Fortune Cards

The Fortune Cards, or simply Fortunes, are a type of collectibles in Gigantic. Each card has a task which, upon its completion, will award the player with Prestige , Crowns and other rewards, as well as reveal a part of game's lore.

Overview

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In Gigantic: Rampage Edition Fortune Cards, and thus their challenges, are presented in 3 types: General, Hero and Weekly, which differ in how and when player can be complete them. Furthermore, cards are divided by tiers indicating difficulty of the task, as well as the reward player will get, and altering visual appearance of cards:

• Apprentice, where cards have normal colored artworks
• Journeyman, where cards get gold foiling
• Guardian, where cards receive bright purple galaxy overlay

The rewards range from Crown coins and hero and profile experience points to customization items, such as skins, portraits, emotes and titles.

General Fortunes

General Fortunes contain challenges which can be completed by playing any hero, anytime, as they're always tracked by the game. Upon completion they reveal details of the game's world. They consist of:

• The Initiation set of 4 cards, which work as introduction to the game for new players, with tasks mostly related to completing tutorials and guides.
• The rest cards are all individual with unique tasks - 22 of them, with order numbers ranging from 0 to XXI.

The total amount of General challenges is 78, counting all tiers, with large majority of them granting only as a reward.

For detailed information and artworks see Fortune Cards/General.

Hero Fortunes

Hero Fortunes can be completed only by playing certain hero, but also always tracked by the game. As the name suggest, their lore snippets are closely tied to heroes. These challenges will reward players with , or hero related customization, and points. They can be further divided on following sets:

• Hero specific cards, which share same artworks and titles with different order numbers; their lore snippets are closely tied to the character and can be considered biographical.
• Story specific cards, while strictly tied to a hero for completion, belong to sets of lore cards, artwork and flavor text wise.

The total amount of Hero challenges is 1,500 (60 cards with all tiers per hero).

For detailed information and artworks click on a card image bellow:

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  Aisling
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  Beckett
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  Charnok
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  Ezren Ghal
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  Griselma
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  HK-206
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  Imani
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  Kajir
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  Lord Knossos
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  Mozu
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  Oru
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  Pakko
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  Ramsay
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  Roland
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  Rutger
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  T-MAT
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  The Margrave
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  Tripp
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  Tyto the Swift
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  Uncle Sven
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  Vadasi
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  Voden
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  Wu
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  Xenobia
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  Zandora

Weekly Fortunes

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Weekly Fortunes are time limited challenges: player gets 3 random cards of that type and have a week to complete them, before getting new set of cards. Some of them can be completed by any hero, some are hero specific. There are 3 types of Weekly Fortune Cards:

• "Play and Win" - the simplest type of Fortunes which progress by just playing matches; their lore snippets reveal more details about the world of Gig.
• More complex challenges tied to actual gameplay, similarly to General Fortunes; their lore delves more into the Empire.
• Lore cards which touch upon ongoing story of the game and form larger sets of cards along with Hero Fortunes; these challenges include both gameplay specific tasks and certain hero picks.

For detailed information and artworks see Fortune Cards/Weekly.

Previous versions

Original

In original version of Gigantic, Fortune Cards were divided by two categories. Cards based upon the world belonged to Major Arcana, which then was divided to Low (from 0 to X) and High (from XI to XII); in Rampage Edition these cards became a part of general Fortunes. Cards based upon heroes belonged to Minor Arcana. Then cards are divided by 3 rarity levels, which would reward player with a designated amount of rubies on completion, on top of Crowns and Prestige points:

• Common – +50
• Rare – +100
• Legendary – +300

Overall amount of all available in the game cards, counting all rarities, was 549. Player could have a hand of maximum 7 cards to complete in a time. To get a new card player should had to make a draw, which gave 3 random cards to choose from. Draws could be obtained through various means:

• Daily Draw – player gets 1 draw for login into the game once a day
• by ranking up account
• by ranking up a Hero past Rank 3
• by purchasing a draw with rubies
• by purchasing a pack of additional content

With each draw, the chances of receiving a rare or legendary card increases. However, the chances of receiving a card that has not yet been completed decreases. Lore snippets were visible not only on completion but in draw menu as well.

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  Active cards and draws screen in original Gigantic
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  Draw screen
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  Fortune Cards screen after a match
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  Collection of cards screen
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  Single completed card screen

Beta and development

During closed Beta of Gigantic the Fortune Cards system was largely same as in the final version. Players were supposed to purchase "card readings" from a "fortune teller", a planned non-playable character who eventually became a playable hero. The game at this stage also included "The Initiation" set of cards, which were re-introduced in Rampage Edition. The "Lore Cards" were part of larger quest system to go with story themed updates, which wasn't developed in time (thus making updates just content centered), but they made a comeback and got expanded in Rampage Edition as part of Weekly and Hero Fortunes.

Some of the lore snippets which were found in files of Beta builds and didn't get into later versions:

There also were plans to give cards animated artworks or rarity based materials, thus making them more interactive in single card inspection.

Achievements

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• Some of achievements in original Gigantic were related to completion of Fortune Cards:
  • Golden Fortune – complete 7 Rare Fortune Cards – 40 points
  • Celestial Fortune – complete 7 Legendary Fortune Cards – 50 points
  • Major Arcana – complete one of the Major Arcana Fortune Card sets – 50 points
  • Fortunate Champion – complete one of the Hero Fortune Card sets – 50 points

Trivia

• Fortune Cards are based on famous Tarot cards, which are often used in divination and other esoteric practices. This can be seen in “arcana” terms, numerical order and some of the titles – both actual and seen only as code names (such as “the Hierophant”, or “the Beast” replacing “the Devil”).
• Despite General Fortunes not getting divided in Rampage Edition, in game's files they still go by original grouping of Major Low and Major High arcana.
• Oru, one of playable characters of Gigantic, is deeply related to Fortune Cards in various ways:
  • Oru is an Eternal that specializes in seeing the future – the cards are his primary instrument, as well as the weapon: “Judgment” for BURN
    Deals damage over time.buring enemies, "The Beast" for SLOW
    Reduces movement speed by 20%.
    MAJOR SLOW (30%) and MASSIVE SLOW (60%) are more powerful.slowing them, “the Joker” (originally titled as “the Jester”) to PUSH
    Knocks enemies back. This does not stop them from using skills.push them away, and “Death” to deal mortal DAMAGE
    Decreases target's HEALTH or SHIELD with successful attacks and leads to target's death after its health bar reaches 0.damage.
  • As mentioned earlier, Oru was originally designed as an non-playable character, a crystal ball through which players could “see into the future,” and from which they would draw Fortune Cards. Oru would then react to player's picks with various responses.
  • An entity on "The Jester" card resembles Oru, who is referred in card's lore notes as "The Seer" – his name as the member of Eternal pantheon.