**WINTER OF WOE - BONUS OBJECTIVE POINT**
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
There is currently an issue where some Alliances are are unable to find a match in Alliance Wars, or are receiving Byes without getting the benefits of the Win. We will be adjusting the Season Points of the Alliances that are affected within the coming weeks, and will be working to compensate them for their missed Per War rewards as well.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
Upcoming Cull Obsidian and Ebony Maw Balance Changes
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Following your own rules I considered Cull was stable and I used my awakening gem on him and upgraded him.
This is a bad joke.
That's what's so frustrating .. since you don't have the data, yet are arguing for it as if it's supports everything.
It supports nothing .. if it's not readily available!!
No.
It's a different product that is much more complex with interactions with new and old content that's ever been introduced and that is ever evolving.
And what does "should be on Kabam and not us" even mean? It is on Kabam, which is why they are fixing it, which is their responsibility as the game developers. They aren't asking you to fix it. You seem to be implying if Kabam makes an error, they are not allowed to affect you while they are addressing it. That fundamentally misunderstands the relationship you and the developers have with the game. You play it, they make it. They have no obligation to ask you for permission to modify it.
Every bug is Kabam's fault. And every bug is Kabam's responsibility to fix. There's no such thing as a bug that is the players' fault. The responsibility to operate and support the game is "on Kabam" and always is. But that says nothing about what parts of the game they are "allowed" to touch while doing so.
LOL .. we're talking about a different game here buddy.
1) I have been assured by 90% of the players here that in order to clear content with cull you have to spend heavily on potions more than with other characters.
2) The cost of alienating the big spenders outweigh that of spending on the potions needed.
I know they are about the balance of the game. 12.0 for example was needed, I quit at the time because of how they went about it, but it was needed. New players could not get a foot hold because willpower was insane and so much could trigger it that it made it hard for new players to play.
Here is the same. IF they allow an overpowered champ to exist they have to raise content sufficiently to make it difficult for him, they will get that potion money even with him. But this makes the other champs useless, so again, if they were ignoring balance it would be in their best interest to leave him in and create content around him..
So your argument makes no sense.
Ask yourself if you possessed hard data that *you believed* mandated you do something in your job, and a customer told you that your data was wrong, but they hadn't seen it and you were forbidden from showing it to them, what argument would convince you to listen to this customer, ignore the data you believe in, disobey your boss that told you to act upon it, and do what the customer who has no idea how you do your job, what information you have at your disposal, or what your instructions from higher authority even were, asked you to do.
When you come up with such an argument that you believe would actually work on you, please share with the rest of the forums because it would useful today.
Also, they've indicated they want to improve communication with the player base ... well this is exactly how you do that .. you provide the information related to a decision so the player base can see WHY that decision was made.
(we may or may not agree with it .. but that's a different issue )
Bottom line, they have no real reason to withhold the information ... other than they don't really have anything substantial ..
*shrug*
I'll hold my opinions until I see such information in any case ..
You're welcome to your wild, unsubstantiated speculations and blind "faith" in kabam's processes ... I for one, don't have a lot of faith in them based on recent events ... *shrug*
why the need to balance the game if Cull can't get through hard content already released without pots? Why would they make content harder due to Cull if he can't get through content already out?
It’s not that they are lying. They’re just using ridiculous statements such as the one I previously quoted”, when those of us who actually play the game know better. They approach these communications like we are six years old.
There are numerous champs that smash the hell out of Cull’s damage over say a few fights. So, who do they mean? His damage is wildly higher than say Cyclops?
To get a new champ you either have to spend loads of units (cash) on crystals or time and units (cash) in the arena. Because they are indirectly selling these champs, balance changes feel soooo much worse then in a game where you get every champ for free or can't buy them. Even worse then the Drax, AA and She-Hulk nerfs because you couldn't buy those champs.
As someone who also spent to get Namor, Stelthy and Claire in addition to Cull I'm very worried that all that was just for a few months before they're nerfed.
I am not arguing cull cannot get through hard content without pots, others have. My argument is if this was about pots they have a way of fixing that issue without alienating the community through modifying the difficulty of the content. They the community only gets a little irritated, not inflamed like this, they keep their potions and lose less money.
Also don't forget that the good news is champs that aren't up to par like Ebony Maw are going to get a buff as well - so you do get that assurance on the other side of the spectrum.
How can they be more transparent than that?
Second of all, I've said multiple times now that it is my experience in dealing with game developers that informs my opinion that Kabam is extremely unlikely to share data mining reports or methodologies, because game operators rarely do so as they consider those proprietary. What you call wild speculation I call informed judgment. If you have some experience that informs your speculations, I'd be glad to hear what that might be.