Game likes to crash when switching to a loading screen, anyone got fix?

Really hope someone creates a mod that changes the card assets to the old school look. I don't hate the new art style, but wouldn't consider myself a fan either. This game would be sublime if it had the previous games card art.

Am I the only one that thinks the fighter looks like a guy in a wheelchair?

I think the item cards look great actually, but the creatures are way too stylized.

Culdcept Begins launches today, and I'm live tonight from 6:30 to 9:30 PM CT.

I've been a Culdcept Saga fan for years and played the demo a couple of months ago. Tonight I'm finally in the full game, checking out the music, the stage layouts, and what's new. Part 1, full VO.

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Culdra cordially invites you to experience the magic, strategy, and deliciously devious battles of Culdcept Begins, available today on Steam! 🃏✨

Build your book, summon your creatures, claim your territory, and prove yourself worthy of Culdra's favor!

🔮 Your destiny awaits. Will you answer the call?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3322630/Culdcept_BEGINS/

Is it fun to squeeze all the juice from the single player in this game? I heard there are side challenges with handicap knobs to turn... Was going through that fun, or did it feel fulfilling or just filler?

I made this thread because in similar threads (and sorry for adding another one to the pile), there are derailing comments like, "Oh, but it's only half the game!" Or untrue statements like, "Oh, 20 hours? That's about the same as it takes to complete Revolt's story!" But that's throwing all the unique fight variations (WITH heaps of unique dialogue) under the rug.

Please don't compare the campaign to the original, the PS2, Saga, etc. Pretend like those games never happened for the sake of this question.

Question is in the title, but yeah. I remembered playing on the 3DS a long time ago, and while I had fun, it's been so long I forgot a lot of the gameplay. I wanted to ask if this has any changes/additions that are pretty big/interesting?

Also, what happens when your deck runs out in a game? The tutorial and HELP section don't cover that in the Steam Demo I tried.

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Does this require an active Nintendo switch online account to do online matches?

Nintendo switch 2/Brasil

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After finishing Culdcept Begins, I wanted to share a few thoughts and pieces of advice based on my experience with the game.

I’m not exactly new to Culdcept. I’ve played several of the previous games, especially Culdcept Revolt, so I came into Begins already familiar with most of the basic ideas behind deck building, territory management, and combat.

But one thing Culdcept keeps reminding me is that building an advantage and keeping that advantage are two completely different things.

1. Be ready to lose everything

Nothing is truly safe in Culdcept.

Your hand isn’t safe.

Your magic isn’t safe.

And your territories are definitely not safe.

You can spend several laps building what looks like an untouchable position, only to watch the whole thing fall apart because of one spell, one invasion, one bad roll, or another player who happened to bring exactly the card needed to ruin your day.

Learning how to recover from losing something important is just as important as learning how to build it in the first place.

1. Careful placement > strategy

This is probably one of the biggest factor.

Where you place a creature can matter more than what creature you place there.

On many maps, those boring-looking corners, after intersections, and side routes that give other players the option to simply go around your territory can actually be some of the safest places on the board.

A strategically placed mediocre creature can survive for an absurdly long time simply because attacking it isn’t worth the trouble.

Sometimes geography protects your territory better than any defensive item or creature ability ever could.

1. Grow slowly

Being ahead too early isn’t always an advantage.

The player who grows too quickly tends to become the obvious target. Suddenly everyone has a reason to interfere with you, invade your territories, destroy your hand, or otherwise make your life miserable.

And Culdcept’s economy actually makes patient growth surprisingly viable.

By the middle and late game, magic becomes much more plentiful. If you can keep enough territories and make it back to the castle, the lap reward alone can give you enough magic to upgrade several levels at once.

Reaching the target value often isn’t the hardest part.

Keeping what you’ve built long enough to finish is.

1. Offense and defense are equally important

So far, the most reliable books I’ve used tend to fall into two extremes.

One approach is maximum offense with minimum economical defense. Build around creatures and cards that let you threaten invasions almost anywhere, while carrying just enough defensive tools to prevent your own important territories from being taken too easily.

The other approach is almost the exact opposite: maximum defense and expansion with minimum necessary offense. Focus on occupying territory, making your important lands extremely difficult to remove, and carry just enough offensive power to forcefully take one critical territory when the situation demands it.

Either way, I don’t think you can completely ignore offense or defense.

And both depend heavily on what your opponents are using. The best defensive card is the one that stops their method of attacking you. The best offensive card is the one that gets around their method of defending.

Culdcept rewards paying attention to the other players’ books instead of simply executing your own plan.

1. Weak creatures aren’t weaknesses

Your book doesn’t need to be filled with powerful creatures.

Cheap and seemingly weak creatures are very nice to have.

They can claim empty land cheaply, satisfy territory requirements, establish chains, act as disposable attackers, force opponents to spend resources, or simply occupy locations that aren’t worth committing an expensive creature to.

And sometimes making your opponent spend a valuable card to remove something you barely cared about is already a win.

That’s one of the things I really like about Culdcept.

1. Not every territory is worth defending

One of the easiest mistakes to make is treating every territory as something you need to protect.

You don’t.

Some territories are valuable because of their location, level, element, or importance to your chain. Others are simply there because you needed somewhere to fxck with other players.

If an opponent wants to spend a powerful creature, a valuable item, and a large amount of magic just to take a territory you barely invested in, sometimes the best response is simply to let them pay for it.

The same applies to defensive cards. Just because you can save a creature doesn’t mean you should. Burning an important defensive item to protect a level 1 territory may leave your level 4 or 5 territory vulnerable a few turns later.

Sometimes a territory’s greatest value is forcing your opponent to spend resources taking it.

I’m curious what other experienced players think. What lessons have you learned from playing Begins or the older Culdcept games?

Playing Culcept Begins on switch 1. Some sound disappeared. Things like "Aim for the castle" and other voices in combat. Is this a new update? I had to update something this morning, not sure if it was the Switch or the game.

TLDR: abysmal fps

So I tried downloading the demo on my laptop and I was getting maybe 5fps. I know laptops aren't super powerful, but i have been able to play other games such as Hollow knight and ITGmania on it without issue. It has a weak but dedicated graphics chip and 16gb of ram. I tried lowering setting but it didn't do anything. I also couldn't lower resolution at all. I changed from borderless-full frame to full frame to windowed, but it wouldn't let me lower the resolution. I will try again on my steam deck later but I am just wondering if other people have dealt with this or have solutions. I love this series but having unplayable performance out of the gate did not sell me on this game at all. I want to convince my friends to try this series and I doubt I will have luck unless something is changed.

The AI is the poor fella who abandoned after I took his high level territory right as he was about to cross the castle. His fault really, he swapped the creature standing on that tile with one with quicksand right at the very end

Recently picked up Begins and found Revolt. I love this series

Picked up some Culdcept Begins merch at Tokyo Game Show :)

I remember this card back in Revolt. And I don’t remember there is a super effective way to counter it.

I should be receiving my physical copy of the game shortly. Before I decide to keep the game, however, I need to know some things about the multiplayer. I don’t like when I’m here, but everything is so vague.

1) Is there couch multiplayer? I’m hearing no, but I need to verify. This was the number 1 reason why I barely played Revolt. I played the PS2 and 360 games to death, but I never even finished the campaign of Revolt.

2) I might be able to live with that, though, because my household has 2 NSWs and 2 NSW2s. I hear this has gameshare. Gameshare is usually pretty bare bones, though. Can cards and decks be shared? If my family is limited to only using Starter Decks across multiple consoles, I don’t see the point.

Because of my excitement for the upcoming game and reduced my family to the older games. They seem to like it a lot, but if I can’t have a good experience with my family what’s the point?

Thank you

Have almost 4 of every card and still can’t find ONE quicksand! Bad luck? Or is there something I’m missing? Is it a special unlock through an achievement?

I'm so excited to play a new Culdcept game. It's been too long!

Been playing a lot of the ps1 version of culdcept and totally reliving our past. it’s still so much fun.
this folk vs folk battle was a foolish attack by me as i didn’t win nor die and thus did not get the inheritance nor the territory
but was still fun to have the folk battle each other

Jumping into the Culdcept Begins demo that just dropped on Steam. If time allows, we’ll hop into Sonic Racing Crossworlds after.

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Topic.

I saw Begins in upcoming physical releases and figured it's a very niche game that looks interesting.
I don't have the attachment a lot of people here probably have.
Is it Monopoly with Dokapon monster battles?

Any issues with the ps5 version to be aware of? Also is the only way to do multi-player with friends doing the gameshare function like they were couch co op? Was a big fan of saga and wanted to see if this was as good.