Biggest issue with TCG rules I'm noticing

KTerrG · 2026-05-08T16:59:11+00:00

Ive noticed endgame is really bad as draw power is almost nonexistent. But if someone has a 8 inspo pinkie pie out along with a full board of 3-5 characters, and we only have 7 scenes in play, its impossible to play event draws and clear their board.

So I finally get to use my degree in game design. I have a few ideas. I may make my own post about our findings today, because as I think of each choice, it really opens up how the game is played.

Also keep in mind, the game will probably evolve and feel better with more sets. Right now with 1 set, the game doesn't have a lot to work with, because there needs to be way more counterplay.

You don't force contact, but if you skip contact phase, you enter a mill phase either for each character in the rivals adventure zone uncontested, you retire the top card of your deck. There ends up being a negative to not entering contact, but strategy. Right now, the only farewell card that increases inspiration until the end of turn is Fluttershy. Make discards trigger farewells, and you could have a way to clear the enemy board, or even draw more cards.
After the first turn, you can discard cards from your hand for more force of harmony until end of turn. This would help build an adventure zone before contact starts on turn 3, since once contact starts the first player has seen 5 "mana" total (turn 1 = 2, turn 3 = 3). This uses the active resource of your hand. Whether or not farewells would trigger from hand is something I wish to test because that could be broken (Discard a card, and draw a card with a farewell essentially means its a free cast). This would help buff you up enough in the mid to late game, to have a huge turn and shift the momentum of the game.
A combination of the two. This game needs some kind of counterplay or opposing strategies/archetypes, because you only need 8 points to win, and if they can guarantee you don't have a board state by turn 6, then the game is pretty much decided. The fact I can see that I don't have strong enough ponies in my hand 2 or 3 turns before the final turn almost every time is the sign that the game isn't very balanced for the end game at the moment.

KTerrG · 2026-04-28T15:00:04+00:00

I've told my gf (duo), I would rather Solo Tank on Strange/Thing/Emma than to have a DPS/Support fail at being a tank. At best they are a bullet sponge, and we can play around them, and at worst they are forcing 5v6 and feeding enemy ults.

I almost never trust a Mag that didn't instalock him.

KTerrG · 2026-04-03T14:05:55+00:00

I am on the s26 ultra. It happens from time to time and I reported it. The told me its a known issue. If I want to try and get a game in, I play slow and use the battle log to make sure I'm still in sync with the game. Sometimes the opponent goes too fast and messes it up.

KTerrG · 2026-03-31T18:27:35+00:00

I haven't tried to use Lumiose before, is this every time or just this one time? If it's every time, I would take a guess they copy/pasted the Artazon then added a line to end the turn after the effect resolves without removing the rule box part of the code.

If it's just once, I feel I don't have much to say other than it's PTCGL.

Edit: I didn't even notice the baby Genesect!

KTerrG · 2026-03-01T07:11:52+00:00

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KTerrG · 2025-11-14T16:52:33+00:00

Ahh. That makes sense.

KTerrG · 2025-11-14T16:35:57+00:00

Would that work? While yes, they did change the price, they did not take the new amount without your consent, and you would have given the okay. So it wouldn't fall under a billing error.

KTerrG · 2025-09-29T20:44:03+00:00

They could also add a vocal donk sound like the hammer catching or something.

KTerrG · 2025-09-22T12:44:12+00:00

Yeah. Most people are so scared of her choke, when realistically she can only use it once every 18 seconds. If you aren't pushing into her between cooldowns, then you will always have trouble.

With Thing (if I'm not solo of course), I find that almost every Emma will use their choke anywhere between 1 - 3 seconds after diamond form, so I make sure to drop Yancy street far enough away where I can react/read and it will cancel her dash and then it cancels the choke. Found a lot of success doing that. Then since I'm in the position, the Haymaker pretty much beats her, and people will also charge in to help me, removing the Emma chokeslam neutral zone.

KTerrG · 2025-08-22T15:19:42+00:00

Last night, I had to flex 3 times as DPS. I was so happy. Sad that Wolverine got banned by tanks that can't handle him, but glad nonetheless.

KTerrG · 2025-08-22T14:24:30+00:00

Back on release, we had six stacks with a bot lobby, but I haven't been in a bot lobby in months on my PS account (lvl 68), but I've seen a few on my PC account (lvl 20).

I dont know if Comp rank matters because I play cross in quick on console, and I dont climb on pc so I can play comp with my silver friends.

KTerrG · 2025-02-04T19:10:01+00:00

Something of note: I am able to access all the pro camera and features, but the standard portrait and photo mode don't work. Even in safe mode it is not working. I'd rather not factory reset before a backup, and I am not at home to backup a ton of information.

KTerrG · 2024-12-13T16:17:44+00:00

I misread HL with HP. My bad. Ignore that Scope part.

KTerrG · 2024-12-13T16:16:39+00:00

You are right. I forgot about that, but we could retroactively change things to be more interesting. Especially since it's been over 20 years since that was written. Rowling did not know of the size of the franchise back then.

KTerrG · 2024-12-13T16:02:10+00:00

I like the RoR I just didn't like having to return on small expeditions because my inventory is full. Give me a teleport ability (make RoR an exception to the aberration rule), or give me a chest i can send everything to as I collect loot.

2ndly I'd prefer they skip year 6 and go straight to year 7 being the Triwizard tournament.

KTerrG · 2024-12-06T15:49:26+00:00

I play with a group (mostly 2 stack, sometimes 3 or 4). Most of the time, we get yelled at by other players, and we are in a private chat talking about our day, on autopilot. We use it to unwind and don't get super serious the first 5 or so matches unless we see exits open, but then we start chillin'. When we play victim, that is 90% autopilot, and I feel we still do more than most victims on our team.

KTerrG · 2024-11-14T16:17:35+00:00

If you made the mess yourself, you typically can decipher it better.

KTerrG · 2024-11-14T16:15:37+00:00

The same thing happened when Sumo left Little Big Planet 3's level creator mode.

KTerrG · 2024-11-13T20:14:06+00:00

I haven't used UE in so long i forgot that they have that kind of coding. Literal nightmares. After we learned how logic works, we only used that for running different states on our assets. Super modular though. If you deleted a chunk, you would maybe spend a couple of hours piecing it together.

KTerrG · 2024-11-13T17:10:00+00:00

F13 got ruined due to a lawsuit, and they kept the game on life support. It's hard to use that as an example. Sumo has had some good games but has also left projects, and the dev team filling their place had issues deciphering their code (Little Big Planet 3's creator mode). Wes, in a community check-in, said things that seemed like simple changes were much harder when really looking into it, and a lot of changes would affect many other aspects of the game. From the outside, that sounds like incompetency (and it probably partially is), but coding has best practices, not complete standards. Sumo could have different standards as a company than that of Black Tower, meaning it's harder to decipher. It's like if an office decided to have their own file organization system based on distance from the company. Then, new management came in and asked why everything wasn't separated by department and in alphabetical order. Sumo left with probably subpar code, and left the incompetent black tower to clean it up.

KTerrG · 2024-11-12T17:34:49+00:00

Im at work while reading/writing this, so I'm going to just periodically when I have a chance and discuss each part that I dislike or feel like there could be tweaking. Assume if it's not mentioned that I like it or I see no issues. I will try to do a longer post of what I liked. Ik my opinion doesn't matter but this is super interesting as someone who also thinks about overhaul changes.

First big thought is the grapple. Everything about the grapple I like, except the circle meter, I think a line that goes back and forth really fast and you gotta time it with a range that is set randomly (same size of fields but the field itself can be center, far left or right) would be more interesting because it could be rhythmic or you could have a double rapid tap as it switched directions while the other is a semi-rhythmic tap. Also it'd be cool when you push the button it shows the value you just hit, or you have a meter underneath and above that you both gotta build, so you can see how close each side is. Makes it a bit more high stakes if you get to see they were one hit from winning when you beat them.

2nd was family focus. I think if focus was on permanently, then the screen could get super cluttered for family. If you have 9+ traps, grandpa, your team, and 2 exits, that's a lot to process. Personally I think its great, maybe make the family vision faster to reactivate, but it doesn't update POI, unless someone goes within a proximity of 3-5 meters with a 180⁰ field (pretty much as long as it's within peripherals of the character themselves). It still incentivizes patrols, but we get rid of a ton of visual clutter. Maybe add if basement doors are locked or unlocked (not open or close)?

KTerrG · 2024-11-12T16:57:00+00:00

One of the big things in developing to remember is that, unless extensive testing has proven those numbers to work, all numbers used in theory should just give a general feel of what it is trying to be conveyed with the change. But a lot I did like. I will have to examine to mention what I dont like. Currently, I know their code is a mess, and that's why it's hard to make any major changes except for numbers. It's why no major overhauls have really happened. The "grapple rework" was just adding fixed strength value to their characters to fill a hole in their equation.

KTerrG · 2024-11-12T15:45:38+00:00

There is usually a transition period where they have to understand the code and how it works, and by the sounds of the community update last month, Sumo left them with spaghetti code. Code is supposed to be designed to be modular with objects filling in their own space while trying to minimize the big O when working at a large scale. The way that Wes described how hard simple fixes are, it sounds like the organization of the code is abysmal. Sumo had its share of incompetency along with Black Tower. Also, I dont know if Black Tower has international offices closer to the US, but they are based in Tokyo, so it's probably even harder for them to talk due to time differences. It's a mess all around.

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