{Update} Upcoming Gameboard Fixes (3/19/21)

BriMan2222

CharlieCroker said:

BriMan2222 said:

DAZ0273 said:

Things seemed quieter in Top Gun. I stayed out unshielded in the last hour just out of interest and only got hit once.

There may be other factors.  My alliance mate just posted pics of the complete opposite experience.  He tried to hop to go from 1170 to break 1200 in the last 2 hours of the event and he wound up at 641 instead.  Got hit by almost 20 different  people.

Wow, that’s a pretty horrific hop.  How long was he out and what team was he running?  

Can only imagine he had one of those fights that went on so long it would’ve been better to have retreated once things started to go sideways rather than persevering. 

I think he usually runs brbitty, but he also has a usually hulkoye.

BriMan2222

HoundofShadow said:

His friend must be in slice 2 or 5.   
Your points drop by 200 points easily in these two slices if you are getting 900 and above.

Yes,  we both play slice 2 but usually we can hop in about a minute.  He just had a bad game that went much longer than usual. 

Captain_Carlman

Now that the alliance event is over, I'm probably out until at least the 4th.  I wouldn't be surprised if I don't end up coming back, though.

I did what some people recommended and played with direct sunlight near by and while it helped a bit, I found myself asking "Why am I doing this?"  Why am I trying to adjust the way I play to make things less strenuous when it was a screwup on their end that "can't be fixed" for three weeks?  This was probably what I needed to break my daily habit for this game, as I've been getting more and more unhappy with it the last couple of years.  Shards was a good addition (once it was finally sorted out) and Milestones were very nice (albeit, probably added five years later than they should have been), but things like the string of bad-to-average 5*s, lack of any kind of balancing of characters, and bundles that are virtually always on the way too expensive end (I would have jumped all over that Rogue bundle they just had if it was offered last weekend, since it was only $15 and not $50-$75 like almost all the rest of them had been lately) really put a damper on what I enjoyed about the game years ago.

If you are unaffected by the issues currently plaguing the game board, consider yourselves lucky.  I only have mild discomfort playing, I can't imagine what it's like for the colorblind, the people that suffer from epilepsy, and the migraine-sufferers.  The fact that the developers pretty much responded with "that sucks lol" felt like a real slap in the face without any real kind of solution other than "check it out in three weeks!"  I hope this whole fiasco is a wakeup call, but I'm sure it will be business as usual soon enough.  I'm just some random player that has been a daily player for the last seven years that would buy stuff when it fit my budget from time to time, so I know I won't be missed, which is fine.  It's just a shame that a game I enjoyed so much for years went down this path.

I'll probably keep checking this forum from time to time, just to see if the changes made were worth it or if they just open up a whole new set of problems.  In the meantime, I'll uninstall the game but leave my roster alone in case things work out for the better.  Happy gaming, everyone.  

HoundofShadow

All these feedbacks and displeasure point to only one thing: the only "real" solution is them rolling back the change. Any other solution is not a solution. They have only one choice. It's an either/or situation. Anything in between is not allowed. You are either with me, or against me. It's my way, or the highway etc.

CreepCanRoll

As a stopgap solution that would be awesome. However, they had reasons for the changes, which is why I’m assuming they didn’t just roll them back immediately. However it would be nice for the fixes to move faster. But I’m guessing they don’t want to make things worse. 

I don’t think we are opposed to change if it actually looks better. Consumer brands do this all the time. 

Another thing, instead of dimming enemy turns, just speed that up. We don’t need flashes. There seem to be long pauses at times too. Just play their turn and let us get back to ours. 

I enjoy playing the game but sitting there waiting for AI to move seems silly. Let’s get that over with so I can make my next move. 

Speaking of waiting, though, waiting for fixes is probably causing players to quit. Or at least not spend $. 

I’d have daily updates for timetable and screenshots/videos of the proposed fixes. We are here, use us for feedback. 

Cannibalqueen

I am gonna give them a fair shake.  I was ready to pack it in yesterday, uninstalled and everything, but I noticed once my head cleared up from getting some peace from the new game board, I realized no reason to be hasty.  I can wait and see if the changes they make fix the problems for me.  I am in a non competitive alliance so no problems.  It might be nice anyways to take a little break.  Especially now is a good time because won’t mind missing Phoenix and Lumbercap too much.

Bad

Now they aknowledged the feedback and they are going to fix it as sooner as possible. 
If they would release a fix tomorrow and if it is a fail product of hasty answering,  I dont want to imagine how the complaining would be. 
In my alliance almost everybody hit the 900k points against thanos. Im not seeing difference on pve or pvp.
So thanks for the fix devs!

Sithforever

Cannibalqueen said:

I am gonna give them a fair shake.  I was ready to pack it in yesterday, uninstalled and everything, but I noticed once my head cleared up from getting some peace from the new game board, I realized no reason to be hasty.  I can wait and see if the changes they make fix the problems for me.  I am in a non competitive alliance so no problems.  It might be nice anyways to take a little break.  Especially now is a good time because won’t mind missing Phoenix and Lumbercap too much.

Glad to hear that. Hoping all who are having problems playing stick around or come back. I'm doing fine with it, haven't had any problems. Apocalypse is over 500 is sweet and hoping everyone on hiatus returns.

SaltnPeppa

Since you people are fixing the gameboard, how about also fixing the teamups?   These characters should be available for teamups, they do have powers that can be cast: 

4* 
Taskmaster
Ghost
Mockingbird
Legion
Negasonic
Punisher
Lockjaw
Antman
Rocket-Groot
Gamora
updated Bishop
Coulson

Cannibalqueen

Is Gamora black the limited power?

Because I bet a lot of those are just straight up coding issues.  Like how would picking Taskmaster’s power set translate to a team up?  And also Ant-Mans powers transform from one thing to another.  

Is 5* Prof X purple a viable team up?  

SaltnPeppa

Cannibalqueen said:

Is Gamora black the limited power?

Because I bet a lot of those are just straight up coding issues.  Like how would picking Taskmaster’s power set translate to a team up?  And also Ant-Mans powers transform from one thing to another.  

Is 5* Prof X purple a viable team up?  

Antman has his yellow.   Taskmaster has direct attacks, the devs can figure it out.  Gamora has a red for damage and black that drops attack tiles, it's also the one that can instantly kill but all it needs to do for teamup is drop the purple attack tiles

PiMacleod

To answer the previous question, yes 5* Prof X can be used as a team up.  I send him often as he's not expensive, and nothing like giving an ally a bunch of options rolled into one.

UNC_Samurai

I assume a large part of that 3 weeks is due to Apple store limitations?

HoundofShadow

They took about 3-5 days to give a response, and rolling back the change was one of their options. They would have done all the pros and cons of each option and decided that the pros of not rolling back outweigh all the cons. Who knows, maybe if the hack wasn't made known to even a bigger group of (casual) players, they might be able to roll things back. That's one possibility but it's all a guess.

I think players who are suffering from the effects of the current board and are still continuing to play need to re-examine their priority. If I were them, I would stop playing the game until the fixes are out. Why risk your health for virtual rewards? If you love your teammates who are suffering great ill effects from playing the game, please persuade them to stop playing for a while, and update them when the fixes are in.

Cannibalqueen

SaltnPeppa said:

Antman has his yellow.   Taskmaster has direct attacks, the devs can figure it out.  Gamora has a red for damage and black that drops attack tiles, it's also the one that can instantly kill but all it needs to do for teamup is drop the purple attack tiles

That’s interesting.  I can still see Taskmaster being an issue, because then every time you equipped that teamwork,  you would have to assign what power it was, 

I checked my four stars and I remember at some point an enemy team deployed a Yondu blue Centaurian Archery on me.  And that’s a power that seems active and transforms.

 That’s one I thought would’ve been ruled out maybe. I wonder what the actual hard lines are for that.

for me it doesn’t matter, I don’t like team ups.  People in my alliance request and I always send Deadpool and my one star Widow.  

ThaRoadWarrior

Yondu’s blue does chip damage every turn until specifically Yondu hits some damage threshold-so if he isn’t in the fight there is no stop to the chip damage - that is my assumption as to why that otherwise desirable team up is disallowed. You can see some other available team ups that have a “does something to this character” component where that is turned off and the damage or effect remains, but those are typically burst health. A notable example is BRB’s blue which does damage and drops a Cd, but doesn’t spit out protects the way a real brb blue would even if he isn’t the one receiving the damage.

DAZ0273

SaltnPeppa said:

Since you people are fixing the gameboard, how about also fixing the teamups?   These characters should be available for teamups, they do have powers that can be cast: 

4* 
Taskmaster
Ghost
Mockingbird
Legion
Negasonic
Punisher
Lockjaw
Antman
Rocket-Groot
Gamora
updated Bishop
Coulson

Ghost - her red has a condition tied to her status,so I can understand how that rules that out. Mockingbird has a condition of damage to herself on Red. Punisher green and black have conditions, not sure about blue.

Rocket Groot green - Groot actually disappears for this so I suspect that has coding issues.

Coulson seems a strange one but as this is basically a heroic version of Kingpin's yellow I have to ask can you get that as a team-up? Not sure you can? Yet you can get both Fury and 5 Cap's multi-team effect as team-ups.

Legion is probably too complicated.

Kolence

What matters (for whatever under the hood reasons) is whether a power has a passive component and possibly also if it does self damage.
Maybe one more case I'm forgetting about. 
In those cases, the power can't be sent as a TU. 

prudie

I want to tear out my eyes 

Akoni

prudie said:

I want to tear out my eyes 

I feel so bad for anyone suffering from colorblindness looking at that screen.