These changes make everything much more intuitive and streamlined. I will explain the system as a whole in more detail below.
- Reduced strength: Medal multipliers are now: Silver: 1x, Gold: 5x, Super: 10x, Ban: -9x.
- Everyone now has a Silver medal for each card they own and collects Gold medals as before.
- Having no medals on a card is no longer an option, as it was a source of confusion.
- AI no longer has medals
- Playing the Expansion missions (DLC) now rewards both the Expansion Gold medal and a Base set Gold medal
What are Medals, and what do they do?
Let's start with Silver medals. By default, you have a Silver medal on each card you own. When you play a match vs AI, this means you bring all your cards with a 1x multiplier. Each card then has an equal chance to get selected for your Shop, and the same for the AI's Shop.
In PvP it works similarly, except now there are 2 sets of medals that get combined, your set and the enemy's set. An example:
Let's say you have only the Base game and your enemy has DLC. Then a Base set card, like Tanya, will have 2 medals and thus a 2x multiplier. A DLC card, like Scientist, will have 1 medal and thus a 1x multiplier. This means for both of your Shops, Tanya is 2x more likely to be selected than Scientist.
What this does for the game:
- Everyone has the same fair chance, even if you have a small collection.
- You can sometimes play with cards you don't have
- You are more likely to play with cards you are familiar with
OK, those are the basics. If you understand how that works, the only extra thing is that there are different types of medals that have different multipliers. Gold medals are the next type of medal you will get.
Gold Medals
Where Silver medals have a 1x multiplier, Gold Medals have a 5x multiplier, which is a big step up. Let's start with how you get them. Every time you win a match, you will get a Gold medal for a Base set card, so eventually you will have all 40 of them. For the DLC, there is a mission for each card that you can play to collect the Gold medal for that card. You can find these missions in the Collect menu. If you only play PvP, you will get them after you collected all the Base set ones.
What should I do with these medals?
Now that you have both Silver medals and Gold medals, you can choose for each card which one you want to use.
I would say there are 3 main ways to use your medals:
- Select all Gold medals. This makes for the most variety, and is a good default.
- Select all Gold medals you have, and put a Silver medal on cards you don't like very much.
- Select all Silver medals, and put a Gold medal on cards you really want to play with.
Special Medals
To round up, there are two more types of medals: Super medals and Ban medals.
Super medals give you even more control over what shows up in your matches, with a multiplier of 15x.
Ban medals can be used on cards you really dislike, with a multiplier of -14x you will basically never see them in your matches. You will get these medals as rewards for leveling up.
I hope that helps! If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the Steam community, or on Discord.