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Easy anti cheat doesn't work with proton. Suspect they forgot to check the checkbox, or the file they packaged with the game is the wrong one.

Originally set to negative for privacy concerns, forcing users to link to third party accounts, preventing users in more then half the world from playing. It's a sad world for a golden game to ruin it reputation overnight.

Keeping my review negative until the ban is removed on the 170s countries.

TL:DR
I recommend this game for anyone who wants to play a roguelike card game where choices and (obviously luck) matters most. You can't buy a advantage, and even a two hour noob will have the same cards as a 10,000 hour vet. The only downside, and the reason why I had originally downvoted this game was the 'feel' of a mobile game.




several currencies for Obfuscation, check. secondary currency for cash shop to mask the real life cost of items, check. 100 'freebies' to mask the true progression rate once you're out of the honeymoon period and trigger dopamine rewards in a attempt to manipulate users to get addicted. Check. Battle pass? sort of. A login reward kind of pass, where you get a few free random skins for cards every day and a tiny bit of currency.

Looks like a mobile game, smells like a mobile game, and the main menu feels like a mobile game.

HOWEVER IF you can look past the mobile 'culture' stuff, the game is actually pretty good and fair with monetization being mostly tied to cosmetics from card skins to character skins. a battle pass style thing to unlock more card skins from 'loot boxes', and a 'unlock everything character from the get go' thing.

progression:
So in short, you do not collect cards so a old vet won't have a advantage over a new player. However, you do no have everything unlocked from the get go and this might sound conflicting but it not.

so let say we have 10 characters and 6 sub jobs. all characters are divided in 4 factions. sword masters, foreseers, elementalist, and demonic arts.
Player 1 picks Bob and alchemist. Then player one will have The same deck as anyone using a character from Bob's faction with the alchemist deck shuffled into it.
You start off with 1 character and 1 sub job unlocked and within a hour or two you get enough to unlock 2-4~ or so of your choice.
Once you make your selection of character. They have 5 unique abilities and traits and their faction deck you queue up. Then a little bit in the match, it gives you the option to choose a sub job deck to shuffle into your faction deck.

Gameplay:
Gameplay is like a roguelike. While you know what faction and can choose what sub job deck you'll have. Each faction focuses on three or four strategies, and each round you draw 2-3 cards and swap cards on the field, merge some to power them up/ sacrifice cards to 'lvl up' the character. You don't wipe out when you die but lose some points with each defeat. The longer the match and the bigger the HP difference when you died, the more points you lose and players are eliminated once they reach 0. (8 players cycling against each other)

Your forced into the data mining by default, to opt out you have to click on a link inside the game and login to some website with a notice that if nothing happens when you click the link it a pop up blocker blocking it. To me this just screams, "That way we can tie your steam account and hardware specs we harvested with your agent-user (Data used in browsers to fingerprint you) profile. Why not make it a opt in option instead? Or if you must do so, have a button that sends the request directly to the server to delete any data already collected and stop the game from digging anything else? Why force us to click on a button that supposedly opens a link in a browser where you can login and turn it off? (I assume you have to login because I can't get it to work with 3 different browsers swapping them to default. I suspect it may be a linux thing.) The button does nothing.

I host multiplayer saves so I ended up buying it. But huh.. feels lacking for it price if you're buying it for single player

Denuvo is a instant downvote for me. I did not buy the game, it was given to me by a friend But I did buy most of it expansions while they where on discount.
This series is a buggy mess. Go look at mods and modders make hundreds of mods to fix bugs and mod pack mods that include most of the bug fixes... to the point where the second one as a mod that includes over 500 fixes... You might think that sounds ludicrous and made up. but let me give you a example.
I started playing as the aligator lizard guy (NAKAI), a DLC update broke several things with the faction, The AI does not revive Nakai if he dies and becomes a idle faction waiting to die out if he does die. Players can't recruit his special unit because the button disappeared. Thankfully within days those issues where fixed by mods... Yet months later and the bugs are still present within the game. https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2998682948&searchtext=nakai+fix for a example of one of the issues specifically, and here the comunity mod that a compilation of bug fixes... https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2856936614&searchtext=bug+fix

So if lazy devs that abadoned new factions the moment they're added, buggy messes that are left for the community to fix up, that your not turned off from knowing it using denuvo. (You should it terrible anti consumer and likely *No proof but the company history makes me think they do* spies on you.) Oh it also opens a wiki when you click on stuff using the steam browser that doesn't protect you from snooping so it can collect more info on you.... Yay for spying~.

Then perhaps the fact that the game forces you to buy all the previous game and all their DLC's at far higher prices then you'd expect. Or perhaps the fact that the DLC's are atrociously expensive for what they give you, or perhaps the fact that the cross platform play is a joke and that if you try to play on the steam deck or linux you'll quickly find that your in a different lobby pool then your friends on windows.


TL/DR If you can ignore the spyware and dirt information harvesting tactics, if you can ignore the fact that the game forces you to buy all the previous games and all of their overpriced DLC's along with this game and it overpriced DLC's to have access to everything in this game then congratulations. You have a decent game with stability issues and infested with bugs that are left for the community to fix. You're not just a tester, your also the debugger!.
This game is completely and utterly only relevant and carried by the IP (warhammer) Without that it would of died with WH2. It like how pokemon go is a crappy game that only relevant and alive because of it IP (Pokemon).

just like the only other company that I know of that similar to this one, (World of warships, world of tanks blabla) they're both greedy to the max and contentiously update the game in a anti player way in a attempt to squeeze more money despite only making small content updates. Stay away from both companies.

didn't notice it had denuvo when I purchased it and it to late to refund it. f**** denuvo!

a good time sink only the host needs expansions for multiplayer everyone else gets it automatically.

this game seems to be using denuvo, yet they're not announcing it on the steam page. Pretty sure this is against EU law. EDIT: Seems they updated their steam page to show that they do indeed use Denuvo.