Same here. I've only ever completed a campaign solo. We are, however, on mission 6 of 8 in The Gates of Valhalla campaign for Shadows of Brimstone, but that's really short! :)

Glad it was helpful!

I have the luxury of not showing game play, so I'm able to just discuss things about the game. I have a hard time learning about a game by watching game play, and I prefer to just hear someone talk about a game, so that's what I try to do. :) You might be seeing move coverage like this.

Glad it was helpful. :).

My pleasure!

Thanks man! Appreciate the comments / kind words. :).

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you! And likewise. :)

Glad it was helpful!

What are they being replaced with!

@@TheDungeonDive I thinks it’s a single blue acrylic marker that you move across the track. It looks like a mini Convergence boss 😅

No character progression? That would actually be a selling point for me

It not connecting the scenarios is a huge plus for me. I don't want abilities and other content locked behind having to play a campaign.

CDMD is probably a pretty good point of compairison!

CDMD is what I thought of too, which is one of my favourite games! My main concern with this one in comparison is the fiddly-ness of managing the enemy turns (as touched upon in this video). CDMD is such a smooth flowing game due to the relative lack of an actual enemy turn

I watched already 2 other gameplay videos… no way that one will substitute CDMD (for me) 😆

Thank you very much!

According to the documentation, the game is supposed to be a grueling uphill battle for the hunters until a certain point, at which the tides turn. I'm not good at games, so I never even got close to that. I would bet they're still working on overall balance.

I standee version is confirmed!

Well, hopefully you're armed with enough information to make an informed decision. :)

@@TheDungeonDive Lol. Well after watching a few other videos, I've decided to pass on this.

I agree!

Unfortunately this is not that game.

I agree! The detail is kind of piled on.

Amazon. Hold It.

Nice!

No idea. I don’t know a lot about minis. They’re larger. Bigger than 32mm.

By attacking it's body parts and whittling down it's health.

@@TheDungeonDive So the boss's health is a combination of the health total from all cards or the health total from all body parts? If you destroy a body part, it seems like all cards relating to that body part should be removed.

I never got that far in the game before losing, so I’m not sure. Maybe check one of the gameplay videos to see if they did better than I did!

Yep!

Thanks! Yeah, KZfaq hates this channel. I hear this thing from tons of people.

There is another comment in which this is discussed.

@@TheDungeonDive I was not aware. Thanks.

No problem! :) That's why I mentioned it. I don't have a lot of thoughts on it right now. I'm waiting to pass judgement on everything AI related until I know more about it. It's a very complex situation, with things I don't understand, so I'm not drawing any line in the sand at the moment.

​@@TheDungeonDiveI know that '3-minutes-boardgame' (an awesome New Zealand BG channel) has decided, out of principle and respect to the artists' careers, to not cover any game which performs AI art... I know that you are a principles person yourself and I didn't want to put you in an inconvenient and conflicted situation, but... I do believe that being aware for the way others respond to this new situation/status might open your mind and even inspire you in your own decision of how to handle.. Personally, I think the art in this game is gorgeous, but I would have felt better about it if there was some... any at all... credits to those who made the entire art direction choices... Even if they were only technicians with good taste which know how to speak with machines... I miss this human anchor and touch... And uncredited art makes me feel... Sorrow.

That's super cool! I'm glad for them that they know enough about the entire situation to take a stand. I just don't at this time. Still learning.

I love dice, and I prefer games that are mostly luck, so I dig that part of the game. But I know there are a lot of modern gamers that really don't so I get it.

I prefer one and done.

​@@TheDungeonDive sure, but you are mostly a dungeon crawler guy (if I may do such an assumption). BB as a genre is a bit different beast, meta progression is a bread and butter here. And for clarification - by meta progress I mean a system of progression that unlocks an additional content by playing more and more, not a system that makes game easier, not a campaign, not a story book. If a game is one and done it is simply not worth my money & time. There has to be a carrot to motivate me to play more! ;) Grimcoven tries to catch a few birds at once, but I'm not convinced yet if it's doing it successfully.

I’ve got like 800 hours in Bloodborne the game. :). Been playing From Software games since the PSOne days.

Looks like you saved some money! So that’s always good. :).

@@TheDungeonDive Yup, it seems like I saved money here, but who knows what will they show during campaign. At least bosses/scenarios are gated in some way.

I don’t have any real thoughts on it. I know they have an in house art team, and that AI is used in things like Photoshop all the time. I also don’t know what kind of AI they’re using, if they’re using it, in what aspect, to what degree, so I prefer to not cast stones.

@@TheDungeonDive I can give some more context then, seeing as their press release/update about this was purposefully vague. Yes they do have artists in-house but it is confirmed that they are using final art from AI-generated programs such as Dalle and MidJourney. They have had multiple listings for jobs (in Polish so fly mostly under the radar) specifically seeking for people with experience generating AI art. In addition, they have also been caught with AI art in their projects, with many discernible features that clearly demonstrate AI as the source. It was so apparent that Ravensburger stepped in with the new Puerto Rico edition and made them remove all the art, once it was made public about the use of AI art. This is not the same as tools using AI technology within other programs, such as those you named within Photoshop. Adobe also have their own AI art generation tools, but these are purely based off of their own stock libraries that they have secured the rights too. Programs like MidJourney have used libraries originally planned for research use only, containing masses of copyrighted material of artists. These artists have no consent in the matter or compensation. Aside from the ethical discussions of such tools, I do genuinely think that AR art has taken a turn for the worst, and correlates with this increased use. All of their projects now have this very similar “painterly” and “brushed” style, that did not exist as much before. I felt like there were clearer distinctions between the art used in different AR games in the past. A lot of the art has also become needlessly “busy”. How many random whisps of clothing and additional small details does the character art have for this game, for example? Both aspects are indicative of the kind of art that is produced from such tools. This painterly style has become very popular as it hides a lot of the imprecise nature of AI-generated art. It doesn’t take much for someone to merely bury the most obvious peculiarities (although this has been shoddily done). The excessive detail and unrealistic aspects also lean into what these programs natively produce. For my part, it is very saddening to see this move. It feels like corner cutting a hugely important part of the games in order to quicken the process and pump out more products. I have always valued this community and specifically this channel for championing the DIY and indie, but larger companies like this undermine talented artists and more unique art direction. I honestly fear for the future of art in our games with this type of thing being seen as a viable alternative. Everything ends up becoming more and more homogenised. Games like Dark Venture and Dungeon Degenerates would not get produced if this was the standard.

Cool! Thanks for the info.

I’ll be doing my top 10 board games with the best art episode soon, and none of the entries contain any generative AI as far as I know. :).

@@TheDungeonDive look forward to it! I don’t think there’s anything wrong with covering such games and people can vote with their wallets, but I don’t like the lack of transparency that exists currently in the industry. Like I said, the update going into this by AR was purposefully vague and quite defensive. If your method is to use AI-generated art the least companies can do is be honest about it and let customers decide with their purchases. Either way, appreciate your insights as always and I’m sure this will remain an amazing space to highlight indies and DIY games.

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