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This is a thread about the Strategic Card Game Faeria!
I got my key through a raffle but anyone who supports them in the Kickstarter Campaign can get one.
Its a really interesting game. offers way more strategic depth then for example hearthstone. its really fun im addicted :D
Before I tell you everything about the game just look at the kickstarter page they explain it really well there and a lot better than probably me.
some main things i like: - no buyable ingame currency. no pay to win. you buy the game, you own it. - you win "memoria" by playing the game and you get the cards, trading also possible. - highly competetive - matchmaking - plays in browser
Links:
> Kickstarter Campaign
VIEW ON TWITCH
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I was wondering where the fuck Faeria was and why Star City Games would host a tournament there...interesting little game idea though.
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I recently backed this because it looked pretty neat, even though I'm not much of a card game player. I liked the board/strategy element. You should post a few screenshots of what it looks like.
I haven't really gotten into it at all, I've just played the tutorial missions so far. Then I accidentally bought 3 identical starter packs because the game lagged out but apparently I only lost a marginal amount of currency once you get to playing.
I'll say one thing though, the game is really limited by being in flash at the moment and doesn't have the presentation values of Hearthstone just yet. They are releasing a client soon so it won't be browser only, which is nice, but what I'm really looking forward to is their plans to move to unity engine and give it some really nice animations and visuals, which it kind of lacks now. The art is nice but there's a lack of eyecandy.
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I played in the last test right before the beta, and I'm playing the closed beta right now as well. Since I played Scrolls before this, and I learned about this game from scrollsguide, this will tend to be a comparison. Like Scrolls, you buy the game, and just through playing you can acquire all the cards. There's trading, and right now there's a bit more playable cards than Scrolls; with four factions plus a neutral faction, and about 45 cards per faction. Unlike Scrolls, in Faeria your deck is not locked into a faction. Well, I guess it would be more accurate to say that there's more flexibility in splashing other colors, due to differences in the game system. It's fun because there's a lot of possibilities deck-building wise, due to the number of cards and faction mixing.
(why it's easier to splash)+ Show Spoiler +In Faeria, you don't draw 1 card per turn. Instead, you gain 3 flexible 'actions' each turn, which you choose how to spend. Actions can be turned into four types of things, 1 to 1: cards, gold, uncolored land, turning an uncolored land into a colored land. Creature cards cost from 3 to 7+ gold, to play it onto a land that you control. So cards are not really the limited resource here; you can draw 3 cards each turn if you wanted to, but a creature costs about 1-2 turns of resources to play. The limited resource is actions, or gold if you like. Each card from the 4 colored factions requires between 1-3 colored land to play, the colored lands are not spent, you just need to control that many. Cards that do not required colored land belong to the neutral faction. So the "colored mana" cost is relatively cheap compared to the gold cost.
Right now I'm level 24, playing a yellow deck with flying creatures, 3 dijdan pylons and 3 desert twisters.
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Pretty fun game. Got into the closed beta with a raffle, too. For anyone who needs help deciding which colour to play it basically comes down to this:
Green: SC2 Protoss Red: Terran Blue: Zerg Yellow: BW Protoss
As was mentioned combining colours is easy and viable, but that's roughly the playstyle you can expect from them.
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Hi guys,
Both scrolls and faeria are great games, i suggest you try them both! Even though their mechanics are very different, the way you play them are extremely similar
Currently im the number 1 ranked player in faeria ^_^
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The game is really awesome. I learned about it watching a HS stream and as i had no HS key i just signed up. Got the key days later and been playing a lot ever since. The Community is small but very helpful and all in all its a good mood.
It really has some gameplay features that hearthstone misses. You can mix up the existing factions as much as you like, you have the whole terrain thingy and the resource system is really making the game interesting.
You don't have to pay to play or get new cards (this actually happens quite fast just by playing ranked games). Also trading cards is possible.
The developers really have open ears and try to be in touch with the community. They play their own game quite a lot and in my experience are really nice overall. The forums are active and the feedback loop (balance, bugs) works. They also let the community propose new cards and try to make it as interactive as possible.
If you, like me, still don't have a HS beta key, you should really try that game (even if you have to pay 15$ on Kickstarter to get a key within 24 hours). Right now i don't even think ill play hearthstone, as this game is really addicting.
The bad parts: It is a beta, so there are some bugs (although mostly fixed by refreshing the site, which puts you right back into the game you played before). Balancing is an ongoing operation as well, but there are no real imbalances that are uncounterable or make the game boring.
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If you, like me, still don't have a HS beta key, you should really try that game (even if you have to pay 15$ on Kickstarter to get a key within 24 hours). Right now i don't even think ill play hearthstone, as this game is really addicting.
As far as I understand that from their kickstarter campaign, 15 euros only buys beta access. You have to pay 25 for the actual game which then still will feature cosmetic micro transactions. If I really liked the game 25 would be totally fine, but paying 15 euros just to see if I might enjoy it and then another 25 or more euros for the release version seems steep, looking at the free alternatives.
I'd take a spare key and buy the 25 pledge if I enjoy it, but I not gonna throw 15 away for good will.
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Actually no, from the Kickstart FAQ:
"What will I need to pay when the game is released if I only backed 15? 15, so you get a reduction of 10." (http://www.faeria.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=595)
So all in all you can either pay 25 upfront or 15 upfront and another 15 if you like it. Still its far from being free, however i got my beta key for free, so if u can still sign up for closed beta, you might wanna try it.
There are some streams on twitch, maybe take a look there if you aren't sure.
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Ah nice, they do not offer paypal yet, so I won't be able to make any purchases either way^^. Looks good though.
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On October 22 2013 09:32 waixor wrote: It really has some gameplay features that hearthstone misses.
Which game doesn't?
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you can upgrade your pledge if you like it btw - i will add a little guide soon
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Found someone with a credit card! Weeee :D See you ingame, I'll report back after I got me nose bloody on the battleground.
BTW, you can pledge 15 Euros and also cancel if the game is not for you and get your money back.
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lol i had all kinds of crazy games in beta ladder today hex moving crazyiness and a blue vs blue 1 hour 10 min long standoff which I lost
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1 hour 10 min long standoff
Is that fun? The best rush I ever had in a game of Faeria was in one I was about to lose but my opponent had 5 seconds on his clock left, my orb had like 4 life. I just instant skipped my turn even though I had more than 7 minutes on clock left. Felt amazing, like, hehehe, seem like you forgot one little detail. :D
So I want the old system back, but 99% of my games so far have not been decided by the clock, so it is hard to tell, I just fear that it will become the norm now. The only good thing to come out of it is that 60 card decks now should be more viable.
So again, did you experience the old timer? Which one do you prefer?+ Show Spoiler +In case it is the old one, there is a thread on their forum title TIMER!!!!!!! or something like that where people ask for the old timer back :D
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I just started playing yesterda, so I dont know the old clock. The standoff was fun cause we both had a lot of units in formations, so it was tense.
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Picked this up the other day, its pretty fun, especially for a work in progress.
I think it needs a few tweaks to really work, but I'd definitely recommend picking it up, especially if you are like me and love TCGs but dont want to pay a shit ton of money.
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So, I am playing this right now. How is this thread not more popular? This game is awesome!
I am just starting, though, so maybe it gets repetitive?
It seems extremely strategical.
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Yeah, Faeria is pretty kickass. The boardbuilding and the "pick a land, card or mana" mechanics are pretty smart and well done.
I got really into it a month ago and managed to get pretty far in the ladder with a flying forest/desert deck. Forest there for the faeries, elderwood embraces and the dragon, desert with a balanced mix of events (most of it removal), flying creatures (drakar skycaptain being the key card) and a windstorm collossus (a given when half your deck is events). If you're just starting and want to play a similar deck, ignore the forests, grab the drakars and as much removal as you can afford (soul drain, last nightmare, choking sand) and fill the rest with random flyers.
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