Let’s talk recent pros, cons, and housekeeping
JackTheSnack
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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
- 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
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Before this change it was optimal to push to the highest progression tier to lower the prices on low tier resources and make it easier to advance a roster. Now, reaching a higher tier comes with a loss of opportunities instead. 6 stars are still important and strong and many of them still worth ranking up even within the biggest whaled out rosters. This move has unbalanced the progression of newer Valiant players.
And if the resources are brought back to another store, the Trader's Outpost would be the worst place to put them unless the store was redesigned and the whole bundling system was done away with.
So weird here.
How many revives will be available on the store on day 1?
Will the free revives be available for purchase in the Raids Game Mode or are we expected to go into the store each time we need a revive?
It's just a matter of time.
Also I’d like to add a positive thing, you guys have been killing it with the endgame/Everest content lately. The carina necro challenges were fair and fun, the crucible was great, the autumn of agony fights have been well designed and fun once you get the hang of them. And story content has been consistently great lately. Overall I like the new content, would just love to see some attention to the content that’s repeatable monthly so that there’s more to keep us busy in between larger content drops.