导读:炉石传说将迎来新扩展包,带来全新的卡牌和两个全新机制。快坐到牌桌前好好来一局。
Blizzard Entertainment today confirmed the rumours that the next Hearthstone expansion will be themed around Un’Goro, “a prehistoric region of Azeroth preserved in time” that will be familiar to World of Warcraft players. Called Journey to Un’Goro, the new set will add 135 new cards to the game and be available sometime in April.
暴雪娱乐今天证实了此前的一则传言,即炉石传说的下一款扩展包的主题将围绕安戈洛,这里是“被保存在时间长河中的一块艾泽拉斯的史前区域”,魔兽世界的玩家应该不会陌生。该扩展包名为“勇闯安戈洛”,会为炉石带来135张新卡,将于四月上线。
only a handful of cards have been revealed so far, but we’ve already seen two big new mechanics. Quest cards reward players for building their decks a particular way, with a set of requirements that need to be filled in order to be rewarded with “a card of monstrous power!”
尽管目前公布的卡牌屈指可数,但我们已经看到了两个重要的新机制。任务牌将为玩家带来一种特别的组牌方式,在满足了一系列条件后,便可得到“一张猛如怪兽的卡牌”作为奖励!
importantly, the Quest cards will “always be available in your opening hand” so Quest decks won’t be reliant on drawing the Quest cards to set off the quests. once played, they will “sit around your hero portrait until a trigger condition occurs, like secrets (though in this case, your opponent knows exactly which quest you are on!).”
有一点很重要,任务牌将会“始终出现在你的开局手牌中”,这样一来任务牌组便不需要依靠抽到任务牌才能开始做任务。一旦任务牌被打出,它们便会“放置在你的英雄画像旁边,直到满足触发条件,就像奥秘那样!(不同的是,此时你的对手可以清楚地知道你在做的是什么任务!)”
The other mechanic is a new keyword: Adapt. Adapt functions a little like Discover. When it’s triggered, players are presented with three choices to choose between, drawn from a pool of ten cards. The choice is then instantly applied to the base card. The idea is that players can adapt to the situation at hand, which is potentially incredibly powerful - you can make tech choices mid game, essentially. Verdant Longneck (below), for instance, sacrifices +1/+1 in terms of vanilla stats, but the possible upside is huge.
另一个新机制是一个新的关键词:进化。进化的功能有点像发现。在触发时,会出现三个选项供玩家选择,共有十种可能出现的选项。做出选择后该选项便会立即出现在该基础卡上。通过这个机制玩家可以根据手牌的情况作出应变,使得它具有非常强大的潜能——玩家可以从根本上在中盘打出关键牌。比如“苍绿长颈龙(5费5攻4血)”这张牌,与白板牌相比亏了1攻1血的身材,但可能获得的受益是巨大的。
So far we’ve only seen six of the ten options that will be presented (again, below), but that’s not the only integration of Adapt, as "some spells will also trigger minion adaptation, so don’t let your guard down!"
目前我们只看到了十种选择中的六种,但进化机制并非仅仅如此,因为“还有一些法术也会触发随从的进化,所以千万别让你的守卫失望!”
Another notable inclusion in Journey to Un’Goro is the new "Elemental" tribal tag, which you can see on the awesome Mage legendary Pyros (below). The team will also be adding to tags to Elementals that are already in the game - such as Unbound Elemental, Earth Elemental, Fireguard Destroyer, Rumbling Elemental, Anomalus, Ragnaros the Firelord, Ragnaros, Lightlord, Neptulon, Baron Geddon, Al’Akir the Windlord, Ice Rager and Magma Rager. Yep, you heard it here first - buff incoming to Magma Rager!
“勇闯安戈洛”中还有一点值得注意的是新的“元素”分类,可以看到那张酷炫的法师牌,传说中的“派烙斯”的牌面上便是。开发团队还为那些早就加入游戏中的元素生物加上了这一标签——譬如无羁元素、土元素、火焰驱逐者、顽石元素、阿诺玛鲁斯、炎魔之王拉格纳罗斯、光耀之主拉格纳罗斯、耐普图隆、迦顿男爵、风领主奥拉基尔、冰霜暴怒者以及岩浆暴怒者。没错,你读到了本文的第一手消息——岩浆暴怒者要被增强了!
As you’d expect, Journey to Un’Goro packs can be won in Arena or purchased with in-game gold or real money. From tomorrow, players will also be able to pre-purchase a special 50-pack Un’Goro bundle for the price of a 40-pack bundle, and receive a themed card back in the process.
和你期待的一样,“勇闯安戈洛”牌包可以在竞技场中赢取,也可以通过游戏中的金币或者真钱购买。从明天起,玩家还可以以40包牌的价格预购一份含有50包牌的合集包,并获得一个主题卡背。
The release of Journey to Un’Goro will usher in the Year of the Mammoth, i.e. the next Standard rotation, which means cards from Blackrock Mountain, The Grand Tournament and League of Explorers will no longer be playable in the Standard format. (They will, however, still be available – along with other legacy cards – in the Wild format.)
“勇闯安戈洛”的发售将拉开猛犸年的序幕,即下一次的标准模式轮转,也就是说,“黑石山的火焰”、“冠军的试炼”和“探险者协会”将退出标准模式。(然而,它们将会和其他传奇卡牌一道——在狂野模式中大展身手。)
Blizzard has detailed a number of other changes that will accompany the release. Six cards from the Classic and Basic sets – which form the bedrock of the Standard format – will be moved out of Standard and into a Hall of Fame collection; again, only available to play in Wild. The cards in questions are three neutrals: Azure Drake, Sylvanas Windrunner and Ragnaros the Firelord, one Warlock card: Power Overwhelming, one Mage card: Ice Lance, and one Rogue card: Conceal. Players will get the full dust value for each card (up to the amount that can be put into a deck, so full dust for one copy of each legendary, and full dust for two copies of the others) in addition to keeping the copies they currently have.
暴雪详细列举了下次发售时还会有哪些改动。标准模式的基石——经典牌和基础牌中将会有六张牌被移除并进入荣誉室中;同样,只能在狂野模式中使用它们。这些牌包括三张中立牌:碧蓝幼龙、希尔瓦娜斯·风行者和炎魔之王拉格纳罗斯、一张术士牌:力量的代价、一张法师牌:冰枪术、一张盗贼牌:隐藏。玩家可以在保留现有的卡牌之外获得每张牌对应的全额尘(以牌组中可加入的数量为上限,所以每张传奇品质的牌只能获得一份全额尘,其他品质的牌只能获得两份全额尘)。
The Year of the Mammoth will also be structured differently to last year, with three back to back 130+ card expansions instead of an expansion, then adventure, then expansion. The PVE adventure content will instead be integrated into the expansion releases, starting with the second set for 2017.
猛犸年将会和去年的结构有所不同,用三批连续发售的130+张牌的扩展包取代了此前扩展包-冒险模式-扩展包的模式。PVE(译注:Player Versus Environment,玩家和电脑间的对抗,对应的概念为PVP,玩家与玩家间的对抗)的冒险模式将会被整合进扩展包的发售中,将在2017年的第二系列开始。
A number of other changes are coming to Hearthstone in its upcoming 7.1 patch too. As announced earlier this month, Small-Time Buccaneer and Spirit Claws – cards that have negatively shaped Hearthstone’s recent meta - are both set to be nerfed, while the ranked play system will be tweaked so that once a player attains certain ranks they can no longer drop back. Previously the existing rank floors were at 20 and Legend, but now similar floors will exist at ranks 15, ten and five.
炉石传说还将在即将到来的7.1补丁中迎来其他的一系列改动。正如本月早些时候公布的那样,三流海盗、幽灵之爪——这两张牌负面地造就了炉石近来超标的环境——它们都将被削弱,此外排名系统也将得到调整,这样一来一旦玩家升到了一个特定的排名就不会回落了。此前的段位安全段是20级和传说级,同样的安全段此后还将会出现于15级、10级和5级。
Also announced for the next update, Arena will change from Wild format to Standard, common and basic cards will show up less in drafts, neutral classic cards will show up less and spells will show up more. Exciting times!
此外还公布了一条消息,在下次更新中,竞技场将会从狂野模式变为标准模式,组牌时公共牌、基本牌和中立经典牌将会降低出现频率,而法术牌的出现频率则会提高。刺激的时候要到了!