State of the game so far

RCunha

So, 2 months passed with various issues and it still continues on to this 3rd month, clearly this new game engine is hard to program or to find and solve what went wrong in the transition.
Should Kabam stop the game if it helps fix it?
Should they dump this new game engine?
I love this game and hate to see it as it is so far, i have 2 similar devices and the issues are diferent on both.
Kabam i trust in you guys to do what is needed even if shut down the game for 2 weeks.
Think on the players when you give them any sort of compensation, i personally dont need none, but give what they really lost, potions, units, revives. The challenges are awesome, great game, keep up the good work.

No_oneuk

No. They shouldn't shut the game down.

odishika123

The game should stay online

Rookiie

Didn't you listen to Kabam Broccoli?
Kabam are building their own rules on top of the game engine that will make the game so much better and will give Kabam more autonomy over products and vendors
Shutting the game down for two weeks isn't going to change anything since they're doing this activity in parallel
Canning it and giving them they time they need will help though

RCunha

Still havent seen Kabam Broccoli interview, me like most of us wants this fixed and running, i was just saying that if needed then why not, of course i dont want the game down either, if its for the best then i dont mind wainting, not many of us think the same, many are rage quiting with stupid demands.

TrashyPanda

I don't see any situation where cutting off their revenue source will help the game.

Fixing a program isn't like fixing a car. Every new build is more like a new car that takes the place of the old car. You can both fix the car and keep it running at the same time. Usually will too, unless it'll cause major problems.

BitterSteel

Detective_Pikachu said:

"personally i dont need none" man i love these double negatives. i never get how they work XD

I never don’t get how they don’t not work neither

RCunha

Sorry about that, i'm portuguese

DrZola

There’s probably little they can do about changing the game engine at this point other than try to figure out how to make it all work correctly again.

But, in the meantime, they could do something—to steal a quote from another thread:

“I feel like they should be throwing the kitchen sink at us to ensure retention, but they have us doing milk runs and fetch quests for spare change instead.” (Credit: @TrashyPanda )

That doesn’t have to be free stuff—I suggested elsewhere (now memory-holed) that making things like L1 pots more available through basic gameplay or even selling them for 20 units would be helpful or running Halls of Healing again. Offer earnable relief.

And if they have anything—literally anything else—in their pipeline that’s interesting, throw it out—please—even if it’s an old quest.

But trying to play through stuff like potluck AW and Mindless Objectives v 2.0 when the game controls fail and the frame rate shifts to juddery Super8 quality isn’t the experience any of us should have. Saying it’s being worked on was fine…a month and a half ago.

Dr. Zola

Demonzfyre

RCunha said:

So, 2 months passed with various issues and it still continues on to this 3rd month, clearly this new game engine is hard to program or to find and solve what went wrong in the transition.
Should Kabam stop the game if it helps fix it?
Should they dump this new game engine?
I love this game and hate to see it as it is so far, i have 2 similar devices and the issues are diferent on both.
Kabam i trust in you guys to do what is needed even if shut down the game for 2 weeks.
Think on the players when you give them any sort of compensation, i personally dont need none, but give what they really lost, potions, units, revives. The challenges are awesome, great game, keep up the good work.

Tell me you know nothing about mobile game development without telling me you know nothing about mobile game development.

psp742

There was a post by a programmer that was probably taken down.. he mentioned some things that peaks my curiosity.. like when you're programming parts of the game sequence there are checks and balances in place.. that is if you have full control of the game engine.. but in Kabam case they are using another company game engine which is I guess antiquated and less efficient in processing the add-on commands.

[It's like a Prius engine in a Maserati (hence performance issues), need upgrade the 'engine' to be equivalent or up to par with outer shell]

If my understanding is correct, Kabam Broccoli noted that another department in Kabam is trying to develop their own game engine (but he can neither confirm or deny its existence) that would make it easier for the development team to add, append, and correct any foreseeable game glitch or bugs

[Kabam working on their own faster more efficient game engine and maybe have their own game servers in house]

If I am wrong in my understanding in Kabam Broccoli statement, please add the correct information below in your post. Thanks.

Skiddy212

Absolutely not

MaybeThisIsNotMe

They should have taken the game down for a day or two when all the issues were first reported. Then they should have used this downtime to roll the engine back to its previous version. But they were driven by their ego, ignoring the community, and now we're too far down the hole to roll anything back.

Demonzfyre

Erik001 said:

Demonzfyre said:

RCunha said:

So, 2 months passed with various issues and it still continues on to this 3rd month, clearly this new game engine is hard to program or to find and solve what went wrong in the transition.
Should Kabam stop the game if it helps fix it?
Should they dump this new game engine?
I love this game and hate to see it as it is so far, i have 2 similar devices and the issues are diferent on both.
Kabam i trust in you guys to do what is needed even if shut down the game for 2 weeks.
Think on the players when you give them any sort of compensation, i personally dont need none, but give what they really lost, potions, units, revives. The challenges are awesome, great game, keep up the good work.

Tell me you know nothing about mobile game development without telling me you know nothing about mobile game development.

Tell me you work for the company without telling me you work for the company. LOL

Tell me you can't come up with anything clever without telling you can't come up with anything clever.

Demonzfyre

MaybeThisIsNotMe said:

They should have taken the game down for a day or two when all the issues were first reported. Then they should have used this downtime to roll the engine back to its previous version. But they were driven by their ego, ignoring the community, and now we're too far down the hole to roll anything back.

Taking the game down won't fix anything whether it's a month or a year. If the game goes down for emergency maintenance, it's to fix something that's happening server side. Parry and Dex being broken it's server side related. That's why we get patches and hot fixes.

They also can't roll anything back because the game engine update comes from Unity who owns the game engine. Much like the game itself, they don't keep older versions of the game engine. Kabam doesn't keep the older versions of the game. It's all rewritten when they update each month.

But hey, continue to lob unfounded claims without doing any research. 👍

Addictor

No way bro. First things first there’re so many addicted whales in this game. How could they exist without this game? Secondly as a gaming company , they need revenue to keep them alive. So it’s not gonna happen in the slightest.