Since 2020, the standalone model of collectible card recreation Gwent has had a battle go equal referred to as journeys, which gave gamers three months to earn rewards together with avatars, animated borders, card backs, and skins, with the shiniest ones solely out there on a second reward monitor you needed to pay to unlock. Many of the journeys have been based mostly on a personality from The Witcher, with an unique quick story about them showing chapter by chapter every week.
Journeys gave gamers a motive to maintain coming again to Gwent, with quests that inspired attempting 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 Could replace, which has introduced again each of the primary two journeys, Geralt’s and Ciri’s, for an infinite time. Some additional rewards have been added too: auras based mostly on witcher indicators for Geralt and trophies for Ciri.
Moderately than leveling up whichever journey is presently out there, now you possibly can choose which one you’d wish 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 newest 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 may have its capability go off in the identical flip. A number of different playing cards have been tweaked, together with Hen Gaidth Sword.
One other singleplayer Gwent game, introduced in February, continues to be within the works and must be out this 12 months.
Learn extra: ‘It all started with a gif of a cat’: How Gwent went from minigame to gorgeous standalone CCG.
