New Experimental War Season started with ZERO WARNING! WTH Kabam?

New Experimental War Season started with ZERO WARNING! WTH Kabam?

Seriously!?? NO announcements, that I've seen! And sorry, I don't have time to watch Kabam Stream TV, so if KabamMike or whoever announced this Shite... I missed it.

9 Year Player here & I've seen serious Fuster-Clucks by Kabam...

But this... TBD-abomination/accident screws with my LT-strategy for Ranking Up War Defenders...

Screws with MY Gametime...

And just seems like an Ambush in how it has been executed!
Even now, with maybe 3 hours notice, Kabam changed the Map and my Alliance has 4 Defenders TOTAL... and not the 30 we had when I checked Placement first thing THIS MORNING!

The Execution of this was... ... ... (really trying not to Swear here)... ... (still trying!)...
... a Nucking Futz Fuster Cluck!
Damn... that is the 'kindest' I can manage!

Sigh... do Better Kabam

Comments

ahmynuts

How about. Sigh... do better "name too incomprehensible to spell." This was announced in multiple places way ahead of time. Just because you somehow managed to dodge it doesn't mean it wasn't announced

Herbal_Taxman

Yeah, it was announced. But the rollout was still a mess.

MrSakuragi

The war season hasn’t started

SummonerNR

Yes, the new shortened map was not in place at the same time as the game “truncated” your defenders from 5 down to 1.

And maybe something will be done with this first off-season war, giving people time to straighten out defense over next couple days (not sure if that will happen, but probably at least would be making sure WarRatings stay frozen or don’t count).

But “Zero Warning” ??

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/394292/alliance-war-season-58-a-big-thing-full-breakdown#latest

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/394265/alliance-war-season-58-announcement/p1

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/394268/stream-recap-may-2-2025#latest (no, you didn’t have to watch the actual stream, to be able to read the stream recap)

And from the Website, which probably has those announcements available to click from directly inside game (from the megaphone announcements icon)

https://playcontestofchampions.com/news/alliance-war-season-58/
and
https://playcontestofchampions.com/news/may-2nd-livestream-summary/

Qwerty12345

It's not.zero warning.. butnshould have had a full off day tonket people place to new map not 30 minutes

Herbal_Taxman

And… my war is complete. ~11M health is less than 60 seconds.

Not even arguing it’s good or bad, just that it’s certainly odd from a design perspective.

Baseballs14d

I can’t believe this is what we have to put up with all season.

Basically raids and BTG having a baby and fastest team wins.

This is not war, this is one of the worst ideas kabam has had.

TotemCorruption

Is there actual radiance on the line this season?

Baseballs14d

Is there actual radiance on the line this season?

Yes which is what is going to force us to play it season, or is just tell my alliance to chill.

TotemCorruption

Is there actual radiance on the line this season?
Yes which is what is going to force us to play it season, or is just tell my alliance to chill.

Ok, thanks.
I like my gold alliance because it's chill and I don't have to do AW or AQ, but if radiance is on the line, I might have to find a new alliance that cares.

Cap_Murica

I'm actually loving this new format. 5 minutes and I'm done with war!!!

Vendemiaire

Don't roast the OP. He wants Kabam to visit his house for the announcement.

Buttehrs

What? First off, it was announced like 2 weeks both in game and on forums. Secondly, it's the off-season atm so it's not a big deal. Thirdly, it's for one season only. You'll be fine. I promise.

Kabam (Osaurus) Rex

Don't roast the OP. He wants Kabam to visit his house for the announcement.

@Vendemiaire You stole my joke

Average_Desi

Don't roast the OP. He wants Kabam to visit his house for the announcement.
Vendemiaire You stole my joke

It it came from a dev, it would be less a joke and more or a threat

Kabam (Osaurus) Rex

Don't roast the OP. He wants Kabam to visit his house for the announcement.
Vendemiaire You stole my joke
It it came from a dev, it would be less a joke and more or a threat

POV: me at everyone's house dropping the news

Bigsteve124

New war set up is trash. If this is the normal i quit, absolutely should fire whoever thought this one up.

Chiicc

New war set up is trash. If this is the normal i quit, absolutely should fire whoever thought this one up.

It’s not normal they stated and I quote “we have zero intention of removing old alliance war format but are introducing for one Season an experimental mode….”

Kwizatzhaderach77

Yes, the new shortened map was not in place at the same time as the game “truncated” your defenders from 5 down to 1.

And maybe something will be done with this first off-season war, giving people time to straighten out defense over next couple days (not sure if that will happen, but probably at least would be making sure WarRatings stay frozen or don’t count).

But “Zero Warning” ??

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/394292/alliance-war-season-58-a-big-thing-full-breakdown#latest

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/394265/alliance-war-season-58-announcement/p1

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/394268/stream-recap-may-2-2025#latest (no, you didn’t have to watch the actual stream, to be able to read the stream recap)

And from the Website, which probably has those announcements available to click from directly inside game (from the megaphone announcements icon)

https://playcontestofchampions.com/news/alliance-war-season-58/
and
https://playcontestofchampions.com/news/may-2nd-livestream-summary/

I don't 'live' for MCOC. I don't frequent Forums (this is the 1st time I've been here this Calender Year.), and I don't watch Videos to play a game I get to in my very rare spare time!

I didn't "See" Alerts or Mail detailing a Radical Change to Wars... obviously this is a whole New Format different from almost a decade of fairly straightforward Wars with specialized Nodes and NO GIMMICKS beyond a 3min Boost here and there.

****... obviously a lotta folks here have more time for this Game than I do.

I'm not a Whale who pours $$$ into this game but Knowing when a Basic Component like Wars is about to be Radically changed into an elementally Completely New Game... seemed like a Good Reason to post here on Forums!

This Sucks cuz I have spent Years building up my Roster and Alliance...

But I am a Casual FTP Player not spending $25-100 a month on a Game!

This 'Change' came outta nowhere to the Casual Player... like Me and at least half my Alliance..

And it ticked me off enuf to Complain!

Now I know Kabam doesn't realize how Crappy rollouts like this... will Kill the joy some folks get from what was a fairly straightforward Game!

Excelsior Y'all!

Nuff Said.

Pikolu

Yes, the new shortened map was not in place at the same time as the game “truncated” your defenders from 5 down to 1.

And maybe something will be done with this first off-season war, giving people time to straighten out defense over next couple days (not sure if that will happen, but probably at least would be making sure WarRatings stay frozen or don’t count).

But “Zero Warning” ??

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/394292/alliance-war-season-58-a-big-thing-full-breakdown#latest

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/394265/alliance-war-season-58-announcement/p1

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/394268/stream-recap-may-2-2025#latest (no, you didn’t have to watch the actual stream, to be able to read the stream recap)

And from the Website, which probably has those announcements available to click from directly inside game (from the megaphone announcements icon)

https://playcontestofchampions.com/news/alliance-war-season-58/
and
https://playcontestofchampions.com/news/may-2nd-livestream-summary/
I don't 'live' for MCOC. I don't frequent Forums (this is the 1st time I've been here this Calender Year.), and I don't watch Videos to play a game I get to in my very rare spare time!

I didn't "See" Alerts or Mail detailing a Radical Change to Wars... obviously this is a whole New Format different from almost a decade of fairly straightforward Wars with specialized Nodes and NO GIMMICKS beyond a 3min Boost here and there.

****... obviously a lotta folks here have more time for this Game than I do.

I'm not a Whale who pours $$$ into this game but Knowing when a Basic Component like Wars is about to be Radically changed into an elementally Completely New Game... seemed like a Good Reason to post here on Forums!

This Sucks cuz I have spent Years building up my Roster and Alliance...

But I am a Casual FTP Player not spending $25-100 a month on a Game!

This 'Change' came outta nowhere to the Casual Player... like Me and at least half my Alliance..

And it ticked me off enuf to Complain!

Now I know Kabam doesn't realize how Crappy rollouts like this... will Kill the joy some folks get from what was a fairly straightforward Game!

Excelsior Y'all!

Nuff Said.

Yeah, I'm going to close this down if that's how you're going to react. War will go back to its normal boring self in a month anyways, so no need to throw a tantrum about it.

It is okay to be uninformed, but it isn't okay to lash out at people informing you that there was information put out about this.