Shortly before the release of Half-Life: Alyx, Valve CEO Gabe Newell that his company is going to restart CCI . The project was released in 2018 and very quickly lost its audience, as it had a repulsive economic model. Now the developers are going to fix the bugs and present the successor, which so far has the working title Artifact 2.0. About this and other details of the Valve game on the Steam forum.
The main change in the project will be the ability to move the camera to open a view of three lines at once. Many effects will still apply separately to each of them, but the chance of the user running out of play options will be significantly reduced. The authors also plan to reduce the entry threshold for beginners, so the project will no longer sell cards for real money. Thanks to this decision, players will not be able to build a powerful deck in the early stages.
Artifact 2.0 will get a new mode called Heroic Draft. Its main feature will be a simplified deck collection, but the developers did not provide more details. According to Valve, the studio is now in the phase of "defining everything that's boring." In the future, the authors plan to conduct closed and open beta testing, starting to increase the audience. Owners of the original game will be the first to get access to Artifact 2.0. Valve promised to share other details of the “beta” closer to the start of testing.
Source: 3dnews.ru