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| 0s | hello and welcome to our third Dev talk |
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| 2s | talking about Battlegrounds season four |
| 4s | I'm Mitchell I'm Gia and today we're |
| 6s | going to be talking about Pirates |
| 16s | now right when we get started I want to |
| 18s | talk about a big change coming to |
| 19s | Pirates is which is that they've been a |
| 21s | mutiny so on tier 5 Captain hogger has |
| 24s | been removed from Battlegrounds now we |
| 26s | did this for a couple reasons but the |
| 28s | biggest was to free up lots of space for |
| 30s | Pirate's new identity which is all about |
| 31s | spending and generating lots of gold |
| 33s | that's right and it begins with celsi |
| 36s | Busker on tier one replacing deck swabby |
| 39s | and because the Battle Cry is gaining |
| 41s | you one gold next turn the timing on |
| 43s | playing it is very important and that |
| 45s | extra gold is especially useful for |
| 46s | something like gunpowder Courier which |
| 48s | is one of the Minions that cares about |
| 49s | spending all that gold specifically |
| 51s | after you spend five gold it will give |
| 53s | all of your Pirates plus one attack so |
| 55s | it's a great way to scale up your |
| 57s | minions as you're doing all of this fun |
| 59s | economy stuff yeah Pirates have always |
| 61s | had a bit of attacking identity going on |
| 64s | and so we thought it appropriate to give |
| 66s | them a cleave effect in Blade collector |
| 69s | worth noting that we've removed cave |
| 70s | Hydra from Beast so there's still only |
| 72s | two Cleaves in the game faux Reaper and |
| 74s | this guy over here which can get very |
| 77s | scary real quick with all of the attack |
| 79s | gaining synergies available with your |
| 81s | extra gold on tier 4 there's also |
| 83s | underhanded dealer which is another |
| 84s | great piece of this comp that after you |
| 87s | gain gold it will get plus one plus one |
| 89s | this will work with any sources of gold |
| 91s | generation the goal at the start of your |
| 93s | turn the gold from Southie Busker the |
| 95s | gold from selling minions gold from |
| 97s | coins there's lots of ways that you can |
| 99s | trigger this minions effect and get it |
| 100s | really large and when you have all of |
| 103s | that gold saved up the best thing to do |
| 105s | is of course spend it and top that turn |
| 107s | off with lovesick balladist which will |
| 109s | give a pirate plus one health for each |
| 111s | gold spent this turn somewhat |
| 114s | reminiscent of gallywix's buddy but |
| 116s | specifically for pirates to make sure |
| 118s | that they're not just glass cannons |
| 120s | Papyrus are also going to get access to |
| 122s | their own upbeat minion which is a cycle |
| 124s | that we're doing in season four which is |
| 125s | Minions that will do a special effect |
| 127s | every couple of turns in this case |
| 129s | upbeat Impressionists at the end of |
| 131s | every two turns will transform a random |
| 133s | minion in your hand into a golden one |
| 135s | this is especially powerful because you |
| 137s | can spend the first turn finding the |
| 138s | pirate you want to golden eyes and then |
| 140s | once it's in your hand get it to |
| 141s | transform into that powerful golden |
| 143s | version and one of the best Pirates to |
| 146s | make golden is record Smuggler over here |
| 148s | which is strong even on its base form |
| 150s | which at the start of your turn gets you |
| 152s | one gold and then you repeat that for |
| 154s | each other friendly pirate so if you've |
| 156s | got a full Board of pirates you can |
| 158s | start your turn with eight extra gold |
| 160s | and that's eight procs on underhanded |
| 163s | dealer and eight gold that you can spend |
| 165s | on this next card exactly the last card |
| 167s | that we have on tier six is Fleet |
| 169s | Admiral tethus which is a powerful |
| 171s | Capstone that can lead your pirate Fleet |
| 174s | to Victory after you spend eight gold |
| 176s | it's gonna get a random pirate added to |
| 178s | your hand which is great for giving you |
| 180s | extra of things to synergize with your |
| 182s | underhanded dealer with your Peggy |
| 184s | sturdy bones as well as more ways to |
| 186s | find those powerful battle crys that you |
| 189s | want to be playing for pilots and my |
| 191s | favorite thing about test is that it |
| 193s | really embodies still the sort of high |
| 195s | octane plenty of treasure saved up and |
| 198s | then spending and doing a lot of actions |
| 201s | spirit that pirates have always had but |
| 203s | it's a bit more measured and controlled |
| 205s | than hogger because we wanted to avoid |
| 207s | the sort of frustrating scenarios where |
| 209s | you can't go quite as fast as you want |
| 211s | to or spend all of your gold that was |
| 213s | possible before Pirates though still |
| 215s | very strong absolutely we're also making |
| 217s | a few tweaks to existing Pirates |
| 219s | starting with rip snarl Captain which is |
| 221s | going to go all the way down to tier two |
| 222s | but whenever a friendly pirate attacks |
| 225s | it's only going to give it attack we |
| 226s | thought this was important so that |
| 228s | pirates had a a build around minion on |
| 230s | the lower tiers so that they can kind of |
| 231s | fall into Pirate's identity as well as |
| 234s | giving early Synergy with stuff like |
| 235s | scallywag we're also bringing back blood |
| 238s | sail cannonier which is a great minion |
| 241s | to find while you're cycling through |
| 242s | using your gold to refresh and we're |
| 244s | also getting it generated by a fleet |
| 247s | Admiral testis to make sure that |
| 248s | especially your blade collector can get |
| 250s | bigger and stronger finally we've made a |
| 253s | small change to Vanessa Van Cleef her |
| 255s | stat Line's been tweaked around a couple |
| 256s | times but we've come full circle back to |
| 257s | our three seven but we've decreased the |
| 260s | power of her buff from plus two plus two |
| 262s | down two plus two plus one this should |
| 264s | get her a little more in line with the |
| 265s | appropriate power uh while still being |
| 267s | still giving Pirates access to a strong |
| 269s | tool actually I think that's it we've |
| 271s | covered all the Pirates we've sealed the |
| 273s | Seven Seas exactly and we've seen seven |
| 275s | of the new minion types that are coming |
| 276s | into Battlegrounds but there's still |
| 278s | more we've got three more types coming |
| 280s | over the next few weeks so make sure to |
| 282s | tune in on May 15th where we're gonna be |
| 285s | talking all about demons thanks for |
| 287s | watching |