Gwent
Gwent is a game in which success is heavily reliant on your ability to manage the number of cards in your hand. By removing any other cards of the same name you already know you can play those. Welcome to official Discord server of GWENT: The Witcher Card Game, where you can talk about eveyrthing gwenty-gwenty!! 24,446 members. Gwent is a turn-based card game between two players, with each game taking three rounds. Each player must play one card each turn from a deck of at least twenty-five cards. Each deck belongs to a faction that offers different play styles. Each faction has different 'leaders' who each have individual abilities.
Coordinates: 51°47′20″N3°01′05″W / 51.789°N 3.018°W
| Gwent | |
|---|---|
Gwent shown within Wales as a preserved county | |
| Area | |
| • 2003 | 1,553 km² Ranked 5th |
| Population | |
| • 2007 | 560,500 Ranked 1st |
| History | |
| • Created | 1974 |
| • Abolished | 1996 |
| • Succeeded by | Blaenau Gwent Caerphilly Monmouthshire Newport Torfaen Preserved county of Gwent |
| Status | Non-metropolitan county (1974–1996) Preserved county (1996–) |
| Government | Gwent County Council |
| • HQ | County Hall, Cwmbran |
Gwent is a preserved county and a former local government county in south-east Wales. It was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, and was named after the ancient Kingdom of Gwent. The authority was a successor to both the administrative county of Monmouthshire (with minor boundary changes)[1] and the county borough of Newport (both authorities which were considered to be legally part of England until the Act came into force[2] although considered jointly with Wales for certain purposes).[3][4]
Under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, Gwent was abolished on 1 April 1996.[5] However, it remains one of the preserved counties of Wales for the ceremonial purposes of Lieutenancy and High Shrievalty, and its name also survives in various titles, e.g. Gwent Police, Royal Gwent Hospital, Gwent Wildlife Trust and Coleg Gwent. 'Gwent' is often used as a synonym for the historic county of Monmouthshire — for example the Gwent Family History Society describes itself as 'The key to roots in the historic county of Monmouthshire'.[6]
The former administrative county was divided into several districts: Blaenau Gwent, Islwyn, Monmouth, Newport and Torfaen. The successor unitary authorities are the Blaenau Gwent County Borough, Caerphilly County Borough (part of which came from Mid Glamorgan), Monmouthshire (which covers the eastern 60% of the historic county), City of Newport and Torfaen County Borough.
In 2003 the preserved county of Gwent expanded to include the whole of Caerphilly County Borough;[7] the Gwent Police area had already been realigned to these boundaries in 1996. In 2007, the population of this enlarged area was estimated as 560,500,[8] making it the most populous of the preserved counties of Wales.
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References[edit]
- ^Less the parish of St Mellons and urban districts of Bedwas and Machen, Rhymney and part of Bedwellty and the addition of the parishes of Llanelly and Brynmawr.
- ^Local Government Act 1972 c. 70, s. 1 New local government areas in England, ss. 12 'In this section 'England' does not include the administrative county of Monmouthshire or the county borough of Newport.' & s. 20 New local government areas in Wales, ss. 7 'In this section 'Wales' includes the administrative county of Monmouthshire and the county borough of Newport.'
- ^Williams, Chris (2011). 'The Question of Monmouthshire'. In Williams, Chris; Williams, Sian Rhiannon (eds.). Industrial Monmouthshire 1780-1914. The Gwent County History. 4. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 357. ISBN978-0-7083-2365-6. OCLC56570946.
- ^Hopkins, Tony (Summer 1991). 'In search of Monmouthshire, 1536-1972'. Gwent Local History (71): 8–12. Retrieved 26 March 2018 – via Welsh Journals Online at the National Library of Wales.
- ^'Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 c. 19, s. 1(1)'. 5 July 1994.
- ^'Gwent Family History Society'. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
- ^'The Preserved Counties (Amendment to Boundaries) (Wales) Order 2003'. Office of Public Sector Information. 2003-04-01. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
- ^2007 population estimate, calculated using 2003 borders for Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport, Torfaen. Source: 'Table 10: Mid-2006 to Mid-2007 Population Estimates, Components of population change for local authorities in the United Kingdom'. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2010-09-11.
External links[edit]
- Ralph A. Griffiths, general editor, Gwent County History, University of Wales, 5 vols, 2004 —
| Gwent: The Witcher Card Game | |
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| Developer(s) | CD Projekt Red |
| Publisher(s) | CD Projekt |
| Director(s) | Benjamin Lee[1] Katarzyna Redesiuk[2] |
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| Series | The Witcher |
| Engine | Unity |
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| Genre(s) | Collectible card game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Gwent: The Witcher Card Game[b] is a free-to-playdigital collectible card game developed and published by CD Projekt for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4,[a] and Xbox One[a] in 2018, for iOS in 2019, and for Android in 2020. The game is derived from the card game of the same name featured in Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher novels and playable in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt video game.
Gameplay[edit]
Gwent is a turn-based card game between two players, with each game taking three rounds. Each player must play one card each turn from a deck of at least twenty-five cards. Each deck belongs to a faction that offers different play styles. Each faction has different 'leaders' who each have individual abilities. As Gwent does not use a mana system like most traditional CCGs, card advantage is often what wins the game.
The Homecoming Update,[6] which was released in conjunction with Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, changed the game in a number of ways. The leader is no longer a playable card; it now gives the player an ability, and dictates how many mulligans are available to the player throughout the course of a match. The limits on how many gold and silver cards can be in a deck has been removed. Deckbuilding now uses a Recruit Cost system. Decks have a Recruit Cap of 165, with each card in the game having a Recruit Cost associated with it. The update also removed the siege row from the play area, leaving only the melee row and the ranged row. A new card type, artifacts, was added to the game. These do not contribute points to your side of the board but offer varying abilities.
The goal is to win two of three rounds by playing cards and spells to gain points called 'power' on the board. A player wins a round by having more points on board than their opponent. Rounds end when either both players pass to the next round, or when both players run out of cards. The first to win two out of three rounds wins the game.
Round wins go toward daily rewards, awarding players with card packs known as 'kegs,' scraps, meteorite dust, or ore. Players can gain additional cards by buying kegs with ore or through microtransactions; each keg contains five cards, with the upside that the fifth is rarer than the rest and a choice between three is offered. Cards can also be crafted with scraps. Premium versions of cards can be crafted with meteorite dust. Ore is used to buy kegs.
The game features several modes of gameplay. The standard Casual Play mode allows players to challenge one another, whereas in Rank Play players compete in order to increase in a tier-ladder system. Ranked takes place across a month-long season, where players aim to increase in rank to increase end-of-season rewards. Player ranks do not degrade once earned, and work on a numerical system from 1-21, before entering into the top 1,000. Players are also assigned a matchmaking rating, which respectively increases or decreases as a player wins and loses games. Gwent has also had multiple seasonal events, inviting players to take part in themed events with premade decks. These events functioned like puzzles, where exact moves had to be made to win. Seasonal events normally award a player profile picture, border as well as a title.
It featured cross-platform play between the PC and console versions, although platform play between the console versions was not supported.[7][8]
Arena Mode[edit]
Arena Mode functions as a draft mode, where players must build a deck from random cards. The player will pick one of four cards of identical rarity randomly shown. Twenty-six cards are drafted, and then a leader is chosen from 3 randomly shown leaders. The cards shown are from a pool of all cards, meaning decks can contain cards from all factions. There is no limit on how many gold cards or silver cards can be in the deck, and any number of duplicates can be drafted.
Arena Mode is themed around The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt character Gaunter O'Dimm [ru], who offers contracts in the arena in exchange for rewards. A maximum of nine wins will award players with a gold card, as well as other rewards including ore, scraps and/or meteorite dust. The arena will guarantee players at least one keg as a reward, even with no contracts completed. Players have three lives and lose a life when a game is lost. The arena run will end when either a player quits and breaks the contact, when all three lives are lost, or when all nine wins are achieved.
There are also periodic 'special event' arena modes occasionally available. These have unique drafting rules, such as the Gold Rush, where all cards drafted are Gold cards or Law of the Jungle, where all cards drafted are from the Monsters faction. The special events generally last 1 week, and the regular arena mode is also available to play during the event.
Thronebreaker[edit]
Combat in the video game Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales is in the form of a card-battle game similar to Gwent, but slightly different.
Development and release[edit]
The game had an estimated 100 staff members working on it.[9] Following an open beta release in May 2017, it was officially released for Windows in October 2018, and was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on December 4, 2018. A standalone, single-player campaign mode, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, was also released alongside Gwent.[10]
In March 2019, CD Projekt Red announced that Gwent would be launching on mobile devices later that year. Jason Slama, the game's director, said that the team's vision for bringing the game to them combined the best they had to offer both in terms of 'graphics and gameplay'.[11] It released for iOS on October 29, 2019[12] and Android on March 24, 2020.[13]
Support for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game was ended in June 2020.[5]
Reception[edit]
| Aggregator | Score |
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| Metacritic | PC: 80/100[14] |
Gwent was nominated for 'Most Promising New eSports Game' at the 2019 SXSW Gaming Awards[15] and for 'Best Polish Game Art' at the 2019 Digital Dragons Awards.[16]
Notes[edit]
- ^ abcdeSupport discontinued in June 2020[5]
- ^Gwint: Wiedźmińska Gra Karciana in Polish
References[edit]
- ^'GWENT preview refined multiplayer'. pcgamer.com. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
- ^'GWENT Homecoming — see what's next for GWENT'. playgwent.com. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
- ^'Gwent's cards: testing the limits of crazy'. Venture Beat. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ^Fenlon, Wes (17 June 2016). 'How Gwent became a competitive card game with singleplayer campaigns'. PCGamer. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- ^ ab'[UPDATE] IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE FUTURE OF GWENT ON CONSOLES'. GWENT: The Witcher Card Game. 4 December 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ ab'GWENT: The Witcher Card Game'. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
- ^Sanchez, Miranda; Davis, Justin (13 June 2016). 'E3 2016: Gwent: The Witcher Card Game Announced'. IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ^Gwent: The Witcher Card Game - FAQ, playgwent.com, June 6, 2017.
- ^Schreier, Jason (18 June 2018). 'Why Cyberpunk 2077 Is Taking So Long'. Kotaku. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- ^Purchese, Robert (18 September 2018). 'CD Projekt Red dates full Gwent: The Witcher Card Game release, and standalone Thronebreaker adventure'. Eurogamer. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^Broadwell, Joshua (27 March 2019). 'GWENT: The Witcher Card Game Coming to Mobile Later This Year'. GameSkinny. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^Wald, Heather. 'Gwent iOS has officially launched, so you can take the Witcher card game anywhere'. GamesRadar+. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^'GWENT is live on Android! Download now on Google Play!'. GWENT: The Witcher Card Game. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- ^'Gwent: The Witcher Card Game for PC Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
- ^Trent, Logan (11 February 2019). 'Here Are Your 2019 SXSW Gaming Awards Finalists!'. South by Southwest. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- ^Werner, Adrian (8 April 2019). 'Nominacje do Digital Dragons Awards - Frostpunk i Thronebreaker liderami'. GRY-Online.pl. Retrieved 14 April 2019.