Dev Diary Update - 15th August - Let be Frank

So summary:-

* One Difficulty MEQ = lost of 600 units

* Units moved from Alliance Event into Daily Quests = Now cost energy for the same units

* Removed Energy Refills from Alliance Event (apparently because we don't need as much), but Daily Quest is now essentially compulsory = Not getting Energy Refills but need to use more energy.

* Prestige is now 30 instead of 10 = More unnecessary chase, rank up, awaken and sigs...until a new champ with the higher prestige is released.

* Sales event every single months = Whale, Shark, Tuna, Scrimp, Plankton all getting a bit tired and over milked.

* New relics, new crystals, but old crystals and shards are still part of rewards = players confusion.

* Game load with 3 Wave icon = extra time to admire the Screen poster, but wasting players lot of time and frustration

* AI is chaotic, recover from SP & Heavy extremely fast, Parry very well and love jeeking in the corner 🤣 = frustrating gameplay

*Forum broken (again) = perfect time to realise bad news and go under the radar

Apparently Kabam listen to the players feedback, but continue to make changes that make players feel disconnected, discontent and disengaged.

Where do we go from here?

Comments

Chuck_Finley

The 600 units is either the biggest communication blunder ever (tell us where they are going) or intentionally left out because they plan to not return them.

40k unit sales events and stripping away units is no bueno. Someone didn’t think it was worth mentioning that a ton of players would be questioning this?

SirGamesBond

Sorry for being lazy! It's kinda hard to browse around the site.

Cam someone please link the dev post!

Gracias.

Anotherconcernplayer

Hi @SirGamesBond ,

I meant to include the link but forgot:-

Here it is:-

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/401347/dev-diary-questing-prestige-and-alliance-updates

ahmynuts

The real frank would have started this post with "let me tell you something"

SirGamesBond

Thank you.

They shot this gun from pinwheel's shoulder 💁‍♂️

Furrymoosen

Every decision Kabam is making just straight up sucks right now, and has for some time. A couple cool things have snuck their way through, but overall their choices as a company and their ability to communicate those choices absolutely sucks.

The prestige move is awful for anyone that doesn't buy out every single sales. The EQ move is awful if those units aren't as easily accessible elsewhere. The game consistently has the worst loading and stalling times I've seen in my entire time playing it because of whatever they do each update.

Why does so much have to be so bad? Why am I sitting here remembering how good we had it when a facelift to the website was a "big reveal"? Think about the fact that that big reveal happened just 8 months ago and the game is in such a horrific state in comparison, both from a playability standpoint and a decision making standpoint.

2025 has proven that all Kabam does with player feedback is throw it straight into the trash and just do whatever they want. They are far and away the most tone deaf they have ever been, and we're all just here hoping and praying that finally something gets through to them about the awful direction they're heading.

BigBlueOx

this is by far the worst year I can recall for a corporate deafness.

Tony886

Not sure what to think about upcoming rebirth event already many things got delayed and as of now new this are getting introduced with tons of features and bugs.

Did they downsize the team and fire the testers how can there be so many bugs or coming is saving cost by downsizing the team 😤