Alliance Wars Season 3 Discussion Thread

Kabam Miike · 2018-06-27T18:00:22+00:00

<span style="color:darkorange">Summoners! We've just posted a list of Adjustments coming to Alliance Wars Season 3. <a href="http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/77098/alliance-wars-season-3-start-date-and-adjusments/" rel="nofollow">Check out the post here.</a> You've probably got questions, so ask…

Kabam Miike

Summoners! We've just posted a list of Adjustments coming to Alliance Wars Season 3. Check out the post here. You've probably got questions, so ask away!

Remember, Season 3 starts on July 11th!

UPDATE: Summoners,

As many of you have reported, we are currently experiencing some unexpected hardware and software issues. This is causing many of you to experience limited access to the game, as well as sub par performance in game.

While we continue to investigate the issues and identify solutions, we will be delaying the start of Alliance Wars Season 3.

At this time, we do not have a timeline for when we will be launching Season 3, but want to ensure that we have time to work to resolve any interactions that are causing problems on iOS devices before starting the next competitive season.

We apologize for the delay, and appreciate your patience. We will update you all as soon as we have more information on these issues.

Comments

Slickpetey

Like many others, I’m unhappy that I had to rank up champs for diversity only to have them rendered useless now. I would never have ranked up Storm, Magneto, etc for defence over my 5*Spiderman, Nightcrawler, etc.

I see that “diversity” might come back but it doesn’t change the fact that I was forced to spend resources on Champions I had no interest in ranking up.

Now I get to rank up my Spider-Man. In 4 weeks will diversity come back and force me to bench him?

PP85

@Kabam Miike will you consider offering rank down tickets in relation to decisions made on the back of defender diversity?

Animejay70

There should be rank down tickets because a lot of us ranked champs for the SOLE reason of diversity!

TheRealApoc

Everyone will just place lower rated defenders to bypass the pay to win scenario. I've seen videos of people using one stars.

Riegel

Kabam Miike wrote: »

ASV27 wrote: »

Kabam Miike wrote: »

ASV27 wrote: »

like the shorter season but the price to complete the maps just quadrupled. No more free fights and harder nodes.

So, with the exception of those Nodes on Challenger and Expert that we mentioned, we haven't made any other nodes harder. The new Nodes are meant to make things more difficult, but will also be visible from the get go, so Attackers are able to bring in champions to specifically counter whatever Champion they see there.

Removing diversity is much more important than the new nodes. There's gonna be 10+ IMIWs and Dorms on every map. I get why you did it, but it just stinks for the players.

I don't think anybody wants to place 10 Dormammu on a Map anymore... The Meta has shifted quite a bit since Diversity was introduced, and some of the former best Defenders have met their match now. Others may seem difficult right now, but Players have already started to find the counters needed for them! This will continue to happen in cycles, because that's just the nature of a game like this!

So poop man. People will only place he defenders most likely to get a kill that means every alliance will move toward 10 IM IW, dorm, MS, domino, Medusa. That is a fact. It’s so sad to see this happening.

Mr_Platypus

Slickpetey wrote: »

Like many others, I’m unhappy that I had to rank up champs for diversity only to have them rendered useless now. I would never have ranked up Storm, Magneto, etc for defence over my 5*Spiderman, Nightcrawler, etc.

I see that “diversity” might come back but it doesn’t change the fact that I was forced to spend resources on Champions I had no interest in ranking up.

Now I get to rank up my Spider-Man. In 4 weeks will diversity come back and force me to bench him?

They added diversity just as I reached a point where I could rank up champs purely for defence, so my roster is now worthless lol, I’ll be struggling to find a half competent alliance should my current one decide they need stronger defence

VanillaCoke

4 weeks still feels a bit too short (5 weeks sounds better), which may cause as much stress as 8 weeks because now ALL 12 wars will count towards your placement UNLESS the scoring has changed in some way. I also feel that a 3 week would be much better (if we did do a 5 week season) because it would give us much more time to rack up on alliance potions, revives, units, boosts, etc. Please consider this for next season.

TheRealApoc

PP85 wrote: »

@Kabam Miike will you consider offering rank down tickets in relation to decisions made on the back of defender diversity?

Hard NO! and if they did, you wouldn't' get Gold back like the last time....

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Grønner

Hey Kabam. I really enjoyed taking HOWARD THE DUCK to r4 for diversity reasons, instead of MS, Medusa or Modok that my BG already had at r4 in defense. This is worse than 12.0.

TheRealApoc

Should change that qualifier 5 wars thing.

ASV27

Also, you have the time to upgrade the nodes, please update the rewards and war crystals. At least give us something to look forward to.

VanillaCoke

@Kabam Miike do you mind explaining Aspect of Evolution again please?

DukeZman

NinjAlan wrote: »

To be clear, when the community referenced "spreadsheet wars" these were defined when wars had no defender kills, no attacker bonuses, and p.i. Impacted score. Further proof that kabam is completely out of touch with its player base.

I think he's referring to having to make constantly updating spreadsheets of who has what champ with what sig level to squeeze the most out of diversity. That was a huge pain. As an alliance leader, I don't want to spend all my time coordinating to the point where I barely get to touch the game.

oPaylowo

Now that you guys have removed diversity, will you be issuing rank down tickets? People have spent a ton of difficult to obtain resource ranking up less desirable champions in the best interest of diversity. Now with the return of Mystic and Autoblock wars for season 3, I would like to be given the option to modify my roster based on the FUNDAMENTAL change you are deciding to make to alliance wars.

grud9e

It's disheartening to read the mod's responses to some questions, but not the constructive feedback the majority is voicing.

Does constructive feedback have to be only positive?

Zuko_ILC

Many people ranked up certain champs because you implemented diversity, now you are removing it therefore those champs have lost their value significantly and wouldn't have been ranked up. Will we be receiving rank down tickets?

Also another increase in difficulty? This makes me say Plat3 ally is good enough for me, I'm tired of spending more and more and getting less rewards for increased spending.

Another ball dropped by Kabam in my opinion.

Reevesy01

I'm so glad i've decided to go solo after season 2, absolute **** show now Kabam aren't even hiding the fact that all they want you to do is empty your bank accounts, even alledged cheating doesn't matter long as you keep dropping the odins.

JRock808

TheRealApoc wrote: »

PP85 wrote: »

@Kabam Miike will you consider offering rank down tickets in relation to decisions made on the back of defender diversity?

Hard NO! and if they did, you wouldn't' get Gold back like the last time....

Could care less about the gold, or the iso. Just give me my t2a back.

Tacopaco

Is there possibly a disconnect here?

Gamer

And @Kabam Miike what with Them ther get kick rigth berfor the wars ends thah bs. For Them

Fabi1989

Make more Money and bring the best (Ironie) Alliance back to #1

Shivamrajak124

Guys I am so excites for next season but Mr.mike can you reward ultimate crystal in next update of july

Animejay70

Riegel wrote: »

Kabam Miike wrote: »

ASV27 wrote: »

Kabam Miike wrote: »

ASV27 wrote: »

like the shorter season but the price to complete the maps just quadrupled. No more free fights and harder nodes.

So, with the exception of those Nodes on Challenger and Expert that we mentioned, we haven't made any other nodes harder. The new Nodes are meant to make things more difficult, but will also be visible from the get go, so Attackers are able to bring in champions to specifically counter whatever Champion they see there.

Removing diversity is much more important than the new nodes. There's gonna be 10+ IMIWs and Dorms on every map. I get why you did it, but it just stinks for the players.

I don't think anybody wants to place 10 Dormammu on a Map anymore... The Meta has shifted quite a bit since Diversity was introduced, and some of the former best Defenders have met their match now. Others may seem difficult right now, but Players have already started to find the counters needed for them! This will continue to happen in cycles, because that's just the nature of a game like this!

So poop man. People will only place he defenders most likely to get a kill that means every alliance will move toward 10 IM IW, dorm, MS, domino, Medusa. That is a fact. It’s so sad to see this happening.

Yes. it's totally absurd. all the gold and cats we wasted ranking up champs for diversity too!

YoMoves

Kabam Miike wrote: »

ASV27 wrote: »

Kabam Miike wrote: »

ASV27 wrote: »

like the shorter season but the price to complete the maps just quadrupled. No more free fights and harder nodes.

So, with the exception of those Nodes on Challenger and Expert that we mentioned, we haven't made any other nodes harder. The new Nodes are meant to make things more difficult, but will also be visible from the get go, so Attackers are able to bring in champions to specifically counter whatever Champion they see there.

Removing diversity is much more important than the new nodes. There's gonna be 10+ IMIWs and Dorms on every map. I get why you did it, but it just stinks for the players.

I don't think anybody wants to place 10 Dormammu on a Map anymore... The Meta has shifted quite a bit since Diversity was introduced, and some of the former best Defenders have met their match now. Others may seem difficult right now, but Players have already started to find the counters needed for them! This will continue to happen in cycles, because that's just the nature of a game like this!

Maybe I'm a little bit behind, but here's the problem...

Why couldn't we just place 1 of the worst defender on every lane now? Put it in a position where even if these champions have counters, it'd be literally impossible to bring ALL of them, meaning you're screwed one way or another. This idea has 'cash grab' written all over it.

Couldn't you, you know, ask for feedback from the summoners before you make a change like this...?

The_One

War challenger and war Victor crystals are garbage and need a huge upgrade in rewards

mutamatt

shorten season great, there was already a lot of pressure on players to perform flawlessly. This change in scoring means that there will be much more pressure on players to not only perform flawlessly, but to drain their item stash to keep up if they hit a road block. we already don't want to let our alliance mates down.

This is NOT a good change for the players.

Riegel

Kabam you need to hire someone who plays this game for real. It’s sad seeing so many things that no one wants keep getting pushed on us.

Stewman

I am at a loss for words.

Horror_punk

Are you adding Defender kills points again like in old wars?