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I was also pretty surprised by the retroactive arena wins added to hero progress. Shame that it looks like they didn't record the number of wins on runs for the achievements though. The update gave me about 600 extra achievement points. Just wrecked a mage with face hunter in classic mode. I can't see myself playing this much, but hey, whatever. edit: also a new song in the journal menu. I like the calm mood of it vs the main menu song.
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2021 18:21 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 22:28 |
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Sylvanis is also in the shop for cash or gold right now
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2021 18:40 |
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Just found out that Artifact went f2p three weeks ago with all cards unlocked . Never heard about it, haha. Thanks for doing the right thing Valve, but nothing is going to get me to even give it a try when I have achievements to grind in hearthstone.
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 04:27 |
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I'm pretty much just playing Classic mode to get achievements, but playing these decks is making me feel like a baller. I didn't realize just how many golden classic cards I've collected over the years. My decks are about 80% gold.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2021 20:36 |
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I went ahead and bought the battlepass despite not being in love with any of the cosmetics and never buying much in the game in general. I got to level 180 in the last one without a boost, so I do hope this one will serve me well. Boy does that achievement guitar sting get old when you're opening a bunch of packs.
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2021 21:48 |
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That's good to know, but I still had 6700 gold in reserve for this expansion. That's even with buying the two hero packs for 1500g each. There were a lot of give-aways last time with the rough roll out of the battlepass and it added up for me. Got six legendaries from my 67 packs Death Speaker Blackthorn Plaguemaw the Rotting Tavish Stormpike Mordresh Fire Eye Cariel Roame Rokara Now I need to watch Trump's break down of every card because I'm realizing I did not follow the card reveal drip and have no idea what's going to be usable.
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2021 22:43 |
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Boy does playing duels against mages with Arcane Flux and Orb of Revelation together really loving suck.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2021 02:23 |
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I got an email to do a blizzard survey and they're asking about the effectiveness of marketing copy. I think it includes details on the mercenaries mode that haven't been released yet. They also had questions about celebrities or influencers that might be a good fit for an endorsement. Mr T, Rick and Morty, Henry Cavill, and Deepfuckingvalue were all options. There was also talk of being a gacha game and collaborations with anime properties, so the bounties in mercenaries could be a new currency for packs that effect that particular mode.
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2021 00:11 |
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I put down 2500 for that question and I have reason to believe that it's more.
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2021 01:32 |
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goferchan posted:Lmao the wallstreetbets gamestop guy? What the gently caress? I mean, does that seem more like a fit for an endorsement vs Ana Joy Taylor or Awkwafina? Because those were options too.
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2021 23:45 |
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Patch notes are out too. Mostly details on BG changes and the upcoming adventures.There is this though "A Daily Quest has been added for Nozdormu Day, which will appear on the 15th of every month if you have an available Daily Quest slot." So yay for more free gold.
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# ¿ Jul 1, 2021 21:10 |
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World War Mammories posted:it's very good. pretty sure I recognize the chestpiece and helm from vanilla a million years ago but I forget the names. one of them is a devilsaur leather piece, maybe? It's the perfect hodgepodge of random greens you amass from about 25 - 40 in vanilla. The models get reused in so many different items that I don't think any of these are meant to be anything specific.
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2021 05:08 |
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I played through the new book and encountered an interesting AI problem. I've had the AI sometimes make obvious mistakes like not effectively playing cards in the right order, or maybe with a card like felfire potion that clears the board for them but also kills themselves. But for the first time today, the AI made an action that was 100% self destructive. The ice mage pinged itself with its hero power. I have to wonder what programming lead it to do that.
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# ¿ Jul 13, 2021 22:08 |
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Chernabog posted:FWIW this is one of my least favorite standard metas ever and I have played since beta. It's a shame too because I like a lot of the card designs from this set so I'm hopeful after a couple rounds of balancing it will be fun for me again. Same, except I mostly play wild and it is genuinely the most unplayable it's ever been with quest warlock and crystallizer. The quest needs to be retuned to instances of life lost and not a raw number. That would help at least a little bit, but I'm not sure even that would solve the problem.
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# ¿ Aug 17, 2021 16:00 |
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And all that for a mode that's still officially in beta. I really wonder at what point they need it to be for it technically launch. Like... what else do they need in it? I seem to remember a blog post saying they'll do a full revamp of everything this year, so maybe that will be the last step.
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# ¿ Aug 18, 2021 01:04 |
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I knew it was going to be a gacha when a survey leaked details that I posted about 50 pages ago. It's just a shame that they're actually doing separate whole packs to unlock things. I'd be fine with it all if it allowed you to use dust for advancement. Something tells me blizzard knows a lot of people are sitting on tens of thousands of dust and they don't want to make it too easy on people who've been playing the game forever.
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2021 00:48 |
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I bought the $5 introductory package. I'm part of the problem, sorry everyone. Anyway, first impressions are that it's more strategic than Raid Shadow Legends (even though I've never played that and just know it by reputation and reviews). There are still mechanics like how combos work in this mode that aren't explained exactly how they work. I guess if another party member did a similar type of attack it activates? Anyway, it really sucks to get heroes that are meant to synergize with a certain other hero types you don't have. I'd also really hate to grind the levels for the heroes I have only to realize that other ones are really much better and then I have to start over from level one once I get the better one from a pack. Even opening ten packs plus the 5 free ones so far have felt like it's barely given me anything. I guess that's gacha. With the way you get rewards, I don't see myself ever buying any again, with money or game gold. edit: oh drat, once you place your mercs down, you can't put them back in your hand. I predict that I lot of people will expect it to get locked in once you hit ready, not before. I see that being changed really quickly. Lister fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Oct 12, 2021 |
# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 19:02 |
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Shwqa posted:But seriously that is likely the end game of mercenaries. The main question is how strategic it will be. The major issue with these f2p rpgs is that rarer units are just better. They have the best stats and you can't counter them because the gameplay is mostly stat based. It ends up being a piss contest to see who has the rarest stuff. I'm getting the feeling that speed running might be a thing for it too. The fact that it tells you how many turns you took to complete a mission gives me that inkling. I also noticed just how quickly you can run through them if you're trying. I won my first two pvp matches. Queue times were over a minute. The second time it matched me with someone who had a ton of fancy portraits so you know they spent good money on their team. Still got wrecked by mostly starter heroes. The blog post said that the match maker for mercs was super sophisticated or something and takes into account how good your guys are. So even if you end up spending irl money to power your guys up, you're just going to be matched with other people who did the same.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 20:26 |
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Yeah, technically you "earn gold" because playing the mode gives you battle pass exp. And then eventually daily quests will count towards mercenaries play as well. But it sounds like they haven't decided on merc only quests. So far the "spend gold to upgrade your camp" thing isn't so bad because you get a merc pack along with doing that. Also, I noticed with my third win, that the number of wins you need to earn coins in pvp increases by 1 every time you earn it. So you get a reward for the first win, then you have to win two more, then three, etc. Can't tell what the limit is yet. Also - always pick the mystery space on your path. There's a mysterious stranger event that adds a task to your board. It looks like those are the dailies for this mode, so getting a free one is important.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 21:13 |
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Ok, now this is pretty lovely. This better give you another beast to choose from when you upgrade it. If it does, that needs to be communicated some how. If it doesn't, you can expect people to be frustrated to have to essentially spend 175 coins on the first upgrade.
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2021 22:17 |
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I got to the Xyrella task 5 that says I need to use her to finish a bounty at level 30. Has anyone else gotten that one yet, because I think it's bugged. I have finished bounties with her alive and dead, and even ones that recommend level 30 but it hasn't completed yet. edit: ok, a blue post about known patch issues says it's a known bug. That really halts my task progression so that sucks. Lister fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Oct 13, 2021 |
# ¿ Oct 13, 2021 20:54 |
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I got to 5000 rating in pvp tonight fighting only bots. Literally 20 wins in a row. What is blizzard doing?
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2021 06:51 |
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L0cke17 posted:Is there a way in-game to view the abilities of mercenaries you haven't crafted yet? This was posted on the official blog and should be everything you're looking for https://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/gallery/dz/DZTV63OQI11Q1633962629130.pdf
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2021 07:58 |
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Dear Somethingawful forums, I never thought it would happen to me.... So match making is broken. It is absolutely ripe for exploitation. I got to the top 100 of pvp by only playing bots with a 100% winrate. You can too. Here's the deal: The bot system works to look for other players in queue using some algorithm that takes raw level, equipment (if equipped or not), equipment rank, and skill rank into consideration when matching. As you could imagine, balancing everything between those, coming up with a score, and then finding another person with a similar score is going to be tough. So blizzard matches you with a bot. This bot's team will mimic the exact same rank, lvl, equipment, etc of your team. The big thing here is that there is zero synergy of that AI team. As far as I can tell, it just picks random heroes. So if you can get two level 30 heroes, only rank up the abilities that synergize, and then fill out the rest of your team with level 1s, you're golden. The team I used was Millhouse and Tyrande. Arcane explosion and arcane bolt are the ones to level along with arcane dust. For Tyrande, arcane salvo and elune's grace. I eventually coupled Cariel Roame with zero upgraded abilities, since even then, the taunt helps counter melee guys. Use arcane bolt turn one and salvo turn one. From there, use turn two to activate elune's grace and arcane bolt. It's random which will go first, but the hope is that elune's grace goes first and millhouse will use arcane bolt and pump the team's arcane damage up with two uses. If not, look at the board and decide if a double explosion is better or double single target damage. Even if one bolt will kill someone, the second bolt will attack the same target so you'll want to spread it out. It gets to the point where the extra damage is so compounded, and the aoe is so strong, that you roll everyone. A few times one of the main pair died but the filler heroes are still there to sub in and help out. After your level one filler heroes get too high level for your taste, swap them out with fresh level ones. Remember that a key part of this is never spending coins to upgrade abilities for your filler team. Enjoy your wins everyone.
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2021 21:22 |
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Amoeba102 posted:And what do you get from doing this? You get about 100 coins for the first win, then for 2, then 3, etc up to 5 and then you can earn that reward for five wins an unlimited number of times (resets back to one every day). Each 1000 ranking gives coins and then coins + pack starting at rank 5000. Even if you only do this for three wins a day, it's a lot of extra coins. Plus all your filler heroes will get power leveled.
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2021 23:18 |
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The AI did seem to get harder around rank 5000, but I did notice early on that it would target the lowest hp heroes despite them being very low level and not a threat at all. Those meat shields let tyrande and millhouse take control.
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# ¿ Oct 14, 2021 23:26 |
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RatHat posted:Uh anyone beat Emperor Thaurissian? I don't understand how it's even possible to win. I just did it and I only had kurtrus, xyrella, and millhouse remaining when I started it. But I got lucky since I got a boon that increases caster hp by 50. Otherwise, try to have a rounded enough party to where you know you're going to lose the first three and when the bombs go off and you only have three left, try to stack direct damage that's hopefully from casters.
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2021 03:51 |
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I'm glad I could help out. I it seems like the AI is totally removed from match making at about 6300. So when you get close to that number, concede some games to keep yourself from under the threshold. Otherwise you'll be stuck making a real team and waiting out the long times to match with a real person, only to probably lose anyway. That's going to make even the one or three wins every day much harder. It's a shame that grinding the free rewards disincentivizes actually PvPing people, but here we are. Also, we're in the top few percent of merc players. Congrats everyone. The top 1% is at the AI inclusion cutoff. What a funny coincidence. https://twitter.com/sky_tding/status/1449269133107859456
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2021 06:28 |
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AnacondaHL posted:I figured it out a bit of it: I've finished 18 tasks with Samuro, so if he's in the party I don't get tasks offered anymore. But it's more than that. I haven't had any trouble today except for this morning. I think if you have 4 tasks from different mercs and all four of those mercs in your group, then the stranger wont spawn.
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# ¿ Oct 17, 2021 21:00 |
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E. Revenant posted:Hell it's only been 4 days and I'm at 6000 pvp and the final boss of Blackrock. When presented with the final storyline task reward of 5 packs I instantly realized they were useless to me as after getting them I would most likely not play the mode again. I've just been playing to get the storyline rewards without realizing there really isn't any gameplay past just doing that. There is still trying to do everything on heroic, but it's tuned to be so difficult that you need to have mercs that really are maxed out and still get the right treasures or boons for certain bosses. Plus there's really no reason to finish most heroics more than once for the achievement since farming coins on normal is going to be much faster in winterspring and blackrock. The lack of content for a mode like this that's getting the red carpet roll out, complete with live action tv commercial, is pretty surprising.
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# ¿ Oct 18, 2021 07:48 |
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NorgLyle posted:I'm still hopeful that it's going to be revealed that Toki has a Weekly Quest that gives two packs or something similar but I'm not optimistic. It turns out that the tasks for each hero starting at about 15 or 16 begin to give 1 pack each in addition to coins for that hero.
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# ¿ Oct 19, 2021 00:53 |
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RatHat posted:16-18 give 1 pack each, yes. But getting there in a reasonable amount of time basically requires grinding. Also it’s not possible for a lot of Merc’s tasks right now because they have a bugged one As far as I can tell, this was hotfixed about two or three days after launch. I got stuck on Xyrella's task day 1 but was able to complete it later along with any other "complete a bounty at level 30" tasks.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2021 20:15 |
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Cardamommy Issues posted:Mercenaries is not my bag. I spent like 2000 gold to give it a fair shot and it feels grindy and not strategic, like most gatcha phone games. Most heroes lack synergy and matches lack “new” stuff going on I assumed earlier that I could swap out skills of fewer mercenaries. When the very first teaser screenshot came out, people thought it was going to be an advanced form of dungeon run. Like, that's actually what people wanted and it could have worked. Instead it's this. After two weeks and I finished each bounty on normal and heroic. I did some task grinding when it was easy and now I'm just doing whatever dailies come in. I pvp, but only against bots because the rewards fighting players isn't worth the time. Even then, I'm only bothering to do one a day because it's so quick. Then there's the issue of new heroes coming out. When new mercs come out, will there be expansion packs? If they're in the base pack, should I be saving the packs I get now so I can easily get the new rare ones when they're launched? Nobody knows. It's such a weak handshake of a game. The idea of them pushing the chess or strategic angle in the advertisements is ridiculous when you have to think much more in an average game of constructed.
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# ¿ Oct 28, 2021 21:34 |
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RatHat posted:Some other unannounced stuff added in the patch Looks like they also got rid of the crafting tab for card backs and hero portraits to buy them for gold any time you want. edit: and I'm just looking at the new coins now. They look good, but there goes my dream of having a complete coin collection Lister fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Nov 2, 2021 |
# ¿ Nov 2, 2021 20:20 |
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The absolute worst I have ever seen the AI act. Played as priest and twice it healed full health units when I had damaged minions on the board. It killed the opponent's minions by attacking with mine, and then used an aoe spell against an empty board. Or a 3/1 going face instead of killing a 6/3. Like... it's never been that dumb in dungeon crawls.Sir Lemming posted:Edit: also the above, why play anything other than warrior when one of the options given to everyone is Pirate Warrior synergy, lol I first played as mage. 2/3 perks to choose buffed minions in a deck with no minions. The other reduced the cost of cards (but not below 2) for a hand with only low cost spells. You'd think the perks to choose would vary depending on class. Lister fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Nov 3, 2021 |
# ¿ Nov 3, 2021 20:02 |
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victorious posted:I'd love to hear if the Devs have an explanation or any kind of reasoning behind this brawl. I mean its probably AI data gathering or something it's just such a terrible way to do it. They could say they wanted to simulate the frustration of directing a play that goes off the rails and none of the actors know their lines. So you're just impotently trying to gesture for them to do the right thing but it just gets worse and worse.
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# ¿ Nov 5, 2021 04:05 |
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I picked alliance, but the joke's on all of you. So many people will pick horde that you're more likely to play a horde player than an alliance one, so when you win, you're more likely to get the faction bonus for that win.
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2021 22:57 |
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Kalko posted:Oh, good, they're actually releasing more spoilers. I assumed they'd do that dumb thing where they announce the expansion and then don't show anything for two weeks. The mercenaries release screwed up their release schedule. It's why we got all the mini-set reveals in a weekend and two solo campaigns a week apart.
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2021 18:43 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:On the plus side, I have to give them props for putting him up against a GIRL given that there's been Gamergate-level bullshit about the inequality of genders within Chess since the first woman asked "hey what's that and can you teach me how to play?" He already showed up in the mercenaries live action commercial. He's being completely paid off for his endorsement of the game. I had to laugh at the blizzard guy saying chess and hearthstone aren't so dissimilar. Chess may be the most balanced board game of all time. Being able to anticipate your opponent's moves is almost totally reliant on knowing what decks are in the meta, understanding what deck your opponent is playing, and then knowing the typical contents of those decks so you can play around certain cards. None of those things happen in chess.
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2021 23:00 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 22:28 |
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victorious posted:Ehhh... That's fair, I see what you mean. I don't know much about high level chess.
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2021 03:52 |