Hearthstone Mercenaries Reveal Stream - With Drops!
The Hearthstone Mercenaries reveal is scheduled for 9am PDT/ 12pm EDT/ 18:00 CEST/ 17:00 BST on the PlayHearthstone's Twitch channel AND YouTube channel.
So what IS Hearthstone Mercenaries? It's supposedly a Tactical Rogue-like RPG, which means it's meant to be a game where you make choices about which enemies you want to fight or which events you want to do with a cast of characters. You fit those characters out with items and abilities to make them stronger and you keep progressing onwards with every run you do in the game. You will keep certain things from your run, whether you won or lost, and start the next one stronger.
The Talk explaining a little about Mercenaries from Blizzcon can be found HERE.
We already know the most likely Release Date for the new game mode from a leaked video that was briefly exposed. The date mentioned there is Tuesday October 12th
Quote from BlizzardIn Hearthstone Mercenaries, players will build of a collection of mercenaries from among dozens of fan-favorite Warcraft characters such as Sylvanas Windrunner and Ragnaros the Firelord (as well as some new faces).
Before a Mercenaries run begins, players will assemble a team of mercenaries from their collection. Each mercenary has a unique set of abilities, and they’ll acquire experience and loot by winning battles, eventually earning the ability to evolve into more powerful versions of themselves!
Mercenaries features a fast-paced combat system that rewards cunning and anticipation. Before each fight, players will select mercenaries from their team to participate in battle. Each turn, they’ll pick their team’s actions simultaneously with their opponents and watch the results of the fight play out.
Players will face a new selection of randomly generated encounters every time they start a Mercenaries run, earning in-game achievements and rewards to bolster their team as they battle their way to the final boss. And in PVP mode, players will be able to pit their mercenary teams against other players!
We’ll have more information to share on Hearthstone Mercenaries, including a launch date, later this year.
Quote from BlizzardMark your calendars! On August 31, at 9 a.m. PT, on both Twitch and Youtube, join Hearthstone Game Director Ben Lee, Game Designer Joe Killion, and U.I. Designer Hasiba Arshad for a deep dive into the upcoming Mercenaries game mode. The showcase will feature gameplay, reveal tons of content, and formally announce the Mercenaries launch date—it also might include a surprise or two!
On top of that, Twitch drops are back! You can earn up to 2 United in Stormwind packs for watching category-wide on Twitch. Between 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. PT, watch 15 minutes of any Hearthstone stream on Twitch to earn one pack and then watch 15 more minutes for the second. As a reminder, Twitch has updated how drops work on their end. Here is what you need to know:
- You will now be able to see your watch time progress towards any given drop.
- You will no longer receive drop rewards automatically. You must instead claim the drop on the channel you’re watching or in the Drops Inventory menu on Twitch within the first 24 hours of earning it.
- Twitch users can now earn rewards before linking their Battle.net account to Twitch. Rewards will expire 7 days after they’ve been claimed if a Battle.net account has not been linked.
After you’ve claimed your reward on Twitch, please make sure you’re logging into the region you’d like to receive the drop(s) on, as the first region you log into will be where we deliver your pack(s). It can take up to ~30 minutes to receive your reward(s) in game after claiming.
Link Your Battle.net & Twitch Accounts
You’ll need to link your Twitch.tv and Battle.net accounts to receive Twitch Drops. Here’s how:
- Log in or create an account on Twitch.tv.
- Navigate to the Settings menu by clicking your account name in the top-right corner of the home screen.
- Find the Battle.net section, then follow the instructions after selecting a region and clicking Connect.
- When connecting accounts, be sure that you’re currently logged into the Battle.net account on which you’d like to receive your rewards.
No wonder why they releases all these brain dead busted cards in HS, ruin all the meta, and doesn’t have the capacity to fix them
Grats EA. You finally figured out how to put your Ultimate Team modes from Madden and Fifa into Hearthstone. Pathetic.
This.... it's a no from me. I was really looking forward to it, but after seeing it... I hope I actually like it, once I try it.
This Greed is getting out of hand, what happened to the Hearthstone of 2014 ?! This App turned into a blood sucking Abomination stealing heaps of money from addicted Teenagers, up to the point, this should be illegal.
More and more considering to quit the regular Hearthstone mode as well...
Same. I kept playing for wild and they finally broke the meta enough that it isn't even enjoyable. I guess the goal was to switch us to this new garbage. Not paying for it. Former whale
a new card game in a card game ,.. Blizzard give a fck about the players they only want our money
P2W, i am disappointed.
two years dev to knock off Raid Shadow Legends
Upgrading the village costs gold.....
Wow... Hearthstone | Battle.net Shop - 49,99€ for Diablo merc bundle, another 49,99€ for Lich King bundle and 29,99€ for Sylvanas mercs bundle. And I was thinking standard Hearthstone was getting expensive.
That's Blizz counter logic : Merc makes Standard cheap ^^
It's PvE so who cares if you can pay money for stuff?
EDIT:...........Nvm there's PvP....*sigh*
I stopped watching at "Mercenaries Packs".
Me too. It's just Artifact 2.0, LUL.
They aren't happy with fleecing us for the normal packs because the spigot runs dry. So now they need a new game mode to steal more $.
just wait 15 min... how hard can it be to read what it say... it can take time for it to come to you... it will probly take less then 15 min for you to get it after you done the thing
im not very good at reading and having patience :P
i got a pack, but i didnt get it in hearthstone?
Jebaited
Finally some news about it