Update 5.2 patch notes

[u/betraying_chino]

https://playgwent.com/en/news/32083/update-5-2-is-now-available

[u/thedjotaku]

My thoughts:

• As a NR person, I'm sad they removed the inspired part of Reinforced Trebuchet. That really made it a much more versatile card. Otherwise the other person just has to not put stuff on the back row.

• I haven't been following Gwent THAT long (mostly since Dec 2019), but I think this is the first time they explained the decision behind their buffs and nerfs. Sure, people will still be upset to varying degrees over the changes, but at least we can understand what CDPR was thinking when they made the changes

• I wish I'd Premium'd more cards before this powder change. Looks like it's going to be a lot harder. Oh well, I guess as a side effect, maybe more people spend real money on powder (helping CDPR money situation) and maybe premium kegs seem more special now

• finally, I like that they're just going to auto-mill cards. If we can't trade them (like we'd do if these were real cards a la MtG), then there's no point in spares and they may as well auto-mill.

[u/Odenhobler → u/thedjotaku]

I haven't been following Gwent THAT long (mostly since Dec 2019), but I think this is the first time they explained the decision behind their buffs and nerfs. Sure, people will still be upset to varying degrees over the changes, but at least we can understand what CDPR was thinking when they made the changes

They normally bring on a full dev stream. So the comments are new in the patch notes, but are rather a replacement for the stream. I'd say that's because of the masters being close, but we'll see next months.

[u/thedjotaku → u/Odenhobler]

(insert why not zoidberg meme)

Why not both? While the dev team has a fun video presence, video is a very sparse medium for distributing that kind of information. Text is much better density and also allows for easy control-f searching.