Hopefully a little more clear

Blizzard headquarters in Irvine, California, held a press event to reveal the details for the next Hearthstone expansion. And Player One was there.

Called Whispers of the Old Gods, this new expansion brings new things to the company's popular game. There will be 134 new cards and sixteen of them interact with the Gods. But what Gods? There will be four that will appear in Whispers of the Old Gods, with C'Thun at the head. The Whispers of the Gods also changed various existing minions, which now have different characteristics to those of before.

While Hearthstone will introduce the new Standard Mode patch next week (designed for new players), Whispers of the Old Gods will be released in late April or early May. To entice everyone (*I'm assuming they mean people at the event), Blizzard decided to give all of the players new cards and C'Thun. Player One had the opportunity to test the new expansion, which succeeds the previous expansion, The Grand Tournament.

The biggest new effect is that these Gods will have attack and health that can be increased as the game goes on. They start with 6 Attack and 6 Health but the 16 accompanying minions that support them can buff their attack and health beyond what they themselves can do on their own.

This means that, when playing the card of C'Thun (10 mana), he'll do a different amount of damage each turn. And he does damage when played. Hence the importance of putting together a deck to support the God and also being prepared with lots of cards on the board when being attacked by C'Thun.

In this regard, Player One spoke with Hamilton Chu, Executive Producer of Hearthstone. "This new expansion has a great feel, where these ancient evils are in the bowels of the Earth, that can come out and surprise you. They have lots of followers and minions that will do their work for them." He added that "we've worked on this expansion for a long time and we're very happy to finally show it to people. We love this game, everyone here plays Hearthstone and we like to play in our spare time and we are very pleased to bring this new expansion to the world ".

Meanwhile, Dean Ayala (Balance Designer for Hearthstone) told Player One, "I am very happy to explore this new side of the game because Whispers of the Old Gods has a perhaps scarier side, which is something we haven't had before. Because of that, having that evil side brought over from Warcraft with the Old Gods, makes it so that we can tell that side of the story.People will be able to see what crazy things the Gods Old can do and I think they'll love it, new game modes, new decks and I think it will be successful."

Finally, we spoke to the Senior Interface Designer Hearthstone, Derek Sakamoto, who told us that, "For me, the important thing is to see how new features behave, Deck Recipes, the new cards, and the [standard] rotation. All that is what I've been working on the past few months, so I want to see how players interact with all of that to see if we did our job; that it works for both new players and experienced players. "

Hearthstone has high expectations for Whispers of the Old Gods and it won't be long before everyone can get to know the underworld of the Gods.