Hearthstone China Gets Replays, Deck Tracking, and Deck Recommendations
Thanks to /u/czhihong for providing the usual scoop of info from Hearthstone China.
First, China received tournament mode back in 2016.
China then saw the release of personalized yearly stats for the 2016 year at the start of 2017.
Next, China players got free Arcane Dust for purchasing card packs due to loot box regulations.
It was soon after that Khadgar made not one, but two appearances in the country.
Now, China gets one of the most requested Hearthstone features since we first learned about the game during Alpha.
Replays.
The Hearthstone China Replay Client
A companion desktop application available only to players on the Chinese servers has arrived which records your games and allows you to rewatch them in-client. You can share your replays with your friends through a unique replay code and the client even has a deck tracking tool alongside a deck recommendation tool.
- The client only works on Windows computers. No Macs, no mobile devices.
- Up to 200 replays are shown in the list.
- Replays can be paused, brought to a specific turn, and will show which cards are being highlighted.
- Featured decks display replays of the deck in action and allow players to comment on the deck.
- The deck feature also tells you how many cards and dust you're missing from completing the deck.
Here are some screenshots provided by czhihong. Photo credits go to 营地 Yingdi and NGA.
Client Press Release
Quote from Blizzard (Translated)Do you want to improve at Hearthstone? Have you always wanted to share and showcase the exciting moments and cool lethals in your games? The Hearthstone Official Companion App has been released for beta testing! Flawlessly integrated within the game, it can provide you with a plethora of actual game data.
Besides a deck tracker and a deck recommendation tool that have been greatly improved and optimised, the app can even automatically record all your exciting games!
1. One-click deck recommendation tool, know how much dust you’re missing right away
Once you enter the app from the main menu, you can browse through all the interesting and cool decks [My note: Sintolol and Tarei alert. Some of the deck names are hilarious btw] for all classes using the deck recommendation tool. The tool will immediately inform you whether you have the cards for the decks, and if not, how much dust you’re missing.
Once you pick a deck you like, you can immediately click to create the deck in your collection. No more scurrying around looking for deck codes!
2. Capture every second of your insane games
Did you just come back from one health and are bursting to share with someone? The official companion app automatically records every game you play and stores it on the cloud, ensuring that every single exciting moment is not missed.
You will be able to replay the games in spectator mode to view at your own time, any time. You can also share and favourite your replays. With this app, everyone can create their own Trolden videos!
3. Real-time card tracker to optimise your strategy
Every Hearthstone game is different, your opponents play different decks every game. Know thy self, know thy enemy, a thousand battles, a thousand victories. The app will help you record all cards your opponent has played, exact cards remaining in your deck, provide aides for secret guessing, and much more.
Download the feature-filled official companion app today! Your journey to legend has never been easier!
Note: The app is currently in beta, we seek your patience and understanding if you encounter bugs. Please submit your feedback and bug reports to the official forums.
The Spot Where the Poll Would Go
Usually, we post a poll asking if this is something you'd like to see. The answer is, of course, yes so including it seemed silly.
Just kidding, you're getting a poll! If you don't want to see a replay feature, tell us why in the comments.
to be honest, its not blizzards fault. They dont have any influence on this
Woah I had no idea tournament mode was live in China. How can it possibly take 2.5 years to just implement an existing structure to other regions..?
This is such a cool feature. Cosmetic things are one thing but useful stuff like this shouldn't be only for one country. I really hope Blizz gets this to all of us as soon as possible.
What is with Blizzard and China ??? Some weird relationship is that...
In the EU we only get a lottery for packs that has a 0,0001% chance of giving anything, and even that was poorly handled with people not even knowing if the draw had been completed for a long time. Talk about second class servers!
all good thing goes to china
Who the F are the 12 people that voted No?
Trolls
T5 please, dont even MAKE it, just contact with your chineese buddys and transfer this experience to all servers. I mean... You even dont need to DEV it from scratch. It is already developed by someone, already adapted by Blizzard in China, Just make this wonderful thing worldwide. PLEASE
This really needs to be a client-side feature and not require an external program. Limiting replays to users on Windows due to constraints on other platforms sucks for an official feature from the game.
it is still better than dont have anything for like 1000 years until it would be implemented as client side feature. Also it is possible to make this program cross platform, i guess.
You won't be able to get this done on mobile though. Doing so would require some serious security bypassing which is not something companies should be asking users to do for features.
Hearthstone has a ton of mobile players, excluding them seems silly.
About mobile users, kinda agree, but i think there can be some way to sync logs like innkeeper or other 3rd party soft do, to make replays played on mobile accessible from PC later on. But this is already sky castles on water. Btw, why Blizzard in China implement this then? They exclude mobile users? Why? They have less mobile playerbase?
The way phone apps work they're restricted to their own space. One application can't access another one without having elevated system access (root). Doing that on an Android device or IOS isn't a great idea for 99% of consumers.
China did it because of power users. Power users are likely using comps.
Chinese get better features because they spend so much more monkaS
BLIZZARD, STOP GIVING THE CHINESE THE GOOD SHIT.
This is the China section of Blizzard. The folks on Team Five who take care of the game and don't make hacks like this very likely have nothing at all to do with this.
They definitely deserve some flak, but yeah it's likely out of their control.
Hearthstone China operates on its own like all of Blizzard's titles in the region. Blizzard partners with NetEase for distribution over there in the East.