The MOST BROKEN launch ever! HACKERS invade Hearthstone! No DUST refunds? 

Can't believe Duels died for this

If only they had 2 months where the mode wasn't available to actually playtest these new special twist modes...

The devs being out of touch, not doing QA testing properly and making hacking the gamemode trivial? Couldn't be Hearthstone.

I suspect Bliz fired most of their QA testers. Their new big mod in Warcraft was also riddled with bugs and exploits that are just now getting fixed.

If Arfus was free, you know they would change it ASAP.

The funniest part, is that this is the SECOND time it happens

Funny how they wanted twist to feel special and... well, that's special, right?

Raffam is also bugged not reducing the cost of prince 5 mana and 8 mana form

You know sh%t's wild when there's no "Let's get salty!" at the start.

Why play test when you can have your player base do it for you, and then you can make changes afterwards 😂

Who do they think are buying these bundles? The are priced for whales, but whales already have it all? Everything about this mode is just so out of touch with reality.

Twist was fun for the first day pretty much. Also what ircs me is if they say that oh it goes down cause we see it as an event. Well what else do events have other then been online only sometime- we get bonus rewards. Twist has non and they want us to invest in useless cards instead

Chef's special got fucking burned in the stove.

Very fun twist mode: play arfus vs arfus or lose vs arfus. No kidding, i saw 20 or so arfuses and decided not to play anymore. Duels died for this

I respect Zeddy saying there's 19 heroes available to play when in reality, there's only 1 hero to play. Couldn't they just change it to where the passive only gives you tier 1 excavates?

Imagine if you were in Brazil where they removed regionalized prices and all of this costs 5x more? for DIGITAL things. absurd.

10:50 don't forget they're "working to gain our trust" :(

What sucks is, because Im such a death knight simp, I crafted golden lich king and arfus preemptively for this twist season. But now beacause arfus is meta I just look like a meta chaser. But *EVERY* game is nothing but arfus and its just mirror match after mirror match which is really boring

I would assume in the normal deck building modes, verification happens by the server to make sure all the cards are owned by you before you can play (and those cards are valid for that mode/class etc). Given you can't deck build here, server side deck checking was not put in place. And that is being abused by third party software/client hacks. So the devs will add a check to make sure the deck you play with matches the expected deck for that hero in this mode. Played decks are also logged server side, so it will be a simple matter to run an autoban script to ban accounts that did this. Changing Arfus other than HP, will require a client change as the deck is coded into it.

How can they not nerf anything but health? Make Arfus's hero power cost at least 3 mana.

I don’t know why they put Mutanous in Rafaams decks, when Cthun adds itself to your opening hand. And you can’t reshuffle Cthun, if he gets eaten. What were they thinking

When I saw you queue up as Arfus, I thought you were just going to mindlessly drone on about how broken it is while beating your opponent. Definitely did not see THAT coming...

Also U can't even play it against friends just to have fun don't know if this is a bug or international either way is stupid and must change.

I am not surprised something like this happened, wait till next expansion, something else is gonna break, wait a few more months they're gonna adjust something do with dust or gold values its gonna break, wait another few months some mini-set is gonna break, wait a few more months and it'll repeat. and once the pattern gets noticed by the majority of players, the game will be too late too lost.

Twist bundles are 40$ USD FOR 3 WILD LEGENDARIES. Highway robbery.

Either bad playtesting or it's intentional (as it seems to have been in nearly every standard expansion in the last few years) to get people to spend money for free wins until they *eventually* nerf it 1-2 weeks down the line. It's the HS version of the ''early adopter'' stuff other devs use, except for HS it's a ploy to keep money flowing in from the whales and from people frustrated that they lose to arfus every single game. I've only played twist a handful of time using C'thun and i've only faced the other F2P decks like Kaelthas and Leeroy so it doesn't really affect me but it wouldn't surprise me that they're pulling the same thing they've been pulling in standard for the last 10 expansions. And people wonder why getting legend/having the card back means nothing anymore.

the mode is incredibly for the archivment shuffle bombs into the enemy deck. Maybe you will lose more than you win but oh boy do you get these archivments fast... :D

the C'Thun bundle is insane considering that you can get C'Thun for "free", if you buy a Whispers of the Old Gods pack

I started to play BG Duos, and that is so much fun, this just seems like a total mess. For this i run far far away!

They literally could have prepared for this since it’s the exact same exploit as Duels. And yet they didn’t.

Finally making an interesting twist format, and they release the most broken thing ever.

Zeddy, thank you for sharing this about the hacker with the Override Drill card. The EXACT SAME THING happened to me last night by the EXACT SAME PLAYER shown in your video. I even have the recorded replay of the match. I reported them. Hopefully, Blizz will ban them. This kind of thing just sucks the fun right out of the game.

Good thing they can balance twist quickly by changing hero HP. They just need to set Arfus to what, 10 starting health to fix this?

I feel better about my D10 rank in Twist seeing you record this at D5 yesterday.

I crafted Arfeus mainly for the meme. I only played one game so far. I played King Crush against Arfus. For some reasons, my opponent played badly and was mostly a sitting duck. And for some reasons, my draws and mana cheats were godlike. And I won.

They put into testing the guys who thought that deck slots are confusing.

I'm just so happy that they really use the time when twist is down to optimize the mode and bring out high-value bundles that make sense for the current season. Haha ha, yeah, I didn't think it was possible to get worse after the overpriced decks and three-deck roulette gaming for two months between Rogue, Warlock, and Warrior when Wonders launched. Yet, here we are.

4:20 VERY nice indeed

Thanks Zeddy!

For years I been advocating for Seasonal Rotation mode, where you have Core set, latest Expansion + 3 random sets from the past that NOT in standard. Changes every month. Simple. Monetized fro Blizz benefit. Requires MINIMAL maintenance. But NO, they have to first screw it up by first selling ridiculous OP Twist only cards last year, and then kill Duels to make some sort of Tavern Brawl boss fight. WHY? Just WHY???

If you want to fix Arfus, you could lower health, make the hero power 2 mana, DOUBLE the requirement on the passive, possibly even remove the ability to generate the legendary treasures (Paladin is going to be a massive power outlier, and Snake hard countering another deck is depressing), you could likely do at least any two of those things in tandem and they’d still be a strong hero.

Blizzard can barely balance single cards, let alone entire decks they made themselves across an entire mode. I expect there will always be 1 or 2 broken decks.

Zeddy sounds like my supervisor in this video 😂

I came back to hearthstone with the launch of Deathknight after quitting just before just before united in stormwind, stopped playing a couple weeks into whizbangs workshop cause the meta didn't feel fun to me anymore. Stuff like this makes me want to return even less. That's pretty sad.

Arfus is one of the few legendaries I don't own for the new twist season and I have the dust to craft him, but what's the point of crafting him if he's getting nerfed soon (with no dust refund) and there's a decent chance that when I play him I get matched against a cheater who kills me on turn 1?

I went to play twist, but Arfus and LUL'jin are the only two legendary I don't have. Since I'm not going to bother crafting either one, I guess I'm sitting out this season. I don't trust them to balance anything properly at this point.

The fact that i ran into 2 of them back to back is crazy

Lol, it just so happens that Arfus is the only legendary I *don't* have so no broken deck for me! I've had some good games with Illidan, Rafaam, and the LK.

Well,what a twist !

Well to be fair, Wizards of the Coast also had terrible balancing in self-contained packages back in the day when I stop playing Magic about 10 years ago. Some pairings of Duel Decks or whatever they were called were terrible (they only had two decks to balance!), sometimes one deck would systematically crush the other one. I remember in one case, one of the decks simply didn't have an answer for a card in the other that could outright end the game in one or two turns. They were still fun to have, but if you wanted things to be balanced you needed to "edit" one of the decks :P

I saw tons of Rafaams and thought they're a counter but I guess not. When I tried playing Nozdormu the passive made me hate the game with the "30" seconds per turn. N'ztohs hero power says minion but does the weapon too. Some of this Twist stuff feels like it was made and never once tested.

didnt they say there will be weekly changes to the hero decks to keep balance in check? i guess we just have to let things broken for a week hopefully..

I'm just glad we found a class that can beat Arfus

i feel like i would be more willing to buy the bundles if it had dynamic pricing like they do in WoW, why do i need to spend more if i already own the card

I think I'm finished this mode for now, it was fun for a few days, but I got bored. Can we get like at least the cards=max hp stuff next time?

While it's tempting to craft Arfus watch how they will soon nerf it

Whoever got angry at Blizzard for deleting Duels is back at it again. Honestly this is a rare case where I'm rooting for the hacker, coz this is making people stop playing this god forsaken game

I quite like that I always spared Arfus while disenchanting legendaries, I couldn't bring myself to do it, and now I got validated for it. The good boy is best boy and it should stay that way. Don't neuter my boy, buff the other classes, blizz.

Yep I already stopped this mode after 1 day. It was so blanket tly clear in the first aefus game how broken that deck was.

I just crafted arfus expecting to get a refund smh

this brings me deja vu of shadowverse's hero battles (essentially same concept) and out of 24 decks there was also 1 deck which just obliterated all other decks

The most broken class is tied to the most useless legendary, who could have thought

a similar case of no play testing happened at the start the pandaria remix event in wow where very popular farming methods were not balanced beforehand and it damn near ruined the whole event. blizz needs to put a little more effort into testing things before they go live instead of putting out reactionary hotfixes afterwards.

Haven't we seen these hackers before? I remember seeing that weapon... As I said in an earlier video, this is yet another cash grab for Blizzard and they'll bring stuff back whenever they want people to spend more in the shop.

Despite the nonsense, the theme is strong enough that I am still queueing up Twist and having fun. I tried Leroy yesterday, played against C’thun, and got a turn 4 with with just the most nutty curve. Liadrin, into some buffs, Into crusader aura… the hero power for Leroy is very strong.

I'd be cool if for every deck that gets nerfed, their legendary gets a buff. That way, the people that crafted then get a little bonus. Imo, Arfus could just be buffed to 1 mana or something

WHY DON'T WE HAVE THE LEGENDARIES PURCHASABLE ONE BY ONE WHEN THEY MADE A CURRENCY SO THEY CAN DO JUST THAT?!!! AAAAAAAH!!!

I guess they laid off the guy who was in charge of balance testing Arfus.

"Child's play"? You mean the Chucky movies, right?

Side note, Brann lost pixels on the mobile version.

Can we talk about how the only deck people are playing in standard is death knight, it makes standard such a drag

Play testing in an overly corporate environment sounds awful. Like is there a quota to how many games/ decks you have to play test in a work day or you get written up?

Wow that's crazy.... O:

What about standard? No dust refunds no patch review ?

Ah bummer ... Arfus is the only Legendary card I don't own of the lot ... guess no (fun) twist for me.

I believed Xyrella would be the best character for this gamemode, she's pretty unfair even against aggro decks. Then I fought an Arfus that got Azerite Snake and I literally could never win because I could never get to 60HP.

I don't think it DK Rufus gets nerf. I believe they will give the other decks better cards and passive effect

i played on asia server, i can't record it bcs i'm playing it at phone at that moment it happened so fast. i played and i met 2 opponents skipped my turn when they're about to lose. so they played their turn so fast and then when it's my turn i just got the end of the rope basically ending my turn not even 1 sec after they're done with their turn. both of them using random letters name. did anyone meet a case like this ?

Shop prices have been way too high for way too long. Card packs shouldn't be so pricey, and things like cosmetics should be earned in-game via gold or another token earned in game. But yeah twist being like this is NOT good.

In addition to everything said in the video, you can't challenge your friends to twist games. Which is a shame, because the decks are fun when it's not 80% mirrors

You know, when i said "Arfus is the best boy" i didnt mean it like that

Dust refunds would be a way too juicy thing. I already own almost all of the legendaries, and would be ok with disenchanting them. So that would be just free 1600 for each nerf. That is crazy.

The last time this happened was in Duels and the hackers got permanently banned, now that they know it why would they risk their account for some wins? They won't get to use their Ranked rewards if they get banned forever.

Just got back into this game last week after not playing for 3 years hit plat 5 in ranked before reset from rookie Tried twist last night and remembered why I stopped playing LMAOOOOOOOOO

How is it possible that the mirror has a win rate that's not 50%? I get that sometimes, there might be disconnects or whatever but that should be less than 1% of games.

Blizzard has become so greedy, you can taste it in the air.

They removed duels to put this mode which basically its best character is paid for and recycles the hero power from duels. its also the worst legendary out of the craftable ones by far

I managed to destroy Arfus with Illidan... once 🙃

They probably don’t have the manpower from all the layoffs

cheating to win a game has got to be most pathetic thing you can do in that setting. not even pitiful, it is downright *sad* man lol

We lost duels for this....

But the community on the officials forums say that the game cant be hacked and its just people playing bad or just game mechanics LOL. I cant wait to see people try and defend this game that its not possible to hack.

I’m going to go with “The Devs Don’t Give Two Shits” for $1,000, Alex

They are waiting for everyone to craft Arfus , before nerfing it

LOOOOOOL bruh pulls out a 100 attack weapon casually

Didnt know arfus was good before watching this. My opponents must not know how to play it I guess.

Yooo I player against a warlock with 4 15/15 in turn 1 I was tripping Was like wait is this a bug ?

They literally made Arfus THE BEST BOY!

They need to sell these bundles badly to recoup all the legal fees so far.. 😂

I miss Ben Brode 😢