Introducing Battlegrounds Duos!
The Tavern is booming with all the Hearthstone news from BlizzCon. From the opening ceremony to the Hearthstone: What’s Next panel, we’ve had an eventful day. But Battlegrounds is especially buzzing with excitement for the announcement of a new way to play coming next year: Battlegrounds Duos!
Battlegrounds Duos is a new way to play, being added alongside Battlegrounds next year. In Duos, you and a partner share a life total, pass each other cards, and join up in a tag-team fight to take down your opponents! Queue with a friend or join up as a solo player and make a new one; the Tavern is yours for the taking.
Today, we announced Duos will be coming next year, and shared a bit about what it will look like. If you were too busy playing the demo to watch it live, Lead Battlegrounds Designer Mitchell Loewen and Associate Game Designer Jia Dee talked all about Duos during the Hearthstone: What’s Next panel.
We’ll be introducing special Heroes and minions that are only available when playing Battlegrounds Duos. These cards are specifically designed to have synergies with Duos gameplay, like cards that buff your teammate or reward you for working together!
Battlegrounds Duos is still under development, so specifics are subject to change.
In Duos, you and your partner work as a team. There are four teams of two players in each game, and each team shares their life total. Combat is sequential, so one teammate’s warband goes out first and fights until it takes out both opponents or goes down swinging. If the first teammate is defeated, the second teammate’s warband takes over from there to finish the combat. If the first player manages to take out both opponents, then the second player’s warband just comes in to dogpile the damage
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