Poker Strike V4.9

[khopesh]

It sounds good, is it strategic, or does luck also play a role?

 

[Wyrelade]

It sounds good, is it strategic, or does luck also play a role?

Knowledge of "poker strategy" and how hands form is ofcourse a good knowledge to have. there is other places you might want to use strategy aswell like how you manage your gold with extra swaps, do you save some cash for a "save ability" etc. (more stuff to come with gold usage as I dev this map)

 

[2noobig4you]

Pro

• Very fun and fast paced poker game
• Doesn't need "pros" which makes it very easy to fill a lobby
• Rounds are short (but not too short) and fun
• 3v3 feels like the perfect amount, not overhelming, not lonely
• no Bugs notied, runs smooth

Contra

• Timer runs out a bit too fast
• Contrast of text and units can be improved
• It's a bit basic for as it is now

Suggestions

• It could also be played alone with 5 bots (since no teamplay or any communicaion is required), but that would of course take the fun away. Maybe add the slightest team relevant mechanics, so that playing with humans makes a gameplay difference other than that you can chat and flex about your 4 of a kind.
• You definately need some basic knowledge about the probabilities, as the timer runs out quite fast and you need to make quick decisions. Maybe add a simple guide for poker noobs.
• Terrain looks dull. As the terrain has no functionality whatsoever, you could add tons of eye candy.
• Not sure if it's an overkill but you could add different way to invest your money. Unit inventory and items or the possibility to repair your castle, add armor to it... whatsoever.
• Not sure if intended, but the game likely ends when one guy has royal flush (unless the other team got it too in the same round, which is very rare). Add some sort of last chance, maybe take only 50% of dmg?
• Different Modes, maybe with different fighting mechanism

Conclusion
Very nice map with great potential. A good mix between luck, risk, and skill.
It's still a bit basic (which is fine for a 2 days old map). Therefore only 4 stars.

Spoiler: Edit

Just changed the format of the bullet points

 

[Wyrelade]

Pro

• Very fun and fast paced poker game
• Doesn't need "pros" which makes it very easy to fill a lobby
• Rounds are short (but not too short) and fun
• 3v3 feels like the perfect amount, not overhelming, not lonely
• no Bugs notied, runs smooth

Contra

• Timer runs out a bit too fast
• Contrast of text and units can be improved
• It's a bit basic for as it is now

Suggestions

• It could also be played alone with 5 bots (since no teamplay or any communicaion is required), but that would of course take the fun away. Maybe add the slightest team relevant mechanics, so that playing with humans makes a gameplay difference other than that you can chat and flex about your 4 of a kind.
• You definately need some basic knowledge about the probabilities, as the timer runs out quite fast and you need to make quick decisions. Maybe add a simple guide for poker noobs.
• Terrain looks dull. As the terrain has no functionality whatsoever, you could add tons of eye candy.
• Not sure if it's an overkill but you could add different way to invest your money. Unit inventory and items or the possibility to repair your castle, add armor to it... whatsoever.
• Not sure if intended, but the game likely ends when one guy has royal flush (unless the other team got it too in the same round, which is very rare). Add some sort of last chance, maybe take only 50% of dmg?
• Different Modes, maybe with different fighting mechanism

Conclusion
Very nice map with great potential. A good mix between luck, risk, and skill.
It's still a bit basic (which is fine for a 2 days old map). Therefore only 4 stars.

Spoiler: Edit

Just changed the format of the bullet points

Thank you alot. The feedback is noted. The core of the game engine has been the mainfocus up until now. Next patch V3.1 is going to have few polishing tweaks done to it aswell like auto select swapped card to keep swapping it quicker (most likely you will want to keep swapping same card in poker hands and this will also save some time on the draw phase).

Few tweaks will be made to UI and the way names are displayed for card units

thanks !

 

[mert1337]

Good game. You should play it if you enjoy poker

 

[Wyrelade]

Good game. You should play it if you enjoy poker

Thank you mert, I'we seen you in few lobbies. glad you like it!

 

[deepstrasz]

All content in this map is original and created entirely by me, including music, graphics, coding, triggers, systems, and terraining. No third party assets were used.

Does any of that especially music mean it was made by AI actually?

 

[Wyrelade]

All content in this map is original and created entirely by me, including music, graphics, coding, triggers, systems, and terraining. No third party assets were used.

Does any of that especially music mean it was made by AI actually?

With a purchased license to use on free and commercial projects AI made music yes. Edited and "made" on AI and exported as .WAV to master by myself on FL studio (iZotope Ozone 12)

 

[deepstrasz]

With a purchased license to use on free and commercial projects AI made music yes. Edited and "made" on AI and exported as .WAV to master by myself on FL studio (iZotope Ozone 12)

OK. Please credit the AI software used for stuff as well.

 

[Wyrelade]

OK. Please credit the AI software used for stuff as well.

Pro/Premier users own their songs and do not need to provide attribution.

• Full Ownership Granted: If you’re a paid subscriber, Suno assigns to you all rights to the outputs generated during your active subscription period. This means you own what you create, and you can use it commercially.
  
  

 

[deepstrasz]

Pro/Premier users own their songs and do not need to provide attribution.

• Full Ownership Granted: If you’re a paid subscriber, Suno assigns to you all rights to the outputs generated during your active subscription period. This means you own what you create, and you can use it commercially.

Thank you for the details, although that's quite horrible.

 

[deepstrasz]

A nice multiplayer mix of strategy and card games.
Approved.

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[Nicoplox95]

It’s a good combination. I still have to play it, but just from seeing the images it already caught my attention a lot

 

[Wyrelade]

It’s a good combination. I still have to play it, but just from seeing the images it already caught my attention a lot

Cheers my guy!

 

[lirstar]

Such a fun map! Looking forward to future updates.

 

[Eat_Bacon_Daily]

Just ran into this map, been playing it with friends all evening! Love it, it's simple and addicting!
My only feedback is, i would love just a little more variety in the events, maybe you could inspire yourself from Balatro jokers, like straights can be down with 4 cards, or maybe 5s are worth more during the event, or maybe everyone has an extra unrerollable card for the event.

Anyway i really loved the game and will definitely be looking forward to your updates!

Amazing!

 

[Wyrelade]

Just ran into this map, been playing it with friends all evening! Love it, it's simple and addicting!
My only feedback is, i would love just a little more variety in the events, maybe you could inspire yourself from Balatro jokers, like straights can be down with 4 cards, or maybe 5s are worth more during the event, or maybe everyone has an extra unrerollable card for the event.

Anyway i really loved the game and will definitely be looking forward to your updates!

Amazing!

Cheers!

Just dropped a new patch.


There will be more economy based abilities / decision makings in the future. Also cooking up some event releated stuff.

I have a working prototype for joker cards but the issue was warcraft 3 calculation limitations.

The map crashes if multiple players had joker present. This was caused because of intense amounts of calculations and evaluations for each possbile hand when joker is present.

Ill have to come up with a new solution for this.

Thanks for feedback!

 

[Eat_Bacon_Daily]

Hey been playing the new version! Still loving the game with my friends! Just some feedback

• for the paid rerolls, the user experience is a bit choppy to have to click buy reroll and be able to to reroll, maybe it could be a toggle? Like you press "Pay 2g for rerolls" then every reroll you use afterwards costs 2g?
• Also the paid rerolls themselves as a concept are fine, but they are usually only useful if you're 1 off a flush, if you're going for any other hand with paid rerolls they aren't really worth going for
• I played with the jokers, although very satisfying to get, it's kinda frustrating to play against. I'm not sure if i can verbalize the issue clearly, but it maybe if the royal stomp was more effective at weakening them it would be less frustrating.

Anyways, these are just some random thoughts, really love the game, can't wait to see what you have in store!