Maybe there's a cost to keep your units in play? I have no idea about Artifact's specific mechanics. Since Garfield is the creator of MTG, he might just be reusing that game's vocabulary:

Quoting: GamepediaThe upkeep step is the second step of the beginning phase. At the beginning of the upkeep step, any abilities that trigger either during the untap step or at the beginning of upkeep go on the stack. Then the active player gains priority the first time during his or her turn.

During this step, all upkeep costs are paid. The cost can be paid to gain something (Farmstead) or to prevent a sacrifice (Force of Nature). The cost can also be cumulative.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I wanted to give them kudos for making a clear announcement about it, but considering Liam had to prod them to do so, it doesn't show up on their news list and they don't even mention the fact on the third backer build announcement, I am very unimpressed.

Well, as long as they honor refunds, they're still doing better than other studios.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: razing32I'll be honest that explanation flew over by head by about a mile.
Guess it shows i don't play card games.

"For dummies" version (making general assumptions about this kind of game, not Artifact in particular):
- The player's turn is divided in phases. Typically there's a "start of turn" where a few things happen automatically to set you up for your turn, then an "action phase" where you actually play cards and take actions, and an "end of turn" where you wrap up by drawing, discarding, etc. and pass. Sometimes, card effects trigger during start or end phases rather than during the main action phase (such as March of the Machines).
- Removing an enemy during the start of the turn is better than during the action phase because it doesn't get to react (typically in those games a unit that is attacked also deals its damage to the attacker simultaneously) and it's no longer in your way during the rest of the turn to hinder your attacks or provide special effects to the opponent.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

The last 5 seconds of that video were glorious.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: LiamYou get to see a leaderboard when you finish each sector, instead of it having a leaderboard for each level which Steam apparently wouldn't allow.

Can you clarify what a sector is and why Steam wouldn't allow it? Thanks :)

Woops. It's a set of levels and Steam wouldn't allow 90 leaderboards.

Thank you. I expected as much but wanted to make sure :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: LiamYou get to see a leaderboard when you finish each sector, instead of it having a leaderboard for each level which Steam apparently wouldn't allow.

Can you clarify what a sector is and why Steam wouldn't allow it? Thanks :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I concur. Played it for a little while a couple years ago and felt very much like Warcraft 2, except running better on modern hardware :)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: mylkai dont think so, if i watch kids today. they dont care about PC/laptops anymore. they browse the web with their phone, they watch netflix with their phones, they listen to music with their phones, they play games on their phones

Most kids didn't care about PCs when I was a kid either. They had watches, gameboys, mp3 players, etc. Doesn't change the fact that we all used computers at/for school, most of us now use them at work and anyone would choose a monitor over a 5-inch screen for their home entertainment if they have the option. Kids were never the main demographic for desktop computers (well, most types of computers), but that doesn't mean they won't use them later. Hell, there are a lot of things kids don't care about that they will need later on. Their lack of interest hardly indicates the death of an industry.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Purple Library GuyUrgh, tell me about it. At my library we got a new system for all our info, and it's in the bloody cloud. So where it used to be if we checked out a book the reaction was instant, because the database was in the buiding, now there's a couple seconds lag on every single action because we're in Vancouver and the server is in bloody Toronto. It's also browser based, and the people who wrote it cunningly set it up so that if you open a new tab to do two things at once with it, your actions on the two tabs write to both or something so it corrupts your data. So we can't do that. And it breaks if you use browser controls like the reload or back button, you have to use their little "back" control instead, which varies its position depending how the browser is laying out the page. Has all the disadvantages of a web app but few of the advantages. But, you know, web apps and the cloud are fashionable. Gah.

One agency I translate for uses a Web-based translation interface. It's great because I don't need to pay hundreds for a license to a proprietary program that only runs on Windows. It sucks because for three hours today I couldn't get any work done while the server constantly threw up 502s or logged me out of my session. And I can't ever have two files opened at once in different tabs or computers because oh boy that is way beyond the Cloud's capabilities apparently.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: SalvatosMan if Windows becomes a Linux distro it's going to become tricky telling people they should switch to Linux.

My only concern would be that they start saying: "Linux was difficult, but Microsoft made it easy".

I'm already cringing :sick:

View this comment - View article - View full comments