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Magic: The Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 |OT| Tapping All Day
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WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Playing on the iPad is awesome...but mana tapping is still jacked up. It's definitely glitched, at least during the challenges. There is one that takes a precise order to complete, but it took about 5-6 tries after knowing what to do for the game to actually pay the mana as highlighted. It works some of the time, but that's not good enough. It's definitely not me, as I really, really took my time the last 3 times to be absolutely sure. The right cards were lit, but when I slid the cards up they played out of order. The correct cards remained lit for the duration, so there was no miscue on the touch...there is just some inherient flaw in the mana tapping.
narcosis219
Member
It's almost like mana tapping is the hardest thing in the world to implement
The Xtortionist
Member
Duels of the Planeswalkers: Tapping the cards...so you don't have to.
Eat your heart out, Evan Erwin.
Call me crazy and mean but I think the iPad version is actually kinda sloppy. This is coming from someone who played XBLA then PC versions of the other two. Choosing attackers is slow and just overall things feel like a slog (compare vs. Ascension where it's just bam bam bam) and there's lots of lower-res stuff around.
Not related to substantive gameplay though. New modes look cool and hopefully the little rough patches are ironed out in an update.
Not related to substantive gameplay though. New modes look cool and hopefully the little rough patches are ironed out in an update.
if history is anything to go off of, you will get one patch that fixes a few things but breaks others, and any patch after that will just fix the fact that the DLC isn't showing up properly. You will likely have to wait for 2014 for a better version.
I mean maybe their support is going to be better this time, but it wasn't for 2009 or 2012 lol
hmm yeah i do remember lots of crashes back in the day. ah well it's not like it's anything horrible afaict just little stuff that bugged me in my 60m with the game. i'm sure it will be fun!
I've always managed to look past the bugs to have fun as well... god that mic bug back on 2009 is horrible though @_@ ultimately had to disable all sounds from magic because my friend was playing on a laptop and no matter what he tried he couldn't actually mute his mic, 2009 wouldn't let him lol.
I can't wait to give the game a try in 9 hours though, hopefully it's as much improved from 2012 as 2012 was from 2009
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
<3 blue decks
DotP '13 is slick as hell in the GUI department. I also LOVE LOVE LOVE the stats and "custom cards"/event cards that may happen. LOVE IT. It's good to see Stainless and Wizards take the critics of '12 (EG: bad performance on PS3. '13 is OH SO SMOOTH and fast in loading. It's insane!) and improve on it.
Only one small thing: Is Archenemy completely gone? I see "Campaign," "Revenge, (expansion in '12)" "Planescape" and that's it. No Archenemy?
Only one small thing: Is Archenemy completely gone? I see "Campaign," "Revenge, (expansion in '12)" "Planescape" and that's it. No Archenemy?
Yes gone, the better planechase in change
It turns out I was getting positively smashed by that Odric deck because I had gotten it set to Planeswalker difficulty by picking "A lot" when it asks how much experience I had with Magic. I can't actually prove that they are top decking perfectly all over the place, but yeesh. I wish that wasn't the case because they actually do just play the game better at that difficulty as well. It seems like that is the only level where they play creatures after they attack instead of before and some of their other decisions seem better as well.
I didn't like how choosing attackers worked on iPad until I realized you can just single tap each guy you want to send instead of having to drag them to the other guy's portrait. The only other thing that seems a bit clunky is activating abilities on cards since you need to hit pause, double tap the card to zoom in, then select the ability. I can't really see a better way to do it though except maybe always pausing when you zoom on a card, which could get annoying really fast in MP (which I haven't tried yet). Some of the graphical elements on the screen look a little weird, but the cards look so nice that it doesn't really bother me.
I didn't like how choosing attackers worked on iPad until I realized you can just single tap each guy you want to send instead of having to drag them to the other guy's portrait. The only other thing that seems a bit clunky is activating abilities on cards since you need to hit pause, double tap the card to zoom in, then select the ability. I can't really see a better way to do it though except maybe always pausing when you zoom on a card, which could get annoying really fast in MP (which I haven't tried yet). Some of the graphical elements on the screen look a little weird, but the cards look so nice that it doesn't really bother me.
It's the cheapest way to learn the newer mechanics.
So wait, you still can't tap lands manually in dotp13?
Yes, the were a theme of Innistrad/Dark Ascension.
Yep, those were the big new thing that were in two of the sets in the last block (Innistrad and Dark Ascension). You can either have them directly in your deck if you play with card sleeves or keep them on the side and put a special checklist card in your deck that you swap for the double faced card when you play it:
This isn't nearly as clunky in practice as it initially sounds.
Real time only. There is too much back and forth in every turn of Magic to do it asynchronously.
acheron_xl
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The things that are actually at native res on the new iPad look really nice. I'm about 30 seconds into it and I'm already strangely giddy.
divisionbyzorro
Member
Are you playing an Encounter?
Encounters don't play legal decks. They're a puzzle - they're going to play a specific line of play each time, and you have to beat it.
Encounters don't follow standard rules. Wait until next turn! ;-)
Yep, those were the big new thing that were in two of the sets in the last block (Innistrad and Dark Ascension). You can either have them directly in your deck if you play with card sleeves or keep them on the side and put a special checklist card in your deck that you swap for the double faced card when you play it:
This isn't nearly as clunky in practice as it initially sounds.
That's pretty cool.
I haven't played since Ice Age, but is it just me or are there a hundred different names for the same ability to not be the target of spells, even within the same set (ex. hexproof / shroud)?
acheron_xl
Member
They kinda went crazy with the keywords at one point. They are different abilities though. Shroud means nothing can target, Hexproof means opponents can't target, which is much better.
One game in - feels nice on iPad. Really enjoying it.
I like the look and feel but agree that the game could have been done so much better. Why not just make it like Magic Online? The way you have to stop the timer to cast certain cards or abilities is head scratching.
Overall I'm just happy the game is on the ipad. So much potential here for Wizards of the coast that they just refuse to embrace.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Just the two, Hexproof and Shroud. Its been a weird growing period: they keyworded Shroud first, but then they didn't think it was good enough or something so they made Hexproof but now there have been stirrings that Hexproof might be too good so they might go back to using Shroud in the future...yeah
divisionbyzorro
Member
Aww shame the multi isn't asynchronous
There are too many decisions to make during your opponents turn to play Magic asynchronously.
I too am curious about this. Anyone?
Aww shame the multi isn't asynchronous
In Magic? How could that possibly work?
The initial ten bucks to upgrade from the trial version gets you all 10 decks and the 30 unlockable cards for each one. You just need to beat them in the campaign first to unlock them.