re: I know it's probably 2 years away, but Witcher 4

Speaking of monster decks, they are responsible for one my bad Gwent memory, and not because I lost.

I was in the last round of the Gwent tourney on my first playthrough and had played an extremely good northern realms game. I was ahead, but the score was very close and I didn’t have a ton left. Then he drew a card (can’t remember which) that was going to cause one of those crazy monster deck point explosions… and he played it on the one exactly wrong row. Next round, same thing, could have played the card on any row except one and won, and he played it on the wrong row again.

My only guess to this day is that there’s some internal trigger that if the player scores enough points on their end during that tourney, the NPC will try to throw the game if they can.

I was so annoyed that I almost reloaded a save just to do it again, as I felt cheated by being given the win