New Content?????

Just curious if kabam has stopped making any new content? All we seem to get now is a story chapter once every 6 months and even that has been cut in half. I love bgs, but you have to make some new exciting challenges to face or this game is going to die.

What happpened to the abyss style content that was teased for this summer? Is that another trashed idea?

I just feel like the past two years have been a bit of a drought.

@Kabam Miike can you give us an update if anything is in the works?
Thanks.

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A_Fungi

I feel like they did pretty well last summer with EoP and the gauntlet. Then EoP again tied to Carina for a lot of folks (self included) first R5 champ. Mixed in a couple of act 8 chapters and it was a decent pace.

But my goodness has it been dead of intriguing content for a while. I even get bored and do act 6 paths here and there. Abyss isn't even worth the effort with the rewards now. So... here I sit, I know may who have quit from boredom resulting from lack of content

ShoNuff29

Current state of game for end game players who don’t love to grind battlegrounds:

A lot of us are desperate for content. Gauntlet 2, Abyss 2, Summer of Pain… I’ll take a boss rush. The lack of content is extremely disappointing. Honestly at this point, I’d wish they’d open it up to the ccp or community as a whole. I’m sure they could come up with a collection of champ/node combinations that could make for some fun content. Sure it still has to be created/coded, but that’s like writing a paper after someone gave you all the notes for it. 2023 is shot for consistent content, but hopefully all these cries aren’t falling on deaf ears and having something like quarterly new content (preferably bimonthly), becomes a 2024 (and beyond) priority. This way we can stop ranking up new champs just to see how fast they can beat WS lol.

Qwerty12345

there has been some content... but given how long it is in between items, players tend to binge it.

That said, asking for "one path per day" to be released I don't think is unreasonable. It doesn't have to all be story content. It used to be backissues, Abyss/Labyrinth/Maze (wasn't that supposed to come back at some point for those of us who weren't ready for it yet like 4 years ago), and various other challenges like celerity challenges... and we used to average "about 1 a month". Now we are lucky to get "1 a quarter"... so many, many players have done either everything, or "everything worth doing".

I for example decided to "100% gauntlet" doing extra fractional paths... rather than just selling expiring items... and even "wasting items" like that... I went from about 200 paths of backlog 18 months ago to now just having the "starlord challenge" left. I have saved it for last waiting for relics to work, and maybe benefit from ascension but if there is no "EOP", 8.3, Abyss 2.0, etc. announced in August... I'll probably use my 4 hours crystals an overflow to "plow through it" as a "completion-ist"... it surely wouldn't be for the rewards at this point in the meta.

In addition to just "more"... we need content that actually requires the recent rank ups we've done. Act 6 was overkill on difficulty... but acts 7 and 8 can be done with r3 6 stars without thinking like you are outclassed. What's the point of r4s, r5s, and 7 stars if they aren't needed.

Pikolu

Every game where you hit the top has a hard time releasing engaging content that will satisfy people for long. A lot of the endgame players completed all of carina vol 3 within the week it was released. The reality of the situation is that outside of PvP content, endgame players aren't going to get much in terms of engaging content to do.

However, I would like it if we had a new EoP challenge where we have the 1 fight per week with different objectives. Those were fun.

Ironman3000

Sadly, it's the revive farming that has forced them to stop creating new content.

A_Fungi

Sadly, it's the revive farming that has forced them to stop creating new content.

This doesn't really make sense.

They did away with revive farming and we haven't gotten engaging content since.

I do understand that it wouldn't encourage new content before, because they couldn't monetize it

ShoNuff29

there has been some content... but given how long it is in between items, players tend to binge it.

That said, asking for "one path per day" to be released I don't think is unreasonable. It doesn't have to all be story content. It used to be backissues, Abyss/Labyrinth/Maze (wasn't that supposed to come back at some point for those of us who weren't ready for it yet like 4 years ago), and various other challenges like celerity challenges... and we used to average "about 1 a month". Now we are lucky to get "1 a quarter"... so many, many players have done either everything, or "everything worth doing".

In addition to just "more"... we need content that actually requires the recent rank ups we've done. Act 6 was overkill on difficulty... but acts 7 and 8 can be done with r3 6 stars without thinking like you are outclassed. What's the point of r4s, r5s, and 7 stars if they aren't needed.

Honestly, I’d love a piece of content that’s closer to what Act 6 was. Not to the point of ridiculousness, but having to REALLY read all fight nodes and plot out a team was something I really used to enjoy. We all expect gaps between content, but we’re way beyond that now. It feels like all the team resources are going into BGs and the rest of the game has been left destitute… with nothing SPECIFIC as far as content or timeline on the horizon.

I’m sure behind the scenes, some things have gone wrong that they didn’t anticipate as far as content. But say that… “hey guys, we’re working on abyss 2 but this, this, and this aren’t working right yet” … I’d rather know that than hear nothing and get a live stream like “hey guys, here’s a combo tracker” that you didn’t ask for. “No, there’s no new content and don’t worry about the dual mastery set up that’s 3 years late and we don’t even mention anymore” lol.

I feel it turning into a rant so I’ll stop here. Someone above mentioned weekly EOP fights. That was fun and something to look forward to each week. Would love that again.

Wozzle007

I still think act 4 is the best act content. Varied maps, first introduction of new nodes. Ah those were the days.

TyEdge

there has been some content... but given how long it is in between items, players tend to binge it.

That said, asking for "one path per day" to be released I don't think is unreasonable. It doesn't have to all be story content. It used to be backissues, Abyss/Labyrinth/Maze (wasn't that supposed to come back at some point for those of us who weren't ready for it yet like 4 years ago), and various other challenges like celerity challenges... and we used to average "about 1 a month". Now we are lucky to get "1 a quarter"... so many, many players have done either everything, or "everything worth doing".

In addition to just "more"... we need content that actually requires the recent rank ups we've done. Act 6 was overkill on difficulty... but acts 7 and 8 can be done with r3 6 stars without thinking like you are outclassed. What's the point of r4s, r5s, and 7 stars if they aren't needed.
Honestly, I’d love a piece of content that’s closer to what Act 6 was. Not to the point of ridiculousness, but having to REALLY read all fight nodes and plot out a team was something I really used to enjoy. We all expect gaps between content, but we’re way beyond that now. It feels like all the team resources are going into BGs and the rest of the game has been left destitute… with nothing SPECIFIC as far as content or timeline on the horizon.

I’m sure behind the scenes, some things have gone wrong that they didn’t anticipate as far as content. But say that… “hey guys, we’re working on abyss 2 but this, this, and this aren’t working right yet” … I’d rather know that than hear nothing and get a live stream like “hey guys, here’s a combo tracker” that you didn’t ask for. “No, there’s no new content and don’t worry about the dual mastery set up that’s 3 years late and we don’t even mention anymore” lol.

I feel it turning into a rant so I’ll stop here. Someone above mentioned weekly EOP fights. That was fun and something to look forward to each week. Would love that again.

Act 6’s difficulty was arbitrarily boosted by attrition. If you put 12-14 fights on a path instead of 6, you can force people to use revives, especially with degen and other forms of mostly unavoidable damage.

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Figue

you are boring with the game? you still have AQ, AW, general questing, act 8, incursions and arena... lots of stuff to spend some time

Typhoon

Wait till bases drop tho

Go_To

you are boring with the game? you still have AQ, AW, general questing, act 8, incursions and arena... lots of stuff to spend some time

AQ- horrible, repetitive and very little rewards
AW- can be really fun when it's actually live and working as intended... but slightly too much work for the rewards.
General questing- boring, same old sq and eq format every month with mediocre rewards.
act 8- super fun content that has almost gotten too easy, problem is 6 month wait.
incursions- only use them for gold occasionally, waste of time and super outdated rewards, dreading the SQ with them.
Arena- No thanks. the definition of "boring."

So yeah... not much to do at the moment that has good rewards, isn't mind-numbing and is actually live.

Let alone every solo event and most stores need updates but that's a whole other topic.

TheDarkestknight

Well we know where the offers' money is going, not in the game lol

Qwerty12345

Sadly, it's the revive farming that has forced them to stop creating new content.

its been more than 2 weeks, excess revives used, sold, or expired, so any farming done now should either be "expected". If that's the excuse for still holding back any content would likely get a good laugh somehow.

Potion farming was really only necessary for content which was near impossible to do without doing it. Take for example the starlord challenge in Carina Vol 1. It is impossible to do without 50+ revives even for the best players in the game. Maybe ascension will cut that number down a bit to the point where the stash with the sigil would be sufficient... but point is... anyone thinking of doing it would "save up" as much as possible.

Compare that to content released in the last 4 months. I'm not saying I did 8.2 itemsless, but I certainly did it without requiring farming in any way. Some of the EOP vol. 3 challenges I "chose to farm" because farming was around rather than waiting to get the perfect counter to max rank... but that was back when R3s were still "reasonably rare" and r4ing a champion was a huge deal / not something you would do "just for one path"... and before that... you probably have to go back to Summer of pain... the 3 week challenge with the collector for the previous time farming was truly needed, and before that... probably act 6.

Maybe if content were to come out out the old pace... 3-4 times faster... I'd sing a different tune, but its very rare there is anything to use them on... and only really use them because "they are there" and the game glitched out... and rather than starting over... might as well use an expiring item.

AMS94

Who needs content when u can buy all the important rewards
Play smart, not hard