Leugenesmiff wrote: I hope they don't mess with the GSBW, SW, Prof X combo. In fact, what I'd really like to see is them make the effort to make more characters with powers that form cool teams like this that provided different ways to play the game. What I find coolest about this combo is that it, in a way, changes up the basic gameplay. Instead of just clearing tiles for AP you're actively trying to build match 5s and it definitely has brought more excitement to the game ever since I got my Prof X to a playable state a few months ago.
GritsNGravy wrote: I said it last time and I'll say it again, having to fully sell your nerfed character REALLY sucks, especially for collectors. If you nerf 5* and 4* characters the time it will take to collect their covers again is too big of an ask of your player base while *you* fix *your* balancing problems. There needs to be a way to "delevel" (reset them back to min level but keep their 13 covers) a nerfed character instead of just selling them out right.
carrion pigeons wrote: GritsNGravy wrote: I said it last time and I'll say it again, having to fully sell your nerfed character REALLY sucks, especially for collectors. If you nerf 5* and 4* characters the time it will take to collect their covers again is too big of an ask of your player base while *you* fix *your* balancing problems. There needs to be a way to "delevel" (reset them back to min level but keep their 13 covers) a nerfed character instead of just selling them out right. I don't understand what's driving this request. What is the advantage in keeping them on your roster at a weaker level?
ronin-san wrote: It's always been that characters who are no longer making the dev money + extremely common usage in high scoring PvP sessions = nerf bait. Example: Thorverine in 2* land.... Thorverine in 4* land.... 3* Mags and Spidey in 3* Land.... Sentry in 3* land.... Devs. It's just business doesn't fly. Buff instead of nerf. What you should be targetting is a Buff on characters no-one's using, EG 5* Cap, 4* Cho, 3* Punisher, Psylocke, Drax, 5* Widow, Surfer, Star-Lord, Devil Dino, or XFW. Yes. XFW. Let people choose their targets with his green. Even 3* characters like GSBW and Hood get to choose where they hit, and he's a 4*!!!! Bump him to 13K health, let me choose where his (centers, no ability tile selection), and he's relevant again.
Calnexin wrote: As a player, it would be nice to have the option to roster the new characters automatically. But remember - you need roster slots for them, and they affect scaling. It would make the game unplayable for newbies. That might be a good revenue maker for the game, though. If everyone gets a cover it might drive HP sales. FTP players tend to generate just enough to roster one when it's randomly drawn. To get every character I've missed would've cost me 4k HP that I don't currently have.
tizian2015 wrote: Two real quick rebalances: Unnerf the (2*s and) 3*s! Give Vision his "bluebug" back.
Polares wrote: Devs sometimes surprise me. This rebalance changes is something I have asked explicitly more than once, I have always thought this is how it should be (in almost any other game is like this), so I should be happy!, but this 'empty' announcement and previous precedents of 'rebalances' scare me. The worst (for now) for me is the announcement per-se, why do this announcement without saying which are the first batch of characters? This was a really bad idea. Now you have a lot of people thinking the worst possibilities (we always think the worst) are the ones that are going to come true (We all think "Oh my god, all my best chars are going to be nerfed"). Maybe in this first batch there is just the Iceman nerf (this one seems 'confirmed') and all the other changes are buffs. But we don't know!!! So we speculate during days, and make things probably much worse than what reality is going to be (I really hope so). So this announcement doesn't help AT ALL, it just makes things worse, and lowers 'morale'. It is great for Devs to communicate with us, but I think It would have been much better to wait until Monday so we could have the announcement + list of first batch of characters to be rebalanced.