A positive post about…Battlegrounds
Hi, folks! Hope all is well!
First of all, let’s get the ugly out of the way: Battlegrounds has challenges, and we know about them, and Kabam knows about them. At the same time: It’s just Season 3, and I think they really have a significant interest in making the mode as good and fair as possible. I truly believe that it will happen, where Kabam irons out some of the player concerns and balances the mode overall. I don’t think it’s going to take forever to do it, either.
But that’s not the point of this post.
What is: I have been a solo player for a LOOONNNGGG time now. It’s hard to get me to commit to playing in a mode where I have to commit time consistently — family/job/blah blah blah — which is why I don’t join an alliance.
I love Solo Incursions, for example. Hate the character cooldown, but love the feeling of “exploring unknown regions of the Battlerealm.”
Battlegrounds…has been a little slower to earn my total support. Not because I don’t understand it or because losing matches bothers me — I am a good player, not a great player, so I do lose matches — but because I hate using the same characters over and over and over.
Battlegrounds is the biggest argument for the Buff Program to be robust and effective, for that reason.
There are 200-plus characters in the game. Yes, it absolutely makes sense that a Doctor Doom or a Cosmic Ghost Rider are absolute beasts in there.
But some of you folks are starting to recognize the value of Juggernaut in absolutely punishing people in there. And people already know that you aren’t protecting yourself if you don’t have one Lucas Bishop ranked and ready.
See, that’s what I am talking about.
The stronger the roster depth is in the game, the more fun Battlegrounds becomes. The more characters there are for people to want to rank up, the more people will engage with opening crystals and doing what it takes to acquire materials, which should keep the game healthy for as long as possible.
I just won a match with an Old Man Logan and a Juggernaut. Totally shocked an R3 Mole Man and R3 Odin in the process.
That’s what it’s supposed feel like, in a game with this many characters.
I literally would not, and will not, play Battlegrounds if the only way to play is with the same 40 characters everyone else ranks up.
That’s where I am with it: If we can keep Kabam interested in making as many characters effective in head-to-head play, everyone wins — let’s see some tweaks to Sentry. Let’s get Doctor Strange fixed. Let’s create Extremis 3.0 and get Superior Iron Man hitting like a truck. Let’s get Symbiote Spider-Man Fury and Infuriate and drop some people. Let’s tweak Iron Fist and let the power of K’un L’un flow. Let’s make Moon Knight a Cleansing Skill-Mystic killer.
See what I mean?
Battlegrounds has some issues. But those issues can be fixed.
But it’s soooooo close to being truly amazing, if we can get maybe 10 -12 more adjustments/buffs to characters in the next four to six months.
Just my thoughts!