Blizzard to Update Deathstalker Rexxar to Include New Beasts
There was a bit of outcry this past weekend about Rexxar not getting updated beasts. The Hearthstone team agrees with the community that they should have updated his Build-a-Beast Hero Power and an update to it will make its way here in the future. No date is yet available for the update, but we've been told they'll let us know when they have more information to share.
Some beasts may end up being not included on his hero power, much like how King of Beasts is not included.
Quote from KeganbeGreetings,
Many players have noticed that Deathstalker Rexxar’s Hero Power does not include any of the new Beasts that were added with the Kobolds & Catacombs expansion.
Since then, some players have provided constructive feedback regarding the state of Deathstalker Rexxar, and we agreed that a change to the Hero Power was warranted.
As such, we will be updating Deathstalker Rexxar’s Hero Power to include new Beasts going forward. Please be patient, as this is a fairly complicated endeavor and we may need to start with a smaller change before a more permanent solution is implemented. We don’t have a date for this change to share with you today, but we will provide more information once we have it.
Please also note that as new Beasts are released, we may need to mark some of them as exempt for various reasons, much like how King of Beasts is currently excluded from the pool of Beasts that Deathstalker Rexxar’s Hero Power can pull from.
Thank you for providing constructive feedback. We see your love and passion for Hearthstone and believe that the best way to make Hearthstone better is to do so together.
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If Ben Brode was able to figure out how to code highlander cards to glow without crashing the game, he can do this too! Go Brode!
Now what we need to keep Spell Hunter balanced is a nerf to Emerald Spellstone. "Play 2 secrets to upgrade." Not that hard, you can still do it before turn 5, I know you have enough secrets in your deck!
Hunters finally get a good god damn card and you want it to turn into Marsh Queen--- NO!!!
I'm pretty impressed about all wannabe programmers in the comment sections, with small code suggestions to help out blizzard encoding the game.
However, when you code a game for PC, Mac, Android and iOS, in a bunch of languages, on different timezone, that has so many rules and interractions, I don't think you're looking at one line of code to change a DK like that.
However I'm not defending it, but you also have to realise that every 4 months they are releasing 130 cards that interract with the 1324 cards that were released before. If something is not right, they will obviously change it, it's the first expension after the DK came out, so they will probably fix it now forever.
The main problem is that they should did it when they "created" DK hunter, i mean at that time they should have think:
"The new DK hunter picks 2 from all beast (standard or wild) and mix them, we should do it dynamically so in a future expansion, when we realease more beasts they are automatically included in DK hunter hero power"
I m not against Blizzard team behind hearthstone, but i see no excuse for this to happen...
Well, in my online game I developed, everything was so easy. That’s why I quit my job & now make millions. I am flabbergasted that something so easy, making an online game that people all over the world play against each other, is so poorly done. I can’t believe this! We’ll back to my VERY, EASY job.
PS: Erebody in the club eating chips (tell me you don’t hear those words when you hear that line.)
Peace
WSP
lol who are you trying to impress?
I'm thinking it was just meant to be heavy-handed sarcasm. Can't say for sure, though.
As a programmer myself, this is baffling. The only reason it doesn't automatically update with the expansion is that they hardcoded every single option.
Either that or they hard coded only the options from the current sets; where one version is for standard and one for wild. Though I don't see how it would take that long to modify if that were the case, so i'll go with yours.
They likely just said to only use specific sets since the localization only had been done on those and they were planning on not doing it because it was difficult to make work properly(the text on the zombeast in all the languages, nothing else).
Further proof that Blizzard doesn't even have a Hunter Developer on their Hearthstone staff. Good shit.
Legion was pretty solid proof that they don't have a Hunter Developer anywhere.
What about getting potion of heroism from Kabal Chemist?? It is a potion!
Now reduce the total cost of the Zombeast by 1 and include King of Beasts and I'll be ultra happy.
Their project managers are sub-optimal. They should learn from WoW's dev and project teams. As insane as this sounds, it feels like a 'we forgot that' situation.
It really just "feels" like that because they originally intended to just not do it because of how hard it is to do properly. They actually said that they wouldn't do it, but the community made them change their mind apparently.
I'm pretty certain that Mike Donais mentionned it to the guys in charge to do the translations and they changed their mind because Reddit really wanted it and that's just really all that happened regarding the why they changed their mind about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/7igwxp/deathstalker_rexxar_does_not_use_new_minions_to/dqysh4l/