Yesterday when I opened Wingspan there was a message from Monster Couch saying that people who followed them on Steam would receive an exclusive background.

Following the link took me to their Steam page, where it showed that I was following them. Nothing popped up to say that I had received a DLC or cosmetic item.

When I switched back to Wingspan, the loading graphic continued to spin with no way to stop it. I had to X out of the game and re-open it. After trying this three times, the notification was no longer there.

Now there's no mention of the notification on Steam. Nothing in the discussion board, nothing here. If my partner hadn't also gotten it, I would have had to assume I dreamed it.

What the heck? Where's my free background lol

Hi all, my partner and I have been furiously looking for new games we can play together on our consoles (my switch, his PS5).

If we both bought this on our respective consoles, would we be able to play cross platform?

Also would we need to play online or could we connect local coop style? I don't have an online switch account and would rather not create 1 for 1 game.

Thank you :)

My pick. I found that using these birds are fun. Yes they might not be top tier like chihuahuan raven and killdeer.

8. Anna's hummingbird - 1 of the cutest birb. 3 habitat and light cost. Good for engine build when play at wetland and grassland. Most importantly its colorful and cute.

9. Chipping sparrow - your best early game helper. low score yet useful. Play in forest to get resource and egg. Light cost and easy to gear up.

10. North island brown kiwi - Yes the most rare and goofy birb. Did you start up with lousy bonus card? He can help you to discard it and draw 2 bonus card. Super strong late game. And who can hate a birb that look like kiwi fruit.

11. Sacred kingfisher - short of supply? Not enough turn to get resource? This bird helps a lot. Basically get worm, fish and rat with light cost. Pretty much the game saver.

12. blue-winged warbler. Wait a card without effect? Yes. 2 worm to get 8 score. I think it is the cheapest way to score 8. Plus it is smol and cute.

13. Rainbow lorikeet - pretty much dominated the forest. Spend nector to get 2 food. If you are lucky, 1 nectar for 2 nectar. King of the forest.

14. Eurasian nuthatch - cached wheat and even store food? Quite op. Can combo many birb which use wheat to tucked card. Smol and powerful.

15. Lastly california condor - big birb. No cost. Free bonus card. 3 habitat. Strong at early, mid and late game.

Sorry for yapping. Whats your pick? Based on design, ability, gaming experience. I would like to hear your story.

Title. From the top of my head I could think of easy ones like 1) everyone gets a free re-draw of their starting hand (for rare cases when all your birds require 3 food etc) 2) your starting food can be duplicates (again, rare cases where all your birds for whatever reason requires duplicate of a food).

Has anyone played with these and can say if they're balanced? They don't feel game-breaking at least...

What other houserules do you play with ?

Looking online, I can't for the life of me figure out if the Wingspan Special Edition for Switch has local wireless multiplayer. Does anyone know? I'll share more information below, but really the title and this question is all I am trying to find out. Thanks in advance!

My wife and I have enjoyed playing Wingspan with friends who own the physical game and expansions, and I'm interested in getting copies of Wingspan Special Edition for each of us (my wife and I) on the Nintendo Switch. We each have our own Switch console (we got a second Switch so we could each have our own Animal Crossing islands, lol). I think I would prefer to buy a copy of Wingspan for each of our Switches. The game with expansions is $40, which seems like a good deal to me https://a.co/d/0xc2VHS. $80 for both of us to have it would be cheaper than buying the physical game and expansions, so I wouldn't mind buying it twice (although the physical game is very nice, and is worth the price).

I'd prefer not to have to pass a console back and forth while playing, and I'm the type to obsessively check all the options on the table so I think we would be happier playing on separate screens. I know we could play multiplayer, with our own consoles, online. But I'm not sure about local wireless.

I'm not sure if buying a second copy of the game would be worth it if I couldn't play Wingspan with my wife via local wireless multiplayer (using two Switch consoles and two copies of the game). Although playing using the Nintendo Online service would work okay when we are home, sometimes we travel (like on cruises, or camping) and I would love to be able to play against each other with two switches in these scenarios as well.

Hopefully someone knows the answer :)

I’m trying to figure out how big wings need to be for human flight and if having multiple wings could lower the size they would need to be for flight just cuz I don’t want to get Por portions wrong for this character

Or to select which expansion you want to play with? Or is it then just too hard to match to other players?

Using a turntable has worked really well for us!

I’ve played the physical game a few times and it was a bit of information overload, I’m loving the ps5 version that keeps track of scores and what I can/can’t do, and it’s much faster than in person. My problem is I can’t break 100. I’m playing against 4 easy AI, got both expansions, try to tuck and get EoR cards, but there’s something I’m doing wrong. Am I focusing on round goals too much or not enough? Are eggs more important than tucked cards? Should use the expansion(s)? I see people tucking 100+ cards and I don’t get it, are you playing extra rounds?! Do you reset if you don’t get a good starting hand?

Can you give me your top 5 tips please? My brother’s PB is 147 and I want to beat him

Edit: finally got an even 100, built up an egg engine for 34 pts. Thanks all

Hello everyone. I am confused how this person got 6 birds in the wetlands. I didn’t think it was possible!

Not sure when the update was released exactly, as I haven't turned on my PS5 for 3-4 days, but it started downloading when I turned it on this evening. Since the update, I don't seem to be able to select my player background any more. I can still select portraits fine, but it just seems to semi-lock up on the background select screen, I can't even press X, only the circle button to go back. Didn't have this issue at all before this latest update.

Anyone else experiencing issues?

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I've played Champ of the Birds a billion times and always been *dramatically* far behind in points. What are the strategies here, typically, aside from obsessively keeping track of the deck? I feel like there may only be one or two potential paths to winning any one game out of the thousands of possibilities, because the automata is just so damn good.

I think I may have received “Passenger 57: play 16 birds in a single game” by mistake. I am playing just the base game and finally played 15 birds (yay, first time! I was really trying). It awarded me the “Fully Fledged: play 15 birds in a single game” correctly.

But I’m thinking I got the 16 birds one by mistake. The base game doesn’t have anything where you can remove a bird and then play another one, as I’ve seen in the expansions.

Does that sound incorrect to anyone else?

Anyone know where a good place is to reorder bird cards , my birds are getting tattered!

I'm just curious because I'm too lazy to figure out the settings for Automa, so I just go Custom Games against one or two AI. Am I missing a lot by not playing against Automa?

Hello, I have a question about how to play this game cooperatively on PS5. Do other people play from their phones, or do they use the same controller?

I love their abilities and they seem to be very popular, but are they considered too strong that there is an option to exclude them?

I've put in over 100 games digitally before finally getting the physical base game and since then, I've played 22 games vs the Automa on hard (5pts per card) with Automubon. In these games, I've averaged about 83 pts per game with a whopping 36% win rate. How do others find the base game difficulty and if this seems low, any new strategy tips?

I am 95% positive the answer is NO, but I'm just need that extra bit of confirmation.

I played my first ever game yesterday (and won, woo). However, I made the mistake of playing a Loon, when it would never benefit me. The hosts told me that you must activate brown powers if they affect other players. This raised an eyebrow for me, as I did bother to read the rules the day before, and I didn't come across that. They admitted that this "rule" didn't seem to be written in the rules, but their justification was "that is how it works in the digital version". Which I still doubt, but since I didn't want to halt the game while at their house, I complied for the time being. At least I still won :P. 95 points!

Can anyone shed light on the digital version? Is that how it works there? I'm fairly certain the hosts were mistaken on what was happening there.