Let’s talk recent pros, cons, and housekeeping

JackTheSnackJackTheSnack Member Posts: 1,039 ★★★
Pros:
- Sable buff: What an absolute W. She’s actually usable now and the damage output feels solid. She can finally counter some story content even though she won’t be in my BGs deck
- Arcade buff: Also an absolute W. I already thought he was OP with the autoblock heavy rotation in corner but was just lacking some damage output and this buff gave him what he needed.
- Recent AOA: The recent AOAs have been seamless, there are generally a good number of counters even if you don’t have the very specific counters that cheese the content, which makes it challenging, but still fun and doable for those who might not have an expansive roster
- BGs Realm Event: I know it was a while back, but even if you didn’t like the grind, the rewards were good, it got a lot of people playing BGs, it was fun making the climb, and then being rewarded with a titan, 7 star shards and plenty of BGs market tokens was well worth it. Would love to see it again
- Side quest: Pretty simple this month, which makes understanding it easy. A little boring…but simple, which I like a whole lot. No adding and subtracting or looking at days to see how many runs you can do or any of that.

Cons:
- Juggernaut bug: I feel like he is always bugged in some sort of way. First the unstoppable falling off, and now his one main source of damage + being visually bugged makes my newest r3 and prob fav champ unplayable
- Visual Bugs: Ironheart and Galan look cool and iridescent but I think it’s time they were fixed. Kinda makes them tough to play and they’ve been this way for quite a while. As well as there’s this weird thing going on with the color scheme like with Juggs, spot, etc.
- AI holding block: In a BGs season victory track where you can’t hit block, or even if you can, red skull in particular will hold his block for minutes at a time. He’s not the only one though. This and holding block or waiting to throw specials when they have porker poppers or power sting on them is not cool
- Intercepting AI recovery time: this is a new one, but I have found it is way tougher in the past week to get an intercept in. The AI recovery time is so dang quick.
- Bugged incursions: Paragon and Valiant players were locked out of sector 4 and 5 rewards, so I didn’t attempt a run, but only compensating the people who attempted a run? Why would I attempt it if I see the rewards are blurred out?
- “Moving” of items from BGs store: the items in the BGs store that were removed were supposed to be found in the traders outpost or somewhere else but I have yet to see their return in full. I bought 5 stars and 5 star sig stones for max sigs and iso all the time as well as 3 and 4 star relic shards to keep duping my relics and getting the few that keep avoiding me out of hundreds opened
- Banquet: Last but not least…I’m not angry…but more of disappointed in this whole event. It was hyped up to be the “grand” banquet and then on top of that there was VERY little communication…and honestly…still hasn’t been even though I know Kabam is waiting on the analytic breakdown. And then I see a comment where a mistake was admitted and the drop rates on SBCs may have been bugged…something just doesn’t sit right about the whole situation. Out of 6500 units + all 129 tickets I got enough shards for a singular titan and a 7 star that I already had majority of the shards for, and out of all the filler I got, wasn’t even enough for 2 rank 3s, which I also already had a majority of the materials for.

Housekeeping:
- Northstar “buff”: To me he’s better…but still needs something that makes him the go to champ for ramping in incursions, etc….annnnd he was bugged on top of that with his reverb when the buff dropped
- New relics: I saw some info on new relics. I hope they don’t completely change the mechanics (sorry Rich lol) seeing as we already have all these relics now - I don’t feel like they would. But would love to see some new relics…maybe even some making some unusable champs usable👀
- Lackluster rewards for bigger pieces of content?: The rewards on the showcases just feels…eh. I mean I appreciate the 4-5 gem but that’s a lot of content with pretty specific counters, so I felt like the 4-5 class gems should def be there, but also maybe a 1-2 gem (7 star), and then some more titan shards for the regular showcase. This may just be me though.
- Livestreams: Recently they haven’t felt up to par being completely honest. First we sit on one to have an event hyped up to us for 2 hours that wasn’t that “grand”, then after the whole situation another pre recorded livestream just doesn’t scream engaging. On top of that only information we got was 2 deep dives, deathless info, and no twitch drop, no info on new relics.

The purpose of this post was not to complain but bring things to attention. Please add anything I may have missed or forgotten

Comments

  • TheUglyone123TheUglyone123 Member Posts: 107 ★★★
    This is a great summary. I completely agree with this post. The lighting and visual effects are particularly irritating to me. I want to play and rank ironheart, but I can’t bring myself to do it just yet due to the bugs. However, the AOA and champ buffs of sable and arcade have been very fun to play around with.
  • JackTheSnackJackTheSnack Member Posts: 1,039 ★★★

    This is a great summary. I completely agree with this post. The lighting and visual effects are particularly irritating to me. I want to play and rank ironheart, but I can’t bring myself to do it just yet due to the bugs. However, the AOA and champ buffs of sable and arcade have been very fun to play around with.

    Yeah I definitely think Ironheart is overlooked by a lot of players. I was going to take mine to r2 but I really wanted to save my last gem for silk when or if I pulled her. She has a TON of utility. I’ve actually used her quite a bit in recent content. If I can get around to the regular showcase 100% my r2 will be between rintrah and Ironheart lol
  • OurobørosOurobøros Member Posts: 1,921 ★★★★★
    Agree with everything, minus the SQ one. It doesn't like what you described at all
  • MrSakuragiMrSakuragi Member Posts: 5,884 ★★★★★

    Love a detailed writeup like this! Will let others respond to most of the content first to let some consensus form, but specifically in regards to the livestream, its definitely been a bit weird the last two just with ten year and then having to have a prerecorded one due to the holidays. We'll be back to our regular cadence with the next one and hopefully with it being a bit less dramatic (not being the ten year anniversary and all) we can get back to being a bit more informal, interactive with chat (I'll be fighting for my life in mod queue trying to stop the flood of code guesses xD), and fun!

    @KabamPinwheel Just an idea here - My absolute favorite stream Jax and Mike ever did, they fielded questions on the forum from summoners and along with Crashed, answered a number of them on the stream. It gave a chance for some interaction and answers to questions a lot of us had. Would love to see that again.
  • JackTheSnackJackTheSnack Member Posts: 1,039 ★★★

    Love a detailed writeup like this! Will let others respond to most of the content first to let some consensus form, but specifically in regards to the livestream, its definitely been a bit weird the last two just with ten year and then having to have a prerecorded one due to the holidays. We'll be back to our regular cadence with the next one and hopefully with it being a bit less dramatic (not being the ten year anniversary and all) we can get back to being a bit more informal, interactive with chat (I'll be fighting for my life in mod queue trying to stop the flood of code guesses xD), and fun!

    @KabamPinwheel Just an idea here - My absolute favorite stream Jax and Mike ever did, they fielded questions on the forum from summoners and along with Crashed, answered a number of them on the stream. It gave a chance for some interaction and answers to questions a lot of us had. Would love to see that again.
    This is kind of a cool idea. Especially as they wouldn’t just be answering random questions as those livestreams become super crowded and the chat gets absolutely spammed. They could do pressing questions from the forum so that they’re actually relevant
  • KabamPinwheelKabamPinwheel Community Posts: 323

    Love a detailed writeup like this! Will let others respond to most of the content first to let some consensus form, but specifically in regards to the livestream, its definitely been a bit weird the last two just with ten year and then having to have a prerecorded one due to the holidays. We'll be back to our regular cadence with the next one and hopefully with it being a bit less dramatic (not being the ten year anniversary and all) we can get back to being a bit more informal, interactive with chat (I'll be fighting for my life in mod queue trying to stop the flood of code guesses xD), and fun!

    @KabamPinwheel Just an idea here - My absolute favorite stream Jax and Mike ever did, they fielded questions on the forum from summoners and along with Crashed, answered a number of them on the stream. It gave a chance for some interaction and answers to questions a lot of us had. Would love to see that again.
    This is kind of a cool idea. Especially as they wouldn’t just be answering random questions as those livestreams become super crowded and the chat gets absolutely spammed. They could do pressing questions from the forum so that they’re actually relevant
    Yea unfortunately beyond the roll call and seeing flags and like one word locations it can be tricky to pull longer form stuff from the chat sometimes, especially when it hits super speed haha. Think this could be one way to help bring in more interaction with that limitation in mind
  • DerpyEagleDerpyEagle Member Posts: 657 ★★★
    @kabamPinwheel can we get some more relics? I think we’re due at least 10. I’d rather have 2 new monthly relics than 2 new monthly champs at this point!
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