Hail Mortals,
Last week we hosted an AMA with Bryn and Cloudy over on the official GU Discord and it went awesome! Bryn and Cloudy revealed their vision for GU’s future, addressed some player questions, and talked about our newest release, Formats!
You can find the entire recording over on our Discord here, but if you don’t feel like listening to the whole thing, keep reading for our official recap!
We Revealed Formats
We’ve been hard at work on what we’re calling Formats, new game queues that will give players new (or old) ways to experience Gods Unchained with DPE modifiers attached. Flashback is one of our first Formats, where you’ll get to re-experience long lost metas, and there’s more to come!
DPE Restructuring
Attached to Formats comes our DPE restructuring. Essentially, anyone Rank 6 and below will not earn Fragments, and your wins will matter a lot more from Ranks 7 to 12. We’ve also reworked the way Shines contribute to Fragment earnings. More on this in the coming week!
New Lore
Cloudy also dug into the future of GU Lore, and revealed that Guild of Guardians and Gods Unchained exist in the same universe. Some of you might have noticed Thaerial chilling in the Guild of Guardians launch trailer? We’re still in the conversation phase at this point, but there’s a world in which we bridge the gap between different Immutable properties, and we’re super excited about those possibilities. :
Addressing Community Concerns
The team also ran through a long list of issues that the community had raised and the solutions they've implemented, or will implement, to address the problems.
- Fixing Match Fixing: Identified and banned ~1,000 bot accounts and implemented new anti-bot tech
- DPE Restructure: We want to tweak the DPE system to favor dedicated, active players
- Content Creator Program: On hiatus until the team can align on ways to better support creators for their efforts, e.g. a referral link system
- DA Collection Rewards: Everyone should have their intended rewards, reach out if not
- Delayed Tournament Rewards: Reaching out to tournament organizers to ensure rewards are sent out appropriately
- Cerberus On The Loose: Someone used our Cerberus card art for the cover of their book, and we are asking them to stop (lol)
- Turn Timer Adjustments: We're happy with the changes but want to push them further
- Sealed Pools Update: Much more Prince-like, will be cycled out in ~8 weeks
- Avatars Are Live: Learn how to change your pfp here
Community Question Roundup
We also answered some questions from the community and have some summaries ready to read. Head to Discord for the full context.
When will players be able to spy on other players' deck lists be fully resolved and is to considered cheating?
- Making progress but it's a huge undertaking. Requires a server logic rewrite, which is our highest priority. We don't believe it's cheating, but it's not great for a TCG. Until we fix the system it's not a punishable offense, but after the system fix, it will be.
What sort of IP crossovers might happen in the future?
- Well we're already working with Guild of Guardians, and we're having chats with other games in the Web3 space. We would love to know what you all would like us to do? Who should we collaborate with?
Any plans to host more tournaments in the future?
- You should look over for them sooner rather than later, but we don't want to show our hand just yet.
What are your priorities for the rest of 2024?
- We have the Chest migration, the server logic rewrite, and at the end of that is the progression system, but the server logic rewrite is our holy grail.
Hope you enjoyed the recap! If you'd like to listen to the full recording, you can find it on the Discord here!
