Can you no longer reverse power gain?

SpideyFunko · July 2021

From the patch notes
is this for power gain as a whole or certain nodes?

BitterSteel · July 2021

“Certain situations” is vague even for patch notes. That being said, I’d be so incredibly shocked if Kabam suddenly changed such an important interaction in the game. Hopefully this gets cleared up soon

Mr_Platypus · July 2021

They might as well clarify what it’s supposed to mean, if it does stop champs like Void reversing powergain then there’s no point hiding, people will find out within minutes of the update going live.

Lvernon15 · July 2021

Yeah I’m confused with this also, if it’s something like void reversing power gain and they’re stopping that, why? Hopefully it’s just some niche thing where you’re not meant to reverse and you could

CoatHang3r · July 2021

Reversing power gain effects are abilites within the game, they aren’t going to change that.

This is likely about interactions where combat power rate is reversed like in AW section 2 path 2 where your combat power rate can become inverted.

AverageDesi · July 2021

what about petrifies reversing power gain even with power manipulation immunity? maybe that?

Eb0ny-O-M4w · July 2021

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/274902/v32-1-power-gain-change#latest

Ercarret · July 2021

I can't imagine it having to do with players using champs like Void to reverse power gain. That has been a staple of the champion for years.

That being said, there may have been other instances where power gain reversal was a bit more unintended. I know that Angela can put an absolute **** ton of armor breaks in certain situations (such as this week's SOP and some Icarus lanes in Act 6). Maybe that, coupled with the Despair mastery, allowed her to easily reverse her opponent's power gain when that is not really something her kit should allow her to do? I dunno.

But if there's just some complete ban of power reversal, things are going to get...interesting. It would be like removing the ability to heal block champions with regen.

Masterpuff · July 2021

This is vague even for Kabam.

SpideyFunko · July 2021

Eb0ny-O-M4w said:
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/274902/v32-1-power-gain-change#latest

I searched up power gain before making this thread and didn’t see it, my bad

SirGamesBond · July 2021

Can someone link me to patch notes.
But why can't I find them?

SpideyFunko · July 2021

SirGamesBond said:
Can someone link me to patch notes.
But why can't I find them?

https://playcontestofchampions.com/v32-1-release-notes/

BitterSteel · July 2021

Dissapointed said:
When they say negative power they probably mean lower then 0 bars of power. If it was otherwise they should have said reversed

But it doesn’t say negative power, it says negative power gain. As in the power gain no longer is positive and going up, it’s now negative.

SummonerNR · July 2021

BitterSteel said:

Dissapointed said:
When they say negative power they probably mean lower then 0 bars of power. If it was otherwise they should have said reversed
But it doesn’t say negative power, it says negative power gain. As in the power gain no longer is positive and going up, it’s now negative.

It also doesn’t say “negative power gain” either.

If you consider power gain as being able to be positive or negative, and that another way of saying negative power gain would be to say “power drain”. Now apply that and see if this makes more sense…

“Power Drain was able to go into the Negatives”. That would make it sound not that the gain/drain rate was going negative, but that the end result (the Power Meter) is what was able to go Negative.

Not sure that is what they meant, but is another way of interpreting their statement.

BitterSteel · July 2021

SummonerNR said:

BitterSteel said:

Dissapointed said:
When they say negative power they probably mean lower then 0 bars of power. If it was otherwise they should have said reversed
But it doesn’t say negative power, it says negative power gain. As in the power gain no longer is positive and going up, it’s now negative.
It also doesn’t say “negative power gain” either.

If you consider power gain as being able to be positive or negative, and that another way of saying negative power gain would be to say “power drain”. Now apply that and see if this makes more sense…

“Power Drain was able to go into the Negatives”. That would make it sound not that the gain/drain rate was going negative, but that the end result (the Power Meter) is what was able to go Negative.

Not sure that is what they meant, but is another way of interpreting their statement.

I was correcting the use of power vs power gain

Crys23 · July 2021

I bet this will cause additional bugs, some unintended interaction they didnt forsee and the us, the community, will have to point them out.

DNA3000 · July 2021

I've been told the patch notes should have read Combat Power Gain, not just Power Gain.

Combat Power Gain, for players who aren't familiar with the term, is the power you gain when you hit the opponent or are hit by the opponent. Combat Power Gain is never supposed to go negative, it is supposed to floor at zero. In other words, you should never be able to debuff combat power gain to the point where hitting the target costs you energy instead of gaining it. Apparently Combat Power Gain did not have a floor, so things that debuffed Combat Power Gain could cause it to go negative and have attacks subtract power instead of gain power (or zero out to no power).

Mr. Negative, for example, can reduce Defensive Combat Power Gain by 60%. If there's some other interaction going on, you could end up with Defensive Combat Power Gain rate below zero, which would mean every time Mr. Negative struck a target they would lose power instead of gain power. Needless to say, this opens the door to all sorts of potential exploits.

ItsDamien · July 2021

DNA3000 said:
I've been told the patch notes should have read Combat Power Gain, not just Power Gain.

Combat Power Gain, for players who aren't familiar with the term, is the power you gain when you hit the opponent or are hit by the opponent. Combat Power Gain is never supposed to go negative, it is supposed to floor at zero. In other words, you should never be able to debuff combat power gain to the point where hitting the target costs you energy instead of gaining it. Apparently Combat Power Gain did not have a floor, so things that debuffed Combat Power Gain could cause it to go negative and have attacks subtract power instead of gain power (or zero out to no power).

Mr. Negative, for example, can reduce Defensive Combat Power Gain by 60%. If there's some other interaction going on, you could end up with Defensive Combat Power Gain rate below zero, which would mean every time Mr. Negative struck a target they would lose power instead of gain power. Needless to say, this opens the door to all sorts of potential exploits.

See while this is good to hear, this is something that should really be coming from an employee. Not a fellow forum user.

TheBair123 · July 2021

Eb0ny-O-M4w said:
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/274902/v32-1-power-gain-change#latest

Spunko out here trying to take my imaginary forum points

SpideyFunko · July 2021

TheBair123 said:

Eb0ny-O-M4w said:
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/274902/v32-1-power-gain-change#latest
Spunko out here trying to take my imaginary forum points

i needs them

TheBair123 · July 2021

SpideyFunko said:

TheBair123 said:

Eb0ny-O-M4w said:
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/274902/v32-1-power-gain-change#latest
Spunko out here trying to take my imaginary forum points
i needs them

I hear that if you get 50K you get miike’s job

DNA3000 · July 2021

ItsDamien said:

DNA3000 said:
I've been told the patch notes should have read Combat Power Gain, not just Power Gain.

Combat Power Gain, for players who aren't familiar with the term, is the power you gain when you hit the opponent or are hit by the opponent. Combat Power Gain is never supposed to go negative, it is supposed to floor at zero. In other words, you should never be able to debuff combat power gain to the point where hitting the target costs you energy instead of gaining it. Apparently Combat Power Gain did not have a floor, so things that debuffed Combat Power Gain could cause it to go negative and have attacks subtract power instead of gain power (or zero out to no power).

Mr. Negative, for example, can reduce Defensive Combat Power Gain by 60%. If there's some other interaction going on, you could end up with Defensive Combat Power Gain rate below zero, which would mean every time Mr. Negative struck a target they would lose power instead of gain power. Needless to say, this opens the door to all sorts of potential exploits.
See while this is good to hear, this is something that should really be coming from an employee. Not a fellow forum user.

I agree, but I thought I would mention it once I discovered this so people wouldn't panic over the weekend about Void not working anymore or something.

SpideyFunko · July 2021

TheBair123 said:

SpideyFunko said:

TheBair123 said:

Eb0ny-O-M4w said:
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/274902/v32-1-power-gain-change#latest
Spunko out here trying to take my imaginary forum points
i needs them
I hear that if you get 50K you get miike’s job

gotta pass him first

Malreck04 · July 2021

Thanks to DNA for the clarification, but I thought this would be another PsychoMan situation where they were taking away Chavez's heavy chain/power reversal.

DarkEternity · July 2021

DNA3000 said:
I've been told the patch notes should have read Combat Power Gain, not just Power Gain.

Combat Power Gain, for players who aren't familiar with the term, is the power you gain when you hit the opponent or are hit by the opponent. Combat Power Gain is never supposed to go negative, it is supposed to floor at zero. In other words, you should never be able to debuff combat power gain to the point where hitting the target costs you energy instead of gaining it. Apparently Combat Power Gain did not have a floor, so things that debuffed Combat Power Gain could cause it to go negative and have attacks subtract power instead of gain power (or zero out to no power).

Mr. Negative, for example, can reduce Defensive Combat Power Gain by 60%. If there's some other interaction going on, you could end up with Defensive Combat Power Gain rate below zero, which would mean every time Mr. Negative struck a target they would lose power instead of gain power. Needless to say, this opens the door to all sorts of potential exploits.

@DNA3000 Something like this happens with Beast where he can reduce defensive power rate by -105%

BitterSteel · July 2021

DNA3000 said:
I've been told the patch notes should have read Combat Power Gain, not just Power Gain.

Combat Power Gain, for players who aren't familiar with the term, is the power you gain when you hit the opponent or are hit by the opponent. Combat Power Gain is never supposed to go negative, it is supposed to floor at zero. In other words, you should never be able to debuff combat power gain to the point where hitting the target costs you energy instead of gaining it. Apparently Combat Power Gain did not have a floor, so things that debuffed Combat Power Gain could cause it to go negative and have attacks subtract power instead of gain power (or zero out to no power).

Mr. Negative, for example, can reduce Defensive Combat Power Gain by 60%. If there's some other interaction going on, you could end up with Defensive Combat Power Gain rate below zero, which would mean every time Mr. Negative struck a target they would lose power instead of gain power. Needless to say, this opens the door to all sorts of potential exploits.

What about the Aw node where if you don’t use a special you get a combat power rate debuff and that can drain your power when you get enough? Is that the sort of situation you mean?

Onmix · July 2021

DNA3000 said:

ItsDamien said:

DNA3000 said:
I've been told the patch notes should have read Combat Power Gain, not just Power Gain.

Combat Power Gain, for players who aren't familiar with the term, is the power you gain when you hit the opponent or are hit by the opponent. Combat Power Gain is never supposed to go negative, it is supposed to floor at zero. In other words, you should never be able to debuff combat power gain to the point where hitting the target costs you energy instead of gaining it. Apparently Combat Power Gain did not have a floor, so things that debuffed Combat Power Gain could cause it to go negative and have attacks subtract power instead of gain power (or zero out to no power).

Mr. Negative, for example, can reduce Defensive Combat Power Gain by 60%. If there's some other interaction going on, you could end up with Defensive Combat Power Gain rate below zero, which would mean every time Mr. Negative struck a target they would lose power instead of gain power. Needless to say, this opens the door to all sorts of potential exploits.
See while this is good to hear, this is something that should really be coming from an employee. Not a fellow forum user.
I agree, but I thought I would mention it once I discovered this so people wouldn't panic over the weekend about Void not working anymore or something.

Well lol that was obviously the first thought me and my alliance had.
I hope you’re correct and we get a mod to ask ser this soon

Can you no longer reverse power gain?

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