**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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The devs don't deliberately aim champions to be "god tier" or "meme tier." They aim them all at the same general level of overall performance. Circumstantially, no champion ever lands on the bullseye, and they don't spend time trying to make any of them perfect. Any champion that lands within a radius of tolerance around the bullseye is "close enough" and they move on. It would be nice if that radius was a bit smaller, but that's neither here nor there.
No one decides that Sentry is going to be weak and Blade is going to be strong. They decide that Blade and Sentry are going to be different from the previously existing champs, and sometimes those differences work out better than others. But they can't, and really shouldn't, be putting their fingers on the scales to make the champs that "should be" god tier into more powerful champs than everything else. It is hard enough putting every champion in the same zip code.
You say "If you can give a viable reason why this is the case I would love to hear it, and game balancing isn't it because you can balance the game and still do the characters justice and if the game was balanced every champ would be exactly the same power level." But that is the only answer the game devs can possibly give you, because how game developers "balance" games is not anything remotely resembling what you seem to be implying. There is no other answer, so if that answer can't satisfy you, no answer can.
So if Silver Surfer "should be" better, which champ would you make worse in exchange?
When googling the definition of hype this is what comes up
extravagant or intensive publicity or promotion
This is exactly what was done all year long.....
Now what I think you are meaning to say is kabam never stated he would be the best champion ever to come to the game and I will agree with that.
I'm not out to defend anything, but I am going to disagree with you here. We have barely done any promotion until this month (which is no more than any other Champion) so it was definitely not extravagant or intensive.
This is going to come down to a matter of opinions, because what I see as Hyping, and what you see it as might be different, but we're not going to stop making narrative choices that propel our story forward in the fear of "over hyping" anything.
He hits a sufficient number of the Silver Surfer characteristics for me. Power Cosmic mechanic with purposing for different effects, check. Abilities alluding to resistance to the heat and cold of space, check. Energy based attacker with very high energy resistance, check. I would have liked a wider variety of effects as seen in Carnage and VtD to showcase the versatility of the Power Cosmic and maybe bleed resistance by way of greatly reduced duration with a buff penalty or something similar.
If I had 5 or 6 star Doom, I would be more excited as that synergy is sick for him. That being said, he’s not the one I’m waiting for. I’m hoping Nova being a fan favorite but pretty undefined lets the team get loose like they did with Blade, Hyperion, Stark Spidey, Doc Ock, and KG (way underrated). Probably Nova should have the lowest prestige in the game to really highlight the purity of his design without banalities like sky-high prestige artificially driving interest. Just let his abilities speak for themselves and challenge the narrative by making his prestige the lowest. Low prestige. Lower than that.
If your sprints are well in advance of release, you should have plenty of time to test.
We know you check the stats, so there must be some reason why some champs are so poor when they go live. Carnage, Red Skull, Sentry......
However, I understand some of the guys' disappointment above. Silver Surfer was something being mentioned a year ago. Just like Thanos appearance in the 1st Avengers movie, it is reasonable for players to expect his "god tier" capability especially given his power is coming from Galactus. (I know some players will say MCOC is another universe, neither MCU nor Comic. I know.).
I think Surfer is still above average champ even though some players link him to Sentry. Frankly I'm quite ok with his current performance. If Kabam really made him too beyond god tier, then there would be another group of players complaining its a "cash grab" EQ and I don't want Kabam "rebalance" him after few months when players spent money to pull him.
Of course we'd like him to beyond God tier but that's our expectations for every champ.