Kabam knew what they were doing, they had the Halls of Healing, and they knew people had stocked up on revives & pots, so they figured they can make things tougher to drain them of those items and force them to spend.
It is all about the spending game to them, why else haven't they fixed the bugs that harm the player for the past 60+ days? Hitting into their block, and they can throw specials? Specials being blocked mid-special? AI being able to do a parry while they are in the middle of doing their heavy or medium? They have responses of "It is complicated", "We are still investigating", "Can you let us know on what devices and where it happens", and other time-stalling tactics.
I see no effort at all at being more open with the community on the status of all the bugs, and that is really sad.
This AQ fiasco clearly shows that nobody did any testing, or, they used their uber Kabam accounts with maxed out 6*s, how else can you explain all these broken nodes?
I've read a good deal of this post and seen 2 major concerns, difficulty and timers/syncing with alliance mates.
I see lot of nodes that are very character (a few at best) specific. This will increase diversity on the characters used. This is a goal Kabam has had for a long time and started in alliance wars. They have a ton of characters and want to encourage diversity and teamwork. Back in the day, it was do you have this specific OP champ? yes? you are valued, come to our alliance. Void is the AW example of this. You pretty much needed a void in each bg for war. Coming from a low p3 alliance at that time (seasons 1-2) If you didnt have a void in each bg you struggled mightily, it was haves and have nots. These nodes are just a huge expansion to this concept. The summoners with some (currently) obscure champ at r4 r5 is now going to be valued. You're going to 'need that guy' on your team.
for example
Footloose After activating a Special Attack, the Defender becomes Unstoppable and has a X% chance to Evade incoming attacks for X seconds. With the Slow Debuff, you’ll be able to completely shut this down. She-Hulk and Spider-Gwen are the best Champions here, but anyone who can Power Control or remove Unstoppable will also be useful.
They are saying it in so many words right there. Please use these champs. Please rank them up. We worked on them, we revamped them, now use them........
As for timers, as someone who thrives on efficiency, I get it why they don't want to make timers 30 minutes. In addition to Kabam's business related reasons, 30 minute timers do put pressure on the pace of AQ. The general logic in AQ is when I am clear, tag your teammate and the come clear you. I've definitely had teammates before that get kind of burnt out during 30 minute timer weeks. They are on the game much more frequently then they want to be. Do the have to be? no, but it is the culture of the game and expectations of teammates.
I think a great solution in AQ would be one of 2 things. Increase the energy cap and/or create a help system to encourage teamwork and get a couple extra energy during the course of an AQ day. It should be enough for that little extra burst you need to make 1 or 2 less appearances in game or reach that node holding up your teammate etc....
How does the same map with more energy somehow pressure you MORE? If you wanted to wait the normal 5 hours then you still could with no penalty to exploration. However with timers halved you can also log on any time from 2hrs 30min onward and have full energy. Its the exact same map with less restrictive energy requirements
Mods, please see my notes in the bug fixes forum below. I sent in a ticket as well, which was responded to in the most generic format possible...There definitely needs to be some compensation for this AQ cycle.
They don’t care. This is standard operating procedure. Should know after all these years. They have always released and then worry about the bugs later. We keep thinking they will change...
@codebreaker their HQ is in San Francisco.. issue is the mobile gaming industry is unregulated and zero consumer protection. Ethics went out the window when Marvel was absorbed by the Mouse
You made the content more difficult but basically left the map rewards the same. Harder content should yield better rewards. Instead I’m stuck with the same crystals as before. I already have hundreds of them sitting unopened in my crystal stache.
Kabam is lucky they aren't on American soil, they would have been sued to the ground with all the violations and shady things they do, I'm really disappointed at marvel for allowing this unethical Group to run a game with their own characters
Kabam hasn’t been “sued into the ground” because they haven’t broken the law. They no doubt have an excellent team of corporate attorneys that tells them exactly what they can and cannot do.
As far as the difficulty of hyp... this is the comment from mod that stands out and baffled me?!
When asked why keeping MS boss:
“For a multitude of reasons, we opted not to change every boss on every Map, so in all but Map 2, we changed 2/3 Bosses. Map 1 and 7 are a bit different in that regard though. Morningstar was kept instead of Nightcrawler or Green Goblin because of a few reasons. Namely, her mechanics are not particularly complicated but do require a broadly used Champion Archetype (Bleed Immune) to handle. She was/is, of the 3 minibosses, also the one we felt best exemplified the level of Challenge we feel is appropriate for Map 5.”
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It is all about the spending game to them, why else haven't they fixed the bugs that harm the player for the past 60+ days? Hitting into their block, and they can throw specials? Specials being blocked mid-special? AI being able to do a parry while they are in the middle of doing their heavy or medium? They have responses of "It is complicated", "We are still investigating", "Can you let us know on what devices and where it happens", and other time-stalling tactics.
I see no effort at all at being more open with the community on the status of all the bugs, and that is really sad.
This AQ fiasco clearly shows that nobody did any testing, or, they used their uber Kabam accounts with maxed out 6*s, how else can you explain all these broken nodes?
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/142890/the-champion-against-cant-stop-wont-stop-nodes-aq-map-7#latest
Why are we still getting season 5 AQ crystals?
You made the content more difficult but basically left the map rewards the same. Harder content should yield better rewards. Instead I’m stuck with the same crystals as before. I already have hundreds of them sitting unopened in my crystal stache.
Shame on you kabaam!!!
When asked why keeping MS boss:
“For a multitude of reasons, we opted not to change every boss on every Map, so in all but Map 2, we changed 2/3 Bosses. Map 1 and 7 are a bit different in that regard though. Morningstar was kept instead of Nightcrawler or Green Goblin because of a few reasons. Namely, her mechanics are not particularly complicated but do require a broadly used Champion Archetype (Bleed Immune) to handle. She was/is, of the 3 minibosses, also the one we felt best exemplified the level of Challenge we feel is appropriate for Map 5.”
MS exemplifies the LEVEL OF CHALLENGE...