What do we think about New Battlegrounds Changes?
captain_rogers
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What y'all think about about offseason week and season long gc meta?
Is the same gc meta over the entire season a pro player move or anti player move?
What do y'all think about the next meta?
More info here
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/371961/season-20-introducing-off-seasons#latest
Is the same gc meta over the entire season a pro player move or anti player move?
What do y'all think about the next meta?
More info here
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/371961/season-20-introducing-off-seasons#latest
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Gonna spam it when I stomp Cavs and TBs 😋
I hate having the same node set for a whole season. It will become very boring IMO. I think it’s a mix of pro player and anti player. At least in my circles, most of us liked the old 4 meta more than the 2. Now it’s just 1? As already mentioned, if it’s a bad meta, it will be a long boring season.
2. I personally don't care about it, I don't have an issue with those who do but I couldn't care less.
Should go back to the “SIMILAR STRENGTH ROSTER” method, for Off-season.
That would allow ACTUAL practice against someone.
(instead of 80% of your matches being meaningless “Forfeits” by one side or the other)
Also, would be similar to the recent calls for an alternate mode of Matching, more of a practice style, even if it is not in the Rewards Track.
**So that people can play it for fun, and have an actual fair matchup.
(and now we have an Off-Season mode in which Kabam can reinstate that “Fair Matching”)
There isn’t the same advancing up a track, so it doesn’t matter that lower people might win 50% of their matches in an Off-Season, same as that Valient people might win only 50% of their matches.
And in fact would be better to call it **PRE-SEASON** instead of Off-Season.
In major sports leagues, PRE-SEASON is always termed to be along with the upcoming season that follows it.
So this new season is 20.
Then a PRE-Season for 21, followed by the actual Season for 21.
(both would have the same Buff Meta, 1st as a practice, followed by the actual competition).
*fyi, for those that didn’t read announcement, their plan was to call upcoming Season 20, followed by Off-Season to also be called 20 (which makes no sense).
@Kabam Crashed
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Change them to PRE-Seasons.
The changes also removes the importance of the final meta since the first one was just there, but the last one was the important one to know for pushing in GC.
I have two hopes for it tho,
First is that i hope they go to similar roster strength, doubt someone would sandbag on a non competitive mode that has nothing to gain.
Secondly, i don’t think it’s gonna be how they will do it this season, but would love if off season was a separate queue from regular battleground during on season. It’s just a fun side game mode that doesn’t require any stress, just fun. However it probably depends if the time spent on working on the separate queue will be reflected on participation, because if barely anyone participates in casual queue then there isn’t a point on coding it in.
Other then that i will definitely play off season as i love the bg structure.
Can’t argue with the team’s logic about resource management, that part is definitely pro-player. Also the ability to maximize understanding of a node set and practice execution of it prior to the start of the season is going to make for quite the interesting competition.
I do worry though that part of what made the mode successful was the dynamic strategy of shifting metas. And these changes completely kill that, which could end up with the mode becoming stale and boring.
This will be great!
But as an only fun game, maybe without expent energy would be better
Guess an alternative during Pre-Season could be Matching within your FINAL TIER where you finished the just-completed season at.
That at least should narrow down who you'd face.
Point being, if there are no ranking rewards involved, why not make it more evenly matched so people could enjoy it. And actually get comparable TESTING done during Pre-season. Instead of wasting 5 energy each and hoping that 1 out of every 5 matches might be worthwhile continuing instead of just Forfeits all over the place like took place during this past season.
Whereas during actual Season, YES, you would want there to be more wins by higher players.