My current stance on the game as an average player
In short... Not fun but quite pretty with an amazing community and buckets of untapped potential
The not so short review:
Bit about me:
I have been playing this game on and off since early 2015, I have spent money on it but not enough to make a vast difference.
My current position In the game:
I have been thinking for a while about how I feel about the game as I am currently caught in a limbo. Having completed act 5 and almost fully exploring 5.4 I have found myself against a wall. The Ultron to put it short is an embarrassingly bad fight in terms of design with only a handful of viable counters the game has forced me to wait in frustration for RNG to give me one of the few counters and even when I do get one it will be months before I can rank them up due to the resource crisis that the game has. with no proper way to farm necessary gold, iso and catalysts aside from spending hours upon hours in the mind numbing **** show that is arena. There is no other content In the game for me to do aside from the monthly eq so I often find myself with absolutely no reason to log on to the game.
PROS:
At the current moment I would say there are only two redeeming qualities to the game. The first is the often stunning work of the animation team and the second is the solid community that keeps the game afloat and is the only reason I'm still playing to this day.
CONS:
1) the "challenging" fight aren't challenging they are bs messes built to eat as many revives as possible. I feel like after act 4 there is only one single enjoyable path In the entire game (5.4.1 life transfer). Other than this all fights are either not fun or just plain rigged with bad nodes and little to no proper counters.
2) Resources: there is a resource crisis, mainly gold but all necessary resources in a game should be farmable to a point and they are not.
3) Arena: (which I accept could be used as an argument to say some resources are farmable) its bad, the fights are repetitive and dull and the ai is for lac of a better word ... is ****.
4) AI: Quite frankly I and I'm sure many others would prefer it if Kabam would just highlight the passive ai algorithm and press delete all together. Passive ai SHOULD NOT be showing up in places like act 4, act 5, aq map 4 and aq map 5 and it's everywhere in them. The game spends it's time training you to use parry and dex then just throws an ai at you that constantly walks towards you and if you try to attack it congrats you just ate a full combo.
5) Class imbalance: there is an insane class imbalance present in the game, I have 36 total 5 stars and 17 of them are cosmic, 3 of them are mystic. And that's not even mentioning the power imbalance. Mutant and cosmic boast such powerful champs yet mystic only has about 4 viable options.
6) general free to play struggle: STOP ADDING CHAMPS THAT NEED SIG 200. I'm willing to put money on it that 99% of F2P players will never get their hands on a sig 200 5 star so why then do you keep adding champs that rely on it ie, naymour, aegon, Omega ... I could go on but the point is proven.
There are a few other small problems but I fell I have highlighted the main ones.
Possible solutions (IMO)
1) spend a month without adding any champs just focus on balancing and making more champs viable option for the mid-end game content.
2) AT LEAST double the gold quest rewards and make it free to access then double the rewards again for those players with the ss.
3) rework the glory store to better match the current economy in the game
4) remove passive ai from all later content in the game if not all together
5) rework arena to make it more captivating and worth while for everyone who participates
6) stop adding such obnoxiously rigged content with bs nodes, champion gates, and single champs counters
Obviously this makes me seem a bit up my own arse but I felt like it needed to be said.
I love the community and the game has so much potential that I feel is just going to waste.
