Since 2020, the standalone model of collectible card sport Gwent has had a battle move equal known as journeys, which gave gamers three months to earn rewards together with avatars, animated borders, card backs, and skins, with the shiniest ones solely accessible on a second reward observe you needed to pay to unlock. A lot of the journeys have been primarily based on a personality from The Witcher, with an unique brief story about them showing chapter by chapter every week.
Journeys gave gamers a cause to maintain coming again to Gwent, with quests that inspired making an attempt completely different factions and decks. They have been additionally controversial because of the brutal grind it took to earn the perfect rewards earlier than the following journey got here alongside. That is modified as of Gwent’s Might replace, which has introduced again each of the primary two journeys, Geralt’s and Ciri’s, for a limiteless time. Some further rewards have been added too: auras primarily based on witcher indicators for Geralt and trophies for Ciri.
Reasonably than leveling up whichever journey is at present accessible, now you may choose which one you’d prefer to progress. The subsequent three journeys (Alzur, Yennefer, and Triss) will return as everlasting additions in July, with the ultimate three (Aretuza, Regis, and Dandelion) in November.
The most recent replace brings Gwent as much as model 10.5, and provides a brand new key phrase, Timer, to any playing cards that had results that triggered after a countdown, altering them in order that they’ll now go off earlier than some other end-of-turn results. Which may make some make fascinating synergies doable—because the patch notes clarify, playing cards like Portal and Megascope can now summon an engine card that can have its potential go off in the identical flip. A couple of different playing cards have been tweaked, together with Hen Gaidth Sword.
One other singleplayer Gwent sport, introduced in February, continues to be within the works and ought to be out this 12 months.
Learn extra: ‘It began with a gif of a cat’: How Gwent went from minigame to beautiful standalone CCG.
