Why is the number of parts in chapters being reduced?

Hello Summoners! This picture shows the beta test of Act 7, and it can also be seen that Act 7 will already have three parts in each chapter. In my opinion, it will not matter three parts, or six. Indeed, from this the complexity of the task will not change. In my opinion, this is already a lack of KABAM imagination ... Thank you for your attention.
Regards, Rasch

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Thicco_Mode

Championcritic

Does it matter? less chapters means it will be less annoying to explore and who doesn't want that.

Eb0ny-O-M4w

Either it's meant to be reduced, either they want to change how it works, either there is no need for more, or something else.
They can just do more paths per quest, ending up with the same amount of paths to explore than act 6

RunamokUSA

Why would you look at a beta as a completed product?

Demonzfyre

I was in the beta. Their goal is to have shorter chapters overall to allow players to get rewards faster for completion. It also reduces energy as well since there is only 6 paths per chapter.

TheTalents

The Beta has been completely scrapped so this whole conversation is no longer relevant.

Rasch_

The Beta has been completely scrapped so this whole conversation is no longer relevant.

That is, there will be no act 7?

Cowboyschamploo1

I was in the beta. Their goal is to have shorter chapters overall to allow players to get rewards faster for completion. It also reduces energy as well since there is only 6 paths per chapter.

I distinctly remember 9 paths in the beta. Stop making stuff up

SpideyFunko

The Beta has been completely scrapped so this whole conversation is no longer relevant.
That is, there will be no act 7?

there will be, but they’re doing a total rework

Demonzfyre

I was in the beta. Their goal is to have shorter chapters overall to allow players to get rewards faster for completion. It also reduces energy as well since there is only 6 paths per chapter.
I distinctly remember 9 paths in the beta. Stop making stuff up

You're right. 9 paths. Overall less fights and less energy still.

TheTalents

I was in the beta as well it was overall less fights but it was still highly annoying. The 9 also required more than 70 energy and had more fights per path than act 6.4.6 so the change was mostly cosmetic. So really in terms of fights it was really the equivalent of at least 5 chapters.

Giuliameij

Maybe it is too hard to come up with impossible node combinations. So rather they make it 3 missions and cramp the same number of paths in 3 missions.

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SummonerNR

I don't know if this is rhetorical or you people don't fully understand how Kabam does their act releases. There are three chapters in the beta...that has been scraped but when they release act 7 it will be 1-3 chapters...then they will release the remaining chapters...its called a slow roll out.

Look at picture and post again. Shows 3 Quests in Chapter 1.

They are not talking about how many Chapters in the Act (which may roll out partially and then add more Chapters later).

They mean how many Quests WITHIN a Chapter.

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CoatHang3r

The change in the number of quests per chapter was to streamline the creation of the content and allow them to roll it out more quickly and regularly than previous story content.

The 9 also required more than 70 energy and had more fights per path than act 6.4.6 so the change was mostly cosmetic. So really in terms of fights it was really the equivalent of at least 5 chapters.

That is flat out wrong. You can likely still view the beta forums to verify just how wrong these statements are.

The energy cost per path was the same 90 energy as Act 6. Completion energy cost was cut by 50% and exploration by 25%. And the number of fights per path were exactly the same as Act 6.3 and 6.4. It’s the equivalent of 4 and a half quests/chapters.

SummonerNR

Yes, they could have used the word “number of QUESTS in chapters”.
But point is their title is asking about number of “something” IN the chapters.

Not asking “number of chapters”

Demonzfyre

I don't know if this is rhetorical or you people don't fully understand how Kabam does their act releases. There are three chapters in the beta...that has been scraped but when they release act 7 it will be 1-3 chapters...then they will release the remaining chapters...its called a slow roll out.
Look at picture and post again. Shows 3 Quests in Chapter 1.

They are not talking about how many Chapters in the Act (which may roll out partially and then add more Chapters later).

They mean how many Quests WITHIN a Chapter.
Yes...thats the BETA...it wasn't completed work.

Also, the literal name of the thread is...

WHY IS THE NUMBER OF PARTS IN CHAPTERS BEING REDUCED?

If they means something else...they should have said something else.

Were you in the beta? If you were, you'd know that this was intended as how they want Act 7 to be. It was in the announcement post on the Beta forums. They stated they wanted to shorten the amount of time a player takes for completion but try and keep the time it takes to 100% the quest about the same. This is why they made it 3 chapters. You have 3 paths to completion but the difficulty is much harder as you'll have 9 paths. This also allows them to release content faster vs having to do 6 quest chapters.

They are purposefully keeping chapters to 3 for Act 7. What they are scrapping are the fights we came across for that Act. If you watch Seatins video of the Sabretooth fight, that fight right there had all of us telling the Devs how terrible it was. They are taking the feedback about the fights back. Now I don't know if they will stick to 3 chapters or not but I think it's a win for us as it's less fights overall and a ton of less energy as well.

Pseudouber

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AouxWoux

Its just a beta. Here the chapter is not completed because they didnt created it yet.

Demonzfyre

Obviously subject to change but I think they'll keep the format of 4 chapters and 3 quests.

MaxGaming

It could be just part of the beta and if it isn't then it is going to be difficult

Demonzfyre

I wonder how many people actually read comments in threads before posting.