Artifact Dev Tracker

The Artifact Card Buyback period is now open and will last until January 4th, 2019. You can read the details here.

Update incoming! Skill ratings, leveling, and card balance changes.

Update is live!

About to push Artifact 1.1 and we just passed 8.2 million matches played since launch! (6 million of those are gauntlet matches.) Of total hours spent, 53.2% are in draft and the rest in constructed. The median player has played for 9 hours and 83% have played some form of PvP.

There was a Reddit panic about an exploit that allowed purchasing packs at a discounted rate. The exploit was quickly fixed and only about $2500 in card value entered the economy this way - a negligible amount relative to the market size and hourly volume.

In advance of Thursday’s update we’re changing the gauntlet rotation date that displays in the client. This is just a weird side effect of this week’s update and doesn’t mean anything else.

This week's update will be on Thursday.

@retsopuk We hear you.

There's more, but we'll leave the details for the update. We also plan for another update next week (then a break over Christmas). Then more work next month. We're in this for the long haul.

Another feature this week: color blind accessibility options. We've added optional suit icons to all colored cards. We've also added a color blind saturation setting to help make green and red easier to distinguish. This impacts cards, the HUD, and the deck builder.

Update coming this week. One feature is chat. Possess your cards and make them speak, send custom messages, or invite your opponent to a traditional Steam Chat. Make your heroes say voice lines. One click opt-in to custom messages from non-friends. One click blocking.

The finals of the @WePlayEsport Mighty Triad: Strength tournament are airing now on SteamTV! @Hyped_Af vs @Hoej_Hs for $10,000!