all righty folks let's call up the Corey
Jones let's see if he's on hopefully
hopefully still right
all righty hello sir how are you doing
hello how are you
can you hear me okay I can clear so yeah
I'm doing well thank you very much for
joining me today so we're we're yes
everyone there's Corey Jones welcome
dream so um yeah how are you doing how's
things there at the office good I'm just
getting Hicks back in here at the moment
all right so let me jump back in to
Hanks I'll get you on camera since
you've got that going let's uh I do have
it set up here all right so we're
logging into the game let's get this
over here all right so let's see if
let's see if my preparation worked out
so let's get the camera itself and oh
look at that it actually lined up
perfectly Oh beautiful all right good
job there we go
so now you can see him let me see I can
probably adjust it a little bit now I
guess that's fine
it's actually surprisingly aligned
rather well so yeah there we go all
right so yeah how are you doing how's
things at the office oh very good
happy birthday by the way
congratulations on being another year
older yeah
33 time sure flies it's just crazy
it's it's unreal it starts to speed up
actually yeah I feels like a needle
skipping on a record it's getting faster
and faster and the next thing you know
it's you know you're you're dead I mean
I'll tell you I guess you don't know
that but yeah yep oh good we're busy at
work you know the hope is that
relatively quickly here we're gonna have
the siege mode stuff out and we've been
testing the testament going great
there's you know the usual little visual
bugs and and the little you know bits
and pieces that have to be massaged but
the core functionality all works
everything's great
the beautification stuff is all in
process so I'm hoping it's relatively
soon it's really just comes down to the
bugs all the functionality is in all the
interface stuff is done we have you know
we're I think we're about 99 percent
sure we're going to launch with a
playback feature so you're gonna be able
to go back in and look at all the people
that attack your keep and see what
happened so similar to the replay stuff
you mean yeah exactly so we're gonna
have a replay with launch of keeps where
you're gonna be able to look at a list
of all the all the attacks on your keep
and then watch a playback of that attack
that sounds pretty cool yeah I think
that'll be I think that'll be really fun
I mean it was definitely one of the
things we noticed when we we started to
play comig and he made the comment right
away he's like well I made my key but I
really want to see how it did like
rather than just see a number of times
it was attacked and defends I want to
watch him to see where down side of that
is you're gonna see that the AI at times
gonna be a little bit using this card
correctly so maybe I'll take that one
yeah it is what it is I mean we're we're
actually going back and we as part of
the process proceed Chris is investing
more time in making our AI smarter and
smarter and and giving it the tools it
needs to understand some of the newer
cards you know for some stuff I mean
it's pretty easy like prophecy it's it
just does it but for stuff like in power
it's a little more a little more complex
so it like you know it doesn't know how
to use in power very well I would not be
used in power cards in your keep defense
but it's been fun I mean they'd be the
building all these brews and and it's
been pretty funny like one of the
powerful decks was actually using a was
using a an Easter PvE card that is love
seeing some of the silly or PvE cards
actually
pop out as be pretty powerful in siege
mode which is gonna be hilarious to have
everyone sort of reinvestigate all the
different cards that exist and combos
that exist with this very specific goal
in mind of how do I build three pieces
that of a puzzle that is even
impenetrable and that and that the AI
knows how to use knowing that the AI is
not great at certain things like
anticipating or judging sacrifices it's
gonna make for some pretty neat gameplay
I think with that said I think you guys
were said that you're gonna have like a
band list of stuff that you can't use at
some point because like what I see is
being a problem well it's like the
combat to start with well to start with
everything's on the table like I said
like we're doing this sort of open
development style so we're gonna start
off with everything you know the the
defense has is all of PvE so it's sort
of frost ring mode so you'll have all
the PvE cards all the equipment
destroyed if you don't have the the
mercenaries but I want to get there
that's one of the things that's on the
list for sure and then for the attacking
you your standard and so we'll see how
that goes and see if the balance feels
like it's challenging and fun and if
it's right now the defense has the
advantage for sure it's it's so really
tough if we discover some cards that
need to be banned in the next week or so
like working on through the bug stuff we
might ban a few cards but again we're
just going to kind of play it by ear a
little bit we're just trying to make the
most fun experience and then if if we
figure out that uh you know the defense
is still a little too rough in terms of
what the return is and you know how many
times you're playing then potentially we
open it up to something like you know
you have memorial format and the defense
has PvE and then and we look at that and
so the goal of course at the end is to
have the AI be smart enough so that both
players could be full PvE mode and I'm
gonna go from there now the good thing
about standard vs. PvE is that for our
ps4 players
it sort of opens it up to them because
they're in the same boat they don't have
PvE cards to use now they can get the
PvE cards from the auction house or
wherever that's what's fine and a lot of
that stuff isn't very expensive so
that's that's nice but we're just kind
of playing it by ear I love the feature
it's something that we've had on the
docket you know from the very beginning
and as I said we had built out the core
mechanics of it as part of a larger
keeps PvE
sort of design but we never again I
designed lots of stuff where the idea is
cool but the actual play of it's not so
we've tested it and it seemed like a
great idea but this will be a fun way
for us to just put in the core mechanic
of it have everyone play it everyone
give us comments so we can slowly but
surely sort of Whittle it into shape
sculpt it into shape and then great when
we launch so the larger keeps piece of
the PvE game then we've got this core
engine part of it sort of you know in a
great place
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yeah I think they're there yes they're
there working on it the you know the key
is gonna be a lot of the infinite combos
require you know a certain number of
turns or a certain you know you've got
variants and when you're playing one
game matches and you have to do it three
times what kind of what we're finding is
that the the AI supposed to be excellent
or good like it'll blow you out and what
are you to get to hit three times in a
row without with you know one game so
that's one of the problems with complex
is that if you if you stumble even for a
heartbeat the thing will put you in the
ground and so if your odds of you
running it three times in a row I mean
it's there but I think it's a little
harder so and I don't feel like any of
our combo decks are so consistent that
you know somebody puts in adjust a rush
they burn down rush you know
PvE deck with equipment that you'll have
the time you know you'll have to just
get lucky and so I feel like that's one
of the things that's sort of moderating
it a bit so I'm again you know it's
impossible like with the billions and
billions of combinatorial x' we have at
this point like there's just no way
effectively test it other than give it
to everyone and we'll just kind of see
what Nets out for this I mean I feel
comfortable enough just putting it live
and letting you know in process and it's
you know you can put up you know the the
lowest you know putting up whatever the
lowest number for platform gold is that
doesn't represent a lot of risk so
messing around with it with that or just
playing against yourselves to test your
decks and I feel like there's a low
enough barrier to entry and it's mainly
just you know a fun thing that we're
probably pretty safe like you know
without having to do a test server also
I think we're so close at this point
wouldn't even be worth taking the
trouble my hope is that it's out real
soon yeah we're gonna do a kismat draft
in here in moments so I'll jump in the
Cure to 48
so while we're waiting we can obviously
chat some more but so kismet draft I'm
sure a lot of people like myself and you
have been drafting a lot we well we know
that you draft you have a have you done
anything awesome lately in kismet drow
specifically my favorite thing is has
always been just you know sort of
chasing the weirder combos so all of the
kids with staffs have been fun because
they like the part of the point of them
is to you know sort of put in a lot of
different action when it comes to
figuring out before Matt and that's been
sort of the funnest thing of all is you
never really can figure out the format
and you're always sort of bouncing
around trying new stuff you know the
gladiator people like it it's definitely
clearly you know it wasn't as popular as
last time and you know I'm always trying
to figure out how best to serve the hex
community I mean you know I recognize
that people make comments about oh we a
lot why are we doing this again and and
we have you know we just came off of
this but you know my my take on it is as
I look at the numbers the when we do a
new draft format when the new set comes
out they're popular but then they drop
off at about eight to nine weeks pretty
much regularly since maybe not for set
not for the very very beginning because
it was all just kind of cockeyed in
terms of you know the sets and the
release dates but but since we've been
consistent it seems relatively
consistent that the drop-off is that
somewhere between eight and nine weeks
so trying to figure out how we give the
players something that is interesting or
fun or that excites them is always my
goal and so you know we're gonna keep
working on it
if it's not you know a kismet draft or
is it a flash back draft or or what is
it I just don't I don't I feel like
physical is very limited because they're
you know their distribution process and
then the stores and they're so locked
into how their format has to work for
physical games and we're digital so we
can do something smarter and I just want
to try and continue to figure out how to
do something that people get excited
about when
starts to sort of taper off yeah mixing
things up is always always fun give
people something new to try one thing
that I've suggested that I thought would
be pretty fun is at the end of every
month like we have VIPs I was thinking
to be kind of cool if you like took that
system because some people are saying
that oh it's not you know we're not
getting the numbers anymore
I was thinking it'd be nice if you maybe
mix it up a bit and change like where
you have like a draft end of the month
draft one where you maybe have just the
VIP ticket as the entry so it's mostly
mostly just for fun and what it would be
is it uses everyone's like you go to
join and then it presents you with all
the drafts you did for that month and
then you pick one so you pick and pick
your best one and everybody's doing the
same thing so it's just a tournament
full of all these crazy draft decks from
that month to see who had the best draft
deck type of thing and mainly just for
fun but I think I think that would be
pretty cool to do as just like and yeah
one thing maybe every couple months
because yeah it'd be it because I
because I've had plenty of drama I swear
I've just been I wish I played it more
yeah yeah I'm gonna talk to the guys
that's a really good idea I'm definitely
I mean I've read the comments I mean I'm
on the forums as much as I can be
you know I try to absorb as much of the
you know constructive criticism without
you know getting to the point where I'm
sort of the toxic part of it gives me
you know yeah tilted my best and you
know sort of take what's great out of
there and you know definitely the
comments about the tournament attendance
I mean one of the things like having the
Bashan clash every weekend I just really
wanted to have a way for people that
were you know wanted to be invested in
playing you know sort of that you know
tournament level play and having
something every weekend that you can
look forward to and it was just a
regular thing I feel like that's very
important for a trading card game and so
seeing the numbers go down a bit yeah I
mean that's this is natural for where we
are in the cycle of the sets so whenever
we do lose you so I've shaved my screen
now so I'm thinking just being a dirty
reg rafter and taking the value there
but yeah I'm but you don't what about
the you know the winning the winning I
mean the winning yeah what would you
like this is this is your draft what do
you want to do I take your canary it is
yeah I mean I would take it I mean well
someone's gonna get a present there so
there's another giveaway for you guys
speaking of giveaways let's do a
spectral oak let's do a big one
we got Corey young now let's start off
with a spectral oak all you do is type
in the chat
hopefully my volumes better night now
some of you guys saying I was much too
low so please let me know if that's
better so we got talk of night so
gorgeous
yeah tell me what you would want to take
from this pack I know what I like let me
know what you like there what are you
like I love in the halls of China I love
that cut yeah that's what I'm thinking I
think we just go let's just follow it I
mean here here we are we've got the
Blood Diamond we're on the right track I
don't know if you saw my deaf channel
article but I loved doing that and it's
just great so I'm right there with you
death champ is a great yeah
all right folks sorry all you gotta do
is type in the chat folks to win a
spectral okay I'll do the giveaway in
about a minute's time so you get plenty
of time to type in there and I'll draw
that winner so yeah but the next pack I
like one of others are several kinds I
like here so it is a tough choice but
what are you liking I would say well
clearly I always go removal first I've
never had a case where I had like I'm
like damn I got too much removal so I
mean repeal for me I just always take
all the removal I can to start yeah I'm
yeah then I do that most the time as
well in this case like I wouldn't be
like you know cosplay I love to for once
and I do like the you know evasive
threat on top of it so but yeah hell is
fine either of those is what I would go
for here and then hope for the watcher
or you know whatever I'm not picking so
watcher or cosplay on the wheel would be
fantastic
I'd out from this pack we're gonna see
either of them but we can hope so you're
definitely grab the reveal my you might
look at that we can't rewarded with more
removal I really love a woman guilt as
well just that that two-for-one value
I'm a huge fan of it oh yeah yeah for
sure I love it that right there here
this is good you know this is I've seen
these graphs many times where you end up
getting a lot of great removal and then
you're able to sort of cherry-pick there
is typically what it ends up being is
like oh they got threats that you have a
hard time dealing with it as long as you
can deal with those you can usually get
on top especially in if we do manage to
somehow get a def jam deck going the
more removal we have the better deal
with their threats that we can't just
block and trade with and then you're off
to the races so yeah everyone guilt very
nice pick up here hopefully can keep
this train going it's looking pretty
good so far this is amazing first four
picks oh yeah this is interesting you
tell me what would you taking this um so
noble citizenry is obviously great but
it is double threshold with that mother
that's a big deal I would probably go
for the watcher and hope that works out
because they are ridiculously good when
you get obviously if you don't get it a
huge amount they it's just you've seen a
few every pack has had a watcher in it
so far I said no I haven't even realized
that the first pack you a watcher or
hunter the first pack got a watcher for
sure yeah there you go let's go for it
got Watchers and hunters we could try
there clearly the four people to the TV
what right left of you whatever they're
they're not doing it so now it's time
hopefully it's circuit tables yeah all
right folks let's draw the winner of
that spectral oak let me find my window
alright here we go the winner of the
first spectral oak for today is rabbinic
chem enough please let me know your
in-game name all right what do we got
here so we've got a battle chant a
vampire a mosquito a mosh pit and a
cruel sentence in our colors not that
we're locked into blood I personally
like cruel sentence just you know
replaces itself and get that verdict
yeah I agree
I agree I just really go ahead yeah say
you've got some gladiators come by -
yeah I'm not a huge fan of them
Blood Diamond just because the gem
choices aren't the best yeah great yeah
so like the vampire is okay I just don't
prioritize vampire like normally I get
to see a bunch of them and like it's
it's perfectly fine you know forecast 3
#NAME?
haven't really been a you have any death
Christ up particularly yeah yeah not
that that's not that's the most
important thing but cool sentence is
great actually I like that car quite a
bit yeah I just I just love that it's
tough especially confidence replacing
yourself and you can you can get lucky
yeah alright we got a question here oh
boy that's tough I know what I like what
do you like III would have to go with
the Mun soggy bet I that's that's what I
was thinking yeah it's just crazy good
she's very good yeah yeah alright let's
got a consensus there all right Grisi
docks bar sap is Ritualist a flank royal
definitely work seemingly in the ring no
choice got a royal diplomat over there
you got the Grizzly yeah hmm I mean only
say anything from here well for the most
part I'd be happy with so whatever you
like we'll take let me just check on the
chat here I would go with the yeah I
would probably go with the diplomat
diplomat it is alright so we can always
give him extra health and then when a
opposing trip into the Crypt we could go
for extra damage making him a pretty big
threat that's not a bad option yeah so
there's not really anything first here
besides of the ruining strike so I guess
we'll just take the rune a strike unless
we want to deny something I usually
don't hate draft like it usually doesn't
do much for me unless there's just
nothing they'll just trying to take
whatever is best but yeah I think you're
ruining straights fine yep I'm fine with
it
all right so that's I've got your name
there so we'll do some more giveaways in
a moment
yes and it's raining strike so yeah
let's hopefully get some of those
telling keeps on the wheel if not Oh
we'll just keep taking all the good
blood diamond cards as we see ya you've
gone by one so somebody's taking them so
we'll see so one thing more is one thing
people are curious about is we we
haven't heard about well you know the
tablet tablet supply version I guess in
awhile so is there any updates on that
you'd like to share or is that still
unfortunately sort of everything's on
siege and the next set right now so
we've gotten down the road where we had
it working we were doing this like we
had the reduce of asset bundling there
are a few different things like we're
starting to build the interface I mean
the ps4 build helped it like figuring
out a lot of stuff we had to do for
tablet but it kind of got put that
burner for now while we get all of siege
in and all of well also the ps4 for
Europe and for Japan that required you
know some canoodling
Japan has some specific requirements
about how we treat currency is an
example so we've got to work through
that you got here yeah I probably take
it not terrible no it's not definitely
not terrible really I would take the
primal prison but oh I didn't well I'm
not a huge fan of from the prison but I
guess yeah I hate being like locked out
resource wise in terms of like
thresholds and drives me crazy so I tend
to prioritize that kind of stuff a
little higher I think than most people
yeah look at that that's pretty good so
I like jewel list and I like see free so
what are you liking here
I like you I would take those I would
take the C priest he's really
problematic if like things had to go
this way it makes all the math too
screwy yeah it does see priests and also
they they hit he hits your
you're vampires yeah three five Flyers
that five is uh you know that's good oh
that's great
the spy how we take a spy yep spiders
Punisher and outflank
I'll see I'll flank just to see what
what your combat tricks are gonna be at
one point here it is that's a shame
which we could really yeah I don't think
so
I know I mean I generally don't splash
colors just for somebody's gonna get a
consultant Alan I love that color I love
that kind as well such good value
well you but you've got to kill now you
know and if he is kill we got kill in
your hand that doesn't be a waiter yeah
that's true if you've got it so yeah
we'll pass now give another awesome card
to somebody else they're in this draft
why not let's take the kill let's do
another giveaway here so let's see you
up next we'll do a a collector alternate
let's do this soul Mabo collector AAA so
again all you to do is be active in the
chat just time alright a few good
choices here what do you like it
I think the humble guard is especially
if you can find some more verdict I
think you're gonna catch more verdict as
my feeling yeah and that guy is I mean I
do really like humbrol god
smoke raker is also just really
ridiculously good value with the double
discount but yeah that's what you want I
think that's the way to go all right
we're doing it we're doing it
alright he's a nice guys who warned you
even though later after that I'm not
very good so I mean you're doing fine
like I probably would have taken raper
there myself just cuz they're ridiculous
value to it but I do live unreal got as
well and if we're lucky maybe we'll get
another into the holes and we'll just
get all the videos and you're putting a
lot of positive energy into the idea
we're gonna get more verdict
I'll be happy if that happens so we got
mr. champion many choices alright so we
do have the ender which is a double
deploying and death grant we've got
another Deadeye and I know Belinda
grizzy and yeah what you like in here
alright it's it's like it's all blurred
out for me okay here we go yeah very
good I would I would say the I don't
know what do you think I mean I'm happy
with either the Deadeye or the ender is
what I would probably go between so I
would say ender yeah let's get for the
verdict why not I like it yeah I'll just
double down on the verdict I so I feel
like that's a good good choice easy
pickup here with another kills that's
pretty good
oh great look at this a dark and knight
who kills or repel all oh thanks thanks
Jin all there's cupcakes full on -
Bella's head thank you for the cheer all
right so what we get here is for the
kill of course so let's draw the winner
of the soul marble alternative here we
go alright let's roll it
hey do you want people entered we got
hex manifesto you've got yourself a soul
marble alternate just let me know your
in-game name please
alright so let's grab the kill we get
next there's another diplomat there's a
gruesome deed that's grumpy in game
names where is he where's Manifesta
there he is
alright you just talked very nice so
yeah let me know your in-game name and
I'll put that in my final there it is
alright thank you very much
I don't know what do you think the any
charge Hulk joke if you have the right
immunity ins gonna be able to verdict -
yeah I like chunk oh just good value so
I'm happy to take that that seems fine
good value it triggers off the pre the C
priest it lets you use your champ you
know if you get the verdict champ you're
gonna be able to yeah sounds good
so let me put your name there so that
was for the sole model alright save
alright next next giveaway we'll do one
for you PV players will do a kickstart
of mercenaries so if you're if you like
the PV even talking in the shed so what
do we like here not not a great pack
we've got a naive lack he's not terrible
yeah that's what I was thinking yeah
it's fine perfectly fine so we'll grab
him when we look in here so curve is
looking pretty decent sample look at
that view looking pretty good so more
two's would be nice there's a cruel
sentence so we can get another verdict
here do we want it yeah you want that
right yeah for sure all right well
yelling for everyone else is taking all
the deputy now you're you're you you
stay focused and now it's starting to
pay dividends you know so uh I'll give
you something to give away to at the end
of the stream let's wait till after
we've drafted us dude it's too much
going on but yeah whatever what I like I
could we could give away one of any
sleeve in the game or something that's
right all right you know I'm sure people
would appreciate that if that's what
you'd like to do sure all right we got a
cold fly
we got a cruel sentence but are we good
I can't say it's not to clean up in my
screen there's lag yeah all right
hundred kilobytes hitori hundred
kilobytes it's quite oh boy hopefully
I'll upgrade it soon so coughs fly we
got cruel sentence we got gruesome
detour a vampire I'm thinking cold so I
just love corpse flies yeah take it you
were you know you didn't get that last
one so I think the plan with this guy
the guy who's always getting attacked by
these insects is he's always going is
that how
every say is that just something your
plan to continue for till the end of
time we we do it if I remember like I
think it's me like I'm like Oh remember
put the dude that's getting killed by
her getting attacked by it's the same
guy for sure yeah but we sometimes we
sometimes we forget like I think this
last so did we forgot so good that's a
great pickup yeah like I'm not I don't I
don't mine Inquisition just a double
blood kind of you know and it can be a
situational but yeah we got lucky with
it it's brutal
yeah nothing feels worse so now yeah
nothing there we go I would probably
just hate graph the strategist maybe
yeah okay Oh
grizzly is what I'm liking here we also
got a bastion of warlord and queens yeah
not that those I mean it's basically
between grizzly in bashing now I would
say the grizzly for sure I like really
good can't you just frost for him my
first ones just another great mechanic
yeah another one that the AI is not
great with so we're making those siege
decks I have to say when it comes to
portal I love it it's a great mechanic I
know you guys were like how can we did
you was the like you know from the mine
instead of like a can we make conscript
better or is it just something that you
know it's like hey you how about we just
do this and it's happened to turn out
being better than the new conscript like
a better version yeah I I feel like you
know Ryan has been leading these sets
and doing an amazing job and I feel like
what he's been focused on is just how do
I make new fun things in the digital
space and stay
true to what is great about hex which is
you know trying to be high-end
competitive well balanced and fun and I
think that's where that stuff's coming
from I think the I think you know next
set I think people are going to be
pretty blown away by what we have next
set like in terms of taking advantage of
the digital space we've got a you want
to maybe tell us I don't because I feel
like this we're gonna do a whole article
and show it off and but it's it's pretty
out there
I tried fun I think it's one of the most
out-there things I will say it's the
most out-there thing we've done in the
game yet for a for a normal set yeah so
I mean that this should be you know
pretty crazy I think people are gonna be
pretty surprised by us exploring some
pretty interesting space so that's
exciting
the but I you know I have my hat's off
to you know Ryan and Jared and Cory they
are doing a great job
oh wow so pivot pal that doesn't do much
for us a mind rack sorcerer is great
both very very dangerous but we're Gabe
sighs yeah like drafting I mean like hey
drafting never really seems to work no
I'm not saying - hey drop see I'm just
ya know it's they're just really good
cats but yeah mine Rack is great so uh
yeah I will try to get your questions
soon guys we're just you know focusing
on the draft at the moment so I'm sorry
that I haven't gone yeah yeah and I'll
be on long enough for us - yeah well
we're playing the games
we'll be able to do a bit of that I
think we'll be better a bit of timing
but one question we do focus we're
trying to draft here yeah exactly yeah
let's just let's continue with draft so
take the mine wreck let's put him in the
deck yeah I think that's the right ball
guys great we got repeal and kill so
what I mean I like repeal just because
the reduced cast but also I mean they
both have the upside of being to be able
to use you know you
double block and then or they double
block and you use it repel obviously
doesn't have a scenario so it is yeah
but all the trigger guys like the guys
that you know aren't attacking he just
got so much upside that green Australia
just probably isn't attacking so the
repel not doing much for you well it's
sitting there you over with like
yeah this is the kind of deck that I
love where it's heavy on removal and
then tries to create a couple of threats
that are very difficult to deal with and
that's where you can get absolutely
fluke over by going up against someone
with a death chant if they're just like
Oh killing please kill kill kill them
all and then there's lightning that we
have seen this well I'm just saying like
that is one of the downside
one of the upsides to doing the death
chain build is you you want my parts
together the wrong choice I love them on
soggy but I also like the hunger that's
a tough one I think there's a decent
chance hunger wheels and I think we do
actually need more to drops and I'm a
big fan of dead I so yeah I'm happy to
take that oh yeah there is he's great
nothing too exciting here in my opinion
do diamond ice is what I like there what
are you liking the diamond ice ice ice
is just amazing no you know what the
other thing I would say though is that
you know with the verdicts the spirits
are not a bad thing
so the ethereal caller is not bad either
true the reason why the reason why I'm
thinking the ice is cuz we have a lot of
play was already well cut what cut that
card drive me drill be crazy when I was
in the standard draft format well I
hated that car
actually when I get someone during a
kismet draft several weeks ago where
they had I think three or four of them
and he was like oh he might have even
meet four colors and I was just like
this is ridiculous and then he's like he
plays like you know and he's tricolor or
four color deck he's like augmented
twice opens at awakening and I'm like
killing him getting back and I was just
like stop yeah it was it was just like
the evasion strategy is great the thing
that annoyed me though was I think it
was one of those games around to color
was just generally when I stick to and
he's didn't there were just getting all
the thresholds and augmented awakening
and I didn't even get my second color
again but our mind rack I think that's a
great yeah you're gonna be able to dump
the diplomat dump I mean you got a lot
of stuff here you can dump to really
focus in yeah you got some great
probably I mean we get rid of these
vampires if we yeah lucky again still
we're still in process here we got who
trying to figure out what the cards are
when they're in low res like super
pixelated alright hopefully I'll get
better incidence soon but yeah I mean
yeah it's it's just mine tonight to send
it to Skype and the stream at the same
time surprisingly I'm not dropping
frames but yeah so we've got Lackey
we've got outflank and that's pretty
much it you know the Howard ratings but
we don't care I probably grab the
outflank you're probably not playing the
lackeys at this point yeah exactly
I'll flanks at least you get if you're
gonna if it ends up being a heavy
creature match up you can have some
options to sideboard in some more combat
tricks so we got surface challenge here
which is pretty much to anything we can
play that we yeah probably now I got so
much removable at this point that it's
probably go yeah this is limited reach
in there so let's see we got repel
double cruel since doubled ni so we kind
of do want more
if we can still get some like I think
there's a chance we get another Deadeye
which would be not bad yeah there's
another coin here there's also a noble
citizenry and a bastion so we're Kuna
coin the diamond one I think you know
the noble citizenry's aren't bad I mean
if you run those again you know yeah I
think we take it I don't know or there's
the UNA coin whichever you want what do
you what do you reckon here coin or
noble I'm happy with either let's go
with the noble we've got a thing of the
mountain god the one drop to two that
hurts you each turn or a bastion button
so I think I don't think you're gonna
play any of this stuff
I probably grab I'm thinking Fat Bob
easy
sorry uh yeah maybe actually okay he's a
great one drop yeah I was just saying in
case we're against like a super
aggressive deck week because we don't
have yeah yeah - so that's good point
he's a 1 so it's nothing here we want so
we could just deny a Bryant Legion I
guess stop someone getting too many yeah
I haven't sorry I so give away right
what was the giveaway I was doing I
forgot oh yeah I did say the kickstart a
mercenary so we're gonna start off with
a we'll do the signing of earners let's
do that guy so let me get that ready so
again all you got to do is be active in
the chat and then I'll give you a chance
to win so sign of Aaron as the kicks
down a mercenary from the Dragons was
the dragon's blood deck I think that's
what it was killed so we've got you know
a haunting cry Bastion vicuna coin and
it's charged bot as possibilities just
boy you know yeah probably
alright between that is between that
mature-age Bob but yeah I probably look
cooler going all right all right folks
I'll draw that winner in a moment so we
do have an F in route caller now so I
guess we take that since you wanted to
be full yeah I would say that's probably
the right choice
look here so all right chats going crazy
I can't keep up with it let me draw the
winner here we go folks we've got 70
people entered into this one so again
all you do is be acting with a chat to
be eligible for all these giveaways and
as long as you're typing I think it's
like every 20 minutes that'll be fine so
we can grab a to drop here we've got
spoil or a razor edge duelist I think we
go the Duelist for an actual body yeah
yeah yeah for sure
all right all right let me drill the
winner here so this is for the the sign
of earnest let's go here we go the
winner is how do I say this
and graça Angra hecka you are the winner
just let me know your in-game names
thank you and let's draw another winner
let's do a winner for the monkey of the
nine tails as well so angry heck oh you
have got that one and there's your
in-game name thank you know where he's
AJ I'm just letting the thing pick the
cards for us here because they're not in
our colors so whatever yeah all right so
let's get that so that was for the song
let's draw a winner for the monkey the
ninetails another Kickstarter mercenary
here we go
correct crack - Emily out I don't have
to say this name we'll just call him
crack crack you've got it please confirm
you're here and let me know your in-game
name as well I guess we probably should
put these in the bin get these wild
cards out of there so we're gonna make
some cuts not too many but we gotta make
some let's get rid of that so we've got
the three coins the resource optimizing
leaves do you want to you've got a you
want to drag that mind rack down you got
one of them up on the top of one
no come oh oh you mean up here there is
Eric so he's back in there so we've gone
so I think we get rid of Augmented
awakening yeah yeah for sure
we don't so let's see so we definitely
want the doc if not we want the Ender
charge hope we could get rid of its yeah
go go down what what else is in the the
reserve I am sorry let me blood
we've got nothing too exciting that we
the Flyers they're fine
and ice nothing in there to strike yeah
so you're what do you what so many
resources at a three so you get you need
to cut two cards yeah if we want to do
17 which in this deck we've got the into
the end into the holes so we don't mind
getting flooded if we get that down of
course so yeah we can do that so is what
I'm thinking
yeah no best targets me I'm real God is
a good target so maybe we want to keep
it in just for that but we've also got
the fly at the rope I would say the one
issue I think right now we're having is
that we don't have any great you know
like the one like problem attacker that
they're gonna happen either with sadly
so it's kind of a kind of reliant on
just of having all the removal and
hopefully our what we have remaining
wins is a game or the verdict value we
got decent amount of verdict potential
so we could get phantoms or even a
nightfall can win the game and that's
where the amber of God could could help
us out as well yeah or what do you try
you you
the bear and lose the let's see lose the
bear and go up one let's see grow up on
our main deck lately so if you take out
the bear and one other like the the the
razor the the to drop yeah strike take
out the the girl what's her name if we
if you if you to drop and the five drop
and put in both vampires so you can try
is you gotta get a lot of removals so
you might be able to keep them out of
the sky and then use that as your sort
of wind condition is that you're gonna
be coming over the top I think I think
you're gonna need some combat tricks
we're gonna win this how about the sea
breeze do we care about him like getting
extra health on out dudes with the two
guys with lethal so that's pretty good
making those guys one fives is not not
terrible like I feel like I would I
wouldn't get rid of him so you were
thinking Julis well there was the Baron
that do list were the ones that I had
said but probably the do list at this
point I just don't think I think you're
gonna be able to control the the ground
and then try and just go over the top
and so the do list isn't not really
helping too much with that so you're
probably going to be able to pump up for
instance hopefully pump up the mind
racks to make the ground game screwy use
combat tricks and then hopefully
removals for the air and you
over the top yeah that's sort of how I
would build it let's see yeah it's
always the hard part right like what do
you cut I was just think well I mean I
guess you drop the outflank yeah I got a
lot of moles probably fine alright let's
get a coin in there you got a stock
stock at a guard - I generally will buff
yourselves just so he's hard to deal
with and he can then be more defensive
but in this deck I guess we might want
to go for the more damage what are you
thinking I think you go with the one
shot blessed to attack that way every
time you verdict he's doing for from
that point oh yeah for sure all right
let's do it all right let's get our
shelves in so we need to get probably
slightly more done and we want to make
sure we get that into the holes down
yeah there we go all right wait nope I
stuffed it up I did have the right foot
eight so six seven eight nine diamond
ain't blood is what I'm gonna go for
here do you agree with that so yeah I
think I'll ever larger accept the calls
fly and dark if not you're there yeah -
where's out driving I mean it looks like
the right mix but yeah I just Mary I
think we want to make sure we get that
into the holes down if we have it so
just a 1 yeah for sure all right folks
let's let's search for a game
yeah hmm so alright last giveaway let's
do another one this time let's do one of
my favorite set 1 cards do you want you
guys would have seen me play a lot with
replicators gambit alternate art here we
go
now the Kickstarter card so again just
being active in chat and yeah if you
have questions now for Corey just do add
hexed havoc followed be a question and
I'll try my best to catch them the champ
is crawling pretty quick so I might miss
some work so I've got some in the forums
let me hear I have a look there and see
what was see what's already hasn't been
talked about oh right so here's one
thing so the ps4 changes is there is
that like coming in the next patch
perhaps or is that gonna be later on no
no it'll be a little bit later against
everything focus wise is just trying to
get siege out as quickly as possible
because I felt like that was something
that could really be exciting for
players and yeah bring you know PvE
players give them something that's new
and fun and so I really wanted to make
that the focus and so everything else is
sort of you know between that making
sure the next sets ready to go because
like I said there's some interesting
stuff going on that that required some
pretty heavy-duty engineering and then
also the launch of the ps4 on on free EU
and Japan each of them had very specific
requirements that were different than
the US so we had to to challenge the
team to get all that stuff done luckily
II use now out and Japan I think is I'm
hoping next week we can hit Japan
Melissa I mean who knows if we have an
audience in Japan I don't know like I
just felt like it's one of the biggest
TCG markets in the world and we could
get the game translated and they're not
put off by things that are complex and
clearly our game is pretty complex so I
felt like it was a good opportunity
especially since there are there's a
reasonably big install base for the
PlayStation in Japan so but we do want
to get those in the other issue ulil is
we were trying to figure out how to make
it an option right I don't want you to
you know gotta figure out how to manage
that do we continue to offer both and
then we have to support both which is
just a lot more work or do we switched
all
/ - sort of the format of the way you
build on the ps4
a little bit of an open question there
still - so yeah but we'll definitely get
to it so stro more asks will there be
more development focus on a XIII once
set 9 and seed you're done well there
continues to be I mean it's still in
development we're still doing stuff it's
just slower because we've had to balance
resources against whatever we're you
know whatever the biggest priority is
but all that stuff is slowly creeping
along you know that clearly the you know
the the heart and soul of hex is in PvE
and I'm trying to make sure I put in the
stuff that is most going to potentially
turn the dial and get more people
playing the game and so the other
question is always does going from 50
hours of EBE content that we have
currently or going to you know adding 30
more hours of PB of the same type of PvE
concept content does that gonna bring us
a bunch of new people or does that you
know serve a smaller group of people
that are already in the game that's
always a question and so for me things
like seeds that are a new way to play
and give you an exciting thing to do
with PvE become much more of a priority
than simply putting in more nodes and
more dungeons but on that note we do
have some plans about that specifically
what we're trying to come up with new
and fun ways to make that exciting and
and and how can we make it innovative as
opposed to just more of the same and
that's what we're working on you know I
would look at something like raids as an
example and I would say that's a bigger
opportunity for us in terms of getting
more people playing X then simply
putting out a XIII yeah I would write I
would be more inclined to say you know
put a heavy duty focus of resources on
figuring out finally how to get rage in
so that we have multiplayer PvE content
that to me I feel like that's one of
those we have a lot of shots at sort of
you know there's a lot of different
features a lot different things we're
gonna do in the game it's not just about
longevity we
growing playerbase we still have
thousands of new players every day I
look at the totals like we get a bunch
of new people constantly and the
Playstations help with that and when we
go on to other consoles it will help
with that only a tablet will help with
that it's ready to continue that but
beyond just getting onto platforms that
give us a chance to talking to people
it's what kinds of gameplay potentially
serve the you know people who would like
hex in a way that finally gets them to
install and start playing or brings back
the people that sort of you know moved
away from games been out for a long time
I mean I cycle through like lots of
games so the expectation that everyone's
gonna stick with it forever is crazy but
you know if you're coming up with fresh
stuff and new ways to play then it's
kind of a new game and that's for me a
big focus in a big priority and so I
would say you know we're gonna keep
iterating on things like C's we're gonna
keep working on fun things I have some
ideas about dungeons we've got lots of
stuff but something big like raids you
know that to me represents sort of the
holy grail of that you know chance to
reinvent how people feel about you know
PvE as an example yeah I've been like
hammering for it like I just want right
so bad can you may be talking about what
is the biggest challenge to actually
getting it going like what or is that
something you don't want to talk about
well I mean the interface component how
to manage how two players play together
and how priorities and targeting works
how the AI deals with it and how the AI
plays you know having the things that I
really want like the experience to be
rather cinematic so you know there's a
lot of work that goes into you know
building out new battle boards and all
the other things that I want a raid to
represent including all the scripted
triggers and how do you make it a puzzle
that I mean there's a lot that goes into
making it once you've tackled all the
logistical problems of how it plays and
how it feels great and then all the
polish and fun game design we've had a
lot of that done
a lot of raids one of the things we have
to have you know that we had to you know
conquer is sticky damage and direct
attacks and so direct attacks again or
one of those things that's sort of a
core functionality component that we we
have to solve that you know as part of
the raids without direct attacks being
being able to pick you know pick the
target but you know other troops to
attack raids won't work you have to have
that okay cuz we win right you wouldn't
you think it but no having you know
having created the idea of raids back
with the WoW TCG and spent many many
years making them not having direct
attacks just closes up too much design
space and to make the most fulfilling
raid experience you really have to have
direct attacks so it be basically
telling you experience as well on top of
what we currently the way we currently
play yeah for sure that's great because
I'm space to have we can use it
everywhere
geez yeah but but again it's just one of
those core core system elements that we
have to sort of tackle and there's a lot
to it but again it's one of the things
that's on the roadmap and it's something
we want to we want to do but again
that's you know part of that larger
conversation of how the resources get
spent at any given moment yep alright so
we have some other questions I mean
there's a lot I'm trying to just find
trying not to pass it you guys in the
chat here I've just scroll back up so
someone did mention I can't find the
exact question but it was something to
do you just mentioned the roadmap is
there any plans to do like I mean like a
public road map of a thing I I
understand I mean of course that would
be I feel like all that does is set up
people for disappointment because all of
the like we try to be agile I try to be
I gotta tell everyone and you'll see it
like what decisions we make about
unbagging cards you're banning car or
whatever it is I try not to stay with a
decision because I made a decision I try
to make the best decision in any moment
and you know things change everything
changes all the time and I'm
look at what people are saying and what
people are more importantly doing or
who's playing and and try to take all of
that in all the time to make the best
decision possible and so putting on a
road map to me just feels like we all
know all the stuff we want to do
we've talked about it there's a dozen
things that any serious hex player can
rattle off instantaneously that we want
to put in so he's simply saying like
here's the priorities or here's how
we're gonna do it is me setting up
everyone to be either you know to be
disappointed honestly yeah I feel like
that's a bad call
so not something that I'm really excited
about doing honestly fair enough and I
know a lot of games out there that are
do great jobs do real bounce but I feel
like they are rolling stuff out on a
schedule that's based on what they're
trying to accomplish with the game very
specifically and very lynyrd linearly
whereas hex is just not that game at
this point you know it's old enough and
we've been doing enough stuff where it's
trying to be agile and figure out like
okay people are really like about siege
comes out and people love it then me
tripling down I'm trying to get the PvE
components to go around siege and the
reward systems and really blow that out
that becomes the best decision and so
all of a sudden the roadmap changes
based on you know how players are
playing and what they like so that's
sort of my my take on that I like the
question somebody asked what happens if
I get hit by a bus actually the the I
wasn't one I just figured that you've
got like a self-destruct mechanism it's
like screw you all if I'm next year old
I get Fitbit style watch that when my
pulse stops the server's lock instantly
yeah and all the other data is just
deleted that doesn't happen all right so
are you kidding me
the game will live on yeah and then I'll
manifest myself inside of the game
itself nice as well just I'll just draft
four alternative to get three in the
morning and you'll see you like my name
pop up in the draft QT oh my god
like you know
that's right the ghost my ghost will
draft and and then I can in chat I could
tell you about the afterlife sweet how
exciting this alright so a lot of
questions let's check some of the ones
on the forums here so I guess that's
look at that that's where the bus
question can you know has a bunch of
questions sorry
oh you just like read it off an answer
if you'd like to do that yeah I talked
about a little bit before but the you
know the state of the you know giving
away $1000 every Saturday and Sunday and
having seventy people show up yeah not
optimal clearly you know I'm again I'm
trying to figure out how best to serve
the community and so I felt like you
know having four cat for four prizing
tournaments every Saturday Sunday where
you could really build a schedule around
it and it'd be like one of a lifestyle
thing we're switching the Saturdays and
Sunday so you know seal or you know
having limited or constructed so you're
have a trade-off but if we don't but
there's not that many people then I
don't know I gotta figure out what
people want right like speaking I'm
always willing to listen the problem is
all the threads about what we should do
if you're not in the first like three or
four pages I'm probably not reading it
because it just descends into
opportunity and I cannot do it like I'm
gonna have to hire someone to read it on
give me notes or something I guess but I
get my best as an example we had people
Whizzer to their whole job was just
combing through the forums and creating
crib sheets of the good ideas so we'll
plan on you integrated you I talked to
Bill about that the double backs man
owes a cursor yeah like the auction how
stuff works like you look at the ps4
auction house stuff that's a little
better right like it's kind of for you
because the double back stuff so I'm
speaking of the tournament the the cash
tournaments is there any plans or is
they talked on the
the price structure I don't know if you
saw my thread or if you sing yeah yeah I
definitely I definitely saw it I read
that and I definitely am thinking about
it I'm trying to figure out like what
the best thing is and again this has
always been like I've had arguments the
length of my career about how you
support a serious and competitive TCG
from people that felt like giving away
money was the worst idea ever the people
who thought it was absolutely mandatory
and sort of everything in between and
for you know I've been in the games
industry for 25 years and about 20 of
them have been focused on TCG's and I've
had these conversations with so many
people you know the great thing about
hex is again it's digital so I can
switch it up like I would love to figure
out again going back to the drafting you
know Ryan I have talked about it what
are things we can do that we can you
know at that eight or nine month or
eight or nine week mark what are some
things we could do we've got some ideas
to mix it up though it's completely out
of the box something totally new where
you're you know and again you your
imagination is the limit and and I feel
like that's the place where as in a
small agile company that's built an
incredible engine and is digital we can
reinvent and do things that are really
cool so when it comes to tournaments
yeah like what are the things that
people people want like I look at the
hex thing they did last time and I
probably made a mistake I felt like I
felt like doing the little alternate art
Commons or uncommons would have been
like again I got this stuff comes from
me like kind of seat of my pants like oh
yeah we did see before let's do all
these little chasey fun common Commons
that are you know animated that'd be
pretty cool oh did you get a game oh I
was about to just add some text to the
screen just now saying everyone is
scared and then we find a game I'm here
people like well Ben sleeves I probably
would have played more so yeah maybe I
made a mistake you know I should have
done sleeves again I was just going to
mix it up yeah I mean I think there's
other things you could do there in terms
of prizes outside of sleeves and all
that but yeah I mean I don't mind it
either way with in terms of
the different ways to play have you
thought of doing stuff where like you're
drafting with cards and all the cards
are cards that have equipment that then
can be used would that be something
that's doable in the future yeah I mean
definitely all that we talked about it
for sure like we talked about putting in
PvE cards into the packs and doing
equipment stuff we talked about all that
kind of stuff and it's just terms down
to sort of balance and whether or not
it's fun all that stuff's definitely out
there and we're we are considering lots
of different things so it's really just
a matter of you know trying stuff and
seeing what works someone go like and
then you know not not getting too caught
up in any one thing keep keep mixing it
up and sometimes it's gonna work and
sometimes it's not and then we and again
we try to listen to everyone's feedback
you know with kismet I never intended
for kismet to be necessarily going for
the final two months and so you know
getting the feedback like people were
kind of still I guess bum they didn't
weren't able to catch some of the
sleeves at the end and also talking
about like wanting to draft some more
you know 887 and I felt like okay that's
fine and also if we do it the last like
3-4 weeks leading up to set 9 release
then we have you know a nice little
transition point from being back in our
regular sets and then going to - you
know 999 which is gonna be very
interesting with our with the stuff
we're doing in set 9 the craziest thing
you've done yet is in set 9 or something
like that on those lines I'm excited
yeah yeah I would say I would say it is
this will see like what people what
people think but I I definitely think
it's one of the one of the craziest
things we've done yet further questions
there's a lot of questions I'm trying to
like keep keep track so out someone's
saying something and you trying to play
you get it you gotta rough down you want
to just pick ones out there that you're
happy to answer that that works if
you're if you're able to I don't see too
much I'll see too much in the forums at
this point here was only a few questions
yeah this is a live chat right now if
you can if you're a
of you chat so someone's asking about
team sealed was the most fun they
planned in the WoW TCG right it's just
any time you do four live players yeah
you know I promise you you think you're
gonna like it but I promise you you
won't like the the amount of time in
between your turns and with past
priorities and trying to click through
past priorities with four people playing
simultaneously I mean it's it I don't
think you're gonna like it and so it's
one of those things where it's gonna be
a ton of work for us to put in and I
feel like it would be a negative play
experience in terms of like you know the
game being slow cuz more players the way
I look at that and the way I think about
it is like I'm not gonna notice that
downtime bit or delay between but you
know because it's a lot you know longer
turns and stuff it's because in most
cases you're gonna be on like a voice
chat with a friend because you're
playing with a friend and then therefore
the downtime you're not even gonna
notice it cuz you're gonna be
strategizing together and talking and
all that sort of stuff so to me right
that's that's kind of how I see it so I
don't necessarily think that would be
too big of a negative some people yeah
like if they're not playing with an
actual friends that just random cue type
of thing then yeah they're gonna know
yeah well is it it's a good point in
definitely multiplayer is one of those
places where we're gonna see potential
sort of you know game-changing you know
interest in in hex I feel like I guess
that's why I want raids we have so much
work done already on Ray's trying to
figure that out and someone to say in
tech we would need for a four player
game we would need four raids as well
which is like our rotating board concept
and all that stuff yeah the notion that
the board split in half and you can
slide the top or bottom to see a board
right or the left that's a cool way of
doing it cuz yeah I remember call him
years ago said about how the plan was to
like where you just slide the whole
screen across to see what your friends
doing but if you're just little boss if
you want to top off that's cool I like
that right to be buttons on the bottom
built into the sides and then you could
click it and it would sheep slide
everything to the right you see their
bird we're sliding to the left and see
that boy yes you play like three players
vote and then the top would be
potentially completely different it
wouldn't even look like the hex battle
board it would look like the raid area
and you would potentially see our I mean
I'd be locked going on and that was part
of me like I really want that to blow
that out and to make it feel super
special
you're doing good so far I'm liking this
I thinking I'm thinking noble citizenry
on top just plain uh no no nothing
devoted emissary there so back to the
hand he goes now he's like oh whoops I
guess you didn't realize we're poor guy
sorry brain I guess I'll say hi oh well
maybe maybe he has actually speaking of
that like so one thing I've heard lots
of people talk about and I also have the
same thing is like say especially in
evoke use I see a lot of peaceful plains
and I just want to say to them you don't
need to run sixty or whatever cons and
you know this stuff I want to help them
out is there what is there any update on
potential chat for the ps4 players well
I wanted it eventually but it's a lot of
work to do it they have very specific
requirements in terms of how their chat
works so it's not even it's not it's not
me that Sony has specific rules about
what what kind of filters and what kind
of like a bunch of rules in terms of if
your game has chat or not and so for us
to redo our chat system to have all that
stuff in place requires a ton of work
yeah I think I think one thing that you
guys could do is a temporary measure to
help that is just a bit more tooltip
pop-ups for peaceful players like when
they join an Evo a thing saying you know
in this format you only need to 40 cards
in your job including you know just
stuff like that I think would be
important because yeah it's it's also
one of the things that Chris is working
on also is redoing the tutorial for ps4
we're gonna we're trying to redo it too
way more streamlined and way more
intuitive so you just sort of play and
it tooltips out all of the different
things that you should know so we're
redoing the tutorial from scratch again
for purpose for we've made so many
tutorials for this game I got to tell
you everyone we've ever worked with have
been partnered with or that gets hired
to come in and give us advice it's
always the same thing better to like
TCG's are just so difficult and so hard
to like wrap your round mind around so
much parsed information it always like
to either low-hanging fruit it's always
like you know what you need it wow this
is the guy who took the clash of steel
it's always about tutorial tutorial so
people understand and it can play and
it's so much fun so we've done so many
tutorials and we're doing another one so
hooray
I think you're Noble and I guess another
thing I also think would be cool to have
inclined is just like on the main page
you know you've got the on the left side
we've got the what's it called the
calendar thing to show people of your ex
and stuff I think I think what would be
kind of cool and it would kind of help
out for new players as well is maybe on
the top right side whenever the official
stream is live it'll say stream is live
and have a snapshot of the stream so
you'll see like a picture and you could
have that like update every you know
five minutes or something with just a
new snapshot and that's just that way
letting people know that hey the
official streams live you can win prizes
you you can learn here all that sort of
stuff cuz yeah it's something obviously
you're doing every day and say that way
informs people that hey the streams
alive and potentially I'm trying to do
you know definitely trying to figure out
how to be how to help the streamers
meter we definitely want more people
engaging that part of the game I talked
to two dino about some ideas yeah so I
talked to Dino about some ideas one of
the ideas we talked about again like I
know I love to do this like talk about
stuff that we haven't really done yet
and then it's you know but potentially
maybe coming up with a token system
where we can have tokens we could give
to all the streamers to give out and
then the tokens could be used in game
for rewards or potentially it that would
be an if you got a certain number of
them then you qualify to enter into a
tournament that we're doing so we're
definitely talking about some ways to
support this so instead of doing like
draft codes and the codes to give out
they just it's just a currency we still
do all that it's just like that kind of
stuff feels like you know you could get
that anywhere right like and so but
coming up with some proprietary rewards
for the streamers I think that a way to
expand on that you like having a stream
of currency that people can earn from
just sitting and watching streams likes
current like a specific currency that's
in-game that then has its own raised or
similar to the chalk mark that would be
kind of cool because then you could also
something like that again if he gave the
streamers these tokens then we have a
million tokens in the backend so he used
to use them but we've used them in the
past for other things like whatever but
making a streamer tokens super easy and
if he said oh hey people who stream we
can give you X amount of them and
everyone that comes in and watches your
stream gets up to you can give them all
a token and then people can go in the
game and be like oh I have X number of
tokens and that's basically what i'm
referring to twitch drops and that's
exactly you know I think that system is
a good place will be utilized and just
giving tokens as those twits drops would
be yeah it would be awesome because then
you yeah sure hey it's a you know it's
like a sealed deck tournament and if you
have X number of tokens you can play in
it and there and the participation prize
is asleep you can only get from that
tournament and then we always other cool
little things you can win like it might
make it sort of more casual not like the
winner gets five grand but make it guys
with a bunch of cool yeah and I feel
like that kind of thing is where we need
to you know do give a little more
support so that's something I've been
thinking about and working on to see
what happens not gonna want to pick
minus one plus one that's getting three
lows Thanks come on come on and he's got
sacrificed so he loses them all that's
fine
all right so let's see let's so many
questions I'm sorry guys that I can't
see them all if anyone like if you have
people that are I don't know how else
what other questions I've been hearing
in general um I'm happy with the console
launches we're gonna continue like I
said potentially at some point we want
to try and figure out maybe even 360 or
I could imagine going on to switch
that'd be amazing but again like you
know it takes time and everything we do
has a cost so every time we do anything
you know we're trying to make sure it's
the thing that most people are going to
be able to engage with or enjoy and you
know clearly the first priority is
always the sets and then also continuing
to do PvE stuff and work on all that
which we're doing siege I'm very excited
about as I said before it's hilarious to
watch the AI pilot these crazy
over-the-top decks and trying to figure
out a deck that can beat them all I've
got high hopes for that being something
that takes people by surprise in terms
of how fun it is yeah I'm very much
looking forward to oh actually there was
in one of the I don't know where it was
actually posted now but there was the
mention that you guys are gonna be doing
your own little unique keeps that I'm
like you know that you've guys have
designed yeah mine I don't want to be
like somatic or I said that might be
funny like you know clearly I've got to
have a sort of a merry caravan like
they'll be on the first keep a primary
caravan yeah and then one of my favorite
I don't know like I think the a I can
actually play it okay
one of my favorite cards ever is pi
moral caves and so maybe something
around the caves that are out in front
of my keep so you get the make here of
an out way on front then you closer
there's the prime mortal caves I think
that's the right name primal caves one
big dinosaurs like I love that card I
don't think anyone caught that like yeah
I'll give you dears to art I've I've
told anyone this before but like the
promo codes that art was supposed to be
the two dinosaurs fighting at the end of
the train ride around Disneyland my
favorite ride at Disneyland having grown
up going there you know constantly cuz
my my grandma worked there but the Train
my favorite ride and the last part of
the train ride is where the primeval
world from our mortal world and you see
the two dinosaurs fighting and that was
supposed to be I actually supplied the
the artist with a photo of those two
dinosaurs I took on my phone when I was
on that ride yeah I definitely didn't
catch it being over in Australia there
is so many weirdo obscure art references
that's like we all put into all these
cards it's hilarious because you know we
all do the art descriptions and
everything and you know and rooster soar
writes them like after we brainstorm it
all out he's taking notes and writes
them and we get so many crazy things and
I've often got these weirdo ideas like
the the joke that I baked into into
executes that I don't think anyone
caught I might have mentioned it before
but execute the the the flavor text
gotcha is actually from a Perry Bible
Fellowship cartoon fair enough
so yeah back with the seat stuff with
the unique stuff that you guys are gonna
be doing now are you gonna do it
differently to what everyone else is
gonna have access to cuz that's that's
something I see I think would like if
you guys had like one that's like five
keeps that you have to beat and it's
like maybe the prize no no everyone will
be that because that's all hard baked
into the
the backend engineering but if anything
I would say we might do something where
we give that we give ourselves access to
some specific cards that are from the
PvE experience so for me like you know
me making a funny deck that's fun to
play against with a bunch of RNG and it
almost requires that some other things
are there to help it like if you played
against the princess Corey decks in the
frost ring arena you know the the
resources as an example to give you
whatever you need like that kind of
stuff so that the deck is powerful
enough to actually pilot through a funny
theme and not just lose instantly would
be the only place and then as we move
forward and we start to figure out
engineering wise how to do some of the
stuff like put in put in the mercenaries
probably the first place you'll see it
will be in those keeps and that'll be
they'll be fun and so you might pop into
one of our keeps and all of a sudden
it's like oh my gosh look at theirs you
know you're the the moustachio the
mustachio gang is guarding guarding my
keep all of a sudden and that would be
awesome
yeah or boss or bro see or you know so
my favorites on the immersion Ares so
with the release you know that a few
people have been asking about like you
know marketing plans is there plans to
like do do some sort of stuff to market
the keeps yeah we might do some stuff
around the series we're really doing
that we've got a little budget we put
together around ps4 but we've been
waiting until Europe was launched and
all the bugs are ironed out clearly
there's a bug right boggers an issue
right now where you can only buy 500
platinum at a time because they we've
got to figure out this one issue with
the store so once that's all hopefully
tomorrow or the neck or this weekend and
then we get Japan launched we were going
to actually do some marketing with Sony
and they've got a little bit of a
commitment they're making to us to help
and so all that stuff's been on hold
until we had each of the
I've been fine lunching with just you in
in us but at this point I'm so close to
Japan and might as well just get all of
it in place yeah and then we're gonna
have some market for foreplay state soon
makes a lot of a sense yeah I think it's
a good opportunity I mean it's fun to
play on the ps4 people seem to enjoy it
so that's that's great we've definitely
have a lot of new players a lot of
people playing yeah on the console do
you um so king of the void us how is
crafting coming along I assume that's
you know on the back burner type of
thing yep it's all part of the PvE I
mean the crafting is a weird thing in
that it's it's tied into larger systems
not unlike keeps keeps was buried inside
of a bunch of larger systems and so I
just pulled it out and you know decided
that we have a chance to sort of mess
around with it and then figure out you
know as we go what's working what isn't
fine tune it and then we can plug it
back into its larger system crafting is
part of a it's a I mean it's the
skeletal structure of an a completely
other person basically yeah so I can't
really tear that out and give it to you
without the flesh and blood and bone
like everything else like it would just
make no sense at all so that's that's
the problem with you know delivering
bits and pieces of an MMO RPG or
whatever you want to call it delivering
that in bits and pieces can be difficult
and some bits and pieces just simply
can't be delivered without all the core
systems that go around it and support it
so I'm curious about if PC controller
support is going to be a thing oh yeah I
think like using using a a joystick for
the PC yeah or using I think he's asking
if we can use the ps4 controller for PC
or something well sure why you I guess
if you're playing on a couch that would
make sense yeah I don't know that's a
good question I know we're making it I
know that Woods has it working already
we sent and put it in where you can use
a controller for the for the for the PC
and especially once we get some of the
interface elements in as an option for
the PC version that we have in the
console version then for sure using a
controller or something will have a
support which were great I think your
opponent is probably a little new but
still outside of that I felt like you
haven't really been in a kind of trouble
you've got so much removal it feels like
you got someone to keep some pressure on
with again having all the Flyers just
too much removal in hand right now now
we can just swing again he still can't
kill it unless he has something but it
needs to be pretty much repeal of combat
Rick's not gonna do it rule yeah it's
pretty pretty rough all right so he
takes a no repeal all right let's get
down the flier thank you for the cheer
then Utrecht some more bits for Bella to
eat excited where you know we're about
six weeks away from the next set so that
means the spoiler season is gonna start
soon which would be some great articles
about everything that we're doing and
what's that I just said hi yeah yeah so
I mean that's that's always fun
I mean having lots of stuff going on
having lots of bits and pieces dropping
is you know one of the things that I
really want as a priority for hex so
that people feel like there's always
something new and something fun to
engage and then you know every four
months we're definitely on track to make
sure we always hit every four months
we're dropping a new set and this should
be no exception so we know it's middle
of March so we're about five weeks away
from that sweet I just use this ability
with no cars and ham
I have no idea to be honest II might've
I appreciate some like I appreciate this
person jumping into draft being you know
clearly pretty new applying like gotta
learn ya know I like it who is its brand
I'll make sure to mail brand some packs
so he can do some more do some more
drafts okay I took it I took a note I'm
gonna put a male brand some packs mail
something time let's do thanking him
playing against havoc on stream even if
it's a PvE card or some Commons let's
just inundate him with mail from
everyone who watched this stream
thanking him for playing so one thing I
do wanna ask is that your your Friday
updates on the forums is that something
you're gonna continue anytime soon cuz I
know I enjoy them and I know a lot of
other people do as well I I was you know
I jumped into it when Dino pose
Dino posed and I've been making comments
and answering some questions I don't
know like I felt like it was a lot of
work I kind of backed myself into a
corner I felt I couldn't seem to start
doing something and then do it more of
it and more of it and trying to outdo
myself yeah I'm in eventually I'm to the
point where like I feel like I spinning
like you know half of Thursday at half a
Friday trying to figure out a joke and
make it do photo shots and it's like you
know I got to this point where I felt
like embarrassed if I didn't keep going
so far and the joke like has some legs I
guess but holy Moses and I liked I
challenged myself to do it I did it for
a solid year I was a lot of updates and
I and I felt like they're funny like I
like you know I take a lot of pride and
right being able to write and be funny
and so trying to make him funny and so I
don't know I'm still trying to side it
it felt like at one point people were
not that interested and so I was a lot
of work and I don't know
he got probably half a dozen people that
were like her
I love this and then I don't know if
people really care you know not ass and
not being just thing but yeah maybe
maybe it's your time is better spent
elsewhere maybe there's something else
like maybe I should mix it up come up
with some other premise than you know
what we do here on Fridays and then
making it about chair check with him and
say like you okay with this like is
there some of those were pretty Outland
its but it was fun I might come up with
a different premise that's baby got a
little more room a lot of installments
of a story or something I'm currently a
lot of my creativity side I'm writing a
I'm doing a 90 page comic for for for
epic spell war so I've been pouring a
lot of my my creative energy in terms of
writing into that but well yeah maybe
I'll figure it back out and maybe with
maybe with the launch of the next set I
can start started doing that again yep
maybe just like do something every
couple of weeks or something and maybe
just like you know for tonight in the
life of what I didn't do is I didn't sit
down and just come up with a bunch of
ideas for it I would literally every
like Thursday be like okay I need one of
these for tomorrow and then I would
start thinking and I'd be like what can
I make like what can I do for a photo
like the duck hunt I randomly found that
emulator online like that's funny
like how do I make this funny about
Jared and I using esports pro for duck
hunt and I photoshopped that Fanny
pretty funny like yeah I spent some time
another carve butter it at one time or
writes me out and I'd be like Thursday
oh I'm a look around a store take a
random photo I bought the the costume
that one time and I was at I was at
Joanns fabric and there the costumes and
then the construction worker update one
so oh speaking of these bullets
is there any plans to do anything else
in that regard anytime soon I said we're
trying real hard I mean we give away a
grand every day I agree with the one
thing I think would be cool to see is
like a Hall of Fame thing where there's
like trophies with the people's names on
it that it's something you might have
seen in the forums in the past I've
suggested this I think I would be kind
of cool it's like having something good
people can go to like the you know this
page on the main page and see all the
different trophy tournaments and then
click on it to see who's won on what
dates and then later on you get to add
to that by having clickable links to
replays of those tournaments yeah that's
that would be cool in my opinion because
that's a good idea
because the way I see that the moment is
is you've got the brands name like the
way I said the moment at the moment
tournaments are kind of like done and
dusted like you know you announce the
winners on the paint on the hex website
and stuff yeah where they can live
permanently and your name is you know
and you and you could have these these
Padres Hall of Champions yeah exactly
exactly and then you have like a trophy
it might be like the cosmic crown trophy
and it has all the names on it when you
click on it and you could even do a in
little rewards to that just like in real
life with with very sports tournaments
where the trophy gets changed you
changes hands you can have it so yeah
added to someone's stash say you win a
bash you have a trophy that's like
here's the bachelor if it's in your
stash for a week and during that time
you get like an account reward like
maybe increased experience or what have
you so there's like more meaning to even
having the time and then it changes
hands and you know what you could do
anything you want in terms of the reward
but it would just make it a bit yeah
again your names added to the trophy get
a little tiny reward for however long
there's many things you could do there I
mean if you like the idea I can talk to
you more about it later but yeah no I
definitely do it also we have the
ability to do replays ya know just about
every game that's ever played there's
one of the features that we're going to
be getting you and I open the near
future is it for everyone the ability to
do replays but this is a good mid step
also of doing something where you can go
back in and watch all the games that's a
great idea
absolutely
so I I think that this I'm gonna have to
go yeah save me longer than you said you
would so having I'm actually having
dinner with charkh this evening so we're
gonna have to yep go ahead you know what
my favorite Russian all right well thank
you very much for joining it was a
pleasure to have you and always great to
hear from you once again so everyone
let's say would you want to do one more
contest and then send me a private
message with who won and tell them they
can have any sleeve in the game the
exalted or ones that I've had to remove
via court order that they can have any
sleeve in the game let's find out I'll
have Chris hole and actually manually go
in and put it on their account he's
gonna be happy to hear that I'm gonna
draw that right now right now someone's
getting any sleep they like here we go
the winner is jr. Lauren you've got
yourself whatever sleeve you like with
some stipulations so there you go we've
got the name let's get your in-game name
and I'll write that down and I guess if
you wanna you can do that too as well so
JL Orton you're the winner
congratulations and I'll be doing I'll
do some more giveaways myself as well
right now since I've been a while since
I did the last one so general Orton what
is your in-game name it's Chanti
scrolling to fast where is he gone where
is he gone alright let me find my window
here so he wants the judean sleeves the
the dragon did you deem I knew how could
I guess you could again sleep that's a
favorite that's a good one I think I
actually have I have a physical code for
that'll be even easier even I can just I
can like I can send it in game to him
and you can just punch it into the code
system we made codes for the team when I
would give those out occasionally at Jen
cons I pasted his name on skype so you
can alright well thanks again and happy
birthday it was very nice playing with
you don't forget everyone to send bran
something in the mail
they sent him something in the mail he's
gonna get a bunch of mail and be like
what the hell's going on here it'll be
funny so yeah thank you again for
joining me was a pleasure and yeah have
it alright have an awesome meal and say
how to track for everyone and everyone
give could Cory cheer in the chat let's
do it
thank you again alright bye guys it was
really nice talking to you thank you
let's do it all the cheers spam those
spam those emotes alright thanks Cory
take care alright folks
oh man it's getting rather warm in my
room I did want to put my fan on though
because the noise I'm gonna I'm gonna
just what the Bell is on the floor
behind me what is she doing alright so
yeah thank you again Cory let's let's
get rid of the camera now so Lila is
gonna be coming up shortly so hopefully
she's still okay
oh man I'm sweating like a pig right now
sweating like a pig so Kratz there on
the wind there with the sleeve the
judean sleeve very nice Thank You Cory
for that