Reliance on Unstoppable is Boring, Bad Design

Pretty much the title. Nearly every boss or major event for the past 6 months has had some kind of annoying Unstoppable mechanic.

It’s not that it’s difficult or particularly annoying to deal with, it’s an absolutely overused mechanic that seems to be used as a difficult cop-out, it adds nothing to the gamer’s experience, and you even disable some of the counters to it.

Simply put, this is poor game design, and reusing the same assets month after month after month isn’t giving us much enjoyment. Is it really so hard to come up with a fun mechanic or to at least pretend to space them out a bit?

I’m sorry for the rant. I was highly disappointed in this month’s quest rehashing the same old mechanics.

Comments

shadow_lurker22

She Hulks heavy is a great way to counter unstoppable. With that being said I do agree that they are over using the mechanic but I guess as long as they abuse it I will keep using my shehulk to quest.

winterthur

Is there another champ which counters unstoppable?

RagamugginGunner

They've simply run out of ideas to make champs difficult to fight. Unstoppable/Unblockable/Auto-Block. Rinse and repeat.

harerabbit99

Yes, Spidergwen

DrZola

And both of the Marvel champs who have unstoppable as their core ability (Juggs and Colossus) generally stink.

Go figure.

Dr. Zola

NEO_mr_Anderson

Beardo

NEO_mr_Anderson

Spider-Gwen, 550% chance to evade unstoppable

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Fhfjghhggggjfhfjg

Beardo cant stop aow, brawl and hela in this month eq as theyre passive not buffs

Cliffordcan

Slow Debuff is broken and not working on passive Unstoppable. It did in the beta and isn’t doing it now

Sungj

Just use Ronan this month, you won't even see an unstoppable on annihilus

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Tarzan041

People have been saying this for months. Every month is basically the same, unstoppable, unblockable or auto block. Good way to lose customers.

Jaemon512

This isn't just about Annihilus.

It's about Annihilus, and Human Torch, and Hela, and Champion, and Rogue on Brawl, Thing, and God knows how many encounters from the past 6 months alone that I've forgotten about.

It's not a question of difficulty, or of cheesing the encounter with a duped Ronan, or anything else - it's about wanting something new and exciting rather than the exact same mechanics, month after month, year after year.

Act 5 brought interesting new nodes that were used in a lot of event quests. Act 6 has a ton of new nodes (albeit not particularly interesting ones) - why can't we get some variety? Even some interesting mix-and-match combinations of them, anything to make things a little more fresh.

Gamer

Yeah personally I’m think it boring now the first 3 months fine the But has Ben alest for 10 mouch now that get old

Kalantak

Agree!! There is mo fun,no innovation,just wait out,get hit die or finish fight dragging it, slow debuff doesnt work,captain America was supposed to b unstoppable counter but they named same thing a "passive" so he wont work,! korg,thing n ,annihilus,both almost has same mechanic for unstoppable n unblockable! Thats just lazy. Right now in Kabam Hq. "guys what have you planned for avengers endgame and new characters from that? , oh we are adding this new passive called unblockable and unstoppable everytime opponent does anything,
Excellent very innovative ,put it in the game!!"

TheLegendzPlay

No, that’s against unblockable special attacks.

DNA3000

It is also worth mentioning, it isn't really possible to "evade unstoppable" because unstoppable is a status effect, not an attack.

AlCapone2727

I dont want to have to resort to the same guys to deal with unstoppable I want to change up my roster. Save the node for rare fights

Vale84

she's bugged, she doesnt prevent unstoppable atm.

KattohS

Currently the only 2 champs that CAIW stops their unstoppable. Two of the worst champs that you hardly to never encounter.

I think we can all now agree that getting Kabam to not use “unstoppable” on their champs is now “UNSTOPPABLE”

DTMelodicMetal

No one stops the new Hela passive unstoppable node, not even She-Hulk Spider-Gwen and Archangel. Working as intended.

Dinesshhh

what is your line id
god knows how to send pm here lol

Championcritic

It may be abit boring and annoying yes, but it is predictable and therefore the community wont rage too much about is as they already know how to counter or at the very least wait it out. If kabam introduces alot of new "interesting" nodes, like the recent nano-plague node which makes the robots they've been using against biohazard useless, kabam gets accused of introducing crazy hard nodes for the purpose of cash grabbing. So in a way, reusing existing mechanics but in interesting ways is kind of the safer option IMO.

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Kobster84

That’s not working as intended if the unstoppable node isn’t being stopped by slow