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I think I'm playing this game wrong, it doesn't like 200 peasants on the screen at the same time, but it is very effective. Except when Flash crashes, then I sorta lose the fight.
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Very nice game - cool twist to the tower battle genre. However, I found a few inconsistencies that made me rate it a little low: (1) AI does not seem to have resource limits, especially when it comes to souls. (2) Occasionally, game crashed during a battle (all units froze and started flashing various sprites. (3) Partying gift really unbalances the game - especially at higher levels it makes no sense to use high-power units when sending in peasants to be slaughtered does the trick. (4) I would've appreciated an alignment indicator on each card, so that I could build a deck with the proper boosts.
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There's a global enchantment card that causes a skeleton warrior to be randomly spawned at either portal every time a unit dies... So the number of units on screen NEVER decreases, that's a clever little way to lag me to hell. Changing to low image quality didn't help and after a while i started getting that constant pop up saying that 'a script on this page is causing flash player to run slowly would you like to abort' and I had no choice but to abort script, refresh screen, and load game. -_-
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makes perfect sense, as soon as I get close to their portal, they send out a continuous army of troops, which, if you're paying the slightest bit of attention, stops as soon as they kill your last man in range of their portal. that's not broken at all.
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You've gotta indicate in the browser which cards are in a deck. Looking at 12 Fresh Skeletons and needing to tear one up isn't helpful if I can't figure out which ones are unused.
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Dude... On the Sinners third mission, theres over a hundred skeletons on each side. EPIC.BUT ONE PROBLEM. IT LAGS LIKE HELL
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This game really left me at a loss... on one hand the basic user interface is terrible. After getting just a few card packs, it's unmanageable. The search is either broken or very weird (why not alphabetize the cards!?), stats can't be viewed when the user actually wants to look at them, instead the user has to go to a separate "browser" mode. It's almost as if the creator didn't even bother play testing it.
On the other hand, as a novice game designer myself, I'm blown away by the production values. The interface, unusable as it may be, is beautiful. There are tons and tons of cards, each with good artwork. What kind of person would put hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours into polishing a game far beyond the norm but forgo five hours of work on the UI that would have helped the playing experience 100 times more?
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One simple tip to win the game easily:
If you have more than 2 gold on the begining continue the fight, or else just surrender and try again.
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So i started playing this game and noticed one card in my starterdeck: Parting gift = While in effect any unit killed deals 1 damage to its enemy's portal. Based on that i made a new deck containing 10 Goldmines, 4 Crystal mines, 1 Parting Gift and 10 Peasant cause they are the weakest. I won every game without a problem just putting out my goldmines as fast as possible drawing cards to get all cards out in my hand and then basicly start sending out peasants. They die so fast and the enemy just kills itself. All you need to do is send 100 peasants out. They reach the portal or they die and the enemy portal take a point in damage. Like if you found this to be usefull!
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why would you buy one legendary card when you can buy an ultimate booster that can contain even more legendary cards...
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Man, love this game! Such a unique style of play. Kongregate should have more games like this, not the wait to play, or pay junk that's everywhere these days.
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archers are so overpowered, there's little need for any other thing than gold mines... yeah, not a very balanced game
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At higher levels, the AI cheats horribly. It can pull a bunch of resources out of its ass at the very beginning of the game.
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What's the point of making it a card game when your opponent doesn't follow the rules? AI clearly doesn't send units based on cards and resources.
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Ok, there should either be multiple save slots, or a confirmation when I click on the Start New Game button before it deletes my progress. Can't tell you how many times I've lost my data from a single misclick.
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Seems like guaranteed 1 legendary for 2000 is a rip. I bought 5 20 packs for 2300 each and got 7 legendary, along with 93 other cards. Also, I'm curious if you tried programming an AI so that it would play an actual deck, instead of just sending out a preset list of units. It might be worth adding to take the game to another level.
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I love Undefined games with one big except. Inventory handling. You guys need to institute a better data model. You produce one outstanding game after another with this same lamentable Achilles' heel. I gave 5 out of 5, but, please, please, please fix this.
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I find this game has a LOT of potential but the way it is now it just seems unfinished and lackluster. Things it could improve: 1 - Better sorting on deck builder such has "9x Peasant" instead of 9 peasants showing in your deck builder; 2 - An album where you could see the cards that are missing for your collection; 3 - PvP battles; 4 - Better information display that could tell that a champion is a mage/bandit etc...; 5 - A reset button on deck builder PLEASE; 6 - Information about how much damage a unit deals to a portal; 7 - Knowledge about the odds of getting rare and legendary cards per pack; 8 - Ingame, when you hover over a card you can see the abilities description the same way you can see in the Browser section.
And the list could go on and on... But as it is: 3/5
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AS said by tenshi samshel and bigbadbarton this game needs a better sorting for the cards frankly i wouldn't play the game but I'm working on getting my badge percentage up
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5 Peasants, 4 Gold Mines, 1 Crystal Mine, Parting Gift = ez hard badge.
Can't waste any peasants, so a second Parting Gift can be taken in case the enemy plays over the first one.
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Getting a Kongregate account: free.
Buying a pack of 20 cards in-game: 2,300 gold.
Having your starting hand full of resource cards: priceless.
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Gold is ridiculously OP, it determines the difficulty of your entire game, if you draw a gold mine it's like your difficulty modifier goes down, playing necromancer you also get to have you dusk dealer too, coin purse on the first draw is also pretty absurd, alchemy has completely turned games.
Rebalance gold.
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Yet another balance issue: Why does Sacred Pact, an uncommon, do the same thing as Dark Merchant, a common, but costs five extra souls? The costs really should be switched, or something.
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im going to beat it without using parting gift/kamikaze spam. Because thats just retarded and takes the fun/challenge out of it.
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Anyone else shit a brick when it first went ''LEGENDARY'' ?
Really enjoying this game so far. The only criticisms I could add are ones that have already been mentioned, the sorting cards needs sorting out, and all the to-ing and fro-ing with menus.
Otherwise, you deliver your usual addictiveness with this game. I'm pretty sure I'll rate this a 5/5 when I've progressed a bit more. Although yes it does need work, as I've noticed with your other games you take on board and fix virtually everything that people mention, and you keep going. I can see the effort you have put into this as well. Not just all the 'behind the scenes' stuff, but the graphics are a VAST difference in quality, yet you still manage to keep your style. Best of luck with future games, I'll be playing them, lol :-D
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for those who are frustated and wants to get a good deck, without buying any cards (or maybe just want to get the badge): http://www.kongregate.com/forums/3-general-gaming/topics/149879-how-to-win-at-cardian?page=1 . the deck over there is very good. after you get the hard badge, just buy the 20 cards pack and you'll get medium badge easily. if you still hasn't get the easy badge just buy the 8 cards pack.
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There should be a place on the card that tells you how much damage each unit does to the enemy portal. I noticed that most units take 1 or 2 from the enemy's portal but others take away like 5 or 6. It would help when planning out decks if you knew how much portal damage they can do.
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So... Dark Merchant, a common card, costs 15 souls, and increases gold production by 2, while an uncommon card, blood pact, also raises gold production by 2, but costs 20 souls? What's up with that?
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How about some sort of in-game manual? And tool-tips when you mouse over things would great -- especially units you have "played" in your 5 summoning slots. Once you play them you lose visibility to their stats. The playing experience is very mushy, touchy-feely. I would like more explanation and definition of what is going on. What do all the symbols on the cards mean, for example? Some are intuitive to me but others are not. What's the deal with the global enchantments? Is only one allowed at a time, do they overwrite each other (last played stands?), is there any other way to remove them other than playing a new one? A manual (in addition to the in-game tutorial) would have been welcome here.