"Charge of the Light Brigade" includes a wind part that has a hopeful feel to it.This unnamed theme includes an intense horn and dramatic chorus, which gives the feeling that time is rapidly running out.The climax themes reflect the tension at that point, where you're either close to victory or hanging on by a thread."Rivalry of the Warlords" starts with a punctuated percussion and choral part, and only manages get more dramatic from there."Legacy of the Duelist" has an adventurous feel to it.Fitting if you find yourself backed into a corner. "Solemn Judgement" includes ominous chanting."Mirror Force" includes a prominent guitar and faster-paced orchestra, giving the impression that things have gotten real.Several key card themes really give the feeling that the duel has kicked into high gear.The Monarch battle themes, "Balance of Judgement", "Holactie the Creator of Light", and "Call of the Haunted", incorporate an chorus that gives an operatic feel to the duels.It's as if it's anticipating something incredible is going to happen. The main menu theme has a subtle intensity to it.Fittingly, you also hear it during the tutorial. The title screen theme has a very sweeping feel to it, like you're about to embark on a journey.The game's use of Variable Mix also keeps the blood pumping when players bring out their key cards and get close to a victory. Awesome Music: The game's soundtrack, composed by Yasunori Nishiki of Octopath Traveler fame, is a wonder to behold and fits perfectly to the tension and speed of dueling.The Synchro x Xyz Festival addressed common complaints about previous events by banning and/or limiting cards used by almost every relevant non-Extra Deck strategy such as "Floowandereeze", "True Draco", "Eldlich", and "Qliphort" while also adding Gem Missions that are tied directly to the theme of the event, heavily encouraging playing themed decks and restricting gimmick strategies.A second banlist update in September 2022 did a more thorough job of hitting problem cards while making going second hands stronger, such as banning "Crystron Halqifibrax", limiting "Water Enchantress of the Temple", and increasing "Red Reboot", "Dinowrestler Pankratops", and "Raigeki" to 2 copies each. It also nerfed combo decks by Limiting "Crossout Designator" to 1 copy, bringing it in line with the OCG where common combo lines are now significantly more susceptible to handtraps. A banlist update in August 2022 removed some of the most oppressive floodgates from the game, including "Imperial Order", "Vanity's Emptiness", "True King of All Calamities", and "Number 86: Heroic Champion Rhongomyniad" (via banning "Number 75: Bamboozling Gossip Shadow") and slashed the power of the DPE engine by banning "Destiny HERO - Celestial".Daily missions were also enabled to be completed in event duels. The August 2022 updates introduced, among others, the option of only showing summoning animations once per duel, a casual queue for duels, and reduced the battle phase-based missions from having to deal 16,000 damage and declare attacks on 5 monsters, to 8000 damage and only 2 monsters.The Fast Forward button in replays was made even faster as well, reducing delays between animations while it's on. The May 2022 update improved game speed in certain areas, most notably the Excavation animation, previously regarded as unbearably slow (especially when Adamancipators are involved), and certain menu transitions.This includes raising the loaner deck rewards to be identical to My Deck rewards, making the event twice as long, and adjusting the reward track so that the first 10,000 Medals exclusively rewards Gems. The N/R Rarity Festival event added in some additional quality of life adjustments based on feedback from the Xyz Festival event.Many of the worst offenders were adjusted in the Februupdate in response to complaints. ![]() ![]() A number of the duels in Solo Mode can be extremely unfair due to the poor quality of the loaner decks (which are required to use to earn all the rewards) and the AI decks being comparatively overtuned to the point that beating them is effectively a Luck-Based Mission.
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