Kingpin, Aegon, Titania, ghost, surfer , etc… not being able to connect with a heavy or phase attack at the start of the fight because the enemy is somehow able to hit you and then magically dex or evade at the same time .
Only been going on since last March 2024. 11 months and zero action from Kabam .
Bugs are part of the game. Just like Battlegrounds or Alliance War or Arena only being a team of 3 or autoplay function or the sound effects, etc. It would not be MCOC without the bugs.
Well, they're an unfortunate part of any live game such as this, and it's compounded by the fact that this game is an integration of a number of moving parts. I wouldn't necessarily say they're a part of the game mechanics or that they're always a given. It's just that there's a high likelihood for them. As for compensation, there's a difference between compensation for the effects of an issue, and a "Thank you for bearing with us." gesture. The first needs to be appropriate to the effects of the bugs, and not all bugs have a significant effect. Unfortunately, piling bugs up in a list does not increase their effects. As for the latter, no harm in asking.
A "thank you for bearing with us"...(key word BEARING) is indicative of issue after issue after issue after issue after issue.
The fact that there is even a list of bugs is very telling. While it doesn't increase their effect, it IS an increasing problem.
Behind the scenes of every game, there is likely a list of bugs. It's not as telling as you think.
Kabam should give everyone compensation except Demonzfyre 😄
Dude has 40 disagree’s on his comment here 😂
Yet the other day someone argued with me disagree ment nothing lol.
Demonzfyre must have record for the lost disagree on forum, maybe they can compensate a disagree compensation for him.
Thanks for kabam pinwheel for monitoring and watching the thread and seeing the majority of the people concerns for the game.
Crazy how they're arguing against it as always, knowing damn well if Kabam issued comp, they're going to claim it just like everybody else 😂
I don't have a specific opinion on whether the accumulated issues that have plagued the game recently warrant compensation of some kind (if you put a gun to my head, I would probably say "probably yes, with caveats") but speaking only for myself and no one else, the reason why I tend to be far more conservative about compensation in general is because I see rewards in general differently than I think most players do. Most players probably see compensation packages as analogous to a teacher deliberately putting an easy question on the final exam that everyone can get correct. They see it as a net benefit, and a benefit to all players. However, having seen how the sausage is made in more than one game, I see it differently because I know the final is not graded on a scale, it is graded on a curve. Giving everyone an easy question doesn't mean everyone has a better chance of getting an A. It probably means unbeknownst to the students, all the other questions are harder than originally intended.
A reward you give everyone is not really a reward, and while I'll certainly take them, I don't have as positive an opinion of them as most players do, because they only see the (visible) present, and not the (invisible) cost we'll all be paying to get them. It is a curious thing to wrap one's head around, that people think Kabam is "greedy" when they refuse to give us higher rewards, when in fact the only people who pay for rewards are the players. Kabam pays nothing to add a reward to the game. Players do, just in subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) ways.
Since this post has been made there have been numerous scenarios of either new bugs (ex: herc whiffing his heavy and the continued lighting issues) and Kabam saying one thing then doing another (ex: saga vs deathless sig stones). This is starting to get ridiculous.
Kabam should give everyone compensation except Demonzfyre 😄
Dude has 40 disagree’s on his comment here 😂
Yet the other day someone argued with me disagree ment nothing lol.
Demonzfyre must have record for the lost disagree on forum, maybe they can compensate a disagree compensation for him.
Thanks for kabam pinwheel for monitoring and watching the thread and seeing the majority of the people concerns for the game.
Crazy how they're arguing against it as always, knowing damn well if Kabam issued comp, they're going to claim it just like everybody else 😂
I don't have a specific opinion on whether the accumulated issues that have plagued the game recently warrant compensation of some kind (if you put a gun to my head, I would probably say "probably yes, with caveats") but speaking only for myself and no one else, the reason why I tend to be far more conservative about compensation in general is because I see rewards in general differently than I think most players do. Most players probably see compensation packages as analogous to a teacher deliberately putting an easy question on the final exam that everyone can get correct. They see it as a net benefit, and a benefit to all players. However, having seen how the sausage is made in more than one game, I see it differently because I know the final is not graded on a scale, it is graded on a curve. Giving everyone an easy question doesn't mean everyone has a better chance of getting an A. It probably means unbeknownst to the students, all the other questions are harder than originally intended.
A reward you give everyone is not really a reward, and while I'll certainly take them, I don't have as positive an opinion of them as most players do, because they only see the (visible) present, and not the (invisible) cost we'll all be paying to get them. It is a curious thing to wrap one's head around, that people think Kabam is "greedy" when they refuse to give us higher rewards, when in fact the only people who pay for rewards are the players. Kabam pays nothing to add a reward to the game. Players do, just in subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) ways.
Interesting analogy, and one that seems typical of dev-think.
Using the teacher analogy, I would surmise that many players think of the scenario more like this…
…the teacher gives a test and supplies the pencil and paper to take it—however, the pencil lead keeps breaking and the paper is thin and tears a fair bit when the students write.
Can the students finish the test? Sure, but they are constantly getting up and running to the sharpener to “revive” their pencil lead and they have to be extra careful to avoid “inputs” more likely to tear the fragile sheets of paper.
Because the students mostly managed to finish the test, the teacher concludes everything turned out just fine.
Kabam should give everyone compensation except Demonzfyre 😄
Dude has 40 disagree’s on his comment here 😂
Yet the other day someone argued with me disagree ment nothing lol.
Demonzfyre must have record for the lost disagree on forum, maybe they can compensate a disagree compensation for him.
Thanks for kabam pinwheel for monitoring and watching the thread and seeing the majority of the people concerns for the game.
Crazy how they're arguing against it as always, knowing damn well if Kabam issued comp, they're going to claim it just like everybody else 😂
I don't have a specific opinion on whether the accumulated issues that have plagued the game recently warrant compensation of some kind (if you put a gun to my head, I would probably say "probably yes, with caveats") but speaking only for myself and no one else, the reason why I tend to be far more conservative about compensation in general is because I see rewards in general differently than I think most players do. Most players probably see compensation packages as analogous to a teacher deliberately putting an easy question on the final exam that everyone can get correct. They see it as a net benefit, and a benefit to all players. However, having seen how the sausage is made in more than one game, I see it differently because I know the final is not graded on a scale, it is graded on a curve. Giving everyone an easy question doesn't mean everyone has a better chance of getting an A. It probably means unbeknownst to the students, all the other questions are harder than originally intended.
A reward you give everyone is not really a reward, and while I'll certainly take them, I don't have as positive an opinion of them as most players do, because they only see the (visible) present, and not the (invisible) cost we'll all be paying to get them. It is a curious thing to wrap one's head around, that people think Kabam is "greedy" when they refuse to give us higher rewards, when in fact the only people who pay for rewards are the players. Kabam pays nothing to add a reward to the game. Players do, just in subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) ways.
Interesting analogy, and one that seems typical of dev-think.
Using the teacher analogy, I would surmise that many players think of the scenario more like this…
…the teacher gives a test and supplies the pencil and paper to take it—however, the pencil lead keeps breaking and the paper is thin and tears a fair bit when the students write.
Can the students finish the test? Sure, but they are constantly getting up and running to the sharpener to “revive” their pencil lead and they have to be extra careful to avoid “inputs” more likely to tear the fragile sheets of paper.
Because the students mostly managed to finish the test, the teacher concludes everything turned out just fine.
Dr. Zola
This is an incredible analogy and fits this situation perfectly. 🙌🏼
Kabam should give everyone compensation except Demonzfyre 😄
Dude has 40 disagree’s on his comment here 😂
Yet the other day someone argued with me disagree ment nothing lol.
Demonzfyre must have record for the lost disagree on forum, maybe they can compensate a disagree compensation for him.
Thanks for kabam pinwheel for monitoring and watching the thread and seeing the majority of the people concerns for the game.
Crazy how they're arguing against it as always, knowing damn well if Kabam issued comp, they're going to claim it just like everybody else 😂
I don't have a specific opinion on whether the accumulated issues that have plagued the game recently warrant compensation of some kind (if you put a gun to my head, I would probably say "probably yes, with caveats") but speaking only for myself and no one else, the reason why I tend to be far more conservative about compensation in general is because I see rewards in general differently than I think most players do. Most players probably see compensation packages as analogous to a teacher deliberately putting an easy question on the final exam that everyone can get correct. They see it as a net benefit, and a benefit to all players. However, having seen how the sausage is made in more than one game, I see it differently because I know the final is not graded on a scale, it is graded on a curve. Giving everyone an easy question doesn't mean everyone has a better chance of getting an A. It probably means unbeknownst to the students, all the other questions are harder than originally intended.
A reward you give everyone is not really a reward, and while I'll certainly take them, I don't have as positive an opinion of them as most players do, because they only see the (visible) present, and not the (invisible) cost we'll all be paying to get them. It is a curious thing to wrap one's head around, that people think Kabam is "greedy" when they refuse to give us higher rewards, when in fact the only people who pay for rewards are the players. Kabam pays nothing to add a reward to the game. Players do, just in subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) ways.
Interesting analogy, and one that seems typical of dev-think.
Using the teacher analogy, I would surmise that many players think of the scenario more like this…
…the teacher gives a test and supplies the pencil and paper to take it—however, the pencil lead keeps breaking and the paper is thin and tears a fair bit when the students write.
Can the students finish the test? Sure, but they are constantly getting up and running to the sharpener to “revive” their pencil lead and they have to be extra careful to avoid “inputs” more likely to tear the fragile sheets of paper.
Because the students mostly managed to finish the test, the teacher concludes everything turned out just fine.
Dr. Zola
For the win! 🙌🏽 Thank you for this insightful analogy! Hopefully it will shed a lot of light on our frustrations.
Kabam should give everyone compensation except Demonzfyre 😄
Dude has 40 disagree’s on his comment here 😂
Yet the other day someone argued with me disagree ment nothing lol.
Demonzfyre must have record for the lost disagree on forum, maybe they can compensate a disagree compensation for him.
Thanks for kabam pinwheel for monitoring and watching the thread and seeing the majority of the people concerns for the game.
Crazy how they're arguing against it as always, knowing damn well if Kabam issued comp, they're going to claim it just like everybody else 😂
I don't have a specific opinion on whether the accumulated issues that have plagued the game recently warrant compensation of some kind (if you put a gun to my head, I would probably say "probably yes, with caveats") but speaking only for myself and no one else, the reason why I tend to be far more conservative about compensation in general is because I see rewards in general differently than I think most players do. Most players probably see compensation packages as analogous to a teacher deliberately putting an easy question on the final exam that everyone can get correct. They see it as a net benefit, and a benefit to all players. However, having seen how the sausage is made in more than one game, I see it differently because I know the final is not graded on a scale, it is graded on a curve. Giving everyone an easy question doesn't mean everyone has a better chance of getting an A. It probably means unbeknownst to the students, all the other questions are harder than originally intended.
A reward you give everyone is not really a reward, and while I'll certainly take them, I don't have as positive an opinion of them as most players do, because they only see the (visible) present, and not the (invisible) cost we'll all be paying to get them. It is a curious thing to wrap one's head around, that people think Kabam is "greedy" when they refuse to give us higher rewards, when in fact the only people who pay for rewards are the players. Kabam pays nothing to add a reward to the game. Players do, just in subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) ways.
Interesting analogy, and one that seems typical of dev-think.
Using the teacher analogy, I would surmise that many players think of the scenario more like this…
…the teacher gives a test and supplies the pencil and paper to take it—however, the pencil lead keeps breaking and the paper is thin and tears a fair bit when the students write.
Can the students finish the test? Sure, but they are constantly getting up and running to the sharpener to “revive” their pencil lead and they have to be extra careful to avoid “inputs” more likely to tear the fragile sheets of paper.
Because the students mostly managed to finish the test, the teacher concludes everything turned out just fine.
Dr. Zola
To add to this, not getting extra time on the test would be the compensation aspect. Constantly having to get up and sharpen your pencil and worry of ripping the paper being the major inconveniences. Although everyone made it through the test and all the issues are “fixed” eventually because the students finish the test, the issues during the test were never confronted later and no extra time was given to the students who may have had to rush during the test…further impacting their grades
Take the recent compensation for the glorious games showcase war path
It's insignificant compensation
I never liked any compensation from Kabam bcos it's always insignificant
Asking for compensation won't get you anywhere
I don’t think this is the right mentality to have. They compensated us fairly. However, now that it’s after the content when it really would have been needed they just went to the stash and will probably expire. That fight was laggy and bugged the whole length of the event. I wouldn’t say the compensation was irrelevant and insignificant, because it was…ok, but by the time it arrived, I had already spent the units to get through AOA since I burned the revives I had saved on the showcase fight since I was already at the end of the showcase and too deep in the hole
Kabam should give everyone compensation except Demonzfyre 😄
Dude has 40 disagree’s on his comment here 😂
Yet the other day someone argued with me disagree ment nothing lol.
Demonzfyre must have record for the lost disagree on forum, maybe they can compensate a disagree compensation for him.
Thanks for kabam pinwheel for monitoring and watching the thread and seeing the majority of the people concerns for the game.
Crazy how they're arguing against it as always, knowing damn well if Kabam issued comp, they're going to claim it just like everybody else 😂
I don't have a specific opinion on whether the accumulated issues that have plagued the game recently warrant compensation of some kind (if you put a gun to my head, I would probably say "probably yes, with caveats") but speaking only for myself and no one else, the reason why I tend to be far more conservative about compensation in general is because I see rewards in general differently than I think most players do. Most players probably see compensation packages as analogous to a teacher deliberately putting an easy question on the final exam that everyone can get correct. They see it as a net benefit, and a benefit to all players. However, having seen how the sausage is made in more than one game, I see it differently because I know the final is not graded on a scale, it is graded on a curve. Giving everyone an easy question doesn't mean everyone has a better chance of getting an A. It probably means unbeknownst to the students, all the other questions are harder than originally intended.
A reward you give everyone is not really a reward, and while I'll certainly take them, I don't have as positive an opinion of them as most players do, because they only see the (visible) present, and not the (invisible) cost we'll all be paying to get them. It is a curious thing to wrap one's head around, that people think Kabam is "greedy" when they refuse to give us higher rewards, when in fact the only people who pay for rewards are the players. Kabam pays nothing to add a reward to the game. Players do, just in subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) ways.
Interesting analogy, and one that seems typical of dev-think.
Using the teacher analogy, I would surmise that many players think of the scenario more like this…
…the teacher gives a test and supplies the pencil and paper to take it—however, the pencil lead keeps breaking and the paper is thin and tears a fair bit when the students write.
Can the students finish the test? Sure, but they are constantly getting up and running to the sharpener to “revive” their pencil lead and they have to be extra careful to avoid “inputs” more likely to tear the fragile sheets of paper.
Because the students mostly managed to finish the test, the teacher concludes everything turned out just fine.
Dr. Zola
The point to the analogy, which you seem to have missed, was not to convince anyone the point of view was true by rhetoric, but simply to state what the nature of the reality of the game is. Or to put it another way, the difference between your analogy and mine is yours will likely get more likes, while mine will affect the rewards in your game so long as the devs operate under its philosophy.
As you say, it sounds like "typical dev-think" and it is, because that's how game developers think (for the most part), which makes virtually all games as a service work that way, and eliminates the possibility of changing it any time soon because who are you going to find anywhere on Earth to do it any differently?
In addition to the absolute mountain of graphical bugs, I am SO expletive tired of these never-ending AI issues that make the game unenjoyable for months upon months now. I just did 4 different battlegrounds fights and lots of these things happened in multiple matchups!
Nothing is fun when you KNOW how to medium intercept and you can SEE for yourself that you’re doing it and suddenly somehow you take a 5-hit dash combo from the opponent into the face.
Same as I’m so expletive sick and tired of knowing the exact timing for Parry hitbox, but I “parry” and instead my champion acts as if I’m just standing there and I conveniently take another 5-hit combo to the face.
Just like I’m so tired of all the bugs in the game, graphical issues, and extreme judder during lots of Specials thrown that can screw up your timing and suddenly you’re dead.
When the consequence to losing is wasted time and resources (like precious battlechips and losing rankings), and not by the fault of your own playstyle but by a broken game, it’s just not fun. And no game that’s supposed to be fun should make me want to throw my phone at the wall, uninstall it, and go photograph pictures of doors for enjoyment, but this game does.
Kabam should give everyone compensation except Demonzfyre 😄
Dude has 40 disagree’s on his comment here 😂
Yet the other day someone argued with me disagree ment nothing lol.
Demonzfyre must have record for the lost disagree on forum, maybe they can compensate a disagree compensation for him.
Thanks for kabam pinwheel for monitoring and watching the thread and seeing the majority of the people concerns for the game.
Crazy how they're arguing against it as always, knowing damn well if Kabam issued comp, they're going to claim it just like everybody else 😂
I don't have a specific opinion on whether the accumulated issues that have plagued the game recently warrant compensation of some kind (if you put a gun to my head, I would probably say "probably yes, with caveats") but speaking only for myself and no one else, the reason why I tend to be far more conservative about compensation in general is because I see rewards in general differently than I think most players do. Most players probably see compensation packages as analogous to a teacher deliberately putting an easy question on the final exam that everyone can get correct. They see it as a net benefit, and a benefit to all players. However, having seen how the sausage is made in more than one game, I see it differently because I know the final is not graded on a scale, it is graded on a curve. Giving everyone an easy question doesn't mean everyone has a better chance of getting an A. It probably means unbeknownst to the students, all the other questions are harder than originally intended.
A reward you give everyone is not really a reward, and while I'll certainly take them, I don't have as positive an opinion of them as most players do, because they only see the (visible) present, and not the (invisible) cost we'll all be paying to get them. It is a curious thing to wrap one's head around, that people think Kabam is "greedy" when they refuse to give us higher rewards, when in fact the only people who pay for rewards are the players. Kabam pays nothing to add a reward to the game. Players do, just in subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) ways.
Interesting analogy, and one that seems typical of dev-think.
Using the teacher analogy, I would surmise that many players think of the scenario more like this…
…the teacher gives a test and supplies the pencil and paper to take it—however, the pencil lead keeps breaking and the paper is thin and tears a fair bit when the students write.
Can the students finish the test? Sure, but they are constantly getting up and running to the sharpener to “revive” their pencil lead and they have to be extra careful to avoid “inputs” more likely to tear the fragile sheets of paper.
Because the students mostly managed to finish the test, the teacher concludes everything turned out just fine.
Dr. Zola
I think my first reply was a bit hasty, and thus harsher than warranted, as having more time to consider I think what I should have said is that your analogy doesn't supersede mine because it addresses a completely different thing. You seem to think my analogy argues against compensation because it claims there's nothing worth compensating for, and are trying to make the case that instead the problem is invisible to the developers. However, that has nothing to do with my post at all. My post does not address whether there exists problems for which compensation would be warranted (in fact I state at the start I would lean in the direction of that being the case) but rather the reason why I generally do not value material reward compensation packages as much as the average player might.
You can simultaneously believe compensation is warranted, and also believe no compensation possible actually helps in the long run. Some bells can't be unrung.
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I've think I've seen it all. Asking for comp for visual issues that lasted barely 3 hours and impacted nothing.
I'm confused. Did your device for whatever reason not display the other 99% of the post or is this you cherrypicking an arbitrary reason to invalidate the many issues this game has had over the past few months.
Their device is made of gold by the way he/she speaks lmao, it’s like every bug happens to us except for Demonzfyre it seems like 💀
If Demonzfyre was a Mcoc champion, he would be a tech champion who can invalidate feelings and concerns of other forum users. He is immune to all forms of bugs and glitches. He thrives on disagrees to ramp up, once he reaches a threshold of 99 disagrees he gets a simpleton passive which exists for the duration of the post.
I've think I've seen it all. Asking for comp for visual issues that lasted barely 3 hours and impacted nothing.
I'm confused. Did your device for whatever reason not display the other 99% of the post or is this you cherrypicking an arbitrary reason to invalidate the many issues this game has had over the past few months.
Their device is made of gold by the way he/she speaks lmao, it’s like every bug happens to us except for Demonzfyre it seems like 💀
If Demonzfyre was a Mcoc champion, he would be a tech champion who can invalidate feelings and concerns of other forum users. He is immune to all forms of bugs and glitches. He thrives on disagrees to ramp up, once he reaches a threshold of 99 disagrees he gets a simpleton passive which exists for the duration of the post.
He will also get self knocked out instantly if he goes against a red hulk just to prove red hulk is a good champ.
Kabam should give everyone compensation except Demonzfyre 😄
Dude has 40 disagree’s on his comment here 😂
Yet the other day someone argued with me disagree ment nothing lol.
Demonzfyre must have record for the lost disagree on forum, maybe they can compensate a disagree compensation for him.
Thanks for kabam pinwheel for monitoring and watching the thread and seeing the majority of the people concerns for the game.
Crazy how they're arguing against it as always, knowing damn well if Kabam issued comp, they're going to claim it just like everybody else 😂
I don't have a specific opinion on whether the accumulated issues that have plagued the game recently warrant compensation of some kind (if you put a gun to my head, I would probably say "probably yes, with caveats") but speaking only for myself and no one else, the reason why I tend to be far more conservative about compensation in general is because I see rewards in general differently than I think most players do. Most players probably see compensation packages as analogous to a teacher deliberately putting an easy question on the final exam that everyone can get correct. They see it as a net benefit, and a benefit to all players. However, having seen how the sausage is made in more than one game, I see it differently because I know the final is not graded on a scale, it is graded on a curve. Giving everyone an easy question doesn't mean everyone has a better chance of getting an A. It probably means unbeknownst to the students, all the other questions are harder than originally intended.
A reward you give everyone is not really a reward, and while I'll certainly take them, I don't have as positive an opinion of them as most players do, because they only see the (visible) present, and not the (invisible) cost we'll all be paying to get them. It is a curious thing to wrap one's head around, that people think Kabam is "greedy" when they refuse to give us higher rewards, when in fact the only people who pay for rewards are the players. Kabam pays nothing to add a reward to the game. Players do, just in subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) ways.
Interesting analogy, and one that seems typical of dev-think.
Using the teacher analogy, I would surmise that many players think of the scenario more like this…
…the teacher gives a test and supplies the pencil and paper to take it—however, the pencil lead keeps breaking and the paper is thin and tears a fair bit when the students write.
Can the students finish the test? Sure, but they are constantly getting up and running to the sharpener to “revive” their pencil lead and they have to be extra careful to avoid “inputs” more likely to tear the fragile sheets of paper.
Because the students mostly managed to finish the test, the teacher concludes everything turned out just fine.
Dr. Zola
I think my first reply was a bit hasty, and thus harsher than warranted, as having more time to consider I think what I should have said is that your analogy doesn't supersede mine because it addresses a completely different thing. You seem to think my analogy argues against compensation because it claims there's nothing worth compensating for, and are trying to make the case that instead the problem is invisible to the developers. However, that has nothing to do with my post at all. My post does not address whether there exists problems for which compensation would be warranted (in fact I state at the start I would lean in the direction of that being the case) but rather the reason why I generally do not value material reward compensation packages as much as the average player might.
You can simultaneously believe compensation is warranted, and also believe no compensation possible actually helps in the long run. Some bells can't be unrung.
What troubles me is, as I understand it, is that this view seems to derive from a zero-sum approach. To use your words, if we get an easy question, then that “probably means unbeknownst to the students, all the other questions are harder than originally intended.”
The realization that developers might view it this way is disappointing. There’s no apparent realization on their part that the test is already harder than it should be for the student—not because of the questions, but because of the inadequate tools provided to answer them.
I can state that I haven't been able to log in to the game since the new content dropped. There are a few threads in the bug pages where people are experiencing similar issues.
My ticket support so far has been to uninstall the game, restart my device, and reinstall the game. All things I'd done before opening a ticket. Was hoping for more help than "did you turn it off and turn it on again?"
I can state that I haven't been able to log in to the game since the new content dropped. There are a few threads in the bug pages where people are experiencing similar issues.
My ticket support so far has been to uninstall the game, restart my device, and reinstall the game. All things I'd done before opening a ticket. Was hoping for more help than "did you turn it off and turn it on again?"
Share some screenshots of what you see when you open the app
So I just get this which looks like a simple network error. But I’ve tried on different WiFi networks and on cellular. I’m pretty certain I would have noticed if both my cell phone and iPad had no network connectivity.
Tried on my iPhone 15 PM and my iPad Pro. Running iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 respectively.
No issues until content drop approximate time on Wednesday.
New official response was "In this situation, we kindly recommend trying to access your account using other devices. We do not have the means to assist with this particular device."
Unfortunately other devices also do not seem to work, so I guess I just have to wait for another game update and hope that will fix things.
So I just get this which looks like a simple network error. But I’ve tried on different WiFi networks and on cellular. I’m pretty certain I would have noticed if both my cell phone and iPad had no network connectivity.
Tried on my iPhone 15 PM and my iPad Pro. Running iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 respectively.
No issues until content drop approximate time on Wednesday.
This seems like honestly a very tricky situation
I'm running iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 on both my iPhone and iPad and both have no issues
Works fine on both WiFi and cellular network for me
So my guess is your connection could be having some issue somehow
I suggest you try testing your connection with other games and see whether you can connect to the servers of other games
I believe you already reset your WiFi several times and you can connect to the internet to post on forum so your internet connection shouldn't be the issue
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Only been going on since last March 2024. 11 months and zero action from Kabam .
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/383764/bug-ignored-for-months-with-unstoppable-and-phase-champs-at-the-start-of-the-fight#latest
You can see it in action in seatins vid yesterday when he uses Silver Surfer. 7:30 into the vid.
Exactly, and incursions was bugged yesterday aswel.
Arnim early access bundle isn’t showing up on webstore aswel for today.
If anything I’m going to call out and predict when epoch comes out something will go wrong.
A reward you give everyone is not really a reward, and while I'll certainly take them, I don't have as positive an opinion of them as most players do, because they only see the (visible) present, and not the (invisible) cost we'll all be paying to get them. It is a curious thing to wrap one's head around, that people think Kabam is "greedy" when they refuse to give us higher rewards, when in fact the only people who pay for rewards are the players. Kabam pays nothing to add a reward to the game. Players do, just in subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) ways.
Using the teacher analogy, I would surmise that many players think of the scenario more like this…
…the teacher gives a test and supplies the pencil and paper to take it—however, the pencil lead keeps breaking and the paper is thin and tears a fair bit when the students write.
Can the students finish the test? Sure, but they are constantly getting up and running to the sharpener to “revive” their pencil lead and they have to be extra careful to avoid “inputs” more likely to tear the fragile sheets of paper.
Because the students mostly managed to finish the test, the teacher concludes everything turned out just fine.
Dr. Zola
It's insignificant compensation
I never liked any compensation from Kabam bcos it's always insignificant
Asking for compensation won't get you anywhere
As you say, it sounds like "typical dev-think" and it is, because that's how game developers think (for the most part), which makes virtually all games as a service work that way, and eliminates the possibility of changing it any time soon because who are you going to find anywhere on Earth to do it any differently?
Nothing is fun when you KNOW how to medium intercept and you can SEE for yourself that you’re doing it and suddenly somehow you take a 5-hit dash combo from the opponent into the face.
Same as I’m so expletive sick and tired of knowing the exact timing for Parry hitbox, but I “parry” and instead my champion acts as if I’m just standing there and I conveniently take another 5-hit combo to the face.
Just like I’m so tired of all the bugs in the game, graphical issues, and extreme judder during lots of Specials thrown that can screw up your timing and suddenly you’re dead.
When the consequence to losing is wasted time and resources (like precious battlechips and losing rankings), and not by the fault of your own playstyle but by a broken game, it’s just not fun. And no game that’s supposed to be fun should make me want to throw my phone at the wall, uninstall it, and go photograph pictures of doors for enjoyment, but this game does.
You can simultaneously believe compensation is warranted, and also believe no compensation possible actually helps in the long run. Some bells can't be unrung.
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The realization that developers might view it this way is disappointing. There’s no apparent realization on their part that the test is already harder than it should be for the student—not because of the questions, but because of the inadequate tools provided to answer them.
Dr. Zola
My ticket support so far has been to uninstall the game, restart my device, and reinstall the game. All things I'd done before opening a ticket. Was hoping for more help than "did you turn it off and turn it on again?"
So I just get this which looks like a simple network error. But I’ve tried on different WiFi networks and on cellular. I’m pretty certain I would have noticed if both my cell phone and iPad had no network connectivity.
Tried on my iPhone 15 PM and my iPad Pro. Running iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 respectively.
No issues until content drop approximate time on Wednesday.
Unfortunately other devices also do not seem to work, so I guess I just have to wait for another game update and hope that will fix things.
I'm running iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3 on both my iPhone and iPad and both have no issues
Works fine on both WiFi and cellular network for me
So my guess is your connection could be having some issue somehow
I suggest you try testing your connection with other games and see whether you can connect to the servers of other games