New Feature Coming - Targeting Heroes

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  • ElReyFelix
    ElReyFelix Posts: 104 Tile Toppler
    bluewolf said:
    Turns out my guess might be wrong.....it was stated on Discord today that the feature wouldn't launch before 11/18 at the soonest.
     Did they provide any other information about the new feature? Is that date because of the new versus season starting?
  • Therealsmkspy
    Therealsmkspy Posts: 254 Mover and Shaker
    edited October 2019
    Vhailorx said:
    Therealsmkspy said:
    ThaRoadWarrior said:
    bluewolf said:
    [...] I assume the devs would want to avoid launching a new feature (with potential bugs) on a week when there are likely to be staff planning to be out early in the week and they will close the office for at least 2 days.[...].
    historically speaking, I would say the opposite of this is likely to be true. Loads of things often seem to go live right across holiday weekends.
    I believe 5 stars with Surfer was released around Thanksgiving or was it Christmas? 
    Neither.  5*s were revealed in late summer 2015 and SS entered the game in September 2015. 

    Don't believe me?  Check who created the SS character thread right after the 5" teaser announcement was made. . .
    Lorda mercy, hostile much? Heaven forbid my memory from 4 years ago is a bit hazy.
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,348 Chairperson of the Boards
    I'm now thinking this tease was a bad idea if we are so far away from any implementation judging by what @bluewolf reports. The radio silence will I fear drive many forumites to distraction.
  • shardwick
    shardwick Posts: 2,121 Chairperson of the Boards
    DAZ0273 said:
    I'm now thinking this tease was a bad idea if we are so far away from any implementation judging by what @bluewolf reports. The radio silence will I fear drive many forumites to distraction.
    I mean I don't mind little teases leading up to a new feature even if we won't see it for like another month but yeah the silence is pretty lame. I guess that was their last "surprise" for Anniversary. I'd rather that they just give everyone a 10 pack to the post Anniversary vault and just surprise everyone with info on the new feature a few days prior to it going live. 
  • Chipster22
    Chipster22 Posts: 299 Mover and Shaker
    bluewolf said:
    Turns out my guess might be wrong.....it was stated on Discord today that the feature wouldn't launch before 11/18 at the soonest.
    Where was that said?  I'm reading about blowing out torches and not baking cookies as jokes responding to requests for updates, but I take them as jokes and not anything of substance.  I don't see the 11/18 date at all.

    Am I reading the wrong timeline in Discord?

    Thanks.
  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,854 Chairperson of the Boards
    @Chipster22

    I have a screenshot I saved. I dunno. No other info was shared....  Maybe the date given was wrong. 
  • jtmagee
    jtmagee Posts: 158 Tile Toppler
    I say Christmas time. 
  • Zeofar
    Zeofar Posts: 45 Just Dropped In
    edited October 2019
    A guess: Complete missions/milestones with a chosen hero (Deal X damage with hero, Clear X PVP Nodes with Hero, Win X PvP Batles with Hero, etc.) during a season and receive a cover of your choice for that hero at the end of season. Mechanics revealed 1 week before start of next season.

  • Omegased
    Omegased Posts: 606 Critical Contributor
    Zeofar said:
    A guess: Complete missions/milestones with a chosen hero (Deal X damage with hero, Clear X PVP Nodes with Hero, Win X PvP Batles with Hero, etc.) during a season and receive a cover of your choice for that hero at the end of season. Mechanics revealed 1 week before start of next season.

    That's not a bad idea, but specifically PVP would be horrible. If you're in 5star world, using an underleveled 5star and a 3star would be impossible to compete.

    If it's PVE based, it would be a LOT better, as it's not going to hurt as much. It will impact your time for clears, but I think that's a valid sacrifice for a potential 5star.


  • Xception81
    Xception81 Posts: 427 Mover and Shaker
    Zeofar said:
    A guess: Complete missions/milestones with a chosen hero (Deal X damage with hero, Clear X PVP Nodes with Hero, Win X PvP Batles with Hero, etc.) during a season and receive a cover of your choice for that hero at the end of season. Mechanics revealed 1 week before start of next season.

    I like the thought but feel like they have to give you a way to get a character you don’t have yet... so I think it’ll be tied less into using specific characters and more into something else, like tied directly to opening covers (which I don’t love the thought of). 
  • Scofie
    Scofie GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 1,400 Chairperson of the Boards
    Xception81 said:
    Zeofar said:
    A guess: Complete missions/milestones with a chosen hero (Deal X damage with hero, Clear X PVP Nodes with Hero, Win X PvP Batles with Hero, etc.) during a season and receive a cover of your choice for that hero at the end of season. Mechanics revealed 1 week before start of next season.

    I like the thought but feel like they have to give you a way to get a character you don’t have yet... so I think it’ll be tied less into using specific characters and more into something else, like tied directly to opening covers (which I don’t love the thought of). 
    I think they're more likely to want to keep momentum on new releases by getting people to play for them (keeps players longer and gets new players hooked) and new 5*s by pulling them and identifying spending that way. 
  • Barnstormer
    Barnstormer Posts: 6 Just Dropped In
    I'd be perfectly happy if it was tied to opening covers.  Every 4* you open adds XP towards a targeted 5*.  That would be a little better than simply relying on RNG.  If there was a way to get usage XP, that would be icing on the cake.
  • Aldaen
    Aldaen Posts: 24 Just Dropped In
    Barnstormer said:
    I'd be perfectly happy if it was tied to opening covers.  Every 4* you open adds XP towards a targeted 5*.  That would be a little better than simply relying on RNG.  If there was a way to get usage XP, that would be icing on the cake.
    That would be great!  (although what would opening a 5* get you?  Also shards for a 5*?)  I'm guessing it would more likely be opening a 3* gets you shards for a favorite 3*, opening a 4* gets you shards for a favorite 4*, opening a 5* gets you shards for a favorite 5*.  Depending on how many shards you get and how many it takes to get a cover, this would be very welcome.  But if 4* covers got you 5* shards, even better.
  • Xception81
    Xception81 Posts: 427 Mover and Shaker
    Aldaen said:
    Barnstormer said:
    I'd be perfectly happy if it was tied to opening covers.  Every 4* you open adds XP towards a targeted 5*.  That would be a little better than simply relying on RNG.  If there was a way to get usage XP, that would be icing on the cake.
    That would be great!  (although what would opening a 5* get you?  Also shards for a 5*?)  I'm guessing it would more likely be opening a 3* gets you shards for a favorite 3*, opening a 4* gets you shards for a favorite 4*, opening a 5* gets you shards for a favorite 5*.  Depending on how many shards you get and how many it takes to get a cover, this would be very welcome.  But if 4* covers got you 5* shards, even better.
    That’s my gut feeling, but I’m hoping any cover gets you a shard (meaning the shards aren’t tied directly to level) and it’ll just require more shards to “redeem” whatever favorite you’re selecting if it is a 5* instead of a 4*. If the only way to get a 5* cover is to keep opening 5* tokens which have low odds, this won’t help much.  

    Of course if my guess is right, then I suppose you’ll only be able to select one character for this feature, instead of multiple ones at different levels. And that’s not super great either. 

    Here’s hoping it’s something we aren’t thinking about that’s going to be an awesome addition to the game. Lol
  • RickOShay
    RickOShay Posts: 452 Mover and Shaker
    I wonder if the ability to use Command Points to purchase a cover for a character will go away? 
    Replacing this with the new Targeting and perhaps a 'shard' system would make a lot of sense, and it could be coded right into this area of the character build screen.

    Theoretically, a 'shard' based system could use the similar CP cover-purchase schema, currently:
    720 CP for a 5* cover
    120 CP for a 4* cover
      20 CP for a 3* cover

    Therefore, a 6x multiple per tier in equivalent Shards would make a lot of sense.  

    The Dev's have probably realized that we aren't purchasing many covers with CP directly from the character build screen, as we all know it's a very low CP-efficiency way to acquire covers.

    So could Targeting just replace this?

    You could make a good argument that they'd keep the CP purchase function. That way each HfH package continues to feel like a good deal, even at the 500 CP price for newer 5* character covers comparatively to the 720 CP etc.

    Creating a new resource for us to compete for, and to potentially pay a bit to ensure we acquire, could be a smart move on their part - as long as the availability is not absurdly difficult or scarce. 
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,471 Chairperson of the Boards
    What if that "new resource" has been with us all along? What if...it's RISO?! <dun dun Duuuuun!>

    Supports are dead, long live Supports!
  • RickOShay
    RickOShay Posts: 452 Mover and Shaker
    edited October 2019
    ThaRoadWarrior said:
    What if that "new resource" has been with us all along? What if...it's RISO?! <dun dun Duuuuun!>

    Supports are dead, long live Supports!
    I would love a direct conversion, or have it work for both/either.
    Have 2.6M RIso currently, and that's low compared to many.  

    I mentioned this very thing on page 1 lol.
    https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/comment/898248/#Comment_898248
      
  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,854 Chairperson of the Boards
    I mean if your riso is high, it probably means your Support pulls haven't been very good.


    I keep leveling Supports and only a few thousand riso on hand.  I have a Rank 5 Blackbird, about 7-8 Rank 4's maxed, and am working on a few of my Rank 3's which are decent.

    I'd probably trade in some Supports for shards of characters, though.  Now that I see I will never use about half of them, if not more.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,471 Chairperson of the Boards
    Yeah, now that supports have congealed, i've been leveling them from top to bottom so i'm generally pretty dry on RISO. I have 6 4*s leveled, 7 3*s with 6 leveled and one 2/3 finished, and then the rest are 2 and 1s in various states of build. I have about 15K
  • Xception81
    Xception81 Posts: 427 Mover and Shaker
    ThaRoadWarrior said:
    Yeah, now that supports have congealed, i've been leveling them from top to bottom so i'm generally pretty dry on RISO. I have 6 4*s leveled, 7 3*s with 6 leveled and one 2/3 finished, and then the rest are 2 and 1s in various states of build. I have about 15K
    I’m doing the same, particularly for supports I actually use. If they use riso as this new feature, I’m not going to be happy. Lol

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