State of battlegrounds Gladiator Circle

Let me start by saying I love battlegrounds. I have a small whale deck of 16 r4s and quite a few exclusive champs. I did not miss a single victory track completion since it came out, and ever since radiance came out I made it a point to grab the extra solo events.

The last one broke me. I made it, but felt exhausted afterwards.almost relieved and in need for a 3 week break.

I’m gonna put the reasons into points:

1. Champs needing a a specific countrer - it used to be serpent, now you have decks full of them. It’s a game of draw more than skill or cunning.you can be awesome and still get consistently bad pulls and drop 4-5 ratings. It’s frustrating, it’s time consuming, my thumbs end up sore, I’m grumpy around the kids, and it’s only getting worse. I spent more rounds and almost 20 hours of gameplay just to get from 100-200 - up to 195, dropping to 70 and back again.
2. 10k radiance for the effort is just too hard for too little. People aren’t even trying, and with no new players feeding points from 0, it turns into a zero sum game between a handful of extremely skilled and extremely well equipped players, making it a win lose win lose frustration.
3. As a result, the 10k radiance milestone can only be earned by mysterium 2 players - that’s top 500 rating. That’s just insane, making it highly inaccessible for a huge part of a 120k community - and this is making point #2 even worse. It’s a vicious cycle.
4. So many cheaters I swear to god, I haven’t reported so many accounts in a while. It’s like kabam isn’t even trying.

Those were my 2 cents.

Comments

SirGamesBond

It's getting harder as large portion of players are just fed up of the mode. stopped caring after first and maybe second month. Now it's a ghost town which makes it much more inaccessible.

Less players in GC decreases overall scores. The less players are in GC, the harder it is for players to hit it. This has failed imo. Kabam might need to tune down the cutoffs if they want more engagement. 10k radiance isn't cutting it.

But hey... 500k 1/6 peice magik is coming soon to the store near you.

Yaron_aviv

I appreciate your support. I see the sentiment is mutual. Half a mil for 1/6? That’s insane. I saved 430k for the update and it took me 4 months. I only bought the units and mastery point 😬

TotemCorruption

Where are you guys getting these numbers about BG participation being down?

I know that before radiance, I would make it to GC/Uru and stop every time.

Now because of radiance I always try to push into Mysterium.

Yes obviously in the higher tiers matchmaking takes longer because there are fewer players to choose from, but I don't know, I don't feel like the mode is dead at all.

Compared to pre-radiance, it went from being dead to being the top mode imo.

I do have many players in my alliance who complain about the difficulty, the stacked rosters, the draft RNG, etc.

That's what it makes it tough imo. Obviously draft RNG matters a lot, but we usually have the same players near the top of Celestial every season, so clearly skill+roster strength can overcome draft RNG consistently.

Yaron_aviv

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2884058#Comment_2884058

I’m talking about unique IDs playing.

I’m fighting the same few hundred people in a zero sum game and no one is progressing because no weak players are pushing points from below.

SirGamesBond

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2884058#Comment_2884058

Estimated observation from total scores.

Players with 200 points landed arcane 3 the season they announced radiance objetives. I landed q3 that season casually.

More players have to participate at 0 points which eventually drives the cutoffs higher and makes it easier to hit 200.

Yaron_aviv

there is a very easy fix for this

give 100 radiance for every completed match- and less competitive players

PuppetMaster_18

Thats good you love battlegrounds with your "small deck of 16 r4s". Personally, Personally i feel battlegrounds getting worse and worse and obvious its a whale game mode. Im not the skilled player and dont have nowhere near 16 r4s…..i have 2 r4s. I usually get to gc and maybe 30-70p but thats ab it and forget the week1 and week2 radiance. I get to gc end os season and thats fine…but damn i find it more and more difficult to play that game mode and enjoy it. Most of fights i face Legends, dont always mean good player i know, but then i see roster and prestige which often are 3-10k above my prestige and many times worst champ is a r2 7* so they have plenty of options against me. I usually dont forfeit but recent seasons i do it alot. 20-30 matches easily and its obvious difference between spenders and non-spenders is bigger than ever. And it pisses me off that i use elders and energy to basicly get bullied. Naah man…battlegrounds is maybe fun for YOU but for me its opposite and its a game mode im thinking of stop doing if its keeps this way.

TotemCorruption

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2884168#Comment_2884168

I do agree more incentives would be beneficial.

Maybe like two-day objectives for finishing in specific tiers.

So that finishing in M2 or Q3 or Gamma 1 or whatever doesn't only matter at the end of 4 weeks, but you get something every two days for being in a specific tier.

Otherwise it is true, a lot of players only make a push during the last couple of days in BG.

I think they were planning on some sort of parking decay system, but that doesn't address the issue of people who don't park but actually just wait to play seriously until the season is about to end.

Because it does seem a little unfair that someone who was like C6 for 25 days of the season but then runs into modders or doesn't have time to play during the last day gets pushed out to a lower tier and gets Mysterium or even Quantum rewards even though they were Celestial for basically 90% of the season.