Marvel Snap’s newest spherical of steadiness adjustments hasn’t formally been launched but, however following a last-minute delay and leak, the information is on the market. And gamers have begun debating one nerf particularly involving the controversial Chief card. For a lot of, the leaked nerf particulars aren’t sufficient. There was a lot chatter round this transformation that Marvel Snap boss Ben Brode needed to handle it and the cardboard’s future on Twitter.
Launched final 12 months, Marvel Snap is a fast-paced digital card recreation accessible on Steam and cell units that stars superheroes and villains. Matches are quick, decks are small, and every time you play the sport feels slightly totally different as randomized zones can fully shake up a match. We right here at Kotaku thought it was probably the greatest video games of 2022.
However even a fantastic recreation has its issues. And one difficulty in Marvel Snap as of late has been the controversially highly effective Chief card that—because of its capacity to repeat all playing cards your opponent performed this flip—-can mainly steamroll over most decks within the remaining second of a match.
Individuals have been ready for a steadiness change for just a few weeks now, with many hopeful that The Chief would get tweaked to be much less highly effective. We had been purported to get a patch with steadiness adjustments on January 4, however on the final minute, a difficulty delayed it. Nonetheless, doubtless because of the last-second delay, the small print of the patch leaked through Marvel Snap’s Korean neighborhood crew and shortly unfold throughout the online. Whereas the patch notes contained just a few totally different nerfs and card buffs, The Chief’s minor steadiness change—-only eradicating one level of energy from the cardboard—-was thought-about not sufficient by gamers.
In response, Marvel Snap boss Ben Brode discussed The Leader nerf on Twitter, offering extra context for the small nerf and clarifying that the crew has extra plans to tweak the cardboard sooner or later, it’s simply nonetheless attempting to determine what to vary. However these adjustments are coming, ultimately, and this primary, smaller nerf is simply the 1st step in direction of balancing Chief.
In the meantime, if you’re somebody who likes working Marvel Snap decks with the varied Guardians of the Galaxy characters, excellent news: Groot and Drax are getting small buffs to their base stats to make them extra viable and fewer of of venture. It additionally seems, through the leaked patch notes, that artist credit are lastly being added to the sport within the subsequent replace, too. In fact, these leaked patch notes aren’t official but, even when Brode is responding to at least one a part of them, so preserve that in thoughts. As for when to count on this delayed patch, Brode defined on Twitter that the wait shouldn’t be longer than a week, so it may go dwell round January 10 or 11.