Alliance Quest Miniboss and Sentinel Refresh - April 2018 - Discussion Thread [Updated April 13]

Summoners,

We've just announced a small refresh of Alliance Quests that will start April 2nd. This will include new Minibosses, and a farewell to our Symbioid friends!

Read all about it, then ask your questions!

UPDATE:
We've just posted an update in regards to your feedback on Alliance Quests. This post includes some adjustments to Sentinels and Alliance Quests that will be coming with the next series (Starting April 18th). Take a look right here: http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/62626/upcoming-adjustments-to-alliance-quests-april-18th-2018

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Cptnkillr_89

Kabam is just slowly killing off wolverine in AQ. Dude is useless now thanks to the sentinels.

Gwm83

Spend spend spend lol kabam is ridiculous the sentinels are op...and I'm actually good at the game. Can go thru all the eqs with hardly any items...but sentinels on day 3 are a pain. Nice job kabam I expect nothing less

Hlpr35

İf kabam gonna stubborn on that like every other matter at least make aq sentinels special attacks blockable because unblockable special attacks speciallly s2 is really stupidly Hard with this rewards and btw make miniboss nc more willing to Change mod

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Farwey

You made the AQ boring and harder with same rewards... We should leave a bad commenr for rhe game at app store.

SirBud

Sentinels are not fun to fight. After two and a bit years and several dozen odins later...I might have to retire from this game. More work for the same rewards isn't very motivating. If my alliance mates jump ship because of this, I have no reason to stay.

SirBud

Legendsend wrote: »

Maat1985 wrote: »

No need for insults.....

I get the analagy just fine....
But it is not totally correct....

My boss asks me to do a harder task then normal....
I ask him for more money....
He says well do it for a while... we will see how you go and then we will talk....

Hard work first.... pay increase after....

How can you not understand that.... Action A happens before Action B happens....

Evn if i go to my boss and say
I need more money...
He will say
Do this harder job.... once i i know you can do it well then we will talk...

Hard work first.... more money later... simple

...isn't this supposed to be a game and not a job?

Evad

Sentinals are complete garbage! Make bleed and poison champs worth nothing. Change is good but you need to keep a eye out on what your doing, a lot of people ready to quit. I backed you on the nerfing of certin champs but this is a horrible change.

Abracadaver12

Kabam see the dolla signs and let the cash blind em.

DNA3000

Feedback: so far I've fought Nightcrawler several times in AQ now. If you can't consistently switch him, and I can't seem to do that consistently, then his defensiveness makes it difficult to defeat him before timeout. I think combining a buffed evading boss with a timer is not a good idea. He'd be a perfectly fine miniboss or boss in a single player map where there was no time limit. In AQ I personally don't think Nightcrawler is properly balanced as a miniboss.

There are counters to evade but typically the choice is between being able to play more aggressive with an evade counter or being able to play more tactically and deal with the evade. But the three minute timer makes the second option not really feasible in my opinion. I don't think eliminating gameplay options without a good reason is generally a good idea, and I don't know why that would be desirable here. And even with Iceman if you don't apply cold snap consistently, the time it takes to tactically reapply it can be too high relative to the timelimit, which means even some evade counters are not always sufficient to beat the clock.

Carmel1

DNA3000 wrote: »

Feedback: so far I've fought Nightcrawler several times in AQ now. If you can't consistently switch him, and I can't seem to do that consistently, then his defensiveness makes it difficult to defeat him before timeout. I think combining a buffed evading boss with a timer is not a good idea. He'd be a perfectly fine miniboss or boss in a single player map where there was no time limit. In AQ I personally don't think Nightcrawler is properly balanced as a miniboss.

There are counters to evade but typically the choice is between being able to play more aggressive with an evade counter or being able to play more tactically and deal with the evade. But the three minute timer makes the second option not really feasible in my opinion. I don't think eliminating gameplay options without a good reason is generally a good idea, and I don't know why that would be desirable here. And even with Iceman if you don't apply cold snap consistently, the time it takes to tactically reapply it can be too high relative to the timelimit, which means even some evade counters are not always sufficient to beat the clock.

I got timeout on day1 against the second NC, and another timeout today against the 1st NC (took 50% health with a R4 GR).
He defensive node does make him easier to switch modes. It took me 2:30 minutes to change his mode because most times he block without triggering the timer, and when he finally trigger it he evade at the last moment.

I don’t know why I keep posting here or read other posts hoping they will finally listen and change it back. Clearly it’s not going to happen and the lack of response just make me more frustrated about the game and about support.

LocoMotives

I took R4 iceman against 2nd NC on day 1. Switched him immediately but still was only able to do 70% damage on him before timeout. Ice is one of the best counters, but even an R4 can’t drop him on day 1.

Plus the sentinels suck. I don’t remember the generic opponents ever being the most difficult opponents before, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.

phillgreen

How would Mordo fare against the unblockable attacks of the sentinels?

phillgreen

How would Mordo fare against the unblockable attacks of the sentinels?

Tonedef

I am quitting. It’s a hard decision, this game use to be good but wreckless updates (like the current money-grab), terrible returns on cash/money spent on crystal shards(which got me many “meh” 5*s) and getting completely shutout on all featured 5* attempts(0/6) has left me wondering what incentives has Kabam given me to continue? I don’t want to know how many thousands of dollars I’ve wasted on this game. It’s a couple for sure! Good work Kabam, you’ve successfully capitalized on an awesome Comic and greedily used its awesomeness to line your pockets. 👏

Kobra217

Ok, after playing a couple rounds in multiple accounts, the change is definitely more difficult Kabam. We stepped down a level to wade in the new setup and this change is ****. The sents are more difficult and we get the the same rewards for this? Let alone moving down a level and it is just as hard as we were playing a level up. You all need to really think about how to make the game better or I am out. I am active on 3 accounts, and I am not the only one. You add a 6* champ and no understanding how we are going to make upgrading easier while the new players seem to be able to upgrade faster.. Seriously, I am about done

Carmel1

phillgreen wrote: »

How would Mordo fare against the unblockable attacks of the sentinels?

Not that good.
For his ability to block unblockable hit he need to hold block for one second.
I don’t remember if I ever saw the opponent fired a specials when I was holding back and block.
Teoretically it’s still possible but most likely won’t happen.

Lessard

The fact that you replaced symbiods with bleed/poison immune sentinels is already some solid BS, but they even can get their S3? Thats just laughing to our faces. If youre going to make it harder, at least give better rewards because right now, my whole alliance is consider quitting because of it. That was really not a smart move.

CurtisLow

so far your sentinels idea is the worst. You’ve decided to make it almost impossible to win. This is seen as another Kabam money grab. Fix your mess please. And make sure you send everyone back at least 5 lvl 2 team revives and a ton of hp for all the items wasted just trying to finish

SpiritOfVengeance

I have to say I don't usually give up this easy but dealing with all your bugs like not being able to swipe back properly, you suddenly making sure we can't evade projectiles such as agent venoms sp1 bullets and cables sp1 beams and not being able to swipe back instantly when an enemy is hitting through your block(which in my opinion were all clearly intentional), and parry messing up.

Then what happens? We get given these new changes that are supposed to be "fun" but in reality it is just putting people off and I honestly don't think I can keep aq up with all of this.

Draenath

Gold 1 Alliance - Top 1000 AQ alliance - had 5 members retire in the past 4 days, with a further 4 contact me thinking of retiring. Driving people from the game.... @Kabam Miike @Kabam Vydious @Kabam Loto @Kabam Zibiit @Kabam Rose

Bapoi

Vdh2008 wrote: »

Bapoi wrote: »

Stop.
Calling.
Them.
Sentineloids.

They're not symbioids that were essentially adaptoids with venom infusion.

They're Sentinels.
Period.

I do not wish to see Sentineloids. Large hulking crossbreed Venom things. No thanks.

They're Sentinels.
And they're fine bar the skill one. Skill one sucks donkey testes...

Sorry bud... you're wrong.

The "oids" part of SentinelOID comes from the ADAPTOID. The SYM part of SYMbioids was the Venom...

Because these Sentinels are different classes, they are indeed SENTINELOIDS.

In all honesty, I don't care what people call them. They all suck balls in my opinion

No.
Adaptoid is an 'Adaptive Android' pulled together.
Symbioid is an extension on that where the symbiont made is a 'Symbiotic Adaptive Android' pulled together.
Sentinels, by definition, are adaptive to their opponents' powers. 'Class' has zero beaering on it. They're not androids, don't name them as such. Sentinelbots would make more sense, yet be equally stupid....

polverine15

It's day 3 and I've had to use items already. This is complete BS, and before someone pops off that I need to learn how to play I'm an end game summoner. The Sentinels are nothing more than an absolute money grab. There was no other reason to put them in AQ AND change the mini bosses. They have gotten the dollar out of me that they are going to get.

polverine15

10 items*

Kifix

My god, these sentinels fights are awful...
AQ sucks :-/

Herk_Derpson

Yep, got a lot of talk of quitting in my alliance, this aq change is gonna result in us losing a lot of good players if something isnt done.

Conanator12345_

I feel what everyone is saying. I feel Mike just put out a generated statement. It’s not like he can say Kabam execs need to update their Ferraris, so we are executing a money grab. It’s either that, or Kabam is realizing that they can’t just stop the game because people have money invested. But we can get them to quit by making content impossible and un-enjoyable. Rewards are being trimmed down every update. I remember selling off Alpha catalysts. Now I’m paying for it. Yet, I still get bombarded with 2* UC’s and 40%Exp Boosts that are useless. And glory costs time...so it’s not free. Our Alliance is going to lose 6 players who have decided that this game has become what I’ve described above. Thanks, Mike, and Kabam.

JustusCastrum

27 pages with about 98% of the comments being negative to this change. A company that would give a damn would have posted an apology and reversed the changes after just a few pages with feedback.
Kabam just decided to ignore this thread they opened themselves...

Some words that m.o.d.o.k uses come to mind...

MarvelZ

If kabam doesn’t at least post before next AQ, I have 2-3 members from my alliance who are quitting. I would be far behind them. Lack of reply is insulting and I can take my money elsewhere.