks interesting to play. I play Marvel Snap, Teppen, and also looking into LoR. I am thinking about getting into Gwent, currently reading the rules and guides.
I hope you enjoy your Gwent journey! There are a lot of great Gwent communities and creators out there still! If you have any questions feel free to join my discord and ask in the Gwent section too ♥️
I think the best gwent can do is a symbiotic relationship with other card games, like someone that play yugioh-pokemon-Magic could try gwent as a new experience. I think that is the only way to revive the game, we need to make friends with the other communities. You know what put Marvel Snap too, lets go connect with everyone.
19:41 this actually isn't the case broski. There are a lot more fresh changes than ping ponging reverts (and all reverts come from the silent majority generally). And another thing is that so many archetypes have become playable since CDPR left, thanks to Shin, Lerio and others.
@@LionHartCards it is a custom one I have made with statuses and viper. It's not good around pro rank but love playing it. as of decent lists, shieldwall all the way
I really enjoy my time in gwent and i hope with the announcement of Witcher 4 some player return and maaybe it get a revive oficial patch, i will come back and see that last expansion that i miss ❤️
I play Pokemon (not the card game). Over the last 2 years, a very old format has been really increasing in popularity. This format is based on games that were released in 2002 - 2005 and have never been updated since then. The most popular youtuber can just post laddering videos and get 10k views in one day. Weirdly enough this made me decide to check out Gwent again. I think if the gameplay is solid enough then it can maintain a playerbase even without any new content.
In regards to the balance council, the battle over Renfri free has been legendary there isn't a single balance counsel where that card isn't, buffed or nerfed. Personally, I would admit that I will never stop voting to nerf it until that card is 19 provisions and 1 point😂
I quit when they announced Gwenfinity. I'm playing Marvel Snap now, but I'm not really a big fan of the Marvel universe. The game itself is okay to play a few quick games, but it's not more than that. And it's frustrating because it's becoming more and more pay 2 play. So I'm getting tired of that. I'm looking to get back into Gwent now, it's the only game like this I really enjoyed playing and watching on stream. Have to learn the meta and the mechanics again, but I'm ready to dive into it.
Gwent open beta before midwinter patch was peak cardgame experience. Game really was not anywhere close to the same level of complexity and fun post homecoming.
I couldn't disagree more personally. Did you come back and play after homecoming or did it make you leave out of curiosity? Pre homecoming Gwent was basic, rigid and narrow in complexity compared with Gwent later on. Just on the basis of card pool, available mechanics and deck diversity beta Gwent doesn't hold a candle to what they left us. At launch, homecoming was definitely a boring, soulless shambles but they absolutely repaired that and surpassed everything that came before in the last few years of support. The work they put in to the game in that last 12 months was better than the 5 before combined in my view and I really wish they got to keep building. 😢 Wasn't to be.
@LionHartCards yeah I reached multiple top ladder months post hc. I was for 3-4 weeks top 1 in the eu ladder in December right before the midwinter patch, I really loved gwent but the decks during that time like monster nekkers and especially ng spies could not be replicated after hc. I think ng spies in open beta was probably the most complex deck in Gwent. Also other meme decks like swims' fringila were fun af.
Just got back into gwent after a 4 month absence, and it's still an amazing and annoying game. Made it to r3 so far with scoiatel madoc relicts. Loving the deck diversity throughout the week, the weekend warriors with their never-ending NG status decks, not so much.
That's pretty sad man, I loved the game when it was aktiv. I'm in since the ptr. It's sad to see it die 😢 is it cause of not enough people playing it actively? If that's the case, maybe Witcher 4 can revive it
I recently quit Gwent (sadly). The BC tribes with the most influence keep pushing a more and more dumbed down game of point slam and control. SK Raids, NG Renfri or soldier spam, MO fruits control, cheap thinners and tutors, etc. Try to nerf any of that and it gets reverted immediately. It’s turned the engine factions (SY and NR) into endangered species and made the whole game feel tedious, repetitive, and frustrating. I guess the remaining mostly low-skill player base wants to bring the game down to their level instead of learning to improve. Maybe that’s too cynical, but it feels that way. I think we’re closer than you think to the death spiral point of large numbers of players getting bored and leaving for good. Hope I’m wrong, we’ll see.
If you only just quit after plaing for 12 months with Gwentfinity I can understand why you'd feel that way! I wager a large chunk of people left when I did or before and will find a lot of fun still, certainly in the initial few hours. My thoughts on the balance council don't fall far from yours overall haha
27:35 🔥
I have been playing SNAP for 2 years after GWENT official support finished and progressively have been feeling more and more miserable and frustrated. Fired up GWENT and remembered what a solid pretty, joyful and inteligent card game it is. I have to re-learn the meta but it is a nice adventure. I hope CDPR return to this game, it has so much more potential and people love it. Just bought the Ciri journey, will continue to support GWENT.
That's great to hear!
I'm really sad that Gwent support was ended so close to Witcher 4. It feels like such a missed opportunity but it'll always be here and fun for us!
Enjoy Ciri's Journey! The story brought a tear to my eye when I first read it!
The more Gwent we play these days, the bigger the chances it will come back with Witcher 4.
P.S. I source my copium at Shupe's shop.
I've been around the whole Gwentfinnity and leaving apart the frustration of some balance council results, I've to say I've been having fun. I do miss the support and I do miss some content creators that I enjoyed watching, you included. It would be great if you could, from time to time, give us some content. Lionhart's joy and positivity are much missed!
The positive vibes are truely something for the soul
I came back to gwent after a long break and im having so much fun learning the new cards and decks 😊
Recently came back to it after a 2 year hiatus. I don't care if it's in maintenance mode. It's fun and that's all that counts.
@@denisskenderovic3707 likewise, i left first few months after the renfri release. That was prob one of the worst seasons ever lmao
just got into gwent a couple weeks back for the first time, and found this channel. have been loving it all! thrilled to see this vid in my recommended!!
It's great to see people still jumping into the game!
It really is a special experience with a really amazing community. 🙏
Welcome to Gwent!
Platinum Patrol, Qcento, Shinmiri, Dosen and Lerio have been my daily Gwent escapades
A fine list! 💪
Jim_Wolverine
TemerianSpecimen, Theabeasty, Lionhart!!!
Another very good content creator is Qcento and Platinum Patrol lionheart see speci's comeback as well!👍
@@paulwalton3391 speci is a wanker, the rest are great though!
I missed the community too bro, like you said early on here.
I'm thankful that some like Shinmiri post Gwent on RUclips, and that Shin and Lerio started the English voting coalition where they make suggestions based on a community poll they post, meaning English folk have a say in what gets changed. It's meant that for me, I feel that the community aspect hasn't entirely disappeared.
I've been okay with no new cards, because when you think about it, a card getting buffed to playable levels by the community can make it feel like a new card, if it was never played during the time CDPR made changes.
I also enjoy Kerepeten and Dauren recent content on YT too. Not as viewer friendly like Shin and Lerio but it is a start of a revival of this game.
I had the urge to play it, made four rank ups in two days. Making my own deck relearning the game. My old decks sure do confuse the ones only familiar with new metas
So many old builds are super valuable
Best card game ever, long live, til next week at least
I'm glad to hear people are having the same experience as me!
I've even been making deck videos again 😂
I hope you keep enjoying it!
@LionHartCards for sure. I ran about fifteen games yesterday, about 60% win rate With my poison self syndicate , but My old northeren realms siege deck using mobility is nasty again! About 80% with it...
I'm rank 19 now lol, I went all the way back to 25 when I began
@doctorsatan4260 sounds like fun!
My first climb back to pro when I came back was probably my favourite one ever. So many fun lists to play with and against!
Now that Witcher 4 is dropping, I hope this game gets a bigger fan base and new dev support
#NoGodsOnlyMonsters
Hello, happy new year
Gwent will do that to you 😂
Happy New Year! Enjoy the Gwent! 🎉
Your experience with meta net decks control in pro rank is similar to mine.
I actually play in 2500-2550 and it is a lot of same decks. However, it is totally winnable if you can pilot your decks well. The experience is not entirely awful and there is more deck diversity before Balance Council.
I’m coming back to Gwent for the first time in a few years. What a time to join huh? I’m familiar with the core mechanics therefore, but I have no idea about cards, decks or the meta whatsoever. I was hoping to find a channel to help as a guide, but it’s been tough to find people still engaged who don’t assume existing knowledge. It’s quite overwhelming to learn the game on your own from scratch at this stage in 2024. I saw your videos just yesterday from 2 years ago and wished you were still around. And bizarrely here’s a video today discussing the general state of the game. Glad to see you’re still enjoying Gwent. I agree with you, there is nothing quite like Gwent.
Gwent content is definitely aimed at people with a presumed amount of knowledge these days because of it's stage of life but there are still some really helpful communities out there! Feel free to ask anything in our discord or live streams :)
Welcome back to Gwent!
This is so good to see - I just came back after being away for 1.5-2 years and have been really enjoying it! I really miss watching competitive Gwent weekends though =(
I think it’s still awesome and my favourite game. Thanks for continuing to create content
i also started playing again yesterday after about a year, was rank 18 myself. i suspected what you encountered in pro would happen so i have unaccepted the regulations ahead of time haha - about rank 5 currently not sure if ill stick with it but was fun getting this far
The last I opened Gwent was end of December 2023. Maintenance mode really broke my heart as I had a long term goal of wanting to enter a tourney!
Nevertheless, got a short of your recent gameplay and....Dammit! I want back in!😅 I've missed this feeling of seeing someone play a combo i dont yet understand but WANTING it. Sigh. Guess its Gwent time.
I just started playing this game last month, I have been no life grinding 10+ hours a day non-stop lol Def worth it for me
Glad to see you back. I’ve been itching to get back to Gwent for a couple weeks with all the Witcher announcements happening like W4, the new book by Sapkowski, new comics, physical Gwent etc.
How crazy would it be if in Witcher 4 they had some sort of built in multiplayer lobbies to play against other players?
That was always my hope for Gwent honestly.
Integrate multiplayer real Gwent into Witcher 4 but it wasn't to be sadly. 😢
Looks like mini game Gwent might make an appearance at least
I think the excitement of getting new cards is an essential part of any tcg, even if it means power creep. The balance council can make great stuff (giving a chance for unplayed/barely played cards), but as you said it's mostly a nerf cycle.
I personnaly left gwent about 7 months after gwenfinity started, and not that much because of the council but I actually felt bored playing against the same decks over and over (some nerfs also went after meme cards for whatever reason)
I hope that with Witcher 4 they bring Gwent 2
Some of those highlight clips you shared here made me laugh out loud. 😂
I could have added another 20 honestly but the video was already so long 😂
Glad you liked them!
I truely wish a studio would pick up gwent get some support in and new cards or cdpr announce new support for gwent while alot of ppl left i stayed and still to this day play gwent and loving it sure the council doesnt always make the best decsions for eg nilfgaard buffs but im hoping and praying gwent wil go back to its former glory
It'll never happen I'm afraid
Cdpr know Gwent is integral to the Witcher world and wouldn't let anyone have any access to that IP externally but I don't think they view standalone Gwent as anything but a failure. Running a live service game isn't something they knew how to do and I don't think they'll ever do it again.
I really hope I'm wrong though! 🤞🤞
GWENT FAMILY 💚
Gwent looks interesting to play. I play Marvel Snap, Teppen, and also looking into LoR. I am thinking about getting into Gwent, currently reading the rules and guides.
I hope you enjoy your Gwent journey!
There are a lot of great Gwent communities and creators out there still! If you have any questions feel free to join my discord and ask in the Gwent section too ♥️
@LionHartCards Most definitely, thank you.
Haha, I remember you from way back. I'm thinking about gwent a lot lately, ima go try
I think the best gwent can do is a symbiotic relationship with other card games, like someone that play yugioh-pokemon-Magic could try gwent as a new experience. I think that is the only way to revive the game, we need to make friends with the other communities. You know what put Marvel Snap too, lets go connect with everyone.
19:41 this actually isn't the case broski. There are a lot more fresh changes than ping ponging reverts (and all reverts come from the silent majority generally).
And another thing is that so many archetypes have become playable since CDPR left, thanks to Shin, Lerio and others.
I still play casually from time to time. Love the game
That's great to hear! What list is your favourite currently?
@@LionHartCards it is a custom one I have made with statuses and viper. It's not good around pro rank but love playing it. as of decent lists, shieldwall all the way
I really enjoy my time in gwent and i hope with the announcement of Witcher 4 some player return and maaybe it get a revive oficial patch, i will come back and see that last expansion that i miss ❤️
I hope so too! 😊
Cheers fella!!
I play Pokemon (not the card game). Over the last 2 years, a very old format has been really increasing in popularity. This format is based on games that were released in 2002 - 2005 and have never been updated since then. The most popular youtuber can just post laddering videos and get 10k views in one day. Weirdly enough this made me decide to check out Gwent again. I think if the gameplay is solid enough then it can maintain a playerbase even without any new content.
second comment to say great video, I enjoyed your take and got me thinking a little more about jumping back in at least casually MAYBE!
I am definitely more likely to play the odd game or two again! Just for the fun of it 😂
Gwent is coming back in Witcher 4 in 2025, so hopefully CDPR will relaunch this game 🙏🙏🙏
Hello Lion Heart
Still love gwent! SBS Leonidas makes great gwent content too
Absolutely!
So many amazing Gwent creators still!
I'll shout out some of the ones I missed in my next video 👀
Im waiting for cdpr to announce gwent support or gwent 2 after they announced witcher 4
We can dream 🙏
In regards to the balance council, the battle over Renfri free has been legendary there isn't a single balance counsel where that card isn't, buffed or nerfed.
Personally, I would admit that I will never stop voting to nerf it until that card is 19 provisions and 1 point😂
You have to play gwent
HELL YEAHHHHHHHH
i love gwent!!!! i love you!!!!!!!!
I quit when they announced Gwenfinity. I'm playing Marvel Snap now, but I'm not really a big fan of the Marvel universe. The game itself is okay to play a few quick games, but it's not more than that. And it's frustrating because it's becoming more and more pay 2 play. So I'm getting tired of that. I'm looking to get back into Gwent now, it's the only game like this I really enjoyed playing and watching on stream. Have to learn the meta and the mechanics again, but I'm ready to dive into it.
Gwent open beta before midwinter patch was peak cardgame experience. Game really was not anywhere close to the same level of complexity and fun post homecoming.
I couldn't disagree more personally.
Did you come back and play after homecoming or did it make you leave out of curiosity?
Pre homecoming Gwent was basic, rigid and narrow in complexity compared with Gwent later on. Just on the basis of card pool, available mechanics and deck diversity beta Gwent doesn't hold a candle to what they left us.
At launch, homecoming was definitely a boring, soulless shambles but they absolutely repaired that and surpassed everything that came before in the last few years of support.
The work they put in to the game in that last 12 months was better than the 5 before combined in my view and I really wish they got to keep building. 😢 Wasn't to be.
@LionHartCards yeah I reached multiple top ladder months post hc. I was for 3-4 weeks top 1 in the eu ladder in December right before the midwinter patch, I really loved gwent but the decks during that time like monster nekkers and especially ng spies could not be replicated after hc. I think ng spies in open beta was probably the most complex deck in Gwent. Also other meme decks like swims' fringila were fun af.
I had no idea about the cosmetics, wow T.T
Right?!?!
if they can revert back to an old gwent before home coming update i will come back 100%
Check out DIYgwent, fan made remake of old beta gwent and its excellent with new cards every few months
I’m bout to start playing this game and doesn’t knows anything any recommendations?
If you check through my videos there is a starter guide for the Northern Realms Faction which also discussed gameplay basics!
@@finn24548 yes, play Scoiatael!
Just got back into gwent after a 4 month absence, and it's still an amazing and annoying game. Made it to r3 so far with scoiatel madoc relicts. Loving the deck diversity throughout the week, the weekend warriors with their never-ending NG status decks, not so much.
I miss a lot watching all the creators( you, Spyro , maruth, qcento specy ecc) than steal your decks and compete 😂
Is it still playable in Mobile?
It is indeed. Everything still works as it did before :)
will there be new exp? i mean we have the same cards for years now... i dropped the game one year ago and just see all the same cards...
Sadly there are no new cards going into Gwent. It's in long term support 😢
The changes are all community voted now based on existing cards.
That's pretty sad man, I loved the game when it was aktiv. I'm in since the ptr. It's sad to see it die 😢 is it cause of not enough people playing it actively? If that's the case, maybe Witcher 4 can revive it
Altered is the TCG most similar to Gwent in my opinion, but it's still not Gwent.
I'll have to give it a look!
Just have a word with CDPR for a surprise expansion :D
I recently quit Gwent (sadly). The BC tribes with the most influence keep pushing a more and more dumbed down game of point slam and control. SK Raids, NG Renfri or soldier spam, MO fruits control, cheap thinners and tutors, etc. Try to nerf any of that and it gets reverted immediately. It’s turned the engine factions (SY and NR) into endangered species and made the whole game feel tedious, repetitive, and frustrating.
I guess the remaining mostly low-skill player base wants to bring the game down to their level instead of learning to improve. Maybe that’s too cynical, but it feels that way. I think we’re closer than you think to the death spiral point of large numbers of players getting bored and leaving for good. Hope I’m wrong, we’ll see.
If you only just quit after plaing for 12 months with Gwentfinity I can understand why you'd feel that way! I wager a large chunk of people left when I did or before and will find a lot of fun still, certainly in the initial few hours.
My thoughts on the balance council don't fall far from yours overall haha
I'll buy that jacket off ya ;)
Haha it's from the original Gwent Challengers.
Definitely not for sale 😝
The back is even cooler I won't lie 😎
Witcher 4 loading that means Gwent loading too! 😎😎😎
I hope so....
14:36 His reaction when a social media platform isn't based on censorship apparently? LOL
Dead game with no options to change any cars everywhere same decks. Honestly no way