Prof Hoff is right
RuneKingThor
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Todays prof hoff video about the daily Cav deal is shining a spotlight on a singular part of a much bigger issue. Cavalier level players have been getting the shaft on rewards, deals, shards, rank up materials etc etc for a long time now. Literally ever aspect of the game. It’s so far disconnected from our actual progression status in game and essentially does nothing to help us achieve thronebreaker.
I could have achieved TB a while back, but unfortunately I am one of those who has been affected by the input drop bug. I waited patiently for this to get fixed so I wouldn’t have to dump units on potions and revives. Not sure why I expected and hoped for the best but I did. Well, then comes the announcement about their “fix” or “answer” and it is screen resolution… smdh I’m on an iPhone 11 Pro, I’m highly doubting my phone is the issue here… I guess the general gist of this post is that I am and have been feeling very disconnected from this game as of late. What I expect of and want from this game seems so different from the direction it’s headed in.
What do you all think? Legitimate gripes or am I just being an idiot?
I could have achieved TB a while back, but unfortunately I am one of those who has been affected by the input drop bug. I waited patiently for this to get fixed so I wouldn’t have to dump units on potions and revives. Not sure why I expected and hoped for the best but I did. Well, then comes the announcement about their “fix” or “answer” and it is screen resolution… smdh I’m on an iPhone 11 Pro, I’m highly doubting my phone is the issue here… I guess the general gist of this post is that I am and have been feeling very disconnected from this game as of late. What I expect of and want from this game seems so different from the direction it’s headed in.
What do you all think? Legitimate gripes or am I just being an idiot?
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Interesting response, care to debate the actual post or just sticking to your ad-hominem guns?
2. There has been a small segment of the player population that has been claiming that Cavalier players have been getting the shaft since the Thronebreaker title went live, if not earlier than that. They are also not what I would describe as representing the majority of the community.
3. I have no idea what you mean by “screen resolution.” Kabam has explained the current iOS input issue as being a problem with the original input code being built on a version of Unity that had a bug with timestep calculations that was changed in a Unity update they could not hold off applying, and they recently announced they are planning on testing those new systems in March with build v34.
cf: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/294847/input-system-update-january-2022-progress-report
I am not subscribed to his YouTube channel nor do I watch his content. I was watching a vid from MSD and it rolled over to this particular video posted earlier today, so I’m unfamiliar with his past content or transgressions.
I can see from the short time it’s been up that there will likely be 0 response to the disparity between TB getting rewards/offers etc of resources that useful to them Vs Cav players not(imo) and will be constant attacks on a person I knew very little about before making this post. Clearly mistakes were made on my part in the title, I won’t be checking this after tonight.
You can find a thousand videos on youtube of players doing difficult content since the bug was introduced. And you won’t see them getting slapped around every fight due to this bug.
Maybe it would have cost you a few extra revives; but you’ve been given a handful of revives as compensation.
You don’t need better deals to get TB. It’s all right there waiting for you between Act 7 and Variants rewards. Both of which are easier than 6.4, imo.
Above it? We are like 5 months in this input drop fiesta. Yes, it will sound harsh, but if you were active on these months, you should have adapted to it. I don't see everyone stuck at cav and can't become TB because of this. It has become soo easy to reach TB, there are T5C crystals everywhere.
Swallow the excuses, gather some units and smash the content.
First thing you need to do is complete Act 6, got it? You just need to drop the GM once.
After that, you need to get a t5cc catalyst. With the amount that's in the game, it's super, super easy.
Once you get that catalyst, find a six star champion that--AND THIS IS IMPORTANT--the SAME class type as the catalyst.
When you have the catalyst AND a six star--OF THE SAME CLASS--you just rank them up.
BOOM!
You're now Thronebreaker and no longer have to deal with Cav offers!
There is no need for deals or offers to get TB. As said before, everything is already there before you in permanent content.
You mentioned lag and dropped input as a thing that makes it impossible to progress. I am ofc not in your shoes, but lemme ask you: how many of those "weird things" were actually your fault? I play on a lower end device compared to yours and I've gotta say it is playable with some getting used to. Yea, occasionally something strange happens (for ex random heavy thrown), but that eats 1-2 revives tops. If you are active, you can easily earn enough units to be able afford this.
Offers that are progression based fit the progression level. They aren't meant to catapult you to the next level with the one single offer. In order to become Cavalier, you have to beat the 6 easiest bosses in act 6. You don't need much to beat those. The unfortunate side effect of story mode changes are that people can blaze through content faster now. They aren't finishing act 4 100%, they aren't finishing act 5 100% and they're doing the bare minimum to get to Cav and then complain that they get shafted with deals and offers etc..
Cav players struggle with the R3 because they either think they're owned a full T5cc from act 6 from the shard crystals for their efforts or they don't do anything else to get that T5cc other than wait for offers. I'm willing to bet you don't do map 7 with epic mods to get that 10% either.
They complain about-
Cav MEQ difficulty.
Not having "enough" access to T5cc.
Not having the champs for abyss.
Glory store not having T5cc.
How the level requirement shouldn't be there because they can't hold enough t5b with buying the sigil.
Most Cav players who agree with Prof Hoff want TB handed to them. They don't do AQ map 7 where you can get 10% T5cc every 5 days. They barely can do Cav MEQ because they don't have a extensive roster due to skipping tons of content.
They just want to blame everyone but themselves for not being able to be TB.
Don’t get me wrong the game still feels absolutely awful to play and broken as ever, but you can still farm revives and health pots to get through content to get to Thronebreaker. Then have the long long wait for it to be “fixed”.
I personally feel the deals for cavalier massively pale compared to Thronebreaker, but then maybe they should be to incentivise everyone to get to Thronebreaker.
I do think the initial complaints about Cavs being disadvantaged may have had some legitimacy back in late 2020–specifically the huge disparity in the CM/BF deals. However, the large number of opportunities for Cavs to get T5c and 6* shards since then has pretty much neutered any suggestion that Cavs are mistreated. The path to TB is open and available and has been since last summer.
I will agree that the input issues stink. They affect me and I burn more items than I would like to sometimes. I wish the team would be more understanding on that point and drop solo pots more liberally (even if it means just spawning them more frequently in content). But I was also able to run SoP with those same issues (as were several close friends in game).
Dr. Zola
2. CAV is old. Heck a new title should be coming soon
3. Yea CAV card sucks, but seeing the thronebreaker deals makes me want to find time to push to TB. Ive been saving units and potions ready to make a push for it an seeing the new card reminds me at what i am potentially missing out on. There is no problem with cav rewards. Heck we got to do summoner of pain, they are treating us fine.
A lot of cavs got TB during SOP, since it had some really good rewards for a reasonable amount of skill, and that's fine.
But cavs shouldn't have access to large amounts of t5cc from one source, especially since it's the key for the next progression title.
We are not being shafted because TB's get more t5cc than us. I need more t5cc frags, but I also know that if I did some more content, I would get those frags.