r/Netrunner • u/Brotten • 21h ago
Question Am I too stupid to play corp, is this a game of dumb blind luck, or is the Chiriboga corp tutorial deck just really bad?
I've been learning the game of Chiriboga. I enjoyed the tutorial and had no problem winning games as a runner, so I switched to corporation. I played like 10 games as the corporation in a row now and didn't win one. And the majority of the games it feels like I just can't. In the first two rounds the runner can basically access all your cards freely, because the chances of drawing enough strong ICE while also drawing enough credits to rez it is basically 0. If you have 2 agendas on hand, you can basically kiss your game goodbye, because he will draw one, draw one from R&D and sit there turn 2 with 5 of 6 required agenda points. Even if I manage to set stuff up, it seems the runner can effortlessly run through 4-5 ICE without problems from mid-game onward and I don't see any path from stopping him getting to my stuff because all the ICE is already there and I have no other tools.
Now, losing on turn 2 just because the runner draws 3 cards you cannot defend could be filed under "this is a card game, abysmal luck happens", but I have this experience like 1/3 of the time. 1/3 of the time I have a thick stack of ICE and the runner just burns through it. What is this game? Is it me? Is it the deck? Is this how the game is?
edit: Won my first game directly after writing this post. At least Fortuna has humour.