Lunar and early sansan were probably my favourite meta in netrunner
mumbad was so cool thematically but it just really torpedoed the meta for a good while
I loved the post-D&D but pre-Mumbad period. A lot of people were complaining about the delay to Mumbad meaning the meta was the same for months, but the game was so fun that I didn't care about new stuff coming out. Both the top decks (PPVP Kate & Foodcoats) actually played proper Netrunner, and there were a bunch of viable tier 1.5 decks if you were a good pilot: Noise, DLR, Good-stuff anarch, Apoc Kate, NEH Fast Advance, Butchershop, HB rush, RP... Tournaments were varied and pretty much every matchup was interesting (DLR & Butchershop were the only two that could lead to really unbalanced/uninteresting games). *looks back wistfully*
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post D&D was obnoxious to me for 2 reasons
1) it lasted way too long, but only for some people, because they released D&D and two data packs at gencon, so all those people got to play with new toys, but I didn't
2) way too much yellow in the meta
my favorite time in the game is definitely right after Order & Chaos, but the beginning of the lunar cycle until the first MWL was all incredibly fun
On the other hand, the D&D gap sucked for those who *had* D&D early because you wanted to actually play with those cards but they weren't legal and you didn't want to be a dick.
I don't think I unwrapped mine until it actually came out. The spoilers were in the wild already.
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I took my collection to Washingcon and...nothing. I ended up teaching a Core game to someone who never played before. I built him a Core Weyland Tag deck to give his tags some kind of purpose, and we both had a blast.
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I'm so glad we can finally talk about it
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Details about rotation:
When we originally announced our intention to rotate older cycles of Data Packs out of the Android: Netrunner card pool, we stated that the plan was to introduce rotation in conjunction with the release of the first Data Pack from the game's eighth cycle.
At this point, there are seven complete cycles of Data Packs in Standard Play, and we have announced Sovereign Sight, the first Data Pack from the game's eighth cycle, the Kitara Cycle. We have also announced the upcoming release of the Revised Core Set. These products will soon shape the future growth of Android: Netrunner Standard Play, beginning shortly after the 2017 World Championships.
Because it is our intention that the World Championships highlight the game's future—as well as its greatest players—we are introducing rotation to the game on October 1st, ahead of the release of Sovereign Sight, so that World Championship participants will have ample time to demonstrate their full mastery of the game.
Over the course of one month, the introduction of rotation disrupts the existing metagame and challenges participants to engage in the full Android: Netrunner competitive experience, from metagame analysis and deckbuilding to iterative design, practice, and performance in the tournament setting.
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Okay... so... If I'm reading this right, there are no new errata on revised Core cards, just adding them to the base game and outright removal of others?
Okay... so... If I'm reading this right, there are no new errata on revised Core cards, just adding them to the base game and outright removal of others?
I believe this is accurate, yes
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OMG ATLAS IS STILL LEGAL! MWAHAHAHAHAAA!!! HAPPY DANCE!
Edit: AND GRNDL REFINERY, MY FAVORITE BLUFFING CARD!!! YAAAY!
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mumbad was so cool thematically but it just really torpedoed the meta for a good while
Faust.. hoo boy.
Great!
...can you tell us what it is? Preferably more than a week or two in advance?
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/op/legality/
I loved the post-D&D but pre-Mumbad period. A lot of people were complaining about the delay to Mumbad meaning the meta was the same for months, but the game was so fun that I didn't care about new stuff coming out. Both the top decks (PPVP Kate & Foodcoats) actually played proper Netrunner, and there were a bunch of viable tier 1.5 decks if you were a good pilot: Noise, DLR, Good-stuff anarch, Apoc Kate, NEH Fast Advance, Butchershop, HB rush, RP... Tournaments were varied and pretty much every matchup was interesting (DLR & Butchershop were the only two that could lead to really unbalanced/uninteresting games). *looks back wistfully*
1) it lasted way too long, but only for some people, because they released D&D and two data packs at gencon, so all those people got to play with new toys, but I didn't
2) way too much yellow in the meta
my favorite time in the game is definitely right after Order & Chaos, but the beginning of the lunar cycle until the first MWL was all incredibly fun
I don't think I unwrapped mine until it actually came out. The spoilers were in the wild already.
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Didn't last long
So much of the design space in Netrunner is around glacier and ice and it just hasn't worked right very often.
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There's also a lot less HQ multiaccess now as well, no more Nerve Agent/HQI, though Legwork does still exist and Maw/Alice is more or less the same.
But now I have a collection to sell for $400.
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/9/11/boot-up-and-run/
card list: https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/filer_public/00/9c/009c2fa5-a0c2-402a-acf3-6e051613e4ca/adn49_cardlist.pdf
Oh yeah.
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/9/11/sovereign-sight/
TIME TO BLOW SOME MOOSES UP
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I believe this is accurate, yes
Edit: AND GRNDL REFINERY, MY FAVORITE BLUFFING CARD!!! YAAAY!
Jesus, this really is going to be a different game.
... I'll still buy one of the revised cores, just for the new artwork.
it's definitely going to be very different, exciting stuff
Holy shit didn't think this was going to happen. Hoping it'll get my local group excited enough to get a weekly meet up again.
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braintrust is garbo and I'm irritated that they gave me that and not fetal AI
well, yeah, true. I had always hoped they'd change Braintrust to be good.
maybe they didn't want both fetal and obokata around I guess
I like the look of that new Jinteki trap though.