Was a great game, but now has issues with power creep. – Warhammer Horus Heresy Legions Review

I started this game right after they had released the second expansion with salamanders, iron hands and raven guard. I uninstalled after the space wolves/custodies/thousand sons dropped. At the beginning it was pretty well balanced and beginner friendly. You didn’t start out with a hard counter for everything, but you could make due if you made optimal plays, and you would win roughly 50% of the time. The power creep has started getting out of hand in the prospero expansion. New cards are extremely overpowered relative to the old cards. Cards with immunity to targeting, immunity to attacking, cards that are just straight up cheap and powerful. My win rate dropped to about 25%. Occasions where I just don’t have an answer for a given threat has increased exponentially. This problem is compounded by the fact that there isn’t a crafting system. You get cards from crates and doubles are exchanged for gems. You spend gems on cards in the daily shop that are selected randomly every day. Doubles from crates gives gems equal to 1/4 the cost to buy a copy in the shop. Shop values are: 20 for whites (5 from doubles) 100 for greens (25 from doubles ) 400 for oranges (100 from doubles) 1600 for golds (400 from doubles) The cards you need are usually orange and gold, and the cards you get are usually white and green. What this amounts is that you grind for peanuts and you HOPE that you get what you need from random crates and you HOPE that you get what you need from the random daily store. You can go several months without getting what you need simply due to RNG, if you get it at all. This wasn’t a big deal before the last couple of expansions because you could at least deal with most threats if you played optimally. Now that you encounter untenable situation regularly without the new cards, the current system just doesn’t cut it anymore. This was a great game, now it is a decent game, and no longer worth the grind for me.
Review by ChasetopherB on Warhammer Horus Heresy Legions.