100 things you wish you knew about Gems of War [DONE]

@KrudlerTheHorse please edit your first post in this topic so that it contains the videos you made all together with the summary/list of things they need to know - so that new players can access all they need without trying to get through all the spam :wink:

then we could maybe even have it pinned as a guide… in community guides section?

Ok, tomorrow.

Part 3 is up at the top.

@Ashasekayi I’m sorry :cold_sweat:

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No worries. :laughing:

Also, I had no idea you could use boolean operators in GoW’s ingame search. Thanks for that tip.

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That one was news to me, too. :smiley:

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As far as I know, I’m the only person to ever figure that out. I even asked @Sirrian about it and he was surprised to find out that it was even possible!

edit: Despite my best efforts, I could not get other BOOLEAN operators to work such as

!=
NOT
!
<>
AND
&
&&
… and pretty much every other combo I could think of…

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That’s because boolean operators really shouldn’t work. What about the pipe thing, you ask? Simple answer: It’s RegEx.

Don’t believe me? search for emp.*vash or a{2}.

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Very helpful for a newbie, and thanks for the code.

Wow… I know how to to Regular Expressions… time to go insane with testing.

Thanks!

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I just tried out some RegEx, and it works great. Thanks for this tip!

I’m rusty as an old tin can… can you send me a few examples? I can only get the very basics working and I don’t feel like going over the tutorials again after having last done RegExp 10 years ago.

Sure, what do you want to do?

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A basic AND

human AND divine, eg

I’ve been running out of room in the field… plus I’m rusty. You can help me out, no need to re-re-re-reinvent the wheel :slight_smile:

If you know the order of the two words, then “AND” is easy:

empowered.*impervious

If you care to match whole words only, then you’d need to do:

\bempowered\b.*\bimpervious\b

If you don’t know the order then the “AND” is a lot harder, and requires lookahead. The text field isn’t large enough to accomodate it, at least on Steam, and the mobile one doesn’t let me enter punctuation at all.

^(?=.*\bempowered\b)(?=.*\bimpervious).*$

If you’re ever interested in debugging a regex, here’s a handy link:

The text field isn’t large

Yeah that’s the issue I was having too… the dream is over I guess lol

So, I hit this wall after some experimenting. It looks like it won’t be as helpful as I had imagined. But, it will still come in handy to find some trait or type combos.

This one is less of a newbie advice and more of a general thing: how to avoid your PvP defense team “randomly” switching. I was recently reminded this is still a thing, and it definitely falls under the label of something I “wish I knew” for the first couple months after the PvP patch.

In PvP, if you enter the battle prep screen (the screen where you can scout and see troop details), click Edit Teams, and then back all the way out without fighting, your defense team will be set to the last team you had selected from the Edit Teams menu (or the first team, if you collapse the list then exit). It doesn’t matter if you actually change any of your teams or not, the glitch occurs if enter the Edit Teams screen from scouting screen, then back out of the scouting screen instead of proceeding into battle. You will also not be affected if you Edit Teams, then proceed into the battle without backing out of the scouting screen. This glitch does not affect using Edit Teams from anywhere else other than the PvP battle prep screen (explore, quests, and challenges are all safe to edit, then back out completely).

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Great info! I had to read it several times but it made good sense.

That’s something I had never heard of but always wondered about.

Probebly a stupid question, but where I can find the full artwork of every unit of the game? I try too find, but on official website or ashtender, you see only half of the artwork. Really like some unit, and want too see them in full artwork. Anyone know ?

If you’re on PC the images files are in your steam directory. Other than that I don’t think there are any other sources.