DeNappa said: entrailbucket said: How strange that two new players in the last few days make their first forum post with similar complaints. There's no way this could be a coincidence -- the only conclusion to be drawn is that the game is dying. Everyone abandon ship! He literally said: "I have been playing for some time. I forget but it has been a couple years at least, so I can't take advantage of any newbie tips and tricks."That's hardly a new player. More likely someone who has been playing more casually without advancing their roster 'properly', so now they don't have essentials and meta/counter characters.
entrailbucket said: How strange that two new players in the last few days make their first forum post with similar complaints. There's no way this could be a coincidence -- the only conclusion to be drawn is that the game is dying. Everyone abandon ship!
Monkeyfoo said: Just jumping on this thread to say I uninstalled, gave a one star review. and the devs sent me here to get help. So I look at the first tips thread I see and it says xyz and be willing to spend 3-500 dollars. **** man. I have been playing for some time. I forget but it has been a couple years at least, so I can't take advantage of any newbie tips and tricks. Maybe I messed up by getting 5* s on my roster, but I always felt I was just playing the game as intended. Isn't the point to power up and get better roster. I don't save the pulls. But now I am unable to win in PVP, and honestly PVE is not that fun uninteresting. The balance is phenomenally bad. And the 'random' match ups in PVP are a joke. The same 4-5 characters that have powers that obliterate me before I can even inflict 20% damage to one of the characters. I don't have the special characters (kraven or others) that the tipsters say to use, and who knows when I could get them since the character pulls are completely random.PVE seems to easy, so I went up a level and then it was near impossible to do. And now they have alligator loki with invisible so that current event is unable to be completed. Much like when Yellowjacket came out. I keep thinking maybe I should delete all my 4/5* and kind of start again, but I don't think that I would drop down to other levels. I am currently 8+ selection for eventsI know i am not the only one that is frustrated by the imbalance and ridiculous matchups. Aside from that there are some other quirks and minor issues, such as iso8 and rewards etc, but I was ok with those, cause while it took awhile I was still able to play. Anyway, thanks for letting me vent. Maybe down the road I will reinstall, but for now this game is just too frustrating.
DAZ0273 said: Obviously it is sad to hear that players are not enjoying the game but if you have been playing 2 years then you should not:a.) Need Kraven as a counter to special tile meta (that guide sounds a bit out of date) when there have been plenty others released such as Morbius and Mantis just this yearb.) Struggle against invisible characters in events where you can pick - anybody with an aoe can hit them.The current Loki event is a pain and lots of players have been complaining - maybe that was the straw that broke the camels back but relatively speaking you are missing out on not a great deal in terms of prizes.PvP is a whole 'nother topic - I maintain that 5* should be either gated for new players or the ability to raise levels from one cover be adjusted/removed because we have heard this story so many times and it is in the Devs hands to help out here and not let so many players fall through the trap door.
entrailbucket said: DAZ0273 said: Obviously it is sad to hear that players are not enjoying the game but if you have been playing 2 years then you should not:a.) Need Kraven as a counter to special tile meta (that guide sounds a bit out of date) when there have been plenty others released such as Morbius and Mantis just this yearb.) Struggle against invisible characters in events where you can pick - anybody with an aoe can hit them.The current Loki event is a pain and lots of players have been complaining - maybe that was the straw that broke the camels back but relatively speaking you are missing out on not a great deal in terms of prizes.PvP is a whole 'nother topic - I maintain that 5* should be either gated for new players or the ability to raise levels from one cover be adjusted/removed because we have heard this story so many times and it is in the Devs hands to help out here and not let so many players fall through the trap door. Is this actually true? I find it almost impossible to believe that a player who levels one 5* cover from 255 to 270 is suddenly faced with an impenetrable wall of 550s in PvP. If levelling a character to 270 gives you lvl270 opponents, isn't that fair?The game absolutely does gate PvP fights based on your roster tier -- for years I had to do a series of bizarre tricks to queue 550 rosters. The game was hiding them from me because it thought the fights were too difficult (they weren't).I'd like to hear specifically what kind of roster this particular player has and what kind of fights they were being shown. Generally I have found the effect being described to be *massively* overstated.
Monkeyfoo said: Monkeyfoo said: Just jumping on this thread to say I uninstalled, gave a one star review. and the devs sent me here to get help. So I look at the first tips thread I see and it says xyz and be willing to spend 3-500 dollars. **** man. I have been playing for some time. I forget but it has been a couple years at least, so I can't take advantage of any newbie tips and tricks. Maybe I messed up by getting 5* s on my roster, but I always felt I was just playing the game as intended. Isn't the point to power up and get better roster. I don't save the pulls. But now I am unable to win in PVP, and honestly PVE is not that fun uninteresting. The balance is phenomenally bad. And the 'random' match ups in PVP are a joke. The same 4-5 characters that have powers that obliterate me before I can even inflict 20% damage to one of the characters. I don't have the special characters (kraven or others) that the tipsters say to use, and who knows when I could get them since the character pulls are completely random.PVE seems to easy, so I went up a level and then it was near impossible to do. And now they have alligator loki with invisible so that current event is unable to be completed. Much like when Yellowjacket came out. I keep thinking maybe I should delete all my 4/5* and kind of start again, but I don't think that I would drop down to other levels. I am currently 8+ selection for eventsI know i am not the only one that is frustrated by the imbalance and ridiculous matchups. Aside from that there are some other quirks and minor issues, such as iso8 and rewards etc, but I was ok with those, cause while it took awhile I was still able to play. Anyway, thanks for letting me vent. Maybe down the road I will reinstall, but for now this game is just too frustrating. I just checked and I have been playing 5 years.
entrailbucket said: What I hear constantly is that if a player rosters their first 5* character and/or levels their first 5* character, PvP immediately becomes impossible due to matchmaking. How does this impossibility manifest itself? What does this wall of super-difficult fights actually look like? It's obviously not lvl550 opponents. Are these "impossible" fights against other lvl270 5*?Before boosted 5* I was running pretty strong characters out there at lvl500-520 and frequently taking retals or hits from full 4* teams. Those fights were winnable for them, so I'd like to find out what an impossible PvP fight looks like in relation to one's current roster.
DAZ0273 said: entrailbucket said: What I hear constantly is that if a player rosters their first 5* character and/or levels their first 5* character, PvP immediately becomes impossible due to matchmaking. How does this impossibility manifest itself? What does this wall of super-difficult fights actually look like? It's obviously not lvl550 opponents. Are these "impossible" fights against other lvl270 5*?Before boosted 5* I was running pretty strong characters out there at lvl500-520 and frequently taking retals or hits from full 4* teams. Those fights were winnable for them, so I'd like to find out what an impossible PvP fight looks like in relation to one's current roster. As you will see above I thought this poster was legit. To find out they are a 5 year Vet makes me conclude this is a wind up.
DAZ0273 said:
Obviously it is sad to hear that players are not enjoying the game but if you have been playing 2 years then you should not:a.) Need Kraven as a counter to special tile meta (that guide sounds a bit out of date) when there have been plenty others released such as Morbius and Mantis just this yearb.) Struggle against invisible characters in events where you can pick - anybody with an aoe can hit them.The current Loki event is a pain and lots of players have been complaining - maybe that was the straw that broke the camels back but relatively speaking you are missing out on not a great deal in terms of prizes.PvP is a whole 'nother topic - I maintain that 5* should be either gated for new players or the ability to raise levels from one cover be adjusted/removed because we have heard this story so many times and it is in the Devs hands to help out here and not let so many players fall through the trap door. Is this actually true? I find it almost impossible to believe that a player who levels one 5* cover from 255 to 270 is suddenly faced with an impenetrable wall of 550s in PvP. If levelling a character to 270 gives you lvl270 opponents, isn't that fair?The game absolutely does gate PvP fights based on your roster tier -- for years I had to do a series of bizarre tricks to queue 550 rosters. The game was hiding them from me because it thought the fights were too difficult (they weren't).I'd like to hear specifically what kind of roster this particular player has and what kind of fights they were being shown. Generally I have found the effect being described to be *massively* overstated.
Obviously it is sad to hear that players are not enjoying the game but if you have been playing 2 years then you should not:a.) Need Kraven as a counter to special tile meta (that guide sounds a bit out of date) when there have been plenty others released such as Morbius and Mantis just this yearb.) Struggle against invisible characters in events where you can pick - anybody with an aoe can hit them.The current Loki event is a pain and lots of players have been complaining - maybe that was the straw that broke the camels back but relatively speaking you are missing out on not a great deal in terms of prizes.PvP is a whole 'nother topic - I maintain that 5* should be either gated for new players or the ability to raise levels from one cover be adjusted/removed because we have heard this story so many times and it is in the Devs hands to help out here and not let so many players fall through the trap door.
HoundofShadow said: Show us your roster and opponents you are facing and we'll see how to help you and then move you from this thread to Best MPQ Moment of the day.