Battlegrounds still [not what I want]!!!

Strategic

Making it 2 medals per win is a good start. But changing it so that in higher tiers it's 5 medals is absolutely stupid cause sometimes you're on a losing streak and that wastes all the time you invested!
Not only that but they kept it 1 medal for the top tiers? Seriously? What's the point?

I understand kabam thinks people couldn't advance because of the 50/50 win/lose ratio but that doesn't mean that you ALWAYS win 1 and lose 1 and losing on a streak is just stupid cause you just wasted 2 hours losing to people with 5 R5 6* in their roster and duped 7*s!

I say losing shouldn't cost you any medals at all and keep the medals per win just 1 and the old system as it was. This way even if you're on a losing streak you don't end up wasting hours upon hours of your time for literally nothing!

This game is way too grindy as it is and setting you all the way back is just evil!

Dr_Phant0m

If you do the maths it’s actually better;
Let’s say you play 4 matches, you win the first 2 matches, lost the 3rd and then win the last.

Last season with the old medal system that would of left you would still be needing one more medal to reach the next league.
But now with this new system you would reach the next league so it’s much better than last season

Anly

Strategic said:

Making it 2 medals per win is a good start. But changing it so that in higher tiers it's 5 medals is absolutely stupid cause sometimes you're on a losing streak and that wastes all the time you invested!
Not only that but they kept it 1 medal for the top tiers? Seriously? What's the point?

I understand kabam thinks people couldn't advance because of the 50/50 win/lose ratio but that doesn't mean that you ALWAYS win 1 and lose 1 and losing on a streak is just stupid cause you just wasted 2 hours losing to people with 5 R5 6* in their roster and duped 7*s!

I say losing shouldn't cost you any medals at all and keep the medals per win just 1 and the old system as it was. This way even if you're on a losing streak you don't end up wasting hours upon hours of your time for literally nothing!

This game is way too grindy as it is and setting you all the way back is just evil!

Its always been 5 wins to rank and 1 medal per 1 in higher tiers thats has never changed

The way its like that is to lock lower level players out of the circut pretty much,

If you lose a match you should lose a token if you didnt lose any tokens everybody would be in the circut, also there would be one unlucky soul forever stuck in the victory track, anyways if you didnt earn it then well you dont deserve it

Even if you do go on a losing streak and waste all your time your still not wasting nearly as much time as previous seasons.

NastyPhish

Even with my sometimes lackluster performance I’ve found it’s possible to advance much easier. Even when you get some loses. Because eventually you will heat up again and win a few. And advance.

Pikolu

Your losing streak only hurts you half of much now. One loss is only half a win whereas before you needed to have your wins back-to-back to win, now you don't. If you win 2, you have to lose 4 to be back at square 1 which is much better than winning 2 and being back at square 1 after 2 losses.

Loerke

I’m less concerned with the medals system than I am with the absolutely mad algorithm that has only paired me against whales with rosters full of duped 7*s and R5 6*s. Thank goodness you can’t drop down a tier. At this stage, BG is only worth playing for a way to burn through energy (and hope you get something out of it). Not enjoyable at all when you’re constantly outmatched, with buffs that make the game actively unpleasant vs. challenging.

DNA3000

Strategic said:

Making it 2 medals per win is a good start. But changing it so that in higher tiers it's 5 medals is absolutely stupid cause sometimes you're on a losing streak and that wastes all the time you invested!
Not only that but they kept it 1 medal for the top tiers? Seriously? What's the point?

I understand kabam thinks people couldn't advance because of the 50/50 win/lose ratio but that doesn't mean that you ALWAYS win 1 and lose 1 and losing on a streak is just stupid cause you just wasted 2 hours losing to people with 5 R5 6* in their roster and duped 7*s!

I say losing shouldn't cost you any medals at all and keep the medals per win just 1 and the old system as it was. This way even if you're on a losing streak you don't end up wasting hours upon hours of your time for literally nothing!

This game is way too grindy as it is and setting you all the way back is just evil!

If it was one medal per win and none for losing they would have to require twelve medals to promote or something similar.

They made it two medals per win in the lower tiers to make the lower tiers easier. That's the point. They made it one medal per win in the upper tiers to make it harder in the higher tiers. Because that's also the point. If the point was for everyone to get into GC, there'd be no point to the VT. Just start everyone in the GC. And have to earn all their rewards in the GC also.

The VT is there to offer an easier on ramp to GC, and for those players who are simply not qualified or interested in competing in the GC it offers them a limited way to earn rewards proportional to their strength. Weaker players will climb to lower tiers, stronger players will climb to higher tiers, and the strongest players will climb to GC. For that to happen, it has to be easy enough at lower tiers to attract a lot of participation, but hard enough at higher tiers to make it take significant effort and competitive strength to climb all the way up into GC.

I don't know why so many people keep asking "what's the point" as if any change that doesn't allow them to skate into GC must be busted. The point was never to hand everyone GC. The point was to make it easier for players to progress *to some point* in VT, but it is still only the strongest players who are supposed to reach and then compete in GC.

DL864

So this is my experience. I have made gc every season expect season 6. This season was by far the easiest I have made GC. I have a decent roster but definitely not close to the top end guys. I think that this new way is so much better and fun. It's made me want to play all the time I have already met my 350k Minimum for my alliance. Last season it was week 3 before I did that and made it to GC. So I would say the new system definitely works.

Strategic

Anly said:

Strategic said:

Making it 2 medals per win is a good start. But changing it so that in higher tiers it's 5 medals is absolutely stupid cause sometimes you're on a losing streak and that wastes all the time you invested!
Not only that but they kept it 1 medal for the top tiers? Seriously? What's the point?

I understand kabam thinks people couldn't advance because of the 50/50 win/lose ratio but that doesn't mean that you ALWAYS win 1 and lose 1 and losing on a streak is just stupid cause you just wasted 2 hours losing to people with 5 R5 6* in their roster and duped 7*s!

I say losing shouldn't cost you any medals at all and keep the medals per win just 1 and the old system as it was. This way even if you're on a losing streak you don't end up wasting hours upon hours of your time for literally nothing!

This game is way too grindy as it is and setting you all the way back is just evil!

Its always been 5 wins to rank and 1 medal per 1 in higher tiers thats has never changed

The way its like that is to lock lower level players out of the circut pretty much,

If you lose a match you should lose a token if you didnt lose any tokens everybody would be in the circut, also there would be one unlucky soul forever stuck in the victory track, anyways if you didnt earn it then well you dont deserve it

Even if you do go on a losing streak and waste all your time your still not wasting nearly as much time as previous seasons.

If you think this mode is not RNG based then that means that if you're in GC you always get perfect matches right?
Or at least enough good matches to get to GC.
If they kept it at least 2 medals per win for every tier that would be ok but leaving D2 and D1 4 and 5 medals is ****! Because then you assume that if you win 1 lose 1 than that means you're not good enough and don't deserve to advance!
Well just because you get a loss or more between matches doesn't mean you don't have skill only that you run into monster accounts or you're being offered bad options in the select screen!

Besides, the fact that the nodes never change in VT doesn't even allow you a chance to maybe find a meta that is better for your roster like in GC and that is the stupidest part that I always complained about but apparently everyone must be really happy struggling through an entire month full of BS nodes!