LMFAO!! OK so the plan is to fly to Florida after waking up today (it's currently 2:36 am on Tuesday 8th Nov here), find a gun show near the airport, buy a HPAR, catch another plane to Stainless' main HQ city, cab to the HQ, and go nuts...no worries guys should have that done by about Wednesday or Thursday LMFAO

Seriously though, you have all taken away the urge for me to attack my Xbox with a sledgehammer with your hilarious words, so for that, I thank you all.


LOL yeah I think this is the real solution!

I've got 6-8 hours of play logged without a single issue. Matchmaking is fast and seamless and I never have any issues finding an opponent. Worth noting is that I have disabled cross-platform play, so I'm only playing against other Xbox users. Even with a small population, I'm finding regular matches.

Not a single crash, either. I saw one graphical bug on a card on the battlefield, that's been my only issue thus far.

even if it did crash all the time, it's a Beta and can be forgiven. We are playing a game that you can spend money on and it's crazy how many bugs are still in it.

this matchmaking thing really is the worst.

Then you are having much better luck than I am, because the client has crashed on me numerous times (also Xbox, also cross-play disabled)

That is weird, must be my awesome Internet keeping me stable.

Other than your performance issues, how have you been finding the game itself? I've been grinding NR for ore since I got access and haven't played any other faction yet. I would say 2/3rds of my opponents have been Monsters, it's unreal. Some Skellige and very little of either NR or Scoia'Tael (although NR is starting to pick up a little bit lately).

Hey Matty,

Do you have a resource you visit about the game? I've tried watching you play it and it's like watching a voodoo doctor cast the bones and dissect small rodents for the future...undecipherable.

I really enjoy it. I loved Gwent in Witcher 3 so this is a no brainer for me.

I was Northern Realms in Witcher 3, but they got nerfed without the extra card for a win. I use a Monsters Wild Hunt deck. I run two Water Hags and 2 Lacerates to stop the typical Northern Realms ballista combo. Other than that, it's basically just Wild Hunt gold and regular cards to round the deck out and keep me at 25. I try to minimize the smaller monsters so my kept onboard card and Ghouls gain value.

I didn't play The Witcher 3 so this is all new to me.

I don't have the Trebuchets yet and that's exactly the reason I think I've been seeing an uptick in NR play lately, they all seem to be playing this strategy.

I just try to play 2-3 cards and maybe lose the first round, then go all-in on round two and hope to stick a huge Blue Stripes Commando with Adrenaline Rush and copy it with Foltest. The best part is that the copy buffs the on-board Commando by two so they aren't as vulnerable to being fully Scorched away on the third round.

I need of do a bit of crafting but I was lucky to open Nenneke and two Witchers (Vesemir and Eskel) so I crafted Lambert. Deck thinning seems pretty important which is why I also run all three Reaver Scouts - card seems borderline busted, especially with the Commandos and the resurrection in later rounds.

Not yet, no. I'm making a YT video tonight going over the basics, though, with some gameplay video to follow in the coming days. I wasn't being informative while streaming because I was just learning the game myself, so hopefully I can be a bit more instructional in the vids.

Yeah, the big thing is not doing the quick "Drop Geralt, pass T2" thing vs. Northern Realms because I lose if they can promote the trebuchet, so I need to draw it out. Because they can't use adrenaline rush and Foltest and Reaver to multiply the copies after they make it Gold, so I just need to drain their hand some, drop the Hag to create rain, and wipe them off the board with the Hag. That usually generates a concede or just an easy victory.

EDIT: I really need that Dijkstra card that demotes units. That would destroy the NR combo.

I don't even play Promote because I don't think it's a very good card. You have to do all the buffing before you promote and if your opponent has the answer then he's going to pull the trigger before you can use it. And if he doesn't have the answer then you don't need Promote anyway. It can also screw with Nenneke/Field Medic.

I could be wrong but that's my initial take on the card.

Well, the way the deck has went off against me is basically wait until I pass Game 1, and then combo out afterwards, Adrenaline Rush, and then Promote, so they can take Game 2 because I can't Scorch/Rain the Ballistas down. Promote on its own is trash, but it does make the combo basically unbreakable without Dijkstra

UGH it's like mjack talking to mjack mark777

i'm going to petition the mods to open a Gwent subforum

You talk about me like one more time and you see what happens.

I'm surprised those two haven't had a conversation yet, seems like they'd get along swimmingly.

Incorrect, Babs. Guns were found to be from the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Slovakia, Croatia, and Serbia, with ammunition from the Republika Srpska, an administrative entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I did find one article that stated a single pistol found its way from Florida to Paris, but even if that is true it sure isn't "the guns" all came from.

As far as acquiring firearms, it is a relatively easy process as long as you are a good citizen. Otherwise, it is much, much harder, and next to impossible legally.
And having gone to gun shows in the states, you'd be better off calling them, "taser and knife shows"; more of those in there than guns in the majority of the shows.

Back on subject, I would love to actually know what the hell is going on when you are playing Hakeem. So far it's like watching cricket.

yeah, it's boring AF and without the facecam there is NOTHING fun to see.

So wrong Barney...or so right...hmm.

Ok guys and Vert, I've opened the official sub-forum for Gwent talk so you can connect with other NGA forum members to discuss this fun game in depth. ENJOY!

http://forum.nogoblinsallowed.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=17013

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