Event End Times Feedback Request - Hulk 'Smash Hit'

Unknown

Early feedback time.

I chose the Friday 10PM end time. So far these are the issues I've experienced:

1. I was bracketed as soon as event started.
2. Played 2 first matches and only the second match awarded points. Although I saw the screen giving me points after my first win, the score remained 0.

From what I read, these are experienced by others as well. If I bump into something else I'll share it as soon as I can.

dgt73

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*** Greetings all,
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*** The Hulk Smash Hit Event is underway featuring a variety of selectable Event end times - and we're seeking your feedback on the new feature.
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*** Are things working well so far? Please let us know that too and provide general feedback.
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*** Thanks very much!
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Time options only allowed me to choose from the top three displayed, tried scrolling down those available but list would always return to the top 3. Selected the top 1 displayed which had already started and commenced playing. Got through the first few rounds & then noticed that points were not being tallied, neither were given rewards for victory, tried a few more, still nothing. Exited game restarted, still stuck at invisible wall for points & noticed that ranking kept dropping. Ran out of health & gave up.

Thanks for trying something different to support the larger global gaming community, just unfortunately hit a few of the dreaded 'technical difficulties'.
Please don't let this setback stop innovations from being trialled, better luck next time

h4n1s

Happened to me as well, won first match worth 42 points, did not receive any. Started to receive points after 2nd match, but not from the initial one. A bit frustrating...

Unknown

h4n1s wrote:

Happened to me as well, won first match worth 42 points, did not receive any. Started to receive points after 2nd match, but not from the initial one. A bit frustrating...

I wonder what's going on with our MMR. Winning almost twice as many games to get the same points might shoot our MMR sky high. Ah, poop!

Unknown

As above, seems like we are beta testers for the second time in as many weeks. Look forward to my 250 iso!

Unknown

I believe that convenient event end time for many europeans was 12PM EST (6 PM CET). Now it's gone.

Unknown

Yeah, I think I was given 3pm (weird time, those at work will be working and it's not even lunchtime, just smack bang in the middle of the afternoon) or mid morning. On the rare times the finish times were decent for Europeans it was a 5pm/6pm finish time, which they have completely removed.

Don't get me wrong. I love this idea. But once again I am confused as to what the Developers are aiming for. They seem to go "lots of people have been asking for a change, so we'll do it, but we will stop reading at this point so we don't know what people want it changed to." That PVP/MMR debacle from last week, now this. Am sure/hope they will get it right, but seems to be a lot of in-game testing going on right now which is a bit annoying.

Unknown

"David wrote:

Moore"]Greetings all,

The Hulk Smash Hit Event is underway featuring a variety of selectable Event end times - and we're seeking your feedback on the new feature.

Are you experiencing any bugs or anything unexpected? If so, please let us know in this thread. We've had a few reports of players not receiving points for battles. Has this happened to you? If so:
1) Were you asked to choose an Event end time?
2) If you chose one, had the end time you selected started yet?
3) Did anything surprising happen when you chose or began an Event?

Are things working well so far? Please let us know that too and provide general feedback.

Thanks very much!

1. Yes.
2. Not sure if the event started when I chose my time but I could play matches and the points didn't go through as reported by some other players in other threads and probably in this one too.
3. See 2. I will edit my post when I can play to see if it works now.

update: It now works.

Unknown

OK, heres my feedbacks-

1. Were you asked to choose an Event end time?- Yes

2. If you chose one, had the end time you selected started yet? Yes

3. Did anything surprising happen when you chose or began an Event? Yes. I have joined a bracket (1st time ending slot) about 1.5 hrs ago, and with zero points my ranking has moved from 17 to 76.. (it was 53 and after i retreated from a fight it dropped to 76 so i was the lowest player in my bracket)

I mean serious?? this death bracket business really needs to STOP

i was lucky enough to have entered a sort of fresh bracket, however if i am unlucky and enter a bracket when its almost full i will be a good 12hrs behind the 1st player (assuming new players enter into the bracket at a rate of 100 every 3 hrs)?!? thats half a day of play time behind!!!

D3 you have to stop punishing players for making progress in game. You already given the new players advantages in PVE, lets just leave PVP a level playing platform for new and older players. Especially now the players have been divided into 5+ time slot this death bracket business has been exaggerated, and it will be extremely unfair to some players if they joined into a bracket that is almost full.

franckynight

Kaervek wrote:

I believe that convenient event end time for many europeans was 12PM EST (6 PM CET). Now it's gone.

disagreed. for eu ppl at work 12am EST was a disaster (better than 1 am EST but still).. always forced to find some excuses to go to the toilets..or the parking lot to grind some nodes in a hurry or make a quick hop.. 7 pm EST is way more suitable for ppl with RL business.. at least i can quietly grind in the evening when kids are asleep.. for others eu players with more free time, 4 pm EST or 10 am EST are still here..

Unknown

As a European player it is great that I can pick an ending time but it would be even better if my scores for the actual PvP would count I won three fights but still at 0

Unknown

Well its not an issue but i was stunned as i recognized that you get in a bracket right after choosing the ending time.
u and other have 0 points but you are in a bracket.
For the next time i know now.
but i thought that this ending time was developed for pves and not for pvps. But ok. Im fine with that.
this will hopefully make the pvp for EU players more playable. Especially at the end. Thanks for that

dgt73

David [Hi-Fi] Moore wrote:

Greetings all,

The Hulk Smash Hit Event is underway featuring a variety of selectable Event end times - and we're seeking your feedback on the new feature.

Are things working well so far? Please let us know that too and provide general feedback.

Thanks very much!

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I have had same problem as others,

* initial selection list always returned to the top 3 options
* selected an event already under way
* had a few initial wins but then scoring tally stopped, passed 100 points repeatedly in matches, got Victory splash screen saw progress bar but then returned to same state as if nothing happened

tried a few more times but same problem, gave up for a couple of hours & tried again

* same problem, Victory but no result... but then... something different happened.

Whilst on the match selection screen, debating to give up or try just 'once more', had a message that a lightning round had finished & received its rewards, gave the 'Smash Hit' that 'once more' go & amazingly my score actually progressed this time.

* tried again, thinking that maybe it had started working correctly, but no, back to the same problem. However, for that one time after the message regarding the end of the Lightning round the score did actually register.

Thanks for trying something new for the 'rest of world' players, better luck next time.

Unknown

Points seems to be working fine for me, choosen top bracket if that makes difference. Not sure why but I'm getting paired with similar rosters (maxed 2* + loaner/single cover Hulk) from get go, makes climbing slow (and 'join in last hour and play like madman for t50 with no shields' tactic impossible).

nic13

Good with the ending time but having a big problem with the smaller pool of players. 1300 feels so far away.

Unknown

Grinded up to 600ish fairly quickly today with nothing notably bad (e.g. points not counting) recorded. Points available dropped off a fair bit from 400-600 points with most matches giving out 17-23 points but it's still early days.

Immediate bracketing on selection of a timeslot was a little unexpected but it does make sense from a game design point of view. I assume that it's still possible to wait until the last day of the event to select your timeslot and delay bracketing? I would have thought so.

I didn't try to select the last time slot, but when I scrolled down it did 'bounce back' on my Galaxy Note 2 - although enough of it showed to be selectable I think.

Jexman

I also got no points at the beginning of the event for my wins, then started getting points, and now have stopped again. Not cool!

Unknown

The way things are going with this test I'm predicting another heroic token for our troubles; calling it now.

hurcules

First off, PvP never needed End-time choosing anyway, since we can shield. Not ideal for EU players since we pay for longer shield most of the times, but it's a working solution nevertheless.

PvE is the one that needs End-time choosing. This point cannot be repeated enough.

Having said that, I have not joined a PvP bracket yet, but from what I've seen so far, People probably don't want to leave it too late to join the PvP for the following reasons:

1) By most accounts, avaialble pool of players within each end-time shard is already a lot less, which makes higher points targets hard to come by, and thus lower progression.

2) As all shards approach their end times, most players within each shard would have probably shielded, further removing available match-ups within each shard.

3) Players most likely did not distribute across all 5 shards evenly, and the original 1am EST end time (shard #4) will probably still be most popular. Which means if you are in one of the other 4 remainining shards, you will have even smaller pool of match-ups available. The 5th shard is probably the worst due to UI issue and most non-forumite players will probably select one of the other 4 shards after their attampts to join that shard fail.

Unknown

I've heard of people getting up to 5 options for end times , I only got 3 and that didn't include the usual end time .
The pool of available players is way too small, not only am I getting **** low point matches, every time I get attacked I get hit 2 or 3 times by the same player, its going to be impossible to climb like that .