Why is my roster selection screen all stupid now?

Sm0keyJ0e

Game keeps throwing me randomly in the middle of my roster when trying to put a team together. This is annoying. Please fix ASAP.

Bowgentle

I don't understand how they roll out features like that.
A single playthrough of DDQ would have shown them that it's a terrible change.

Playtesting FTW.

jredd

if you've ever tried code you know it does some funky things with even the tiniest goof. that being said, this does suck and needs to be fixed on the rush cause getting started in the middle of my 3* instead of at the top of the roster is a waste of time.

Borstock

In 5* PvP land, it pushed me into my 2* characters. 

Need it to not do that.

bluewolf

Whenever you have an essential node, it locks to the spot where the highest level version of that character is.  And stays there until you go to a non-essential node and select someone else and complete a match.

Agreed, not user friendly at all.

The rockett

bluewolf said:

Whenever you have an essential node, it locks to the spot where the highest level version of that character is.  And stays there until you go to a non-essential node and select someone else and complete a match.

Agreed, not user friendly at all.

When I asked for them to push the essentials to the front of your roster, this was not what I had in mind. Lol.  This is terrible.  Hopefully they will fix it soon. 

bluewolf

The idea of you being in the character selection screen, deciding to train, and the selection screen being on the same character after you finish and go back is a good idea. 

This (seemingly unintended) consequence we are seeing - which is probably the most common impact of this change on your play and roster interactions - is not helpful at all.

Waddles_Pines

jredd said:

if you've ever tried code you know it does some funky things with even the tiniest goof. that being said, this does suck and needs to be fixed on the rush cause getting started in the middle of my 3* instead of at the top of the roster is a waste of time.

Totally get that; just have zero idea what they were trying to accomplish with this change.  It was important enough to get a line item on the release notes, but just not sure what it was intended to do... 

broll

I see how this works, but I also don't like it.
It starts your roster on the page of the center character.  As noted for essentials this throws you to that point of your roster because that person has to be center.  However this also applies to non essentials.  Set your center character to some random character on a random page, when you load up again you'll start on that page.  

It's terribly bad for the following reason:
1.  Essentials will routinely force you deep into your roster forcing you to have to page up (some times many many pages) to assign the side characters.
2.  Jumping to the page of the already assigned character is pointless, they're already assigned... 
3.  Since you can't set your center character without scrolling to them in another node the usefulness of this seems almost non-existent.

I'm gonna hope that this is just a partial piece of a better feature that's coming.  They've done that several times recently where head scratching changes come in, then later the rest of the feature comes in and it makes sense and is helpful.  I'll give the benefit of the doubt here.  That being said even two weeks with this in the game as is will be very painful....

rixmith

This is a terrible change. Please roll back to the previous code as soon as humanly possible.

abmoraz

Wow... this is just ...bad.  Bad all over.  Why can't they just put the "Star filter" in the character selection screen like it is in the Roster screen???  Why re-invent the wheel as a triangle instead of a circle?

ThaRoadWarrior

Is that this change, which appears to be an attempt to not slam you back to the front whenever you're doing something to a character down the line?:

What's Changed:

• When you are in the Assemble Your Heroes screen, your position in the roster will be maintained when returning from the Train or Info screen

broll

ThaRoadWarrior said:

Is that this change, which appears to be an attempt to not slam you back to the front whenever you're doing something to a character down the line?:

What's Changed:

• When you are in the Assemble Your Heroes screen, your position in the roster will be maintained when returning from the Train or Info screen

Yeah probably but that description isn't accurate or at best is confusing.  I tested it by setting a center character, then moving several pages off, it goes back to the center character when entering the next node.

Rockwell75

Setting the roster screen to an essential character is beyond stupid because that's the one character we don't have to manually select.

rixmith

... and the Essential character is usually of a much different level than any other character you want to select.

AXP_isme

I’ve come to add my voice to the chorus of disapproval. This ‘feature’ just doesn’t really work as it’s currently implemented for the reasons discussed above. It’s clunky, inefficient and irritating. 

Bubba3210

My level 15 black widow loved her first Under the Sea fight today. She was right next to Wolverine so I left her there by default. Little did I know that my level 144 was really upset about being left out of the fight.

Let’s get this fixed. It’s time consuming and could have very unintended consequences.

huktonfonix

You know, if the people designing and testing this change were only playing with small rosters of low-level characters, and were completely oblivious to the experience of players with 250+ characters rostered and 500 level differences between the top and bottom end of their roster, I can see how it might seem like a good idea.

I call this the Gambit effect.

LifeofAgony

huktonfonix said:

You know, if the people designing and testing this change were only playing with small rosters of low-level characters, and were completely oblivious to the experience of players with 250+ characters rostered and 500 level differences between the top and bottom end of their roster, I can see how it might seem like a good idea.

I call this the Gambit effect.

Careful.  I was given a warning for questioning the roster/level of those who “test” the game.

This is a nice idea that was executed poorly to say the least.

Please roll it back until you can come up with a solution that’s actually positive not negative.  Or make it a toggle feature like animations.

Smart80

LifeofAgony said:

huktonfonix said:

You know, if the people designing and testing this change were only playing with small rosters of low-level characters, and were completely oblivious to the experience of players with 250+ characters rostered and 500 level differences between the top and bottom end of their roster, I can see how it might seem like a good idea.

I call this the Gambit effect.

Careful.  I was given a warning for questioning the roster/level of those who “test” the game.

This is a nice idea that was executed poorly to say the least.

Please roll it back until you can come up with a solution that’s actually positive not negative.  Or make it a toggle feature like animations.

I would love to see this as a toggle feature. Especially to find out what percentage of player would activate it and perhaps even more, why they would?

scrap asap please

JSP869

Wow. They added a feature that nobody asked for, while a lot of much older bugs remain unfixed, in spite of a fix for some bugs being Riridiculously easy.