First, I want to apologize once again for this situation. There was a failure in communication, and we are working to fix that so that it does not happen again. There were many points along the way that we could have made this more prominent, and that didn’t happen. None of that was intentional. We have many changes, updates, bug fixes, tasks and more that go into each and every build release, and this one slipped through our checks along the way.
Secondly, I want to address something that our Designer mentioned that needs clarity.
“Because this bug was publicly announced via the Trello board during the 3-month window where Zemo was subject to change, we do not plan to issue any rank-down tickets for him…”
This makes it sound like the only reason we feel we won’t be doing the Rank Down Tickets is because it was listed on the Trello board. That is not the case. While we try not to make changes to Champions after their release, and especially after their Balance pass, the fact of the matter is that they will sometimes happen, and we can and will make changes to Champions when necessary, especially when they can lock down a fight in the way that Zemo did.
Lastly, we discussed putting Zemo through another Balance Pass as many of you had suggested, to see if there were other areas in which we could bring him up, but since our Balance Team did take this issue into account at the time, and it was only just coming out in videos etc at that time, we don’t want to do a second Balance Pass, because we’re confident that Zemo would not receive a Buff, and could in fact still go the other way.
I know that this is not the answer you were looking for, but we are not changing course here and do not plan to give out Baron Zemo rank down tickets at this time.
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Following up on this, and closing this topic out.
First, I want to apologize once again for this situation. There was a failure in communication, and we are working to fix that so that it does not happen again. There were many points along the way that we could have made this more prominent, and that didn’t happen. None of that was intentional. We have many changes, updates, bug fixes, tasks and more that go into each and every build release, and this one slipped through our checks along the way.
Secondly, I want to address something that our Designer mentioned that needs clarity.
“Because this bug was publicly announced via the Trello board during the 3-month window where Zemo was subject to change, we do not plan to issue any rank-down tickets for him…”
This makes it sound like the only reason we feel we won’t be doing the Rank Down Tickets is because it was listed on the Trello board. That is not the case. While we try not to make changes to Champions after their release, and especially after their Balance pass, the fact of the matter is that they will sometimes happen, and we can and will make changes to Champions when necessary, especially when they can lock down a fight in the way that Zemo did.
Lastly, we discussed putting Zemo through another Balance Pass as many of you had suggested, to see if there were other areas in which we could bring him up, but since our Balance Team did take this issue into account at the time, and it was only just coming out in videos etc at that time, we don’t want to do a second Balance Pass, because we’re confident that Zemo would not receive a Buff, and could in fact still go the other way.
I know that this is not the answer you were looking for, but we are not changing course here and do not plan to give out Baron Zemo rank down tickets at this time.