Opinions on Act 6 and 4* ban

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• ThatGrootGroot Posts: 427 ★★

  March 2019

  Bad.

  There is no reasonable explanation for not having 4* champs being available other than money. People without good or wide 5* and 6* rosters will either have to wait or spend to build their rosters. Kabam's perspective is likely that players won't want to wait and will instead spend to get into the content earlier.
  
  Here I was thinking Kabam was making improvements in content and communication, and then the Act 6 debacle undid most of that positive sentiment.
  
  I was considering going F2P permanently, and a tone-deaf approach like this really confirmed my decision to not spend another dime on this game.

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• Timone147 Posts: 1,276 ★★★★

  March 2019

  Bad.

  It’s just really unnecessary and obviously a way to make the content harder. It’s also devalued the majority of the time many have spent playing this game.
  
  For me the impact isn’t drastic as my main teams are pretty much all 5* or 6* and any synergies are use are supported too. My gap will be having true strike available(unless I rank Karnak lol). For those that don’t have that true though this is a pretty low blow though.
  
  It is just further driving RNG being a larger part of the equation around progression which is really bad for the players.

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• Eb0ny-O-M4w Posts: 13,762 ★★★★★

  March 2019

  Go to the main thread.

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• JChanceH9 Posts: 781 ★★★

  March 2019 edited March 2019

  Bad.

  This won’t even affect me and I think it’s bad.
  
  If they want to ensure act 6 isn’t too difficult for the people who try it, then cutting off the legs of their roster is not the way to go about it.

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• ThatGrootGroot Posts: 427 ★★

  March 2019

  Bad.

  UmbertoDelRio said:

  Folks... Could you at least try to be intellectually honest here?
  The only available information regarding act 6 are the requirements and the rewards.
  Judging from the standard kabam set for endgame content with for example variant difficulty, it would simply be silly not to assume that act 6 will shift this goalpost even further.
  
  I simply can't stretch this enough:
  From what we know at this very moment it is perfectly possible that a low level synergie team build around even a r2 6* max sig ghost might not suffice to even beat the first mission.
  
  Without any additional information the honest interpretation would be that this is kabams way of saying "Yes. It's really going to be that difficult."
  And the only honest opinion one can form based on the currently available information is "I can't tell whether it's good or bad".
  
  And even if I let all of that slide, I have yet to see a single argument for why this is nessecarily a bad thing.
  
  The most solid point I've seen is that this is an attempt to "pseudo nerf" synergy teams.
  But that could have easily been achieved vie a global node prohibiting synergies.
  
  This will be the highest content available progression wise. Again, it would be silly to assume that this piece of content will be aimed at people who have just finished act 5.
  Judging from the typical behavior of the difficulty curve - for example act 4 exploration compared to becoming uncollected, becoming uncollected compared to finishing act 5, finishing act 5 compared to fully explore act 5, fully exploring act 5 compared to lol/variant - I think it's safe to assume that act 6 will come after all those pieces of content progression wise.
  
  Heck I have seen people that aren't even uncollected yet complaining about this.
  This is really really ridiculous, folks.

  "Heck I have seen people that aren't even uncollected yet complaining about this."
  
  I have a 5* and 6* bench and won't need to use 4* in Act 6. I think this 4* restriction is garbage. It doesn't have to directly impact you for you to have a position.
  
  The rest of your post is word salad.

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• XxLoganTDCxX Posts: 2,561 ★★★★

  March 2019

  Bad.

  It's another cash grab and absolutely makes no sense! Why remove 4 stars? They are weaker than 5 and 6 stars, sure, but there easier to get and have been in the game longer. Also, the difficulty looks really high, so four stars would take a while to defeat them. It would still be a challenge

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• MegaSkater67 Posts: 1,377 ★★★★

  March 2019

  I think the point of this is for you to work on your roster until you’re ready to take it on. Act 4 and Act 5 offer the materials to rank up your 5* champions and get 6* shards, as well as giving you access to uncollected difficulty to start earning those rewards as well. They want you to work on Act 4 and 5 before starting Act 6, which makes sense if you look at it. Act 6 is permanent content and there is no rush to complete it. It will still be there when you decide that your 5* roster is good enough. You could wait 2 or 3 years if you wanted to, hardly a money grab when you have as much time as you’d like to prepare. 5*s don’t take that long to get now so you could make some big changes to your roster and still recreate some synergy teams if you prefer to wait.

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• Kabam Zibiit Administrator › Posts: 7,033

  March 2019

  Hey there, we appreciate the feedback but would ask that everyone share their opinions about Act 6 in the Act 6 discussion thread. This will help make keep everyone's feedback from getting lost in the shuffle and also keep the forums from becoming cluttered.

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