Battlegrounds Season 2 Begins October 17th!

Hello Summoners!

During our first Battleground season, we listened to Summoner feedback and made adjustments for Season 2 to address major feedback. Here is what’s changing in Season 2!

Intention

We wanted to address 2 main themes from player feedback:

The Rewards in the Victory Track, Gladiators’ Circuit and Events did not feel balanced

Battlegrounds is a competitive mode, so players should feel most rewarded being the best; the initial reward structure did not reflect this

Our initial tuning of Battlegrounds required a lot of activity which made the rewards feel less impactful

Season 2 Dates

Start

October 17th, 2022

End

November 14th, 2022

Changes

Updates to Alliance & Solo Event

Players will be able to make progress in the events using PvE Energy

Elders Marks have been retuned and will be used to accelerate progress towards milestones in these events
By giving players the ability to use Quest energy to make progress in Solo and Alliance events, we needed to reassess the role of Elder’s Marks. We’ve made them a way to accelerate your progress, but not the only way to progress. However, it’s going to cost more Marks, but for a significant acceleration.

Elder’s Marks

Elder’s Marks storage capacity is increasing from 4,000 to 9,000
Elder’s Marks entry cost

Increase cost from 15 → 90

Elder’s Marks Unit cost

135 Units = 315 Elder’s Marks
There will no longer be large bundles of Elder’s Marks for purchase

Players will receive additional Elder’s Marks based on their remaining balance of Elder’s Marks against the new conversion rates

Conversion rate will be 2.625x

Alliance Event Objective Points

Energy:

Select a #villain Champion during Draft Phase - 20
Assign a #offensive burst Champion as a Defender in Battlegrounds - 40
Assign a #defense utility Champion as an Attacker in Battlegrounds - 40
Matches Won - 750
Matches Complete - 375

Elder’s Marks:

Select a #villain Champion during Draft Phase - 120
Assign a #offensive burst Champion as a Defender in Battlegrounds - 240
Assign a #defense utility Champion as an Attacker in Battlegrounds - 240
Matches Won - 4500
Matches Complete - 2250

Note*

Points earned for Unit spend is the same for Elder’s Marks as it is for using Energy

Elder’s Marks allow players to reduce the amount of matches required to hit Milestones, but the value is the same in terms of entry cost

Alliance Event Milestones

Alliance Event Ranked Rewards

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Solo Event Objective Points

Energy:

Matches Won - 750

Matches Complete - 375

Elder’s Marks:

Matches Won - 4500
Matches Complete - 2250

Solo Event Milestones

Solo Event Ranked Rewards

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Updates to Victory Track

Added more Trophy Tokens in the Victory Track and made it less back-loaded to higher ranks
Even distribution of Elder’s Marks throughout

Updates to Gladiators’ Circuit

Greatly increased the amount of Trophy Tokens earned from ranking on the Gladiators’ Circuit
In combination with the decreased costs in the BG store, amounts to much higher value than previous season

Season 2 Buffs

Comments

GrassKnuckles

Glad that solo event got retuned

Tx_Quack_Attack6589

A match won with elder marks is worth 6 times a match won with energy, bring on all the comment about pay to win rewards.

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Tx_Quack_Attack6589

@Kabam Miike can’t buy elders marks currently. With rewards dropping great time to make this available while people are excited.

They can’t do that till they adjust the elder marks for people who still have some

LilMaddogHT

A match won with elder marks is worth 6 times a match won with energy, bring on all the comment about pay to win rewards.

Well... as a F2P guy, I'm just happy that I can get some additional points w/ Energy use over the ZERO points I was able to get in Season 1. At least it is something 🤷🏼‍♂️

BeroMan

What about a major issue which is modders and cheaters in the mode... Any news in this regard? Are you planning to do anything new or it will be as frustrating as it was in the first season?

Eb0ny-O-M4w

Conversion rate will be 2.625x

Isn't this kinda low for it to be the conversion rate?

I've purposely didn't spend them on first season due to how bad of a state BG where, so was saving them up for when it got fixed. Have close to 1100 of them, but the conversion will still cut close to 40% of it

MrFullStop

why is no one is talking about entry cost increase from 15 to 90 while keeping the ranking up rewards stay at 200 only!! aka 2 matches

Ultimatheory

Why the tags to give extra points to events? I feel like my deck should be built around the nodes so I can focus on winning rather than who I should place for extra points towards objectives.

Rohit_316

What in the world is this cost increases !!

Rohit_316

@Kabam Jax @Kabam Miike does this statement means that if i have elder marks from season 1 , they will get converted ? Or the ones that i will earn starting season 2 ?

overcase

What happened to the prizes? when claiming them it never gave me the class selector

Ironman3000

Nothing about the matchmaking. Nothing matters if the matchmaking is still garbage.

SandeepS

Still 15 usual energy per match?

Ultimatheory

The value of Elder's Marks as replacement energy has gone way down. Why did the cost per entry go up like that?

For reference, I played roughly 150 matches last season. At 15 marks per entry this cost me 2250 marks. I bought the 3600 marks for 3100 units so the 2250 marks used over the season cost me ((3100/3600)*2250=) 1937.5 units.

Next season, the cost is slightly different so with 1937.5 units I can get ((1937.5/135)*315=) 4520.8 marks. However the cost of entry went up a ridiculous SIX TIMES to a cost of 90 per entry! So with this many marks I can only get roughly 50 matches.

This is a full TWO THIRDS LESS than what I was able to use last season with marks which means if I wanted to play the same number of matches but not spend units I am forced to use energy. Where was the logic in this? I could care less about marks being used to boost points towards objectives, I was using them as an alternate form of energy to keep playing a game mode I enjoyed without costing me from using resources I would use elsewhere in the game.

Please reduce the energy cost per entry to 30 marks and force down the point value towards objectives by 2/3 as well. All the current values promote is trying to force matches with friends in matchmaking to get more points using marks (and believe me plenty of collusion happens, especially at the top of the circuit) while at the same time limiting how many matches players who actually enjoy playing this game mode legitimately can do from grinding units.

LilMaddogHT

The value of Elder's Marks as replacement energy has gone way down. Why did the cost per entry go up like that?

For reference, I played roughly 150 matches last season. At 15 marks per entry this cost me 2250 marks. I bought the 3600 marks for 3100 units so the 2250 marks used over the season cost me ((3100/3600)*2250=) 1937.5 units.

Next season, the cost is slightly different so with 1937.5 units I can get ((1937.5/135)*315=) 4520.8 marks. However the cost of entry went up a ridiculous SIX TIMES to a cost of 90 per entry! So with this many marks I can only get roughly 50 matches.

This is a full TWO THIRDS LESS than what I was able to use last season with marks which means if I wanted to play the same number of matches but not spend units I am forced to use energy. Where was the logic in this? I could care less about marks being used to boost points towards objectives, I was using them as an alternate form of energy to keep playing a game mode I enjoyed without costing me from using resources I would use elsewhere in the game.

Please reduce the energy cost per entry to 30 marks and force down the point value towards objectives by 2/3 as well. All the current values promote is trying to force matches with friends in matchmaking to get more points using marks (and believe me plenty of collusion happens, especially at the top of the circuit) while at the same time limiting how many matches players who actually enjoy playing this game mode legitimately can do from grinding units.

Also please get rid of the option to accept/decline a found match... This is where you allow collusion to come into play. You should be able to cancel the matchmaking while they system is still looking but by putting in that extra 10 second window when a match is found w/ the countdown timer, that is what allows collusion and shady matchmaking to occur. There is no need for it.

WHOz_R4GE

BGs just got a lot more expensive if you plan to play with elder marks.

Vergeman78

So basically Elders Marks only help save time as 135 units will give me enough for 3 matches on EM and 120 units will allow me to buy enough energy refills for 18

AverageDesi

BGs just got a lot more expensive if you plan to play with elder marks.

Then don't lmao

AverageDesi

Am i seeing this right? Mysterium rank gets 60k tokens instead of the previous 12k?

Colinwhitworth69

Wait.

So the elder marks I bought in round 1 are now worth only one-sixth of what I paid for?

If true, that's a (bad word) ripoff.

AverageDesi

Wait.

So the elder marks I bought in round 1 are now worth only one-sixth of what I paid for?

If true, that's a (bad word) ripoff.

No. The elder marks were worth what you bought them for in season 1. If you bought more for season I'd say bad decision since there was going to be changes

LilMaddogHT

Also please get rid of the option to accept/decline a found match... This is where you allow collusion to come into play. You should be able to cancel the matchmaking while they system is still looking but by putting in that extra 10 second window when a match is found w/ the countdown timer, that is what allows collusion and shady matchmaking to occur. There is no need for it.

And just be very clear... This is what should be removed from Battlegrounds to prevent as much collusion as possible in the competitive matches you do in Victory Track/Gladiator Circuit

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Youhavenoidea

When are we going to get the full T5 class catalyst selector we were supposed to get in rewards. It was in there but never opened to the selection screen

Colinwhitworth69

Wait.

So the elder marks I bought in round 1 are now worth only one-sixth of what I paid for?

If true, that's a (bad word) ripoff.

No. The elder marks were worth what you bought them for in season 1. If you bought more for season I'd say bad decision since there was going to be changes

Umm, no, I bought something that was worth X, and now they are worth X/6. There was no mention that this value would change in season 2, and now I am 100 percent positive I will not buy a single EM ever again. These decisions they make sometimes are just dumb and self-defeating.

I am fine with Kabam monetizing this game, but for me they have ruined this game mode (starting with the last round), and now they are doing the same to Incursions. Sucks, because I loved Incursions and was really excited about BG. No more.

Ironman3000

There is zero reason that all current marks shouldn't be multiplied by 6. Zero.

magnus_xix

Ranking up Mr Sinister for week 4 😈

AverageDesi

Wait.

So the elder marks I bought in round 1 are now worth only one-sixth of what I paid for?

If true, that's a (bad word) ripoff.

No. The elder marks were worth what you bought them for in season 1. If you bought more for season I'd say bad decision since there was going to be changes
Umm, no, I bought something that was worth X, and now they are worth X/6. There was no mention that this value would change in season 2, and now I am 100 percent positive I will not buy a single EM ever again. These decisions they make sometimes are just dumb and self-defeating.

I am fine with Kabam monetizing this game, but for me they have ruined this game mode (starting with the last round), and now they are doing the same to Incursions. Sucks, because I loved Incursions and was really excited about BG. No more.

No. You bought them at a rate of 120 for 135 . Now you get 315 for 135. The change is 2.656 which is what you're being given. The only reason you used ET before was to score in the solo event. They now give 6 times score boost compared to before so it makes sense that the cost is also multiplied by 3. But making them cheaper to buy means it's now better to use ET for more rewards.

Before to reach the first milestone you needed to play 8 matches which cost you 8×15=120 ET which meant 135 units.

Now it is 3 matches which will cost you 3×90=270 ET which costs 115 units. It's cheaper.

Note that 3 matches give you 13500 points rather than just 10000

AverageDesi

There is zero reason that all current marks shouldn't be multiplied by 6. Zero.

Other than math .