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Re: Is it too late?

You should be still good as long as you wait 14 days after joining to open anything.

Sorry to hear about all of that long story stuff man. Life's rough but Kabam is here to make it worse

ahmynuts

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I liked my comment so much, I wanted to make it a post.

It seems like the real strategy is to just not play the mode because it's way too grindy and too much of a time sink due to the podium level system.

Also, some decisions made here baffle me, aside from the podium leveling.
Why was Adam Warlock chosen for the debut? He is notoriously annoying to fight, and his AI has always been bad on defense. You need him to throw Sp1's because his Sp2 takes way too long, but he has power gain, and the AI refuses to throw specials. It's a horrible experience. I can't believe people sat down and decided that Adam would be the boss, seriously.

Also why on earth would you decide for the FIRST TAGS for this debut to limit the pool to Northstar and Gentle? It makes absolutely 0 sense for a debut. It almost feels like you all wanted to make this the worst experience possible for everybody and for the mode to flop.

The first triple tag should have been higher-tier, better-performing, and more commonly ranked-up champions to ease players into the mode for their first time.

It doesn't matter if this is high-tier content. You don't need to start at 100. You could have started at 50 and made this better for everyone and yourselves. In most cases, with new features, no company would ever decide to dump everything on their customers at once in such a bad way like this.

Northstar does absolutely cook in this mode though but no one ranks him up so my point still stands there

ahmynuts

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Re: Alliance Coliseum - is a massive, massive time suck

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2906496#Comment_2906496

Good points. Maybe solo will be better. Problem is I don’t need or want Everest/EOP anything with my alliance. 5 minutes in and out a few times a day is enough.

MrSakuragi

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Re: Adam warlock specials

why not just special 3 lock him and all future defenders in this mode?

You all aren’t doing AI 2.0 for nothing - throw us a bone here.

Chuck_Finley

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Re: Alliance Coliseum - is a massive, massive time suck

I had high hopes for this coming out of the Brawl live stream demo. But honestly this sucks. I feel like I'm doing a long EoP fight, baiting out a ton of specials from an AI that wants to hold for sp2 and sp3. The nodes and planning and effort is far more than AQ, and if this was in the game as a side quest, that would be fine. But if you are replacing something repetitive and almost brainless effort, that is the bar. Repetitive and now with more effort, means it's worse.

Last thing I'll note is the movement away from a map. I see a trend and I don't like it personally. Poker was fighting and no map. It felt repetitive and I didn't feel I was making progress. The weird webapp FF4 arcade was fighting (watching it at least) and no map. Repetitive and didn't seem worth it. Now this endless healthbar one fight. I can't even looks at how many I've taken down because I'm trying to bait specials every two seconds.

I just don't know... Looking at the content this year... The monthly EQ change, the weird side quests, the decisions to make progress based on prestige instead of a new title to chase (above Valiant)... The feeling that every new thing will be bugged (and is bugged)... I hope Kabam really revisits who is making the game decisions here. Because this past year isn't the game that got us to year 11, and I'm sad to watch it go this way.

WhoDaPoo

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Re: Alliance Coliseum - is a massive, massive time suck

They really should have chosen someone else other than Adam to debut this mode. Using such a finnicky and AI reliant character was a bad decision. They would have been better off using someone like Aegon as the boss who could throw his sp1 and sp2.

I agree with the comments on the level up. Way way too long and grindy to level them up. It's extremely obvious it's to incentivize spending units to level them but at least make it less obvious than this.

Also everyone is complaining about this being longer than aq like we didnt already have this information before it dropped. We knew all that already and we knew kabam wanted this to be everest/wow/eop substitute. We can argue about if the alliance version should be tuned that way but we did have the info beforehand

ahmynuts

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